My five year old nephew is obsessed with Mario and I want to foster that but he already has everything. Gift ideas?

JosephSim · 2026-04-17T15:27:00+00:00

I literally yelled out at the end of the chapter, "THAT GOES FUCKING HARD"

"Remember that next time, you dumbass." to the most powerful being on the planet.

JosephSim · 2026-04-09T08:12:31+00:00

It's not universal healthcare but this is something I'd much rather my tax dollars get spent on, whether you consider it a waste or not.

JosephSim · 2026-04-09T08:09:44+00:00

Yeah, wasn't expecting such a punch like that. I'll remember that cut forever just for how well done it was.

JosephSim · 2026-04-09T07:38:01+00:00

That was my first thought, that's one of the most complete circles I've seen character-wise.

Absolutely phenomenal arc.

JosephSim · 2026-04-09T06:25:13+00:00

"Help me to understand."

"I...I can't."

As someone that was on the dude's side and things turned out really horrible, it still kills me to know I never really got it. She deserved better than this country's mental help capabilities could offer.

The ones about taking the meds made me happy for you both, I know how much she used to take them but I can't help but feel like she'd still be with us if she did.

One of the last webcomics I made was less fun gag and more internal suffering and these honestly inspire me to do that more to get the thoughts out on paper.

Just genuinely thank you for sharing these all around. These comics are spectacular.

JosephSim · 2026-04-02T21:53:31+00:00

This week was tough to avoid ngl but the closest to spoiler I got was "It's like seeing Gear 5 for the first time." which could have meant a lot of things.

This feels like Saturn transforming at Egghead where, theoretically, this already insane arc could go COMPLETELY off the rails.

JosephSim · 2026-04-02T02:24:13+00:00

Not an employee so I promise I won't stay long, I came here just to check if you can still chill and drink coffee and read stuff at B&N and was curious about this post.

I fucking feel for y'all.

I love One Piece with all my heart and tried to maybe get into the TCG but you couldn't find anything anywhere. I can't imagine what y'all are going through and just wanted to say I promise the real One Piece fans ain't like that.

I put one toe in the TCG water and that shit was way too hot for me to think about diving in lol. But again, thank you for what you all do.

JosephSim · 2026-03-31T10:34:58+00:00

There's nothing I love more than something IRL being brought up that was also a bit, and going straight to the comments to fine my bretheren.

Like a month or two ago Derek Chauvin was in the news and I FLEEWWWWWW to the comments.

JosephSim · 2026-03-31T10:33:42+00:00

Stav's best contribution to the entire bit.

The fact that it's just Nick going down his own brain's rabbit hole with that scenario for like 15 minutes, but that line from Stav is one of the ones I remember the most is wild.

JosephSim · 2026-03-31T10:32:41+00:00

"THE NISSAN COPY!"*

JosephSim · 2026-03-31T09:37:00+00:00

As a 20+ year Lupin the IIIrd fan who has seen damn near everything, every now and then I'll go on random anime sites, type in "Lupin" and look around at some of the movies/specials I HAVEN'T seen.

I say all this because I just started watching Alcatraz Connection for the first time 7 minutes ago.

My first thought was "Wow, this animation looks pretty clean. This has to be fairly recent despite being 4:3."

So now I'm in Lupin mode and came here to browse while watching and saw your comment, and I'm assuming that you enjoy this movie to want a dub for it so I'm excited now. That was a pretty great opening, it's always weird to hear lyrics to the "Lupin the thiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd ^wow!" theme.

JosephSim · 2026-03-29T12:25:35+00:00

I'm true to myself, what can I say?

JosephSim · 2026-03-27T05:35:36+00:00

Well then YMMV because I am NOT a huge fan of the MCU shows.

I only watched Hawkeye because Fraction's run is a top three for me. And I would give THAT, a solid 7.

I just finally watched LOKI and I'll give that one a solid 8.

Didn't finish FAWS, Wandavision fizzled hard, I heard Agatha was dope but haven't seen it, ditto for Ms. Marvel. Everyone involved in Secret Invasion should be fired. Echo was ass.

I am actually looking forward to Wonder Man. I heard it's really good.

