i feel like ive been waiting for a new advance wars for forever! i gotta check this out

u hurd it here furst

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omg they're so tiny

ok definitely gonna skip it then because i've never really been a disney fan... but also because when mickey mouse shows up out of nowhere like 2.5 hours into that 3 hour movie it's the most out of left field thing ever. i thought i was watching a kinda slow paced existentialist movie with a subplot about in group conflict in the League of Extraordinary Sephiroths and then suddenly it was like i knew nothing about anything anymore.

should i play it if my only experience with the whole series is watching a 3 hour video of all the cutscenes from Kingdom Hearts 358 / 2 Days

SEIZE THE SNACCS OF PRODUCTION

sounds bad

my stepdad loved it so much that when he finally full cleared it he rigged up a way to tape the ending with a VCR

nice

the best

i hope the guy who runs anime matsuri is on it

the framerate struck me as an odd choice in the trailer but makes perfect sense in context of the movie. i had some doubts before i went but i'm glad i saw it. i liked it a lot. definitely seems like one of those movies that's worth going to see on a huge theater screen, too.

we had mice in my garage when i was a kid and we used no-kill traps to release them in the only nearby field, but a bunch of redtailed hawks wised up and used to just wait for us to release them so they could have dinner. i came around to just killing them with the traps as painlessly as possible, cause i figured it was less scary for the mice than running for your life only to get swooped upon by a big thing with talons. i dunno.

it's a hard problem.

i wish i were a woomy

sai is one of the better characters in any shonen anime IMO i love him

i did not nose this.

i wanna second the recommendations for monthly girls' nozaki-kun and nichijou, those are some of my favorites.

also i haven't seen patlabor mentioned yet, and both the movie / OVA timeline and the TV timeline are very good (the tv timeline is my favorite tho).

i also really like hikaru no go, because i like go. it's basic shonen sports anime but the sport is a cool board game and not like baseball or whatever, and there are actually some authentically interesting problems and board positions in the comics and the show. the downside is that they had to rush the ending so it's not nearly as good as the manga ending.

azumanga daioh is funny and has a lot of good characterization but also a really unfortunate pedophile character played for laughs, which i did not enjoy at all. (to its credit, most of the jokes involving him are about how everyone else dislikes him, but i don't feel like he is ever condemned with any actual consequences, and i have seen instances of gross people online treating him like the audience surrogate character of the show, so i don't think the disgust of the other characters towards him was portrayed effectively enough.) so you might enjoy that one but there's that huge caveat.

i probably didn't talk enough about how i feel about this stuff. cause i don't actually think that stuff's not worthy of seeking out. i'm old enough to have lived through the 80s and 90s, and i remember the new jack swing and pete rock / digable planets / DITC / g funk eras of hiphop pretty well. so to me, what the kids are calling chillhop or lofi hiphop or whatever gets played on those "lo fi hiphop beats to study to" is, to me, just hiphop. cause i'm old, LOL.

on the other hand, the triplet flow kinda thing that you hear on mainstream hiphop radio nowadays is an interesting development. the beats have slowed down to 60-70BPM, the production is a lot less sample-based. aesthetically it doesn't resemble anything you'd have seen associated with hiphop back when people were still talking about the four elements. i'm not willing to say the new stuff is NOT hiphop-- cause most everyone who's making it and involved in it calls it that, and some MCs and producers have done work in both styles, and at the end of the day, i'm a descriptivist-- but i do think that it's weird that the new styles becoming prevalent have basically displaced the older dusty crackly sample-based boom bap type of sound to either "classic hiphop" stations for stuff made before 2000 or so, or into these weird secondary adjunct genre descriptors like "chillhop" or "lofi" or whatever. and it sucks, to me, that what whole generations of people have known as just "hiphop" now has to be relegated to a nebulously defined subgenre. i don't want to dump on people trying new things in established artforms at all, i think that's critically important. it's just that when the new forms displace the old ones completely in the mainstream consciousness, the existing forms start to feel "othered", i guess, and that part does kinda suck.

on the topic of "music FOR something" though, certainly brian eno's Music For Airports was and is a huge album that people still talk about and use for its intended purpose, so yeah, ambient music and other genres that are crafted explicitly for a certain instrumental purpose have been around a while, and i don't necessarily think there's anything wrong with that. sousa marches might even fit into this category if we stretch it a bit, since the original point of military marches was ultimately not just to sound impressive but also to keep time for marching troops. i'm not really against that sort of thing when the music is being made explicitly for that purpose.

but the thing i was trying to criticize in my original comment was things like the "X music to Y to" 24/7 youtube streams and auto-generated spotify / google music playlists that are explicitly focused on what you're supposed to be doing while you listen to it, instead of things that are more inherent to the music itself or the cultural context that surrounds it. i know a lot of people who aren't that into music who, nonetheless, consume a lot of music, and it's almost exclusively in the form of these activity-based playlists where the point of listening to them isn't to try to develop an understanding or appreciation of the music being played, or the cultural or genre conventions that music is in conversation with. so instead of saying "here's a playlist of chicago footwork through the 90s and 00s", it's, "here's a bunch of music to work out to." it ends up having kind of a destructive, atomizing effect on musical subcultures. some of the kids who are listening to "chill lo fi beats to study to" are gonna fall in love with sample-based hiphop just like i did, and they might start producing their own. but it's very unlikely that they'll end up connecting that sound back to a subcultural movement of predominantly Black musicians who used sampling to reinterpret Black music history for a whole new generation of people. if they don't go out of their way to learn these things (and there won't be much incentive to), then they're just gonna think of that sound as "lo fi beats", and they'll probably internalize the original context of where they heard it, and think of the productions they make as being explicitly for the context of being played in those 24/7 streams. and that's really ultimately what i'm worried about.

sorry i know that was rambling and not particularly well written but i don't have time to make it any shorter right now

this sounds complex but fun to play

i dunno, but it makes me sad that capitalism is increasingly trying to sell music as "for" some purpose and not an end goal worthy of seeking out and listening to in itself