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[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago

What a great way to break the 4th wall, yet not at the same time...

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

More insight as to Masaki's behavior. Her imoto is the coolest!

A good episode, with some good comic timing

Weird we never get to see their mother.

Was she in the hospital all this time? Why didn't they go to visit her?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Looks like the AFU hit the right one!

Slava Ukraini!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

In the long history of schools around the United States, of course school shootings had to start some time.

The problem is that they're growing exponentially in number, especially in the last decade or so:

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/153/4/e2023064311/196816/School-Shootings-in-the-United-States-1997-2022?redirectedFrom=fulltext

  • 15 in school year 2009-2010
  • 18 in 2010-2011
  • 16 in 2011-2012
  • 26 in 2012-2013
  • 46 in 2013-2014
  • 43 in 2014-2015
  • 38 in 2015-2016
  • 48 in 2016-2017
  • 89 in 2017-2018
  • 115 in 2018-2019
  • 116 in 2019-2020
  • 146 in 2020-2021
  • 328 in 2021-2022

Absolutely fucking horrific.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

But the Christian school can say "The trans girl deprived you of your playoff! He is evil, see?" to their team.

Complete bullshit, but some of them might swallow it, and become conservatives or TERFs or other anti-trans.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Trump deemed too evil for conservative Darth Vader to support him, or even to just stay quiet.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

How to cut off PS online verification: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenP/comments/1624ybw/how_to_fix_photoshop_we_cant_verify_your/

But the tool they recommend using, GenP, does trigger Windows Defender warnings because it modifies binaries, so read the installation instructions carefully.

Or migrate to FOSS software, or pay Adobe to use their product.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Now that the sticker has made national headlines, it's now a collectible, so collectors, maybe even speculators, are going to pay money to get these...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I can only imagine what giant aliens keeping humans like beekeepers keep bees would look like...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

To elaborate: As @[email protected] said, Joan of Arc was famously burned at the stake.

So much so that someone might have cashed in on the story, in the manner of poor taste, to sell "Joan of Arc" branded marshmallows for toasting on an open fire.

Marshmallows in their currently recognizable form are also an anachronism.

They did not achieve their current form and popularity in Europe until the 1800s https://candyusa.com/marshmallows/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Three Stooges enjoyed a resurgence of popularity in the 80s.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I'm sure the SCOTUS conservative supermajority will find that the founding fathers intended that Russian propaganda should be allowed to elect insurrectionists and criminals.

 

A pretty good summary of the DOJ documents in the Russian propaganda campaign.

 

The movie just recently became available for streaming, so I got a chance to watch it.

Mostly a recap of the first 2 seasons, but from Nagi and Reo's point-of-view.

I felt disappointed by this:

Nagi isn't the most captivating or motivated character. He has a one-dimensional personality and this movie does nothing to change that.

He spends most of the movie moaning about what a hassle it is to do just about anything: Playing soccer, brushing his teeth, even eating.

Incredible football super powers aside, he just isn't interesting enough to be the subject of a 90 minute movie.

It was nice to watch the group elimination stage from Team V's point of view, but it's presented almost as quick highlights, with maybe the best part being against Nico's Team Y, although more screen time is given to their fateful match against Isagi's Team Z.

And that's a problem, because we already saw what happened in V vs Z in excruciating detail in the TV episodes.

Assuming anyone who is investing time and money to watch this has already watched the show already knows exactly what happens, so what was the value add here?

Although the production did animate just about everything from scratch for the movie, there was disappointingly little actual new story.

And the movie production quality was also not that great.

The TV show is famous for its Powerpoint-style graphics, and the movie was only slightly above that.

It felt like a missed opportunity to "fill in the gaps" of the action that's happening between the Powerpoint slides.

To sum up, it feels like a lot of poor production and concept decisions.

 

Just when you thought it was over...

Redstone/Paramount to consider a competing bid for the company...

 

Apologies for the slightly off-topic post...

It's not looking good, folks...

George R R Martin confirms he hasn't written anything for the 2 remaining A Song Of Ice And Fire books since 2022.

He wishes that they were finished.

The last published book in the series, A Dance With Dragons, was published in July 2011, now 13 years ago.

Obligatory song that's now 12 years old... https://youtu.be/j7lp3RhzfgI

 

A little off topic, but the whole Japanese "utsukushii" and/or "kawaii" aesthetic... Where does it come from?

Descriptions of "utsukushi" things and moments in "The Pillow Book" from the Heian period goes back to the year 1002.

Note: Thumbnail URL is from a different article that is referenced in the linked article https://news.artnet.com/market/yoshitomo-nara-hong-kong-1671325

 

Apparently unrelated to the massive Netflix anime leak, the Re:Zero movie length premiere has also leaked.

This one appears to be related to a canceled showing at Japan Expo in Paris, similar to the massive CR premiere leak from a convention in Washington couple of seasons ago.

 

Great knowledge by the OP and a commenter!

Thanks!

 

Archived version (for posterity)

 

They used to be everywhere...

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