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this seems like a vent but I will tell you this
hell no it's not wrong, blood is fucking stupid and if you don't like a person you don't like a person, especially assholes, "family" means absolutely nothing and shouldn't mean giving them any more bias that you would anyone else
respect is earned, not given by things like blood
it's also not uncommon at all, MANY people aren't able to connect to blood relatives, I know more that don't than that do

Steven Moffat was a good showrunner for Doctor Who and I'll be sad to see him leave.

Family isn't blood. A friend of had a child out of wedlock, her relatives ganged up and yelled at her for several hours.

No one cared about her. She was an adult and yet they pushed her away.

I'm not a fan of Mr. Enter.

I enjoyed the Aki-Sora OVA's.

I actually don't mind South Park deciding to stop making fun of Trump in the newest season: sure, their political jokes can be funny but major media outlets are already making fun of him anyway. At this point they can only benefit by returning to their roots after having their two earlier seasons political.

Anime becoming mainstream is terrible. I'm ok with casual fans as long as they stay reserved to their manime and seasonal shonen, but it's when they start complaining about any show that's a little bit out of the (western)curve that it gets to my nerves. They don't know what they're talking about and just parrot complaints they heard from older casuals who haven't even watched 100 anime shows. Can't see a hot girl sexualized without calling it fan service and getting preachy about as if they were a pure maiden. Can't see a plot twist without calling it an asspull. Can't see a loli without making an FBI joke. "Hurr that scene was REALLY uncomfortable", etc
I can only hope it won't suffer the same fate as video games

You do realise that japanime has been mainstream for a long time, from your attitude regarding animation I can only assume you're some kind of elitist. Japanese animation has been mainstream for a long long while, why do you think we have huge money makers such as Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon and Digimon still around today? Granted they are aimed at a childrens market but then why not just look at the success that's followed for instance, the Studio Ghibli films? There are some obviously niche genres of japanime but then again you can find that with any form of animation, film or music. Everyones entitled to like what they want and say what they want – but animation as a whole isn't on some cataclysmic downfall just because your next volume of cheaply animated dragon loli girl is getting picked up by a wider market.

The USA, France and Japan are some of the biggest producers of animation – I'd suggest you widen your horizons.

If you have some bone to pick regarding my classification of Japanese animation as Japanime and not Anime, that is because the word anime just means animation – it's French, not some word made up for the sole purpose of tagging Japanese Animation.

As for the link I've included – its animation achieved using oil paint and turps. Each frame is painted on a glass panel and turps are used to remove some of the paint in order to paint the next movement.

You're getting confused here, some anime being popular doesn't mean watching anime was always considered a normal hobby on the level of say, film and television. The number of people who are into anime or at least watch it casually has increased a lot lately, I'd even say there's no stigma around it anymore. A lot of the people who considered anime "weird" see it as "cool" now. This wouldn't be a problem if most of these new fans actually bothered understanding the context and culture they're inserting themselves into. Anime and manga has a very different feel to western cartoons and comics – the way characters are protrayed, the themes handled in the story, the overral presentation, it appeals to people for different reasons so don't you try to run away from this argument by sticking anime into a general blob of what is considered animation. What we typically refer to as anime is japanese animation, using fancy words like japanime is meaningless to this discussion.

As for the part about me being an elitist, I suppose you're right. I don't like it when something I have an interest in gets popular, but if anything that's due to experience. Plenty of times I've a fanbase(and sometimes the piece of media itself) get progressevely worse as a it spiked in popularity. Game of Thrones is an example of this, with the pandering increasing and the quality of the show slowly but surely declining. I feel like this hit it's peak with the recent Ed Sheeran cameo: older fans who were invested into the series hated it and casual viewers of the show either liked it or felt indifferent towards the cameo.

Neither tonality or atonality are "dead-ends" in music. They are both good when done correctly, and atonality is less likely to be done correctly.

I wish that more storylines from modern video games were more self contained: that is to say, that everything you need to know about a video game can be learned by playing the game itself, rather than being spread out over a vast multimedia franchise. While I don't think there's anything inherently negative about releasing supplemental material for a game, I do think it becomes a problem when said supplemental material becomes necessary to understand what's going on in the game.

