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Mod Post! Off-Topic Tuesday
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The National Museum in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil has suffered terrible damage in a fire at the weekend, with 90% of the cultural, historical and scientific collections being estimated to have been destroyed. The most likely casues are estimated to be an electrical fault, or possibly a home made hot air balloon landing on the roof.
The British National Health Service is launching a site which contains a test to tell you the effective age of your heart, based on a series of lifestyle questions and gives you an idea of how at risk you might be to heart disease or stroke. (I'm happy to report my heart is the same age as the rest of me... a bit younger might have been nicer, but such is life).
Boris Johnson, whose careers in journalism and politics are depriving a village somewhere of a perfectly good Idiot, has started flapping his gob about how awful Theresa May's Brexit plans are, without, of course, offering anything as an alternative because that would require him to take responsibility for something. He's right about the Brexit plans being disastrous mind you, but in a position like his it would be incumbent to actually put forward an idea or two of his own.
As the post Labor Day run up to the November elections kicks into gear, Trump as been.. welll... Trumpish as all get out. And his Supreme Court nomination has a week of confirmation hearings this week.
Colin Kaepernick is to be the face of a major ad campaign for Nike, with the tagline "Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything."
Nepal is launching an investigation into a creative, if ethically bankrupt and potentially lethally dangerous scam involving unscrupluous travel organisers who arrange for those wanting to climb in the Himalayas to ascend far too fast to trigger altitude sickness so they need to be ferried back down by helicopter/
The "Avatar: The Last Airbender" universe is expanding into a series of novels featuring Kyoshi, an Avatar of the past, one who would likely have identified as bisexual and who lived to be over 230... so there's a lot of room to tell stories about her.
In what I can only describe as one of the most perfectly, gloriously diva-ish things I've ever heard, when the late Aretha Franklin had three days of public viewing prior to her funeral, and per her own wishes on the matter, she was dressed in a different outfit each day and was buried in a fourth. Now THAT is how you do it!
Sci-Fi fans mourn the loss of Jacqueline Pearce at 74, best known as Servalan on "Blakes Seven" where she protrayed a villain defined by ruthlessness, cunning, brilliance, political awareness and being as stylish as hell, in a variety of exquisitely over-the-top outfits, whilst at the same time seeming slightly fragile and damaged underneath it all (and her ongoing, complicated relationship with equally damaged, amoral freedom fighter Avon was a series highlight).
The tributes have spoken volumes about how she was regarded, with Russell T Davies, who worked with her on his first ever TV show "Dark Season" describing her as "glorious, vivid, passionate, filthy and the most wonderful company. And underneath the style and the laughter, a truly fine actor.”
I caught up on some movies over the weekend;
Pacific Rim: Uprising... didn't impress me nearly as much as the first. John Boyega was his usual magnetic self, props to Cailey Spaeny for holding her own in her first movie and the rest of the cast were.. there, mostly. My biggest problem (a couple of plot points to one side) was that they made the Jaegers too speedy. They're how Transformers or EVA's should move perhaps, but Jaeger's were big heavy, realtively clumsy things and that was the appeal to me. I can see why fans of at least two of the original cast were disappointed at how they were treated in the sequel.
Ready Player One - Big, loud, glossy, packed with pop culture easter eggs of course, and about as formulaic as it was possible for a movie to be.
Love, Simon - Also formulaic, but a lot more charming and fun. I'm old enough to still be pleasantly suprised to see a gay coming of age movie where the very fact of being gay is almost mundane, and does not require self-loathing or oodles of unresolved angst.
And in closing, a Kuwaiti fismongers has had to close after it was discovered staff were sticking goggly-eyes on the fish they was selling so they'd look fresher.
The National Museum in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil has suffered terrible damage in a fire at the weekend, with 90% of the cultural, historical and scientific collections being estimated to have been destroyed. The most likely casues are estimated to be an electrical fault, or possibly a home made hot air balloon landing on the roof.
The British National Health Service is launching a site which contains a test to tell you the effective age of your heart, based on a series of lifestyle questions and gives you an idea of how at risk you might be to heart disease or stroke. (I'm happy to report my heart is the same age as the rest of me... a bit younger might have been nicer, but such is life).
Boris Johnson, whose careers in journalism and politics are depriving a village somewhere of a perfectly good Idiot, has started flapping his gob about how awful Theresa May's Brexit plans are, without, of course, offering anything as an alternative because that would require him to take responsibility for something. He's right about the Brexit plans being disastrous mind you, but in a position like his it would be incumbent to actually put forward an idea or two of his own.
As the post Labor Day run up to the November elections kicks into gear, Trump as been.. welll... Trumpish as all get out. And his Supreme Court nomination has a week of confirmation hearings this week.
Colin Kaepernick is to be the face of a major ad campaign for Nike, with the tagline "Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything."
