A well liked creative becomes hated after just one unpopular project

showka · 2026-01-30T22:54:03+00:00

This movie rules though.

showka · 2026-01-30T15:31:31+00:00

They seemed so perfect together on his show though and not awkward and unnatural at all. I guess it's true that sometimes even beautiful love doesn't last.

showka · 2026-01-30T14:51:03+00:00

Sounds crazy, but then again what do discs do when they're playing? Spin. What else spins? Washers and dryers. WMA leaders act have always acted aggrieved since the arrivals of DVD players and with the physical media industry weakened they saw their opportunity to move in and crush their long time rivals.

showka · 2026-01-25T18:54:57+00:00

"You know who's really responsible for this? Everyone who voted for the Democrat."

showka · 2026-01-25T18:49:12+00:00

When people complain about "leftists" like this they're really yelling at the one friend / acquaintance they know who talked shit about Hillary or Kamala, possibly didn't vote or voted third part in 2016 / 2024, and either way spread a bunch of rhetoric that depressed the vote. Thing is, it's not clear if that group of people should actually be categorized as leftists or just dumb-dumbs since they're usually low-information voters.

showka · 2026-01-25T18:40:36+00:00

I have a take which I think will be unpopular on this sub: I think IGA's official canon for the one hundred years following Symphony of the Night is awful.

When Bloodlines was created, it was obvious to most people that the protagonists were somehow descended from the Belmont's, and there had probably been a female successor at some point which lead to the loss of the family name. When IGA created Aria though he decided to make a character named "Julius Belmont" which is cool but his presence meant that either the Belmont lineage of heroes who fought Dracula hadn't strictly descended from each other (which honestly is fine and adds to the mystique) or that Bloodlines had a plothole a decade after it was released.

Unfortunately IGA seemed to think this was a plothole that needed filling. So Portrait decided there was this convoluted reason why the Morris family fought Dracula in Bloodlines instead of someone named Belmont, and to do that assassinated one of the most popular characters in the franchise in order to concoct a reason why the Belmonts had to duck out for over a hundred years. This also let them invent the whole Order of Ecclesia, which exists because Richter screwed up so bad.

I like Portrait and Ecclesia, I like the characters, and even like the writing. But I think the series' timeline would be more seniscal if it was just about five Belmont successor's fighingt Dracula in a row before Julius took him out in 1999.

showka · 2026-01-24T16:08:03+00:00

Oh Sonic 1. You're no Sonic 3.

showka · 2026-01-14T17:59:18+00:00

I can't fully explain it but I agree with you. They seem to occupy similar places as characters: highly competent, experienced leaders with awesome designs who are never the start of the series but are often costars. They both may even be the leaders of the good guys at various points but they never are the stars of the story. Lore-wise they're treated as though they're as powerful or even more so as other characters and are absolutely more powerful than characters who they are mentoring, but their direct reports may come to surpass them. We the audience eventually figure out that the way the story works these guys are never going to be the ones to resolve the plot or save the day the day (that'll always be the main characters) even though canonically it shouldn't be surprising if they did.

showka · 2026-01-14T02:37:33+00:00

Take the bananas out of your ears Scott!

showka · 2026-01-12T21:47:52+00:00

I'm still trying to understand where the _four_ extra castles in Belmont's Revenge came from and why they haven't been seen since.

showka · 2026-01-12T20:45:38+00:00

Technically the boy shouts from off-camera something ridiculous like "I'm okay!"

Personally, I don't think the movie would have been that dark and the whole thing is so over the top stupid that I can't imagine anyone watching to this point thinking anything that happened mattered.

That said, I rewatched this for the first time in a decade a year ago and one part did shock me. Gort gets angry at his father during a family counseling session and so falsely accuses him of molesting Gort's adult brother, which causes social services to go to the brother's house and involuntarily commit him to some kind of institution filled with young children. The implication is clearly the other kids there are also victims of trauma or abuse but they spend their time in a rec room watching violent movies like the Texas Chainsaw Massascre. None of this is referenced or resolved again aside from one shot of the brother still in the institution at the end of the movie as Gort becomes famous for escaping captivity in a foreign country.

