Orange Art Goblin

29. Animator, Layabout, Recluse

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It's frustrating how I can't actively hate AI as much as I want to. I want to melt data centres with my mind and rip wires with my teeth like meat off a bone. I want every hoarder of wealth and comfort to have the Wizard of Oz-esque facade they were sold leak their finances out to the artists who they'd rather replace than fund. I want the gears of strict efficiency and manufactured urgency to fall off their axles and be consumed by the bugs and fungi of the Earth.

If we must continue to siphon oil out of the Earth, at least set aside some of it to make tar pits for throwing in tech czars

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The second I can get into a clothing shop in Legends Z-A I'm sprinting up to the cash register like

GET THIS FEDORA OFF OF ME

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Easily the funniest thing I'm encountering in Pokémon TCG Pocket is the One Card Koga Retreat™️.

No benched cards. No lame "your opponent conceded" text box. Just a single Weezing/Muk and a Koga play that ends the match on one's own silly terms.

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Fantastic sponsored content as usual, Tumblr

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Slight Godzilla x Kong Spoilers:

My favourite part of Godzilla x Kong is the way it has stupid explanations for plot devices that still satisfy my need for an explanation.

Like, Kong gets his arm super-frostbitten, and oh no, that's "worse than bad, that's frostbite," so let's put a big Thanos glove on 'im.

So then I'm going "Oh no, you can't just put a big glove over frostbite and expect him to still hit things! A casing around an injured body part does nothing to prevent pain from further impact!"

But as if in anticipation of that, they have a super-quick blink-and-you'll-miss-it line that goes something to the effect of "these injections through the glove should cure that frostbite!" Just cure it.

Magic juice make nerve and tissue damage go bye-bye so monke can punch again, and I for one love it

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I dunno man, I know anime style is the way it is, but I still couldn't help but assume the game would address the fact that the Kitikami siblings have actual slit-pupil cat eyes...

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Got a part-time job entering product data for an outdoor supply store, and I just can't get over some of the fishing lures that are out there.

This is a tbh creature. This is just a little guy. I feel a spiritual connection with this 1/4 ounce plastic doodad used to attract fish.

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Love his lack of plot resolution, like damn girl, give us nothing!

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Would some of y'all go to therapy if it was described as a visit to:

"An esteemed seer, not of the future, but the past?"

"An alchemist who will transmute your descriptions of current feelings into revelations about your personal history?"

"A conjurer of memories who will reveal the source of your anguish: People didn't show up every single time you cried as a baby"

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Congratulations to Kieran Pokémon, the first non-evil-team-leader to be the type who posts Joker quotes unironically.

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Bad Batch Spoilers

Under da cut

I love that Star Wars is so pulpy and “cinematic universe-y” that it would actually be MORE surprising if Tech was actually dead. 

It had all the trappings of an emotional, sacrificial character death! It could be left right there and allow the remaining cast to reflect on the harsh realities of war! It could break the audience out of this dream state we all crave where nobody we care about ever dies!

But this is Star Wars television, so he’ll be back within an episode or two with robotic eyes or something. 

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Never been a PC gamer, so I’m excited to know I’ll be able to play Besiege in Tears of the Kingdom instead  👍

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https://www.autostraddle.com/investigating-the-bionicle-to-trans-pipeline/

I don’t make the rules; if you like(d) Bionicle as a kid(/adult) you’ve at the very least considered the concept of gender more than the average ash bear

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The real-world objects that mirror darkners in the light world, in-game lamentations of “lost purpose,” and above all, Toby Fox’s repeated remixes of Randy Newman’s Pixar work has convinced me of a feeling I couldn’t put to words before:

Deltarune is a neurodivergent perspective on Toy Story. Terminally online grappling with what it means to grow up

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The only thing funnier than the fact Wookiepedia has an article on death that overly-verboses the concept in its first sentence is the fact that it’s written in past-tense. Nobody dies anymore (No one’s ever really gone) 

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Andor can create Glup Shittos by virtue of being a Star Wars property, but it’s too emotionally complex for the masses to find Blorbos in

Nemik is the only Cinnamon Roll Too Good For This World, Too Pure. Nobody else has mass appeal, which is great for storytelling and humanity, but bad for marketability and #trending. I wish media in general (let alone Star Wars) could be more like Andor, but it’s inherently rebellious against the system that it would have to lick the boots of to be celebrated within.

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The most upsetting part of the Obi-Wan show (a refreshingly un-upsetting show so far) has been learning that Eopies can eat meat