Let's go! I'm excited to see which Trails character gets an in-universe anime series that the entire cast is obsessed with.
Kyoto Xanadu releasing in Summer 2026 for Switch 2/Switch
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
Overwatch 2 getting the persona collab "mark of death", but the monkeys paw curls and they just drop the 2 in the game and go back to overwatch
This ED understands that the best part of Bleach is everyone wearing snappy outfits.
Today I learned that the protagonist of Ys is canonically European.
I am running for State Senate.
Join me:
forms.gle/Q151nPYHfiYg...Self-promotion is the part of this that I hate the most, but I should probably mention that there's a new patreon tier. For as low as $2 a month, you can read my translation of Tomino's epic lifework before anyone else (and support me enough to ensure that I can keep doing this)
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Translating the works of Yoshiyuki Tomino
Fleeing the czar's pogroms.
Genuinely curious: If your family is American, what brought them here?
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
You all have free range to use this image in response to any transphobia now
Thinking about that time when Funimation announced they had licensed all of Macross except for the original anime and its movie, only to lose the license when they bought Crunchyroll and took it's name.
Also thinking about how Rightstuf seemingly lost the Frontier and Delta licenses after Crunchyroll bought them.
My
@crunchyroll.com subscription price is going up? Surely having more money as a multinational corporation would enable you to actually deliver a better quality product then.
Are you hiring back translators? Content operations? Merchandise? Why should anyone enable you?
Frieren discourse is making me think about how great Dragon Age's take on demons was.
ten years ago today no one clapped
well with all due respect to bethesdas current design sensibilities, between morrowind n starfield i know which one has prompted me to revisit it N times over the years
"Go back and play Morrowind and tell me that’s the game you want to play again," said Bruce Nesmith, who worked for Bethesda for over 17 years, adding that playing The Elder Scrolls 3 "would not stand the test of time."
bit.ly/4q4GoKh
They killed RightStuf for this lol
🚨BREAKING🚨
Crunchyroll has allegedly rolled out a new "Slow Sellers" policy for the Crunchyroll Store in which products that fail to meet internal sales expectations are flagged, leading to order cancellations & delisting of product to prioritize "fast selling" products from Well Known IPs
ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year!
Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him.
He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary.
His health is declining.
Public outrage might save his life.
Say his name:
Sign the Petition
Demand the Release of Rodney Taylor from ICE Detention
Proof nobody is really invested in the Hollywood Gundam movie is that every article calling it the first live-action entry isn't smothered in G Savior corrections. If you can't motivate pedantry or Mark Curran love, you don't have the base.
I never thought I would be able to say this, but I am now actually caught up with the Trails series. Horizon was great and it's going to be a long 2+ year wait for the sequel.
I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
BYE BITCH
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
The altnps account is the 13th most followed account on Bluesky and has more followers than every single news outlet other than the NYT, NPR and Meidas Touch on here. They actively spread misinformation and exploit gullible old people for cash. Accounts this unethical do not deserve to exist.
Completely insane. AltNPS claimed to know the name of Alex Pretti's killer, refused to say it because "the truth always comes out," and then just deleted the post.
A man was executed on the street in my hometown, and AltNPS is using that as an excuse to vaguepost for attention.
YOUR PHONE CALLS TO THE SENATE ARE WORKING. KEEP CALLING.
202–224-3121
Three Democrats who previously broke with the party and voted with the GOP are now saying they will not vote for the bill. That’s enough for the bill to be unpassable right now.
DHS funding bill faces new Senate hurdles after another person killed in Minneapolis
Some Democrats who voted for recent funding bills said they'll vote against any DHS bill without restrictions on enforcement operations. The deadline to avert a shutdown is Friday.
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
Suikoden's greatest detective (only being half-sarcastic here)
Shabbat Shalom to the 100+ rabbis who joined clergy in Minneapolis today to say:
Jews stand with our neighbors. We want ICE out of Minnesota, out of NYC, and out of all our communities.
