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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 2m

going back through my old pile of Australia Jokes

a screencap of a tweet of mine: former australian prime minister harold holt found in darkest trenches of the ocean, next to sleeping giants with no names. you wonder if he has any insights to share.

"hi," he says. "do they still make violet crumble bars"

"yeah."

"nice. later." he swims out of view

a screencapped tweet of mine: australian date: wait, we have to go to bunnings first

me: i already have like a thousand condoms

australian date: i just need some things

a screencapped tweet of mine: we here at outback steakhouse believe in bringing you an authentic australian experience, and that's why we have this guy named "rickey" to show up at your table and tell you americans a bunch of lies he knows you'll inexplicably believe

a screencapped tweet of mine: "watch_dogs 4 to take place in australia, largely consist of two dudes in melbourne sending each other threats on xbox live for victory/loss in FIFA before ending up personally fighting each other in a park in the middle of the day"

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 24m

other move: "hey americans: have you ever wanted to see a k-mart that DIDN'T look like it was attacked by bombs?"

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 26m

thinking back to how many extremely specific jokes about australia i made while on twitter, thanks entirely to connections made from sleeping at weird hours and having access to the internet

a screencap of a tweet of mine: "the one australian with good internet using it exclusively to download and print out thousands of high res screencaps of Coxy's Big Break to cover every wall in their house"

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 35m

another four billion dollars to [that micallef program skit about the godzilla toy on the desk during a job interview]

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 37m

getting hired by australia to help promote its tourism industry in america. my only move is to keep posting clips of The Micallef Program online. somehow this ends up working

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 58m

getting pranks done up in the hoverships in the real world from where we connect to the matrix. new guy gets into the brain download chair and thinks he's gonna learn how to fly a helicopter. nooooooope, every episode of "my mother the car" again

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 1h

their ideology is "leadership knows best" and crafting a rationalization for whatever they're doing - or not doing - at that moment, and if what they do next contradicts that, coming up with more explanations for why that's fine now. they only have beliefs when leadership gives them permission to.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 1h

and there you'd get "well they CAN'T use HEA for debt forgiveness, take a civics class, stupid" and then once the admin started using HEA for student debt forgiveness, they were all for that too.

these types tend to scoff at the idea the bully pulpit does anything but are the biggest marks for it.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 1h

was not the most important thing but it was one of the most blatant examples of this dynamic with student debt. you'd get berated endlessly about "they can't, and it'd cost them votes anyway, take a civics class, stupid" then they'd turn around and cheer it on the moment the admin started doing it

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 1h

lol just realizing i haven't seen hide or hair of any of the "the dems CAN'T do a shutdown, then the republicans will attack them!" people from months ago panic and doomsay about dems doing a shutdown now. in fact they appear to have full support from the same kinda people.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 3h

god gravity rush is so fucking good. the guy behind silent hill 1 delivers the most not-actually-by-sega sega game ever made. had been marinating on it for years and years. immaculate fusion of super monkey ball, nights into dreams, sonic adventure

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 3h

you: waiting for bloodborne on PC

me: waiting for gravity rush 1 and 2 on PC

both of us: skeletons in a wasteland

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 4h

also, it really feels like it's intentionally aiming for 'lightning fast, combo mash fighting' and - that is not what i think of when i think of baki?

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 4h

it's a real shame, cuz you look at it, it seems such a natural fit, you see the work put into the art, but none of the hits, taking or giving, have any real weight to them. which is fucking vital to the genre! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYNK...

Baki Hanma: Blood Arena - Official Release Date Trailer

YouTube video by IGN

www.youtube.com

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 4h

what baki the grappler needs is a shenmue-alike, honestly, to account for all the downtime with the incredibly ridiculous personal stuff, so you're in the proper baki mood when you get into and out of the 'shattering your opponents bones as well as your own' segments

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 4h

fucked up that a punchout style baki the grappler game came out but it doesn't work because none of the hits have any oomph to them

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 5h

you can even see plucky's eyes in the waterdrop too. fucked up levels of skill here

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 6h

same thing for plucky doing a driveby 'mailing a letter'

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 6h

the publisher for these was Conspiracy Entertainment, they're the bizarre point here. treasure i can see going "you want a tiny toons game? uh, okay". Conspiracy did a LOT of old cartoon stuff; Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Tom and Jerry, Flintstones, Land Before Time... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspir...

Conspiracy Entertainment - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 6h

like jesus christ, the technical mastery you need to be able to do this

a frame from Tiny Toon Adventures "How I spent my summer vacation", featuring a car at a gas station stop, framed from behind a water fountain

that same shot, but now a few frames ahead, with a water droplet coming down. we see the car through the water drop, morphing the view of it, blowing it out to a fisheye lens

the shot now zooms in through that fisheye lens perspective, towards the car, with plucky duck within it

the camera zooms in more, maintaining that distorted fisheye lens perspective, as we get closer to plucky

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 7h

the fisheye lens of the water droplet morphing the car and nothing else! and then reversing it to go straight back to plucky, with the same morphed look!

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 7h

god went looking for an example of TMS' work for Tiny Toons. doing crazy totally stunting on 'em animation shit for the most mid of mid around

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 7h

yup yup! lots and lots of throwing shit.

Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 7h

from Tokyo Movie Shinsha animation to Treasure games, that's the Tiny Toon Adventures promise: incredible work by japanese studios for a property that doesn't really deserve it

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 7h

even wilder, though, that wasn't the only Tiny Toon Adventures game Treasure was working in the early 00s (like 7 years after the last TTA animated special): they also made an unreleased PS2 game, with tons of voice acting from the original cast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYoO...

Tiny Toon Adventures: Defenders of the Universe FULL GAME (PS2)

YouTube video by ★WishingTikal★

www.youtube.com

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