One of them is because it’s a movie about a co-ed, full-contact sport where the most legendary player is a woman. And a young boy is seen idolizing that woman so much it’s a defining part of his character, but no one ever gives him grief or says he should look up to a boy.
Sure they’re all animals but I still appreciate the message.
Jett being a woman also gave the whole “legendary player is washed up” trope a new twist by pointing out the onslaught of ageism for any woman in the public eye. She was still objectively one of the best players in the game, but the internet insisted she was washed up, and so many people were calling for her to step aside. Meanwhile the rhino dad was much clearly much older but got zero calls to step down.
First: Shino frustrated that Naruto has yet again forgotten about him and feels unvalued as a friend compared to others in their peer group but does not communicate or try to reach out directly himself out of shyness and fear of rejection and rationalizing his hurt feelings away with strict self denial and practicing full independence as a must in his life and friends come and go anyway so he convinces himself he's not missing much but Shino is actually an emotional mess that cares too damn much and Naruto thinking Shino is obviously a strong shinobi in his own right but also a bit of a stiff control freak with a temper best not tested yet he always seems to unwittingly test it anway because he is a knucklehead and he does care about Shino of course he does it's just that on a more personal level Shino gives off the impression of being so self-sufficient that it still surprises Naruto that such an independent and aloof guy will get bothered with how little they hangout when it's Shino that hardly ever approaches Naruto who just wants to stay out of this dude's way because he's obviously going places with or without Naruto he seems like a busy guy anyway why would Naruto purposely distract him he does that enough unintentionally?
Next: Plot
Then: Shino wishes he wasn't so disgruntled by Naruto's tendency to not notice him before because now Naruto is constantly in his personal space when he's around and it makes Shino feel stupidly nervous and shy to be stared at and flirted with so blatantly and even worse is Shino realizing he likes it but it makes him feel vulnerable and strange and also he's not sure if Naruto is even aware that he's doing it but Shino also realized that unless he actually talks about what he's feeling or confused about with others instead of taking it upon himself to fix the issue without the person that it relates too, it's never going to actually be fixed and he has to confront people about these things but the problem is that Shino is so use to physical confrontation being the only thing he has to address he's better at literally kicking ass than talking about his own feelings in depth and SERIOUSLY Naruto is staring at him AGAIN but Naruto isn't going to stop either way because after seeing Shino's cute af face as a whole and he realizes after some more time passes and growth happens that some people need a little more time and patience to open up and Shino is actually a whole person and not just his strong former classmate and also a big ol' softy at that with actual confidence issues but thrives on giving and receiving encouragement even if he is kinda strict about it but he always wanted to help Naruto and have a better friendship and that's why such a quiet and busy dude like Shino still hung around Naruto and now Naruto feels like he wasted so much time and wants Shino's friendship sure but he really wants Shino's trust and confidence the most and oops he caught himself staring again but seriously Shino isn't as pretty as Haku but it's not a bad face either why does he hide his face for?
I know this is a translation of Shannaro, but no matter how many times I see this panel, I can’t help but hear Sakura yelling in the Koolaid man voice.
I think that the Hamilton musical is objectively the funniest thing that could happen to that man's memory. Imagine dying of a gunshot wound infection in 1804 and learning from the afterlife that tweenage girls in 2017 are drawing thousands upon thousands of images of you making out with your fellow congressmen because someone wrote a 2-hour rap opera about you. I like to imagine that Hamilton found a monkey's paw and wished to leave a legacy, and this is what it did to him.
"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking."
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise t
This is a good video to show people how to get rid of the on-device AI model Google forced on your computer while you were sleeping. My computer is old enough that it didn’t download anything automatically, so I couldn’t test process this all the way, but the instructions are consistent with all the other guides I’ve seen.
If a megacorporation installing a secret AI on your device without consent bothers you, I HIGHLY recommend switching to Firefox or Waterfox (or another browser). Also turn off automatic updates for your computer.
Commits an act of brutality to prove himself worthy of the throne
Naively thinks he’s in charge and not an obvious figurehead
Obsessed with upholding the legacy of a dead relative
Intense relationship with a random hillbilly girl who is also marked by fate
On the fast track to world/galaxy domination
The main difference being that Ruko isn’t a fascist and plans to maintain the reforms around commoner rights. Except in the end his plans mean absolutely nothing.
I just finished this amazing surrealist satire of a movie, and...damn. I have thoughts about the ending.
So essentially, Man From the Future (MFF) claims he is traveling to different timelines to find a way to stop a mysterious AI from plunging humanity into the Matrix. Except as the night persists, MFF's team comes across increasingly surreal scenarios that time travel can't explain. By the time the giant cat centaur shows up, it's obvious that everyone is already in a simulation, and have been since the diner.
