I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine

"Why don't Americans-" The ruling class of America has intentionally disempowered its citizens spread across 3,000+ miles of land and then funded the police force as an occupying army that happily murders anyone who opposes them and imprisons whoever is left as slave laborers. So phone calls it is

They did not stop making TV shows like 1990s STAR TREK. Almost every ensemble TV drama show about police/firefighters/specialist-doctors/govt-agents (even f---ing COOKS!) became 90s STAR TREK, while STAR TREK (tried?) to turn into "prestige serial drama"

one of my favorite arthouse horror movies, 'the wolf house', is currently on tubi for free. which is great, because i feel like a lot of folks who would adore this have never even heard of it because it was hard to find. marvelous surreal progression, blurred lines between environment and self.

John Waters at the No Kings protest in Provincetown.

"There are really good people in both the Federation and the Dominion, and I have private conversations with Gul Dukat and Weyoun and they agree about what's wrong. But they're unwilling to say these things to the Founders. And so the occupation of Bajor continues, but they're really good people."

I’ll be playing more Numenera this weekend with @amurorx.bsky.social. Except this time, we also got our buddy @bats490.bsky.social to join us! Can’t wait to add another PC to the roster as Draj and Shane venture into the Westwood in search of the Golden Sanctum. #ttrpg #cyphersystem #gaming

Pluto - Naoki Urasawa

As much as I love watching Paul Giamatti chew scenery in Starfleet Academy, the use of 20th/21st century English idioms and slang is killing me.

Docter and many other old timers at Pixar wanted to deal with heavier, more serious issues like grief and emotional regulation, with tons of “therapy speak” in Inside Out, Wall-E, and Up. But when it’s queer themes it’s all “Back off loser, I’m not your therapist. I’m just here to sell popcorn!”

I am afraid that manga as an industry is going to go through another bust. Sales have flatlined in Japan, so the only growth market they see now is in English language markets. Publishers are all desperate to push sales there, and are most likely going to flood the market beyond capacity.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

American evil knows no bounds

scrawny 18-year-old about to fall out of an army helicopter over tehran: this is so epic. this is totally sigma, right babe? AI e-girl operated by a balding intelligence officer in virginia: that's right baby, Iran is totally cringe

I subscribe to a lot of indie pubs, but here are five worker-owned companies I'll never abandon: - @404media.co: essential technology! - @rascal.news: essential tabletop! - @aftermath.site: essential video games! - @defector.com: essential everything! - @hellgatenyc.com: essential New York!

This tracks with LA. They make the spectacle, act like it's over when Bovino leaves and then continue the same level of crackdown without a spotlight after everyone gets used to it.

I almost view the boomer shooter revival (so named because it’s meant to bring the genre back to its arcadey roots) as an indirect response to how CoD effectively became the video game version of a hoo-rah jingoistic action blockbuster, complete with direct involvement with the Pentagon

I dont think every FPS is fascist propaganda but COD is, at this point, an extremely useful propaganda tool for a fascist administration

In a strange position where I think there are massive, massive social harms to the proliferation of AI (misinfo, deepfakes, predatory 'companions', surveillance, labour rights) but also feel the mainstream arguments against it range from unconvincing (water) to actively harmful (copyright; "soul")

"But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. [...]" "...There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for."

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

Gods the Aussie social media ban breaks my heart as a person on the neurodivergence spectrum. Because as a teenager I can tell you that I got along with damn near no one at school and got bullied a lot. My friends were all on the internet. In forums. On IRC. That’s where my people were.

It pains me that there is an entire generation of people who have now grown up trained to view manipulative, engagement-farming gambling games as the norm for video games. There are countless people who have formative, nostalgic memories of opening loot boxes and the excitement of gacha ten-pulls

The tech space has gotten so bad that I can't honestly tell if this is a joke or not.

Not to be rude but fuck AI.

i wish this would happen to me

We wouldn't be, because half the states have been enacting trans apartheid all the way through the Biden administration, the Supreme Court is as corrupt as fuck, and Congress is in the hands of transphobic fascists.

2022:”Comedy is the bellwether…” Please have a listen to Jon Stewart. 👇

The actual content of the patent refers to pokeballs (or the idea of them at least) specifically as a mechanic. “Summoning a character and make them battle” is still unpatented and likely to broad an idea to patent. Outlets are getting sensational in this reporting for anti-Nintendo hate clicks.

It is 1990. I am 5 years old. The US is bombing the Middle East. A Republican is president. It is 2003. I am 17 years old. The US is bombing the Middle East. A Republican is president. It is 2025. I am 40 years old. The US is bombing the Middle East. A Republican is president.

Gundam politics are great actually

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

Now here's what folks should mean when talking about resurfacing lost media and not, like "here's a seasonal anime from 2006 that wasn't very popular"

-shows up wearing ceasefire pin -talks about how the art and magic of games comes from the creatives and devs -denounces the games made for quotas and in boardrooms -takes a shot at TGA about giving proper airtime to creatives -doesnt name drop any celebs forget the awards, this guy wins hearts man

Keighly just say “unionize” you coward.

Studio Khara and Sunrise have announced TV anime "Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX" which will receive an early theatrical release on January 17. Hideaki Anno and Yoji Enokido will be in charge of script with Kazuya Tsurumaki as director. en.gundam.info/about-gundam... #GQuuuuuuX

Hagio Moto’s Marginal and BL manga as feminist fabulation 1985's Marginal examines gendered oppression by examining a one-gender world where patriarchal violence has simply rebuilt itself along different lines. www.animefeminist.com/hagio-motos-...

“I want to make more games. I don't know how many more I got in me.” – @jesawyer.bsky.social on Pentiment's second anniversary, book and film recommendations, choice and reactivity, cheese, vinyl soundtracks, and more: www.rpgsite.net/interview/16...

Metaphor is my game of the year. i asked director Hashino a very specific question. He replied, “To be honest, you asked a question that really hits the core. I’ve done many interviews, and I haven’t had a question like this.” www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

on that note, knock off this racist shit about how Latinx people are the enemy. blaming immigrants & BIPOC folks for Anerica’s white supremacy is racist.

i am thrilled by this because elon being the reddit atheist science hero was the most embarrassing part about being an atheist. he's not ours anymore! no longer will people point and laugh "just like elon musk" if it ever comes up! I'M FREE!!!!!!

How to write a translation criticism that points out legitimate problems without devolving into "translation is evil and localization is bad": leakedexperience.xyz/translation-...

Finding all your old Twitter follows here is very fun, like it's Final Fantasy 6 and you have to go around getting your friends back together because the old world got destroyed by a sociopath with bad jokes

qrt with my four favorite anime? what's funny is that when I mention my favorites, I get a lot of "you must really like mecha" I *do*, but what I really, truly like is emotionally-charged violence