>watered by many masters
back when I first read this pasta this line didn't even get noticed, but now I my mind have been poisoned and I can't help but think that this is a cuck line.
A plant should belong to one master! If you let your plant be watered by other people you are a cuck!
dwarfs as industrialists is a piss water take. dwarfs are best as craftsmen who dedicated years to mastering their trade, as far removed from industrialization as possible.
I dunno. I have a certain admiration for this kind of thing. Most of the time the toys were created first so basically all the writers had to invent a whole universe and lore around them from scratch and some of the stuff they came up with was wonderfully out there.
The openings of those cartoons are the greatest bait-and-switch operation after superhero comic covers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls2lvNYrZVI
I dunno. I have a certain admiration for this kind of thing. Most of the time the toys were created first so basically all the writers had to invent a whole universe and lore around them from scratch and some of the stuff they came up with was wonderfully out there.
I dunno. I have a certain admiration for this kind of thing. Most of the time the toys were created first so basically all the writers had to invent a whole universe and lore around them from scratch and some of the stuff they came up with was wonderfully out there.
The openings of those cartoons are the greatest bait-and-switch operation after superhero comic covers.
man you could just pick any 80s toy commercial show
A lot of stuff is still made with toy designs in mind but I don't think there are any shows that exist purely to market a line of toys outside of legacy stuff like MLP.
There's a new Looney Tunes cartoon aimed at toddlers and it's obvious at a glance how much of the show's visuals are intended to sell toys. But since it's Looney Tunes, I imagine that the original pitch was as a TV show and they just developed it into something toyetic afterwards.
well, it's not like those cartoons were any good but IMO the toys were better than licensed toys of preexisting properties since they were made as toys first.
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There are still plenty of unique toy-original IPs that have to compete on their merits as toys instead of relying on brand recognition to drive sales. They just don't use TV shows for marketing. If they get a TV show, it's after they've already been established as a popular toy.
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just by looking at the thumbnail I want to puke
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It's an anthropmorphic unicorn with a distended belly and it shits in a toilet. It was also the hottest toy on the market a few years ago.
At the time there was a trend of toys marketed to girls with a focus on poop. I don't know if the unicorn started this trend or not.
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>anthropmorphic unicorn with a distended belly and it shits in a toilet
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Like I said, there was a whole trend at the time of poop and pee themed toys marketed to young children, and for some reason a lot of them seemed targeted at girls when it's usually boys who like "gross" toys.
But the distended bellies on the unicorns definitely scream "fetish!" to me.
A lot of stuff is still made with toy designs in mind but I don't think there are any shows that exist purely to market a line of toys outside of legacy stuff like MLP.
There's a new Looney Tunes cartoon aimed at toddlers and it's obvious at a glance how much of the show's visuals are intended to sell toys. But since it's Looney Tunes, I imagine that the original pitch was as a TV show and they just developed it into something toyetic afterwards.
A lot of stuff is still made with toy designs in mind but I don't think there are any shows that exist purely to market a line of toys outside of legacy stuff like MLP.
There's a new Looney Tunes cartoon aimed at toddlers and it's obvious at a glance how much of the show's visuals are intended to sell toys. But since it's Looney Tunes, I imagine that the original pitch was as a TV show and they just developed it into something toyetic afterwards.
No, they have toy review youtubers who make really obnoxious videos where they overreact to every toy they open.
Playmobil financed at least one cartoon that was a direct tie-in with a toy line.
Though our nieces mainly watch an off-brand youtube stop-and-go animations that make use of those figurines and miniatures.
Tragically not. Same for "serious" action cartoons in general. At least as far as I've been able to notice. Most cartoons these days seem to be aimed at kids but made by dumbed down toddler brained millenials who think everything needs to be babified so heroes are less heroic and more... fat and annoying.
Going from Scoobey Doo to Gravity Falls seems like a definite upgrade, never mind moving from Jonny Quest to Adventure Time.
3 months ago
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bro...
gravity falls is 12 years old.
adventure time is 14 years old. Kids who started watching those shows when they released are already adults.
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I'd have to go back to Ganker to keep track of what's new in cartoons and I'd rather not. Those fellas' ignorance made me so mad that I spent a couple years doing scanlations of european comics.
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>the cartoons I liked are almost all twenty years old now, many of them older
This must be how Darkwing Duck and Transformers guys feel. I think KND and Grim Adventures can drink now, and even Chowder has to be pretty close to the 20 year mark.
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Man, Gravity Falls paled in comparison to Gargoyles and Beast Wars. Then there's BTAS and Batman Beyond which absolutely rips everything from the 2010s to shreds. Furthermore, Adventure Time sucked ass past the first season. Just compare ATLA to Korra and you'll see a very noticeable and very depressing change in tone, characters, and the budget. Good god, the budgets on these things are so low now.
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Your post made me depressed because is true. I cant recall a single thing from the 2010s that got me the same way than the 1990s.
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I think these shows had fandoms because millennials did not have anything going on. The job market, at least here in America, was dead with most people now locked in poorly paying jobs well into their thirties. Hell, today I had a job interview for a pizza palace that was staffed solely with ex-cons and really nasty looking middle-aged people... Frick, I have a literal sex offender rapist as my McDonald's general manager. That's a far cry from the 80s when you'd see restaurants and fast food joints staffed with high school kids.
