An anime called Chargeman Ken where “animation” is a generous compliment. Some action shots are three frames long. Most shots are static - with one alternating mouth motion, when characters aren’t just framed, positioned, or turned to avoid animating them at all. But it works. You are watching a clear story take place. It’s not a radio drama or narration. The story is terrible, because these broke fools were animating every first draft that could fill twenty minutes, but events occur onscreen in a sequence that you can follow with your eyeballs.

And the result is some dramatic presentation. One episode starts with characters watching a Godzilla knockoff. Buildings take time to draw, so you get two frames of an upward angle conveying Cheapogodzilla’s size. When the hero bursts into a room for an accusation, they’re framed at a distance, to avoid animating their face. The show is rife with all this dynamic perspective and foreshortening that even cheap CGI today won’t do, because they think they have to fill the entire frame with someone’s head. Cartoons with budgets get flat presentation because they’re trying to be sitcoms and clearly show off nuance and subtlety. Making absolute garbage for a fraction of the price takes so much more creativity.

The Playstation started as an SNES add-on.

It’s object-oriented; you can assign this to a named variable.

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Javascript straddling the middle as usual.

“Use the torrents, damn!”

I’ve gotta be one of six people on Earth who learned about it from Clerks: The Animated series.

Your king!

Fairly relevant video from Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong: Air Hulks.

Please stop saying this.

There’s jobs you can do on a day of training, and there’s jobs that need six years of higher education to not kill people.

Same creator.

Well, that’s the soundtrack of my brain for the next week.

THE MOON

“Oh come on, Samson, it’s nothing you haven’t seen before.”

“He IS something I’ve never seen before!”

And Henry Blake paddled a liferaft onto the Tracy Ullman show.

Dreamcast: the first AI console.

It really was ahead on everything!

Yeah, buried at the end. Any style guide (or common sense) will tell you to expand an acronym the first time it comes up.

DRM has a much more commonplace meaning that has also been a contentious topic for FOSS development.

I level the same complaint about online newspapers that cover local politics without bothering to specify where the hell they are. ‘If you already knew then you’d plainly know.’ Okay, what if I fucking don’t? How does one divine this information? If I search for Greenville or Jackson County, is your podunk locale the first thing that comes up?

DRM here stands for Direct Rendering Manager, not intentionally broken software.

Hate when articles treat three-letter acronyms as obvious and unambiguous.

Suggesting that Gotham is fucked beyond their pay grade.

Costumed villainy might be the best of all possible worlds. Consider how many of them have doctorates!