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Treguard

@Northern_munkey @GirlVersusGame
Spot on, and honestly, this happens just as much in TV and movies as it does in gaming.

Take all the new Star Trek series’, for example. Personally, I don't think they hold a candle to the original shows, so I don't watch them. But does that make them objectively bad? No. It just means they aren't for me, and that’s perfectly fine.

At the end of the day, all entertainment—whether it's a video game, a TV show, or a film—is a product of its time. Unfortunately, there's a rapidly growing online echo chamber of people who just cannot accept that reality. Instead of moving on to something they actually like, they feel compelled to ruin everyone else's enjoyment simply because someone dares to disagree with them.

Coincidentally, I was talking to my brother about this exact issue at the end of last week. He summed it up perfectly: they're just a bunch of pretentious people who don’t get enough attention in real life, so they try to validate themselves by critiquing stuff without no valid justification and starting baseless arguments online.

"I have no problem with change, I understand it's a part of life. I just don't like to be there when it happens."

The NHL regular season starts 29th September 2026 until 10th April 2027. Good luck to the Oilers and the Blue Jackets because quite frankly. I’ve got a feeling you’re both going to need all the luck you can get.

GirlVersusGame

These violent delights have violent ends & in their triumph die, like fire & powder Which, as they kiss, consume.

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Werehog

Treguard wrote:

Is your avatar picture Prompto from FF XV's dlc? Cause it's been bugging me all day and whilst reading your post, for some reason that popped into my head as the picture was staring me in the face.

Yes, good eye! I'd just completed my first playthrough of the Royal Edition and fell in love with all four of the lads, but it was Prompto who felt like he was written as a special gift for me. Apologies in advance, as I do tend to change my avatar more frequently than most, though!

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GirlVersusGame wrote:

Anyways, what's your favorite StarTrek movie or episode and why? and how did you find StarTrek to begin with. I'm pretty sure I told you that my start with StarWars was a Turkish knock-off with an evil space wizard.

You did mention that before, yes! Quite the introduction, although I do have a ton of respect for projects such as those. I intend no disrespect when I say this, but you can see that they're made by people who have dreams beyond their means, who are still determined to try and realise them regardless. Same goes for fan films. Full credit to all involved, especially when it looks like they had so much fun!

As for your question about my personal favourites, there's way too much to list, but thanks for asking all the same! We'll likely end up with a dedicated Star Trek topic before too long. Bloober Team's new survival horror game is due out next year, and Tjuz promised me a proper geek-out about it, so I'll restrain myself until then. I mentioned this in another reply yesterday, but I'm probably a bigger Trekkie than I am a Star Wars fan. Let's just say, it's been an integral part of my life and character for a very long time.

Here's hoping you find a few favourites of your own and again, if you have any questions, just ask!

"If I let not knowing anything stop me from doing something, I'd never do everything!"

WaveBoy

@GirlVersusGame
Nice! Some pretty great UK VHS cover art there. Street Fighter & Devil City instantly spring to mind. But ya, in the past couple of years I've been dipping in and out of 80's anime using RetroCrush and it's felt like a breath of fresh air after being pretty much locked in to so many shlocky B movies from the 80's, ala' Tubi, which is an absolute goldmine for the obscure if you're fine dealing with those awful corporate soul sucking 4 in one commercials which frequently interupt whatever you're watching. it's why I've practically given up on the service. It was a blast in my mid 30's up until 41-ish, but I can't do it anymore.

but back to Anime, Mega Zone 23(The early 2000's AVD Dub, which is not on your list) was pretty amazing and had quite an impact on me. Loved Fist of the North Star: The Movie, still haven't gotten around to watching BubbleGum Crisis, which is still in my Amazon cart, Devil City wasn't too shabby, Street Fighter II: The Animated movie is a total classic(The Chun-lee vs Vega Appartment fight is S-tier). I remember watching Golgo in my earlier 30's which was recommended from my cousins buddy and it was wild(The protaginists snake-like movements and fight choreography were pretty unsettling), I watched Applseed last year and really enjoyed that one too, it's been ages since I've rewatched the original Vampire hunter D, Akira & Ghost in the Shell though.