So without any real work, millennials looked to TV to fill in the gaps leading to Korra getting magazine articles and Gravity Falls actually lasting more than a single season. Goddamnit. Cartoons led me to an epiphany over western civilization.
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I know this is off topic, but ever since I've gotten laid off this is what my job search has looked like: >McDonalds. The only place hiring in my town apparently. Manager is a rapist who abuses his underlings. And no, I'm serious. Cops have harassed him over it in our location. >A Railroad Van Driver. I had filled out everything, including the W2s, only for the HR people to call me and say the position had already been filled. A day before I started work. This should be illegal. >Pizza Palace. Nasty looking ex-cons with bad teeth. It's an upscale location too which makes it even worse. >Enterprise. HR people. Multi-panel. Have a third one in a week. The job? To wash cars in a suit*. Woohoo. >Subway. More middle aged people with bad attitudes. >Walmart. The guy who interviewed me, I shit you not, was on Fentanyl. His eyes twitched and popped the whole time and he was missing half his teeth.
I got an application from the Plumber's Union and will hopefully become a probationary apprentice. It sucks because I'm thirty but man, I'll take being an apprentice over whatever nightmare these places are.
*It's to be a management trainee but man, all you're doing is washing cars and firing people. And you're actually getting paid 17-18 dollars an hour because they don't calculate the 15 hour workdays to rope in desperate people.
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I work at an engineering firm in management. Just last week I had to fire a older colleague two weeks away from his retirement because my boss, the middle manager, didn't want to do it himself and made the trainee do it. I thought STEM was safe, but nope. It's just as fricked as any other industry now. Oh... By the way, they're starting to fire Engineers and rehiring them for 'new' positions where they're doing the exact same fricking thing they were doing in their old jobs but get paid less.
>Just compare ATLA to Korra
The concept itself was fine, it's just that they didn't get any french people, who can be expected to have had a decent exposure to fictional efficient butthole princesses to write the damn thing. So the Anglos were left to demonstrate their cultural deficits and fill the hole with strong female character stuff.
S2 though was clearly created because the CCP told its expats to bribe the team with real estate.
Korra sucked ass. S1 had one of the worst twists I have ever seen, S2 sucked compete ass, S3 ironically had Korra turning one of her friends evil due to her shittyness, and S4? They gave the lesbians what they wanted. I can't believe I'm saying this, but the lack of filler really hurt Korra because we didn't get time to know or even like these characters. Like it or not, the episodes where Aang was dicking around with pirates or getting shipped by a fortune teller made you like these characters and want to see more of them.
Shit, Suki went from a one-note filler character to a full fledged member of the Gaang.
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Geez
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I blame the decline in rock&roll. The foremost feared culture of punk and other subcultures was actually a counterweight against the generalized apathy and lack of hope. Now is all comformism.
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>Just compare ATLA to Korra
The concept itself was fine, it's just that they didn't get any french people, who can be expected to have had a decent exposure to fictional efficient butthole princesses to write the damn thing. So the Anglos were left to demonstrate their cultural deficits and fill the hole with strong female character stuff.
S2 though was clearly created because the CCP told its expats to bribe the team with real estate.
>saber rider >Star Musketeer Bismark in jap
I kinda want to watch the original japanese version just to see how different it is from the American version.
But I doubt anyone subbed some old toy commercial from the 80s lol
>I kinda want to watch the original japanese version just to see how different it is from the American version.
I understand that some episodes were switched around and they added a line about the baddies getting infinite respawns in their Shadow Realm after being killed in the protagonists' universe.
Apparently realizing that you are on your way to die and that any ayoo who acted like a headless chicken and fatally face planted themselves against a wall today will eventually return on a motorcyle, playing a children's collectible card game while 360 noscoping your guys was what made it child friendly.
The original producer laughing like a madman, telling us that this show is from ages ago and he can't remember shit about it was funny though.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMLr1Ch7sgo >saber rider >Star Musketeer Bismark in jap
I kinda want to watch the original japanese version just to see how different it is from the American version.
But I doubt anyone subbed some old toy commercial from the 80s lol
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The armored rider with a saber is cool as frick, damn.
High focus on surreal male muscled bodies and the destruction of said bodies. Graphically, Richard Corben's "it" thing is the way he draws flesh and flesh being ripped.
Think Grappler Baki or Fist of the North Star.
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I've never heard the term before. Interesting that it's a genre.
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Nor sure if it's still a genre, but there are still people working in the style. Keisuke Itagaki of Grappler Baki, Takayuki Yamaguchi of Apocalypse Zero and Shigurui and Jojo's Hirohiko Araki seem to be the most prolific of the lot.
People always think they need to world build before they even have a story but this couldn't be any less true. A story needs to have a story first and you can edit and develop the rest of the world as needed. Oh yes it helps to have a plan, it helps to have an idea of what your setting is certainly, but you don't need to chart the entire history of a place the characters will either never go or if they do only ever briefly. Keep that stuff in mind for future stories though.
Nah, his self inserts were Jubal and the old guy from Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Guy's a get off my lawn libertarian
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He can say that as much as he wants, by the end he was fully in for foreign invasions, domino theory, and government surveillance of his political enemies. Like all libertarians on every side of the poliitcal spectrum his opposition to government overreach extended solely to the fact that they should leave him and people like him alone.
You are also assuming he was a static man. When he was initially politically active in the early 30s he was part of the Upton Sinclair aligned crowd, his first novel was essentially a political tract for CH Douglas, in the 40s he began believing in a world spanning military dictatorships which would be needed to enforce his libertarian ideals (The bugs in starship troopers were, in part, a metaphor for communists according to Heinlein himself and the book was a response to calls for detente and disarmament), in the 60s he was all in for goldwater while writing
about how racism and segregation were bad and culture needed to evolve, and by the 80s he was helping write harebrained anticommunist schemes to the Reagan administration.
At no point were his views static and at no point were they consistent. Like all writers.
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>nooooo you can't stop me from subverting you noooooooo
Physical removal and reciprocity you commie homosexual.
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Cry if you like, but that guy appears to know Heinlein very well. I don't see anything in his post that's factually incorrect.
Sounds like something that'd end up with strong vibes from Freemason fairytales, such as The Magic Flute and with very little of the plattform independant document format robbery action that dominates unedited collections of 1001 Nights.
>alt-history where Napoleon managed to hold his grip on power (parhaps via truce with Russia) and Scramble for Africa started several decades earlier
or >special division of French Foreign Legion working for enlightened arabic monarch
Reminder that you need to do these three steps in this order. I played someone else's political power fantasy and it was boring without any magical realms to visit. By the time the esoteric magic system was being explained the game ran out of steam.
1. Nuns with guns
2. Transcendalist theocracy (Stop making waves!)
3. Superhuman bodily control and mental faculties a la prana-bindu from the Dune series
4. Lots sisters of the cloth, shrine maidens and other kinda nuns with guns... wearing latex... in space
1) Consensual intercourse to the enjoyment of both partners, with kissing and touching.
2) Interstellar Gay Luxury Communism
3) Hellenistic eastern mediterranean daimon summon practices
Honestly, it'd be like Pal World Barbarella, I guess?
Holy checked.
1. Having extra body parts and having an off-human body plan.
2. Monarchies ruled by the strongest and/or wisest creature in the area, selected by a mystical force that envelops the planet
3. Frick it I'm not explaining it here, too long
4. My monstrous and mutant self insert lives in a city that was drawn underground by a disaster centuries ago, now he populates the city with monsters he creates with dark sorcery. He intends to make the entire world into cool monsters. (He is in over his head.)
1. Very tall muscular ladies
2. Benevolent monarchy
3. Magic comes from the gods and is rather hard to define because it tends to have hard to define effects depending on a person who uses it.
4. Strong ladies.
>breeding and consensual rough sex >enlightened magocracy >truenaming and realized platonic ideal concepts with old testament demonology/Solomon's Seal
Why yes, I would like a setting where bold Occultists intentionally summon demons and genies and dragons and such and have sex with them in order to produce magically gifted children and improve their bloodlines
1.strong, well endowed women, femdom, rough sex, grooming
2.Isolationist Nationalism
3.Stealing the might of a dead god
4. Absolute bastards, cunning tyrants, unscrupulous heroes, vicious beasts
>1. Rape, like, an unholy amount of rape. >2. Feudalism. >3. Magical Gnosticism where all of the Gods are sages who achieved divine knowledge, but willingly chose to become malicious tyrannical archons to lord over the material world. All magic is derived from their miracles. >4. Cannibals, noble knights, and nightmarish deities, oh my.
>Magical Gnosticism where all of the Gods are sages who achieved divine knowledge
Nice. Is it possible for other sages to achieve this too or do the gods keep a really good guard on their monopoly? If no monopoly, can they be overthrown if enough new sages come rise up?
Divine revelation is a difficult path to tread and the Gods don't want any new competition, so they actively try and behead anyone trying to uncover that spicy heavenly truth.
Each God has its own inquisition expy who officially exist to snuff out apostasy and heresy, but in reality, 80% of their job is just locating hermits who are trying to ascend and torturing them to death.
same thing happened with the guy who created The Tick. He went off to do a cartoon in the early 90s, and left the comic on a cliffhanger for 20+ years. (No idea if he's gone back to it since I last checked.)
I think there have been a few one off issues but nothing you could call a revival. Though it is impressive how some artists and series can sustain a fandom despite not having out put for decades.
True, but it seemed like death but also simultaneously somehow torture that goes beyond death (you don't know how much suffering continues, there is some idea of "degradation" of self when digitized, people it happened to reacted like it was agony)
It is kinda like death, but it can be reversed and was a good plot point of bringing them back.
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makes sense to me today, but as a kid I was horrified
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If you think about it, it still is a horrific idea. And you can show it in a more drastic way that is still on the level of a exploding body in a war movie.
Pic related is kinda less gruesome. The people sleep and are in stasis.
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Would make for a good greek sci-finsettinh.
3 months ago
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Would make for a good greek sci-finsettinh.
Yet another kino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev1aBt-_Zs4
3 months ago
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That intro is cool. I wonder if this is known outside of france/europe?
3 months ago
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it is now
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Probably.
But i guess Captain Future is better known!
Last episode. Everybody else is away from when Blastarr attacks, she's hurt and the base autodestruct is damaged. She tells John she loves him, then tells Blastarr to go to hell and blows up Power base.
The actress decided she didn't like the dytopian setting of the tv show and wanted to be written out so the writers decided to make it worthwhile. Despite fan protests JMS was adamant afterwards that even if the actress had wanted to come back he would have left the character dead so as to not cheapen the moment.
In season 2 they were going to bring in a female character called Ranger and maybe a sexy gynoid too as well as John's mum so we would have had a brilliant story. Captain Power and Earth 2 are two of the biggest losses to American SF in the late 80s early 90s
Deathlands
Endworld
Horseclans
Man-Kzinn War
Dune
Foundation
Lensman
Amtrak Wars
War for the Oaks
Dark Tower
Riverworld
World of Tiers
The Shaver Mystery
Illuminatus!
SCP
Slenderman
Wold Newton family
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Highlander
Blakes 7
Doom
Deus Ex
Blade Runner
Tank Girl
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
Hammer's Slammers
SCP has no single world allegedly by design but more likely because they didn't want to frick with enforcing consistency as it could limit the scope of stories told.
In one article the foundation can barely figure out why there are some sort of weird antennas on Mars or Venus and in another they are jumping 2 Billion light years to take a closer look at an Intergalactic Void
What's that setting in total darkness with glowing pyramids and the iconic weapon of the setting is an electrified staff with a circular saw on the end?
Yeah. John Norman’s heroes of Gor are so wimpy that real life women would walk all over them. It is not that the males of these books are improbably dominant, but that the females are improbably submissive.
Women are not naturally inclined to submit, that's John Norman's wishful thinking. A man has to make them submit, overwhelming their willful and vigorous resistance. A husband has to force his wife to honor and obey him, because women, being women, will struggle strenuously to dishonor and disobey. It's instinct to them. The John Norman novels depict women eager to obey submitting themselves to a man reluctant and diffident to command, thus he has PC males and non PC females, which is, alas, not at all the way it works in real life.
Google image search says it's some obscure Japanese console RPG called Ar Tonelica from like 2006.
Shame the actual storytelling of the games is weak as frick, but the setting is a damn great bundle of autism.
And frick you for making me search for shit nobody's ever heard of. It's forgotten for a reason, piss off with your "I will spark their curiosity by being cryptic" Gabbo horseshit! All you did was waste my time and annoy me.
I would totally play a game in this one. The religious fundamentalism of the characters just so genuinely clashes with the Burroughesque and oftentimes surreal setting.
>houseplant
Never heard of her
it's obligatory
Now that's a copypasta I haven't seen in a long time. A long time.
Gorgays never recovered from this, nor should they.
Eh, better to take it stride and just laugh it up.
>watered by many masters
back when I first read this pasta this line didn't even get noticed, but now I my mind have been poisoned and I can't help but think that this is a cuck line.
A plant should belong to one master! If you let your plant be watered by other people you are a cuck!
Imagine regularly trading plants to water and then being surprised when there's blight in your garden. Smfh
>gay bikers
Frick, it took me until reading that to realize this is that shit those weirdo fricking Second Life bikers get up to
>slimea multiverse
https://www.worldanvil.com/w/slimea-multiverse-drackzahn
Best isekai setting
>North Plains
>South Plains
>Center Plains
>Plains of Ra
>Spoiled Plains
>Southron Range Plains
>Western Mountain Plains
>Mount Thunder Plains
>Sarangrave Flat Plains
>Seareach Plains
>Revelstone Plains
>Gray Desert Plains
>Battle Plain Plains
>Trothgard Plains
>Lifeswallower (The Great Swamp) Plains
>Landsdrop Plains
>Outer Earth Plains
>Andelplains
That isn't the setting for Harem Knights though
>Kevin's Watch
KEVIN!
Needs more trains
dwarfs as industrialists is a piss water take. dwarfs are best as craftsmen who dedicated years to mastering their trade, as far removed from industrialization as possible.
man you could just pick any 80s toy commercial show
The openings of those cartoons are the greatest bait-and-switch operation after superhero comic covers.
I dunno. I have a certain admiration for this kind of thing. Most of the time the toys were created first so basically all the writers had to invent a whole universe and lore around them from scratch and some of the stuff they came up with was wonderfully out there.
yes
do kids these days have toy commercial cartoons?
No, they have toy review youtubers who make really obnoxious videos where they overreact to every toy they open.
well, it's not like those cartoons were any good but IMO the toys were better than licensed toys of preexisting properties since they were made as toys first.
There are still plenty of unique toy-original IPs that have to compete on their merits as toys instead of relying on brand recognition to drive sales. They just don't use TV shows for marketing. If they get a TV show, it's after they've already been established as a popular toy.
just by looking at the thumbnail I want to puke
It's an anthropmorphic unicorn with a distended belly and it shits in a toilet. It was also the hottest toy on the market a few years ago.
At the time there was a trend of toys marketed to girls with a focus on poop. I don't know if the unicorn started this trend or not.
>anthropmorphic unicorn with a distended belly and it shits in a toilet
Like I said, there was a whole trend at the time of poop and pee themed toys marketed to young children, and for some reason a lot of them seemed targeted at girls when it's usually boys who like "gross" toys.
But the distended bellies on the unicorns definitely scream "fetish!" to me.
A lot of stuff is still made with toy designs in mind but I don't think there are any shows that exist purely to market a line of toys outside of legacy stuff like MLP.
There's a new Looney Tunes cartoon aimed at toddlers and it's obvious at a glance how much of the show's visuals are intended to sell toys. But since it's Looney Tunes, I imagine that the original pitch was as a TV show and they just developed it into something toyetic afterwards.
Playmobil financed at least one cartoon that was a direct tie-in with a toy line.
Though our nieces mainly watch an off-brand youtube stop-and-go animations that make use of those figurines and miniatures.
the pirate boy on the left looks cute, would buy his toy.
>the pirate boy
The pirate is a girl. So is the fairy, sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
damn
Apparently, Lego Ninjago had 15 seasons, and they are airing the second season of the spinoff this year.
Is Bionicle still a thing?
>Is Bionicle still a thing?
Eh... don't look it up.
The set better cost 300 dollarynos.
I mean, I don't have any attachment to it or anything, it just seems like it's a relatively contemporary toy commercial cartoon.
Tragically not. Same for "serious" action cartoons in general. At least as far as I've been able to notice. Most cartoons these days seem to be aimed at kids but made by dumbed down toddler brained millenials who think everything needs to be babified so heroes are less heroic and more... fat and annoying.
Going from Scoobey Doo to Gravity Falls seems like a definite upgrade, never mind moving from Jonny Quest to Adventure Time.
bro...
gravity falls is 12 years old.
adventure time is 14 years old. Kids who started watching those shows when they released are already adults.
I'd have to go back to Ganker to keep track of what's new in cartoons and I'd rather not. Those fellas' ignorance made me so mad that I spent a couple years doing scanlations of european comics.
>the cartoons I liked are almost all twenty years old now, many of them older
This must be how Darkwing Duck and Transformers guys feel. I think KND and Grim Adventures can drink now, and even Chowder has to be pretty close to the 20 year mark.
Man, Gravity Falls paled in comparison to Gargoyles and Beast Wars. Then there's BTAS and Batman Beyond which absolutely rips everything from the 2010s to shreds. Furthermore, Adventure Time sucked ass past the first season. Just compare ATLA to Korra and you'll see a very noticeable and very depressing change in tone, characters, and the budget. Good god, the budgets on these things are so low now.
Your post made me depressed because is true. I cant recall a single thing from the 2010s that got me the same way than the 1990s.
I think these shows had fandoms because millennials did not have anything going on. The job market, at least here in America, was dead with most people now locked in poorly paying jobs well into their thirties. Hell, today I had a job interview for a pizza palace that was staffed solely with ex-cons and really nasty looking middle-aged people... Frick, I have a literal sex offender rapist as my McDonald's general manager. That's a far cry from the 80s when you'd see restaurants and fast food joints staffed with high school kids.
So without any real work, millennials looked to TV to fill in the gaps leading to Korra getting magazine articles and Gravity Falls actually lasting more than a single season. Goddamnit. Cartoons led me to an epiphany over western civilization.
I know this is off topic, but ever since I've gotten laid off this is what my job search has looked like:
>McDonalds. The only place hiring in my town apparently. Manager is a rapist who abuses his underlings. And no, I'm serious. Cops have harassed him over it in our location.
>A Railroad Van Driver. I had filled out everything, including the W2s, only for the HR people to call me and say the position had already been filled. A day before I started work. This should be illegal.
>Pizza Palace. Nasty looking ex-cons with bad teeth. It's an upscale location too which makes it even worse.
>Enterprise. HR people. Multi-panel. Have a third one in a week. The job? To wash cars in a suit*. Woohoo.
>Subway. More middle aged people with bad attitudes.
>Walmart. The guy who interviewed me, I shit you not, was on Fentanyl. His eyes twitched and popped the whole time and he was missing half his teeth.
I got an application from the Plumber's Union and will hopefully become a probationary apprentice. It sucks because I'm thirty but man, I'll take being an apprentice over whatever nightmare these places are.
*It's to be a management trainee but man, all you're doing is washing cars and firing people. And you're actually getting paid 17-18 dollars an hour because they don't calculate the 15 hour workdays to rope in desperate people.
I work at an engineering firm in management. Just last week I had to fire a older colleague two weeks away from his retirement because my boss, the middle manager, didn't want to do it himself and made the trainee do it. I thought STEM was safe, but nope. It's just as fricked as any other industry now. Oh... By the way, they're starting to fire Engineers and rehiring them for 'new' positions where they're doing the exact same fricking thing they were doing in their old jobs but get paid less.
Korra sucked ass. S1 had one of the worst twists I have ever seen, S2 sucked compete ass, S3 ironically had Korra turning one of her friends evil due to her shittyness, and S4? They gave the lesbians what they wanted. I can't believe I'm saying this, but the lack of filler really hurt Korra because we didn't get time to know or even like these characters. Like it or not, the episodes where Aang was dicking around with pirates or getting shipped by a fortune teller made you like these characters and want to see more of them.
Shit, Suki went from a one-note filler character to a full fledged member of the Gaang.
Geez
I blame the decline in rock&roll. The foremost feared culture of punk and other subcultures was actually a counterweight against the generalized apathy and lack of hope. Now is all comformism.
>Just compare ATLA to Korra
The concept itself was fine, it's just that they didn't get any french people, who can be expected to have had a decent exposure to fictional efficient butthole princesses to write the damn thing. So the Anglos were left to demonstrate their cultural deficits and fill the hole with strong female character stuff.
