Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

w-what

three competing arguments against suicide from scifi video games:

Death Stranding - what if people cared about you

Pragmata - what if you had a daughter

Marathon - what if you wanted other people to suffer more than you hated being alive

Thank you capcom for saving the white race with your video game. I think thats what you did.

boss who hired all clumsy anime girl office ladies who keep dropping papers, spilling drinks etc. with sexy results: ahh! my business is ruined! our cleaning costs are through the roof!

his bespectacled secretary carrying a nice cold beer in to cheer him up: don't worry, sir, I-

Carefully crafting my next show to not have characters.

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning

American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV

french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts

British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

crimepope

drill sergeant: you're cute. You're handsome. I think you oughta be in movies

me: sir yes sir

drill sergeant, raising his voice to a scream: did anyone ever tell you you are beautiful

Deng Xiaoping: boss you gotta put me in charge

Chairman Mao: ok

Jiang Qing: boss you gotta get rid of that bastard Deng

Chairman Mao: sure

Hua Guofeng: boss help. what kind of policies should I do

Chairman Mao, sighing, thinking about Lin Biao's smile: whatever

every fresh from cryo purple shield thermal sniper rifle guy in dire marsh is like one of those food delivery drivers who does tony hawk moves to deliver McDonald's in 0.5 seconds. Except here their pay is that they are allowed to murder lesser drivers

its fascinating how marathon already resembles an actual gig economy in how only a small number of workers can profit through inhuman amounts of labour and its very easy to get shot in the head by people with sniper rifles five hundred metres away

The main plot was resolved in a perfectly satisfactory way

if chainsaw man's ending is about an addict having their fix cut off by god, yoru is the junkie who would have gone all the way with him. a much more dangerous opponent to denji than even makima, in that sense

yoru remains denji's problematic love interest in that she really does embody temptation. she offers him a choice where he *really* can just not give a shit and be chainsaw man wholeheartedly. and her entire existence was pointless and unsatisfying. i love her

loved the ending in generall but yoru achieving literally everything she ever wanted only to not enjoy it very much, offering asa a last piece of begrudging emotional support, and then not even being mentioned in the last chapter when her whole deal was about not wanting to be forgotten - perfect

ever since i was a child i always wanted to be a generic mech pilot, come across the protagonist, yell "I won't lose!" and say "tch ... !" and "This girl ... !!" until she impales me, there is a close up of my yelling, i explode into pink flames and i am forgotten after 3 episodes

i think thats a semi-valid read of the book too tbh. it is an angry, sometimes aimless, very raw sort of thing. and its angry about a lot

project itoh's novel "harmony" proposes a world where AI and algorithms have made human consciousness obsolete and it is one of the most haunting things i've ever read and there's a whole bunch of people out there who would prefer that than having to reckon with their own sins

"nobody in history ever cared about their feelings" "the angry young white men after me will carry out the apocalypse" "empathy is an evolutionary dead end" people afraid of themselves trying really hard to believe that petty resentment and selfishness is ontalogically correct

White boys love to play games with levels like waste management, waste processing, sludge facility, industrial processing, gun base, security facility, waste processing 2, gun industrial facility (zombie infestation)

modern warfare is so uniquely horrifying because it is unbelievably totalitarian in its destructiveness but not really any more effective at achieving political objectives than when you just gave ten thousand guys muskets and told them to walk into the other ten thousand guys

The real American dream is that if you have enough Patriot Tankbuster AREP-16 M89 Firecracker "Big Mother Fucker" missiles you can rearrange geopolitical reality at will like some kind of mad bombing wizard

nixon: agent presley. proceed with caution here. Our contact reports at least four Ringos present in the infestation site. Possibly a Paul.

Elvis: momma you dontgotta worry about it one beatles good as anodder beatle. As good as dangole dead (draws katana) thankyou verymuch

In 1850 seven samurai visited America and discovered the power of a Colt Single Action Army, the efficiency of wild west frontier justice, and the snug fit of a pair of Levi's jeans. Now they return to a Japan in crisis to clean up the streets as the TOKUGAWA DENIM SQUAD

You're gonna put me out of a gig

wow. yoko taro evangelion. gosh. science saru ghost in the shell. theyre making a new silent hill. hideaki anno shin space sheriff gavan. dragonball z remake. oshii doing new patlabor with graphic sex. yakuza 18. gurren lagann yuasa remake. japan is so exciting. studio triger

"the imperium of man is based" "the imperium of man is satire" the imperium of man is just what a 17th century Scotsman thought the church of England was like

i think it'd be easier to discuss chinese capitalism if we didnt turn it into a fight over the party-state, china as culture, etc. sometimes things built in a wildly-unregulated developmentalist social experiment are bad! you don't have to be defending AI or gacha games over it