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[Cutie Gwen]

I actually made a spreadsheet.

I suppose I could share it with you.

Sweet, I'll show you my collection which is admittedly less impressive than yours then, but I have all 5 Shovel Knight amiibo which I feel oddly proud of

 

[Peepo T. Skeleton]

Haven't really collected amiibo since the Smash 4 days, but I occasionally still buy ones I really like, like the Metroid Dread Samus and E.M.M.I. bundle.

I didn't put it on display though, it's just chilling in a closet like all the others

 

[TheMightyP]

The Easter Bunny is thumping at my door what do I do?

 

[SneakyLink]

The Easter Bunny is thumping at my door what do I do?

Make the Bunny fall asleep and miss Easter only for some evil rabbit to take over, forcing the Easter Bunny to go on a Holiday tour to try and deliver eggs, succeeding on St Patrick’s Day.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

When Pumpkaboos hatch ftom their eggs, do you think they already know how to float or are they ground bound and rolling round for a while

 

[osby]

When Pumpkaboos hatch ftom their eggs, do you think they already know how to float or are they ground bound and rolling round for a while

They are still ghosts so I think they'd spin around in the air, not knowing how to float properly.

 

[TheMightyP]

He resurrected from the Red Ring of Death

 

[Lamperouge]

I really need to get back to reading Chainsaw Man. Last place I left off was roughly around where the anime ended so I'm interested to see where things go, although there are a couple of things I've been spoiled on unfortunately.

 

[TheMightyP]

Shoutouts to the dudes on Instagram Reels still making Flipnotes in 2024.

Just want to say I appreciate y'all.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

TheMightyP telling me to get off my ass

 

[TheMightyP]

TheMightyP telling me to get off my ass
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What's this? Did you finally apply to a job?

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

What's this? Did you finally apply to a job?

Sir, im still trying, sir please

 

[TheMightyP]

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Get to stepping

 

[Pink Yoshi]

Alright so last night I had an idea for a new regional form for Sneasel for my Italy region.

Taking advantage of the "sneeze" in its name, poor Sneasel is now a perpetually sickly poison-ice type. It's friendlier than its Johtonian counterpart, but is clogged up with so many contagious illnesses that most Pokemon give the poor things a wide berth anyway.

When you level it up while it's holding a Toxic Orb, it evolves into...Sneeverl! Now with a high fever melting its ice-typing, it's poison-fire type instead. Its illnesses have become terminal, and if you look closely part of its FLESH is beginning to ROT from all its illnesses. (Wouldn't be a Pokemon region without some messed-up stuff.) They are constantly miserable and are dangerous to approach without the proper equipment due to all their contagions. Hell, it's even considered UNETHICAL TO TRAIN A SNEEVERL by many battling organizations due to how much they are perpetually suffering (of course the villain team ignores this and trains a bunch of the poor things). They have the ability Contagious, which works as a variant of Corrosion. It lets you poison Steel and Poison types, while also giving a chance to poison an opposing Pokemon, BOTH when it uses a contact move against you or you use a contact move against it. HOWEVER, it's so contagious that it will occasionally poison its partner Pokemon in double battles by accident.

If you wanna cure your Sneasel, seek out the incense shop and give it an incense to hold. If you level it up five times with an incense as its held item, it is cured and evolves into...Freezel! With the purifying incense steaming away its illnesses, it is now full of life again. It has become so grateful towards its loving trainer that it is now Love-Ice type. Freezel is a speedster who can discover those lost in snowstorms and bring them to cozier areas to rest. It is compassionate and when a friend of theirs is sick, they will do anything they can to cure them. As a result, it is the Pokemon that Nurse Joy works alongside in this region. It has an ability that protects both it and its Double Battle teammates from getting poisoned. Idk what it'd be called though. Purifying Mist?

