@geraldawo.bsky.social was wondering if my CED Selectavision player worked, and the answer is yes. It's a Christmas miracle!

I swear, it comes earlier every year.

Holiday Matsuri is great, one of the most fun conventions out there, super Christmassy, it just needs some more seating and the dealer's room/artist alley badly needs some layout help to make moving through it more natural.

Holiday Matsuri was fun but exhausting, from when my first panel ended at 1:30 until my panel ended and I was able to get in to my car at about 9:00 or so, I was not able to sit down once, that convention center desperately needs more seating.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

20 years of doing it, and I don't feel really any different. I am a better person with a more nuanced taste, but I still enjoy anime just as much, if not more.

The first episode of the Anime World Order podcast was released 20 years ago: 12/19/05. Today marks the release of Show #248 – Our Twenty Year Legacy of Shame Is Also Our Third Christmas Roundup, where we look back on it all then recap more anime Christmas episodes www.awopodcast.com/2025/12/anim...

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The dorks who insist AI is inevitable, especially in the games industry, deeply underestimate how much I’ll just shrug and play retro games for the rest of my life. Like the PS1 & PS2 libraries alone are enough for multiple lifetimes. Fuck you, make me.

There's been talk about how movies "look" really fake today, well, I present "A Boy Called Christmas" this entire movie looks like CG but was filmed with real people. Something about the entire movie looks horribly uncanny.

I'll make a video of the process and it'll be part of the NYE Anime Hell, that's what I'll do

Last I checked they did. I should haul it out and give it a watch.

Delete your Twitter if you haven't already!!! Come on, what do you have to lose that's more valuable than this?? Thousands of bot followers? Archive-able posts and memories? Get outta there

So I was watching 8-Bit Christmas again and there's this shot of the Nintendo and hidden under it is a really funny detail, that under it is not a record player or laserdisc player but a CED player, the worst possibly home media format ever released, clearly put there by some set dressing media nerd

Washington’s refusal to regulate AI is a corruption story. Just ask Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson.

So I've dropped Fire Force, that show was just not doing it and I'm told I'm watching the better parts of the show already. I need to find something else, maybe I'll try Tougen Aniki.

I wonder if there was zero advertising done for Scarlet because they knew they had an absolute stinker on their hands?

No offense, but British Christmas pudding looks like an absolute nightmare of a meal and from the ingredients, completely unappetizing. I guess it's one of those things that if you lived in Victorian times was a good change of pace.

Found a set of this series in my Dad's closet. Very Bond. Anyone know anything about this series?

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This is possibly the first of what is going to be a regular occurrence and will ruin the internet.

Perfect, keep bullying corporations, somehow Coca-Cola hasn't gotten enough so of a soul to do the same. kotaku.com/mcdonalds-ai...

I suspect there are a whole generation of kids who have yet to come of age who are completely and totally traumatized by the 2009 Robert Zemekis Christmas Carol movie, not unintentionally either, that movie is genuinely terrifying at times.

Potentially 3 better spirits

Viz Media announced they licensed Gal x Gal Yuri by Inoue for a simulpub release You can read the first 11 chapters here bit.ly/4azQNt5

So I'm in a big rush here and need some advice, I've got, potentially a panel all about VHS and video cassettes, I wanted to run this on a VCR however, my cheap composite to HDMI converter isn't working, what does everyone recommend and...can it be under like, $100?

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You will be visited by 3 spirits

it's almost as if Japanese animation had been a part of American popular culture for decades at that point

"america was too racist to accept anime in the 80s" is a thing I saw someone post today

There is no monstrous grift Jimmy Fallon won't run cover for

On the subject of Fire Force... Does the show get better, or is it going to always be this belabored religious war with shonen dumbassery?

Dear god the opening to Fire Force with some shitty band named "coldrain" may be the single worst opening song in anime history. Why the hell did they go with that? It's so bad it may make me stop watching the show

This is what banning under-16s from social media looks like for EVERYONE

So, I understand it's a movie, but I feel like any lady who had a date with a guy who behaved like Buddy did with Jovie in Elf would find her getting that "emergency" phone call about 10 minutes in to the date.

Love it A+ Sanford

MHA's ending is very disappointing, the entire....last half of the show kind of feels lame. Everything after All Might's last fight has been a worse version of that. I don't think the show is the absolute total, mind-fuck disaster that Attack on Titan was, which should never be watched by anyone.

Are there ANY notable Christmas movies or specials coming out this year? Last year at least was Red One which was horrible but, well, we didn't know that until we saw it, is there anything this year?

Sex workers have been saying this would happen for literally YEARS. We've been yelling it as loud as we could. What would the world look like if we were actually listened to?

Is there some behind the scenes drama for this "Blue Prince" game? Seems like people are iffy about it but I missed the news as to why.

An update NOT involving the Otaku Archive, I decided to upload this "St. Nicholas" magazine from 1881. That was long before many of our current Christmas traditions so I hope you'll find it interesting to see how things have changed. archive.org/details/st-n...

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Detective Conan: Quarter of Silence joins the Detective Conan Cinema Saturdays lineup tomorrow! How will Conan get through this bone-chilling case? youtu.be/TTFga_4OD_I #DetectiveConan #ConanCinemaSaturdays

An update NOT involving the Otaku Archive, I decided to upload this "St. Nicholas" magazine from 1881. That was long before many of our current Christmas traditions so I hope you'll find it interesting to see how things have changed. archive.org/details/st-n...

So while the movie didn't go over super well at my Christmas Club, you should do yourself a favor this holiday season and check out the movie In Bruges, it's an extremely dark comedy about some very broken people, but a really good movie and also very Christmassy

I'm learning so much about 80's goth and punk culture from this episode of Greatest Movie Ever with @gooberzilla.bsky.social and @whydoisay.bsky.social

I love this ornament that I'm not going to hang it this year as my tiny pointless and will absolutely do nothing at all rebellion against generative AI

Some shit be happening on this year's Das Adventfest.

Good job, guys. See if you can't make similar results happen for No Game, No Life and Vinland Saga. Getting close to time to start asking for the same kind of fervor for AI generated closed captions as well. You can fight this, it CAN work.