Chris Adamson

Reintro: • I was invalidname on Twitter, left 2 yrs ago. • People followed me there b/c I wrote tech books for macOS/iOS. I work @ 🍏 now, so I can’t post about secret work stuff. • Seems like I’m mostly engaging with anime people here. Tech on Mastodon, and replies only on Threads.

50 years later, Bob Seger’s “career record” is ready to influence a new legion of listeners with its undeniable hooks and sophisticated songcraft. tinyurl.com/zvce2vpd

Aside from being mad at the anti-trans position itself, I’m also unhappy to see Dems getting pushed around by the right-wing media framing of these issues and the Dems’ inability to set the agenda. For 10 years, all we’ve heard about is the imaginary grievances of our most mediocre citizens. Enough!

Gotta love journalism’s newest genre: “humanize executive by sharing heartwarming AI origin story.”

Wildwood: I believe that’s the first time in ten years I‘ve seen a movie that a) tried, and b) had any idea what the hell it was doing.

The next volume of the Toradora! manga comes out next April… almost three and a half years since the previous book. It’s baffling to see this manga crawling along more than a decade and a half after the LNs and manga finished. sevenseasentertainment.com/books/torado...

Oh fun. A documentary about the Rocky Horror shadow cast here in #grandrapids. youtu.be/ukA5flYgh0c

F yeah. The purple potato chips are back in season. These things are amazing.

I‘m old enough to remember when conservatives, like those at the National Review, were generally considered “the smart ones”. I shit you not.

Lots of people have covered the Big Stuff so I’m going to add something a little more niche: The PWHL is a thing that now exists! Women’s ice hockey is in the Olympics! Etc.

My dentist 3D prints crowns, so I don’t have to walk around for three weeks with a painful temporary anymore. 90 minutes in and out and I’m done.

Is this a victory lap? This kind of feels like a victory lap.

Just got this on Switch and it’s freaking hilarious.

I saw the trailer for this a while back in my weekly eShop recommendations and my jaw dropped at how bad it looked. Then I got to the credits and saw “Game Mill Entertainment”, and said 『ああ、そうですね｡』

This is an incredible pairing. It doesn’t make any sense, but it’s perfect. See both. www.reddit.com/r/cartoons/s...

I finally get to bust out this meme from 2016 again:

this is partly how we end up with such credulous, fawning coverage of AI

video games continue the gradual cleavage and split into "beautiful & heartwrenching indie yuri game made by two trans women referencing clarice lispector and obscure political debates in 1950s china" and "unreal engine anime gacha with the monthly profit of a small country's gdp"

Have you heard of the critically vulnerable PHP endpoint Final Fantasy XIV logins

Can’t wait for EA to find a way to spend even fewer resources on NHL than they already do. I’m still convinced the reason they haven’t ported it to Switch 2 is that they’ve already diminished the team to the point where they don’t understand their own code well enough anymore to port it.

Jesus Christ: Japanese horse girls have to cancel their two-day concert in Los Angeles because the Trump administration repeatedly refused to issue visas for performers to enter the U.S. I personally would not piss off the anime demographic two weeks before Election Day: umamusume.com/news/100113/

Diminish an anime Mekakucity Stagehands

This is the most incredible, instructive, and destructive development in modern politics.

Hey, boo. We got you @newmexicotrue.bsky.social

For some inexplicable reason, “Mekakucity Actors” is back on Crunchyroll, years after its last streaming license expired. This was one of those lost-with-Funimation titles, if you remember that. www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYP8P...

Yuri’s speech to the NPCs in “Angel Beats!” is one of the most meaningful things I’ve ever seen in anime, and something I come back to every few years. youtu.be/i9ddLAq0Wv8?...

goddamn he's only 51 :/

Overrated: My Cousin Vinnie Underrated: Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael (No particular relation, just two that came to me.)

NGL, Tommy’s the kind of person why I bust out this shirt every once in a while.

Look who’s back.

Streets are saying English people won’t be allowed to watch anything with choking and incest in it. Big shame, Empire is the best one of the trilogy.

Legitimately, Valkyria Chronicles - the anime-alternate-history-WWII-with-magical-girls is 1) a great game, go play it but 2) better about addressing the real nature of the Nazi regime than 95+% of 'gritty' modern realistic WWII games. Which is nuts, the bar is just...so low.

Long-running sitcoms should do the anime thing where they get a new opening theme every season. I would be way more interested if, like, the third season of How I Met Your Mother began with Asian Kung-Fu Generation

Remember when you could buy the Sudafed that actually works?

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Drop a film you saw on a first date.

FFXII is Final Fantasy for grown-ups. Maybe that’s why so many people dislike it.

Isn’t this also far too late to do any good? It won’t have a noticeable effect on prices, the effect won’t hit soon enough, and millions of people *have already voted* and literally can’t be swayed.

Good writing is writing that doesn't sound like everyone else. Which also means good writing doesn't sound like it was written by AI. So the way students can avoid getting accused of using AI to write their essays is to develop a strong and unique authorial voice.

Well, last night I saw a band of four girls implore its fans to "stand up for trans people, stand up for immigrants", and "not stand for rapists", before shouting through a punk song called "Racist Sexist Boy". Jimmy seems like a wimp by comparison.

Lots of people seem to up in arms about Apple TV 4K (2006) pricing, but NVIDIA SHIELD TV Pro is $300 and it’s sort of a joke in comparison. Enjoy the little chart I made: