Is Ne Zha the ugliest main character in the history of animated cinema? The Hunchback of Notre Dame might have him beat, but Quasimodo’s ugliness is ennobling; Ne Zha’s is corrupting. Not only does he have sunken eyes, bad teeth, and the world’s worst haircut, he’s also a complete shit. He throws tantrums. He breaks things. He drops trou and pisses wherever he pleases. The Americans I know who’ve tried to watch either of his two movies shut them off within moments, disgusted.
This reads like Jerry Falwell criticizing The Simspons
Zero Taste
This is Ne Zha (and his dragon boyfriend)
Grown up, sure. As a child he looks like a little shit.
I should watch the second one tonight. Still haven’t seen it yet. Admittedly, the first one’s English dubs were kinda eh, and I couldn’t stand it till I found some subs.
It’s good watch it subbed.
Also the “his ugliness is corrupting” thing is a completely ass backwards reading of the film, probably because the goofball who wrote it only watched a few minutes
Heard. I was waiting for subs for so long I kinda forgot about it. Also, at 2 and a half hours it’s one of those flicks I gotta make time for. Not so for Bikini Hackers, which is waiting for me on my jellyfin and clocks in at only an hour, of what I am sure is a high quality kino.
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Yeah, that was pretty good.
I turned off Ne Zha, I thought it would be great but when I finally watched it, the beginning of the movie was just a lot of bazinga Pixar gags really jarringly inserted every 30 seconds. It was like someone wrote the plot and then someone else came in and wrote the jokes
Incredibly heavy “but at what cost” vibes running throughout this whole article
You can use Big Brother to help find your birth family.
Every year, more Chinese adoptees send off DNA kits, upload photographs, or submit their DNA to the National Reunion Database. As databases grow and social networks interconnect, the chance of reunion grows. Chinese police now use not only DNA analysis but also face recognition to help families reunite.
oh no
As a USian child, I distinctly recall being in elementary school and having someone from the local police department come as a “fun” event and talk about public safety while also fingerprinting every kid (myself included) for “fun”. We put each of our fingers into that transfer medium and pressed it onto cards. It’s kind of like finger painting, really, if you don’t think about it. This was done without parental consent as well.
don’t you see? We have to only let the government access our DNA databases and they have to be housed in Israel!! Nooo you can’t make them accessible to the public so they know what’s being tracked and maybe they can use it for fun stuff too!! It’s different when people in China voluntarily enter their DNA into a database than when we either scam them with a “private” company or just force people to do itdon’t you see? We have to only let the government access our DNA databases
Possibly better than what is/was actually happening. IIRC 23andme “owned” the genetic data from their customer and sold it off as part of a merger or bankruptcy or something?
I thought they just sold the data to the government or something
I think they were sharing it with police without warrants but no, scanning headlines and grabbing a snippet from a random one (Fortune) gives me this “A U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled DNA-testing company 23andMe, which filed for bankruptcy Sunday, has the right to sell customers’ medical and ancestry data to potential bidders. Offers will be due on May 7, and a final hearing will be held in June.”
That reminds me of all those “cryogenic” facilities that thaw the bodies of their clients when they go bankrupt
It’s digital data, copies can and were/are sold to multiple entities including governments and other companies. The US state and it’s LEOs have it, and I don’t have a source for this but I assume companies like Palantir in the panopticon game have it too
They are doing their best to paint China with the Cyberpunk 2077 brush and it ain’t working!
I’ve played Cyberpunk 2077 and Night City honestly compares pretty favorably to, say, modern day Los Angeles. The rent and medical care are pretty cheap and the public transit is very robust.
If the studio had any courage they would have nickle-and-dimed the player for every single interaction. Constant surveillance that requires either bribing people or expensive hardware to bypass. Constantly hassled by privatized police force and gangs of the homeless who need to steal whatever they can to survive. Shit constantly breaking, both your own stuff and infrastructure.
