The Azure Archosaur

He/Him | I like big monsters

[demilypyro]

Never been a big fighting game person but I've always thought db fighters and strive look so cool. Guess what cool fact I just learned.

that they're both arcsys games and share the same engine?

[demilypyro]

yeah yeah the load bearing Goku we all know it

[the-quartz-moon]

To explain to those who may not know this wonderful factoid:

As Demily stated, both games are arcsys games, but Dragon Ball Fighter Z was their first game in that particular engine. The movement system was set up such that only one character (our titular Goku) actually had the code for movement, and every other character essentially had a line of code that said "see how Goku does it, and do that."

This has a few benefits. It decreased the amount of code needed per character, made it easier to tweak the movement across the board, and was really funny.

This same movement and mechanical system and engine would follow into the next Guilty Gear game. But why change the reference point if it still works just fine? So all the characters in that new engine ALSO had the code that said "go see how Goku does it, and do that."

So in the depths of Guilty Gear Strive's files, there is a lone Goku. In the wrong place, in the wrong timeline, holding everything together by being the only character that actually has the code for the core game mechanics.

The load-bearing Goku.

[reallyfunnyreallycool-deactivat]

the bros only one click away

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

RIP to this blog that made this singular post and then deleted

[plaguedocboi]

I remember when I was younger, anytime I watched a movie where the characters have to kill a scary monster/alien, I always thought the act of killing it was intended to be part of the horror. Like there’s this amazing creature that we’ve never seen before, and maybe under different circumstances we could’ve coexisted with it, but it’s trying to attack you and you have to defend yourself, but by destroying it you also destroy the ability to ever understand it and that’s sad and is supposed to make you feel conflicted.

It was not until well into my adulthood that I realized most people do not have complicated feelings about movies where people have to kill a scary alien monster, nor is that necessarily meant to be part of the narrative (unless it very obviously is). They just want the scary thing to die because it’s scary. I don’t have a real conclusion to this I just started thinking about it for some reason.

[ddeck]

id be unstoppable if it wasn't for the evil brain disorder

[littlegoblinbrain]

Samus Aran

[my-dailydreams]

[dimosar]

YODA: Luke, when gone am I... the last of the Jedi will you be...except for Ahsoka Tano, Ezra Bridger, Cal Kestis, Cere Junda, Quinlan Vos,

LUKE: ...Who?

YODA: ...Gungi- the wookiee jedi kid,

LUKE: a Wookiee Jedi?? Master, isn't that a bit tireso-

YODA: NOT finished I was...Reva, some of the other Inquisitors I bet, Oppo Rancisis- the ugly-looking tree guy from Phantom Menace, he was, Luke. And Ka-Moon Kholi, Selrahc Elous, some guy named "Naq Med" if reading this right I am,

[dimosar]

LUKE: Cal...Kestis?? Mouthfeel on that one is a little off...

YODA: a double jump, he can do.

[ostolero]

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Mirroring Sheev's Plan by Sullivan

Performed by Austin Walker on AMCA

(originally posted on Cohost)

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Sheev's Plan:

get elected to senate for naboo

start new sith order

work republic and separatists against each other. recruit evil guy to lead separatists.

(this jedi kid is wicked strong!)

get jedi in deep with clone army. (save some clone jars for later? just in case...)

PIVOT: Make the jedi kid evil. dont need separatist guy anymore. got a new evil guy.

make my evil guy kill his jedi pals when they come to arrest me. ill finish em off with my lightning attack

(fucking guy used his sword to bounce my lightning back at me! honestly my fault. takes a minute for the lightning to wind down and he got my ass on the bounce. fair play. now i look like a leather couch but its fine. can blame jedi for THAT too)

Use the clones to kill the jedi, have my evil guy kill the seperatists, keep the army, spin into empire

GALAXY NOW UNDER MY CONTROL

chill as emperor for a while. humiliate Vader for a laugh. make death star.

Endgame achieved.

(Vader's kid blows up my death star)

PIVOT: get new young apprentice by turning him evil once he kills his dad, or maybe make Vader cooler by making him kill his gay son. either way its a win-win for me.

(thrown down hole and killed.)

