Top Gun

Y'know it struck me as I was watching the 4 Nations hockey final tonight...I genuinely wanted Canada to win. And I fucking hate the Canadian hockey team. That's how disgusting this shit is right now.

If it's any longer than "Fuck off and die" it's a waste of text.

Macross Plus, Samurai Champloo, Kids on the Slope, and Carole & Tuesday say hi? Even Terror in Resonance got more positive response than negative from what I saw.

Christ I'm old.

He is such a pathetic little bitch.

At least there are multiple shows airing every week, albeit most of them reruns at the moment. Mashle kicked ass, and that's a show I probably never would have found on my own. (No idea why the hell we couldn't go right into season 2 though.) As moribund as things are now, Toonami still feels like something resembling a cohesive block of television, or at least much more so than airing a pair of anime series for an hour every other week. And I don't see how any offering on a niche cable channel has the luxury of "finding its groove" in the year 2025, given how few eyeballs are left on cable overall. You'd think the opposite would be true, that a new programming block would want to start things off with as big of a bang as possible to get viewers to tune in. That's what [as] did when it brought back the Toonami brand over a decade ago, kicking it off with multiple new premieres in short order. Or look at what SyFy did with Ani-Mondays back in the day: they blew everyone's faces off with the premiere of Solid State Society, then bangers like Noein and Macross Plus (and Tokko was there too for some reason). Maybe I'm wrong and this thing has some actual staying power, but right now it feels like someone's vanity project, and it wouldn't shock me if it swiftly goes the way of Chiller's weird little anime experiment.

I get the frustration over Toonami, but how is having all of two shows that are a decade old at this point and running them every other week for God knows what reason in any way better?

Imagine holding your shitstain politicians accountable.

There's William Henry Harrison: "I died in 30 days!"

Real talk, where the hell did they even find a 20-year-old SD episode tape?

Wonder if she'll be singing the same tune when her marriage gets invalidated.

Spitters are quitters!

I'm not sure I'll bother watching this thing: I was never super-interested in the Fateverse to begin with, and from the myriad of nerd arguments I've seen about it, no one seems to agree on what to watch first. There was an ANN feature on the whole franchise a couple of months ago, and that at least recommended starting with the DEEN adaptation of the original Fate route, then watching Unlimited Blade Works. Either way apparently the first episode of UBW is a prologue that's common to all three routes, so maybe I'll at least give that a look. That being said, the more I think about the setup for this block, the dumber it seems. So you're going to air one show one night, then repeat it a few nights later, okay...but then you're going to switch to a completely different show the following week, so that anyone following one of them will have to wait two weeks in-between episodes? That's incredibly fucking stupid. Just show an episode of each one per week like a normal-ass channel.

I mean outing yourself as a fucking Nazi bitch sure is a choice.

I mean why would they bother selling exclusive rights to a network that even by zombie cable standards presumably has far fewer eyeballs on it than [as] does? That makes no sense from a business standpoint. But honestly CR blocking out [as] from show acquisitions makes little sense to me in general. The block isn't directly competing with CR's service in any real way now.

My first thought is that I didn't even think I got this channel, but apparently it's way the hell up amongst the 3 or 4 duplicates of each channel that Xfinity has on the lineup for whatever reason. My second thought is that I don't see this lasting for any particular length of time, and I also highly doubt that them broadcasting MHA episodes that Toonami aired all the way back in 2018 will have any effect on whether or not they air the next season.

I hate it because I always mentally pronounced "doge" with a hard G and I think it sounds fucking stupid this way.

This...could be better. Only saving grace is that I don't have to tune out for a half-hour in the middle of what I want to watch like I do now.

If you can somehow take the raging douchenozzle out of the picture, SpaceX's reusable technology has led to massive cuts to the cost of getting payloads to orbit. Their iterative design process of launching stuff even if it's not entirely ready, seeing what breaks, and fixing it is something that NASA and traditional aerospace companies by their nature could never do, and was probably a sorely-needed disruption ot the industry. And while I think Starship is maybe the dumbest fucking looking rocket ever (seriously, it's a giant space dildo), if it does what it has the potential to do, then it'll be an equal game-changer in terms of heavy lift capacity. Honestly I used to be a huge fan of what they were doing, before said douchenozzle started to let his Nazi flag fly.

Comment: "Nobody voted for Rainman."

Or wait...there might be something else that exists besides this shorts project? No one seems totally sure. Either way there's no more right now.

The thing is, even if we magically stopped all CO2 emissions tomorrow, it would still take hundreds of years for what's already in the atmosphere to return to pre-industrial levels. Even if you want to put a pin in a certain spot and say "let's at least get levels to where they were in the 1950s," you're still talking decades. Any comprehensive solution to climate change needs to involve both severe restrictions on new emissions going into the atmosphere, and some sort of geoengineering projects to remove what's already there.

There is no season 2 of Lycoris. There was something like a one-off shorts project announced, but it's not a full season.

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