[email protected] now also has a thread on that transphobe getting banned from freedesktop and it’s pretty bad

My tea bag burst without me noticing it. When I got to the final sip, my mouth got assaulted by the loose cuttings, vile :shatter:

Played on Shounic’s 100 player TF2 server for the first time. Server was only half-full at 57 players, but even then it is absolute chtonic pandemonium and chaos. There were 9 sentries up on the roof by 2nd point on Pl_Badwater. We won upward by literally throwing ourselves at the cart on last, any sense of organization or tactics (what little that was in the game anyhow), completely disappears. It’s beautiful. Also laggy, but that is completely fine, considering.

have you Biden hating tankies considered that the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a genocide is a good guy with a genocide?? checkmate commies

I actually have photographic memory but only of my most awkward social interactions

I showed up to work on time all week now and I feel that deserves an immediate raise

The madlads did it, they announced Slay the Spire 2. I’m looking forward to spending 1000 hours of quality time looking at cards

Thursday are releasing a new song tonight

holy shit

Yung Lean hanging out with Kanye is so disappointing. He just did a Collab with BLP Kosher so this seems especially egregious

welcome back girl in red

Private jam session with a dude who runs a piano tuning spot. Think he might have money because he just has a steinway and he just lives in richy rich land. He also had that smug rich guy impatience. Like youre the idiot. He might somehow be a decent dude despite my alarm bells.

Friend from a gig invited me, nice! We played a lot of tunes, some I’ve never heard before.

Iris Wayne Shorter A duke ellington tune Crazy romance (dun remember exact title, good song) Jeanine (didnt know the bridge)

Then a couple standards.

They really liked me :) I got two ppls numbers. I definitely felt my class background there though, i definitely did not grow up where they did. I swear way too much and am much more excitable. Unfortunately in a way my playing is good enough where I can justify just being myself but I hate how real of a thing that is. People are nicer to you when you play well.

I need to work on my three playing. My brush playing has gotten better with my trad grip studies. Also getting stuck on the head and making the sweeping sound is death and boring, its okay to jump around with the brushes as long as it makes sense.

Someone recommends me a manga -> I read it -> The sfx has subtitles -> I wax nostalgic about US Monthly Shonen Jump

OKAY MOTHERFUCKERS, I have pretty much never met a fellow subscriber but who remembers the english monthly version of Shonen Jump? It ran from ~2002-March 2012 in print and 2012-2016 in digital, and had a unique selection of manga compared to Weekly Shōneno Jāmpu, or any of the Japanese monthly versions, probably for the purpose of tie-ins with anime adaptations. (It also lacked the pirate guy branding)

I think most people who grew up with 4kids anime in the west went right to Funimation dubs, me I went and subscribed to this. I still blame it for my latent weeaboo tendencies. It was at least a cool & neat magazine given the target demographic; it had stuff like fanart, Nigonho Lessons, previews of Japanese video games, interviews with mangaka, oh man it was the shit. One of the fascinating things about it was that in like 2004, 2005, you could watch the very PG-rated 4kids One Piece dub on TV, (as I did) and then go read the identically-branded manga version of same and go “woah… that’s a lotta fuckin’ blood man!!” the dissonance was fascinating, and also Jump would do weird things like run portions of Dragon Ball Z or Dr Slump. I was always big on the titles they’d serialise for just a few issues, like Toriko or Bakuman. The “Shonen Jump Advanced” (i.e. age 16+) titles they serialised were fascinating and hilarious, like they ran Rosario + Vampire Season II when it began, and they legit had to edit out all of the panty shots, which, lmao.

I have always been a pretty big fan of Viz’s localisations of their various manga, like it’s a laugh reading old fanscans of Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue and reading the scanlator getting fucking furious at Viz putting those big “<<<READ THIS WAY<<<” indicators on their pages. My brother in christ, for its first five or six years Jump was printed with the cover on both sides. It was confusing, I desperately needed those “You’re reading the wrong way!” warnings, as well as the “Japan 101” style t/n’s that explained shit like what oden noodles was.

The aspect of their translations that always stuck out to me though, was the sound effects. Nowadays literally everyone just puts “SFX: BREAST NOISES” under the relevant panel, but I guess Viz didn’t think 13 year old white boys would tolerate seeing kanji in a comic, because they redrew literally every onomatopeia and sound effect in every manga they published from like 2002 to 2016, which is fucking wild to me. The amount of hard work and effort that went into it must have been staggering, but getting those big huge block-letter “THOK” graphics next to Luffy decking someone was the fucking goat. Reads smooth like butter, and it looks gorgeous. Dramatic, even.

I think US Monthly Shonen Jump is sort of an artifact of when business interests didn’t think Japanese anime or manga would sell stateside, though. As much as it was pretty faithful, high-quality & not afraid of its origins, unlike say DiC’s Sailor Moon comic issues, it does feel like a really careful, precision effort to sell westoid audiences on manga. Obviously this worked perfectly because it’s been dead for like twelve years and my autistic ass is still prattling on about it. I still have all of my issues from 2009-2012, if they brought this out again I’d probably subscribe again just for shits, it was wonderful.

We spent the rest of the flight arguing politics. He is backing Muskie, and as he talked I got the feeling that he thought he was already at a point where, sooner or later, we would all be. “Ed’s a good man,” he said. “He’s honest. I respect the guy.” Then he stabbed the padded seat arm between us two or three times with his forefinger. “But the main reason I’m working for him,” he said, “is that he’s the only guy we have who can beat Nixon.” He stabbed the arm again. “That’s the real issue this time,” he said. “Beating Nixon. It’s hard to even guys how much damage those bastards will do it they get in for another four years.”

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Liberals have literally never changed

Wow

Okay so I’ve just watched the first episode of the Fallout show. TLDR is that I have very positive feelings all around.

I fuckin loved it. Fallout has always seemed like such a slam dunk for a TV show setting, there are just so many small-scale stories and wacky characters that can exist in the world. I only really have two negatives for this episode, and those are that there was no rendition of the Fallout theme or any version of the “War never changes” speech.

First of all, the set design is fucking perfect. The Netflix adaptation of ATLA looked really cheap and obviously like a set, but in this, everything looks as grimy and funky as it should in Fallout. The Vault suits look great, as does the vault sets, the wastelander costumes are really good, the ghoul prosthetics are on point. Fallout also has such great sound design, its so satisfying to hear the Pip-Boy in action.

The performances are all pretty solid, except for one random guy with a mustache in the vault.

Spoilers for the first episode

The show might not follow up perfectly, or maybe it will, but I know that I am more than satisfied with this first episode, if nothing else. Video game adaptations have slowly been getting better, and even if this won’t be as good as Edgerunners, I am really happy with how its going. I’m a massive Fallout fan and really glad to see the positive direction.