The Magician Of The Tribunal Of The Imagination. Film-Critic And Nerd-Wizard. Genderfluid-masc, bi, he/they. Toss a coin to your Wizard, O Valley Of Plenty.
And now, The Internet Dads to bring some positivity back to this hellsite... and a showcase for one of the greatest anime-adaptations of all time.
"Oh my God, was that a ninja?"
"More like a NON-ja... terrible what passes for a ninja these days."
@BitsHammer
Working a cubicle farm as a 9-to-5 is still tedious and boring, especially in the days before mobile-gaming and other fun computer-based time-wasters.
@JacobSHall
@AdamLanceGarcia
"Burned-Out Hippy Who Needs To Learn Why He's A Legend" beats "Jedi Clint Eastwood" any day of the week and twice on Sunday. To those who think it's a betrayal? Well... Old Man Luke, you wanna take this one?
"Amazing. Every word of what you just said was wrong."
@B_Rabbit843
Luffy accepted a blood-transfusion from a Fishman, and has a general policy of "Feed Me, You've Got A Friend For Life."
THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY IS NOT THE FREAKING WORLD GOVERNMENT.
@KingdomOfTheEgo
@JacobSHall
And it's the undying love of a stand-in for Star Wars fandom that inspires Luke to remind the galaxy WHY he's "Head M-F Jedi In Charge."
"...See you around, kid."
@CerberusXt
Yeah, I've read "Bronze Age Mindset..." the author (professional Twitter-gadfly "Bronze Age Pervert") claims that Achilles and Patroclus were just friend-brothers willing to die for one another, and them being lovers is "the invention of modern homofaggotry." His words, not mine.
@NeverSu64836697
They realize that a Cure Wounds spell doesn't restore lamed legs, right? An Artificer could offer them a set of fully-functional robot legs, but not everyone WANTS to be a cyborg a la Edward Elric or "Man Of Iron" Franky.
@BitsHammer
"Masculine Good, Feminine Evil." Simple as. Going back to antiquity, where a hyper-masculine brute like Heracles is considered a HERO, whereas a shrewd lady mage who uses transmutation-magic as a form of "Get Off My Lawn" like Circe is considered a VILLAIN.
@CocoaFox023
He sucked at that too. His content was mostly "Anime Swords Suck, Because None Of Them Look A Thing Like Something From The Oakshott Catalog."
@Reverend_Banjo
Or a good old-fashioned Rickroll. Remember the Rickroll? Or the "Duckroll" that proceeded it?
Internet trolling used to mean "being a harmless pain in the ass." Now it's KiwiFarms and Neo-Nazis.
@MonkeyShaman
@BitsHammer
Yeah, that was exactly the POINT of "Fight Club." That Tyler Durden is NOT this sexy-badass god-king, he's the projected power-fantasy of a sexually-confused, emasculated dweeb no one should be listening to.
Ya know... Andrew Tate Version 1.0.
@wizardingnews
Maybe she had a brain-aneurysm while doomscrolling on the toilet. I... don't give a rat's ass. Finally, something or someone shut her up.
Akira Toriyama tells interviewers to piss off, because he's busy drawing stuff. This article is BS, it's LITERALLY white douchebags putting words in a Japanese man's mouth.
@mossy_spectre
@LadyJazzington
That, and Peri is an adult Fairy now. He changed his name to sound less like a plush-toy..
He's even into the family business now, serving as Fairy Godparent to Hazel Wells' frenemy Dev Dimmadome, grandson of "DOUG DIMMADOME, OWNER OF THE DIMMSDALE DIMMADOME!"
@JacobSHall
@bluserve
Explains why the TV spots for "The Rise Of Skywalker" feature THIS line from Old Man Luke.
"Confronting fear... is the DESTINY of a Jedi!"
@Comfy_Times
@Ceorl_Gordon
A lady caught a bullet between the eyes over the matter of a broken taillight, and THIS is the hill these "Blue Lives Matter" peabrains wanna die on. A little cold water on a hot day.
@_SJPeace_
@GreyKnight7777
Really? We're pretending this is 1953 and that "Trees Bearing Strange Fruit" is just a national pastime? FUUUUUUCK this administration and its enabling of America's worst excesses.
@the_moviebob
As someone who LIVES in the Midwest... yeah, guys? MovieBob doesn't hate ME. He's just sick to the teeth of dumb-shits like my parents making life miserable for everyone else.
