Jonathan Lack

Little thread over on the Japanimation Station account about how we're rendering the new season's episodes at 4K. I could start sharing more behind-the-scenes insights on this account if people are interested, as I'm deep in post-production on the season. Let me know!

It’s ok; thanks for saying that. I get the issue of emphasis and I really do regret if it at all came off that way. I appreciate the feedback. FWIW I think our perception of the situation is very similar (frustration over which controversy is garnering the bulk of attention).

If this is what Columbia is allowing in their pedagogy, then the degrees they’re issuing aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. A Professor assigning assignments like this shouldn’t have a teaching position, let alone tenure, let alone a fucking doctorate. Shameful.

Since we’re done this via notes I guess

I don’t think we brushed over that at all, I think we very clearly said it was the real controversy and the thing that skeeved us out in this situation. Our explicit position was that hiring someone accused of misconduct is much worse than story problems. Please don’t put words in our mouths.

So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE.

And this is what they called it.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

Done for the day. Let me tell you, you haven’t seen the Michael Cera as Wally Brando scene until you’ve seen it in a theater full of people slowly asphyxiating from how hard they’re all laughing.

What a treat.

At Intermission between parts 2 and 3, which means Cooper is floating in space, we’ve just heard the Chromatics, and Shelly told us James has always been cool.

Yup. This is still one of the greatest works of art I’ve ever seen. Kinda overwhelming in a theater. Becomes all consuming.

Embarking on a fun 6-week adventure at the Drafthouse today: all of TWIN PEAKS THE RETURN on the big screen.

I haven’t rewatched the whole thing since it aired. This feels like the best possible way to go back through what I consider the greatest cinematic achievement of my lifetime.

"You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth.

This is not a hypothetical. It is your lived reality. It is America."

I have these all in my notes too lol. And it’s amazing they’re all titles he’d reuse in like a 3 year timeframe at the end of the 80s.

Totally.

Char Aznable obviously predates Todd Guinness, but Todd is a pretty clear prototype of how Char would be drawn in Zeta and CCA - and his last scene in this episode is such a clear precursor to the end of CCA it’s kind of wild. Down to the Freudian mom stuff and everything.

Omg that fits the syllable pattern! THIS COULD WORK! IT WOULD ROCK SO HARD.

There is an episode of Aura Battler Dunbine called BEYOND THE TODD (written in English via katakana), and I am now retroactively mad TM Network never did a revised version of “Beyond the Time” all about Byston Well’s #1 American expat, Todd Guinness.

we're gonna get some mileage out of this

Standing up for one’s morals, sticking it to Trump, AND finding a way to once again humiliate JD Vance and his utterly fake Catholicism? The American Pope rocks.

It's absolutely mind-boggling to me that I've been making games for 25 years, have shipped stuff on Xbox since the 360 era, shipped one of the first ever Game Preview games, have had a game in Game Pass thrice, and have never ever ever even heard the new Xbox CEO's name in my life...

The box for FFVI Advance goes for a LOT these days, that’s a big one to have!

Hard agree. This is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen. Genuinely breathtaking.

To quote Monkey D. Luffy, “that’s just how I look when I’m free.” (I know it’s a silly association but this genuinely made me think of that)

Pritzker demands a $1,700 refund per family for the people of Illinois after Trump's tariffs were ruled unconstitutional.

Dems, pay attention. This is your midterms message.

The PokeWalker? I think I've still got that lying around somewhere. It was pretty cool!

I’ve got a box full of old Game Boy/Advance/DS/3DS packaging (most of which I also have the carts for) that could probably wipe out most of my debts, but most of it would be hard to part with. Lots of memories, and I think all that old packaging is super cool. It’s tough.

I still have most of my physical Pokemon games and packaging dating back to Red, but I have sold some over the years when the prices were just too good to ignore. Including a CIB Pokemon Emerald for - and I shit you not - a full $1000.

Does Geoff Keighley have any internality at all

Like is there a soul in there, behind those dead eyes reading someone else's words from a prompter

Is there a single thing he actually cares about? It clearly isn't games, the people who make them, or the people who play them

Just a joke of a man

Was in the garage sorting some boxes today and happened across my Fire Red/Leaf Green boxes. I’ve kept them in pretty mint condition.

not to eulogize a project before it's cancelled, and I surely hope it isn't going to be, but. [looks at the Xbox news and who is replacing Phil Spencer] "Hideo Kojima's Horror Game" must be the most cursed AAA project ever

Oh yeah this is going to get ugly so fast. bsky.app/profile/shin...

So long Phil, you sucked shit and ruined everything you touched, only to be replaced by an AI guy who will make everything worse somehow

The fact that the only ms/Xbox letter mentioning Sarah Bond is Phil’s, along with the fact that she didn’t release a statement, suggests that this was all actually messy as hell, and the story is going to get out faster than leadership could plan for. Bush league shit.