Wohooo!
I can't believe you actually got it up and running again. I thought this time it would be it for sure! Thanks for the effort and Bellisario for fixing my login issues!
Everything runs super smooth so far, even though I will miss Purple Ubiq and his animated Blackbeard Pirates Avatar.
@Daz said in Welcome Back! (2022 Edition):
Aaaaand I'm back!
There we go, welcome back!
Now, to try and restrain myself so that I won't spend too much time on pent-up critical analysis.
Please don't! In fact you should post even more, now that we have these useful upvote buttons. Now I can just upvote your stuff and call it a day instead of being grumpy myself!
@Mr-Zoro said in General Video Game Discussion:
@Foolio said in General Video Game Discussion:
I have a really hard time believing big-time voice actor Jennifer Hale would replace her for an “insulting” amount of money. Most likely we don’t know the whole story, and that callout tweet is super rude and unprofessional on multiple levels.
Likewise, isn't a $4k payment rude and unprofessional? Genuinely not trying to sound snarky here. I don't blame her for trying to shed light on VAs being taken advantage of. I'm not inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to a large game studio that could easily afford to pay the talent their worth and chose not to.
A lot of speculation I'm seeing is that she was offered a low amount purposefully so she would decline, and they could go forward with another voice actor (for something more than $4k, I'm sure). Not to excuse to lack of ethics, but that seems to explain the reasoning behind it.
I guess it was unprofessional of her, and the entire act burned a lot of other bridges as well, but I assume it's not about being professional or not at this point. She's so disgruntled with the industry that she doesn't see herself in it anymore anyway?
So at least she got it off her chest, which I can sympathize with. Few people will actually boycott anything (no matter what it is), the industry also won't change because of her, but they're also not getting away with the usual PR bullshit either to calm those who do have an issue with VA changes.
@KageKageKing said in General Video Game Discussion:
Big oof. It seems the reason why they changed Bayonetta's va was because they offered her only 4k for the entire game.
https://twitter.com/hellenataylor/status/1581289084718227456
"Sad and deplorable about the attitude of untruth. That's what all I can tell now.
By the way, BEWARE OF MY RULES."
Hideki Kamiya
The reply is so funny to me, especially the last line.
@Ivotas said in Chapter 1060: Luffy's Dream:
Why is everybody sold on the idea of Im being a guy? Is it something in the Japanese original that makes this clear? Would have change my take as I don't know what it is but something strikes me as this character actually being a queen rather than a king.
Same.
Mainly because Im's room looks like the literal description of Sanji's / Oda's fantasy of the women's room on the Sunny - "The secret (flower) garden" (Chapter 699).
Maybe this is just a japanese trope, but it's a description that stuck with me for being kind of random.
But on the other hand, people who simply assume that the most powerful / influential entity on the planet is male are hardly to blame for it, given Oda's track record.
@realtenchu said in Chapter 1059: The Matter Involving Captain Koby:
Blackbeard said he’s been waiting for Boa’s power, I imagine for himself. The question here is, is this really that third fruit that everyone has speculated that Blackbeard is gonna get OR Blackbeard can get unlimited fruit powers?. If it’s the latter then Blackbeard has been really slow on bulking up and why the heck wouldn’t he go for Kaido’s and big mom?. He knew there was gonna be battle in wano.
I believe the boring answer is that Blackbeard only wanted Hancock's power because it was convenient for the story.
Oda wants to end this series, so the pieces for the final arc had to start moving - by any means. Characters need an incentive to participate in this upcoming mega war after all, or at the very least be organically woven back into the main story (so it doesn't feel completely random when they show up eventually).
Last chapter we learned how Buggy, Mihawk & Crocodile will be involved, now it was Hancock's and Coby's turn.
Caesar's fruit is truly ridiculous. And it makes so much sense as well.
The way I see it:
Clever solution, even if I really dislike the inevitable Vinsmoke redemption arc.
@Daz said in Welcome Back! (2022 Edition):
Aaaaand I'm back!
There we go, welcome back!
Now, to try and restrain myself so that I won't spend too much time on pent-up critical analysis.
Please don't! In fact you should post even more, now that we have these useful upvote buttons. Now I can just upvote your stuff and call it a day instead of being grumpy myself!
Love those emojs!
We still need a peach for explicit wolfwood posts, though.
Wohooo!
I can't believe you actually got it up and running again. I thought this time it would be it for sure! Thanks for the effort and Bellisario for fixing my login issues!
Everything runs super smooth so far, even though I will miss Purple Ubiq and his animated Blackbeard Pirates Avatar.
They did Bang dirty, that's the only thing that really annoys me in the redraw. I thought they could still redeem him later on so I didn't say anything, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen.
I thought he was dead at the end of that fight.
The wikia also treats him as dead, but I just reread the fight and it's not clear at all. Given that he fully regenerated his body once already I assume he could have done it again?
I would accept it, just no multiverse shenanigans please.
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