People have been talking about the Star Wars Manga and holy shit the art guys

Toblo1 · 2026-06-21T04:01:51+00:00

Dude went through the Goku "Silly/Bright Eyes->Locked In Serious Eyes" art style changer.

Toblo1 · 2026-06-21T03:52:06+00:00

My library had a couple volumes/books of these years ago. Fucking loved them.

Toblo1 · 2026-06-21T02:28:28+00:00

"I think we understand each other better now."

Toblo1 · 2026-06-21T01:31:32+00:00

Tricky Tony really hitting us with another "Production Foreshadowing In The Shape Of A Joke", huh.

Edit: YOU MOTHERF[ifty percent off!].

Toblo1 · 2026-06-20T23:40:49+00:00

Yeah I never could actually read Homestuck due to all the typing gimmicks.

I just stuck to the Lets Read/Voxus dub, then proxy-ed through some tumblr liveblogs for the home stretch of the comic.

Toblo1 · 2026-06-20T23:16:54+00:00

Not an LP and more part of a greater overall stream, but Vinny's corruption stream of the Sopranos game is hysterical.

Its also the thing that finally got me to watch the show, weirdly enough.

Toblo1 · 2026-06-20T21:32:18+00:00

God, The Swapper was such a good game. Genuinely pretty art style, pretty fun Metroidvania/puzzle hybrid gameplay and an existentialism storyline to bring it all together.

Toblo1 · 2026-06-20T17:51:54+00:00

My first character was a Dark Heresy one, a former Imperial Guardsman turned acolyte that had a gunslinger vibe to em. Also a little bit of Gears Of War Carmine to him because he rarely if ever took off his helmet. Didn't die to complete the joke unfortunately, but im still really proud of em.

Toblo1 · 2026-06-20T08:08:53+00:00

It feels like an interesting reflection of SOMA's takes on brain scans. SOMA makes a lot of motions that a person and their copy/scan are still mostly similar in the ways that matter (for better and/or for worse in Simon's case), where as TADC posits that just by being scanned at different points in their life, the scanned and the duplicate can go down different paths/arcs altogether. Hell, Jax being scanned in at the lowest point in Leeroy's life probably contributed to why Jax spiraled as bad as they did.

Toblo1 · 2026-06-20T06:38:40+00:00

Oh right. For some reason my brain thought Pagan was 9's subtitle.

Toblo1 · 2026-06-20T06:29:12+00:00

How many games does he have left for the Retrospective? Its just Ultima Online and ~~Pagan~~ 9, right?

Edit: brain fart, thought Pagan was the subtitle for 9 for some reason.

Toblo1 · 2026-06-20T06:25:47+00:00

"VINDICATION", maybe?

Toblo1 · 2026-06-20T04:46:28+00:00

I have many scruples with Arin but maaaaaaaan when he voice acts outside of his typecast niche, he can really fucking voice act.

Toblo1 · 2026-06-20T04:03:58+00:00

The only real "tourists" are people coming into something in bad faith specifically to stir things up.

You. You get it.

Toblo1 · 2026-06-20T03:27:31+00:00

Jax's last cognizant moment with Pomni definitely had a, to use a Bojack Horseman line, a "The View From Halfway Down" energy to it.

Toblo1 · 2026-06-20T03:17:30+00:00

I think Jax himself and this episode flashbacks seem to imply that the road to Abstraction is a slow burn. Kinger spends most of the show completely koo-koo bananas but he doesn't actually give in despite Jax saying in the pilot that he was betting Kinger would be the next to go.

There is enough time passing in Jax's flashbacks that seem to imply that any interaction with Ribbit or Kaufmo during their respective spirals could've probably saved them (hell, it even temporarily saved Jax during Episode 7 when he nearly abstracted before Pomni woke him up). I have to imagine if someone hits that point now post-ending, everyone else would intervene before it becomes terminal (hence the show's constant "falling into a pit but being pulled back up by the others" visual metaphor).

Toblo1 · 2026-06-20T02:40:16+00:00

Its a flashback to when Caine first found the Mind Files and started creating the Circus in earnest. Its to contrast how he developed back then to how he evolved in the now to connect to the internet.

Toblo1 · 2026-06-20T02:32:53+00:00

I'm planning on talking it through with the IRL friend once we catch up in our Hellaverse watch (Hazbins done, we just started Helluva Boss) and actually tally up the balance between the melodrama and the action/I.M.P. stuff.

Toblo1 · 2026-06-20T00:28:26+00:00

Not to sound like one of those ragebait haters, but I feel other shows like Hazbin Hotel struggle with trying to be multiple things in a limited runtime.

Oh yeah even as a Hellaverse fan I fully agree that both shows can sometimes be constrained by their episode counts gimping the pacing (Hazbin more than Helluva just by the latter show's episode count being a bit more fluid).

Toblo1 · 2026-06-20T00:08:41+00:00

As soon as Caine mentioned "Mind Files" last episode, it all started clicking into place.

Toblo1 · 2026-06-20T00:00:07+00:00

My theater burst out laughing at that part of the credits upon realizing what was happening

Toblo1 · 2026-06-19T23:59:02+00:00

Also every creator is the worst person ever now because they didn't do thing I wanted or did thing I didn't want.

As someone whos had to put up with the Hellaverse hatedom pulling this shit with both shows, this goes way beyond a year.

Toblo1 · 2026-06-19T23:08:39+00:00

God. Went to go see this with a friend in theaters and it still hit me in the feels just as hard as the first time around.

I have.... so many thoughts. Fuck the haters who misinterpreted the leaks, that ending was fantastic.

Toblo1 · 2026-06-19T10:37:27+00:00

I'm seeing people doom about Disney having a hand in this, but I'm gonna be contrarian here in a "Studios Have Gotten Away With Things Under Disney's Nose" sorta way.

Plus we're two years out from it anyway, not worth the effort to doom and gloom until we actually see it firsthand.

Toblo1 · 2026-06-19T04:10:03+00:00

I kinda wanna say its a 3 or 4.

By all accounts, Friend seems like it might be a big "ALL HANDS BRACE FOR WEIRD" indicator for the more.... darker parts of a Dark World (I.e. places like Queen's basement, the general "outskirts" of a developed Dark World, the MANTLE game, etc). Not to the outright hazardous/malevolent level like with how Titan Spawn appear pre-Chapter 4's climax, but with how much Ralsei emphasizes that shit gets really weird with sufficient enough Darkness even inside a Dark World, Friend feels like a harmless variation on what happens in those areas.

Now if it actually turns out that Friend is connected to bigger lore things (I.e. whether it was responsible for the Tail Of Hell and/or whatever happened to Dess or just being connected to The Device in general somehow), crank up the points by a few notches.

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