GuillermoGage

Walking around holding my baby nephew, and then he fell asleep in my arms. I am lying on a loveseat and he is on top of me, and I don't wanna disturb him by trying to slide off of him right now. And then I got this mobile device and got onto MLPForums, and then I went straight to General Discussion. I have a few ideas for threads to make in multiple sections of the forum.

Something that I have noticed about modern video games is that the cutscenes have such high production values that they are just shy of having the level of detail of a mainstream animated movie... enough where people are watching them online all by themselves in lengthy YouTube playlists, usually with the gameplay included, but also usually with the person playing the game doing it as swiftly and smoothly as possible. Okay... now video games are actually getting more and more at the level of Hollywood budgets, but just barely. That Tomb Raider game from 2013 apparently cost $100 million to make. Grand Theft Auto V was like $200 million, and stuff like Watch_Dogs, The Last of Us cost about $60 million to make. But when you take into account the fact that these video games essentially include animated segments that total up to, for the big-budget games usually at least two hours, but often-times something like six or eight hours... then simple math indicates that if the same people making animated segments for these games produced two-and-a-half-hour animated movies, standalone, without any of the actual video game... then you basically have a product that costs... something like one third of sixty to one hundred million dollars. In the fully-animated movie industry, that is actually very modest. How long is your typical DreamWorks or Pixar movie? usually around the 100-minute mark, or maybe 110 or so minutes. Kids usually don't have the endurance for a two-hour-plus movie. For a fair stylistic comparison, consider the 2011 film The Adventures of Tintin. Very realistic graphics, kind of had a AAA hardcore video-gamey vibe to it. 107 minutes long. Cost $135 million to make. There are a lot of us out there that want certain books and stuff to get turned into either movies or TV series... but the subject matter doesn't appeal to that broad Hollywood demographic, or has subject matter with kids in danger or some other taboo subject that would be way too controversial or impossible in live-action (The Hunger Games and Ender's Game had to tone down their stuff a lot) However, if we utilize the animation and motion-capture standards of stuff like Tomb Raider or The Last of Us, then that stuff would be more economically viable, a lot more. Slightly less detailed animation is distinctly cheaper, because two hours worth of Tomb Raider or The Last of Us cutscenes probably cost like $30 million at the most. Anybody else want a larger, more diverse and adult line of animated drama movies to get made with these economics?

