#Advanced Media

[remcadll]

Wow crazy how it’s been two months since mha ended. what the hell was that btw

[foldingfittedsheets]

When we first started watching Dungeon Meshi I got really upset when Falin got got by the red dragon. It was clearly the start of the party forming up and motivation to dungeon delve but I didn’t realize it was the entire central arc of the show.

I just knew I was anxious and wanted to watch without anxiety. So I looked up her status in a wiki to reassure myself that things would be okay with her or not. I just needed to know.

The longer we watched the first season the more I was like. Ohhhhhh. That was the biggest possible spoiler. That is what it’s all about. It’s all Falin all the time. But I have no regrets.

[deancasforcutie]

Supernatural’s deep-cut references to other queer media and icons continued (multimedia mlm meta madness edition)

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[sunlit-mess]

What do you think about gen alpha :3?

funny but concerning at the same time

[zomvielover]

guys my friend is discovering trobed

[isdisorigionalenoughforyou]

yknow sometimes i think about how mr seawatt gaming parkourcivilization only got to where he was by leveraging his knowledge of obscure rules and mechanics and keeping all his cards close to his heart. how he clearly only got to where he originally was in the 1st movie by making himself useful with amethyst blocks and brewing stand jumps. and how it all crumbled because evbo 360-ed all over his carefully laid plans but really, his undoing was his own hubris.

and he's shit at parkour

[arcanegifs]

Battle of the Arcane Mommies Poll Winner: Cassandra Kiramman ↳ "Who lives here? Another Councilor friend of yours?"

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Dean Obeidallah at The Dean's Report:

The despicable effort by corporate oligarchs—many of who helped elect Donald Trump—to convince the rest of us to submit to Donald Trump is now in full gear. On Saturday, we saw the jaw-dropping announcement by ABC News—owned by Disney-- that the corporation had agreed to pay Trump $15 million in a bogus defamation lawsuit Trump would have NEVER won. ABC also agreed to publicly apologize and pay Trump’s lawyers $1 million in legal fees. The lawsuit arises from ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos’s exchange with GOP Rep. Nancy Mace in March when Stephanopoulos pressed Mace on how--as a survivor of sexual assault--she could support Trump given his history of sexual assault. One specific exchange cited by Trump’s lawyers was when Stephanopoulos challenged Mace to explain how she could endorse Trump after “judges and two separate juries have found him liable for rape and for defaming the victim of that rape” in the E. Jean Carrol civil case.

Trump’s defamation lawsuit alleged that Stephanopoulos knew Trump was never find liable of “rape”—only sexual assault—and, thus, had defamed him. But two things here. First, federal judge Lewis Kaplan--who presided over E. Jean Carroll defamation/sexual assault case—in his written opinion stated the jury had in fact determined Trump had “raped” Carroll. Judge Kaplan addressed this when considering Trump’s claim the damage award against him was too high because the jury didn’t find Trump had committed “rape” as narrowly defined by NY penal law. But the judge wrote that based on the evidence, Trump had raped Carroll in the way “many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.’” The Judge added, “Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.” I make that point as a lawyer who handled defamation cases to note that truth is a valid defense in every defamation case. Judge Kaplan’s opinion is the key to ABC News winning this case.

In addition, ABC News has another very strong defense. In a defamation case involving a public figure like Trump, the plaintiff has an added burden of showing not only that a statement is false but that the comment was made with “actual malice.” That means even if Stephanopoulos was wrong in saying Trump was found liable of “rape,” Trump would need to show Stephanopoulos knew that statement was false when he said that or “consciously chose to recklessly disregard the high probability that” the comment was false. But Stephanopoulos clearly could rely in good faith on Judge Kaplan’s written opinion that the jury had in fact found Trump raped Carroll when making his statement.

This is why Trump would’ve lost this case--as legal experts that focus on defamation told the NY Times. For example, RonNell Andersen Jones, a professor of law at the University of Utah, explained: “Major news organizations have often been very leery of settlements in defamation suits brought by public officials and public figures, both because they fear the dangerous pattern of doing so and because they have the full weight of the First Amendment on their side.” All of that is important to understand that ABC News also knew it would have ultimately prevail in the case--but they settled out of fear. They were bending a knee to Trump because during the campaign, Trump had threatened to take ABC’s broadcast license away after the presidential debate because the moderators fact checked his lies. Trump pointedly declared on Fox News: "They ought to take away their license for the way they did that."

With Trump now a month from being sworn in and his pick to head the Federal Communications Commission being Brendan Carr, an author of the far-right Project 2025, ABC News and other media outlets are fearful of how the Trump regime will target them. As MSNBC’s Ja'han Jones wrote, Carr is the type of “media attack dog” that will enable the GOP to follow the playbook of their beloved Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán and use the agency to silence critics of Trump. ABC News should have never bent a knee to Trump with this unheard of surrender this early in a case they would’ve won. But they were not alone in capitulating to Trump this week.

[...] However, there is also a fear factor at play here as well.

ABC News made a very stupid decision to bend the knee to autocrat-elect Donald Trump by settling, and that’s because ABC would likely have won their case. They are doing this out of fear of Trump handing out reprisals to outlets even slightly critical of him.

Brian Tyler Cohen: Mainstream Media Opts to Obey

[goldensunset]

in my experience i didn’t get interested in kingdom hearts by watching or playing anything first. i got interested by watching people post about cute anime children murdering each other and i was like ‘fascinating. i wonder how this got past the disney censors. let’s find out’

[nortsauce]

I LOVE THE OLD EARLY GBA LUCAS AND CLAUS LOOK HOW COOL THEY LOOK C’MON!!!!!

[heich0e]

You don’t even understand how I obsessed I am with Unc!sukuna au. I need to know how he and reader first met

they didn't meet at a library i'll tell ya that much

[immult]

sorry to say but that was hot.

welcome back, early-mid campaign imogen temult. you are missed.

[thedarkbluevoid]

Onyx.

Scanned from Electronic Gaming Monthly, October 2003.

[xinyuehui]

Hua Gongzi ‖ First Apperance

[surskip]

the #1 rule of posting art on the internet is that there will always be a 14 year old with 50k followers creating things that you can only dream of, and while it's fine to privately feel discouraged or like you're behind, if you make this their problem or take it out on them you need to go outside and identify 4 species of birds before you sit back down at your computer

[captainxtra]

This is a step in the right direction for the ACLU, covering HR 9495 as much as they can in public media should be a priority for them.

Reminder to look up who your Senator is in the event that this bill does go up for a vote before this session of Congress end:

I would personally hold off on contacting Senators until IF and WHEN a vote date is announced and focus more on making people aware of what threat this poses and what they can do to fight it.

If you have a GOP/MAGA Rep, I’d advise using this strategy on Reddit in convincing them once a Vote date is announced:

Please don’t spam your Senator with messages!