Neo Arkadia

"oh boy, I hope I get something cool from Wonder Trade!"

The unassuming Bidoof:

My entire thought is Nagoshi was comically used to having a blank check due to being effectively near the head of Sega and that caused half the problem here.

Kojima, as a counter to this, I think was aided by being plucked and has Sony having only backed him, and he does reasonably good numbers but he has a reputation of a prestige auteur director, which is good to be seen bankrolling.

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I'm left wondering if NetEase just had overly optimistic perceptions, and wooed creators with promises of (at the time) seemingly unlimited resources.

And Nagoshi was a high ranking executive presumably used to getting blank checks.

And then NetEase went "oh."

I'm vibrating so hard for Lancer Origin.

Not a perfect send off to Sentai, but felt like a show that was loved, and tried to spread a sense of joy, and confront the "Sentai team who aren't paragons of virtue but still ultimately grow into their own sense of justice".

And the villains being best friends with each other was cool.

I don't agree with its last episode not being a clash of ideals between Gozyu Red and Fire Candle

But there was a lot that felt fun, even if unfocused. And had a lot of cool ideas. And I would not mind Inoue Akiko doing more Tokusatsu in the future.

No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger

The last Super Sentai for the foreseeable future. Despite its scandals... It did a lot that striked me as genuinely interesting, even if it was rough.

It felt like a better, more focused, less transphobic Don Brothers that didn't reward an incel.

Great speech, really sets the mood. But yeah, the movie threads the themes and story beats of the original film and the manga to make something that pays homage to both while creating something new, interesting and richer.

I genuinely recommend this, but man that opening speech...

"At this moment we as a nation are about to touch the stars! I tremble at the honour of announcing the culmination of mankind's history of intellectual and scientific achievement. Yesterday our power spanned the Earth, today it can illuminate the heavens! May it stand forever! Our Ziggurat!"

Metropolis (Anime Film)

I really like this. It's an interesting fusion of the 1927 Film and the Tezuka manga. That looks at the intersection of fascism and hypercapitalism. And man, the opening lines stick with me, a lot for some reason.

Metropolis (Manga)

Manga that Tezuka based on a poster or image of the 1927 film. It deals more with a terrorist organization that plans to create like a post human world and creates a genderfluid super robot.

It's interesting but kinda wanders back and forth.

It's such a deeply fascinating film.

Metropolis (1927) - The Complete Metropolis

Uh. This is really good. Like this is fundamental to all modern like cyberpunk and mad science films. It has an evil femdroid, an evil executive and a mad science and the poor trying to rebel against the rich.

Great musical score. Worth watching.

@hackintimseeley.bsky.social

(Beartato and Reginald, in a museum, gaze upon the Mona Lisa) BEARTATO: There it is. The Mona Lisa. The most famous painting in history. REGINALD: Wow! What's it do? BEARTATO: It... what? REGINALD: Why's it famous? What's it do? (Beartato thinks.) BEARTATO: I don't know. REGINALD (to nearly museum employee): Excuse me! Sir? What's it do? EMPLOYEE: You're the first person to ask! Watch this! (The employee yanks a pull-string. Mona Lisa's eyes spin around and her mouth opens like a puppet) MONA LISA: Honk honk! Honk honk! (Everyone is delighted. This is true art.)

True Art

They should have announced this in a Nintendo Direct as the “one more thing”.

Hrm, I'm perpetually stuck at their 90s/00s content due to cash but I wonder if any of their design principles are like hard based in King's Field.

Which is arguably hard or at least mean, but becomes comically easy once you grasp like. Dodging and Strafing and learning to read attacks.

A bunny with a small camera stares surprisedly at a fox, who proudly has a fish it caught in its mouth. They are in the woods

Daily bunny no.3268 is proud of your achievement

The Trump Admin in a nutshell:

Sasuga Musk-kun.

What caused it now.

America's Munitions Crisis Is Real The U.S. is opening new munitions factories for the first time since World War II. The massive investment aims to reverse decades of neglect and restock America's dangerously low stockpiles.

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I'm talking about this sort of thing.

By allowing the arms industry to consolidate into 4-5 firms, it's allowed atrophy, where unless literally lashed by a whip by the government, they will under produce equipment.

Nice Kabutops.

Three panel comic. Panel 1: people playing basketball in front of a crowd. The player with the ball is up against a guy playing close defense. Panel 2: the player attempts to spin off the defender by shoulder checking him, but the defender immediately falls apart, revealing multiple little green elves. Panel 3: the first player looks astounded at the floor. On it is a group of mildly injured elves surrounded by pieces of a human costume. This was pretty challenging to type out in text form but I tried my best

“Here’s why doing that rad kickflip over a burning log while saving a baby actually sucks”

🥳

The issue is that instead of dozens upon dozens of companies to make equipment, we let everything get consolidated into half a dozen mega firms that don't actually want to build things because that would be bad for stock value.

Miss Piggy...

Pft.