S2 though was clearly created because the CCP told its expats to bribe the team with real estate.
>saber rider
>Star Musketeer Bismark in jap
I kinda want to watch the original japanese version just to see how different it is from the American version.
But I doubt anyone subbed some old toy commercial from the 80s lol
>I kinda want to watch the original japanese version just to see how different it is from the American version.
I understand that some episodes were switched around and they added a line about the baddies getting infinite respawns in their Shadow Realm after being killed in the protagonists' universe.
Apparently realizing that you are on your way to die and that any ayoo who acted like a headless chicken and fatally face planted themselves against a wall today will eventually return on a motorcyle, playing a children's collectible card game while 360 noscoping your guys was what made it child friendly.
The original producer laughing like a madman, telling us that this show is from ages ago and he can't remember shit about it was funny though.
The armored rider with a saber is cool as frick, damn.
>rides his horseman partner
kinda gay tbh
horsebros before horsehoes
Dark Sun is great, shame about the editions it's attached to.
If it was on any edition past 2nd it wouldn't be any good.
dumb Black person
It's a great setting. I don't even play DnD and I'm obsessed with it's mad max desert fantasy charm
I played the video games back in the day. They were neat.
What are some books that have that Dark Sun vibe?
Giant of World's End, by Lin Carter
Den, by Richard Corben
>Den, by Richard Corben
Den is a literal Isekai/flesh bomb series, my brother in Christ.
Le Monde d'Arkadi or really any of the other post-postapoc series the French published during the 90s.
>flesh bomb series
what does this mean?
High focus on surreal male muscled bodies and the destruction of said bodies. Graphically, Richard Corben's "it" thing is the way he draws flesh and flesh being ripped.
Think Grappler Baki or Fist of the North Star.
I've never heard the term before. Interesting that it's a genre.
Nor sure if it's still a genre, but there are still people working in the style. Keisuke Itagaki of Grappler Baki, Takayuki Yamaguchi of Apocalypse Zero and Shigurui and Jojo's Hirohiko Araki seem to be the most prolific of the lot.
You can just read the actual dark sun books. It's not a great epic or anything but they are fun 90's fantasy kino.
If those novels had been my introduction to Dark Sun I never would have got into Dark Sun.
You did NOT just shit-talk 2e.
I wonder how hard it could be to port it to OD&D or just a fastplay.
>Sand witch domain
Yeah I'll have a large steak and cheese and a meat ball grinder and... what do you guys want?
just a milkshake for me
>Bizarre Bazaar
Ah yes, the Call of Cthulhu map. A truely magical realm.
Reminder that Counter-Earth is a giant insect terrarium built by sexually deviant ants.
I used to get Sabre Rider and Galaxy Rangers mixed up in my mind a lot.
But yeah being a space sheriff would be all sorts of rad.
It is the robo horses.
Tips for coming up with cool settings?
unironically bring back your childhood
An RPG about bullying then?
I can only imagine the kind of tv shows you suffered on your childhood
Nu pogodi!, Bolek i Lolek, Die Biene Maja, and underground dub of Once Upon a Time - Man
Bolek i Lolek had plenty of adventures, just steal that and add dragons and/or lasers.
Think of something cool. It's now your setting.
People always think they need to world build before they even have a story but this couldn't be any less true. A story needs to have a story first and you can edit and develop the rest of the world as needed. Oh yes it helps to have a plan, it helps to have an idea of what your setting is certainly, but you don't need to chart the entire history of a place the characters will either never go or if they do only ever briefly. Keep that stuff in mind for future stories though.
Heinlein followed most of those steps and it helped him sell a lot of books.
Wasn't Heinlein's main focus usually on the lead character - The Competent Man (TM) with world building being more of a backdrop?
People tend to take a lot of Heinlien at face value.
If I remember right Starship Troopers had a world running on his exact political beliefs.
You always really need to remember when shit was written. Especially stuff in the cold war.
Nah, his self inserts were Jubal and the old guy from Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Guy's a get off my lawn libertarian
He can say that as much as he wants, by the end he was fully in for foreign invasions, domino theory, and government surveillance of his political enemies. Like all libertarians on every side of the poliitcal spectrum his opposition to government overreach extended solely to the fact that they should leave him and people like him alone.
You are also assuming he was a static man. When he was initially politically active in the early 30s he was part of the Upton Sinclair aligned crowd, his first novel was essentially a political tract for CH Douglas, in the 40s he began believing in a world spanning military dictatorships which would be needed to enforce his libertarian ideals (The bugs in starship troopers were, in part, a metaphor for communists according to Heinlein himself and the book was a response to calls for detente and disarmament), in the 60s he was all in for goldwater while writing
about how racism and segregation were bad and culture needed to evolve, and by the 80s he was helping write harebrained anticommunist schemes to the Reagan administration.
At no point were his views static and at no point were they consistent. Like all writers.
>nooooo you can't stop me from subverting you noooooooo
Physical removal and reciprocity you commie homosexual.
Cry if you like, but that guy appears to know Heinlein very well. I don't see anything in his post that's factually incorrect.
1. Women in Napoleonic-era military uniforms
2. Enlightened monarchy
3. Genies and wishes
I'm pretty sure this is just Revolutionary Girl Utena crossed with Arabian Nights. And I am diamonds at the thought of that.
