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Todd DuBois @gwotaku.bsky.social · 19h

Considering the track record of such things, as we see more and more promotional imagery for season 2 of live action One Piece coming out, one really should just step back and appreciate what a blessing it is that it actually turned out this well

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Todd DuBois @gwotaku.bsky.social · 19h

Tears of the Kingdom is Breath of the Wild except you can look at the beautiful landscape while standing on a mythic dragon. So...yeah.

🕸️ • 15 @zeldatalk.bsky.social · 21h

which legend of zelda game is visually the most beautiful? 🕸️

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Todd DuBois @gwotaku.bsky.social · 21h

Given the chaos of the last few years, it has become hard for me to not ponder the prospect of the Discovery segment alone being sold off to someone else and think "don't threaten me with a good time"

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23h

the AT&T-->Time Warner-->Discovery series of media mergers were some of the most pointless and disastrous business exercises ever conceived by man

so of course we're going to do it again

this time it's rumored they want $60 billion to sell this mess to Larry Ellison and whatever's left of CBS

Warner Bros. Discovery puts itself up for sale

The announcement comes after WBD previously said it would split in two.

www.nbcnews.com

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Todd DuBois @gwotaku.bsky.social · 21h

That's right. And the entire thing, the whole process that led to those 20 hours, that's something that happened to you - to *you*. There's a reason psychiatiry is seen as medical treatment. Nobody looks down at a cancer patient and goes "how could you do this to me?"

Todd DuBois @gwotaku.bsky.social · 21h

This person making it about *them* even a little was massively screwed up and no I do not give a damn what the details are. They do not matter. Your self-worth should not depend on their opinion. I know it sucks. The problem is them, not you.

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Todd DuBois @gwotaku.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't watched season 2, but on reflection my working theory is that the show functions best when it's doing the weird lore stuff centered on Japanese culture and not the sci-fi stuff if only because the SF side leans into that more.

Todd DuBois @gwotaku.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah that's understandable. Felt uncomfortable to me too

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Todd DuBois @gwotaku.bsky.social · 1d

I've observed a trend on youtube where a narrator talks you though what goes on in a specific comic story as it goes over panel by panel, basically a plot synopsis with pictures. Now realizing I'm 90% sure it's always an AI voice and not the person with the channel. Meh.

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Erasu @erasu.bsky.social · 2d

So this is just legitimate ragebait. The context was specifically about expanding the Nintendo IPs and the Nintendo Museum where they can see and use old hardware. Here's the question and answer

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Todd DuBois @gwotaku.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not necessarily suggesting Miyamoto is correct in his thinking, but people interpreting this as "games aren't worth preserving" or whatnot is reading significantly more into his words than what was actually said.

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Todd DuBois @gwotaku.bsky.social · 2d

Not directly related to this I suppose, but I feel like there are fan panels waiting to happen getting into what binds Captain Harlock and the saga of One Piece together. Both use the motif of the pirate to represent rebellion vs corruption - not just of the state, but I'd argue even the soul itself

The One Piece Podcast @onepiecepodcast.com · 13d

Protesters around the world are using the Straw Hat Pirate Jolly Roger as a symbol of freedom. We plan on doing a detailed report on this phenomenon in the coming weeks. In the meanwhile, here is an updating list of countries where the Jolly Roger has appeared:

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Todd DuBois @gwotaku.bsky.social · 2d

Y'know, it's not like I'm looking to endorse "nothing is ever my fault" and zero introspection in life, but blaming yourself the most for every negative interaction isn't right either.

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Todd DuBois @gwotaku.bsky.social · 3d

"Guardrails for historical figures" won't be enough to keep them out of trouble, or so I hope. When a cartoon does outlandish things with a living person, we know it's a cartoon. Free speech defense is easy. But what about reality-distorting dangerous lies selling things that never happened as real?

NPR @npr.org · 3d

OpenAI is preventing people from making AI videos of King on its Sora app after the estate of the civil rights leader complained about the spread of offensive and vulgar portrayals.

