Miyazaki [Chat]

wandering

Chanus

it's true

Trace

that is not a bad movie poster

desc

let's talk about the punishment of excommunication for failing to post a chat in a timely manner

BeNarwhal

45 seconds away from my [chat] coup, wandering

Be careful!

Kid Presentable

RedTide

And here I was expecting a loving treatise on a brilliant man's work. Chat truly is God's unwanted child.

desc

"Garment workers' strike on Los Angeles Street," Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, February 18, 1948

BeNarwhal

desc wrote: »

let's talk about the punishment of excommunication for failing to post a chat in a timely manner

In my OP that only barely wasn't, I declared my candidacy for [chat]-Creator-For-Life

For the good of the people, of course

You understand

wandering

RedTide wrote: »

And here I was expecting a loving treatise on a brilliant man's work. Chat truly is God's unwanted child.

wandering wrote: »

Kiki's Delivery Service is playing in theaters tonight, but we decided to save some money and watch it at home.

As I'm sure you folks know this is a warm-hearted film about growing up and going out into the world for the first time, the joy of connecting with and helping other people, the bittersweetness of growing apart from the people you grew up with, the nobility of work, the pain of social anxiety and depression, etc.

I dunno if I've ever called it my favorite Miyazaki film but it's probably always been the one I've related to most strongly. It captures the excitement of leaving home for the first time - it makes me think of the time I went off to school when I was 15. And I’ve also always related to its astute depiction of social anxiety. I love the scene where Kiki is having a good time hanging out with a boy, and then the gang of kids the boy hangs out with suddenly rolls up and Kiki, afraid of being judged by them, quickly excuses herself and runs off.

Miyazaki’s synonymous with fantasy and phantasmagoria but I like how the fantasy elements are almost incidental in this film. It’s more slice-of-life than fantasy, which lets you appreciate that Miyazaki is great not just at constructing crazy fantasy universes but also at observing humanity and constructing lovable characters. You could almost imagine a totally realist version of the film where Kiki does her deliveries with a bicycle instead of a flying broomstick.

One element of the movie that hit me especially hard this time around is the plotline where

Kiki loses the ability to talk to her cat, Jiji. Why it happens is never spelled out, but it happens soon after Jiji starts developing a relationship with a lady cat next door, and there is no indication that Jiji and Kiki ever relearn how to talk to each other.

Anyway I thought it was a potent metaphor for how people naturally grow apart over time.

…Perhaps it’s also a good metaphor for my relationship with Miyazaki’s films. As you can tell, I still love Miyazaki’s films, and am still affected by them… but I probably don’t love them with anywhere near the same intensity that I did when I was a teenager. That’s life, I guess. You change, you grow, you grow apart from some things and closer to others.

--

A note on the dub: we went back and forth on whether we wanted to watch the sub or the dub, but ultimately settled on the dub, largely on the strength of the late great Phil Hartman’s performance as Jiji the cat.



Anyway we were surprised to discover as we were watching the film that the latest release has stripped out a lot of Hartman’s lovely ad-libbed dialogue. I guess the intent is to make the dub more faithful to the original, but, man, what a bummer. Hartman’s interpretation of Jiji is pure gold and personally I’m not someone who thinks translations/adaptations need to be strictly literal or perfectly faithful.

I hesitate to print some of his ad-libbed lines - since they’re funny more because of the delivery than because of the lines themselves, but to pick one of many examples, there used to be an exchange where Kiki says “I think I hear cows” and Hartman fires back: “I think I *smell* cows”.

The last words to show up on screen in the dubbed version of the film are:



They could’ve honored his performance in this film by at least giving the option on the Blu-ray to play the film with the original version of the dub. My copies of the Lord of the Rings extended editions have approximately five billion audio commentaries so I know it’s possible!

Chanus

desc wrote: »

https://68.media.tumblr.com/b6509ad38df06c7a24bc37a85d046f72/tumblr_ov29aeqn4s1tcqhjho1_540.jpg

"Garment workers' strike on Los Angeles Street," Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, February 18, 1948

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQJrE8G4tyw

knitdan

Sorry everyone I was pooping and got distracted

bloodyroarxx

Oh wow they casted a black lady as Starfire in live action Teen Titans, based Berlanti and co.

Blameless Cleric

wandering coming through as usual

BeNarwhal

I had my troops lined up on the banks of the Rubicon, is all I'm saying

simonwolf

desc

cc @simonwolf

matt has a problem

laughing my off ass

Couscous

https://twitter.com/dosnostalgic/status/620385252880609280

None of the modern retro games really attempt to replicate the feel of having to do this stuff.

They would need to add in a 1 in 10 chance of everything just going wrong regardless of what you do to really capture the feeling.

Chanus

LOAD "POOLRAD",8,1

syndalis

Couscous wrote: »

https://twitter.com/dosnostalgic/status/620385252880609280

None of the modern retro games really attempt to replicate the feel of having to do this stuff.

They would need to add in a 1 in 10 chance of everything just going wrong regardless of what you do to really capture the feeling.

