Recent content by Vashdaman

Ah thanks so much @ayase @Rui and @RadFemHedonist for the words. You lot, and this place in general, have truly helped me cope with so much over the years and have helped me become a better person too, so I doubt I'd be in this position without you, and I mean that sincerely:)

I got engaged last night! Yeah I'm really engaged man. I mean, I know this is were the journey really begins, but that's what's so exciting. It was so nice how it happened, because neither me nor her actually made any proposal! Seriously, it just somehow...happened. It was like "hey, whoa, we're...

Nice review, Ian! This sounds pretty cool. I, like probably many of us, remember being an insanely in the closet anime fan throughout my teenage years, it's so odd to think back to how much shame I felt about liking anime, to the point of even actually trying to stop watching it. That totally...

ICJ's rulings in South Africa's case of genocide against Israel are surprisingly good and are surely historic in being one of the few times Israel hasn't got it's way. I don't hold any hope of Israel willingly complying to any of its orders, since that would effectively mean stopping the...

Oh totally I know they're getting made because they're popular, I mean most of them sound like the opposite of passion projects. But it's the popularity of them that's the deep part. What I'm interested in is why exactly it is so many people like this stuff, it's surely reflective of some deeper...

This sounds proper good! Always appreciate your episode mini reviews, Rui. I usually watch on average about zero of the new shows every season, so your write ups give me an intriguing insight into what the anime landscape is like. I have to say though, most of the descriptions do leave me...

Seeing what is happening to the Palestinians unfolding before our eyes like this is honestly one of the most angering and heart breaking things I've experienced. The sense of helplessness and injustice is horrible. I cannot believe the US has allowed this to carry on so long unabated and...

Just to add a note of hope to my previous post though. I don't think it has to necessarily go that way, it could be used to genuinely uplift and improve our lives. I agree with ayase that it'll probably take a radical transformation of our society to achieve that positive application. But I...

Interesting responses. Despite some (maybe most) in here quite liking the idea of a more truly intelligent or cognisant AI, and for sure recognising the uses of current AI in things like the medical field, or ayase hoping for a robot judgement day, I'm kind of surprised that basically everyone...

Ok this is a thread about AI. know everyone seems to be talking about it, and for me it certainly can get pretty tiresome as I don't have all that much interest in this technology as it currently stands, I'm a bit of half hearted neo luddite if you will. However, it does seem clear that we are...

That sounds pretty good, I'd like to know what that is too!

Pig At the start it almost seems to be setting itself up as a sort of more artsy version of a Liam Neeson Taken kind of thing, instead the daughter is a pig. But it's the opposite of that, a strange, delicate and beautiful film about love and loss. Cage is brilliant. Hanging Garden This was...

I suppose you could look at the film as less of a comment on climate change and more riffing on Japan's more inherent natural precariousness. But I'm not sure I buy the argument that the Japanese are in general more blasé about the global climate crisis we're in, especially when so many of us...

Oh I definitely share your distaste for the whole just work hard and everything will be ok schtick, and I suppose you're right the film is a bit different from Your Name in the but I see it as a bizarrely hopeless and blasé comment when in the context of climate change, which I couldn't help...

Weathering With You The only Shinkai film I think I've seen before was Your Name. At the time, the jury in my head was a bit hung , but there was certainly something about the ideals of that film that I found left an unpleasant aftertaste. But after watching his follow up big anime blockbuster...