The Official Psychoanalysis GAF Thread

[Cindi Mayweather]

does somethingawful still redirect to a giant pic of an ejaculating cock if you hotlink their images?

Dunno. No one goes to main site anymore and we. All use imgur as a host anyways. Waffle images is dead. But I wouldn't mind. That sounds pretty hot.

[Cindi Mayweather]

SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME THIS WITH ANDREX ON THE LAST FEW.PAGES

[parallax]

No himu, just let it go. Open that door again and these assholes will continue to talk about it for more pages

[Flannel Boy]

Wouldn't life be better without pants?
Penises were meant to be free.
Fuck pants.
Does Kirby wear pants? Wait--does he even have legs?

[Cindi Mayweather]

He has feet. Imagine what  his penis looks like. Wait, does he have a penis?

Lmao at the nigerian

[archie4208]

does somethingawful still redirect to a giant pic of an ejaculating cock if you hotlink their images?

How about you try it out. 

[Cindi Mayweather]

Lmao PD you told on the Nigerian?! You said to keep that on the down low so I did. How does.Eschaton know he is TBS? WHO BROKE THE NDA

[Cindi Mayweather]

In a true Himu fashion, allow me to break the tension with a moist fart...

 Mmm such a relief. Now everyone try it.

What does this post even mean

[Momo]

In a true Himu fashion, allow me to break the tension with a moist fart...

 Mmm such a relief. Now everyone try it.

What does this post even mean

Whenever something stupid is happening/people are getting under each others shit/add poo here, you have a tendency to make a post that makes everyone laugh and forget what poo they where talking about. Without you here people would be at each others throats more often.

Or something like that

[Cindi Mayweather]

[Don Flamenco]

does somethingawful still redirect to a giant pic of an ejaculating cock if you hotlink their images?

fo srs?

Guess it's a good job I rehosted all those emotes

this may have been like 10 years ago, now that i think about it

[Cindi Mayweather]

Noooooo

[StealthFan]

If you've seen TBS's pics you'd recognize him from his Nigerian pics. He looks exactly the same but with a beard.

[Don Flamenco]

a case of "that tag really went to his head"--

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46084745&postcount=114


i know that's just one post out of...well, at least one for each thread on gaf.

[StealthFan]

Derrick is worthless.

[Don Flamenco]

Derrick is worthless.

Derrick's posts are amazing and you only think they're worthless because you are too uneducated to understand.  /derrick post

[Kabouter]

Remember that time when Fable was supposed to be this massive open-world game the size of Skyrim, but with way more stuff, and you'd be able to do almost anything? Or when Too Human was supposed to be Deus Ex times 100? If only all development processes could be as transparent as those two.

At least we got some great meltdowns out of those two games though 

[StealthFan]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46083854&postcount=2330

Is that a real pic?

[king of the internet]

a case of "that tag really went to his head"--

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46084745&postcount=114

ironically, the most inaccurate tag on GAF

[Joe Molotov]

a case of "that tag really went to his head"--

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46084745&postcount=114

ironically, the most inaccurate tag on GAF

I guess they thought Giant Dickface would be mean.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Who's Clay Davis on gaf? Fistful?

[fistfulofmetal]

I don't have an alt.

[FStop7]

The Molly Water thing could take off.  He'll need to get a foothold and then reach some kind of critical mass to hit it as big like he aspires to do.  It needs to get into the hands of the right people who are seen in clubs, in videos, get someone credible to drop a lyric about it, etc.  It's got to catch...

[Tasty]

a case of "that tag really went to his head"--

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46084745&postcount=114

ironically, the most inaccurate tag on GAF

I guess they thought Giant Dickface would be mean.

Remember, negative tags aren't allowed anymore.

[thisismyusername]

But, Evilore... is there really a need for twenty threads of the same damn announcement if you simply merged them into one OP? "Stifles discussion," okay... maybe but reposting the same news from maybe the same source is what you want? Really?

