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You know you want Sonic

Yes. I know. T________T

Wow. $399 and KH3...can we just...have ALL the 'exclusives' the Xbox One is going to get, ported over to the PS4 instead and just call it a day =p

 

Damn...sorry Xbox...you've been really good to me with the Xbox 360, and all the sexy awesome games I got to play on it with friends like Gears of War 1/2/3, Borderlands 1/2, L4D 1/2, Dead Island 1/2, TF2/The Orange Box, Resident Evil 5/6, Happy Wars and many many more.

 

But I'm going to have to go back to being a Sony PS fangirl. The PS2 will always be my ultimate love for the Sony console generation...but it looks like I finally have a new PS console to look forward to loving. Thanks for coming through Sony, price and gaming-wise. It's much appreciated~   

Oh god.

You HAVE to game with Cloud, Mik and I when the PS4 comes out.
 

Cloud and I play online ALL THE TIME and get into many shenanigans.

 

not reading the manga over again and looking at the art to see what the author is saying (yes even the cover pages) is the fault of the reader. manga is a visual medium just skimming over the words isn't enough

1) Covers lie. All the time. How many have been in this manga that had no relation to what happened on the insides? How many chapters had a cover featuring a character not even in the chapter? Covers are useless and cannot be relied on for clues.

2) We are talking about a six hundred and thirty three chapter manga. Maybe a die hard can quote verse and give chapter numbers when a given thing happens, but most people don't do that. Most people also don't have the time to go through hundreds of chapters at eighteen pages a piece to be absolutely sure they got everything. This is a BIG manga, and that needs to be taken into account and planned for. I've been through this manga before and you'll never see me go back and re-read or go fishing for a certain chapter because holy hell I have things to do.

3) The last real hint was how many years ago? A typical tactic in writing is to reintroduce a long simmering plot if it has been in the background for too long and will play some importance in the near future. Most any sequential art writing book will tell you that. Time goes by, details are forgotten, people go on with their lives. That's why it's reintroduced, or foreshadowed, so that the last time a hint happened wasn't a bajillion years ago. The trick is putting it into your story without being obvious about it and all but shouting "THIS IS CHEKOVS GUN".

Because of the years it took for Kishimoto to get to her development, there are people looking at this and thinking it doesn't fit, (which is annoying because it does - he just took forever to get to it.)

Well, annoying as it may be, I can't blame them. An almost complete lack of foreshadowing is a failure on the writers part. As long as this manga is, it's hard to see a reason a page or even a panel hinting at Sakura having a power up coming couldn't have been snuck in every, say, ten chapters.

That, or Naruto becomes a Road Warrior. With a girl in every village.

Road Warrior you say?

I am alright with this.

Hate to say it but the opinion Kishi cares for is the one in Japan. If they're satisfied then he's also going to be satisfied. Western opinion doesn't have any ground in this matter since Kishi could care less about how other parts of the world will react to it.

I doubt he doesn't care. More that he just doesn't know. I recall a couple years ago it came out that he didn't even really know the manga was popular in America. I think we over-estimate how aware these guys are of us.

Funny enough, one of Superman's biggest flaws was the fact that he denied his alien heritage and wanted to be nothing more than just a regular human.

I'd argue the exact opposite; the fact that it eschews his alien heritage is the reason he is so much more than he ever could be.

But since I couldn't explain it as well as Chris Sims, I'll defer to him on the Krypton stuff:

One of the most interesting aspects of his character -- and one that I think is genuinely important for making this godlike character someone that we can relate to and sympathize with -- is that he's the Last Son of Krypton™. He's the only surviving remnant of this civilization, and while he's embraced by Earth and accepted as one of us, raised by kindhearted humans to be the most human of all the superheroes, mentally and emotionally, he'll always have that powerful sense of loss behind him. He needs to.

Peter Parker is an ordinary guy (brilliant, of course, but otherwise ordinary) and all it takes to change his life forever is the loss of one person. Batman is an exceptional human being -- photographic memory, naturally athletically gifted, crazy rich, dope car -- and for him, the loss of two people sends him down a path that I think we can all agree is just a little extreme. But Superman? He's far beyond us mortal men, more powerful than we can even really comprehend. He's bigger, and because of that, he needs something bigger looming behind him. So he loses an entire world.

