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Occasional meme-maker. Very occasional writer. Much more frequent reply guy. teeheehee/him This account will be deluged by weeb garbage and gunpla. Chuubaposting over at @2cat2curious.bsky.social

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2cat @2cat.bsky.social · Nov 21

Me: I want something sweet, but not a candy bar…
The reliable box of Nerds:

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2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 9d

the Facebook random-comic-posting-bot groups have discovered ishida's "Slightly longer colored-in sunday strips that seem like they were supposed to have a meaning because there wasn't a joke" and have been inflicting them on my feed. 2004 jumpscare every time.

2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 9d

HOVER DRAGONS

2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 10d

My friends refused to use “Tylenol-Powered Fact Machine” as our trivia team name, what am I even doing here.

2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 11d

Duane the Reade Johnson

2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 14d

One of my favorite examples of things aging weirdly in media is in one of the cutaways to examples of irrational customers in the original Clerks one guy wanting iced coffee. Coffee? Cold? What a maroon!

2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 15d

Always hilarious when I see an extremely silly-premised anime and think to myself "yeah that's the kind of clownshoes shit I'd probably like" and then it actually is.
but yeah uhh Seasonal Anime™ first look or whatever- "Pass the Monster Meat, Milady" looks like something I'll end up watching all of

2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 18d

The Hate from MGS3: “what are THOSE, Snake? WHAT ARE THOOOOOOOSE”
Otacon: “unplug your speakers or mute your ps2 to block out the haters, snake!”

2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 18d

It’s SO annoying having to individually double-snip the hydrogen atoms off the runners, but hey that’s what we’re here for I guess

2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 20d

I read the manga the show is based on up to the start of the last episode, and enjoyed it, though the show follows it VERY closely so I don't know if it's worth keeping up with both. I feel like this will end up like Marimashita Iruma-kun where I blast way ahead in the comic because the show is slow

2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 20d

In a lot of these kind of mystery-ish shows, once you grasp the actual shape of what's happening it can feel reductive to the plot. By the end of this episode you more or less know the outline of what is happening in the show (though not really why or how, not that it really matters in most isekai)

2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 20d

I liked this show a lot- it might be my favorite thing I watched this season. Having a show where the characters have an imperfect understanding of what is actually happening in the world and have to adjust their entire worldview on the fly is pretty damn cool!

2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 20d

Seasonal Anime™
Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra:
Good news, there WAS another episode!
Bad news, everyone has lost their mind and it is all setting up an unconfirmed season 2

2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 20d

in the immortal words of @nogodsnomayors.com "wait I forgot that he was still mayor this whole time"

merritt @merrittk.com · 20d

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
So make the best of this test, and don't ask why
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time
It's something unpredictable
But in the end, it's right
I hope you had the time of your life

2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 20d

i love that this got tagged as "misleading"
"Their ass is NOT stroking it rn"

2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 20d

The sound cut out in the big horse-battle in Return Of The King (the battle of Pelennor fields for the nerds) when I saw it in theaters and my entire row did the galloping sounds by slapping on our knees. 10/10 experience.

2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 20d

After finishing season 1, I can see why I was so hype on this at the time but damn did season 2 ever raise the bar

2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 20d

Streaming plans for the night fell through so instead I'm continuing rewatching the Uma Musume Pretty Derby series from 2018 and damn I loved this show at the time but it's a crime the game got held up for so long because watching it with more knowledge of the smaller characters is way more fun

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2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 21d

It's half-Overlord, as his character was considered evil and has maxed-out stats so the episode 1 climax was him absolutely juicing a squad of orcs. I enjoyed it, hope they can keep tension up with an all-powerful MC. also his character was a big booby lady so we'll see how they handle that.

2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 21d

Seasonal Anime™ less long winded edition
A Wild Last Boss Appears!: Dude played a mmorpg and his character managed to conquer the entire game world before being "beaten" in a faction war that they'd organized to make things more interesting. Then wakes up 200 years later in the world of the game.

2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 21d

Anyways, long story short this show made me angry for weird reasons but I still think it's fine.

2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 21d

the intended response to the fight with the fire magician at the end is "oh he's FINALLY taking this seriously" but he WAS taking things seriously at the beginning- he just stopped to goof off with his friends, who he isn't even really helping. They aren't learning anything from their time with him.

2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 21d

five episodes in and we have a generic multi-layer diablo 1 dungeon outside town having a mysterious "monster stampede" that adventurers have to repel- a plot point from at least four shows I watched last season and 3/4 of the mangas I'm reading. MC beheads the boss and goes back to kindergarten

2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 21d

The show starts with a guy who practiced weak water magic for decades and learned swordplay from a headless fairy spirit until rescuing an adventurer and going on a quest to get him safely home discovering the world along the way- That's great! Hell that's what they show in the opening!

2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 21d

I'm making it sound like I hated this show- it started great and then completely lost me. Even the stuff I don't like might end up being fine if they actually build on it and do something with it, but putting that much on a hypothetical next season is a big ask.

2cat @2cat.bsky.social · 21d

Basically every character in this show is more interesting than the MC, an all-powerful wizard who just wants to screw around in babby adventurer class and suddenly pop up to one-shot a monster once every 3 episodes while actual plot and intrigue happens around him.