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Get back to me when they make a DC fighting game that isn't some lame dark EXTREME Elseworld wannabe grimfest where everyone's acting like a Mortal Kombat character in super hero cosplay.

That new Oz movie is about as mediocre as you can get.

Zetman is kinda awesome. Good super hero show. Liked what I saw of Casshern, but never finished it. The others are manga and I don't read much manga.

Family Guy redefined "lowest common denominator." At one time the phrase simply meant "something the masses agree upon." Now it means "if that's what the masses like, I hope an meteor wipes out all life on Earth before it gets renewed for yet another season." Also, Family Guy sucks.

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https://www.facebook.com/MechaGuignol Made a Facebook page for my anime blog. Yeah.

This is an elaborate word count thing. It counts types of words in whatever you post and compares it to some arbitrary value that's "idea." It doesn't take a lot of factors into consideration. I'm not seeing much worth in this thing outside of "how many nouns do I use," and that isn't really a relevant fact.

http://mecha-guignol.com/2013/02/18/yeah-man-season-3-of-my-little-pony-pretty-much-sucked/ Yeah, I didn't care much for season 3 as a whole.

Karnov's been a hero (his original game) and a fighting game boss (Fighter's History). Abobo's been a hero (his recent fanmade game) and a miniboss. One of these dude's been a bigger boss than the other. Karnov takes it.

Demon's Souls Ultrahard gameplay. Totally unforgiving. Little to no plot or character development getting in the way of the gameplay. Button mashing gets you killed almost instantly. Forces you to take things slow and think out your next move. It's almost everything I want out of a video game.

When The Simpsons ends, most people will say "Didn't it already end five years ago?"

A blog I follow actually explains what's going on in the screenshot Shockwave posted. I had no idea it was referencing some internet critic dudes until I saw said post.

The Constitution isn't outdated. Humans are outdated. Robots would be able to process and interpret it way better than us. Update the populace!

Terrible adaptation. They left out RoboJean and Ponpon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19ING9kPgEU

.Hack//Sign = 26 episodes of people waxing faux-philosophical in WoW Trade Chat while rarely going on and actually questing. Seconding the recommendation of Yu Yu Hakusho. One of the better Shounen Jump series and is a bit more toned down compared to more recent shows from the same magazine (Naruto and Bleach are more teen-appropriate). It's more in line with what people in the West feel is appropriate for kids. One Piece is probably fine for kids too, but I can't vouch as confidently since I haven't seen much of it.

OK, so the preceding discussion makes me glad I haven't tried out that new Avengers comic. Was kinda interested when they said Cannonball and Sunspot were joining the team, but the above lameness turns me off completely. Now that I'm dabbling in super hero comics again, I've found a few worth buying on a monthly basis: Hawkeye FF (the new rebooted one with Ant Man and company) Wolverine and the X-Men X-Factor Those clicked with me since they aren't afraid to have a sense of humor. Most of the other comics I've checked out in the past few months (other X-Men related stuff mostly) are way too dour and self-serious for me to take them seriously. I blogged about the two X-Men related comics a few months back here and here.

Most companies can't afford to make dubs for anime nowadays. DVD and Bluray sales aren't strong enough to warrant them in most cases, and few series air on English-speaking channels nowadays. Unless it's a big name title that's guaranteed decent sales, it's not gonna get dubbed. Also, many of the series on HuluPlus probably have dubs on their home releases (Pretty sure a lot of that stuff is from Funimation, the last US anime company that regularly makes dubs). If you absolutely can't stand hearing a language other than English and are too lazy to read a couple of subtitles, pony up the money. Or steal it. People who actually pay attention to anime with any seriousness don't give a damn about that old sub vs dub debate, since most of us watch stuff as it's released in Japan. Dubs are obsolete.

In the end, Young Justice will be roughly 50 episodes long. That's a pretty damn good run, about as long as either of the Justice League series. If they wrap up the ongoing storyline decently by the time it's over, I don't think there'll be much to be disappointed about.

Don't remember anything about Optimus Prime, but I got a kick out of them continuing the David Bowie references in the Diamond Dog cave entrance.

We need more violence in video games, and violent video games should be a requirement in kids' education.

The Semi-Rational Penguin Intelligence: 3 Strength: 1 Speed: 1 Durability: 7 Energy Projection: 3 Fighting Skills: 1 Wark: 7

I posted my Best of 2012 Anime list a few days ago. Go check it out. Everything on this list is something that started airing during the past year. http://mecha-guignol.com/2012/12/30/2012-a-year-where-anime-didnt-suck/

This was announced sometime last summer, so... OLD! I'm kinda hyped for this. Less because it's Sailor Moon (although I dig it more than most long-running series), and more because it's a sign there's a trend of companies going back and remaking older stuff. In addition to Sailor Moon, we're currently getting a proper JoJo's Bizarre Adventure adaptation. I'm hoping we get a modern take on something like Ranma 1/2 or Dirty Pair or something like that.

1. I'd rather have the physical copy for various reasons. I can't lend out a (legal) digital copy to a friend. Actually having the comic in my hands is an aesthetic preference. There's also the whole "digital shouldn't cost as much as physical" thing, but that's not as big of a deal for me as the previous two. 2. I'd rather see my $20-$30 a month go to the local comic store I like. If I didn't have a comic store whose employees were cool and all that, I might be more inclined to buy online. If I could get the latest issue of one of the comics I read for about half retail on something like Comixology, things MIGHT be different, but I'd probably still stick with buying them at the comic store. Or maybe there could be some sort of subscription service. Pay so much a month and get digital access to the entire company's releases for that month or something. It'd have to be on par with an MMO or something-- maybe $20 a month tops-- in order to seem reasonable. Doubt that price point'll ever happen.

http://mecha-guignol.com/2012/11/28/that-there-my-little-pony-comic-book/ I wrote about the first issue of the MLP comic.