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Never played the game, but I know the soundtrack. Pandora recommended it to me and now I have Solar Fields on regular rotation.

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

With the Rayearth remake out, folks have drawn comparisons to Escaflowne and are craving a remake of that, too. Based on what? Manga? TV? Movie? All three are drastically different. Escaflowne TV is perfection. Kazuki Akane took an innane outline, chucked it, and made beauty. No follow-up needed.

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Had to do that earlier this year. Honestly, the stuff didn't taste bad. Not great, but not bad. Obviously you won't be allowed to eat anything of substance during your prep, but I do recommend apple juice and light soups such as chicken broth. The procedure itself was a breeze too.

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Daryl Surat @darylsurat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We won’t have to pay the $25 shipping either! Preorders for Macross Frontier on BD go live on the GKIDS Store in December. You too can experience what @vf5ss.bsky.social is reliving by watching Macross Frontier for its…the fuck do you mean 20 year anniversary?! I was just on Destroy All Podcasts DX!

BIGWEST MACROSS PANEL NYC 2026
Blu-ray pre-order sites:
UK/EU: AllTheAnime
US: GKIDS

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Simply seeing a store that has an actual Blu-Ray section is cool enough nowadays, tbh.

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Jakebe, the Hobbit Hare @jakebe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

YES on 40 NO on 41 NO on 42 for all CA friends out there

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Steve Lieber --> Bedrock City Comic Con @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just read that Informa, the company that owns all the Fan Expo shows, just bought the company that owns Left Field Media (Rose City Comic Con, Awesome Con, Anime NYC, and Anime Frontier.)

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Salami Studios, the North Hollywood recording house behind voice sessions for Avatar: The Last Airbender, Jackie Chan Adventures, Castlevania: Nocturne, and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, is closing after more than 30 years.

voiceoverherald.com

Salami Studios closes after 30 years - Voice Over Talent Industry News

North Hollywood's Salami Studios, home to Avatar, Jackie Chan Adventures and Edgerunners sessions, is closing. Voice actors react to the news.

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yay, more TLDs to add to the spam filter.

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

macOS Tahoe running on legacy non-T2 Mac hardware, including the old trash-can Mac Pros. Now if they can just get it working on the T2-equipped 2018 Mac Minis...

reddit.com

From the OpenCoreLegacyPatcher community on Reddit: OCLP 3.0.0 RC2

Explore this post and more from the OpenCoreLegacyPatcher community

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. My parents took me to see it when I was 3yrs old. Freaked me the hell out. It's one of my earliest memories. Honestly have never watched it since.

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Show up in person if possible. Cheeto is still trying to muck with the postal service to screw up mail-in voting. Once you're in line, STAY in line, no matter what.

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George J. Horvath @landofobscusion.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Where did today's anime production hellscape, with too many TV anime produced every season & a focus on initially airing them (in Japan) in late-night time slots, originate from? Well, 30 years ago exactly Those Who Hunt Elves debuted in late-night, establishing the format the defines anime today.

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Here's Netflix's spec regarding Forced Narratives: partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/art... See part "II.10 - On-screen Text". - "When on-screen text and dialogue overlap, precedence should be given to the most plot-pertinent message." That worked wonders for Komi Can't Communicate. /s

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Breath of Fire would likely create a whole new generation of furries and I'm here for it.

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t do any subtitling myself anymore since I shifted to IT, but thank you. You are quite correct. Unfortunately, it is an endangered art (in my opinion) so please be vocal!

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 04/10/2026

Hey man, leave her alone. She's living a quiet life now

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Imagine you're a CR exec with bonuses tied to market share & cost efficiencies. You have a high quality human-made subtitle workflow using a non-standard format. Would switching to the common standard (or going AI) generate savings outweighing the subscriptions lost? I believe they've judged yes.

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This. We recently had to do a conform for a beloved 2007 series for a certain VOD vendor. The original subs were in ASS & we had to machete them down to SRT spec. We begged, pleaded, and even had them test alternative formats, but the VOD's renderer could not handle anything but bottom center.

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Anime is a special snowflake because there's all kinds of kanji and weirdness flying at you. Also, at the time the .SRT spec became the de-facto standard, Anime was nowhere near as big as it is now.

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Here's something most don't consider: For almost ALL other media content _except_ anime, .SRT is plenty good enough. It had one job: Translate what's spoken. The notion of needing to translate signs wasn't much of a consideration as, for most languages _except_ Asian ones, you could figure it out.

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Especially for Netflix, where the spec is God. Other VOD vendors sometimes may be a wee bit more flexible, but not big red. Here's Netflix's spec, in case anyone wants to check it out for themselves: partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/art...

partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com

Timed Text Style Guide: General Requirements

To get help on DTT topics, visit this support form. Any timed text created specifically for Netflix – Originals or non-Originals – should follow the Netflix Timed Text Style Guide, unless otherw...

