See you give a panel, meanwhile I break into people's homes and pre-program their Blu-ray players.

I told someone that I loved them a few weeks ago and told me that they are not ready for dating :(.

Well that really sucks. How're you holding up?

Okay I guess. I'm getting too old for this shit.

Hello all!
I forget where I posted on the day last year, but this does seem the most apt thread!

Just to wish everybody a Merry Christmas!
I hope you will have a good day. 🙂

Finally cleared MG Gundam Alex 2.0 off my backlog. Now I've just got... 14 more kits to work through.

It's the 30th for Play Station in 2025 so playing PS 1 games.

Already? Three decades is quite amazing.

I went back to the Food Wars manga after dropping it around the Central Arc.

I thought Isekai Smartphone was brainrot. What happened to this series???

While I don't hold even nearly the amount of anger this comment has, I think it adequately sums up my thoughts.

Welp, it's now 2025 here. Happy New Years everyone.

https://i.imgur.com/BP6PGnJ.jpeg

ALL HAIL KAMEN RIDER JEANNE :lolol

Happy New Year All!

May the Power protect you always!

Watching Red Dwarf as it's the 35th for them (1987)

I got into Pokemon card collecting, and I managed to get what I thought was the coolest Pokemon evolutionary line as a kid. I'm super happy with these, and I'm thinking of getting these framed.

https://i.imgur.com/oFuvwae.jpeg

I was not expecting the opening to be this clean. This is already an awesome adaptation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXTeszlOS5A

Cool. But I like the ending better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvU9-2c0Pds

The ending is great too. This anime has been way better than I thought it would be.

Well I finally got my hands on a physical copy of Bloodborne after Way Too Freakin' Long.

And apparently MahoAko got a physical release last month so I know what I'm getting next payday.

Removing some apps on my phone to help my mental health. I still use Bluesky, Discord, etc on my laptop. I won't be on them as much.

Well that was a wild Discotek stream.

Good. Too much media exposure kills brain cells. I mean that figuratively but I wouldn't surprise if it does physically as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzLhxMlkcrg

Toss the orange jumpsuits back in the trash. Black is Back.

Is that a Naruto reference? Or do orange jumpsuits have something to do with Ninja Gaiden? I've only played bits and pieces so I wouldn't know.

Anyways, cool that this is coming out. I've always wanted to get into the series, so maybe this is my sign to do so?

Sigma 2.5 masquerading as the "definitive" Ninja Gaiden 2 and a Part 4 coming from a studio which famously had a mass exodus of its creative talents...

https://i.imgur.com/zFQuBc8.gif

I don't know the details on differences between versions and only made it through a few hours of Sigma 1 but what exactly is the deal with 2 that everyone who played it swears it's like crack? These announcements are making me want to try the game again though, I totally get the doubt for Platinum tbf but that trailer at least, looked real cool so I may be tempted to get that. Can't be worse than everything I hear about 3...

It was a jab at Naruto, yes.

Ninja Gaiden 2 is a flawed game. But it is crazy fun.

They tried to iron out its flaws with Sigma 2, succeeded in some areas but ultimately failed because they messed with things that didn’t need to be fixed to begin with.

So now they wanted to make a definitive game and had the chance to take vanilla NG2 and add the feats Sigma 2 managed to improve. Instead they took Sigma 2 and tried to reverse engineer its shortcomings back into their vanilla NG2-state while keeping the better changes intact. From what I’ve heard that didn’t quite work out.

If you never played vanilla NG2 none of this will matter to you. If you did, well, you might still enjoy the updated games. I personally don’t.

Y'ever think about how it pops up a couple of times on House M.D.?

No, but I will never forget the moment House casually namedropped Arceus as the creator of the universe.

NGL I think that was actually the first time I'd even heard of Arceus.

The remake of Ninja Gaiden 2 3D seems to be based on the original 360 version and not censored down version. I hated that Stimga 2 removed a lot of blood and gore which makes these games fun in the first place.

Seems to be Sigma 2 with the blood, gore and weapon upgrade system from vanilla added back in.

Bruh are you kidding me why is Elite Beat Agents, a stupid rhythm game, making me cry harder than any work of fiction ever made me. It's not fair, it's like those Japanese devs tried to make this hurt me specifically lmao

Choudan Kadou Shuten Douji releases this week and I'm really hoping Tokullectibles gets their shipment in soon after because ahahaha, I'd really like some good news soon.

Also it's my birthday present to myself.

Early happy birthday mate.

Gotta love how USPS went completely to shit overnight last week FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER COUGH COUGH. I've got two inbound packages that got into the distribution center 20 minutes from me on Wednesday and have just stopped moving, stuck in "in transit".

There are no DCs between that one and my post office. SIGH.

Thank ya comrade

Happy birthday, gal :D

I discovered the Haruhi ending dance today and, I'm not gonna lie, this song and dance isn't anything special. I'll admit that it's a really nice and catchy song that I'll definitely want to download, but I don't really see anything in it that stands out? I guess it had a way bigger impact back in the early 2000s but as someone who hasn't had the nostalgia for this and is viewing it in the 2020s, it's just another pop song.

Of course, I might be a bit biased since I just discovered the Lucky Star opening today as well, and that absolute acid trip felt a lot more impactful that this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2iKC0C32-g

Yeah it's kind of one of those things like Goldeneye that changed things overnight but decades later is just Another One Of Those.

Then again I was completely detached from the anime scene from 2006 up until... Uh... Anyway I never with "it". And I can't exactly say that I used to be with it until they changed what "it was and you know how the rest of this goes. I was cursed to miss everything cool and die angry so I've made my peace there.

I remember it being a thing from 2006 to 2008-ish, but yeah, it had its moment of glory and went after K-On became popular. The song was popular during its prime iirc, and Patricia Ja Lee who played Cassie in PRT and PRiS was the protagonist Haruhi while Johnny Yong Bosch was one of the recurring male characters, Itsuki, in the English dub.