BTW, that picture you posted in a previous comment of your VHS copy of Bubble Gum Crash is the second OVA series, with Crisis being the first. Crash supposedly isn't anywhere near as good, but it's still a fun watch i hear, even if it's of lesser quality in terms of art direction, cinematography, animation, rehashing animation, it's OST and overall plot were a clear step behind. Crisis is supposedely in an entirely different league. It's now available on RetroCrush, and is free of adds as long as you're paying $5 for one month. But, I'd rather have uncompressed audio from the Blu-ray Collection and get the best possible experience period for this one in particular.

I've heard great things about Robot Carinival, absolutely loved Spirited Away(Favourite Ghibli movie), Project A-Ko is really good, Wicked City, which i think you'd love, is heavily inspired by Carpenters 'The Thing', Dragon Ball Z(Funimation dub from the late 90s/early 2000s) was like a total religious massively inspirational experience for me back in my teen years, Sailor Moon's DIC dub that premiered on YTV back in 95' was just magical for it's time. It was huge back in NA and the first Anime ever to finally break into the mainstream in NA, before DBZ and Pokemon took the world by storm.

Then you've got other 80's gems like Black Magic-M66, Cyber City Odeo 808, Dirty Pair: Project Eden, Gunbuster Series, Gundam Char's CounterAttack(etc). I don't usually dabble in modern anime, yet One Punch-Man is one of the rare few that i've heard meets the standards of the golden age of anime(which many consider 85 - 95), at least with the first season...And which Anime films have you seen from the photo you linked in your collection, aside from Crying Freeman? Oh! And I'm dying to See Venus Wars...Plan on scooping that one up on Blu-ray too. The soundtrack is incredible. Sigh, Anime from the mid to late 80's and early to mid 90's is truly a lost art that's never coming back.

Anyways! i still need to respond back to a handful of posts you sent my way from the last few weeks. I just haven't felt on it in the past month or so. My laptop broke, my Beyerdynamic headphones got scorched(Right side no longer has audio) and my LG 65" OLED now has burn-in. Beautiful. Anything on screen that's overlapped from the burn-in turns into a desaturated greenish tint. lol It's ruined. Resale value next to zero. lol Set back after set back, I have the worst luck!

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Treguard

@GirlVersusGame Social media, in my opinion, has eroded how others interact with one another. It’s given everyone a constant platform to voice their opinions, which can be a good thing, but I think it’s also made people far more accustomed to being heard without necessarily having to listen in return.

It also gives people a sort of shield to say things they probably wouldn’t have the nerve to say face-to-face. People can sit behind a computer or phone and say genuinely hurtful or malicious things, often without any immediate consequences or accountability. Things that, 10 or 15 years ago, might have been said directly to someone’s face and earned them a slap or at least some very real pushback; can now be typed from behind a screen with very little personal risk. I think that distance has changed the way people communicate and overall interact with each other.

@Werehog I actually played FF XV when it first came out in 2016. I remember enjoying it well enough at the time, but even then, it felt pretty rough around the edges. I did buy the DLC for it as well, but I never actually got around to going back and seeing what had changed or how much they’d improved things since launch. Sounds like the Royal Edition might be worth another look when I’ve cleared my backlog.

"I have no problem with change, I understand it's a part of life. I just don't like to be there when it happens."

The NHL regular season starts 29th September 2026 until 10th April 2027. Good luck to the Oilers and the Blue Jackets because quite frankly. I’ve got a feeling you’re both going to need all the luck you can get.

WaveBoy

@Treguard
It's easy to toss insults and truly speak your mind when one is given the power to hide behind an avatar as some random anonymous thousands of miles away without any consequences or accountability, like you said. It's usually never representitive to how it would all translate or go down when being pitted face to face. People would happyily agree to disagree, just that yerning to be liked, while being performative and all smiles. Sh** talking still occurs on the daily with many people. The 'he said, she said' game. Gossiping hyena's that gain pleasure from judgement.