Think about that for a second: Every single culture, every achievement, every person on the planet Krypton, gone, exploded into dust in the vacuum of space, except for one child. I've never liked stories that treat Superman as an outsider or work on the premise that he thinks of himself as anything other than Clark Kent from Smallville, Kansas, because I think it's just as important that he feels at home on the Earth, and that Superman's morality is just an extension of Clark Kent's, but that's still a powerful burden. He's the last of his kind, and that knowledge is part of the reason he wants to save each and every one of us. He knows how precious our lives are, because in a way, we're all the last of our kind. On Krypton, there was nothing anyone could do to prevent that tragedy, not with all their science. On Earth, Superman can do anything, and what he does is keep us from the same fate as Krypton, whether as a whole or individuals.

That's why I've always hated it when stuff from Krypton pops up in comics, and why I love the poetry of Kryptonite. There's something that just underscores it all by having the only remnants of Krypton be these little chunks of death -- constant, tangible reminders of the fate that befell every single other person on his planet. And it's also why my favorite version of Krypton is the one that John Byrne cooked up in Man of Steel

 

It's not the vibrant world of capes and insignias that we saw in the Silver Age. It's a place without emotion. It's a cold world without love, where a husband never touches his wife, and because of that, it's a dead planet long before it explodes. Jor-El's achievement isn't building a rocket that can take his son to Earth, it's that he cares enough to do it, and the fact that his last act is to tell Lara he loves her, a spark of actual life right before it's all destroyed is so metaphorically perfect that it blows my mind every time I read it. It simultaneously makes Krypton a place that you'd never want to see restored or revived, but shows that for all its sterility, it's still a world of people who had the potential to feel and love and laugh, and that it's those emotions that gave us Superman.

For me, that's the magic formula of Superman's heritage: He's isolated as a Kryptonian, but accepted as a human. He loses a planet, but gains another. If I had my way (and it's pretty clear at this point that I don't), he'd never really know a whole lot about Krypton -- just enough to understand that he lost an entire world and that there was a family and a history that he'll never know. Anything more than that is just fetishizing the past, a trick that superhero comics are particularly good at.

When you combine all of those bits and pieces into a whole, it shows exactly why I don't like it when stuff from Krypton shows up in Superman stories. The Phantom Zone Criminals, Kandor, the pets, and worst of all, the all-knowing floating Jor-El head that showed up in Superman: The Movie and will not stop weaseling its way into comics, movies and TV shows -- they all run counter to that delicate balance of isolation and acceptance. I like a lot of that stuff (you show me someone who doesn't like Krypto and I will show you a heartless monster) but every time one shows up, it pokes a little hole in that aspect of Superman. They tie him back to a dead world while isolating him from the one that's alive right now. Every time you see Jor-El and Lara, you're seeing Kal-El the Kryptonian, not Jonathan and Martha's son who puts on a cape and goes out to help people because he can.

I've mentioned before that for Batman's origin, Bruce Wayne's childhood should be absolutely idyllic in order to heighten the motivating tragedy of his parents' murder. For Superman, however, it's the reverse: Life on Krypton shouldn't be something Clark Kent should ever aspire to -- the definitive factor for him isn't where he was born, but rather the guidance he gets from the Kents and, by extension, the acceptance of Earth. He's embraced by his adopted home, and it's that act that makes him its protector. Krypton just doesn't matter.

So instead, Byrne uses Krypton to illustrate just what's so great about Earth: That we are nothing but emotions and life that's worth protecting

idk   I guess I wouldn't mind Diana with that pilot dude...

Steve Trevor. He's only recently been made a factor again in comics.

I'm a bit worried about the potential to abuse the 3D printing tech - people have already figured out how to make working guns, which is scary as hell - but the same can be said for every technology. It's still pretty amazing.

Science and technology can be simply breathtaking

It's the beautiful thing about living in this era. So much crazy cool stuff discovered and more coming all the time. If the Mars One thing actually pans out, we'll have people on Mars within the next ten years. Mars! Where did this possibility exist before except in fiction?