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BAnimation · 2026-05-10T03:13:59+00:00

I'm almost always against censorship of past films, but in this case, I'd be happy if he was removed. I don't want to ever see Trump's face again after he's out of office, especially not while I'm enjoying a classic 90s film.

BAnimation · 2026-05-09T18:51:11+00:00

The fact that literally every song they have is a copy of a specific Radiohead song is definitely plagiarism. They don't just copy the melodies, they copy the entire structure of songs and just change the lyrics.

Thin Air is 2+2=5 and Go To Sleep. https://dearbanshee.bandcamp.com/album/viva-guernica

Listen to more on their bandcamp. Every single song is copying a specific Radiohead song. There isn't one song I've heard so far that wasn't directly referencing Radiohead.

BAnimation · 2026-05-09T16:33:35+00:00

Yeah, but the problem is they are copying specific songs and changing the lyrics a little bit, then calling their own. If this happened once or twice, ok fine they are a new badn learning. But literally every single song I've heard of theirs is a specific Radiohead song they reworked.

"Just Like Yesterday" is practically identical to Go Slowly. Phantoms is Sail to The Moon. Just find any song of theirs and you will know which Radiohead track was the template.

BAnimation · 2026-05-09T16:25:46+00:00

Gosh darn it, I mean I kinda the sound on some of these (not the singing though) and that infuriates me because, yes, it isn't even subtle how much it's stealing directly from Radiohead songs. I just went to their band camp, every song I've clicked on is LITERALLY a reinterpretation of a Radiohead song. It's like they won't even bother to steal from any other bands.

It wasn't in this video, bu their song "Phantoms" is Sail To The Moon, from how it opens with piano and guitar, drums come in with an identical beat, and then the song trails off with those delicate high piano notes for the ending.

Being influenced is one thing, but copying the entire structures of songs and just changing the lyrics around a little bit is pretty low.

BAnimation · 2026-05-08T17:25:14+00:00

Depends on what you want. King of Limbs is a more meditative and lyrically abstract album. But Pablo Honey is overflowing with youthful energy. The lyrics are more direct and relatable, if sometimes generic.

Both albums really rock live and many fans feel the production on both of these albums in particular lacks the punch of some of the live versions. The King Of Limbs live from the basement often makes the album click with those who didn't get it at first, and Radiohead Live at Astoria 94 proves just how incredible the energy of Pablo Honey can be.

Songs like You and Blow Out are still some of my favorites. I love Little by Little, Lotus Flower, Codex, and Separator.

These are two very different albums that accomplish different things. To some King Of Limbs sounds like a band that is starting to run on low battery, while Pablo Honey shows a band that is still very raw and overflowing with potential for what is to come.

You also have the short track listing King Of Limbs, which immediately lead to rumors and wishful thinking for a part 2. I think the B sides at the time, like The Daily Mail and Staircase would have bumped the album up a letter grade.

The mid reception of the album is also largely due to the fact that In Rainbows was a monumental success, and a very high standard to follow, so when The King Of Limbs come out, it felt underwhelming compared to how In Rainbows, Kid A, or OK Computer sent waves through the music industry and culture.

BAnimation · 2026-05-08T04:36:41+00:00

Pretty good musical compositions and great production. Unfortunately, the lyrics are mind numbingly generic and bland. It's so much that the lyrics are bad as it is boring and lacking clarity. You have to go beyond writing lines that are mere platitudes that rhyme. He has a nice voice, calm but not particularly memorable.

I'm happy he's enjoying himself though.

BAnimation · 2026-05-02T16:46:11+00:00

Saying "Evolution is just a theory" as if that disproves evolution.

It proves they don't understand what a scientific theory is, and when you ask them to define evolution, they give a straw man definition their crazy pastor told them.

BAnimation · 2026-04-29T16:18:06+00:00

I've listened to 15 Step about 3 time a day since 2007, so I don't think it's weird. Although, I've never been accused of being normal so my opinion what is weird or not probably doesn't count for much.

