@@@@This comes from above: it's strongly recommended to use a VPN for cytube. @@@@ There was a thread recently about vpns and a few you should explicitly avoid.

Tonight's visual cuisine for slop night is The Battle for Moscow part 2 and My Life as a Teenage Robot episodes 5 & 6. The Battle for Moscow is a 1985 Soviet war movie about the 1941 Battle of Moscow, it was "a Soviet-East German-Czechoslovak-Vietnamese co-production directed by Yuri Ozerov who also wrote the script," and "It was made in time for the 40th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany. "

My Life as a Teenage Robot is a legendary anime made by Rob Renzetti about a teenaged robot superhero, her friends, and her attempts at a normal human life in the face of multiple planetary threats. Mlaatr has a prominent character voiced by Eartha Kitt and uses the art deco style, reminiscent of the '20s. Each episode is actually split into two smaller episodes so we are actually getting four :bko-joy:

imdb:

Mlaatr

content warnings:

Battle for Moscow:

  • Depictions of violence but no blood/gore
  • War
  • Nazis and nazi imagery
  • Gun violence
  • Death

Despite being a war movie, there does not appear to be any blood or gore. It's also on youtube without an age gate so it's most likely pretty safe.

Mlaatr:

  • Depictions of bugs
  • The protagonist prefers a different name to the one given to her by her mom in the first episode, however both are used throughout the show by different characters. Her given name is generally used in a more formal manner by authority figures and her preferred one more casually by her peers. She responds to both and after the first episode generally seems to not be bothered by it.
  • Jokes about weight
  • Explosions
  • Cartoon violence, primarily involving robots and alien monsters.
  • The protagonist regularly loses limbs but she is a robot
  • The protagonist practically dies or experiences a near death experience in one episode.

Unlike anime from Japan, there isn't really anything excessively grotesque nor is there a theme of :tony-disappointed2: moments.

@@@@This comes from above: it's strongly recommended to use a VPN for cytube. @@@@ There was a thread recently about vpns and a few you should explicitly avoid.

  • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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    7 months ago

    I'm curious why we are explicitly recommending a VPN for cytube now?

    Is it just because of tankietube? because that has p2p disabled by default. And cytube is hosted by hexbear ourselves so I assume more or less the same level of safety applies as the main site... I guess Tanuki could be IP logging us all... And I don't hate VPNs but the blanket "always just use a vpn for no sufficiently explored reason" type recommendations usually strike me as misguided. If anything with so many VPN companies having dodgy ties like the thread says, perhaps they shouldn't be thought of as a panacea