Meanwhile in Minneapolis...
...some very cold, very determined NYC rabbis experiencing Minnesota winter for the first time. Cold can't stop us from answering the call to support Minneapolitans demand ICE OUT OF MINNEAPOLIS!
They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
I finished Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Sparking incredible ending to a beautiful game.
Though I do think it's really weird that 1 and 3 have genuinely insightful stories, while 2 is a bog standard battle anime plot for 90% of its run (Torna is great though).
Chris Pratt teases surprise characters for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
nintendoeverything.com/chris-pratt-teases-…
This line from Trails beyond the Horizon reminded me of G Gundam (image is not graphic or nsfw, just using it as a spoiler tag replacement)
Happy birthday to Gamlin Kizaki. Welcome to the world on 1/17/2026.
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New VOTOMS anime? Directed by MAMORU OSHII!?
youtu.be/hPgSVYu4C6c
『装甲騎兵ボトムズ 灰色の魔女』初弾映像
YouTube video by バンダイナムコフィルムワークス チャンネル
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I am exhausted… emotionally
I watch my child suffer and I can’t do anything to stop it.
I am begging you anyone, anywhere please don’t ignore this message.
A 5 dollars may mean nothing to some, but to us, it means life.
Please… from a heart that is breaking — help my daughter.
tinyurl.com/Almaa00
Doing this to countries that the US has invaded and/or bombed makes this even more disgusting.
WASHINGTON (AP) — US will suspend immigrant visa processing from 75 countries whose nationals are deemed likely to need public assistance.
Also lol at Rubio pulling up the ladder by putting Cuba on this list.
Breaking news: Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who refused to give up her seat on a segregated city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks, died at 86.
Claudette Colvin, civil rights pioneer on a Montgomery bus, dies at 86
Nine months before Rosa Parks made history, Ms. Colvin refused to give up her seat on a segregated city bus. She became a star witness in a civil rights case.
rip in piss Scott Adams
I really liked Dilbert when I was a kid. Shame the guy behind it was a racist asshole.
Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles.
It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
Advocates want legal action after man shot and killed by off-duty ICE agent in Northridge
Advocates argue that the off-duty ICE agent wasn't trained for the situation and should have called police and waited for them to arrive.
ICE Out of Massachusetts Protest. This Saturday, January 10. 2 pm. JFK Federal Building (next to Boston City Hall).
www.lucemass.org #JusticeForReneeGoodAs I approach the end game of Xenoblade 3, I'm really starting to appreciate that the Monolithsoft devs managed to make a thematic successor to Xenosaga 3.
portland city council confirms that two portland residents have been shot by federal agents. at this time, the city council has been told that both victims are alive.
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This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Donate to Support for Renee Good’s wife and son, organized by Mattie Weiss
Please support the wife and son of Renee Good as they grapple with the devastating … Mattie Weiss needs your support for Support for Renee Good’s wife and son
here's this vintage jeopardy clip with ken jennings
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
Just got a boiler plate response to my email to my congressman re: the war in Venezuela. Said response doesn't even mention Venezuela, not that I was expecting it to.
I also left a phone message, but I'm not expecting any response to that.
man the video is circulating so
settings > content & media > uncheck auto-play video & gifs
Many local groups have begun planning protests and actions against ICE in other cities.
You'll probably feel better joining an action than doom scroling for a snuff video, just saying.
It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead
Babylon 5.
Given that apparently the Stranger Things finale was meh (idk, didn't watch it, just the scuttlebutt) and we're not that far removed from the disastrous GOT finale that retroactively made everyone have never cared about the show:
What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
There's still meant to be a ceasefire btw.
But at least 414 Palestinians have been killed and 1,145 injured (that we know of) since that ceasefire went into effect, with Israel now physically occupying more than 50% of the Gaza Strip.
lol this is borderline Shaternian levels of petty.