[pilonv1]

"Stop making all the megathreads we helped promote and encourage years ago"

[thisismyusername]

"Stop making all the megathreads we helped promote and encourage years ago"

Well, yes. But it's still not fixing the problem: If a new console is announced, five threads about it's announcement is made. Which one should I post in for news? All of them? Because that isn't really practical. Why can't he merge them into one thread after the outbreak? Yeah, whining about too many of them is stupid but doing his job and merging them into a discussion thread would work.

"New thread for new news," okay. But if it's the same announcement with no new info, why would you dilute it with five threads about it?

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

More threads = more people opening up threads (why open up one thread when you can open up five!) = more ad banners getting displayed = more money for EviLore

Not going to knock the hustle but so many of his decisions recently are pretty transparent and according to Google Trends (http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=neogaf), NeoGAF is more popular than ever.  I guess he's raking in that cash.

[Atramental]

I think my year long break from GAF is going to turn into a life long break.

The site no longer appeals to me like it did when I discovered it back in 2007 or 2008.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I think my year long break from GAF is going to turn into a life long break.

The site no longer appeals to me like it did when I discovered it back in 2007 or 2008.

I left GAF in the middle of 2011.  On occasion I will venture onto the OT and Gaming section and get reminded within seconds why I had left in the first place.

[Cindi Mayweather]

http://www.the-coli.com/tsc/75996-life-me-i-cant-remember-who-won-2004-royal-rumble-match.html#.UOkaim81lWI

[DCharlieJP]

The threads that don't need to exist are where it's a variant of an existing thread or some poster believes thei opinion o game/launch/sales result demand it's own damned thread

"<usernames> thoughts on WII u launch" - yup, because the launch thread cannot contain your stunning analysis. And in other cases its not the thread numbers that are the problem - it's the same circular fanboy trench warfare arguments ad infinitum.

But the biggest  annoyance : I just bough a (machine) Recommend some games!

But hey - I strongly suggest anyone annoyed by GAF or its practices leaves - and advises anyone else moaning about the set up to nuke their account and move on

[ToxicAdam]

It shouldn't be too confusing. It's just live-action superheroes/villains doing simple morality skits. Plus humor, acrobatics, ritual and the undercurrent of homoerotica.


Then when you get older, there is another whole layer of intrigue with the booking, egos, gossip of the backstage antics of these people.

[Cindi Mayweather]

people harp on it being fake. No shit. The next time you watch a movie - better yet, a movie starring a fake ass super hero - i'm going to scream in your ear,"IT'S FAKE!!!" with a smug ass smile on my face as if I'm in on some secret that you aren't when you're watching a fun ass movie about a nerdy teenager getting bit by a radioactive spider. Bringing up "it's fake" makes anyone look like a goddamn idiot.

The appeal of pro wrestling is:

1. athleticism - you have to be tip top shape to be a pro wrestler. Not all wrestlers are the best athletes, but many certainly are talented as all hell. many pro wrestlers are former athletes themselves; the rock, for instance, used to play pro football in canada until a big time injury killed his career. These guys do high flying moves and look flashy and sometimes technical while doing it. Sure, it's fake. But it's like saying,"It's fake " when watching a Bruce Lee movie. Anyone with a modicum of sense knows that Bruce Lee is not REALLY decking those fools out, but he sure as fuck looks cool while doing it.

Displays of pro wrestling athleticism:

Watch this match.



Watch this:




Pro-Tip, Big Show, who Brock Lesnar body slams here, weighs at least 500 pounds here. Fake or not, scripted or not, Brock Lesnar body slammed a 500 pound guy from the top rope. Ballin.

JUST THIS WEEK:

Antonio Cesaro does his finisher on The Great Khali, a 7 ft 1 GIANT.




More Cesaro god



2. PAGEANTRY AND TRADITION

Watch this and get goosebumps and tell me this isn't cold as shit.



3. Acting and storylines.

One big aspect of pro wrestling is the drama. It's no different from watching a comic book movie. There are good guys and bad guys, you know the good guy is going to win, but how it happens is the absolute best part.



Sure a lot of storylines are stupid, but that's no different from anything else. It can be funny



charming



heartwarming and breaking



and sometimes downright engrossing.



4. These guys work their asses off for our enjoyment. You can say it's fake, but that doesn't stop a man being thrown off a 20 foot tall cage and landing on a table and then WRESTLING AGAIN just two days later. No other "sport" has this.



Mother fucker hits his head on a table. Comes back the next night.



Chris Benoit does a headbutt head first off a ladder. "It's fake "



"It's fake"

The amount of love and dedication these guys have for their fans and their job transcends and has no bounds. People like pro wrestling because these guys give their all, sacrifice their bodies, get addicted to pain killers and worse, just to get that crowd pop and 15 minutes of adrenaline. I respect that.

5. WRESTLING IS FUCKING HILARIOUS.










6. Wrestling is intriguing. What compels a man to become a pro wrestler? I WANT TO FIND OUT. The business is crazy as hell, and like Toxic Adam, behind the scenes it is fascinating to watch and examine. As you become older you start to predict storylines, question booking, talk about backstage crap, who is being pushed, who is being buried and why, who is breaking kayfabe, who's the attention whore, who has the biggest ego and what are they doing in life to fuck up even more?

[Cindi Mayweather]

wrestling crap

[Cindi Mayweather]

Oops forgot to post this clip from Gaea Girls - bbc doc on japanese wrestling up and comers trying to make it - of a practice where a girl training gets her mouth busted open because she didn't know how to take a bump against a flying kick move.

Shows a good deal of the skill involved in order just to make it in wrestling, fake or not. They're pros for a reason.

Starts 2 minutes in.



Cold blooded.

[DCharlieJP]

I think my high point of confusion was when I couldn't tell if the guy who killed his family was real or part of some story arc

I appreciate the athleticism - however as a sports fan anything with a per determined outcome is , frankly , abhorrent

However - if you go into wrestling as it being a drama involving athletes then idont see the issue - it's not a sport, but that doesn't exclude the need for physical prowess - its just not at rue sporting event

[Cindi Mayweather]

No one watches wrestling because it's a sporting event because no one treats it like a sporting event.

[Momo]

what is the appeal of pro wrestling? now i like some manchildy things; manga and videogames but even when i was an actual child i never got it. Did you think it was real back then or some shit?

Say what now?

[DCharlieJP]

No one ? I think that's not true but hey - it's not a sport and that's the. Crux. With so many sports on the planet with their own never ending emergent dramas an entirely fake one is interesting but ultimately pointless to sports fans ... I was just saying. I've nothing against wrestling t all - also the Louis Theroux wrestling episode is excellent viewing for a look at the athleticism required

[Cindi Mayweather]

No one ? I think that's not true but hey - it's not a sport and that's the. Crux. With so many sports on the planet with their own never ending emergent dramas an entirely fake one is interesting but ultimately pointless to sports fans ... I was just saying. I've nothing against wrestling t all - also the Louis Theroux wrestling episode is excellent viewing for a look at the athleticism required

Unlike other sports related stuff, wrestling is a year long thing and it's built all around the story. You're bringing up sports, when professional wrestling are essentially theater albeit with higher stakes. It's such an impertinence and bringing up actual sports makes little, if any sense. It's like bringing up kung fu tournaments in China and how SO FAKE the new Tony Jaa film is when anyone GOING to that Tony Jaa movie knows this and isn't really watching it because it's fake.  More than that, as an actual sports fans - especially combat sports - I don't see how being a wrestling fan clashes with sports at all.

