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Who here like to just get in their car and drive. With gas prices being what they are we’ll have to settle for a movie about driving around and enjoying the night out. Let’s look through the old film library and see if we can find something that fits the mood. Well look here, an Al Pacino movie called Cruising(1980).
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Revisits galore are abound. This is what happens when someone has done as many reviews as we have. At this many episodes we have this means we’ve done at least a thousand. We’re being generous based on overlaps and reasons we would have doubled up. Even if we hadn’t, just round up and say a thousand for us because we’re so great.
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This week on Anime Pulse we got wheelchair assassins, disappointing Halloween, and the best families in anime. Up first IRL news with Andrew gearing up for his great marathon, and Joseph is being the worst person possible in a fan Pokemon game. Industry news is still mostly empty save for Miss. Goku turning 90, so previews come early. Joseph goes totally comatose and needs his sister to keep trying to kill him to wake up, and Andrew goes on a grand adventure to collects scary things and fight an evil queen.
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This week on VG Pulse, happy spookums season!! We start off with side notes of work and life, before diving into the regular news where we discuss the sad but not unexpected closing of BioWare, Microsoft racking up L’s in a few different ways, Factorio reaching its final form, and Steam taking a bold stance on AI clone games. After the news we go over the discord discussions, and have a rather lengthy discussion about Silent Hill: Townfall and the future of Silent Hill as we know it! We finish off with talk of anime! All this and more up next on VGP 443!!! -Aki
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Robots. Think on that for a minute, won’t you? See, we too can write Black Mirror episodes. Also, what about cameras? What if there was one inside your bidet water supply? And it possessed the memories of Winston Churchill? Scary, right? On that note, we have Soulm8te[2026].
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This week on Anime Pulse we got horny priests, a late Andrew, and the best and worst of horror. Up first IRL news has Andrew leaving Joseph waiting around for an hour, and Joseph is super boring so he uses pass. No industry news either, but they do talk about some anime that were the best and the worst of what horror has to offer. And thus we reach yet another previews round as Joseph summons a short dark stack with a bloody nose so they can explore magical things in the bedroom, and a Certain Andrew is abandoned by his fiancé after he lost all his saving in the stock market.
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Did you know there’s a new Resident Evil movie out? And it’s directed by Zach Cregger who did the movie Weapons! So you know what that means. We’re doing two manga so that’s entirely unrelated. Unless maybe you count the fact we’re doing revisits which is kind of like rising from the grave. Yeah, so it’s like zombie manga. That’s the connection. We can make it all come around on a long enough timeline.
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This week on Anime Pulse we got new beds, the best worst isekai crossovers, and the horny horny goblins. Up first IRL news sees Andrew refused to wear the M. Bison outfit to the new Street Fighter movie, and Joseph is slipping and sliding all across his new bed. Then in the industry news , there is none! Lastly more previews close things out as Joseph awakens to find himself as a horny short blue monster in a powerful spaceship with a useless goddess, and Andrew makes a love potion for a cold blooded killer so they can play woman’s basketball together.
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This week on VG Pulse, happy spooky season! We start off with side notes of work and life, before diving into the regular news where we discuss Microsoft really wanting to shove ads into video games, Discord getting hacked again to no ones surprise, Satisfactory cats, and a wild situation over a used CPU! After the news, Millennium gives his review of Dead Island 2, and we finish off with talk of anime! All this and more up next on VGP 442!! -Aki
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Have you ever had to do your homework on the school bus on Monday morning? That’s what we had to do for a movie. I no small part because we’re bery professional. So we grabbed a nineties movie off the virtual shelf because Kevin Bacon is in it. It’s supposed to star Meryl Streep but we’re there for the Bacon.
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