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Sere And Loamy In Las Vegas

Facts And Logic In Las Vegas

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Facts And Logic In Las Vegas

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A little something for Linguistics Tumblr.

So the Crunchyroll newsroom isn't a "room" so much as a Slack channel. We have news writers all over the US, in Australia, and in Japan. This means we have something akin to 'round-the-clock coverage, but it also means that our schedules respective to each other are skewed. For example, when the East Coast contingent is starting their day, the Japan contingent is shutting down for the evening.

Because of that, we started experimenting with greetings that could apply when Party A was coming in for the morning and Party B was leaving for the night. One person came up with "konbarning": a combination of "good morning" and "konban wa" ("good evening" in Japanese). It stuck.

Over the following months, "konbarning" got shortened to "barning" and other permutations. Now, a year or some later, this is how we announce our arrival:

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comedy sketch idea: a Fantano type reviewing the Voyager Golden Record as if it was a commercially released album

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ready player one is like whale novel if whale novel was very very bad

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Got some new stuff in the shop! Nuclear waste warnings, repping Chicago in the silliest ways possible, and a very spiteful Magician.

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squeak sunday: my joyful lab experiment

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not to halimedepost but this one felt like a slap in the face and a bucket of ice water dumped on me. fuck.

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ohhhh i get it, it's called OUR DRAWINGS - PRINCESS MOVIE | Full Animation Film | Artist because it's a full animation film that is also a princess movie & it's about drawings that belong to us. artist

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everyone loves to shit on gates but what other private actor else is inflicting that much pain on americans while giving that much money to the third world. whatever happened to unlimited genocide on the first world. hes a jdpon hero

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God, I tried watching that animation on a flight one time and I bailed pretty fast - I was struck by how it was so lifelessly faithful but Doctor Manhattan didn't even have his cock visible, when that's crucial to the beat of "he doesn't give a shit about human social norms and nobody can enforce them on him"

I feel like you'd need a Spiderverse level of flair and innovation to make an animated Watchmen that was worth a damn, respecting the story enough to see when it needs to be completely reconfigured

Snyder's Watchmen is a wildly imperfect product rife with pragmatic but damaging compromises made for the sake of the adaptation, interspersed with alterations and beats that strongly call into question the extent to which Synder actually understood the intended takeaway of the source material, for all his visible reverence of it. The result is something where a scene-by-scene comparison between the comic and the film is a legitimately fascinating exercise. By contrast, the animated film was such a direct reproduction that the point of the exercise didn't just escape me, it was never in custody to begin with. I couldn't finish the thing.

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The XXL Freshman Fifteen

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The XXL Freshman Fifteen

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Feeling disproportionately pissy about posts like "ohhh, you found a logical inconsistency in right-wing propaganda? should we tell everyone? should we throw a party? etc. etc."

Like, god knows a lot of people could stand to learn that being right in a vacuum is meaningless if you can't turn it into persuasion, but having the truth still matters or else what the fuck are we even doing here

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an uncomfortable thing that I have been wrestling with for a bit is the trend of "culture" when applied by progressives to things other than nationality or ethnicity (i:e transfem culture, ND culture) generally skewing almost exclusively white, because "white culture" doesn't actually exist, because whiteness is a construct of white supremacy, and therefore the "culture" of arbitrary traits ends up populated by white compensatory thought. I have not felt comfortable fully participating in "transfem music I am smoking weed [loudest sound you've ever heard]" jokes because it just feels like white identity with extra steps of obfuscation

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Our noble rejection of respectability politics vs. Their brutish scaring the hoes