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Toonami |Apr16| Here today, Gon for three years
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The red flags were there when Tara Strong revealed she and the other two were never contacted about the remake.
Everything about it just screams "cynical nostalgic cash-in", and all it's doing is making people annoyed.
I read something (I think on GAF) about the fact they were thinking of bringing Ms. Bellum back & having a "stronger" role for her, but then were all "NAH, she's considered too sexy for a kid's show nowadays" & she's not in the new series.
but wasn't she a strong character because of her competence and intelligence while the mayor was an idiot?
I'll admit, the original VAs for the girls was annoying, but I figured "as long as the revival was good, I can manage."
Now? I was wrong.
Yeah, a friend told me about that. Said Ms. Bellum didn't fit the "message" or something along those lines. I was like "wha?"
Yeah.
That was in the current active new PPG thread. I wouldn't think the mayor's semi-endearing idiocy works without her. They could have redesigned her a bit if they were worried about objectification but I suppose people would have criticised that too.
Hellwarden
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Well this is a show that is referencing lolcats and having the trio twerk.
I don't think any real thought was put into this show.
that feel when the school library website locks you out of it because you've been using it too much
oh, top of page, uh
rip phd
Shouldn't the lead times on most Western animated shows be long enough to avoid errors like those? Is something afoot back at the production studio? A super-demanding schedule at work?
Seems to be a textbook example of "that term that I shall not mention" : People who mean well but fail to solve or even cause more problems for whatever reason (botched execution, etc.). It's far from the end of the world but this was an easily fixable situation if they had wanted to. Might also apply to that alleged "unicorn" episode I've heard about but haven't seen. Is something afoot back at the production studio? A super-demanding schedule at work? It's weird, bringing back PPG should have been a slam dunk. Hopefully the show improves with time.
Seems to be a textbook example of "that term that I shall not mention" : People who mean well but fail to solve or even cause more problems for whatever reason (botched execution, etc.). It's far from the end of the world but this was an easily fixable situation if they had wanted to. Might also apply to that alleged "unicorn" episode I've heard about but haven't seen. Is something afoot back at the production studio? A super-demanding schedule at work? It's weird, bringing back PPG should have been a slam dunk. Hopefully the show improves with time.
BassForever
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Unless another director comes in and takes charge I don't see the PPG remake fixing itself anytime soon
Hellwarden
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Man, I haven't watched Cartoon Network in so long.
Powerpuff Girls dealing with an unicorn? What could go wrong?
*Googles "powerpuff girls unicorn"*
"The Tumblr Fandom Is Outraged at the 'Powerpuff Girls' Reboot"
................*SIIIIGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH*
*Googles "powerpuff girls unicorn"*
"The Tumblr Fandom Is Outraged at the 'Powerpuff Girls' Reboot"
................*SIIIIGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH*
I watch it every week, from Midnight to 3:30 A.M, but I skip the 2 A.M. show.
BassForever
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Eww
Schadenfreude
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Wow even tumblr? That's shocking.
Hellwarden
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I decided to look up fanart of Splatoon. Because Splatoon is rad.
I ended up on Tumblr for the first time....maybe ever.
I saw things.
I'm just not the same man anymore.
I ended up on Tumblr for the first time....maybe ever.
I saw things.
I'm just not the same man anymore.
You are staring into the abyss. Do not stare into the abyss.
Hellwarden
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But the abyss is so tempting. I'm not sure why people want to link the fire so much.
The dark is so pleasant.
Also, I finished all my actual work for this semester. Now I just need to study for my finals...
*sees that Funimation is gonna put up more Yu Yu Hakusho and the first half of Garo the Animation dubbed tomorrow*
Those...fiends! It's like they want me to fail!
Schadenfreude
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Why are you traveling?
Brother is getting married in San Fran
Hellwarden
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The Mountain Man is probably at it again.
I use to make a regular trip from Atlanta to home in Cedar Rapids IA. It's about a 13 hour drive that I shared with my brother.
