I still think of IBO as a new show, but oh man the color separation on the HG Barbatos is pretty rough compared to the WfM gunpla. Lacking the iconic gold trim for the shoulder pieces is particularly odd. I guess they wanted to sell Gundam markers.

Five stars for Scarlet Hollow.

I love it when artists re-use small ideas like this. Char doesn't explain his logic, but it's presumably the same as Horta's.

A cursed flash of memory: spirit animals are cultural appropriation discourse - solution: call it your patronus instead.

It reminds me of the Ship of Theseus, which I learnt as a philosophy thought experiment and only found out years later that it was a real Athenian tourist attraction.

Gonna tell my kids this was the left-wing Joe Rogan.

Outside of animation and Star Trek, did bringing back the cast of a cancelled tv show for a new go a decade+ later ever work?

This is too much insight into McCoy's private life.

This is by far the nicest I've gotten a gunpla to look.

This is by far the nicest I've gotten a gunpla to look.

Is there anything in this world more joyful than the midbosses in wuxia films?

Happy 30th Anniversary today, to the one and only After War Gundam X! A fresh official illustration has been shared, to mark this special occasion 🎂

Star Trek was always woke.

I don't really like the part of gunpla modeling where you build the thing itself. It's kinda tedious after you've done it enough times. It gets much more fun when you're melting the plastic with chemicals to remove seamlines or slathering your robot in goopy oil paint.

I’ve watched this four times and will not be stopping anytime soon

I'm a little disappointed in Star Trek fans for being so accepting of the TOS remasters that replace the practical effects with CGI. Going from poppy sets obviously made from cardboard to that is intolerable.

I had to stop playing Monster Hunter World because I felt too bad for the monsters when they're running away injured.

After Hazbin Hotel improved so much for S2, Helluva Boss's S2 dropping the ball after a strong S1 is disappointing. Obviously Medrano likes to ignore the premises of her shows, but doing a 12-episode season about hitman demons where they carry out hits in exactly two episodes is really pushing it.

Sam Wood is widely considered a hack and was a shit. However, this scene from his Ivy, in which Joan Fontaine poisons her husband in a daze, is so stylish, from the acting to the music and the decisions to not show her pour in the poison or her husband's face until he drinks the cocktail.

lol

So I was watching the 1993 Finish Made For TV adaptation of The Lord of The Rings, and thought everyone should see the moment where Gollum falls into Mount Doom.

Heartbreaking: reading a John le Carré novel and realizing he didn't do any research for the section set in your homeland.

The psychological satisfaction of blocking a random person for posting something annoying.

this happened to my friend kudelia aina bernstein

what if there were 3 bunys

Fuck it, that part in Götterdämmerung where Siegfried narrates his life just before Hagen kills him and gets to the part where he sings the woodbird's theme as a reminder of lost innocence is the most achingly beautiful moment I know and always makes me cry.

The final mission in XCOM 2. My team was two turns from TPK and the boss had teleported far away from everyone. Only the sniper I'd had from the first month had a shot in the ~70% range. She made it, which triggered his teleportation and landed him right in the killzone.

It's always interesting to go back to the origins. In Devilman, AFAIK the origin of the "hero and villain have a homoerotic bond before twist" trope (cf. Berserk, Eva, Naruto), the text outright says the villain is in love with the hero. There is, however, a second twist.

Incredibly funny that the president of the United States can do this and retain command of the American Armed Forces, but I said it about a literal Nazi and got fired from a job writing superhero comics.

In third grade or so, someone told me Animal Farm was a hilarious comedy with funny animals.

Punching up has to have one of the best character arcs of any term. From "comedians should make fun of the powerful rather than the marginalized" to "if I pick the right Internet rando as my target, me indulging in my sadistic tendencies is in fact virtuous."

The Conjuring films are the most artistically successful works of conservative Christian art in the 21st century.

Trying to make sprue goo for the first time. Please send thoughts and prayers.

I wonder how those artists who wrote their crimes into their art, like NG's Calliope story in Sandman, felt doing it? Is it camouflage ("Haha, now no one will ever suspect me")? An attempt at self-understanding or therapy? Some kind of penance?

this is killing me lol

I just don't believe that Atra IBO would have failed to make any progress in her polycule master plan during the two year time skip between seasons. Just absolutely shatters my suspension of disbelief.

John F. Kennedy inspired Paul Atreides and Robert influenced Gihren Zabi. I don't suppose Ted's villainy would work very well in scifi, but Robert Jr. would be perfect.

Prospera watching Suletta's fights on a monitor, deciding she doesn't like the red shoe look, making sure they're repainted for the culmination of her twenty-year-old plan.

Kamille going straight from his Romeo and Four arc to cuddling Fa without a second of self-reflection is the best joke in Zeta and refreshingly honest teenager writing in anime.

Time makes mugs of us all

Comics not following the 180 degree rule freaks me out.

Bless the BL fandom for keeping the flame of Athens alive.

Fascinating that this type of guy must have already been a thing in 80s Japan. Or maybe he's as old as feminism?

I've decided I like Beltorchika this time around. She isn't (just) annoying, as frequently dismissed; she's a real weirdo, and that's fun. I fully support her feuding with Kamille, trying to bully him out of the robot for her new boyfriend of three days.

Sign of social progress: social media posts quoting Red's letters from This is How You Lose the Time War only crediting Amal El-Mohtar.

Looking forward to Moana 3.

I appreciate how the wizard question is such a clear-cut, video game-like "do you want to be good or evil" dilemma. If you care, you already own the books and films, or can easily get them second hand. She will use your money for evil. All you need to do is not buy tote bags or a B+ video game.

the ps1 resident evil trilogy is genuinely one of the most incredible achievements in video games just three radically different interpretations of an extremely strong core idea leading to some of the most infinitely replayable games ever. and capcom is in 2026 mostly embarassed about this