I've been forced to watch a lot of stuff on Nick Jr., Disney Junior, and PBS Kids over the years because of my life and family circumstances, so here goes: The most precious current contemporary show for the really little kids right now is Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. The voices, lessons, morals and sweetness is just the type of thing that makes television a potential pro-social teaching tool for little kids. Peg + Cat is also good. Probably the brightest thing on Nick Jr. since the year 2000 was The Backyardigans. It started in 2004 and it doesn't look like it has gotten any new episodes or stuff since 2010. It is way more imaginative and interesting than what is generally considered to be the "flagship" brand from Nick Jr., Dora the Explorer. Well, the ten-year-plus long Dora popularity train appears to have ended and been replaced by... shudder... Bubble Guppies. Backyardigans was actually really engaging and I hope that some little kids got something out of the song-and-dance numbers that did a good job of expressing the different people and places of the world, different time periods and historical eras and stuff, with it's minimalistic cast of a penguin, a moose, a hippo, a kangaroo, and a... whatever Uniqua is. While I am not particularly fond of Jake and the Never-Land Pirates, which is like the cultural successor to Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego Go! (obviously not spiritual successor production-wise, since it is from different producers than Dora and Diego)... I do appreciate the... just plain better production values that are immensely less annoying than Dora. Honestly, I think that, while DtE and GDG! had some good intentions with teaching little kids the value of learning a second language... Dora was SO slow-paced that I think it taught little kids to have overly slow thought processes. Seriously, even little kids don't have be reminded of how to memorize three locations in a specific order several times in one sitting. Solving the "problems" and obstacles usually involved pointless hand-holding, even for a toddler, and ended up solving themselves. Even when they failed to say "Swiper, no Swiping", he just ended up throwing the thing somewhere where it could easily be found. The formula just stayed that way for years and years. Yes, I know that Blue's Clues was also tied to a very continuous formula... but that show was worthy, because... reasons. Because it required little kids to sit down in the thinking chair and think about how to combine the clues. Hint hint, that was my show as a little kid, considering that I was born in 1990. Super Why! which is also created by Angela C. Santomero... tries to do what Blue's Clues did back in the day and stick with an oddly-specific formula... but... like, it beats around the bush with this odd method of spelling out one singular word... But I also saw that they are expanding to add knowledge of more worldly knowledge and geographical subjects into the show, and also greater vocabulary with the dog with Dictionary power. The dog's name is Woofster. I still think it could maybe be possible to streamline the running length of the episodes and have it be two segments per 25-ish minute episode... But maybe I have to watch it some more to see how important the singular 25-minute episodes pace. Things that just plain suck include: Bubble Guppies: I detest the fact that it never has a concise point to whatever it is trying to teach. I also detest the fact that there's no rhyme or reason for having it set underwater other than the fact that merkids are apparently a cute thing that no-one has merchandised for a while... even tho the show constantly demonstrates that there is no point in having it set underwater, what with the desert, outer space/moon, and dinosaur-type settings. Also, the art style is lazy and cheap/ Doc McStuffins: Pointlessly specific formula about kid doctor fixing toys with problems that are so obvious that they should not even be classified as medical issues (a toy is thirsty, so it should drink, or a water toy does not squirt any more water, so put more water in it because it just ran out of water, a toy's batteries are running low, so it should replace it's batteries, a toy is tired, so it should rest)... and then pointlessly making up fake words that end in -itis or -itosis. It's targeting a weirdly specific subject matter, and doesn't actually have any significance towards actual kids who want to be actual doctors. Magic School Bus human body episodes are where that category of learning belongs. But vastly worse than Bubble Guppies and Doc McStuffins combined is the sheer teal-and-yellow good-manner evil that is Special Agent Oso. A gimmick that no little kid wanted. This is what happens when you let the British children's educational telly scene influence North America. Oso is supposed to be some secret agent who sneaks up on naughty kids and teaches them good manners, and then Oso or someone gets a Digi-Medal, because in this world "digi" is still a relevant prefix for anything in the English language. Also, horribly creepy anime head of anime magical-girl on his communicator watch. To recap: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood is beast and has an actual soul. The Backyardigans is enriching. Jake and the Neverland Pirates is generally harmless. Dora the Explorer was inferior product and didn't deserve to be as long-running and popular as it was. (Altho I understand that in the early years, it was generally a simplistic show designed to get attention, and that by going with this low-production method, it was a safe show to get good returns on relatively smaller investments) Bubble Guppies, Doc McStuffins, and Special Agent Oso are lousy shows. oh, and also, I generally support Peg + Cat, Team Umizoomi, Arthur (which is still on the air and is still mostly good), Martha Speaks, Sid the Science Kid, Caillou, Henry Hugglemonster... oh, and Max & Ruby, Fresh Beat Band, Ni-Hao Kai-Lan, and WonderPets (Wonder Pets solved things and got shit done and Team Umizoomi pretty much owes all of it's inspiration from WonderPets, except for the math parts) I don't know enough about Paw Patrol to make a judgement yet. At first I thought my nieces and nephews were talking about something called Papa Troll, and I wondered why something as old-timey as trolls as major characters was a thing in this day and age of little kid shows.

You also mentioned movie, so: The anime movie known simply as AKIRA. Yes, I know that it is well-known in the anime/manga otaku community, but you'd be amazed how many of your typical Naruto or One Piece-loving teenagers these days have no idea what AKIRA is. AKIRA is a 1988 Japanese animated science fiction film about a group of biker gang boys living in the bustling-but-corrupt mega-city that is Neo-Tokyo in the year 2019, thirty years after the original Tokyo was suddenly destroyed in a mysterious explosion. Impressively, this expressive film gives almost no explanation for what actually happened until the very end, and simply opens with a silent birds-eye view of the city of Tokyo on July 16, 1988, high above the top of the highest skyscraper. and then a tiny black dot from the center of the city expands into a greenish-black orb and envelops the whole area. The rest of the movie is basically about a Neo-Tokyo adolescent bike gang trying to rescue one of their injured members, an inferior boy named Tetsuo, from a mysterious military that is busy experimenting on humans to unlock the full telekinetic powers of the human brain. It is a gorgeous work of art. Both the action scenes and the simple-quiet scenes have awe-inspiring amounts of hand-drawn detail, and nuances in the way characters move, the way their cel-animated clothes and hair ruffle, their faces, to scenes that are full of billowing smoke, concrete, metal, and glass rubble. It is a very artistic film that is full of interesting, thought-provoking moments, told from the perspective of way more than just one protagonist-ic group's side. The music is gorgeous. It is both futuristic and ancient at the same time. I would strongly recommend seeing the 2001 Pioneer English dub. I guess if you think that this story set in a futuristic Japanese place would benefit from hearing the characters speak the original Japanese dialogue, I guess you can do that, but the movie still very much feels culturally strong in English with the 2001 Pioneer dub. There are actually a number of interesting and funny lines in it. Even tho this movie is, again, technically very well-known, it is absurd and unjust that everyone and your mom is not familiar with it. in the same sense that your mom is not an anime fan, but knows what Dragonball Z is. It is a 2-hour traditionally-animated film with 2D production values equal to the 1990s Disney Renaissance. Even if it is an R-rated film, that level of production values should make it more famous. Plenty of live-action movies have become well-known through word of mouth over the years with help from the Internet. It seems like AKIRA should have a much larger reputation. But alas, apparently animated films without little kid-friendly subject matter just have to be geek-ish and inherently like PG-13 direct-to-video superhero movies that are targeted towards a demographic that are already fans of anime-type culture or geek/nerd superhero-ish culture. AKIRA transcends that. I don't even like calling it "anime", that implies connotations of otaku-ness. It is simply an excellent movie that happens to be a work of animation (by necessity for the time it was made at the very least) from the vaguely foreign nation of Japan.

