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Based on actual terracotta figures from around the 6th century (Kofun-period Japan) that were thought to have been part of burial rituals.

A pair of 6th century terracotta figures from Japan known as the "Haniwa Terracotta Dancers"

December 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM

McFidget

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Misleading, he's not talking about himself, it's supposed to be from the perspective of a character in the game.

“I often come up with ideas when I’m out on runs, and one day I thought of this speech that would define this character that we were trying to figure out. This speech popped my in my head as I was struggling through the third mile.

I only eat at vending machines, because I don’t like interacting with waiters. Restaurants are more complicated: there are greetings and “hellos” and “Is this table okay?” And I’m thinking, “Why should I care what you recommend? You’re not me!” But I’m not supposed to say that, so I just have to count the seconds until the interaction can end, devise socially acceptable ways of saying “Go f*** yourself.” Because for me, conversation is a prelude to failure. Vending machines never ask me a question that I don’t know the answer to. The exchange is reduced to the transaction: money in, product out. Why can’t people be more like that?”

– Ken Levine, Studio President & Creative Director

This stream of consciousness became the touchstone we kept coming back to for the character and ultimately the entire game. “Judas,” as she came to be known, understands machines in a way she can never understand people. That became her greatest strength… and greatest weakness. We put her in a science fiction world, a colony ship filled with robots — a futuristic setting that makes someone like her extremely powerful. But it’s also a world where personal success hinges on how well you can conform to the rules, because dissent would lead to the failure of the mission. That makes her an outlaw, a pariah — a Judas. That tension at the heart of the character came to inform everything about the game, which we stopped thinking of as an FPS and started calling a “Judas Simulator.” Everything comes back to that core idea of you interacting with the world as Judas.

December 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM

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His odds "tumbled" from 96% to 94%, clearly it's all over for Zohran.

Polymarket screenshot showing the odds for the New York City mayoral election, with Mamdani given 94% chance of winning (down 2%).

November 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM

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He claims his confession was because he was "hacked" but the guy clearly doesn't speak Japanese.

A tweet from Colonel Otaku Gatekeeper claiming that Ubisoft is promoting Assassin's Creed Shadows in Japan in Chinese. He appears to have based this claim on the text ”好評発売中” which is, in fact, Japanese.

October 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM

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September 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM

McFidget

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Also, Microsoft is aiding genocide.
Boycott Xbox.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

www.bdsmovement.net/news/boycott...

However, Unit 8200 sources said intelligence drawn from the enormous repositories of phone calls held in Azure had been used to research and identify bombing targets in Gaza. One of the sources said that when planning an airstrike on an individual located within densely populated areas where high numbers of civilians are present, officers would use the cloud-based system to examine calls made by people in the immediate vicinity.

The sources also said use of the system had increased during the campaign in Gaza, which has killed more than 60,000 people in the territory, the majority of whom are civilians, including over 18,000 children.

But the initial focus of the system was the West Bank, where an estimated 3 million Palestinians live under Israeli military occupation. Unit 8200 sources said the information stored in Azure amounted to a rich repository of intelligence about its population that some in the unit claimed had been used to blackmail people, place them in detention, or even justify their killing after the fact.

“When they need to arrest someone and there isn’t a good enough reason to do so, that’s where they find the excuse,” one said, referring to the information stored in the cloud.

August 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM

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It's nice that the author reveals himself to be a crazed conspiracy theorist relatively early in the article.