Sounds like something that'd end up with strong vibes from Freemason fairytales, such as The Magic Flute and with very little of the plattform independant document format robbery action that dominates unedited collections of 1001 Nights.
>alt-history where Napoleon managed to hold his grip on power (parhaps via truce with Russia) and Scramble for Africa started several decades earlier
or
>special division of French Foreign Legion working for enlightened arabic monarch
I see, you too enjoy Destination Calabria.
Reminder that you need to do these three steps in this order. I played someone else's political power fantasy and it was boring without any magical realms to visit. By the time the esoteric magic system was being explained the game ran out of steam.
>checked
1. Nuns with guns
2. Transcendalist theocracy (Stop making waves!)
3. Superhuman bodily control and mental faculties a la prana-bindu from the Dune series
4. Lots sisters of the cloth, shrine maidens and other kinda nuns with guns... wearing latex... in space
Sex Nun Space Pirates, you say?
It's true that I killed my Mother superior... and yet, I am not her murderer.
1) Consensual intercourse to the enjoyment of both partners, with kissing and touching.
2) Interstellar Gay Luxury Communism
3) Hellenistic eastern mediterranean daimon summon practices
Honestly, it'd be like Pal World Barbarella, I guess?
>big boobs
>bigger boobs = power
>boob magic
>boob lady
I just think we should get Bastien Vives to team up with Vanillaware to deliver the big booba magic game we deserve.
Unironically that's Manyuu Hikenchou.
1. Sucking on breasts
2. Starship troopers
3. space psychic magic
4. Big breasts ladies and space army men
Holy checked.
1. Having extra body parts and having an off-human body plan.
2. Monarchies ruled by the strongest and/or wisest creature in the area, selected by a mystical force that envelops the planet
3. Frick it I'm not explaining it here, too long
4. My monstrous and mutant self insert lives in a city that was drawn underground by a disaster centuries ago, now he populates the city with monsters he creates with dark sorcery. He intends to make the entire world into cool monsters. (He is in over his head.)
1. Very tall muscular ladies
2. Benevolent monarchy
3. Magic comes from the gods and is rather hard to define because it tends to have hard to define effects depending on a person who uses it.
4. Strong ladies.
Damn, I just made The Legend of Zelda.
1. Merchant Women
2. Republic City States
3. Platonic Cave mixed with Hermeticism
4. Said Merchant Women
Okay yeah checks out.
Gyaru
Small tribes of people
Magic makes you infertile otherwise its completely broken
Squidman named otis
>/ss/
>noble right of kings
>omnioujutsu based on the japanese elements
I don't think that works.
Nice shounen setting
>breeding and consensual rough sex
>enlightened magocracy
>truenaming and realized platonic ideal concepts with old testament demonology/Solomon's Seal
Why yes, I would like a setting where bold Occultists intentionally summon demons and genies and dragons and such and have sex with them in order to produce magically gifted children and improve their bloodlines
I'm not sure how i'd work women with big areola into a world building scenario but I'll do my best.
1.strong, well endowed women, femdom, rough sex, grooming
2.Isolationist Nationalism
3.Stealing the might of a dead god
4. Absolute bastards, cunning tyrants, unscrupulous heroes, vicious beasts
I will finish it!
>1. Rape, like, an unholy amount of rape.
>2. Feudalism.
>3. Magical Gnosticism where all of the Gods are sages who achieved divine knowledge, but willingly chose to become malicious tyrannical archons to lord over the material world. All magic is derived from their miracles.
>4. Cannibals, noble knights, and nightmarish deities, oh my.
>Magical Gnosticism where all of the Gods are sages who achieved divine knowledge
Nice. Is it possible for other sages to achieve this too or do the gods keep a really good guard on their monopoly? If no monopoly, can they be overthrown if enough new sages come rise up?
Divine revelation is a difficult path to tread and the Gods don't want any new competition, so they actively try and behead anyone trying to uncover that spicy heavenly truth.
Each God has its own inquisition expy who officially exist to snuff out apostasy and heresy, but in reality, 80% of their job is just locating hermits who are trying to ascend and torturing them to death.
>80% of their job is just locating hermits who are trying to ascend
nice, thanks for the answer anon
>Skimpy Clothes
>City states led by benevolent warrior-kings
>Divinely-inspired Sorcery
FELLAS WE'RE GOING TO ANCIENT GREECE
If it's Athens we keep Anon away from the twinks. If it's Sparta we're setting it on fire.
>Braps
>Grunge Anarchism
>Only PCs have magic and is based on a 3-Card Tarot Reading at the character creation
Nah bro, this setting fricking sucks.
Put in all the cool shit you love into one place and give it a name.
some what agree only in the sense that its a civ map with a sex slave fetish attached
There are plenty of similar soft everything kitchen sink series around that do just fine without the house plants stuff.
Segrello's The Merchenary, Lawrence's Storm or Weyland's Aria-series come to mind right away.
but I like the sex slave fetish
Well then go nuts. There's a shit ton of Gor books.
but dare your players enter your magical realm?
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product_reviews.php?products_id=210283
Go nuts, my man.
(I've played it, btw. Basic but solid system.)
I remember Second Life having a big roleplay community for this setting
Ok but I want to lead a regiment of zombie highlanders in kilts
Gor unironically goes pretty hard
And a kickass cartoon to complement a kickass comic series.
