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Dinosaurs, history lessons and a beauty shrine. Welcome to Fukui prefecture, as hosted by, you guessed it....

Oh come on. The memes write themselves in the AI thread, I've been diligently invoking her in the bakery thread, now The Anti-AM has to come and be mentioned here? (Actually, has anyone checked the lilmonix3 Xitter account, or has she jumped to Bluesky? )

Well, Iaconian roofs used to be more of an orange hue, before the Great War....

Omni Productions Ginrai: "I'm Optimus Prime. I'm Japanese." Chris McFeely: "Well yes, but actually no..."

Sadly, it looks to be an American event, but I believe it will be streamed. There's been no word over whether it will be in cosplay -- although it would make a nice tie-in to the Chainsaw Man movie if they did (Julia has in my opinion been the go-to Makima performer on these shores, and Stella...

So... PrimalxConvoy, do you remember talking about your girlfriend's martial prowess? I was reminded of that when I saw this post elseweb. It seems that two anime fans whose cosplays I have been showing off in the anime thread here are having themselves a competition.... (The one on the left...

Wow, that's a nice bit of crossover fun/homaging for post #200. Please thank Mighty Mollusk for finding that. (I think it's only fair, as I had the 100th post in this thread, that our primary player of the Grand Literary Saga have the 200th. It's been quite the journey for both of us.) This...

So... something of an update. Since my re-publication of the fic in question, I have received 37 views, and 6 people have put me on Author Alert. Of those, three have offered to make fanart -- using suspiciously similar wording. So, it may be that there is a fair bit of bot activity going on.

Not that we couldn't have used that message back in the Livejournal and IRC days -- to say nothing of Usenet! But, some evils never really seem to die, but persist perennially as a counterforce....

And speaking of desserts, summer also means ice cream weather!

Okay, so... I admit I'm known for my fixed ideas about AI and what we might expect from it, but I had to pass this along from my Tube of You recommendations. Over the past couple of weeks, I have been inundated with videos made using Google's Veo3, usually something comedic along the lines of...

I recently noticed that Thunderbeak's wiki page does use "he/him/his" to refer to the character, and until we get a clearer picture it might be prudent to use singular "they/them/theirs". It can always be reverted if we end up with another JBW Airrazor.

Obligatory (at least for me) response to the notion of an AI amusing itself, especially in response to unbreakable instructions....

It didn't seem prudent, all things considered, to enter the United States. I wish it were otherwise, but that's not up to me. Still, I look forward to the reports.

I will be expecting a "Somehow, President Skroob returned" line, however.

Cybertronic Spree Rodimus just keeps finding ways to surprise us....

There was also the whole Ratchet-all-alone-on-the-run-from-the-one-mech-army business for two issues -- but that was all the way back when Furman was the regular writer for IDW-2005-G1, so one can be forgiven for forgetting it. Because damn, time has indeed flown.

Here we are: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Bokukko

It's only anecdata, but I did once know an (ethnic Korean, which further complicated things socially) Japanese-emigrant female acquaintance back in my university days who also used "boku" when self-referring. I'm a little fuzzy on usage-in-culture, but I believe I've seen references on TV...

Whovians have been a cranky lot since at least 1982, often deriding the current offerings as cheap panto unworthy of the diamond logo. Arguably the RTD2 era has been even more harshly scrutinized, since he brought the diamond logo back for 14 and 15. And yet, while the Eurovision parody was...