That's the brutality of SM, or even Internet forums. It just exposes just how many awful people there are out there. It wouldn't really be any different if SM & smart phones became a thing in the 80's & 90's. You'd get plenty of toxicity and vile comments.

Meanwhile, YouTube is mostly nothing but a cesspool of attention skeeing goober heads that have the attention span of a snail. lol They need to delete the upvote/downvote system and Content creator heart emoji system so there will be less incentive for commenters to shoot for one note hallow and shallow attention seaking replies. You take the time to write a response to somebodies comment, but a lot of the times they're just too lazy to reply back so they'll either ignore or just thumbs up your comment.

Plus, the vast majority of people commenting on YT are using a smart phone, which is a total barrier in and of it's self. That Small boxed in screen, combined with a cumbersome touch based key pad prevents actual conversations for most, compared to a laptop or desktop PC. I would love nothing more for the banning of Smart phones. It's already hard enough to have face to face interaction in person with plenty of people because they're constantly side tracked by their phones. It's like you have to pry them off their hands to get anything worthwhile in return. But back to SM. I hate how so many people think they can just take on the role as some podcaster, game or movie reviewer etc. The oversaturation of everything and everything has just depleted that level of appreciation compared to the limited yet higher quality of radio DJ's, movie reviewers(Think Siskel & Ebert) and Video game mag' reviews from GamePro, Nintendo Power, EGM(etc) back in the 80's, 90's and early 2000's.

Movie stars, especially the younger ones have lost their mystique. They're doing hundrends of podcasts, interviews, doing home tours, 'what's in my fridge', random home videos and out and abouts. Actors just feel like people now, rather than the mysterious presense and star quality they honed back in the day.

I miss the 2000 & early 2010 forum days. Now they feel almost like some niche underground grave yard burried beneath a grave yard. But at least it still feels like you're part of a community, unlike YouTube.

[Edited by WaveBoy]

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Treguard

@WaveBoy I totally agree with all the points you’ve made. I was a member of a forum back around 2002, and most of the people there were genuinely nice, decent people. You’d get the odd ***** who would turn up, but they usually didn’t last very long — after a month or two of people simply not taking their crap, they’d either settle down or disappear.

And I'm honestly getting fed up with smartphones as well. When I walk to the library, I see so many people wandering along completely absorbed in their screens, tapping away without a care in the world and barely paying attention to what's happening around them. You can be walking perfectly normally and they'll still veer straight into your path because they're too busy looking at their phone — and somehow you're the one who gets the dirty look, as though you're supposed to apologise for being in their way! 😂 It’s ridiculous. It just seems like so many people are permanently glued to that little screen and completely oblivious to the world around them.

I think the problem nowadays is that every man and his dog seems to have a podcast, review channel, or some sort of platform on YouTube, and it can give people the impression that they’re automatically an authority on whatever subject they happen to be covering. There are some genuinely knowledgeable people out there, of course, but with such an enormous amount of content being produced, there are definitely diminishing returns when it comes to finding reliable, well-informed information.

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"I have no problem with change, I understand it's a part of life. I just don't like to be there when it happens."

The NHL regular season starts 29th September 2026 until 10th April 2027. Good luck to the Oilers and the Blue Jackets because quite frankly. I’ve got a feeling you’re both going to need all the luck you can get.

GirlVersusGame

These violent delights have violent ends & in their triumph die, like fire & powder Which, as they kiss, consume.

Bluesky: justkoshechka.bsky.social

GirlVersusGame

These violent delights have violent ends & in their triumph die, like fire & powder Which, as they kiss, consume.

Bluesky: justkoshechka.bsky.social

Herculean

Hey just telling all of you that you are the good kind of people. I haven't been and won't be active here for quite a little while more. Life got turned upside down in all the wrong ways.

Anyway, still love my Push Square crew

Herculean

GirlVersusGame

@Herculean I hope life gets turned the right way up soon for you and that you can get back to the things you enjoy.

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sorteddan

@Herculean
Hope that things get turned right side up for you pretty soon. Or maybe that you jcan adapt and learn to manage the upside down.
Take your time. Take it easy.
Push Square will be here whenever you get back.
👍

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