[Dolmen 2.0]

So I just finished Fate/Apocrypha. I loved the battles and everything related to Karna. I hated the nonsensical "conclusion" to Siegs situation. I enjoyed everything in-between.


This scene was incredible! Exactly how I imagine a fight between Osserc and Rake!

Edit: Spoilered for those that haven't seen this yet. Don't watch it all the way if you can't resist!

Spoiler

Needless to say there were several fights equally as good.

This was an impressively done work of animation.

This post has been edited by Dolmen 2.0: 06 October 2018 - 09:28 PM

[D'rek]

Briar King, on 07 October 2018 - 07:54 PM, said:

Hmm I’m definitely curious and confused how a certain someone from Zero can be a Servant again after what happened. Really hoping to see the same epic weapons raining down on motherfuckers.

It's kinda vague and not really ever fully addressed

Spoiler

In Zero, when Saber smashed the grail and the goo exploded out of it and Gilgamesh was swallowed in all the goo... somehow that made him have a real body again. And Kirei has kept feeding him mana since then.

[D'rek]

It's more /Zero spoilers than /Stay Night spoilers, actually. You're fine to read it now, I'm not really saying anything of note.

[Maark Abbott]

Seasonals at present:

JoJo part 5
Goblin Slayer (jesus wept this was dark)
Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
Between the Sky and the Sea
Zombie Land Saga
Xuan Yuan Sword
Space Battleship Tiramisu season 2
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
Ms Vampire Who Lives in my Neighbourhood
Uzumaid!
Ulysses

It also seems AOT is carrying on with a heavy inference that they're wrapping the Paradis Arc up. Which is kinda hype because the end of this arc explains the entire story.

No sign of Kamuy s2 yet.

[Dolmen 2.0]

Maark Abbott, on 08 October 2018 - 07:30 AM, said:

Seasonals at present:

JoJo part 5
Goblin Slayer (jesus wept this was dark)
Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
Between the Sky and the Sea
Zombie Land Saga
Xuan Yuan Sword
Space Battleship Tiramisu season 2
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
Ms Vampire Who Lives in my Neighbourhood
Uzumaid!
Ulysses

It also seems AOT is carrying on with a heavy inference that they're wrapping the Paradis Arc up. Which is kinda hype because the end of this arc explains the entire story.

No sign of Kamuy s2 yet.

I'm down with this list.

I watched the slime one. It's pretty good. still an Isekai but I like the decision to make the perfect reincarnation a complete gearshift in kind and class.

Makes the exploration of his abilities more interesting and I think there's some decent potential for plot with the "summon" concept.

anyways I like it for this seasons isekai dose and will skip SAO hype.

This post has been edited by Dolmen 2.0: 08 October 2018 - 01:43 PM

[LinearPhilosopher]

Watched Goblin Slayer ep 1...

THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY!

[Dolmen 2.0]

LinearPhilosopher, on 08 October 2018 - 06:43 PM, said:

Watched Goblin Slayer ep 1...

THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY!

DUDE!

[LinearPhilosopher]

Dolmen 2.0, on 08 October 2018 - 10:09 PM, said:

LinearPhilosopher, on 08 October 2018 - 06:43 PM, said:

Watched Goblin Slayer ep 1...

THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY!

DUDE!

Spoiler

like holy crap, i knew our cast going to get destroyed but in such fashion... that goblins were full out rapign people that was insane! I mean on the one side the gratuitous violence and edginess has me hooked, though i can totally understand this not being the show you watch with your lady friend.

[Maark Abbott]

LinearPhilosopher, on 08 October 2018 - 10:37 PM, said:

Dolmen 2.0, on 08 October 2018 - 10:09 PM, said:

LinearPhilosopher, on 08 October 2018 - 06:43 PM, said:

Watched Goblin Slayer ep 1...

THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY!

DUDE!

Spoiler

like holy crap, i knew our cast going to get destroyed but in such fashion... that goblins were full out rapign people that was insane! I mean on the one side the gratuitous violence and edginess has me hooked, though i can totally understand this not being the show you watch with your lady friend.