OpenAI blocks MLK Jr. videos on Sora after 'disrespectful depictions'

OpenAI is preventing people from making AI videos of King on its Sora app after the estate of the civil rights leader complained about the spread of offensive and vulgar portrayals.

n.pr

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Bruka Jones @brukajones.com · 5d

There’s a free application, shutup10++, that lets you disable all the shitty windows stuff with a series of checkboxes.
It even tracks if windows rolls anything back between updates and lets you reverse the changes with a click.
I can personally recommend shutup10++ if you need to stick with windows

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 6d

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Todd DuBois @gwotaku.bsky.social · 5d

Anecdotal, but Switch 2 has not been sold out in my area for at least three weeks now. Nintendo might've been a bit too aggressive about supplying the rest of the world vs home. If global sales are over 8 million that's around 25% of the market in Japan, & that's with it being hard to get one

Stealth40k @stealth40k.bsky.social · 5d

Switch 2 has officially sold over 2.2 million units in Japan.

It's still severely supply constrained.

Todd DuBois @gwotaku.bsky.social · 5d

I don't hate Wolverine but cartoons and movies put way too much attention on him. Conditioning us to look at him as the "main character" of X-Men doesn't make sense to me. And I'm not saying it should be Cyclops or someone else either. If anything should be an ensemble thing, it is X-Men.

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 8d

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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Out Of Touch Thursday! @outoftouchthursday.bsky.social · 6d

You couldn't possibly predict it! It's Out of Touch Thursday!

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Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 5d

Netflix and AMC are finally getting along. The two (plus Regal and Cinemark) are teaming for a Halloween re-release of 'KPop Demon Hunters,' a sign that the streaming–theatrical chill might be starting to thaw.
www.cartoonbrew.com/distribution...

'KPop Demon Hunters' Courts AMC For Halloween Theatrical Release

Netflix and AMC end their frigid standoff as 'KPop Demon Hunters' returns to theaters worldwide for a special Halloween sing-along event.

www.cartoonbrew.com

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 7d

A great thing about Struzan's Star Wars book covers was when his artwork continued across to the back cover. Here is an example where the back featured two "Preybird" starfighters, a ship which at the time I don't believe had any fully-rendered high quality artwork of it.

The full front and back cover to the Star Wars book "Specter of the Past," featuring a colorful, dark spacescape on the back and borders with two Preybird starfighters flying in front of planets and moons, and a collage of Luke, Leia, Han, and Borsk Fey'lya on the front cover in front of a celestial orange glow.

A close up crop of just the section of the illustration with the two Preybird starfighters

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FakeEyes @fakeeyes.bsky.social · 7d

“When I did the first Muppet Movie poster, Jim Henson told me that I painted his characters exactly the way he feels about them.”

-Drew Struzan

Muppet Movie poster that I printed up and hung at work a while back. It’s beautiful.

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Todd DuBois @gwotaku.bsky.social · 7d

this job listing is just...what is he even asking for?

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Todd DuBois @gwotaku.bsky.social · 10d

To be fair...that's pretty much a direct shot at people that dumped on the prequels too much

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Todd DuBois @gwotaku.bsky.social · 11d

Gotta say, I think it's hilarious that Robert Kirkman trashes on Superman. Invincible would be nothing at all without him and the DC Universe at large to stand athwart. collider.com/invincible-r...

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Todd DuBois @gwotaku.bsky.social · 11d

LRT: James Rolfe / Cinemassacre is still really good precisely *because* each video is the product of effort and generally always about something he cares about, as opposed to being done out of a misguided obligation to churn out "content" and reaction videos even if you have almost nothing to say

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Joe Driller Killer @shakewell.cryptoanarchy.network · 11d

It is wild to me that there are people whose entire personality is just... hating YouTubers whose fame peaked in like 2010. There's an entire subreddit dedicated to dogging on James Rolfe for *checks notes* having a family and work/life boundaries. Just spectacularly pathetic.

Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGhoul @marzgurl.com · 12d

They were referencing "Busy Street" and "TGWTG", so it's like this dude just woke up this week from a 15-year-long coma.

I'm not joking, this was a blog from Busy Street *IN 2010*. Dude was certainly allowed to not like Channel Awesome, but he & others who followed made it A WHOLE PERSONALITY TRAIT

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