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alias_sqbr) wrote2015-08-08 11:09 pm
alias_sqbr) wrote2015-08-08 11:09 pm
Things I have watched and stuff!
Games:
Borderlands: Fun, cool first person shooter set in a post apocalyptic/wild west-ish planet. I've played like half an hour but it was fun and I wasn't totally bad at it! You choose one of four pre-generated characters: a white woman, a black dude, and two white dudes.
Remnants of Isolation: A cute rpg by someone I know, about people escaping a prison for magic users. Again, haven't played for long but it was cute and interesting with a diverse cast.
And for both I need to find out if you can grind to make the game arbitrarily easy, cos then I'll be safe from getting stuck and not seeing the end. Once I know that I'll feel more motivated to trek all the way to the windows machine to play them :)
Manga:
Genshiken (first two omnibuses): A slice of life comedy about a university club of anime/manga nerds who are all into porny doujinshi. Starts off very male dominated, ends up with more and more female yaoi fans. Fairly funny and charming and not as skeezy as it sounds, reminds me of both unisfa and fanfic fandom. Can be a bit...well, the author obviously respects his female characters, but it's written by, for, and about moderately conventional Japanese male nerds, talking a lot about sex. Also one of the characters cosplays as Hitler in a character title image WHY WHAT.
Anime:
Snow White of the Red Hair (first 4 episodes): well made, fluffy, fairytale-ish wish fulfillment about a Miyazaki-esque feisty, hard working, sweet natured girl with unique red hair who overcomes adversity to strike her own path. Adversity seems to often take the form of dudes who are struck by her beauty but don't respect her agency, and she's usually rescued by her male friend who is clearly secretly in love with her but not saying anything because he respects her desire for freedom. In the first two episodes there's threats of being forced to be a concubine, but it's free of explicit sexualised violence or creepiness.
Books:
A Season for Scandal by Theresa Romain: This is an arranged marriage regency romance which was mostly quite enjoyable but occasionally so annoying I had to give up. Spoilers for why below the cut:
Heroine: feistily gets her into trouble
Hero: condescendingly gets her out of it by marrying her
Me: eh
Other dude: Is friendly to heroine in somewhat creepy way
Heroine: He seems so nice!
Hero: well clearly he is the devil
Me: ehh
Other dude: Bwahaha I am actually your EVIL WORKING CLASS IRISH ARCHNEMISIS! I am going to make your wife HATE YOU and there is NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT!!!!
Me: Ehhhhhhhhhh
Hero: So you should stay away from that dude.
Heroine: Why?
Hero: ....he just seems weird?
Me: And I am done.
Borderlands: Fun, cool first person shooter set in a post apocalyptic/wild west-ish planet. I've played like half an hour but it was fun and I wasn't totally bad at it! You choose one of four pre-generated characters: a white woman, a black dude, and two white dudes.
Remnants of Isolation: A cute rpg by someone I know, about people escaping a prison for magic users. Again, haven't played for long but it was cute and interesting with a diverse cast.
And for both I need to find out if you can grind to make the game arbitrarily easy, cos then I'll be safe from getting stuck and not seeing the end. Once I know that I'll feel more motivated to trek all the way to the windows machine to play them :)
Manga:
Genshiken (first two omnibuses): A slice of life comedy about a university club of anime/manga nerds who are all into porny doujinshi. Starts off very male dominated, ends up with more and more female yaoi fans. Fairly funny and charming and not as skeezy as it sounds, reminds me of both unisfa and fanfic fandom. Can be a bit...well, the author obviously respects his female characters, but it's written by, for, and about moderately conventional Japanese male nerds, talking a lot about sex. Also one of the characters cosplays as Hitler in a character title image WHY WHAT.
Anime:
Snow White of the Red Hair (first 4 episodes): well made, fluffy, fairytale-ish wish fulfillment about a Miyazaki-esque feisty, hard working, sweet natured girl with unique red hair who overcomes adversity to strike her own path. Adversity seems to often take the form of dudes who are struck by her beauty but don't respect her agency, and she's usually rescued by her male friend who is clearly secretly in love with her but not saying anything because he respects her desire for freedom. In the first two episodes there's threats of being forced to be a concubine, but it's free of explicit sexualised violence or creepiness.
Books:
A Season for Scandal by Theresa Romain: This is an arranged marriage regency romance which was mostly quite enjoyable but occasionally so annoying I had to give up. Spoilers for why below the cut:
Heroine: feistily gets her into trouble
Hero: condescendingly gets her out of it by marrying her
Me: eh
Other dude: Is friendly to heroine in somewhat creepy way
Heroine: He seems so nice!
Hero: well clearly he is the devil
Me: ehh
Other dude: Bwahaha I am actually your EVIL WORKING CLASS IRISH ARCHNEMISIS! I am going to make your wife HATE YOU and there is NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT!!!!
Me: Ehhhhhhhhhh
Hero: So you should stay away from that dude.
Heroine: Why?
Hero: ....he just seems weird?
Me: And I am done.
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He is indeed the friend. He gets less annoying, but if you can't stand him this is definitely not the show for you.