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flabberghaster OP wrote
Reply to comment by Dogmantra in It's strange how so many philosophers do not live up to their name. Lacan is not at all laconic, and Hume is not the least bit humorous. by flabberghaster
Soccer hadn't even been invented yet when so-called Socrates was working.
Dogmantra wrote (edited )
Reply to It's strange how so many philosophers do not live up to their name. Lacan is not at all laconic, and Hume is not the least bit humorous. by flabberghaster
unknown whether plato ate mostly off plates or preferred bowls instead
twovests OP wrote
Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in Spirited Away is fantastic! Takeaways from my first Ghibli movie by twovests
That is good to hear. About the dubs, that is, not the inexorability of the youth of Japan today eventually showing their kids Toy Story 13 in the future.
twovests OP wrote
Reply to comment by devtesla in Spirited Away is fantastic! Takeaways from my first Ghibli movie by twovests
Yeah, I see this less as "character development" and more "you too can do a lot of work if you get thrust into a really scary and difficult situation". Which is a reaffirming message for me, as a 360 month old baby,
twovests OP wrote
Reply to comment by oolong in Spirited Away is fantastic! Takeaways from my first Ghibli movie by twovests
i must say i am completely not informed on this at all. but the movie was very scary and tense at parts
cowloom wrote
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At first, the subtitle made me think this was going to be about the Russian Linux maintainers controversy, but then it got super relatable. I did dual boot Windows and Linux, only to later wipe the Windows partition, and I bought a new phone to put Graphene OS on, and I deleted all of my social media. I'm not a proselytizer anymore, unless someone specifically asks me about Linux.
Dogmantra wrote (edited )
the only thing I can think of with ghibli dubs is my friend carl
EDIT: my friend joe toro
double edit it's my neighbour carl/joe toro I'm a fool
oolong wrote
i would comment on how it's another example of miyazaki's ecofascism but i watched the chinese dub in 2002 and then blocked it out of my childhood memory because it was too scary
devtesla wrote
I understood the basic plot, but I feel like there is More To Understand.
The key to understanding Spirited Away is that it's meant as a way to pass along values to specifically Japanese kids in 2001, but it's doing so in an open ended dreamy way. It's a lecture from your granddad that spins off wildly. I don't think there's really that much there, it just boils down to "work hard, there's no shortcuts, don't be greedy" but it's kind of fascinating anyway.
I'm not as big on Miyazaki as I am on the rest of the great Japanese animators, he's so focused on achieving a certain standard of quality that there's a lack of risk in the projects he takes on and they kind of turn out blah. He's definitely a great entertainer tho and there's some undeniable masterpieces. I love Porco Rosso and was pleasantly surprised that The Boy and The Heron rules
devtesla wrote
Reply to comment by missingno in Spirited Away is fantastic! Takeaways from my first Ghibli movie by twovests
these days dubs are almost always good
I would argue against this, just because there's so many speed dubs that come out as fast as possible, like weeks after the shows air. They can be pretty bad depending on the show! But yeah most movies have great dubs.
missingno wrote
Reply to You think powerscaling is a very serious thing within the dragon ball universe. by 500poundsofnothing
aren't power levels a literal thing in the dragon ball universe though
like that's what meme was wasn't it
missingno wrote
Don't worry about anyone being elitist over subs versus dubs. There's a lasting stigma because some older dubs really sucked, but these days dubs are almost always good. Voice acting is taken a lot more seriously as a profession, and they don't cut corners anymore when it comes to hiring good talent.
It's been a long time since I watched Spirited Away, it is old enough to come from that era when some dubs were bad, but this was a high budget film and they put a lot of love and care into bringing it to the west. I definitely loved it as a kid.
cowloom wrote
Reply to You think powerscaling is a very serious thing within the dragon ball universe. by 500poundsofnothing
"Power levels are bullshit!" - Vegeta (Abridged)
hollyhoppet wrote
studio ghibli films have really solid dubs tbh. also good first film from them to watch tbh
also for possibly comparable studios, if lieu of "auteurs," i'd say disney movies in japan are more hugely popular than ghibli movies in the states. that's probably in part due to the power of the american entertainment exporting machine lol
twovests wrote
Reply to You think powerscaling is a very serious thing within the dragon ball universe. by 500poundsofnothing
I need someone to explain "powerscaling" to me. Nobody should be able to defeat One Punch Man Saitama unless (1) I severely misunderstood the point, or (2) you find another gimmick-undefeatable character. And now some guy is telling me the fucking Hulk can beat One Punch Man Saitama?
Moonside wrote
A cool post. Appreciated.
WRETCHEDSORCERESS OP wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by nomorepie in The Monday Microbe’s Tales: In the Cities of SCOBY and Cellulose by WRETCHEDSORCERESS
I want more than anything to be metamorphosed into a sort of bacterial cellulose cyborg
nomorepie wrote
Reply to cw lewd. An idea has been rattling around my brain and I have to get rid of it by flabberghaster
Pwease no steppy
nomorepie wrote (edited )
I can recommend image searching bacterial cellulose, it looks great! Someone 3D printed an ear out of it
oneviolence wrote
Very good!
nomorepie wrote
This happens in Happy Death Day 2U. In the second movie the same thing happens again, to the same people even, which is especially funny seeing as it's a time loop movie, but this time we get the explanation behind why it happened in the first place. Sounds shit on paper but I really enjoyed it.
nomorepie wrote
Reply to when you kiss someone, the two of you briefly form one long interconnected tube, from asshole to asshole. by cowloom
Just like in human centipede... A good date movie?
nomorepie wrote
Reply to Get a Suit Jacket, it doesn't have to fit, wear it with jeans and sneakers. by 500poundsofnothing
Wear it with converse and a band tee...
flabberghaster OP wrote
Reply to comment by twovests in cw lewd. An idea has been rattling around my brain and I have to get rid of it by flabberghaster
You'll know when you're older
hollyhoppet wrote
Reply to comment by twovests in Spirited Away is fantastic! Takeaways from my first Ghibli movie by twovests
and those kids will love it!