The perils of owning games that required either EMS or XMS memory, and having to set up config.sys boot loaders.

HerrCron

https://www.mtlblog.com/amp/quebec-is-banning-super-nintendo-from-the-province

Quebec's treachery knows no bounds.

syndalis

DOS=HIGH,UMB

BeNarwhal

HerrCron wrote: »

https://www.mtlblog.com/amp/quebec-is-banning-super-nintendo-from-the-province

Quebec's treachery knows no bounds.

I always held firm to my belief that the Quebecois and the rest of Canada could live in harmony

Now I don't know what to think ...

Henroid

wandering wrote: »

I'm sorry.

Donnicton

Couscous wrote: »

https://twitter.com/dosnostalgic/status/620385252880609280

None of the modern retro games really attempt to replicate the feel of having to do this stuff.

They would need to add in a 1 in 10 chance of everything just going wrong regardless of what you do to really capture the feeling.

SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1

syndalis

zepherin

knitdan wrote: »

Sorry everyone I was pooping and got distracted

I understand

Henroid

syndalis wrote: »

But what IRQ is it?

Elki

syndalis

Henroid wrote: »

syndalis wrote: »

But what IRQ is it?

two posts above yours, irq 5 dma 1 obs.

21stCentury

Just saw The Hitman's Bodyguard.

I love Ryan Reynolds.

I love Samuel L. Jackson.





They have good chemistry and the movie is very funny.

bloodyroarxx

Complete AC:Origins map......thats alot of sand

Cambiata

I have to share this somewhere. My mother still sends me copies of the Wanderer, "The Nation's oldest Catholic newspaper", even though she's perfectly aware that I think it's full of madness. Usually it goes straight in to recycling or into the shredder for my composter, but every once in a while I read a few lines just to see how mad they've gotten at this point. Today, I read:

A nation’s descent into disaster needn’t begin with the outburst of a horrific war. At least not a conventional war with aerial battles and troops massing on the ground.
Indeed, in a nuclear-missile age, these sorts of confrontations may be bypassed. Think of sudden-death threats from North Korea. But a giant of a nation like the United States can be crippled in other ways, too.
On the non-military front, the removal of checks and balances in a system can dangerously overload its proper functioning.
And lack of social restraints can unleash the forces of mob psychology, inducing people to do what they wouldn’t if held to account for their individual actions. Think of photos of lynchings, with crowd members remorselessly facing cameras while victims hang from limbs in the background.

So far: wow, pretty normal! All good points that everyone can agree on, even this crazy newspaper! Could they be ramping up to a disavowal of neo-Nazis? Not an outright criticism of Trump, of course, that would be a step too far, but still... maybe they can recall that Catholics were not the best treated by the first round of Nazis in power, that we even got a few saints out of Auschwitz like Maximillian Kolbe?

HA HA NOPE. Turns out the real Nazis are people who criticize Trump too hard!

Political lynching has its own mob scenes, with the crowd members and cameramen working as one to destroy a victim who challenges their cozy cliques. It’s ironic if their reputed concern over racism leads them into inexcusable behavior that they might otherwise reject.
Boiling with resentment when outsider Donald Trump defeated the establishment-anointed leftist Hillary Clinton for president last November, neighbors in the dominant-media hood have been tightening their coils on Trump ever since. They escalated any word, any action of his that they disliked into an unlikely outrage.

Donnicton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_A1GNx0M9M

matt has a problem

Nickie comes home orientation day for Henry at his new school, "I met his new teacher, her name is Mrs. Ooble."

"Ooble? how do you spell that?"

"U-B-L."

"...our son's teacher's last name is Usama bin Laden's initials."

"She's Canadian!"

Kana

One of the korean words for "you" from a elder/superior to younger/inferior is "niga"

Korean hip hop, unsurprisingly, tends to use it a fair bit, since hip hop as a genre loves trash talk and talking to someone like they're a kid is a natural word choice

Of course Korean hip hop also loves throwing in English words, often not pronounced super accurately. Not to mention borrowing ideas from black American artists, often without understanding the context behind it other that they think it is cool.

So it's a bit of a relief that in this case, nope, just a wacky language thing, Korean rappers aren't constantly dropping n-bombs.

BeNarwhal

21stCentury wrote: »

Just saw The Hitman's Bodyguard.

I love Ryan Reynolds.

I love Samuel L. Jackson.





They have good chemistry and the movie is very funny.

I've been low-key looking forward to that movie, I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it!

I won't see it in theatres because $$$, but I do intend to view it, oh, say, 6ish months from now >_>

knitdan

BeNarwhal wrote: »

I had my troops lined up on the banks of the Rubicon, is all I'm saying

This is the best pooping euphemism and I'm going to use it all the time now

Shazkar Shadowstorm

I had 2 pints on an empty stomach and it was enough to make me say I'm drunkish I deserve ramen so I'm eating ramen alone at this restraurant's bar and it was a good idea

knitdan

Hey Philippe what should we call this desert in the middle of everything?

Eh, mon ami, eet ees how you say, "Isolated Desert"