When someone talks about how much they love to travel, it just makes me think they are retarded.
Globalization and Travel
The End of Hollywood
Fandom Pulse contemplates the significance of what was demonstrated yesterday with the animated ATOB:
Big Hollywood animation budgets start at $100 million. Traditional 2D animation outsourced to South Korea or the Philippines runs into the tens of thousands per minute for anything at broadcast quality. That economic wall has kept independent animated projects in development hell for decades, talented creators with great source material who simply couldn’t afford to make the thing move. That wall just cracked.
Any indie comic artist sitting on years of finished panels now has a direct pipeline to animation at a fraction of traditional production costs. The storyboard problem, normally one of the most expensive phases of animation pre-production, is already solved. It’s called their back catalog.
The quality ceiling will keep rising as the models improve. Seedance 2.0 is one iteration. Whatever comes next will handle model collapse better, bridge shots more smoothly, and push output closer to broadcast standard without human cleanup. Day’s timeline revision from 18-24 months to “now” happened in a single experimental session. That pace doesn’t slow down.
Arkhaven has a deep library. A Throne of Bones, Midnight’s War, Alt-Hero, years of finished panels that are now, in practical terms, an animation pipeline waiting to be switched on. Day’s confidence that this becomes a feature film isn’t bravado. The math supports it.
It’s not there yet, but it’s coming, and it’s coming fast. And Arkhaven will be more than ready for it.
The Satanic SPLC
Everything about Clown World is fake and gay. Especially their villains.
The U.S. Justice Department has announced an Indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (“SPLC”). The indictment alleges SPLC secretly funneled MORE THAN $3 MILLION in funds to members of white supremacist and extremist groups.
The Justice Department alleges the civil rights group defrauded donors by using their money to fund the very extremism it claimed to be fighting, with payments of at least $3 million between 2014 and 2023 to people affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, the United Klans of America, the National Socialist Party of America and other extremist groups.
The satanists of Clown World always practice Order ab Chao, a deceitful strategy in which they create the problem in order to solve it. Covid-19 was one example of this; “white supremacy” is another, rabbis painting swastikas on their synagogues and blacks hanging nooses from their college dorm rooms are as well.
Not all victims are fake. But most of those whose victimizations you see reported in the media are, because playing-the-victim has worked since even before the so-called “Civil Rights era”.
UPDATE: Unite the Right is confirmed to have been a Clown World setup in the indictment. I’m not at all surprised. Richard Spencer was trying to get me to attend it and speak there. I suspect it’s only a matter of time before we learn for whom Nick Fuentes has been working and who is funding the fake “Patriot Front”.
The Iran That Can Say No
The White House is blustering again after Iran refuses to fall for the “let’s negotiate” trick for the third time:
JD Vance remains at the White House as uncertainty surrounds whether he will depart for Pakistan, with Iran peace talks hanging in the balance less than 24 hours before the ceasefire expires.
Donald Trump claims he’s poised to resume bombing if Tehran refuses to come to the table, he told CNBC Tuesday morning.
Trump earlier this month threatened military action against Iran as part of his ultimatum over the Strait of Hormuz, but he then backed off and agreed to a two-week ceasefire instead.
Tehran has not made it clear whether their representatives will attend a peace summit in Islamabad, Pakistan before the ceasefire expires at 8pm ET Wednesday.
Senior White House officials plan to hold meetings today alongside the Vice President to determine a path forward, according to CNN.
Trump had previously said Vance was expected to depart Washington for Pakistan on Tuesday morning. Those plans were scrapped at the last minute as uncertainty grew over whether Iran would participate.
During his CNBC interview, the President said he ‘expects to be bombing Iran’ if talks fail by tomorrow’s deadline, adding ‘the military is raring to go.’
Trump added that he does not want to extend the ceasefire despite confusion over Tehran’s participation.
What confusion? Tehran said they there is no reason to negotiate. Neither the US nor Israel has fully complied with the ceasefire. The US probably has one, at most two big air offensives left and then it will be out of stand-off offensive missiles as well as defensive ones.
A 3GW military is not going to win a 5GW war.
UPDATE: And it’s TACO time again.
Donald Trump has waivered on his threat to bomb Iran by extending the US ceasefire, claiming the regime’s leadership is ‘seriously fractured.’ The decision is Trump’s fourth delay since the initial truce was announced on March 23. The President did not provide an exact deadline for the latest extension.
Animated ATOB
A first look at a first one-minute test of animating A THRONE OF BONES. It turns out that AI-animated comics are much further along than AI cinematography due to the way in which having the existing comic frames avoids the problem of model collapse.
Desperation in Defeat
Clown World appears to be losing any sense of perspective as its grasp on global power continues to slip away. None of these reports can be considered highly reliable, but there do appear to be some signs that we may be on the verge of finding out if nukes are real or not.
- In the last 24 hours, the U.S. military blasted out nearly 100 Emergency Action Messages (EAM’s) on its High-Frequency Global Communications System (HFGCS). These are the encrypted orders sent to nuclear submarines, strategic bombers, and missile launch crews. On a normal day, you get about 10. The Pentagon has issued ZERO public statement.
- A recent Wall Street Journal article — Behind Trump’s Public Bravado on the War, He Grapples With His Own Fears — reports that Trump’s spate of bizarre, vulgar, threatening posts on social media, e.g., threatening to end Iran as a civilization (implying the use of nuclear weapons), is simply a negotiating ploy — i.e., convince the Iranians that he is unstable and could do anything in order to convince Iran to make concessions. If that is genuinely Trump’s intention, it has backfired spectacularly. It has raised legitimate questions about his mental competence. Although Trump reportedly is terrified of getting bogged down in another forever war that he once vowed he would never do, I think he will order a new round of attacks in hopes that he will break Iran’s will to resist.