PIVOT: good thing i kept those clone jars!! make new clone body to inhabit. takes time to get right. need something to do until then

build enormous fleet of big spaceships, each with their own super death star laser. keep em on the down low... why use em? they lose half the value as soon as you fly them off the lot

(clone son betrays me but its no biggie. its fine. have loads of clones at this point. whats one clone son?)

create a DECOY fascist empire. put one of my weirder clones in charge. Not giving them any of my ships though. can build his own shit. dont look at me. get a bank loan

let failed clone recruit vaders grandson (will explain why later) let those guys take over the galaxy with a different super death star. assume they built this one themselves. very cute!

GALAXY NOW UNDER MY CONTROL

(only via proxy tho. not done yet)

let(??) vaders grandson ("ben"?? ok) usurp failed clone and rule galaxy. wants to “kill the past” but whatever. can still make this work. NEED to keep this kid in the mix (will make sense when we get there)

drop the big news. Im not dead! Fortnite. awesome moment.

lead kylo ren to my base using complex scavenger hunt. puzzle knife.

tell him he’s always actually worked for me. big reveal. big moment. He's my lackey now. a little traitorous and unreliable, but this will pay off later trust me

use death star ships to take over galaxy even more

GALAXY NOW UNDER MY CONTROL

(awesome... but not enough. something missing)

let kylo ren lead clone granddaughter to home base using complex scavenger hunt. Puzzle Knife cool enough idea to do twice i think

taunt granddaughter into killing me so i can possess her un-janked body. All part of my grand scheme...

Endgame achieved. (??)

(kylo ren betrays me)

PIVOT: Possession stupid plan anyway. Instead, use ben and reys Horny Essence to make my nasty old body normal again.

throw ben in hole (grandson purpose revealed)

destroy resistance with lightning powers. shooting spaceships down with magic lightning basically a solved problem at this point.

GALAXY NOW UNDER MY CONTROL

kill the granddaughter actually. dont need her anymore. lightning powers classic for a reason.

ive got this thing in the bag as long as she doesn't bounce the lightning back at me off her fucking laser sword.

Endgame achieved.

[dubiousdisco]

holy shit

[telpetan]

I rewatched Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) again for the umpteenth time the other day, and it got me thinking about Mothra. Many things do, I love Mothra. But I particularly love how Mothra gets used in this movie.

Godzilla is Ghidorah's most overt nemesis. He's the name on the poster, he's the one who can physically match Ghidorah blow for blow, and he's got those cool ancient cave paintings. We know this.

But Mothra is the world's answer to Ghidorah. She opposes what he stands for -- dominion, one over all, bending the world to his whim. At every turn in the movie, she's the banner everyone flocks to.

The Mass Awakening sequence frames Ghidorah as the false god, the usurper king, with all the other kaiju rising at his call to end the world as we know it. But Mothra doesn't awaken to answer his call, she awakens in reply to it. Her emergence is a scene of its own, with a completely different score and atmosphere. Ghidorah throws down the gauntlet and right here, right now, it's Mothra picking it up.

How does she do it? She finds Monarch, humanity's beleaguered defenders, and helps them find and revive Godzilla. Because Emma Russell wasn't entirely wrong, when she put humans in the Orca. We're part of this planet too, and we want to help defend it. Mothra's maybe the only one who could actually bring all of Earth's defenders together, and she's certainly the only one in that moment who's willing to try.

And in the final battle, it's her choice that saves things. Her wings are still actively smouldering from the wounds Rodan inflicted. She can't beat Ghidorah, and I think she knows it -- but she can fight. She can stand over Godzilla's body and raise her wings. She can buy the Russells the time to fix the Orca and stabilize Godzilla's runaway meltdown, to make sure that both he and the world survive. And when Godzilla unleashes his nuclear pulse, it's her voice that cries out in defiance along with him.

She's fighting for the Earth from the moment she emerges from her cocoon, and her final actions are what seal Ghidorah's fate. Ghidorah reigns through fear and domineering will, and seems to almost revel in each individual death, letting his victims feel how small and alone they are before his terrible majesty. And humankind and Godzilla stand against him with claws and teeth and guns, but it's Mothra who inspires hope, who brings Earth's defenders together, who knows even in her dying moments that she is not alone, and makes sure Godzilla does too.

