being older gen z borderline millennial is like. i remember when everyone wanted a blackberry and then the first touchscreen phone came out and it was a Big Deal, and before long owning one was the norm. i remember when movies were all on VHS and then DVDs gradually replaced them (which was met with frustration because VHS players stopped being made and we couldn’t watch our movies anymore without buying them again), and people were renting them from family video until they eventually fell out of use in favor of streaming services. i remember when there were only a couple queer kids at school who were Out and queerness was still heavily discouraged and gay marriage was illegal, and then toward the second half of high school most of my friend group had become openly queer. i remember when the height of school technology was the promethean boards they installed for a short period in middle school and the only access to technology we had was the box computers in the library and school-issued laptops werent a thing, until 8th grade when everyone got one. i remember when tvs were gigantic and the first flat screen tv came out before it was a common household item. i feel like my generation is one on its own, in the short time between 1998 and mid-2003 because we were young enough to witness the transition and old enough to have made core memories in the time before it. and idk. i guess i sorta feel lucky in that sense.
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omg i actually think i want to cry!! i got a new laptop, and the difference between it and my old one (which is probably almost 10 years old by now) is like night and day?!?!?!!
first off, my old one had become SO SLOW, very painfully so. general startup took at least 2-5 minutes, sometimes more. loading up the internet took FOREVER - i timed it recently, and it took Firefox THIRTEEN (13) MINUTES from me clicking the icon to my google homepage fully loading. is that not fucking ridiculous?!?!!!!!
(Side note: def NOT a Firefox issue, since i have the same add-ons and bookmarks on my new laptop, and everything loads instantly. i don't want to inadvertently slander Firefox, it's amazing and everyone should switch to it!)
secondly, i just opened up Tumblr for the first time now, on my new laptop, and i had NO IDEA what kind of terrible low quality screen/images i was enduring previously??? people's artworks are so crisp and beautiful!! the gifs load immediately and don't take 3 minutes!! it's like my laptop finally got glasses after years of squinting lol, i can actually properly see shit!!!!
anyways lol, just uhhh very excited about things actually working fast and properly :D
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holy fuck
why is there an army of big tiddie porn bots in the zakkura tag!?! lmao I haven’t been on this account in months and I come back and I’m like... wtf is this???
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banishment as a punishment is so weird theyre like we dont want you so we're making you someone elses problem
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behind the scenes of tolkien edits: @outofangband hunched over the keyboard FURIOUSLY smashing keys away in their nightgown like an angry tolkien grandma
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Oh yeah, I finished the live action One Piece today.
I will say it’s pretty solid for newcomers! Iñaki Luffy is really charming. He’s definitely the endearing factor that inspired me and my fam to keep watching. I watched the Spanish dub, so eventually I’ll rewatch it in English to see how the original voice track sounds. What else…the cinematography is breathtaking! And the sets are so well done omg. Some story beats are weirdly paced tbh, but not to the point where I want to turn the show off. The entire cast put it in their all into their performances, so no complaints about that. For the last two episodes…
I really wish they got at least one more episode to develop this last portion of the arc. I still felt the emotions of Nami’s plight (I cried) but knowing the source material, I know they could’ve pushed it harder, to really feel the pain of what Nami has been feeling for years (When I first watched it in the anime, I wanted to burst out crying but I held it in for dear life.) A lot of things had to be squished and crammed, it would’ve been nice if the story material had time to breathe.
It felt oversimplified? Ironic saying that the anime feels more complex but it had time (maybe too much time tbh with the long fights) to tell the story better.
The village in the original had way more character, as represented by Genzo, Nojiko and Bellemere, but since they were sorta pushed off to the side, Coco village felt really empty. They really gotta fix this issue, especially with Alabasta being the next arc. That’s a whole kingdom and we have to properly be invested in Viví in order to care about that place. The way that OPLA handled Orange Town was the first warning sign. How can we cheer for the crew to save the oppressed people if we as the audience barely feel anything for them??? That’s a big part of the appeal of One Piece; that every place is a character in itself. We need that time to get to know these places and the entire world better.
I can only see that the show can improve upon itself if they continue with respecting the material, maybe with more episodes to accurately deliver the main story beats better. I do like that they’re thinking in the long scheme of things, with the show adding emphasis to the discrimination and oppression of fishmen being the big motive for Arlong to take revenge upon humanity. The fishman island arc is so far off tho 😭
Besides all that, I don’t have many complaints, it was fun to watch and see the departures the show had to take to tell the story in live-action. It’s not perfect, but I have hope the show can improve just like how the original manga gets bigger and better as it keeps going.
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Anyone else here a night owl?
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