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[TheMightyP]

I mean that there is no joke. It's sarcasm. Tom's head getting turned into a frying pan when he gets hit by one is just cartoon shenanigans.

But what does that mean? Tom's head turns into a frying pan has got to have some deeper meaning. My brain is frying trying to figure out what that means. Am I just too young to understand?

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Anyone here who is language smart, can you translate this? For refrence, its an attack on Titan shirt

I never got to this advanced of alphabet in my Japanese class. I am confusion

 

[TheMightyP]

Anyone here who is language smart, can you translate this? For refrence, its an attack on Titan shirt
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I never got to this advanced of alphabet in my Japanese class. I am confusion

Yeah it's a bunch of slurs.

Sorry.

 

[ZephyrZ]

But what does that mean? Tom's head turns into a frying pan has got to have some deeper meaning. My brain is frying trying to figure out what that means. Am I just too young to understand?

It's funny reference to pokemon. Getting smacked by a frying pan hard enough could be potentially lethal, turning Tom's face into a handy-dandy dying pan.

 

[TheMightyP]

It's funny reference to pokemon. Getting smacked by a frying pan hard enough could be potentially lethal, turning Tom's face into a handy-dandy dying pan.

No ****ing way holy ****

 

[osby]

Is this one of the Amphibias you guys keep talking about?

DAILY DEMON SHOWCASE

This showcase's demon is of the Wilder race:

“I’m Wilder Afanc. I'm pretty confident in my strength. I’d prefer a pretty girl but you can rely on me.”

Alignment: Neutral-Chaos

Origin: Welsh mythology. A lake monster that preys on anyone foolish enough to enter the lake it lives in with poison darts. It can look like a crocodile, beaver, platypus, or a humanoid creature depending on the source, and also turn invisible. Afanc is variously said to live in Llyn Llion, Llyn Barfog, and other lakes. Its sole weakness is a maiden who would let it sleep on her lap, which would make it lay still.

Skills: Toxic Sting, Beastial Bite, Ice Block, Mabufu

Next time, you will meet a demon of the Yoma race.

Spoiler: Design Notes

As Afanc has no agreed-on appearance, it makes sense to pick one animal it is described as, beaver in this case, and give it demonic red eyes. It’s really neat how it even has poison darts around its arms and tail, which also resemble fins to aid its aquatic appearance.

 

[TheMightyP]

Recent pokemon painting👻🕯️ pic.twitter.com/ZNb7sr0bU3

— Bluekomadori (@bluekomadori) May 14, 2022

I love them

 

[MooMew64]

TheMightyP

Square Enix confirmed it had lawsuit case with Yuji Naka but declined to comment further. As for Balan Wonderworld, "it is a game that we recommend with confidence." (from Q&A session during earnings briefing)

— Takashi Mochizuki (@6d6f636869) May 13, 2022

SE are my fav comedians this year.

 

[osby]

TheMightyP

Square Enix confirmed it had lawsuit case with Yuji Naka but declined to comment further. As for Balan Wonderworld, "it is a game that we recommend with confidence." (from Q&A session during earnings briefing)

— Takashi Mochizuki (@6d6f636869) May 13, 2022

SE are my fav comedians this year.

Tbf, no game company is going to come up and say "yeah, it sucks, avoid it like plague" about one of their new releases.

 

[MooMew64]

Tbf, no game company is going to come up and say "yeah, it sucks, avoid it like plague" about one of their new releases.

Yeah, but this gives me another excuse to make fun of SE and gives me more fuel for my "Sqaure's L's" scrapbook

 

[TMNTSSB4]

yay Mulan world, a land with all the beautiful perfection…and the people who aren’t, or the things that are not, Mushu

 

[Hydreigonfan01]

Game developer: We recommend you to play this game
The game in question:

 

[TheMightyP]

Ok so I know same VA and stuff but I just can't not think of Homer Simpson when I hear KH genie.

Like it's not just the voice but his mannerisms and lines too.

 

[Lamperouge]

Game developer: We recommend you to play this game
The game in question:
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That's ******* bull****!!!

 

[Hydreigonfan01]

That's ******* bull****!!!

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[MooMew64]

Every time I need a good chuckle, I just remember Nintendo fans whining about console hardware power.

 

[TheMightyP]

Every time I need a good chuckle, I just remember Nintendo fans whining about console hardware power.

Ok but please release a more powerful Switch I don't wanna pay $700 bucks for KH4.

Or $700 for a cloud version.

 

[MooMew64]

Ok but please release a more powerful Switch I don't wanna pay $700 bucks for KH4.

Or $700 for a cloud version.

Oh no for sure, I want more powerful hardware too, it's just

I've followed this company's business-side for like, probably 15 years+ now? I just kinda know what to expect at this point, lol.


