Jazeon Wrote:His early horror games were tons of fun to watch because he brought a lovable personality and laughter from watching him freaking out. .

Jazeon Wrote:How many of you guys would play a virtual reality game on the level of SAO (without the fatal bugs ofc) if it were to exist? Given that's the way gaming is probably going to reach eventually.

PoetryIsFail Wrote:I'd probably stay the f'uck away from anything like that. Don't want my grip on reality to be slippin. Watching the cultural/news/societal/idontquiteknowthewordforthis shitstorm that would erupt would be very entertaining though.

Malthe Wrote:Totally. So much fun to watch a person scream at a horror game he's clearly not actually being scared by. Hilarious.

PoetryIsFail Wrote:I'd probably stay the f'uck away from anything like that. Don't want my grip on reality to be slippin. Watching the cultural/news/societal/idontquiteknowthewordforthis shitstorm that would erupt would be very entertaining though.

Jazeon Wrote:Lol postulation, such critic, granted that is simply your experience so fair enough. Furthermore the point of his videos, from my observation, was to entertain which was accomplished, not review the game and beat it to a pulp like a hardcore gamer. Burden of proof would is too heavy with such a claim, and it really doesn't matter if one person finds it fake, general perception is everything when it comes to entertainment and the proof of that can be seen with the ratio of likes to dislikes and/or views.

PoetryIsFail Wrote:I'd probably stay the f'uck away from anything like that. Don't want my grip on reality to be slippin. Watching the cultural/news/societal/idontquiteknowthewordforthis pomegranatestorm that would erupt would be very entertaining though.

KhainiWest Wrote:Kaiji is a great anime, let's start talking about solid anime titles.

Sardines Wrote:I agree.

KhainiWest Wrote:One Punch Man would make a great anime. Without giving it away, it's about a guy who punches villains, monsters, and other species resulting in them being defeated and progressing the plot. Usually there is tension and build up with a town being in trouble involving members of his association (who also have super powers) also being placed in danger, however the problem is ultimately resolved through him punching his way towards a resolution and achieving overall good for the community as a whole.

Malthe Wrote:Onepunch-man is great...

Sardines Wrote:Toradora!'s story begins with the male protagonist Ryūji Takasu who is frustrated at trying to look his best as he enters his second year of high school. Despite his gentle personality, his eyes make him look like an intimidating delinquent, so he feels utterly hopeless about his chances of getting a girlfriend anytime soon, and does not have many close friends either. After being greeted by his hungover mother in the morning, Ryūji goes to school and is happy to find that he gets to be in the same class with his best friend Yūsaku Kitamura and a girl he has a crush on, Minori Kushieda. However, it is then that he unexpectedly knocks into "the school's most dangerous animal of the highest risk level"—Taiga Aisaka—who just happens to also be in his class, and is a good friend of Minori.
Taiga has a negative attitude towards others and will not hesitate to snap at people. After meeting Ryūji, she takes an instant dislike to him. Taiga comes from a rich family, but she has moved out to live on her own due to family issues. She is coincidentally living in an apartment next to Ryūji's. When Ryūji discovers that Taiga has a crush on Yūsaku, and Taiga finds out about Ryūji's affections towards Minori, Ryūji suggests that they cooperate to win the objects of their affections. Taiga exploits the fact that Ryūji will do anything to get closer to Minori. She makes him her personal servant, getting him to do all her household chores (cooking and cleaning). Taiga spends a lot of her time over at his house, so much that she could almost be considered a member of his family. Since Ryūji spends a lot of time with Taiga, he has opened up to her world and to a side of her that most people do not see. The two also try to help each other improve the way people view them. However people they know from school start to become curious about their strange relationship and rumors begin to spread about them behind their backs. Ryūji and Taiga start getting along more as things progress with the relationships between the characters and eventually confess their true feelings of love towards each other.

KhainiWest Wrote:If you like tora dora I bet you'd love twilight

Sardines Wrote:But really, I can't engage myself in One Piece anymore. Oda has repeated his method of story telling in order to extend his story to meet popularity. However, this has resulted in him showing the same hook too many times.

Sardines Wrote:Oda's formula is basically to make the pirate team focus on short term goals by traveling to one island at a time where a different short story is to be told concerning racism, friendship, corruption, and justice. This runs parallel to him running the long term story that begins to intersect with the short term as the world government, special nobles, the sichibukai, and the great pirate kings play out and have plans that overlap the crews journey from island to island lending Oda the ability the time to work on the long term. The long term story is the true story. The true story in the sense that it is the story with the most relevance after one hundred chapters have passed.

It doesn't take long for people to realize that residents of island X, Y, or Z are not important beyond being used as points to progress the plot. Luffy is always moving on to the next island in order to meet reader's expectations and hasn't really backtracked to any of the islands he has previously visited because that's not his goal.

Sardines Wrote:However, One Piece has so many pieces of true story in play that it could last another 1,000 chapters if they continue with their current plot pacing. I believe that its popularity is its own demise because if a story is that popular, then the editors will pressure the mangaka to continue. The story must go on.

Sardines Wrote:I haven't paid attention to all the one panels. However, in the majority of them the one panel exists and is set apart from the main storyline to present a gag or alternative story that involves the character(s) featured inside it that has no relevance to the main storyline (based on the ones I've seen.)