I watched the godfather for the first time a few months ago.

It might still be playing.

Kind of want…

The specific phrasing of that made me laugh.

We need to stop the movie critic if we know they’re going to start shooting!

Anime has a lot of good stuff. You definitely have to have a nose for Japanese humor, but if you do it’s really great.

There’s a couple of light novels I’ve been reading that I hope get anime adaptations because I think they’d be funny. I parry everything and I’m a lv 99 hidden boss are both nice and fun stories whose humor revolves around the difference between the main characters inner monologue and the way that everyone else sees them. I don’t know for sure, but I think that that would be really funny on TV.

It’s decent. I’ve got my own instance, but there are many out there that federate together. Thorium was a really good client.

There’s several subdomain of peertube.biz that have different shows from around the internet, for example review.peertube.biz has review shows.

https://beetoons.tv/ has some interesting cartoons.

For some types of tracker, you can use a free and open source application called gadgetbridge.

I use it with my Amazfit Bip, and it works just fine. Since it’s FOSS, it’s something that can be audited for backdoors

Ooh, Rachel Maddow! (Kidding)

As a counterpoint, Hollywood and establishment media is losing relevance hourly. People are spending less time watching yet another remake/sequel/reboot, and they’re spending a lot more time watching completely original content on youtube, or having discussions on reddit (or lemmy), or playing video games.

The argument you’re making would have been more persuasive back when Hollywood had a virtual monopoly on creativity, but they’ve been eating their seed corn for so long it’s having major long-term effects on the creative industry in America.

Japan is an interesting example of another way media could be done. There’s a content pipeline in a lot of cases of webnovel to light novel to manga to anime to movie (and of course that’s not the only thing that exists in the country but I’m a weeb so shut up), and it’s having an outsized influence globally. The manga industry dwarfs the American comic book industry, and while there are remakes and sequels, it isn’t the majority of the media coming out.

In the west, we’ve also seen some examples of hits from other countries that weren’t based on anything else, such as squid game and parasyte out of Korea. There’s also been some successes such as M3gan which made over 10 times its production budget.

Then there’s stuff like indiegogo and patreon, where people are going out to directly fund indies because they’re so hungry for something different.

Having literally just black and beige white people isn’t really diversity, and having white characters in stories and universes concieved of by white people seems to me like missing the point.

When I was growing up, there were lots of original stories with black people in them. There were cartoons, movies, variety shows, dramas, comedies, all about black neighborhoods and black families. There were superstar black actors who played black characters with regularity.

Compare today where instead of taking chances on letting people tell their own stories, the only way you can “include” minorities is to dip a white character in different strengths of tea and coffee.

I don’t like it. I’m curious about the world, I want to hear music from all eras from around the world. I want to hear stories from all eras and all around the world. I want to understand how all different kinds of people think and see their values and understand how they push up against those values in the real world. Instead, we get a monoculture. Southern California and everything else is verboten.

I bought a bunch of local honey and made some mead, and it was one of the nicest things I’ve ever brewed. Quite alcoholic, and tasted like flowers.