To back the admittedly slightly fascistic campaign of the Slayer, you must first understand why he hates the Goblins with such vehemence.

Also I complain about 'where Kamuy S2' and later that day it drops. Niceu.

[Dolmen 2.0]

LinearPhilosopher, on 08 October 2018 - 10:37 PM, said:

Dolmen 2.0, on 08 October 2018 - 10:09 PM, said:

LinearPhilosopher, on 08 October 2018 - 06:43 PM, said:

Watched Goblin Slayer ep 1...

THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY!

DUDE!

Spoiler

like holy crap, i knew our cast going to get destroyed but in such fashion... that goblins were full out rapign people that was insane! I mean on the one side the gratuitous violence and edginess has me hooked, though i can totally understand this not being the show you watch with your lady friend.

Have you read ReMonster?

It's a massively popular Manga taken from the perspective of the Goblins. In it, the MC starts off as a Goblin and works his way up. In the show, there was an implication that the "stronger" Goblins were half borns. So Goblins are predisposed to do these atrocities in order of strengthening the clan.

This is canon for a lot of Goblin manga right now,

Goblin slayer seems to be the natural blowback and honestly, I am not sure I support either trend but wow that got real.

Berserk might have some genuine competition.

[Maark Abbott]

Dolmen 2.0, on 09 October 2018 - 06:48 AM, said:

LinearPhilosopher, on 08 October 2018 - 10:37 PM, said:

Dolmen 2.0, on 08 October 2018 - 10:09 PM, said:

LinearPhilosopher, on 08 October 2018 - 06:43 PM, said:

Watched Goblin Slayer ep 1...

THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY!

DUDE!

Spoiler

like holy crap, i knew our cast going to get destroyed but in such fashion... that goblins were full out rapign people that was insane! I mean on the one side the gratuitous violence and edginess has me hooked, though i can totally understand this not being the show you watch with your lady friend.

Have you read ReMonster?

It's a massively popular Manga taken from the perspective of the Goblins. In it, the MC starts off as a Goblin and works his way up. In the show, there was an implication that the "stronger" Goblins were half borns. So Goblins are predisposed to do these atrocities in order of strengthening the clan.

This is canon for a lot of Goblin manga right now,

Goblin slayer seems to be the natural blowback and honestly, I am not sure I support either trend but wow that got real.

Berserk might have some genuine competition.

Thinking of which, wasn't Berserk S3 meant to drop this year?

[LinearPhilosopher]

Maark Abbott, on 09 October 2018 - 05:27 AM, said:

LinearPhilosopher, on 08 October 2018 - 10:37 PM, said:

Dolmen 2.0, on 08 October 2018 - 10:09 PM, said:

LinearPhilosopher, on 08 October 2018 - 06:43 PM, said:

Watched Goblin Slayer ep 1...

THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY!

DUDE!

Spoiler

like holy crap, i knew our cast going to get destroyed but in such fashion... that goblins were full out rapign people that was insane! I mean on the one side the gratuitous violence and edginess has me hooked, though i can totally understand this not being the show you watch with your lady friend.

To back the admittedly slightly fascistic campaign of the Slayer, you must first understand why he hates the Goblins with such vehemence.

Also I complain about 'where Kamuy S2' and later that day it drops. Niceu.

I mean, given that goblins have a tendency of doing this thing often, i can understand our Knights personal quest. Greater atrocities and genocides have been waged for far less. (usually for less noble intentions as well)

Im slightly curious now about whether a fantasy series exists where on the one hand, you have the goblins Dolmen is talking about vis a vis a fascist dictatorship intent on wipping out these goblins. You'd think with such an obvious threat and the racial aspect, humanity would easily go onto a crusade of sorts to exterminate goblins.

[Dolmen 2.0]

LinearPhilosopher, on 09 October 2018 - 04:45 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 09 October 2018 - 05:27 AM, said:

LinearPhilosopher, on 08 October 2018 - 10:37 PM, said:

Dolmen 2.0, on 08 October 2018 - 10:09 PM, said:

LinearPhilosopher, on 08 October 2018 - 06:43 PM, said:

Watched Goblin Slayer ep 1...

THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY!

DUDE!

Spoiler

like holy crap, i knew our cast going to get destroyed but in such fashion... that goblins were full out rapign people that was insane! I mean on the one side the gratuitous violence and edginess has me hooked, though i can totally understand this not being the show you watch with your lady friend.

To back the admittedly slightly fascistic campaign of the Slayer, you must first understand why he hates the Goblins with such vehemence.

Also I complain about 'where Kamuy S2' and later that day it drops. Niceu.

I mean, given that goblins have a tendency of doing this thing often, i can understand our Knights personal quest. Greater atrocities and genocides have been waged for far less. (usually for less noble intentions as well)

Im slightly curious now about whether a fantasy series exists where on the one hand, you have the goblins Dolmen is talking about vis a vis a fascist dictatorship intent on wipping out these goblins. You'd think with such an obvious threat and the racial aspect, humanity would easily go onto a crusade of sorts to exterminate goblins.

That would be REALLY interesting to watch/read.

especially if they focused on analogues for each races MC, i.e. show savage goblins decimate Human MC's family then switch to crusade Human retaliation on peaceful Goblin Tribe leaving Goblin MC to fend for him/herself.

This would need an Abercrombie-esque approach to wars. No preaching of morals, just pure character growth through tough decisions in tough situations.

having the MC's actually become as bad as the war acts that made them would add that extra bit of spice...

[Maark Abbott]

Dolmen 2.0, on 10 October 2018 - 05:14 AM, said:

LinearPhilosopher, on 09 October 2018 - 04:45 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 09 October 2018 - 05:27 AM, said:

LinearPhilosopher, on 08 October 2018 - 10:37 PM, said:

Dolmen 2.0, on 08 October 2018 - 10:09 PM, said:

LinearPhilosopher, on 08 October 2018 - 06:43 PM, said:

Watched Goblin Slayer ep 1...

THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY!

DUDE!

Spoiler

like holy crap, i knew our cast going to get destroyed but in such fashion... that goblins were full out rapign people that was insane! I mean on the one side the gratuitous violence and edginess has me hooked, though i can totally understand this not being the show you watch with your lady friend.

To back the admittedly slightly fascistic campaign of the Slayer, you must first understand why he hates the Goblins with such vehemence.

Also I complain about 'where Kamuy S2' and later that day it drops. Niceu.

I mean, given that goblins have a tendency of doing this thing often, i can understand our Knights personal quest. Greater atrocities and genocides have been waged for far less. (usually for less noble intentions as well)

Im slightly curious now about whether a fantasy series exists where on the one hand, you have the goblins Dolmen is talking about vis a vis a fascist dictatorship intent on wipping out these goblins. You'd think with such an obvious threat and the racial aspect, humanity would easily go onto a crusade of sorts to exterminate goblins.

That would be REALLY interesting to watch/read.

especially if they focused on analogues for each races MC, i.e. show savage goblins decimate Human MC's family then switch to crusade Human retaliation on peaceful Goblin Tribe leaving Goblin MC to fend for him/herself.

This would need an Abercrombie-esque approach to wars. No preaching of morals, just pure character growth through tough decisions in tough situations.

having the MC's actually become as bad as the war acts that made them would add that extra bit of spice...

The amount of people getting very upset by the content of GS is kind of irksome. Like, sure, I get that it's unpleasant and will very much upset certain people, and they're not wrong for it to upset them.

But when people start saying the content is glorified, that it's 'rape culture', my eyes roll so far into the back of my head that I can actually see my brain. Yes, it's used as a vehicle to show us why the goblins are horrendous little bastards. But it's also not gloried or celebratory at all. It's horrific. The way the scene plays out evokes, to me at least, a reminiscence of Glokta's torture.

Anyway, Kamuy S2E1 was... erm... Fleshy.

[LinearPhilosopher]

Maark Abbott, on 10 October 2018 - 07:33 AM, said:

Dolmen 2.0, on 10 October 2018 - 05:14 AM, said:

LinearPhilosopher, on 09 October 2018 - 04:45 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 09 October 2018 - 05:27 AM, said:

LinearPhilosopher, on 08 October 2018 - 10:37 PM, said:

Dolmen 2.0, on 08 October 2018 - 10:09 PM, said:

LinearPhilosopher, on 08 October 2018 - 06:43 PM, said:

Watched Goblin Slayer ep 1...

THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY!

DUDE!

Spoiler

like holy crap, i knew our cast going to get destroyed but in such fashion... that goblins were full out rapign people that was insane! I mean on the one side the gratuitous violence and edginess has me hooked, though i can totally understand this not being the show you watch with your lady friend.

To back the admittedly slightly fascistic campaign of the Slayer, you must first understand why he hates the Goblins with such vehemence.

Also I complain about 'where Kamuy S2' and later that day it drops. Niceu.

I mean, given that goblins have a tendency of doing this thing often, i can understand our Knights personal quest. Greater atrocities and genocides have been waged for far less. (usually for less noble intentions as well)

Im slightly curious now about whether a fantasy series exists where on the one hand, you have the goblins Dolmen is talking about vis a vis a fascist dictatorship intent on wipping out these goblins. You'd think with such an obvious threat and the racial aspect, humanity would easily go onto a crusade of sorts to exterminate goblins.

That would be REALLY interesting to watch/read.

especially if they focused on analogues for each races MC, i.e. show savage goblins decimate Human MC's family then switch to crusade Human retaliation on peaceful Goblin Tribe leaving Goblin MC to fend for him/herself.

This would need an Abercrombie-esque approach to wars. No preaching of morals, just pure character growth through tough decisions in tough situations.

having the MC's actually become as bad as the war acts that made them would add that extra bit of spice...

The amount of people getting very upset by the content of GS is kind of irksome. Like, sure, I get that it's unpleasant and will very much upset certain people, and they're not wrong for it to upset them.

But when people start saying the content is glorified, that it's 'rape culture', my eyes roll so far into the back of my head that I can actually see my brain. Yes, it's used as a vehicle to show us why the goblins are horrendous little bastards. But it's also not gloried or celebratory at all. It's horrific. The way the scene plays out evokes, to me at least, a reminiscence of Glokta's torture.

Anyway, Kamuy S2E1 was... erm... Fleshy.

I can understand Goblin Slayer not being everyone's cup of tea. It is graphic, but thats the point. This isn't your DnD campaign where your group of adventurers just kills the goblins and lives through a few mishaps. It demonstrates that this is a DnD type world with brutal consequences. Its graphic, but I also would not say it's Gratuitous like in say Ninja Scroll.

Also GOlden Kamuy

Spoiler

That was a bit unexpected. That Tsurumi and a Psycho would bond over human clothes, and those faces as well! Is it just more or does Hokkaido have a disproportionate amount of psychopaths?

[sappers rule]

Has anyone watched the new Jojo season yet? Interested in watching previous seasons and wondering if it is worth watching.

[LinearPhilosopher]

Enjoying season 5 with only 1 ep in. The series seems to be going back to its roots so to speak

[Maark Abbott]

LinearPhilosopher, on 10 October 2018 - 05:57 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 10 October 2018 - 07:33 AM, said:

Dolmen 2.0, on 10 October 2018 - 05:14 AM, said:

LinearPhilosopher, on 09 October 2018 - 04:45 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 09 October 2018 - 05:27 AM, said:

LinearPhilosopher, on 08 October 2018 - 10:37 PM, said:

Dolmen 2.0, on 08 October 2018 - 10:09 PM, said:

LinearPhilosopher, on 08 October 2018 - 06:43 PM, said:

Watched Goblin Slayer ep 1...

THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY!

DUDE!

Spoiler

like holy crap, i knew our cast going to get destroyed but in such fashion... that goblins were full out rapign people that was insane! I mean on the one side the gratuitous violence and edginess has me hooked, though i can totally understand this not being the show you watch with your lady friend.

To back the admittedly slightly fascistic campaign of the Slayer, you must first understand why he hates the Goblins with such vehemence.

Also I complain about 'where Kamuy S2' and later that day it drops. Niceu.

