#a break from our regularly scheduled programming for a PSA

[robobrainmurdermysterytheatre]

I've been waiting to confirm an official fundraiser for this before posting, and this one appears to be legitimate. Please consider helping Briana Boston's legal fund here: https://gofund.me/0dc5a077

Briana Boston is the woman who had a medical claim denied and ended her call with Blue Cross Blue Shield by allegedly saying “Delay, deny, depose. You people are next," echoing the words on the bullet casings found at the scene of the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Johnson.

I have worked in customer service for about 15 years, but for those of you who haven't, it's not uncommon to deal with people making threats and employers, let alone police, do not typically respond in any fashion. If you have an especially shitty employer, threats will get the customer what they want. Best case scenario your employer denies them service. The words weren't even a direct threat!

Make no mistake - this is a politically motivated arrest designed to strike fear into people speaking out in support of the movement that has begun in the wake of Thompson's killing.

Her arrest is a wholehearted slap in the face to every person who has been legitimately and personally threatened only to be told by law enforcement it's "freedom of speech," and there's nothing they can do. This happens on a regular basis, sometimes up until the point that the aggressor ends up making good on their threats.

If you are financially able, please show some solidarity and donate to her legal fund. Even if you can't, please reblog this so it gets in front of the people who can or post the link to your own blog to boost it. I wanna see the same energy everyone had for Luigi for Briana as well!

[mrdrhenwardhykle]

POM POM: [former] KILLER OF MASCOT GAMES #12

Officer Stone vs Pom Pom

"Greetings.

Apologies to all for the interruption of your regularly scheduled Friday comic. I am Power Officer Stone; police officer against all things considered electronically cheating, stealing, and occasionally-bugged. Due to numerous complaints and reports, me and my team have been investigating that have led us to this very program you are currently viewing.

As of 12 weeks ago, scrapped mascot character taking the form of a young girl named... "Pom Pom"-*ahem*, has been sited on numerous occasions harassing, taunting, attacking, killing, or kidnapping other game protagonists; most being able to be considered as 'mascots' as well. It's unknown where Ms.Pom has originated from, but a few files of concept art and sprites have been recently archived, which are giving us an idea to where exactly this criminal came from. We will be following that trail as soon as we can. Though, it is not in our main interest to involve ourselves in NPC problems and complaints, we have finally decided to put an end to the endless calls by taking action. Ms.Pom was caught in the act, and has been detained as of now. Alongside the attack, Ms.Pom's appearance also somehow caused the targeted world to rain-unscripted. That last note is still unclarified.

Ms.Pom's punishment will be decided- depending on what she pleads- in court in two weeks time. Please attend or share with the following numbers if you have any more information on the current case."

THE END!!! (of volume 1.)

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There should be a volume summary w/ links soon :)

Yep! It's the end of this volume. I think I'm going to take a break next week and then start it up after. Thank you guys for your support so far!

Character context (Pom Pom and Stone)

Pom Pom:

Pom Pom is a virus/glitch formed by the scrapped side-scrolling arcade game from the early 90's “Pom-Pom Panic”. Pom Pom (the main character of Pom Pom Panic) for whatever reason gained sentience halfway during the game’s development. The game was cancelled halfway because the publishing company thought it was too bizarre of a concept and mascot character to gain interest. Pom Pom heard of the news and took it way too personally, as she literally cannot fathom why someone would think she’s ‘bizarre’-even to the point of getting ‘axed’. Prompted by the ‘poor judgement’ Pom Pom went rouge-breaking from her game to ‘axe’ any ‘approved’ game mascots/characters she thought could count as ‘bizarre’ like her.

Power Officer Stone:

Stone is the amalgamation of a couple things, exactly what people aren't sure of, but it's safely assumed that he's a mix between scrapped virtual PSA mascots, an antivirus/piracy program, and the anti drug campaigns they used to put in arcade games. Stone is the embodiment of anti piracy screens and uses all of his time to prevent virtual crimes and viruses. He also can duplicate himself and multitask. However, because of his frustrations against the fact that he can't really punish pirates in real life, he often bounces the punishment to the closest playable character. For that, he's infamous amongst most virtual realms.

[nandorfucks]

a psa from your friendly library worker: do not reshelve a book once you've taken it off the shelf. either place it on a nearby designated cart or bring it up to the desk this goes double for children's books. there might be a little voice in the back of your head telling you to just put it back, but don't listen because that is the devil talking