Not sure we would be better served, as anyone who is reading this article or commenting has got to be middle aged.
And we all have seen the times in one form or another.
Yeah, each gen will have their own takes on characters we like and do not. But like the LOTR novels, HP, etc ... most people, even new people have a take on a few characters here and there.
But you are certainly right, heavily influenced by age range. Like anyone who talks about their favorite Saturday night cast, is basically signaling the age they started watching SNL.
I am a huge proponent of 'ownership' in any form for mass consumer media, that is video games. Just like books, albums, dvds, magazines, etc.
From what I understand this one time check is to ' when someone buys a digital game then refunds it, but just unplugs the machine from the internet and continues to play it.' A one time check after, and then no more. You can turn your machine off and back on.
Yeah, this is also to collect data on that purchase, we all know this and it sucks.
EU, Ca, and more are trying to push more rights for consumers in regards to digital media. Including the rights to resale, gift, or trade.
I would also like for publishers to provide a physical copy upon request for any digital game sold/ at any time after- with in reason.
Grew up on shonen action animes. Cut my teeth on heavy sci fi fantasy anime. Have seen it all.
This slice of life is a SSR tier (lol) anime, as good as any tv show on any medium. Not just the animation and how they use it, but also the narrative and the way it is written by (Shinichi Fukuda) who is just ... unimaginably talented.
Also Cloverworks and the team that has brought this anime from manga to life, deserves so many accolades. I have not seen and anime so full of life and narrative in its short 24 mins before.
It blows past Attack on Titans, Vinland Saga, and solo leveling animes-- like they were standing still.
No weak episodes, not weak characters. It is one of the best animes to have come out.
What ever reason you may not have watched this anime, take a second to lift those reservations and try a 10/10 anime, even if it is not in the genre you may normally watch.
I mean in modern day life we promote careers, hobbies, and activities that support everything from modeling, onlyfans, advertising, yoga pants, ... well you name it.
MY dress up darling, written by a woman and visualized in manga and anime by her - I feel, wants a simple narrative of young people enjoying roles and interest that may not be the normal.
From girl otakus, to role playing different sexes, to hobbies and talents that is in the creative spaces and not traditional.
It is one of the few animes where the women will talk to each other without it being about- a man, children, love/jealously, or a role as housewife. They talk about cameras, picture taking, and coping with trauma. Including the male characters.
Yes, it is in a candy coating of cute anime girls, in fanservice, though season two actually had NO fanservice as traditionally defined.
The hina dolls is more about a traditional creative skill set, that has a more entertaining context - Gojo crushes on the dolls, then say he was dressing up as a geishas', or something boring like traditional calligraphy or kanji. There are anime about these subjects.
Yes, this show has a wink and nod within sexuality like Three Company - which is entertaining, but I have never seen it push a message of anything other then - it is okay to be different and enjoy things that are not in traditional roles.
ChuckDizzle04 So say they only sale ONE game, one single game in a year. The investment block that the publisher used to fund the game would still get around 30%. Like an old movie, song, book, that is not past copyright holders- will still get some form of compensation.
MSGD would still have to pay to keep the cod games on GP even if no one is playing them. Just having them listed, costs money. Of course it is not one game, and people will play them, and just having them listed costs money. But like you said, so old that nobody is buying them new anymore- would not that investment towards new IPs / games be better spent. Would the traffic to Gamepass be worth needing to recoup the cost?
This was a no brainer move. In both reducing price, and removing some first day launch games, it all was untenable.
Hell since the shock of the price hike, the entire gaming industry, was calling for these changes. Publishers/devs were asking for these changes, journalists were, even gamers sub'd to gamepass wanted this, even Sony/Nintendo were getting bummed out looking at this car crash and asking for it. I understand why Ryan pushed for these changes, it may seemed right, ... right for that small moment of time, but dumb for xbox future.
I would still throw gamers a bone, in that while CoD day one launch would be no more, I would offer the game for GP subscribers for $15 less. Or after a year, put the game on GP, or what ever loses them the least amount of money.
