Grr... <3
My little pony is back? Weird. Of all the things to bring back, that is the strangest.
... And how the heck is it popular enough to appear on just about every trope page? Tropers usually have good taste.
MLP: Wait, male......guys.......like that?
Gravity Falls: Sorry Disney, but I don't think It will gonna work.
Steven Universe: Ice Cream to activate powers? that's weird.
TF 2: Just another FPS. Not really interesting.
Mario: Hehehe, I can jump (I was 4 years old in this one)
Zelda: Ohh look, an elf.
Smash Bros.: Well, I'm not into fighting games very much, but let's try anyway.
Mega Man: Jump, shoot, here we go.
Yu-Gi-Oh!!: I want those cards.
Kung Fu Panda: Nahh, nothing special.
Star Wars: It's boring.
Final Fantasy VI: I don't like RPG's, sorry.
Weird how some of my favorite works started with negative initial reactions before becoming my favorite works.
edited 17th Jun '16 4:45:00 PM by ClownToy
Could this guy stop with the Anne Frank references and make GOOD music?!
"If you spend all your heart / On something that has died / You are not alive and that can't be a life"
Still just awesome like that
The Truman Show: "This movie is an absolute masterpiece."
I'm boring.
Insert witty 'n clever quip here.
Fly Air Madeline
Adventure Time: "This looks stupid."
NiGHTS into Dreams…: "I LOVE THIS GAME"
Kirby (watching the Nightmare In Dreamland commercial): Oh look, another video game commercial.
Kirby (playing Kirby's Dreamland 2 on GBA): This must be that other game that I can play at the hotel instead of Donkey Kong Land 2.
Kirby's Adventure: "WHEEEEE"
Undertale: (on playing the demo): Well, this is interesting.
Undertale: (on playing the full game): 
Yume 2kki: 
The Jungle Book: "This writing style kicks so much ass."
Spyro the Dragon: "
I can explore all the things..."
Spiralbound: "This is such a wonderful and fun art style."
Rock and Rule: 
ilkae
: "This is kind of cutesy and pleasant."
edited 19th Jun '16 10:52:30 PM by lewattoo
"I'll show you all of Paris, I'll take you on a tour, we'll go up and up and up so high they'll long for an encore!"
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- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: These ponies are so cute! But why do men watch this?
- Steven Universe: The Gems are interesting. I wanna learn more about them.
- Undertale: It feels so nice to make friends with the mons— I'm so sorry, Goatmom! (closes and reloads the game)
- Harry Potter: Sorry for being late to the party, but I'M GOING TO HOGWARTS!!!
- Homestuck: How much longer 'til I meet the Trolls?
- Inside Out: Mind. Blown.
- Lilo & Stitch: The Series: Young me: I wish that there'd be 600+ episodes for each experiment.
- Pokémon: Gotta Catch 'Em All!
- The Magic School Bus: Young me: I wanna go on field trips with the Friz!
- Wreck It Ralph: I wonder what the characters in my video games do when I'm not playing...
- Frozen: The songs are so chilling.
- Finding Nemo: Young me: You can do it, Nemo!!
Hmmm, Lolita? Isn't that about a creepy guy doing a 12 year old? And isn't it where the word "lolicon" came from? *actually starts reading* Wow, this is one of the best books in the English language.
Freelance Distributor of Free Lances
Black Sails: "It's like if Treasure Island had sex with Game of Thrones while punching every single unrealistic pirate depiction to the face."
Mad Max: Fury Road: "I've seen so many advertisements about this movie that they're getting into my dreams. That's enough! I'm watching this damn movie!"
Steven Universe: "Well, they DO blab about this all the time on the internet, so I suppose it probably gets better later on....."
Gravity Falls: "HOLY FLYING ASPARAGUS WIZARDS, THIS FREAKING OPENING THEME, IT'S SO GOOD!" (And yes, that's actually what I said.)
One Piece: "Well, I'm lucky I got spoilers, and as such know that Luffy will ditch that damn kid as soon as Zoro gets onboard....."
edited 23rd Jun '16 10:39:41 AM by ArilouLaLeeLay
"If I was a tabletop RPG character, my player would be accused of both minmaxing and overdramatic roleplaying." -Me
see you, space cowboy.
Rick and Morty: So it's Back to the Future but with 40 tons of dark humor? Where was this in my life before?!
Ruby Quest: It's just Homestuck with cutesy animals. Why should I care? I don't even like Homestu-JESUS CHRIST THAT'S A LOT OF BLOOD!
Freemans Mind: It's just a dick talking to himself. SOLD!
Assassination Classroom: Oh no, the teacher's an octopus monster. I really don't like where that's going.
