thread of recordings i think you should check out

Invest in TOKYOPOP | Where Global Anime Franchises Begin Buy TOKYOPOP stock and own a piece of the creators of the North American manga market before they discover the next big IP.

Wanna have a good laugh?

Take a look at fucking Tokyopop trying to sell themselves as an investment opportunity:
invest.tokyopop.com

And there he is again tonight, with the best seat in the house sitting behind the Capcom at Mission Control Houston.

saw discussion about how a lot of indies are funded by larger corporations & we need government funding for the arts, so i wanted to share this article about how gov funding can fail to actually reach creators

often it just ends up going straight to the corpos who know how to apply

"Anonymous March 27, 2026 at 3:45 PM Just wanted to thank you for still updating your blog to this day as most i used to read have been abandoned or worse taken offline"

A comment on a recent piece is a good reminder of how things are going when it comes to blogs & the like.

Absolutely support the places that are actually paying their writers for their work, but also remember to show some love to the places that do it all for free. I'm just too stubborn to quit.

After reading this, it should alarm you that not only is the CR Store quietly separating themselves from physical media, it should be a huge warning sign that something like Dragon Ball Daima was up for pre-order on Blu-ray and all of a sudden was taken down.

The deadly serious part-time unofficial hobby of videogame fan-translation The very serious part-time unofficial hobby of videogame fan-translation Hi. A couple of things have happened in the “scene” that prompted me to make this writeup, and I’m probably overdue in …

Hi everyone. Things have been happening in the fan-translation scene and I've been overdue in talking about them. For the first time ever I've made a long writeup. Please read it and feel free to reach out to me with comments.

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Evangelion Creator, Gackt, Tezuka's Son, 2channel & Niconico Founders Tease New Social Media Service Billed as “last social media service made by humans before the AI era”

It reads like April Fools: The owner of 4chan, creator of Evangelion, Gackt, and Osamu Tezuka’s son walk into a bar… and found “the last social media service.”

What could possibly go wrong!

www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/202...

Manga companies, please pay us $8/page!
The small and new publishers can do it, surely the big companies with owners who make $3 million+ per year can afford it too!!
x.com/MangaAlerts/...

Miyamoto should've done more interviews in 1989 because this is like reading a wizard talk. This snippet distills why playing games in another language has always been so appealing to me. (And also reminds me why Tunic is such a masterpiece.)

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

Happy Valentine's Day!

💘🌹💘🌹💘🌹
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
So is Sonic…

…hey I should play Sonic.
🌹💘🌹💘🌹💘

#WonHobby40 Figure Update!

SQUARE ENIX
Final Fantasy X
Tidus

WonHobby Gallery: https://gallery.whl4u.jp/wh40/en/#images/61

#FF10 #WF2026W #goodsmile

#WonHobby40 Figure Update!

SQUARE ENIX
Final Fantasy X
Yuna

WonHobby Gallery: https://gallery.whl4u.jp/wh40/en/#images/62

#FF10 #WF2026W #goodsmile

Title image from the Sega Master System version of Ys 1

Announcing Localization Lore, a new series dedicated to learning more about the history of video game localization! 🎉Featuring new interviews personally conducted by me, this first entry is on Ys 1 and the people behind its first three English translations. lizbushouse.com/localization...

Final Fantasy Tactics Translation Comparison (OG vs WotL) – Chapter 1: Gariland to Dorter Slums The following is the second part in my series comparing the original and WotL translations of Final Fantasy Tactics. In this section, I cover the beginning of chapter 1 through to the post-battle c…

Starting the year off with the second part in my series comparing the original and WotL translations of Final Fantasy Tactics!

In this section, I cover the beginning of chapter 1 through to the post-battle cutscene at Dorter Slums.

Hope you enjoy!

annacairistiona.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/f...

Follow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 5 Steam codes for Code Vein II courtesy of @gamesplanet.bsky.social. Giveaway closes on Jan 29th, 2:30 PM PT

Game is $58.30 at Gamesplanet w/ code BLOODWARIO buff.ly/laoWLaf

Happy birthday!!! 🎂

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

comic by me Sephiroth facing Cloud Cloud: “Sephiroth… I’ve been training every day for this moment” Sephiroth sits at a Queen’s Blood table, motioning for Cloud to take the opposing seat

the final battle #ff7rebirth

Xenogears (PS1) North American magazine ad

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

If democrats can't grow a spine and do something right now I really don't know what is going to happen. Are they waiting for a certain number of peaceful citizens to be murdered before doing something? I know they're "scared of appearing anti-cop" or whatever but are they scared of civil war at all?

Jisho has long been an incredibly valuable website for learning Japanese - huge range of definitions, well sourced, and no ads. It's an honor that my silly little slang dictionary is now part of it. Can't wait for the full launch of the new version (plz bring back the dark background Kimtaro 🙏🙏🙏🥺🥺🥺)

Fun Fact: One of the reasons Square was pushed to improve its localization practices in the 2000s is because Alexander O. Smith showed them reviews proving that people *cared* about translation quality. (Link to the full interview: web.archive.org/web/20091113...)

Still working on this #FFIV translation thing to stream someday

Originally, I wanted to study the old fan translations and get screenshots, but after some tests, it seems like it'd make more sense for me to play & read the original Japanese aloud

Not sure anyone would find that entertaining though

🙂👍