I actually have no grand problem with this Part 1 Mockingjay. As a reader of the books, it ended up totally satisfying my hopes, the hopes of many book readers that the two Mockingjay movies would have additional content in the form of scenes that provide insight outside of Katniss's point of view. It actually and resolves a very particular major plot conflict that is addressed at the beginning, making the movie more than just "half of a story" and actually a whole distinct chapter that is tonally and plot-wise distinct from what the final entry will have for a plot.

A major basis for me liking Shia Labeouf is that he looks like a girl who I had a huge crush/ vague friendship on as a little kid because she paid attention to me and was interested in me when I was nine years old. Shia looks and sounds like a male version of that female childhood-friend. Who I actually met ten years later and ended up having a fuzzy memory and didn't remember me but figured I knew her. This is also basically how I approach it.While all of the voice talents of our special show are talented, and many do a good job at showing up at fan conventions and stuff, Tabitha St. Germain, Cathy Weseluck, and Andrea Libman are the three ladies that appeal above the others to me. Tabitha is such a cute hamny witchy hippie woman! She probably has garden hippie gypsy witch powers of seduction! And, this here deviantART drawing apparently depicts a real scene of how she reacted to a shy fan once. http://blayaden.deviantart.com/art/Overcoming-Shyness-or-not-379675474 Rawr, she is a beautiful adult woman! Cathy and Andrea are also such cute hams! I want to pet their heads! Among more glamorous mainstream celebrities, I can really just think of Lupita Nyong'o. Talented ebony goddess. I knew she would get that Oscar/ Academy Award the day I saw 12 Years A Slave, my favorite live-action movie and one of my favorite movies in general. Anna Gunn is also a goddess. A real woman. There's also the British movie director named Steve McQueen. I have seen all three of his movies. He is an artistic hunk and a teddy bear who creates true art.

What contemporary songs will people become nostalgic for a decade from now, to the point where, in ten years, even fifteen to twenty years from now, people like us will talk about how "this is real music this is how good music used to be." Literally the only thing I can think of it "Happy" by Pharrell Williams. I don't see that song getting old. It has the stylistic advantage of reminding people of the 90s or whatever time period. Only song that is approximately ten years old/ from the "early 2000s" that I can think of as being "classic" is outkast's "Hey Ya", and perhaps Eminem's "Lose Yourself", altho not everyone can relate to the message of the rap. I guess perhaps people will praise, like, Coldplay or something as being iconic of our times, but also somewhat enduring beyond our time.

Coffee. I am willing to shorten the number of alert, awake hours I have in a day in exchange for not being addicted to coffee Alcohol. Video games as an identity or lifestyle. Especially following gamer YouTube personalities whose whole life must revolve around this. (How else could they release such a sheer volume of new reviews and stuff constantly?) YouTube/Internet personalities in general, but especially ones who just review obviously bad media, like hours upon ours of it a week, every week, like clockwork, like they are on some mission to inform people of how exceptionally bad some obscure forgotten Z-movie is, or some offensively stupid children's animation. TVTropes may call it "snark", I call it wasting one's life, even in the context of the potentially very intellectually valid field of media criticism; if you are gonna devote your life to media criticism, try to inform people of new insights into literature and movies and entertainment. Or just be exceptionally funny, which often, good humor also provides insights. Facebook. Listening to music in general. I am serious. I am one of those people who does not have headphones on them at any given waking hour of the day.

