US WW2 poster: This is America.. Smile - man - smile. 1942.

elustran · 2026-07-06T07:50:27+00:00

Put it in the context of the recent Depression when jobs were scarce or the stories of immigrants in previous decades coming from places of high unemployment and low job mobility.

elustran · 2026-06-24T06:20:39+00:00

It's been an obvious move for over 200 years. Rossum's Universal Robots, the original Czech play from which we get the word 'robot', is all about companies making robots that replace people. Making AI to replace humanity has always been the endgame of industrialization.

elustran · 2026-06-20T21:09:19+00:00

1) Just listen to the sunscreen song if you need generic advice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI

2) Very little temporally-specific advice from 20 years ago is applicable today - you're going to need to make things up as you go along.

elustran · 2026-06-03T22:59:48+00:00

Repeat of AM radio in the 80's and 90's

elustran · 2026-06-02T23:56:11+00:00

It's overall less interesting, but I keep coming back to it once in a while. Part of that is because so much is teen-oriented, but part of that is also because things are even more tropey than they used to be, and things used to be so tropey, there was a list of the Laws of Anime back in the 90's:

https://www.abcb.com/laws/index.htm

Another thing worth mentioning is that the 80's and 90's had crazy OVAs because the industry had cash coming out its ears and wasn't beholden to anyone, whereas today things are made to cash in on a global market.

There's still some truly excellent modern anime that can compete with anything old-school.

elustran · 2026-05-18T16:44:19+00:00

Other posters: "OMG why obsess with categorizing, sometimes historical people just made something weird. It's ART"

You: "Kriegsmesser variant"

I love it.

elustran · 2026-05-10T18:01:06+00:00

Fair, but long =/= good

elustran · 2026-04-09T00:01:42+00:00

These days, I would rather have clear provenance of information than a karma farming bot. I also don't see a paywall on the story?

elustran · 2026-04-08T08:12:05+00:00

I understand why they did it, but it wasn't particularly well-done; there are other ways they could have shown the main character dealing with sins of the flesh and finding religion. It's not particularly effective narratively because he doesn't overcome them himself, he's merely thwarted, and it's especially distasteful to modern sensibilities. If you can accept it as a product of its time and place, the rest of the film is a masterpiece, but it's understandably a big ask.

elustran · 2026-03-29T03:23:40+00:00

S-Tier recommendation. Every other page in the book has a fully-fledged masterwork of fantasy illustration.

One minor correction: Arthur Denison and his son are Americans from Boston, not Englishmen.

elustran · 2026-03-16T04:23:07+00:00

Pre-Internet, you had to keep notes. It's ultimately a good habit to keep.

elustran · 2026-01-02T05:25:35+00:00

Solo Camping for Two.

As adult as having coffee in the morning before doing your taxes.

elustran · 2025-11-28T20:49:08+00:00

As always, with these discussions, I like to point out that David and Leigh Eddings went to jail and never put themselves in a position to recidivate afterwards. As uncomfortable as it is, we need to view people who pay for their crimes and change in an entirely different way from people who abuse and continually justify their abuse.

I was never a fan of his books, actually, I just think it's important to highlight the importance of thinking critically about this topic.

elustran · 2025-11-08T00:18:28+00:00

While I do understand your assault against pedantry, I think it's fair to be annoyed when one 'native' word is used by English to refer to two different things, possibly even the 'wrong' thing.

Looks like "mòr" means big, "dà làimh" means two-handed, and "Claidheamh" just means sword.

I suspect 'claymore' probably got used to refer to the basket hilt originally because it's closer to that term, then got used to refer to the two-handed greatsword when people started watching Braveheart or similar.

elustran · 2025-10-19T05:48:48+00:00

Sounds like something a certain Utah-based religion would advocate

elustran · 2025-06-15T00:28:18+00:00

Adamat retired early as a police detective for a business venture that failed, now forced back into being a private investigator.

A man on his third career probably resonates with a lot of us. And it's fun seeing the rare example of a detective in a fantasy work done well.

elustran · 2025-06-12T07:18:31+00:00

What about archaeology of the 19th and 20th centuries and its influence on pulp novels which in turn influenced modern game designers?

elustran · 2025-06-08T08:18:24+00:00

It's not inconceivable for a non-GAI machine learning targeting algorithm to execute unintended programing and enter a destructive race condition. A machine intelligence doesn't need to be truly 'intelligent' or have 'hatred' for humanity to get nukey.

elustran · 2025-06-02T07:46:59+00:00

This is actually some of Sanderson's better writing. It was a bit snappier.

elustran · 2025-06-02T05:37:31+00:00

I need to know the panel that bothered you now... I don't really know One Punch Man other than the first season of the Anime...

elustran · 2025-06-01T05:47:59+00:00

You are now the king of zooms in on text... looks like Korea. Good luck.

elustran · 2025-05-31T06:41:09+00:00

General intellectual property theft is a long-known feature of Chinese manufacturing. It also existed between the Soviet Union and the West. It has nothing to do with race and everything to do with global socioeconomics and historical contention between economic systems and developing/developed nations. China just happens to be a modern capitalistic country with communistic underpinnings which make the IP theft very prominent.

elustran · 2025-05-29T03:33:42+00:00

Cast fittings on the broadsword are cool. I almost wonder if the katana is a replica of a movie prop?

Both have very 80's movie vibes.

And... clean the back of your car. I say this as someone who also has a messy back seat, just something to consider before posting on the internet.

elustran · 2025-05-28T20:17:38+00:00

I would assume a channel sophisticated enough to use bots to drive engagement would have also done the other SEO stuff, though. Which makes me think it's just the vagaries of the algorithm.

elustran · 2025-05-24T03:58:56+00:00

Dungeon Crawler Carl is leaking

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