It would be nice, but it is not that simple ... even if you now own the publishers/ devs, these IPs are still expected to make money.
That money would still be paid by MS Gaming Division. And I think, a more diverse library of games - first party games, would benefit xbox more then an entire 'expensive' series.
Bringing them to gamepass, is not something stock holders and investment funding block holders would be happy with. (when publishers raise money for game development they offer 'blocks' (invest in this block, we promise a 9% return). These IPs are just like movie, tv, books - they are expected to make money on curve regardless. The difference of loss would be expensive.
What they could do is offer the COD games on a rotational basis, few months at a time, buy the game for cheap before it rotates off if a gamer is just crazy about it.
Invest in a more varied library of first party games. Not just shooters and indies. I know Fable is on the way, it has been on the way for 15 yrs now. Do not just bring Fable, bring several big games to the platform (each year), that investment would be better then all the cod game on gamepass.
Just do not try to condense the 40+ yrs of history into one movie. Start a good narrative/story and concentrate on that alone, if you try to represent 'everything' that has been in Gundam, you will get into the weeds.
Have a sympathetic antagonist and also give them proper screentime, not just we battle these guys because, reasons.
If the director has the balls, push the beans counters and focus groups away from your movie, especially a movie like this.
It will be one hard movie to make, well to make a really good movie.
The Yeti looks like the best movie of these, a Tremors like movie, or Signs- with a bit of comedy horror and tongue and cheek nod to the silliness of it all.
LittleRitzo You are still asexual - if you have a relationship with a fictional implausible animated character or hot ogre, but yet have no sexual attraction to real life- warm blooded humans, within arms reach.
I may dream of killing, but that does not mean I am a killer.
I enjoyed sentenced to be a hero, the angels and their need to be praised and needed was a little isekai tropey, that was not well explained. But overall it was a very imaginative anime.
Having grown up on shonen, and always a big fan of them... I found a couple of non-shonen animes to be bangers this spring.
Champignon Witch and Journal with Witch, both have been s-tier animes, right up there with Frieren.
Even though they are not shonen, they are amazing.
The shonen market is swamped, and the reason why is because action scenes are much less expensive then they were 20 + years ago. A heavy action scene of 5 minutes was prohibitively expensive pre-2000, but now you can have 10 minutes long full on wild action scenes- thanks to the help of computer animation, not AI but just better tech. And that has created a problem, gorgeous action scenes ... but after a while they get boring. I start to fast forward >> through a heavy action scene to see if there is any plot narrative behind it all.
Shonens are, less expensive to produce then they were decades ago, but new fans are just being introduced to the high action genre that is popular.
Older anime fans are wondering .... where is the story?
They may not have to repeat action scenes or spamming (there is a word for it- forgot) where you replay transformation scenes, yelled out attack scenes, space battle explosions, etc. But they can still get just as repetitive- over the top beheading of goblins or whatever. Great action scenes, but sometimes the story or narrative gets lost, and with soo many shonens out in the market, few have a good story to back it all up.
I look forward to Daemons of the shadow realm, their work is always engaging with powerful stories.
Try the non-shonens I mentioned above, they are amazing in regards to expanding anime and what stories it can tell.
Agree, letting the dungeon master, player, or drone roll app, take the place of a missing D&D character works just fine.
A DM can or should be easily able to adapt the story to the missing player(s). Since the campaign's story may be dependent on gear and ability ups, it is good to pass loot and skills onto the missing player, that way they do not feel too weak. Or just a tailored gear up, to put them around the rest.
But I will admit that sword world looks great, wish I had this game to play with others 20 yrs ago.
Loved DA I and II personally. While the two were different - they had what was most important a vibrant world, great stories, and combat that wildly fun, and kind of new for the time.
While other games at the time had narrative just as bold as DA II, like Bioshocks, Mass Effects, Fallouts -> DA setting was so enjoyable.
Incredible fight scenes, introducing new characters with god like powers and a huge budget that gives us non stop action for ten minutes or more each episode.... snooze, I started FF >> through some of these shonen -extreme battles just to see, well just to see, what the battle was even for. Or if there was any reason it had towards the narrative.
