Anno is joking. He's buds with both Miyazaki and Tomino (Gundam) and knows that they didn't even really breakout until their late 30s/40s. Anno himself was 35 when NGE came out. Despite what you may have heard, Japanese people can be funny and sarcastic on purpose.

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A New Normal #fgo

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school. They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

“Well, an editor should have—“ Dude. Come here. Get a little closer. Bend in. That’s it. The editors are *gooooooone* Gone, gone, gone. And yeah. Even the best writer needs an editor. Unfortunately there’s been a long and extremely successful campaign by the right to devalue the written word. 🤷‍♀️

good editors exist to prevent you from writing the most tone-deaf existential comparisons between real-world war crimes and a video game character, and if you don't have an editor you should fall on your knees and beg for one

on the bright side, the internet has made kids funnier

They'll harass one voice actor, then start harassing another one and others will comment "where was this energy for harassing (previous voice actor who got harassed)?!" It was there. You guys just harass so many of these actors that you forgot which ones you got mad at and how mad you got.

This is exactly why it's a "delay" instead of a complete revert: cause at the end of the day, they still have to bend over for legislation

Let's be real, Discord only really did these stupid verification things cause of the laws that caused it. Cancelling Nitro is good, but if truly want to solve the problem forever it must be stopped at the source (the governments in various countries that passed these stupid laws to begin with)

New article on what I enjoy in the Trails franchise (so far)!

Lilith (@gallowlessdatura.bsky.social) reflects on her time with the first five games of the Trails series, and how they create a believable world that cares about the mundane interconnections of a community!

I’ve come to realize people think slurs are just words that hurt our feelings. No. Slurs, particularly the N-word, F-word, antisemitic terms etc. aren’t taboo because of that. It’s because historically when these terms are said they precede or pair with pitchforks, torches, lynchings & gas chambers.

Read this thread. This is why that taboo art you don't like needs to exist. Block it if it upsets you. Move on with your life. But dont destroy the safety nets and frameworks for actual victims that would come about by forcing everything right back into another Hays Code cuz you can't press a button

"the system forces him to act in a certain way" is also not a reason not to criticise him for it: nothing changes that way. (Also in the light of Trump, it all rings a bit hollow...)

this is, to me, the strongest argument against the proliferation of easy gambling. the personal ruin is worth considering. it's nothing next to the erosion of public trust

Transphobia is an astroturfed moral panic invented from whole cloth by people on the Epstein list

Fond memories of working at NTL, woman rang up screaming at me. Her husband in background shouts at her, “don’t talk to them like that. They’re on fuck all” Then he takes phone off her, and gives me a line which I have used myself since “Do you have a manager you dislike intensely I can speak to?”

reskeeting to add alt text: #NoAI

Hey why did the costco ceo actually reply to my email

always funny seeing this one come up in the wild... i made this in the bathroom of my job in 2018. however it took me another 10 months to quit that job because it is hard to take your own advice

Black Canary #blackcanary

@littlekuriboh.bsky.social Since I know you've been boosting GenAI news related to Genshin games, it was just discovered that they added a clause to their Privacy Policy that allows them to train an AI using your voice if you use in game voice chat. genshin.hoyoverse.com/en/company/p...

Yep

three and nine

"We've made mistakes": Discord delays age verification rollout but promises no meaningful change as co-founder spends 1,857 words trying to sound apologetic www.gamesradar.com/games/weve-m...

Himeno

have a neco arc #art #digitalart #necoarc #meltyblood

Bingo, if you make a ton of people innovate on accessing stuff on their phone they’re not supposed to have, suddenly that helps a whole ton of people in ways you and I cannot control. Better to prevent that environment from being created in the first place by being very careful about what you ban

(4) means more & more people will work together to aid in accessing illegal content, which can actually defeat the original purpose of strict extreme pornography laws (ie to highlight a specific abusive material and disrupt its spread by making it uniquely illegal to own)

(3) working together to create and innovate on ways to dodge law enforcement that THEN aids those possessing CSAM This is why it’s unwise to overly regulate pornography, people want to access porn, help each other to do so, but when more and more material is deemed unlawful to possess it

(2) a very obvious reason, it makes more people create resources / guides / opsec insight for accessing and looking at pornography they’re not supposed to have legally. Great in the case of an idiotic ban on roleplay between consenting adults, but the last thing you want is a ton of people

The UK targeting possession for incest roleplay porn (ie one of the most popular porn genres ever) means people are going to be quickly coming together to figure out and spread tips / tricks / insights into discreetly looking at and sharing it with minimal trace on one’s phone This is bad for (1)

I know this is like, “eww squick” it wouldn’t hurt me, but this basically bans the first episode of Game of Thrones, a significant amount of Greek mythology, and every open fanfiction website on the planet. And I wouldn’t trust an authoritarian govt with “nuance” about what is art and what is porn.

It's literally the "we are still doing it but now we would like you to be less mad about it." post. After 3 backdowns that didn't even back down they pull out another BIG puppy eyed SUPER sorry backdown that ALSO doesn't back down. No. You've fuckied your last wucky, UwU. bsky.app/profile/teal...

rixia maooo fa #kiseki

Elaine Auclair #kiseki

little sketch 🌨️ #kiseki / #trailsofcoldsteel

"But I hate ICE and support trans rights and etc etc" if you aid in the suppression of art, you are a fascist. One of the textbook markers of a fascist state is the suppression of art it deems "degenerate". If you have one empathetic cell left in your brain, you'll start digging into the history

If you're doing callout posts about artists creating fictional taboo content, you may not consider yourself a fascist, but you are one. You are their stupid tool at the bare minimum. The good news is you can stop doing that at any time

evangelion aired in 1996 so we gotta update the screenshot

I think we as a society need to move on from Evangelion. It had three very lovely endings, four if you count the initial TV ending as its own thing, and I think it should be left as that.

マーリン #FGO

oh it's cat day! here's an old piece I did for a cat-themed fate zine #fgo #nemiarts

Maomao 🐈 cat sfw