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Rapist lloyd wants to know...
Trick or treat?


To kick off the holiday season where starting up a new video and picture contest, also any games you guys can think of feel free to pitch them at me.


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Heres a treat! An official screencap too![/spoiler]

Front page update, new pics and stuff, probably wont be back till normal untill after christmas so we need some new pictures!

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Man, I joined this anime forum right? I was browsing the anime reviews section and found someone who had this to say.
[spoiler=da fuq]

[indent][i]Code Geass[/i] is one of the worst series I have ever seen.

I was extremely excited to watch this series, as it had come highly recommended by the very same friends who had introduced me to [i]Evangelion[/i], [i]Escaflowne[/i], and other great shows a decade ago. As I watched the first couple of episodes, it became apparent that [i]Geass[/i] would not live up to the hype, but I didn't really mind, because living up to hype is a hard thing to do. I would have been satisfied with mediocrity.

I didn't get it. What I got were characters whom I actually hoped would die. Of course, I knew they wouldn't, since that would end the show, but still I found myself hoping against hope. The characters ranged from insipid and boring (Suzaku, Shirley, most of the Brittanians) to people I would dearly love to slap (Lelouche, C.C.). Kallen was the only remotely interesting character.

But that was not the worst part of this anime. The show's creators apparently decided to cram every single type of cliche anime pulp-sploitation into one single show - all the girls are busty scantily-clad Barbie dolls, all the boys are virgins, every member of the resistance or the government has a double identity as a student at the same preppy high school, there are girls randomly masturbating to pictures of other girls in the school hallway, mecha with grappling hooks (and no energy shields) defeat air forces in open combat, every girl is after the (asexual) hero guy, etc. etc. Two-bit Japanese nationalism is also exploited for all it's worth. These pulp elements can be enjoyed one at a time, in the context of a show that makes sense. They can be crammed all together if it's conscious self-parody ([i]Evangelion[/i]). But the writers of [i]Geass[/i] just kept pushing every cheap stimulus button they could until their thumbs fell off. It made the show almost unwatchable.

Note: I love good mecha. Knightmares were not good mecha. The grappling hooks were stupid (where are the energy cannon and swarms of mini-missiles?). The mechs' vulnerability to normal bullets and missiles did not seem to justify their presence on the battlefield.

Other gripes against [i]Geass[/i]: Too much of the action happened offscreen (Lelouche turns up with an army of mecha and we don't get to see how he got them). The characters' stupidity is constantly used as a plot device. The Japanese nationalists are portrayed as 100-year-old throwbacks. The Britannian Empire seems to be unable to manufacture enough Knightmares to overwhelm a small local resistance movement. Kallen goes naked in front of near-strangers but has never kissed a boy. C.C. bails out Lelouche at every turn, reducing the suspense to (pun intended) Zero.

This series was a cheap attempt to take every cliche in anime, paper it over with retarded politics, shove it into one series with a straight face, and expect people to buy it. They bought it. It worked. That makes me mad.[/indent][indent]Oh, and the theme songs SUCKED. [img]http://www.anime-forums.com/images/smilies/icon_mad.gif[/img][/indent]
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[quote name='Fusion X. Denver' timestamp='1319499805' post='5598759']
Man, I joined this anime forum right? I was browsing the anime reviews section and found someone who had this to say.
[spoiler=da fuq]

[indent][i]Code Geass[/i] is one of the worst series I have ever seen.

I was extremely excited to watch this series, as it had come highly recommended by the very same friends who had introduced me to [i]Evangelion[/i], [i]Escaflowne[/i], and other great shows a decade ago. As I watched the first couple of episodes, it became apparent that [i]Geass[/i] would not live up to the hype, but I didn't really mind, because living up to hype is a hard thing to do. I would have been satisfied with mediocrity.

I didn't get it. What I got were characters whom I actually hoped would die. Of course, I knew they wouldn't, since that would end the show, but still I found myself hoping against hope. The characters ranged from insipid and boring (Suzaku, Shirley, most of the Brittanians) to people I would dearly love to slap (Lelouche, C.C.). Kallen was the only remotely interesting character.