I mean, given that goblins have a tendency of doing this thing often, i can understand our Knights personal quest. Greater atrocities and genocides have been waged for far less. (usually for less noble intentions as well)

Im slightly curious now about whether a fantasy series exists where on the one hand, you have the goblins Dolmen is talking about vis a vis a fascist dictatorship intent on wipping out these goblins. You'd think with such an obvious threat and the racial aspect, humanity would easily go onto a crusade of sorts to exterminate goblins.

That would be REALLY interesting to watch/read.

especially if they focused on analogues for each races MC, i.e. show savage goblins decimate Human MC's family then switch to crusade Human retaliation on peaceful Goblin Tribe leaving Goblin MC to fend for him/herself.

This would need an Abercrombie-esque approach to wars. No preaching of morals, just pure character growth through tough decisions in tough situations.

having the MC's actually become as bad as the war acts that made them would add that extra bit of spice...

The amount of people getting very upset by the content of GS is kind of irksome. Like, sure, I get that it's unpleasant and will very much upset certain people, and they're not wrong for it to upset them.

But when people start saying the content is glorified, that it's 'rape culture', my eyes roll so far into the back of my head that I can actually see my brain. Yes, it's used as a vehicle to show us why the goblins are horrendous little bastards. But it's also not gloried or celebratory at all. It's horrific. The way the scene plays out evokes, to me at least, a reminiscence of Glokta's torture.

Anyway, Kamuy S2E1 was... erm... Fleshy.

I can understand Goblin Slayer not being everyone's cup of tea. It is graphic, but thats the point. This isn't your DnD campaign where your group of adventurers just kills the goblins and lives through a few mishaps. It demonstrates that this is a DnD type world with brutal consequences. Its graphic, but I also would not say it's Gratuitous like in say Ninja Scroll.

Also GOlden Kamuy

Spoiler

That was a bit unexpected. That Tsurumi and a Psycho would bond over human clothes, and those faces as well! Is it just more or does Hokkaido have a disproportionate amount of psychopaths?

Precisely. It was a scene designed for pure horror, and pure horror is how it was delivered. GS' actions with the younglings can be viewed in similarly disturbing terms (to an extent) but by this stage, hecc them gobbos.

sappers rule, on 10 October 2018 - 09:56 PM, said:

Has anyone watched the new Jojo season yet? Interested in watching previous seasons and wondering if it is worth watching.

LinearPhilosopher, on 11 October 2018 - 05:10 AM, said:

Enjoying season 5 with only 1 ep in. The series seems to be going back to its roots so to speak

Yeah Part 5 is solid so far. It follows a predictable format in JoJo where the deut starts off as an enemy (this isn't a spoiler because EVERY JoJo part starts like this - Speedwagon, Shiza (where have I seen that name before), Kakyoin, Okuyasu.

Anyway, I picked up My Sister, My Writer because I'm degenerate enough to enjoy siscons about authors, and Conception.

[D'rek]

Ok, I found time to watch the first 2 episodes of Reincarnated as a Slime. It's alright, a bit funny, a bit interesting to see where things go, etc... the only problem I have with it is that the OP shows us right off the bat that he's going to get a humanoid form and make a pretty ordinary isekai party of humans... like, even if it was going that direction I'd rather not know in advance. Episode 2 would be far more interesting if it was plausible he will actually stay as a slime and lead the goblins into some big journey or societal reformation or who knows what, but instead we know from the OP that this is just some small introductory bit and we'll be swiftly moving on towards the real main plot in another episode or two.

[Dolmen 2.0]

D, on 14 October 2018 - 05:38 AM, said:

Ok, I found time to watch the first 2 episodes of Reincarnated as a Slime. It's alright, a bit funny, a bit interesting to see where things go, etc... the only problem I have with it is that the OP shows us right off the bat that he's going to get a humanoid form and make a pretty ordinary isekai party of humans... like, even if it was going that direction I'd rather not know in advance. Episode 2 would be far more interesting if it was plausible he will actually stay as a slime and lead the goblins into some big journey or societal reformation or who knows what, but instead we know from the OP that this is just some small introductory bit and we'll be swiftly moving on towards the real main plot in another episode or two.

I agree with all of this.