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Then we might not have to wait until may to find out if the correction is going to be interesting! It's a silver lining to the shitstorm.

E: Also yeah, Senate leaders look to be giving Paul the ol' något git fucked. Unless something rather odd happens it looks like we're heading into the second shutdown of 2018, and we're not even going to do it on the back of ryan's noodly shit sucking spine.

Didn't say it was just a prescription drug problem, heh. Just that they were (the) major components.

Maybe Eightfold from Paranatural? She wasn't birdy, but she was an origami spidery thing.

... that'd do it, actually. Half thought of paranatural a while after the post, but now that you mention the name I actually recall the thing.

That's like the fourth time I've seen "punch magic" show up and have never heard it before like a week ago.

For what it's worth, there's actual terms for the stuff -- wuxia, xianxia, etc. -- and the style and themes are well known enough even in western media you've pretty certainly ran into elements of it before. Crouching tiger, hidden dragon is probably one of the more well known-ish films in the western sphere of things, if very restrained compared to the stuff that has dead people faffing around. Also maybe too old these days but most of what I'd point to on the non-animated front that I can recall is older. Kung-fu panda, jackie chan adventures, sorta' the bendy avatars, etc.

It's probably more accurate to call it martial arts fantasy or something, but I calls it like I sees it and I sees it as people casting magic spells with their fists. Punch magic it is.

"Most sunglasses just make things darker," says the commercial, "which can be deadly in a tactical situation!"

"So listen to me," says the commercial less explicitly, "and buy this shiny and reflective strip of plastic to stick in front of your eyes! I'm sure someone out there needs something to aim at."

Person, I'm starting to suspect you either weren't actually special ops, or you're being paid to say stuff you know is bullshit. Or weren't involved in field work all that much.

Uh... huh. That origami quad beak flappy thing shortly past those links. Was there a smaller one of those earlier in KSBD or does it share a remarkable likeness with something from... some other work...? Because I could swear I've seen a tiny one of those things before. Demon quad beak paper bird thing. It's looking real goddamn familiar and I can't even remotely place where I've seen it before.

Eh, it's basically the same appeal as any sort of en masse choreography, just different props, though. If you can appreciate can can dancing or the multi-person parts cirque du soleil or somethin', you have a base understanding of pomp and circumstance.

E: Albeit proooobably a dislike of the themes tending to be involved with said props, ha.

... in any case, pelosi is apparently in the sixth hour, now. Trying to get the house to get off its ass and do something about DACA, I think? Any case, she's been going for a good long while. Decently impressive, it is.

E: Uh, huh. Apparently the news things are saying pelosi has now broken the house record for longest continuous speech. Completely unofficial bonus points, she's done it while wearing four inch heels.

Quote from: Tack on January 31, 2018, 01:43:22 am

So my current top picks on Crunchyroll for this (/last) season so far are:
'Death March to the parallel world'
Guess what? It's an Isekai. Guess what x2? The main character is overpowered.
Regardless, they so far have managed to make it a little bit more Log Horizon and a little less Cellphone, so I'm keeping my eye on it just to see when actual drama will happen.

Oh, right, I actually read a fair chunk of the original web novel of this. First I'll talk about that, then about the anime adaption in a different part.

Yeah, if death march to the parallel word is actually death march whatever it is the novel (and from that spoiler it is) the latter is pretty decent for an OP isekai thing. If the anime is like FD here's calling it I'd probably say avoid it like the plague and go read the book(s). The books are a'ight, which for its ilk means it's one of the better ones :V

E: Though, that said, if you want the really terrible reincarnation/summoning thing, you want to go korean or chinese -- punch magic (fooxia, I still haven't bothered learning the nomenclature and quite possibly never will) instead of standard swords and sorcery. Never mind haremshit protags, you regularly run into mass murderers (and not the murderhobo sort) and often enough outright rapists, not just your dubcon slavery stuff. Power fantasy that can be more easily summarized as terrible people doing terrible things to each other, constantly. If it wasn't for the mountains occasionally getting thrown at people you'd probably have trouble paying me to inflict the stuff on myself, ha.