FateOfNever

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I voted yes. But that's predominantly because I want to subject science intern Ben to the horrors of unlocking everything in some truly awful games. Bwahahahaha

So how's everyone liking the classic experience so far? I'm loving it myself. There's something so relaxing to me about the pace of Classic WoW, not constantly feeling like everything is a race to the end only and getting to just take my time and explore and quest. General chat has always been lively in a way that I've really missed, but we'll see if that keeps up or not or if the chatter dies down in a few days. Makes me wonder what Barrens chat is like right now!

So I'm pretty sure I'm going with a dwarf priest. But holy paladin and a druid both sound appealing too (because I like playing the "bad" classes apparently lol)

I plan on playing Horde on Bloodsail Buccaneers (which is obviously the best server name) but maybe I'll go ahead and make my Alliance toons on Atiesh. Not having (or even needing) people to play with is honestly probably one of a couple factors for why I've stopped playing retail. I don't have as much time as I used to, that's for sure, but I'm definitely all in for playing Classic casually.

Woof. 100$ seems a pretty steep price tag for 20 (mostly unknown) games, non analog controllers, and no power supply (that last one is less of an issue since I assume they assume most people will just plug it into their TVs USB slot for power, but this will definitely be a problem for some people.) Obviously we'll get the whole list of games by the time it comes out, but it leaves me worried they don't already have a full line up out there.

Wish it was the Genma version, but I'll still throw money at it to support Onimusha however I have to to get more of it down the line.

@nicksmi56: Uub is still canonical. As absurd as the power level stuff has gotten, Uub is still referenced as being alive and growing in power during Super. An important thing to remember is, "Power levels are bullshit."

As for Super, it's kinda dumb fun. There are zero stakes to literally anything though because they've gone on record stating that Super takes place between the death of Buu and the World Martial Arts Tournament, keeping the very last scene in Z as canon. With that public statement all stakes and tension went out the window. That doesn't mean it's not fun though.

The biggest flaw for me in Super is the inconsistent writing. While Toriyama is still in charge of Dragon Ball, he's not as hands on on every single episode. This is most infuriating if you like Vegeta. He'll seem like he's making real personal growth one second, and then completely relapse the next. He's not the only one to suffer that problem either.

As for what to watch, I said all of it. The movies do get retold in the show, but the animation is significantly worse. But Toriyama also changes things from the movies to the show, so if you're way into the lore, it's important to see both.

There are a number of big reasons for this.

One is that a lot of anime is based on manga. So if the manga is still in the middle of being written, they can't just dump another season out. Used to be that shows would create filler episodes to wait for the manga to get far enough ahead for them to work with. The fans turned on that pretty hard though when shows like Naruto and Bleach had full or almost full complete seasons of nothing but filler. It's much easier, after all, to turn an already completed manga arc into a season or two of an anime than it is to pump out a brand new arc from scratch in manga form.

Another thing that affects anime seasons is popularity and sales. Now when I say popularity I don't mean viewership. From my understanding, in Japan, TV ratings for anime aren't nearly as important as ratings for TV shows are here in the states. Instead it comes down a lot to how much merchandise a series can sell. So if a show has good ratings but can't push a lot of merchandise or doesn't make good DVD sales, it's less likely to have a steady, reliable, release schedule for seasons.

Now that obviously doesn't explain everything. Like Castlevania, that feels like a case of them throwing out four episodes to test the water. That could have been a case of Konami demanding a trial to see if it could be popular or successful before wanting to commit to anything long term (especially considering video game adaptations usually are pretty bad.) But I don't know for sure.

But for something like One Punch Man, they didn't even know if the show was going to be successful enough for more than one season. Which is why it ends the way it does, so as to not leave a giant cliffhanger in case it wasn't popular and didn't warrant a second season. So from a business perspective deals we're only made for a season one, which also happens a lot in anime these days. There's just so much anime and no one knows what's going to be a big hit and what won't and no one wants to sign on for multi-season deals for a show that could be a dud, or leave a show on a huge cliffhanger that never gets resolved.

From my understanding those are a few of the reasons, anyway.

Big Trouble in Little China

Wayne's World

Kill Bill

Pulp Fiction

Reservoir Dogs

Night of the Living Dead

Princess Mononoke

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