The one silver lining to this act of murder and war is that Machado is eating shit.
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Me when I redact documents for legal privilege reasons
That's privileged information. I'm sorry.
The death toll is now 80? I know the pandemic made life cheap amid mass death, but 80 dead is staggering
Other people are real and the United States should not murder them
The corollary to "Nothing is a distraction" is that you can work on any important part of the problem productively. Find what motivates you, build broad community, stay engaged for the long term.
NYT:
At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.
"Miraculously, there were no American deaths"
How many Venezuelans died? Bezos and pals clearly think that Venezuelan lives are worthless.
The Washington Post editorial board comes out in favor of the Venezuela attack/operation to capture Maduro
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
PBS reports that Venezuelans did die in the attack, although the number is unknown at the time.
What we know about a U.S. strike that captured Venezuela's Maduro
The overnight operation left Venezuela reeling, with its leadership uncertain and details of casualties and the impact on its military still to emerge. Countries across the region and the wider world ...
There's a non-zero chance that Maduro gets acquitted after all this. For all the talk of kangaroo courts, the Bondi DOJ is really bad at prosecuting cases. What happens if they can't convict him?
do democratic transitions usually start with a kidnapping ursula
Following very closely the situation in Venezuela.
We stand by the people of Venezuela and support a peaceful and democratic transition.
Any solution must respect international law and the UN Charter.
"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
Big congrats to the Nobel Committee for awarding the prize "for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy" just so she could immediately conspire with a foreign government to murder civilians on the high seas then invade and stage a coup.
I feel like the history of western imperialism is often like this, where there's an almost-plausible case for resource-grabbing, an almost plausible geopolitical explanation (first Caracas, then Havana), and a sort of liberal imperialist fig leaf to keep democrats from being too mad (the Nobel shit)
Xenoblade 3 is a lot like FF7 Rebirth in that both games are extremely long if you do all the sidequests, but also the sidequests are all very much worth doing.
thursday is the worst singular day to have off during a regular work week
S tier: Mon, Fri (3-day weekend is king)
B tier: Wed (awkward, but splits week evenly)
D tier: Tue (quick respite after Monday, otherwise bad, liminal)
F tier: Thu (turns Friday into a Monday, the unforgivable sin)
I'm working on New Years Day so I can afford to buy the new Trails game in two weeks.
New York City has a new mayor
Shana tova!
If you begin Star Trek: Voyager episode Spirit Folk at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's Eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. Join in a very dumb annual tradition and start 2026 off on the right hoof.
Outlook for the new year ...
Yacht-hunting orcas have the opportunity to do the funniest thing right now.
Today is the last day that you can repost this image
I don't mean to reduce a great actor to one role but has ANYone so owned a specific pronunciation of a single word the way he did, my god, everyone just say it once now. RIP.
One of the best to ever do it
Very sad to say it seems Mike Fossey, aka Mike F. has died. Truly one of the funniest posters of all time and a talented artisan. Had been friends online for many years, but I got to hang out a couple times at shows in Boston and he was funny and sweet in real life too.
Michael F. Fossey Obituary December 22, 2025 - Westford Healy Funeral Home
View Michael F. Fossey's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.
Setsuna
A+ face for what just might be the most irrelevant Gundam pilot outside of the background ones in G.
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (2007)
Episode 17 - Throne Strikes
10:42.623
tbh i don't like the windom earle stuff. his annoying taunting Coop subplot gets (rightfully) derailed to refocus on the black lodge but his disguises are very funny.
RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).
Boost
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I started up Ys VI and smiled when the opening cutscene pans to show that Adol has once again washed up upon a shore.
I doubt that Falcom would release two Trails games in one year, so my guess is that the other new title is the Tokyo Xanadu sequel.
genuinely one of my favorite things about this series is seeing all the different ways that Cham hangs out on people's heads and shoulders and how she exists in a world at a different scale than her. I feel like in nearly every shot she appears in she is doing something interesting
