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- Comment on GKIDS announces 4K restoration release of Perfect Blue in U.S. theaters in October 1 day ago:
Everything with a 35mm master is getting a 4k scan with a little scratch and color cleanup and getting re-released as a “4k restoration”. Making these titles available to theaters is cheap. Theaters with over a dozen auditoriums and nobody showing up to every-hour-on-the-hour screenings of this week’s new release are happy to drop something like this in for a week here and there.
- Comment on THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES 2 days ago:
You were directionally evolved by monsters who resented artists’ ability to create value through pure expression. Mimicking the conjuring of that value was at once a parlor trick, then a means to undercut the livelihood of anyone not willing to explicitly and finitely explain the art they created (thus giving it metric to be measured by and value-assigned).
The wax ring and plumbers putty are set. Keep the caulk dry for 36 hours and try to not touch it or it could crack.
- Comment on Dan Da Dan Issues Official Apology Over "Hunting Soul" Copyright Controversy 5 days ago:
Is there not a common understanding in Japan about homage and style parodies? Like, literally the setup for that song was a perfectly realized homage to the first few minutes of Back to the Future. If Robert Zemeckis saw that, he’d be all “lol cool.”
This is their respective Weird Al + Coolio moment. I’d like to believe Science Saru and Yoshiki’s relationship winds up as agreeable as theirs in the long run.
- Comment on What is a perfect anime? 1 week ago:
I’m past due for a re-watch.
- Comment on [Episode] DAN DA DAN Season 2 • Dandadan 2nd Season - Episode 6 discussion 1 week ago:
Just leaving this here just in case anyone else thought the band setup sequence looked a little familiar…
- Comment on Cheat Codes Activated 4 weeks ago:
Furries:
- Comment on White House lashes out at 'South Park' Trump parody 4 weeks ago:
Dear everyone, everywhere, forever,
If you are going to write an article (or share a post about an article) all about a 2-minute video, do please include a link to that video so people can see what the fuck is being talked about.
Here is the video: youtu.be/Afetnw70S04
- Comment on Takopi's Original Sin • Takopii no Genzai - Episode 4 discussion 5 weeks ago:
I was floored when finally something not-absolutely-awful happened for once.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
This is very valuable context.
For citations, the only references I see to “pronouns” in their github project is in a section called “Human language policy” in CONTRIBUTING.md (link). Here’s the relevant part:
In Ladybird, we treat human language as seriously as we do programming language. The following applies to all user-facing strings, code, comments, and commit messages: … Use gender-neutral pronouns, except when referring to a specific person.
That sounds pretty cash-money to me.
There’s one additional reference in a pull request discussing whether or not to use “we” when referring to recommendations of the engineering team (as in “we recommend” vs “it is recommended”). Minutia.
I’m not as interested in litigating this matter than I am in putting it to bed (along with any and all definitive citations and evidence such that I can refer back to this comment thread in the future when the question inevitably comes up again.)
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
I think this may be the issue to which you are referring:
hyperborea.org/reviews/…/ladybird-inclusivity/
While this is troubling to read about, this narrative’s lack of evidence or references keep me from accepting it at face value. Old mastodon chatter (and perhaps deleted posts or scuttled instances) may be difficult to retrieve, but GitHub discussions shouldn’t be hard to find.
So I’m withholding judgement for the moment.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
For those holding out for a hero: ladybird.org
Ladybird is a brand-new browser & web engine. Driven by a web standards first approach, Ladybird aims to render the modern web with good performance, stability and security.
- Comment on Whaooo Wah Hey Ha! 1 month ago:
It’s the elusive search for multi-quadrant musicians that will be palatable to country music fans along with literally any other audience.
- Comment on Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 4 New Key Visual 1 month ago:
The designer of this sandworm certainly knew what they were doing.
- Comment on Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2 | OFFICIAL TRAILER 1 month ago:
👆👆👆
- Comment on Lazarus - Episode 12 discussion 1 month ago:
Skinner’s in the homeless camp. Y’all called it.
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Tagging glilimith@lemmy.blahaj.zone and Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on What anime do you regularly rewatch? 2 months ago:
Mushishi is extremely re-watchable.
- Comment on Top 10 Anime of the Week #6 - Spring 2025 (Anime Trending) 2 months ago:
Not understanding the larger context or who any of the referenced characters are is what kept me away. I gave it one episode and couldn’t understand what was happening so I bailed. It needed more narrative training wheels for folks like me.
Sad to see Apocalypse Hotel not here, but happy to see Lazarus suffering from its narrative wheel-spinning and complete lack of character definition.
- Comment on ChatGPT does not fuck around 3 months ago:
- Comment on Apocalypse Hotel - Episode 4 discussion 3 months ago:
- Comment on We all are cooked 3 months ago:
Appreciating the deep cuts referenced here. Both Lain and Haibane Ranme have been on my meaning-to-rewatch list for a while.
- Comment on Lazarus - Episode 3 discussion 4 months 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] 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 5 months 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. 5 months 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 5 months 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 6 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 6 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 7 months ago:
Call him ‘Daddy’.
