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^^ No, really, what, exactly, did he do? I know which plot point it was, but there's apparently some detail I'm missing.
The bit where he was walking towards the girl and her boyfriend, both of whom betrayed him. Mugen's injured, using his sword as a walking cane, and there's intense drum music juxtaposing his slow walking pace. At the last second, he makes a sword cut in such a way that he kills the boyfriend and spares the girl -- but he spares her partially out of cruelty.
While the morality of the situation can be debated (as is usually the case with Mugen), there's no doubt it was a powerful scene. It's all pacing and tension, like a samurai duel in old Japanese cinema.
Yeah, it wasn't exactly cool, it was just intense emotionally and tragic.
Apparently there are already people harassing reviewers for giving TDKR less-than-perfect reviews. Hrm yes, it's totally a great idea to send people death threats over a movie you haven't seen yet
Hi, Internet
More specifically, welcome to the rabid Batman/comics fandom.
http://badassdigest.com/2012/07/16/batman-fans-lose-their-minds-over-negative-dark-knight-rises-reviews/
> entertainment media
> fans making death threats
lololololol evangelion
^^ You should know by now that "Bat" fits in front of anything.
@Firebert: Weirdly enough, I didn't really feel much watching Champloo. It was a cool show, but it hasn't really stuck with me.
Well yeah, me neither to be honest, I just get what that scene was going for. To me the show was mostly just mindless, cool fun that was also rather easy on the eyes.
Eh from what I've seen, most of the people passionate about Nolan's movies are not exactly comic book readers. Mostly because Nolan's Batman drinks from a mostly different fountain than the actual comic books.
Samurai Champloo is strong on style to be sure, but that's not to say it lacks substance. It's essentially a character show, and it's probably one of the best of its kind. The character development is slow and subtle, but I feel that helps the characters seem more real and relatable; it's very difficult to tell for sure when a character changes, but that's how real people work. It's not like they were hugely different people at the end of their journey, but they had very organic reactions to the world and events around them.
That's essentially why I think Samurai Champloo is such a work of substance. The plot lies forgotten for long stretches at a time, and there are plenty of one-off characters that never return. Plenty of the individual episode plots are complete diversions from anything of nearby relevance. But it always stays focused on the three main characters and their development as people. As much as most of the anime is pointless in terms of plot, the characters needed those episodes to get the character development that allowed the final episodes to pan out like they did.
Samurai Champloo is certainly a very narrow show by the same token, and usually such a haphazard plot would annoy me quite a bit. In this case, though, I felt enough connection to the characters and their development that it seems more focus on the plot might have hurt the experience rather than empowered it. All the same, though, the show seems a bit "unfinished", because these are great characters with great stories left to tell. Everything has to end at some point, though -- it's just a flaw of the approach that I feel it's unfinished, I suppose.
Samurai Champloo was top quality. The episode with the gay Dutchman running away to Japan to escape the intolerance(a hilarious detail in itself) contains some perfectly accurate Dutch.
> "bat" fits in front of everything
batguano
did i do it rite???
Also, according to Steam, Teana Lanster has played 3.9 hours of Dota 2, wants Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and is Indonesian.
I guess being an enforcer doesn't leave much time for gaming. At least, gaming with an internet connection to start Steam.
@Batman article: meh, too much armchair psychology and self-plugging. It's silly to see netizens believe this is actually done by only the most depraved and fanatic of peeps instead of a norm on all but the most tightly moderated sites.
Apparently there's a protest in Amsterdam against shitty weather this saturday. Pure genius, not sure if visiting.
sorry for all the reblogging!
I just took a nap, during which I dreamed that I was practicing playing as Sniper in TF2, on a map where I was on a rectangular ring of land surrounding a lagoon and surrounded by open ocean, and there were small yachts going around outside it and one going around inside. I didn't know the one inside was moving so I placed a target on that yacht. Then it started moving faster and faster...and the map is quite huge, so i got bored for some reason. And then someone invited me to drop what I was doing, and go "seafood sharpfeeding". I wondered what the fuck that meant, figuring it meant feeding small sea creatures, possibly at a distance.
So I jumped on the boat of the person who invited me, which somehow into a go-kart as she drove me to the destination and parked me up at the top of a hill in a busy park. I was about to jump on board the next boat out to do that (somehow, that boat was launched from the top of this hill), until my mechanical pencil fell apart, and the pieces rolled downhill, into a public-use bathtub. My left foot was just fast enough to stop the pieces from rolling into the drain...but now I had to figure out how to put my pencil back together. Did it contain a loose spring? Well, obviously it didn't contain this random piece of metal, which might be someone's attempt at a razor blade. Hmm, I wonder where this spring goes, if it really was part of my pencil.
I wondered what I'd do if I didn't have any knowledge of mechanics. I wondered how @LouieW must have felt as Richard Nixon's vice-president, trying to defend his administration's record from technical criticisms as Nixon was running for re-election, as I was trying to put the pencil back together, crouched over the drain of the bathtub.
Then I woke up.
I had to turn my phone back on just to share my approval.
The 4chan summer cup introduced me to this song (it's /fa/'s goalhorn) and I'm really thankful for it (video is NSFW for like a second)
They are the best.
Huh, genderbent Captain America/Iron Man slash fics exist.
it's even canon
^^I really wish that surprised me.
^Now that surprises me.
What surprises me is that it's... not terrible. Why isn't it terrible? Let me have my outrage, dammit ;~;
Wait, really? Where?