Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

Godzilla vs Gigan (12) March 12, 1972 Not a wholly accurate title as it’s Godzilla AND Anguirus vs Gigan AND Ghidorah. But ok. Still find human(and alien) plot/pace weird, but monster stuff is great. Love Gigan’s rocket flight, villains are getting scarier. Violent, Godzilla is cut & bleeds.

Green Lantern: First Flight (DCAU 13) July 28, 2009 These continue improving on coverage of source material. Probably better than its live action origin 2 years later. Way less humor, but feels like a proto Guardians of the Galaxy. DC toons have great casts, solid animation, mixed storytelling.

I definitely have too many IP going at once over too little time, as my impulse on any big franchise is to absorb it all. Quarter through reading Two Towers, I not only want to revisit LotR movies for the first time in a decade + see the animated ones, but also dig into so many games…

After the latest trailer, I’m getting pretty excited for more X-Men ‘97 with its Past/Present/Future Apocalypse-Across-Time setup. Unlike Season 1, I’m now far enough into comic reading to know most of the stories it’s referencing.

Two days ago a sitting US Senator was pepper sprayed for protesting ICE and it didn’t even become national news.

It’s partially my brain needing to mash everything together, right between the Batman and 007: First Light releases. And it pushes the content rating threshold… …But I would not at all mind a Lego James Bond game going through all the movies.

Good lord.

Star Wars Lost DAYS and can’t find a single enjoyable angle to micro-post a cogent narrative. Won’t summarize, but find a pace I can enjoy it all. With my knowledge, chronological is more fun than release order. Kinda cooking, idiot savant style, in treating each medium as its own continuity…

Was extremely close to 1 final attempt at comic summaries. Continuing notes, Bat stuff I found fun again being broader about the plot rather than description of events. But hitting Batman #1 with 4 stories, I can’t commit that thought daily and actually read other stuff that I wanna.

Godzilla vs. Hedorah (11) July 24, 1971 This is tonal whiplash from the previous movie, and I kinda love it. Hedorah is actually pretty scary looking, and the environmental animations are cool. It’s silly and overwrought in parts, but think it might be my favorite so far since the original.

Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

shelton benjamin will be fifty-one years old in july.

Losing far too many hours this week tackling every angle of Star Wars I can think of to find a trajectory I’m content with, I’ve got 2 options. 1) The only way I could enjoy doing EVERYTHING, is publication order, 1 piece of media at a time. Though I worry I’d burn out, especially grinding novels.

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Everybody congratulate me (and other men my age) for not hearing all this “no Star Wars movie in the theater for *seven* years” talk, and managing to somehow not use that as an opportunity to bring up the Star Wars wilderness years between 1983 and 1999

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Wonder Woman (DCAU 12) March 3, 2009 Probably Diana’s best origin film. Not perfect, love Fillion but his Steve Trevor is awfully smarmy compared to Pine’s, and its action is neck-snappingly violent. But authentic & enjoyable telling of WW’s battle with Ares and discovery of the world of man.

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Last week of working through the novel, comic adaptation, audio version, some of the film & watching various gameplay has me again wondering if I want to go through Star Wars in a continuity order. I’d have to read novel/comic adaptations first to purge down to 1 version of each event…

It feels like a tell for how theatrical and hollow conflict in business and politics in the U.S. has become. They are used to fights with people who go out to dinner with them afterward, and they do not understand what it means to make enemies.

Yep. Consumer-facing "A.i." is a tool of economic exploitation, disinformation, and fascism. The right wing billionaires pushing it want you to be incapable of original thought and judgement and to be entirely economically dependent and exploited. Just say HELL NO.

The Empire Strikes Back NES 1992

Star Wars NES 1991

another quiet night in gotham. they fixed the bank. theres no way its going to happen again

Man, ‘90s cartoons loved having one-off characters doing an impression of John Travolta as Vinnie Barbarino on Welcome Back, Kotter.

Likely wrapping Trails SC tonight, I might just pause and do a deep dive on Star Wars games for a bit. Spent an afternoon narrowing the release order I had, glancing through all the delisted mobile/browser games I’ll never play. What’s left is mostly in my Steam/PSN library or easy to access.

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

Thought I’d go a long time on this (impressed I managed Spidey for years) and probably could motivate myself to prioritize… But think I’m scrapping summaries before I’m in too deep. Wanna have fun going through media on socials & find it enjoyable, but not satisfying enough to justify investment.

has anyone ever failed to understand what human beings want out of their lives more completely than the undead abominations in charge of making all the stuff!!!!!!

Seth Rogen has more artistic integrity and understanding of creating than … whatever this is jfc. Let me revisit his words and remember that not everyone is terrible. (Via: variety.com/2026/film/ne...)

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Detective Comics #32 August 1939 Monk & sexy minion Dala werewolves, they trap Batman in a pit with normal wolves he has to gas to sleep repeatedly all night until able to escape. The duo also vampires, Batman shoots them dead with silver bullets while asleep in coffins, freeing Julie from allure.

Star Wars #4 (0 BBY) July 12, 1977 Forgot to mention in #3, the movie is out at this point. This is peak Star Wars adventure serial we’ve since lost. Death Star escape - Han fumbling with Stormtroopers, Luke/Leia chasm swing, Kenobi/Vader duel. Best sequence of the film & comic adapts flawlessly.

Jedi Arena (0 BBY) February 1983 Another Atari title. Like a…reverse Breakout? where you use your Lightsaber/paddle to block remote orb lasers(like Luke training on the Falcon) from destroying your shields. Bit of Pong vibe, might be kinda fun against a 2nd player, but still simple games this era.

the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real

Shuffled and paused a couple things and am mostly content with my reading to fit in SW/DC/X-Men daily + a couple other things. Better once LotR is done as prose is typically a larger time investment than comics (Council of Elrond chapter was roughly an hour read alone)

Detective Comics #31 July 1939 Bruce’s fiancée Julie Madison hypnotized to stalk the streets and kill in her bathrobe, Batman uses new gadgets, the Bat-Gyro & Baterang, to cagefight a giant ape and free her from the Mad Monk, who he follows to his lair in Hungary - Land of History and Werewolves.

All Monsters Attack (10) December 20, 1969 Full kid mode here, theme song, think series’ shortest runtime, allegory for standing up for yourself… Not great, kid daydreams about hanging with Minilla while Godzilla stock footage fights monsters, occasionally waking to Home Alone some bank robbers.

The Empire Strikes Back (3 ABY) July 1982/August 1983 First SW game on a console as you shoot down AT-ATs on Hoth. Atari version seems smoother in gameplay, Intellivision a year later has better audio but feels jankier. Neat concept, but as most games of this era, I feel the novelty wears in 20m.

Star Wars #3 (0 BBY) June 7, 1977 Covers Alderaan ‘splosion to freeing Lea from the cell. Pretty straightforward off the script, not really much to opine about. Though notable how much more clear and impactful it makes Luke’s first kill, to delay alert on the Death Star.

The Story of Star Wars (0 BBY) 1977 Neat theater-of-the-mind vinyl audio adaptation - child adventure mode. Unsure if released before/after film. Roscoe Lee Browne(Cosby Show, Spidey ‘94 Kingpin) gives good narration w/movie dialogue & sfx. Han & Chewie noted as 30 and 200 years old respectively.

Watched this 3 or 4 times and never realized Transformers: The Movie takes place 20 years after the show. Though I wasn’t alive at the time to know what year the cartoon takes place. Also thanks to Energon comics, I understand way more this watch, things like Quintessons, than I ever have before.