CBC Analysis: With one budget, Freeland overturned 3 decades of political orthodoxy

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It's definitely got some very strong "travel by/wit, with, or for music and make it even if you didn't expect to" themes. The question of course, is where it goes. Best case, back to AMS/OMB, the worst cases though...


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Maybe it could be used in the BtVS step to contact someone dead and ask if they want to be brought back, or to be left in peace? Arriving in S06 means that it's smack in the middle of Willow's worst headstrong magic use/abuse stage.

AIC Rights, the holding company with the rights to BGC, now has 'joint ownership' of the IP with anime megajuggernaut Toei.

- Joint ownership my ass. AIC hasn't had the money to do anything but half-assed Tenchi since 2015. This is Toei basically buying the IPs they wanted (Tenchi, Megazone, Zeorymer, BGC).

- They didn't take everything. El-Hazard was part of an AIC crowdfunding proposition, maybe a reboot could slosh around in the Big Isekai Money Pool for a time - but they didn't take that. Then again, more money probably went to the Megazone continuation than that, and they bought Megazone, so I assume they grabbed these IP's explicitly with rebooting them in mind. I doubt AIC is really in a position to negotiate terms and demand they take joint ownership of truly stupid properties AIC has, right? (Or maybe they did, Dangaioh is in there for some reason.)

- 2040 began and ended, and was co-produced with the now defunct ADV films, so a continuation of 2040 is out I think (thank GOD). And a continuation of 2032 would be difficult to say the least. Toshimichi Suzuki's dead; Shinji Aramaki's Production IG elite; Kenichi Sonoda's juggling time between running his family candy business and polishing up his Riding Bean OVA; Michie Tomizawa couldn't even be pried out of retirement to re-voice Rei in Sailor Moon Crystal so there's no chance in hell they could get her back for a continuation... and does anyone in Japan actually have any idea how 2032 was supposed to end? Or are those records lost to time, like tears in rain?

-So: Toei has money, has the rights to BGC, probably snatched the rights up with an eye toward an out-and-out threeboot. It's not impossible in light of various cyberpunk anime being planned: Blade Runner Black Lotus, Trigger's CP2077 anime, Ghost in the Shell 2045... but, wait, that last one wasn't actually good.

- Oh god. Given the present state of anime nowadays, the odds are that this hypothetical threeboot could be bad. Think: The last licensed BGC product was that fucking light novel where it rebooted the Sabers as schoolgirls. They could do that, in some blind effort to pursue the popularity of other LN franchises or whatever. Questions about whether cyberpunk is still a good backdrop to chart new worlds in sci-fi are irrelevant, BGC never aspired to that. So it could fail either for slavishly adoring the most boring parts of cyberpunk-y stuff, or for ignoring cyberpunk stuff in favor of, I dunno, doing isekai? Or making Priss a contemporary idoru? Oh god. Love Live Crisis. Love Live Crisis: The Gacha Game.

I don't know what to think anymore. I'm freaking out here. My mind is awash with rainbow iridescent possibilities or whatever the hell the guy said in Blazing Saddles.

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• Usagi "Hannibal" Tsukino, who loves it when a youma plan falls apart;
  
• Rei "Face" Hino, the one with that memorable smile;
  
• Makoto "M.K." Kino, the team's muscle, who has a fear of flying; and
  
• "Howlin' Mad" Minako Aino
  

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While not a healing song per se, this one could keep someone's condition from getting worse despite poison or bleeding that would otherwise see them rapidly fading. I don't know, maybe that ground is already covered by Madonna's Die Another Day? Alternately, playing this song every day since he found it might be how Doug is not aging on the Walk...

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We have so many Crossovers That Must Not Be.  What do people think of collecting up the "Best of" each of the threads and posting them on AO3 or TTH?

https://github.com/otya128/winevdm

This is basically Wine for 64-bit Windows.

64-bit Windows can't run those retro Windows 3.x games because 64-bit processors don't support 16-bit instructions. The above effectively acts as an on the fly compatibility layer that patches in 32-bit code for 16-bit code so 16-bit stuff will work normally in 64-bit Windows.

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So another random question - It says in the FAQ that Doug has to understand a song's lyrics to gain powers from it, would this work on a foreign language song if he had read a translation of the lyrics before hand? Does he need to be at least partially fluent?

The reason I ask is I was perusing song ideas and thought about the classic Duel Of The Fates from the Star Wars prequel trilogy. I thought the lyrics were in Latin, but it turns out that it's actually a old Welsh story/poem loosely translated into Sanskrit.

The reason it gives me pause is because the poem (Cad Goddeu - The Battle Of The Trees) itself screams Power Song to me - it's about the old Welsh folk hero/mythological figure Gwydion animating a forest full of trees into an army of warriors to fight for him (amongst a lot of other random things).

But in the hypothetical 'gain powers by learning the lyrics beforehand' scenario, would Doug get the 'Turn Trees Into Fighters' powers, or would his subconscious be more likely to go towards 'Song Lyrics+Star Wars Association = Jedi Powers'. It could go either way for me.

Another wrinkle is whilst the song is based on the Battle Of The Trees the actual (loosely) translated lyrics in the song don't actually mention trees - it's mostly just variations of the words speak, dreadful and give. This goes into another question - it says in the FAQ that Doug goes by what his subconscious is drawn to by a song rather then the literal meaning in the words - would the hypothetical knowledge of the original poem make his subconscious focus on that, and thus get the proposed Tree power, or the Star Wars=Jedi power? Or no power given the lyrics in context are kind of gibberish?

A link to the song for people wanting a reminder.