we all know I have no life, so:

Got my Digital Circus tickets! Luckily they're doing like a billion showings in KC

Part of the background point of 0079 is that, as stated in the opening speech, HALF OF HUMANITY IS DEAD. So they're drafting everyone as young as possible because all the older officers are already dead.

I'm kind of assuming that in a direct adaptation of 0079, all characters will be aged up. Personally, the right way to do that would be to age up everyone EXCEPT Amuro, Frau, Kai, and Hayato, but keep them as teenagers.

That said, if it IS an adaptation of 0079, Sydney Sweeney is playing Sayla, yes? So I guess that leaves the question of whether Noah Centineo is playing Amuro or Char in that scenario.

So the way they're talking about the Gundam movie and refusing to say who's playing what, it implies that this is an original narrative set either in a new universe entirely or in a different pocket of UC, not an adaptation of Gundam 0079.

Funniest thing in Turn-A Gundam so far is a bunch of dudes from Louisiana finding some Zaku Ils and thinking that they're the tightest shit in the world.

Person holding an antique flare gun "it's old. But it still bark!! 💥"

Today's hopeful itinerary:

- work
- take wife to thing
- more Pragmata

Learning that Pragmata director Yonghee Cho was a key member of the Metal Gear Revengeance art department clicked a lot about this game's visual design into place for me.

PRAGMATA

Illustration of PRAGMATA main characters, Hugh (wielding a gun in a big futuristic space suit) and Diana (a childlike android)

Pragmata commission. Thank you Capcom for the trust 🌙

Artwork of Hugh and Diana from the video game, PRAGMATA. It shows Diana drawing on Hugh’s suit

Behold the artist and her artwork✨🚀🌕 #PRAGMATA #ad

crop gonna kill this one

Roadside piss By Arby's and boris A new Foreword backword squidword The inspiration for video games

...so my wife literally said to me earlier today that "I sometimes find the ideas of Star Wars or superhero comics interesting when you tell me about them, but I find the experience of watching Star Wars/reading comics is not for me."

So I guess I gotta tell her about this!

I got into line at the pharmacy drivethru, and AS I was writing this, I finally pulled a little forward after 20 minutes.

He'll always been Leonardo to me

But he'll always have my biggest respect for directing the Berserk dub

Bus typo: Help us score the gift of life, DONATE BLOOB

BLOOB FOR THE BLOOB GOD!

Obsessed with PRAGMATA right now.

Aim for the Top!

Suuuuper overdue commission for a friend that helped me out immensely during the film industry strike a couple years ago. Earthgaron is my second favorite Mechagodzilla and if you still haven't watched Ultraman Blazar yet, DO YOURSELF THE FAVOR.

Someone You Can Build a Nest In Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she constructs a body using a metal chain for a backbone, borrowed bones for limbs, a...

Hey, the audiobook of my Nebula-winning novel Someone You Can Build A Nest In is just SEVEN BUCKS! The deals lasts a while longer.

A shapeshifting monster *accidentally* falls in love with the woman who's hunting her. We've all been there, right?

Man...fuck gamer chuds, and the devs who either are them or court them.

But yeah, it SUCKS that so much edgelord 4chan nonsense keeps sneaking its way into mainstream culture, therefore giving those who DO use it for nefarious purposes a veil of plausible deniability.

Oh damn, this sucks

I had no clue, I'm 100% certain no one at Capcom had any clue, and there's a 50/50 shot that the artist who drew it wasn't even inspired by art used for that meme purpose (and I'm still certain that they didn't know that's what it was even if they did unknowingly reference it).

But did Neumeier do his diligence and read the whole thing to satirize all of it? Or did and Verhoeven both stop at the same spot?

I guess we'll find out.

Circling back: I guess the real question is, did Ed Neumeier, who wrote the screenplay, read the whole book? Again, some general adaptational stuff aside, everything up to that chapter so far has been very book-accurate in plot, just not in tone. Even some dialogue is included.

At least he likes Vancouver!

I dunno if it's ever been confirmed WHERE Verhoeven put down the book, refused to finish it, and decided to make the movie a satire of its source.

But this chapter lecturing on the above stuff is a good guess.

Oh HERE is the weird conservatism. Apparently Heinlein thinks we should beat kids and try juvenile offenders as adults, and that psychologists and social workers are dumb and unscientific.