Since the bandwagon for this has appeared...

[GSM123]

Do you enjoy writting?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

As long as it's about a topic or concept I can find a good amount of content to write about, then yes.

 

[Void]

As long as it's about a topic or concept I can find a good amount of content to write about, then yes.

https://shop.sentaifilmworks.com/collections/pre-order/products/legend-of-the-galactic-heroes-premium-box-set

How can that be $800?!

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Probably a mix of being limited edition and being an entire collection. It's shocking it's that much for it's western release, though that's a pretty expected price if it were in Japan, since I've seen anime series of comparable length go anywhere from $500 - 1,000 for a Japanese import.

Most likely, the price for just the main series when they bring it out will be a lot less...or just watch it on Kissanime/Anime Tube for free.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

What do you think of this episode of Simpsons? Kind-of depressing but very beautiful too. You realize everyone eventually becomes old.

Spoiler

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[Void]

Probably a mix of being limited edition and being an entire collection. It's shocking it's that much for it's western release, though that's a pretty expected price if it were in Japan, since I've seen anime series of comparable length go anywhere from $500 - 1,000 for a Japanese import.

Most likely, the price for just the main series when they bring it out will be a lot less...or just watch it on Kissanime/Anime Tube for free.

That's the new anime for $800 too, not the original.

Not a question, but the new LotGH anime is available to stream on Crunchyroll. You can watch it with ads for free, or without ads for $5 a month.

I've heard the novels from Viz are pretty good. Have you read them?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Not a question, but the new LotGH anime is available to stream on Crunchyroll. You can watch it with ads for free, or without ads for $5 a month.

Whilst that's a redeeming quality, Crunchyroll otherwise has a poor selection of anime and scarcely streams older series, thus making it overall worthless.

Also, the new LotGH is pretty much worthless due to making the art style far more bland, the pacing being rushed and the dialogue being nowhere as engaging as the original. No need to fix something that isn't broken.

I've heard the novels from Viz are pretty good. Have you read them?

The novels were the original form of the series and I've read up until the most recently translated one (volume 6). They're just as good as the anime, as whilst the anime's direction makes the plot twists pulled off far better, the novels provide more detail to the world building and history of the setting that explains certain problems some people find with the series such as 3-D space battles being rare or axes becoming a main source of armed combat.

 

[Pocket-Gog~]

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On a scale of 1/ how screwed is Joe if he hears this song?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Then again, that can be said double for anyone who hears this play when encountering the Top Tier Chad that is Rikiishi.

 

[ahill]

Have you read a book this month?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

I've read a few dozen pages of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and read the first 55 pages of A Song of Ice and Fire: A Dance with Dragons after buying it yesterday.

 

[ahill]

Do you find The Lord of The Rings hard to understand? It has a rather strong vocabulary.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Not really. It does indeed have uncommon and complex words at times, though nothing too far away from modern English as to get confused so long as you remember the unique terms of Middle Earth.

 

[Void]

I've read a few dozen pages of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and read the first 55 pages of A Song of Ice and Fire: A Dance with Dragons after buying it yesterday.

I assume you've read the first two parts of the LotR and also the Hobbit? They're all pretty enjoyable, in my opinion. Are these books required reading for you Brits?

A Dance with Dragons is the fifth book, right? I've only read the first two and that was very long ago. What is your overall opinion of it so far?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

I assume you've read the first two parts of the LotR and also the Hobbit?

Yes.

They're all pretty enjoyable, in my opinion. Are these books required reading for you Brits?

Only if wanting to have a good taste in fantasy.
Seriously though, it surprisingly hasn't been part of curriculum in my time of education bar a project on The Hobbit when I was 9.

A Dance with Dragons is the fifth book, right? I've only read the first two and that was very long ago. What is your overall opinion of it so far?

A Song of Ice and Fire is a series that lives up to it's hype and is a major case of the book being better than the show. It has excellent world building with the detail of it's world's history and lore, a good deal of political intrigue, well done grey morality and some of the best character writing I've seen in fiction with characters such as Tywin, Jaime, Tyrion and Littlefinger. Moreover, it's structure and smaller details are quite incredible, with each book containing great parallels between it's characters and such attention to each word that many minor sentences can be major foreshadowing.
It's far from perfect though. Whilst many characters are well written and given clear limitations, the stupidity of some characters (eg. Catelyn) is so extreme that it seems almost unrealistic. On that subject, character intelligence seems to switch drastically between certain books, such as Cersei being quite a clever schemer in A Clash of Kings, whilst being a complete idiot in A Feat for Crows. Also, according to Martin, Hodor's story will be somewhat similar to the time paradox bullshit of the show, which will ruin the continuity if so.

Comparing it to The Lord of the Rings and Tolkien's Legendarium as a whole, I'd say that apart from the time travel that will likely come in the sixth book, I prefer it overall due to having far more character complexity and very unique twists in it's story. Series as a whole gets an 8/10.

 

[ahill]

Have you read the Harry Potter's books?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Only listened to the audio books for Philosopher's Stone and Prisoner of Azkhaban and already know the books don't change my major problems with the series, so there's no point in reading them.

 

[GSM123]

Given what you said before about Marvel being reduced to SJW ... Don't you think the same is happening/is going to happen with DC? I mean, Green Arrow, for example, has been a SJW for years.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

That's true, though it's still in nowhere as great a number of series in their roster and took far longer to become prominent. At least the majority of their cast haven't been genderbent or complete emasculated.

 

[ahill]

What do you think about this poem?


What is life and death?
That hellish enemy
Life is the smile
And the death of life the lair

Death has sorrows
Life has the happy ones
The pit has sadness
And life has the roots

Life and death are
The flattering smile
And love has the ship
And the ship the sailor