Ghidorah tried to break Earth's spirit. Mothra held it together.

[forthegothicheroine]

Finding out that Jim Henson approached Stephen Sondheim to make a partially-puppet movie of Into the Woods and that a table read included Cher as the witch, Robin Williams and Goldie Hawn as the Baker and his Wife, Kyle MacLachlan as Cinderella’s Prince and Steve Martin as the Wolf has sent me into mourning for this timeline.

[assassinationtipsforladies]

This is like finding about the Guillermo del Toro proposal for a Hobbit film adaptation that was two normal length films that used puppetry and practical effects to create a fairy tale atmosphere

[marisatomay]

I was talking about this with a friend but a really interesting cultural shift over the last ohhhhhh ten years maybe is that many people in fandoms view themselves as stakeholders and not audience members. Because of that, they think that the fandom should be running things, or at least have an acknowledged say in how something is run. And every reminder that they are not in control, no matter how small, bothers them.

[marisatomay]

This has always existed to an extent but it used to be very siloed and only noticeably prevalent in certain fandoms and everyone else in fandom spaces generally agreed that it wasn’t healthy to act like that. Now it’s seemingly every fandom with an online presence and it’s all happening much more publicly than ye olde Trekkie forum.

[marisatomay]

I do think that the increase in access to creatives through social media, extended promotional cycles where you do a thousand interviews and all of them get clipped for instagram and tiktok, and an increase in entertainment and fandom aggregate social media accounts which keep people updated on all of those clips and every second of the creative process has had a big hand in creating this sense of ownership that audience members feel. It makes us feel like we’re on the team because we think we know so much. But we are not and we don’t.

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

On this day in 1966, Daiei released Gamera vs. Barugon and Daimajin to theaters together. Happy 60th to a premium kaiju double feature!

[the-azure-archosaur]

Gravity Anguirus is most unified and positive I’ve seen this fandom since probably the release of Minus One. I’m loving it.

[the-zenith-calls]

My favorite scenes in the LotR books are the ones where Legolas has vital information and just decides it's not important to share.

Like when Gandalf spent literal PAGES trying to figure out why the vibes were off in Moria and Legolas chimes in with just "it's a balrog :) that shit's evil :) we're so fucked :)" like what do you MEAN you knew already and just didn't tell him??

Or at the beginning of Two Towers when Aragorn thinks there's something nearby so he puts his ear to the ground to listen, and then like 10 minutes later is like "hmmm i hear horses" and Legolas is just like "mm yep. there are 105 blond bitches with spears" like you just let your friend put his face in the dirt and you can SEE them??

Legolas please gain a sense of urgency

[knives-in-the-dishwater]

It's because legolas hasn't spent enough time with non-elves to remember that they don't know what he knows.

gandalf is scratching his head in moria, and legolas is thinking "oh man, the wizard noticed something off *besides* the obvious balrog that we all are aware of??"

"I wonder what aragorn is listening for? must be hard to hear, what with all of the horses. How many horses are there, actually? 1... 2... 3..."

[taavicleric]

"What do your elvish eyes see?" is Aragorn saying, as politely as possible, "Because the REST OF US are at a significant disadvantage, Prince Dipshit."

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Graphic from roguepred.tripod.com, 2002.

Hard to overstate how much American Godzilla fans was clamoring for Anguirus to return when I first got into fandom at the tail end of the Millennium series. His last film appearance at the time was Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974), having been shut out of the Heisei era as the 1990s codified Toho's Big Five kaiju. Nobody had heard about the Anguirus Hound from various early versions of Godzilla vs. Destoroyah yet, but they sure knew how close he came to starring in GMK. Godzilla Final Wars, for all its controversies, finally brought him back to an outpouring of joy. But though he's made plenty of appearances in the current abundant era of Godzilla media, he's yet to have a substantial role in a Reiwa or Monsterverse film. Maybe it's time to resurrect the Movement.

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

The Movement is here, and it's taken the form of "Anguirus is in Godzilla Minus Zero and has developed gravity-manipulation powers." Perfection.

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

"Abort third drop! Repeat, abort third drop!"

GODZILLA MINUS ZERO (2026), DIR. TAKASHI YAMAZAKI

[huffylemon]

[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