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im conflicted on miyazaki-san's new film

i saw the boy and the heron recently and i had the privilege of seeing it in a proper real imax theater (only a handful in my country). i have thoughts. they are very conflicting.

this wasn't a bad film, i found the first half of the film to be pretty captivating. its the other part of the film where my feelings toward it are much more mixed.

before i get to that, i jus wanted to say that the score n the vocal performances were actually pretty good. the underground world where the film takes place later on is probably my favorite that ive seen in a ghibli film. seeing the sun rays burst through the clouds and beam onto the sea was such a sight to behold, especially in imax.

what the hell happened in the later half of the film. there are some really beautiful setpieces, but it wasnt really enough to distract me from the confusion that clouded my mind while watching. the world is beautiful but theres a lot that isnt explained and makes me wish that this film was longer so it could explain it. theres a thing about a door that lets u time travel, or so its implied (?) but they also say "oh if u let go ur stuck" like how do u know that, did u do that? what are these cute but weird lil guys n how do their purposes make sense, wha?? if this film had maybe 20, 30, maybe even 40 mins added to its runtime, i feel like it wouldve had time to explain the things that it couldnt in 2 hours (its length).

another thing is that this film in japan was called "kimi tachi wa dou ikiru ka? (how do you live?) the same name as the book that served as a main inspiration for miyazaki-san. the book is also mentioned as a major-ish plot device thing to push mahito to enter the other underground tower world. other than that, this film doesnt seem to ask that question in a meaningful way, like it has a meaning or reason to ask it. maybe i just dont get it, but it felt like this was trying to say something but i couldnt understand what it was trying to say. maybe if it was longer it wouldve been more clear?

i really wanna like this movie, n i do like a lot of parts of it, especially the artstyle n backdrops, but its hard to like it when i was thinking these kinda things even while i was watching the movie. it says something, doesnt really get enough time to explain it, moves on, and im left here thinking "wait come back im a little lost". it could have benefitted from being significantly longer so i could understand more.

otherwise, it was a gorgeous film to see, especially in the tru imax theater that i happened to see it in. if it was longer and could explain more of the underground world, i would have liked it a lot more.

#the boy and the heron #film review #studio ghibli

scott pilgrim really took off.

i havent read the books. i havent played the game. i only saw the movie. it was good, but das all ive seen of it. i did see the new anime on netflix directed by abel gongora n animated by science saru. its actually hella better than i thought it would be. where do i start.

dear lord the style. this is absolutely oozing with a gorgeous and colorful style that i just couldnt get enough of. scored by joseph trapanese n anamanaguchi, the music for this was just also hella good too. the character designs are fantastic, scott, ramona, stephen, kim, young neil, matthew, knives, everyone looks so perfect that it feels like even the main characters didnt get enough screen time because i just wanted to look at their designs.

the writing is kinda weak. i mostly just mean the little character writing moments. maybe its just the english dub needing to match the lip flaps cuz it was translated from japanese, but sometimes it doesnt always sounded as i expected it to. thats not to say that it was bad, but it couldve been better. thats just me tho. the story was great, and hella different than what i was expecting from it. at first, i was jus like "da heck happened dawg" but i got on board real quick. the vocal performances were perfect practically across the board! there were moments where they were a bit awkward, but my god even will arnett did great in the role he had. he coulda had a bit more screen time though.

everyone coulda had a bit more screen time, if im being real. i really enjoyed that it spent its 20 min 8 ep run well, but it coulda benefited if it had an extra episode or two just to give us more time with some characters. thats really my big complaint, i just wanted more of it. i really enjoyed it a lot, and its making me wanna read the comics n play the games. go watch. very good good. (scuffed review, school been kickin me down n im very tired. pray for me to finish another smelly book)

#scott pilgram takes off #anime review

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a space for the unbound made me cry so hard my arms went numb.

i got this game a couple months after it came out. i only just recently got around to playing it. made by mojiken studio n published by toge productions, it takes place in '90s rural indonesia with lots of colorful characters to meet n a living city to explore. u play as atma, a boy with a magical red book that can dive into the spaces of the hearts of people who are spiritually lost, and need re-guidance to who they truly are.

