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Summer 2013 Anime |OT3| only manly sports allowed
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Now the hate getting ridiculous.
This is actually rather fortunate. The pace was getting fairly overwhelming and not all elements in the thread were positive, and nobody had any obvious solution to either. With things in now in tatters we can rebuild it anew.
santeesioux
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I'm all anime'd out right now tbh. All i've been doing is watching the simulcast shows, so not much to talk about.
Basileus777
Member
Slowing down is definitely a good thing, but I think it may have gone too far. At least during the times I'm awake this place this place now doesn't have enough activity.
Gintoki313
Banned
I've been catching up to HxH 2011 after someone posted those gifs of the latest episode. I'm also trying to get info on some of the games appearing at TGS and playing Far Cry 3. So I haven't been watching a lot of anime lately except for HxH 2011.
I hope he has character growth. The only thing I didn't like about Sasuke was how emotionless he was, and Kurapika is going down this route currently. Too bad, he was pretty interesting during the hunter exam but now I don't know.
Oh, Kurapika has emotions all right. Powerful ones.
He just knows when to keep them below the surface and focus on getting things done.
Haha, activity in forum threads is like the relationship between temperature and maintaining excited hydrogen electron orbits. Too cool and everything is still in ground state, but too hot and electrons just get ejected outright.
Yes, I totally had an epiphany when first studying Boltzmann-Saha.
Gurren Lagann, Eureka Seven, Full Metal Panic and The Big O are all really great.
Dedication Through Light
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You're about to watch the best arc of HxH, you'll see da Kurapika is a boss, smh @ that clone Sasuke being mentioned.
Kurapika is a better character than Sasuke could ever hope to be. Dude has every reason in the world to do what he does, yet still always keeps his cool.
Dedication Through Light
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How is Kurapika better?
not to mention he like vanished from the anime for litrally many months now and still going
Gintoki313
Banned
If he gets back to acting the way he did during the hunter exam then I'll like him again. In the hunter exam he was bearable because I could tell he was angry and wanted revenge, but he kept it behind the scenes so much that it was interesting and cool.
I compared him to Sasuke mostly because I'm seeing huge similarities. Both want revenge, both have a goal that consumes them, both want power but for some mysterious reason doesn't want to rely on others for it, and the whole acting serious and angry all the time.
If I had to choose who I think is better I couldn't do it. I'm not far enough into the anime to really say if Kurapika changes in some way. I'm guessing something currently appears since I'm on episode 41
and they're going to an auction that's going to be attacked by the one's he hates
Dedication Through Light
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Blood Lad got a good poster, Knell. (theyre cosplay?)
Seen the bolded already, will check out the rest. Thanks guys.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
sasuke's entire family and clan was killed by his brother, what more of a reason to be an asshole than that? lol
Save 'N Quit
Banned
I know. Isn't it great?
Personally, I disapprove ~.~
I used to wake up super early on some Saturdays and a page would basically just be me watching whatever!!
KirbYuuYuu
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I don't think it'll last, so right now, I'm okay with this current speed actually. Means less time to maintain the thread, more time to do other things without worrying about catching up to other stuff.
You say that as if you arn't just using that extra time to refresh this thread even more.
ZachDeKoromaru
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Every episode to me is certainly tedious since when I don't have much to say it usually just resorts to episode summary. I also watch a lot of not-so plot heavy shows so there's that too.
My inclination to watch stuff like Strike Witches vanished when people stopped talking about it via episode impressions and whatnot!
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
Theonik, start watching S2 to expand the viewership!
KirbYuuYuu
Member
I don't know, playing games, watching more animu, food. Skies the limit.
R_thanatos
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So am i ... i guess it's calm before the storm thing .
We can't win ...during summer we go too fast and after that we're too slow !
Well I hate doing episode summaries myself which is why I stopped with my impressions long ago. Only if something worth commenting about happens will I say something i.e. Space Brothers suddenly fixing its pacing issue after so many episodes.
You can't trick me.
Jex
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There was a time when we near or at the top of the OT all day every day for months on end. Then Community was created to save OT from megathreads.
It isn't too bad when it is one episode per week, marathoning that shit is just tedious, which is why I am reviewing selected episodes of Legend of the Galactic Heroes. Though I have not actually watched any episodes recently do to other shit.
hosannainexcelsis
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Jexhius caused the explosion of posting in AnimeGAF threads to begin with, and now that his rate of posting has dramatically decreased the threads are slowly coming to a halt. Truly Jexhius is the heart and soul of AnimeGAF.
Jex
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Back when I was posting a great deal a number of other posters (e.g. Branduil, Lafiel, firehawk12, Genijin etc) also had extremely high post rates (although admittedly not quite as insane as my own in most instances. I mean, when I started I replied to every single post in the thread). I only really slowed down about a year and a half ago and since then the high volume posters have been cajun, kayos, kirbyguy etc. It's their decrease in posting combined with the slowness of a few regulars that's resulted in the latest slump/
I would put it all in a nice graph because the data is freely available but I don't have time. It's all in Nafe's history anyway.
I would put it all in a nice graph because the data is freely available but I don't have time. It's all in Nafe's history anyway.
hosannainexcelsis
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I was not being entirely serious.
But it is certainly the case that the makeup of posters in AnimeGAF has considerably changed over the time I've been here, and the general tenor of the threads has changed as a result. Which is only natural in any open Internet community. We'll have to wait for the fall season to see if this is just a temporary lull or a new pace that will last for a while.
Jex
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I don't think that's quite true. If you're talking about a slow arc in Attack on Titan or some random episode of Gintama there really isn't a lot to say but in strongly episodic works with great direction like Mononoke (not quite episodic), Kaiba, Windy Tales, Mushishi each episode tends to be finely crafted and plum for rich analysis. Of course the same can be true in great episodic works too.
That doesn't sound ideal, it sounds tragic.
R_thanatos
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It will come back at the usual speeds ... we can't be on high post rate every week of the year can we ?
I even think that we'll be fine starting next week
Jex
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I don't think having a lot of posts is necessarily a good thing or a bad thing. It's the quality of the posts overall that matter although you can make a pretty good argument that if you're producing a high volume of posts the quality of each individual post is going to be lower than if you produced a smaller volume of posts.
hosannainexcelsis
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The main problem with a very fast posting rate, as I see it, is that thoughtful posts will get buried under loads of flippant ones and many people will become too discouraged to keep up and pick out the posts they want to pay attention to. This decreases the possibility of meaningful discussion occurring.
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