And don't forget when that supplemental material doesn't get an international release, making the plot impossible to follow unless you use the franchise wikia.

On the topic of modern video games: I wish we could go back to a point where bonus content like extra costumes could be unlocked through playing the game or secrets, not DLCs.

I fucking hate the "Is this a JoJo reference?" meme. I'm a jojo fan and I hate seeing other fans spam it everywhere. In fact, I hate jojo fans that just constantly spam obnoxious memes everywhere.

I love the irony behind the fact the whole point of the meme was (imo) a an overreaction to the small part of the fanbase who were overzealous about things actually being jojo references to the point of being obnoxious. But now people spam that shit in basically any situation and have easily become the most obnoxious part of the fanbase by miles.

-I dislike those people who consider Call of Duty the "ultimate evil of videogames".
I don't like this franchise but I don't think it's the absoulte worst.
Some of the evil are those awful games that you find on Steam greenlight,lazily made and expecting you to pay big money for it.

-I don't hate Shadman,I just think he's boring.You already what he's going to do and most of his art feel the same.He's great when it comes to coloring but on the bodies he's a hit or miss.I've found other fetish artists not as talented as him but far more creative and pleasing to look at.

-I consider art without a meaning to be more fascinating,giving a meaning to an art piece feels pretentious to make it look and feel deep just make up on how the lazy and bad work itself looks.

I believe that's called artistic expression.

You wouldn't be the only one that would wish for that. What makes it egregious with the extra content and DLC: some games have said content you can unlock if you meet certain conditions. The devs or publishers then have the gall to make it some sort of DLC because why not appeal to someones laziness and/or their own greed?

I don't know if this counts as an unpopular opinion but I may as well say:
After having a twitter account and seeing all sorts of sides to Twitter, I feel the site itself is nothing more than an echo-chamber and a circle-jerk that would deserve a baptism by fire. Granted, that could be a norm with social media and all but I still feel parts of social media is just circle-jerking

I really don't see any problem in buying a pre-made cosplay. A whole bunch of people can't sew or do elaborate prop work. No need to hate on them just because you know how to put fabric together.

That, and a lot of people are too scared to cosplay because all they see is professionals, and they assume that everything has to be perfect or else people will judge them and make fun of them. My own younger brother sprained his ankle at a con because the shoes he was wearing were too big and he tripped up a staircase. He only wore those shoes because they looked exactly like the characters shoes and he couldn't find any in his size. He was too scared someone would tell him he didn't look like the character.

It's about having fun people. No one cares if your shirt, pants, hair, face, ethnicity, gender, or body type is different. Just as long as you get the gist of the outfit, and have fun with it.

I don't give two shits and a fuck about anime.
The only two I like are:
-Azumanga Diaoh
-Space Dandy

That said, I am getting an intrigued to check out Boku No Hero and Mrs Kobayashi's Dragon Maid.

Boku no Hero is great, but as straightfoward as it gets. If you like it, be sure to check out Hunter x Hunter for something very different but within the same boundries.
As for Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, it's alrigt, but I recommend that you watch Lucky Star first. It's still the best Kyoani show to date.

Nihilism will get us all killed if people keep thinking it's "cool."

Kanna is my least favorite character in Ms. Kobayashi's Dragon Maid. It's one thing to have dragon lolis, but it's a whole new level of otaku pandering to have stupidly strong yuri overtones between her and that other kindergartener. Kindergarten yuri is just really trashy and stupid. It's one of the reasons why I dropped the show.

ugh, so trashy.

-I find Uncle Grandpa to be quite enjoyable.It's far from being good but it's not the worst thing either.
The people who hate the show are more pathetic than the show's attempts to be funny.What's the reason to hate this show?It just want to be a total mindfuck,it's completely harmless.
See people getting angry over that scene where he gets all the prizes while the other CN shows get nothing was so painfully obvious.

