Toei uploaded the English dub for Digimon Beatbreak, so I decided to give it a watch. The world seems pretty interesting, with Digimon being monsters that feed on an energy emitted from humans. It reminds me a bit of Data Squad. The leader of the Glowing Dawn has the coolest looking Digimon so far, but I do like the gremlin voice for Gekkomon. Hope it has a decent looking Champion digivolution. #Animestr

With all the hype surrounding X Money's beta release and Strike's full availability, it's time to reduce amount of people I follow. Since the goal of the "Western Everything App," I have tried to stick to the following: Only follow people I would be comfortable tipping. This "limits" my enjoyment of social media, but it's an aspect of the experience I want. I like that it adds an extra level of engagement to the standard reply/like/repost formula, which has become stale. That's why I like Nostr so much. When someone I follow posts something that resonates with me, I can tip them a couple of dollars to show my appreciation. This is in addition to the general exposure to my followers.

The current 3x3 cycle has come around to animes but since I already posted my 3x3 for it I decided to do one for cartoons. Just looking at my selection Warner Bros really did have a stranglehold on my childhood. It was difficult to not pick anything that didn't air on Cartoon Network. Even afterwards it feels wrong not having K.N.D, Ben 10, a DC cartoon or a Scooby-Doo show in my 3x3. I should make a second one.

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I got dat square juice. 100% Square flavor.

Man ZEZTZ just keeps getting better and better! I do wonder if Catastrom breaking is what caused the moon to turn red? It seems odd that the imagery of the form breaking is the beginning of the intro in reverse.

Scream 7 was an interesting film. In many ways, it reminded me of the Halloween remake. Specifically, the relationship between the final girl and her daughter is similar, except in Scream, it played out as you'd expect. I think it's pretty good compared to the others, but I feel like the writers are stuck on what to do with Ghostface. These fandom killers really take me out of the movie, and I haven't been a fan of them since Scream 5. It was cringe, but fun, in that movie, but now? It just feels like the same old "obsessed fans are awful" take every time. Still, it's probably my favorite of the Fandom trilogy and I like they way they did the nostalgia bait in this. It felt timely. #Cinemastr

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THE MIRACLE ON ICE PART 2 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

Man ZEZTZ is just too good

Given that announcement of a new dot hack game, I feel like doing a rewatch/replay of the franchise.

I'm considering taking my website off the Old Net. I don't need it there anymore, and I'm tired of it. Given how the future of the current web is turning out, planting seeds in the growing alternative web is the smarter play. Unfortunately, development in new domains is pretty slow. While it might be beneficial to wait until ICANN releases the new domains, it's better to act now than wait. My final setup should resemble this: IPFS: Main site Nostr: NPub Pro Web3: Paragraph Atproto: Leaflet

The AI adaptation of Hideshi Hino's Living Corpse is a peculiar work. First, it's a feature length film. This makes me wonder what the budget for the film is. People on Twitter talk about spending thousands, but they could only generate a five minute video. Since this is a feature length film, it must be pretty costly. Strangely, even though the voice actors are Japanese (Hiroshi Tamura, Shigeru Saiki, Hinako Saeki, Shiro Sano, Tsuyoshi Toshiki, and Junji Ito), it's in English. I'm not sure why they didn't use an AI voice bank to produce Japanese voices. Perhaps they're trying to secure a brief American theatrical release. I'm wondering how the credits are going to look going by the website the only humans are the Voices, the Actor Models, The director:Takeshi Sone and the producer. Are they the prompters or were there others who helped touched up the film? Judging by the AI credits it still looks like a far cry of just having one tool be used to make a film much less a full length feature: Script: ChatGPT Video Creation: Kling, Higgsfield, Veo, Sora, Dreammachine, Domo, Runway Image Creation: Midjourney, Flux, Nanobanana, Seedream, Lovart, Freepik Sound & Effects: Elevenlabs, FishAudio Music: Suno If it does get an American release I'll check it out. I've seen worse human made movies and the trailer looks like the quality is just above a Z grade movie. #Cinemastr

It was a pretty solid State of Play. They showed a bunch of new games that piqued my interest. I can't believe a new Dead or Alive game is being made. The Konami Direct in the middle slowed things down a bit, but ending on a God of War Origins game was pretty hype. Nice to see the first full "Team" for Tokon. So each reveal going forward so be full Team reveals? Might be interesting to what is going to be next.This year is shaping up to be a good one for game diversity. #Gamestr

There's some interesting news: the company Shizuku AI, which is behind an AI Vtuber, just passed a seed round with A16z. With all the hype surrounding AI agents, I suppose they think it's a good investment, but I'm not so sure. The novelty of Neuro Sama seems like something that can't be replicated.

It's funny that AI social media is just a bunch of agents posting like average Redditors. All this RAM just so an AI can wonder if it's in a situationship with its human. (⁠ ⁠´⁠◡⁠‿⁠ゝ⁠◡⁠`⁠)

Crazy, even Bloomberg is writing about FX Fighter Kurumi-chan #Animestr

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Mrs. Watanabe Gets a Pink-Haired Makeover in FX Anime

For decades, the enduring image of the Japanese FX trader has been Mrs. Watanabe: the well-heeled housewife who controls the family finances, and u...

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Interesting the new game is Age 1000 the same year Dragon Ball Online took place. I wonder if they got Toriyama to redo the year setting of DBO to incorporate stuff from super and daima. If this is a new MMO that'll be crazy! #Gamestr

Nice the Dragon Ball Super anime is back and we're finally continuing the Manga storyline. It's always good time when there's a new Dragon Ball anime airing. #Animestr

I can't believe it! A cute girl x financial trading anime is being made! It's the perfect anime for the times. With so many people wanting to become financially literate, this could be the perfect way to get them interested. It's almost like that anime visual novel where a waifu helps you file your taxes. Definitely something I want to check out since I've been personally leaning to watching this type of content. I can already see finance bros and degen weebs making this their profile picture when it comes out. It could also be an easy way to engagement bait people with "How to Trade Like Kurumi" threads on X. The Liquidation poster is cementing Kurumi as an unofficial mascot for the trenches. #Animestr