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sticks combadge stickers onto the characters in the “Suicide Squad” movie poster

Done, boss. Can I go on my break now?

This is the best thing I’ve seen all day.

The article is about “stealth bots” that don’t identify themselves as such. The Internet Archive bots have always been clearly identifiable.

And yet it’s on the most blandly hetero of the TOS movies.

This is carcinisation manifest!

You’re afraid of that TV show about the soccer coach?

Spice was the naughty cable channel I wasn’t allowed to watch.

Heartbreaking.

Despite being illustrated with a stock photo of the Catholic Pope and mentioning his recent remarks on AI further down, the article notes that this person was granted a religious exception based on Unitarian Universalist practice, not Catholicism.

For those unfamiliar, Unitarian Universalism is an inclusive and diverse movement centered around common ethical principles which basically boil down to “you do you, just don’t be a dick.”

I usually default to subs, but there are certain dubs that are pretty iconic and I’ll sometimes choose over the Japanese. For example I always enjoy the English-language cast of Cowboy Bebop and count that as one of the times they really Got It Right translating the dialogue and casting the dub.

And, of course, there are the gag dubs like Samurai Pizza Cats or the Funimation version of Shin Chan in which the dub clearly veering away from the source material and doing its own thing is the whole point.

It seems to be legit.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikeT1gr5xos
• https://www.satrise.com/projects/malaysia-king-oyster-mushroom-project/
• https://www.tiktok.com/@satrisemushroom/video/7293323564009262378

I wonder if there’s a smart setting marked “bathtub.”

There’s our perp, boys! Move! Move!

Ad-free podcasts are the best podcasts.

Not only that, he was a direct caricature of the producer’s former boss.

• https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/shrek-criticism-disney/
• https://www.tumblr.com/modmad/175300711680/delistylehardcore

Not really the same thing.

I was a 1980s kid. Darth Vader was one of those peak villains one sees in childhood, the ultimate bad guy. He killed indiscriminately. He had space wizard magic to find you and read your mind and choke you remotely. He had the evil (red) version of the coolest weapon in the universe. He was so scary his own soldiers on the bad guy side were afraid of him. He tortured the princess. For some reason he was part robot, had a deep commanding voice, and even his breathing was scary. And to top it all off, it turned out he was the good guy’s father. Fathers are supposed to be safe, not scary!

I had many, many childhood nightmares about Darth Vader. I watched the movies an incalculable amount of times, I cheered when the good guys beat him, or at least escaped him with their skin intact.

Then I grew up, and the prequels happened. I don’t know if any retroactive backstory could have matched the feelings my childhood mind had generated so many years earlier, but I was at least curious about what they’d come up with to explain who Darth Vader had been and what made him that way… only to learn that apparently the ultimate scary badass was apparently just some dull and whiny guy who somehow was randomly lucky, smart, and magical, lived a really nice and comfortable life with lots of support and encouragement, but was just all “no I wanna be bad now because some easily-resolvable life stuff made me angry waaaah.”

So disappointing.