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Cal C@cdcubed.bsky.social · last wk.

the impulse to TL the voices of Japanese high school third-years, second-years, and first-years on a sports team as boomers, millenials, and gen-zs respectively, given the bizarre age-gap dilation where the big kids are framed as one-foot-in-the-grave, while the littles are fresh from the womb

Cal C@cdcubed.bsky.social · 2w ago

in which Sakamoto's detached/anthropological explanation of the eucharist (as a curious ritual by an exotic religion) likens Dracula to capitalists and posits that both are incompatible with Christianity (these start-of-volume essays destroy my pace, but they're always a hoot)

text reading as follows: Nearly every sect of Christianity consumes a form of consecrated bread during certain rituals, such as the Catholic Mass. Also called the communion wafer or the host, the eucharist is believed to be the body of Jesus Christ himself. Though the exact method of preparation and name varies between sects, the bread is said to undergo transubstantiation and become the body of Christ when blessed by the clergy via a specific rite. Worshippers believe that by consuming the eucharist alongside wine (said to be the blood of Christ), they can achieve divine power and a deeper connection with the deity they worship. The origin of this practice is rooted in Christ’s words at the Last Supper, when he said, “Take, eat; this is my body. …Drink of it, all of you; for this is my blood of the covenant,” referring to bread and wine, respectively. In doing so, he expressed a desire to distribute his blood and body to all people, equally. On the other hand, Dracula, the UnDead King, drinks the blood of others to enhance his own power, which, in a way, frames him as an entity completely antithetical to Christ and the Christian god. He claims the power of humans as his own (in the form of blood) and destroys his victims, starting with the meekest among us. This is also an uncannily apt description of capitalists, who were rising to power as capitalism spread like wildfire across most societies during Bram Stoker’s time. Stoker’s formless King of the Night symbolized a virus attacking the entire world, as well as those unseen looters and plunderers dominating society in the name of capitalism. That threat still looms large and grim before us today, as if to represent all that is wrong with the world. This monster is undying and immutable, yet Mina and her companions stand against it unflaggingly. Mina, in particular, is someone who seeks to right the ills and outrages of the world, and I see her as Bram Stoker’s symbol of hope for a brighter future.
VIZ Media@viz.com · 2w ago

#DRCL midnight children, Vol. 6 is now available in print and digital! Read a free preview: https://bit.ly/4mzQfYp

Cal C@cdcubed.bsky.social · 3w ago

in volume 64 (!!) the MC comes across new terrain that his current equipment can't traverse, and he must acquire a mountain bike to progress Yowamushi Pedal is a metroidvania!

Onoda is confronted by a daunting, rocky slopethe hotshot new character launches toward the rocky slope on a mountain bike and performs a wheelyusing a MTB, Onoda joins the new character on the rocky terrain
Cal C@cdcubed.bsky.social · last mo.

spent 4 excruciating hours setting up a linux on my otherwise windows pc (as a wee 50gb partition), stepping on rakes at every step of the 17-step process, each requiring byzantine hackerman solutions from the reddit catacombs still not sure of the use case for linux besides "microsoft is evil, so"

Cal C@cdcubed.bsky.social · last mo.

cool crosspromo with a vile AI-slop company that shits all over official English-language Shueisha releases via their actual youtube channel 🫠

Thumbnail of a Duolingo vid "breaking down Naruto's biggest dubbing mistakes"Thumbnail of a Duolingo vid "breaking down JJK dubbing mistakes"Thumbnail of a Duolingo vid "breaking down One Piece dubbing mistakes"
VIZ Media@viz.com · last mo.

There's only room for one anthropomorphic animal mascot @Duolingo!! 😡🐔 (jk) Watch Rooster Fighter on Hulu (US) and Disney+ (INTL) -- ¡Solo hay lugar para una mascota animal antropomórfica, Duolingo!! 😡🐔 (es broma) Rooster Fighter está disponible en Hulu (US) y en Disney+ (INTL).

Cal C@cdcubed.bsky.social · last mo.

She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat (ostensibly a cooking manga) is a stealth PSA about a smorgasbord of progressive concepts related to sex, gender, mental health had to research "amatonormativity" today! (the societal assumption that everyone is better off in exclusive romantic relationships)

while a sandy-haired person looks on, a dark-haired woman is visibly raging, saying: "This rotten society’s to blame for forcing us to label ourselves when we diverge in any way from the strict gender binary, heteronormativity, and even the amatonormative paradigm!"
Cal C@cdcubed.bsky.social · last mo.

bought a garage sale grill two years ago, finally borrowed a propane tank from friends last week, did some h-mart kalbi for my first-ever grilling 😋 (paired with a surimi/cuke/avo salad)

Raw kalbi short ribs on a grill, under the dappled light through a treethe mostly grilled kalbi, still on the grill
maia arson crimew 🏴@crimew.gay · 2mo ago

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

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Cal C@cdcubed.bsky.social · 2mo ago

got two more for the autograph wall at Fan Expo Denver! big ones left: Liv Tyler (doable), Cate Blanchett (unlikely), Viggo (nigh impossible), Sean Bean (impossible)

two framed and signed photos. The left is Miranda Otto as Eowyn. The right is Orlando Bloom as Legolas.
Cal C@cdcubed.bsky.social · 2mo ago

[fuyo~ = ghostly floating SFX] > fuyou = "Unneeded!" (vs. Necessary) >>> "Boo... Boo..." > "Boot it!" (vs. Keep it) sometimes I ask my gf to help brainstorm loc solutions to these Animal Crossing jokes-from-hell, and this is one of hers :)

two Animal Crossing humans are hunting for Wisp's spirit pieces, and they think they hear the spirit pieces floatingRaymond the cat is sorting belongings into two boxes- necessary vs. unneeded
Cal C@cdcubed.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Shin'ichi Sakamoto's lefty Dracula gets even wilder vampire Jon Harker clocks two lesbian nuns and is like "your awesome lgbtq+ status reminds me of my dead trans friend, who was my osanajimi's lover, and who I need to avenge by killing MJ Drac" and the boss lesbian gives him a kukri to do the job

Jon Harker tells two nuns that his demonic powers of sexiness should make him irresistible to all women... ...EXCEPT women who are more interested in each otherJon Harker, naked, muscly, and wrapped in a bedsheet, tells the lesbian nuns that he was nearly overtaken by the darkness, but their impressive lesbianism reminded him of a dear friendJon Harker envisions himself using the lesbians' kukri knife to decapitate Michael Jackson Dracula
Cal C@cdcubed.bsky.social · 3mo ago

v3: the ghost of Van Helsing seems to use the word "ajito" when summoned by the Ouija board. v6: Mina notes Jo casually using "ajito" while otherwise speaking English. v7: Mina accuses Jo of faking the seance(s). He thought ajito was an English loanword in JPN, but it's from the Russian agitpunkt.

in DRCL: Midnight Children, volume 3: a ouija board has illuminated letters spelling out "AJITO". Mina finds this odd/curious.Three volumes later, in an unrelated conversation, Jo Suwa uses the word "ajito" in the middle of an English sentence. Mina once again takes note of this.In a Japanese-style home, in a dream, a shadowy fusion of Mina and Jo Suwa's mother explains to him that his use of "ajito" in the seance revealed that he was faking the summoning and was in fact moving the planchette himself, because "ajito" is from Russian and is never used in English. Ergo, the ghost of Van Helsing the Dutchman would certainly not use it.