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how far into ffta2 do i gotta get before i meet montblanc's gay brother

November 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM

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November 28, 2025 at 5:33 AM

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lmao that's one way to describe "run to the hills", wikipedia

you know there is such a thing as being TOO neutral

Over guitars and a hard rock beat, "Run to the Hills" depicts the historical conflict between Native Americans and European settlers.[8][9] The song begins with the perspective of the Native Americans: 'White man came across the sea / He brought us pain and misery.' This verse reflects the suffering and upheaval caused by European arrival. The subsequent verses shift to the European viewpoint, with lines such as 'Riding through dust clouds and barren wastes / Galloping hard on the plains' and 'Hunting and killing's a game.' These parts depict the Europeans' actions and attitudes towards the conflict. The recurring chorus, 'Run to the hills / Run for your lives,' serves as a haunting reminder of the dire consequences of these conflicts. Overall, the song presents a vivid portrayal of this tumultuous period in history from both perspectives.[10][11][12] The song is in the key of G major with a tempo of 178 beats per minute.

November 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM

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John Dickson Batten’s illustrations of the Hobyahs are so good

I don’t like the story at all but Batten’s Hobyahs are stellar, look at them

They‘re cute are so stoked to abduct and presumably kill a child

Little lizardy goblins carrying off something lumpy in a sack and just all around having a great time

November 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM

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my fingers are not long enough this is unfair

November 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM

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this is the second party member, montblanc

it's the cutest final fantasy

November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM

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FFTA moogles are so cute

Art of various moogle jobs from final fantasy tactics advance

November 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM

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Chester Cheetah smoking a joint and saying “I don’t buy it, i’m calling bull shit on this motha fucka, I wouldn’t listen to a damn thing he has to say” from the comic tails gets trolled

November 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM

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feeling this way whenever i see news

I want to cut his nuts off. - Jesse Jackson

November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM

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this is the think tank for the faction that runs the party now lol

also the same writers wrote a follow-up, they think they nailed it

But it is one thing to say that race matters, and quite another to say that it dominates everything. A white Willie Horton may not have struck the same degree of terror as did a black Willie Horton -- but violent rapists are frightening regardless of color. By concentrating on race alone, Democrats avoid confronting the fact that for years they have been perceived as the party that is weaker on crime and more concerned about criminals than about victims

If the white working-class felt morally and culturally isolated from those who took over the party in the early seventies; they were to feel economically isolated when white elites turned to no-growth policies in the mid-seventies just as the economy was beginning to grind to a halt. This new economic isolation was reflected in the popular culture by items such as bumper stickers that read "If you're out of work and hungry, eat an environmentalist." It was reflected in the tax rebellion -- a result of the non-indexed income tax during a period of soaring inflation that pushed average families into higher marginal brackets while their real incomes stagnated. It was also reflected in the inability of organized labor to deliver substantial proportions of their membership for the Democratic ticket and in the rise of "Reagan Democrats," working-class voters who abandoned the Democratic Party for the cultural and moral affinity provided by Ronald Reagan.

November 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM

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November 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM

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unfortunately as someone who grew up during the "war on terror" and during the illegal war in Iraq, everett true's reaction to US entry into WW1 in 1917 suuuucked

Panel 1: Everett True passes two men talking. One says "have you heard anything new on the war?" and the other replies "Not exactly, but they tell me the pacifists are going to hold a meeting tonight at eight o'clock."

Second panel: Eight o'clock. Sign next to a staircase says "pacifist meeting here tonight 8 o'clock welcome. Everett True stands in front of the doorway with his umbrella in hand, and a group of men look around a corner at him, scared. One says "They hain't a person got in yit!"

First panel: Everett True notices a record in the window of a Music Store.
Second panel: He enters.
Third panel: He slams the shop-owners head down onto the counter and says "I notice that in your front window you have a copy of the song 'I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be A Soldier'. Take it out and keep it out!!"

First panel: Everett True passes a movie poster for a film entitled "Peace" with the tagline A Compelling Argument Against the Horrors of War!!

Second panel: Everett True is standing over the manager in the manager's office after knocking him over and says "You don't seem to realize that we're trying to raise an army! Well, we are!!"

First panel: Everett True says to a man sitting on a bench "Mr. Drone, you're 28 years old, single, and have no one depending on you. Are you waiting to be drafted?" The man replies "I'm not going till I have to. I don't like the idea of wearing a wooden leg the rest of my life."

Second panel: True comically punches him off the bench and says "That hadn't ought to bother you -- you've lived this long with a wooden head!!!"

November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM

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so everett true's reaction to the influenza pandemic became something of a meme, which is good, it was a good strip a lot of the time

Comic: Outbursts of Everett True

First panel: A grinning man notices that titular character Everett True, a round dapper angry man, is wearing a flu mask.
Second panel: The grinning man returns home in bandages and his shocked wife exclaims "John!!"

November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM

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Three of the countries, Russia, Germany, and Great Britain, had monarchs who were first cousins. Tsar Nicholas II, King George V of England, and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. By the end of the war two of them would be deposed in revolutions.