[-] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 38 points 2 months ago

Be the American the Japanese think you are

made-it-the-fuck-up

[-] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago

The reason you can't go "Xenomorphs are a 1-to-1 allegory for the Viet Cong" is the same reason you can't just say that the movie is reactionary and pro-genocide: the Alien is too big and all encompassing a metaphor for how uncaring and hostile nature is in the face of human endeavour. It's not just a simple Other, it's the face of annihilation; it's a WMD found in the wild the same way Uranium or Anthrax is.

Ripley's argument that the Xenomorphs need to all be destroyed is the same argument for the destruction of all samples of deadly diseases that can be used as biological weapons: it is too inimical to human life to be allowed to exist, especially because the MIC keeps trying to weaponize it in order to profit off of it.

[-] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 41 points 3 months ago

Gets Kissinger, misses Trump

You win some you lose some

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Sony backed down (twitter.com)

Although I don't know if Steam will re-enable sales for regions without PSN coverage.

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I suddenly understand what Mark Fisher was yappin' about with Hauntology.

The show is like carbon monoxide. It's very peaceful.

[-] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 32 points 7 months ago

Plus the entire premise seems to be a nihilistic parable about how fascism is right and you need to wipe out rival civilizations before they even know you exist, or they'll do the same to you

I see this take all the time here, and then when I (a person who read the book) counter that it's a Sci-Fi parable about Chinese foreign policy from the perspective of the Chinese (you need to keep your head down and not draw attention to yourself or the evil ~~Trisolarans~~ American Empire will come get you, humanity is the China stand in in the novel) white people yell at me for being some kind of asian chauvinist.

[-] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 41 points 8 months ago

The original Helldivers came about because the devs read Edward Snowden’s book and started memeing around the office about US propaganda and foreign policy

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Looks good, they really nailed Fujimoto's style.

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posad

The first screen treatment is kinda whack. Second had potential as a kinda "White People Get Colonised" allegory like War of the Worlds until this banger dropped:

There was no longer private property

and I just lost it

Edit: Oh shit the Galactic Emperor is Literally Hitler I'm fucking dying why wasn't this greenlit

Edit2: Oh god we almost had another live-action Gundam like G-Saviour, with even worse computer graphics

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I've heard good things about Inio Asano's works, but because I choose to be illiterate I've never read any of them- I'm really looking forward to this adaptation to finally see what all the fuss is about

[-] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 36 points 11 months ago

I was joking about the nationalization thing, she's just threatening export controls on Nvidia.

[-] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 32 points 11 months ago

National Graphics Card Corporation mass produces affordable mid-range graphics cards and restricts sales to crypto and AI startups for “national security reasons”, causing graphics card prices to fall, but because Elon Musk doesn’t get 10 more fps when he upgrades to the 8090 Super Ti (tm) the West has fallen and it’s time to end those commie democrats and their big government

[-] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 31 points 11 months ago

Right, but as I understand it China still has some catching up to do in terms of the technology and manufacturing? It's amazing what they've accomplished so far tho, and they'll probably fully catch up to and surpass Taiwanese manufacturing soon enough

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Lol. Lmao.

In the funniest timeline, the US nationalizes Nvidia to delay China from making chips that work well with LLM's... by a year tops.

Link to original Fortune article the PC Gamer article pulled from, with this juicy relevant quote:

To do that, Raimondo said the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, which manages export controls for the US, needs more funding from Congress.

“I have a $200 million budget. That’s like the cost of a few fighter jets. Come on,” she said. “If we’re serious, let’s go fund this operation like it needs to be funded.”

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Gonna be adapted by Science Saru (Keep your Hands off Eiszouken!)

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CSM rn (hexbear.net)
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CSM Ch. 148 discussion I guess.

It took a while but Fujimoto really cooking now. It's so kino (spoilers in the panel below)

[-] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

yea

There’s a bunch which are critical of American hegemony like Code Geass but then it’s a 50/50 split whether the director trips head first into nationalism or not

Majestic Prince was a mecha show that was kinda ok, but probably only because it was trying really hard to copy Leiji Matsumoto works like Space Battleship Yamato

[-] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

6 episode mini-arc of Light abusing every authority at his disposal to find out his opponent's true name, "Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau"

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Art by Aventador_770_4 on ~~twitter~~ X

WfM definitely ended last month I'm with Frieren on this I'm not getting old shut up kitty-cri

Also Frieren is a really really good show so far do recommend

[-] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

He's become the best first step on the leftwing pipeline, replacing Breadtube and the Dirtbag left podcasters, which honestly isn't saying all that much. shrug-outta-hecks

I dunno, we work with what we got. Just saying that I'd rather point baby leftists to hasan-ok-dude rather than Contrapoints now.

I just realised we need The Deprogram and Blowback emojis now tho lol.

[-] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Twitchchat freeze-gamer vs. citations-needed listeners

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From the comiket only doujin by staff members who worked on GWitch

I'm usually all for Death of the Author , but fuck Bandai's exec's I'll accept the Word of God if God is this based.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

We're getting scapegoated for the DDOS attack that affected us too yesterday, all because @Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net made one (admittedly kinda funny) joke here.

Normally I wouldn't post petty internet bullshit like this but I thought our admins should know.

Edit: Entire thread is a gold mine for dunk tank material tho

Edit2: Now the Spook of @Alaskaball@hexbear.net is getting namedropped

Edit3: So after some digging (read: 5 mins browsing lemmy instances) another user made this post saying the attacker was someone with a personal beef with .world completely unrelated to us? Documented methodology of attack is different but similar to the spam bot we got hit with too, but idk I'm just amateur hour here not an OpSec pro.

Edit4: I was trying to click on the links provided in that post to double check but lemmy.world went down data-laughing

Edit5: Official Statement

So who is attacking us? One thing that is clear is that those responsible of these attacks know the ins and outs of Lemmy. They know which database requests are the most taxing and they are always quick to find another as soon as we close one off. That’s one of the only things we know for sure about our attackers. Being the biggest instance and having defederated with a couple of instances has made us a target.

Damn, I never knew what it was like to live somewhere rent-free until now

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Pour one out for a real one

It's probably a good thing she's retiring on her own terms tho

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