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i don't go here (i've played maybe 2-3 hours of genshin impact and no other mihoyo games) but i really really love this new video from new frame plus on overanimation in ZZZ. it feels like in recent years, both in games and in animation as a whole, there's been a push in favor of very stylized, flashy, exaggerated animation. and a lot of fantastic work has come out of that, but this video is a good reminder that even when you're going for style points more animation isn't always better animation. sometimes you get lost in the sauce. this is a very good and thoughtful and constructive video on the subject

Nothing like Chiitan to chase the blues away.

Especially the last guy dinging it right off the bat because it’s “aimed squarely at the fujoshi market”. Yeah no shit dummy did you think you were sitting down to watch an Oscar-nominated drama about the gritty realities of the gay experience? How did you even get in here? Please understand that these are essentially sexy aliens who look and behave like men only to the extent that it is attractive to the audience which is 99% female and 1% sexually repressed bisexual men. My God. Sorry for party rocking discoursing, everyone

E: Fitting that this is all Tasogare Outfocus reviews because IMO it’s the flipside of guys stumbling across BL and getting mad that it’s woke. It’s not even in the same conversation

"I watched a romance drama and it was melodramatic and unrealistic???"

Yeah? No shit, that's what most of them are like.

BL, geicomi, and LGBT are different marketing categories at the book store. There is crossover and overlap between categories but they all have their own defining features. If you want realism and good representation you don't pick up a random geicomi and then complain that it's all unrealisticly beefy dudes pissing on each other, that's what you signed up for.

i'm gonna be real, if you're experiencing romance media in general, be it straight/BL/GL, it is like 99% of the time gonna be very cheesy and fetishy tropes, even in the more "wholesome" works. that's what people like about it. that's what normies like about these things lol they are always meant to be a fantasy. what i mean is, if you want something realistic and nuanced, you might want to look elsewhere. this doesn't make them inherently bad or evil or whatever, it's just cheesy shit people love for fun. it's not even just The Straights, people of all sexualities love themselves some trashy jank. it's normal.

and even then a lot of these works DO have nuanced and realistic depictions of romance, bc the romance genre is huge as hell, but that doesn't mean everything is gonna be groundbreaking healthy representation for the same reason lol

For the big 100 I decided to play a game that's VERY important. An obscure arcade Sonic game no one gives a shit about. Seemed appropriate. Back in the 90s, Sega made a lot of Sonic arcade games, none of which came out in the West... kinda, but we'll get to it. The big one people remember is SegaSonic the Hedgehog, which is where Mighty and Ray are from, and is KIND of the second Sonic game? There's also the like, very small ticket-based arcade games, like the cop one, the popcorn one, and this.

This is a tiny shmup for very little kids. Here's how it works. You sit down, Sonic tells you the plot (Eggman is being bad in space, we gotta go stop him), then you blast off. You can shoot, transform your ship into another configuration, or use a super speed move to go faster. You meet Eggman in space, and he throws exactly 36 enemies at you. You can shoot Eggman for extra points, and chase him down with your superspeed move. At the end, he fights you one on one, then gets in a weird mech and there's a boss fight. If you don't hit him enough, he'll escape and Sonic will go "oh no, try again next time". If you do beat him, Sonic is all "thanks for defending peace in space!" and either way, you get graded one to five stars, based on if you got hit and how many enemies you beat, and how much you hit Eggman in the flying phase. And that's it! That's the game!

It's EXTREMELY simple, and for very, very little kids. It's also less a game and more an amusement ride, it's built into a little spaceship seat that rocks and moves as you play, and obviously I can't experience that. It's a fascinating thing from a historical standpoint, but really there's no point to play this now... UNLESS YOU PLAY THE WESTERN RELEASE.

So, Australia had a Sega amusement park for a very brief moment. It was called Sega World Sydney, and it lasted from 1996 to 2000. And one of the rides they had... was Segasonic Cosmo Fighter Galaxy Patrol. It's ONLY release in the West. And the voice they gave to Sonic is fucking ridiculous.

It's such EXTREME "Hello Mario." energy, and it's REAL. THIS IS REAL. THIS IS THE VOICE THEY THOUGHT TO GIVE HIM. Eggman sounds more like Sonic in this than Sonic does!! "Hi, my name is Sonic!" is the FUNNIEST shit to me, holy shiiiiit

Ahem, anyway, this game is fascinating. Thanks for listening to me talk about so many god damn games. Here's to 100 more.