Also TBH unless they give SE an unga bunga button, they could be as powerful as a PS5 but SE would still mess it up, they don't know how to develop things outside of Sony architecture and even then, all their games are held together by some bubble gum, some shoe string, and a prayer. KH3 and FF7 were only stable 'cause they used Unreal, and we only got PC ports because Epic more than likely did over half the work, if I had to speculate.

KH4 being on Unreal helps, but like...SE devs and management don't know what to do when Sony isn't fitting the bill, man, they just collapse lol.

 

[Z25]

...I guess Sonic fans actually are winning this year. Wow.

Spoiler: Arin Hanson gets his ass beat (in boxing)

This better than whatever content Egoraptor made in the last fifteen years or so https://t.co/0FShdxAFRL

— sean (himeya.art) (@Haurmeya) May 15, 2022

Arin Hanson when Chris Hanson shows to the ring

(He gets his ass kicked)

 

[MooMew64]

TheMightyP Lamperouge Noipoi

I did not know this existed. It's for holding your controllers/phone.

...

I want it.

 

[Z25]

Also on the topic of the Amphibia finale, this ending was perfect:

Spoiler: Froggy Finale

// AMPHIBIA SPOILERS
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I JUST REALIZED???? SHE MADE A TEENY WARTWOOD FOR SPRIG???? oh i love her pic.twitter.com/fpXh6DT5Mi

— mari🕸 (@L1feonm4rs) May 15, 2022

 

[Guh-Huzzah!]

Aaaand I'm back from the convention! Made it to round two of the tournament as Pyra and Mythra, but ultimately got beat by a Dark Pit player. I noticed he was playing it very safe and very respective at the ledge when I was off stage, and just when I was starting to plan a way to counter that, he went for a risky spike I wasn't expecting, haha. Still super fun though! Also, I found SQUID GAMES in South Carolina.

I posted this picture in a Discord, and I think my favorite response is "You're white?"

 

[ZephyrZ]

Now that Amphibia is finally over it's only a matter of time until my brain picks something new to hyperfixate on.

Who knows on what or in how long, but it'll definitely happen eventually.

 

[TheMightyP]

Aaaand I'm back from the convention! Made it to round two of the tournament as Pyra and Mythra, but ultimately got beat by a Dark Pit player. I noticed he was playing it very safe and very respective at the ledge when I was off stage, and just when I was starting to plan a way to counter that, he went for a risky spike I wasn't expecting, haha. Still super fun though! Also, I found SQUID GAMES in South Carolina.

I posted this picture in a Discord, and I think my favorite response is "You're white?"

Holy **** Tom Holland?

 

[Guh-Huzzah!]

Holy **** Tom Holland?

No, that's Squid Game, Tom Holland isn't in that one.

 

[MooMew64]

I will dedicate myself to becoming the world's best Hugh player in NASB.

The game only has like, three people playing it, shouldn't be too hard.

 

[KingofPhantoms]

Spoiler: Huge Spoilers

Honestly the fact that Anne died and got replaced with a perfect clone is really messing with my head. Like...the original Anne is dead.

And there's probably some deliberate symbolism to it. It's a show about becoming a different person and frick now she's a different person figuratively and literally.

...And then there's the world of Amphibia itself. They have a memorial for her, they can only be with her through memory, and heck, that end credits shot with the tennis racket / sword / crossbow almost resemble grave markers - it really feels like death allegory. In fact, had Anne died permanently Sprig's ending would have been exactly the same!

That schrodingers Anne paradox feels almost symbolic of how she's alive on Earth but essentially dead in Amphibia.

Oh man why do I overthink cartoons so much. I'm really feeling the existential dread Anne mentions.

But heck Terri is still around. Maybe she'll find a way to enlarge the portal without Anne's power.

Spoiler

That's probably my one issue with the finale, to be perfectly honest. The guardian seems to be all-powerful entity or deity of some sort who's watched over idmensions for millennia and created the same stones that granted the Calamity Trio their powers and allowed anyone with the Music Box to travel to other worlds. There's probably at least a million other ways they could saved Anne.

But eh, knowing Amphibia's sense of humor and how they often throw out jokes that never get acknowledged again, the whole "backed up consciousness" thing probably wasn't meant to be taken too seriously beyond the dark joke of Anne having an existential crisis. Even if that's not the case, though...I think I'm just gonna headcanon that idea that it's ultimately the same Anne and that the one that died was somehow the copy instead. It's probably contrived, but it's a lot easier to process.

Aside from that, everything else in the finale was extremely well done, and I don't think the Aesops about friendship and change are lost.

 

[Guh-Huzzah!]

Spoiler: amphibia spoilers

Wait- SHE ACTUALLY JUST DIES?

