Noooo Lain bitcoin mining is a mistake!!!
Quinns is married to Leigh Alexander, the lady who wrote "Gamers are Over". PMG also did this video on the Disco Elysium situation, which er... isn't exactly their finest bit of reporting.
I've been a fan of Shut Up and Sit Down (their tabletop games focused channel) for a long time but I wouldn't call them socialists.
There's not enough text for it to be the former
I watched the first episode... honestly was kinda unimpressed. It all felt very boilerplate, the parts in the future all felt like the Christian Bale T4.
I dunno, doesn't feel like Production I.G.'s best work, so the show doesn't look that good either (by contrast, Heavenly Delusion and Kaiju No. 8 both at least looked neat). A lot of it feels like standard Netflix outsourced Korean studio work, but at least with Castlevania/Blood of Zeus there was more to work with.
If you can track down a copy of Otaku: Japan's Database Animals, Hiroki Azuma actually describes this process.
To summarize the book- he says that in our current postmodern landscape, what consumers want isn't narrative (because stories are pointless). What they want is a database of their favourite things, and they want to selectively consume the things in the database based on their own tastes, just remixed forever (A Tsundere is a Tsundere is a Tsundere, it doesn't matter what color is the waifu's hair). In effect trading 'humanity' to become 'animals', just mindlessly consuming the same things over and over again.
The analysis is postmodern and not marxist tho, so he attributes all this to the death of grand narratives and not capital. Still, the book is interesting since you can see those processes happening right now, with the Marvelification/Disneyfication of media
The show is very very good but it's very challenging. A lot of flawed characters doing awful things to each other (but like, to illustrate a point. It's not misery porn).
But it gets politics much better than most media, and it maps out in depressing detail how a crisis (of capitalism) leads to fascism. It's kinda uncanny given current events, which is the other reason why it's kinda hard to watch the show rn.
More than anything the show captures the vibes of living in the Pre-Apocalypse really well.
Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction Ep 14
Direct quote from the episode:
spoiler
That Mothership in Japan is like a kid... who hasn't gotten laid! ...and is about to shoot it's load! It's true! We're leaders of the free world! That's us!'
Be the American the Japanese think you are
haven't played the game (it was basically impossible to find translated versions until now) but from what I heard it has the same general plot but the details are different, and it had a darker tone than the show
Kyon-kun, Denwa!
Okay, so I never really wrote it down, but what I really really really love about CSM is how Fujimoto takes really simple, easily understood metaphors and just uses them to brutally illustrate our condition under late capitalism
Making literal deals with devils...
Just, man, this manga is just so peak
Dead Dead Demon's Dedede Destruction is an amazing show. It's a bit heavy to watch though, considering current events.
I did not have this on my 2024 bingo card, ngl. Even if it ends up a trainwreck, at least it'll have a banging soundtrack
Hoping for animated Brisket 
Edit: Sanzigen is the studio who did the Anniversary MV. So, there may be reason to be cautiously optimistic lol
The running joke that the "Green Laser Weapons" are eco-friendly is 
Show is Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction
I've been looking forward to Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction's anime adaptation, especially since I'm allergic to reading manga. Subs aren't great but ah well, we work with what we've got, hopefully fansubbers pick it up.
Don't watch ep 0 tho apparently it's spoilers.
The first screen treatment is kinda whack. Second had potential as a kinda "White People Get Colonised" allegory like War of the Worlds until this banger dropped:
There was no longer private property
and I just lost it
Edit: Oh shit the Galactic Emperor is Literally Hitler I'm fucking dying why wasn't this greenlit
Edit2: Oh god we almost had another live-action Gundam like G-Saviour, with even worse computer graphics
Single show coming out this year that has me the most hyped, and we've already had a couple bangers in Dead Dead Demon's DededeDestruction and Dungeon Meshi (and we're also getting Uzumaki)