cerebralhawks

Ideally studios chase the success of KPop Demon Hunters and go after East Asian folklore. I like that trend.

KPDH is basically all the good and wholesome things about anime and I love that it's having a moment right now. While there's a ton of content out there, if you want the most similar thing I've seen, it's 22/7, but that hasn't been translated to English yet. You can only get it with subtitles. And it isn't a movie, it's a series. It's also a band which exists outside the series (and their best music isn't shown in the series). But it's also about an idol group, but one brought together by an unseen force which propels the group into super stardom. No demons in this one, but all eight (!) of them have compelling back stories that are worth watching.

As far as movies though, Hosoda is about to drop a new one early next year (it was originally going to be late this year). Scarlet. It appears to be based on Hamlet, like The Lion King. But with a girl. Cue the whole Kimba debate...

Friendly reminder that when they redact information, it's because they fear that the information they're keeping from you is worse than you think it is.

In this case, believe them.

I know how to not get stung, but sometimes things happen. I only ever intentionally do it for the achievement. But I like to unlock Netting Better (catch 5 wasps in a row — doesn’t have to be the same day) first.

I mean, 16GB was the standard for how long? So yeah, it makes sense.

16GB might be the be standard for VRAM…

They might target, but sometimes they buy information too.

For example, my wife and I use Visible. It's Verizon but cheaper (and it's owned by Verizon). They also sell your number to scammers. So we get a lot of scam calls and voicemails. We just ignore them. Reporting them does nothing because the carrier is who you report them to (on an iPhone) and the carrier is the one that sends them. But I do it anyway. Most of them come in when I'm at work (and without my phone) anyway. So yeah, so they know who we are (name, town we live in). We just don't engage with them.

It really is. The DS9 story is done anyway, and Garak was the most interesting person on the station by far.

I’m thinking a limited series formatted like Luther. Short seasons, high quality, but spy stuff instead of cop stuff.

Like an agent? Actors and sports players have them. People who get paid in the millions. So they can hire people to act on their behalf to get them work while they sip martinis by the pool.

Why pay for premium anyway? Let alone a family plan. You still get ads. They can be skipped too — SponsorBlock will do it for free. Google could use this but chooses not to.

They want YouTube to be like cable TV. You pay for it. You watch ads. You pay more for premium channels.

Because it’s fun to?

A few years back this guy called Brad said they fired his wife — same restaurant chain — and for a minute, everyone rallied behind “Brad’s wife.” If her name was ever known, it wasn’t widely spread.

The funny thing about the logo was, they supposedly changed it to be more inclusive (e.g. to people who aren’t white like the guy in the logo), but last time I checked, they still don’t do business in California because CA has left leaning laws that protect minorities, so they’re not being less racist/sexist, they’re not being more inclusive, they just want you to think they are.

Anyway, release the damn Epstein files

Jokes entirely aside, this would be a great name for a to-do list app. Maybe if it were gamified, too.

I have an answer, but I don't covet it — I found it somewhere.

In Japan, there is an awesome trailer for Makoto Shinkai's 天気の子 (Tenki no Ko; Weathering With You), a 2019 film. The trailer starts with an ultrawide montage of all Shinkai's previous films, showing that, essentially, he's been making the same movie for years. Characters having their names said to each other. Characters being thanked or apologised to. And some other stuff — I don't understand most Japanese. Just a few dozen words. I know arigatou is "thank you" and sayonara is "farewell." I also don't know the Japanese words, but when the voice actors from his last film before 天気の子 say "Nothing more or less than a breathtaking view," I know they're saying it because it's from 君の名は。(Kimi no Na wa.; your name.) because that's the best film I've seen, and I've seen it enough, including in Japanese without subs, to know what they're saying. Anyway, it's this montage of his previous films. Then a short teaser for 天気の子, THEN the trailer. The whole thing is like 5-6 minutes long. There's a crappy copy on YouTube, it's like 360p. I have it in 1080p. It's awesome to watch. It's in Japanese with no subtitles. I don't care. Still love it. And 天気の子 is not half the film 君の名は。 is, but I don't care. (君の名は。 has its own version of this trailer, but it's not as long and it's not as good. I have that too!)

Adopt the kid, gets around the moral issue of bringing a child into the world. The kid is already in the world, you just provide for them.