[biestcallisto]

Space - Above and Beyond

Is available on youtube in its entirety. And its one of the best SciFi Shows ever made.

There are so many intriguing details in it. But what gets me just now, is the Invitros.

For your Information: Its set in 2064 in a war against an advanced alien race. Its military scifi about a squadron of space marines.

Besides the humans and the aliens (They call them Chiggs) there are also the Silicates(androids that rebelled) and the Invitros.

Invitros are humans that were made in a tank. After the Silicates rebelled, humans needed more fighters, fast. So Invitros were artifically made and quickly grown in a tank. They are born as fully formed adults. They get some time in a school and then have to be adults pulling their weight. Initially used for the war against the Silicates they then were forced to work in the mines. The slur for them is also "tanks". When the show starts that indentured servitude was already outlawed.

Space above and beyond has two main characters who are Invitros.

Cooper Hawkes, a seven year old who was sentenced into military service.

T. C. McQueen, a twentysomething, so he looks like early 50s. He becomes their commanding officer.

These are people who came into the world without parents, educated only about things needed for the jobs they should perform.

But they are humans. They love. Especially Coop at the start has zero emotional maturity. And he only knew abuse when he joined them. He didnt want to be there.

Their journey in this war full of pain, hardship and loss compells me the most. They have zero reason to endanger their lifes for humanity. Except being humans. And they care. So much. They dont understand their friends. They never had parents, not good parents, not bad parents. They never were kids. They dont understand love and they know they dont understand love, but they love so much.

I love them. They never did anything wrong in their life, your honor.

There is a HD remaster on youtube. Please watch this fantastic show. It had banger CGI for 1996. But most of all, they dont write characters like that anymore.

[vanyamired]

Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.

(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)

[sfaira]

Everyone reblog! Spread the word so more and more artists learn that in addition to Glaze that coats art against ai scraping mimicry there's also an offensive tool now, able to skew and poison data pools.

Now poisoning will need many artists to nightshade their art and it's most important to get this ou to those the most at risk of being scraped. Reblog!

[kosmaks]

[brickme]

Why Magical Girls Are Never Attacked During A Tranformation

As some of you might already have guessed, I’m a fan of Japanese girl idols. One of the many, many idol groups in existence today in Japan is NMB48, a Osaka-based spin-off group of the (in)famous AKB48. NMB has a weekly show that’s surprisingly entertaining as well as educational called NMB to Manabu-kun, in which the members of NMB and a few comedians listen to guest lectures by experts in various fields.

Back on May 15th, the theme of the episode was pataphysics/the science of sci-fi. One of the topics of the lecture held by university professor Yanagita Rikao was the age-old question of “WHY ARE MAGICAL GIRLS NEVER ATTACKED WHILE TRANSFORMING???”

This was his answer, based on the magical girl series Futari wa Pretty Cure.

Question: The transformation scenes in Pretty Cure are very long, so why don’t the bad guys attack the girls in the meantime?

“Even when I was little, I was thinking ‘Hey! Attack them now!’”

“I found this odd as well, so I watched the transformation scene many times. And what I noticed is, when the Pretty Cures yell ‘Dual Aurora Wave!’ and transform, a rainbow-colored column of light shoots up from the ground, going BOOM!”

“And then the Pretty Cures levitate, and go up into the air. Based on this, I believe the protagonists of Pretty Cure are being held up in the air by the power of light.”

“When we think of light, we usually think it heats up things or lights up things. But in reality, light has the power to hold up things as well.”

“When the sun is beating down on us in the summer, the human body is being pressed downwards by the sun beams with a force of 2/100,000g.”

“But this is only about a one-hundred of the weight of a mosquito, so no matter how hot it is, we don’t feel that sunlight is heavy.”

“So that means the light holding them up must be extremely strong. If we assume that the two Pretty Cures each weigh about 45kg and do some calculations…”

“It means the light during the transformation must have the energy of 2,100,000,000kW per 1m2.”

“While the entirety of power that Japan is capable of generating is only 100,000,000kW.”

“So they’re using 21 TIMES the amount of energy the whole of Japan can generate.”

“So what would happen if a bad guy jumped in to try to sabotage their transformation?”

“He would EVAPORATE INSTANTLY.”

“DEATH AWAITS ANYONE WHO DARES TO DISRUPT A PRETTY CURE TRANSFORMATION.”

“So this means the best thing to do would be to transform close to any bad guys.”

“Yes. They are the strongest while they transform, and are practically invincible.”

[cannibal-sarracenian]

[labbydragon]

When you apply science to magical girls, you find out just how strong and horrifying they really would be.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

this is incredibly useful information and I’m reblogging it for reasons

[usertoxicyaoi]

"The jobs I used to do during school days are no longer available. I'm fully unemployed. Ah! At least ... I should take care of the housework. Maybe I should try pitching my work to other publishers. But, will they even consider me with this track record? I've already proven that I can't sell. Who would hire me?"

MY PERSONAL WEATHERMAN (2023). Episode 5.

[mostlyfate]

Hamabe Minami as Shirasawa Mami Talio Fukushu Daiko no Futari タリオ 復讐代行の2人 2020, dir. Kimura Hisashi, Yamamoto Toru.

[thefirsthogokage]

DUUUUUUDE! Get it South Korea!

South Korean actors in Netflix originals want better pay. The company refuses to meet with their union

Netflix has provided immense opportunity for South Korean actors — but just for those at the top. The company declines to meet with the acto

That's the article directly. Please give it a read.

If South Korean actors and writers strike against Netflix, Netflix would be COMPLETELY fucked.

[ecrivainsolitaire]

If this spreads to animators it would halt the entire anime industry and severely affect the Korean and Japanese economies.

So let's get this ball rolling and fix some wage theft.

[reinerist]

Spirited Away (2001) Director, Hayao Miyazaki

[thecyberbard]

[animatedtext]

[itagakimizuki]

userdramas event 08: heat — hot character: Hanabusa Shiro | KEI X YAKU (2022)

[thecyberbard]

Oh God, wow

[bytesie]

[possession]

Harley Quinn and Rick flag’s friendship development in the DCEU

[acepalindrome]

I genuinely hope American media sucks for a while! I hope the big companies keep trying to churn out shit and that it’s all embarrassing garbage! I want it to be extremely apparent to everyone how important the writers and actors are to create good media and that they deserve to be compensated appropriately!!!

[thecyberbard]

It’s a good time to get into foreign shows, I’d say.

[djotime]

Jeremy Allen White as Carmy Berzatto The Bear, 2.03 - Sundae

[liveasbutterflies]

The Uncanny Counter Season 2 Teaser Poster

[thecyberbard]

FINALLY.

[mylastbraincql-deactivated20210]

My candle burns at both ends;   It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—   It gives a lovely light!

Edna St. Vincent Millay | A Few Figs from Thistles: First Fig