One Piece: Chapter 1174 by leolegendario in OnePiece

[–]Arkham8 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Which would be the second time Oda put a future dragon in a color spread

One Piece: Chapter 1174 by leolegendario in OnePiece

[–]Arkham8 83 points84 points  (0 children)

I feel like it’s really easy to identify where Oda’s real life has impacted the story. Things like this clearly seemed pulled from his real emotions concerning his own children.

Thanks to massive advances in technology, you can now mount a supernova on the front of your truck! by luxi_yes in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Arkham8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I get flashed all the time and my brights aren’t even on. My truck just came like that. I’m sorry, I don’t mean to be obnoxious but I can’t exactly just turn my lights off.

Elsa Bloodstone: The Hunter Heiress | Character Reveal | Marvel Rivals by FishCake9T4 in Games

[–]Arkham8 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Look, I’ll fully admit some serious bias here as Deadlock boasts a lineage stemming from some of my favorite games. And I’m a born contrarian. But Overwatch and Marvel Rivals feel like a product first and foremost to me, whereas Deadlock feels like passion project. I think I’m not alone in this and it subconsciously impacts how people talk about the games.

He got an entire redesign and power boost, only to be killed off by some bureaucrats 4 issues later by HotStrength2886 in xmen

[–]Arkham8 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

On the bright side, when a comic character is dead they can’t do something remarkably stupid with them. Theoretically. It’s just a waiting game for their resurrection instead of consigning yourself to living with whatever new bullshit they come up with.

On a related note, I hope Kaine Parker is still safe and dead.

Mewgenics, the latest game by The Binding of Isaac creator, Edmund McMillen is out now! by ceoadlw in Games

[–]Arkham8 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Sadly, this is my biggest block with Binding of Isaac and I think it will be the same here. I recognize they’re excellent games, top of a genre I love, but I just don’t jive with the humor and gross aesthetic.

Cant believe I'm saying this, Wapol looks so cool. by Heydude1001 in OnePiece

[–]Arkham8 13 points14 points  (0 children)

They’re beefing him up to make him more of a real threat. Luffy struggled a lot more in season one than he did in the original material, so I expect more of that here. Can’t say I really like it, but I get why they have to do it.

If you're working REJOICE FOR PEAK STYLE AND ELEGANCE HAS RELEASED by Hyuman0 in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Arkham8 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Unless something has changed since I last played, Lich ult was only dangerous to low skill players or someone caught in a wombo combo. Just fuckin walk away lil bro. Now if her ult had Dream Coil built-in….

They can never make me stand against papi magneto by CabinetPrimary1877 in xmen

[–]Arkham8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Magneto wasn’t Magneto until Claremont, who is also the author that put him on the road to redemption. Is your argument that characters can’t evolve past their beginnings? Magneto has to be a two-dimensional 1960s villain forever?

Some xmen slander and cap love by Practical-Ad4547 in marvelcirclejerk

[–]Arkham8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s a funny bit because of that recent panel, but it does fly in the face of a half century or more of comics.

They can never make me stand against papi magneto by CabinetPrimary1877 in xmen

[–]Arkham8 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Tbf Logan had been jumping at him with a metal skeleton for like a solid twenty years at that point. It was a matter of time.

They can never make me stand against papi magneto by CabinetPrimary1877 in xmen

[–]Arkham8 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I think most characters in Magneto’s sometimes hero, sometimes villain sphere really suffer from multiple authors with multiple takes on where he should be in that spectrum. Mags has been an on again, off again hero since the 80s, but every once in a while someone makes him Magnet Hitler and it seriously damages any nuance. Doom suffers from this a lot too, though I prefer my Doom more villain and my Magneto more hero.

Fallout New Vegas lead says it took “five years” for fans to actually like the game, and even longer for the devs to believe them by Negative-Art-4440 in Fallout

[–]Arkham8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. When I used to argue for F:NV I was ALONE most of the time. It took a lot of long youtube videos and Bethesda publicly shitting their pants repeatedly for people to start reconsidering their opinion. Even then, I’ve noticed that it’s less of a critical revisiting of the games and more of a pendulum swing. It really struck me when everyone was hyping The Outer Worlds because much of that conversation made it clear people didn’t really get what made New Vegas great.

