LiquidPrince

No offense, but that is sort of an asinine comment. Recorded history may not be the whole truth, and in fact it may be a complete lie, but it is the only thing we have to go on. You cannot make assumptions of what cultures outside of recorded history deemed attractive. Either way, that is irrelevant because at a biological level (not accounting for the minority or abnormality) women in the cultures that we do in fact have a record on have always been deemed as the fairer sex. Meaning they were the gender of beauty, of frailty, and of motherly love. If you want to argue that that is not an accurate representation of all women and that there should be more variety, then we may have something to discuss, but again, not accounting for modern issues of gender identity, men are men and women are women. We are different creatures and the way we are presented in media will always be different.

I literally said the exact opposite of what you got out of it. I don't understand how you could misunderstand what I said so badly in the first line of your retort.

That's some hot BS. The expectations and standards of what is considered beautiful vary from place to place, but that doesn't mean that in any of those places, women haven't always been considered the fairer sex. Go back and look at art from any culture from most any period of recorded history and compare the representation of women to those of men.

I've also called you out on your BS argument elsewhere. Just because your test group of family members failed to enjoy the show means squat diddly when there are literally MILLIONS of kids who did enjoy the show. Even aside from that, Korra was intended as a sequel for the fans of the Last Airbender, most of whom had by the time its release grown up a considerable amount. And the thing is, we already went through the journey of the Avatar mastering the different elements with Aang, and to do it again with Korra would have been unnecessary. In fact by making her already adept at three of the four main elements as even a young child was a great way of informing her character traits and personality as well as highlighting the difference between her and Aang. As individual villains, Amon, Unalaq, Zaheer and Kuvira were infinitely better characters then Ozai. Ozai was a great threatening force but lacked much in the way of personality and served the purpose of being the thing that drove the story forward, giving the writers time to establish what the ATLAB world was like. But that stuff has all been established by the time of Korra, and instead the focus becomes writing great stories in this universe. Each villain reflected on Korra and the new world in an interesting way. Amon wanted equality, Unalaq wanted the return of the spirits, Zaheer wanted chaos and Kuvira wanted order.

The reason that Aang may seem more likable is that he was a reluctant hero and an underdog, and those stories work really well, especially if it is in the service of building a new world. Korra however is brash and needed to be torn down and taught humility. That process is a lot more complex and required a lot more of a subtle story telling method which caters to older people.

So can people tell me, without spoilers, whether or not Madoka Magica has a depressing ending or not? I know that it is subversive and that it twists the magical girl genre in interesting ways, but as someone who's only ever seen Sailor Moon and Cardcaptors when I was younger, I'm not super well versed in the genre. I've heard it likened to Full Metal Alchemist, but even with all the depressing shit that happened in FMA, the ending was still a fairly upbeat thing, and I really enjoyed that. I just wanna know if I'm gonna feel super depressed and shitty before purchasing the Blu-ray's.

@downloaded: Except that you are in fact wrong. For most of the earlier periods of recorded art the goal of the artists was to depict the human form in the most idealized way. Look at something like the Oath of Horatii, where there is an overwhelming sense of tragedy, and yet the pinnacle of idealization. The three male characters stand in a solid triangular shape, representing masculinity at its finest. The concept of creating life not as it is, but how we want it to be far predates the modern concepts of portraying life as it truly is, flaws and all. Even your example for the Mona Lisa is incorrect since when that work was being created on it was never considered a good looking piece of art mostly because it was never in actuality finished. Game characters are modern day sculptures so they harken back to the art of antiquity.

I still find arguments like this a bit ridiculous. It's human nature to see females as the fairer sex. They always have been and they always will be. There is difference between the masculinity of men and the femininity of women, and in their idealized forms, they will not be presented the same. Sure we live in an era now where ideas of gender identity are always being questioned, but there is a simple beauty in how games strive to idealize both their male and female protagonists. Curves should be celebrated and muscles appreciated. This idea that men and women shouldn't be portrayed differently is crazy. Male characters are just as cut and perfect looking as female characters. Even Marcus Fenix, whom you refer to as an ugly dude isn't really that ugly in the context of that world. He's battle worn and scarred, but good looking when compared to his peers.

If a game creator decides that they want to make a super crusty war torn looking woman as their main character, then they are totally free to do that since it is their vision for their game. However on the flip side, making idealized avatars for the players to control is equally valid. Rarely did you see sculptures and other works of art not displaying the human form perfectly. It was always the goal of art to hand pick the greatest elements from humanity and merge them together. It's how we ended up with stuff like the David. This guys talks about it better then I:

The whole needing specific routers thing is nonsense. However $40 is a very cheap price for a router, which means if all you need it for it to basically be a splitter for multiple hard connections, you'll be fine. For reference my router cost over $200, but that is because it's a new fangled AC router that is designed to output maximum signal distance, seeing as my house has shitty seemingly dead reception areas.

You've already done neither, so what the hell are you still doing here? Either try and be helpful, or stay silent. You're just coming off as rude smug person at the moment.

The last few arcs have been fucking amazing. I do recommend that you try not to watch on a week to week basis though. The arcs seem much more entertaining when you can sit down and plow through a ton of episodes back to back.

I might've considered it, but my 3DS is that Pikachu one that has gotten fairly rare, so I can't in good conscience.

@liquiddragon: One Piece movie 6 and 10 are perfectly good stand alone movies, but 11 might require a bit more back story. As for Afro Samurai, there is no series. Afro Samurai was just two movies. The first movie was broken up into five single episodes in some regions, but can also be viewed in movie form. The second movie was just released in movie form every where.