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Nice reply "owning" me, unfortunately you parsed 2 levels of irony but missed completely the third, wherein it's clear I'm making fun of the persona your reply intended to critique. That being said I'm still hurt to an almost unimaginable degree

I say this in the most complimentary way possible: Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust feels about 15 years older than it is. You can really feel the Ninja Scroll DNA in it. Not a perfect movie, but a beautiful one.

like, Paul Linebarger had access to a variety of Weird only accessible to a handful on anime creators and the set designers for the more wigged out episodes of Star Trek TOS and The Prisoner (there's a reason why none of his stuff has been adapted into movies or TV)

It's impossible for me to see something like this and not immediately think of the impossible sky interstates in Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind story cycle.

A grey blue washed image of a bearded young ish white guy looking into the mirror all serious with his palm pressed against it. A serif font title reads: DID I JUST ARGUE WITH A JOKE? A semi opaque navy snoot near the bottom bears the bluesky logo and the text PART OF A BLUESKY EDUCATIONAL SERIES

Link's perma ban is wrong and should be reversed.

trying to understand the mind of the american voter is like peering into a cursed grimoire that destroys your sanity

Łink's perma ban is wrong and should be reversed.

and meanwhile Your Party [final title tk] is demonstrating … something

Zack Polanski of the UK Green Party is demonstrating that unapologetic support for taxes on wealth and reducing financial inequality is a popular platform as Greens are poised to surpass Labour In polling.

gonna be bitter to the end of my days that Gundam Witch didn't get a full 50 episodes

and Gquuuux didn't even get 24

a very obvious case in point is Keir Starmer's Labour Party which is not so much as shifting but yeeting the Overton Window in Reform's direction on most key issues and getting rewarded with truly historic levels of unpopularity

As others have said, the TV show and New Files are their own thing, and are goofy cop show / mecha hijinx fun, more like You're Under Arrest! than the movies + OVA.

Watch 1 now (it's very good), watch 2 when you find it (it's arguably the best thing Oshii ever did – better even than GitS 1 & 2), watch the OVA series if you want more, watch WXIII if you're curious (it's not directed by Oshii and is only loosely connected to the rest of he franchise).

this is a Taylor series with t approaching infinity, so maybe!

I dunno, what's the terminal velocity of a regulation soccer ball? 50kph? 60? nothing worth worrying about, I'm sure

this is the most Third Reichular thing I've seen in a while

WHAT.

it relies on materials and construction techniques that the designers freely acknowledge do not yet (will not ever?) exist, so I wouldn't worry about getting in there for a while yet

but will you have a deeply fraught relationship with an idol due to having a chunk of her girlfriend lodged in your chest

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

He sort of seemed like a reactionary STEM botherer at the time, but I think that was an overly cynical assessment by me at the time and he has been abundantly vindicated by pretty much everything that's happened since.

There was this guy (John Allen Paulos) who had a pocket industry in the 90s writing books with titles like "Innumeracy" arguing that liberal arts types thinking statistics was an optional thing for the citizenry at large to learn was going to get us all killed.

Uma Musume: Pretty Derby Season 3 (2023) Episode 4 UMAKTOR

UMAKTOR

if a Japanese show about music doesn't sneak in a reference to A Long Vacation, what are we even doing here

THE LINE: a revolution in urban living THE LINE: THE FUTURE OF URBAN LIVING

for context: www.neom.com/en-us/region...

itym luxury shopping, hotels, and restaurants

this place was featured in the first episode of Senki Zesshō Symphogear and uh well you'll just have to watch the episode to see how it went

just when you thought the zone couldn't get any cooler

This is a band that has definitely listened to Number Girl without listening to too much Number Girl. Love the bass line in this song.