Because MFF was never a time traveler. He's a kid sitting in the snow, pretending he has the power to save a world that has already collapsed. And from his reactions to the hot sauce and the cat centaur, he knows he's in a simulation. That's why he's so callous with human life, why he never learned how to use the all-important USB stick, etc.
So why is MFF playing a game designed by the AI that destroyed his world, when nothing he does in the game will impact the source code? He tells his team the reason, quite explicitly: MFF wants to create a 'future' (i.e. a playthrough) where he can watch a sunrise with his mom.
This is the first playthrough where MFF teamed up with his mom, and thus the first where he got got to watch a sunrise with her, but...it's not authentic. The sky has no color, and the sun moves too quickly. The mom's flashback shows a similar bland sunrise over the city.
The program doesn't know what a sunrise looks like because it doesn't have eyes, and MFF isn't old enough to remember an open sky. So MFF knows he's going to have to keep playing, and continue prompting the AI in new ways (like the rat plague plan), to get the vision he wants.
Essentially, the Last Man's final act of creation is to recreate a sunrise that he has never seen.
I've never read Homestuck but there's a type of media that I call "a Homestuck" and I think it's a useful categorization. The main criteria are:
long enough that the time investment is a serious barrier to entry
irrevocably changes your personality
brings something genuinely unique to the table. there is no real substitute for reading/playing/watching it in its entirety
Fate/Stay Night is a Homestuck. Worm is a Homestuck. When They Cry is a Homestuck.
Undertale has cultural impact similar to a Homestuck at first glance, but the fact that it's a pretty short and accessible game means that you don't get the particular mix of sunk cost fallacy and an intimate experience with a piece of media that results in you needing to connect with others who have already put in the time investment. You can buy your friends Undertale and expect them to play it if they're not too busy; telling a friend to read Homestuck is giving them a quest that, if accepted, will spark an odyssey. to read someone's Homestuck is an act of love without true equivalent.
I’m struggling with Antonia Hodgson’s The Raven Scholar
I’m on chapter 11, and I love Neema to death, but all the suffering and cruelty visited on this autistic Black woman is starting to feel masochistic. I’ve always struggled with grimdark settings, though, so I have to ask other readers…does it get better for Neema? Or is the plot just a constant punishment conga of double-standards? I don’t know if I can handle that in the year 2026.
I'm an emotional abuse survivor, and Ragatha's story in Digital Circus hits me like a train and genuinely, I have no idea how no one else is talking about it
I knew FROM THIS MOMENT exactly why Ragatha is the way she is. The way she pulls herself short because you DO NOT TALK about what you go through, you do not tell anyone what your parent does to you or says to you. No one gets it. It's embarrassing. It's too much.
But her torture scene in the new episode just cemented it for me.
It's always at the dinner table. You can't get away at dinner. You have to sit with your abuser, who has probably already hit their limit for the day and is looking for someone to unleash their stress at. And you have to take it, because it gets SO much worse if you get up from the table before you're finished.
All the mannequins make me wonder if Ragatha has a big family. That's an awful lot of people who have already been beaten down and aren't speaking up to defend her.
Ragatha is a rag doll because Caine can see in her mind files that she's been used that way all her life. Thats how she sees herself. She's a soft thing to be thrown about. She can stand up to rough treatment. You can fling as many knives at her as you like and it doesn't matter, because she's made of stuffing, it doesn't hurt. You can just patch her up and keep going.
But if course it hurts. Look at her.
(and obviously her mother didn't *actually stab her in the eye*, come on guys.)
But I have to go back to how Ragatha's mother is shown here, because it speaks volumes to Ragatha's entire character. It's so screamingly obvious to me, probably because I mould my own life exactly how Ragatha does, for better or for worse.
The mother looks like Ragatha. She has the same hair, the same body type.
And the whole time she's abusing Ragatha, she's *smiling.* She's enjoying it. She's exactly the type of vile bully that comes up with her most hurtful thing to say, and smiles in your face while she says it, because it makes her feel good.
THAT is why Ragatha is so accommodating. THAT'S why she doesn't tell Jax to fuck off until she's given "permission" by Pomni at the softball game (who immediately gets freaked out by her big feelings and tells her she's being irrational).
THAT is why she tries to keep the peace and not upset people. THAT is why, almost to the very last, she tries to placate Caine.
Because she thinks that if she hurts someone's feelings, *SHE IS EXACTLY LIKE HER MOTHER.* And in Ragatha's mind, there is nothing worse in the whole world than finding out you're just like your abuser. Cosmically, you might even think that's why they hurt you in the first place. Because you're bad. You deserve it.
So you make nice. You stay quiet. You give compliments. You make sure everyone is happy.
You pick yourself up and keep going, despite constantly being knocked down, dismissed, laughed at. You try your best not to set them off, not set *anyone* off, because if they freak out, you end up being the villain. And there's always that tiny part of your brain that is terrified, deep down, that you are going to hurt people in the same way you were hurt.
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