this game, at first, was good but didnt truly win me over till the scene with a cake. after that point, i kept playing. then it was the music, the scenery, the writing, the characters, nearly everything about this game began to enchant me with the story it was telling to me. this game barely tells u anything, yet so much happens within its 10 hour length. its depressing, but in a way that instills u with hope and faith, maybe everything is gonna be okay if i just make the right choices.

raya is one of the first characters we're introduced to, yet throughout the game, she's the most mysterious. she's confusing, she has more layers than a jawbreaker, and i think she's one of the best written characters in any game ive ever played.

the only thing i can really complain about this game is the gameplay, at times there are hella easy puzzles n others that require u to have a pen n paper to do some algebra problems. other times, youll be doin the same dang thing over n over for like 20 mins, n it feels like its trying to pad out for time when it really doesnt. otherwise, u explore loka town, talk to people, spacedive into their hearts, and fill out a bucket list (which isnt super important to do cuz all u get for completing it is a 2 min cutscene right at the end [a rly good cutscene that continued my sobbing session but still]).

im the kinda person who doesnt necessarily get that sad or cries at stuff, but something about the message this game sent or how i was left feeling with lots of realizations at the end, something about them struck such a chord in the strings of my heart that the afterimage of my emotions will be imprinted in my soul until the day im no longer roaming this earth. ive been left with thoughts and feelings that ill remember for years to come. during the final 30-40 minutes of this game, i was ugly crying, sobbing loudly like a big baby.

i have never played a game, never seen a movie or tv series, n never listened to a song that has made me feel what i felt while playing a space for the unbound. it was a game 6+ years in the making n i think it paid the hell off. i shoulda played this game when it was first added to my steam library.

#mojiken studio #a space for the unbound #asftu #autumn review.#game review

how do you live?

considered to be miyazaki hayao's favorite book, how do you live? follows honda junichi, who is given the nickname "copper" by his unnamed but prominently featured uncle. his story begins whilst looking down upon a sea of cars on the streets of tokyo, and his mind creates a theory of human lives being mere molecules, each on their own path to do whatever. this realization impresses his uncle, whom tells him stories and lessons about all kinds of thing, whether it be copernicus, or buddhism, third example, etc. he writes these as "impressions" in his notebook as if he were talking to copper right there, and it breaks up the flow to learn a lesson relating to whatever event happened in copper's life, to see how he, n by extension the audience, can use these lessons n apply em to our lives.

this is a really good book. is it the best ever? i havent read many, but its one of the better books ive read. its writing is simplistic, and it sometimes has weird choices with some things where it feels like it drags on a bit too long, but its a sweet book about moving on and learning how to adapt to live. heck, it even made me consider buddhism for a second, which wouldn't be the first time i thought "yknow buddhism is kinda cool".

a charming and warm feeling book about being human, living human, and human learning. if you're feeling lost in your life, and nothing you do seems to make you progress, how do you live? may teach you something about yourself and how you're living.

#how do you live #book review #cozy

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the tooth hurts

imma change stuff.

autumn likes a rly long xbox documentary

i think at this point, the original xbox counts as old n retro tech. that means i can talk about it here. that also means i can talk about that documentary that microsoft produced about their wicked cool console. i want to approach it with a question that i had that it solved. how is a newcomer supposed to enter a market with two industry giants that cannot be touched?

the documentary is called "power on", and its 6 episodes of ~40 min long videos going over the history and issues revolving the brand. this includes pitching it to bill gates, actually showing it off, and the growing pains of being a new player in an old industry. the first episode begins with the origins of the console, and how it was brought up as a concept by some microsoft employees that wanted to do something different. it also covers the pitch to microsoft's founder, bill gates. the second episode covers the valentine's day massacre, which was an internal competition between the xbox team and a windows team to gain the interest and funding of steve ballmer and bill gates. the third episode covers the reveal of the console to the public and how the demonstration unit did not turn on. the second half of the documentary details the consoles that released after the first xbox, the xbox 360 and the xbox one.