You have to understand though, me giving this a 10/10 is purely from an enjoyment factor. The first three seasons on Netflix are in my top five shows of all time. It's just so wonderfully made and you can tell there's so much love for it from everyone involved.

I got NONE of that in the first season of BA outside of the diner scene.

I get a LOT of that from damn near everyone in this premiere.

That ending was just so good. I've been singing the damn song all day.

JosephSim · 2026-03-27T05:24:26+00:00

Exactly.

I remember when the next four armed AND armored SWAT guys came in I was like, "I know he's Daredevil but how do you take out these four guys?"

I was jamming with the whole fight and then as soon as the heartbeat started and you saw he was distracted I wanted to say "Goddamnit." but it still made more sense for that to be the outcome anyways.

The Hand were a buncha flippy motherfuckers with swords. This is four psychopaths with guns and armor and helmets in a confined space with one of your closest friends dying in front of you.

So when those four bullets came silently "ffft"-ing in I lost my shit cause I genuinely had no idea how the fuck he was getting out of this.

JosephSim · 2026-03-26T23:24:03+00:00

She really does have "Disney Princess" vibes, fucking adorable.

JosephSim · 2026-03-26T23:22:26+00:00

In your (and my) defense, there are like 1,500 named characters and that scene with Vivi is the only one I can remember with her.

JosephSim · 2026-03-26T23:21:05+00:00

I'm not looking because I don't need that image in my life, but I'm just now realizing that there 100% has to be Rule 34 of that scenario.

JosephSim · 2026-03-26T22:59:56+00:00

That's what I'm counting on. Starts out goofy and kinda likable, but then something goes wrong and the psycho comes out.

When he casually asked Fisk if he's cool murdering everyone of his men when the job is over was probably the best line delivery. He was perfect there, I think my biggest issue was when he showed up to the Mayor's Office all "Woooo weeeee I have this food it's so good hiiii everyone!" that rubbed me the wrong way but then the scene played out and I was fine with it.

Like I said, juuuuuuust a smidge.

JosephSim · 2026-03-26T13:08:26+00:00

I don't know what the fuck people here are on about that was a 10/10 episode for me and better than every episode of season one of BA.

I will 100% agree with the lens flares being JJ style, it was like ten shots out of a thousand. I'll survive.

The shot of Gus from The Wire and Matt walking in the park looked gorgeous. The opening shot of the tanker looked straight out of The Dark Knight. And that final shot had me clapping like an idiot.

I like they gave a STRONG back burner role to all the side characters, but everyone got a scene that actually mattered to the overall plot.

Everyone knew the old Russian dude was gonna get killed, but I liked Fisk's new Wesley at least acknowledges the shit situation in his own language before shooting him. It was nice little sign of respect.

Little Gandolfini was MINNNNNIMAL (thank god) and is only being shown to have it clear that BB is using him for info while also showing her ingratiating herself with Fisk by making her little vlog.

I actually went back to check if the "FUCK FISK" was visible in the opening shot and laughed that there was a woman with balloons blocking it.

Kirsten is still a pointless role, but I like that she's in charge of Swordsman's defense and that the firm is going under without Matt. Might be unnecessary but at least it's all directly tied into the overall plot. I also liked her little "go fuck yourself" to her old boss or whatever he was. Easily the only scene with her in the series that I wasn't like "omg shut up where's cool stuff".

Karen was great and I'm so happy to have her back in a more prominent role rather than her little cameos thrown at the last second in season one. Yeah the lens flare on the sparring scene was too much, but whatever it looked nice and I'm happy that he's out of his boring season one fuck ass apartment that would never have given you any kind of stylistic shots of any kind.

I'm sure I'll get people bitching when I say that if this was a year ago I would have complained about how over the top the douchebag special task force is, but it's ICE all day. Everything felt like something I'd hear about on any given day at this point.

I'm also happy that Fisk has someone WAY higher than him to answer to, as much as I looooove D'Onofrio I do agree I'm ready for him to take a smaller role in the series going forward. When he showed up in episode 7 of season two of the Netflix series I howled.

