Hyperlich
I hope I don’t come off as stupid and naive, but I support the antiwork/workreform movements on Reddit. Yes, most of them are American redditor neoliberal reactionaries, however as a whole I think they have some small material effect on destabilizing the system. America is like a collapsing building with a few crumbly pillars holding the whole thing up and antiwork/workreform types are at least wacking at those pillars and I feel like a ton of them are voicing M and ML ideals without knowing it. I think a ton of them could eventually be brought to the left with some guidance.
Loving it so far, it’s a little buggy on my below spec PC but still playable just with weird graphical glitches sometimes (people moving without any animations, cutscenes where my character is doing A-pose the entire time).
Playing as a wizard, flaming sphere is as hilarious as it is useful. I convinced someone to eat their friends. I watched them do it then killed them afterwards when they were good and weak. I then robbed them all. I did it all while naked since AC 10 clothes do not add to AC. Also murdered Gale and Rogue-guy because I didn’t like their vibe.
10/10 experience so far, still on act 1.
They’re priming their audiences. They’ve been suggesting that a Chinese economic collapse would directly cause an American depression.
That’s what they’ve decided to go with to deflect blame once the panic of another American depression hits. The bourgeoise knows the general audience is racist enough to accept those evil Chinese commies are causing their problems no matter how many backflips the logic has to do for it to connect. They’re scared to accept blame, they’re scared it won’t work out like 2008 where they all got off scott free so they need to sow the seeds of their alibis before it happens.
I expect them to publish a bunch of totally fabricated stories about China collapsing and pulling America down with them once America sinks into a depression. Better to scapegoat an entire country and allow citizens to take out their rage on the Chinese ethnic minority living in America than to take an ounce of blame. Hmmm sounds familiar.
Every day I daydream about moving to China. There are too many barriers to making that dream a reality though. I wouldn’t want to make my SO feel isolated and illiterate. If only there was a socialist country that primarily spoke English.
Hawaii (an outer island), from when the pandemic started to now bougie alt-right and lib mainlanders have been moving here en mass and gentrifying everything.There is a lot of brain drain as kids leave for college on the mainland then are unable to return because everything got so gentrified. It feels like the native Hawaiians are somewhat making a comeback culturally and economically, but all the big native Hawaiian institutions seem to bend the knee to their colonizers and be 100% lib aligned and pro imperialist. I used to hear more chatter about Hawaiian independence and anticolonialism, but those voices seem to be gone lately. My coworkers have been going further and further right and are now openly racist, homophobic, and transphobic. They used to be apathetic. It’s crazy since all of them are minorities and one is closeted.
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Pirate pimsleurs. It will not teach you to write or read but it’s pretty descent at teaching you to speak and listen. I speak a dialect of Mandarin but cannot understand a lick of Mandarin. Pimsleurs got me listening and speaking Mandarin at around a children’s level in a couple months. I think writing and reading come easier once you can listen to it and speak it, at least it does for me. Make sure you’re in an area where you can actually speak out loud.
If you like dramas I’d say ‘better days’ is good, it was pretty popular in China on release. I had to pirate it and download subs from some website but it’s doable.
2d animation: Link Click - I cannot recommend this enough. Its touching, it’s emotional, it has intrigue. It doesn’t fall into typical annoying anime tropes. There is a 2nd season but I haven’t watched it yet. This is a series but I feel like it’s episodic enough that you could kind of view them as short interconnected movies. They have complete story arcs in the episodes.
To be hero- I think this was made for Japan(?) I believe it’s a Chinese production but everyone speaks Japanese in it. It’s goofy and entertaining and touching. This is a series too buts it’s very short and the runtime of all the episodes combined is basically the same as a movie.
Legend of Hei is cute and has high paced action.
Big fish and Bagonia is beautiful like watching a painting. Some people love it but personally it put me to sleep. I still recommend it if you read the synopsis and it sounds like your cup of tea.
If you like 3d animated movies I’d suggest White Snake, I liked it far more than its sequel Green Snake. Green Snake is on Netflix but white snake I had to pirate. The movie does have strangely fast pacing but I love the story. Its action packed and has touching moments while looking beautiful.
I can loosely recommend that one nezha movie on Netflix that looks like some final fantasy thing, it was ok. I’m not really into super hero type stuff so portraying nezha that way felt kind of weird.
Jiang Jia I think was made by the same studio that made a different ne zha movie or maybe white snake? Not sure, but it’s competent. The thing is, they made it feel like an origin story for some future super hero team up thing similar to that ne zha recommendation above.
Sci-fi like others mentioned Three body problem is good but I think the books are much better paced. The show just drags on and on.
In no order:
One piece - I’m a manga reader but I’ll tune into the anime for emotional parts. I’ve been a fan of this for about 23 years now. I always recommend the manga over the anime though.
Chainsaw man - I’m a manga reader, I loved seeing it animated, but I think they sort of messed up releasing only 1/3rd of the first arc for season 1. If they finished the first arc in season 1 I bet it would be in everybody’s top 10. I always recommend that everybody just read it.
Haibane Renmei - this is a real piece of art. This is a cozy slow burn with a real emotional wallop for people in a certain headspace. This one genuinely made me a better person.
Serial experiments lain - hard to explain without spoiling it. Super good, super 90’s. Amazing vibe that I don’t think any others have gotten close to replicating.
Mob Psycho 100 - about a psychic boy and his conman father figure. feel good with a good message and a good boy. The characters are fantastic and the animation can get really crazy good. It has some of the best animation I’ve ever seen. It has a lot of genuine emotion put into it.
Frieren - about an near-immortal elf after the journey has already ended. this one is still airing, but I’m loving it. I like the chill vibe and interesting story. I love how emotionally mature it feels. I’m not a fan of over the top anime emotions and enjoy how down to earth and realistic these characters act.
Restaurant to another world - I like watching fantasy people/creatures eat and enjoy our foods.
Akira - although the movie is about 1/3rd of the story with the ending slapped on, it’s still very fun to look at. I wish they had given this story a trilogy of 3x 3 hour movies instead of cutting out characters and only covering the beginning of a wild story. I always recommend people read the manga.
Made in abyss - the author is a weird pedophile but the story and world are so intriguing. It makes me feel dirty watching it but I need to know what’s at the bottom of that damn hole. I’ve been reading it as well and that just makes me feel even dirtier.
Outlaw Star - A rogue with a gun that shoots magic bullets and his weird crew vs a magical taoist space pirate and his weird crew vs. Cyborg brothers all after the greatest treasure in the universe. Its a weird mashup of themes and genres and somehow it all works.
I’m primarily a manga reader and actually watch very little anime. Making that list was actually pretty difficult and my list for favorite manga would be pretty different.