@nation_pill
And it took yet another boring, milquetoast dorkwad whose idea of "diversity" is "Blonde, Brunette, Redhead" all of thirty seconds to gather a few stock-photos to hammer home "Why I Have No Friends And Nobody Likes Me."
@TheHorrorGuru
The man directed "Watchmen" without UNDERSTANDING "Watchmen."
Watchmen: "Superheroes shouldn't be like this."
Snyder: "FUCK YEAH! Finally, Supers are badass!"
Watchmen: "WHAT DID I *JUST* SAY?"
@MorsExMare
I dunno if we "suffer" so much as "are mildly inconvenienced by."
Remember, the Internet is a stupidity refraction-prism, and our side has a few dipshits. THEIR dipshits are a threat. OURS are an easily-ignored irritation.
@LCRWnews
@CiderRiot
These people are IDIOTS. They're FILMING themselves instigating a riot. They're providing evidence of their own crime, convinced they're documenting some kind of heroic stand against an enemy that doesn't exist.
@Dylan_Macri
I love a girl who's all "DOY, GIRL. PRETTY." Lets me know I'm not the ONLY schmendrick in the multiverse with a weakness for the turn of a woman's ankle.
@Hart_Thorn
@dengekicomics
@JacobSHall
@AdamLanceGarcia
It IS a cliche, because we've seen it before in this genre. "Badass, Omnicompetant Space-Hero Guy" has been around since Edgar Rice Burroughs conjured an "ancient science-magic" Mars for John Carter to be the Warlord of.
@SomberPrincess3
Yeah, they don't care about facts. They care that their supply of power-bottom twinks is running dangerously low thanks to (((Evil Wizards))) convincing said twinks to become "That Which Bleeds For Five Days And Doesn't Die."
@hopenothate
Good. This guy's a jerk ON TOP of being a Neo-Nazi. And he won't find a warm welcome in Michigan, my home state- Richard Spencer visited the campus of MSU, and the good people of East Lansing ran him out of town on a rail.
@KevlarNinja
@mvbrat91
He didn't HAVE to complain. The whole thing sorted itself out, and it was a case of "...Dude, that was almost a decade ago. Who cares?"
Also, Disney/Marvel Studios found out WHO was dredging up the old tweets and realized they'd been had.
@CountDankulaTV
@ContraPoints
Buddy, you were better off being just another edgelord telling bad jokes instead of shilling for people who will stab you in the back as soon as your usefulness has run its course.
Good looks after its own. Evil feeds on itself.
@Hart_Thorn
@dengekicomics
@JacobSHall
@AdamLanceGarcia
Because he'd rather have a cliche than "EW, A GIRL!" And that Luke is what we got in "Legends..." ya know, the guy who rendered the Dark Side entirely meaningless by joining it, then leaving corruption-free and eventually marrying the hot redhead that was sent to kill him.
@CountDankulaTV
@ProsinPlanet
No, hating assholes who don't think certain people are even HUMAN because "Dudes Kissing Other Dudes Is Icky" or "Black Men Are Stupid Animals, That Washed-Up Old Canadian Who Says He's A Philosopher Told Me So" is perfectly acceptable.
@the_moviebob
It diminishes the X-Men not one iota to make the "white privilege is damn near a superpower" joke. The "righteous complainers" are just concern-trolling idiots looking to pounce on any excuse to feed their "MovieBLOB Hates Your Guts" persecution-complexes.
ATTENTION, IDIOTS.
If you "Stand With Vic," congratulations... you're defending a known sex-pest, likely because if a well-known VO-guy can't get away with creeping on underage cosplay-girls, neither can you. The convention-circuit will be a much safer place WITHOUT you clowns.
@BitsHammer
UUUUUGH... no. Bad Hasbro. Stick to Transformers and GI Joe showing up in "Magic: The Gathering."
You should HATE generative AI PRECISELY b/c it doesn't talk back about studio-notes.
Liberals: Act Like Human Beings Who React To Injustice The Way Human Beings Would
Conservatives: Act Like They Were Born On Vulcan Or Sent By SkyNet, Until The Mask Comes Off And They Start Acting Like Angry, Spoiled Children Who Won't Take "Fuck Off" For An Answer
@sweetstockingxo
@JoCat105
I know, right? JoCat's a cinnamon-roll! It's like assuming Fred Rogers was hiding something because "Come on, nobody's THAT nice and positive about their fellow human beings."