Imscared: Noooope. Fuck this, FUCK THIS SO HARD! NO MY GAME CRASHED WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?!
edited 15th Jul '16 2:51:49 PM by BaconZorp
Long live the New Bev.
hiya, the name's scout.
This was back to two years ago when I said this:
Game Of Thrones - "I have no idea who that white-haired khaleesi chick is, but she's hot..."
Homestuck - Ya know, this looks super boring.
Goat Simulator - lol wtf
edited 16th Jul '16 6:13:39 AM by DaftPunch
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Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
Saving Private Ryan - Holy shit, I thought this was an "America, FUCK YEAH!" type of movie!
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
Persona 4: Wow, I'm really liking all these characters, but...can I actually start playing now? (about two hours into the prologue)
Jojos Bizarre Adventure: Wait, is this some kind of Victorian drama? I don't remember people mentioning this.
edited 27th Jul '16 9:31:25 AM by Fluid
School Live: Hmm, another cute Azumanga Daioh style anime. Sure, I'll give it a watch- Wait, whut?
The Walking Dead: Oooh, a zombie TV Show, and a violent one at that! Must watch!
Azumanga Daioh: It's cute and a little funny, but I'm going to watch some more stuff before I continue watching it.
My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic: Huh, those two episodes I watched are pretty decent. Maybe I'll watch more once I have nothing else to do.
Cowboy Bebop: This show is awesome and funny, I have to watch more! {Keep in mind that my first time watching it was a Netflix DVD Rental, so I got to watch the first 5 episodes all in one sitting}
Godzilla: My 4-year-old self was all like "King Kong is fighting a giant fire breathing dinosaur! This is sooooo cool!"
edited 27th Jul '16 10:00:57 AM by marston
PINNACLE OF MAN
Chargeman Ken!: (seeing an YTPMV) "So there's this kid in blue playing rugby, and another kid in yellow. Wait, so there's this mentor professor, and then this kid in yellow drops him out of his ship, I'm sure it's something important. Then there's this kid in blue - I think it's The Rival - he asks the other kid for something. And - wait, is that Luke Atmey?!"
I am the most suitable partner for Gaia. I have some bad news. You will not make it to Eden. This is the end of your journey.
We Are With You Zack Snyder
Cowboy Bebop - I was half tired so I thought it was boring. A few episodes later I couldn't sleep and the 5th episode of Cowboy Bebop was on TV and I thought it was amazing.
So this is one instance where I had a negative first impression of something that I ended up loving.
Batman Ninja more like Batman's Bizarre Adventure
Steven Universe- I don't know if I'll like this.
To The Moon-I bet this won't be as great as people say it is.
Skyrim-This seems kind of boring.
Don't step on the flowers.
Fullmetal Alchemist (Manga): It's another Shonen series, I guess. It looks cool, I guess... *Checks it out like 7 years later.*
Undertale: Aw, this is a cute game- AH THAT FLOWER IS HORRIFYING! (Fun fact, I discovered this game back in 2013, back when it was in Kickstarter mode. I was so scared of Flowey, I forgot about it until it came out in late 2015.)
Ace Attorney: Eh, it's just an overdramatic crime drama.
Professor Layton: Eh, it's just another easy puzzle game with a lot of fans because Professor Layton is a gentleman.
Persona (3 and 4): When's the plot going to move forward?
To Kill a Mockingbird: Meh, it's ANOTHER famous novel/story that's overanalyised to death, like Lord of the Flies, The Giver, and Romeo and Juliet.
And finally, Zootopia: Aw, it's so cute... Wait, is this furry bait?
"YOU SHALL FEEL THE FLOWER'S WRATH"
Show an affirming flame
Madoka Magica: you guys (my tabletop RPG party, whom I'd known for about a year at that point) dragged me here to marathon what sure as hell looks like a girl's show? It better be good, because my expectations are being set really goddamned high.
- Two episodes later: ...all right, I think I see what you mean. It's early days yet but the storytelling is already top-notch, the characters nuanced and layered, the music fantastic, the pacing drumhead-taut. Do proceed.
- One episode later: god damn. That, that was a bold decision. I'm in.
Aubrey-Maturin book series: I'm just going to quote from the New York Times review because, with dates appropriately adjusted, it matches my experience with the series exactly.
I first came across O'Brian 20 years ago in my local library. [Not quite 20 years ago for me, but middle school.] The book was called "Master and Commander," and its cover bore the reassuring image of a blue-coated officer standing beside a cannon, shouting defiance and waving a sword. But from the first page, I felt something was wrong. The people spoke oddly. There was a strange, allusive, parenthetical quality to the writing. One of the officers in the book composed poetry. There were some good battles, to be sure, but the whole thing made me uncomfortable. I returned to the bracing predictabilities of Alexander Kent.
