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Ian Robberson
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RPG player, I occasionally draw, former Pentex exec before getting blowed up. About a year in, and this place is starting to feel pretty good. I tend to mostly repost art I like.
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microberust.bsky.social
You aint wrong.
November 30, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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This is the truest thing anyone ever wrote about Japan

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Generally though, the TV here is surprisingly dull. The vast majority of programmes consist of several seriously overexcited people sitting in an overlit studio decorated like a novelty grotto made from regurgitated Dolly Mixture, endlessly babbling about food. Seriously, it's all food, food, food. People eating food, answering questions about food, sometimes even just pointing at food and laughing. It's as they've only just discovered food and are perpetually astonished by its very existence. Imagine watching an endless episode of The One Show with the colour and brightness turned up to 11, where all the guests have been given amphetamines, the screen is peppered with random subtitles, and every 10 seconds it cuts to a close-up shot of a bowl of noodles for no apparent reason. That's 90% of Japanese TV right there. For a nation so preposterously hi-tech, it's a curiously old-fashioned approach to television. People talking in studios. Forever. Like it's the 50s. And yet it's insanely agitated: as though the participants are simply too wired to make a proper TV show, and have subsequently just switched the cameras on and started yelping. The adverts continue this vaguely old-school theme. There are plenty of super-sophisticated ones starring giant CGI cats and the like, but there's also a rather charming emphasis on dancing: people unpretentiously dancing and singing about the product on offer (generally a foodstuff, which presumably explains their terrifying level of excitement). It makes the Go Compare tenor seem subtle. Sedate, even.
November 29, 2025 at 3:38 AM
microberust.bsky.social
Is a US Count Binface the solution to reaching young men? More to the point, can I get in on the focus group grift circuit pitching this?
November 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
microberust.bsky.social
Mmm, check out that big ol' pot of beige in the upper left corner!
November 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
microberust.bsky.social
Feels like this might be a Rubio-Miller-Hegseth turducken of vizier scheming.
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
microberust.bsky.social
Related: the International Luddite Brotherhood announces their new line of branded clothing produced by powered looms and automated textile machinery!
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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md.ekstrandom.net
remember.
Tumblr post from wongbal Hello and welcome to Deep Space Nine. We are a space station, not a starship, so you be spending a lot of time with all these delightful side characters like: bisexual fashion lizard. hologram of Frank Sinatra. goblins. goblin comes in 3 varieties: bartender, nephew, and idiot, our doctor is a twink, our commander is antifa and the captain talks to the gods sometimes. our policeman is sometimes a liquid and the science lady is part worm. we have many fine storylines, such as: Goblin Does A Crime, Watch The Irishman Suffer, or The Horrors Of War. As you stroll along our promenade enjoying a raktajino or delicious jumja stick, watch out for our nefarious villains: Pope Karen. clones of Jeffrey Combs. and a horny bastard reptile man who seems convinced this is actually his show. we suspect he may be possessed by demons. Have fun! Deep Space Nine: now with Worf™!
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 AM