@Wertheimer@hexbear.net is correct about the correct readings from both Heidegger and Nietzsche. Even if we should reject a Nietzschean will to power, recognizing it is important.

The end of the (I think second?) aphorism of Geneaology of morals is an all time mic drop.

This self-overcoming of justice: one knows the beautiful name it has given itself – mercy; it goes without saying that mercy remains the privilege of the most powerful man, or better, his – beyond the law.

Hard boiled

Mulder and Scully always shit on the local cops for whatever incident they're investigating.

They're also suspicious of the federal government.

The alien conspiracy is also basically the legacy of Paperclip, Unit 731, etc. in the show.

So Mulder and Scully (together though, on his own Mulder's basically a crank) are good cops, but part of that is because the show makes all other cops comically evil (either local hicks who aren't able to recognize a corporation is doing biological testing or even complicit in whatever shit is going down) and the authority above Mulder and Scully is compromised by being a legacy of Nazi/Japanese Imperial evil. As FBI, they basically work to undermine both ends (the authority above and the shitty cops below).

Also, in general, they don't do the flagrant evil cop shit, they're more interested in trying to get evidence to take down big corporations/the government conspiracy (of course, this never goes as planned, but hey, they're trying!)

Mulder and Scully (only as a combo unit).

Plato and his consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Yeah, I'd love to live in a state with a wise stalinist leader who directs all production to a humane end. It's not real and we need to account for the limits of authoritarian rule (she's right in the first half of the tweets ofc, we shouldn't fetishize democracy), her "solution" is just idealism.

Yeah its also hard to when you're crying so many tears at what's happening.

The whole sequence, cutting to our Soviet queen crying, the final shout from Noriko

It's just so worth it.

That's totally fair. It's good that they're for a welfare state and against capital punishment, but this is also just like, a huge fall from her more detailed reporting on the inhumanity of death row (which wasn't unique ofc but was trying to at least get Christians on that level)

Exposing hypocrisy is such a losing strategy. I see what she's trying to do but this is such a weak way to do "Christians should support criminal justice reform"

Good luck! If you want a hint

Did you get the item that allows you to double jump?

There's like 3 rooms the kangaroo rotates between, not a bug.

Caution I think is the right word. It's like, if there's an opportunity to convince someone who's a worker who is like "wow that Clarkson has good ideas about national service," we should educate them that he's drafting our (better) ideas.

Oh no I know, but acknowledging the dignity of all labor (and educating everyone on it through some kind of youth service) is something we should push for.

He's not the torchbearer, but that doesn't mean we can't use him to potentially get people on our side by simply stating that this kind of thing is good and that it should be more general.

Btw I'm not familiar with brit politics, just clarkkksson as a piece of shit.

I mean nothing wrong with making privileged teens work in some shit job for a while. Rather than never doing remotely difficult work (even a shit fast food job) breeds the most ghoulish boug children.

Obviously not kids, but 17-20 is prime time for this shit

There's a few exceptions, but there is a real issue with writing good endings in anime/manga

Anime endings are so rarely good.

Gainax had some crazy magic that made them create amazing endings running out of budget (Gunbuster b/w, Eva).

This is the exception though, most anime endings are at best mids.

Back in the day this was because mangas were ongoing so you'd get a thrown together anime ending.

Nowadays though, I couldn't tell you why.

That ending, nailed it

A slower more sprawling movie? Sign me up!

Partner hated it tho, she does not like slow movies. I'm going again this week probably.

Was thinking the same thing

The girl who lept through time is low key heartbreaking (though romance isn't the only part of it). It's one that always got me very emotional, and the ending really guts you.

The old school (very old school, 20yrs old for some of these now) Kyoto Animation eroge adaptations (Air, Kanon, Clannad) all had a lot of melancholy, though they're all blurred together in my memory and I can't remember which was the real tearjerker.

Perhaps not as tragic, but melancholic to the core is Whisper of the Heart, a really good Ghibli film that foregrounds the romance.

Like @Cromalin@hexbear.net , I also have to every time emphasize Gunbuster and Diebuster. They're mecha anime, but focused on the characters and like utena, the main relationships (especially in Diebuster) make me cry every time.