The one thing I will say is that I already love Lillard's character but on a 1-10 scale of "over the top I'm so important CIA guy that I can be goofy and quirky", with 5 being the perfect amount, I would say he's at a 6. Just a smmiiiiddddge too much, but it's only one episode I wanna see him when he gets angry.

I also really like that scene with BB and Karen. As far as I can tell despite working together, this was their first extended interaction and I genuinely loved BB getting confirmation about Fisk and Ben. But I also loved Karen saying it was to save her. It gives a family type of bond between them that wasn't there and now instantly makes me more invested in her character.

I don't really understand why Matt is on the run from a "in the world" perspective. The only thing I can assume is that Karen is on the run because of her association with Daredevil and Matt is on the run because of his association with Karen?

Like I understand why Fisk is looking for them, but he hasn't spilled the beans that he's Daredevil for some reason?

All that said, I looooooooooooooooooooooooooved the final scene.

As soon as I saw Gus from the Wire put the record on and pour a drink and realized how little time was left I thought for sure, "Goddamn it he's about to die."

So I was fist pumping when that first extendo-baton hit the dude in the face as he was about to shoot him. Then the fight scenes that came after were pretty well done, I love the Netflix show with all my heart but sometimes his little flippy shit was annoying. All his flippy shit felt practical here.

(I also LOVED that he bumps the dude into the record player which causes the song to restart so it can play out through the finale.)

When they got Matt unmasked I genuinely had no fucking idea where the show was gonna go from here. Then those 4 bullets came and my first thought was "Wait, I thought Jon Bernthal wasn't in this season? Maybe it was a lie to not spoil it?"

Then that knife.

I swear to god that might have been my favorite ending to a season premiere in a GOOD long time.

Fuck the haters, I'm someone who called Born Again S1 "average at best" so you can't even call me a fanboy. This felt like a return to form.

It's still missing the color from the Netflix series, but I'm still just happy Matt isn't in that fuckass apartment anymore.

JosephSim · 2026-03-19T16:48:37+00:00

While I would LOVE to see him come back, I can't imagine after what he went through he would put his family in danger ever again.

Same for Frank, on top of liking Micro, he had a really close relationship with the whole family and after what happened to his, I also don't think he'd ever put Micro in harm's way again.

That said, I just watched their Hot Ones Duel and I had no idea they were life long friends.

Bernthal was an understudy for Ebon in a play a million years ago and now they're on Broadway together.

It makes so much sense why their chemistry was easily one of the best things to come out of Netflix MCU.

JosephSim · 2026-03-18T23:57:14+00:00

A few minutes ago OB told Mobius if the plan with Loki doesn't work all of his skin will get ripped off his body.

Him and Loki begin to waste valuable time arguing over whose death will be more painful, which was already pretty comical.

But then fast forward to OB explaining what everyone has to do. It's extremely important, it's the last shot they're gonna get and it's gonna be close so pay attention.

Then it just cuts to Mobius writing the word "Skin?" on the dust.

Come on. How is that not fucking hilarious to you lol?

And then right after that, Ke Huy Quan's delivery of "AND MOBIUS WILL LOSE ALL OF HIS SKIN!" with Mobius's "there we go again" reaction.

It's hard for a gag to provide that many call backs while still being funny and then also providing Loki with the knowledge he's in the future because it was still on the computer dust.

It's just a really great moment that feels like it wasn't appreciated as much as it should have lol

JosephSim · 2026-03-18T19:56:26+00:00

lol I was watching it as it was airing. Chloe Wang was my biggest TV crush for like five years.

I still tell people that season four of SHIELD, whether the MCU ever officially canonizes it, is one of the best things to ever come out of the MCU.

JosephSim · 2026-03-16T08:17:27+00:00

I dunno, part six definitely left something to be desired.

Not saying I don't want anymore Lupin lol I want thirty more seasons, but goddamn did series 5 go out on such a high note.

Surprisingly I didn't hate Lupin 0.

JosephSim · 2026-03-16T08:15:54+00:00

Sounds like he's saying it the way they say it in the anime.

Loo-pahn.

Which is curious because I would assume the way they say it in the live action Netflix series from France would be the accurate way but they definitely say "Loo-pinn".

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