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... don't we have varying conditions that can cause bits (maybe everything?) to start rotting without actually killing someone? I guess one of the more advanced stages of decomposition is the line?

Pictured: 90%* of slash fiction. Reference: Naruto, Harry Potter, <insert mile long dong list of other fandoms>.

I have succinctly summarized your post, ahaha!

*This is, naturally enough, a bullshit statistic. Substitute "significant portion" at your leisure.

reads more like a young adult romance slash fanfiction than anything else.

And that is a large portion of why it's popular. Young adult slash fiction is incredibly prolific for a reason. Stuff that reads like it is very likely to do well if it escapes from the clutches of the rabid yaoi writers and into society at large.

E: Though now I'm suddenly curious if anyone's bothered to try to track the internet's slash fiction output. How many words per day are being released online? Hundreds of thousands? Millions? It would be an interesting statistic to follow. It would be really interesting to see what kind of seasonal etc. variance there is, among a bunch of other stuff. Someone needs to write some kind of program that collects that data.

There's not much out there that's better on delivering huge fields of wreckage, though. That's always pretty nice.

On the other hand, I will say I kinda' prefer some of the Spring games for that. Haven't been able to play supcom that much, but the scale actually seems to detract a lil' from that whole huge-bulks-of-metal-slamming-into-each-other feeling. Spring's stuff has similar UI and gameplay, but has a tighter focus that makes that cluttered battlefield of explosions thing a bit more there, y'know? Much like TA did, though that was at least in part due to said wreckage buggering the (already spotty) pathing to hell.

... I'll admit, though, I never really liked the air in the TA lineage games. I'd use the builders extensively and generally the gunships a fair bit, but it was the ground combat that was where it was at. Much more punchy, visceral, etc. Air stuff generally didn't leave wreckage, and that was a shame. Though SupCom was a little better about that, iirc -- dying flying crap crashing into things was more of thing.

Echo that. Not knowing what the zog they're saying often significantly improves the experience of listening to vocals. There are many people with wonderful voices singing absolutely awful songs.

Mm... well, do remember we had that discussion in relation to kancolle a little bit back that noted that anything that's not a complete and abject demonization of the axis powers is basically the devil to some folks. That a nazi is working with the protagonists and isn't the nazi equivalent of an old-school racist caricature of a jew is a negative thing, to some. Gotta' have dem jackboots like the antisemites need those hooked noses, or somethin' along those lines.

Echo that. Jojo's definitely one of the best bits of anime the industry's produced to date.

It does, indeed, have a good guy cyborg nazi, though.

It's Jojo's Bizarre Adventure for a reason.

Several reasons, really.