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mick gordon fucking ruining my hearing

holy shit, that was a fucking shitshow. they spent all that time to announce a travel advisory to SK and Italy, and for Trump to gloat about basically anything he can think of

and then "America needs to refinance its debt with lower rates"?? demanding the fed lower rates again??

announcing tax cuts for the middle class and preemptively accusing democrats of blocking their passage??

12 factor honestly sounds like a crock of shit tbh

I have published ages-prs, a crate for encoding and decoding PRS-compressed data for SEGA games made during and after the Saturn. #rust https://crates.io/crates/ages-prs

it's a weird convention that Rust crates published to registries tend to use - as a word divider, even though it's not a valid character for a symbol in Rust, and as a result those crates have the - replaced with _ when actually in use

this VS Code color scheme is asking me to pay a subscription license for it

why is nintendo allowing the switch eshop to be flooded with so much shovelware

eden's verse: fulmination's music is fucking SICK what the fuck

couldn't get on awoo all day because my isp's dns server has the ip cached for way too long and i couldn't figure out how to get firefox dns over https working

new! Moon

@karma good luck!

burnout brain: but you can totally build a quake-like engine from scratch in 1 week

no! nope

i'm thinking maybe i should cut myself some slack and actually take a break from work this week instead of taking a break to code something exceedingly difficult to make

The more I think about it, the more I feel that Rebellion is not the followup that I expect it to be. But maybe that's for good reason.

Rebellion is a rumination on itself. Rebellion is self-absorbed in the same way people criticize the entire postmodernist philosophical movement for. Rebellion rejects itself and ultimately becomes a farce which obviates the entire franchise.

Maybe that is the point. Maybe we have to look at Rebellion in its broader cultural context to really understand it.

The first time I watched Rebellion, when it had its limited theatrical run in the US, I really enjoyed the movie but I thought it was kind of counterproductive to the themes of the anime.

Having finished it again just now with a fresh analysis and renewed love for the original anime series, I have even more complicated feelings about it.

I appreciate its observations on the curse of knowledge that was touched upon in the anime. Knowledge is isolating. Homura's Isolation Chamber is a literal manifestation of that. There's imagery of the forbidden fruit.

But I can't help that its narrative feels like it meanders between several different ideas, unsure of what overarching statement it wants to make, and ultimately ends up in a scenario where it is forced to negate the meaning of the anime's ending. It's as if the very hope the anime conveyed succumbed to nihilism. It seems ill placed as a conclusion to the main story.

There's a lot to be said about Homura's selfishness in bringing about a world where hope again doesn't exist, and instead we simply forget the horrible reality of the world they lived in. Homura takes the burden of hope away and instead shoulders the responsibility of despair on the Incubators. It's basically a revenge fantasy. I think in isolation the narrative of the movie does come together. But it ultimately doesn't quite feel right in context.

When I first watched Rebellion, I accepted that I would take the anime's ending as the true ending, but enjoy Rebellion's narrative by itself. Even having matured as a person since then, and coming to appreciate the anime all the more, I think this second watch has reinforced my thoughts on Rebellion. Which comes as a bit of a bittersweet disappointment.

archive.org is fucking awesome