@citizencoffeecake: If you want to watch a highly quotable mecha anime where the main explanation for everything is "fighting spirit," Gurren Lagann is it. One of the core tenets of the series is doing the impossible, and the animation, writing, and music make you believe that. The first few episodes are slow by nature of having to introduce the core characters, but each protagonist is inspiring in his or her own right, and the show itself is quite the ode to other mecha series that came before.
As an addendum: I decided to rewatch Gurren Lagann with a friend who fell off the anime train before college, but after a couple episodes, he couldn't resist binge-watching the rest. So the show does hold appeal to less enthusiastic anime fans, too.
@fnrslvr: No, I'm not talking about revoking access in this scenario. I'm saying that, in general, the Big Three and Steam could simply flip a switch and -- oops -- you no longer own that copy of Call of Duty, Fallout, Far Cry, what have you. It's what happened when Fallout 4 was momentarily listed as free on the Xbox One. Several people took advantage of that "deal," but Microsoft removed those copies from their libraries. I know it's not the same when you actually buy a game -- I'm just confirming that those tools exist.
Just weeks before Forza Horizon went on sale and became a Games With Gold title, I managed to buy a new copy of the game. I think I'll keep it in the shrink wrap now...
It's for reasons mentioned in this thread that I'll never move to an all-digital future of owning games, however. I like owning my games, not just a license to them. It's terrifying to think about, but Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo can easily revoke access to your games anytime. Not that they wouldn't catch significant flak for doing so.
Provided no one's turned off by the excessive gore, the recent Mother Russia Bleeds is best enjoyed cooperatively. It's a competent brawler, and most of the bosses have a gimmick you need to suss out before defeating them -- you can't just mash the attack buttons for results.
In straight "person that plays games from start to finish" terms, the only channels I subscribe to are Super Best Friends/Two Best Friends, Game Informer, Jesse Cox, and several PokeTubers (TheKingNappy, shadypenguinn, etc.). Mostly, however, I follow channels that do supercuts of their content, like Funhaus.
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