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[DocAwe]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mV7451mcw-E
CyberPunk Edgerunner season 2 comes out this fall. Form what i have seen, i think its gonna suck dick.

Was the first one any good?

 

[Kari Kamiya]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mV7451mcw-E
CyberPunk Edgerunner season 2 comes out this fall. Form what i have seen, i think its gonna suck dick.

I have no idea why they can't just let titles be stand-alones anymore. There was no need for a sequel, and no one can fill in that Rebecca-shaped hole no matter how many gun-toting lolis they throw at it.

 

[Spergichu]

Was the first one any good?

Very. The guy who directed the best episode of the first season is directing the whole second season so I have very high hopes for it.

 

[Captain Quazar]

Has anyone here watched The Klutzy Class Monitor and the Girl with the Short Skirt? I finished the first few episodes and found it pretty entertaining so far.

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

Has anyone here watched The Klutzy Class Monitor and the Girl with the Short Skirt? I finished the first few episodes and found it pretty entertaining so far.

Yeah, it was honestly the best rom-com of this season.

Akina is best girl.

 

[I Know 孤独のせい]

Was the first one any good?

A bit of a mixed bag but the emotional gut punch was quite effective.

 

[LightDragonman1]

I still need to watch Edgerunners. I heard it is preferred over the game for many.

On a different note, I'm really glad to see that the new Madoka Magica film at least has its release date locked down. I've waited over a decade for it. XD

 

[Red Dragon]

I heard it is preferred over the game for many.

I might catch flak because of this, but it was one of the worst frustations over a game launch ever. It hyped itself as a GTA and believed itself to be a New Vegas, but all we got was a bugged Borderlands with celebrities and less interaction than San Andreas.

The series at least delivered what promised, even if it hurts to remember.

 

[God of Nothing]

I might catch flak because of this, but it was one of the worst frustations over a game launch ever. It hyped itself as a GTA and believed itself to be a New Vegas, but all we got was a bugged Borderlands with celebrities and less interaction than San Andreas.

The series at least delivered what promised, even if it hurts to remember.

i remember that one webm of a guy seeing a kid turn into a burly muscle NPC and he looks from and back wondering if that actually fucking happened

 

[Professor Donger]

I might catch flak because of this, but it was one of the worst frustations over a game launch ever. It hyped itself as a GTA and believed itself to be a New Vegas, but all we got was a bugged Borderlands with celebrities and less interaction than San Andreas.

The series at least delivered what promised, even if it hurts to remember.

I had people trying to gaslight me that the launch was fine when the game ran like hot ass and bricked my PC

 

[Gimmick Account]

Worked fine on my machine, sucks to suck. Aside from some inventory icon weirdness when upgrading qualities or something, and that one window on panam's mission in the desert that launches you like a rocket when you try to mantle through (which was hilarious so I didn't mind). Nothing unexpected for playing an open-world game on day one, anyway.

I might catch flak because of this, but it was one of the worst frustations over a game launch ever.

I'm glad I somehow missed all that. I got to experience it without knowing all the marketing guy bullshit and enjoyed it, but they're for sure to blame for molyneuxing it.

On the other hand people went fucking rabid and were whining about all kinds of nonsense for unknowable reasons. Like I remember a bunch of the "look how bugged this shit is" compilations going around everywhere were cut-down versions of clips I'd seen elsewhere that omitted the minutes of speedrunner-style deliberate physics grinding that it took to make em trigger.

So there's the legit gripes about the launch and then there's the way outta proportion months-long shitstorm of bullshit afterwards which we're better off forgetting.

 

[Foltest]

I saw some old school anime last week and the quality of them varied a lot.
Gunsmith cat and Riding bean are just fun.
great artwork, likeable protagonists and well directed.
Angel Cop is just pure schlock (watch it with the english dub, it is glorious) but oh boy was it the good ultra violence.
MD Geist was just.... bad.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

MMOs by design are very bad for power fantasies. Lots of issues with SAO is that it ignored the fact that other people exist in the world rather than be a playground for Kirito.

You also have the other overarching issue with an MMO as a power fantasy: MMOs select for the biggest loser. The way to become more powerful in an MMO isn't necessarily through some form of talent or skill with the game, it's through being the most anti-social shut in, the biggest cheater, or the fattest whale with the fattest wallet.

Same reason why you'll probably never see a gacha game power fantasy isekai. Unless that's already a thing, I'm certain it's already a thing.

I think this is a hot take but I think Overlord (or similar types of works) are actually funny in a brainrot manner.

You just don't treat it as having any stakes but look at the sheer absurdity and insanity of everything that unfolds.

It's the same reason why I could even go into One Punch Man (which is sorta similar where if the situation looks really dire Saitama just gets rid of the guy causing problems) or pre-Limbus Project Moon to begin with.

It is for the first season or so. But after that you need to have more than one joke and a lot of these shows don't evolve that way.

I think a lot of LN to anime adaptations need tighter management, otherwise the story meanders.

LNs in and of themselves tend to meander like crazy as well my man. Fans can try to fool themselves into thinking that the twenty chapters they just spent reading side stories is important because it "develops the characters" or whatever but more often than not it's just the author running out of ideas.

Dr. Stone's finale sucked.

That entire show sucked.

With Clevatess done I picked out a couple of other shows that I'm going to watch in the next couple of days and weeks. Any random recommendations you guys want to throw at me ? Doesn't really matter if its good or bad.

The Classroom of The Black Cat and The Witch is the most "almost good" anime I've seen in a while where it has a kind of interesting setup and a cast of characters that I (mostly) like and then proceeds to only do anything remotely interesting with them ten episodes into a 16 episode season. It also has that classic anime issue where it's a story about wizards getting into wizard fights and the fights are mostly kinda bland. "Oh no! She blocked my Lightning Bolt spell! time to break out my ultimate spell: REALLY BIG LIGHTNING BOLT!" I've fallen prey to Sunk Cost with this show personally and will likely end up just reading the manga when I'm done with the season. But hey, why not give it a gander if only to see if the manga is worth pursuing since that seems to be what anime has become for me over the past couple years.

Was the first one any good?

It wasn't.

Has anyone here watched The Klutzy Class Monitor and the Girl with the Short Skirt? I finished the first few episodes and found it pretty entertaining so far.

I liked it but I burnt out on it on episode five or six. It was good but it's one of those comedy animes where the jokes aren't that funny and they wear thin quickly. But that's most japanese humor for me, just a matter of personal taste.

 

[MIU]

That entire show sucked.

I thought it was comfy.

 

[Foltest]

I am enjoying the latest chapters of Berserk.
It gives peak "we are so fucking back" energy.

 

[Oddjob OTP]

Cyberpunk ran alright for me on release; I mean I bricked my save file got mad and came back 6 months later but that happens all the time on release CRPGs. It was just people encountering their first Bethesda release and getting mad. No Guy Buy was a much more egregious example of half baked releases, they clearly didn't even have a vision for how to finish their game.

Edgerunners was pretty good. it's a small contained story with a memorable cast and while the ending is Debbie Downer horseshit but that's very on brand for Cyberpunk 2077 where all the endings are unreasonably depressing.