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...I have long tidied away my juvenile collections of similar toys and cutesy stationery — but I could never bring myself to abandon them....
...Fast, clear and musical, she gave ballerina lustre to a solo that can easily seem cutesy and ingratiating....
...A festival trailer shown before screenings features characters in faux genre movies turning to face the camera and praise the audience....
...There’s a whiff of condescension in this recourse to cutesy language — a kind of emotional button-pushing typically associated with exploitative memoirs and cheap romances....
...Since your character fires their weapons automatically, all you control as the player is movement, turning the experience into something more akin to sheep-herding than monster-slaying....
...Such is the popularity of the group’s colourful cutesy characters in its home market, the buying craze for them prompted one state-affiliated group to warn that Pop Mart was fuelling overconsumption and...
...Much gaming creepypasta revolves around cutesy games for children such as Pokémon and Mario....
...These are just like much more sort of cutesy images....
...These titles may seem cutesy and lightweight, but there is a serious mission driving Wholesome Games....
...This set-up is a variation on the virtual YouTuber, or VTuber, a phenomenon where live streamers host videos not as themselves but as fictional characters, masked behind cutesy anime avatars....
...It is a curious world that Lemax and Department 56 create, cutesy and nostalgic without being specific....
...Pokémon Detective Pikachu, a surprisingly likeable family film, transformed cutesy Pikachu into a hard-boiled sleuth with the voice of Ryan Reynolds....
...Bad-Men, too many too many, yes-there-are.” — which some might find endearing and others nauseatingly cutesy....
...Line’s Disney Tsum Tsum, a cutesy puzzle game, has generated $2bn in revenues, including character merchandise sales since its launch in 2014....
...The messaging service known for cutesy stickers and characters such as Brown the bear has become so widely adopted in Japan that it is used by consumers not only to communicate and play games but also to...
...Maclean’s sickly sweet aesthetic nods to Instagram filters and cutesy Snapchat animals, a digitally altered version of reality that is both alluring and grotesque....
...Mascots are a serious business in Japan, with thousands of cutesy characters backing virtually every municipality and tourist attraction in the country....
...Tugwell, an intriguing character, a handsome, progressive economist who became part of Roosevelt’s “Brain Trust” initiating policy for the New Deal....
...Serena Malfi rescued Zerlina from cutesy cliché, making the flirt a sexy woman rather than a stupid soubrette....
..., non-violent characters such as Mario and Splatoon....
...Giving digital assistants names and cutesy personas worsens the confusion. “All we’re going to see in our own lifetimes are intelligent tools, not colleagues....
...The irony is that — for a company that feels distinctively Japanese, with cutesy stickers and characters such as Brown the bear and Cony the rabbit — Line has deep Korean roots....
...Known for its cutesy emoticons and a lucrative franchise involving its own characters, Line has built on its dominance in Japan to pursue growth in other parts of Asia....
...Two-thirds of Line’s active users come from Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and Indonesia, where the popularity of cutesy emoticons or digital stickers, which also feature Line’s own characters, and mobile games...
...Rec Room’s graphics are basic and its characters are cartoonish rather than photorealistic, so there is no risk of an “uncanny valley” here....
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