 

[MooMew64]

Oh yeah TheMightyP since you like game dev stuff:

OoT PC port with 60FPS interpolation.

 

[Noipoi]

Spoiler: amphibia spoilers

Wait- SHE ACTUALLY JUST DIES?

Ye

But it's cool because a space-time god makes an exact genetic copy of her with the same memories.

So it's no big deal.



It's nO BÍ̴̩̝̟̻͖͊̃̽͋̔G̴̦̤͎̫̻̈́̒͐̉͋̌͘ ̸̡̠̫̭̦̮̩͔͈̦͈̜̃̓̍̈̎̈́͐̓́̄̀̑͗̚D̷̰̆͌̍͐́̔̆̅̄̅̋́̓͂Ę̸̟̹̫͓͋̎̌̊͆̌͗̾̇A̶̼̳͖͈̹̼̦̩̱̼̖̅̂́̋̀̏̓̓͛͗̕̕͠ͅĻ̸̛̛͈̼͓̙̟͓̄͗͛̐͛̎̊͘

 

[Guh-Huzzah!]

Ye

But it's cool because a space-time god makes an exact genetic copy of her with the same memories.

So it's no big deal.



It's nO BÍ̴̩̝̟̻͖͊̃̽͋̔G̴̦̤͎̫̻̈́̒͐̉͋̌͘ ̸̡̠̫̭̦̮̩͔͈̦͈̜̃̓̍̈̎̈́͐̓́̄̀̑͗̚D̷̰̆͌̍͐́̔̆̅̄̅̋́̓͂Ę̸̟̹̫͓͋̎̌̊͆̌͗̾̇A̶̼̳͖͈̹̼̦̩̱̼̖̅̂́̋̀̏̓̓͛͗̕̕͠ͅĻ̸̛̛͈̼͓̙̟͓̄͗͛̐͛̎̊͘

Spoiler: amphibia spoilers

SO NOW THERE'S A FAKER? THAT'S... NOT A HAPPY ENDING.

Dark, I like it.

 

[MooMew64]

So what you're all saying is

Spoiler: Amphibia

 

[Guh-Huzzah!]

Spoiler: amphibia spoilers

But is this “Fake Anne” goin’ around supposed to be a good thing or-

 

[MooMew64]

Spoiler

But is this “Fake Anne” goin’ around supposed to be a good thing or-

Spoiler: amphibia spoilers

Yes!

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[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Mission failed sucessfully: I couldnt find JYB because he was only here saturday but i got this

 

[TMNTSSB4]

now that Amphibia has ended…someone go back and fix the Star finale

Spoiler

But is this “Fake Anne” goin’ around supposed to be a good thing or-

Spoiler: amphibia spoilers

Anne is pretty much like an X-Men, having a clone body to continue your life won’t be traumatizing anybody else and it’ll be seen as a casual thing. Even easier if she never brought it up to people

also

Spoiler

the 10 years later thing helps her out even more

 

[TheMightyP]

Frogs are pretty neat creatures

 

[Noipoi]

Spoiler

But is this “Fake Anne” goin’ around supposed to be a good thing or-

Spoiler: amphibia finale

Space-time god wants her to take over their job of overseeing the multiverse, cuz she saved the world, and when you do the same thing for eons you get kinda bored.

Anne's like "Nah, I'm 13. I wanna live the rest of my life."

And space-time god's like "Aight bet. Imma send you back to earth, you live out the rest of your puny human lifespan, and then you take over my job."

We see Anne living a fulfilling life in her twenties, and presumably beyond that.

So...

I guess it's a good thing

 

[Hex D. Jess]

The climactic fight in Wano is actually peak fiction holy ****

 

[ZephyrZ]

Spoiler

That's probably my one issue with the finale, to be perfectly honest. The guardian seems to be all-powerful entity or deity of some sort who's watched over idmensions for millennia and created the same stones that granted the Calamity Trio their powers and allowed anyone with the Music Box to travel to other worlds. There's probably at least a million other ways they could saved Anne.

But eh, knowing Amphibia's sense of humor and how they often throw out jokes that never get acknowledged again, the whole "backed up consciousness" thing probably wasn't meant to be taken too seriously beyond the dark joke of Anne having an existential crisis. Even if that's not the case, though...I think I'm just gonna headcanon that idea that it's ultimately the same Anne and that the one that died was somehow the copy instead. It's probably contrived, but it's a lot easier to process.

Aside from that, everything else in the finale was extremely well done, and I don't think the Aesops about friendship and change are lost.

Spoiler: amphibia spoilers

Alternatively souls do exist in Amphibia (as confirmed by Zachariah Neddles), and they are tied to memory somehow (implied in Fixing Frobo).

So maybe this new Anne, having all her memories, also has the old Anne's soul. I think that's the happy ending that makes most sense to me.