Nepal is launching an investigation into a creative, if ethically bankrupt and potentially lethally dangerous scam involving unscrupluous travel organisers who arrange for those wanting to climb in the Himalayas to ascend far too fast to trigger altitude sickness so they need to be ferried back down by helicopter/
The "Avatar: The Last Airbender" universe is expanding into a series of novels featuring Kyoshi, an Avatar of the past, one who would likely have identified as bisexual and who lived to be over 230... so there's a lot of room to tell stories about her.
In what I can only describe as one of the most perfectly, gloriously diva-ish things I've ever heard, when the late Aretha Franklin had three days of public viewing prior to her funeral, and per her own wishes on the matter, she was dressed in a different outfit each day and was buried in a fourth. Now THAT is how you do it!
Sci-Fi fans mourn the loss of Jacqueline Pearce at 74, best known as Servalan on "Blakes Seven" where she protrayed a villain defined by ruthlessness, cunning, brilliance, political awareness and being as stylish as hell, in a variety of exquisitely over-the-top outfits, whilst at the same time seeming slightly fragile and damaged underneath it all (and her ongoing, complicated relationship with equally damaged, amoral freedom fighter Avon was a series highlight).
The tributes have spoken volumes about how she was regarded, with Russell T Davies, who worked with her on his first ever TV show "Dark Season" describing her as "glorious, vivid, passionate, filthy and the most wonderful company. And underneath the style and the laughter, a truly fine actor.”
I caught up on some movies over the weekend;
Pacific Rim: Uprising... didn't impress me nearly as much as the first. John Boyega was his usual magnetic self, props to Cailey Spaeny for holding her own in her first movie and the rest of the cast were.. there, mostly. My biggest problem (a couple of plot points to one side) was that they made the Jaegers too speedy. They're how Transformers or EVA's should move perhaps, but Jaeger's were big heavy, realtively clumsy things and that was the appeal to me. I can see why fans of at least two of the original cast were disappointed at how they were treated in the sequel.
Ready Player One - Big, loud, glossy, packed with pop culture easter eggs of course, and about as formulaic as it was possible for a movie to be.
Love, Simon - Also formulaic, but a lot more charming and fun. I'm old enough to still be pleasantly suprised to see a gay coming of age movie where the very fact of being gay is almost mundane, and does not require self-loathing or oodles of unresolved angst.
And in closing, a Kuwaiti fismongers has had to close after it was discovered staff were sticking goggly-eyes on the fish they was selling so they'd look fresher.
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1: It's cast doubt as to how much Crunchyroll is using its money to help the anime industry, which leads to debates over watching anime free from pirated websites.
2: The "trailer" has almost no information or even animated segments of the show, instead focusing solely on the production, specifically praising itself for its diversity.
3: Speaking of which, it's been heavily debated as to how sincere they really are when it comes to diversity, as almost immediately afterwards they proudly proclaim that their writing staff is composed entirely of women (the writers also seem to be all white, by the way).
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OOOOOH! I finally know the cotnext for that image I saw once...
Okay, since I can't find the trailer on youtube among all the videos aout "FEMINISM RUINS EVERYTHING!" and "what we know of High Guardian Spice", I will admit that I am inclined to give the series the benefit of the doubt since the former are also the kind of people I find to be jerks.
Anyways. I think it is only natural that Crunchyroll would tip it's fingers into original material. I mean, even Netflix, the king of streaming services, eventually began making their own stuff on top of everything else. to make your own shows is expensive, but more effective in the long-run, because then you don't have to worry about streaming licenses.
Crunchyroll had the advantage because there is not a lot of places for you to legally watch anime, but that is slowly not being the case. Hell, Netflix is collaborating with Toei to make a remake of Saint Seiya who, in many countries outside the US, is considered THE anime series alongside DBZ.
Those who thought Crunchyroll would never get to have their own original stuff were fooling themselves.
Personally, I can see were the concerns comes with High Guardian Spice, since the art looks like... well, this sounds weird, but it looks like a webcomic. a high-quality webcomic mind you.
On the other hand, while I can see the concern in that it doesn't look too "anime" (like, say... voltron), most series with an animesque look (that aren't ATLA) are often mocked for trying to hard to be anime.
Then again, only a couple of years ago a certian corner of the internet (*coughcough*Tumblr*coughcough*) was tearing apart shows because they felt they looked too similar to one another (the argument was that animated shows were becoming homogenized. this was not the case).
Now as for them focusing more on how diverse they are and how diverse the show is and how diverse their diversity is... well duh, most studios marketing have begun using diversity as a selling point, Crunchyroll is not doing any different than any other studio.
what is happening is that Crunchyroll is trying to compete with She-Ra, which has been criticized by the same people for similar reasons. And because they wanted to compete with the show, they rushed to release information.
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Personally it doesn't look like my sort of thing, but I wish them well with it. It's just a shame there are so many professional victims who are probably already screeching about it, without any intent of ever watching it, and without even knowing its quality. Creators really have a tough time in the online sphere.
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