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Ancient History
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RobbyPants
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It's funny that you say that. The guy that loaned me Preacher all those years ago also loaned me a few Hitman comics.Ancient History wrote:Y'know, if you like Preacher you would absolutely fucking love Garth Ennis' Hitman.
I don't remember much anymore but a guy with creepy black eyes who wears sunglasses and uses some sort of magnum (the main character), a sort of comic-relief buddy of his, and Catwoman with an M-16 or some other assault rifle in one scene. Oh, also those weird other "heroes". Namely the Defenestrator and that dude who keeps saying "bueno".
Hmmm. I think I'm talking myself into reading these again...
Alt Text: "I've developed a more logical set of rules but the people on the chess community have a bunch of stupid emotional biases and won't reply to my posts."
This reminds me of a forum I frequent... just can't quite put my finger on which one....
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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Avoraciopoctules
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"Ask me about being a Birthday Party Princess"
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showth ... id=3502448
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showth ... id=3502448
I'm passing that idea around to a few friends who deal with kids anyway.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
So for the past several months, I've been reading History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi.
Past couple of chapters, it showed a blind fighter, a new enemy disciple.
Then today, it actually showed what his fighting style is.
Joint locks and other grappling.
So yeah. Dude doesn't echolocate or any of that stuff.
He just grabs you when you're close enough and tries to break your fucking neck. Or, apparently, whatever he can grab onto, he tries to break/dislocate/etc.
I can't think, in all the fictional blind warriors I can think of (Guy from Kenshin, the Flying Guillotine Assassin, Blind Fury, etc, etc), of a blind grappler. And wonder why it's taken this long...
Past couple of chapters, it showed a blind fighter, a new enemy disciple.
Then today, it actually showed what his fighting style is.
Joint locks and other grappling.
So yeah. Dude doesn't echolocate or any of that stuff.
He just grabs you when you're close enough and tries to break your fucking neck. Or, apparently, whatever he can grab onto, he tries to break/dislocate/etc.
I can't think, in all the fictional blind warriors I can think of (Guy from Kenshin, the Flying Guillotine Assassin, Blind Fury, etc, etc), of a blind grappler. And wonder why it's taken this long...
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
The moment in Buffy, season 6 where Buffy's fighting Willow and everything goes to hell and then Giles SHOWS THE FUCK UP is my favorite TV moment of all time. The episode had a very clever style of deus-exing like 2 separate times before Buffy finally hit the ground which did a good job of making me believe it. Like they used the standard tropes of why she would get up and win and then she did those things and still lost. I really didn't see it coming and it was the only moment I've ever shouted at a television set
DSMatticus wrote:Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you. I am filled with an unfathomable hatred.
Turns out glasses dude was but one of a group of disciples, each trained by a different master. They start showing up and making noise.MGuy wrote:I watched Kenichi in anime form and at the end, him beating glasses dude (with a horrible reason to want to be a bad guy btw) seemed like it was pretty final. In a few words, what else is there to possibly look forward to the series if I were to want to read the manga?
But in general? It's actually pretty damn awesome. It has its amazing moments. It does have a few thing that made facepalm but...those are far outweighed by some of the other stuff.
The manga's fanservice gets kicked up to 11 at a few points, though. It's like the author just went, "Fuck this. LET THERE BE TORN CLOTHING!"
But on the whole? Recommended.
Edit: Forgot. One of the things I like about the evil master/disciple group is they don't have much they agree on, apart from a few points. Some of them are actually kinda decent to be around--they just believe martial arts should be left in its lethal form and they'll probably kill you if they beat you.
My favorite moment of this was
when Kenichi was about to fight another disciple--with the corresponding master watching. And Kenichi's cellphone went off and after a couple of punches, the other disciple said, "I'm sorry, could you answer that? It's really distracting. I'll wait."
And the enemy master goes, "Hey, always remember to turn off your cellphone before a fight! It's just good manners!"
And the enemy master goes, "Hey, always remember to turn off your cellphone before a fight! It's just good manners!"
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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The Vigilante
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That comic gave me cancerPrak_Anima wrote: Alt Text: "I've developed a more logical set of rules but the people on the chess community have a bunch of stupid emotional biases and won't reply to my posts."
This reminds me of a forum I frequent... just can't quite put my finger on which one....
Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no one - for I am the meanest motherfucker in the valley.
Fair enough. But you can only see so many Blind Swordsman archetypes before it gets old.Whatever wrote:It's because that character concept only works for formal duels.Maxus wrote:And wonder why it's taken this long...
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Today's Zero Punctuation review of "FIFA 13"
DSMatticus wrote:It's not just that everything you say is stupid, but that they are Gordian knots of stupid that leave me completely bewildered as to where to even begin. After hearing you speak Alexander the Great would stab you and triumphantly declare the puzzle solved.
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Avoraciopoctules
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Avoraciopoctules
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Very funny ones:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/religion
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/extremists
Which leads to:
http://www.atheistcartoons.com/
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/religion
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/extremists
Which leads to:
http://www.atheistcartoons.com/
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Ted the Flayer
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Um... link? or did you just want to be a cock tease?
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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Ted the Flayer
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Thank you.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
Girl Genius: The Dreen (seen once in a splash page, mentioned by name once) have put in an appearance. The Jaeger General fears them, and they have just demonstrated why on some idiot in a mech.
DSMatticus wrote:It's not just that everything you say is stupid, but that they are Gordian knots of stupid that leave me completely bewildered as to where to even begin. After hearing you speak Alexander the Great would stab you and triumphantly declare the puzzle solved.
I saw that, too.
Gonna be fun.
Gonna be fun.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Josh_Kablack
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This is the actual strip:
"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."
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Avoraciopoctules
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Saw The Waiting Room earlier this evening at the theater. Surprisingly engaging, may have changed how I look at ER care.
After the movie was over, the director stood up at the front of the theater for a half-hour of q&a. Was very interesting getting the chance to hear how people reacted to the film at different levels, what kind of message the documentary was meant to deliver and how, and the pros and cons of releasing it before or after the election in various forms.
After the movie was over, the director stood up at the front of the theater for a half-hour of q&a. Was very interesting getting the chance to hear how people reacted to the film at different levels, what kind of message the documentary was meant to deliver and how, and the pros and cons of releasing it before or after the election in various forms.