For his bachelor’s thesis he arbitrated peace talks between vi and emacs, ending the hostilities…

This is how we know it’s a work of fiction.

omg I can’t un-see it now.

They literally survived my house burning down, I dug them out of the ashes.

This is freakin awesome. (er, sorry for your house, I meant that the shoes survived…) You shold give them a name, like: “Ashenborn” or something. They definitely give you plus one on your saving throws.

What an awesome way to come up with movie concepts. OK, my turn

• BattleStarWars: the Ultimate Trek
• The HunchBack to the Future Past
• Raiders of the Revenge of the Attack on Titanic

If they had a kid, it’d be called Alienpuncher.

No wonder it keeps telling me about Hell in a Cell and an announcer’s table.

Politicians keep track of public sentiment, because it affects their jobs.

People generally don’t want to protest, they just want to get on with their lives. If large numbers get up and start protesting, that means there’s a lot of energy there which politicians can use for campaign phonebanking and canvassing and donations.

I post a lot of bandcamp links on !gothindustrial@lemmy.world, but apparently bandcamp got bought out and will inevitably go down the road of enshittification.

Libraries typically have CDs too, which you can rip.

ooh, this was fun, I came across this way back in undergrad for a class in literary critical theory, and another in psychoanalytic interpretations of novels. don’t remember much about it tho, it’s been a while.

if you want to be sure, watch the https://miru.miyaku.media/ link which should be active at that time.

otherwise,

uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox should work for that tubi link, there’s just a momentary pause while the ad tries to load

the archive version almost certainly doesn’t (e: doesn’t have ads) but you probably have to download it bc streaming from archive is iffy

I never see ads on dailymotion but I dunno if it’s bc they aren’t there or if uBlockOrigin keeps them out.

Amelie Lens did a techno set there, and the video includes some great drone flybys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJkuTx1DQzg

@ook@discuss.tchncs.de I know you were just kidding, but Patricia Laffan was actually a really interesting person. As I wrote in my review of this movie:

She wrote short stories, and also radio scripts in fluent French. Her hobbies were “fast cars and breeding bull terriers”, she never married and had at least one girlfriend, and besides her acting she produced fashion shows. Her costume for this movie was designed by John Sutcliffe, “a British fetish clothing designer and publisher of the fetish magazine AtomAge” who influenced the leather catsuit of Emma Peel in The Avengers as well as some of the later “punk look” of the 70s.

https://slrpnk.net/post/16894691/13027879

Just watched this movie last night, it was definitely worth watching.

It suffers a bit from comparison to “The Right Stuff” movie which is also about the early troubled days of a space program – Tom Wolfe mighta been a reactionary git, but he had an eye for detail, and the Honnêamise slice-of-life events seem kinda bland by comparison.

The chase scene in the middle seems a little out of place. It happens, then there’s no mention of it again. Almost like it’s thrown in to wake people up. However, the action towards the end is well-done and effective.

The Riquinni character is unfortunately underdeveloped. To that end she recalls Nausicaa in Miyazaki’s film: a saintly figure that is just a little too perfect, such that they become almost a caricature. This madonna/whore nature is emphasized by the way we first see her, handing out religious pamphlets in a pleasure district. I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say there’s a MeToo event, and OP reviewer says they can’t imagine why it was added. The wikipedia page has a good overview of how it might be explained thematically, but I agree with OP that it’s inexcusable. The same idea could have been expressed in a less gratuitous way. It’s a reminder that movies in that time were mired in a culture where such actions were considered unremarkable, and this is not the only movie that suffers from such depictions. So, to be clear, this is a flawed movie.

It does several things right tho, including the worldbuilding, which has a nice feel to it that is somewhere between late !raygungothic@piefed.social and early !cassettefuturism@lemmy.world . I was a little surprised to see there wasn’t a manga behind this as in Nausicaa or Akira since it was so well developed, but wikipedia says they explicitly focused on worldbuilding. The “oxen pulling carts with cutting-edge flying tech” scene would later be re-used by Miyazaki in The Wind Rises and is a striking visual epitome of the mood they’re going for.

Anyway, I think anyone interested in what kinds of thing anime can achieve, should take a look at this despite the flaws mentioned above.

Looks like a phishing email!

First of all, check out !nin@lemmy.world

Second, I like this mix that re-frames the soundtrack as an EP:

1. Init/Shadow Over Me
2. I Know You Can Feel It
3. Target Identified/Infiltrator/As Alive As You Need Me to Be
4. Who Wants to Live Forever?
5. New Directive

So you got the 4 lyrics songs, introduced by the instrumentals that echo them, and with a 5th instrumental song as the end credits. It’s basically an EP, so you can compare it to the events/violence/witch EPs.

It’s a slight step down. With the previous EPs, I get the feeling Trent and Atticus had new ideas they wanted to explore. For this EP, it sounds like they were hired for a job. (hey nothing wrong with that, but the motivation’s different.)

“Init/Shadow Over Me” is ok, kinda standard. “I Know You Can Feel It” is probably the best of the four, though still just re-hashing older ideas. “Target Identified/Infiltrator/As Alive As You Need Me to Be” is a great song but I associate it too much with that trailer involving the guy from Morbius. “Who Wants to Live Forever?” really should be the best song, BUT by all the gods that woman’s voice is so weak! Is that some kinda post-ironic thing they’re going for that I just don’t get? “New Directive” is just another instrumental, the person who remixed this coulda left it off. Tho I do gotta say I like how the instrumentals reference both Daft Punk ‘s and Wendy Carlos’ soundtracks.

Back in 82 we weren’t all carrying an internet link in our pocket. Computers were in arcades and sometimes at work (but only used by specialists.) Impossible to recapture that moment in time.

Sounds like a better movie. Maybe we can get Ministry to do the soundtrack.

Fungible? Just barely more than a well-designed screensaver? “OK, the marketing’s in place, now we need the product.” “Sure, let’s go hire some creatives.”

Similar to op-ed about AI Music recently. It’s basically background music.

Get the family together for a movie night. Doesn’t matter what it is, you’ll all be on your phones anyway. Disney’s safe and reliable, Tron is just slightly edgy, hey it’s got a soundtrack by Nine Inch Nails, that brings back memories…

It’s definitely a slower paced character driven story, with a few minutes of intense action in its 2 hour runtime, but overall I found the movie to be absolutely engaging throughout.

Yeah, anime began to lose its charm for me during Season 2 of Mob Psycho 100, which had several deeply moving character studies that fans wrote off as “filler episodes” and then they were like: “Why is Mob acting so weird with Reigen?” and I’m like it was right there in that episode… So anyway, it’s really hard to do a character-driven story…