Oh and I forgot a few of the other new shows: there are two funny twists on the villainess anime formula: “Always a Catch” and “An Observation Log Of My Fiancee”

And a bunch of good returning shows: One Piece, Re:Zero, Ascendance of a Bookworm, Wistoria, Dr. Stone, Medalist, That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime

Two images. The top one is three people i heavy warm garb, including a woman with long white hair and a girl with pink cat-ear snow hat. The bottom shows a younger man, a boy, searing a navy-esque uniform and looking resolutely to the side with his arms out-thrust to the camera.

Snowball Earth is the other surprise. Extraordinarily awkward boy whose only friend was the mech he rode in saves the world, arrives back ten years later to find the earth is covered in ice. Tries to make friends. There are kaiju.

A girl with black and pink hair and pink eyes is standing close to the camera next to a girl with shadowed glasses. Both have fisheye distortion. In the background is a girl in a kimono and orange hair.

A white-haired mand in a suit stands next to a black-haired man in a kimono, in front of a wintry scene.

A dark green-hair girl with glasses and a suit, flowers in her hair, stands in front of the camera. Behind her, back to the camera, is a girl in a light green dress with the same hair.

Agents of the Four Seasons was a surprise. Imagine a world where the seasons only change if specially blessed “agents” of the seasons perform rituals. But also there is basically a CIA of bodyguards that protect them. Weeeird premise. Kinda wistful vibes?

Key art from Akane-Banashi. It showed a girl with long black hair, dyed pink at the fringes, wearing a school uniform. An array of many other characters is fanned out from her

Akane-Banashi is structured like a sports anime, kinda, at least so far. Girl training to be the very best rakugo, a comedic storytelling artform i’m not very familiar with. It’s fun so far. None of the streaming services picked it up, it’s on YOUTUBE of all things

A piece of key art from Mao. In the front is a silver-haired man with a slender katana. At his side is a girl in a Japanese school uniform. A few other characters arrayed around them, and a big black cat figure behind them all.

A small boy holding a scorpion-like demon at the aforementioned girl, whose eyes are bugging out.

A huge black cat demon with many tails and glowing green eyes standing in flames.

Mao. A new show from Rumiko Takahashi. Many apparent parallels with Inuyasha. Very cool so far.

Two oni characters with red and white hair, one masculine and one feminine.

A girl with blonde hair in a red cloak falling over with outstretched arms, an arrow through her leg.

Two boys in medieval peasant garb looking upwards in shock and horror.

Daemons of the Shadow Realm is good too. By the Fullmetal Alchemist mangaka. It’s hiding a major twist that isn’t revealed by the trailers. Very fun so far.

And yes - it’s a story about a pair of siblings.

A scene with the four apprentice witches in the foreground, all wearing billowing teal tabards and pointed hats, over their white robes. In the background is an illustration of some buildings in a frame.

Another image of the four girls, this tome a top-down one of them all on the ground, sleepover-style, looking at magic circles together.

A view from a shadowed alcove in a stone city. Sunlight is filtering in through an opening through an alley, and there’s a small fi guy re standing that way. In the foreground is the dark silhouette of a character with a pointed witch’s hat.

It’s got a lot of Alphonse Mucha in it. Incredible composition at all times. Recurring circular swirl motifs. I’m guessing every panel in the manga must look like a classic painting.

Best new show, easy

This not news to any of you I’m sure, but goddamn is Witch Hat Atelier a stunningly gorgeous show.

It’s tempting to call it Ghibli-esque, with its lavish illustrative style and sense of wonder and darkness, but it’s doing it’s own thing too much for that to feel right.

A close-up of Coco’s face from Witch Hat Atelier. Magic is shining from right in front of her, and her eyes are wide with wonder.

A close-up of the face of the protagonist from Daemons of the Shadow Realms. He’s holding an arrow between his teeth and is looking at the camera intensely.

Subaru and Emilia from Re:Zero.

A close-up of Myne, from Ascendance of a Bookworm.

This anime season is really stacked. There’s a bunch of new shows @paigeedits.bsky.social and I have been enjoying, and a bunch of returning favs too.

Corgi laying atop 2-3 pillows.

Our dog is definitely Princess and the Pea-coded.

Kabaddi - Wikipedia

According to that page the Buddha is believed to have played this sport, which frankly sounds like a lotta fun:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabaddi

So we can extrapolate from there and say that the Buddha would have loved esports. Who does the Buddha main in League of Legends? What's his Starcraft APM?

(but also yes, I already like babies, if I didn't like them maybe I wouldn't want the brainwashing xD )

This reminds me of people being like "oh my god you don't actually like cats it's just that the toxoplasmosis brainwashes you"

And first of all: rude

Second of all: You're saying that cute things are, in part, cute because they exude cuteness substances? Sure, sign me up

Recruiting departments love ambiguity so that they can alter the deal in real-time based on their own whims and biases and any exploitative opportunities they come across

But come on folks, you're just wasting your own time too

Imagine how many lifetimes of person-hours could be saved, across both applicants and within recruiting departments, if job listings were clear about whether or not they were remote, and if so where they were willing to hire from.

+1 here. Making navigable environments is hard and requires either a very strong level/world design team or extensive playtesting and polish. Or both! They simply didn't hit that bar, and I kinda think they needed to if they weren't doing maps.

A TON of game jobs are in a town in the UK called "Royal Leamington Spa". It is located in the Warwick district, in Warwickshire. It's so stereotypically British that I can't help but chuckle

Also funny: "today ... it [has] the moniker 'silicon spa'"

Oh no

A penguin with it’s beak open, revealing numerous teethlike spikes on it’s tongue and the roof of it’s mouth.

A goose with it’s beak open, revealing similar spikes.

A third type of bird (I’m not sure what it is), with a similar display.

Some birds have teeth!

Definitely not a lot. I can’t think of any in the movies. Asajj Ventriss in the Clone Wars show is cool but never given that much impact.

Kreia in KOTOR2—so pretty far afield from the main franchise stuff—is one of the very best Star Wars villains though

The Trilling Fields (1984)

Cats swarming and swirling all around us like piranhas

I have followed @paigeedits.bsky.social downstairs to assist in the creation of tuna melts at midnight

None of what sets a senior+ apart is gonna be revealed in a test, especially nothing that couldn’t be revealed with a shorter test, or in the interview itself.

I also sometimes enjoy them but at this point just find them vaguely insulting, lol.

A test for a staff or lead+ roll is just goofy, and even senior is pushing it. Stop wasting my damn time

Someone with one of those over-producing lemon trees in their backyard I guess, hahah

Yeah I think Fisher is the more formally correct name. I don't know why we called them "Fisher cats" in NH

Yes, and that does seem to be the main difference in our definitions!

The fact that even two long-term industry pros like us came to this thread with different definitions is more evidence to show why people have the misperception that Glenn was talking about in the OP, hahah.

It sounds like we have different definitions of live service then, because I would consider matchmaking and dedicated servers to be a service.

That’s fine, I am not trying to like, claim authority over what is or isn’t. Just trying to answer the question “where did this perception come from”