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The Saddest Rhino posted:ZI SANG QUESTIONS HIS FATE DIGGING A CANAL IN THE OCEAN FLOOR  ARE A DUCK'S LEGS TOO SHORT?  THE LOST GOAT 
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Last time, in Vigils for FriendsSamovar posted:
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Emzedoh posted:Takako-san chapter 10 Takako-san chapter 11          Why's a guy with a beer company selling detergent?
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Miles Blundell posted:Perhaps the greatest panel in any thorsby comic. I concur.
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Having experience with narcissistic delusions and the Rejected Parents discourse, it's terrifying how what's clearly meant to be absurd extrapolation absolutely has real-world basis. And of course, one of the best ways to go unseen is to exploit psychology and culture, and simply appear to be what people aren't supposed to notice or acknowledge. I feel like the placebo effect is probably more complicated; ancient medicine is often a mix of stuff that actually works and stuff that doesn't, and at least sometimes being willing to listen to your doctor/medicine man/shaman means you're more likely to follow treatment that actually works, and feeling better even if it's purely mental means you're more likely to take care of yourself. Similar principle in that physical health is often downstream from mental health, because it's a lot easier to take care of your body when you're not feeling like poo poo.
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Red sky at night, beer salesman's delight; red sky in the morning, Takako's warning.
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You're not going to make Takako into the antichrist of the food gobbo cult, are you? Also I pulled out the capitals there looking for a code, no luck.
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Emzedoh posted:You're not going to make Takako into the antichrist of the food gobbo cult, are you? Ah but if you exchange the capital letters into their equivalent in Hebrew you get: S H R Y R H E B ב א ה ר י ר ה ס from which you can construct the words סהר ביארה which translate as 'crescent' 'she interpreted /explained' so clearly Takako is here to enlighten the world about the Sufi mysteries! Spent like 15 minutes to find a passable coded message in my dumb joke, but you seemed to need one.
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Never change. Personality that is, your underwear do need changing.
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SimonChris posted:Valhalla Kill Six Billion Demons  Alt: "so long suckers! i rev up my ultimate attack and leave a huge cloud of dust, when it clears im lying completely dead on the pavement" quote:Conversation  Alt: Aspected Chaos here using the forbidden and ancient technique of 'just talk' quote:One Minute
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Such a coward's way of looking at things: "actually fixing things in this existence is too scary, I'll just burn down the whole of Creation and start again" Not to mention the absolute refusal to ask all the innocent people, souls or not who might not even get reincarnated! Fucken paternalistic techbro like outlook.
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Kit Walker posted:It's interesting comparing comic book styles and conventions over the ages and between different cultures. Hell, even genre is a factor. Like, Valhalla came out in the late 70s and it's clearly more of a humorous/cartoony take on Norse mythology, likely aimed at a younger audience, which is why it's weirdly bloodless. The shots of Thor, who is canonically mythically strong, attacking Fenrir, who is a veritable force of nature, has all the oomph of an eighty year old man smacking a dog with a newspaper. It doesn't really make either of them look strong, it almost makes it seem as though the gods are weirdly incompetent and the legends are exaggerations. Compare it to, say, certain comedy manga that will absolutely turn the dial up to make even a relatively mundane thing seem like a titanic conflict. Case in point, something like this scene from Nichijou. (I know animation vs comic isn't a fair comparison, but the original manga is similarly dynamic and it's just easier to link to this.) In any case, this isn't a dig at Valhalla which is quite good and was working within the conventions at the time, just me thinking out loud about how different things are different Valhalla itself changes style a lot over its 30 year runtime (the final album came out in 2009), with the later albums being much less childlike and whimsical than the early ones. Compare the goofy Fenris fight to the fight against Jörmungandr in album #7, which came out in ´91.   It will be interesting to follow its development in the thread.
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SimonChris posted:Valhalla itself changes style a lot over its 30 year runtime (the final album came out in 2009), with the later albums being much less childlike and whimsical than the early ones. Compare the goofy Fenris fight to the fight against Jörmungandr in album #7, which came out in ´91. Ah hell yeah, now that's the stuff
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Bloody hell, thorsbys biotruths are so fascinating to me. I'm used to people coming up with basically nonsense to justify whatever random poo poo they already believed about human society but thorsby is somehow on another level. Everything, without exception, is a simple genetic trait in the thorsbyverse, and he WILL find a plausible gradualistic just-so story for how it happened. He's a mad genius.
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Digamma-F-Wau posted:Tall Penguin That happened to me once but the dentist was watching the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict. https://twitter.com/agu_knzm/status/1675402485836689409?s=20 Elon Musk has gone too far this time. Here's some random bonus art posted to twitter: https://twitter.com/agu_knzm/status/1673300481383464961?s=20 https://twitter.com/agu_knzm/status/1674379106644029440?s=20 https://twitter.com/agu_knzm/status/1675112124258074626?s=20
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Fagtastic posted:Bloody hell, thorsbys biotruths are so fascinating to me. I'm used to people coming up with basically nonsense to justify whatever random poo poo they already believed about human society but thorsby is somehow on another level. Everything, without exception, is a simple genetic trait in the thorsbyverse, and he WILL find a plausible gradualistic just-so story for how it happened. He's a mad genius.
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rodbeard posted:That happened to me once but the dentist was watching the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict. Between needing to be logged in to see tweets and Twitter DDOSing themselves, posting a bunch of Twitter links isn't that effective.
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SimonChris posted:Valhalla Valhalla is great, I'm really surprised it doesn't have an official English translation since it seems like the sort of comic that was popular back then. Whoever did this translation did a superb job too, even the font looks fitting.
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Slimy Hog posted:Between needing to be logged in to see tweets and Twitter DDOSing themselves, posting a bunch of Twitter links isn't that effective. Absolutely, STOP POSTING TWITTER LINKS FOR NOW YOU GUYS this isn't the restricted content thread.
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ultrafilter posted:Do the Twitter images that I post show up for those of you who aren't logged in? No.
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ultrafilter posted:Do the Twitter images that I post show up for those of you who aren't logged in?
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By popular demand posted:Absolutely, STOP POSTING TWITTER LINKS FOR NOW YOU GUYS this isn't the restricted content thread.
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ultrafilter posted:Do the Twitter images that I post show up for those of you who aren't logged in? Embeds and linked images are showing up fine for me, I think the issues for are having are more from twitter's various regional technical issues rather than being logged in or not.
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Previously on Tales of the Beanworld, the Chowraid was going poorly.        Bean problems require bean solutions. Beast Boy bothers Raven  this is what raven thinks of all your power swap requests
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Extra Ordinary But... nom?  I can pretty much punch anything into space  Sand... wich?  In this house we obey the laws of THERMODYNAMICS!  Cereal again huh?  Quack.  I don't even like ham  Unrelated note: Going to see the new Harry Potter movie tonight, yay!   (the last two didn't have alt text)
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