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Liam Dempsey
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📰📊🧩Sr. EN Editorial Producer @crunchyroll.com
🇦🇺🏳️‍🌈 26M Down Under
🤝Anime, film, video games, puzzles, and just enough sport
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Time to start posting here again — I wrote (see: rambled) about the process of making an anime-themed crossword, including its challenges, the philosophies I follow, and just how much fun I'm having.
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My favourite clues from this week's crosswords:

➢ She is the one named Sailor Moon (5)
➢ Muppet who cosplayed Luffy for Halloween (4)
➢ Dungeon monster that Frieren often falls victim to (5)
➢ 11 and 18, in "Code Geass" (5)

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December 2, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Reposted by Liam Dempsey
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.

tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.

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The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them

A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Luffy is in NYT Connections No. 903 (Sunday, Nov 30)
November 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Seeing Zootopia 2 tomorrow and Knives Out 3 the day after 🤤
November 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Average Scrabble letter score for Anime Mini Crosswords to date: 1.67
Previous highest for a single crossword: 2.27

This week's Mini (#30): 2.86
My favourite clues from this week's crosswords:

➢ "Better a ___ than a Fascist" ("Porco Rosso" quote) (3)
➢ There's 5g of it in the average adult human body, according to 10-Down (4)
➢ 2022 Jordan Peele film that features an Akira Bike Slide (4)

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November 27, 2025 at 5:01 AM
My favourite clues from this week's crosswords:

➢ "Better a ___ than a Fascist" ("Porco Rosso" quote) (3)
➢ There's 5g of it in the average adult human body, according to 10-Down (4)
➢ 2022 Jordan Peele film that features an Akira Bike Slide (4)

www.crunchyroll.com/news/quizzes...
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Hades II ✅

Insane improvement over most of Hades 1; felt consistently fresh and fun to play, at least until I had to mill 10+ runs for a single NPC interaction to complete a sub-story. I like many of the new mythological figures it introduces, but the narrative/character execution was a mixed bag.
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
OKAY BUT HOW DOES SHE EAT
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Little makes me feel more patriotic than Ashes cricket and taking the piss, but damn I still would've liked at least one more match day to have on today
November 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
My second monitor for the next month and a half
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
My favourite clues from this week's crosswords:

➢ Mecha that's like a bad dream? (10)
➢ "Initial D" : Stage :: "Food Wars!" : ___ (5)
➢ What Krillin and Chiaotzu lack, anatomically (5)
➢ 2009 remake of a 2003 anime: Abbr. (4)

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November 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Just saw someone wearing a Zohran Mamdani shirt in the middle of Melbourne
November 15, 2025 at 7:29 AM
TIL there's a Japanese band and anime theme song artist called OGRE YOU ASSHOLE
November 14, 2025 at 8:20 AM
It's messed up that Wagnaria!!/Working!! isn't properly streaming anywhere
November 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Looked up the ending for the original The Running Man book after watching the 1987 film and LMAOOOOO yeah they absolutely cannot use it
November 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Recalled another childhood movie missing from my Letterboxd thanks to Frankenstein
November 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Reposted by Liam Dempsey
Dispatch brings back the halcyon era of online water cooler talk: aftermath.site/dispatch-tellt...
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill says trans fat rights
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Hopefully you've been keeping up on the current season of anime for this week's crossword 🤫 www.crunchyroll.com/news/quizzes...
November 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
My Hero Academia, or as I like to call it, All for One Battle After Another
November 3, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Only my second time watching baseball and I don't have a horse in this race, but sheesh, even my heart is pounding. Can't imagine how ill actual supporters are feeling.
November 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Senku if he liked chemistry a little too much
November 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
ICYMI: This week's mini crossword is 100% anime and 80% horror 🤫 www.crunchyroll.com/news/quizzes...
November 1, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Spooky month is over but I kinda wanna keep watching horror movies anyway 😅
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
It's funny how I don't watch any regular e-sports, nor do I play League of Legends, yet I'll watch almost every game of Worlds when it rolls around
October 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM