Recent content by Texas America Murphy

Yeah. See I'm having a hard time believing that one.

You think being film student is a guarantee against ignorance and knee-jerk opinions? I want to be snarky, but that thought is so innocent. So pure. So totally outside of real-world comprehension. It would be like taking away Santa.

People often underestimate the importance that a piece of arts surrounding culture has on that piece of art. It's really hard to truly appreciate something when you can't stand everyone else who likes it as much as you do. Using games as an example (we are on the Escapist), how many people love...

So where do Self-Righteous forum posts sit on that transportation scale then?

This. This right here. This is a poster who everyone should emulate. No seriously, this is a great and informative post for someone who's never seen any Anime before. You seem to know your genre conventions really well.

Yeah I'm thinking of just starting a new thread that's just nothing but this.

OH GOD YOU'RE RIGHT! I AM ASHAMED! I AM SO VERY ASHAMED!

And you are entitled to your opinion, no matter how woefully and undeniably incorrect it is.

Update VI The thrilling conclusion: Deathnote would be much better if it were about a man whose powers were that he could voodoo through people off of roofs with a flick of his pen. The End.

What the fuck are you talking about?

Update V for Vendetta You know how I know this is fiction? He comes really close to killing his douchebag schoolmate and doesn't. I've met Light Yagami's in real life. If the Deathnote were real the first ten pages would read "That guy from my homeroom who always calls me a "fag" by...

You're right. It's not. Things I have learned today: people with anime avatars have a really creepy obsession with my girlfriend. Seriously, what could you possibly need to glean from this piece of information?

Deathnote Update IV: A New Pope (of Murder) I love that they just blew half their animation budget on him opening up a goddamn notebook and getting ready to write. Seriously. He opens that book with the same amount of forcefulness and gravitas that Chow Yun Fat uses to kick down doors. You...

The imminent threat of death has reformed my commie DVD player into a godfearing American that now decides to play fucking DVDs. Deathnote Update #3 Revenge of the Pith Okay. So the afterlife looks like West Texas? Truely God is dead. Oh my God I already hate this protaganist. That...

Deathnote Update 2: YOU SON OF A ***** DVD PLAYER. YOU PLAY DVDS FOR ME FOR TWO YEARS AND THEN BETRAY ME LIKE THIS! I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL BREAK INTO BEST BUY AND KILL YOUR ENTIRE DVD PLAYER FAMILY.