obviously, my question is answered in the first episode, however its the process that im more interested in. anyone can ask the question, but not everyone can answer it in detail. the documentary, despite being produced by the company that created the brand, was made while understanding the faults and missteps of the brand. it appears clear that it was heavily influenced by the people who helped create it in the first place because not only were they brought back to talk about it, but it talks about so many issues with creating the thing and getting it to market, as well as understanding what could have made it better. the first episode, as i mentioned earlier, goes over the team pitching the machine to bill gates. mentioned in the documentary, the team literally built the xbox prototype using parts from multiple dell laptops that they happened to have lying around. they then stole a copy of windows, yes literally stole, and cut out everything they didnt need from it like word processing, web browsing, etc., just to get it to fit on the machine and get it running smoothly. during the pitch, bill gates was fascinated with the fact the machine could turn on in as little as a few seconds. this was what piqued his interest and made him consider the xbox as a potential competitor in the video game console market.

the second episode covers a meeting in 2000 dubbed "the valentine's day massacre". it was a meeting in which the team developing the xbox would have to talk to bill gates and earn his approval for full funding and production. however, despite seeing promise in the machine when he first saw it, he believed that the console was an insult to everything he had worked for at microsoft. he simply could not imagine selling a machine that did not include the full windows experience. however, after speaking with steve ballmer at that same meeting, his mind was changed. their potential competitor, the playstaion 2, would feature dvd playback, and would mean that consumers wouldnt have to purchase an expensive dvd player. if he were to release the xbox, it would take the spots of homes that not only already have microsoft devices, but also keep customers to purchase microsoft products. the xbox console would be greenlit and shown off to developers as the more powerful gaming machine on the market.

the third episode is more of a blunder as the xbox team had finally been able to finish the product and was ready to show it off to the public. at e3, a gaming event for many large companies to show off new games and advertising, they unveiled the xbox, and their demo unit for the stage would not turn on. they were able to get some other units to work for the public to use, but the first impression for it was that the product was not very good, it was too expensive, and it was from microsoft and people weren't very keen on the idea. regardless of what the initial thoughts were for the console, it would become a mainstay in the industry and one of the big three companies.

if u wanna spend an afternoon watching the whole thing, its right here.

#Youtube

autumn tries to research a difficult hobby.

i decided to try to research this topic as a whole, so i tried to use some resources from my uni's library. lemme tell u, for a hobby like this where most of the interesting things come from hands-on experience, its really difficult to find books about older technology from eyes of a younger person with a passion and interest for these kinds of things. instead i had to look up generalized search terms, like "technology" and "steve jobs" or something. i was, however, interested in the other options that they had. one of the sources that i found specifically spoke about some of the older generation keeping the old technology that they had lying around, although i couldnt get a hold of a copy because it wouldnt get here in time.

it gets difficult to find actual library sources for a niche hobby like this because its hard to write about it like many other hobbies. i hope as i write more on the blog i can contribute my interests and findings with this fun hobby. i am able to get primary sources from other places online such as online forums, subreddits, youtube channels, twitter accounts, and things of that nature. technically i could call myself a primary source considering that i myself have a lot of the older technologies that i talk about.

autumn talks about the guy who made the xbox

i have a confession to make. im a gamer. im sorry. i also play on xbox. u can crucify me later.

the original xbox (which ill just call the xbox) was a frankenstein of a machine in its conception. it was a box with components from multiple dell laptops that people working at microsoft just happened to have lying around and had a stripped down, damn near naked version of windows that they literally stole from their offices that they presented to bill gates, a man who is notoriously hard to please. needless to say, its quite a miracle that it is where it is right now. especially when u consider that the console was created by a game programmer who's previous game before the xbox was considered one of the worst games in multiple years, maybe even decades.

that guy i was talking about is seamus blackley, who is considered the creator of the xbox. he was the one who tried to get developers on board to develop for the console. without him, the xbox console wouldnt have gotten its start as a console made by microsoft, and i wouldnt be able to appreciate it for what it was able to do when it debuted in 2001.

