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🐧 Sam Duvall 🐧 @pachi3k.bsky.social · 8h

For sure, but I know also from experience sometimes the game just goes "lol no" even when by all accounts it should be in the bag

🐧 Sam Duvall 🐧 @pachi3k.bsky.social · 8h

That is a complete undersell of Eraserhead's actual quality

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🐧 Sam Duvall 🐧 @pachi3k.bsky.social · 8h

Assuming you win the URA Final! (You got this)

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🐧 Sam Duvall 🐧 @pachi3k.bsky.social · 8h

I don't know how the manga's story goes, but for how the movie ended, I thought it was perfect. Given what the movie is championing, I would have been mad if that ending gave us more. It showed exactly what it meant to.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 10h

Have you ever been so fucking delighted by a username/icon set that it made you follow a total stranger

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🐧 Sam Duvall 🐧 @pachi3k.bsky.social · 9h

100 Meters is an excellent track 'n field sports film that champions 'the love of the game' in a way that is human and grounded. The most exhilarating 636 ten seconds you'll experience this year. Check it out quick!

The rotoscoping is well-done, too!

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🐧 Sam Duvall 🐧 @pachi3k.bsky.social · 11h

In the theater for 100 Meters.

Just feels like a good day to support animation.

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 17h

RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌

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🐧 Sam Duvall 🐧 @pachi3k.bsky.social · 1d

"Why not Will or Ceaser or anyone from Part 5?" Because Gyro's the only JoJo Italian who explicitly went to America, hence there is a pretense for us to be celebrating him. Use your head!

🐧 Sam Duvall 🐧 @pachi3k.bsky.social · 1d

Gyro Zeppeli from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run

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🐧 Sam Duvall 🐧 @pachi3k.bsky.social · 2d

Guy who has only read the Bible, reading his second story: Getting a lot of Antichrist vibes from this antagonist...

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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🐧 Sam Duvall 🐧 @pachi3k.bsky.social · 3d

This adaptation of the Santa Claus mythos where the power of St. Nick is a suite of mutant bloodline abilities such as extending steel sleigh runners from your feet like The Wolverine is very silly. #SANDA

A dynamic animated image of a large, bushy man in a red coat bursting out of restraints using sword-like implements extending from his feet.

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🐧 Sam Duvall 🐧 @pachi3k.bsky.social · 3d

Don't talk to me or my son or his son or his son or his son or his son or his son ever again

Seven different Transformers Soundwave figures (including Lego Soundwave, Masterpiece Soundwave, and the original G1 toy) lined up in a row, all posed similarly

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🐧 Sam Duvall 🐧 @pachi3k.bsky.social · 3d

But who's on first?

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🐧 Sam Duvall 🐧 @pachi3k.bsky.social · 3d

Tojima Kamen Rider Episode 2 was a severe step-down from the 1st episode (someone thought it'd be funny to score a student's crush on their teacher with Japanese internet memes and corny sax music), but the OP is a winner. TeddyLoid and Shigeru Matsuzaki - a strange, yet powerful combo

アニメ『東島丹三郎は仮面ライダーになりたい』ノンクレジットオープニング映像【Wanna be】

YouTube video by アニプレックスチャンネル

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👩‍🚀Marceline💀⚔️ @marceline2174.bsky.social · 3d

Melinoe & Nemesis
1st Oct art request - Congrats to the winners!

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🐧 Sam Duvall 🐧 @pachi3k.bsky.social · 3d

"Welcome, Mr. Bond. Please, sit. Oh, I hope you don't mind that I invited my closest associates to our most anticipated gathering of minds."

Stealth40k @stealth40k.bsky.social · 3d

Masahiro Sakurai shared a photo of a Game Director dinner meeting he had for Tokyo Gameshow!

Participants:
- Hideki Kamiya
- Toby Fox
- Yoko Taro
- Jiro Ishii
- Kazutaka Kodaka
- Keiichiro Toyama

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🐧 Sam Duvall 🐧 @pachi3k.bsky.social · 3d

Don't talk to me or my son or his son or his son or his son or his son or his son ever again

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🐧 Sam Duvall 🐧 @pachi3k.bsky.social · 4d

heck yeah I'm

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Orange @cg-orange-eng.bsky.social · 4d

╋━━━━━━━
　Character Visual Revealed 🌪
　　　Milly Thompson
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VA: #ChikaAyamori

🔸 Watch the special teaser here:
youtu.be/1pr_uEqKJ74

#TRIGUNSTARGAZE
#TRIGUN #トライガン

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 5d

New poster for "Dorohedoro" Season 2.
Coming Spring 2026.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 5d

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🐧 Sam Duvall 🐧 @pachi3k.bsky.social · 5d

I literally have no option but to understand Japanese characters or to look up online in order to know who this guy we're supposed to be getting introduced to is. His intro plaque is on-screen for a whole 7 seconds and not one subtitle for it. Thank you, Crunchyroll.

A screenshot of Maxim from the anime Pass The Monster Meat, Milady. There is introductory signage for the character in the bottom right entirely in Japanese with no provided English translation. The character's speaking text is subtitled: "Isn't that right, Aristide?"

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 5d

Saying "I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize" should pretty much be a disqualification in and of itself for winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

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vestenet (full of bones) @vestenet.bsky.social · 5d

mawaru penguindrum

Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 5d

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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