The D.R.K Club (Dune!)Follow

Motion to the Club: Triple post eels no longer count, if just to discourage such shenanigans.

All in favor?

I second Raelix's motion.

Why is the audience clapping and cheering like this is the most amazing thing ever. Did I get pissed and close out before he explained the reasoning behind this? It's all neat and novel, but what the @#%^ is the point? This doesn't seem like, from what I know of it, TED material.

Cuz it's freaking awesome, obviously!

Because this thread is really anything other than spam!

I'm ok with this.

speaking of spamming the thread, does anyone remember which get i promised to steal from you all? i think it was like 2m or something.

Ply him with enough Delirium Nocturnum and it'll happen.

I am.
I will!
Yes.

It's only gay if you wouldn't let your girlfriend watch.

Did Alla disappear off the internet for like 12 hours to anyone else? Downforeveryoneorjustme.com said it was down too...

Edited, Feb 8th 2012 3:22pm by Raelix

re: is it only really gay if balls touch, yes.

i'll miss it, but only because i just bought a house here. i dunno that insurance would cover the state being consumed by the ocean a la atlantis.

also, anime made before around 1995 = beautiful, while post 1995 = generally gaudy trash, except for rare, usually high profile exceptions, and much later returns to self-indulgent prettiness.

p.s. this is posted as a new post to further us toward whatever that get i told you i would get is.

oh yeah, i'm sure the hacks in the painting era were even worse than the hacks in the CG ( + "everything is dark") era, and i agree that eva was the turning point. i just think the normal and or well animated things are way more beautiful pre-eva, e.g. my beloved mobile suit gundam (though even zeta gundam gets uglier than its predecessor).

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anyway, i like that the DRK club has more pages than does the DRK forum.

Real DRKs just use the club. I also hate crappy CG up in my anime.

Mouse...mouuuse...make your presence known mouse.

(When I tried to post this, I got this message: Your message has met the filter designed to stop ultimately silly messages, hit the back button to edit it and repost. I lolled)

my response: <3 windaria!

that comment though, i think it pushes the artificial "otaku vs family friendly" split a bit too hard... where does miyazaki fit in? and the comment itself is bizarre if you really think about what he's saying... mobile suit gundam ran for 43 episodes because it was "family friendly" (that series is about as family friendly as that viral video of soldiers cutting off hostages' heads)? sure, the later gundams are fluff (and way more popular), but zeta gundam was huge (and while it's definitely a bit dumber than the original, it's still set in a world of sadists and tragedy).

it's definitely true that the american view of "top anime" / "legendary anime" is very skewed, and surely there isn't as much moe as people who vomit upon thinking of moe perceive, but that divide... i mean, we got on this topic from me mentioning nadia, a family friendly anime (started from a ghibli idea) directed by hideaki anno, featuring neurotic repetition, french new wave nonsense a la evangelion, and all the freudian absurdity any true "late night otaku" could desire (plus "boy adventure novel" fun from a time before any of us read novels).

Gurren Lagann was one of the best giant robot anime ever. Only ran for 27 episodes.

Gundam Seed was pretty good, too. And the sequel series, actually.


Seems to me, though, that the most "popular" anime are those based upon manga. Thoughts?

Edited, Feb 11th 2012 8:32am by Nilatai

Okay I got a kick out of that. Too bad they ripped the audio from the overly cut version.

I have a friend who's been playing that for like a year or two now, he loves it.

I'm too busy playing Gotham City Impostors to play anything else.

SWTOR has a great story. that's the problem: it's all it's got. play it like it's KOTOR 3, with deathmatch, and you'll love it (aside from balance issues and horrible glitches). personally, i'm about to unsub.