Angelus Errare
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If you haven't seen Black Lagoon at least once, you're missing out on some good shit.
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The Black Culture Thread |OT4| Learn to love the BBC
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MorisUkunRasik
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TBF I have a pretty legit reach
ive said this before, and ill say it again, you can subsitute anything other than mechs in the uc series, and it would still be compelling. cars, tanks, types of armaments, etc. dont care about eva because fuck it.
you should check out eyeshield 21, black muscles is real
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Haha. Never seen it.
Most blatantly racist anime that I've seen though is Angel Cop. The plot to that is ridiculous Lol....
Angelus Errare
Banned
Eyeshield 21 cracked me up when they played the American team. Those twitch muscles!
I'm not defending it. But its such a far, far distance away from 'the most' that I didn't even blink at it.
It plays on a shade of stereotypes that are still common in that neck of the woods. You're not going to find much of anything from that time period without a hint of racism in it. If its based on being outright disrespectful and degrading, then sure. If its based purely on ignorance, then you can't treat it the same. That 'black muscles' and 'american athletics' thing has been going on for decades and its based on the idea that overseas athletes run shop over there all the time.
I loved how they captured the racist coach while being racist themselves.
*Another reason why its time to work on a new, more identifiable and workable word because racist as mentioned above worked two different ways.
Devolution
Member
People hype up AoT too much. It's really melodramatic. But I have this problem with many an anime.
Mrs. Manky
Banned
Dammit Kal Penn! You don't need to be that token good Asian! You were in a stoner flick that played against stereotypes!
He must want that Bobby Jindal biopic real bad.
He must want that Bobby Jindal biopic real bad.
Its excessively melodramatic.
And unlike typical protagonists, this guy has legit PTSD. Hell, everyone has PTSD. Dudes get ate. I'd probably headbutt my only friend too if the Taliban were suddenly 40ft tall and eating people out of Chinooks.
lol not at all.
AoT doesn't really have a Western equivalent though imo.
Devolution
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I don't have a problem with that so much as it tries too hard sometimes. It's gotten a bit better and it's not nearly as bad as some anime but sometimes it just feels like it's forcing me to care through dialogue/over acting rather than mood.
Without skin on top of it. Its pretty crazy, but not pants shittingly awesome like some claim. Although I will say its more deserving of praise than SAO
Alligatorjandro
Banned
yall going hard over anime
SAO goes from being a little above average with outstanding potential to be great to crashing harder than Eddie Griffin's career.
Devolution
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I'm not going hard over anything. I just grew up on late 80s/early 90s anime that knew how to set a mood.
Damn...
I take dubs and subs on a case-by-case basis though. Plenty of anime have solid dubs. Also for some shows it technically makes slightly more sense for the setting for the characters to be speaking English and not Japanese (like Black Lagoon, FullMetal, and possibly AoT).
ViewtifulJC
Banned
god damnit
Jest Chillin
Member
SAO is ok as long as you stop watching about halfway through the season. That second arc is shameful.
Jest Chillin
Member
Beck was great. One of my favorites actually. Music in it is pretty good too.
I just cannot get into most anime nowadays. Then, I was never a huge anime nut to begin with. I generally enjoy it, there's a lot of shit people talk about, like Outlaw Star and Black Lagoon, that I still haven't seen and don't really feel pressed to check it out. I still haven't Cowboy Bebop despite promising myself like a hundred times I'd watch it.
Last thing I watched to completion was Jojo, before that it was Tiger and Bunny, and before that was Baccano and Casshern Sins. I'm got like four episodes into Space Brothers and halfway through Beck; I enjoy both, but just forget to watch them. I'm only watching SAO now because it's on Toonami. lol
Jeeeeez. lol
Last thing I watched to completion was Jojo, before that it was Tiger and Bunny, and before that was Baccano and Casshern Sins. I'm got like four episodes into Space Brothers and halfway through Beck; I enjoy both, but just forget to watch them. I'm only watching SAO now because it's on Toonami. lol
Jeeeeez. lol
Devolution
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I take dubs and subs on a case-by-case basis though. Plenty of anime have solid dubs. Also for some shows it technically makes slightly more sense for the setting for the characters to be speaking English and not Japanese (like Black Lagoon, FullMetal, and possibly AoT).
AoT has a lot of potential that's bogged down in bad pacing and not exploring some themes they touch on more.
Spoiler time
For instance one of my favorite scenes so far is when Armin is trying to coax Eren out of the Titan and from Eren's POV he's in his home while Armin is striking the window. It would be cool if the show explored themes like that further. Instead they just kind of come and go. I'm left wondering what the show is actually about underneath "attacking Titans and getting land back."
Angelus Errare
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Funny thing is they don't even show that in the manga.
