Ryan

Honestly just look at some of the early Disney dubs of Ghibli films which often added additional sound effects in order to bring them closer to the tone of American animation. The first version of the dub of Kiki was arguably the worst offender in this regard.

I’m convinced the main reason Miyazaki films have a reputation for being “cozy” in the West is because he actually writes and animates long moments of quiet into his stories, whereas Western animated films are usually a nonstop parade of loud music, sounds, noises and neon colors.

You can really tell that Yahtzees last frame of reference for anime is seeing Urotsukidoji clips at a rave because the whole "wacky japan tentacle hentai!" thing has been a dead stereotype for like, 20 years now?

Get with the times old man, it's all about NTR now.

Bart Simpson: "What an odd thing to say."

"Lorraine Warren specificaly stipulated in the contract with New Line that the Conjuring films should never portray the Warrens participating in sex crimes..."

Double Indemnity (1944)
Director: Billy Wilder

I met @sarahz.bsky.social and moved to fucking Canada

i wonder if a sufficient number of viable democrats have it in them to effectively counter a narrative of "i am tanking the economy, firing everyone i can, and sending soldiers to push you around if i dont like the way you think, and also lee greenwood is the only music allowed"

Lee Greenwood will be 83 years old at the end of this month. He has not released a studio album in 22 years, and has not released any album that cracked the top 30 on the U.S. country charts in 37 years.

Mike Johnson thinks even the sight of a Puerto Rican man is dangerous to children

He’s beyond parody because he’s dangerous

Christ, I've been forced to sit through a Lee Greenwood concert and I wouldn't wish that shit on anyone!

Context: It was 2002 Summerfest in Madison, around the 4th of July. Me & my friend Kristen went up there, and you had to sit through the concert if you wanted a good seat for the fireworks.

so gross

MACLEAN'S excerpt: The attacks were genteel compared to most political mud-slinging, and Liberals warmed to her during the campaign. They embraced her as both a cherished member of the Liberal family and, increasingly, the standard bearer for its left flank. But her needling got under Carney's skin, even though he was the front-runner (she ultimately received only three per cent of the vote). He and his staff made their irritation plain; one member of Gould's team told me that many of them were aggressive in their vitriol toward her.

MACLEAN'S excerpt continued: “When someone from Gould's team texted to ask if she could stop by and congratulate the winner, Carney said no. In fact, according to one source I spoke with, he said he didn't ever want to see her again. Carney's staff sent Gould a non-committal answer, trying not to offend her, but she showed up anyway. That led to a brief, awkward meeting with Carney. The incident rattled some of the people around the newly elected leader. Many had worked under Justin Trudeau, who, after a lifetime in politics, had skin like a crocodile. Carney, after years of being celebrated, venerated and treated with the deference accorded to a titan of the financial world, seems to have a skin like a peach.”

This is disgusting behaviour from Carney towards Karina Gould.

And frankly, coupled with the “boys club” stuff sources have previously told me and the way he tended to lose patience more quickly with female journalists during the campaign…he may need to “look inside himself.”

sanae takaichi is, importantly, also a fascist

"queer person has homophobic family"

How embarrassing to work for the organized kidnapping ring known as "ICE." Rolling out of bed every day to be a brainless goon. You are lower than a worm to me

The highest grossing American film of the year is the Lilo & Stitch remake and who do you hear talking about it now?

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

Plenty of people have pointed at the childish, insolent, manic rage of fascism demanding all criticism, observation, and questioning be silenced violently, but not until "of course you do buddy, you're twelve!" has it been compressed into a memetic of mockery and delight.

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

I would be a lot more inclined to rehabilitate Reddit atheists if so many of them weren't weirdly defensive of Israel.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Dwayne, prestige pictures don't make big box office. That's what the prestige is for.

its a picture of a ballerina teaching future young ballerinas!!!

"Ballerina Aesha Ash wandering around inner city Rochester breaking the stereotypes about women of color and to inspire young kids."

I don't know that this is the *most* unethical thing David Frum has ever done, but in terms of professional *journalistic* ethics? Whooo boy

Guy in the middle looks like if a ProZD character escaped into reality and things went just absolutely downhill for him from there.

USAID was a net positive in basically every way and Musk killed it, and untold numbers of people, because he’s as racist as he is stupid and he’s as stupid as he is evil.

Badenoch, like most rich Americans, thinks that the purpose of college it to train people to do the work that rich people need them to do to make their fortunes. Studying the arts and culture is supposed to be a privilege for the wealthy.

i appreciate @meredithshiner.com’s wisdom, as well as her refusal to let the coons-valentine’s day story fade from public memory

Miyazaki: in this movie two young girls (one is a toddler) are uprooted from everything they know to start new lives near the rural hospital their mother is in; she is possibly dying of TB. Their dad works several hours away and they are largely unsupervised.

AI Bros: so homey! So comfy!