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scans_dailyIn the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than me.
However, it's a major election date in the US, so if you can, please vote! Can't say it any simpler than that.
Actually, no, I'm going to be more direct, even if I have no personal horse in this race not being in the same country, this is too important. Vote Democrat, it's that simple. The Republican party are frankly (and again, this is an outsider POV) horrifying in their stated intents. Election deniers and conspiracy theorists are on the ballot, and that's just their basic mindset, not even their political policies, though abortion rights alone should be enough.
This weeks car-crash social media viewing was, for a change, not the UK political scene (which is still a mess), but Elon Musk attempting to pull a Liz Truss on Twitter. EG take charge, make really unwise decisions very quickly and then be surprised as the whole thing implodes, explodes, and plodes in entirely new directions incomprehensible to human senses. From haggling with Stephen King about how much is appropriate for blue check mark accreditation, to firing a significant percentage of the workforce with almost no notice (possibly illegally in many cases) and then apparently having to offer some of them their jobs back because no one else knew how to make the things they worked on work.
The Dragon Prince Season 4, "The Mystery of Aaravos" arrived (after three years) and I'd forgotten how gorgeous this series was, both in terms of appearance and the soundtrack. These nine episodes were a bit of a slow burn and have a darker underlying story than previous seasons, and they might not be the deepest characters ever written, but they are engaging (Even Soren, the somewhat irritating former bully turned good-natured (if not the brightest) knight managed to be appealling) and the series does attempt to stress that there is a difference between ending a war, and building a peace between former enemies. It also keeps it's casual acceptance of queer folk on track, with a somewhat surprising reveal about one character being handled with refreshing matter of factness and sensitivity.
"Enola Holmes 2" is also now available, for those who enjoyed the first adventures of Sherlock's younger sister.
I tried watching the revamp of the 90's anthology series "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" and was sort of put off by how much the basic premise was changed. Rather than the simple and fun idea of kids with nothing in common other than a love of scary stories getting together to tell scary stories after dark (and establishing that this was a tradition going back at least three generations), this one makes them also the protagonists in an actual horror story. (Between this and the likes of the recent Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys series also embracing the supernatural as plot point, I'm sort of missing the more mundane series).
On the other hand The Sandman is confirmed for a second season!
On that note, question for the week: Your favourite horror author (if you have one)? (Okay, I should probably have asked that around Halloween, but I forgot)
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than me.
However, it's a major election date in the US, so if you can, please vote! Can't say it any simpler than that.
Actually, no, I'm going to be more direct, even if I have no personal horse in this race not being in the same country, this is too important. Vote Democrat, it's that simple. The Republican party are frankly (and again, this is an outsider POV) horrifying in their stated intents. Election deniers and conspiracy theorists are on the ballot, and that's just their basic mindset, not even their political policies, though abortion rights alone should be enough.
This weeks car-crash social media viewing was, for a change, not the UK political scene (which is still a mess), but Elon Musk attempting to pull a Liz Truss on Twitter. EG take charge, make really unwise decisions very quickly and then be surprised as the whole thing implodes, explodes, and plodes in entirely new directions incomprehensible to human senses. From haggling with Stephen King about how much is appropriate for blue check mark accreditation, to firing a significant percentage of the workforce with almost no notice (possibly illegally in many cases) and then apparently having to offer some of them their jobs back because no one else knew how to make the things they worked on work.
The Dragon Prince Season 4, "The Mystery of Aaravos" arrived (after three years) and I'd forgotten how gorgeous this series was, both in terms of appearance and the soundtrack. These nine episodes were a bit of a slow burn and have a darker underlying story than previous seasons, and they might not be the deepest characters ever written, but they are engaging (Even Soren, the somewhat irritating former bully turned good-natured (if not the brightest) knight managed to be appealling) and the series does attempt to stress that there is a difference between ending a war, and building a peace between former enemies. It also keeps it's casual acceptance of queer folk on track, with a somewhat surprising reveal about one character being handled with refreshing matter of factness and sensitivity.
"Enola Holmes 2" is also now available, for those who enjoyed the first adventures of Sherlock's younger sister.