I mean S-tier animation, but god does it drone on.
I enjoyed meeting the young team with Yugi, spikey black haired guy, and Kugisaki with these three and trying to get to know them. It was really fun seeing their lives intersect.
By season 3 and 4 there must be a few dozen characters .. omg. All of them sharing some trauma bonding, where you get to know them and then they are killed off.
The story has also jumped the ship, as it started ... well it makes Evangelion seem simple.
.... fun article, but like every consumer media, some of them just go down hill rapidly after the first season, book, movie, etc... As talent moves on, accountants want change, or a good idea just runs out really... really fast.
But then you have shows that only get better, like Battlestar Galactica, Seinfeld, Breaking Bad, Succession, and tons more we all know of. Star Trek NG.
I think tv shows should simply get better each season, or lose their audience and go off the air. But, if people are willing to watch these shows -for whatever reason, then more power to them.
I have never seen an episode of Housewives of anywhere, but more power to those that enjoy it.
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Luke Skywalker not a top 10 Star Wars character 'according to fans'
Not sure we would be better served, as anyone who is reading this article or commenting has got to be middle aged.
And we all have seen the times in one form or another.
Yeah, each gen will have their own takes on characters we like and do not. But like the LOTR novels, HP, etc ... most people, even new people have a take on a few characters here and there.
But you are certainly right, heavily influenced by age range. Like anyone who talks about their favorite Saturday night cast, is basically signaling the age they started watching SNL.
Even a one-time check for PlayStation DRM is concerning
I am a huge proponent of 'ownership' in any form for mass consumer media, that is video games. Just like books, albums, dvds, magazines, etc.
From what I understand this one time check is to ' when someone buys a digital game then refunds it, but just unplugs the machine from the internet and continues to play it.' A one time check after, and then no more. You can turn your machine off and back on.
Yeah, this is also to collect data on that purchase, we all know this and it sucks.
EU, Ca, and more are trying to push more rights for consumers in regards to digital media. Including the rights to resale, gift, or trade.
I would also like for publishers to provide a physical copy upon request for any digital game sold/ at any time after- with in reason.
Sadly, gamers just do not vote.
My Dress-Up Darling looks like horny cosplay fluff — but it’s actually one of anime’s sweetest love stories
Grew up on shonen action animes. Cut my teeth on heavy sci fi fantasy anime. Have seen it all.
This slice of life is a SSR tier (lol) anime, as good as any tv show on any medium. Not just the animation and how they use it, but also the narrative and the way it is written by (Shinichi Fukuda) who is just ... unimaginably talented.
Also Cloverworks and the team that has brought this anime from manga to life, deserves so many accolades. I have not seen and anime so full of life and narrative in its short 24 mins before.
It blows past Attack on Titans, Vinland Saga, and solo leveling animes-- like they were standing still.
No weak episodes, not weak characters. It is one of the best animes to have come out.
What ever reason you may not have watched this anime, take a second to lift those reservations and try a 10/10 anime, even if it is not in the genre you may normally watch.
My Dress-Up Darling looks like horny cosplay fluff — but it’s actually one of anime’s sweetest love stories
James Mueller I just do not see this.
I mean in modern day life we promote careers, hobbies, and activities that support everything from modeling, onlyfans, advertising, yoga pants, ... well you name it.
MY dress up darling, written by a woman and visualized in manga and anime by her - I feel, wants a simple narrative of young people enjoying roles and interest that may not be the normal.
From girl otakus, to role playing different sexes, to hobbies and talents that is in the creative spaces and not traditional.
It is one of the few animes where the women will talk to each other without it being about- a man, children, love/jealously, or a role as housewife. They talk about cameras, picture taking, and coping with trauma. Including the male characters.
Yes, it is in a candy coating of cute anime girls, in fanservice, though season two actually had NO fanservice as traditionally defined.
The hina dolls is more about a traditional creative skill set, that has a more entertaining context - Gojo crushes on the dolls, then say he was dressing up as a geishas', or something boring like traditional calligraphy or kanji. There are anime about these subjects.
