ꙮ tatybara ꙮ

Nothing Doing no. 3

Cartoon Network had this segment where you could call the station and Johnny Bravo would play a cartoon you requested on Sundays. I remember seeing it a few times. Famously, an episode featured Johnny Bravo fast-forwarding through a DBZ episode to fit it into the time slot.

It needs to be said that this is legendary, this is a personal white whale, I've been wanting to see this for years. My notifications were explosive when I woke up because everyone I know had to tell me. I've been saying for years that if I ever get terminally ill I would start cashing in favors with friends to start a viral grassroots movement to get the Johnny Bravo DBZ commentary released because I needed to see this before I die.

And now I have. There's been a six second clip of it floating around for a long while now and the full commentary is, surprisingly, only a few seconds longer than this. But it was never about the length. We knew he was fast-forwarding the episode. I just really, really needed to hear Johnny Bravo say "Goku" and "Frieza." I needed to hear it with my own ears. I'm content. I feel like I can die happy.

We apparently owe it all to "someone's mom who worked on this show." A Mother's Day gift FROM a mom is a fucked up thing to receive.

Now if I get to make a wish with the Make-a-Wish Foundation it's gonna have to be for the F-Zero GX cutscene songs.

nuclear hot take: cutting edge hardware and software developers are in a reverse arms-race that literally no one else on the planet cares about except other people who work in tech. no one cares that the S23 can support a framerate 1 sextillionth of a percent faster than the S22, or that the newest version of android....i cant even think of a fake reason to give a shit about an android update for its own sake. software "improvement" justifies the need for hardware "improvement" to keep up, and the promise of hardware "improvement" justifies the need for software "improvement", because they can, and i guess no one who works in tech has ever seen Jurrasic Park. Nobody else on the planet wants this, but it keeps a few thousand people employed and extremely well-paid, and makes a handful of people obscenely wealthy. and they are so well-siloed in their little tech enclaves that they dont realize that their entire jobs are pointlessly making the world worse and more expensive for everyone else. or how much the rest of the world hates them

Video game graphics never needed to get better than the PS3. Phones were doing fine in 2015. The focus needs to shift on how to maintain the same standards with increasingly affordable and sustainable products not continuing to make everything more power guzzling and expensive to produce to make it more powerful.

sometimes the best course of action is to react less and have fewer opinions, especially if it's a thing you're not involved with at all.

man it can be a struggle online to do that. all the pressure is often to have an opinion on as much as possible, as loudly as possible. even if you're on a site that is trying to work against those pressures, they are so common on so many social media sites, you're going to get damaged from secondhand smoke.

but it's worth putting in the effort to counteract that pressure, and be quicker to apologize than you might want to be.