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what the Miyazaki have done to books like Kiki's Delivery Service, Howl's Moving Castle and Earthsea must be studied, Hayao has completely imposed his adaptations over the original work of female authors and his son dared to make Earthsea boring and whitewashed

Boichi vivió en la pobreza toda su niñez, pero la mangaka de Gachiakuta te jura que la gente pobre está también en contra de la piratería jajaja

Both volumes of the long-awaited translation of G-Saviour are now up. zeonic-republic.net/?page_id=3408

An Art Déco masterpiece extraordinarily restored. Piscine Molitor, Paris. Pollet, 1929. Perrot & Richard, 2014.

@formsarchive @KeithStalker2 quickly we cleared out and shunned so much of what could be found in the magazines of that time, while older styles from the 20s, 30s, 60s, etc, have all been folded back into contemporary design. Hell, the luxury 70's (esp quasi bohemian styles) have been everywhere for ages now

@formsarchive @KeithStalker2 I'd also like to see it return in some sort of pure context, to be honest, along with new applications, Alot of older styles have received this treatment, but alot of the cutting edge popular styles of the 80's and 90's are still lambasted as tacky and tasteless. It's amazing how

A forgotten architectural obsession, curved glass brick facades.

I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this. The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home. There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered. What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business. Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not. This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy. That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids. What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes. Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming? No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.

At first, Fuji TV rejected the tape of this episode. They had to accept it because they had no time. The CEO called Oshii to the office and scolded him.

@penpen_iii Neither of them are a patch on Heiseigoji in Mechagodzilla II if we take his little roundabout journey to be intentional 😛

GMK's Godzilla has often been considered the most malicious version of the character, in part due to his deliberate targeting of civilians. However, it's worth noting that the original Godzilla wasn't above attacking civilians either.

@formsarchive @KeithStalker2 At this point they're so tied to the 1980's that we would have to move into a period of unironic appreciation of that decade in architecture and design spaces and unfortunately I think we're a good ways off from that

@KeithStalker2 Yes! The 80s definitely gave them a second life, still waiting for their next revival.

Twitter's search function rocks because you can type in anything at all, and the results will not feature a single word you included in your search

@_TRAMMY_ @hellspatisserie Insane how we have so much great scenery outside of London across the country and have completely fucked one of the main methods for observing it

@hellspatisserie i'm guessing you're in london? the train systems are really shite outside of london

i am and continue to be impressed by the train infrastructure in Britain

kirby forever vindicated

that’s what anno said in that interview in JUNE magazine he said this isn’t gay at all you are mistaken have a good day he didn’t have a prolonged conversation about the homosexual subtext with the BL magazine

@penpen_iii Mothra hasn't received much love lately outside of that terrible turn in the monsterverse.

-no mention of mothra in godzilla damm remastered so far- is it over, mothra bros?

The people yearn for extensive making of special features on physical media releases

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Kiyoshi Kurosawa on how Cure (1997) breaks from American detective films: "Cure is indeed a psycho thriller and a detective story and I borrowed these genre styles from the American conventions. And indeed the first half probably fits very much into that framework. However, with the American genre of films along these lines of detective stories, it seems that the protagonist, the detective, does not change throughout the film. There is a problem, a mystery that needs to be solved and that solution doesn't involve him as a character changing at all. I think that's one convention about the American detective genre [that I tried to avoid]. But when I make films, and perhaps this is because I am Japanese, but my characters have to change. I believe that individuals change when something around them changes and if it's a drastic change then the character, appropriately, changes drastically, as well. That, at least, is the sense I get from my own experiences. My characters do have to change and that's probably where my films become different from American films. In borrowing from the detective genre, what I really wanted to convey was the relationship the protagonist has to his wife, to his daily life, to the society that surrounds him and the world that surrounds him. That, essentially, is the theme that I was most interested in. In Cure the conflict between the protagonist and the society that surrounds him, what essentially happens at the conclusion is that he finds complete freedom by cutting himself off from the society. That is the main conclusion that I try to posit." — Kiyoshi Kurosawa, interviewed by Spence D., IGN Filmforce (May 20, 2012)

"bro bro, it was just a mistranslation, i swear they weren't even gay or anything"