Yes, this show has a wink and nod within sexuality like Three Company - which is entertaining, but I have never seen it push a message of anything other then - it is okay to be different and enjoy things that are not in traditional roles.
30 years ago, a forgotten X-Files episode changed the course of the show
Yeah, but we have Kash Patel and he is so much better then Skinner ever was. Who better to lead the FBI, baby. I mean he sees everything, all at once.
LOL, our FBI really wants you to believe in UFOs now.
Please just put the entire Call of Duty series on Game Pass
ChuckDizzle04 So say they only sale ONE game, one single game in a year. The investment block that the publisher used to fund the game would still get around 30%. Like an old movie, song, book, that is not past copyright holders- will still get some form of compensation.
MSGD would still have to pay to keep the cod games on GP even if no one is playing them. Just having them listed, costs money. Of course it is not one game, and people will play them, and just having them listed costs money. But like you said, so old that nobody is buying them new anymore- would not that investment towards new IPs / games be better spent. Would the traffic to Gamepass be worth needing to recoup the cost?
Xbox Game Pass price drop shows that subscribers have limits
This was a no brainer move. In both reducing price, and removing some first day launch games, it all was untenable.
Hell since the shock of the price hike, the entire gaming industry, was calling for these changes. Publishers/devs were asking for these changes, journalists were, even gamers sub'd to gamepass wanted this, even Sony/Nintendo were getting bummed out looking at this car crash and asking for it. I understand why Ryan pushed for these changes, it may seemed right, ... right for that small moment of time, but dumb for xbox future.
I would still throw gamers a bone, in that while CoD day one launch would be no more, I would offer the game for GP subscribers for $15 less. Or after a year, put the game on GP, or what ever loses them the least amount of money.
Please just put the entire Call of Duty series on Game Pass
It would be nice, but it is not that simple ... even if you now own the publishers/ devs, these IPs are still expected to make money.
That money would still be paid by MS Gaming Division. And I think, a more diverse library of games - first party games, would benefit xbox more then an entire 'expensive' series.
Bringing them to gamepass, is not something stock holders and investment funding block holders would be happy with. (when publishers raise money for game development they offer 'blocks' (invest in this block, we promise a 9% return). These IPs are just like movie, tv, books - they are expected to make money on curve regardless. The difference of loss would be expensive.
What they could do is offer the COD games on a rotational basis, few months at a time, buy the game for cheap before it rotates off if a gamer is just crazy about it.
Invest in a more varied library of first party games. Not just shooters and indies. I know Fable is on the way, it has been on the way for 15 yrs now. Do not just bring Fable, bring several big games to the platform (each year), that investment would be better then all the cod game on gamepass.
Please just put the entire Call of Duty series on Game Pass
Mr.Blowfish Exactly !
Sydney Sweeney's Gundam needs to be political to actually be faithful to the anime
I think a movie could be possible.
Just do not try to condense the 40+ yrs of history into one movie. Start a good narrative/story and concentrate on that alone, if you try to represent 'everything' that has been in Gundam, you will get into the weeds.
Have a sympathetic antagonist and also give them proper screentime, not just we battle these guys because, reasons.
If the director has the balls, push the beans counters and focus groups away from your movie, especially a movie like this.
It will be one hard movie to make, well to make a really good movie.
5 surreal and striking sci-fi anime to watch while you play Pragmata
Epic s-tier anime for sure.
We may not get another anime like a PLUTO again, it is like something from the OVA mid 90s, when the scope and scale was incredible for sci-fi anime.
Highlander returns to theaters in glorious 4K
Ah that is so cool, I will go for that.
The Bride, Netflix's killer shark thriller, and every movie new to streaming this weekend
The Yeti looks like the best movie of these, a Tremors like movie, or Signs- with a bit of comedy horror and tongue and cheek nod to the silliness of it all.
Probably a very fun film.
Video games ignore asexuality. This dating sim deconstruction is changing that
LittleRitzo You are still asexual - if you have a relationship with a fictional implausible animated character or hot ogre, but yet have no sexual attraction to real life- warm blooded humans, within arms reach.