Your preemptive defense against ad hominem happened because you were intimidated? I guess I could have avoided that by encouraging you to post an example of actual media that you couldn't help unseeing things that you must turn your back on. Maybe you haven't come across anything offensive in media recently, so you could only cite real-life/news media off the top of your head. Ew, it is incorrect to apologize for everything. "You will choose between a limited amount of media content because of the limited time you have to consume it". <i>"Yeah, and what are you going to do if we don't, you big blue fruit?"</i> "You misunderstand me. That was not a request." "Hermione's immense backlog and watchlist finally seemed to be getting to her. Every night, without epic fail, Hermione was to be seen in a corner of the common room, several tables spread with game consoles and controllers, tabs upon tabs of walkthroughs open on multiple computers and devices, diagrams of n00bs lifting heavy fantheories, and file upon file of extensive shipping diagrams. she barely spoke to anybody and snapped when she was spoilered on something that she didn't get around to seeing yet." I keep on missing premieres of shows and cannot get into stuff. I might eventually pursue stuff that is readily available on Netflix. such as BBC Sherlock. I watched all of Breaking Bad earlier this year, including the webisodes. It has lore and plot to some degree larger than a lot of other adult media. It at least has more clever reoccuring elements than mere macguffin Elements of Harmony, or the macguffin aspect of the Keys of Friendship.

The thing that you mentioned putting critical thought into was categorically a thing or something, which was your own criterion for the discussion you were making.You were not duplicitous in your own rules, so your point still stands. You mentioning that your point still stands seems a preemptive defense against an ad hominem attack.

This board is a media board.

I personally think the "I like what I like philosophy" is a lazy one. I prefer to put criticial thought into how much of my limited free time and life on this earth is spent on what kinds of media. I like media that has good morals, or some artistic merit, or is mentally enriching, such as a story that makes you try to analyze the logic and patterns of the plot, of the lore, and reoccuring themes and content. That's a major reason why I pretty much don't watch anything other than My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and Littlest Pet Shop.

Well, I failed to do any book reading or drawing or anything of a mental or creative enriching nature, but I had unusually long family responsibilities as indicated in my journal that I type up and sometimes write down on my My Little Pony calendar. "Day was longer than usual; Emily picked them up at 1013pm, that makes it just about 11 hours on the nose. Then I spent a lot of time typing up a long forum message on this device and getting the TV remote to work for my mom. Now 1136pm. Ready to go to bed." Them are my two year old and five year old nephew. I gotta be doing stuff with them, so they don't be slapping each other around and instead develop healthy interests and stuff. Like, up until yesterday, Jonathan, at age five (gonna turn 6 on December 26) didn't know what an ostrich is. Then , after their mother, my sister Emily came to pick them up at 1013pm (she dropped off Christopher at 1113am and Jonathan at 359pm) I spent the rest of my night socializing in the form of contributing a lengthy post on another topic I made: http://mlpforums.com/topic/114657-what-is-your-daily-household-situation-like/ Okay, so Arianna, Sofia and baby Alex's papa just got here, so now I am typing this when it is just Jonathan and Christopher right here. Could be for another hour, could be until 1030pm. If there is time available, I will either nap early to restore sleep or begin on my CompTIA classes early before the official start date on the 18th. Take that new laptop out when the boys get picked up. Well, the boys got picked up at 720pm. and I spent the rest of the day turning on the laptop and listening to barely an hour worth of really simple Windows 7 video lessons, then taking a simple 10-question quiz. then around 9-ish, I spent about 20 minutes putting dishes away. Then I drifted over to this forum and wanted to socialize considering how lonely I am... and ended up looking up generic YouTube videos about the "10 greatest video games of all-time", even tho in real life I could care less about that. Well, a lot of people's lists had like four seventh-gen titles on there, Including Mass Effect 2 and Skyrim... so, of course... I ended up spending from 10:56 to 12:37 using the Internet as a lonely-ass echo chamber to protest the fact that... that thing where people take the thing that used to mean " the union between a man and a woman" and apply it to gay couples. Made all the more frustrating because I'm kinda gay myself and it feels like the whole world is against me on "either side". Basically, I spent an hour and a half ogling the comments sections and Twitter of the controversy of Brandon Eich resigning from Mozilla, because he made a tiny $1000 contribution to Prop 8. I was pressured to install Firefox by my online school, even tho I knew that IE fully works for my classes (even Opera fully works even tho it is not officially supported), so, after feeling really dirty about having it on my laptop, I uninstalled Firefox (after not using it on this computer). It is so discouraging to be pretty much the only gay person on the planet doing this, Long story short, I stayed up too late last night looking up gay controversy stuff. See, this is why I need like-minded friends. I need to recruit some Skype friends or something so I can talk about this one-on-one with people so I can feel like I have a voice and that no, "equality" is not always the answer. Maybe I'll accomplish more today. I have kids over from 11am to 6pm, but maybe 7pm.

