I remember that some time ago, in like, middle school, I found a remix of Under Pressure called the "More Love Not War" version that cut parts from "Ice Ice Baby", "Jump Around" by House of Pain, and a Jay-Z song I've never been able to identify into the tune, in addition to tweaking the beat some.
i'm readin a japanese comic about japanese soldiers and there's always that sense of dread, like, what if this is written by some nationalist creep? what if this person thinks the only problem with wwii was that there wasn't enough of it. but then the japanese troops talked about surrendering being ok, and i'm reassured
Which comic?
Imperial Guards (Koukoku no Shugosha), which, oddly, is not about imperial guards. more or less russo-japanese land war with more magic.
Oh, okay. I got about 5 chapters into that manga. Need to get back into it at some point. The russo-japanese war is one that doesn't really get touched on a lot.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
That's really good. I really like Gira's voice in that.
Yeah, it's a really interesting combo. Stewart actually opened for Swans on a recent tour, but this cover predates that, so they've known each other for a while now.
i'm readin a japanese comic about japanese soldiers and there's always that sense of dread, like, what if this is written by some nationalist creep? what if this person thinks the only problem with wwii was that there wasn't enough of it. but then the japanese troops talked about surrendering being ok, and i'm reassured
Which comic?
Imperial Guards (Koukoku no Shugosha), which, oddly, is not about imperial guards. more or less russo-japanese land war with more magic.
Oh, okay. I got about 5 chapters into that manga. Need to get back into it at some point. The russo-japanese war is one that doesn't really get touched on a lot.
indeed not. but other than the vague technological capabilities of everybody and the freezing cold it's not really that similar. it's about a land invasion of hokkaido, for a start.
actually the tech might push it back a few years. they have no radios and the cavalry sometimes have axes.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
So, one of the guys at my work who is half-japanese, might be descended from Miyamoto Musashi. That is one of the coolest things I've ever been able to say.
Mobster: Here is your assignment Mr. Cracked Editor: write an article that DOESN'T mention Scarlett Johannson, or Teddy Roosevelt, AND without pimping your podcast or book.
Cracked Editor: Scarlett's boobs Teddy my podcast at *BANG*
That article someone linked about Star Wars a little while back really bugged me. It was well written and clearly thought out a bunch but like... it didn't really have much of a point beyond a vague idea that Star Wars is a "problematic fave" and the rest of it was the kind of smug dismissiveness that is constantly getting my goat.
Proof I need to lessen my caffeine addiction: 16 hours withou Diet Pepsi made me feel the worst I have since that night I got a stomach bug and every fluid and piece of digested food in my body tried to escape from both ends over the course of an entire night.
"Problematic fave" was the phrasing I used because it's most often used to express a sentiment amounting to "I like this thing, it's bad and it's terrible and it's bad, but I like it." I'm not a fan of that kind of sentiment because I'm a proponent of the idea that with something as ubiquitous, culturally important, and beloved as Star Wars if you're being critical you gotta dig a bit deeper than "people like it because it's childish."
At any rate I've Got A Bad Feeling about how this discussion is gonna go so can we try to be charitable towards what I'm saying and not assume the worst please
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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Yusssss!
Yeah, it's a really interesting combo. Stewart actually opened for Swans on a recent tour, but this cover predates that, so they've known each other for a while now.
actually the tech might push it back a few years. they have no radios and the cavalry sometimes have axes.
so no real war. well, oops.
The author has a currently running comic about a Tangut soldier. Tanguts are of course mainly known for my mocking their language
They planted an apple tree over his head.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
At any rate I've Got A Bad Feeling about how this discussion is gonna go so can we try to be charitable towards what I'm saying and not assume the worst please
it's something simple which pushes a lot of most people's fun buttons
that's a first
smells like hella cheap old weed
reminds me of spring
It is not shameful to like childlike things.
I'll just leave it at that.
Wonderful reward for a pretty shitty vacation.
That'll do it
I wonder if he still does that.
This is a very odd modeling pose. Dress is cute, though.