With Stargaze airing, a decades-old truism returned with full force: Yasuhiro Nightow is/was catholic & that is the source of some Trigun imagery. This claim's been thrown around all sorts of web spaces, once bolstered by Wikipedia. But digging for sources reveals it a mere illusion.

clouds generally are compared to cotton, but when I was walking the dog earlier today, a big one in the sky looked more like a rock. Some of it was the lighting, but a lot of it was the sheer amount of irregularly-shaped "faces" it had. The other, more cotton-like ones had far simpler contours.

Here Comes Pac-Man World 2 but it uses the actual model

i heard you were looking for an illustration of Olive Oyl using her nintendo famicom, with the tv-net modem peripheral plugged into it, so she can use "daiwa my trade", and make trades on the japanese stock market, with the help of popeye. well here you go

I started digging around. The Japanese Saturn manual credits "Takanori Wada" and "Hiromasa Ohta" for graphic support. That second one was the character designer for Keio Flying Squadron, who worked at Victor for many years. And this image is signed "Ohchan." www.mobygames.com/person/45518...

Psychologists call dreams the main road of communication from sub to the conscious, the places where we reveal certain truths to ourselves. Why my brain found it important to list every fishing minigame I've played over my lifetime & note I gelled with none of them, I'll likely never understand.

The vast majority of the neighborhood has already taken their xmas lights down. What a shame; the nocturnal scenery always looks nicer with those pops of irregular color all over, and yet the season for them is so short...

hopefully just got out of a "hiccuping" power outage in the block. Yet, throughout all the downtime, the apartment building 2 doors down never lost electricity...

watching Sonic Soldier Borgman as research for a writing endeavor. Episode 3 (aired 27 April 1988) has neat little moments of background artists having fun, here in depicting a schoolboy's bedroom...

Occurred to me from watching random HS band videos on YT that much of the reason people remain nostalgic for the Platonic ideal of teenhood is that it's one of the last times that you're "allowed" to be silly and creative in public without judgement... Almost as if that's something adults need too 🤔

I never take my phone on dog walks, really regretting that today. We passed by flats with bushes of this lovely looking purple flower in front. In the process of sniffing, one fell on his left ear. He'd never looked so nice before. Then on the way back he shook his head so it'd fall off.

its miserable to go through 35-40 Celsius temperature without any AC. Its the point at which it gets so hot your body just wants to shut down

With preservation, often there's, in theory, a degree of having to accept one did the most they could given their circumstances. That's hard to swallow knowing that nobody else would've tried to save the same gamut of stuff as you.

Had to edit this together real quick

whipping up a message, I somehow misspelled "prudent" as "procudent". Part of me feels this could be an actual word to convey some very specific characteristic. But I don't write the dictionary, so...

The color of the sky here is a kind of muted light blue, kind of a green-gray. Great match for a cloudy sundown or sunset, very odd to witness at 10 minutes left to midnight.

Just take one, kids! #Halloween #candybowl

Every once in a while I feel a little adrift—until I remember to check the extremely normal covers of My Life, My Way, a Japanese gay magazine published from 1977-1982.

Sadako crawling out of your tv, turning motion smoothing off, then crawling back in

The whole elephant in the room wrt localization is that “adequate and cheap” is good enough for 90% of companies, and they really don’t care about what the audience outside of Japan gets as long as they make some profit

Unfortunately, I think we’re going to start seeing more of the residual effects of the 80s/90s Japanese game dev work culture (LOTS of smoking, long hours/office sleeping, heavy drinking after work) hitting in tragic ways within the next decade or so…

Had a pile of songs I had to and/or wanted to listen, so I put them semi-arbitrarily in a playlist. Was pleasantly surprised to hear PLUTO (by SUGIZO, from the album C:LEAR) segue fantastically into HALF LIFE [JAPANESE VER] (by COALTAR OF THE DEEPERS, from the SHEEP E.P.).

Who knew a fake trailer for a non-existent dramedy about a tomato soup salesman your subconscious whipped up for you could be so compelling?

He's a stray we adopted, so no idea what the exact date is, but some time this month should've been Billy's 14th birthday. The senility has come in bursts, but lately he's been his normal self, still energetic as always, even at his twilight years.

Yoru

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In honor of International Women's Day, there has been much discussion about Mabel Addis and her pivotal role in The Sumerian Game. However, Addis was part of a team of teachers that included other women whose names have not been remembered by history. I have searched for them, and here they are:

My mom & I have wildly different tastes in film, so finding recommendations for her can be quite difficult. Lucked out in the past with House of Gucci & Baz Luhrmann's Elvis; today lucked out again with Nickel Boys. Had to explain some details, but she enjoyed it even with the unique cinematography.

liquid metal T-1000 plushies

Utterly frustrating. Between today & last week I've been falling into the trap of "I can spend 5 more minutes in bed [wakes up 1-2 hours later]". Not lying down would help combat that...but I enjoy sleeping more than the tastiest food or drink...

Twitter search might be getting worse. I've done dated searches of Media from specific accounts to surface some things; the grid view has a good/bad tradeoff my feelings haven't settled on yet, but no chronological view made it worse.

Mom will make homemade ice cream. I got the mixer, but the whisk wasn't there. Pulled out the ladder, checked every pantry, no luck. After worrying she gave it away for a moment, she thought to check inside the freezer. Last time (whipped cream) required it cold & she just put it back after cleaning

of all games, the earliest known one that Yoko Taro worked on (as background designer), huh

Brian Eno's "Ambient 1" only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it went on to start an airport.

Never doubt the subconscious' capacity to dream up awful crossovers. 2 films, details already escaping me: the 1st had evil Princess Peach, Plankton & maybe some Hanna-Barbera characters hijacking a plane that crashed at the end. 2 parachuters died trying to drop in, common practice in that world.

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Some weeks ago I caught a cold, first time I got sick in ages (there was a period pre-pandemic where I'd always catch them only on summer). Took longer than wanted to pass, but the lingering symptom ended up being a nasty cough.

if you're looking to UNSUBSCRIBE, there ARE replacements that are PRO-Mentalhealth: twitter (xitter) -> bluesky spotify -> foobar2k youtube -> vlc media player instagram -> WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! (GBA) netflix -> Michigan: Report from Hell (PS2) face book -> Unreal Tournament 99 (PC)

this platform really needs to add a Media tab to its Search function. It also needs to make Search more flexible; trying to search for possessive inflections gave me nothing so I had to try the word on its own

I've been wanting a tablet for a while. Part of it is to have a portable device I can use to read PDFs/CBZs anywhere with little hassle. Pulled out a laptop I hadn't used in years out because of backlight issues, turns out those are easier to mitigate now, it seems.

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4레젠 한복 #FF14

if FF was going to expand into movies they weren't going to make movies about Final Fantasy, but instead The Final Fantasy of Movies. what FF was to games, they would be to cinema. Big disruptive events in every medium until there was FF for every aspect of life. Final Fantasy the Health Insurance

my first thought was "wtf where's the chocobos what does any of this shit gotta do with final fantasy", but it's obv it was never supposed to be Final Fantasy: The Movie- the FF brand was riding so high at the time that would have been beneath them, so they took an entirely different approach