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  7. Posted · Edited by bonsaijodelfisch

    46 minutes ago, YuyoDrift said:

    lol I just gotta share this

     

    https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/05/russian-youtuber-imprisoned-for-playing-pokemon-go-in-a-church/

     

    Holy fuck, your addiction has gone too far if you're playing at church.

    I mean I hear church is boring, but c'mon lol.

     

    I think you got this the wrong way round. Your justice system and your religion are messed up, if you can incriminate, arrest and imprison people for swiping over 10x5 cm touchscreens. Honestly capturing a poliwag is probably one of the least harmful things happening in church ... :P

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  8. Posted · Edited by bonsaijodelfisch

    loving these lists. with studying days over it has become considerably more difficult to roam the internets for new music to discover, so these lists are a great help. Also i would have NOT expected to ever get into a new VK band again. Good job "Develop One's Faculties"!! very nice surprise. vocalist reminds me a bit of god and death stars.

     

    EDIT: also, sweet jesus, need to get my hands on some of that Club Fujin goodness...

    (and yes, as i wrote already someplace else, that aimer+TK is probably one of the greatest songs to be written/performed/recorded in the last 5-10 years, i'm not even joking)

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  11. Posted · Edited by bonsaijodelfisch

    just adding my two cents on berserk having just watched the second episode.

    i never read the manga, but i love the original anime to pieces and still kinda enjoy the movie adaptions of the same material.

     

    Personally  like most I don't like the look of the animation in general, has a bit of a "Cheap PS3 Game" feel to it, but at the same time i'm rarely really bothered by looks per se. Charakter design is much more important, and thats pretty nice so far, and given it's all in the manga anyways, I'm confident it'll stay that way. On the plus side, this complete dedication to 3D-animation enables them to make some disgustingly cool battle-scenes, Camera movement in particular. some of these perspectives and camera-swipes are just delicious. best thing however so far is all the rest. they manage to set up a very distinct athmosphere with the look, sound design and music., really love the musical choices here. (wasn't sure about the nu-metal stuff for guts in the beginning, but it works pretty well. all the underscoring music in the other scenes is top notch, safe for that weird chant during the flashback in ep1).

    Also i think the pacing and editing in the anime has been pretty flawless so far. tons of surprise or suspense moments in these two episodes. Also I'm very much interested in the religious aspect of the berserk universe, that I don't think they touched on much in the golden arc, but which seems to be pretty important in this one so far.

    only thing that might turn out problematic for me, as it was already problematic in the original anime and even worse in the movie, is berserks handling of female characters.

    little not that important and probably already done to bits rant in spoiler

     

    with caska you could see the story trying to give her some actually interesting motives and backstory, but then undermining it by just having her constantly being the damsel. then they make the same cheap stunt they do with sakura in naruto, trying to sell her as super tough and powerfull by having her beat up one or two utterly bullshit enemies and the footsoldiers saying some nonsense lip-service a la "woow, she so badass, not wanna get in a fight with her". at all other times she's just there to provide reason for heroism/revenge for guts and tits for viewer tho. meh. 

    with the second episode now already having a woman strapped onto guts's lap and horse, tits hanging out and all I fear this season falling into a similar trap. At least that scene so far still makes somehow narrative sense, but i hope they don't overdo it. That however depends on the source material anyways I guess.

     

    So overall fairly optimistic, slightly sceptic, but could turn out great. Also most ppl i spoke to that read the manga said all the other arcs are fairly meh compared to the golden arc, so this season is deemed to have a problem in terms of source material. how do manga-readers here see that?

     

    Also watched first ep. of 91days today. seems quite nice so far, great opening scenes

  12. Posted · Edited by bonsaijodelfisch

    agreeing with the general notion on aimer. just want to throw in, that her kanno yoko collab and this TK collab are in my opinion probably the two best single pieces of music of the last 5-10 years. Not as in jrock, pop,  japanese or else. music, full stop. It's almost annoying how perfect these tracks are.

     

    EDIT: sorry for derailing a bit, however back to topic: yes, a whole TK/Aimer album would be something i would consider donating internal organs and/or limbs for if necessary. 

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  15. Posted

    God, my hopes for this game are so high...and honestly, that has me really scared.

    same here, i fear I got myself hyped waaaay to much.

    on a different note, visited my old Guild Wars 2 character again, god that's a good game. got 1-2 friends of mine to do the same and running some instances + new content and it's fabulous - EDIT: wrong topic, lol

  20. Posted

    People are saying that the tickets could get sold out in 20 minutes or something. I'm probably just really dumb but how? And what happens then? I can't get inside at all? When DIR EN GREY came here back in 2011 I paid at the door and the venue was much smaller. I didn't have to fight anyone over tickets. Are they really that popular in the united states? I didn't think so... I never really go to concerts and have no idea how any of this works. 

     

    Am I fucked if I don't buy tickets day one or something? Why can't I pay at the door like I did with DIR EN GREY?

    well, i'm not really sure about how "big" gazette is compared to DEG and vice versa in the US, but consider this. DEG tour the states like every year (or every other) and they usually have something like 7-12 venues that are being played. so there isn't really that much of an urgency to get to any of the concerts (although i am still surprised there was still "at-the-door-entry at your concert). Gazette however haven't been in the US since, dunno, 2008 or sth (or have they ever)? plus they play a whopping 3 (4?) gigs? yeah, you better be quick...

  23. Posted

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    i said i was gonna use it :P

     

    I found their demos to be surprisingly enjoyable as well. There are some flaws here and there but I expect The Piqnic to get better and better. <3

    ^that. "breathing" has been growing on me a lot. it might still not be up to par with zyouk, but pretty close. This is a band to look out for

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  24. Posted

    just as a clarification, what people actually hear as autotune has nothing (or not necessarily) to do with actual singing ability.

    If there's a clearly audible autotune going on in a track, this has been a conscious choice to work as a creative FX.

    For purposes where it's "just" there to fix fucked up vocal lines, it is usually not really noticeable to the untrained ear.

    even the grittiest, pure folk-stoner whatever vocals have a high chance to be autotuned at parts, it's just that there they obviously chose to not use it as a noticeable effect.

     

    that still doesn't make die a good vocalist tho^^

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  25. Posted

    personally also not that much of a fan of this album in particular, but my predictions so far are fairly spot on (albeit not really adventurous)

     

    now we'll just need the piqnic (which i'm fairly confident about^^) and DOGMA (which i'm considerably less confident about, but hey, the album had the forum in coocoo for months, so regardless of quality/notquality, i think it deserves a spot^^) and my predictions will be 100% :D

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