autumn talks about ears.

most people like music, i think. music is fun, n people wanna listen to some. the question is, how do we listen to it. like, whats the best way to listen to music?

for most people, jus use a cheap subscription service to get loads of songs to listen to at ur disposal, n jam out to whatever tracks u want. tho to be fair, there are so many services that its hard to choose just one cuz they sometimes have exclusive tracks. it seems so simple now, but many years ago, it may not have been as such.

whoa look at that its a cassette tape (not mine tho, as much as i would like it to be). a pretty looking plastic container with some magnetic tape. what. i looked it up n its fkn wild on how it even worked. basically they ran some plastic tape with magnets inside against some electrically charged metal coils that are hit with electricity. this electricity creates a magnetic field that the magnetic tape passes to align the magnetic particles in the tape. then, the pattern recorded on the tape can be passes over a "head" that reads the tape n converts that into sound. somehow. how the hell we figured that was simple n easy is beyond me. i just think thats wicked. its how many people from the 70s n 80s were able to experience classic albums on items like a sony walkman. fun fact, sony still makes new iterations of the walkman, made especially for audiophiles (people who like music lots n care about how it sounds), n guess what they are not cheap. not only do they not play cassette tapes anymore, but they can go upwards of $1,400 or even $3,600. even funner fact, people will buy it.

wow look at that, it is a plastic disc with funny little lines in it. how does it work, good question. essentially u make some grooves into the plastic, which in a certain pattern n thru a certain way, u can recreate sounds with it. u can then press these onto multiple globs of plastic that, when scratched with a very tiny needle (or sometimes called cartridges), can recreate sounds. also, fun fact, this was made in the 1800s. we didnt even have cars when we figured out that we could scratch plastic to reproduce sounds. how did we figure that out. (listen to desired's plastic whatever tho good album very good)

ah yes all of these were fun to use n simply worked good. sure it was annoying to have to rewind the tape or make sure ur record wasnt scratched up to hell, but there's a special novelty feeling of deliberately setting urself set up to listen to some music. now we may just listen to the popular singles n put em on a playlist, but i like taking my time n doing all this cuz it makes the feeling of listening to music more satisfying, similar to how its more fun to cook ur own food than it is to jus buy it at mcdonalds.

autumn returns to talk about aspect ratios.

screens are how we look at things, yknow. we need em to be big enough to let us see our stuff, but also to be able to let us do multiple things at once. most screens on tvs n monitors are in the 16:9 aspect ratio, that basically means that: for every 16 pixels across, there are 9 pixels vertically. that is "technically" widescreen. its cuz the screen is wide. wow. thats the modern way to view content now, and if u ask me, i dont like it.

personally, i find the original aspect ratio that we used to have to be more charming. the older aspect ratios of tvs were 4:3, 4 pixels across, 3 up. it's more like a square box than a chocolate bar. for many casual tv shows, i feel like using 4:3 can yield some nice looking results. i attempted to crop n use a filter to make a screenshot from a show i like.

i find that it brings the focus back to the things that matter more, like the characters front n center. i think more shows n films should experiment with a 4:3 aspect ratio in modern settings. i may talk about em more but ill try to get any screenshot i get to be 4:3.

normally, a wider aspect ratio would allow the viewer to see the doomguy plus his surroundings. in this specific shot, all that would be visible is the sky, which would give a bit of negative space and things just doing nothing. by making more of a boxed in look, the doomguy takes over the entire screen. it shows his strong figure n it completely takes u over, as he overpowers the screen with his strength. (sry i like doom n he look big in 4:3)

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¡Bienvenida!

¡Hola! Welcome to my blog, where I will talk about Hispanics and the Spanish language in general as well as the numerous difficulties that non-fluent Hispanics face. In this blog, I'll talk about why it's common for Hispanics to not speak Spanish fluently. I'll also discuss what it's like for those who had that struggle growing up and what may be done today to overcome it. This will lead to the next topic I'll cover in this blog post, which is what it means to be a "No Sabo" kid and how that affects how people see their ability to learn Spanish.

