Slow Horses Season 4 aired on September 4, 2024. Post your thoughts on the new season here! BTW as the show is still ongoing, please use spoiler tags accordingly. Refer to FAQ for how to use spoiler tags.
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CW: spoilered pics contain pixelated gore I played First Cut: Samurai Duel a while back and I loved this game. It's a pixel duel game, where you can attack, block, duck, or push your opponent. Matching your opponent's stance is a key to winnning the game. What makes it so engaging is that no matter how skilled you are, one hit is enough to kill you, hence the name "first cut". Moreover the pixelated gore makes the combat more exciting. Definitely would recomment this game!
Anime is usually defined as animation produced in Japan. But that's just stupid, I watch the content and I don't care about where it's made. Therefore we should come up with a better definition of anime based on its style.
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First English thread, yay. (向我们的中国朋友致歉。) Do you think this genre is completely oversaturated? I like watching indie showcases and it can feel like every other game is a deckbuilder, a roguelite, or a deckbuilder roguelite. It's exhausting how many of these games there are. Obviously there has to be an audience for these games, why else would so many of them be made? I just can't imagine it goes on like this indefinitely, it's like that brown military shooter crazy of the 2000s.
I think merch of anime are really stupid, even more so with them being priced so ridiculously high. It's basically robbery. I mean, a mid-sized badge for 30 CNY, seriously? Fuck the merch, just watch the show already. I'd like to hear your opinions on this one.
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I think BoJack Horseman is about facing the truth. The truth of the society, the truth of life, and the truth of oneself.
BoJack facing his deeply flawed personality is a big part of the show. It shows us how he ends up in terrible situations because of his fault, how he struggles during the darkest of times, and how he eventually faces his own problems instead of ignoring them or blaming them on others. Just like what Todd said, "You are all the things that are wrong with you", this show essentially shows us how BoJack comes to realization of it.
Another theme of the show is the Hollywood culture and how it affects people. In the show we see Sarah Lynn entering Hollywood as a child and eventually being destroyed partly because of it. Of course, BoJack is another example of how Hollywood culture destroys people. "The most important thing is, you got to give the people what they want, even if it kills you, even if it empties you out until there's nothing left to empty. No matter what happens, no matter how much it hurts, you don't stop dancing, and you don't stop smiling, and you give those people what they want. " Even though BoJack is blaming his fault on the society, we can see the society, namely Hollywood, does take some responsibility. What's more, Diane's attempt at exposing Hank's wrongdoing, as well as her failure in the end, shows yet another disturbing truth of the society, i.e. people are reluctant to admit the wrongdoing of powerful or famous people, and it's extremely difficult for normal people to combat those in power. Finally, as the public turns their attention away, Diane has no alternative but to admit this fact. The Hank quote pretty much sums it up: "Sweetheart, everyone knows who I am. I'm Hank Hippopopalous. Who the hell are you?"
Yet another theme of the show is nihilism. BoJack, an actor in a sitcom back in the '90s, doesn't have anything to do at present. He tries to realize his childhood dream, playing Secretariat, but when the movie is actually finished, he feels the same. He questions whether people can truly achieve happiness, or they will just feel the same after achieving their goals. The show depicts the void after success and the fleeting nature of happiness. It shows us the truth of life, that it's difficult, and there's no way of achieving everlasting happiness. Even if we can ignore it temporarily, the truth of life will be unavoidable eventually. "No, because that’s just theatre. It allows you to think you’re in control but the whole idea of control is a myth. The universe is a wild beast. You can’t tame it. All you can do is try to live inside it."
The Boys Season 4 just ended a few days ago. It had a slow start, and with the boys dealing with their own businesses, it just doesn't appeal to me much. Honestly the parts stand fairly well on their own, but when put together, it seems like they're not minding the real business, and the main tasks failed without exception. Besides, The Boys is not just a shows that's "fairly well", but it should be exceptional.
After that, the plot takes a turn for the better. I especially appreciate Butcher's hallucination, and the twist is so shocking. I'm glad the Deep got stronger too, because he has mainly been a joke in the previous seasons. The ending, yet another sharp twist, is pretty well-done, laying a foundation for season 5.
All in all this is a satisfactory season. It's still presents shocking scenes over and over, which is part of the reason I love this show.
Please post your opinions on the season in this thread.
I have two open-ended questions I'm curious about >what do you think the best decade of TV was, that includes either nationally or globally >what do you think the worst decade of TV was, and ditto I'm not sure about the best but I'd argue the worst was the 2000s. I was reading a book from roughly 20 years ago recently and there's a part where a character starts ranting about "those pretty whores on TV who are only famous for being pretty whores", it jolted my memory that entire weird era of television. That was really the beginning of channel bloat and every channel turning into 24/7 reality TV. (That arguably still the case, but it doesn't matter anymore with streaming and such.)