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Why am I not a grownup? I’ve been here for so many years.

I feel seen.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 5:34 PM on May 18, 2024

Didn't read much of her work, but greatly enjoyed what I have read.

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posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 7:29 AM on May 15, 2024

I like everything about the portrait except the red color.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 7:27 AM on May 15, 2024

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posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 7:06 AM on May 12, 2024

This really sums things up.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 7:19 AM on May 11, 2024

What i like crows very much said.

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posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 11:48 AM on May 8, 2024

the Keys, in particular, do not deserve him.

Yes.

The center of my own town is a notable local museum, which tracks. I tried it on the largest city close to me, Newark, NJ, and it took me to the intersection of Broad and Market, roughly in the south-middle of downtown. It's mostly shopping and restaurants around there, with the Prudential Center arena a block or two away.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 6:23 AM on May 6, 2024

I've been browsing the Artist Alley since it launched and have been impressed by the diversity of projects and such there. The "doing a bit" tag is the most fun (and the one I'm most likely to use myself in the future; I currently don't have any projects I feel the need to advertise). Artist Alley overall seems to be fairly popular, and I hope it helps shore up Cohost's finances a bit.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 7:39 AM on May 3, 2024

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posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 1:20 PM on May 1, 2024

h/t

Also, perhaps I'm showing my Xennial by mixing up Michael Cera and John Cena when it came to the first part.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 6:52 AM on April 27, 2024

Seeing Oxford commas on Global Tetrahedron's About page in between all the bits about bloodthirstiness and embezzlement warms my heart.

I love it when fans have the money to do this sort of thing.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 7:13 PM on April 25, 2024

I want the stories of Herbert Kornfeld's shortie, who doubtless works for them muthafuckas in Payabo by now.

My husband and I still joke about reeceevin' and Applebeez all these years later.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 9:41 AM on April 26, 2024

Never stopped being pseudonymous in public social spaces online (LinkedIn being the one exception for practical reasons, but I stopped using that a long time ago). The shift to presenting your "real" self weirded me out.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 7:27 AM on April 23, 2024

I stopped following the Retronauts podcast and Parrish himself when he, without warning, spoiled the big, dramatic bits of the first Klonoa without warning. This was around the time of the Wii remake, when Klonoa was still an obscure franchise that very few people had played. At the time, I had become a fan of Klonoa via the second game, and was really looking forward to playing the first, which I hadn't before. I immediately shut off the podcast after the first spoiler, and later found out the… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 6:15 AM on April 22, 2024

The episode was not about Klonoa generally and was framed in the context of the remake-- plus there was no reason to drop those spoilers so specifically.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 8:09 AM on April 22, 2024

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posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 6:55 AM on April 19, 2024

WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?

The sun?

I'll see myself out...
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 4:54 PM on April 17, 2024

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posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 3:54 PM on April 15, 2024

There's one good one in NYC, mentioned in some of the links too.

That is a very good one, but it's always busy. Whenever I'm in Midtown, my preferred restroom stops are in the Rockefeller Center concourse (also frequently busy, but seemingly less so than Bryant Park) and any of the ones in Macy's on 34th St. They're not as fancy, but tend to be clean and no-nonsense. I really wouldn't mind seeing more Bryant Park-style restrooms elsewhere in the city, though.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 12:08 PM on April 15, 2024

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posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 7:51 AM on April 11, 2024

There's a surface story here about a guy who killed his wife and got away with it in court. That story sucks and maybe comes to one conclusion now that OJ's dead. But there's a deeper cultural story here that is what we're all thinking about. About celebrity and the legal system and racial politics.

Chris Rock did a great bit about it back in 1996:

“That was all about race.” That shit wasn’t about race. That shit was about fame.… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 8:27 AM on April 11, 2024

Mahalo, Akebono.

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posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 7:35 AM on April 11, 2024

In essence - and I think this is why the review upset and angered me - I think that the reviewer is one of a number of people that are really missing out on a real swell of what could be anti-capitalist anger here, and because they're dismissing it as 'ugh, gross, reactionary gender politics, everyone involved must be gross', they're driving those people further to the right and missing out on genuine populist anger at the failures of industrial capitalism.… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 7:15 AM on April 10, 2024

We drove to Cleveland yesterday. We'll see how the weather goes.

Envious of friends in southern Illinois who have the path of totality going right over their house.

One final note: the new Wondermark is delightful.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 6:08 AM on April 8, 2024

Morris County checking in, about 20 miles from the epicenter! The husband and I had spent roughly a decade in California's Bay Area before moving back to Jersey in 2019. When we heard the house rattling this morning, it felt so much like the earthquakes we had experienced then that that was my first guess, but I couldn't believe it. We looked it up afterwards and sure enough.

Weird that both horrible wildfire smoke and earthquakes would follow us here.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 11:14 AM on April 5, 2024

Just had an aftershock. I felt that one.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 3:00 PM on April 5, 2024

Maybe we'll have fewer Sad Boy Ballads, but after Loreen's victory last year, double the number of singers lying down, and maybe some bonus panini presses, too.

Not happy about Israel's participation this time but Europe gonna Europe -_-;

Now to figure out what Swedish treats I want to bake for this year's shindig...
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 6:01 PM on April 3, 2024

I'm all for this, but it's a bit of a hobby of mine to read these types of press-releases and watch developers slowly, ever so carefully, avoid the word 'co-op'.

