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Watching movies and anime and stuff. SUPPORT PHYSICAL MEDIA.

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(I was originally going to describe them, respectively, as millenial-coded and zoomer-coded, but I'm not sure I'm quite versed enough in the perceptions of either generation to say that with any confidence)

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Pomni - slightly cringe but earnest, able to find peace, lives.

Jax - irony-poisoned, unable to find peace, dies.

#TheAmazingDigitalCircus #TADC

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Obviously, it's way more complicated than that, but it's a part of it that merits some consideration, I think.

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Think you might be misusing the phrase "true crime" here.

[James Gunn @JamesGunn]

The People Vs Gorilla Grodd, the new show from DC Studios, is coming to HBO Max. Our first foray into the true crime genre.  From the creators of American Vandal, starring Skyler Gisondo as Jimmy Olsen, Jimmy Tatro as Gorilla Grodd, Beck Bennett as Steve Lombard, Mikaela Hoover as Cat Grant, & Wendell Pierce as Perry White. Additional cast includes Mary Holland, Eduardo Franco, Dan Perrault & Arian Moayed. Along with Lanterns, this was one of the shows Peter & I pitched to WBD before we came on board. With Tony and Dan at the helm, it's something truly special.

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NICK NOCTURNE: This video is sponsored by Ra--

ME: --ID: SHADOW LEGENDS!

NICK NOCTURNE: --ycon.

ME: Oh, yeah, that makes more sense.

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Seemingly every time I consider making a Crunchyroll account, like clockwork, they do something stupid to dissuade me from it.

[Anime Updates @animeupdates]

SONY Subsidiary, CRUNCHYROLL Store, no longer lists physical manga, light novels, manwha, or danmei for sale

They also removed a large portion of DVD/Blu-rays

This follows Crunchyroll Store's recent announcement to become exclusive to Mega & Ultimate Fan subscribers this month

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It's been three years. Why is that community note still there?

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Twitter’s web version no longer allows browsing without logging in

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Why does this look like it's from the POV of someone who's spying on them?

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Counterpoint: Christopher Reeve.

[Nikhil Sharma 🦚 @ZacharyEdSnyder]

If Superman (2025) and the reboot had landed as they would've intended, the world should've forgotten about Henry Cavill Superman. Us reminiscing about Him yet, is the literal proof the reboot failed. James, it's over bro. Go home.

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And maybe it's been a while since I saw it, but I don't recall her being particularly resistant to him fighting in the original, either.

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"Each film is Rocky proving her wrong and getting her on his side again." - Rocky II, maybe, but Rocky IV doesn't treat her concern as particularly unreasonable -Drago killed the last guy he fought, after all- and Rocky V just straight-up agrees with her.

[Joseph Kahn @JosephKahn]

Adrian serves as both the antagonist and trophy, especially in the sequels. She refuses to show up in the first fight because she fears he will get hurt - magnifying his 2nd closing act crisis (he's fighting alone) - and then last minute arrives to support because she finally realized she has to stand by her man. (Don't scream at me, it's the 1970s)

In sequels she straight up turns into a nag, constantly berating him for being stupid and risking his life. Each film is Rocky proving her wrong and getting her on his side again.

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And then there's Rocky III, where Adrian doesn't offer even token pushback to Rocky fighting, but instead the big moment between the two of them is Rocky confessing his fears and doubts and Adrian telling him she thinks he can -and should- beat Clubber Lang.

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AD WRITER: All right, I'm just throwing stuff at the wall here. If this doesn't work, we could try something else.

GLITCH: You're the expert here.

AD WRITERS: [laughs nervously] I'm really not. But let's see how it goes.

[GLITCH @glitch_prod]

Shhh, our favorite TV shows are on! 📺

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Neither was "Songs of Ascent", for that matter - that was an entirely seperate recording project (which Bono still swears up and down they're going to release eventually).

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*sigh*

No, TVTropes, "10 Reasons to Exist" was not a working title for Songs of Innocence.

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The problem with doing any kind of "worst movies/books/anime/albums/whatever of all time" list is that the ACTUAL worst one of those things is usually something deservedly VERY obscure.

What those lists are ACTUALY about isn't quality, but infamy.

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There's an account on BlueSky that seems to exist for the sole pourpose of reposting posts of people talking about dreams they had. I found out about it from one of mine getting reposted.

I, uh. I don't know.

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Okay, is Mitakihara City supposed to be home to all of the richest people on Earth? Because practically every location is the most outlandishly extravagant version of it imaginable.

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Started rewatching Puella Magi Madoka Magica last night and - man, I forgot how WEIRD the visuals in this show got sometimes.

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Gameoverse beating The Gaslight District in views isn't surprising -TGD caters to a very, uh, specific, kind of offbeat kind of aesthetic sensibility- but Knights of Guinevere too? That's a little more surprising.

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Glitch Productions recent pilot views on YouTube.