Either way I really like these ideas, just wish I could draw them lol

 

[Hex D. Jess]

20 chapters into Naruto and I'm enjoying it more than I expected

When I watched the anime I got to the Chunin exams and dropped it after the bit that everyone hypes up because the anime's pacing was unbearable, and this is coming from someone who watched the One Piece anime up until the timeskip. Let's hope my experience will be better this time

 

[StormC]

20 chapters into Naruto and I'm enjoying it more than I expected

When I watched the anime I got to the Chunin exams and dropped it after the bit that everyone hypes up because the anime's pacing was unbearable, and this is coming from someone who watched the One Piece anime up until the timeskip. Let's hope my experience will be better this time

I thought Naruto Part 1 anime pacing was better than say, the post-Alabasta section of the OP anime, but the manga is a pretty fun read. Like most of these long running series it peters off towards the end but even the final arc has some really cool and iconic moments. I held off reading Naruto for years but I’m glad I did even though it certainly has its flaws. There is something charming about how scrappy and rough around the edges it is, kind of like the main character.

No real interest in reading Boruto though.

 

[Pink Yoshi]

Naruto was HUGE back in my youth. I saw the visage of those headbands everywhere.

I swear Sakura might be THE most divisive character I've seen in a work of fiction ever. And I'm a Total Drama fan for goodness sake!

 

[Michael the Spikester]

Since we're a quarter of this year through. May as well rate my favorite films of this year so far.

1. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
2. The Beekeeper
3. Space Man
4. Dune: Part II
5. Orion and the Dark
6. Lisa Frankenstein
7. Kung Fu Panda 4
8. Damsel
9. I.S.S.
10. Lift
11. No Way Up

List is bound to chance eventually.

 

[Megadoomer]

I made it my New Year's resolution to read at least one comic (manga being included in that definition) a day in 2024, and so far, I've managed to keep that going for three months. Today, I re-read the first sixteen chapters of Naruto (I haven't gone back to the manga in-depth since it ended, which was almost ten years ago).

I'm trying to go back to it with an open mind, though even this early on, it seems clear that Kishimoto has trouble with writing women. (Sakura... isn't the most effective or developed character, to put it mildly) Sasuke's annoyingly arrogant, though from what I recall, he gets a bit better around the time of the Haku fight, and improves greatly in the Chunin Exams, though my problems with him start to crop up around the Tsunade arc, if I recall correctly. Still, Naruto, Kakashi, and Zabuza are great.

Also, I finished reading Secret Wars (the 80's one - I'm working my way up to Hickman's version) recently - it was all right, though the early issues definitely felt like an elaborate toy commercial. (I'm pretty sure that the creators admitted at some point that the intention with making it was to sell toys and beat DC to the punch with a franchise-wide crossover - telling a story was secondary) It improves at the end, though I'm not a fan of Colossus's storyline in it. (he's in a relationship with Kitty Pryde at this point, I believe, and yet he randomly falls in love with an alien healer so quickly that it seemed editorially mandated)

 

[Hex D. Jess]

I thought Naruto Part 1 anime pacing was better than say, the post-Alabasta section of the OP anime, but the manga is a pretty fun read. Like most of these long running series it peters off towards the end but even the final arc has some really cool and iconic moments. I held off reading Naruto for years but I’m glad I did even though it certainly has its flaws. There is something charming about how scrappy and rough around the edges it is, kind of like the main character.

No real interest in reading Boruto though.

Toriyama's passing convinced me to give some of the most iconic jump series that I haven't really touched a second look. I was in the middle of reading Dragon Ball and had a ton of fun, but I'll only continue when they fix the issue with the double page spreads on the app I'm using.

I went back and forth on giving Naruto another shot because I really disliked it last time I tried it. In hindsight it seems like the anime was probably just not hitting the right notes for me, I disliked the voice acting for the MC, the pacing was awful, and the animation quality was unimpressive to me. I don't know if I'm gonna read the whole thing but I hope I'll at least make it to part 2. I also plan on reading Bleach once I'm done with those two series.

I highly doubt any of these will surpass Hunter x Hunter and especially One Piece for me but hopefully I'll still have fun

 

[Michael the Spikester]

Since we're on the topic of Shonen Jump.

YuYu Hakusho and HunterxHunter are probably my favorites. I've only seen half of the show of the former, and seen the 2011 series of the latter.

I gotta get back to watching the former to watch it all. Yusuke is the best Shonen protagonist.

