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I think they pulled Zone-tan out a few years ago.

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I thought about this more the other night after I saw The Incomer. I've seen several new releases set in the UK (The Sheep Detectives, Finding Emily, Shaun the Sheep, The Incomer) and they all made it a point to have a noticeable amount of diversity. How is Ray Gunn whiter than a Scottish movie?

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Ray Gunn | Official Trailer | Netflix

I didn't mention it earlier when I was disparaging it but did anyone else how conspicuously white the Ray Gunn trailer is? youtu.be/VL-xjzQFWsY?... A million urban crowd shots in the trailer and there is exactly one non-white human for half a second.

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Making the "zombies but with graphic rape" movie knowing full well they're going to have to cut out the graphic rape.

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Norbert @norbertmadao.bsky.social · 3h

It was cool when they started adding stuff to Skullgirls again but at this point every time I hear new news about it it just feels kinda sad. Like they're stuck and can't move forward so they're kinda rotting.

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For the most part, Crossed is a generic zombie apocalypse story except the zombies also cuss and rape people.

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Norbert @norbertmadao.bsky.social · 3h

Even as a Certified Ennis Defender, nah. Crossed is my least favorite work of his. Not because it's too edgy. It's just not that interesting. It peaks in the first issue. Plus it's not like you could really get away with adapting a lot of this to film without toning it down heavily.

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I'm not saying that they should do a crossover movie where Nikki from Obsession fights Other Mommy from Other Mommy. But if they do it, it was my idea first and they owe me a check.

Website traffic and ad rates were both higher then too.

There's people on Reddit who will get into arguments and generate essay-length ChatGPT responses and then get mad when the other person clocks it and refuses to waste their time arguing with a chatbot by proxy.

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Norbert @norbertmadao.bsky.social · 15h

I'm getting concerned how much play incel memes/slang are spreading.

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Sure, traditional TV had ads. But it was pretty easy to have a B-channel on standby that you'd switch to while your main show was on commercial break and then switch back after a couple minutes.

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Norbert @norbertmadao.bsky.social · 21h

Tien could be *so* normal at a restaurant

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Norbert @norbertmadao.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's kind of interesting how M3GAN was killed by several big, terrible ideas all at once. "What if instead of continuing to be a Child's Play-like we ripped off Terminator 2? What if we radically changed the appearance of our mascot? What if we made the main character into female Jonathan Haidt?"

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt book cover

Pabuela 🎃 @pabuela.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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🎃 'tis the season to be... what are we, actually?

A redheaded girl is sitting at a cafe table on a date with a pumpkin. She looks disappointed. The pumpkin says "I deeply value the time we spend together, I just don't think I'm ready for such a major commitment."

The woman is a slender gal with curly orange hair reaching her arms. She's wearing thick transparent-framed glasses, has freckles. She's wearing a simple choker, light orange bracelets, rings, a black armless frilled dress with a white belt. Her dress has a bright orange interior, framing her light orange leggings with pumpkins printed all over. She's wearing loose black boots. She's drinking a tequila sunrise.

The pumpkin is sat upon the table itself. He's drinking a moscow mule. He has a hole carved on his side, from which he is smoking a cigarette.

Signed Pab 2026. Any and all AI use is prohibited without my approval.

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Norbert @norbertmadao.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Dads when you ask for a Diva cup.

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Arthur - The Scare Your Pants Off Club Ending

This reminded me of the old Arthur episode where the town tried to ban the Scare Your Pants Off books and the author stepped in to fight the censorship. youtu.be/UZhm0-YDI2w?...

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Looks like the AKA cartoon logo

The whole "Celebrities have a duty to speak out about politics!" thing is one of the most annoying Trump I holdovers. The rule is that it's cool when a celebrity has the same politics as me, and when they don't they should shut up and dribble. Anyone who says differently is lying.

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Reminds me of when I worked at an after school program and a Church of Scientology cutout sent us a box full of one of L. Ron Hubbard's novels.

ez “dyke ghoulfriend” @ezrez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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I think if you encourage people to gamble their savings away on whether the weather forecasts are going to be accurate you should be shot in the face with buckshot

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Nicky 2 @nickyflowers.com · 06/10/2026

Was thinking about the backlash to Primos and Dang calling them racist and realized there's precedent for this. The ADL and the Washington Post called Rugrats anti-semitic.

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the vibes at the vibecoder café are truly rancid. almost as rancid as my drink! i got the "AI Gateway Drug", which is an espresso with lime juice & tonic water. awful! everyone is networking with a sense of desperation and the tables are dirty. it's wild how much the only 24/7 café in the city sucks

the drinks me and my gf got (hers is pretty good actually)

the Corgi Times, the café's fake newspaper declaring that "GROWTH SOLVES ALL ISSUES"

there's a fucking booth where you sit down and have an AI clone of a venture capitalist fake interview you, or something.i didn't go in there

a guy networking with a kind of deer in the headlights look

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Maybe your polycule wouldn't be in such disarray if you embraced traditional games like bridge or Chinese checkers instead of $250 boutique Kickstarter board games that take two hours to learn and you play exactly once.

Saw some people do the "Well if you consider inflation..." bit and buddy I'll tell you the same thing I tell people who think video games should cost $100. Plugging numbers into an inflation calculator isn't going to make money magically appear in my bank account.

Also any argument about what the market says doesn't consider how the new car market is for relatively richer people and everyone else is at the mercy of their backwash in the used market. Yeah man sorry I didn't buy the $29k EV. Maybe in 15 years when I can afford a used one.

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Yeah it's very silly to look at a market segment that caters towards relatively rich people and then use it as proof that the country as a whole doesn't want cheap cars. I wouldn't buy this not because I'd prefer an $80k truck, but because I could never afford a new car period.

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We do things a little different here at this church. Our Jesus has a fauxhawk.

Company that added 4 hour commutes to their employees' day by mandating RTO: We built a bot that can kinda use the grocery delivery app for you. Enjoy your newfound free time.

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The people pitching these AI agents think that people's biggest productivity issues are all about stuff you do on your phone and not stuff that exists in the physical universe.

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We absolutely cannot be describing a toy IP blockbuster movie franchise that made five and a half billion at the box office as "cult."

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I think people are a lot more wise to what happens in a media merger now. There's no room for fantasizing about a Spongebob/Adventure Time crossover.

It's kind of undersold how ridiculous it is that the American sedan basically does not exist anymore. The default picture of what a car is is no longer manufactured by American companies except for a couple straggling models.

Since he no longer has a business his bills shouldn't be complicated. He should just be able to set everything to auto-pay. Muse is only "useful" because he's a stupid baby, the core demographic of AI.

Also that's a weird workflow, isn't it? Why was he taking pictures of bills to send to his assistant? Even if the assistant is still the one managing bills there's simpler ways to do it. Auto-pay exists. And his assistant was also paying his personal bills too?

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Update: One of the ads for Facebook's Muse AI is about a business owner who never paid his own bills because he just took pictures of them and sent them to his assistant. But he sold the business and therefore lost his assistant so he needs Muse to pay his (personal?) bills.

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Skeptics have questioned whether I'm a functioning adult but to that I say I just bought a brand new sheet set in the correct size off of the Wal-Mart clearance rack.

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I know the dominant romantic American narrative is "No dad, I don't want to follow in your footsteps and run the family erotic bakery! I have my own dreams!" But on the other hand there is something comforting about the idea that someone has taken the trouble to prepare a place in life for you.

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It sucks when my foes can sense ki and therefore cannot be fooled by my After Image Technique.

The guy who made that term up is such a repugnant freak.