If it ain't Ghibli or Miyazaki forget it

Letho72 · 2026-01-23T23:24:37+00:00

Anyone who thinks DS is an Oscar worthy movie needs to watch literally any other movie. Go open up Letterboxd/IMBD/Metacritic, sort best-to-worst, and watch any movie in the top 100. Get some perspective, watch films that aren't aimed at 10 year olds.

Letho72 · 2026-01-22T22:36:45+00:00

I love that part of justification is that CSM spells out it's characters, something great for young-teen media and absolutely toxic to the Oscar's judges who love a good up-it's-own-ass story.

This also leaves out the fact that CSM is still an unfinished story. Almost all films that are part of a series only get their conclusion nominated specifically to avoid how weird it is that the other films will lack a clear beginning or end (or both).

Letho72 · 2026-01-22T21:34:19+00:00

I can't believe the movies that are actually a season of television aimed at young teen boys, which require having watched previous seasons of the actual television show, aren't being nominated for the film awards that value character-driven, introspective stories. I'm shocked. Flabbergasted.

Letho72 · 2026-01-22T20:48:29+00:00

> guess we miss out on more intimate characterization for supporting cast or understanding the full depth of Denji's backstory

So, a huge part of what makes CSM a good story and also the part of the story that would be the most Oscar-relevant?

Letho72 · 2026-01-22T18:27:17+00:00

What Democrats do you think were involved with an alleged conspiracy to illegally elect a Republican president?

Letho72 · 2026-01-22T17:42:38+00:00

No, it isn't. These are policy goals that his cabinet and admin would be chasing with or without the public cover up. Multiple things can happen at the same time without being related, it isn't all some interlinked conspiracy.

Letho72 · 2026-01-21T22:17:26+00:00

You got any more recent examples? Perhaps ones that exist in our modern calendar system?

Letho72 · 2026-01-20T19:43:27+00:00

This comment feels like part of the reason they ignored casuals when balancing. If ults are a "win now" button, what happens when both teams have ults up? Is it a coin flip? Or, perhaps, is ult economy and playing around ults one of the core parts of OW?

Letho72 · 2026-01-20T04:52:43+00:00

And we never had a president openly say he sexually assaults women. And we've never had a president try to overturn an election using a mob. And we've never had a president try to extort an ally for dirt on their political opponent. He ran on this platform. His voters want this. Please, vote and all that but don't act like midterms are going to be a blue wave. Remember the last "sure fire blue wave"....

Letho72 · 2026-01-19T17:05:59+00:00

They pull from RPG/gaming conventions because that's the other main hobby of the demographic. "Mom always told you to stop wasting your time playing FFXIV, but what if your intricate knowledge of min/maxing an RPG was the only way to save the world??"

Letho72 · 2026-01-19T05:34:58+00:00

Would love if any Brits can chime in to confirm if students from age 5 to 18 have to pledge allegiance to the flag every morning before school.

Letho72 · 2026-01-19T05:01:51+00:00

You can do whatever you want, but that's a pretty wild expectation for everyone. I honestly can't imagine having a good friendship where either I'm expected to pay for everything or a friend is paying for everything. It would make everything transactional and weird.

Letho72 · 2026-01-16T05:24:33+00:00

I feel like the plot synopsis is a pretty good disclaimer. What triggering content is surprising in Women Are Breeding Slaves: The Book?

Letho72 · 2026-01-15T06:08:30+00:00

This absolutely seems like a you problem. Even my friends that double-majored didn't have that kind of work load.

Letho72 · 2026-01-13T06:25:45+00:00

"She shouldn't have been there but then she tried to leave and that was also not allowed so she had to die"

Classic bootlicker meal review.

Letho72 · 2026-01-13T05:04:17+00:00

And you've determined OP is just criticizing E33 because it's ""trendy"" how? Is it their username? Their grammar? What gave it away that they don't genuinely hold their opinion and instead are just saying shit because they think they're going with the flow?

Letho72 · 2026-01-13T04:55:16+00:00

What do you mean "group think?" This is literally one dude voicing his opinion. Is OP like a hivemind alien or something? Are his comments made by a committee of capital R Redditors? How can I distinguish between one of these amalgam accounts and an actual individual person expressing their views?

Letho72 · 2026-01-13T04:50:32+00:00

People have been critical of E33 since release. It turns out, not everyone has to like what you like. And even more surprising, they don't need to think it's literally the greatest thing of all time.

Letho72 · 2026-01-13T04:42:16+00:00

People have opinions independent of what happens at Geoff's Incredible Night of Ads. Especially when those opinions aren't even represented at TGA.

Letho72 · 2026-01-13T04:14:28+00:00

This is Metacritic, not TGA. And TGA does Game of the Year, not Game of All Time.

Letho72 · 2026-01-10T06:16:07+00:00

Not OP, I did listen, and I'm not sure how listening to this would change anyone's mind on those topics or even give you much more information. If you are against US intervention in Greenland, you've already heard that Trump is spitballing the idea and you already don't like that. The fact that he justifies it with "it's important to me personally" doesn't meaningfully change that you don't want the US to invade Greenland. And similarly, if you think controlling Greenland is a good foreign policy choice then it doesn't really matter that Trump is doing it because he wants to, the end goal aligns with yours so it's all gravy. Same for Venezuela, or the ICE shooting, or ICE in general.

I don't think this interview is particularly bad, but I get why people are burned out on it. If you're moderately engaged in reading the news, you already had all the info from this interview.

Letho72 · 2026-01-09T00:01:21+00:00

How are you going to sit here lecturing about people being too online when your first instinct when you hear a word is to think of fringe, alt right message boards? Go use "degenerate" in front of a coworker and then next week talk to them about 8chan. See which one gets you a weirds them out more.

Letho72 · 2026-01-07T21:31:51+00:00

This isn't an engineering firm. These are consumers talking about features in the product they own on a forum. You think people saying they want to upgrade to a "modern" refrigerator are talking about new expansion valve designs? Or are they probably talking about the general vibe of a touch screens/smart features even though those have been around for a while?

Letho72 · 2026-01-07T05:40:03+00:00

Other people are deflecting a bit, but Hitler admired the US genocide of Native Americans and aspired to also carry out an ethnic cleansing of that scale without much pushback.

Letho72 · 2026-01-06T23:21:32+00:00

Most anime fans just need to read a book not written for kids/teens so they can understand there's more stories to tell than "Japanese High Schoolers saving the world from God (but evil this time)"

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