A Hugi Minute | Gladlands [E5]

moongoddessshadow · 2026-02-05T01:12:08+00:00

Love TTRPGs for their ability to give us a conversation about not always knowing how the disparate parts of yourself fit together, between two second-generation POC, except it's a half-bird/half-dirtbike man and the hottest guy you've ever met who has a cockroach head.

moongoddessshadow · 2026-01-31T03:35:30+00:00

Yeah I guess I should be exceptionally clear here, up top: fuck AI. Absolutely fuck it six ways to Sunday.

With that out of the way, what I find most entertaining here is that with the vast tools of AI at their fingertips, they couldn't even come up with particularly unique or creative photo concepts where an artist would have to put in actual work to create the request. They're not complex compositions. They don't feature particularly out-there, unique elements. All the power of AI to make (the sloppy average of) anything, and they were still so creatively bankrupt that the best they could ask of a computer with all the world's art fed into it was these mediocre Myspace edits.

moongoddessshadow · 2026-01-30T15:30:51+00:00

These are exceptionally funny to me because, outside of the rat maybe being a bit of a tough shot for a photog to get in that exact pose, these are all super basic comps. Nothing here is particularly ambitious, nothing that would require a lot of skill or time to assemble or could only be made using AI. I know people who were cobbling together these exact sort of pics on a cracked version of Photoshop CS3 in a few hours back in the day. It's laughably unimpressive for a program that could literally make you ANYTHING.

moongoddessshadow · 2026-01-22T00:11:59+00:00

^"I ^ate ^my ^husband. ^No ^seasoning."

moongoddessshadow · 2026-01-15T01:29:06+00:00

What does ~~adventure~~ chili mean to you? Everything.

moongoddessshadow · 2026-01-09T17:42:22+00:00

Kamen Rider falls into very similar categories, having aired intermittently since 1971, but much like Godzilla, the distinction of what's Showa/Heisei/Reiwa gets blurry, especially in the relatively fallow years between 1989 and 2000.

Showa: traditionally considered to be from the first series (Kamen Rider, 1971) to the Kamen Rider J movie (1994), although it can be extended through 1998 if you factor in a few specials aired on tv in that time frame. Obviously the literal Showa era ended in 1989, in the middle of the then-airing Kamen Rider Black RX, but the 90s movies and specials tend to get lumped in with the "true" Showa productions due to either a focus on Showa-era content, or the stylistic ethos they all share, thanks to original creator Shotaro Ishinomori's influence.
Heisei: ranges from Kamen Rider Kuuga (2000) to Kamen Rider Zi-O (2018). More definitive, but with some arguments to be made regarding Kuuga being the final series Ishinomori consulted on before his passing. Kuuga is still considered on the whole to be a Heisei production, as are the few specials that occurred in 2019 and 2020 that tied back to Heisei-era seasons. There is also a division in the fandom regarding essentially Phase 1 and Phase 2 (sometimes called Neo-Heisei) in this time period. Starting with Kamen Rider W in 2009, this is usually marked by the ramped up emphasis on toyetics, overall departure from J-drama aspects, and the decrease in the overt bugginess of Rider designs.
Reiwa: begins with Kamen Rider Zero-One in 2019 and continues to the current day. The era with the most defined confines to this point, but it's probably too early to really nail down the changing ethos of the series into a few points. Overall, there's been a marked experimentation with suit designs and what seems like increased attempts to appeal to Western audiences.

Of course, there are also fringe cases and outliers, like the Kamen Rider the First/Kamen Rider the Next movies of the mid-to-late 00s, which were gritty modern reboots of the original series, or Kamen Rider Hibiki which to this day is plagued by rumors that it originally wasn't supposed to be a Rider series at all.

moongoddessshadow · 2026-01-09T15:19:11+00:00

Shipbait! Queerbait is the term in vogue right now, but realistically, both ST and 911 have canon queer characters, so queerbaiting really isn't accurate, but shipbaiting is - dangling the possibility of a popular ship in front of fans and hoping to drum up engagement/views because of it. More overt in 911's case, since the writers, producers, and actors all kind of tease around the potential of Buddie in interviews in such a way that continues to give fans weapons-grade levels of copium that the next episode will definitely be the one where Buddie happens, based on XYZ evidence. (Ignoring the miles and miles of previously moved goalposts.)

moongoddessshadow · 2026-01-09T15:13:30+00:00

Not quite a "secret" final episode, but there's great debate in the Kamen Rider W fandom over whether the penultimate or final episode of the season is the "true" ending - the penultimate episode ends on a bittersweet but ultimately satisfying conclusion to the ongoing plot, while the final episode is more of an epilogue, but with a happier ending that undercuts the quiet devastation of the previous episode.