Let's start by talking about the origins of this lovely language, Spanish! Spanish is what exactly? What's the source of it? In the Indo-European language family, Spanish is categorized as a "Western Romance" language. Occitan, Portuguese, Italian, and French are only a few of the various Romance languages that have influenced the language. Including Arabic-related impacts on Iberian and Basque.

According to the Renaissance Translation, In the fifth century, the Roman Empire introduced the Spanish language for the first time to the Iberian Peninsula. It served as the Roman Empire's official language (which was called Hispania). It is now referred to as "Vulgar Latin". It was first cut off from the rest of Latin America, but as time passed, it gradually merged with Spain and the rest of the continent. Spain began its exploration and colonization of the Americas in the late 15th century. Only missionaries, conquistadors, and entrepreneurs could speak Spanish. But gradually, people started speaking the language among other people, and this led to the language being used by others.

In the present day, even non-Hispanics speak Spanish, which is now spoken by about 500 million people worldwide. According to Translate Today, “Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world. It is spoken in 31 countries which are mostly around the Latin America and in Spain. This language has about 475 million native speakers in addition to the nonnative speakers.” Crazy, huh? Spanish has been around for a very long time and has definitely influenced many people as well as our culture. Learning about Spanish history is important, especially for no fluent speakers because it's a huge part of the Hispanic culture, and it brings us together.

As a community, we must also be aware of the causes of the problems that affect so many third-generation children and what we can do to prevent them in the future. According to The Pew Research, Due to the fact that there were more Hispanics than Spanish people who were born in America at the time and the fact that immigration was a major issue, there were fewer Hispanics who spoke Spanish as a result of their immigration to America. I'll talk more about how that happened in the blog post, but this is one of the key causes of many third-generation children's lack of fluency.

By the time you've finished reading this blog, I hope you'll be excited to learn more about Spanish, be more accepting of people who don't speak it well, and be more appreciative of the language and culture in general!

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this is neat cuz im hispanic n cannot speak spanish to save my life. i genuinely thought it was a me issue but it sounds like its more common than i thought. i can understand it pretty well cuz there were times where i was surrounded by people who spoke the language fluently (i.e., my entire family from puerto rico) and i would respond “mhm si si uh muy bien gracias feliz navidad”. its fun to talk abt but also not cuz i rarely communicate with my family at all. they all are both from puerto rico n live in puerto rico so theres not a whole lot i can do. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

word begin blargh honk.

good morning, vomit start now.

the things that are made in this era of life is simple, digital, and are cheap. because this world now has this mentality that things need to be this simple, we begin to lose sight of how things used to be made, and the advantages of em. for example, tvs now are made flat, are less blurry, and are a panel of individually lit pixels that can create their own images and light. cathode ray tube tvs (to be referred as crts later) use a laser to scan across a filter of little dots of colors that light up quickly, n most of the time their glass is naturally curved. “...artifacts of the crt’s materiality that were once a major part of our visual culture and collective subconscious--have been replaced by digital counterparts: broken and bleeding pixels, “so signal” screens, error messages and system crashes.” (https://www.jstor.org/stable/43832708)

the reason im so infatuated with how the old ways work is due to both me being curious n them having a flavor that is simply impossible to replicate. when consuming older media with newer technology, a bit of the charm and magic it once had is lost by viewing it through a modern lens (or screen lol). lemme give u an example. below is an example of a game from 1992 called pocky n rocky. the top image is how the game would appear on a flat panel display, like a tv or a phone screen. below is how it would appear on a crt.

(source: https://twitter.com/CRTpixels/status/1550240724658135041) the crt image softens up the image and gives the blocky gradients a sense of depth and makes them look like actual art pieces instead of the blocky video game look the flat panel image provides. to perfectly replicate how the crt looks is nigh impossible due to how they are made. i love using old technology because it gives an image that simply is impossible to recreate and can only be truly experienced with the proper hardware.

i plan to go into detail on what makes this kind of old technology work, and how it appears like this was easier to make before than what we have now. this can range from just technology existing to how media was created to fit what used to be the standard. its fun hehe.

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