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Trade wars with our 3 biggest trade partners is sure to lower prices and inflation... said no economist ever or really anyone who has a brain cell and passed high school econ

We are in for a long 4 years 🫠

Irrelevant but yes he can't do that and I'm not sure what he or Kamala were thinking.

I will not shut up about Apothecary Diaries this show is so damn good man if you haven't watched it what are you doing with your life

You need to design for the lowest common denominator (not meant as an insult) and just like the yellow paint, this is the best way to go about

I know that banning social media is a bad precedent but TikTok and other doomscrolling apps like Instagram are awful for society and people. Nothing of value is being lost.

Hunter isn’t a politician

It needs to be studied how Black Clover starts as complete dogshit and just gets exponentially better and better each arc. Witches Forest, Royal Knights, Elf Resurrection, and Heart/Spade Kingdom are all peak. Really hope we get the anime continuation announced sometime before 2030

Finished Ghost of Tsushima and all I can is what a fucking amazing game. Its visuals are gorgeous, the combat is incredible, and Jin is one of my favorite protagonists ever, he’s so well written.

I wish American cities were walkable, I wish public transportation was viable, I wish we didn't need cars, I wish we had high speed rail.

TIL some people actually use length as a determination of quality 💀

Watched the first episodes for Apothecary Diaries S2 and Sakamoto Days. AD was great as expected and Maomao is as funny as always. Sakadays was much better than I thought it would be. The animation is rough, but it somehow works and I really liked it. Hoping it keeps the momentum going.

Insane levels of player retention for a multiplayer game

The people who complain about anime getting popular genuinely need to get help, they piss me off so much.

I just got a Ninja Creami Ice Cream maker and it is very much worth the hype. You can throw literally anything into it and get good ice cream. The one downside is you gotta freeze whatever you’re making overnight but most things only take 5 minutes to prep so very little active time in the kitchen

Every few months I go down a rabbit hole of rewatching the Naruto Shippuden openings because they're all so fucking good. I wish I could erase my memory and watch the whole show again for the first time.

Trumps brilliant plan to “Make America Great Again” consists of… annexing Canada and Greenland, taking over the Panama Canal, tariffs on our 3 biggest trade partners (because foreign policy is for pussies apparently), and renaming the Gulf of Mexico

I’m fucking crying man this guy cannot be real

Comics is a whole other ballgame. The popular shit is all DC/Marvel but the movies don’t get people to read comics the way anime do manga. Theres normal comics but they don’t get adapted and won’t ever be popular. Also monthly releases will just never be as big as weekly, mangas always get new stuff

2D Western animation is a tiny market, there’s not much that gets made and people who want animated content do turn to anime. I won’t disagree that a lot have bad animation, but not at a % that’s much higher than anime imo, there’s just so few it can’t be judged broadly

I’m definitely reading the manga now though, because lord knows I am not waiting 2 years for another PowerPoint presentation.

Binged the U20 arc episodes for Blue Lock S2. The production quality is still shit but it was actually enjoyable since the arc itself was good, unlike 3rd Selection which was a slog. The final segment of the game was amazing, imagine if the entire show had that level of animation 😭

Finished Squid Game S2. Not as good as S1 and I have a lot of gripes here and there, but it’s still great. The cliffhanger ending lowkey didn’t bother me too much, S3 has a lot of ground to cover though because there were plot lines introduced that really didn’t move forward much at all.

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The new Spy x Family chapter is so crazy there’s no way we’re turning into Dandadan man

Recommending shit is easy since Crunchyroll has 90% of shows and a lot of people pirate so access to everything. Keeping up with the few seasonals worth watching is super easy and takes no time commitment.

I think a big reason why anime is popular because it’s a very “graspable” medium. You can watch for a couple years and have seen most big/popular shows and have huge overlap with other anime fans so there’s a lot to discuss. Episodes are only 20 minutes and most shows are quick watches at 4-8 hours

Imagine if I as a straight man said that I wouldn’t date a woman who’s been with a man before, that’d be fucked up. Yet you can change the genders and that’s suddenly somehow a perfectly reasonable explanation to not date a bi man?

It was eye opening learning today that the majority of women, even liberal, wouldn’t date a bi man

And the justifications I’ve seen are actually insane, like assuming they’re likely to cheat/have STDs, or just straight up saying it’s “weird” or “unmanly” for a man to fuck another man

Perfect is a very strong word but I think Frieren is a perfect anime. I can’t even think of a single point of criticism, everything about it was amazing from start to finish.

Watching it every week felt like a lifechanging experience for me.

PlayStation controllers feel tiny and weird to use. Xbox controllers are way nicer to use

Kagurabachi’s panelling and art is so fucking good, Hokazono just gets it. Some of these won’t make sense without story context but if you’ve read it you know.