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Not a lot compared to guilty pleasure movies to be honest. A lot of anime are either bad or good for me, rarely in-between enough for me to "secretly like them" as guilty pleasures. It's mostly because a lot of anime are TV series with episodes (as opposed to a two hour movie I could just pop in for fun). That said, I guess I'll say School Days, if only for that ending. I love my disturbing scenes, and that was just f-ed up. I love it. Then there's Pocket Monsters (subbed please). I liked some of the seasons in there, like Diamond and Pearl and XY. It's not exactly a top quality show, especially where its latest season is concerned. But it's still fun to check in every now and then. Mirai Nikki used to be my guilty pleasure, but then I realized how bad it really is and how messy the writing is, not to mention finding other better anime that are more worth my time. Like I said, it's rarely a grey area for me when it comes to anime. You're either good or a 5 out of 10. And also, my favorite character in there isn't even Yuno or Yuki.

Annnnnd she beat me to it. Of course she did. Aside from the aforementioned Sayaka, I also have a couple other blue-heads that I like: This adorable nipah. This little cutie from Nichijou. That's about it for now.

A lot of my favorite OPs were already posted in the "Favorite Anime Song" thread, but what the heck, I'll repost them here, for posterity: A Certain Scientific Railgun Black Lagoon Blue Exorcist Bokurano DanganRonpa: Academy of Hope and High School Students of Despair - The Animation Darker Than Black: The Black Contractor Deadman Wonderland Detective Conan (for you, @brycec not easy hunting down these links lol) TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~, , Kimi to Yakusoku Shita Yasashii Ano Basho Made, START, Growing of My Heart, Namida no Yesterday, Glorious Mind, Ai wa Kurayami no Naka de (my favorite ), Mysterious, Everlasting Luv, Summer Time Gone (no link :'(), Misty Mystery (no link ), TRY AGAIN, Butterfly Core Digimon Tamers Fate/Zero Oath Sign Fate/Stay Night ~Realta Nua~ , Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood , Ga-Rei Zero Gintama , Highschool of the Dead Higurashi no Naku Koro ni , , Hourou Musuko Kino's Journey Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei Rising Hope Mirai Nikki Nichijou , One Piece Paranoia Agent Pocket Monsters , , Ready Go!, Advance Adventure, Battle Frontier, Spurt!, Together Pokémon (English Dub) Rewrite Shiki , The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya , WataMote

Oh yeah, definitely. The anime is able to do things the VN cannot, after all, like better animation and music execution (as mentioned in the visual novel thread). There are definitely benefits to watching the anime, as it's one of the better VN adaptations out there. It's why I'm looking forward to the Steins;Gate 0 anime.

I'm not really the "tech" guy, but I'll bite: Edited a number of videos (fake movie trailers and movie montages) using Premium Pro. Thought they turned out pretty good. Modded just about every game that could be modded. Fallout 3, New Vegas, Skyrim, Dragon Age: Origins. That last one was especially a pain because of how much bug-fixes and aesthetic-improvement it needed. Not as bad as Skyrim, but still. Created a lot of signatures with Photoshop back in the good ol' days. Of course, most of it were through the aid of a self-help guide online, but I still had quite a lot of fun making them. Jailbroken my 3DS. This is probably my proudest achievement of all, because damn, you could easily mess this up (I know I did a couple of times and had to fix it). I even managed to upgrade it to the latest firmware recently without affecting the homebrew. Again, this is all thanks to self-help guides online, but still. I, uh, replaced the double-A batteries on my keyboard. Does that count?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6wZhd8M848

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From this conversation, I could tell we definitely need a forum game with harems and mistresses.

Which was how I had imagined my viewing of Ringu would go, since everyone hyped it up to be "the smarter" one. Boy, hype can really disappoint... Ironically, I found Ringu to be goofier. lol There were just so many awkward scenes, particularly that Sadako appearance I mentioned in my review and how the ex-husband died. God, that was cheesy.

Aw man, @Cy~ was like the one person I was most hoping would join! lol She's perfect for this game, especially with not many people picking a character to play. Oh poo. :'(

