Furries, now is your time to shine.

It all depends on how you define and categorize morality.

The Tolkien dilemma reasoned that since orcs could talk and demonstratively discuss the ideas of right and wrong, then they have some sense of morality. If they have reason and morals, could they at some point decide to stop being evil? And if so, is it moral to eradicate them entirely?

I haven’t read the Frieren manga, but the show referred to its world’s demons as not actually speaking, but having learned to make human-like noises to elicit desired responses. I’m not sure if I buy that explanation (given how the characters behave and converse) but if you do, it’s a functional hedge against feeling bad about our beloved protagonist doing a genocide.

Again, the manga might get into this more. Also this could be a potential character arc for Frieren; whoop lol maybe I shouldn’t do a genocide after all. I do hope it goes this way, but I doubt it will.

I wouldn’t normally post something like this, but the trailer itself seemed unique enough to share. All the indulgent slow-motion shots of people eating take me back to the functional purpose of montage. What does this kind of media say about us?

Panel 3 - the raccoon character implies that the transgender women in Bee’s friend group is an exception to the “more girls” description of the group, insinuating that transgender women are not women.

Panel 4 - the skunk character corrects them, because transgender women are women, transgender men are men, and bigots are bigots.

I wonder if that includes actually staffing police stations. Here’s the sign that hangs inside the door of every Seattle police precinct, which remains locked all day, every day:

• Amour (2012)
• La Belle et la Bête (1946)
• Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)
• Abre los ojos (1997)
• Everybody Hates Johan (2022)
• Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In) (2008)
• Last and First Men (2020)
• Louise by the Shore (2016)
• La tortue rouge (The Red Turtle) (2016)
• L’argent (1983)
• Little Otik (2000)
• Réalité (2015, dir Quentin Dupieux)
• Run Lola Run (1999)
• The Wages of Fear (1953)
• Vi ar bast (2023)

Here’s a non-paywalled article about this story not from a piece of shit news source:

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-san-francisco-water-pollution-6874dc505a394d9181b17a0aef41406f

As a gigantic fan of animation as an artform, I don’t think I would have picked Flow as the best animated feature. The film’s third act never really congeals and the movie just ends abruptly. I’m not the kind of narrative purist that insists on bulletproof storytelling, but when a film is in the running against multiple strong contenders that tell a solid story (Memoir of a Snail was my favorite this year), it’s hard to justify the win.

But I think I know what the Academy is doing. They’re eager to put this award into the hands of ANYBODY churning out animated fare that’s different from the same old Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks products year after year.

The potatoes…!

All the protests and boycotts so far this year haven’t had the wide publicity necessary to break through

That’s precisely my point. All the protests and boycotts so far have come from random social media posts and not marshaled, amplified or organized by people who are actually in roles of leadership… like Bernie, or AOC, or the Human Rights Campaign, or the ACLU.

People are pissed and ready for action, and our leaders aren’t offering specific guidance. It’s so frustrating.

As Americans, we cannot stay quiet as Trump abandons centuries of our commitment to democracy. Together, we must fight for our long-held values and work with people around the world who share them.

Omg finally, a call to action. I’m ready! Let’s fucking go! What are we doing, Bernie? Economic boycott? General strike? What’s the plan?

eof

God damn it.

One of the fundamental goals of the !trailers@lemmy.blahaj.zone community is explicitly to help surface small to medium budget films that don’t get the benefit of distribution marketing budgets.

The Red Letter Media guys just gave a glowing review to another one of these, The King Tide, whose trailer I remember posting and thinking “ok, this looks great”.

Quality, intriguing, memorable films are still being made. If you want to see them, you have to put in the work to find them.

One thing that shows up in this list over and over again is voluntary withdrawl from the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Corporate Equality Index. It’s high time the HRC itself takes a lead on reporting which businesses are running away from it, but something tells me they won’t. They exist on corporate donors, and if they start throwing corporations under the bus, they will likely see continued financial extraction.

Also, the 15 companies listed are:

• Google
• Aldi’s
• Target
• Amazon
• Meta
• McDonald’s
• Walmart
• Molson Coors
• Ford
• John Deere
• Lowes
• Harley-Davidson
• Brown-Forman
• Tractor Supply Co
• Toyota

I worked with the Missouri Historical Society years ago to archive some footage I’d shot of the St Louis city streetscape. It was all on digital video, but the archivists insisted on converting it to an analog medium (u-matic video tapes). Their reasoning was that all media degrades, but that analog at least degrades gracefully. Magnetic tape has the capability of sitting in storage, untouched and un-cared-for, and still be quite viewable with minimal degradation. Digital media becomes corrupted very easily, and requires constant replication and backups, which can be very expensive for massive archives. For media that may or may not ever be touched again, why not pick a medium that requires the least amount of maintenance?

Dear hiring managers: this scenario would probably make an intriguing interview question.

Soooo… when’s the auto auction?

The image link is to the cover of The Premonition by Michael Lewis.

I was an apologist for Proton during the whole Andy Yen commentary mess, but this is a really sus choice for Proton to be making.

All that matters under capitalism is growth. I wonder if the thinking here is that Proton has already captured all the geek/privacy enthusiast crowd that it’s going to, and Andy Yen’s social fuck-up basically killed any future expansion in that space, so this is part of a pivot to new markets and abandonment of areas they know they aren’t going to win back.

If so, I’d expect to see Proton making expanded ad buys targeting preppers, libertarians, sov-cit types and other “I’m being watched!!” kooks.

He’s right. First-run theatrical venues are toast if audiences need to wait, at most, 30 days to watch movies on streaming.

That said, with the experience that AMC has turned movie-going into (cramming ads down audience’s throats), it’s no wonder people are staying home.

If you have a local movie house that doesn’t show ads, support them instead.

Apropos of nothing…

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the premiere of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, the final film in the prequel trilogy, Episode III will be re-released in theaters on April 25, 2025.

Sure, we’ll go with that.

Backers of the bill say this will increase accountability and ensure each signature belongs to a registered voter. They don’t think it should be controversial.

It is.

Fuck the Seattle Times for not understanding how to keep opinion out of their reporting. There’s a reason that nobody here bothers listening to their endorsements.

@fluffylizarrd@lemmy.world - Please edit your post to adhear to rule 5, like so: “The Curse of Modigliani (2025, dir Diana Ringo)”

5. Post titles should follow formatting guidelines: “Media Name (release year, relevant creator credit)”. Creator credits should be directors for films and games, showrunners for television series. Other details such as starring actors, writers, production studios, etc can be added to the post description.