Todd DuBois
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Todd DuBois
@gwotaku.bsky.social
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Animation fan with a passion for (good) sci-fi. Kindness is strength. @GWOtaku on twitter
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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
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.
which legend of zelda game is visually the most beautiful? 🕸️
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"
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
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?"
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.
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.
Yeah that's understandable. Felt uncomfortable to me too
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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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
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.
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
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:
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.
"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?
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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.
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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
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
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
Switch 2 has officially sold over 2.2 million units in Japan.

It's still severely supply constrained.
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.
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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You couldn't possibly predict it! It's Out of Touch Thursday!
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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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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.
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“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
this job listing is just...what is he even asking for?
To be fair...that's pretty much a direct shot at people that dumped on the prequels too much
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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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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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.
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