who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

American Vandal is still one of the best things ever made

I say this, but some episodes of City the Animation might actually cost an entire season (looking at you, Episode 5).

One thing City does better than Nichijou (which I still love and is an all-time GOATED show) is to have more moments of bittersweet and tenderness between the insanity and hilarity and ingenuity. It might have less episodes, but the heart and warmth is just as fulfilling.

If you don't enjoy the humor of Nichijou, I don't think City the Animation will change that. But its definitely one of the best anime this year, for the sole reason that it's made by talented, hardworking artists who pushed the boundaries of their art form just to tell a silly gag, or 100.

This has been an oddly hectic morning of calls and preparations and other bits of work. Now I have to make an important decision: do I buy Slay the Spire on the Switch or the Deck?

Perhaps my mistake was to look up the health and weapon upgrade locations rather than discovering them organically, so now they've become a checklist of things to do. But I suppose I got anxious because of how the difficulty ramped up and I didn't want a repeat of Bilewater.

I'm being honest right now, I'm starting to feel rather tired of Silksong's Act 3. Things are tougher and enemies hit harder, so I'm inclined to seek out health and weapon upgrades, but the path there is difficult busywork that can take the whole of my limited playtime just to complete.

Quite a lot, but recently I put on a random game OST playlist and when Revived Power from Shadow of the Colossus started I immediately dialed the volume up.

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Ahhh I've taken my phone for repairs, but it's really cool to learn about Repair Cafe and Repair Day! Thanks for this!

have faith in your own experiences and interpretations!!! let your personal experience of something have meaning, as opposed to trying to find the “correct” meaning

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

A friend told me that The Beekeeper is a lot more fun that it looked and I agree. As much as it is a Bee-movie actioner with a suitable amount of bee puns and punching, it's also stacked with good actors for Statham to plow through. Could've stung harder politically, but it's a good weekend flick.

My Oni Girl is cute and sweet but it definitely didn't need its almost 2-hour runtime. The movie worked best when it was a roadtrip about two teenagers coming to terms with their repressed feelings and self-doubt with a good, natural stop point midway through. After that it ran on fumes.

Can't say my 6-year-old smartphone isn't showing its age. Yesterday the volume buttons just casually decided to fall off like ripe fruit. Hopefully, the fix is cheap and easy.

Still wrapping my head around I Saw The TV Glow, which is bizarre and dreamlike as I watched it, rewarding and profound as I think about it. I know that it's a trans allegory going in, but it's also under-the-skin horror of knowing that you're suffocating but couldn't, or wouldn't, escape.

Forgot my hoodie today, so I'm borrowing my wife's cardigan to keep myself warm in this frigid office. It's comfortable and makes me feel cute.

His Three Daughters is an outstanding film that steadily, carefully, reveals the complexity of its titular characters through dialogue and excellent performances, slowly tearing down our presumptions. I can't help but compare it to the Koreeda films I've watched this year, with its warmth & empathy.

I guess it's one of those mornings where I got woken up by fireworks at 4.30am, then couldn't go back to sleep, so I drove out to a decent dim sum place that opens early, except that it isn't open today, so I went to another dim sum place that's mediocre but could at least give me my siew mai fix.

Those of us who can recognize a stellar horror/thriller when we see one already know that Edgar Wright’s LAST NIGHT IN SOHO (cowritten by Krysty Wilson-Cairns) will stand the test of time. Revisited yesterday (after all, it’s horror month) and what a beautiful, fun & deeply feminine flick.

I now have a nice keychain but don't quite know where to hang it. I guess Ragatha can take the prime spot on my outing messenger bag but she'll probably get squished every time I reach for the water bottle. (Which is in-universe accurate to her character, I guess).

Powerful letter from a non-verbal autistic person. Give it two minutes of your night and feel your heart expand.

Usually at this time I'm at a cafe with my notebook to doodle and write nonsense with, but I misplaced it today so I'm just going to read Annie Bot while trying out a new milk tea.

My Ragatha keychain took a while to ship, but she's here!

I'm not one to buy a lot of merch but this feels like one way I could support a show made by truly amazing and talented folks that I'm watching for free.