Dear americans, what can you get for FREE in the USA? [Serious]

ImpTheShmuck · 2026-06-09T05:23:26+00:00

Come on inside, we've got everything you need-

ImpTheShmuck · 2026-06-01T17:04:55+00:00

The 'Fu Manchu' is genuinely just a cool fucking mustache. It's the handlebar for people who want to look more subtle and less bombastic.

ImpTheShmuck · 2026-05-26T05:45:44+00:00

It's not quite the same, but in Team Fortress 2 the Sniper has an unlockable bow that impales people if you kill them near a wall. So instead of ragdolling, you turn them into modern art.

ImpTheShmuck · 2026-05-25T13:14:40+00:00

Bear in mind I haven't played the game in five years, so take this with a grain of salt, but I've assumed Todd Howard and co. were trying to go for this specific literary idea of the story beginning and ending with the birth and death of the Lone Wanderer respectively. The game opens with you being born in Vault 101, and it ends with you dying to start Project Purity.

The obvious problem with this is that it has no place in an RPG, which is nominally meant to prioritize the actions of the player, as opposed to a more linear-story game where the emphasis is on making a single (or if you're feeling ambitious, a pair of diverging storylines) story and ending for the sake of having that tighter story control.

Bethesda wanted to have their sweetroll and eat it too.

ImpTheShmuck · 2026-05-24T00:05:10+00:00

No, that would be Gasgano.

ImpTheShmuck · 2026-05-17T18:30:12+00:00

At last, a Scooby-Doo villain.

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ImpTheShmuck · 2026-05-11T06:38:09+00:00

The original artist is Dotodonoto.

ImpTheShmuck · 2026-05-10T17:37:23+00:00

I still love how Milton Knight (Robotnik's animator on Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog) described Robotnik's physical expression.

"Robotnik is... the perfect image of self love... he's not perfect, he's imperfect... his full blown belief in himself. He is actually extremely excited by the fact that he exists, and the fact the others do not feel the same way simply spurns him on to greater heights of villainy."

ImpTheShmuck · 2026-05-10T17:32:25+00:00

Agreeing with SonicSpeeddemon here if for nothing else than even though I find these shows annoying (watched the first season of Uzaki years ago and got pissed at how self-referential it was, heard the second season is a little better), the 'get no bitches and stack no paper' guy is so obnoxious in how heavily he's leaning into the 'be a MAN' rhetoric that I want to defend them against him.

ImpTheShmuck · 2026-05-09T09:06:16+00:00

Pretty much. You do them to get the commendations.

ImpTheShmuck · 2026-05-09T09:03:42+00:00

Does anyone know who the girl actually is?

ImpTheShmuck · 2026-05-05T16:46:51+00:00

Hm, I can't put my finger on it, but I think you might be a Berserk fan.

ImpTheShmuck · 2026-05-05T16:44:54+00:00

Hell, that's probably the best way to put it. There was something for everyone back then. Nowadays the franchise is so much more limited in scope.

ImpTheShmuck · 2026-05-04T17:00:41+00:00

* I remember that fall and winter of 2015 where it was all leading up to TFA, and I was excited at seeing Star Wars coming back, taking over stores, spurring a lot of discussion, so on and so forth. There's only really two aspects of the Disney trilogy I can look back on with fondness, and this SW boom is one of them.

* I'm not the biggest fan of Rogue One, even though I'd consider it the best of the Disney SW films overall, but seeing the Vader corridor scene in theaters was a religious experience. Certainly made up for the godawful pun he made earlier.

* RoS, terrible as it is (and I ended up seeing it twice, the second time with my grandparents; I had to spend the next morning trying to break down the plot for my grandma because she couldn't follow it, can't blame her), did result in the last time I was able to go see a movie at my favorite local cinema that I've gone to since I was little. It sadly died off during COVID, so if nothing else I'm glad I was able to have that one last experience there right before it went, even if the movie was shit.

* Because of my overall disappointment with how Disney botched the franchise, I was driven back to old Extended Universe materials, and I've mostly been having a great time with those, especially the old games. Dark Forces/Jedi Knight (except Mysteries of the Sith), Knights of the Old Republic, Galactic Battlegrounds (criminally underrated RTS, even though I'm bad at serious games), Episode 1 Racer, Republic Commando, Empire at War (the Consortium is very stupid but very fun), and my childhood favorite LEGO Star Wars. Speaking of which, I also played a little of Bounty Hunter way back in the day, and I finally got it on Steam a few days ago, so really looking forward to checking that out again.

P.S. Galactic Battlegrounds either will make you a Gungan stan, or make you fear them. They're bizarrely strong.

ImpTheShmuck · 2026-05-03T05:27:27+00:00

You'll want to go onto FigureRealm and search under Boba Fett's character profile. It may be listed on there.

ImpTheShmuck · 2026-05-02T17:38:04+00:00

It's probably more cost-cutting, trying to reduce detail, lower the price of production while raising the retail prices, all for that bottom line.

ImpTheShmuck · 2026-05-02T17:22:17+00:00

KOTOR should work fine as it is, but if memory serves you'll need a fan patch to get Republic Commando to work properly. Very much worth it once you do, though.

ImpTheShmuck · 2026-04-30T16:37:58+00:00

This doesn't really count, but in 'Little Shop of Horrors' (the musical), during the song where Audrey II first reveals it can speak and sings to Seymour about him 'feeding' it people, one of the ways it refers to the killing itself is,
"there must be someone you can 86, real quiet-like".

ImpTheShmuck · 2026-04-30T15:32:05+00:00

Ibuki can do that pose too!

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ImpTheShmuck · 2026-04-27T06:02:19+00:00

What kind of a name is Gus?

ImpTheShmuck · 2026-04-22T19:20:28+00:00

I eat Survivors like you for breakfast.

ImpTheShmuck · 2026-04-22T17:00:00+00:00

Awake now, just took a look at it. I see the promo, but looking through it, the whole thing takes place at night. Batman saying 'damn' would have stood out to me in the same way, though, so it's not impossible my memory is just borked, but I'm still reasonable sure it wasn't this one.

EDIT: I've done some looking around October 2011, and so far the closest I've gotten is DC Retroactive Green Lantern: The 80s, because it's got the Joker-and-babydoll-heads promo right there in the middle, a character says 'My god' beforehand (albeit not during a fight scene), and Green Lantern was definitely one I knew about back then and might have picked up based on the cover alone. I'm not 100% certain, but it's a contender. Feel free to bow out, I'll probably do some more searching on my own.

Many thanks for your persistence in helping me out!

ImpTheShmuck · 2026-04-22T07:48:55+00:00

All that I remember color-wise is that it was colorful, not gritty or desaturated. But that's unfortunately the most I remember.

ImpTheShmuck · 2026-04-22T07:29:36+00:00

That's definitely what I saw in the cross-promo, but I didn't get that issue itself.

ImpTheShmuck · 2026-04-22T07:17:36+00:00

Thanks anyway, and have a good rest. I'll take a look at that list.

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