🖤🩶💜Dreamer & the Cosmic Horror Show💚🤍🖤

Liking Vaporeon is like liking Gardevoir or Goodra or Lopunny where you gotta be like “this one’s my favorite but don’t google it” because of what the internet has done.

"The product will be worse and yet we'll sell more than ever! Because people don't actually care about the quality(?)!" As a reader I keep feeling insulted by these Japanese publishers who seem to think that we don't care about how well a localization is done!!

You can't bomb a hospital!
That's a. War crime.
Do not look for acquittal,
You'll serve, your time!
It's not a mystery.
It's in history.

War crimes, woo-hoo!
Every day they're out there doing
War crimes, woo-hoo!

According to the Nikkei article cited in the 7:12pm update, they actually explicitly state wanting to bring AI into the picture.

bsky.app/profile/behi...

Our corporate creed, "Growth and Potential" signifies that "Human resources" are at the core of our group's value creation. It emphasizes that building strong, trusting relationships—where we believe in and respect

Media Do's known for using AI translations, which is bad enough. But the egregious misuse of quotation marks on their English site tells me a lot about what they think of actual translators and our expertise. "Human resources", indeed.

Hrrmmm. This seems...bad?

AI image generated by the bodystocking company We Love Colors of a Princess Peach cosplayer; the details look nothing like Princess Peach and don't even reflect a We Love Colors product.

AI image generated by the bodystocking company We Love Colors of a Mario cosplayer; it's a woman in a red turtleneck, white gloves and blue sweatpants. It looks uncanny.

so cool that for about 10 seconds We Love Colors marketed to cosplayers and now they're AI generating cosplay slop to use in marketing. Super. Awesome. So cool. I fucking hate this shit.

~that's a war crime~

The actual translation part of translating a volume of manga generally takes about a week or so and costs about a grand and change. Just some numbers it might be helpful to remember

A grey mat with the face of a black cat and the words 'BEWARE OF CAT' is placed outside of a glass door. Inside the door, sitting on a beige and cream herringbone rug, is an actual black cat waiting on his humans to return.

Please enjoy my silly cat waiting by the door near this silly doormat.

Media Do International to Acquire Seven Seas Entertainment: sevenseasentertainment.com/2026/03/01/m...

Article from Sponichi Annex. JP headline: 小学館マンガワン問題　同アプリでの作品配信停止報告の漫画家相次ぐ「許せない事件」　海外も注目

Manga authors like Takahashi Rumiko (Urusuei Yatsura) are pulling their works from Shogakukan's site MangaONE after revelations that the publisher let author Yamamoto Shoichi publish under a pen name after he sexually assaulted a 15yo female student.

just became aware of this--the regime wants to clear-cut massive chunks of Oregon's old growth forests in the name of timber production.

you have until March 23rd to comment.

i know we have endless fucking things to scream at politicians about--this is an important one too.

a man in a suit and tie is smiling in an office . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smiling in an office .

So apparently Seven Seas had a panel at CitrusCon earlier today, where the reps talked about how proud they were to be independently owned... and then literally an hour after the panel ended the Media Go purchase news went live.

メディアドゥ、米出版社を100億円超で買収　漫画人気テコに事業拡大 - 日本経済新聞 電子出版取次大手のメディアドゥは、米国の出版社を買収する。買収額は8000万ドル（約124億円）になる見込み。同社が海外の出版社を買収するのは初めて。国内の出版市場は縮小する一方、米国は堅調に推移する。漫画人気も高まっており、買収を通じて日本の出版社が手掛ける作品を現地の書店に売り込み、米国事業を拡大する。3月中に米国の出版社、セブンシーズ・エンターテインメントを買収する。セブンシーズは日本の

Japanese electronic publisher Media Do has announced its acquisition of English Publisher Seven Seas for 80 million dollars.

They state the domestic market (in Japan) will shrink, but the overseas market is expanding.

Source (Behind a Paywall): www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

i started reading moby dick and i'm... i feel like i got tricked into reading a romance. it just starts off with a gay ship (by modern standards)

the romance society tricks u into thinking exists in wuthering heights is ACTUALLY in moby dick!!!!!!!!! FU!KK!!!

aws, = My Account More • Operational issue - Multiple services (UAE) Service Multiple services Severity @ Disrupted Increased Error Rates Mar 01 9:41 AM PST We want to provide some additional information on the power issue in a single Availability Zone in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region. At around 4:30 AM PST, one of our Availability Zones (mec1-az2) was impacted by objects that struck the data center, creating sparks and fire. The fire department shut off power to the facility and generators as they worked to put out the fire. We are still awaiting permission to turn the power back on, and once we have, we will ensure we restore power and connectivity safely. It will take several hours to restore connectivity to the impacted AZ. The other AZs in the region are functioning normally. Customers who were running their applications redundantly across the AZs are not impacted by this event. EC2 Instance launches will continue to be impaired in the impacted AZ. We recommend that customers continue to retry any failed API requests. If immediate recovery of alfatected tesourte TEE2 Instance,

AWS reporting that ME-Central-1 (UAE) is having an “operational issue” after it was “impacted by objects”

health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

h/t to a former colleague for bringing this to my attention

every time one of these markets dissembles and parses and weasels their way out of paying people on a technicality my heart grows three sizes like the grinch. i love to watch these people get scammed on crypto and nfts and gambling. they deserve it and it's funny and it's not my problem at all

Oh which peelable base is that? (I've started experimenting with Holo Tacos peely base and I like it so far but I need to experiment with it more, honestly I'm just tired of how long it takes/how much product it takes to get nail polish OFF)

For some reason that made me snicker, but you know what....

Plainly writers already suing Anthropic need a whole new additional lawsuit... for using our words *to train weapons of war to kill people.*

Pombon, the goodest of boys. #Gen10

A vintage-style poster showing some bird Pokémon from gen IV in a realistic style, accompanied by labels.

Only crested birds allowed ✋🏻🚫
#pokemon #artbyjulio

orange cat curled up

don't look at the news. look at this

💣🔥🧨💥A nuclear burn

I was trying to figure out why Hegseth would even be making a statement like that (I'm pretty sure this is in no way a part of the government???) and when I was looking up the overall/organizing body on wikipedia, uh, did I miss this?

I actually never got around to season 3 since I was busy with other shows and people posting screenshots of how it just wasn't as charming visual-wise (due to the staff changes) made me put it even lower on my list 😅

(there is too much anime all the damn time)

How is this different from "buying something online with the price set in Euros"???