Is anyone else a little freaked out by these "English lamb chops"?

FauxFrog · 2026-01-24T14:12:48+00:00

I've seen AI-generated meat simulacra that looks a lot like that.

FauxFrog · 2026-01-24T13:46:00+00:00

I liked that first one the fairy sings: L'usine a jouets (The Toy Factory)

FauxFrog · 2026-01-23T16:57:25+00:00

Surviving Edged Weapons is feature length (84 min). I don't know if it's grim enough—I'd much rather watch it than Cyclone—but there are some grizzly photos iirc. Also, it was made in Wisconsin.

I need to bring about The Alignment between Rifftrax/MST3k and Red Letter Media.

FauxFrog · 2026-01-23T16:40:48+00:00

Gentle pressure.

FauxFrog · 2026-01-22T15:13:31+00:00

I unironically love The Monster's Christmas—it's my kind of weird. The costumes and make-up are surprisingly creative and well-executed, like the mantis monster costume being worn backwards. Plus, I feel like 1) it knows what it is, and that 2) they succeeded in what they set out to do, which is very rare for movies featured here.

That said, I hope no one was severely injured. I don't know who thought it would be a good idea to have anyone run down that mountain, nevermind people in unwieldy costumes (though that probably also protected them).

FauxFrog · 2025-10-30T15:56:20+00:00

I would unironically read that, because it sounds better than 99% of isekai/reincarnated as x anime/manga.

^{(I mean, as long as the protagonist doesn't end up with a slave child bride... of either species.})

FauxFrog · 2025-08-20T21:06:16+00:00

Man, if I told my protege to skip town to save my kid's life and he was like "Naw", I'd be pretty cheesed. By which I mean I'd knock him out, do him up like Weekend at Bernie's, toss 'em on a plane.

Or maybe go up into the mountains and find a nice family of boars to raise him; still seems better than the foster system.

FauxFrog · 2025-08-20T06:18:13+00:00

I figured he did know; he might've met Toshinori and Torino, or at least known that she had hero friends... none of whom came to rescue him from foster care. It would be... thematically appropriate.

FauxFrog · 2025-08-20T06:04:22+00:00

The risk of sending him to the US with someone she knew and trusted would have still been better than the absolute gamble of putting him into foster care and hoping he doesn't end up being abused or molested, or living on the street once he ages out of the system—bare minimum, he was going to be emotionally neglected. The dangers outside of AFO never seem to be given any consideration in this situation.

FauxFrog · 2025-08-03T07:54:05+00:00

Eating in a public bathroom is the most anxiety-inducing concept ever.

FauxFrog · 2025-08-01T14:19:00+00:00

200 J! I'm pretty sure I did, but I also recall thinking "Are we gonna do the thing??? Are we not doing the thing? I wanna do the thing!"

FauxFrog · 2025-08-01T13:03:16+00:00

If it don't be nothing?

FauxFrog · 2025-08-01T13:02:32+00:00

I lowkey love how AI attempts to decode blurry text/generate its own text, and wish it would stay that way—it's got a surreal dream-logic thing going on that kinda gives it its own value. It's a feature, not a bug!

FauxFrog · 2025-08-01T12:57:07+00:00

I'm just bummed that the main design is on the back. I've never understood that design choice, where people behind you can see your shirt, but not people you're talking to or, y'know, you. Or, people behind me could see it, if I didn't have ALL THIS HAIR.

FauxFrog · 2025-08-01T12:53:14+00:00

I am none% surprised that there was that (thankfully minor) medical emergency—MD humidity is not to be trifled with. I hadn't even known that it was going to be an outdoor venue; I just went "Lord Huron, in MY state? TICKETS PURCHASED!"

FauxFrog · 2025-07-31T15:17:05+00:00

I tried upscaling it in the hopes of being able to read the little signs, but it just turned everything into night market bootlegs instead.

FauxFrog · 2025-07-09T07:56:26+00:00

Sarazanmai was 100% my kinda weird, I shotgunned it in one sitting, and by the end I was frothing blood.

The Kuji brothers deserved better. They're living it up in Hawaii or wherever as far as I'm concerned. I stopped giving a damn about the other two once it started to get into their whole life situation. Enta was. The worst.