But of course they had to say the magic words"the 90s cartoons were so much better".
Yeah because in the 90s ALL the cartoons were absolute masterpieces.
Seriously if you get offended over a show like Uncle Grandpa you need to rethink your life.

What do you mean it's "trashy" and pandering? You never had a crush as a child? It's very cute! I don't even like yuri that much, I'm more into bl but you gotta admit it was cute. I can't help but to feel you're either new to anime or this is the first SOL you ever watched.
Besides Kyoani toned it way the fuck down from the manga, wich I didn't really like, but whatever.

I like Pendulum's music. Everyone else seems to hate their music.

Isn't it disgusting yuri pedo trash created specifically to pander to weeb pedophiles? You know, the kind of people who like the "loli" tag.

You mean people like me? I'm into lolicon/shotacon. Why are you calling people pedophiles over a bunch of lines on a canvas? Are you projecting or something?

> projecting

No, I don't fantasize about little boys and girls. Don't accuse me of your own degeneracy.

As incredibly petty as this makes me sound, I generally don't like to play online games for the simple fact that I generally don't win online games.

You have the audacity to call me a degenerate when your avatar is the worst girl from Oreimo?

> worst girl

6/10, an OK bait, but my mom told me not to feed the trolls.

If you disagree with the opinions expressed in this thread that means the thread is working. Responding like this is making the thread not work.

So stop it.

"-Kingdom of Loathing is my best online game"

Tvtropes has been a former shelf of it's own since their two Google incidents

Eh, I overreacted a bit, to be honest, but I just wasn't fond of that scene. If it was worse than the manga, then alright then.

As someone who hasn't even seen any of the episodes of season 3 of Rick and Morty outside of a few gifs on this website of the season 3 premier (I hope to binge watch it once the DVD set comes out), you might have to take what I have to say with a grain of salt.

Personally, I'm more than a bit doubtful about the overall quality of season 3 on the basis of Pickle Rick. It was already established in season 2 that transferring one's consciousness into another body has some inherent dangers, like how Teenage Rick goes about being the most popular kid in Morty and Summer's school instead of transferring back to his old body after killing the gym coach vampire. He was only able to get back into his original body thanks to Summer listening to Rick's cries for help through his "teenage angst". Considering that he regarded the consciousness transfer experiment a failure at the end of that episode (even going so far as to break the pods out of anger), why did Rick think it was a good idea to do that again, and on a form that's not even humanoid at that?

Also, the whole Pickle Rick thing almost seems like a jump-the-shark sort of thing, because it seems so "wacky" and "random" for no logical reason. You have a man who fought against the galactic government as part of a resistance group, dated a collective consciousness, built a universe specifically to power his flying car, and sells anti-material weapons to hitmen… And he's celebrating the fact that he's now a f*cking pickle! For a man who builds robots for fun, you'd expect him to know better than transferring his own consciousness to some salty preserved cucumber.

(Edit) And another thing related to Rick and Morty: I think the whole thing about Adult Swim making a big deal about having gender equality in the writing staff for the show is kind of dumb, considering that most of the dialogue in the show is improvised.

Rob Swire is my husbando

I find more people hate Knife Party rather than Pendulum. Look at all the people begging for a reunion album.

Gareth McGrillen is my husbando
I read that back when In Silico was released, DnB purists gave Pendulum serious backlash, but it seems that the anger died out by 2010-11. Knife Party kinda got a similar thing during Abandon Ship even though Rob and Gareth made it clear that Knife Party was meant to dabble in various electronic genres.

I don't consider beating "platform-hell" type games with trial and error gameplay in which you die due to things you don't see coming (ex. I Wanna Be The Guy) to really be an accomplishment because of how unfair they are. Even as a joke, it's pretty annoying, and you only really beat it due to putting up with all the BS the game pulled on you. If you beat a "fair" difficult game (ex.one in which every hazard and mistake is clearly visible and doesn't come out of nowhere and punish you for no reason), then that's worth bragging about.

