Was watching a Nebula vid from Princess Weekes the other day on women in shonen, and she touched on a point I've thought before, but could never quite articulate in that the reason we keep having this cycle of going "finally a battle shonen with good women!" everytime the new hotness comes out (1/2)

unhinged eldritch abomination@rhymeswithk.bsky.social · 4h ago

Friends, #weebwednesday is upon us once again! You know the drill - quote-post with your weebiest hot takes, nothing racist, nothing intentionally inflammatory, have fun with it ♥

Maybe I've just still got PTSD from Fetterman but I'm simply *really* leery of politicians who are promoted primarily on being a Character with Personality.

There are more pressing points to take umbrage with in this (maybe bait?) article but... We had an entire week of discourse over the new Star Fox character designs! I talked about it with the normies in my office!! In what world is the art style of the new Star Fox game a "safe bet"!!???

IGN@ign.com · 5h ago

The Switch 2 is an iterative update console. The Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Star Fox remakes are safe bets with generic art styles. The Mario movies are by-the-numbers. Is Nintendo losing its soul? https://bit.ly/457ge1q

At the risk of sounding like I'm caping for Nintendo...what the hell is the argument here? A generally well recieved Star Fox remake and 5 seconds of OoT remake footage and suddenly they've "lost their way?" They've got plenty of problems but not marching to their own beat isn't one of them

IGN@ign.com · 5h ago

The Switch 2 is an iterative update console. The Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Star Fox remakes are safe bets with generic art styles. The Mario movies are by-the-numbers. Is Nintendo losing its soul? https://bit.ly/457ge1q

Did you need to include a funny sadpikachu.png as the cover image of an article about alleged sexual abuse?

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · 9h ago

Ben Tsai reportedly told detectives he was “mainly curious about transgender people”

in 2016 Elon Musk said he would build a fully automated factory in Fremont, California for the upcoming Model 3 and he then spent on the order of $2 billion on production lines that didn't work, forcing Tesla to assemble cars by hand in a tent but sure, now he's gonna do it on the moon

We're in an era of anime caring about international optics, but also one where high-profile studios are filled with people who make Sam Altman look like an AI skeptic, where all sci-fi veterans have developed severe ChatGPT psychosis. Good luck to everyone who has to navigate that. Or not, they suck

Forsaken Saintess has a lot of things working against it: it's boring, aimless, looks like butt, its heroine is blithe to the point of incredulity, that goddamn word in its title, etc. But perhaps its worse sin is that it's a food show where the food looks like shit.

I looked into this when it started being used as an attack line against him and the evidence is that he once criticized Michelle Obama's initiative to tackle childhood obesity because it didn't go far enough to address societal issues including things like food deserts. That's what makes him sexist

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · yesterday

When I first saw this headline, I assumed that this was just a bad opinion piece. But it turns out that this is straight news? Lol, come on, WaPo. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Me recruiting units for my army in Fire Emblem Fortunes Weave

Not just guns MAGIC GUN

Ultima@ultimashadow.bsky.social · yesterday

Game of the Year

While it's a little rough around the edges, and it owes more than a fair share of influence to NieR, I think Game Freak has made a really excellent foray into the character-action RPG space with "Beast of Reincarnation." You should definitely give it a chance!

Anime News Network@animenewsnetwork.com · 2d ago

[Review] While Beast of Reincarnation doesn't quite reach the heights of its truly brilliant inspirations, it still accomplishes more than enough to prove itself as a genuinely excellent game in its own right.

"Bluesky is a political echo chamber" okay but I'm mostly here to chat with fun internet people and post art and make jokes, I cannot stress how much I don't care

[Review] While Beast of Reincarnation doesn't quite reach the heights of its truly brilliant inspirations, it still accomplishes more than enough to prove itself as a genuinely excellent game in its own right.

Beast of Reincarnation Game Review

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i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Government pulls funding and immediately AI drops them a fat check to force the tech on babies Get em young so they don't ask questions like is it normal to not be able to breathe when I'm outside and why is it so loud 24/7 and why don't we have water

hiksmash@hiksmash.blacksky.app · 2d ago

What is PBS Kids doing telling 3rd graders to use Ai to write a poem???

the modern job market

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d ago

ENTRY-LEVEL JOBS ARE VANISHING: NO-EXPERIENCE HIRING PLUNGES 73% IN JUST 4 YEARS

None of these people have been convicted of a misdemeanor, much less a felony. This means they are NOT eligible to be enslaved by the US prison system, and are therefore hostages held in concentration camps.

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d ago

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

I'm a big fan of "I'm glad you like [thing I dislike], but I still hate it for [my reasons]"

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 4d ago

The one rule about putting out an aggressive or confrontational take out is you can’t do the “I’m just a little guy and it’s my birthday” if people disagree. You gotta be prepared to defend it, you’re an adult!

As a reminder, please always be your cool, unique self and talk about and write about and post about and dress up as and collect that thing you love. Be respectful to others and balance it appropriately in your life, but be your own voice behind something you think is cool

When you make a work for fellow adults, you can assume that the audience has had someone they know die; that they've been in a relationship at some point in their lives; that they know certain things we expect adults to know. But you need to explain those things to kids. You need to REALLY explain.

I think a lot of people who remain in fandoms for children's media as adults fundamentally misunderstand what we're saying when we criticize something being "for kids" Yes, children's media can engage with serious, mature topics. But it has to treat them like it's your first time hearing about it.

Local grandma baffled at royalty fish being a goddamn bum

"We need to teach The Little Mermaid about grinding for wages" sure is an episode premise. You can practically see the light fading from her eyes #GoodbyeLara

Bold of Osamu Nishi to just insert Haruka from Sailor Moon into her action shonen manga, but hey this series needed at least one woman that makes all the other girls swoon with lesbian rizz (Please make her part of the main crew, I'm begging ya) #IchiTheWitch