Comparing wrestling to sports is stupid. When I bring up NFL, it will be instant trash talking. But if I say,"hey, I like your Daniel Bryan shirt" and talk wrestling, we will be instant buddies. You misinterpret why people watch wrestling and can't get over the fact that it's not a sport, when no one in their right mind has ever claimed it was one.

[Cindi Mayweather]

Honestly I was just fine with ToxicAdams post and should have acknowledged as such, but after having taken the time to actually read and look at that, I conclude that my problem with identifying with wrestling is actually that its the gayest fucking thing in the universe. Not even gay in like a "i'm watching a Manowar video and there are a bunch of conan looking dudes in oil and leopard skin, huh, thats kind of gay" or even gay porn gay. It's like several multiverses of gay. It's gay on a gross physical level- its wrestling (coming from a dude who spent a year on a HS wrestling team). It's gay on an aesthetic level (big muscly dudes etc etc). It's gay in the way that it makes everything look like some kind of soap opera; like fucking Days of Our Lives starring a bunch of dudes on roids with chairs. And most of all; it's gay in that it's theatre. A performing art. There is no form of art more cock magnetic than that. ToxicAdam mentioned that there's an undercurrent of homosexuality to this. As much of an undercurrent as raging underground streams pouring thousands of gallons of semen into a gay sex aquifer full of gayness.

I think it's safe to say that wrestling might be actually the gayest thing on television. Is there gay porn on television on demand? I don't know. But what I'm saying is: I get it.

I guess you think Rocky is gay too huh?

[DCharlieJP]

Comparing wrestling to sports is stupid

No it isn't - there's a huge athletic ability required of its participants and whilst the outcome is predefined the required training and ability is akin to pro sports.

Ultimately it's a drama masquerading as a sport - the subsequent comparison to sport is inevitable - and it's not like I'm on the wrestling hate bandwagon here

I completely understand the attraction to wrestling - the UK had wrestling as a huge thing backin my childhood and I get the attraction. Fuck. I went to shitty Uk wrestling events in the UK during the Big Daady / giant haystacks era

P.s. if you don't think young children perceive wrestling as "real sport" then... Um..... Yeah

[Cindi Mayweather]

Pro wrestling hater goes to see Rocky.

Finds out that the movie is fake.

Boycotts sports movies the rest of his days.

Looks like idiot.

[Cindi Mayweather]

Guy walks into people watching Karate Kid.

"IT'S FAKE"

Walks out of room.

[Momo]

what is the appeal of pro wrestling? now i like some manchildy things; manga and videogames but even when i was an actual child i never got it. Did you think it was real back then or some shit?

Say what now?

Manga and anime are manchildy. Some are well done, even superior as forms of art / entertainment. Same goes for games.

But they're still for manchildren. Just roll with it.

Thats like saying books or tv series are for manchildren

I disagree strongly, but will let it go

[DCharlieJP]

Wrestling fan walks into a thread - misunderstands everything - sets up cage match for world title belt


Agree or not : wrestling is a drama made to look like a real sport : yes or no?

Sports fans who don't get it? Who cares ?
My point is the comparison to sports should be there in part due to the athleticism required but I am sure we all ultimately agree its theatre. But for kids? It's as real asSanta and Jesus

[Cindi Mayweather]

Comparing wrestling to sports is stupid

No it isn't - there's a huge athletic ability required of its participants and whilst the outcome is predefined the required training and ability is akin to pro sports.

Ultimately it's a drama masquerading as a sport - the subsequent comparison to sport is inevitable - and it's not like I'm on the wrestling hate bandwagon here

I completely understand the attraction to wrestling - the UK had wrestling as a huge thing backin my childhood and I get the attraction. Fuck. I went to shitty Uk wrestling events in the UK during the Big Daady / giant haystacks era

P.s. if you don't think young children perceive wrestling as "real sport" then... Um..... Yeah

Young children think Santa Claus is real. Young children are idiots.



This scene takes place in a fight betting club in Bangkok in Thailand. It is choreographed and scripted.