Alright, I have a confession to make. Yes, you guessed it, I liked The Ring remake. In fact, watching the original now only made me realized how much more I liked it than the Japanese counterpart... in some aspects. I mean, I get why people loved this and considered it to be superior over the "shallow" (whatever that means) and flashier American counterpart. It's a quiet and subtle horror film that builds atmosphere, so it looks like a more intelligent film than the louder and gorier American one, right? Look, it's a cursed videotape that kills you after a week. I can't begin to tell you how cheesy that concept already is, so taking it so seriously like it's some kind of Sundance artsy fartsy flick is just ridiculous. What if you fly to another country? Is it still seven days or do I have to adjust the timezone? What if the television is too small for Sadako to crawl out of? Would her torso be stuck on our end of the reality while her tushy is hanging out in that Bizarro World? It's just so easy to make fun of the movie that I don't see why everyone's flipping their hands in the air like it's some groundbreaking Hitchcock masterpiece. And let's be completely honest, most of the people defending the original work did so out of nostalgia. Original isn't always better. Subtle and "atmospheric" aren't always smarter... or even intelligent for god's sake. It's a horror movie about a cursed videotape! Now that I've got that off my chest, however, I do have to give credit where it's due. In spite of my sarcasm regarding the cursed videotape concept, this is a great movie. The characters are well-written enough for me to care about them, the relationship between them is relatable, and the existence of said relationship is an important and yet uncommon ingredient among American horror films, as those cared more about T&A while injecting as many jump-scares as possible. "Less is more" does work here to present a different kind of horror where the audience is kept guessing (it's a 20 year old movie, so yes, we already know what the twist is, but it was still a surprising twist at the time). That being said, there were a number of things I just liked more in the remake. For starters, that expression. Yes, the one in the original was more realistic (and made more sense in the context of the film due to how Sadako's powers worked), but the one in the remake was horrifying! The way her whole face got mangled and twisted like that was the stuff of nightmares. I find it easier to imagine going insane if I find my friend in such a state (and the friend of the first victim did indeed go insane in both versions). Then there was the pacing. Ironically, I didn't find the original to be too slow-paced. If anything, I found it to be way too rushed, not building up on the initial suspicion anyone with any shred of common sense would've had when they hear about a stupid cursed videotape. Yes, the ex is some kind of paranormal esper so it makes sense he wasn't skeptical, but the point is, where is the character that connects to members of the audience that are finding the cursed videotape concept too stupid to be taken seriously? Where is that character to represent the more cynical of us as the audience? You need someone like that so we can connect with the movie as he slowly believes in the curse (as we will) when all the signs and evidence start showing up. That's Noah Clay in the remake, ladies and gentlemen, the character that I could relate to. After that, there's the footage in the video. Way more gruesome and revolting in the remake. I wouldn't necessarily dismiss the remake's more disturbing footage as merely cheap shock more than they were ominous images, but I'll let this pass since it's incredibly subjective, so let's move on. The characters are also done better in the remake. Besides the aforementioned Noah, I couldn't connect with most of the characters in the original, particularly that little boy, Yoichi. Reiko is fine, but I don't understand the point of Yoichi's character aside from being a plot-device. Aidan in the remake, on the other hand, had a more personal role, including that very important scene at the end where he told Rachel that Sadako is evil, and that she shouldn't have saved her. I know a lot of pretentious people like to think that withholding information somehow makes a film "smarter", but storytelling requires certain exposition to happen so that we could get a better grasp of the characters' feelings and perspectives. This is the positive kind of exposition that should be encouraged. Another great example of character improvements is the scene at the beginning where Rachel's sister actually talked to her, expressing the pain of losing her daughter in such a horrific manner. In the original, Rachel's sister was too shocked to speak properly. Why are you so shocked? Your daughter only looked like she had a heart attack, not have her entire face decomposed and mutilated like in the remake! Finally, we need to talk about Sadako's entrance. Let's look at how the remake handles Sadako: Granted, the CGI does look pretty cheesy. But I love how Samara just BAMS right at your face all of the sudden. It shocked the hell outta me when I first watched it, and I still love it today. When I saw Sadako in the original, however, all I was thinking was, "Dude, just get up and run! She's like walking at 1 mile per hour! lololol" And the way he deliberately twists his body so that he would make eye-contact with Sadako, what the hell was that all about? It was so cheesy and stupid. If it was me, I would've made for the door and run for the nearest police station, or something. In conclusion, while Ringu had some very well-written characters, its many flaws just make the experience jarring when I've seen how much improvement the more polished remake has done. ★★★½

I've considered it, believe it or not. lol But realistically speaking, it just seems kinda pointless since the two people know the other person's gotta be the Traitor (if they didn't already expose the Traitor's identity in the previous voting session already). Still, you've got a good point - it would be fun to watch the two go at it for the final killing.

Oh yeah. You bet your ass I will.

No worries about the drama. I know what you mean. I've actually dealt with my share of such drama in previous mafia games. It certainly brings down the fun for all of us. But I too trust in the community, and I believe AF members are mature enough for that kind of juvenile behavior to not exist. If anyone cause problems, we'll just kick them out and say zoop killed them. But jokes aside, I don't think it will be an issue. Regarding your character... to be honest, I was hoping for someone from an official fiction, not someone fan-made. lol I have absolutely no problem with your particular character, by the way (sounds deliciously interesting; can't wait to see how it plays out), but it's just something I feel I need to point out because that will be the kind of direction I want my future mafia RPs to head towards.

Nah, it's just to fit the username glow they purchased from the AF shop. See how some of our usernames glow and others don't? I was just trying to match those, that's all.

Welcome to the club. Hope you'll enjoy the game! After we get our fifth player, I think I'll give it a day or two for more people to join up before starting.

That's my first thought when I did that for Kohloo actually. Huehuehue... Well, I'll just use the default pronoun people use when unsure of gender... Yes, it is grammatically accepted. I've done my research on that!

Done! Welcome to the game. Brace yourself... and have fun! Now we just need a few more. We need at least 5 people to make it fun.

One of the better songs from Suicide Squad. Heathens is overrated. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-59jGD4WrmE