Mention of the Fox X-Men animated series and I immediately started watching the Previously on X-Men video on youtube.
When I was younger, I thought the crap was super campy. But I loved it. Now that this video is around and I’m older, It’s campy. And it’s gross. hahah
just finished reading Annihilation, War of Kings, and The Thanos Imperative. Great stuff.
No words.
I finally popped my Game of Thrones cherry. Never read the books, but this first season is bonkers. Finished Episode 9 the other night going to watch 10 here probably this weekend.
This show is awesome.
Shit, was Casshern Sins a good watch? Or that Karas remake?
Volume 16 of the Rock B chronicles has begun.
-Starhammer-
Casshern Sins was boring and depressing as fuck. I dunno about the Karas remake. It looked cool. The movie was supposed to be pretty cool.
(GGs from this morning, Gorath. I have to practice, especially about how to not get raped by Wolverine. Ugh.)
Finally fell asleep after like 40 hours and mysteriously not feeling sleepy for much of it, though I of course feel asleep at like 5:00 A.M. in the morning, which means I woke up at noon again…which I was trying to avoid. However, life is nothing if not cyclical, especially when it comes to bad shit, so this isn’t surprising.
Speaking of cylical stuff, it’s so "funny that I had panic attack because I awkwardly overheard someone loudly fucking…again. Ugh. Why is this my luck? Am I really that prudish? Lucky I was able to calm myself down unlike the first time it happened, but geez, meeting my associate’s roommate after that is going to be extremely awkward and it’s not like I need help with being socially awkward. I really should be less weak than this…
Outside of that bit of bad luck, the past couple of weeks have been kind of uneventful since I was basically working in Excel for at least half of my waking hours everyday since Monday June 27th. Besides that, just went to some free concert in SF with Michelle Branch & four other people I hadn’t ever heard of. Before and during that, just hung out with some people and then went to some overly loud bar that I’ll never get dragged to again. Thankfully managed to avoid anything Pride parade-related despite getting dragged through the Castro because other people were curious–pun not intended–about the crowds and such; the aforementioned bar that I got dragged to wasn’t a gay bar.
I still don’t understand wanting to see the activity at the Castro, especially since everyone wanted to wait on MUNI rather than just walk. It’s SF. It’s always going to be crowded, which is part of why I hate that fucking city.
Ah, I see.
It was a cheesy, yeah, but it was not great. Even as kid, as mastermind pointed out with that Prevously on X-Men video I was going to link to even before I saw that he posted it as well, I knew it was pretty bad, but it was in a “so good” way just like the Street Fighter cartoon. Still, I guess that’s better than being boring as hell like the Spider-man cartoon was most of the time.
Well maybe I could if you hadn’t linked to that exact spot–as nice it is to see someone on SRK that knows how to the link to a specific time–and tell me exactly what I’m not supposed to hear…
I admit it was amusing, though more for the reasons that Radiantsilvergun3 pointed out about how stupid that choreography was.
And yet most of the people on this site still have never been laid. [/prudish virgin making a “it’s shameful to be a virgin” joke]
Sadly, I kind of agree.
I feel rather childish in mentally snickering at the name of that condition in Million-esque way.
Wait. Have you had that particular cramp?
Yeah, sleep paralysis sucks, but I’d gladly take that over panic attacks.
What’s to say? She had a ruff death.
Yes. I was trying to avoid the obvious WELL MAYBE YOU SHOULDN’T GET FUCKED IN THE ASS jokes. I was having them a half a year ago. I would stretch to somewhat relieve the problem. The worst part is they happen when you’re sleeping. So you immediately wake up with piercing pains.
Another horrible thing that has happened to my ass is a pilonidal cyst. Had that in 2007. Survived it with no drugs. Definitely the worst pain anyone could possibly have. Child birth has nothing on it. Painful enough to make you pass out from simply trying to move out of your bed. I was bed ridden for two days at the very height/end of it. The rest of the story is rather disgusting.
Worse than pissing out kidney stones? o.O
(Geez, it’s like probation officers and the “justice” system as a whole can’t not fuck up.)
I’m pretty sure I’m a masochist since I think curious enough to want to experience what passing a kidney stone is like simply because everyone talks about how painful it is and unlike a lot of other quite painful things, I don’t believe it leaves (very much) lasting damage either. May I’ll get “lucky” later in life knowing my shitty health…
Ah, that’s unfortunate.
For the record, I was going to make a “tight-assed” joke, but I decided against it.
Hmm…well, I’m sure child birth would probably be less painful if we did it less stupidly, so I believe this even despite the fact that you don’t have a vagina–wait, this is SRK, so I have to remember Boel’s wise observation. I mean, I believe you even though haven’t birthed a child (that I’m aware of).
waits for Million to ask about the rest of the story
I still need to read Annihilation. I wanna know what happens after Thanos Imperative!!!
I just finished Chaos War last night. Not too bad, I wouldn’t mind seeing more of Amadeus Cho. I also read Old Man Logan last week, and can’t wait for part two of that
Did you know that the Doctor Doom in OML is actually the Marquis of Death?
