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Small green plastic case that says HUMAN EYES

I ordered some hobby knickknacks on Etsy and they offered me the option to personalize the carrying case

Okay, I've had a few minutes to think about this, and I have a couple of ideas about the ending to The Big O. This is all stuff that comes from interviews and production materials from the staff, namely (so far) Sato and Katayama

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How the White Savior Became This Year’s Cinematic Punchline Several of this year's notable movies, including, One Battle After Another, Eddington, and The Mastermind humorously critique the political role of white men.

For TIME I went long on the bumbling white men at the heart of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, EDDINGTON, and THE MASTERMIND.

Against all odds, Ys vs. Trails in the Sky: Alternative Saga finally gets a worldwide launch 15 years after its JP-only PSP release. The end result is a high-effort remaster of a crossover fighter from a bygone era - our impressions: www.rpgsite.net/feature/1867...

Katsuya Terada didn't just do his takes on Japanese games for US magazines...

Here's Katsuya Terada's Blizzard Diablo 1!

This is the magazine with Hideo Kojima (Shinkawa portrait) movie reviews!

AND a Nirasawa art column!

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Such an easy thing to flex about when you have nothing to be ashamed of. 🍻

Hmm... Swords.

In Final Fantasy Tactics if a unit gains too much faith they leave your party to go find God. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you had Beast Tongue and got a monster unit to maximum faith? Of course you haven't. No one has.

Comparison of bird bills, displaying different shapes adapted to different feeding methods (not to scale) Edited from Wikimedia.

You might not like it, but this is what beak performance looks like.

'Fossil found on Dorset coast is unique "sword dragon" species'

Headline from a pokemon game.

Red Baron
1994-1995 (49 eps)

A complete reimagining of the 70s tokusatsu series, this coincidentally aired in the same exact time slot as G Gundam (but on a different day), and even had a similar tournament-focused storyline. The toys came later but were so popular that the anime got more episodes.

kamen rider kuuga giving a thumbs up

I watched Kamen Rider Kuuga because I had to know he kicked this villain's ass so hard: aftermath.site/kamen-rider-ku...

A spiny frog kaiju

Gamakujira

A bipedal fish monster

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wtaf are you talking about

in the night

I got @kim-hu.com to do a commission of my UMVC3 Team with my man 100 grand himself, Taskmaster, showing off his true ambitions.

a two handed falchion with wing and feather motifs. A rosary is looped around the cross guard and owl faced coins dangle from it.

Swordtember, Day 23: Owl

Transgenerationality - the ageing up (and ageing out) of Japan's animation industry - Helen McCarthy At the beginning of July I was privileged to speak at a symposium on Transnational Perspectives in Anime. It was held on the Lancaster University campus, co-hosted by Dr. Zoe Crombie and Japan Foundat...

Up on my website now: a post on #transgenerationality and its impact on anime. (And not just anime - every aspect of Japan's media mix will be affected by it.)
helenmccarthy.net/transgenerat...

Where do you go once you know your Audition from your Kwaidan? Katie Rife dives deep to provide an intermediate course in Japanese horror with twenty strikingly unnerving films. boxd.it/2L2

three panels from the nausicaä manga depicting ohmu & giant insects

every ai bro who has reduced miyazaki to empty gentle aesthetic should no exaggeration get the judas cradle bc this man's markmaking & passion about telling WAR STORIES

Illustrated postage stamp of Galadriel of Lothlórien. Pouring magic water into a magic basin so she can spy on her old boyfriend/sidepiece. Overlapping orange and teal.

#Tolktober Day 7 Galadriel.

All the doofuses salivating about ChatGPT extruding video game shaped slop don't understand a thing about the true opportunities of procedurally generated game worlds that have nothing to do with GenAI, such as this

Founder of Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud publisher Kitfox Games says its procgen sims for sickos are 'giving storytelling tools back to the people when games and passive media took them away' Streets of Fortuna, Kitfox's own in-development "megasim," is chasing that same systems-driven storytelling.

"'The more we try to understand what's going on in the world around us—the more we don't just withdraw into a hermitude of my family and I as a nuclear unit, the more we try to understand our society—I think the more these kinds of games speak to us,' Short said."

video games are so funny this is the only medium where a game is crowned as a dense, psychological masterpiece but you can also say this

concept art for The Mark of Kri, with Rau fighting a horde of enemies

concept art for The Mark of Kri, featuring Tati and a bear

concept art for The Mark of Kri, featuring the Cannibal Hordes enemies

concept art for The Mark of Kri, featuring Rau fighting some dwarf(ish) enemies in a dungeon

my kingdom for a revival of The Mark of Kri

The Legend of Ninja Kamui (episodes 1 - 15) is streaming on Tubi tubitv.com/series/30001...

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