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it's been nearly a full 24 hours and it's killing me.
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I haven't been able to find the source that I heard it from, but it's possible that I misinterpreted it or even that some scenes were redubbed by the whole cast or even shot after much of the rest of the film. It does seem clear from Wikipedia's production notes that the film was originally intended to have no or minimal dialogue.
EDIT: yeah what twig said
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Basically, if you don't care about amiibos, but want to play around with the feature and don't want to miss out on Splatoon content, the squid amiibo gives you the coolest stuff.
The squid that you can only get by buying the complete set of Splatoon amiibo.
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Man, the ending to the newest volume of Wandering Son is a real gut punch. Really can't wait to see how it pays off in the next volume. I'm trying to avoid spoilers online and the next volume is probably going to take forever to come out again, which is a pain.
I don't usually think about chapter titles too much, but I love the choice of "The Dam" for a chapter about Nitorin building up confidence and "The Dam Bursts" for a chapter where that confidence is shattered all in one go. It's a great abstraction.
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Was just looking at the pug wikipedia page. The difference between pugs from around 1800 and today is nuts. Did you know pugs used to have actual snouts? Dog breeding is insane. /derail
There's an effort on the part of certain dog breeders to bring back old-style pugs and bulldogs, which I'm pretty happy about.
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Teg, I'm going into town tomorrow. If I find one I'll pick it up for you. Is it just the girl one you want? Would you be interested in the boy if they have that too? No guarantee I'll find one though!
I think a friend grabbed a three-pack for me last night, but thanks anyway.
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Is that true? A lot of his lines sound kind of dubbed, but there's plenty of moments where you see his mouth move and at least one that makes no sense if he's not speaking.
They deliberately tried to pick scenes where he was either facing away from the camera or had his mouth open, from my understanding.
Anyone else seen Kung Fury yet?
Just saw Kung Fury, loving it.
For anyone who hasn't clicked on that video yet, you're really missing out.
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Another idea: "The Worst Anime You've Ever Seen."
I would be so down for a Ghibli episode. In my experience I've found almost everyone I've talked to about Ghibli has a different favourite Ghibli film, and interesting reasons why.
Mine is My Neighbours The Yamadas, because Isao Takahata is secretly the best director at Ghibli.
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I also called my uncle. I haven't spoken to him in 6+ years, but I always respected him. I'm gonna be talking to him in person on the first. I want help with all the shit I've been struggling with. As expected, my parents haven't even told any of my other relatives that I'm gay, so that's gonna be a fun conversation. I know that I should ostensibly be feeling good about this, but it still feels wrong.
So a brief update on this:
We couldn't get the scheduling to work out, so I ended up coming out to him via email last night. I told him about all the shit my parents put me through, how my job situation has been, everything. I haven't received a response yet, and I've been feeling anxious and nauseous the entire time. You'd think this would get easier each time, but it really doesn't. All I can do is wait and hope it works out fo the best, but I'm having a hard time keeping my mind off of things.
Also, it's kind of a downer to see the last five years of your life summed up into only a few paragraphs.
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-Anime Influence on Western Media
FOLLOW UP:
-"Thanks, Obama-kun: Western Media Influence on Anime"
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I've been watching Ninja Slayer recently, that and Inferno Cop might be a good core to build a episode about low budgets on. it's a example of when shows take their limitations and do silly/interesting things with them. With maybe Voices of a Distant Star (I think that's what the damn thing was called anyway will have to check in a mo) rounding it off as a example of something made my one person. Also maybe some talk about shows that notoriously ran out of money.
I was actually thinking of things like how robots caught on in a big way because they still looked fine if they were stiffly-animated, how transformation sequences became standard because they fill time with old material, or how voice recording is done after the fact to keep schedules tighter.
If I were to do a western equivalent, I'd personally be talking about things like Hanna-Barbera's complete domination of TV animation for several decades because of their cost-cutting techniques, or all the barely-animated Marvel superhero cartoons in the sixties.
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The sound was excellent. You could hear the Skypiness shine through with certain hosts, but that's more a result of their mics than anything else.
Thought I'd springboard a few suggestions for future discussions:
-The Big Damn Ghibli Episode
-Food in Anime
-LGBT in Japan
-Episode 2.22: This is (Not) the Evangelion Episode
-Summer Wars is Basically a Perfect Movie
-Osamu Tezuka
-Moe: Threat or Menace?
-How Low Animation Budgets Shaped the Aesthetics of Anime
-"Gender and Its Place in Japanese Media" (or "Why Women in Hentai Always Sound Like They're In Pain")
-Magical Girls
-Anime Influence on Western Media
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So what's the countdown on someone giving a stage presentation or a Ted talk or something on robotics that ends with the presenter pulling off their faceplate while the real person who created them walks onstage?
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I really want the Splatoon ones. Even just the girl, so I can at least get the exclusive outfit.
If anyone sees them and wanted to grab them for me, I'm willing -if not presently able- to pay the appropriate amount in cash, artwork, or bags of regionally-exclusive potato chip flavours.
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He was originally supposed to have no lines, all of his dialogue was dubbed in.
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'grats on the 'puff
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This comes out on Monday. I made a thing. It doesn't sync up quite as well as I'd like, but you get the gist of it.
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It is my great shame to admit that I had trouble telling him and Jeff No Takebackula apart, probably the first time I have experienced that on a podcast.
I didn't realize there was a fourth person on the podcast until my second time through. They never talk over each other, which is the weird part.
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It's worth noting that they got a package with a t-shirt from their own EVE corporation later that same day and didn't even realize they had one.
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First-person almost universally makes me feel nauseous. The only first-person games I've ever managed to finish were the Metroid Prime trilogy and the Portal games.
Which is funny, because Portal is already disorienting enough.
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Regarding games with strong themes and messages that are still mechanically engaging, I've been thinking for a while now that the first Ace Attorney might have been one of the smartest games of its era. We're still in an awkward adolescent phase where games with very blunt, obvious themes or self-serving metaphors about video games (eg: Bioshock, Spec Ops: The Line) are considered to be high points, and then we have this Japanese GBA game from 2001 about how the Japanese legal system is unjust and horribly skewed in favour of the prosecution. It's obviously not 1:1 because Ace Attorney is entirely scripted events and not systems-focused, but you get what I mean.
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What if the payoff at the end is that it's actually an activist game about how pugs can't mate without human assistance?
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I wasn't sold at first, but both of these are pretty great.
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Appropriately the "Give Me a Monkey Site!" button on the latter website linked to Mix'n'Mojo on the second try.
I am so disappointed that they didn't go for "Show Me The Monkey."
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