I may dream of killing, but that does not mean I am a killer.
Video games ignore asexuality. This dating sim deconstruction is changing that
Video games ignore asexuality...
What?!, ignore it... lol, it literally caters to it, the gaming industries biggest consumers are it.
Well, I mean some have relationships with animated underage girls, and their female wow characters...
Can the creator of Fullmetal Alchemist strike anime gold twice?
I enjoyed sentenced to be a hero, the angels and their need to be praised and needed was a little isekai tropey, that was not well explained. But overall it was a very imaginative anime.
Having grown up on shonen, and always a big fan of them... I found a couple of non-shonen animes to be bangers this spring.
Champignon Witch and Journal with Witch, both have been s-tier animes, right up there with Frieren.
Even though they are not shonen, they are amazing.
The shonen market is swamped, and the reason why is because action scenes are much less expensive then they were 20 + years ago. A heavy action scene of 5 minutes was prohibitively expensive pre-2000, but now you can have 10 minutes long full on wild action scenes- thanks to the help of computer animation, not AI but just better tech. And that has created a problem, gorgeous action scenes ... but after a while they get boring. I start to fast forward >> through a heavy action scene to see if there is any plot narrative behind it all.
Shonens are, less expensive to produce then they were decades ago, but new fans are just being introduced to the high action genre that is popular.
Older anime fans are wondering .... where is the story?
They may not have to repeat action scenes or spamming (there is a word for it- forgot) where you replay transformation scenes, yelled out attack scenes, space battle explosions, etc. But they can still get just as repetitive- over the top beheading of goblins or whatever. Great action scenes, but sometimes the story or narrative gets lost, and with soo many shonens out in the market, few have a good story to back it all up.
I look forward to Daemons of the shadow realm, their work is always engaging with powerful stories.
Try the non-shonens I mentioned above, they are amazing in regards to expanding anime and what stories it can tell.
Sword World fixes the biggest problem that plagues all TTRPGs
Agree, letting the dungeon master, player, or drone roll app, take the place of a missing D&D character works just fine.
A DM can or should be easily able to adapt the story to the missing player(s). Since the campaign's story may be dependent on gear and ability ups, it is good to pass loot and skills onto the missing player, that way they do not feel too weak. Or just a tailored gear up, to put them around the rest.
But I will admit that sword world looks great, wish I had this game to play with others 20 yrs ago.
Dragon Age 2 never played it safe — and that's what made it great
Loved DA I and II personally. While the two were different - they had what was most important a vibrant world, great stories, and combat that wildly fun, and kind of new for the time.
While other games at the time had narrative just as bold as DA II, like Bioshocks, Mass Effects, Fallouts -> DA setting was so enjoyable.
Jujutsu Kaisen season 4 has been officially announced
Incredible fight scenes, introducing new characters with god like powers and a huge budget that gives us non stop action for ten minutes or more each episode.... snooze, I started FF >> through some of these shonen -extreme battles just to see, well just to see, what the battle was even for. Or if there was any reason it had towards the narrative.
I mean S-tier animation, but god does it drone on.
I enjoyed meeting the young team with Yugi, spikey black haired guy, and Kugisaki with these three and trying to get to know them. It was really fun seeing their lives intersect.
By season 3 and 4 there must be a few dozen characters .. omg. All of them sharing some trauma bonding, where you get to know them and then they are killed off.
The story has also jumped the ship, as it started ... well it makes Evangelion seem simple.
Sad to say, I hope it wraps up next season.
10 TV shows that should have been just one season
.... fun article, but like every consumer media, some of them just go down hill rapidly after the first season, book, movie, etc... As talent moves on, accountants want change, or a good idea just runs out really... really fast.
But then you have shows that only get better, like Battlestar Galactica, Seinfeld, Breaking Bad, Succession, and tons more we all know of. Star Trek NG.
I think tv shows should simply get better each season, or lose their audience and go off the air. But, if people are willing to watch these shows -for whatever reason, then more power to them.
I have never seen an episode of Housewives of anywhere, but more power to those that enjoy it.