gary brolsma tank n spank

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in like the tenth or eleventh one, a character says something along the lines of "Shut up, Naruto. You're not even the main character in your own manga,"

iirc at one point the mangaka was considering just changing the name of the series to "sasuke" lol

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random coughing guy was robbed. he should have been a bigger character.

THANK you, sheesh

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that post was prompted by, they announced a remake of raidou (shin megami tensei), and honestly I'd never heard of it, but it made me go "raido was the name of the cool scar face guy from the chuunin exams derp" and then I started appreciating how much I still remembered all these inconsequential background dudes after like 20 years because they were imbued with just a tiny bit of character each and you totally buy them and accept them as the workaday adult ninjas

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the difference between a boy and a man is a boy watches naruto and wants to be naruto, but a man watches naruto and wants to be kiba

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THANK you, sheesh

he's set up to have his anbu girlfriend avenge him and then she NEVER does anything. just like the rest of the anbu black-ops. yet raido and toothpick both get some decent panel time somehow.

that post was prompted by, they announced a remake of raidou (shin megami tensei), and honestly I'd never heard of it, but it made me go "raido was the name of the cool scar face guy from the chuunin exams derp" and then I started appreciating how much I still remembered all these inconsequential background dudes after like 20 years because they were imbued with just a tiny bit of character each and you totally buy them and accept them as the workaday adult ninjas

people took for granted how good naruto was at that. so many series have tried to copy it and couldn't make their world as believable as the leaf village. the fight paneling, use of perspective and color pages are also phenomenal. people forget how good of an artist kishimoto is.

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my favorite current battle series is still choujin x. I never bothered with tokyo ghoul but this is a lot of fun and there's plentiful eye monsters. I won't read anything without eye monsters.

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oh one more thing, one of the author comment pages in naruto describes a one page comic his colleague drew on the spot to prove he was a manga artist and not just an anime pin-up girl artist. I tried to recreate it.

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fuck i'm sooooo fucking sick today. kyle pales in comparison





ps saved

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actually if you'd stop being such a poser and actually read the bible, you'd know that every time a bell rings, a angel gets its wings. they used to be cute! they were just dudes. by the end of the bronze age, though, improvements in manufacturing techniques meant that there were a lot more wings to add since humans had bells EVERYWHERE, and angels had to enter the fourth dimension to accommodate all these new wings (the "biblically accurate angel"). by the invention of the sleighbell shit was fucked and clarence from it is one wonderful life was actually the human-like terminal digit (like a finger) of

wait no he was a normal dude. hadn't heard a bell yet. that was the plot.

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actually if you'd stop being such a poser and actually read the bible, you'd know that every time a bell rings, a angel gets its wings. they used to be cute! they were just dudes. by the end of the bronze age, though, improvements in manufacturing techniques meant that there were a lot more wings to add since humans had bells EVERYWHERE, and angels had to enter the fourth dimension to accommodate all these new wings (the "biblically accurate angel"). by the invention of the sleighbell shit was fucked and clarence from it is one wonderful life was actually the human-like terminal digit (like a finger) of

wait no he was a normal dude. hadn't heard a bell yet. that was the plot.

lol

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gym teacher?

i mean definitely don't explain it further because that seems intriguing

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wait no he was a normal dude. hadn't heard a bell yet. that was the plot.

good post

I forgot the official release censors when shikamaru starts smoking, among other things.

hey so you all remember how pharrell was like "let's do a biopic about me, but as a lego movie?" if you're like me, maybe at the time you thought "that's ridiculous" and thought maybe you'd go see it ironically but then never got around to it

anyway I borrowed it on DVD because I don't play around, and the censorship is kinda wild. most of the dialogue is taken directly from interviews done for the movie, so it'll be somebody1 saying that somebody2 said something, and then on screen, somebody2's character's mouth is moving in sync with somebody1's soundbite

since there's no video of the interviews to contend with, they can just edit the audio to swap out words when necessary, as if for radio. but they were obviously fine with doing that instead of re-recording bits. so like there's this bit where someone's talking about how a high school-aged pharrell is working at mcdonald's and maybe selling nuggets out the back door. man those were some good nuggets too. or later in the (as-seen-in-trailer) bit where he's talking about doing the "drop it like it's hot" beat for snoop dogg, he's like "so I made that beat [silence] out of my mind." then there's this other interview where someone uses the word 'shit' and they kind of bleep it out and put a poop emoji over his mouth, but then later someone absolutely says 'shit' a couple of times with no bleep. was that not in the theatrical cut?

anyway it's a real odd movie because you're like "ok it's cleaned up for the kids. kind of? but that stuff isn't really for kids and neither is the movie? what would a kid even get out of this? are we making a lego movie for adults?" there's basically no message or moral or takeaway (other than to rub elbows with a major producer when you're in high school and trust God). the career points where our hero is in peril are like "due entirely to the influence of demonic corporate suits WE WILL NOT NAME, pharrell fell the fuck off for a few years. but then he randomly collabed with daft punk, so he recovered. but could he keep it up??? o shit he made the minion song."

fun watch. bring your girl

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see what happens when you read between the lines, sheeple

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FUCK WHOOPS NEVERMIND

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wait, wegra's the cool one

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the cool flu where your whole body hurts for like six hours after you wake up

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I haven't had this much fun listening to an album in like literally over a year

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the stars in this gif fade in and out based on their real life brightness
the more artificial light in your area at night (street lights, etc.) the fewer stars are visible from the ground, because the dimmer ones get drowned out by ambient light

the constellations marked in blue, when all the stars are visible, are the ancient greek/roman constellations, mapped by Ptolemy in the 2nd century

when it reaches the other end of the gif, where most of the stars are not visible, we have the "Summer Triangle", consisting of the brightest stars from three separate constellations- Vega, Deneb, and Altair, from Lyra, Cygnus, and Aquila, respectively

the stars of the summer triangle weren't commonly mapped together before the 20th century because before then we never had enough light pollution for those three to stand out in relation to each other rather than the stars nearer to them in the sky

this makes me faintly melancholy but probably not for the reasons you'd think

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Polybius Remastered announced

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I think my least favorite mandela effects are the disney ones. they're all so stupid
"do you remember mickey mouse having a tail, or not? yeah neither does disney. sometimes he has one and sometimes he doesn't. it doesn't matter and is not a big deal"

"do you remember tinker bell using her wand to close the disney intro? well that's probably because she did, constantly"

ah, soo desu