Yeah, I was reading this and thinking, "this is basically the community garden/food co-op model, right?" Never heard the term "agrihood" before, but it does sound like developer marketing-speak.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 6:55 AM on April 2, 2024

I heard about this last night, via a friend who's much more into Western comics than I am. I've had Hip Hop Family Tree sitting on my "to read" pile for years, which I picked up after reading a few entries on Boing Boing. No way I'll be able to read more of it now. As my friend noted, there's just too much "ick" here. It's Alec Holowka all over again.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 6:26 AM on April 2, 2024

In Another World with My Smartphone Dictionary.

I actually like some modern isekai, though the good ones are few and far between. Also, some older ones, like Magic Knight Rayearth, have held up fairly well.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 10:22 AM on March 30, 2024

I found last year's Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon rather droll.

Yeah, that one was pretty good! A manga/light novel reviewer I follow found it better than he had expected, and the same turned out to be true for the anime. One aspect of it that I particularly liked is that the main character is a grown-ass adult who just happened to be a vending machine otaku before Truck-kun sends him to the other world. His… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 3:52 PM on March 30, 2024

Good thing they mentioned Weird NJ, the American gold standard for folklore zines, otherwise I would've chucked that entire article down Shades of Death Road.

The Weird NJ guys were also responsible for a (now mostly out of print) series of books called Weird US, which included entries for many states.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 12:06 PM on March 28, 2024

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posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 11:58 AM on March 28, 2024

I had no idea he was still around. Along with various Dr. Seuss titles, I would check out the Babar books from my local library constantly when I was a kid. Later, as an adult, I bought The Art of Babar from a used bookstore on a whim. Of course, I'm well aware of the Babar books' problematic aspects now, but even as a kid, I knew these were older stories, with all that entails.

Also, elephants were one of my favorite animals when I… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 5:09 PM on March 25, 2024

What is the food on the plastic lid?
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 1:45 PM on March 25, 2024

As a longtime collector of other things, reading about collecting in general tends to be fun and interesting, so thanks for this post!

The book club problem seems unique to this hobby; there are budget reissues for other collectibles (the PlayStation "Greatest Hits" budget line comes to mind for video games), but they are typically very easy to spot. However, just like with book club editions, some video game budget reissues can be valuable.… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 7:11 AM on March 21, 2024

The whole "Minute Nine" thing is a bit weird. Apparently there's a whole series of these? I know that a lot of screenplays are written to the page and thus to the minute, and I'm left wondering if there's a scriptwriting beat at minute nine that is taught in classes?

I took a scriptwriting class as part of a media arts major in university. Pacing by the page is definitely a standard practice (iirc, the goal is one minute per page, including… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 7:21 PM on March 20, 2024

Since the Creme Eggs hijacked much of the Mini Egg discussion recently, maybe we should start talking about how awesome Mini Eggs are here. It's only fair, right?

I kid... maybe.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 6:31 AM on March 19, 2024

On topic: I don't like Creme Eggs but even if I did, that mayo sounds disgusting.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 6:34 AM on March 19, 2024

When I was younger, I liked the Hershey's mini eggs quite a bit. Never as much as Cadbury's, but they were still legit.

I haven't had the Hershey's mini eggs in years, though. Can't say for sure if they're still good. I mainly stick to the Cadbury ones (and having discovered Lindt chocolate rabbits last year, those too).
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 6:19 PM on March 17, 2024

I agree with some others here that Watchmen is a poor choice, and that Maus or The Dark Knight Returns would be good alternatives-- especially Maus, which is just as influential as the other two, and has aged better than either one of them.

As for the other graphic novels on the list, the Will Eisner entry is fine, but I've never even heard of Sabrina before. I would've gone with Black Hole, personally.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 7:22 AM on March 16, 2024

I wonder if video games like Singstar would've even existed without karaoke.

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posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 6:19 AM on March 16, 2024

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posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 2:19 PM on March 14, 2024

atomicstone: Oh no. I'm currently planning a DC vacation for this summer with my mom and husband, and a George Santos Congressional Tour sounds just funny enough to be tempting. God dammit.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 3:20 PM on March 8, 2024

When I heard the news last night, I thought about sharing it here, but I couldn't do it. I was too stunned and didn't know what to say.

Dragon Ball wasn't my first exposure to anime, but it was an early one which has stuck with me. I'm an even bigger fan of Dragon Quest, and have numerous figures of characters and monsters from the series, plus plushies and other merch featuring the iconic Slime. I'm playing Yakuza: Like a… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 7:47 AM on March 8, 2024

Indie games aren't faring much better under Warner, either.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 7:47 AM on March 7, 2024

If the name of your movie is also the name of a character in said movie, it should be disqualified from this analysis. Barbie? Fucking It??? Come on.

True, but the list of movies where the name of the title character is only said once throughout the whole film is fascinating.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 8:34 AM on March 4, 2024

Thorzdad: Now I wonder how pineapple in brownies would be. I bet they'd be good in or on a blondie, and I do have pineapple jam in the fridge and blondie mix in the cupboard. Hmm...
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 8:14 AM on March 2, 2024

I read this post shortly before coming here. Incredible.

The entire site rules. Yes, I am proud FFVIII liker. I originally heard about it via Ars Technica.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 12:31 PM on February 27, 2024

I am also a Houseplant Murderer. Have one slowly dying right now! When we got our side beds relandscaped, I made damn sure the plants were low maintenance. Those plants, at least, are mostly thriving.
posted to MetaFilter by May Kasahara at 6:28 AM on February 26, 2024