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鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 1h

you could always make your own

my sister's not... what i'd call... super handy but she does it all the time

鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 2h

have you tried one of them fancy bakeries?

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鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 2h

why was the death of superman such a big news story

did nothing else happen in 1993? isnt that the year of the siege of waco???

鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 5h

For the life of me, I can't help but think that whenever someone talks about doing "homework" before their entertainment, that they're doing things PROFOUNDLY wrong

鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 5h

did the cake have a bunny motif

鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 5h

It occurs to me that the funniest podcast I ever listened to was probably the Giant Bombcast, a weekly show about video games, and not in fact, a comedy podcast

I don't know if I've ever even HEARD a good comedy podcast

鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 5h

it occurs to me now that granddaughter-chan here is already super behind the ball because she seemingly doesn't have a dead childhood love whose ghost was sublimated into her cursed technique

like okkotsu had a bunch of inherited mojo plus gojo as a teacher plus THAT

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鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 7h

there are so many battle manga that start out with pretensions of reality that then escalate into cartoon absurdity i really dont understand why they even try to keep it real in the first place

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鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 9h

Here's a Harvest Moon commercial I thought was particularly good

I think it's just the combination of the music and the message of "You're not saving the world in this one, jackass"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvMQ...

Harvest Moon 64 Japanese Commercial

YouTube video by 83Chrisaaron

www.youtube.com

鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 9h

and man i had NO IDEA there were so many fucking hiryu no ken games

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鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 9h

Also

I can understand how people were impressed with early 3D graphics in games. You could move stuff around

But early 3D graphics from a visual or storytelling standpoint? Like, some stuff was genuinely ambitious (looking at you FF7) but a lot of it was "what if a cartoon but uglier and in 3D???"

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鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 9h

More Japanese game commercial thoughts:

Man

They used to make…

A LOT

of sports and racing games

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鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 10h

This is why I enjoy Kagura Mea, bane of the Japanese lol scene

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鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 10h

a cartoon character in a blue helmet is holding a large blue object

ALT: a cartoon character in a blue helmet is holding a large blue object

media.tenor.com

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鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 11h

Wait, AMC owns hidive?

a close up of a man 's face with the words `` now it all makes sense '' written below him .

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words `` now it all makes sense '' written below him .

media.tenor.com

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鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 11h

wonder if there are hollywoods who go "This episode of old cartoon by anime people looks great, maybe I'll call them up for an episode of my show" and the answering machine says "THANK YOU FOR CALLING ANIME STUDIO, WE ARE CURRENTLY BOOKED THROUGH THE YEAR 2045, IF YOU'D LIKE TO PROPOSE A PROJECT..."

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鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 14h

Random thought I wonder if the internet had kinda caused some kind of horrible behavior where people want to crunch all of the things they like into a singularity

I mean that’s already Fortnite, kinda

鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 1d

Also was that zombie dog made out of flubber or something?

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鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 1d

SUV driver…. Probably deserved it

je 𐚁 @giantshunt.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when Leon Kennedy killd that family on the highway

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鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 1d

I have this problem where whenever I see stories written in a nastier period of time with morality that is compatible with modern times I start wanting to choke anyone who ever said "It was a different tiiiiime~"

鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 1d

This is probably why I should never be invested with any kind of punitive authority, because the the first time I get a whiff of someone who is like "I know what YOU SAID, but.." I'd probably smite them

鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 1d

Note that I do not think this is so much an issue with the theology as it was conceived, more that, again, people will use any opening, any wiggle room, any excuse to just do whatever horrible shit they wanted to do in the first place, so you have to be airtight with them and give them no room

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鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 1d

In hindsight, maybe the Bible should've had a clause where it says "And you have to act like it" when it talks about how you'll be okay as long as you recant your sins at some point

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鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 1d

I genuinely feel like the "It's what's on the inside that matters" line of thinking has made the world a worse place.

It lets people excuse sooooo much horrible shit. And as I'd like to think has become clear at this point, people only need the flimsiest of excuses to just be absolute monsters.

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鬼丸XLR @onimaruxlr.bsky.social · 1d

So I dunno how Power Rangers arc went, other than peaking early, but for some reason I imagine the Disney era was the most stable one?

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