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Possibly from YOUR post where you directly acknowledged MY post where I talk about caring about characters.

They aren't deep if you feel a certain way for them.

What's that called again, Stockholm I think?


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They aren't deep if you feel a certain way for them.

What's that called again, Stockholm I think?
What are you even TALKING about.
I said that Madoka was good for making me care about the characters.
I also said that it wasn't bad just because it was DEEP. (well I said that I didn't give a ♥♥♥♥ about deepness, but that boils down to "DEEP is irrelevant in my eyes")

Also Stockholm is a location.
If you mean Stockholm Syndrome, that's when you start to like your jailers/oppressors. Not sure what that has to do with DEEPness.


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I wrote a little bit but then I realized the joke is that they're saying "DEEP" but they don't mean anything by it and as usual are just doing their best to be unpleasant.

It is that "trolling" thing those kids are into nowadays.


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Then I've simply stated my opinion on anime, and not gotten an answer on Yu Yu Hakusho.
Not a bad day.


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I wrote a little bit but then I realized the joke is that they're saying "DEEP" but they don't mean anything by it and as usual are just doing their best to be unpleasant.

It is that "trolling" thing those kids are into nowadays.

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Myka is just taking what I say out of context, and HKU is being dense again.
Here, I will simplify it for all of you simple folk.
Madoka is pretentious. There is nothing extra special about pretentious animes. Unique animes are not all pretentious, but pretentious ones are. Now switch around pretentious with DEEP. This is what DEEP means. It's a commonly used phrase on the most popular anime discussion site on the net, /a/.

The actual difference between regular pretentious animes and DEEP ones are a little hard to point out. How many bad plot twists are there? Is there so much pathos that it makes you want to hug an endangered animal? Does the overall vibe of the show blatantly contrast the look of it? Is there an absolute dichotomy of good and evil? Does everybody die? Does it try hard to use Eraserhead-esque symbolism? Similar questions like this, etc. DEEP animes have at least a few of these elements in them, but of course there is variation, or DEEP animes that are more subtle, or perhaps even animes that seem DEEP but aren't. It's a judgement call, because of course objectivity is objectively fake and doesn't exist.


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I found Madoka very enjoyable to watch for various reasons, therefore I thought it was a great series.
I believe other people may not have found the series enjoyable, and that's ok.
I also really liked FLCL.


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Fail Flail, a link in honor of your avatar, and your lovely, lovely cup.


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Hey guys, go make yourself a [urlhttp://www.pacificrimmovie.com/#]Jaeger[/url]. I made one. It didn't come out very well since I am ♥♥♥♥ with colors, but hey. Click the menu in the top left and just click Jaeger Designer to get cracking. There ain't that many parts, but it still looks pretty cool.



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Made one too a while back. Was funs.



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I've had an idea for a while so I stole some ♥♥♥♥ and made it.


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you guys should give me all your steam cards


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Miggles wrote:
you guys should give me all your steam cards

No, everybody should give me the cards instead.
Selling them is fun


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nah i asked first


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I finished The Last of Us a few days ago. 11/10, would literally suggest buying a PS3 just to play it. I don't do that lightly and I always thought it was stupid seeing stuff like "Halo 3 is so good you should buy an Xbox just for it" or "MGS4 is so good you should buy a PS3 just for it," but this game, holy ♥♥♥♥. It is the single best story-based (ie singleplayer campaign) game that I've ever played. Besides looking incredible, having some of the best atmosphere around, and going to every part of the emotional spectrum, I think it is one of the best presentations of human nature and behavior to come up in modern media, films and books included. It's incredibly believable. Everything from the characters actions to the voice acting to their facial expressions, all of those little details wrapped up, just sells the game so incredibly well. Not only that, but it manages to avoid cliches in so many ways where it would have been easier and likely acceptable to take the tried-and-tested route. Going into a game being about ZOMBIES [er, infected] I still had slight reservations that it would have generic gameplay. But the way that it blends together stealth with limited shooting and horror elements is incredible. This isn't Left 4 Dead or Resident Evil or Dead Rising. The feel of the game is so unique. The amount of variety in the gameplay certainly surprised me. The story arcs were natural and flowed organically, and nothing ever felt like it was forced or put in just to advance the plot. Everything just kind of happens. The world of the game feels so real- if you've seen the cities that it takes place in in real-life, you'll appreciate how close the game looks to the real world counterparts. The only thing I could compare it to would be Assassin's Creed 2's portrayal of renaissance Italy. It's not just this, though, there's a genuine feeling of post-apocalypse that I've never experienced before. From the state of the buildings to the behavior of humans to the stories you find both through conversations and through journals, notes, etc, the game reaches a level of detail and immersion that I'd never experienced with something like Fallout, which had its moments of "whoa" but certainly not a constant and organic flow of it.

Without wanting to spoil too much, it's incredible how much you can relate to the main characters. I love that they're not "good guys." They're survivors in a world that is every-man-for-himself. They do bad things and they do it because they care about themselves more than others.

Also, the prologue of the game is incredible. To give you an idea of the quality of the cinematics, voice acting, and character chemistry that is very consistent throughout the game, here's the first "level" / opening of the game. Even if you're not planning on getting this game any time soon, I'd recommend watching it.

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I would say without a doubt that it is the best-made game of this generation- and notice I don't say "best game" flat out because naturally different people enjoy different things. Some might not enjoy a game that is about survival and emotion, maybe they just want to have fun and go race cars or shoot terrorists or something, which is fine, since games are about having fun. But The Last of Us ended up being one of those games that's about more than just the actual gameplay and controlling of characters. I hesitate to call it deep, because it's not really philosophical in any way. It's more like... the most accurate depiction of humanity I've seen in a video game. I think it represents a milestone of the video game genre.


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It did a bad job marketing in my opinion. It only grabbed my attention due to the similarity between their female deuteragonist and Ellen Page, one of my favorite "indie" actresses. Then I learned she had no part of the game, for shame. Producers said it had a state of the art AI, but customer testimonies reveal that you could be as sneaky as Ellen Page Mk.II, and still keep getting caught; suggesting that the ally AI has unrealistic stealth, thus breaking immersion. It also made itself out to be super cinematic and dramatic in the commercials, right around the time popularity of The Walking Dead spiked, and if I recall correctly, around the time the game was released. It's also not a good comparison to action-multiplayers, as it is an atmosphere driven drama game. Better comparisons would be along the lines of The Walking Dead (Telltale Games), and Deadlight in terms of atmosphere. So pretty much I feel as if this is a high budget one-up of The Walking Dead franchise, which from what I've seen has far superior writing.


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