 

[KingofPhantoms]

Not big on manga. Haven't watched much anime in a while.

I am planning on watching Spy X Family and giving the Chainsaw Man anime a shot soon, though.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

There is to much mushy gushy romance animes coming out for me, i need some action and **** like Delicious in Dungeon

 

[Wario Bros.]

While not a New Year's resolution, my plan is to watch a whole bunch of Star Wars stuff throughout this year.

Really good so far.

 

[TMNTSSB4]

stop having good songs Persona

The Easter Bunny is thumping at my door what do I do?

ngl I did not notice the “t” part of thumping and was hella confused

 

[SnakeFighter64]

Tag anywhere got me so close and yet so far to 100% of DK64. Those last three minigame bonus barrels in Creepy Castles (Two Beaver Bothers and a Flyswatter) were just too much for me. So... I just went and deactivated the Blast-O-Matic and now I am just gonna fight K. Rool and be done with it.

I found another mod that let's you tag anywhere AND auto-completes the Bonus Barrels (thanks DK64 Randomizer website) so that will be the version I'll play next time I get the urge to play DK64, in like... IDK... two years? Three? That will be the version I 100%. Maybe you call that cheating, but I call that valuing my time.

 

[ninjahmos]

How much do you think the next Nintendo console will cost?

I'd estimate somewhere between $300-500.

Unreasonable price, I know, but hey, games have gotten more and more expensive.

 

[Noipoi]

How much do you think the next Nintendo console will cost?

I'd estimate somewhere between $300-500.

Unreasonable price, I know, but hey, games have gotten more and more expensive.

A nintendillion bucks

 

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[Noipoi]

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Stealing this for the PowerPoint I’m gonna use to convince the world leaders that we should all return to small tight knit agricultural communities where we take care of each other and don’t know what a Twitter is.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

Stealing this for the PowerPoint I’m gonna use to convince the world leaders that we should all return to small tight knit agricultural communities where we take care of each other and don’t know what a Twitter is.

Or we just overthrow capitalism

 

[Megadoomer]

The social thread right now:

 

[StormC]

Toriyama's passing convinced me to give some of the most iconic jump series that I haven't really touched a second look. I was in the middle of reading Dragon Ball and had a ton of fun, but I'll only continue when they fix the issue with the double page spreads on the app I'm using.

I went back and forth on giving Naruto another shot because I really disliked it last time I tried it. In hindsight it seems like the anime was probably just not hitting the right notes for me, I disliked the voice acting for the MC, the pacing was awful, and the animation quality was unimpressive to me. I don't know if I'm gonna read the whole thing but I hope I'll at least make it to part 2. I also plan on reading Bleach once I'm done with those two series.

I highly doubt any of these will surpass Hunter x Hunter and especially One Piece for me but hopefully I'll still have fun

OP and HXH are definitely in a tier of their own, but I enjoyed both Naruto and Bleach. Like for me if OP is a 10, Naruto is like a 7.5 and Bleach is a 7. Some people really hate the later portions of those manga but I found enough to enjoy about them.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

Imagine an alternate timeline where nothing was live action and everything was animation.

That would be so cool.

 

[Wademan94]

Imagine an alternate timeline where nothing was live action and everything was animation.

That would be so cool.

As the local animation guy, there’s a good number of stories that I don’t think would be fitting or successful in animated form

 

[ninjahmos]

I guess the reason I don't watch anime as much as I used to is because the storylines are super convoluted and the episodes almost always end in cliffhangers. And they run for SO LONG. But I should probably watch Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z in honor of Toriyama.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

As the local animation guy, there’s a good number of stories that I don’t think would be fitting or successful in animated form

Idk. Imho animation is perfect for anything and everything.

 

[TheMightyP]

Yeah, overthrow capitalism until I start making my stacks. Then it's every man for themself.

 

[Noipoi]

Imagine an alternate timeline where nothing was live action and everything was animation.

That would be so cool.

As a certified cartooner who mostly watches animation above all else, I don’t really vibe with this.

Live action has its place and its strengths, just like animation does.

 

[Wario Bros.]

Brilliant April Fools Day joke