Let’s not forget about the trafficking (under the guise, sometimes real and sometimes not, of adoption) that always happens in war zones, and has potential to explode when it’s white children fleeing war zones. The flyers are bad enough, but there are American “pastors” on the ground right now trying to convince…

Have you heard the reports about how young conscripts into the Russian army are regularly raped in hazing and forced into prostitution by their superiors (who are making the money off it). I saw a bunch of them yesterday and now I can’t find any to link.

At that point, I’d say it comes down to overlapping interests. There are plenty of LoL players that are Anime fans and vice versa, so mainstream audiences may lump them together. I haven’t seen the show, so I don’t know if it has any Anime qualities.

I think of it as a style of animation. I guess it’s down to one’s preference of definition, kind of like how people will call any sparkling white wine “champagne” while others will only call sparkling white wine from the Champagne region of France “champagne”. While the latter is technically correct (the best kind of…

The cleanest definition is “animation produced in Japan for a Japanese audience”. This covers a lot of outliers, such as:

It depends on who you ask. Some think the label only applies to cartoons that are produced in Japan, while other think it’s about the art style, and others think it’s about certain story formats.

No, no, Scott was an asshole. The extended cut is that Ramona was, too, and that their flakiness was what both of them deserved.

The last book wasn’t finished but he was very involved with the movie (I remember one of the things was he gave each actor a list of things about their character that only he knew/was never said in the comic to help inform them about what kind of people their character was supposed to be) and told them more or less…

While Arcane was amazing, it’s about as anime as Into the Spider-Verse, which is to say not at all.

Also, while I really enjoyed Devilman Crybaby on Netflix, the artstyle never really clicked for me, so I don’t know how I feel about Science SARU animating it. Hoping for the best

That’s why I said their production value is good. From a technical point of view, the games always had a really good presentation with good motion capture etc. I don’t even have much to say against the gameplay since Quantic Dream games are basically adventure games (in a similar vain as Point & Clicks and visual…

The production value of Quantic Dream is great (even though I’ll keep saying that they could’ve produced every game since Heavy Rain as a FMV game and most likely it would’ve been easier and less expensive to produce) but the writing is garbage. The only thing they can do well are those many different plotlines where…

I can’t believe nobody has brought up Omikron: The Nomad Soul. Apart from being very weird, very confusing, and very bad, it also had a reverse dark souls metanarrative. Whereas in Dark Souls if you (the player) quit the game, then your character wasn’t the chosen undead, just some dude, in Omikron, without spoiling…

Yeah, I understand the criticisms against the games, both thematic and gameplay-wise, but Heavy Rain was a flawed classic. Me and a buddy from work would trade stories about how our games were going. He’d say he cried in the rain in the backyard while his kid ate a frozen pizza. I’d lie and say that the first son…

“In the United States, higher-court rulings set the standard for future proceedings...”

Have you seen the deleted scenes from Alien?

What a curiously MAD Magazine expression. It's one of Ebert's Great Movies now.

It only has one button though. Mac users rejoice.

You know... for kids! That's pretty awesome though.

That middle picture of the facehugger would make a cool mouse.

Oh, I did. Best toy ever. Explains a lot about my, er, development. (I'm sure the kids in this ad are probably all in therapy today.)