Our most recent episode features @benverschoor.bsky.social talking about the underseen Tokyo Pop which received a restoration by Indiecollect in 2023. miseenscreen.libsyn.com/episode-21-r...

"If nothing ever really goes away, it's also true that bad times can be survived and outlasted, sometimes through heroic acts of resistance and refusal but mostly in the ways that people generally survive and outlast things, which is by being stubborn and keeping at it." defector.com/make-yoursel...

in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company

At what point does the rest of the world tell FIFA to eat shit and form an alternative global soccer org? They're making up prizes to give to the guy who has antagonized literally every other participant nation!

Resurrection let's goooooo

Love that out of nowhere RESURRECTION inclusion. So cool!

Is this just a repurposed press release with no editorial clean-up, or is the Hollywood Reporter really just Like This?

Ay, cute film (derogatory). Feels like a movie 'about Japan' made by Americans for Americans, baffling for a writer-director who spent the first 17 years of her life in Japan.

Modern-day Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? where George and Martha have developed AI psychosis from creating their son in ChatGPT

We're lucky to have the Saturn version so excellently translated (MSX2 Snatcher translation is real rough), but it's a pity non-Japanese speakers will probably never get the original PC-98 version of Policenauts, which has fantastic pixel art at a higher resolution than the subsequent cel animation

*rubs chin in Freudian*

If a man personally implicated in war crimes can remain atop the Pentagon, why would he stand by and risk his freedom should Vance (or Trump again) lose the 2028 election? And unless Bradley sees the inside of a brig, the message to USSOCOM's chain of command is that no action is impermissible.

Caught this on TCM just now. We used to spend vast resources building giant structures in order to blow them up, now we just pour drinking water on ones and zeroes.

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

I wrote much of this several months ago, about Ezra Klein's response to the Kirk assassination, and then never ended up publishing it, but I think this UO "controversy" is a such a perfect example of how TPUSA et al actually advance conservative power that I decided to revive and rewrite it.

I was just the other day reading about Keith Haring and thinking about how so many art scenes were decimated by AIDS.

Been working for a while on my Policenauts write-up, and it's finally done! Everything you would want to know about the only Hideo Kojima game never to get an official localization, and the development of his cinematic approach just before Metal Gear Solid blew up

Been working for a while on my Policenauts write-up, and it's finally done! Everything you would want to know about the only Hideo Kojima game never to get an official localization, and the development of his cinematic approach just before Metal Gear Solid blew up

Shame on me for falling for this, I guess, but this combination of misleading UI, a TOS that offers no refunds, and no real customer service to speak of, should be illegal. Screengrabs of my attempt to get my money back and then to speak to an actual person below, but tl;dr: fuck QR Code Generator.

Shame on me for falling for this, I guess, but this combination of misleading UI, a TOS that offers no refunds, and no real customer service to speak of, should be illegal. Screengrabs of my attempt to get my money back and then to speak to an actual person below, but tl;dr: fuck QR Code Generator.

and you know what? these students should also be judged, and judged harshly for this. running to the admins and state legislators and the press because you got a fairly earned failing grade on an assignment is and should be seen as a mark of extremely poor character. it makes you a very bad person.

You really have to read this thread. The genius of Tom Stoppard, the fragility of memory, the magic of theatre — and the glorious stubbornness of a researcher who would not stop.

One of my favorite theater experiences ever was Tom Stoppard's Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at the National Theatre in London. A Soviet dissident is put in an insane asylum with a cell mate who believes he is conducting an orchestra--which is onstage, playing music composed for the play. 1/?

Pete Hagueseth. We should make it a thing.

It is happening again.

Discussed within is Mamoru Oshii's other big anime OVA and I finally got off my butt and watched the finale to a remake series 14 years in the making.

I think often of the time a bunch of murder victims’ families showed Trump treasured photos of their loved ones and he signed them

It is happening again.

We called this drink a Suicide

Turkeys are basically angels, so there is no better movie for me and @number8axel.bsky.social and I to dig into on Thanksgiving than Angel's Egg

I have a half-baked hot take that collective action has become a lot harder as more of our lives have been given over to platforms. 'Frictionless' experiences plus human tendency to favor the path of least resistance equals impulsive behavior at scale. 1/4

Watched Erin Brockovich and Matewan for the first time and now feel ready to fight bastards

In Ghost in the Shell humanity gets a new consciousness. Instead we're just going to run out of water.

I’m prepared to give the first 20 minutes of Bi Gan’s Resurrection all of the movie awards.

Dante knew what he was doing when he put traitors in the lowest circle of Hell.

A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.

This can be applied to so much conduct and belief wrapped up in notions of virtue

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This is like when Rob Schneider took out full-page ads in film trades saying Patrick Goldstein of the LA Times was a bad critic. People keep hoping for a Joseph Welch 'have you no decency' moment with this administration, but maybe what we need is more of Roger Ebert's 'your movie sucks' energy

only democracy in the middle east

Post a famous bathroom scene

Are you fucking kidding me it’s like we are living in a cartoon

This is the family of one of my friends I've known since undergrad. If you can donate, it would be beyond appreciated.

This allegation needs to be reported out. I hope it will be.

"No, I think the house is empty. You can't come in because I'm married. And I know who I am."

Caveat that the David Bowie-Bing Crosby "Little Drummer Boy-Peace on Earth" duet rules and is the saving grace of all Christmas playlists, the Baby Jesus of Christmas songs