Important to note from this statement is that Hiroyuki Yamaga told Gainax employees to pretend he was in the hospital in one of several attempts to avoid repaying the money Anno loaned to them

Myself and the wife were discussing bad anime endings and I realised most bad endings I just sorta jettisoned from my mind so I no longer remember the details. The ones whose awfulness still burnt bright in my mind were Acca 13 and Erased

Of all the trends in left wing online discourse,"it's not my job to educate you" was definitely up there as one of the worst and most self-defeating

I gots a copy of EU5! I have no Internet, my computer is sitting in a port on the east coast of the US, and I have no desk on which to put it anyway, but at least I have the game to play when it all gets here!

That period in between moving to a new house and waiting for the Internet to be set up is the closest to dying and ending up in limbo there is on this earth

Europe Universalis 5 is coming out right when my computer will be in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean darn

Sometimes the BBC throws up a set of headlines that makes it feel like a parody of itself

I'm baffled by the SpaceX rocket explosions. Did rockets used to blow up in the past constantly too and I was not aware of it? Is it just it gets shared widely every time it happens so it feels like it happens more than it should? I just feel like they shouldn't be blowing up so many rockets

Decided not to count anything I only saw one episode of because that felt like it didn't really count. I don't know why 2013 is so weirdly barren, I guess I just didn't watch a bunch of the popular anime at the time? You can see the drop in more recent years, but honestly still going pretty strong

I didn't post about it because I forgot how to post online anymore, but Orb is A+ fantastic anime that I highly recommend to absolutely everyone. ...but man do I wish it knew how to draw stuff at night. Half the time I couldn't see shit

In case anyone who's followed me for a while has wondered what I've been up to, my latest obsession has been modding Europa Universalis 4, specifically the big fantasy overhaul mod Anbennar. Anyways, here I am being interviewed by a vtuber to talk about space lizards for an hour

ordering a pup cup for my chikorita in lumiose

Been meaning to make this edit for months now.

I've finally started watching the new Spice and Wolf. One thing I enjoy about it is how dark everything is indoors when it's only lit by candlelight. Feels very authentic to the era

My fav genre of youtube video are eastern European vaguely leftist who have a dictionary of 5000 different soyjaks who make jokes that require a masters in the history of 12th century population migration patterns. I've come across roughly 10 of these right now and it's weird how similar they are

don't give up jinshi 💔 #apothecarydiaries #薬屋のひとりごと

cowardice

The anime chat Discord server I run finished their Anime of the Year voting for last year. Was extremely close between the top two, with Delicious in Dungeon only narrowly beating Frieren to the top spot by like 1 vote. The server is still active and we'd love to have anyone new discord.gg/FyDnfWVN

I've been trying to convince Day to leave twitter but with no luck. She can't bring herself to make the jump, even if she recognises how bad it has gotten

One thing I liked from Twitter that isn't here yet is the ability to block reposts from someone while continuing to follow them. It was a godsend for people who I like hearing from but got tired of their daily repost of 10 lewd art pieces in the space of 30 minutes

I...still write an anime blog. Sometimes. Anyway, I wrote a post, mostly to myself, about Frieren thecartdriver.wordpress.com/2024/11/24/s...

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

about to make F1 history

Is the bluesky migration real? I dropped off the platform because it just wasn't scratching the old Twitter itch - plus I had lost the ingrained "I should tweet that" whenever I think of something suitably stupid. But seen people talk about it growing again so maybe I'm back???

Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama dies at 68:

You’d never think anything starting with “Mutant wolves roaming the deserted streets of Chernobyl” would have a positive ending, but here we are.

The part of my brain that used to instantly think "that would be a good tweet" after a thought has gone. I used to frantically workshop it in my brain as I reached for my phone. Now the thought just passes, unshared with the world

@adaywithoutme.bsky.social hey good lookin'

Anime of the Year! Ended up being a better year than it started out like once I went back and caught up on shows people were raving about, or sequels I was putting off. Also WATCH MIGI AND DALI PLEASE!! daywith.thecartdriver.com/index.php/20...

I present to you the TRUE story of the Minnesota State Flag.

It's weird how much Space Dandy came and went for how much hype it got pre-release. I loved it, but the more time goes on, the more I wonder why it just sorta got forgotten. So I wanted to return to it and see if it held up daywith.thecartdriver.com/index.php/20...

Always found it odd that one of the benefits of booking business class on flights is that you get to board first. Instead of sitting in a spacious terminal for longer, you get to sit in a cramped airplane!

Spy X Family makes me happy in a way that bypasses any critical thought at this stage

You all think you are horny, but in tale of Genji men cheat on their wives out of lust for a woman's shadow in the blinds they saw for a few seconds years ago

I wrote a blog post! Fall 2023 anime season preview. Been doing these for...15 years? Haven't missed one in that time. daywith.thecartdriver.com/index.php/20...

I've joked before that most webtoons feel like they were ai-generated. Then I learned a lot of webtoons use pre-existing assets. Which caused a bit of a crisis in my faith in art in general. The stories already follow such a pre-set formula that it's not hard to imagine it too being ai-generated

The "Which Anime Character has the Most Rizz" bracket on the discord has come down to these two. Both with very different energies, both equally valid

Wife brought up an interesting question: Which anime was a bigger hit in western fandom: Chainsaw Man or Oshi no Ko? Like it's clear by now Chainsaw Man was not the next Titan, or even next One Punch Man, that it felt like it was going to be, but was it overtaken by an idol show?

We've been running a "Anime Character with the Most Rizz" contest in the discord I run, and the longer it goes on, the more the deciding factor has proven to be "how large of a private military force can you control on pure rizz alone"

Guess who just got their green card stamped woooooooh Murica! I started this process before fucking covid holy shit

seeing everyone I know from Twitter on my Bluesky feed with the same usernames and icons

The Assassin's Creed games are my favourite games I never play. I just like looking from afar and seeing what they're up to. 9th Century Bagdad you say? Gosh, what a cool point in history to choose. American Independance war but you play as a native American? An interesting choice!

Wife's WW1 book is dramatically titled SOMME like it's shouting the name. So when I saw this and my meme-addled brain went SOMME- -BODY once told me the war was gonna roll me I ain't the sharpest tool in the trench

A very basic example of Google showing the wrong answer by scraping the first result it finds (this was true only in the first games and hasn't been the case since like 2000). This kind of stuff happens with everything. Wait until Google starts pulling from ai generated medical advice

I've been liking people's posts on here way more often than I used to like tweets on the other site. I've figured if I want cool people I follow to stay on this site, I need to feed them that incredible dopamine you get from seeing the number go up next to that little heart

Sometimes when I need a calculator, I'll just type "calc" into the search bar and hit enter since I know google will just serve one up. However this never works because, due to my own personal failings, it will default to sending me to the pokemon damage calculator