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Wait... we're still considering the Space Force a real thing?

Ok, but, hear me out, he's already got one kid that hates him.... what if dozens of kids that hate him?

Truth be told, I've started to question if we even can build new large-scale internet communities in the current internet landscape. Everything has become so marketing-dependent and everyone is just so very sick of it. The people wanting any social media format to rise to power the most are those that stand to make money off of it. It's no longer about building a community, it's building an audience of consumers. Anything remotely large-scale is just going to fall prey to the same mechanics, and be at the mercy of big advertisers that will steer any platform towards what will generate the biggest short-term profits. You're doomed if you don't bend to their whims and lose funding, and you're doomed if you do and lose public support. Idk. Bit of a ramble. Just been mulling over how much of a shitshow the internet has become, and the impacts on social media, and I personally think it can all be traced back to advertising having an ever-growing influence on what does or doesn't survive.

It's kinda even more surprising when you realize the name... we just jumped from Helene to Milton? Fuck that's a lot of named storms in a short span of time. Even if they're mostly just spinning up and doing nothing in the middle of nowhere, that's still a lot of activity.

Mighty Boosh put it best: "Elements of the past and the future, combinin', to make something not quite as good as either." There may have been potential in the idea at some point.. but the writing is so far removed from the source material that it may as well be bad fanfiction.

In my search for good background noise, rediscovered MXC - Most Extreme Elimination Challenge. This shit was incredible back in the day, and dammit, the writing still holds up solid.

Finally cut out cable last month, sorta just chilling with free-to-view stuff until I finally pull the trigger on some subscriptions. Ghost in the Shell holds up surprisingly well. Kinda missed seeing this all the time pre-Toonami. Dunno what deal [as] got to basically have permanent streaming rights, but I'll take it. Incidentally, the original Laughing Man incident was supposed to happen earlier this year...

I had a dream that I shit my pants... surely this was a sign.

No no, it'll be over because they won't want to participate anymore. A "we're taking our ball and going home" situation.

Incidentally, can confirm, subbed ep is freely available on [as] app (and presumably website). Guess it makes sense, [as] production, would have total streaming rights.

I just figured the black-and-white was mostly because this is trying to be treated as a faithful adaptation, as close as you can literally get to "manga but animated." But maybe also kinda yeah, I think too it'd lose some of the impact if it were to be colorized.

Been wondering, but.. something occurred to me.. what was even the point of that entire coliseum part of this story? Like... it's established as a trap for Luffy, and the bait needed to be the fruit... but why the fuck would they actually put up the actual fruit for grabs? It's just... there, easy pickings for their enemy. Why not use a fake? Why not lie and not put anything in the chest? Why not rig it in some way? It just makes absolutely no sense that it was ever a possibility someone would be able to take something that powerful and use it against the family.. I guess maaaybe if there's some long term plan of "hahaha, it was sabotaged all along and now you're going to die in 3 days" or something. But, currently, feels like a very weak plot point.

[as] still has a website??? Judging from the app on my Roku, usually anything actively airing is on a significant delay, if it's unlocked at all. Actually, checking just now, I've only just realized how much is freely available. Still, not sure I wanna wait that long to resume watching things, and I'm a bad pirate..

Oops. Cut the cable just in time to miss this starting up.. S'ok, I never get to watch anything on Saturday night anyway, Max ought to be just as good.... right?

MD: "Killing Trump would start a civil war" Also MD:

Wouldn't rule out Vance being some form of mutant, tho.

Not for nothin, but... the "Splatty Tomato" episode of South Park also just happens to mention President Garrison "running around eating our pets and terrorizing our kids."

I mean.. I get it. It's running with the old trope of "nothing shown in sequential order." Because Elle's whole thing is time happens all at once or whatever. It'll be one of those things that maaaaybe makes more sense by the end when it all ties together, and will still require remembering it all, and probably still take someone cutting it all into sequential order to really make sense.. whatever can be made here. I just don't think they needed R&M to tell that story, and lifting the characters to put them in it has drained them of most of their characterization, and forces a lot of really flat/awkward writing that simply doesn't fit.

I was just saying this needs to join in on Toonami Rewind. >_>

We won't hear anything about it until after it comes to light she's being paid campaign hush money.

Catching up.. hot damn! In case anyone isn't familiar, the type of sword she's using looks more like an urumi. Those things are seriously the most terrifying weapons I have ever seen.

Eh, largely just strikes me as a "who tf is this even" situation.