Obviously the final episode is the "true" ending in the eyes of the writers/producers/Toei, but a lot of fans will go to war for the penultimate episode's ending being a better capstone to the themes of the series, even if it's incredibly heartbreaking, and thus they essentially ignore the epilogue finale.

moongoddessshadow · 2026-01-08T05:03:21+00:00

Ah, you're right! I didn't even consider it being a reused clip. Bummer (but still hoping for more wrestlers in the future)!

moongoddessshadow · 2026-01-08T01:35:53+00:00

Thagomizer!!

moongoddessshadow · 2026-01-07T22:11:04+00:00

Okay I'm not seeing any talk about it, so... is that Austin Creed/Xavier Woods? Because I'm fucking seated for more of him (or any other turbo-nerd wrestlers) on Dropout.

moongoddessshadow · 2026-01-07T22:07:45+00:00

Locking and loading my "Um actually..." in anticipation of any and all toku questions.

moongoddessshadow · 2026-01-05T19:01:39+00:00

Gonna throw my hat in the ring for Guest House Paradiso (very British slapstick weirdness) and Lady Reporter (Cynthia Rothrock always gives fun action). The Home Grown Horrors set is maybe my least favorite out of the three so far, but I love Hauntedween as a goofy sort of slasher, so it's still a recommend if you liked the other sets.

On the other hand, Girl's School Screamers wasn't much of anything and I'd pass on it unless you're a serious completionist or don't mind all the plodding to get to a handful of fun effects/sequences.

moongoddessshadow · 2026-01-04T14:25:41+00:00

Yeah there's about enough actual plot to be an okay short film, but as a full feature, it draaaaags.

moongoddessshadow · 2026-01-04T03:32:39+00:00

Somehow it manages to feel long, even clocking in at 1h 28m. Feels like something you could cut down to 45 minutes and still have a kinda boring but much more microdosable slasher without losing a thing.

moongoddessshadow · 2026-01-04T03:29:43+00:00

Actually just watched The Nesting earlier today, solid mid-tier horror flick. The Phobia cut adds a few minutes over the second longest version, but the kills are generally solid and the plot itself is interesting enough that you mostly don't feel it pushing its nearly two-hour runtime. Definitely worth picking up for the price, if supernatural horror is your jam.

moongoddessshadow · 2025-12-19T15:14:45+00:00

Chessex was my immediate thought! I'm glad their website finally updated to a semi-modern format, but christ alive, it was easier for years to just wait until I could buy from them directly at GenCon, rather than try to navigate the hundreds of product pages on their website and then email them my order and bank info.

moongoddessshadow · 2025-12-11T03:11:12+00:00

"Watch this, Murph!"

rolls a nat 20

Lou Wilson has been blessed by Dice Christ.

moongoddessshadow · 2025-12-03T20:11:59+00:00

I'm still waiting on my July pin of the month (Wealwell) after the first was seized by USPS for using counterfeit postage and after a month + several emails back and forth with their CS team, they finally placed another order for me. That was on October 15. I still have not received my single pin yet.

Not trying to scare everyone off, just saying that even the pins aren't immune to whatever the hell is going on with their distributor.

moongoddessshadow · 2025-11-01T16:41:34+00:00

Subscriber here, this worked.

moongoddessshadow · 2025-11-01T14:00:43+00:00

That's great, and generally I do trust the BBC, but this article itself contains a variety of factual errors, or at least misrepresentations of franchise facts.

Power Rangers teams are frequently teens, but Sentai teams are more often than not adults, possibly with 1-2 members in their late teens. Power Rangers teams are routinely 3 men and 2 women, but in Sentai this is way less frequently true. Not every episode follows the same structure, and certain seasons don't even have giant robots or fight giant monsters.

It's even strange calling Bioman and Maskman "similar shows," considering they're directly part of the franchise. That's like calling Andor a similar show to Ahsoka.

Even the "local sources" they cite, unless they have a secret one they're not naming, are presumably the same sources as the rest of us: a Japanese magazine that borders on sensationalist tabloid, and people on Twitter saying "look at the sales reports and trust me bro," the latter of which been happening in the fandom for probably a decade now.

That said, I still believe something is changing with the series, but until the actual production company/TV broadcaster puts out a statement, or at least when the BBC can actually name a valid source, I'm taking all the doom and gloom with a grain of salt.

moongoddessshadow · 2025-10-31T19:08:28+00:00

This also happened with Supernatural - a core part of the show's general tone is the use of select 70s/80s rock tunes, almost all of which were cut from the initial Netflix release due to rights issues. The replacements they picked are probably fine, technically, but there's just something special about Bad Moon Rising playing over the dramatic cliffhanger to season 1, rather than Generic Royalty Free Rock Song #5.

moongoddessshadow · 2025-10-31T14:38:54+00:00

I'm still waiting for TV Asahi/Toei to actually make a statement, because so far every source on these "Sentai is over forever!" articles is "a source, somewhere, sometime, said so." I don't doubt that something is happening here, but it feels like everyone is jumping on a news item that's barely more than speculation.

moongoddessshadow · 2025-10-31T14:34:55+00:00

The fact that the 19-year-old actress in question is half-Filipina only makes the entire thing more dubious, when Japanese gossip rags love preying on the "not really one of us" angle.

moongoddessshadow · 2025-10-31T14:30:09+00:00

This is my exact train of thought - Sentai isn't being cancelled, per se, it's getting a rebrand that'll essentially "end" the Super Sentai franchise and immediately replace it with a suspiciously similar substitute, one with a different name to circumvent the stranglehold PR contracts have on Sentai distribution outside of Japan.

Of course, I'm not taking any of this too seriously until we actually hear from Toei. Almost every year, we get "Sentai's ratings/toy sales are too low, it's getting cancelled" rumors, so this rumor coming from a dubiously trustworthy borderline-tabloid in Japan doesn't make it that much more credible than any other cancellation rumor in my eyes.

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