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    Serenes Forest's Teehee Thread

    in Forum Games

    Posted

    42 minutes ago, DragonFlames said:

    And I found a weapon called the "Zenithian Sword", that is supposed to be wielded by a "Legendary Hero".
    And the protagonist... is unable to wield it.
    How very interesting.

    See Soma Cruz in Aria of Sorrow with Excalibur.

    Anime’s Shortcomings

    in Entertainment

    Posted · Edited by Karimlan

    4 hours ago, Wraith said:

    Sure Moorcock and others were inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and Robert Howard, but save S.T. Joshi very little scholarship exists on such authors and in academia such writers are still considered to be ‘low brow’. 

    Your argument, quite frankly, is all over the place.

    Are you now advocating being "informed in the classics" as the barometer which anime ought to be judged by? For that merit, you just might chalk Psycho-Pass up as a proponent of, considering the topics it delves in and elaborates (and no, it's not just the movie Minority Report).

    Anime’s Shortcomings

    in Entertainment

    Posted · Edited by Karimlan

    6 minutes ago, Wraith said:

    Also genre fiction as a whole has never really been considered ‘high art’ especially pulp authors like Manly Wade Wellman and Karl Edward Wagner.

    Didn't people say the same thing for Bob Howard and H.P. Lovecraft? Moorcock was as much inspired by the former as he was by Poul Anderson, and every horror writer has written paeans to Lovecraft at least once.

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    How is critiquing an art form racially insensitive if I never once used any profanity or pejoratives towards any of the people who create it?

    Yeah, you're not using profanity or pejoratives, but you are treating the art form with an overall air of derision and just off-handedly writing it off without basis of individual merit of examples, which strikes a raw nerve.

    Anime’s Shortcomings

    in Entertainment

    Posted

    55 minutes ago, Wraith said:

    Finally, I find that the ‘classics’ or ‘best of’ anime simply don’t hold a candle to the ‘classics’ or ‘best of’ genre fiction found in literature.

    Sci-fi and cyberpunk anime would beg to differ. Thanks.

     

    What Are You Listening To Right Now?

    in Forum Games

    Posted

    "Dei for ifra nord
    Mot ei anna tid
    Bak låg brende ord
    Framfor dei ei ny strid

    Dei såg såg stormar i det fjerne
    Men haldt fram og beint
    Inn mot jordas kjerne
    Frå tidleg mot seint"

    (They travelled from the north
    Towards another age
    Behind layed burned words
    Before them a new struggle
     
    They saw, saw storms in the distant
    But held forwards and straight
    In towards earth's core
    From early to late)

     

     

    What Are You Listening To Right Now?

    in Forum Games

    Posted

    Hednahären leds av Vintersorg
    I dagerns bleke över myrar och berg
    De tappra hirdmän ifrån nordens borg
    Med kämaglöden rotad djupt i sin märg

    (The heathen army is led by Vintersorg
    In the daylight's calm over bogs and mountains
    The brave warriors from the stronghold of the north
    With the passion for battle rooted deeply in their marrow)

     

     

    Fire Emblem Heroes General Discussion and Links

    in Fire Emblem Heroes

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, Humanoid said:

    Then again, Duo Palla is just so amazingly good for how I use my fliers that even unmerged, I don't really feel the need to have another player-phase lance flier.

    Neither do I. Really lucky to get an Atk asset for her as well.

    Thanks to the Resplendent artwork, Olwen looks more like Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell series), down to the, erm, posterior.

    What Are You Listening To Right Now?

    in Forum Games

    Posted

    From the never ending mountains black, to the bottomless lakes
    I am the ruler and has been for eternities long.

    My wizards are many, but their essence is mine;
    forever they are in the hills in their stone homes of grief.
    Because I am the spirit of their existence--
    I am them.

     

    Serenes Forest's Teehee Thread

    in Forum Games

    Posted

    1 hour ago, lightcosmo said:

    I know this is gonna sound funny, but I think its weird how I order all my offensive arts on the right side, and I see most others do it the other way around. I feel left out now.

    You know how folks tout Xenoblade as a JRPG that got the MMO treatment and delivered? Well the point I'm gonna make isn't related to that (lol).

    It was common practice for me to use combat arts/skills on the left side of the screen (buffs on the right side) when I was still playing those games (cough, P2W, err, F2P games, cough) years ago. I find myself orienting every character in XBDE in reverse. I wonder why.

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