I tried watching the revamp of the 90's anthology series "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" and was sort of put off by how much the basic premise was changed. Rather than the simple and fun idea of kids with nothing in common other than a love of scary stories getting together to tell scary stories after dark (and establishing that this was a tradition going back at least three generations), this one makes them also the protagonists in an actual horror story. (Between this and the likes of the recent Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys series also embracing the supernatural as plot point, I'm sort of missing the more mundane series).
On the other hand The Sandman is confirmed for a second season!
On that note, question for the week: Your favourite horror author (if you have one)? (Okay, I should probably have asked that around Halloween, but I forgot)
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Date: 2022-11-08 11:31 am (UTC)I love Junji Ito's work, but for me, it's more in the gross territory than in the fear territory.
Just borrowed "Something is killing the children" at the local librairy. Read the first issue. So far, it's good: I'm hooked.
Still watching some seasonal anime and some older ones.
My Hero Academia is doing a good adaptation of the most intense part of the manga, although the overuse of still frames in action scenes is a bit annoying. I again found myself skiping the parts centered on Bakugo.
Chainsawman is everything I hoped it to be, and even more. Animation, voice acting, openings and endings: everything is a treat.
To your Eternity is still a solid, beautiful story. I didn't read the manga, but I hope it will keep digging more and more the issues with immortality. That's a concept I find fascinating but I struggle to find fictions that fully adress it.
Still wondering each week if it's time to drop Gundam; the Witch from Mercury. The character/mecha design and the animation are great, but so far it has all the cliches of duel anime and teen harem anime.
Jojo's Bizarre Adventures. Finished season 2. It was way better than the boring season 1, with a very entertaining main character, but not as good as I expected considering all the Jojo hype. I heard season 3 is the best, so I guess I'll see.
Just watched the Lucifer episode of Sandman, and I was underwhelmed by both Lucifer and the plot.
On a personal life note, I miss talking politics and state of the world with my best friend. Since he got "redpilled", I'm just awkwardly avoiding some topics with him. I know I don't have the brains and the talking skills to sway him.
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Date: 2022-11-08 01:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-11-08 11:53 am (UTC)After 2 Episodes Of The Midnight Club: "...I don't know what I expected."
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Date: 2022-11-08 12:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2022-11-08 12:09 pm (UTC)https://gizmodo.com/oculus-founder-palmer-luckey-created-a-vr-headset-that-1849755223
A Techbro built a literal murder machine, straight out of an anime. Win the game, or die. That is not a joke, that is literally the point of his invention. He certainly killed a little of my hope for humanity, so I guess I lost that game. Also, The Game. Y'all just lost it.
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Date: 2022-11-08 12:22 pm (UTC)After the first paragraph I was thinking of a half dozen bad movies and Sword Art Online (if he'd included an anti-tamper function trigger too)
Then I read the next paragraph about his next step.
I liked it better when it was a bad movie in my head... and I was already casting Vincent Price as the scientist and wondering if William Castle could have come up with a gimmick for the 3D glasses it would involve.
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From:no subject
Date: 2022-11-08 12:24 pm (UTC)Read a lot.
-Diqiu Wangshi series by Liu Cixin is certainly very deep and complex, but hooo boy, Ideon: Be Invoked and End of Evangelion appear like light- hearted comedies in comparison. One downer event after another, and in the middle of third book I realized I didn’t care where it goes and only read for the sake of completion. (Not sure what the English title is, it was published in Poland as “Death is immortal” vol 1-3, I picked the series up because it sounds punny in Polish)
-Cancipin by Priest originally seemed like Ghost in the Shell but with extra mecha, but the plot quickly started meandering, with plotlines appearing and disappearing without foreshadowing, which in combination with me finding one of the protagonists really unlikable made me drop the series early on. (It’s not Ghost in the Shell, it’s Star Wars but the wuxia way.)
-Read several comics, out of which I enjoyed Batman vs Robin, Immortal X- Men, Legion of X and Poison Ivy. Others were disappointing. Gotham City Police Department is a peculiar case, as it’s a good contemporary police drama, but the way the characters act doesn’t make sense for the fantastical setting they are in.
