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Daryl Surat

@darylsurat.bsky.social

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I'm an engineer, podcaster, and Otaku USA Magazine contributor driven insane from pop culture overload and isolation. It makes me scream a lot with my fingers. http://www.animeworldorder.com

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Daryl Surat @darylsurat.bsky.social · Aug 27

In Show # 244 - The Seiun Award Lost All Credibility and Prestige in 1999, I review the mecha comedy-drama Martian Successor Nadesico. But also...the Nadesico movie. But also the Gekiganger 3 OVA! Plus, @geraldawo.bsky.social provides his con report of Otakon 2025: www.awopodcast.com/2025/08/anim...

Anime World Order Show # 244 – The Seiun Award Lost All Credibility and Prestige in 1999

Malady and illness caused us to miss last month, but Gerald attended Otakon 2025 and Daryl reviews what he considers a landmark of “post-Evangelion TV anime,” the mecha comedy-drama Mar…

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POKEY THE PENGUIN @pokeythepenguin.bsky.social · 5h

TEE HEE!!! IT IS TRUE

Constance Marianne @conniemouse.bsky.social · 5h

I made this for you, Pokey!!

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The Red-Headed Strangler @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 8h

if you listen to an audiobook it's fine to say you read the book and anyone who disagrees is just being obnoxious

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 21h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Daryl Surat @darylsurat.bsky.social · 9h

It took me about 216 hours but I finally finished Baldur's Gate 3. Although I kind of want to restart it and do a different character with different choices playing on the Tactician difficulty, I'll probably go through Clair Obscur now instead since I only played to just past the first boss of that.

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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 11h

Bari Weiss truly has Ted Cruz level haters. I keep seeing people who are like “I knew her when she was nine and I fucking hated her” lol

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Jetzero Infinity @ Snobby Black Weeb @jetzeroinfinity.bsky.social · 11h

...Huh. So I kinda noticed it this morning when watching an episode of My-Dress Up Darling, and assumed it was just a carryover from that show predating this season, but I'm watching ep of of Plus-Sized Misadventures and it looks like CR has fully returned to using Aegisubs

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Samantha Ferreira Is Creating An Anime Mag @sam-animeherald.bsky.social · 11h

It is done. o/ Bundle price is $30.25, a 10% savings off buying them individually.

Anime Herald @animeherald.com · 11h

Due to requests from a few folks, we're now offering a bundle with the both editions of Anime Herald Magazine, with a 10% discount over buying them separately 🥰

Digital copy ($15.75 USD): hera.fyi/buyahmag1dig 💻
Physical copy ($17.95 USD): hera.fyi/buyahmag1 📔
Bundle: hera.fyi/buyahmag1bun 📦

Cover art for Anime Herald Magazine, which features a tag that reads "Anime Herald Magazine - we speak otaku. No #001 Fall 2025, launch issue"

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices

Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil

Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world

Founder2: ok that works

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🦇Count Grantula: Dead and Loving It🦇 @grantthethief.bsky.social · 16h

Gonna be getting mileage out of this one

Karashi from Akane Banashi saying this sucks, man

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Chris Dell'Isola @aficionadoschris.com · 18h

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Essence of Anime @geraldawo.bsky.social · 5d

We are coming up on that time of the year, the annual Anime World Order Thanksgiving Trivia Show! If you would like to help contribute to it please hit me up personally, DM me not the podcast. I love weird, stupid, unusual categories, 10-12 questions.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 1d

Six weeks prior to Halo: CE shipping, 16 player multiplayer over LAN was not functioning.

It took dedicated engineers and a lot of people in test undergoing intense crunch to save that feature.

The landscape of video games is owed in major part to test.

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 1d

I see people sad about the ending of Ultimate X-Men, and I am too. I'll miss these characters. But I am also glad about it. This isn't something that was done to us. The plan from the beginning was to tell a complete story in two years. We got to end on our own terms, which is rare nowadays.

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minthara blasting menthols @grave.ink · Sep 1

i've never seen anyone attempt a LuBubu (Lu Bu x Labubu), so i took the dark deed upon myself

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 1d

The "you wouldn't download a car" screen but it reads "you wouldn't scrape all the art ever made and use it to create an Anime titty generator"

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Essence of Anime @geraldawo.bsky.social · 1d

But yes, I had a great time at Tron Ares, yes, you are literally rooting for a tech entrepreneur, and yes, the movie has this fake tech entrepreneur who is actually a programmer and wants to do good things for the world rather than reinvent the library, but I'll take it.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 3d

Best analysis of Tron: Ares I've seen, and its from my comment section.

A comment from Jessie's review of Tron: Ares - "TRON is a movie about unionizing your workplace. TRON: Legacy is movie about the tools of fascism. TRON: Ares is a movie about... how hard it is to be tech billionaire running a Fortune 500 company, I guess."

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She is Rizz’n @nylarosebeast.bsky.social · 1d

#Onepunchman is back!!!

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 1d

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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台羽正 @tadashidaiba.bsky.social · 1d

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Daryl Surat @darylsurat.bsky.social · 1d

During the week, I impulse bought a "mint condition refurbished sold by manufacturer" Logitech G29 force feedback steering wheel. It arrived sans power adapter. Amazon says to contact Logitech directly, but their support site is nonfunctional & Discord unattended. Phone support is Mon-Fri only. Ugh.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 1d

This has been *confirmed*: so not only did this make it through dozens of levels of decisions where no one spoke up to say "this is unethical and looks like shit", it's also so bad it was instantly spotted by thousands of people like me who in a split second said "hey that looks like shit".

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 2d

Someone tell me Disney didn't just use a bunch of fucking AI slop for the new Wonder Man show

Wonder Man screenshot featuring merchandise which appears to be decorated with AI slop.

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Essence of Anime @geraldawo.bsky.social · 1d

So I'm in disagreement with some of the critics, I thought Tron Ares and awesome. Really incredible soundtrack, I really loved it, go and see it in a theater it's worth it.

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