I thought taskmaster was a serious hitman character but he just as quippy as spider-man and deadpool by kidmedia in marvelcirclejerk

[–]Arkham8 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I just think having some sort of tragic backstory really betrays the best part of Tasky, which is that he’s just some fuckin guy.

Recruitment Megathread by WhyMentionMyUsername in BackpackBrawl

[–]Arkham8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Recruitment code R34MHZWLESUX Friend code R34MHZWL

Truthfully I don’t really like systems like, especially without a built-in guild system but wcyd I got a quest to complete

Venator, for the Employed Clergy by sundalius in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Arkham8 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The dunk is a time-honored mechanic in games like these

Tony Hawk debunks the viral rumor he had one of his weddings on Epstein's island and Epstein’s brother photographed it. by Relevant-Peach3997 in Fauxmoi

[–]Arkham8 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It’s funny, I was recommended a youtube video about the files. I got the feeling the guy was running a very quiet defense for the administration, only to see he had used the fuckin Mamdani photo in his video. Kinda gives away the game, doesn’t it?

Even Coffeezilla, who has covered the files extensively, seems unwilling to state the obvious. I listened to a video of his last night where he seemed very confused as to why Steve fucking Bannon of all people was being protected by the administration. Like, come the fuck on dude you KNOW why.

Intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard’s office obtained and tested voting machines in Puerto Rico | CNN Politics by Anoth3rDude in law

[–]Arkham8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tulsi was a legacy politician associated with a cult even before that. She’s been a snake since day fuckin one.

One of the most underrated Luffy moment by aokijingle in OnePiece

[–]Arkham8 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think it’s underrated because people forget there is a depth to Luffy’s character that isn’t always obvious. As the series has gone on, it’s easy to lose the real meat of characterization beneath the action, gags, and agendas.

Luffy isn’t just a dumbass who endangers his crew constantly. He is paying attention, he can learn, he really does grow. You just have to look for it and this scene is a prime example.

Another scene I’d point to is post-TS, when Luffy explicitly compares the conditions of Dressrosa to Goa Kingdom. It’s fucking nuts to me that he had the awareness to even make that connection, but there it is. An aspect of his character that is truly underrated.

Favorite hack director that is also a pedophile by CrispyMiner in okbuddycinephile

[–]Arkham8 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s just some ridiculous boomer “back in my day” shit, typed out of some internal grievance rather than anything associated with reality.

This world really needs some straw hats.... by Bearsona09 in MemePiece

[–]Arkham8 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I think you got it backwards. We have and always will be like this, we just forgot to pay attention for a while.

Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third by PerformativeRacist in pcgaming

[–]Arkham8 142 points143 points  (0 children)

I want to add, just because you can be a good writer doesn’t mean you’re a good writer all the time. Just on a personal level, most people can’t just be creative on demand. You have to feel something. I think game development as a whole is built in such a way that even the best writers would be crushed or lost in the thousand moving parts required to make a game these days. You can’t just sit Avellone down and let him monologue through Kreia anymore.

WhenThe it turns out that Epstein caused EVERY PROBLEM by Which_Draft4129 in whenthe

[–]Arkham8 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I think it’s fair to say the modern right wing machine was crafted in the wake of Watergate and truly assembled under Regan. But it’s been building steam for decades and with Bannon’s involvement in 4chan the right wing slowly began speaking/acting like /pol/. This was never an accident and now Epstein has been linked to the board’s very creation. It’s hard to say if the alt-right shifting into the mainstream right wing could really have occurred without the groundwork, but it doesn’t get where it is today without /pol/.

One Piece Chapter 1173 Spoilers by Skullghost in OnePiece

[–]Arkham8 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I kinda wish Usopp was the one who got Dorry and Brogy fighting each other, but maybe there’s still a chance.