“We’re unprepared
for our little disappointments.
Normally I might not pay attention
to sunlight pouring into the courtyard
but this afternoon, I do —
probably because it’s already nearly gone.
None of us mentions the night,
but I, for one, would like to
be expecting it, when
it comes.”
— Nathan McClain, from “Power Outage Elegy” in Waxwing (Issue VIII, 2016)
WE INTERRUPT OUR REGULAR SCHEDULED POSTING IN ORDER TO GIVE YOU THIS
Guys, go support this series. It’s very new, there’s only one episode so far, it’s only 11 minutes, but it’s amazing. The animation is nice, the art style is very fun, there are two different dubs, yes two, one in English and one in Arabic (I think, if I’m wrong, correct me IMMEDIATELY, I only speak English). Both versions have subtitles, too! The them esong is very catchy and fun, their ability to give us more information with just smaller details is pretty great, everything about it is just SO DANG COOL. They need more love, go check it out. It gives off some nice magical girl vibes.
As of 28 may 2018, there are two episodes out! And there are three dubs – formal arabic, informal arabic, and english, captions available on all three as the previous poster mentioned.
The series is called Emara, by Eating Stars Studio. According to this article (posted June 2017) director
Fatma Al Muhairi, an Emirati native (United Arab Emirates), wanted to see more Arab representation in cartoons and animation, and she put together a small team to help her get the job done. It’s a show by
Emirati, for Emirati, featuring a female main character that’s “tough but
down to earth. Not overly powerful, but not breaking down in tears
every two seconds, either. Most of all: she wanted her to be Arab.”
In terms of the show, it’s a really fun take on older anime styles (though when I say older, I mean older than 2010). The theme song, the animation style, the way backdrops are painted, they all lend to to the magical girl genre, its tropes, etc. Even in the gifset above, you can begin to see that callback to that animation style, with very exaggerated movements and the expressions, the slow-mo. Hell, even the logo for Emara is very anime, and Al Muhairi did say how she did reference old cartoons she and her team watched growing up.
As of the publishing of the above article, one of the team members/affiliates is hoping to push for at least 1 million views for the videos. Only then does he believe that the show has a fighting chance to make it on TV.
They also mention in the article that the director would prefer if fans
watched it on streaming services like Netflix. It doesn’t quite seem to
actually be on Netflix yet, so I assume that watching through the
Youtube links above is our next best bet.
“On YouTube, you know very well how many people are watching, and
advertisers will advertise on the show if it passes a certain number of
viewership,” said [Mohammad Saeed
Harib.] “If it hits the one million mark, [TV] stations
will wake up, anyway. The numbers don’t lie.”
Director Al Muhairi told the paper, “I know I am [hungry for representation], and I know a lot of people I
work with, they are as well. We did this hoping that the majority agrees
with us, and so far we’ve had a lot of good feedback, so I think we’re
on the right track.”
Video games are ephemeral art like drawing in foam on your coffee drink. In twenty years no consumer device will be able to run Dragon Age 2; in fifty years we won’t remember what Dragon Age 2 was even about. Our memory is fallible and our machines are themselves memory, hindered by progression and anti-piracy measures as we are hindered by our own needs to enforce the tyranny of story upon lawless experience. DOSBox will not save us. Final Fantasy VII’s code was lost. All code will be lost. In two hundred years one of the Bioshock endings will be “apocrypha;” someone successfully reconstructs an OS that can run it in two hundred and nine years. “The cake is a lie”; nothing beside remains. My Dwarf Fortress worldgen is simple text, printable, archivable, non-human-readable, seafoam. Our legacy will be illegibility. Where lives death if not in us, and in our CD binders.
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It wrinkles my brain that Jupiter’s moon Europa has oceans that are sixty miles deep, while Earth’s oceans only reach seven miles deep at most. I’m willing to bet good money that there’s life in Europa’s oceans. Like five bucks. You hear me, NASA? I bet you five bucks that there’s life on Europa… Now that there’s money and reputation on the line, I bet they send a mission there real quick.
I have no idea when this was originally posted, but NASA is working on their Europa mission RIGHT NOW to look for alien life! But get this, they theorize that because of the depth, gravity, and composition of the oceans, any organisms that lived there would be waaay bigger than aquatic life on Earth. So far everything’s going well with regards to their Europa mission so they should have a spacecraft on its way to look for giant sea monsters in space in only a few years. (The planned date is in the early 2020s.)
Looks like my negotiations worked. You’re welcome, humanity.
I’ve never been gripped with such cold terror and pure delight in my LIFE
If you’ve logged in to Tumblr in the last few days, you will have seen the GDPR warning, telling you Tumblr is part of the Oath family of sites, and requiring you to opt-in to their privacy settings.
You may not have realised that, in contravention of the GDPR rules which ban default opt-ins, if you don’t go into the ‘more options’ button and opt out of each individual sharing partner, Tumblr will share your data with a whole huge list of other companies. Like, 300 of them.
If you’ve already opted in to the Oath privacy stuff, you need to go to your Settings page:
Click the Privacy button on the right:
Then, click the little button next to ‘Cookie Consent’ to revoke it.
After confirming you want to revoke consent, you will immediately be taken to that big privacy opt-in page again. From that point we follow the steps @the-mad-duchess described – first click ‘Manage Options’:
Then, click the blue ‘Manage’ button, and expand the two lists. You’ll see five kinds of data sharing, and like 300 different companies:
The first five you can click manually more easily than using javascript. That might be enough to opt out of any data sharing – but I want to be sure. So, let’s make sure we disable every single enabled partner as well.
However, clicking on 300 little buttons to opt out of is an absurd demand. There is, thankfully, a shortcut, using your browser’s developer tools.
What you want to do is open the web console. In Firefox, you do it like this: click the little menu in top right, then go down to where it says Web Developer:
Then, click the Web Console option:
This will open up the web console in the bottom of the screen. It will have a bunch of messages in it that you can ignore:
As shown, what we want to do is copy and paste some JavaScript code into this, then hit ‘enter’, which will make the browser simulate a mouseclick on every single one of these little buttons and thereby turn them all off. The code is this:
var rows = document.getElementsByClassName("vendor-options")[0].children;
for (var i = 0; i < rows.length; i++) {rows[i].lastChild.firstChild.click();}
If you’re not familiar with JavaScript, let me briefly explain what this is doing. The first line finds the part of the page with all the buttons in it – specifically, the rows in the table of vendors, which is identified by the “vendor-options”. The second line goes through each of them one by one, and for each row of the table, goes inside and finds the button, and simulates a click on it.
If it works correctly, you will abruptly scroll to the bottom of the page and all those little buttons will slide to the ‘greyed out’ position. Now you can go ahead and click Done, click the OK button, and carry on using Tumblr, trusting that if they keep their word, they won’t share your data with those 300 companies.
I’m gonna chat with the New XKit devs to see if this can be added (they may already be working on it). But I hope this saves you some time.
Note also – this is not actually compliant with the new GDPR laws. The rule is that you have to explicitly opt in to letting companies use your data, you can’t have a list of default opt-ins behind a button like this. At some point, somebody will hopefully sue Yahoo/Oath and establish that in court. In the meantime, let’s keep our data to ourselves.
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