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can’t believe I’m only now finding out that hiro suzuhira redrew her anime goth girl in 2020 after finding out how iconic she is in the west

tlirsgender

Today's very specific trope I'm thinking about is when a dude character is trying to hype his bestie up to talk to a girl he likes and it gets a little gay like "bro Of Course she'll like you. You're so handsome bro And you're funny. How could she not. You light up the room bro" like yeah ok thanks man

dragontatoes

when he talks to the girl for him and is like “come on Samantha, you gotta give him a chance. he’s a great guy, he’s so nice, he’s so romantic, he smells good, I have dreams in which I am his wife and wake up feeling empty inside, he makes an incredible omelette” etc

wingsofahoneybee

fantasy costco is a front for garfield's true passion: illegal cloning

wingsofahoneybee

you're so right ive breached containment and my notes are full of delighted confusion

dcmultiverse

Lex Luthor in Justice League Unlimited 2.09 - Question Authority

burger4621

This scene will always give me chills. Kinda reminds me of someone..? No offense to Lex Luthor.

I Love Super Heroes, But I hate the modern Super Hero.

I know it's an Unpopular Opinion in the world right now... But i really wish we could stop going for deconstructing the Super Hero genre. Or needlessly gritty. I wish we could just focus on these characters being good for the sake of being good.

The reason i hate the SnyderVerse is the same reason i hate The Boys, Invincible etc. Good for you, you're gritty and 'realistic'. But you completely ignore the reasons for the characters have to be good. Yes i know this is kind of reductionist, I know the shows mentioned above gives motivations for their cast. But they're kind of weak in my opinion... But i am just another Comic Book Nerd on the Internet. Im not saying they need to be Batman 66... But I haven't seen a live action Superman who felt like Superman in a long time. The Snyderverse felt like it removed Clark Kent from who Superman is. He's not a tortured god. He's a Hick. He's a Farm Boy from Kansas. Batman is another one! I understand The Dark Knight Returns is iconic. It changed how the world saw Batman. But now we are in a cycle of making the character darker and grittier because he's obsessed with vengeance. You've removed the hope that Gotham could be better. When i think about why the Spider-Man movies and games tend to be successful is that unlike the trends with Batman and Superman, they haven't removed the core of who Peter Parker is to Spider-Man. He may not always be right in a situation. He quite frequently makes the wrong decision. But he always tries. There is hope. There is the belief that he needs to do what he can because With Great Power Come's Great Responsibility he is the only one who can. Batman used to be like that too. Superman has the ability to be like that again. My Adventures With Superman was the most amazing Superman I have seen in a long time. Someone finally paid attention to who Clark is.

oneshoulderangel

Galahad: I don’t have daddy issues.

Mordred: Evidence would suggest otherwise.

Galahad: listen, you can’t have daddy issue if you don’t have a dad.

Mordred: I’m pretty sure that’s a leading cause of daddy issues, but please go on.

vampiregirlestrogen

He’s so fucking stupid <3

bunabi

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triviallytrue

aren't gorillas gentle giants or something. i stay out of his way, he doesn't maul me, we have a nice time picking out clothes together in opposite sides of the mall

friendshapedhole

Male gorillas are super aggressive and territorial. Also they interpret nearly every human mannerism as a sign of aggression or a challenge. Smiling and eye contact are both things that zookeepers have to be taught to suppress when they’re in the vicinity of gorillas.

triviallytrue

Well unless the mall is his native territory I think I'm fine, I wasn't planning on smiling at him

max1461

This is all irrelevant because the obvious answer is five black mambas. I mean, that’s not actually very many snakes, and malls are fucking huge. And unlike a gorilla you can definitely outrun a snake if it does show up. Find an open space in the mall where you can see any snake coming and just hangout out there. Fucking easy.

triviallytrue

Misguided! I would much rather have a mallmate I can easily see and hear coming. I'm confident I can stay out of the gorilla's way, but if I step on a snake or one otherwise gets the jump on me, it's all over.

It's not just about the physical danger either, it's about my mental health. One gorilla, unless he's actively mad at me, I just keep a healthy distance between us and make sure I never get trapped. With the snakes, it requires a lot more constant vigilance

ghostpalmtechnique

They should substitute "chimpanzee" for "gorilla" in this hypothetical.

triviallytrue

if it was a chimp i'm taking the fucking snakes

notwiselybuttoowell

Black mambas have a reputation build on being very venomous and very fast. I'm not sure why you would think you could outrun one (or five) in an enclosed space like a mall.

chaumas-deactivated20240115

Malls usually have pretty slick floors, and escalators. I’d choose the gorilla simply because I think that would make an more interesting story (and a better-selling autobiography, I Survived the Mall Gorilla) but I think I’d stand a pretty good chance at avoiding the mamba. They’re fast and aggressive and will chase you but unless we started immediately beside each other I think my sneakers would have the terrain advantage over scutes.

nightingalesoul

this is too good to leave hidden in the replies

bermuda-n-drangle

fucking enamored with the implication that this gorilla is fully intelligent but is trying to manufacture plausible deniability like the movie barnyard

pigcatapult

I still hold that the snakes will not fuck with me unless they think I've fucked with them first, because they're snakes. They also will not want to go into the mall's plentiful wide open spaces with cold linoleum floors, because they're snakes. Give me something to read and a pillow and I'll be fine.

burger4621

Black Mambas

Step 1: obtain THICK winter jacket and clothing from Dicks Sporting Goods (or Macys/Sears.. i guess..)

Step 2: Obtain any fresh food from the Food Court stalls.

Step 3: hide out in the foodcourt fridge area. If you’re concerned about the door locking you in propping it open will also keep the Snakes away.