Part of me doesn't like how Idubbbz's persona has become more of a tired, cynical type of guy. He's still funny, but he doesn't seem as "bright" (personality-wise) as he used to It might just be me, but in his older videos, while he was still snarky, he still seemed somewhat happy, though he wasn't afraid to rip into stuff he found terrible, as seen on his Kickstarter Crap videos). I feel like it has to do with the influx of Filthy Frank fans (of which I was part of) and their general obnoxiousness (especially in the comments), making his fanbase worse, not to mention the repetitive fan-mail they sent (In one episode of Bad Unboxing: Fan Mail edition he seemed especially angry). The fan mail has improved more recently, but his persona is still mostly the same.

Higher education doesn't turn people into SJWs. Almost all of them go into college already believing what they do.

Ugh, I remember the hysteria over SJWs and education several years ago, especially among those in Gamergate. The nadir (or at least one low point) for me was that one Gamergate conspiracy post about how the Common Core was a ploy by the elite to brainwash our children. No, seriously. (it's really long, so I hope you're willing to read through loads of conspiracy garbage). That was one of the things that made me realize how stupid, ridiculous and crazy Gamergate was and played a big role in me leaving it and growing to hate it (Seriously, it was all an excuse to wage a meaningless "war" on SJWs and feminists for threatening our video games). I mean, this is the kind of conspiracy garbage a nutjob conservative would write, except it's just articulated better. It's a good reminder of the ridiculous stuff that was thrown around in GG.

I've said this before, but Rick and Morty's nihilism is my least favorite thing about the show. I enjoyed it more for the unique stuff it did (what with all those weird worlds), but the nihilism that reeks throughout the show kinda makes it less enjoyable. I don't hate dark cartoons (though the belief that all adult animation has to be cynical instead of idealistic is one that needs to die, just like the belief that adult animation should only contain toilet/vulgar humor), but like I said, the nihilism helps spoil the enjoyment. Its nihilism is type of stuff that attracts pseudo-intellectual millennials who think being nihilistic makes them above everything else and frees them from responsibility (like a good number of people on this site).

Also, I don't like Zone-sama or Zone-tan.

-I think High School years are overrated.People say It's the best time of your life,sure adulthood sucks at times,but don't tell me that High School years are that "magical".
You get to see one of the most obnoxious and despicable individuals both students and teachers.

-Hollywood is a joke now,the fact that we're getting prequels/sequels reboots of classics says a lot about how they're desperate to make money.Sure It's all about the money but you rarely see movies that try to make something new from Hollywood.

Speaking of movies:
-Avatar(the one made by Cameron).regardless the quality,is pathetic because is only remembered for being the highest grossing film ever and yet it left nothing on pop-culture.

- I've never really understood Japan's fascination with useless lesbians.
- On a related note, i'm not really a fan of recent anime, because they feel oversaturated with yuri.

The japanese when it comes to create videogames and manga have no freaking clue how age and height work.

I support monarchism and my ideal world makes the 1950s look like woodstock

Ideally you would also support the restoration of the Eastern Roman Empire, an opinion not shared by most because it 1. has been a long time gone and 2. it's nobody's business but the Turks.

OT- Bethesda cannot make content. They can make empty, spiritless voids, but are case study 1 in making open world games that are deep as puddles just with a whole bunch of repetitive shit in it. Their games only work when either being bailed out by modders or they hand it over to Obsidian to put life in their framework.

I've never been able to bring myself to give a shit about superheroes, comics or cartoons. It's just never been very interesting to me at all. The 2003 Teen Titans show was my first look into the superhero scene and it was great, but wasn't enough to get me into anything outside of it.

I really, really dislike Marvel's superhero movies.

I also really, really dislike most anime.

Finally, I like Pearl more than Marina.

Most of ironic fandoms are annoying and unfunny a good example of this are Cory in the house and Shrek.
Shadman is nothing more than shockvalue and his art isn’t anything spectacular.
Filthy Frank has become with the synonym "look i watch him that means i'm not weeaboo".
Dark Souls became the new "look i play x i'm hardcore gamer"

The majority of people, both on the Internet and outside of it, aren't very good at defining or understanding radical views like Socialism or Fascism, leading to strawmen or harsh misinterpretations of what is left- or right-wing.