-Also read several manga series. I particularly recommend a few zombie genre deconstructions: The Walking Cat, 100 Things I Want To Do Before I Become A Zombie, and From Now On I’m Apparently A Zombie. Other cute horror comedy is Otomekaiju Caramelisen, about a girl who turns into a kaiju when she feels love. Finally aquired Polish edition of Junji Itou’s Gyo. Love the imagination, very grotesque.
Watched The Dragon Prince. I find it disappointing and not worth the wait. I am also slightly disappointed with The Witch from Mercury, as after strong opening the following episodes are mostly comedic filler. Urusei Yatsura remake is decent, with perfect opening and ending sequences, but the nature of the story makes the humour tireing after one episode.
I want to watch more donghua, and have access to a large library of titles, but have no clue where to start and how to check for genres.
My favourite horror authors are Anne Rice, Kaori Yuki, Mo Xiang Tong Xiu and Arty Dereshchuk. First three bewitched me with the beauty and elegance of the their prose/art, complex fantastical worlds and multi-layered characters (as well as some themes that I seek outside of horror), while Mr. Dereshchuk’s works perfectly portray that depressing post-Soviet reality filled with ghosts of the near past. I learned English from The Vampire Chronicles, and try to mimic the language when I write English.
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Date: 2022-11-08 04:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2022-11-08 01:03 pm (UTC)Marvel Snap is helping to keep the dark thoughts at bay. It's a free to play game, but the only thing you need to spend money on is aesthetically upgrading your cards. It doesn't matter if your card is super-duper ultra rare or bog-standard basic, how the card looks doesn't affect its power levels.
Pre-ordered some new dlc packs for The Skywalker Saga too. Disappointed in the lack of Little Leia in the Obi-Wan Kenobi character pack, though.
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Date: 2022-11-08 01:04 pm (UTC)Others I would recommend; Joe Hill, Paul Tremblay, Grady Hendrix, John Ajvide Lindqvist and Jack Ketchum.
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Date: 2022-11-08 01:18 pm (UTC)Need caffeine and breakfast before I hit the polls.
Still enjoying FF9.
And here in the US, the $1.9 BILLION Powerball drawing was delayed...that ain't ominous at ALL~!
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/columbus/mondays-winning-powerball-numbers/
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Date: 2022-11-08 01:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
From:no subject
Date: 2022-11-08 01:31 pm (UTC)On the bright side, Political Ads end today.
(Just kidding. Election season doesn’t end anymore)
I have apparently reached the age where my spam email assumes I own a house. As if anyone can buy a house.
It wasn’t that long ago I was at the age when they assumed I was having kids. At least that I get; I have a lot of interests that an algorithm might flag as “childish” … and – who knows – maybe my mom is secretly responsible for them.
The pizza was okay but the Pizza Hut experience was terrible. I may need to revise that Shredders Revenge review.
Have been listening to Space: 1969 by Bill Oakley while out and about. It’s a sci-fi comedy where JFK survives the assassination attempt but comes back changed. It’s funny and Natasha Lyonne is great as the lead but it just ends abruptly right after they explain what’s really going on.
I am awe of the restraint it took for the cast of the new Weird Al movie to not constantly wink at the camera. It is wildly inaccurate in the best way. I was sort of curious to know what Madonna thinks of her portrayal in this but I found an article saying she hadn’t seen it.
Dragon Prince is back and it’s been so long since it aired that I realized I forgot key character’s names. There’s some solid character stuff but I don’t feel like the main cast ended season four in that different of a place than the status quo they introduced at the beginning of season four. It seems like the more interesting story might have been the two-year time skip. I’m much rather see stuff like this … https://thedragonprince.com/theroyalcouncil/ …play out on screen than be delivered as exposition.
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At the end of the season, everything in spoilers is still largely still true (but both sides have slightly more information) so these nine episodes just feel like setup.
Of course, maybe I just want them to make sure we get a satisfying story in each season instead of assuming they’ll be able to follow a nine-season plan since Netflix has a habit of sudden cancellations and the past year hasn’t been kind to animation in general.
