Ibram Gaunt posted:

https://x.com/pabl0KM/status/1765952519769887009?s=20


King poo poo lol

Babe Magnet posted:

RIP king

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

lol every other mangaka: my job is hell... i work all week i never get to see my family

toriyama: lol just do it on the last day and turn it in at the last possible minute dude

Blarghalt posted:

Please, someone makes a version of this

pentyne posted:

Tite Kubo: just use more white space morons

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

lol every other mangaka: my job is hell... i work all week i never get to see my family

toriyama: lol just do it on the last day and turn it in at the last possible minute dude

Fortaleza posted:

iirc super saiyans are blonde precisely so that Toriyama didn't have to keep inking in all that hair lol

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

toriyama: lol just do it on the last day and turn it in at the last possible minute dude

Blarghalt posted:

Please, someone makes a version of this

FuturePastNow posted:

that's what got me through college

Blarghalt posted:

Felt like I was obligated to do it myself.


Hope there's dirty mags and cigarettes wherever you are, big guy.

Improbable Lobster posted:

Improbable Lobster posted:

Ibram Gaunt posted:

https://x.com/pabl0KM/status/1765952519769887009?s=20


King poo poo lol

Babe Magnet posted:

RIP king

Improbable Lobster posted:

pandy fackler posted:

when i was in middle school i used to troll a kid in my class named brandon by calling it dragonballs

pandy fackler posted:

when i was in middle school i used to troll a kid in my class named brandon by calling it dragonballs

pandy fackler posted:

when i was in middle school i used to troll a kid in my class named brandon by calling it dragonballs

Stux posted:

[me watching him cave your skull in] lets go brandon

Stux posted:

[me watching him cave your skull in] lets go brandon

Stux posted:

[me watching him cave your skull in] lets go brandon

Ibram Gaunt posted:

https://x.com/pabl0KM/status/1765952519769887009?s=20


King poo poo lol

Stux posted:

[me watching him cave your skull in] lets go brandon

pandy fackler posted:

when i was in middle school i used to troll a kid in my class named brandon by calling it dragonballs

Stux posted:

[me watching him cave your skull in] lets go brandon

Improbable Lobster posted:

TheSwizzler posted:

hope you got kicked in the

Ibram Gaunt posted:

https://x.com/pabl0KM/status/1765952519769887009?s=20


King poo poo lol

Stux posted:

[me watching him cave your skull in] lets go brandon

Stux posted:

[me watching him cave your skull in] lets go brandon

Ibram Gaunt posted:

https://x.com/pabl0KM/status/1765952519769887009?s=20


King poo poo lol

Stux posted:

[me watching him cave your skull in] lets go brandon

Stux posted:

[me watching him cave your skull in] lets go brandon

Sibyl Disobedience posted:

20k words saying literally all JRPG games are conclusively linked via things such as "sunflowers"

Actually knowing this creator existed would have meant a lot to me growing up, but even not knowing about them and also not understanding myself, their stories resonated with me in a way I’m only fully piecing together decades later. There are so many fan theories out there about this or that character being trans. In Final Fantasy 7 alone we have Cloud, Aerith, and even Sephiroth. But the thing that sucks is that so many people feel the need to preface these theories with “obviously, this probably wasn’t intended by the writers, but…” No, gently caress that. The Creator was one of our own, and so of course these stories are ours. That doesn’t mean the characters themselves have to be canonically trans. It’s genuinely a great thing if those stories resonate with cis people too. Because that makes them shared stories, and maybe that shared space can help us learn to better empathize with each other. But for this to happen, it’s necessary to establish that the trans readings are not merely fan theories. They were the genesis.

The first step on this journey will be going back to the Age of the Ancients and deciphering how the very first of these games were made, and rebuild that history with a handful of new assumptions:

1. There’s at least one major contributor missing from official history
2. They were some variant of transgender
3. They were forced out in the early 1990s
4. Their design philosophy was carried over to both the Souls games as well as the Nier series
5. Nearly everything is an allegory

It’s a set of assumptions that has completely changed the way I look at video games in the most wonderful of ways. I am in complete and utter awe. Something actually beautiful has taken place here. The patterns are too intricate to have arisen purely by chance, and I’m confident that I’m not imagining them. For one, I’m nowhere near imaginative enough to come up with something like this on my own. I’m also frankly far too cynical.

Endorph posted:

i think fiction can reference gender without it being part of an interlocking intergenerational conspiracy involving a trans person youve made up in your head, and id really like it if you could stop pursuing this line of 'logic' because its utterly deranged and unhealthy

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Vandar posted:

So...I almost wonder if it would be worth like, looking at the credits for early Final Fantasy games and cross-referencing them with the credits of some of From's output, and seeing if there's any crossover there.

Carpator Diei posted:

this thread in general is legitimately the best interpretation of themes and storytelling methods in videogames I've ever encountered, and I don't think that hinges on whether the premise behind it is correct.

Squibsy posted:

Agreed. Regardless of truth or correctness, reading this thread is both entertaining and interesting.

DurianGray posted:

I think what Sibyl has done, in finding a shape of a possible anonymous creator in the negative spaces of these games, is far more interesting than a simple "look at this explicit motif that kept showing up." Even if the shape-of-a-person she's found ends up being a case of pareidolia, the shape is still there and I think it's still well worth considering why and how. And it's not like professional/academic textual analysis isn't already full of speculation and analysis just like this.

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

rip..

https://twitter.com/jab50yen/status/1765967964199903538