Sheeeeit,
The only thing I enjoyed about the old Xmen cartoon (besides the theme and intro) was any episode that involved Apocalypse and/or Mr. Sinister. “Big A” still holds the championship belt for having some of the greatest quotable lines in the history of cartoon/comic villains. I had all episodes with those characters recorded. I still remember most of them…e.g.–"DISAPPOINTED? DID YOU REALLY THINK I WAS NOT INVINCIBLE?!"
…oh, and there was also the lovely Rogue. That sultry, “Southern Belle” voice was amazing…the sound itself was like a young (and 10x hotter) Dolly Parton.
*More douchebags I see in the system at work— there was a guy that was making some good money for the majority of the time he was on the claim last year…and of course he wasn’t reporting a dime of it. I actually look forward to handling this one. It’s still such an odd thing to me that people in that situation would call extra attention to themselves by contacting the center about a missed payment/check or some other problem, or to file again. If you’re scamming the system, and suddenly the payments stop coming… wouldn’t the natural, logical assumption be "uh oh… maybe they found out…? Perhaps it shouldn’t be such a shocker, considering how stupid and ignorant most people are. Surprisingly, he was NOT from Memphis! That’s what Memphis folks are all about, y’know? Fraud fraud fraud, all the time. Always think twice about trusting anyone from there…and yes, I say this as a person who was raised primarily in that terrible place. Imagine every negative stereotype there is…particularly with black people… you can find tons of that shit in Memphis. I’m not even joking when I say it’s actually somewhat embarrassing to admit that I grew up there.
Anyway… I wonder if anyone from Congress is finally going to have the balls to say “Another extension on unemployment? How 'bout a HELL NO. We already extended that shit 100 times now. Come the fuck on, people.” It seems like politicians from either side of the aisle simply don’t have it in them to say “NO” to shit like that for a change.
Voice acting on '90s X-Men was good, even if the dialogue was questionable at times. Also it was a lot more mature than many other shows based on comic books. I’m not even sure that version of Wolverine would be allowed to exist in a newer show (exceptions for DCAU etc).
casshern was an interesting series…my main prob was i came in with a totally different mindset in mind. since i saw the ova as a kid and the movie. casshern sins was more like the movie…but more fuckin emo.
needs less emotion and more robot smashing.
yea, murder install.
(Oh, gods. I laughed so hard right now between the Previously on X-Men video and its sequel that I couldn’t help from crying with laughter at the realization of how small and slanted the eyeholes on Japanese Spider-man’s mask seem compared to the original.
I feel like such a racist asshole for noticing that.)
The X-Men cartoon…was, well, flawed. Perhaps saying it was “bad”, even in the “so bad it’s good” way, was a bit excessive. It was certainly…entertaining, at least times.
However, it was not “great” IMO. None of the 90s Marvel cartoons were, which I can say since I used to like even Marvel way more than DC as a kid and even I realized all the DCAU cartoons were better; I also realized that Batman: The Animated Series basically beat the hell out of everything in quality at the time that wasn’t named Gargoyles.
It had cheesy dialogue, though the voice acting was good for the most part. Even the voice acting that’s arguably bad, like Rogue showing, well, any more emotion is at least memorable given how signature her screaming fits are; however, it is weird to realize, in restrospect, how orgasmic sounding Jean’s cries were–it’s kinda disturbing, actually. I also agree with Million that Apocalypse’s grand speeches were quite good, though his were the only grand speeches that had much impact given how…long-winded Storm tended to be.
As hilariously murderous as Wolverine was, he never got to hit anyone with that was “alive” sans Mister Sinister and that goon of Sinister’s that’s basically Muk from Pokemon. But, yeah, they’d probably never be able away with having such a (mainstream) hero wanting to wantonly murder a certain antagonist again, even in DCAU; at least, it wouldn’t be one of the front-runner characters unless they went with a no non-sense, more Amazonian Wonder Woman and had one of her antagonist like kill Hippolyta or destroy Paradise Island or something.
No, the main problem with the X-Men cartoon is that between the restrictions of being a kid’s cartoon–see “no bullets”–and having to condense certain X-Men storylines like The Dark Phoenix Saga, they actually managed to make the already convoluted series even more convoluted and confusing in some places. That’s really…saying something in a series that has time travel, interdimensional travel & reality warping and regularly has more than a dozen named, major characters packed into any given episode, especially when all you have is 22 minutes.
Still, as I said above, it was better than the Spider-man cartoon. Hell, it was probably the best cartoon series that Marvel had put out in the 90s. That doesn’t mean it’s great, though, or even all that good.
xmen didnt really hit its stride til dark phoenix saga lol. it was a sign your fox show was legit when they had 8pm premieres. lol. i remember when the dark phoenix saga premiered it was like paired up with the premiere of power rangers thunder/zeo? or w/e post tommy series that was.
what was i thinking dling something off PSN…fuck. Its been downloading for an hour and its only at 7%