Let's compare it to real sports.

[DCharlieJP]

Him - you're picking an argument that's not there - how about you sip some tea and actually read what I am saying?

Re: young children are idiots - so you agree that saying no one thinks wrestling is real is wrong at least? .

Re : compare it to real sports : athletic ability and high level of training required akin to sports training , but ultimately : drama masquerading as sport - same as wrestling. Whilst spirit of sports not there - gaining/dedication/skill.

As for watching a film (usually a known work of fiction) vs a drama intentionally made to look like a sporting event, complete with opposing fans etc ... Those are the same?

[Momo]

actually since ive been reading more seinen/mature stuff ive been really split on the manchild thing there. I read My Girl recently and found it to be very poignant. Ive started hating battle stuff in the past year and a half and I honestly think my decision to throw all those series away was a great one.

Yes, you are walking the path now!

I've grown to despise the shonen genre as a whole, because hey seen one seen them all. Same themes, same cliche chars it's tiring. I only really consume HxH, One Piece (rarely) and idk does IPPO and Jojo count? They seem a bit more seinen to me.

[StealthFan]

I can't think of any form of entertainment more worthless than anime/manga. I keep trying to get into it and I just can't.

[Cindi Mayweather]

Him - you're picking an argument that's not there - how about you sip some tea and actually read what I am saying?

Re: young children are idiots - so you agree that saying no one thinks wrestling is real is wrong at least? .

You're the one who said this:

Comparing wrestling to sports is stupid

No it isn't - there's a huge athletic ability required of its participants and whilst the outcome is predefined the required training and ability is akin to pro sports.

When the biggest wrestler of all time, Hulk Hogan, isn't much of a wrestler, in terms of technique nor ability.

You're the one who said:

Ultimately it's a drama masquerading as a sport - the subsequent comparison to sport is inevitable - and it's not like I'm on the wrestling hate bandwagon here

When they hire writers, have a script, act, and memorize lines. Putting it more in the area of a kung fu movie or sports movie - like the aforementioned Rocky - than an actual sport.

So what is it? Is it a drama? Or is it a sport? Does it require technical ability? Looking at the most famous wrestlers of all time? Nope. Or does is it all about pleasing a crowd and having a good time like a circus? Yup Which is it? And how does any of this correlate to sports in any shape or form? You keep saying I'm missing the point when you're comparing a fucking choreographed fight featuring guys posing as deadmen - who talk with the spirits of the underworld - and guy who pull socks out of their pants to put in their opponents mouth to the fucking E fucking PL.

[Cindi Mayweather]

I have a bunch of Battle Angel Alita; is that considered seinen? It's the only manga I've read.

yes

[Cindi Mayweather]

I can't think of any form of entertainment more worthless than anime/manga. I keep trying to get into it and I just can't.

Read Adolf

[DCharlieJP]

So what is it? Is it a drama? Or is it a sport? Does it require technical ability? Looking at the most famous wrestlers of all time? Nope. Or does is it all about pleasing a crowd and having a good time like a circus? Yup Which is it? And how does any of this correlate to sports in any shape or form? You keep saying I'm missing the point when you're comparing a fucking choreographed fight featuring guys posing as deadmen - who talk with the spirits of the underworld - and guy who pull socks out of their pants to put in their opponents mouth to the fucking E fucking PL.

Titty fucking Christ ....

It's a drama MASQUERADING AS A SPORT - therefore that's why it will be compared to sports - do I have to crack out the fucking Venn diagrams?

And if you think there's not a pro sport level of training required for wrestling? Does it require technical ability ? Of course it fucking does

[Cindi Mayweather]

Tezuka is a great place to start. Tatsumi is another. If you're going to get into manga. Start with old manga and work your way up.

