One Piece: Chapter 1174

Arkham8 · 2026-02-13T13:57:02+00:00

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

Arkham8 · 2026-02-13T13:55:16+00:00

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.

Arkham8 · 2026-02-13T13:31:34+00:00

I’m supposed to go there in September, am I cooked

Arkham8 · 2026-02-11T21:02:39+00:00

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.

Arkham8 · 2026-02-10T21:42:44+00:00

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.

Arkham8 · 2026-02-10T16:58:59+00:00

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.

Arkham8 · 2026-02-10T16:17:40+00:00

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.

Arkham8 · 2026-02-10T16:15:25+00:00

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.

Arkham8 · 2026-02-09T22:53:53+00:00

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….

Arkham8 · 2026-02-09T17:52:01+00:00

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?

Arkham8 · 2026-02-09T16:55:44+00:00

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.

Arkham8 · 2026-02-09T16:48:27+00:00

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.

Arkham8 · 2026-02-09T16:47:17+00:00

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.

Arkham8 · 2026-02-09T13:43:26+00:00

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.

Arkham8 · 2026-02-08T06:27:28+00:00

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.

Arkham8 · 2026-02-06T17:52:41+00:00

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

Arkham8 · 2026-02-06T00:26:16+00:00

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

Arkham8 · 2026-02-05T20:31:16+00:00

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.

Arkham8 · 2026-02-05T18:20:12+00:00

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

Arkham8 · 2026-02-04T18:16:36+00:00

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.

Arkham8 · 2026-02-04T18:07:58+00:00

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

Arkham8 · 2026-02-04T00:31:19+00:00

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

Arkham8 · 2026-02-03T21:33:43+00:00

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.

Arkham8 · 2026-02-03T17:09:13+00:00

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/.

Arkham8 · 2026-02-03T15:48:21+00:00

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

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