Devolution
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During the action sure which is why I talked about fucked up pacing. However exploring those elements further would be nice. I feel like it bogs down and then in the score of 5 minutes the story jumps far ahead.
I've only been watching on Toonami. When does that happen?
Potential to be great as in finishing what .hack started. It could've got there. Maybe.
But don't worry, that shit was double tapped halfway through the season.
the first episode was kinda hot. after that...
I'm going to assume they were trolling but the woman in charge of the meetups went to a ticket system anyway. If you want to go to that meetup, you have to buy tickets in advance and have them to get in.
The OP still references the trolls, although I think the mods over there hammer the shit out of anyone that tries now.
It has its moments. But it really just loves to make you believe that its gonna take that next step. It does - but off a cliff.
Urban Scholar
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So I'm at work in the office. I wasn't paying attention to my co-workers conversation. I then push back from my PC to take a breather and talk.
Preface: Everyone in the aisle/row is black.
A girl whom I have to be careful of talking with (very touchy/short fuse/ gets offended by everything) alot was express her feelings about health care & doctors. She then stunned us all when she said : "I wouldn't want my doctor to be black. Yes she was being serious."
I'm like what? I think to myself. We all then look at her thinking we heard wrong
"I mean yeah but if he's from the islands(Caribbean) then I think that's ok because he's not a yank (yankee)"
Friend: So you mean you'd have issue with a Black American doctor being your primary health care person.
Her: Yeah
Friend: Despite the fact he spent years in school & is damn good?
Her: Yeah
I 'm no one to have discussions with people with short fuses like her in question. So I then said in front of everyone, "yeah I'm speechless & I'll be going back to work"
The look on everyone else's faces were WTF? It was so damn awkward in the row at the time.
Bits of info: She's Haitian & born here in Miami like myself if that makes any difference.
I just wanted to share this WTF moment
Preface: Everyone in the aisle/row is black.
A girl whom I have to be careful of talking with (very touchy/short fuse/ gets offended by everything) alot was express her feelings about health care & doctors. She then stunned us all when she said : "I wouldn't want my doctor to be black. Yes she was being serious."
I'm like what? I think to myself. We all then look at her thinking we heard wrong
"I mean yeah but if he's from the islands(Caribbean) then I think that's ok because he's not a yank (yankee)"
Friend: So you mean you'd have issue with a Black American doctor being your primary health care person.
Her: Yeah
Friend: Despite the fact he spent years in school & is damn good?
Her: Yeah
I 'm no one to have discussions with people with short fuses like her in question. So I then said in front of everyone, "yeah I'm speechless & I'll be going back to work"
The look on everyone else's faces were WTF? It was so damn awkward in the row at the time.
Bits of info: She's Haitian & born here in Miami like myself if that makes any difference.
I just wanted to share this WTF moment
How old is she? I only heard old black people say that.
That Spike Lee kickstarter is going to get its funding. It's got $150,000 left out of $1,250,000 to make over the next 6 days. I'm glad it's getting funded. There's no way in hell I'd personally support it, but I can't help but pull for the project so it can piss off the baseless haters.
Also, Lee Daniel's The Butler with 85% Rotten Tomatoes score and a 7.1/10 average. 24 Fresh and 4 rotten so far. I was kind of hoping the movie sucked
Also, Lee Daniel's The Butler with 85% Rotten Tomatoes score and a 7.1/10 average. 24 Fresh and 4 rotten so far. I was kind of hoping the movie sucked
MorisUkunRasik
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Cleaning up my PC. What's the consensus on which anti-virus/PC protection to go with?
EscoBlades
Ubisoft Marketing
Been using Avast + SuperAntiSpyware for 5 years, and not had a single virus or malware infection.
TheKaeptain
Banned
Anime is slowly coming back bros. although DY will be sad when Dandy dudes in space are the norm. No more school girls with Guitars for him anymore.
Urban Scholar
Member
22? 23?
Urban Scholar
Member
Eh.
Oh by the way family, I jumped on the Attack on Titan bandwagon. Yo, this. show. SO. GOOD. UGH!
MorisUkunRasik
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Running scans with them now, thanks.
Jason was just a Meyers rip off.
...I have way too much adware for a tech savvy person, shit's embarassing. It's not old person google/yahoo/altavista/askjeeves/blahlbahblah internet explorer toolbar add-on bad, but I really hav eno excuse for letting it get this bad.
Super antimalware and microsoft sercuity been good to me. Stop going to sketchy porn sites.
There is a dude that has been through 10 360s. I sad goddamn, I would leave it alone after the second one.
The Faceless Master
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been thru 6 here. or is it 5...
Devolution
Member
Still have my Xbox. The power supply bricked though.
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