Happy new year!! 🎇✨

didn't matter how quickly or easily one can make a bunch of slop it all falls apart if you need to print it onto paper and buy a spot in a physical space and convince people to actually buy it

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

the long delayed grandma quotes thread because i ran out of things to do.

I am trying not to get too excited until one of the event organizers or someone from Houston First makes a statement but Things Are Happening in the Anime Matsuri Facebook group

Damn, Torishima called out Twitter dragon ball fans

dying

真アギト展に行きたい！

Ultra Q (1966) Episode 20

Just reminding you all Ultra Q is available on Blu-ray for a reasonable price So if you haven't seen it in its highest quality and want to get into the Ultra series, it's very much like Twilight Zone but with a recurring cast + Kaiju and kaijin. Every episode is fantastic & the lighting works well

💿 The Luigi’s Mansion disc is almost 50% Pikmin:

The Resident Evil 2 fixed camera angles mod is so good that I have cancelled all my very important business appointments for tonight to playing this game at at 7:30pm EST on twitch.tv/superbunnyhop instead! Check out this highlight reel I made:

Marine rkgk

The First and The Next are interesting to look at today in how their reverence to the past is pretty much perfunctory (as was a lot of media overall), so a potentially (& candidly) even more irreverent project like that kinda makes you think What If

God you just know that third film would've pissed people off in (at least on the anglophonic side in those days) so bad lol

Shoichi washing ashore might be a reference to Laura Palmer!?!?

Please imagine with me... Special Agent Dale Cooper arrives to work with Hikawa on a case...

Not really discussed that often but one of the secondary & tertiary reasons Israel's public image has so rapidly declined among the youth in countries like the US, UK and Germany is because of behavior like this. Petulant, circular, nonsensical, extremely whiny. It doesn't make *Mamdani* look bad.

You could just say fucking anything in 1998

I’m almost 100% certain this is BS. I can’t find anything about it on Politico’s site; I can’t find any reference to a Quinn Jackson or Maya Ozery who work for Politico anywhere (that doesn’t refer to this story); the screenshots are missing a date/time; the writers’ names are in the wrong place.

The liner notes booklet for Kamen Rider First/Next really puts into perspective how many times Toei has done the “this one goes back to Rider’s roots” gimmick. It’s like a constant thing. Even Amazon in 1974 was one of those.

ok YouTube

clefable before gen 6

Inoue has some advice for writers who use Twitter.

i have a new hobby i made up where i look at hundreds of ancient stock photo cdroms from archive .org and try to find cool shit in them. ill post more later but for now these are "tonights picks"

Ultra Q (1966) Episode 15

Honestly I can’t even scold anyone for being on 4chan because the “substance” of Twitter these days is identical or worse.

Drake, Akademics, Adin Ross and others have been hit with a federal RICO. Happy New Year indeed.

The Tekken guys over a decade ago: we are making a pokemon Tekken game and calling it pokemon Tekken Gamers every year since then: did you know the pokemon in Pokemon Tekken do Tekken moves

No worries I'm sure payment processors are running at the speed of light to prevent blue purchases because of this. Right?? Right. 😐

Her

I keep laughing at this

day two in Zohran Mamdani’s New York. I watched a gaggle of financial analysts get ziptied and marched into an unmarked van. A man ordered a latte with whole milk in front of me in line and the barista immediately shot him in the head.

i was just thinking about this. when a fascist squeaks by, it’s a mandate. when a progressive wins by a landslide, he needs to be deferential. it’s such bullshit.

the perception of AI as "slop" being so widespread that even CEOs are forced to adopt that framing is proof that we're winning

All those things I love

I don’t even rate Agito very high in my early Heisei rankings (it’s my least favorite out of the 2000-2004 shows), and yet I’d still say it’s underrated. It just has the unfortunate position of being in-between Kuuga and Ryuki.

（RP ！！！）

Did you know he got into screenwriting because his dad was broke? They didn’t have royalties or anything like that back then so his super important writer dad was becoming poor. Inoue wanted to be a novelist instead

Now watching the Makoto Yokoyama (action director) interview they produced for this Blu-ray. It already starts with mentioning pro wrestling and Antonio Inoki.

Also while generated deepfake revenge porn and CSAM is something that 404 and others have covered extensively before, there’s a huge difference between a platform automating this vs. a weird telegram group. It is fair to argue this is the logical endpoint.

Screen used Giant God puppet and a sculpture from Sukagawa Tokusatsu Archives Center. #reference #3D #cosplay #tokusatsu

Finally unwrapping the “Kamen Rider Dyad” set tonight.