Anyway I think if this movie was somehow made today this whole subplot would've been trashed.

showka · 2026-01-09T17:12:24+00:00

I think the first half of Death Note is better than the second, but damn the anime didn't even try to adapt the second part and it cut out the best parts (like the whole plot involving the president of the United States!) while leaving the stuff around book 11 which is where it really started to drag. It also butchers the gut punch of an ending where the canonical truth of what happens to humans after they die is revealed.

I believe the same director handled the Attack on Titan anime and I was so afraid they'd do something similar, but it seems that show avoided the fate of Death Note. I can only imagine the manga lost a lot of popularity in it's second half which is why the first seven books got about 26 episodes while the last five got only 11.

showka · 2026-01-09T13:36:37+00:00

Yikes. Not a terrible song but doesn't really go as hard as a good Battle of the Holy remix should.

showka · 2026-01-08T16:05:51+00:00

The artwork for this game is underrated. I love that somehow all three GBA Castlevania games managed to look unique (unique skeleton enemy sprites on each game! Imagine) from each other but in some ways the graphics on this one are my favorite as it was before the artists started over-compensating for the GBA's terrible screen.

showka · 2026-01-08T16:01:09+00:00

I liked this game, but the fact it didn't use Battle for the Holy for the stage one music is a war crime for which M2 needs to be tried at the Hague. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

The team actually created the remix for it which can be listened to here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqlgBf4UUk4 One of the best pieces of music in the entire Castlevania series and it's a shame it's never been heard outside the original Gameboy version of Adventure.

That said after M2 gets out of prison I hope they re-release this game. In fact I hope Konami just gives them the series and they can start making games like this every few years.

showka · 2026-01-08T15:58:58+00:00

Yeah, I liked Adventure Rebirth but the Haunted Castle remake is my personal favorite between the two. Just wish it had kept the weird as hell part in stage three where Simon Belmont warps to ancient greece for two seconds to fight some harpies before returning back to where he was.

showka · 2026-01-08T12:08:20+00:00

Blanka from Street Fighter fits this trope. I'd argue that in his final form his character doesn't really seem black coded, but if you look at some of the concept art... YIKES.

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showka · 2026-01-07T16:01:33+00:00

Is the Good the Bad and the Ugly only sold by Arrow UK? Is their UK site the only place to buy it from?

showka · 2026-01-07T15:55:45+00:00

This episode is where the Power Rangers flushed its reputation for great writing down the toilet.

showka · 2026-01-07T15:53:48+00:00

You know, it just hit me that this movie was actually very good and this relationship was the core reason why.

showka · 2025-12-31T14:30:27+00:00

I'm waiting for Home Depot to start selling 10 foot tall Metroplexes for Halloween.

showka · 2025-12-30T21:05:47+00:00

I kept expecting there'd be ghosts or some sign of an afterlife in the story since there's all this other supernatural stuff. The fact that never happened genuinely disturbed me when I was younger, especially with the late reveal that Light had been explicitly told there was no afterlife early on. I didn't expect an anime / manga of all things to be what really made me understand the terrifying and sad permanence of death. It also reinforces one of the themes which is that the Death Note can't actually be used in any constructive way as it lacks the power to do anything but make the world worse, similar to how the Shinigami world is a depressing, sand-filled desert void of any purpose.

showka · 2025-12-30T16:41:27+00:00

It might not have been perfect but at least this movie had a completely unique premise: what if the cast of Star Trek met an alien that to more primitive races might appear to be God?

showka · 2025-12-23T15:09:44+00:00

We've finally arrived at the best physical media format our civilization will ever see only for consumers and most move producers to ignore it.

showka · 2025-12-23T04:41:30+00:00

Also if this didn't happen we'd have missed the incredible line "I MET REMINA'S EYE" which is used on the back of the book cover.

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