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Rewatching Yugioh Dark side of dimension

So re-watching said movie i want to see Atem and Seto Duel in the afterlife. I think they should make it a short special or something and have it end up in a draw to show Setos growth as a duelist. But ultimately being unable to beat Atem due to Atems Game BS (Iykyk)

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reblogging this so i can read this later...

Digimon and Appmon: Nature vs Domestication

So Digital World Archive posted an article How Appmon inherits Digimon's Legacy a while back and two paragraphs in particular caught my eye:

The biggest difference with Digimon, even when comparing just the original settings, is how the Appmon lack the focus in the “Law of the Jungle” that basically shaped the whole idea of fighting Digimon back in the day. I mean, Appmon have special moves and can fight, but it’s a lot less part of their identity as “Appmon” than it is for “Digimon”, which were basically built to fight (That is, you can’t really find a definition for Digimon in the early days that didn’t mention this nature, while Appmon’s definition only talks about how they “were made for the good of systems and humans”, which I see as a clear difference between Appmon and Digimon).

But at the same time, I can see this as an evolution from “Digimon” to “Appmon”. The late 1990s and early 2000s had the internet as a much more mysterious place that put fear in the minds of many people. So maybe if you were to understand “Digimon” as having the focus on “monsters” as symbolizing this chaotic nature of the early internet, then having the modern “Appmon” be first and foremost Apps that exist to help mankind could represent how nowadays our life is much more integrated to the internet than before (Even though I would say it’s much more dangerous nowadays exactly because of how integrated everything is).

To use an analogy: if Digimon are wolves (Canis lupus) then Appmon are domesticated dogs (Canis lupus familiaris)

This leads to my thoughts for how Digimon and Appmon can coexist:

Once upon a time there were the Wild Ones, the monsters that terrorized human myths and legends for centuries: These beings were known as the Kemonogami before they, along with their world, underwent the process of digitization due to humanity's development of digital technology, and specifically the Network, to become the first Digital Monsters: Digimon. Their home, now known as the Digital World, exists within the deepest depths of the Net Ocean: Beyond even the Dark Web and the reach of the most skilled hackers.

Eventually however, humanity discovered these Digital Monsters and became fascinated by them. And as is human nature, this fascination led to the desire to domesticate Digimon; just as Onmyōji purportedly tamed and controlled Kemonogami. After decades of research, programmers managed to reverse engineer the unique physiology of Digimon which was used to convert application programs into the second Digital Monsters: Appmon

And while humans can have partner Digimon, this is akin to bonding with a supernatural entity (think ghosts from Ghostbusters) that will battle to protect you hence why such people are called "Tamers," even when Digimon possess full sapience

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Archiving this for myself and anyone who comes across my account and are rwby fans, This is a gold mine.

inhales ok

THIS is a mega folder containing literally everything rwby-related that is available right now on roosterteeth (+v9). rwby, fairytales, world of remnant, the grimm campaign, ice queendom (sub and dub), vtubing, all the behind-the-scenes stuff. everything.

plus soundtracks for every volume + IQ, and drm-free epubs.

i will add any additional rwby content released during the wind down period as it becomes available. V1-8 have an english subtitle track embedded in the files, V9 does not because it came from CR. IQ dub has english subtitles. and for the sake of completeness i pulled all the non-english subs available on CR for V1-9 as well, those are in there as loose .ass files for the time being.

whenever possible, buy physical media. learn how to strip drm out of digital content that you own and make it a habit to do so.

archive responsibly 👍

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its adorable

Hello lil scary pirate 🦜🐈

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Well i am back slowly getting my follows back in order. Fear me for i will lurk