But that was not the worst part of this anime. The show's creators apparently decided to cram every single type of cliche anime pulp-sploitation into one single show - all the girls are busty scantily-clad Barbie dolls, all the boys are virgins, every member of the resistance or the government has a double identity as a student at the same preppy high school, there are girls randomly masturbating to pictures of other girls in the school hallway, mecha with grappling hooks (and no energy shields) defeat air forces in open combat, every girl is after the (asexual) hero guy, etc. etc. Two-bit Japanese nationalism is also exploited for all it's worth. These pulp elements can be enjoyed one at a time, in the context of a show that makes sense. They can be crammed all together if it's conscious self-parody ([i]Evangelion[/i]). But the writers of [i]Geass[/i] just kept pushing every cheap stimulus button they could until their thumbs fell off. It made the show almost unwatchable.

Note: I love good mecha. Knightmares were not good mecha. The grappling hooks were stupid (where are the energy cannon and swarms of mini-missiles?). The mechs' vulnerability to normal bullets and missiles did not seem to justify their presence on the battlefield.

Other gripes against [i]Geass[/i]: Too much of the action happened offscreen (Lelouche turns up with an army of mecha and we don't get to see how he got them). The characters' stupidity is constantly used as a plot device. The Japanese nationalists are portrayed as 100-year-old throwbacks. The Britannian Empire seems to be unable to manufacture enough Knightmares to overwhelm a small local resistance movement. Kallen goes naked in front of near-strangers but has never kissed a boy. C.C. bails out Lelouche at every turn, reducing the suspense to (pun intended) Zero.

This series was a cheap attempt to take every cliche in anime, paper it over with retarded politics, shove it into one series with a straight face, and expect people to buy it. They bought it. It worked. That makes me mad.[/indent][indent]Oh, and the theme songs SUCKED. [img]http://www.anime-forums.com/images/smilies/icon_mad.gif[/img][/indent]
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[quote name='Fusion X. Denver' timestamp='1319499805' post='5598759']
Man, I joined this anime forum right? I was browsing the anime reviews section and found someone who had this to say.
[spoiler=da fuq]

[indent][i]Code Geass[/i] is one of the worst series I have ever seen.

I was extremely excited to watch this series, as it had come highly recommended by the very same friends who had introduced me to [i]Evangelion[/i], [i]Escaflowne[/i], and other great shows a decade ago. As I watched the first couple of episodes, it became apparent that [i]Geass[/i] would not live up to the hype, but I didn't really mind, because living up to hype is a hard thing to do. I would have been satisfied with mediocrity.

I didn't get it. What I got were characters whom I actually hoped would die. Of course, I knew they wouldn't, since that would end the show, but still I found myself hoping against hope. The characters ranged from insipid and boring (Suzaku, Shirley, most of the Brittanians) to people I would dearly love to slap (Lelouche, C.C.). Kallen was the only remotely interesting character.

But that was not the worst part of this anime. The show's creators apparently decided to cram every single type of cliche anime pulp-sploitation into one single show - all the girls are busty scantily-clad Barbie dolls, all the boys are virgins, every member of the resistance or the government has a double identity as a student at the same preppy high school, there are girls randomly masturbating to pictures of other girls in the school hallway, mecha with grappling hooks (and no energy shields) defeat air forces in open combat, every girl is after the (asexual) hero guy, etc. etc. Two-bit Japanese nationalism is also exploited for all it's worth. These pulp elements can be enjoyed one at a time, in the context of a show that makes sense. They can be crammed all together if it's conscious self-parody ([i]Evangelion[/i]). But the writers of [i]Geass[/i] just kept pushing every cheap stimulus button they could until their thumbs fell off. It made the show almost unwatchable.

Note: I love good mecha. Knightmares were not good mecha. The grappling hooks were stupid (where are the energy cannon and swarms of mini-missiles?). The mechs' vulnerability to normal bullets and missiles did not seem to justify their presence on the battlefield.

Other gripes against [i]Geass[/i]: Too much of the action happened offscreen (Lelouche turns up with an army of mecha and we don't get to see how he got them). The characters' stupidity is constantly used as a plot device. The Japanese nationalists are portrayed as 100-year-old throwbacks. The Britannian Empire seems to be unable to manufacture enough Knightmares to overwhelm a small local resistance movement. Kallen goes naked in front of near-strangers but has never kissed a boy. C.C. bails out Lelouche at every turn, reducing the suspense to (pun intended) Zero.

This series was a cheap attempt to take every cliche in anime, paper it over with retarded politics, shove it into one series with a straight face, and expect people to buy it. They bought it. It worked. That makes me mad.[/indent][indent]Oh, and the theme songs SUCKED. [img]http://www.anime-forums.com/images/smilies/icon_mad.gif[/img][/indent]
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8D Weirdo.

And possibly he was just angry that no guys were naked. :/

except that one shower scene with Lelouch.

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