- On Saturday night, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force general Dan Caine stormed out of an emergency meeting with Trump. Insiders indicate that Trump wanted to evoke the nuclear codes as a deterrence against Iran during the ceasefire talks in Islamabad. But General Caine refused and invoked the US Uniform Code of Military Justice, the UCMJ, claiming specifically Article 92, covering Failure to Obey. Inside the military we call that the “duty to refuse” clause, that if given an unlawful order, we have a duty to refuse… Apparently, the Joint Chiefs of Staff went ahead and invoked the Article 92 clause.
- The US military has abandoned its last base in Syria and Russian warships are now docking in Syria.
Could be legit, could be cover for invoking the removal of the Short Fat Trump, could be both, or it could be fake. Either way, things do appear to be moving toward some kind of short-term resolution in the next month.
THE FUNAJI SCROLL
As the fifth release in Castalia Libraria’s weekly translation schedule, we have published the first-ever English translation of THE SECRET SCROLLS OF NARUTO: The Funaji Scroll, by Yoshikawa Eiji, who is best-known in the West as the author of MUSASHI. The ebook has already been sent out to the paid subscribers. THE FUNAJI SCROLL is now available on Amazon Kindle, KU, and audiobook.
SAMURAI SWORDS AT SEA
The fourth book of The Secret Scrolls of Naruto brings the pursuit at last to the seas of Japan. What was sworn on a hilltop in Osaka at the close of the first volume, Norizuki Gennojō’s vow to cross the Kitan Strait and follow the lord of Awa’s great ship home, becomes the central action of the fourth volume of the series. From the dockside battle of The Kamigata Scroll, through the urban underground of The Edo Scroll and the mountain passes of The Kiso Scroll, the whole of Yoshikawa’s great adventure has been building toward the all-important crossing into the sealed domain on Shikoku.
In Osaka, Gennojō and the woman he has vowed to see safely to Awa scheme their way aboard a merchant vessel bound for the forbidden domain. In Tokushima Castle, the lord of Awa paces his watchtower on the verge of collapse, his nerves worn raw by the weight of a conspiracy against the shogunate that cannot afford to be exposed. And between them, the three villains of the preceding volumes — Ojūya Magobei, Tendō Ikkaku, and Tabikawa Shūma — close at last on the quarry they have hunted from the canals of Osaka to the mountains of Shinano. Parallel threads of love and betrayal converge on a single ship, and when a sudden storm breaks over the Kitan Strait, the long pursuit comes to a reckoning that neither hunter nor hunted could ever have foreseen.
The Funaji Scroll is the fourth book in the first English translation of Yoshikawa Eiji’s Naruto Hichō, the century-old serial that made him the most widely read author in Japanese history. Translated in literary prose that reads as though it were originally composed in English, it continues the definitive English edition of the novel that created the modern Japanese adventure genre.
Fight the Power
In which one of the longtime readers here, the Witchfinder General, deals a blow to Clown World in the UK:
MHN Editor Samuel Collingwood Smith’s claim against Hertfordshire Police has been settled on favourable terms, which are included below. Police have paid my damages and costs, in total, £34,000. They have admitted that I was unlawfully arrested, detained and committed no crime. They have agreed to correction and / or deletion of various records. I generally tend to be magnanimous in victory, so I am going to park police criticism for now on this topic. Instead, I now plan to continue my public interest scrutiny of the extremists who falsely reported me and their supporters. For transparency, I have included the whole settlement below save the text of the agreed marker, the signature images and the name of the police solicitor. Those have been redacted to prevent the information being misused.
It’s important to note these wins, because in many of these cases, the process is the punishment. That’s why the police and the various government agencies often pursue pointless and unwinnable cases against innocent people.
Most people have neither the resources nor the stamina to fight back when they are attacked in this manner. So congratulations to the Witchfinder for what is an important and inspiring victory.
The Dirty Patriots
Robert Kraft may never enter the Pro Football Hall of Fame despite his undeniable accomplishments as an owner thanks to his intrinsically sketchy behavior.
Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, tried to stop the New York Post from publishing shocking photos of head coach Mike Vrabel and The Athletic reporter Dianna Russini, according to multiple sources.
“Robert Kraft intervened and had his honchos pressure The Post before they published and tried to kill the story,” a source exclusively tells In Touch. “The Post gave Vrabel a longer time to respond than what is considered industry norms, and Kraft took advantage of that extended timeframe to put pressure on the reporter and the newspaper. A notorious crisis strategist made the call but was unsuccessful in neutering the story.”
The New York Post published an article reported by Oli Coleman and titled, “New England Patriots’ Mike Vrabel and top NY Times NFL reporter Dianna Russini hold hands and hug at luxury hotel,” on Tuesday, April 7, alongside damning photos of the two at a luxury resort in Sedona, Arizona.
It’s always something with the Patriots. Even when, as in this case, the problem preceded Vrabel becoming their head coach. While it’s not surprising that Kraft would want to kill the story, it is a little surprising that he would be so naive as to think that he might be able to do so.
It tends to raise the question of what other stories these wicked elites are successfully suppressing.
Baby Steps
AI video is not quite there, but it’s definitely getting closer. Here is a 2-minute video I put together out of Seedance 2.0 clips based on the script for THE GHOSTS OF BANGKOK. The audio is dreadful, there are massive inconsistencies from 5-second clip to 5-second clip, and there is more prompt censorship than I anticipated, but the results are fairly impressive nevertheless.
Working on an ATOB comic clip next.