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🐧 Sam Duvall 🐧 @pachi3k.bsky.social · 23h

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

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 1d

But who's on first?

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

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 · 2d

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

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

"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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

heck yeah I'm

A lways
N ot
T aking
I shit
F rom
A ssholes

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Orange @cg-orange-eng.bsky.social · 2d

╋━━━━━━━
　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 · 3d

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

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 3d

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

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 · 4d

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 · 3d

mawaru penguindrum

Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 4d

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

"We decided to see how lazy we could be with our product without people complaining. Next time we'll be sure to only make it slightly shittier at any given time so you don't notice. Apologies."

Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 4d

Crunchyroll provides a statement regarding the recent subtitle changes in new anime

Crunchyroll Cites Internal System Problems Regarding Subtitles for Fall 2025 Anime

Crunchyroll: "[Issues were] not [caused] by any change in how we create subtitles, use of new vendors or AI."

www.animenewsnetwork.com

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

"MEGATRON, THIS MIGHTY BEAST HAS IMPRINTED ONTO ME, PROVING MY GREAT WORTH. FROM THIS DAY FORTH, I LEAD."

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

It's good that work is keeping me so busy right now so I can feign to ignore the horror and stupidity of the world out there.

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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 6d

tweet screenshot
Matt the outlaw
@cursedgloryhole
Lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? you watch and information is revealed"

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🐧 Sam Duvall 🐧 @pachi3k.bsky.social · 6d

LOL not even the same medium, but yes, Moros is an impeccable lad

🐧 Sam Duvall 🐧 @pachi3k.bsky.social · 6d

Even if it's doing absolutely nothing original with the genre, the Assassin Status show has the common courtesy to be decently well-animated, possess above-adequate writing, and not be filled with a cast of showboating assholes.

Also has the prettiest boy of the whole season.

Saran Mithray from My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's

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🐧 Sam Duvall 🐧 @pachi3k.bsky.social · 6d

The only thing A Mangaka's Weirdly Wonderful Workplace has going for it is the mangaka and her editor might be super gay for each other, but I don't know if I can sit through ad infinitum non-jokes about social niceties and anxious over-exaggeration for a little slice of Unconfirmed Lesbians

🐧 Sam Duvall 🐧 @pachi3k.bsky.social · 6d

what if we kissed at the Royal jelly 8

A screenshot from the anime A Mangaka's Weirdly Wonderful Workplace, showing a Denny's-esque restaurant called the "Royal jelly 8'

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 6d

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop.
Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform.

Panel 2:
Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public
Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself

Panel 3:
Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but…

Panel 4:
Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 7d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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