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Cake day: July 26th, 2025

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  • I watched it so you don’t have to. It’s about a guy who is locked in a Covid-19 individual isolation facility for 7 years (that does not make sense since after about 2 weeks of everyone being locked up all the sick people would be non contagious). In a fantasy dystopia where lizard people are real (there is no evidence they are. It’s a distracting conspiracy story) and people’s freedoms of movement and privacy are completely restricted (privacy has been worse than the movie for a long time. Ironically the guy loves his tablet. Movement restrictions would be too expensive though.) Not to mention that everyone is forced to eat insects and no other meats (you don’t need to eat insects. Meat consumption should be reduced bc. at least 14% of global greenhouse gas emissions are caused because of meat production according to a UN study). Also the rainforest is cut down because it emits CO2 at night(in reality this would release a lot of CO2 captured in the plants). Also only movies which are progressive are allowed ( also wasn’t true as can be seen by the very films existance). There is a bunch of other stuff as well I don’t have the time to get into. It’s not funny or ironic or enlightening. It just gets the reason behind a lot of things happening in the real world wrong and then exaggerates those which makes the thing its trying to say even more wrong.











  • After recently being reminded of Blame! I wanted to read more from it’s author Tsutomu Nihei. I did not expect that everything he touches would turn gold like Blame! did and was correct in that that assumption. I liked some of his other work namely the Knights of Sidonia anime based on his manga and really liked Tower Dungeon though this ones still ongoing.

    • First I read Aposimz. I could take it or leave it. It’s very similar to Blame! in the setting and pacing but has a greater emphasis on the story and characters. While the setting is very cool and I enjoyed it, I never felt connected to any of the characters. Which is sad since the story is mostly told through dialogue between them.
    • Secondly I read Kaina of the Great Snow Sea. I enjoyed my time with this one. The setting is more nature focused here but the story is still about a mega structure. It works well and reminded me of Ghiblis Nasciaä of the Valley of the Wind. My biggest problem with it is that it never manages to build any tension. It kind of feels like the manga is being pulled in two different directions in that the characters and story feel very shounen but the setting is seinen. But overall its good.
    • Thirdly I read NOiSE. It’s very short. Nothing much to say about this one other than it’s more Blame!. +rec






  • I’m also not familar with the template. But it should speak for itself anyway. Diagrams are always selections. If you want a complete data representation you would need a table. If the author of the diagram wanted to show the effect of racial prejudices it would show the actually convicted offenders. There is enough space for another column.