PS: Trying to calm a DRAGON by telling it to “take a deep breath” has to be one of the dumbest things I’ve seen in a scene already filled with stupid decisions.
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Date: 2022-11-08 03:53 pm (UTC)V svaq vg zber guna n yvggyr qrcerffvat gung gur zbfg snagnfgvpny guvat nobhg GQC evtug abj vf gung gurve yrnqref nyy frrz gb or xvaq, jvfr naq frafvoyr crbcyr jub, va gurve bja jnl, npghnyyl chg gur arrqf bs gurve crbcyr, naq gurve nyyvrf, orsber rirelguvat ryfr. Gung fubhyq ABG or nfcvengvbany qnzzvg!
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From:no subject
Date: 2022-11-08 01:54 pm (UTC)Hmm. Don't normally go for horror (too squeamish). But I'd probably say maybe Stephen King... but there's usually some element in all his stories that just ruins the whole thing.
Usually involving sex, sexual assault or murdered animals.
So... R.L. Stine?
After some mild irritation with the mail, got a collected edition of Agents of Atlas.
Satisfactory levels of gorillas.
(As opposed to the MCU's unsatisfactory amount of both quality and quantity of gorillas. And just general representation on the Agents of Atlas front.
... Wakanda Forever apparently has Namora in it, but I'm no holding my breath on her being A: anything like her comic version anyhow, B: making it to the end of the movie.)
It was N7 Day yesterday, and Bioware released a teaser image for the next Mass Effect, which has left the fans jumping upon it like starving animals.
(so much clickbait articles on What It All Means in the newsfeed...)
Oh, and Britain's unelected Prime Minister said he will be "like Santa Claus, not Scrooge".
So, apparently, he will not be visited by three spirits, will not learn the True Meaning of X-Mas, will not change his ways, and will not become a better, wiser or kinder man.
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Date: 2022-11-08 02:39 pm (UTC)Agents of Atlas was such an underappreciated comic by such an underappreciated writer. Its baffling that Jeff Parker doesn't get more work.
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Date: 2022-11-08 03:20 pm (UTC)Though... it doesn't need to be book? Then Jonny Sims, main writer of the podcast The Magnus Archives, would also have a nice place in my list.
And who is yours?
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Date: 2022-11-08 04:17 pm (UTC)And then cried on the couch.
It's so good. And makes good ludonarrative sense.
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Date: 2022-11-08 04:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-11-08 04:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-11-08 05:45 pm (UTC)However, I *did* really enjoy one horror story. The videogame The Cat Lady. Excellent, excellent game. Highly recommended.
- My roommate is a bitch. It is very frustrating to live with a person with a whole bundle of sticks up her ass. Changing place is out of the question because the housing market is an even bigger bitch. Luckily, it's just a short term thing, since my contract in this town ends soon.
- I'm also frustrated that Italy's Disney publisher, Panini Comics, insists on publishing the stories I want to read as single-story hardcovers, which are expensive. I do NOT want to shell out 13 euro for an 80 page story. Collections, especially with soft covers, are MUCH more affordable. There are two stories in particular I want to read: a Gladstone focused one ("The Solitude Of The Four-Leaf Clover") and a Rockerduck focused one ("The Ballad Of John D. Rockerduck"), but I keep hoping they get collected in soft-cover trades.
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Date: 2022-11-08 06:33 pm (UTC)(Tucker and Dale is a pretty solid movie… even if the one person who “deserved” to die was one of the only survivors).
Sorry your roommate sucks. I don’t miss that.
I guess the grass is always greener on the other side with collected editions. Apparently Poland got a DeMatteis/ Buscema Spectacular Spider-Man omnibus last year. In the US we just get endless reprints of Kraven’s Last Hunt.
Also I've noticed more an more publishers will go digital only (especially with manga) here and - while that's find for the most part since I have limited space - sometimes I want to own a thing. Discovery and Amazon's treatment of HBO and Comixology's respective libraries this year really highlights a lot of the problems with digital. At least with HBO there was an understanding that we were renting access to a library and we weren't actually buying anything.
