when the General System Bus is General System Busing. RW becoming a true Pixel Game. what happens when an Iterator catches a cold. we fuckIN LOST SUNNY IN THERE OUR SON EVAPORATED
aka me n shkiki played RW together, it was a wild ass ride
In the early Aughts, my favorite Tag Team was "America's Most Wanted" -- James Storm and Chris Harris. These two studs were booked nearly every week to suffer some incredible beatings on TNA Wrestling. In 2004, they were involved in a Handicap Match which I wrote about on my old Wrestling Arsenal website 20 years ago today, on April 11, 2004 (and continuing the following week on April 18, 2004).
It seems James Storm had injured his shoulder and couldn't wrestle, so the promoters booked his partner, Chris Harris, against one guy from their rival tag team -- the Naturals. Harris won, so the Evil Promoter forced him to immediately wrestle the other member of the Naturals! THEN THE POOR WHIPPING-BOY WAS FORCED TO WRESTLE BOTH OPPONENTS AT THE SAME TIME in a HANDICAP MATCH! (I's all worked up because I love unfair 2-on-1 tag team beatings.) TNA was notably homo-erotic in those days, and also got good ratings. Hmm, I wonder if those go hand-in-hand?
To revisit and update my old static images describing this sadistic scene, I went and found this episode of TNA Wrestling (which aired as a pay-per-view on 2/25/2004) and created this edited video, focusing on the "Wildcat" in agony. I mashed the two preliminary singles matches together with the Handicap Match to make it seem like one long, glorious, two-against-one torture scene. I must say, Chris Harris looks great selling in his tight blue trunks and tall shiny boots, and his partner is adorable outside the ring worrying about him, looking like a chubby Jordan Catalano.
Hi! As someone who now kinda wants to check out Trigun because of the hype, do you recommend that I can start with Stampede? Or do I really need to watch the OG anime first to better understand/enjoy it? Thank you! 🙋🏻♀️
you can start with stampede! i'd say knowing the context of the original enhances the experience but isn't necessary to enjoy the show. I would consider stampede more viewer-friendly, especially for those of us who are used to modern storytelling conventions (the original suffers the consequences of general writing trends in anime at the time it was produced and of the fact that it was produced long before the manga was finished, so the story is somewhat disjointed and has a lot of filler which makes it REALLY hard to get into.) if you do end up liking stampede, however, I'd suggest trying out watching at least SOME of the original because it adds a lot of cool nuance and context to the story that stampede tells!
i love you nature! i love you creeks! i love you little feild mice! i love you coyotes! i love you deer! i love you snakes and frogs and fish! i love you bugs! i love you bones! i love you sunsets! i love you sunrises! i love you grasses and trees and flowers!! i love you mushrooms and moss and worms!! i love you dirt!! i love you mud!! i love you sticks!!! i love you rocks!!! i love you i love you i love you!!!!!!
the me far off in the future is peering through glass at me somewhere 🍁🍂
I might end up editing this but just last week, our school held this huge campout just about everyone was to participate in. It was five hours away and I had the time of my life-- despite bearing the responsibilities of a squad leader on my shoulders and having to run and jog over rolling hills at every sounding whistle, it felt like being a little kid again.
I crept through and under rope and sand scattered over obstacle courses built for us-- I found dust and mud on my hands and simply rubbed them off, sprinting off to the next activity, the next endeavor-- wind blowing my hair back into my face and such. My eyes shone with something I felt was somewhat lost-- when I stood in line and I was given simple orders and lengthy instructions, I could have been mistaken for a puppy. What this feeling was was in the trees, it was in the winds that blew over the farms; the spirit of a certain freedom and childlikeness had made its way back to me, and I had danced with it and bounded across the grasses with it for as long as I could.
I know that I am here now and I may never find myself among the red narra again (we took a tour of the whole place. They told me the narra were rumored to be more than thirty years old. We all wondered what it would be like if they could speak) or in the woods I could never bring myself to forget, but perhaps you could find a girl-- no older than sixteen-- running, wind in her hair and face, running towards the second blow of a whistle or to the next thing she and her group would duly accomplish. Maybe you'll find traces of who I was in those precious moments, the me I left behind at camp-- she is still here, somewhat. But it's not quite the same.
You ever do something so, so stupid and waste an hour of your time in a video game?
(I went to go fight the Netherbrain. And didn't realize until after I'd gotten to the astral prism that I'd forgotten the fucking Orphic Hammer at camp. You know, the thing I went out of my way and spent 15k gold using the Blood Money action to kill Raphael for??)
i havent made any posts abt it but now that the big part is basically over ive gotta tell you im absolutely fucking fascinated with this whole submarine situation
2 hours of intensive chicken thigh dissecting and mincing down. only 3 more hours of dumpling wrapper rolling tomorrow before i have 10 pounds of frozen dumplings in my freezer.
- the son of a farmer (would help bring peppers into market)
- when his village was infested with rats, he approached those in charge with a deal: rid the town of rats for a large sum of money
- they agreed because they didn’t think a child could really do that and if you cheat a child what’s the worst that could happen?
- instead of charming the other children in the village, it was a plan by them to teach the adults a lesson (kid power!)
- they wander for a long while (following a star) till they find an enchanted island (neverland)
- the darling siblings are his friends from a neighboring town
- when the times of shadow came: the different factions of neverland began to truly fight (not the way they did that gave peter and the lost boys adventures but actual battles); and while peter never grew up, a few of the lost boys did (the enchantment that kept them young stopped working) and they left neverland
in between worlds:
- woke up in neverland to tinker bell trying to appeal to his want to return to his life of carefree adventure
- when his memories merge he gets a flash of murdering some of the lost boys a la the original story
post ep 4:
- he had to charm the children of his village to come to neverland with him and made up stories of pirates to keep them from leaving and to cover up his murders
- eventually the stories of peter’s eternal youth attract real pirates that want to take over the island
- his hometown is overrun by rats and plague that he summoned after the adults went back on their deal
- neverland is in disarray, with the pirates controlling the parts of the island that peter doesn’t rule with an iron fist
- he is now hardened by battles that this version of him has fought, and while he doesn’t have the same ideals as this version of him, he does believe that neverland cannot fall to the rule of the pirates
- before meeting up with the party, tried very hard to connect with the lost boys like he was able to before
- it didn’t work as well as he hoped so he told them they could leave neverland if they wished
remember that time orym druidcrafted a blue flower into dorian's hair and then robbie immediately rolled two natural 20s in a roll? yeah that was a good fucking time