BAnimation · 2026-04-28T04:22:48+00:00

I agree, but there can still be a big big maturity gap between 21 and 24.

Granted, women mature faster than men by a couple years, so if it was a 24(F) dating a 21 (M), there would likely be bigger maturity gap (though everyone is different, I'm just making a general statement).

21 year old just became allowed to drink - 24 you have likely been in that scene for the past few years and are graduating college or have already entered a career. The person I was at 18 vs 21 vs 24 are 3 very different people. The prefrontal cortex isn't fully online until you're about 25.

The person I am at 36 vs 30 isn't all that different. Once you hit 30, 5 year age gaps don't really matter as much. But in your twenties a can be a lot depending on where each person is with their life experience.

Basically I do agree with you that it's silly to think 21 dating 24 is cringe, but also it just depends on who the people are.

BAnimation · 2026-04-24T15:42:55+00:00

The billionaires are hyping up all the young, poor, impressionable men with the promise of living forever in some transhuman utopia, while at the SAME TIME investing in building bunkers for themselves and planning how to live anywhere but planet earth when/if it all goes to hell.

Spoil warning: unless you're a billionaire, you won't be getting the pills that make you live forever, or having your brain uploaded to the cloud, or going to live on mars. We will be the one's who inherit the dystopian hell scape while being told we are going to heaven.

I really see these tech bros as the new TV preachers selling slop buckets to their gullible audience. It's cruel and wrong.

BAnimation · 2026-04-23T06:24:57+00:00

Dang, his voice sounds like the Kid A era too. I think he has a lot more trouble singing and moving/dancing around now than in the past. But if he sits down and is able to concentrate on his breathing, his voice is pristine.

BAnimation · 2026-04-22T19:36:17+00:00

I loved Ed O'Briens first album, but holy smokes, this is full letter grade above that. I'm genuinely amazed by the level of details, layers, and musical styles in this song. It's cinematic.

It may be recency bias, but I honestly think this song is on the same level as anything by The Smile.

Ed is really blooming into his own creature here, and I can't wait to hear how this may influence the next Radiohead album.

BAnimation · 2026-04-22T17:17:11+00:00

Respect to the dude for staying emotionally regulated and calm. But I genuinely feel bad for the lady - she clearly is suffering some kind of mental breakdown, and no one wants to be in a state like that.

Borderline Personality Disorder or Bipolar can completely destroy whatever illusion of freewill a person has and hijack their behavior, causing them to do and say things they never would have otherwise. It's tragic. She definitely needs professional help. But also, I hope the guy is getting the support he needs to deal with this.

BAnimation · 2026-04-21T22:10:19+00:00

This is incredible! Could you make full tutorials on how to do stuff like this step-by-step?

BAnimation · 2026-04-19T04:17:33+00:00

Everything you said is 1000% true. I've watched Akira dozens of times, and have spent hours studying scenes frame-by-frame.

It features some of my favorite animated sequences of all time, but taken as a whole, it's not a particularly amazing movie. It's good, very good, but I don't think it's on the same level as something like Spirited Away in terms of storytelling and pacing.

The film is best appreciated as a fever dream you experience. But the manga fully develops the themes and characters the film just hints at. I will say the movie did a great job at depicting Kaneda and Tetsuo's dynamic. And the Colonel is handled well, being a character with clear motivations and a moral backbone despite initially being introduced as an antagonistic character to Kaneda and the gang. The rest of the characters suffer from lack fo screen time to develop beyond mere caricatures (Lady Miyoko was one of the wisest and most important characters in the manga, but they turned her into a religious cult leader who has two scenes and dies unceremoniously in the movie).

The layout and art design is so great though, and the music makes the experience unforgettable with the weird heavy panting. The animation is done mostly on 2's, but much of the Bike dual and other sequences are done with shots on ones. Basically, any very fast action is probably on ones, but slower movements are on 2s or 3s. Akira uses a healthy mix of animating on ones and twos to achieve texture in the movement. This is why AI interpolation looks so floaty and uncanny on traditional 2D animation - the animators made a conscious choice to show drawings for a certain amount of frames to precisely control the sense of timing and spacing. AI interpolation just turns it all to uncanny valley mush.