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Date: 2022-11-08 06:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-11-08 08:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-11-08 09:23 pm (UTC)When it comes to horror, though, the ones that stick with me are the metahorror. Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, Behind the Mask: Rise of Leslie Vernon, In the Mouth of Madness, The Final Girl Support Group, Cabin in the Woods before Whedon ruined his work for me - all greats.
I've been watching Musk's Twitter ownership with schadenfreudist delight. Twitter, hell site that it is, has long had the concept of the Twitter Main Character. You don't want to be the main character, because it that means attracting the ire of a million critical assholes. Elon Musk clearly loved Twitter, and now's he's paid $44 billion to make himself the permanent main character. He's still doing juvenile crap like calling Twitter rival Mastadon "Masterbatedon", but now he suffers actual consequences for being a dumbass. He destroyed his ability to troll, and he paid for it.
It almost makes up for a massive chunk of my country responding to demographic trends going against them by turning against the concept of democracy itself. Seriously, fellow Americans: fucking vote if you haven't already.
Currently going through season 4 of Star Trek: Discovery. Halfway through, there's a lot less going on than the previous seasons and their massive galaxy-destroying plots. I'm not sure whether that's good or not.
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Date: 2022-11-08 10:35 pm (UTC)Musk deciding to make himself the main character of Twitter just made it worse in new ways.
He's inescapable. The algorithm pushes tweets from him and his sycophants even if you tell it you're not interested in "Elon Musk" as a topic. Some people who have gone so far as to block him have found he's unblocked when they check again. If Twitter is the town square then he has the megaphone and he's outlawed earplugs.
I'm less worried about him mocking Twitter 's competition than some of the other things he's done recently. He's sharing Nazi memes. He's naming names of advertisers who have pulled out. He's telling people how they should vote. The site's TOS change constantly at his whims.
I mean the name change thing alone...
Blue checks are about to become meaningless so some verified accounts went out in a blaze of glory by impersonating him.
He banned them and said he'd ban all other accounts using his name unless they were marked "parody".
(Also he implied that he'd give the accounts back if they pay the $8/month but I guess we're ignoring this part.)
He banned the "parody" accounts too.
Then he locked verified accounts as their current names ... which left some celebrities stuck with dumb Halloween gimmick names.
I think the current solution is that verification is lost if the name is changed through the current Twitter situation makes it hard to follow a coherent time-line.
Just an absolute mess.
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Date: 2022-11-08 09:55 pm (UTC)Started Deep Space Nine season four.
The Way of The Warrior: Boy a lot happened here, the Cardassian government's been overthrown, then the Klingon's attack them, and Worf joins the main cast.
Indiscretion: Sure Dukat was in charge of the occupation, making him responsible for the atrocities committed, but is he really such a bad guy? yes
Rejoined: I thought this was going to be a 'two women kiss, but their alien slugs puppeting them so it's not gay', but it was actually very tastefully done.
The Sword of Kahless: Worf goes crazy and jumps to murder, worryingly fast.
Homefront: So apparently there's only one Star Fleet Academy in the Federation, and it's in San Fransisco. It must be a very big building.
huh, the Federation president is apparently the de-facto ruler of Earth...which is odd. Is the head of the United Nations in charge of the US?
Paradise Lost: I think this is better commentary on 9/11 than any Star Trek story written in the 21st century.
Crossfire: Odo mocks Worf for letting Ferengi take control of the Enterprise, completely ignoring how Picard was turned into a child at the time...
Sons of Mogh: Worf says he has no family, seemingly forgetting about his son.
The way the episode presented it, I just assumed Worf dragged his passed out brother to Bashir and got him to mind wipe him. According to the writers that didn't happen, which is perhaps for the best.
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Date: 2022-11-08 11:15 pm (UTC)Though my understanding of the Black Adam movie (which i have not seen) is a lot of the conflict was of the "heroes don't kill" variety and ... is this or is this not set in the world where Superman snapped Zod's neck? Grey characters like Black Adam don't work in worlds where the icons are already down in the muck.
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Date: 2022-11-09 04:30 am (UTC)So I'm taking a break from Genshin and trying No Man's Sky instead.
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