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- Comment on Lazarus - Episode 3 discussion 1 day ago:
I think everybody with eyes was doing the Leonardo DiCaprio meme at that guy in the encampment.
And +1 on both solid trans representation, and having old friends acting cool and supportive when they discover it. So good!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Cars made to be sold and driven in Japan (aka JDM vehicles, for Japanese Domestic Market) can not be imported into the US until they are over 25 years old. This is part of a series of import laws that American vehicle manufacturers lobbied for to keep foreign cars from dominating domestic marketplaces.
The US also has crash test safety standards that domestic cars must meet because a) safety is good, and b) people drive tanks like maniacs. Kei cars used to be pretty awful in crash tests, but have gotten a lot better in recent years.
- Comment on Maebashi Witches - Episode 2 discussion 1 week ago:
I’m watching the subtitled version and don’t speak Japanese, but I get the sense that the rapid-fire dialogue may be serving some fun comedic timing that doesn’t translate via subtitles. The first episode had a frenetic energy that seemed to jive with that kind of tone.
But this second episode, oof. The charm wore off fast, and the entire purpose seemed to just be a dumping ground for Azu to treat everyone like a gigantic turd while the entire cast absorbed it and never reacted. That’s a lot of lost opportunities for character moments.
I will give the show at least one more episode purely to see where they’re going with this Azu plot twist.
Anime Feminist right now: 😬
- Comment on Lazarus - Episode 1 discussion 2 weeks ago:
Because they’re both directed by the same guy (Shinichirō Watanabe), written by the same guy (Dai Satō), and produced by the same studio (MAPPA).
- Comment on They are lying to us 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t a lot of that just fancy chemistry?
“AMATEURS!” bellows the shadowy mathematician from the dark corner…
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 1 month ago:
Solid article. I imagine the folks at the cyberwire podcast will be doing more digging over the weekend for a solid summary come Monday.
- Comment on Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2 - PV 1 month ago:
It all depends on how you define and categorize morality.
The Tolkien dilemma reasoned that since orcs could talk and demonstratively discuss the ideas of right and wrong, then they have some sense of morality. If they have reason and morals, could they at some point decide to stop being evil? And if so, is it moral to eradicate them entirely?
I haven’t read the Frieren manga, but the show referred to its world’s demons as not actually speaking, but having learned to make human-like noises to elicit desired responses. I’m not sure if I buy that explanation (given how the characters behave and converse) but if you do, it’s a functional hedge against feeling bad about our beloved protagonist doing a genocide.
Again, the manga might get into this more. Also this could be a potential character arc for Frieren; whoop lol maybe I shouldn’t do a genocide after all. I do hope it goes this way, but I doubt it will.
- Comment on Upvote RSS - Generate RSS feeds from social aggregation websites like Reddit, Lemmy, and Hacker News 2 months ago:
Lemmy supports community RSS feeds natively; no need for a third party service to do it for you.
Here’s the RSS feed for the Selfhosted@lemmy.world community: https://lemmy.world/feeds/c/selfhosted.xml
- Comment on "Zombie Land Saga" New Movie Key Visual, PV 2 months ago:
All aboard the Zombie Land Saga hype train!
Franchu-chu-chu-chu-chu-chu-chu-chu-chu…
- Comment on Colm Meaney to Receive Irish Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award 3 months ago:
Call him ‘Daddy’.
- Comment on Reminder: Three Days Left to Vote for the 2024 Lemmy Anime Awards 3 months ago:
Kekkon Surutte, Hontō desu ka (365 Days to the Wedding) got royally snubbed for best romance.
- Comment on An old ad for the Wavebird controller for Gamecube 5 months ago:
Bathroom design advice: don’t hang mirrors facing toilets.
- Comment on Dandadan Preview Has Anime Fans Thinking Harry Potter Crossover 5 months ago:
fucking hell i hope not
- Comment on Pizza rule 5 months ago:
I see Pitch; I up-vote.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Top50 anime openings - Comment on Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh 5 months ago:
Obligatory:
I’m Comic Sans, Asshole by Mike Lacher from McSweeney’s Short Imagined Monologues June 15, 2010
- Comment on Mr. Steal Your Girl 6 months ago:
Heely-haws.
- Comment on Steven Spielberg is ‘a big PC Gamer’ — loves shooters, and insists on keyboard and mouse 6 months ago:
If your analog control requires your entire hand, it’s interesting.
If your analog control requires several pointing fingers, it’s interesting.
If your analog control requires your thumbs, it’s shit.
Now get the duck out of my office!
- Comment on Uzumaki - Episode 1 discussion 6 months ago:
One of the things I was most curious about with this series was the animation style they were choosing to use. Hiroshi Nagahama used rotoscoping to make Flowers of Evil, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here. The mouth movements would have been better - they actually look pretty rough in spots here. Motion capture or vtuber tech maybe?
