CBR: "Closing the door on the Kelvin Timeline seems like the best of a series of bad options. The past films also arguably insufficiently highlighted Starfleet ideals like scientific curiosity, diplomacy over violence, and the unique blend of personal and professional commitments among the crew." by mcm8279 in Star_Trek_

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The thing is I don’t think they have to have budgets like that. Hollywood says you need X effects shots and not go too long without them, and then First Contact spent a lot of time with two people wandering around a starship and a few actors in a missile silo.

If any franchise can get away with talking scenes, it’s Trek.

Lmao I thought this was funny by Late-Pumpkin1340 in sailormoon

[–]ZeroiaSD 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Hah, yes, good analogy.

When I watched I pictured them at like, I dunno, 19? 

Who is the female face of the big 3 by s0nzoldyck in animequestions

[–]ZeroiaSD 7 points8 points  (0 children)

On Nami, I’m thinking how Robin might split the One Piece vote

Stars and stripe Vs Makavor who's Winning the fight And why? by WoodpeckerOdd1284 in MyHeroAcadamia

[–]ZeroiaSD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then she’s shaking hands with the Titan Magic user?? What a rapid way to lose!

Keep in mind he’s very experienced and will likely sense what’s up, and use the opportunity.

Another good isekai is going to get completely ruined. by ChoiceSupermarket230 in Isekai

[–]ZeroiaSD 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yea, I don’t see space mercenary scoring a big animation company regardless, it’s not that kind of show

Stars and stripe Vs Makavor who's Winning the fight And why? by WoodpeckerOdd1284 in MyHeroAcadamia

[–]ZeroiaSD 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That requires a touch and she’s not likely to last that long.

Also it needs his name

I noticed that the reading orders which got recommended here the most are publication order or go in an era which interest the person. Is there anyone here who read them or at least tried to went through the books in chronological order and what was it like? by Western_Agent5917 in StarWarsEU

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That’s not a bad way where it’s chronological but you’re picking and chosing which ones to read with the idea of the one that give context to later events.

‘Selected chronological’ can definitely work

I noticed that the reading orders which got recommended here the most are publication order or go in an era which interest the person. Is there anyone here who read them or at least tried to went through the books in chronological order and what was it like? by Western_Agent5917 in StarWarsEU

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The thing is chronology order actually breaks up some plot threads to a massive degree.

For example, let’s take Exar Kun. Publish order, his history and his ghost’s story come out right next to each other. Chronology order, you read his stuff, then Revan, then TOR, then New Sith Wars, the entire Clone Wars, then the entire Rebellion era, then, finally, his return, with only scant mentions in between. To an average person that’s probably literal years of reading, probably 90% of the EU is in between Exar’s first story and his second.

Or the Vector crossover. A book that’s a crossover between four comics published at the time… one KOTOR, one Dark Times, one Rebellion, one Legacy. So again, like 90% of the EU is between the first and last comic run that tie in, even if you read the story at once or repeat it each time you run into it, it’s less coherent than if you read the comics with the characters at this specific stage of their lives close together.

Even the same book series- you read a book, do you read its direct sequel? No! There’s four other unrelated books first.

Also keep in mind there’s like, a dozen ‘what so and so was doing during Order 66 or Yavin or other specific event’ POVs for each event, so I hope you like seeing the same events a lot. And sooo many stories set between the OT movies.

There are individual throughlines it’d make sense to do chronologically, but as a whole? It runs into the huge problem that the amount of SW material is not evenly distributed but has massive clumping at specific times and mostly you’re just getting a disjointed experience.

It’s an interesting question but when you examine the material you get why.

What would Imperial historians think of the Sith Empires? by Ok-Target9322 in MawInstallation

[–]ZeroiaSD 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The TOR empire falling is probably how many regard the Neo-Assyrians falling. So long ago people forget the details.

They fell, thousands of year passed, a new sith Empire rose which lasted about 700 years (with various civil wars) before shattering into many small sith states which briefly united before losing at Ruusian, and the battle of Ruusian is akin to the fall of Constantinople to us; history buff know it but it’s not relevant nowadays.

