Was low-key halfway baiting to see if you’d go on a Don Bluth tear 😂 happy to have guessed correctly haha.

I can’t claim any deep knowledge, but one of my best homies ever helped me connect the dots that many many many of my favorite media as a youth came outta that studio / that approach to storytelling.

Looking back, yeeeeesh, dude made exclusively emotionally damaging movies lmao. I remember the heartbreak for each one. Still think they’re better.

[Edit: not familiar with Rock a Roodle, hoping I’ll remember to give it a whirl]

Seriously great show. Hilariously the Mormon bits require probably the least “suspension of disbelief” among the whole shebang lol.

Nice! On a whim I took the time to find and watch a couple episodes some years back and it was fun to remember how David just talks to the audience about stuff sometimes.

I remember it being a very “warm”-feeling show, but of course it’s impossible to disentangle my earliest thoughts about it from that quick review. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug!

Sidenote, I feel like David the Gnome and Fern Gully are strong examples of something lovely we lost in storytelling for kids. A less polished but somehow both a warmer and a more honest look at things.

Thanks for the recs!

Ahhh Squidbillies, solid addition. Not all that kid friendly to be clear.

This has been on my list of ancient lovely things to revisit. Have you given it a spin lately? How’s it hold up after all this time?

I don’t see “The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack” mentioned yet - it’s weird, has lovable characters, and excellent animation and voice acting. Actually I just can’t say enough good things about it, it’s delightfully odd and entertaining. The surgeon is also a barber, just like the good old days! Can I interest you in some surgery?

psychopaths

Toward the people who insist, no matter the cost, that empathy toward humans being actively genocided is extremely important.

The thing about comments like yours is that in your self-righteous rage you just reveal how little you understand fucking anything.

Psychopaths. Of all words to describe who you think you’re mad at. You don’t know what the word means, and you don’t know who you’re yelling it at.

You’re so fucking clueless. But big mad tho! 😡

Yes.

They were pretty clearly juuust fine with JordanLund’s moderation over on .world, that whole place stinks (and did long before he went off the deep end that one time).

Same exact flavor of deceit you see all over the place, hiding behind pretend ideals of keeping discussion “civil”, but really just going well out of their way to control discussion around Zionism.

Wtf lol, that just seems so…low tech? I certainly can’t think of a “better” way to do it, guess I imagined some fully enclosed (or maybe that’s what you’re describing).

It’s like finding out almost all power generation is really just different ways of boiling water lol

Would that be like on a tripod in the audience area recording the screen? Seems lossy somehow so I figure I’m misunderstanding. I’m pretty ignorant (~fully ignorant lol) about this, apologies, ya just piqued my curiosity.

"We’re introducing a new position this time around, the people demand Change^TM!

If President Donald Trump can do whatever he wants, well so can we, isn’t that right ladies? Yes, you heard me, I said ladies.

Introducing your new Vibe President, on our ticket and coming with us - girl power! Meet Clearly Evil, mother of 11, she grew up in Israel and served her great nation honorably (but only because she was legally required!). Clearly has such a commitment to…"

“Ain’t winnin. Ooga.” (Optionally followed by the typically harder hitting elaboration, depending on the crowd - “Booga.”)

Tally ho lads

The rulers of the west are unwilling to imagine a future. Because they correctly guess that it can’t include the indulgence and excess that is their entire way of life. Probably same as what you meant, but to me a crucial distinction.

This is extremely useful thank you. The bummer is that this matches exactly all my observations about how they’re behaving.

They’ve always been real fond of the “let’s keep all positives in the short term, place all negatives in the long term, and eventually deal with them” type of strategy - but even that pattern has devolved into its worst self.

There’s not even really lip service about long term things anymore. All the people saying “these guys are so dumb, don’t they see they’re making it so that the consumers who keep the whole wheel turning can no longer afford to consume?!”

They know just what they’re doing. Now that they finally accept the reality of the catastrophe they’ve brought down on us, they’ve simply decided “well, fuck it, better enjoy the end as much as I can”.

Absolutely despicable, every fucking one of these people. Completely inhuman, there is no suffering I can imagine great enough to atone for this.

But at least I have a little closure that they really DO think the way I’ve seen them behaving.

Sidenote, I really know what you mean about “straddling two ages”, what a bizarre and like…ineffably rare experience it’s been. A bit older than we, and computers (modern communication) are just a strange accessory to life - it’s mostly been lived IRL. Anything else must be imagined, and it isn’t easy, usually isn’t done very well. A bit younger than we, and there has never been a strictly IRL part of life. The slow way, that every other human before lived and died under. And so anything else must be imagined, and it isn’t done very well.

Utterly strange to one day notice this and recognize myself as among the small group of folks who really thoroughly experienced both. What a strange ride. Lucky, in its way, sincerely.

Sidenote aside, I don’t share your optimism regarding the rejection / degree of appeal for fascism and its companions, abroad. At all. Think I’ll leave it there, out of simple courtesy, and from having grown bored of my own words on the subject. Cheers friend.

I’m too old and been disappointed too many times to find that very cheering, but I appreciate ya. Pretty much strictly bummer mode for the rest of the comment, to forewarn.

The pendulum does indeed swing, and I’ve lately only really noticed how thoroughly the swing back is just blocked. Co-opted into what amounts to damn near nothing… in the best cases! Progress has been defeated, thoroughly, and has been reversing for some time, and that is now accelerating.

There is of course a low point somewhere, where things can only change, and our adventure in Iran may bring it, but the ruling class seems to have perfected the art of the slow simmer, at least here in the US. Defeating that will be ugly, but we do see some signs that they’re accidentally allowing things to boil via their unchecked greed.

This is great, new to me. Posted with the credits too?! Sheesh, we don’t deserve you.