Except... yes he was. Mr. Rogers was a goddamn SAINT, and so is my boy JoCat.
@AshaLogos
@lj202022
No, you don't love women at all. Like the ancient Greeks you're so desperate to copy the homework of, you think the only interaction you should have w/ a woman is "keeping her pregnant, so she doesn't destroy civilization like Pandora destroyed The First Golden Age."
This is Chris Chipman, brother of Bob "MovieBob" Chipman. He's good people. His Patreon could use a signal-boost, so here I am... giving the man a signal-boost.
TheChippaMadeThis (Chose The Lament Configuration)
@LadyJazzington
Well, the thing that made him quit YouTube was a bunch of radfems and 4chan basement-dwellers banding together to either call him a detached-from-reality weirdo for drooling over cartoon-girls or a "misogynist in disguise..." whatever that means THIS week.
@SpaghettiJesus
@CerberusXt
It's basically "Mein Kampf" for a generation weaned on "Fight Club" and 4chan, written by a failed academic who seems to think "300" was a documentary and that women will revert to horny, animalistic sluts if you show them bodybuilder man-ass.
@SimplyShae13
"Lolita" is a book about how a hopeless loser destroys his life and the lives of those around him... by LUSTING AFTER A CHILD.
Yeah, turns out Wizard-School Lady... is kind of a dumbass.
@ObscureAaron
@SjwSpiderman
@EthanVanSciver
Schrodinger's Douchebag. Their reaction is entirely dependent on their audience... among their fellow travelers it's all "Women/minorities/people who don't count as people, am I right?" They say the same thing to anyone else, and it's "Hey, man! I was only kidding!"
@SanguiniusRtrns
@JoCat105
We get it. He's "exploiting" women by treating them like human beings. Unlike you, a Nazi who prefers the company of men (but not in a gay way, except TOTALLY in a gay way) because women are nothing but cows that walk on two legs, good for breeding soldiers and not much else.
@LordAslanThe2nd
In fairness, they think puberty-blockers and HRT are the same form of "chemical castration," created by (((The Dark Wizards In Their Counting-Houses))) to make sure "the race of princes" breeds less.
@Br1tlander
@SlayzKiana
BOOOOOOOORED.
I'm bored. You're boring. If you're gonna take the good time and trouble to be an asshole on the Internet, the least you can do is be ENTERTAINING.
@legressive_reft
Right-Wingers: "You leftists are the real anti-Semites! You don't want us giving a blank check to Israel! That's anti-Semitism
Also Right-Wingers: "BAD THINGS KEEP HAPPENING BECAUSE GEORGE SOROS FUNDS ANTIFA TERRORISM!"
@DreamLeaf5
OH MY GOD, Putin is getting desperate. What even is this nonsense? You actually think eating canned beans in a bivouac behind enemy lines is more attractive than being a fashion-model, drinking a milkshake or taking a selfie next to your high-end sportscar?
@Danielgrnwell
@JacobSHall
@bluserve
"Fear is the path to the Dark Side" and all. The villains give in to fear and let it fester 'til they're "Cyborg Samurai Space-Wizard Hitler." The heroes confront their fears, look the inner demons straight in the eye and say "Do your worst, chicken-shit. We'll settle up after."
Hey, Turbo-Weeb... JAPAN IS NOT YOUR CONSERVATIVE SAFE-SPACE.
If you think Japan doesn't have its own LGBTQ+ people with their own sets of issues... then oh, my sweet summer child, do you not know Japan from a hole in the ground.
as an individual who has worked on a few translation teams, and "knows how it works" - putting your activism and views in is disgusting.
it's not your story, not your character, not your artwork - your job as a TL is to communicate the author's work. That's it.
@enbyous123
It's the murder of Kitty Genovese all over again... a crime happened in front of witnesses, and no one offered the victim aid or rescue.
Look at the girl in the foreground. She's all but CHEERING for Dickless tearing the rainbow-flag off of that person's back.
@TheRaDR
That's not how wealth-taxes work, and I guess they can play the "self-deprecation" card for laughing WITH the guy openly insulting them?
Great Degwin, this is why I'm getting my ass to the polls next November if I have to sprout wings and fly to do it.
@JoshKnight1st
Holy shit... Brainiac DOES look (and even behave) like Khan Digifer from "Denkou Choujin Gridman."