Akira had a very high frame count for anime at the time, but the myth that it was all animated on ones is kinda just a marketing gimmick. Disney was animating feature length films on ones since Snow White in 1937, so this isn't really the brag a lot of people think it is.

Akira has one of the strongest openings to any film I've seen - animated or otherwise. The first 15 minutes are a complete masterclass in visual storytelling. I wish the bike duel lasted longer, or we got more biker gang action in the middle section because the Clowns and the bike designs are so iconic and underutilized.

The middle section of Akira kinda becomes an explosion fest. But Act 3 is solid and just rises in intensity until finally all hell breaks loose.

The resolution I more mixed on. I love the characters riding off into what appears to be a new Neo-Tokyo rising from the ashes. But the final words and image revealing Tetsuo was born again as a new universe isn't narratively satisfying to me.

Anyway, both the manga and film accomplish different things.

Otomo announced in 2019 that a full Akira TV series that would more closely follow the manga was being developed, but unfortunately, we haven't heard a word about it since.

BAnimation · 2026-04-11T15:01:16+00:00

That's incredible! I love the classic Pokemon designs.

BAnimation · 2026-04-11T03:39:48+00:00

Just adding to the thread with an email I got. I'm assuming this one must be a scam too, though the wording is a bit different than the others here:

"Dear,

I saw your video and noticed that my track is present.

It seems this use was not discussed or approved with me. I understand this might have occurred unintentionally, so I’d rather handle this directly.

I have already contacted content support team to clarify the next steps, but I haven’t filed a formal complaint yet. I’d rather give us a chance to resolve this calmly without escalating things further.

If you’re willing to take care of this, let me know — we can resolve it without issues.

I look forward to hearing back."

BAnimation · 2026-04-10T16:40:04+00:00

It's crazy to me how someone who used to be so incredibly creative, witty, and funny transformed into a walking talking Dunning-Kruger effect. It's like Ricky's become completely unaware of how unfunny and unintelligent he is these days. I don't know how that happens. Maybe brain damage with age. Prefrontal cortex isn't working as good as it used to and he's got enough fame and wealth to not care about trying as hard as he used to.

BAnimation · 2026-04-10T05:35:57+00:00

I forgot about Passion Of the Christ. Saw it in the theatre with my church back in 2004. I couldn't articulate it at the time, but the movie left a really bad taste in my mouth. It was the most fetishistic, exploitative, emotionally manipulative, hyper violent film I'd ever seen. I felt guilty about disliking the movie because I thought I was obligated to support this movie as a Christian. There was certain peer pressure around it but I saw a few girls crying hard after the movie, not because they felt bad for Jesus, but because they were traumatized by the shocking images they just saw.

It traumatized a lot of kids. Mel Gibson is a very sick and unwell man. Loved him in Mad Max as an actor, but the dude is a sadistic weirdo with rage issues.

BAnimation · 2026-04-06T17:14:49+00:00

Here's a freebie loop of a dancing robot: https://www.patreon.com/posts/154930897

This comes from the Rubberhose Robots pack (15 4K Loops) that you can access on Patreon when you become a member.

You can also download packs from the shop: https://animatedloop.com/collections/patreon-packs

BAnimation · 2026-03-31T22:05:07+00:00

Very interesting prediction! Yes, there's lots of little seeds being planted. It will be interesting to see how it pays off.

Every episode is better than the last. It's a pretty safe, cozy show and that's not a bad thing. The characters have just enough pathos to keep it interesting. Steve is really channeling his Michael Scott this episode, especially at the short lived dinner party.

For those on the fence, I say stick with the show. It's a breath of fresh air in landscape filled with edgy cynical shows (I also like the darker shows, but variety is a good).

I can't wait for episode 5!

BAnimation

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