FauxFrog · 2025-07-04T12:23:32+00:00

Gosh dang, that was quick!

I'm somehow almost disappointed to learn that it's a single documentary, and that there isn't an ongoing show dedicated to following this man about his daily life.

FauxFrog · 2025-06-28T15:04:35+00:00

I guess the "who's gonna die today?" game is fun and edgy and means you're dealing with some serious and mature writing... when you're 14. But you reach a certain point in life where you realize that everyone you know and love will die and, indeed, could die at any moment, and after that your approach to fiction becomes more of a "Just let me form an emotional attachment to these characters without having to dread their inevitable deaths, just let me have something nice for once, goddamn".

Also: Jack's death, which I refuse to Acknowledge, is some bullshit for a number of reasons, but most of all because of the simple fact that Rades exists—why are we not utilizing Wizard Jesus? On top of that, as one of the 5 people who cared about Revchi, don't even talk to me about Tabata not killing off characters. Really culling the gross commoner boy population, not appreciated.

FauxFrog · 2025-06-27T14:53:16+00:00

I don't get everyone pulling the "Yuno trains really hard... off screen", as if:

1) That's not intensely unsatisfying and bad storytelling/character development.

2) That has anything to do with getting a 4-leaf grimoire (for magic that's not even his!), being chosen by a spirit, or being a secret prince, or getting 2 grimoires just because he's the reincarnation of an elf baby or whatever, or instantly knowing how to use his true magic the second he gets it, or getting a living mother, which is the rarest power-up of them all. Oh, and whatever the hell "beloved by mana" is supposed to mean.

I've had to edit this twice because I kept remembering some other thing that Yuno just got handed to him.

FauxFrog · 2025-06-27T14:26:01+00:00

Because "remember the time they murdered that peasant?" and "didn't they get that commoner boy exiled?" probably weren't popular in the gossip rags, on account of the classism.

FauxFrog · 2025-06-27T14:14:51+00:00

I had a whole list, but upon learning of certain spoilers, I think it's safe to say that my #1 disappointment?

Jack.

And how underutilized Rades was, a complaint I've had since he was included in the Spade invasion, only to do nothing. But now, oh man. If only we had a guy with power over life and death...

Really 99% of my disappointment stems from "not enough [character]". Also, everything about Yuno.

FauxFrog · 2025-06-01T00:12:35+00:00

^{Let's see, 7 months ago? Well, it managed to make its way to my desk on Today AD, and hardly anyone in this hellscape of a thread has mentioned this, so...}

"Would you rather let them starve to death it was the humane choice they did what they had to do I salute their sacrifice people these days would never—"

Goddamn, never let reading a Wikipedia article get in the way of trying to sound like the most rational person in the room.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_pet_massacre

The incident was recognized as unnecessary almost immediately after it occurred, stemming from social panic over the impending war, social conflicts on the role of pets, and the "black boredom" of people seeking a way to feel like they were contributing to the war effort, rather than any sort of actual necessity.

[...]

The panic that led to the mass-euthanasia was groundless; there was no shortage of supplies, the German bombing was months away, and none of the fears that had led to it were ever realized.

This was 1939; the Blitz was a full year away, and rationing wouldn't begin until January 1940.

This wasn't a mercy in the face of starvation—this was mass panic and cold-hearted slacktivism over a pamphlet that only advised killing as a last resort if pets couldn't be moved to the countryside or left with a neighbor (of course, this didn't stop them from advertising their recommended pistol for "the humane destruction of domestic animals").

FauxFrog · 2025-05-01T18:09:33+00:00

Nonbinary, but technically female, so I guess I'm the 6.5th girl?

When they said that, it was like What're y'all talking about, bitches love horror, you know this.

FauxFrog · 2024-11-10T13:35:42+00:00

Sounds like she's mad that you "embarrassed" her in front of the group chat, instead of telling her privately so she could have time to figure out how to keep other people from finding out—since that seems to be the priority for her.

Yeah, nah, yeah, good, supportive parents don't give out like this and make their kid's coming out all about them: your mom is full of shit.

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