I reblog things I like

mormfph bawl.

[shencomix]

Man, I can't believe I used to read your comic back in elementary, now am 2 semesters away from graduating college.

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don't say that...........

[shencomix]

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[northernyogurt]

i made these while bored at work

[shock]

if fallout 76 really is a world where “every character is a real person” & there’s no NPCs im making it my civic duty to be like this lowly tavern barkeep and then once i’ve established enough of a rapport i’m going to nuke all of west virginia and it will be in character 

[b0gchamp-deactivated20230613]

someone help where’s the screenshot of some post somewhere about the mmo player who barkept for a longass time then fucked absolutely everyone over

[yessica-k]

This one?

[shencomix]

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[gwennafran]

Pale Lights Beach episode

I was working on some reference sheets to myself, and plopping some seasonally appropriate swim wear on these disasters were the simple way to show off my progress. Make it an “alternate timeline” and “alternate universe” version. Haha.

A few things:

I don’t actually have a height for Fortuna. I just figured “tall” because she is a goddess.

It turns out everyone got different ideas of what Angharad’s tattoos looks like. In the end, we got a trustworthy source telling us, that EE says they are 10 parallel bands going around Angharad’s forearm.

I also don’t know which hand Maryam is missing two fingers on. I picked left to be kind.

Maryam is so darn pale, she practically is blinding.

Angharad probably could pick up any of her other three cabal members, and carry them around effortlessly over her shoulder for an hour. She’s also collected a lot of scars in just one book.

[direhuman]

me explaining to the other trainers that apricorns are unknown outside of Johto because of deliberate suppression by the Silph and Devon corporations to present artificial pokeballs as the only means of capturing pokemon and establish regional monopolies after they eliminate renewable sources

[theinsidiousdice]

(via @itsbenedict)

[itsbenedict]

eternalfarnham replied to your post

you’re in the pocket of Big Ball, I see

there’s no pocket for me to BE in, there’s no LOBBYING involved, there’s no SUPPRESSION campaign because you don’t need one! traditional methods suppress themselves when you make modern pokéballs available. you might as well start accusing AT&T of deliberately suppressing the noble traditional art form of the goddamn semaphore.

not to mention OP demonstrates a total lack of understanding of the market realities of the pokéball industry- Silph and Devon are not monopolies, if they weren’t in constant competition their magic monster domination spheres wouldn’t cost two bucks a pop. the ball spec is a public standard, and Bill Masaki’s storage system based on that standard is an open-source project. they’re only the two largest players because they’re able to leverage economies of scale. you still get smaller operations like the Laverre City Poké Ball Factory, with better regional supply chains and local brand recognition, making room for themselves in the market. 

sm FUCKING h at y’all granola-crunching conspiracy theorists. you probably also believe Super Potions cause autism.

[justisdevan]

Ok, but it is a shame that artisanal balls are basically off the market now. Like, you have to ride the monorail and hike through a half dozen routes just to find someone willing to sell you a Fast Ball. Believe me, when your boss at the power plant needs five Electrodes by Tuesday you are not going to want to make the trip to Alola; you’re going to head on down to the Mart and get some Ultra Balls, which will do the trick but aren’t well tailored to the job.

I’m with you that modern catching techniques are better, not to mention more humane, but there genuinely is a loss from more niche balls becoming harder to find. Maybe someday the long slowpoketail of consumer demand will be met, but I wouldn’t hold my breath for that Shellder.

[cetaceanhandiwork]

look y’all are missing the point. mass production of silph balls crowding out traditional apricorn craftsmanship is, if anything, more a side effect of the real problem: that capture artifacts are too easy to get your hands on these days. $2 basic balls are a problem. before modern ball tech you had to go to an artisan, yes, but part of their job was to care about who had the power to recruit pokémon from the wild, as a backstop against another Knight of Veilstone coming along. there was a time when you’d never lay a hand on a ball yourself until it was clear you respected pokémon, whether tame or in the wild. but now, a “pokémon journey” is open to practically every teenager, even if they’ve got not interest in treating their team with trust and love.

the worldwide rise in the last century of organized crime and apocalyptic cults who use pokémon as their muscle is a direct result of capture artifacts becoming a mass produced market commodity rather than a mechanism for preserving the sacred trust between humans and the wilderness. it’s a miracle that the powder keg hasn’t already gone off by now.