Some recent examples of the failure to make sense out of what is obviously happening directly in front of our noses include, but are hardly limited to: the Russiagate conspiracy theory, for which The New York Times and Washington Post awarded themselves Pulitzer Prizes; the necessity of wearing masks outdoors and closing down schools for almost two years in order to limit the spread of COVID-19; the origins of the coronavirus in a Chinese lab rather than “in nature”; the failure of half-a-century-long, massively well-funded efforts directed by central government scientific agencies like the NIH to cure cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, a failure which in the case of Alzheimer’s was due to a decades-long scientific fraud; treating the rise of autism as somehow a “natural phenomenon” that could be safely ignored; the reality that social media was routinely censored by platform owners, often at the direction of the U.S. government, on subjects ranging from COVID-19, to the 2020 election, to domestic spying; the idea that voting machines were altered to deny Donald Trump the presidency in 2020; the denial that there was, also, at the same time, in that same year, a highly successful elite-level effort to deny Trump the presidency, as described by Molly Ball in her impeccably sourced postelection cover story in Time magazine; Barack Obama’s role as puppeteer-in-chief of the Biden administration, during which Joe Biden himself was clearly senile, as the reporters covering him recently rushed to admit after scornfully insisting otherwise during his presidency. And that is only a very short list, which is notable chiefly because none of these large-scale misapprehensions of reality, many of which were entirely deliberate, and can therefore safely be described as propaganda, appear to have had even the slightest negative repercussions for the people who propagated them, even after they were conclusively proved to be false.

July 31, 2025 at 5:47 PM

McFidget

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There's the famicom version of Bionic Commando, or "Hitler's Resurrection: Top Secret" as it was called.

Screenshot comparison of the Japanese and English language releases of Bionic Commando showing that Nazi swastika emblems in the Japanese version are replaced with eagle emblems in the English version.

July 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM

McFidget

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What about villains? Like Christopher Lee in The Castle of Fu Manchu. Although considering the amount of B movies he did it's probably more surprising that MST3K only did one of them (Rifftrax has done more though).

DVD cover for MST3K Presents The Castle of Fu Manchu

July 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM

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And not surprising.

Twitter screenshot of Elon's likes, showing that he liked a tweet saying "if you look like this DM me ASAP" accompanied by multiple pictures of Misa Amane from Death Note.

July 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM

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Delicious Tacos: “arguably the most successful, most well-respected figure in contemporary alt-lit”

If you saw the man known as Delicious Tacos at your local dog park, playing fetch with his girlfriend’s pug, as I did, you would likely clock him as an ordinary, gray haired, middle aged, middle class Angeleno, and probably not assume he writes highly sexualized, racially insensitive transgressive fiction and is arguably the most successful, most well-respected figure in contemporary alt-lit.

A recovering alcoholic and a sex addict, Tacos describes his work as part memoir, part fiction, with the occasional topical riff. It is aggressively masculine, a peek inside the depravities of the unchecked male id. While that gaze is no longer popular in mainstream literature, many readers have found Tacos’ writing to be refreshingly honest — to others, needlessly offensive. His books have at times cracked the top 10 list on Amazon for American fiction and he’s sold 26,000 books across his titles, making him the breakout star of indie literature. A selection from his most popular, 2016’s The Pussy, details how the protagonist wants to be a “human hose … permanently coupled to a never ending mountain of ovulating 13 year old Asian schoolgirls. Perpetually blasting hot yogurty goo into impossibly tight wet adolescent cunts.”

July 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM

McFidget

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The best one.

Quote tweet in Japanese, google translated to "Even the Tower of Babel could not separate us."

July 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM

McFidget

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Honestly, having Bolland's "Fist of Dredd" panel on the £10 note would be pretty sweet.

The famous "Gaze into the fist of Dredd" art by Brian Bolland from the Judge Dredd story "Judge Death Lives!"

July 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM

McFidget

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Wait, enhance.

Emaqi...

It's a Trap!
Abort! Abort!

Screenshot of an Anime News Network article about the AI localization company Orange Inc. releasing the manga series "Dealing With Mikadono Sisters is a Breeze" on their storefront "emaqi".

July 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM

McFidget

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The same thing's been happening to other sites as well.

Screenshot from the website Adventure Gamers showing an article titled "Best Online Casinos That Pay Real Money in the USA 2025" and links to other gambling related articles.

July 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM

McFidget

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Do you have any comment on the rest of what they said? I have seen a number of translators express concern about ANN running an advertorial for an AI localisation company.