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Moonside OP wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by mm_ in Simpsons Intro "Sampsans" by Don Hertzfeldt by Moonside

I mean the monster thing and the characters just repeating catchphrases wasn't exactly subtle, but I found it really got great when the music started playing. I may be disappointed at what Simpsons the show has become, but love the Simpsons family still and what is here is satire yet with a heart in it, much like the show at its best.

EDIT: I found this cool blog post on how the couch gag is about dementia.

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Moonside OP wrote

Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in I keep getting ideas for fiction that I will never go around writing by Moonside

I mean if you have a group and you gm, you sorta have a guaranteed audience, whereas I'm pretty sure my current ideas would basically receive none. And instead of being something compelling to read, it would end up as something like Reddit writing prompts and lore tid bits you find in books in computer RPGs. I mean if I gave effort I probably would improve so I'm not fatalistic but still I ain't gonna writing anything lmao.

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Reply to comment by Moonside in The Pickle Rick episode of Rick and Morty just got nominated for an Emmy and let me just say, by cute_spider_ni_srsly

Also, my real motivation: I so sorely hope to see better for adult animation. It seems like it's only allowed in comedic and satiric form and has to be edgy. R&M probably would be better if it had less gore and burping, it's as if the networks think that an animated show can't survive without pandering to a teen male audience.

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Moonside wrote

Reply to The Pickle Rick episode of Rick and Morty just got nominated for an Emmy and let me just say, by cute_spider_ni_srsly

I think the reception of Pickle Rick is just so characteristic. The show's fans seem to think it's either about lel random joaks or science and philosophy. The show is honestly a bit deeper than most adult animated series, but not hugely so and apparently independently from Harmon's intentions (which is ok since the author is dead). The show is more about amusing situations, riffing on sci-fi, horror and film tropes and being oddly endeared by the dysfunctional family members.

The end result is that Pickle Rick had a genuinely well done action movie parody that was better than it had any right of being, the Pickle Rick thing was hilarious as it was genuinely absurd how far Rick could go to avoid his responsibilities, the therapist speech was great and seeing the kids develop and gaining insight into Betty was cool.

While these galas are sort of horse shit, I very much hope good things for the new female hires of season three, they made the episodes clearly better and must have held back Harmon's worst tendencies. I don't know what the other nominees are, but Gao did good work.

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