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japan was right about those tiny drinks

i haven't finished a bottle of gatorade in years

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Okada Masaki as Himuro Makoto Angry Squad: EPISODE ZEROアングリースクワッド EPISODE ZERO 2024, dir. Ueda Shinichiro

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

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Gilbert et al. (2025)

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Kind of hilarious to me how poorly the title "Mob Psycho 100" localized to English-speaking areas. To someone whose first language is English, it scans as:

Mob (Yakuza, Mafia)

Psycho (violent person with "crazy" behaviors)

Thus: a particularly violent member of organized crime.

But in Japanese it scans as:

Mob (background characters in crowd scenes in manga or anime)

Psycho (short for psychic)

Thus: a psychic who looks/acts like someone you'd never pick out of a crowd scene in a comic.

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today, i think about all the opportunities missed in the game that shall not be named and I magically feel better about my own life. I might not be a superstar but at least I didn't fuck it up as badly as a multi million dollar budget AAA game.

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I don't think Maelle does it as a villain, intentionally, but something about her ending left me with an unpleasant residue. Maybe I'm seeing things that aren't there, but it seemed to me that Mael just lacked the skill to restore the canvas to the way it was before.

Everything felt less alive. I think the ending broke her, the guilt and shame over Verso's death, the fact that she lived half her life inside the canvas - she can't let go of that world. But she can't bring it back to the way it was.

Like Noco's death, it won't be the Noco we knew..

I think the world we knew ended forever after Renoir wiped everyone out.

Yes, Maelle could have restored Lune and Sciel by keeping their petals. It's like repeating a work you've just seen that you've studied well.

But how could she restore the same Pierre? And every single person in the city? How can she restore the same Sophie? Everything that happens doesn't seem alive anymore, and that makes it so sad.

I'm very fond of Maelle. And I haven't seen the second ending yet. But it's so sad to know that there can't be a truly happy ending for this child in the world she loves so much

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people who learned about greek mythology due reasons that DONT involve having read percy jackson at 12 freak me out, like what the FUCK was going on in your life that you found out that zeus turned into a pigeon to woo his wife like HOW

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Dolo, Veneto, Italy by Eleonora Boiserie

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If Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were beautiful

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got a new floor desk setup that is approximately fengshui

feels good

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it's so stupid that big corpo thinks machines are more cost effective than people.

people cost more, but they also DO much more, and way better. And break down less. And they keep learning and improving if employee retention is good. I mean, there really is no comparison. And the customers like them more.

Part of it is the blind optimism/blatant lying of big tech promising you way more and way better than it's really capable of. What gets me, really gets me, is that these decision makers with the money actually eat it up hook line and sinker.

Is the solution to regulate tech like we regulate new pharmaceuticals? Gotta prove they do what they promise with scientific rigor (as much as is possible in an industry like that), show us a list of the side effects with receipts, and make a humanitarian case for why the damned thing is an improvement over the status quo.

Except it's a bit late because the new status quo already sucks.

Sure since adopting self checkout they got rid of 99% of grocery workers and if something goes wrong you gotta just stand there for 20 minutes while the employee managing 30% of the store singlehandedly tries to juggle helping you with their other responsibilities. But at least groceries are less expensive now right. Why are you trying to whisper in my ear I have a girlfriend

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driving is a bane on human existence

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Broncia Koller-Pinell (Polish,1863-1934)

Robbus

Woodcut

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i don't like that o have to get it wrong first before i get it right

i might even have to get it wrong a couple of times before i get it right

ngl, that's really annoying

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Eugène Bidau (French, 1839-1899)

Nature morte avec vase et fleurs

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Kawase Hasui - "Pond at Benten Shrine, Shiba" (1929)