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I would say that most people will never be able to say they may or may not have been the intended target of a murder plot by a former anime voice actor, and I hope I at least live long enough to write an autobiography about how stupid the entire thing is.

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A conversation that Denji and Aki have absolutely had

🪚 - Denji; 🚬 - Aki

🪚 "Hey, topknot! Got a question for ya!"

🚬: -sighs while smoking a cigarette- "What is it now, Denji?"

🪚 "yeah uh, do you know anyone named Sarah?"

🚬: "...wha--what kind of question is that?"

🪚 well, uh, y'know that one chick on our team, the one who's always pissin' herself?

🚬 Kobeni, yes.

🪚 Well I was passin' by the bathrooms and I heard her panicking about needin' to find some chick named Sarah.

🚬 Hmmm... I don't recall us having any Americans working in Public Safety, so I can't answer for sure.

🪚 I gotcha. Ah well, I'm sure she'll find her soon, can't be that hard with a weird last name like hers.

🚬 ...weird last name?

🪚 Yeah, her name's Sarah Tonin I think.

🚬 (thousand yard stare)

🪚 ...what?

🚬 -sighs once again- Denji, I know you didn't go to school, but I swear to god--

🪚 Geez, what's got you so bothered?

🚬 "Sarah Tonin" is not a person. Kobeni was talking about a chemical called serotonin.

🪚 whuzzat?

🚬 A chemical in the brain that regulates your mood and helps you feel happy.

🪚...

🚬...

🪚...

🪚... IS THAT WHY I'M SO FUCKIN' MISERABLE??

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So i finally started playing God of War Ragnarok and I thought about something

In the original trilogy, it's stated that Kratos is the sin of Zeus which... y'know big surprise, the entirety of Greek mythology boils down to "Zeus couldn't keep it in his pants."

At the end of the last game, it was revealed that Kratos' son Atreus is also the Loki of this universe's Nordic mythos.

...so that technically means, per the GoW mythos, Zeus is Loki's grandfather.

In other words: Zeus slung his hog around so much that it even impacted mythologies he wasn't a part of!

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Where I think a lot of focus-grouped studio productions go wrong in trying to manufacture fandom sexymen is that, like, they're essentially correct that a great many fans do, in fact, want a man who fucks like a demon, but how fans decide which characters meet this criterion has absolutely nothing to do with textual demonstrations of sexual and/or romantic prowess.

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Rando: "Go outside and touch grass!"

Me:

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Holy shit, Fall Out Boy remembered how to be a real band again!

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RobBarracuda's Top 25 albums of 2022!

My top 25 favorite albums of 2022! If you'd like to hear my thoughts in audio form, be sure to check out the Decibel Boost Podcast's year-end top favorites spectacular!

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My reviews for episodes 10-12 of Chainsaw Man for you to read with your eyes... unless they were stoleb by M*****. Happy New Years everyone!

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"Former Pope died as the new year ends" feels like a metaphor for something but I don't know what

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So I got a bunch of manga for Christmas, including 4 volumes of Berserk. I was reading through volume 8 this morning, and saw something very confusing.

For context, the last few chapters of volume 8 are when Guts makes his decision to leave the Band of the Hawk, and the very last chapter is the duel between him and Griffith. As I'm flipping through the last couple of chapters... this happens.

...I don't think it's supposed to look like that.

Then I flip around to the back cover, turn the volume upside down and...

I'm not sure what's funnier: the fact that it's upside down or that the cutoff point was the other half of a notable double-page spread, but either way lol. Lmao even.

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i love b dylan hollis videos because he makes three (3) types of recipes:

great depression inventions that sound bizarre but are actually delicious;

‘50s-’70s fad dishes that both look and taste like crimes against humanity;

“salads” that are emphatically NOT salads that HE treats like crimes against humanity but that i, a midwesterner, regularly ate at potlucks growing up and never would have thought of as weird until he pointed it out

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Manga First Impression: Fabricant 100

We now have the 4th and final new Shonen Jump series premiered in in the span of a month: Fabricant 100 from author Daisuke Enoshima!

The first chapter opens on a disappearance/kidnapping case on a train. A curious lad named Ashibi Yao and his unassuming caretaker are onboard investigating the matter. In actuality, Yao is the last surviving member of a family notable for their blood granting eternal youth. The boy's family was slaughtered by a group of entities called Fabricants: the result of a now-deceased scientist attempting to craft synthetic humanoids, the experiments now roaming the lands and attacking people to harvest their organs and achieve perfect bodies (in Ashibi's case, they were naturally after his blood).

As the investigation continues, Ashibi manages to draw the kidnapper out of hiding, confirming it to be a Fabricant which stole a woman's eyes for itself. As it attempts to attack the youth, his caretaker interferes, revealing herself to be a Fabricant, specifically the 100th one crafted, and therefore the highest-ranking in their hierarchy. Having saved Ashibi from death in his family massacre, she took pity on him and decided to accompany him on his journey. Having now eliminated the Fabricant, the two continue off on their own way, with about 80-something more left to eliminate.

So of the four new series, this one is the most conventional, being an action-adventure battle manga that's been the magazine's bread and butter for ages now. But that's not necessarily a knock against it. In fact, I'd say that it's the only one aside from Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins that manages a solid execution of its premise from the get-go. The artwork is solid, the setup is engaging through the entire first chapter, Ashibi and Fabricant 100 are an interesting duo, and the premise of synthetic humanoids lends the potential for some cool body horror in the future, and I'm all for that. Like any new attempt at a battle manga in Jump, its gonna have its work cut out for it, not just against the likes of Mashle and Sakamoto Days, but even other promising recent titles like Ginka & Gluna. But so far, I'm intrigued to see where this story goes.

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New episode of the Decibel Boost Podcast this week, last one before the big year-end lists! We talk new songs from Obituary, MIKE feat. Sister Nancy, and even the announcement of new music from Metallica! Alongside this, there's the latest developments in the Taylor Swift/Ticketmaster controversy, and the lineup for Primavera Sound 2023... featuring the most confusing artist name ever seen.

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Reviews for episodes 8 and 9 of Chainsaw Man are now up on Surreal Resolution! Plenty of bloodshed, angst, and Kobeni finally getting her moment to shine!