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Last show I rewatched in its entirety was The Wire. Come to think of it, Arcane has a lot of thematic similarities with that show too. It's The Wire but with magical furries and bionic lesbians instead. Hard to pick between Silco and Stringer Bell, though.

This has got me excited more than it has any reason to. I play TFT a lot more than rift now so that's partly why, but the idea that we could see a TFT season with Arcane champs is just too good...

That's assuming the second season would be ready by 2023; which is a stretch even if they dropped an asteroid made of money on the studio. Their VP of creative (a former Netflix VP at that) has also admitted that they're planning on multiple shows and formats in the LoL universe, so it's...

I agree. If anything, I'd say Arcane is more canon than whatever pre-existing canon came before it now, which was always just whatever jumbled tropey superhero/fantasy stuff they could come up with to justify selling a new champion to ride on a current zeitgeist.

It's unsurprising that they never leaned too much into an overarching franchise lore because I think Arcane is just a culmination of the business strategy Riot's been perfecting all along: selling skins through heavily promoted events. All the chart-topping KDA albums, the fake Sailor Moon...

Yep it was implied through their voice interactions in the game but it was just a theory until the show confirmed it. Ekko actually calls her Powder ingame:

Hideo Kojima tweeted his praise for Arcane. True weebs are reaching for their pitchforks as we speak.

Might be slightly off-topic, but the Trump administration was well on its way to fixing that problem that via trade regulations. They would've forced Tencent to divest itself from Riot Games and Epic. Despite intense lobbying, the CFIUS was just about to make it happen, then Biden took office...

He wasn't the villain. He was the founding father of Zaun, and this was his story.

Yeah but it's really just well-made boomer-bait. If you were born after 1995 it'll just be another funny but forgettable coming-of-age anime. But if you lived through the 90's, had arguments with your classmates about nintendo vs sega and ever biked to spend all Saturday inhaling second-hand...

Looks like you guys probably need to watch Hi Score Girl the anime. It's basically a love-letter to 90's console gaming, Arcades and the history of fighting games.

It's ruined animated television for me. It's just too good. I can't even sit through Blade Runner Black Lotus because of lingering comparisons to Arcane; and I was seriously hyped for that. In fact, we rewatched Into the Spiderverse just because graphically it's the closest thing to Arcane...

I remember bugging my dad to rent a neo-geo from blockbuster for a weekend so that my friends and I could play it during my birthday sleepover and we pretty much just played on the SNES too.

Veigar could theoretically show up since he was some Noxian warlord's (probably Swain's) prisoner/slave around this time. He eventually escapes, which may coincide with the show's timeline.

She was on Jimmy Fallon the other day promoting Hawkeye on national TV, and while she was dolled up pretty good, I've never really seen Hailee Steinfeld as a great beauty. But she's almost unrecognizable at home in her pajamas promoting her voice acting gig:

Pretty much.

As of November 24, Arcane is now #1 Globally on Netflix's official top 10.... by a huge margin of 8 million more hours than Tiger King Season 2: https://top10.netflix.com/tv

Yep, Riot's gonna go the whole MCU route with multiple shows in the LoL universe. Via Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2021/11/23/riot-is-planning-much-more-than-just-arcane-season-2/?sh=54408e4c206d

Shurima is very much alive in Runeterra. A lot of the other regions are conquered satrapies of Shurima, including Icathia where a lot of champs come from. One of the characters in Shurima is a relative of Mel's somehow. Jae Medarda is the heir apparent to the Medarda clan and he might be the...

Their meet the cast trailer sets a fun tone:

They're prolly leaning pretty hard on the team to get something playable by season two. Not really sure I wanna them to rush either the MMO or the next season though.

That way lies madness, my friend. If you're really curious you should look into Hololive.en's vtubers. Gawr Gura in particular and how she got scouted from a rising vtuber (and quite possibly the original writer and performer of the "OK, Boomer" song) repackaged and virtually weaponized for...

Funny thing is that fight gave me the biggest "anime" vibe out of the whole series. Not typical anime genre in general, mainly because it reminded me of FLCL. I got a serious FLCL kick from that whole fight. The stylistic animation, the integration of the music and the general coming-of-age...

I play mostly lol/tft so there's never been much reason to post till the show brought up lore discussion and lol cinematics.

Do you guys not have phones? The further removed people are from the mobile/asian esports aspect of gamer culture the more shocked they are by how far Riot's animation and music production has moved past their western and Japanese rivals. Riot is largely the reason Tencent is a...

Depending on where you stand on hardcore gaming and high-end raids vs casual content, Ghostcrawler's tweets about the LoL MMO will either be hopeful news or the worst: Even in the crustiest old-school UO forums there are people who have moved past the hardcore MMO difficulty regime and...

If you've played any 2D action/adventure platforming side-scrollers in the last two decades, you've been playing Castlevania. They're called "metroidvanias" for a reason. That's how foundational that game was.

Between rewatching each act while waiting for the next one and rewatching the last act on HDR, I've probably rewatched the whole season a couple times by now.

I saw his name in the opening credits and I thought "like, THE Sting?". But it was short-lived because the next name in the credits was someone named "Fantastic Negrito".

I know that everyone in this thread is a massive Imagine Dragons fan, but some of us didn't know that Riot actually made an dedicated music video of the intro song with the band and a guest rapper. I never watched the whole thing because it's not my vibe, but I finally sat through it and it is...

I think either they're all blown up with a couple survivors or none of them are. We don't actually see an explosion and it wouldn't be much of a hand-wave to say that the folks who have become extremely wealthy because of technology that teleports airships across the planet would have the...

Oh wow. They went with more of an MvC/Guilty Gear arcsys look instead of something closer to SF4 for their upcoming fighting game. Still a ways out but they couldn't resist waving the flag during Riot's undercity nights event:

The woke shit isn't the most infuriating thing about it for me, it's how much utter disdain they'd have to feel towards the target audience to think we'd lap up any kind of "legit" hollywood validation of the fandoms regardless how phoned-in it is. The SJW shit is just an accessory to that if...

If they go ham and full-blown MCU on this franchise, I could see them just doing separate shows with the "League of Legends" subtitle. Then they can silo the different arcs for Noxus/Demacia/Bilgewater etc and have them intersect only when they need to instead of cutting down character...

It's cancel-proof, there's an actual pink-haired lesbian lead in the show.

I think one of the biggest ironies from the show is that in-game Heimerdinger is quite literally a walking arsenal of hextech weaponry. So if anyone could lend engineering help, it's him.

Their first collaboration with Fortiche for the painterly shader look was in 2017 and this teaser was released in 2019, which has a lot of footage from the first two acts already: It was originally announced to air on March 2020, but COVID hit and it got pushed to more than a year later so...

I never got past gold in LoL so I rarely play the main game but I've been enjoying TFT quite a bit. If you enjoy CCGs and want the real lore bombs, Legends of Runeterra is their big draw. It seems like the LoL story group is working out of the Runeterra office and the retcons come from there...

Also that Vander = Warwick thing is gonna be an argument till the next season now:

She's not really a villain, at least not as she's portrayed in the runeterra card game. She's a reflection of Zaun as a culture and is pretty much considered the "Champion" of Zaun in the present day. She's become the poster girl of LoL for the last couple years and now that I think about it...