Doesn't the concept of "reactors", people who regularly plan on watching and reacting to things (usually a trailer or a crucial episode of some TV show), go against the original ideals of reaction videos? 95 percent of them are annoying or boring/pointless. What would be more fantastic is if movie theaters were allowed to record reaction videos of movies during their theatrical run, because those moments are when a bunch of people are experiencing something exciting at the same time, assuming most of the people in the audience are seeing the movie for the first time. Watching large crowds of people watch critical episodes of TV shows, such as premieres or finales, are fun because they are a more specific and diverse variant of crowds of people watching sports. Even tho I was thinking moreso along the lines of scripted TV such as Breaking Bad, I wonder if, back in the day when American Idol was a huge phenomenon, if people watched the finales in crowded bars and were all there when the winner was announced. I was always at home with a few people in my family. Maybe I would hear the shouts of my neighbors from next door, or maybe I am confusing that with sports.

Cracked.com, deviantART, GameFAQS solely for forum discussion, especially the non-gaming boards, because I only occasionally play video games. The GameFAQS community has its own fantastically unique sense of humor, especially since there are no avatars and no embedded images on board posts. You can of course type in links to images. They don't even have links on the board posts, you have to highlight and copy-paste them yourself. People are constantly making joke topics and antagonistic topics and the fanboyism / nerd rage rivalries are funny and have much layers to them. Since there are no images appearing (except if you follow an off-site URL that someone posted), conversational word-based humor is a great, constantly-occurring presence on GameFAQs. oh, and IMDb, especially for trailers and individual movie Message Boards. And I guess, like many people, I go on YouTube, but I don't really follow the community aspect. I'm no "gamer" or music video person, or into that "Let's Play" phenomenon or whatever other typical YouTube celebrities and mainstream-ness, and the ugly blending of YouTube personalities/ Web celebrities into the front-page mainstream (but I do sometimes like Honest Trailers and CinemaSins / Screen Junkies)

Unlike a lot of you people, I am not a hardcore gamer. In vague order of most recent: I have pretty much completed the main quest at least of these games. New Super Mario Bros. Wii, completed everything The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Wii Sports Resort and Wii Fit Plus, yes they count as video games. Portal 1 and 2, Half-Life 2, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (probably only played 50-ish hours, maybe 25% of the main quest) Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Legend of Zelda Four Swords Adventures (rather underrated) Viewtiful Joe, Zelda Wind Waker, first three Super Smash Bros, games. Mario Kart Double Dash both Zelda Oracle games, Minish Cap, Original Zelda, Metroid Fusion, Sword of Mana Spider-Man PS1 (Fantastic game, I have nostalgia for it) RC de GO! (very fun hidden gem, and this is coming from someone who cares not for racing games, nor the hobby of RC cars) Super Mario World Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow, Crystal, Sapphire, and LeafGreen, as well as Pinball Ruby & Sapphire, and the Trading Card Game GB/C game. I have partially played Ocarina of Time, Metroid Prime, Super Mario Sunshine. anmd A Link to the Past GBA port. ooh, ooh, also the excellent GBA game Gunstar Super Heroes, some Broken Sword Shadow of the Templars on GBA, playing the quirkier Madden NFL games of the late sixth gen with my little brother (06 and 07) oh, and even tho I am not a Sonic the Hedgehog fan, I was suckered into getting Shadow the Hedgehog because of how Nintendo Power promoted it and made it seem so mature (Rated E10+) Shadow the Hedgehog, even tho not part of the Sonic franchise which is very mainstream, should be seen as a "cult video game" for it's unintentional humor. I have gotten like twenty hours into Earthbound before, with Ness, Paula and Jeff. That is all the major games that I can think of.