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2 hours agoRe: Bee and Puppycat – YouTube or TV show version?
I thought the short-form YouTube version had much better pacing.
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Archer was great until the South Pacific season (S9). It’s like they fired all their writers and hired new ones off temu. I stopped watching there; does it get better after that?
I thought S1 Arcane was brilliant, but S2 (especially starting with E4) fell apart. Still had some good moments though.
Your two anime picks are Cowboy Bebop and… Future Boy Conan!?
Ngl, didn’t know anyone else even knew that series existed.
“Ah, but I have relentless endurance!”
This literally just happened. How is it already compressed to early-2000s levels of jpg?
The allegations are literally the only reason I had any idea that the band is still ongoing (and that all the members has swapped out, several times apparently).
Newsboys, a major Christian rock band founded in 1985. All original members have been replaced.
I feel like I gave it enough of a try to know that this isn’t an “at first” issue, and as a grown-ass adult I’m not going to throw an unknown number of hours at practicing something I don’t know if I’ll ever get the hang of enough to properly play the game.
This is an accessibility issue; many games include “cheat” modes so as to allow a much larger audience that may otherwise be physically or otherwise incapable of playing the standard mode to still enjoy it. As far as I know, this game has provided nothing of the sort. Given that OW is marketed as an adventure/exploration game rather than a technical game, I don’t know why they refused to provide this, but regardless this is a gate-kept game, which is fine, not every game has to be easy or accessible, but please don’t pretend otherwise.
I got a recommendation for the Canadian show North of North here on Lemmy, and while not the best show ever, it was quite enjoyable, and IMO a great example of the importance of DEI (sounds like a lot of support went into making the show happen at all, but precisely because it wasn’t the typical concept/setting to get greenlit it felt really fresh).
The first season was pretty good, a bit too goofy at times (clearly aimed at a somewhat younger audience), but it had potential. The second season definitely dropped the ball.
I heard amazing things about Outer Wilds, was under the impression it was an adventure game but “make sure to go in blind!” was the universal advice so I didn’t look up more, downloaded it, started to play, and really struggled with the controls. I wasn’t raised with video games as a kid and I don’t play platformers and such so my coordination is shit. When I went to the net to find a solution (because a lot of games have at least mods you can download to make things easier) but all I got was “get gud.” I asked a friend who was like “oh yeah, I watched a stream of someone playing and it seems like a technically difficult game.” So that’s a pretty important warning to include with any Outer Wilds recommendation.
One of the rare “10/10, no notes” series from start to finish. Amazing finale too. Fantastic rewatch value.
Seconding this. PBS has a TON of YouTube channels for all kinds of interest areas. Not all are going to be geared to a middle school audience, but much like the TV stations themselves, at least you don’t have to worry as much* about the potential content as a parent (in terms of quality or appropriateness) vs random YouTube channels.
*I would say all their stuff is high school appropriate, but some of the more local/news-related stuff could be a bad fit for younger audiences depending on the kid, only because we don’t live in a world that’s child-friendly. Also channels like PBS Terra do a lot of videos about how fucked we are re: climate change (not in so many words of course) and although they do try to put an optimistic spin on it, sensitive kids might get freaked out by how bad things are (which would be an accurate response of course, so it depends on how much you’ve been trying to shelter your kid from this kind of thing I guess).
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Still cute tho.
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I haven’t seen this mentioned yet so:
Do not allow yourself to be persuaded, pressured, or bullied into having kids (including by yourself) until you feel 100% ready and that it’s 100% what you want. The days of “nobody feels ready for kids; just go for it and it’ll all work out” are way over. (This was always survivor bias bullshit advice, but with recent trends re: cost of living, housing availability, job market, etc., this attitude is straight-up reckless.)
When you’re young, even if you think you know what you’re doing, you’ll almost certainly make mistakes; having children makes moving through and moving on from those mistakes a hell of a lot harder. A sad number of folks I know in their 30s are stuck in places they no longer want to live having to regularly interact with people who ruined their lives because of their kids. Even when things go well, kids are a huge drain on your energy, finances, and ability to take advantage of new opportunities.
It might be scary feeling like there are too many options available to you right now, but being forced into a certain life path because you have kids is not a fun way to resolve that.
S1 did an excellent job of its storytelling, such as show don’t tell; character actions driving the plot, not the other way around; and well-written villains with clear motives. S2 fell flat on a lot of those fronts. I’d need to rewatch it for a proper write-up, but some examples from what I remember:
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Jinx (and to a lesser degree Vi when interacting with Jinx) acts in a number of ways that felt entirely plot-driven. I could not take the entire Vander comes back plot line seriously (the emotional moments felt forced and cheesy). Isha was a really weak character, obviously only there for Jinx’s character development (no wonder they made her mute). It seemed like characters got killed off based on whether their survival would be inconvenient for the plot (e.g. Maddie, Loris, Isha, Vander). The Jayce torture felt excessive. Ekko turns into an exposition-spewing device. The AU plot line was forgettable. Neither Ambessa nor Viktor remotely matched Silko in terms of being a good villain. Minor characters in S2 aren’t anywhere near as rich and fleshed-out as those of S1.
A lot of what made S1 great continues over into S2, such as the soundtrack and animation. But the character development, writing, and little details just didn’t match up in S2.