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The Protomen Act III ending, portrayed (correctly this time) by Borderlands 3.

Featured fan art by @peachdelta and El Gatozilla.

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Here's the art I did for Gordon Freeman vs Duke Nukem by @molemanninethousand thank you for commissioning me for this one!

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The Protomen, portrayed by Tom and Jerry.

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First post here in years, I know; consider this a sort of test to see if I can still get any engagement on this site.

Special thanks to my friend David Ohlsen-Esparza, who is personally responsible for my familiarity with the video used in the bottom-right image; for the uninitiated, see it here.

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I felt compelled to make this battle specifically to make up for the absolute travesty that was MERB #14... again; a rather fitting intention for a matchup based on themes of redemption.

Davion Tynarious Brown (Arbiter) and Damien Malkavian (Zuko) each did a fantastic job here.

I originally wanted Master Chief to make a short appearance opposite Aang’s, but I couldn’t figure out what to have him say to justify him showing up without being an active participant in the battle, unlike Aang’s “tip” which lends itself to an obvious character-relevant pun to serve as its punchline.

For a time prior to this matchup’s conception, Arbiter Vs. Martin Luther was actually in my shortlist of ideas, but after learning the extent of Luther’s antisemitism I figured that comparing him to a fictional action hero wouldn’t be an appropriate approach to a historical person with such a mixed legacy.

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Using here the two incidental memes I made based on the developments as my platform for sharing my serious thoughts thereon:

Upon first hearing the announcement, I immediately felt blind rage and made an extremely ill-advised public post on DA which caused a longtime acquaintance to unfollow me, a move that I quickly came to regret even notwithstanding that alienated response.

The Sephiroth DLC, unlike a certain something revealed around this same time last year (I won’t dignify it with name-identification), is content that should have been in Ultimate... at launch. Given its initial absence and the resulting massive lack of Final Fantasy content, though, I’d gotten my hopes up with recurring fantasies (no pun intended) of an update that would do the franchise justice; key word: franchise. This does not do the franchise justice; it does one game justice.

However, given that the addition of franchise-wide representation based around a character from a different installment would have resulted in the VII content still remaining nearly as lacking, I’ve come to be able to understand this decision; they wanted to use the opportunity to flesh out the one part of the game that was conspicuously incomplete. In hindsight, the kind of more ambitious FF implementation I was hoping for would probably require a more substantial development process than the format they’re using for the DLC to be fully realized, i.e. a Castlevania-scale inclusion, the likes of which was clearly only on the table during the game’s pre-launch development.

In hindsight and in conclusion, this is neither the worst DLC choice the game has seen, nor the worst possible commonly-advocated choice Square Enix could have gone with.

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I designed this fusion of Garnet from Steven Universe and Firestorm from DC for @molemanninethousand‘s video Garnet vs Firestorm, go watch it!

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This idea had crossed my mind before, but I was previously hesitant to try and bring it to fruition since I had never digitally drawn the likeness of a preexisting character before and wasn’t confident in my ability to make them look right, even by the very loose standards of this meme, and it took a prolonged period of extreme boredom, in which I haven’t been able to work on any videos due to long-term technical issues, to get me to go ahead and take a shot at it. Needless to say, it turned out looking considerably better than I’d anticipated and was very fun and cathartic to make; now that I know the ease of the drawing aspect involved, I may very well make more meme images of a similar technical nature to this going forward...