Practicing artist & story writer, can't speak Tagalog. Metaphysical weirdmaxxer, literal autism.
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The kung-fu and ninja craze of the 70's to 80's are a strong creative influence of mine, despite being late millennial.
Got into that media on the internet by older mutuals. There was something high energy about them that attracted me.
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This video that highlights Don't Nod as a case study reveals an interesting observation about modern mass media.
Namely, how a new left wing patron class are attempting to carve an alternative "high culture" from it.
@BrianNiemeier @wastelandJD
youtu.be/pDEw10yCzmY
This video that highlights Don't Nod as a case study reveals an interesting observation about modern mass media.
Namely, how a new left wing patron class are attempting to carve an alternative "high culture" from it.
@BrianNiemeier @wastelandJD
youtu.be/pDEw10yCzmY
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🚨L’AUTEUR de BLEACH (Tite Kubo) parle de l’influence de son manga sur DEMON SLAYER et JUJUTSU KAISEN :
🗣️ « Les gens disent souvent que les capitaines du Gotei 13 ont influencé les Piliers dans Demon Slayer, ou que le Bankai a inspiré JJK.
Les créateurs de ces séries m'ont dit qu'ils étaient influencés par BLEACH mais je ne pense pas que l'influence soit quelque chose qui coule dans une seule direction. C'est quelque chose qui est passé d'une génération de créateurs à l'autre.
Quand j'étais enfant, j'adorais l'anime Saint Seiya. Les Chevaliers d’Or m'ont laissé une énorme impression, et les capitaines du Gotei 13 étaient ma propre interprétation de ce genre de casting puissant.
C'est ainsi que la créativité évolue. Chaque génération de créateurs absorbe les idées des œuvres qu'ils admirent, les réinterprète à travers leur propre perspective et les transforme en quelque chose d'entièrement nouveau. C'est ce que l'influence a toujours été. »
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昔、カプコンにいた頃、自分の机にジョジョのアクションフィギュアを飾っていた。表紙を参考にポーズをつけていたのだが、ある日、モーションデザイナーさんが「ちょっと貸してみぃ」と言って、少しいじった。
すると、同じポーズなのに超かっこよくなった。後日、自分で再現しようとしても、どうしても同じようにならない。漫画と違って立体だったり比率が違ったりで表紙のまんまじゃダメなのかも。
これってプロの審美眼やディレクション能力なのだと最近思って。
今後、生成AIによる制作物を前に判断を迫られることは増えると思うのだけど、自分にこの審美眼はあるのかな？というのは最近すごく考える。スキルの守備範囲の外は流石に厳しいだろうし。
70〜80点のものを90点以上に引き上げるには、何が足りないのかを見抜く能力が必要になるし、それが70点だと気づいていないことだってあって、これが一番怖いのだけど。
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Seeing the average person's reaction to animation prices explains a lot about why the industry's been struggling. Disinterested parties (including animation producers) think that if 1 second of movement costs $300, then 10 minutes must cost $150,000.
Next time you see a 2D show, look closely. Most shows are only moving for a fraction of the runtime. We have people who don't know anything about directing and budgeting an animation taking control of productions, and being shocked when they learn how much it costs. They don't dig any any deeper to learn the countless ways people have been doing this medium affordably for decades, and they don't want to know
The complainers are followers of a neurotic leftist ethos that manages to be worse than puritanism.
One that needs to subvert natural eros and beauty to accommodate their overbearing modern pieties about feminism and sexual identity.
I wish I was just being hyperbolic.
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That's what Plato warned democracy tends to collapse into, except it won't be never-ending but rather climaxes in tyranny when a sufficiently ruthless demagogue and his following take advantage of the chaos.
Could be that American politics for the rest of our lives will be parties switching power, engaging in ever more flagrant corruption and grifting, then prosecuting the other side for crimes and non-crimes, in just a never ending cycle - all while the intelligent people we want to steer politics are so bored with the Jerry Springer quality of things that they just check out.
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Chesterton's Fence remains undefeated.
From a secular point of view, marriage is never going to "make sense." This is why, as we become more secular, marriage--and thus, love--becomes more and more expendable.
We've removed the cultural foundations that reveal the importance of lifelong commitment, self-sacrifice, honor, and the nature of true love itself. It's no wonder that we're the loneliest culture in history.
We use the same word ("love") for things like bacon and Marvel films that we use to describe the nature of God and our commitment to our spouse, remove the traditional structure that was the differentiator, and then act surprised that no one knows what love is anymore.
And most are too asleep to ever realize that the most beautiful relationship one can have is being lambasted (by the world's worst people) into oblivion.
I have conversations with young Christian men all the time who desperately want to get married. To them, it feels impossible to find a young woman who feels the same. And these are good men.
Movies like "Wicker" are literally satanic for that reason. It seems like an entire generation of young women's minds have been captured by an ideology that actively seeks to destroy them.
Burn it with fire.
“Wicker” shows just how suffocating marriage can be—and asks whether the institution is simply incompatible with love, @fhill_official writes: theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
ALT An Anti-Marriage Marriage Movie
Heavy news, @wastelandJD.
Eternal rest.
【訃報】「あしたのジョー」漫画家のちばてつやさん死去 87歳
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「あしたのジョー」「おれは鉄兵」などのヒット作で知られ、文化勲章を受章した漫画家、ちばてつやさんが死去したことがわかった。
Broadly speaking, religion regards metaphysical truths and matters that have wide significance.
The problem is people make the same teleological mistakes about both science and religion, and end up turning the former into a millenarian cargo cult for ideology and utopic beliefs.
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The correct framing is that burgeoning male writers are not receiving investment - particularly in the literary genre. It is not suppression. It is neglect. Male writers just go Indy. The complaints that 'men don't read' by the Lithub Handwringers, should be understood to actually mean, 'men don't read contemporary authors we think they should read.' Solving the impasse without changing the investment structure would require a concerted effort of male writers to embrace the monoculture and become self-hating woke stenographers, or for men to stop rereading classics and put down the video games and read books that were not written for them, by them, or about them.
"Today, the Big Five publishers are staffed almost entirely by women. According to the most recent data, more than 70 percent of staffers are women. More than 70 percent of editors are women. Even 70 percent of all interns are women. At the executive level, more than 60 percent of leaders are women. In 2026, American publishing looks like lululemon."
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what i learned from my father (who worked as an animator during this era of movies) is that accessible CGI brainbroke studio execs in a manner eerily akin to how ai has brainbroke boomers
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It's so funny when a mainstream project flops in the public eye and some unfortunate art history/comms major intern has to go on twitter and defend their institution with "it can't be bad, it's a *reference* to art we decided is good!" followed by scoldy academese