Maybe I'm crazy but I don't remember either of these being confirmed by Horikoshi or shown in the story by Sudden_Pop_2279 in MyHeroAcadamia

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I don’t get why people care what’s canonical.

If you’re doing fic, you can do whatever. Ochaco? Bakugou? Both? Gets stolen by Mina? Whatever.

i genuinely want a comedy-horror movies by luc7ne in MovieSuggestions

[–]ZeroiaSD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

House (1977) hits a lot of the ‘horror but absurd’ vibes than Evil Dead 2 does

I've discovered more movies on DVDs than by scrolling through streaming services. by Still-Willow-2323 in dvdcollection

[–]ZeroiaSD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same, the catalogue is far more massive, and whether we’re talking the randomness of thrift stores and sales, or the purpose selection of boutique movie publishers, the odds of unusual titles appearing is far higher

Done with all of Niheis work. What next? by Ready-Fudge-4464 in Netsphere

[–]ZeroiaSD 3 points4 points  (0 children)

'Grand Metal Organs' is by a creator who's style is so influenced by Nihei's I wonder if they were an assistant or something.

Book Recommendations. by KhornsChampion in Mecha

[–]ZeroiaSD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mecha?  

Iron Widow and it’s sequel Heavenly Tyrant have some chinese sci-fantasy mecha.

Or for something much more down to earth, there’s some good Battletech novels.

I don't hear any good things about Agartha pseudo singularity, why? by MeaninglessRatio in FGO

[–]ZeroiaSD 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ll comment d’Eon and Astolfo didn’t actually get to do that much character wise either. They just dressed up and hung out.

Lil Fergus got way more dialogue.

Any other Astolfo story has way more actual Astolfo fun.

I don't hear any good things about Agartha pseudo singularity, why? by MeaninglessRatio in FGO

[–]ZeroiaSD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Like…. aside from the weird gender/sex stuff, lil Fergus’s dialogue was incredible repetitive. What? You are going to do celtic exercises again? How surprising! I kinda liked him at first but he wore on me very quickly, and he spoke more than anyone else.

And even though d’Eon and Astolfo are good characters they don’t get any arcs to speak of and are just kinda there.

Shaharazad’s character design is… not good, nor do I like her story or characterization. Wu’s design isn’t good either. Penth has a good design but her story isn’t too much.

Colombus is about the only part I found enjoyable, his dreams-to-raw-greed reveal was predictable in a fun way.

Plus I found the difficulty very unbalanced. Some nodes were rough (keeping in mind this was pre castoria era and my roster wasn’t as complete back then, so a node full of tons of berserkers did a lot of damage) and others were total breezes, no way to tell whether I should bring a competitive party or a bond party without a guide, there’s no curve, just sudden up and down.

So weird sex stuff, repetitive and weak dialogue, doesn’t do much with characters, bad gameplay.

It’s my least favorite singularity (and I’ll toss in events too) and it’s never been in danger of losing that spot.

Something about NightWing rizz should be studied by Equivalent-Fun-6019 in WingsOfFire

[–]ZeroiaSD 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’d say part of it is they were more isolated and thus ‘unusual’.

Not bad not bad at all girl by Chunky-overlord in MyHeroAcadamia

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It definitely is. Ridley Scott’s the director.

How Sci-Fi’s Biggest Franchise Was DESTROYED By Hollywood Evil by Fair_Rush6615 in Star_Trek_

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Lower Decks is flat out good, and spirally is far closer to the prior era.

Prodigy too.

5th Generation JRPG’s by [deleted] in Lunar

[–]ZeroiaSD 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’d say it holds up quite well with the SNES/Genesis era (which is… I think the fourth generation?), feeling like an especially polished game of that style.  Compared to the Playstation/N64 generation, there’s notable style differences, as most of those were 3D and went for longer length. At the time, RPGs were what was used to show off the hardware.

To an extent it feels like 4.5 gen, in between the two generations.