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this seems a lot worse for having had taken place over two and a half hours

this is smart and true. they killed socrates to make way for you

me when i just doded

hegel had notoriously weak pelvic floor muscles

and those kids will love it!

Soccer hadn't even been invented yet when so-called Socrates was working.

unknown whether plato ate mostly off plates or preferred bowls instead

I didn't even think about the kernel maintainer story when I jotted that down. I can see how the subtitle would give that impression and maybe keep people from reading.

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.

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,

i must say i am completely not informed on this at all. but the movie was very scary and tense at parts

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

A cool post. Appreciated.

I want more than anything to be metamorphosed into a sort of bacterial cellulose cyborg

Pwease no steppy

I can recommend image searching bacterial cellulose, it looks great! Someone 3D printed an ear out of it

Very good!

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.