MW

Comics god Osamu Tezuka's darkest work, MW is a chilling picaresque of evil. Steering clear of the supernatural as well as the cuddly designs and slapstick humor that enliven many of Tezuka's better-known works, MW explores a stark modern reality where neither divine nor secular justice seems to prevail. This willfully "anti-Tezuka" achievement from the master's own pen nevertheless pulsates with his unique genius.
Michio Yuki has it all: looks, intelligence, a pedigree as the scion of a famous Kabuki family, a promising career at a major bank, legions of female admirers. But underneath the sheen of perfection lurks a secret with the power to shake the world to its foundations.

During a boyhood excursion to one of the southern archipelagos near Okinawa, Yuki barely survived exposure to a poison gas stored at a foreign military facility. The leakage annihilated all of the island's inhabitants but was promptly covered up by the authorities, leaving Yuki as an unacknowledged witness--one whose sense of right and wrong, however, the potent nerve agent managed to obliterate.

Now, fifteen years later, Yuki is a social climber of Balzacian proportions, infiltrating the worlds of finance and politics by day while brutally murdering children and women by night--perversely using his Kabuki-honed skills as a female impersonator to pass himself off as the women he's killed. His drive, however, will not be satiated with a promotion here and a rape there. Michio Yuki has a far more ominous objective: obtaining MW, the ultimate weapon that spared his life but robbed him of all conscience.

There are only two men with any hope of stopping him: one, a brilliant public prosecutor who struggles to build a case against the psychopath; the other, a tormented Catholic priest, Iwao Garai, who shares Yuki'ls past--and frequently his bed.
Serialized beginning in 1976 in Big Comic magazine, where Tezuka's trailblazing medical thriller Ode to Kirihito had appeared a few years earlier, MW probes the complexities of homoeroticism as well as the reality of extensive U.S. military presence in Japan. The result is as bracing today as it was thirty years ago.

Buddha

Osamu Tezuka’s vaunted storytelling genius, consummate skill at visual expression, and warm humanity blossom fully in his eight-volume epic of Siddhartha’s life and times. Tezuka evidences his profound grasp of the subject by contextualizing the Buddha’s ideas; the emphasis is on movement, action, emotion, and conflict as the prince Siddhartha runs away from home, travels across India, and questions Hindu practices such as ascetic self-mutilation and caste oppression. Rather than recommend resignation and impassivity, Tezuka’s Buddha predicates enlightenment upon recognizing the interconnectedness of life, having compassion for the suffering, and ordering one’s life sensibly. Philosophical segments are threaded into interpersonal situations with ground-breaking visual dynamism by an artist who makes sure never to lose his readers’ attention.

Tezuka himself was a humanist rather than a Buddhist, and his magnum opus is not an attempt at propaganda. Hermann Hesse’s novel or Bertolucci’s film is comparable in this regard; in fact, Tezuka’s approach is slightly irreverent in that it incorporates something that Western commentators often eschew, namely, humor.

Abandon the Old in Tokyo and Tatsumi's gekiga collection

Abandon the Old in Tokyo continues to delve into the urban underbelly of 1960s Tokyo, exposing not only the seedy dealings of the Japanese everyman but Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s maturation as a storyteller. Many of the stories deal with the economic hardships of the time and the strained relationships between men and women, but do so by means of dark allegorical twists and turns. A young sewer cleaner’s girlfriend has a miscarriage and leaves him when he proves incapable of finding higher-paying work. When a factory worker loses his hand on the job, the parallels between him and his pet monkey prove startling and significant.

Onward to Our Deaths

Shigeru Mizuki is the preeminent figure of Gekiga manga and one of the most famous working cartoonists in Japan today–a true living legend. Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths is his first book to be translated into English and is a semiautobiographical account of the desperate final weeks of a Japanese infantry unit at the end of WorldWar II. The soldiers are told that they must go into battle and die for the honor of their country, with certain execution facing them if they return alive. Mizuki was a soldier himself (he was severely injured and lost an arm) and uses his experiences to convey the devastating consequences and moral depravity of the war.

Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms

What impact did World War II and the dropping of the atomic bomb have on the common people of Japan? Through the eyes of an average woman living in 1955, Japanese artist Fumiyo Kouno answers these questions. This award-winning manga appears in an English translation for the first time. Fumiyo Kouno’s light, free style of drawing evokes a tender reflection of this difficult period in Hiroshima’s postwar past. As the characters continue with everyday life, the shadow of the war and the atomic bombing linger ghostlike in the background. Kouno’s beautiful storytelling touches the reader’s heart but is never overly sentimental. A widely embraced best seller in Japan, where the work was also controversial, Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms is the winner of several prestigious awards including Grand Prize at the 8th Japan Media Arts Festival (2004), New Life Award at the 9th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prizes (2005). Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms is made up of interconnected short stories; the first is a love story entitled Town of Evening Calm; followed by the two-part story Country of Cherry Blossoms.

Haters and ignoramuses owned.

The Tastemaster...out.

[Kabouter]

Honestly I was just fine with ToxicAdams post and should have acknowledged as such, but after having taken the time to actually read and look at that, I conclude that my problem with identifying with wrestling is actually that its the gayest fucking thing in the universe. Not even gay in like a "i'm watching a Manowar video and there are a bunch of conan looking dudes in oil and leopard skin, huh, thats kind of gay" or even gay porn gay. It's like several multiverses of gay. It's gay on a gross physical level- its wrestling (coming from a dude who spent a year on a HS wrestling team). It's gay on an aesthetic level (big muscly dudes etc etc). It's gay in the way that it makes everything look like some kind of soap opera; like fucking Days of Our Lives starring a bunch of dudes on roids with chairs. And most of all; it's gay in that it's theatre. A performing art. There is no form of art more cock magnetic than that. ToxicAdam mentioned that there's an undercurrent of homosexuality to this. As much of an undercurrent as raging underground streams pouring thousands of gallons of semen into a gay sex aquifer full of gayness.

I think it's safe to say that wrestling might be actually the gayest thing on television. Is there gay porn on television on demand? I don't know. But what I'm saying is: I get it.

I guess you think Rocky is gay too huh?

Ugh, I get annoyed by those people.

"Want to go watch The Hobbit/watch this Game of Thrones dvd?"
"Nah, dude, I don't really do fantasy."

It's a pretty common thing. I hate derivative world-building too, which is why I'm not hugely into the genre, but there are some series that tell really great stories within a setting that isn't our actual world, and it gets annoying when people are instantly dismissive of it.

Sorry, but I've tried plenty of times to get into that Tolkien stuff, went to see the first Lord of the Rings in the cinema etc. For some reason, I just can't get myself to be interested in the whole thing. I like the beautiful shots of New Zealand and all that, but the actual story? Don't care at all. No reason to see the Hobbit or the other Lord of the Rings films after that. I'm sure Game of Thrones is quite different, but it doesn't instantly appeal to me as much as other shows that I haven't watched, so there's no real reason to watch that over those.

[parallax]

Kenny omega and dean ambrose are the shit.

[StealthFan]

I watched some anime when I was a lad. That Street Fighter film and some stuff that had graphic sex. I tried watching Ghost In The Shell because of that fight in the water (saw some of it on Siskel & Ebert) and I couldn't get into it . It's like techno. Just ain't for me.

I did enjoy what I watched of Ninja Scroll a few weeks back but for some reason the thought "I am watching anime..." kept creeping in my head. More power to you dudes that can watch it. I feel like I am missing out on a medium with a lot of content but alas...

[StealthFan]

Oh man Snow Crash. I can appreciate creativity but so much of that novel felt like Stephenson throwing shit at the wall to see if it would stick. When it was revealed Hiro Protagonist was a blackasian weeaboo I knew to prepare myself for what was coming. Couldn't get through it. It isn't a bad book though.