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Me running away from my adult responsibilities:

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Here’s a piece I made for a little secret santa art exchange a bunch of my friends and I are doing this year! This one’s for a-mastroeni who happens to share my love for Shadow of the Colossus. I drew the eighth colossus: Kuromori- The Wall Shadow because A - I know Andrea loves dinosaurs and Kuromori is very dinosaur like and B -It’s one of my favorites from the game.

Hope you enjoy, happy holidays!

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unedited panorama from my roof

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As usual when returning from a hiatus, today’s new episode of NTMNT was a little bland in terms of extras. It was a solid episode in that it had a cool monster and explored a bit of April’s non-human nature a little further, plus setting up Leonardo’s recovery. I expect Leo’s improvement to help the group make their decision to finally remember Master Splinter and head back to the city for another full scale kraang confrontation. Wouldn’t it be cool if they arrived there only to find the kraang already locked in combat with the triceratons? Anyway, I’m looking forward to seeing their upcoming new wardrobe experiments, and hoping for a new set of variant action figures based on that look. The episode felt like it was almost trying to draw on the likes of Dragonslayer, especially with the dramatic orchestral style remix of the theme music during April and Leo’s ride on the chimera. There was even a hint of Game of Thrones (or at least Beastmaster) with April seeing through the eyes of the creature. I mention possible references like that because the show usually borrows so liberally from classic sources like that, but this time there wasn’t much that I noticed. There was a scene early on with Donnie testing April’s psychic abilities on some make-shift neuro instruments, though, and it reminded me a bit of Ghostbusters. Oh! And the chimera itself struck me as conspicuously similar to “The Giant Claw”. It’s just so good to sit back and soak up a new episode with some frozen pizza. It didn’t have to be a legendary episode. It did its job. I rate (season 3, episode 7) “Eyes of the Chimera”  as an easy 384 chicken-geniuses out of a possible 511 absent-ice-cream-kitties. Notable weirdness: April tried to eat Leo.

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Chrono Trigger

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Ever wonder why Mega Man looked the way he did on Captain N: The Game Master? Read on for the answer, in the words of the artist who designed him: Fil Barlow.

To put it in perspective, I had less than a couple of weeks to do the art posted here. I was the last artist to be seasonally laid off by DiC. Once fired, my working Visa was terminated and I had to leave the country. I had one night to play the games and no further contact with the material, including the manuals. I had no idea who was involved in the making of the games, and I didn't know the name Capcom back then, but I wasn't in any position of authority to contact the clients at Nintendo. If anything it's surprising how much I got right, considering.

Even this explanation doesn't clarify the green color scheme disparity. He also said he was terrible at playing the game, so never confronted any of the bosses. If that's true, he should have only ever seen Mega Man in blue. It turns out the TV he played on must have suffered from poor contrast settings, as he went on to add the following remark.

...Megaman's appearance is simply how it looked to me on the TV I had and no one else checked...

And if you think that's something, his original design concept included a whole "mega" family, with mom, pop and even mega pets. It was more of an Incredibles type of super hero situation than the Astro Boy / Tetsuwan Atom homage that Mega Man truly represented. Further, his early vision for what became Captain N was based primarily on the Paper Boy videogame and was entirely unlike the end product we saw on TV, for better or worse.

See for yourself in Fil Barlow's Deviantart gallery: http://filbarlow.deviantart.com/art/Before-Captain-Nintendo-there-was-Buddy-Boy-312281346

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I Wish I Had A Pet made SLJ’s 100 Magnificent Children’s Books 2014 !!

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Just now I was watching episode 12 of Captain N, "Metroid, Sweet Metroid" and this situation occurred that my brain can't resolve. There was this creature, a large green blob thing. It doesn't move -- at all -- but Kevin fires multiple rounds at it with some kind of green revolver. The projectiles actually look like little rockets, so I suppose it's meant to loosely reference Samus' arm cannon. While this is happening, and unexplained cool blue orb bounces toward the blob monster which freezes it on contact. It would make sense that this is supposed to be Samus' ice beam, but where did it come from? Then a final tiny rocket blast shatters the now frozen, transparent blob monster. This specific means of destruction is only consistent with the technique required to destroy the eponymous Metroid creatures. The episode takes place in the Metroid universe, and there are a few other creatures in the episode clearly based on Metroid enemies. Kevin even picks up a couple of Metroid power-ups, namely the high jump boots and what looks like the morph ball, though the latter he just tosses like a ball, which shatters and sends a zig-zag rainbow toward a minor enemy, which envelops it, resulting in the creature vanishing. Weird. That's not even close to what a morph ball does. So, this blob monster has a dark green edge all around its lighter green form, and it has a few dangling tendrils at its bottom. In that way it almost resembles a metroid. Further, when it's frozen there are a few orbs lodged into it that would seem to reference the eyes of a frozen metroid, which would also appear otherwise transparent. But this thing has a nearly human face perched on top of its mostly snow-man shaped body, plus a pair of tiny, shriveled arms poking out from each side. In that respect it's entirely dissimilar to a metroid. Basically... what happened?

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*you're

If you really think you can defend Darren Wilson and still have my respect your unbelievably wrong.

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I hope you meant left.

love how they make it seem like protestors are blowing up stuff in the pic on the right when the police did that — classy fox news. civilians fear what the police dept. will do more than what the protestors will do. 

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Art by Rishikesh Nandlaskar

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i got all my skills from a yak i saw on the discovery channel