After making that trip about 5 times (both ways), I've decided buying a ticket is worth it and flown home instead when I visit. I can't imagine making a multi-day trip across the whole country.
After making that trip about 5 times (both ways), I've decided buying a ticket is worth it and flown home instead when I visit. I can't imagine making a multi-day trip across the whole country.
yes
never take a greyhound bus or any equivalents.
I'm making my bro go 2hr both ways to get me just to avoid taking that damn bus. My friends are 0 for 4 on making it back on time within even two hours of their estimated arrival time, and these are like 3 or 4 hour rides.
I'm in Seattle this fall for a bit, 12-14 hours by bus or 1 hour flying.
Tough choice.
Hellwarden
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Is this one of those things where you have to spend a night in a spooky mansion to get the inheritance?
unknownstranger
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My first time flying made me never want to take a long car trip again. Two hours from Spokane to Vegas instead of like 16 hours to drive there.
eh
20 bedroom 7m~ mansion at a resort, privately owned
I get nothing out of it
but
cool trip I assume
*20 and change beds, like half as many bedrooms I'll assume
Hey, sounds like it could be fun. Do you get to use the resort facilities? That'd make it worth the trip.
Imperial Bishop
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The new PPG is so unnecessary that I've just been pretending it doesn't exist.
*ski resort
(I mean, colorado, theyre the same thing, just summer vs winter)
So yeahh, we do. :3
I'm probably going, BLEH DRIVE
I need to talk some sense into my brother
That sounds pretty cool if you can get more than one night out of it.
At a certain point, and I think this was when Toonami was on primetime Saturday evenings, I just did not ever want to watch CN ever again. Every programming just looked stupid to me and it was then I was like... Wow, I let this channel go even though I spent hours watching various things.
That aphantasia thread is the most interesting thing I've read in a while. I had no idea that some people simply can't mentally visualize images.
I'm having a hard time even imagining how basic memory works when you can't 'see' the places you've been or the people you've met in your head. Not to mention not being able to create mental images of places you havent been, like any fictional location read in a book. Even with the research I do, a lot of concepts I understand through abstract visualizations (molecules and voltages and whatnot, though not everything translates well to imagery). As someone who teaches a lot, this is good perspective for how people might imagine abstract ideas.
Sorry, I'm going off topic a lot recently.
I'm having a hard time even imagining how basic memory works when you can't 'see' the places you've been or the people you've met in your head. Not to mention not being able to create mental images of places you havent been, like any fictional location read in a book. Even with the research I do, a lot of concepts I understand through abstract visualizations (molecules and voltages and whatnot, though not everything translates well to imagery). As someone who teaches a lot, this is good perspective for how people might imagine abstract ideas.
Sorry, I'm going off topic a lot recently.
unknownstranger
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This is actually something I'm really good at. I don't think I've ever told this to anyone, but something that I did as a kid a lot (and still do), is when I found a cartoon I really liked, I would insert myself into the cartoon and build a story around me that ties into the main story of it. I would close my eyes and moves my arms around like I'm interacting in it. I honestly do this every night and it helps me fall asleep.
unknownstranger
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I just kind of need a basis of what a world looks like and then I'm able to build everything around it. I am insanely good at spatial memory things. I went through a lot of tests like those when I was younger between autism and depression, and I've always been the best at things like those. My issue is I'm terrible at writing, my speech isn't very good and my reading comprehension isn't great either, which are way bigger issues than being great at things like spatial memory.
I think it's really hard to comprehend when it's so integrated in the way that we remember things.
See: not being able to distinguish faces
Steven Universe is pretty good.
BassForever
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Drove from Florida to CT over 2 days, it sucks but its doable.
I'll be blasting A State of Trance episodes and various video game and anime OST's if I'm going to drive for that long.
I would probably stop every two hours just to stretch and yell into the wind to keep myself awake, lol
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