Step 4: Camp Out

memecucker

Happy Herc

vintagegeekculture

In a lot of northern Indian Buddhist art, Hercules is depicted as the Buddha’s bodyguard.

This tradition of depicting Hercules as Buddha’s bodyguard started in the Greco-Bactrian kingdom of Gandhara, a part of Northern India conquered by Alexander the Great. This is important because Gandhara just happens to be the place Buddhism spread to the far east (it’s “the west” in the famous Chinese novel Journey to the West).

Hercules acquired a scary, bestial mien and thunderbolt swords in Asia via association with Buddhist guardian monsters, the Vajrapani, who had the traditional job of protecting the Buddha. Hercules and the Vajrapani were confused with each other and traits of one rubbed off on the other. This slowly transformed him into a thunderer all the way to Japan and Vietnam.

So in essence, these Buddhist temple guard statues found as far away as Vietnam and Japan started as statues of Hercules. That’s why the original illustration is so fascinating to me; depicting Hercules as monster-like and fierce-faced with a double-weapon.

vintagegeekculture

To those saying “the Greek name is actually HERACLES, Hercules is the Roman name…”

…you are wrong.

Hercules is a legitimate alternate and Greek pronounciation of his name. The Romans were introduced to Greek religion by Southern Italian Greek colonies founded in the 6th Century BC. Like many other languages, Greek had tremendous regional variations, and the Southern Italian Greek colonies were especially known for this. Among other things, they had distinctive pronunciations, like Hercules instead of Heracles and Ulysses instead of Odysseus, and because the Italians were introduced to Greek culture and religion by these colonies, they mirrored their pronunciations.

In fact, it is very natural to understand where this way of saying it came from if you know a thing or two about the predictable laws of linguistics and linguistic change. “Cle” sounds in the middle of a word, naturally, smooth out with the addition of a u between the c and l. Like rocks, hard sounds erode down with time. Take, for example, how many Americans intuitively say “nuclear” as “nucular” (including Homer Simpson and George W. Bush). In the case of nucular, linguistics predicted this pronounciation would develop before it even happened. Nuclear, Nucular, Heracles, Hercules.

So yes, Hercules is what Greeks called him in certain places and it is totally legitimate to refer to him by that name in a Greek context.

It is worth noting that there were accents and dialects in the Ancient World, but we know very little about them, including what they sounded like. For example, St. Augustine was said to speak Latin with a thick North African accent. What that sounded like we do not know, but we have stories of those who heard him speak live and they said St. Augustine’s accent was so thick that what he said was mostly unintelligible.

I dislike correcting people, but I do like correcting the correctors. Being pedantic is like choosing a life of violence, the life of the gun. If you choose to live by it, you will eventually die by it.

burger4621

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The Titanic Never Sank

There’s a really interesting conspiracy theory that talks about how the Titanic never actually sank. Instead, it’s believed that the ship that sank was actually The Olympic.

The conspiracy theory doesn’t deny that a ship sank or that the ~1500 passengers aboard that ship didn’t die. The conspiracy simply suggests that the ship was not actually the technical marvel that the ship’s parent company, the White Star Line, had promised. Rather, the White Star Line swapped ships for the voyage from Southampton to New York and the ship billed as the top-of-the-line Titanic was actually an older ship, the Olympic. This was all an insurance scam gone wrong.

The Olympic was White Star Line’s first built ship and it had seen a lot of troubles recently (most infamously its crash with the military ship, Hawke) and was considered an economic disaster at this point. A trial later held The Olympic responsible for the crash and there was an expensive lawsuit hanging on its head. This is where the conspiracy comes in:

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Doctor Who The Hungry Earth | 5.08

jadeazora

I love how Ash knowing everybody has become a bit of a running gag during the tournament :”D

burger4621

@pigcatapult

galsgeneration

Ow, ow! Are you kidding me with that handshake?!

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) dir. Jeff Fowler

burger4621

@pigcatapult the scenes are beautiful

honoratacarnage

I was wondering if Pokémon Legends of Arceus had a concept art book just like the other games before and it so happens that i found a page on Twitter that not only scanned the book, but also translated it!

If you want to see the whole book scans, the page is already linked, now i will comment on some of the concept arts that caught my attention!

Professor Laventon design sheet! It seams that even if he is from Galar, he still despises the cold. It's nice to know he has wavy hair :)

Kamado! So he cries easily... Imagine him, after that one scene, just bawling his eyes out while putting up the armor on...

Warden Mai!! SHE AND ADAMAN ARE SIBLINGS???? and this makes Adaman's Leafeon his younger brother... I wonder what happened with the fifth child... Anyways she strong!

Lian the boy that saved the day by hyperfocusing! It seams that he likes to do the onomatopoeias out loud when thinking.

Ough Warden Iscan... Damn i never noticed how buff he is! That man could lift an Alpha Snorlax geez! Also he is good a mimicking pokemon, imagine him doing the Delelele wooooooop!

Where the starters live! Oshawott having to jump all that furniture seams kinda impractical (also it will leave everything soaking wet!)

It's so different seeing what people in pokemon consider as draft creatures! I wonder how fast a Machamp can go.

A ol' pokeball diagram! By the illustrations on the bottom, gravity was needed to make it work! If you went to space with this pokeball you wouldn't be able to catch anything!!

Now an Arcphone diagram! It is very cute to think that arceus literally MADE this for you. Imagine if it was a Flip-Phone? Or a full keyboard Blackberry? Also i like how pikachu is like "trainër i am scarëd" in the terrain scan.

thatdamnrookie

cool, thanks!

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