Tabasco is a rescue cat I adopted from a charity a few years back. He knows only crime and sleep

Police criminally charged Shae Sanders and Aurora Rush, who were both injured in the cruel attack.

Read THEORY to analyse your own CONDITIONS, Glorpy.

Cross posted from https://lemmy.ca/post/68956159

Authorities in the metro and across Minnesota say they’re seeing an uptick in damage to license-reading cameras, especially Flock cameras.

I've been watching Needy Girl Overdose after hearing people describe it as "Lain 2.0" because the creators were inspired by Serial Experiments Lain.

Maybe that's why I'm struggling with it.

What made Lain work wasn't just that it was weird. It had purpose. When it suddenly stopped to talk about something like the Schumann resonance, it wasn't random "look how deep we are" material. It served the story. It added to the atmosphere. It made you question what was real. It was experimental, but it knew exactly why.

That's why Lain has such a devoted cult following (and yeah, I'm definitely part of it). It's incredibly 90s with that "the Internet is mysterious and magical" vibe, yet somehow it's still timeless.

With Needy Girl Overdose, though... I keep feeling like the creators confused "being artsy" with "looking artsy."

Every few minutes it feels like the show remembers there's supposed to be a plot, briefly returns to it, and then goes right back to flashing walls of text and abstract imagery. Sometimes an artistic reference lands. Most of the time it just feels like teenage angst dressed up as profound philosophy. Ironically, it ends up feeling as shallow as the influencer culture it's trying to critique.

Maybe that's also because the original game didn't have a huge narrative to build on. I played it too, and honestly there wasn't all that much story there in the first place.

I wanted this to be Lain 2.0. I really did.

So far, though... I'm pretty underwhelmed.

I'm curious what everyone else thinks. Do you genuinely see it as a worthy spiritual successor to Serial Experiments Lain, or is the comparison doing it a disservice?

The Canadian arm of controversial U.S. data mining company Palantir was until recently registered to lobby B.C. health authorities.

B.C's lobbying registry, and the IJF's lobbying database show Palantir Technologies Canada Inc. was registered as a lobbyist in B.C., seeking contact with provincial and regional health authorities, Ministry of Health and B.C. Hydro. The registrations have been active on and off since 2021, with the latest ending in June.