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    Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a discussion thread and retrospective

    It probably underwhelmed you because it basically boiled down to "because The Patriarchy".
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    Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a discussion thread and retrospective

    I agree with the general competence level of the bad guys being pretty poor, but honestly that's par for the course for any TV series of the era so I don't really hold it against Buffy specifically that much. Not sure what you mean here -- there are plenty of different supernatural beings in...
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    Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a discussion thread and retrospective

    Oh, yeah, I definitely get it. There's nothing wrong with the trope. Even in the sorts of cases like this, where someone is clearly indulging their own fetishes, I don't have any problem with it. If you're a creative and you want to be a bit self-indulgent with it and cater to your own...
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    Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a discussion thread and retrospective

    Whedon thinks "strong female character" means literally physical powerful, without really understanding what makes a strong character. That might be okay on its own, but then he refuses to cast women with any actual muscle mass in favour of his 'waif' archetype -- he's got a Thing for tiny hot...
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    Anime & Manga Shounen Protagonist-Relatively Simple But Powerful Basic Abilities?

    I still haven't gotten around to watching MHA. I really should find the time.
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    What are you playing currently?

    I live with a few housemates and, when people started working from home, we set up a local Minecraft server hosted on a spare PC (FTB Revelations modpack), so I've been dicking around in that quite a bit. Intending on finally picking up Hand of Fate 2 sometime soon and getting stuck in... I was...
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    Animals are Running our Zoos!

    The seal really looks like he has no idea what the fuck is happening.
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    Quest General CYOA Thread
    Threadmarks: Chill COYA

    One that's nice and laid back.
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    Final Fantasy VII Remake (with nostalgia and extra content)

    I'm going to not put this bit in a box because it's not really spoilers, and I dislike it when threads just turn into nothing but spoiler boxes. I'm not sure how familiar you are with the other games in the Final Fantasy series, but Final Fantasy X-2 has a very young technologically-minded...
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    What If? Bio-Chimera Technology

    Welp, I know what I'm watching tonight.
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    Final Fantasy VII Remake (with nostalgia and extra content)

    Alright, well, I can get into a bit more in a spoiler box...
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    What If? Bio-Chimera Technology

    ... what movie are you talking about?
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    What If? Marvel held on to Transformers and added them to the MCU

    We'd get movies a hell of a lot better than the Bayformers movies, at the very least, and they'd be a lot less afraid of adapting some of the crazier stuff. Some of the cosmic level Transformers stuff would fit right into the cosmic-level MCU stuff alongside Thor and Guardians of the Galaxy. A...
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    Alternate History Two Settings that just click. Crossover Edition.

    I feel like with only a little work you could easily have Terminator lead into The Matrix lead into Battlestar Galactica. There's quite a lot of crossover thematically as well.
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    Playstation Playstation 5 Coming Q4 of 2020

    Oh, yeah, I didn't even think of this -- hopefully digital purchases are transferrable. I can't see any argument why they shouldn't/wouldn't be, if the games will be backwards compatible (any argument that isn't "Sony cash grab", at least).
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    Final Fantasy VII Remake (with nostalgia and extra content)

    No but also yes. It's a difficult question to answer without getting into spoilers.
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    Versus Match Doom Slayer VS MCU Thanos

    Doom Slayer stomps. Nothing particularly impressive about Thanos compared to the Slayer's showings, plus some of his weapons are just ridiculous overkill for someone like Big Purple.
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    Playstation Playstation 5 Coming Q4 of 2020

    The statements around backwards compatibility are a massive relief, at least. I really hate it when consoles don't have access to their predecessor's catalogs, and limited 'virtual consoles' like the Switch have really annoy me. Maybe with the huge improvements to load times we won't need to...
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    Pokemon officially jumps the shark; now with DLC!

    I had the original Pokemon Red on Gameboy when I was in school and loved it, but never got into the generations except for a brief dabble in FireRed/LeafGreen, until the launch of X and Y. I really liked X/Y, and then Sun/Moon came out and were excellent. The current gen, Sword/Shield, felt like...
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