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Doug thought the OneyPlays guys making fun of him was hilarious and he has this “If you can’t laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?” mentality that creatives find endearing. Linkara got visibly upset at the same kind of jokes and everyone’s been needling him since.

Maybe that old Cartoon Network pitch reel was onto something -

“Hi Doug!” Can you tell this was started by a Newgrounds animator?

Short rib ragu. I went to an Italian place to celebrate my mom’s birthday.

Well that and they’re casting Nico Robin this season, with a call for a Latina actress. Whoever gets cast is probably going to get it way worse than Emily Rudd did (if only because Nami’s first appearance didn’t have tits the size of her head).

The Atomic Skull is definitely one of those lesser used villains. He showed up in Superman vs The Elite and that was about it.

Semi-off topic, but Netflix released their viewing reports for the second half of 2023. https://about.netflix.com/en/news/what-we-watched-the-second-half-of-2023 And in a very dramatic reversal of the 2000s, anime kicked the shit out of Western adult animation.

As someone who got to see Weird Al at Radio City Music Hall, I’ll say they witnessed a much better show.

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/apprentice-donald-trump-team-cease-and-desist-letter-sebastian-stan-jeremy-strong-1236015819/ Trump's team is hitting the makers of the film The Apprentice with a cease and desist to stop a US release. Among other things, it shows Trump raping his first wife, taking drugs and undergoing surgery to lose weight, and has his buildings built with mob help.

Eating nothing but unhealthy food and drinking like a fish, while intentionally limiting physical exercise makes you fat and unhealthy. No one could have seen that coming. i remember someone doing a counterpoint to the experiment where they ate McDonalds, but stuck to sensible breakfasts and the salads, and they lost a few pounds at the end of the month without needing to run a marathon daily.

She lived a full life in dog years. RIP.

Another disputed rally crowd. Police estimates were 3500, they claimed 25-35,000. It's like when a Trump supporter shows pictures of freaking LiveAid and claim's they're all MAGAheads.

Taco Thursday. Two chorizo, one steak with the veggies, gauc, and the green hot sauce.

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/what-we-watched-the-second-half-of-2023 No pressure for Season 2.

Garouden: The Way of the Lone Wolf 1-5.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-05-23/toho-to-acquire-anime-studio-science-saru-as-its-subsidiary/.211114 With demand ramping up, studios are being bought.

Opening. It’s more explicitly connected to the Mazinger mythos by having Mazinger Z in the opening.

Defense rests without Trump testimony.

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes - Apes once again are compelling characters in their own right, which you don’t expect. Still a lot of LOTR style walking scenes that probably sounded cooler than they were and feel like padding. Still a solid 7/10.

I want an AI of Peter Cullen’s voice, but not to have Optimus Prime say funny things, but to have it narrate fake Toonami promos. Shame the one he approved of is with TikTok of all things, and I refuse to get a TikTok account.

This was inevitable following all those flops.