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Never watched Drew Gooden before but his latest video is a good one, can recommend both watching it and sharing it to all the impressionable people in your life www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Z3...
Greed is Destroying the World
YouTube video by Drew Gooden
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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i teach comics to teens & chatgpt is banned in my classroom bc as i tell them, "i am more interested in your ideas instead of what a mechanism backed by a giant corporation tells me that you think"
August 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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PlayStation Plus Game Catalog and Classics Catalog lineup for December 2025 announced

Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced the December 2025 Game Catalog lineup for Extra and Premium subscribers, and Classics Catalog titles for Premium subscribers.
PlayStation Plus Game Catalog and Classics Catalog lineup for December 2025 announced
Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced the December 2025 Game Catalog lineup for Extra and Premium subscribers, and Classics Catalog titles for Premium subscribers.
www.gematsu.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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you'll never believe it
Someone should really build a high-quality creator-centric video platform that isn’t owned by baby oligarchs, tech empires, or venture capitalists
December 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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The author, whose real name was Madeleine Sophie Wickham, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer in late 2022. n.pr/3XIXeCG
Author Sophie Kinsella, who penned the 'Shopaholic' books, has died at 55
The author, whose real name was Madeleine Sophie Wickham, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer in late 2022.
n.pr
December 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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"Rescue Wings", A JASDF pilot wanting to be a fighter pilot finds himself assigned to fly a search/rescue helicopter.

2006 anime, no official EN release. Found it from an AMV I stumbled upon ~2 years ago.
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Kanopy is amazing!!! Their selection of The Great Courses is amazing and is the perfect "let me listen to this lecture as I drift off to sleep" show.
Reminder that not only do library systems have physical media (& many also lend tools, electronics etc), your library card may give you access to streamers Kanopy and Hoopla. We just watched Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of The Rainmaker via a hoopla the other night. Pretty good!
“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”
December 10, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Reminder that not only do library systems have physical media (& many also lend tools, electronics etc), your library card may give you access to streamers Kanopy and Hoopla. We just watched Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of The Rainmaker via a hoopla the other night. Pretty good!
“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”
The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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We had an Overwhelmingly Positive score on Steam, then these two reviews rolled in

Why does Valve allow this?
December 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Reminder to drop positive reviews for games you like to counterbalance the world's worst people
We had an Overwhelmingly Positive score on Steam, then these two reviews rolled in

Why does Valve allow this?
December 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Ghibli alum shares stories of working with industry greats and putting his heart and soul into Romeo's Blue Sky.
The Long Career of Romeo's Blue Sky Character Designer Yoshiharu Satō
www.animenewsnetwork.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The biggest tragedy to happen to movies in the past decade was the hollowing out of the indies. For all the “democratization” that cheap digital cameras and laptop post production teased, it largely didn’t happen. The young chased lower effort YouTube content. Movies stayed needlessly expensive.
December 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Netflix buying WB terrifies me, but there's a chance they're not full of shit about continuing theatrical and other legacy businesses.
Neo-Paramount is VERY untested and early indications see them veering towards dude-bro crap. They could crash.
WB by itself was over, we need to accept that.
December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I wrote about the 25th anniversary of Battle Royale, a wonderfully violent film which correctly asserts that authoritarianism is rooted in scapegoats and bloodlust: www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
25 Years Later, An Infamously Bloody Dystopian Thriller Is Getting A Huge Upgrade
Yesterday's controversy is today's classic.
www.inverse.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Look, I know Stranger Things was never high art, but tbh I REALLY don’t remember the acting and general plotting being this bad
December 6, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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I’m excited for the AI bubble to collapse and leave us with enough electrical infrastructure to finally make electric vehicles viable en masse
December 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I really wish there was a bigger market for less-gonzo Japanese movies. Dramas. Period pieces. Comedies. There are so many great ones that I know would just land with a thud because there’s no good marketing hook. Discoverability is the big problem here.
December 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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siivagunner fans should play unbeatable by the way
Save 10% on UNBEATABLE on Steam
UNBEATABLE is a rhythm adventure where music is illegal and you do crimes. Follow the story of Beat and her band on the run, in a narrative experience full of big emotions powered by arcade-flawless r...
store.steampowered.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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also the next guy will have to do it. and the next guy. basically you have created the translation equivalent of a curse upon your bloodline
this is more translation adjacent but if as translator or adapter you write a particular speech quirk for a major character you will have to continue writing every single line of theirs that way for the entire rest of the thing. plan accordingly
To my fellow translators: what do you wish someone had taught you about translation (whether the act or translation or having a freelance job) that you had to learn by yourself?
December 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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this is more translation adjacent but if as translator or adapter you write a particular speech quirk for a major character you will have to continue writing every single line of theirs that way for the entire rest of the thing. plan accordingly
To my fellow translators: what do you wish someone had taught you about translation (whether the act or translation or having a freelance job) that you had to learn by yourself?
December 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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To my fellow translators: what do you wish someone had taught you about translation (whether the act or translation or having a freelance job) that you had to learn by yourself?
December 7, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Here's this beat in the His Student novel, English and Japanese, for comparison.
December 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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This. This is why you ALWAYS have to have a human proof read. Voice recognition is not there yet.
This insane bit, from the dub of Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus ep 10

The line is actually "I'm enraptured."
December 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Not only has this been constantly liked and reposted for just about a week now

But the latest Anime News Network "This Week In Anime" article features it!

www.animenewsnetwork.com/this-week-in...
December 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM