The thing about CrunchyRoll’s enshittification is that normally I’m a big proponent of supporting official channels but if the money from subscriptions isn’t being used to pay talent and labour and the quality suffers as a result, then morally what’s the purpose of supporting those official means?

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

The original Let It Die was famous for its absolutely amazing soundtrack. Akira Yamaoka went and got in touch with a HUNDRED of his favourite indie bands and commissioned each to do a track named 'let it die'. The result was borderline mystical. They're AI-generating the music here. Fuck that.

It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality

Free digital version of The Art of KPop Demon Hunters!! theartofkpopdemonhunters.com

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

Air travel always makes me want to read a history of commerical aviation, at least when it doesn't make me think about airport tycoon

Sydney airport remains a extremely baffling place. Why is there one (1) filtered drinking fountain in this wing. Why are the toilets on the other side of the building to the food court.

mysterious thing about being an Australian anime fan is a couple of times an anime would get an english cover of its original japanese OP song So the version of Cardcaptors we got was the Animax dub but an english cover of Catch You Catch Me

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i just go to dio's arrest in the phantom blood manga and nobody fucking told me this post was literally what happened

2025 and printers are still an arcane unknowable piece of garbage that sometimes decides to connect to your devices and work flawlessly and sometimes decides to throw a historic shitfit and explode

"i hate writing NPC dialogue i don't wanna do it i need bobot to do it for me buhhhhh" you are like a little baby

🚨 BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all NYC students to carry a 3DS.

new vegas review

Oh fuck yes this manga owns

This lady on TT said the key to a long term relationship is being able to shoot the shit and……………..yeah. I be shocked by how many couples can’t shoot the shit. I don’t wanna even be around people I can’t shoot the shit with 😭😭😭 I’m constantly shooting the shit

After publishing this article, I've heard from many that CR seems to be using AI to produce dub CCs. Now, thanks to a slip-up CR had with episode 6 dub of The Banished Court Magician, we can say that with 100% certainty: Crunchyroll is using the AI service Ollang.com for its dub closed captions!

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

Still the most perfect animal design in video games.

Already seeing folks say, "Well, HORSES isn't YUCKY PORN like other games are, so..." which is super frustrating. Now is NOT the time to be throwing the hentai games you happen not to like under the bus. Your rage should be directly at payment processors. Join the fight stop-paypros.neocities.org

A new Chinese law regulating influencer speech has gotten applause from social media users and commentators who want similar policies in their own countries. But the truth is far from what's in the news and it's a sad reflection of our internet and media space. wenhao.substack.com/p/anatomy-of...

I just learned the Bugs Bunny No meme doesn't even come from him saying no. It's a frame rotated 90 degrees from him taking a drink from a bottle. I needed to share this.

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"...as households' perceived probability of attaining homeownership falls, they systematically shift their behavior: they consume more relative to their wealth, reduce work effort, and take on riskier investments." This new paper seems very pertinent papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

After years of useless posture advice ("imagine a string pulling you up"???), the only technique that's ever worked for me is to imagine there are laser beams coming out of your nipples and aim for people's heads. It works, and people cannot tell you're doing it

hmmmmm 🧐 (from peripathetic by cher tan)

I painted ur dog

Snitching to corporate and getting 30 people fired is not mandatory — rats have to make that choice for themselves.

oh yeah all these guys are showing up in a character action games as rad enemies to fight for sure

just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years: zombiesrungame.com observer.co.uk/the-critics/...

Extremely funny to me that the emotional equivalent of losing your rent money at the off-track-betting parlor has been reinvented from first principles and with anime girls

i swear to god dandadan feels like the world's most beautifully animated shitpost

one of the things that makes me most mad about genAI (and there are many) is we've been told there's not enough money for hiring. but there's billions poured into ai. so not enough money to hire workers. but infinite money to pour into technology whose goal is never having to pay workers again.

One of the producers on Guilty Gear Strive said it was basically impossible to source player feedback on balance changes online because nobody had original opinions and would just parrot what the most popular content creators said and so they had to rely on data and I think about that every day.

You could play this as an art film alone

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My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot

There is no way you can guess how the thread that ends in this instant classic begins.