machinya [it/its, fae/faer]

been watching very few new anime these months so there in not much to write about but i have been reaching a bit into donghuas (chinese animation) and it's honestly quite interesting. will probably try more if i can find something that is not wuxia

Shiguang Dailiren (Link Click) (2020): just an amazing first season. it combines supernatural elements with mystery in daily life events and makes it incredibly interesting. animation is very well done and all the different stories told are very relatable and enjoyable. second season (still hafway through) it's going lots for the "supernatural police mystery" instead, which reduces the relatability of it but it's still quite interesting. have high hopes for this one (there is a 3rd season comming up a some point in the near future)

other animes I'm watching and I'm not sure if I wrote about them on the previous threads:

Ranma 1/2 (2024): everyone is loving the remake except me, by the looks of it. I have a strong connection with this story and I have seen the previous anime and read the manga multiple times so I am heavilly biased. the pacing is my biggest problem with it. i have barely any time to react to any scene since it feels like they adapted the manga panels and just continue with the next one without breathing room. also, the lack of musicalization is very anoying. there is barely music at all so it feels like there is something missing on many scenes. i could probably write a pages-long rant about this but i rather not do it right now

Dandadan (2024): everyone is talking about this one so I feel pressured to say my opinion. i just don't understand why it has soooo much attention (both possitive and negative). it feels very average in many fronts. and while it has good and bad parts, many other anime does it better and worse respectively. maybe I'm burned out of the shounen troupes so I'm missing some readings here and there. musicalization is really good and animation is also good but that is not enough to capture me. i'm slowly watching it so I'm some weeks behind

Dragon Ball Daima (2024): GT2 is fun but reminds me too much of GT (less the latest episodes, but point stands) and I preferred GT over it. I don't really enjoy the new dragon ball but I will continue watching it anyway.

what's left

fursuits

brb, becoming a gamer just to get free estrogen

i have not tried it myself but have you taken a look into zig? it looks alot like go but is lower level. i have heard good things about it and it looks nice. of course the ecosystem is quite limited since it's a quite new language

yearning for a different timeline where this was the actual end of the cold war

decided to try supertuxkart again after dismissing it as a bad game years ago. surprisingly, it's quite entertaining. it still have very rough edges but it's actually fun to play for a bit

i hated them to death while on the school, but my job has been glorified group projects for some years already and i found out the main problem with them was that most people usually cared nothing about the actual project. this alho happens during the work but there people care at least for their individual reviews so it's less painful

been using a kensington one for a couple of years and I don't think i will be able to use a mouse ever again. While this model is not great and it could use some improvements. The whole idea of a trackball is really comfortable

that said, I lost the original ball and it has been incredibly hard to find a proper replacement. we have tried many different ones and they all have downsides that make the experience not great but still better than a mouse

i have been saying this for a while but het people (mostly men) tend to be so far from het that i don't really understand what they stand for anymore

i have a weird thing where even if i have enough time, i just keep finding things that i need to do before leaving. they are usually simple to do but brain defines them as urgent so i cannot just push them for later and they keep me from actually leaving the house until it's late. this becomes worse for things i don't really want to do but have to, so i think it's like a subconcious way i have to cope with the anxiety of leaving or something

it is very funny how gamers were saying that this was the good samurai game because ubisoft went woke and now they are strongly backing away from that because this is also woke...

I had to stop reading manga because my tablet died so I have been unable to continue most of my reads. I have been trying chinese mangha (is the name correct?) and I have been enjoying it more since I'm kind of tired of manga tropes. Regarding anime, with the end of the season and the start of the new one, there is not much to talk about yet. I also got a bit burned out from anime in general so I have not watched as much as I usually do. Some highlights from the old season are:

Dead Demons Dededede Destruction - Amazing show. Engaging in every moment from the beginning to almost the end. Great characters and subtle societal comentary about migration and liberalism. Didn't really like the ending tho. I understand why it went that way but it felt more like a cop out than a proper resolution. I haven't read the manga yet so it might be a presentation problem (why does ep 0 even exist???).

Oshi no Ko 2 - Adaptation of my least liked (debatible) arc from the manga and I enjoyed even then. The anime art decisions were really good and make it more engaging than I can remember feeling when reading the manga. Story is still a mess and I can complain about it a lot but at least it was fun. Also, I was getting very tired of this last manga arc so I'm not really missing it but I have heard good opinions of the last episodes so I might try to start reading again soon

Senpai wa Otokonoko - I really liked the start but I slowly started disliking most things about it. I am aware that expecting good queer representation in anime is hard but even then I got disapointed. Worst part is that I read the manga a couple of years ago and was disapointed even then. I really need to start handling my expectations better.

Old anime I'm watching:

Rockman.EXE - It's a kids anime but it has something that is hard to replicate. The vision of the internet in that era was really fun and interesting. It reminds me a lot about Digimon. I'm enjoying this alot but thinking that it has 5 seasons of ~50 episodes is making me wonder where am I going to stop.

ODDTAXI - Rewatched it recently to watch the live action spinnoff and it's amazing how good it is. Characters are great and their whole interaction is wacky and weird but very enjoyable. Spinoff is simply bad so no comments.

Movies:

Blue Giant - Simple story but amazing concert animations and incredible music. It was probably one of the best animated experiences I have ever had and I loved every single second of it. For whoever enjoys jazz, this is something I would completely recommend

i don't think it's a secret anymore. a big chunk of their personality is just that

i just learned not so long ago the concept of "man cave" where they have rules like "no women allowed here" which in my opinion, sounds everything but het. but for some reason, it is considered very manly and very het

i watched the first 3 ones and the funny part is that I cannot recall a single thing about them. i don't have good memory but I usually remember the biggest plot points or the impacting scenes and for these ones there is nothing other than data. it feels so weird because it means that they didn't had a single impacting thing that the brain could keep.

i wanted to watch the new one but it's hard to commit on something i know it's going directly into oblivion

scream of independence

this is probably the first time I read this in english and sounds rad. it could be the name of a metal band or something

this was not my idea of gender abolition but sure as hell I would welcome it

1. RE2 (1998) - hard to beat. great in every aspect. having 2 scenarios that affect each other is sooo good that i want more games doing that. extra modes are quite challenging and fun to play.
2. REmake (2002 GC) - perfect in almost every way. I'm very sad that there were no more games in that style since for me it's probably the perfect survival horror experience. I still like the original but the remake improved almost every single aspect of it.
3. RE3 (1999) - it has a bunch of problems but is probably the funnier one to play. making up challenges to finish the game gives it an arcade-like feeling. nemesis keeps being scary even when i have every place he can appear memorized

honorable mention to outbreak. i only played it in single player mode but i'm sure it would probably enter the list if i had the chance to play multiplayer. between it and REmake were two very good ways of moving the franchise forward and keeping the formula interesting. sadly, they went the action route so we got okay-ish games (4 is great although it still ranks way below the classics for me) instead of hypotetical masterpieces.

"i like german culture" will always be a facist dogwhistle because nobody in real life actually likes it

Peace Walker has some very good things but the game is either hit or miss. it's very short missions oriented that are meant to be replayed multiple times. it has a couple of mobile-game-like minigames that are fun and weird to play. it totally feels like a portable game even on the remaster versions. it's recommended to play it with multiple players if possible.

story is enjoyable even if it's a mess. it has some questionable points but overall it's okay. it also replaces the codec calls with tapes that are literally meant to be heard on the go