That’s right. I’m asking for another Far Cry 2. Far Cry 2077.
Far Cryberpunk
robit penor
Ma Qianzhu was unsatisfied with Chinese progress. An engineer at a large state-owned enterprise, he belonged to a generation that grew up believing engineering is destiny, that China’s future would be built, bolt by bolt, by people like him. Then Ma discovered something extraordinary: a wormhole to the late Ming Dynasty. With more than 500 peers, he commandeered a ship and traveled back in time 400 years, to a preindustrial China wracked by foreign invasion and internal decay. Their mission: trigger an industrial revolution in the past that would, in the future, make modern China great (again).
This, strictly speaking, did not happen. It’s the plot of The Morning Star of Lingao (临高启明), a sprawling, collectively written science-fiction web novel that has consumed a corner of the Chinese internet for nearly two decades. It now totals millions of words. It has never been translated into English. Almost no one in the West knows it exists.
China is taking over our culture by… writing fiction in Chinese and then not translating it?
Fuck yeah. Collective storytelling is so cool
It’s just kinda funny because the presentation has an air of “Chinese cultural products aren’t catering to western tastes and we don’t even know about this collective fiction project that is probably pretty niche inside China. It’s all over!”
And now it’s extra funny because everyone who read the article will know about it now. Including us. Good job
!It also does, in fact, have an English translation.
Thanks for the link
I’m gonna be honest I thought alarmingly large internet fiction works were a western occurance
You should look into wuxia and xianxia webnovels. Plenty of 1000-3000+ chapter works.
First approximation: for every type of weirdo that exists, assume China has about 4x as many of 'em as amerikkka
I wonder what the Chinese equivalent of My Immortal is
They’re destroying us by not letting us read peak
YOUR GENOME IS AT THE MERCY OF A CAPRICIOUS CHINESE EX-CON.
the tone of this section feels confusing. is china bad because they jailed this smol bean innovator, or because he’s back out continuing whatever it is he was doing but now he’s a big bad criminal, and china is bad for allowing that?
bothLol he’s the guy who is on Twitter and had to reply to people with a tweet that read something like:
“I’m not going to make catgirls I’m trying to cure diseases.”
Still silent on whether or not he’ll make horsegirls.
And I’m lovin every minute of it jerry
NASA’s leaders settled on a plan of baffling complexity: a single trip to the lunar surface could require 40-plus rocket launches
Wat? Didn’t we do it in a single launch in the 1960s?
Yeah but how much money did that make 7000 different middlemanagers who we’ve hired through a public-private partnership to avoid government graft? And how did that launch aid local small businessowners? Now we’ve put the contract on the heatshielding up for bidding so that Lockheed Martin can charge $2000 per screw-part
Unlike the Apollo program which had a purpose built launcher with every aspect of it made with the moon in mind, the current American manned lunar program will have to make do with at best the Frankenstein’s monster made out of recycled space shuttle parts known as the SLS, and at worst the napo-baby hubris meets engineering reality joke known as the Starship.
Edit: Actually, Blue origin’s heavy launcher could potentially save this clown-show when and if it comes out. Though even if that’s the case I would still bet on China winning this second space race by a wide margin. The 21st century US just doesn’t have what it takes to establish a productive semi-permanent presence on the Moon.
they ran out of nazi rocket scientists
Nah, just decided no one needed to preserve or actually document the rocket plans/designs
Yes, but we kinda forgot how to build rockets like the Saturn V. Not to mention it was eye-wateringly expensive to build, something NASA could never do without some Cold War clout chasing kind of budget.
Mark carney put chinese bullet trains from toronto to montreal and my life is yours
I long for the bullet train line between Vancouver and Toronto
Coast to coast sleeper cars
Those stupid counters pretending to count up to a number are such a western thing to put in the article. “We can’t put numbers in unless they move so the smooth brained idiots who will click to stare at our slop will stare for one extra second”!
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