[eternalfarnham]

Oh that is rank historical revisionism - what, do you think artisans’ definitions of “respect” were constructed in a vacuum? We already had rhetoric as far back as the warring states period in Ransei about how only the soldierly classes, overwhelmingly descendants of nobility and taught from birth, had the intangible qualities necessary to “bond” with Pokémon. And when we start seeing apricorn balls develop in Johto, which borders Kanto - Kanto, where we know there’s been extensive cultural cross-contamination with Auroran and Dragnoran expeditions - surprise, suddenly only a small population has the intangible qualities necessary to use them, too.

That notion was, and remains, a tool to limit general access to Pokémon in the interest of maintaining class disparities. I mean, have we already forgotten the Aether Foundation’s pseudo-conservationist nonsense? Their attempt to manipulate natural resources and establish a power base in Alola, while they were modernizing and taking their place on the world stage, was founded on this exact rhetoric of “rescuing” Pokémon from local disenfranchised populations, as if taking Pokémon away from places like Po Town would improve things instead of increasing competition between trainers and decreasing safety.

Do you want more disillusioned kids joining gangs? Because that’s how you get Teams!

[sindri42]

Artisanal balls and anyone who supports them are tools of the aristocracy to suppress the common folk. In the days when a ball could only be made by hand by an expert, only the wealthiest could afford pokemon, and as a result anyone not born into the “elites” was forced to be subservient to their “betters” for protection.

The release of the $2 pokeball meant that the balance of power shifted to the common citizens. If any child can wield the power of a god, the military and the government and the wealthiest businessmen have no power over them.

More than that, instead of power being determined by the wealth to acquire pokemon, power comes exclusively from the dedication, effort, and empathy required to train them to high levels and to maintain their loyalty. If a person simply buys their pokemon, then those pokemon will either stay at low levels forever, or refuse to obey the human because there is no respect between them; the most powerful people in the world are those who caught a critter at level 2-5 and then devoted their life to raising it into a world power.

And as a beautiful side benefit of this, standard of living has increased across the board. Since every household has at least one minor pokemon in the family and there are increasing numbers of professional, working pokemon joining cities and other civilized areas and working to improve them, every aspect of economy and industry has been enhanced by their supernatural capabilities. Electricity is generated cleanly and in abundance for everybody. Pollution is cleaned up almost completely and instantly. The production of farms, mines, and workshops is multiplied, even as safety standards improve. Yes, every few years another potential apocalypse comes about and needs to be prevented by a couple of brave teenagers, but outside of those incidents the world is damn close to utopia.

[6qubed]

…that was all fascinating to read and I would like to see more like it, please

for instance; what the hell is in lemonade that makes it a more powerful healing alternative to regular potions

[suinicide]

Opium

[lemondorp]

See, unlike in the real world, the Pokémon world has yet to ban cocaine in drinks.

[antique-scarecrow]

this website is INCREDIBLE

[midnitemakrel]

God didn't give me a dick cause he knew I'd be abusing that thang. Call me mourning wood the way I'd be fucking trees

[midnitemakrel]

BOY THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO SAVE AS A DRAFT

[byjove]

he’s got that previously neglected shelter dog rizz. he looks like he wants to quietly sit next to you on the couch while you watch TV

[ornstein]

Throwback to this dark souls moment that I had in BotW.

[shencomix]

[shencomix]

That's her as a baby.

[joysusbluesun]

Eyes of a Dragon

[prokopetz]

I don't mind that recent Metroid games have taken to providing explicit justifications for why Samus needs to re-collect all of her upgrades in each game, but I do mind that it's often for such stupid fucking reasons. Like, let's at least make it something that's commensurate with the trouble she went through to collect all that junk in the first place, you know? I think in the next game she should get blown out of the sky in low orbit and experience atmospheric re-entry without a spaceship – I'm sure there's something in her increasingly fucked up DNA that would let her survive that. Just hauling her still-smouldering body out of a twenty-meter-wide impact crater like "welp".

[prokopetz]

She goes into ball mode right before impact because a sphere is the most resilient shape, but then the impact fucks all of her upgrades and she ends up stuck like that. You have to play out the entire tutorial segment stuck in ball mode, maybe even fight a miniboss that way, and the first major upgrade you find is the ability to un-morph. This functions as a form of ability-gating owing to the fact that all of the exits from the starting biome require interacting with something in a way that you can't do while stuck in ball mode because no hands.

[splashcat413]

[travelers-gaming]

I want a bonus interlude about the time Blasto made a tiny, living man out of weed and then smoked him