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yet right now, the economics just aren't favoring that, sadly.

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Here's a fun story from when we were preparing a show for a now kinda-sorta-but-not-really defunct VOD channel. The reps insisted on SRT subs which were bottom-center only. We begged to let us do burn-ins. Back & forth ensured. Finally, I sent them this example. They quickly said YIKES, and agreed.

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Such conforms were time consuming and costly. So I completely understand CR's desire to move away from the ASS format, much though I lament that because it means reduced quality. But unfortunately, the economics nowadays isn't favoring quality. It's favoring "good enough".

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Back when we used to work with Netflix, we would have to do a "conform" that would adapt ASS subtitles to Netflix's rigid format. It was hell, because we'd have to machete a lot so as to conform to spec.

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

...with rare exceptions for "force narratives" (sign translations) that can sometimes be moved top-center, so long as they don't overlap the thing it's translating. And never can the FNs be onscreen at the same time as a subtitle.

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This. I work at a studio that does subtitling. ASS is very much a special snowflake that does custom positioning that _nobody_ else supports except CR. The major VOD sites (Netflix, Amazon, iTunes) are STRICT in that all subs must primarily be bottom center...

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Mike Toole @miketoole.com · 01/10/2026

best girl '96

yurika from nadesico. captaion of the ship, doin a cute little pose in the robot hangar

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 30/09/2026

It'll never not be funny to me that Sony is clearly unable to get into Nozomi Entertainment's YouTube channel, given that they have been unable to update it and take down stuff that the licenses clearly expired on.

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James Beckett @kickthebeckett.com · 29/09/2026

No, SungWon is absolutely correct here. The insistence on sticking with the Japanese title when there is already a perfectly acceptable English one is utterly asinine. Nobody does this in Japanese literature, or film, or any other art form. It's just the anime nerds who insist on being obtuse.

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Justin Sevakis @worldofcrap.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm going to MIPCOM, the big content trade show next month, where I will inevitably be approached by a bunch of tech bros offering AI dubbing and subtitling. I will then smile very large, look them in the eye, and say that I would rather shit directly into my own hands and eat it.

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🔥💣SSSS.Camilleअ @getterdrill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

worst thing crunchyroll has ever done besides kill rightstuf is normalize the idea of no subs for ops/eds. I used to be okay with it because my reasoning was "Well when they come out on home video the songs will be translated so it's fine" but now home video isnt dead so lol

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It seems Johnny found himself a side-gig at Midas outside of running a dojo. #CobraKai

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Ferengi were supposed to be TNG's major antagonists. It tracks, given Gene's worldview. Savage ultra-capitalism vs civil post-scarcity socialist utopia. Late in the season the writers realized they were more joke than a menace, and rightly pivoted. This vid explains really well:

youtube.com

Star Trek's Most Embarrassing Villain (And How They Fixed It)

YouTube video by LATINUM BUDGETS

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Does Amazon sell the monitor? Maybe just buy a new one. Which hopefully won't be defective straight out of the box. Because that would be terribly inconvenient. But Amazon has free returns. Which is very convenient.

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GeekPrime @geekprime.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I love how Star Trek Strange New Worlds got in a Miracle Max reference from Princess Bride for Carol Kane who played his wife in the movie.

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Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGhoul @marzgurl.com · 22/09/2026

This is the kind of decision a fansubber makes when you tell them they can only work with a text file and have no access to a graphical text editor like Aegisub.

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You do know those messages aren't written by a human, and your reply wasn't seen by one either, right?

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I haven't seen anybody report on this, but... If you're in California and Oregon and you get health insurance via your employer, and if that health insurance is through HealthNet, you won't have it for much longer. www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/centene...

healthcarefinancenews.com

Centene's Health Net exits commercial group market in 2 states

The insurer will discontinue small- and large-group plans in California and Oregon as it concentrates on government-sponsored coverage.

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Justin Sevakis @worldofcrap.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Laserdisc player died. Totally dead, won't power on. Fuse is fine. The only place I could find that would repair it held onto it for 3 months without giving me an estimate. If anyone knows a place, hmu, I'm resigned to buying another player.

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Saying "just buy an EV if you hate high gas prices" to poor people makes climate activists look out of touch. Those who are most impacted by high gas prices can't afford $20k+ on a vehicle and charger. I certainly can't, so let's keep that in mind before we shame people for not going electric.

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Show up in person if possible. Cheeto is still trying to muck with the postal service to screw up mail-in voting. Once you're in line, STAY in line, no matter what.

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Can't say that I have. I wonder what their thoughts are on the EPA.

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Red America lives out in the country and often never set foot outside of their hometown. Smog is something they've never seen, thus a left-wing myth to them. That's okay. Once those data centers running on diesel generators out in farm country come online they'll remember why there's an EPA.

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