And yet, something about the book stayed with me, because when I found a copy at a street fair a few years later, I bought it at once. By then I was working for a magazine of history, and perhaps my sensibilities had been somewhat sharpened by that; or perhaps it was simply that I was older; but in any event, this time I understood what I was reading. For one thing — and I had managed to miss this completely on my first go-around — it was funny; every page shone with humor, sometimes mordant, sometimes wise, and always growing naturally out of the situations it illuminated. [I hit this stage in late high school: "I didn't know to look for it before, but these books are amazingly well-written!"]
But behind the humor, behind the storms and the broadside duels that I had understood on my first encounter, loomed something larger: the shape and texture of a whole era. Without ever seeming antiquarian or pedantic or showy, O'Brian summoned up with casual omniscience the workaday magic of a vanished time. The furniture of life was all unobtrusively here: clothes, curtains, the sauce on the fish, the absent-minded politeness of daily intercourse with grocers and friends, everything whose inconsequence insures its almost immediate oblivion, and which is so hard to retrieve without an ostentatious show of "research." In fact, the story was told with such scrupulous respect for every nuance of the world in which it unfolded that I might have been reading the prose of Jane Austen's seafaring brothers (two served in the Royal Navy), had they shared her gifts. Before I finished the book, I was convinced it was the best historical novel I'd ever read.
edited 28th Jul '16 10:13:22 AM by SabresEdge
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.
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I remember distinctly being intrigued by Rayman (specifically the third one) when I was a kid, but never enough to follow through on trying to get the games until Rabbids 2 was out.
I was also first led to believe Adventure Time looked stupid, though to be fair, the teaser commercials weren't doing it any favors. I fell in love with it after seeing the pilot, though, and around the same time I watched the original Regular Show pilot and enjoyed it too. I was hyped for both by the time their first seasons started.
Tiny and Big hooked me from the first time I saw it, so much so that I, ahem, procured the game Perfectly Legally™ before finding a way to buy it for real.
I didn't think Borderlands was going to be my thing when it had its original art style, and it was only after playing a bit of the second game at my best friend's house that I figured "hey, I actually like this!"
Destiny looked interesting enough when I first saw the E3 demo, but I didn't play the alpha or beta because my brother hogged our PS 4 to the point where I felt like it wasn't worth it to try. My dad briefly bought it, but took it back to the store to get something else (that year's COD, I think) before I could try it. Didn't play the actual game until the summer after its original release.
oh, that's why I need this binary mind // ⌘
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Huzzah for Aubrey & Maturin!
Thanks for bumping the thread.
I first heard of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood on Fan Fiction.net - an author whose Narnia poetry I liked had written some fluff-looking things about Al and Ed. I'd had some annoying experiences with FFN authors (multiple fandoms) who were doctrinally against slash but still wanted to write it, so they put unrealistically sentimentalized fics in the "Friendship" or "Family" section, usually describing their take on male characters' relationships as "brotherly" (many of them had never had brothers and pretty much none had ever been brothers). So when I saw these fics and that subtitle, all I thought was, Here we go again. And it looks like it happens in canon too.
Well, I read about the thing on TV Tropes a few years later when I was less cynical, and it sounded amazing. So I've started watching it by online means I will not describe, and it's amazing and I'd give piles of money to Arakawa and those people if I had it.
see you, space cowboy.
- LISA: [incoherent sobbing]
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: This Dio guy is the most fabulous piece of shit there is.
- Mob Psycho 100: Oh my god, this show's hilarious! (I wasn't prepared for it to smash into Cerebus Syndrome like a brick wall.)
Happy Happy Clover (This series reminds me of Winnie The Pooh with a mix of Peter Rabbit and Maya The Bee)
"A Lady does not start fights but they can finish them"
Don't step on the flowers.
I actually discovered this game via the demo that was released during 2013. I watched a You Tuber play it, bit I can't remember who. Anyways, I got scared of the flower and I was convinced this was a RPG Horror game. Oh, how little did I know that this game would get INSANELY popular two years later.
Now, a list:
- Deemo: Aw, this is so cute! ...Wait, why the heck is 9.8 singing about suicide?
- Vocaloid: lol japanese robots... Wait, what's up with this song?
edited 6th Jan '17 8:49:37 AM by Revaryk
"YOU SHALL FEEL THE FLOWER'S WRATH"
What it says on the tin. What did you think of your future favorite thing when you first heard of it, glanced at some art, or a quick video?
I saw a commercial for FMA on my local anime channel and honestly thought it was the story of a little girl endlessly fighting a robot.
"Curry killed the pussy hoping that I could kill the hate in you" - Curry, D. "TABOO | TA13OO." TA13OO, PH, 2018