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I really wish he'd go back and finish the comic book though.
same thing happened with the guy who created The Tick. He went off to do a cartoon in the early 90s, and left the comic on a cliffhanger for 20+ years. (No idea if he's gone back to it since I last checked.)
I think there have been a few one off issues but nothing you could call a revival. Though it is impressive how some artists and series can sustain a fandom despite not having out put for decades.
Skeleton Warriors reminds me of Captain Power.
Good shit, digitization used to freak me out.
You cant show direct deaths so they came up with digitzation. Back than they often came up with ways that equals death. Freezing or stasis.
True, but it seemed like death but also simultaneously somehow torture that goes beyond death (you don't know how much suffering continues, there is some idea of "degradation" of self when digitized, people it happened to reacted like it was agony)
It is kinda like death, but it can be reversed and was a good plot point of bringing them back.
makes sense to me today, but as a kid I was horrified
If you think about it, it still is a horrific idea. And you can show it in a more drastic way that is still on the level of a exploding body in a war movie.
Pic related is kinda less gruesome. The people sleep and are in stasis.
Would make for a good greek sci-finsettinh.
Yet another kino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev1aBt-_Zs4
That intro is cool. I wonder if this is known outside of france/europe?
it is now
Probably.
But i guess Captain Future is better known!
No one else can do the things he does
The only mortal who fooled the gods!
I am now hearing the theme song manually.
>cant show direct deaths
Tell that to Pilot
I dont remember that, can you explain that?
Last episode. Everybody else is away from when Blastarr attacks, she's hurt and the base autodestruct is damaged. She tells John she loves him, then tells Blastarr to go to hell and blows up Power base.
The actress decided she didn't like the dytopian setting of the tv show and wanted to be written out so the writers decided to make it worthwhile. Despite fan protests JMS was adamant afterwards that even if the actress had wanted to come back he would have left the character dead so as to not cheapen the moment.
In season 2 they were going to bring in a female character called Ranger and maybe a sexy gynoid too as well as John's mum so we would have had a brilliant story. Captain Power and Earth 2 are two of the biggest losses to American SF in the late 80s early 90s
Reminds me of Ultraman Towards the Future
The intro has the same feeling. Maybe the colors make it feel this way?
Yeah somewhat the color grading did it but the whole decade had a feel to it I wouldnt discard
Edge Chronicles
Wellenläufer-trilogy by Kai Meyer
Zamonien by Walter Moers
>zamonien
Chad bernd
I think the book city was better book than the blue bear adventures.
Deathlands
Endworld
Horseclans
Man-Kzinn War
Dune
Foundation
Lensman
Amtrak Wars
War for the Oaks
Dark Tower
Riverworld
World of Tiers
The Shaver Mystery
Illuminatus!
SCP
Slenderman
Wold Newton family
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Highlander
Blakes 7
Doom
Deus Ex
Blade Runner
Tank Girl
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
Hammer's Slammers
SCP has no single world allegedly by design but more likely because they didn't want to frick with enforcing consistency as it could limit the scope of stories told.
In one article the foundation can barely figure out why there are some sort of weird antennas on Mars or Venus and in another they are jumping 2 Billion light years to take a closer look at an Intergalactic Void
The only good setting ever made
What's that setting in total darkness with glowing pyramids and the iconic weapon of the setting is an electrified staff with a circular saw on the end?
The Night Land, by William Hope Hodgson
nice, this ones been on the tip of my brain for a while but 'no sun setting electric saw staffs pyramids' wasn't a successful google search
This setting was too politically correct for me. I'll stick with the classics.
Yeah. John Norman’s heroes of Gor are so wimpy that real life women would walk all over them. It is not that the males of these books are improbably dominant, but that the females are improbably submissive.
Women are not naturally inclined to submit, that's John Norman's wishful thinking. A man has to make them submit, overwhelming their willful and vigorous resistance. A husband has to force his wife to honor and obey him, because women, being women, will struggle strenuously to dishonor and disobey. It's instinct to them. The John Norman novels depict women eager to obey submitting themselves to a man reluctant and diffident to command, thus he has PC males and non PC females, which is, alas, not at all the way it works in real life.
spare the watering can, spoil the houseplant
>become batman but in cat city
>fight warlocks, androids, many other monsters
>just adventure through the skies
>but I like anime
>solve mysteries while you try to recover your flesh bodies on a world where magic and science are the same
I am so glad so many are fans of Bravestarr here, there is hope for /tg/ yet
>stealth cartoon intro thread
based
This one time, while I was making breakfast, I was trying to come up with a mini tabletop Spiral Zone game.
Shame the actual storytelling of the games is weak as frick, but the setting is a damn great bundle of autism.
What game?
Google image search says it's some obscure Japanese console RPG called Ar Tonelica from like 2006.
And frick you for making me search for shit nobody's ever heard of. It's forgotten for a reason, piss off with your "I will spark their curiosity by being cryptic" Gabbo horseshit! All you did was waste my time and annoy me.
the hero we need
Best Gotham coming through
Best steampunk setting!
That would be Arcanum sir.
ThTs no Steampunk. Thats pure high fantasy!
Sadly some dumb people think you were serious. Stop trolling.
Yeah.
I would totally play a game in this one. The religious fundamentalism of the characters just so genuinely clashes with the Burroughesque and oftentimes surreal setting.
It was a good thread.