Or even his "SSSS. GRIDMAN"/"Gridman Universe" counterpart, Alexis Kerib.
@LzxyAlt
How hard were you dropped on your head as a child?
This is called "being a Pick-Me," and even Pick-Mes will not be spared from questions that only have FINAL SOLUTIONS.
@SjwSpiderman
"Carl Manvers." Because the Marvel Bullpen decided it was better to draw clothes that actually look like CLOTHES instead of a layer of liquid-latex on a nude Playboy Playmate.
@legressive_reft
Conservatives: "Don't like the way we're doing things? Go someplace else!"
Also Conservatives: "PEOPLE DON'T LIKE THE WAY WE'RE DOING THINGS! OUR VOICES ARE BEING SILENCED!"
@TakedownMRAs
I love
@the_moviebob
's rebuttal... that every woman w/ tats he's ever known was a GREAT cook. And he'd know, as he's a big fellow both tall of stature and wide of waistline.
I've also known many well-inked ladies who were wizards in the kitchen.
@aNerdskull
Yeah, male characters aren't sexualized for the ladies. They're drawn that way as a sexual ideal for a presumably male audience.
Superman is what they want to be. Power Girl is what they masturbate to. And women shouldn't ONLY exist in fiction as a masturbatory fantasy.
@SjwSpiderman
@renfamous
@ThatUmbrella
It's like when they accuse Marvel Studios of block-booking theaters screening "Captain Marvel." Hey, fellas? You know that only happens with those Dinesh D'Souza movies and those megachurch-produced "Bible Movies" starring has-been actors you thought had died, right?
@TakedownMRAs
@elonmusk
Elon bought this place because "WAAAAAH! THE WOKE MOB IS MAKING FUN OF ME!" and he is taking a BATH.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. >w>
@cassiemoans_
I don't care if a girl's got a visible bulge. So my girl's got a dick that's probably bigger than mine... in what sane universe should I consider that a Big Effing Deal?
@the_moviebob
@TheChippa
It's a testament to how awesome your family is that Chris is stepping in all "MY BROTHER IS A SAINT!"
We're all turbo-nerds here. If we don't have each others' back, who will?
@Complex
Terry Gilliam's just salty that no one wants to work with him anymore b/c the phrase "On Time And Under Budget" just isn't in his vocabulary.
I love this guy's body of work. I own the Marvel comic-adaptation of "Time Bandits." But this is 100% pure, uncut "Get Off My Lawn."
Un-bunch your panties, my dude. Influences are circular, they don't happen in a straight line. I was on this ride when "Western cartoons are too much like anime!" How soon they forgot that Ozamu Tezuka, "The God Of Anime," was influenced by WALT DISNEY.
So calm down, Kylo Ren.
@legressive_reft
Because humans refuse to recognize their own capacity for evil. The reason our ancestors blamed rape and murder on demonic possession or a sorcerer's curse or the wrath of the gods... and the reason violent video-games take the blame for mass-shootings.
@ObscureAaron
That's because they're trying to do the version of The Joker from "The Killing Joke" with no understanding that this particular version is actually... kinda pathetic. A smug asshole who thinks he's "cracked the code of life" via detachment, but is really just a sad loner.
@Mr_Saxokins
I recognize this as the power-fantasy of a 13-year-old teenage boy.
"Everybody's Stupid But Me! Watch Me Beat Up My Friends AND My Enemies 'Cause I'm Such A Badass!"
@AshaLogos
@h07d3n
No, what's MORE cringe-worthy is you. A child who heard about The Stoics and your only takeaway was "Emotions Are For Weaklings And Women."
@willfriedle
I've seen PLENTY of movies worse than "The Phantom Menace." It ain't even the worst Star Wars thing ever.
You want the worst Star Wars thing ever? "The Star Wars Holiday Special." There ya go.
@SpaghettiJesus
@CerberusXt
He identifies as "fascist, or something worse" and obfuscates his nonsense behind completely unoriginal "Just Kidding... Or Am I?" Alt-Right pseudo-irony.
Of course, then his fanboys found out he was a Romanian-American bookworm whose family was ethnically Jewish...
@SwampTalking
@TheRochaSays
Also, Akira Kurosawa was a big fan of Western film-noir... a genre that didn't even have a name until two French film-geeks, Jean-Luc Goddard and Francois Traffaut, gave it one.