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karobit @karobit.com · 1h

not games but this obviously happens a lot with anime. the one i would always hear working in a shop back in the early 00s was people complaining that the official Media Blasters release of Rurouni Kenshin "toned down the swearing" from the original -- the fansubs were full of extraneous curses.

karobit @karobit.com · 1h

what's the logistics update on jeremy's back tho

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karobit @karobit.com · 3h

can't believe atheists get a terminator-esque HUD when they reject the lord. won't even let you call them #blessed for it.

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karobit @karobit.com · 17h

everyone should draw their cats, its the law

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Rich Ellis @elliscomics.bsky.social · 2d

More sketches of my cats. These are of Georgia:)

Sketchbook pictures of ink drawings . There are two sketches of a grey cat named Georgia. She is a cute cat.

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Diamond Feit 🦇 @feitclub.bsky.social · 20h

When will the RGG team let us piss to evade combat

Lost Turntable @lostturntable.bsky.social · 20h

Just saw two dudes threaten to beat up a third dude, who then angrily walked away, whipped his dick out, and began peeing in the middle of the street.

I'm by Kabukicho.

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karobit @karobit.com · 21h

also planetes fucking owns hell yeah i gotta get that oversized editio

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karobit @karobit.com · 21h

it took me a year or so after seeing it for me to realize, but i always assumed it was just gonna be some edgelord viking shit. this interview is really selling me on it.

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 23h

Also, Makoto Yukimura said trans rights.

io9: Your portrayal of Indigenous and transgender characters—like the Lnu tribe and Cordelia—stands out in a media landscape where such representation is still rare outside of series like Golden Kamuy, Skip and Loafer, and Paradise Kiss, where they’re often mishandled. What impact do you hope these characters have on expanding the narrative terrain? How do you see your storytelling challenging the ethnocentric lens that dominates much of mainstream media when it comes to that representation?

Yukimura: I did have written characters in [Vinland Saga] from a marginalized ethnic group [and] who are LGBTQ featured here. I actually wanted to portray a character with a disability in the story, too. However, because of the setting, I really couldn’t find the right place to incorporate such a character into the story. One thing I really don’t understand, though, is why do people attack such folks? Is it because they’re different? Why do they just focus on bad things about these groups and generalize them? I truly don’t understand why people do such things. I plainly feel sad when it comes to the way people treat each other.

To me, it’s quite normal for people to have uniqueness. It’s almost needless to say that we all individually have a uniqueness that might be considered different than what is the majority. For example, I grew up in an era where higher education was considered to be the most important thing in society in Japan. You almost had no paths in life outside of that structure. I actually do live outside of that structure, and I’m living perfectly fine. I really want to say that uniqueness is okay. I don’t understand why people are making those judgments to say, “This is okay, but this is not okay.”

I haven’t really thought about what this type of storytelling or character would have an impact on society at all. I’m just writing, drawing, and portraying society as I see it and what I think is normal from my eyes in the manga. If people don’t agree with that version of what I think is a normal society, then oh well. (Laughs) That’s too bad. Those people don’t have to read my manga.

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karobit @karobit.com · 21h

“To become mature is to become kind.”

Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 1d

Makoto Yukimura was worried that Vinland Saga's farming arc and "I have no enemies" moment was a gamble that readers wouldn't like. I told him about the J. Cole meme from the Kendrick Lamar and Drake rap beef. This is how he reacted.

If “I have no enemies” has become a meme and people remember it, then maybe people will understand what I’m really trying to say through the story, which is that humans are immature, but we can mature. To become mature is to become kind. This is the foundation of what I’m trying to say, but it really has to be much shorter for people to remember. But it does give me hope that people remember these short phrases as memes. Then, one day, it will click in their mind what I was trying to really say in the first place.

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karobit @karobit.com · 23h

when you open it, that's how NFTs get released

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karobit @karobit.com · 1d

whats japanese for "gottem"

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karobit @karobit.com · 1d

I got mine the day after a Tokyo Disneyland Sea visit, poisoning me against the mouse forevermore

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karobit @karobit.com · 1d

incredibly grateful the stones i got last year on my visit passed quickly and only cost me a (long, painful) day

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karobit @karobit.com · 1d

Fuck Gavin Newsom forever

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 1d

FUTURE JEOPARDY ANSWER:

This failed California governor placed sixth in the 2028 Democratic Presidential Primary before dropping out in disgrace

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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karobit @karobit.com · 1d

Me believing that I've preheated the stainless steel pan enough so that the salmon filet won't stick
vs
Me realizing that the salmon filet has stuck

A stick figure representation of me (shaggy hair, dopey face, pale white) is holding a frying pan and looking self-satisfied

A stick figure representation of me (disheveled, petulant, ghastly white) is holding a frying pan and looking upset

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Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 1d

As I wrote 10 years ago in my final magazine: you have immediate access to decades of games/scans/videos/etc. to make a unique gaming text. You can go bigger than a zine and still make it look cool, and you don't have to make yet another platform/genre catalog. Curate and craft for god's sake

Kurt @ Hardcore Gaming 101 @hg101.bsky.social · 1d

For anyone lamenting how some goon was able to get a publishing deal - put together your own book! Create a solid concept, do some planning, create a design, and pitch it! Most publishers don't have open pitch seasons. They want to see someone that can see a full project to completion.

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karobit @karobit.com · 1d

embarrassed to say i looked thru some of the dude’s tweets last night because i’d never heard of him, and they’re all “*Like* if you think classic JRPGS like this are better than CoD shooters today” and its a picture of the Ehrgeiz box art. more embarrassed that they had a fair bit of engagement.

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