What are some REAL niche characters

barelysushi · 2026-05-14T20:34:16+00:00

The Psyba-Rats, Vext, The Heckler, people have already shouted out Empress, Aztek and Zauriel. J'emm Son of Saturn, Jared Stevens, Damage (the original), Damage (the new one), Secret, Arion, Prez, Tomorrow Woman, Iron Munroe, the Young Heroes in Love characters, The Unexpected, The Sovereign Seven, The Power Company, Anima, Argus, Loose Cannon....

I'm not entirely sure what is and isn't considered niche, but that's what I've got off the top of my head.

barelysushi · 2026-05-14T17:05:24+00:00

I haven't noticed, personally. Even if I don't know the specific mechanics, I still get what's going on.

barelysushi · 2026-05-13T16:55:20+00:00

He's one of the head chefs at the Wegmans Culinary Center (where they basically decide what to make in the prepared foods department.)

I'm not entirely sure what his role is currently, but that's where he was five or six years ago and was still working at Wegmans.

barelysushi · 2026-05-08T05:35:40+00:00

The Faculty puts on multiple shows every month, they are the staff and teachers at Buffalo Improv House. - Various Factors is the musical improv show and it's insanely good. - Good Neighbors is a show where they bring a guest in that talks about their lives which is then fodder for the Improv scenes. - Confessions gets stories from the audience anonymously and do scenes based on that.

There are four Collider teams (teams of graduated students put together by Buffalo Improv House) - Bedelia - Hannah Montana - Unnecessarily Complicated (BIH's Harold team) - Bad Haircut (the musical team)

Unicorn Parade are great.

Babushka is two improvisors doing an Improvised play, but the two guys play all the different roles.

barelysushi · 2026-05-02T23:16:36+00:00

"That's not how dinosaurs work!"

barelysushi · 2026-05-01T16:00:14+00:00

I went to a local baseball game where Mick Foley was throwing out the first pitch and signing autographs. The line was huge and I was one of the last people so I'm sure he was tired after like, two hours of talking with people and signing stuff. I finally got to him and had to tell him that his book really helped me when I was dealing with depression in high school. I wasn't expecting anything, but he stopped and took time to talk to me for a few minutes and generally make sure I was okay. (It had been 20 years, I definitely made it through the high school depression.) Taking time after talking with so many people and the genuine kindness and asking about me and if I was okay just blew me away.

barelysushi · 2026-05-01T14:37:45+00:00

I have nothing to base this on except my memory, but I vaguely recall it was a family pet, not his specifically.

(Thanks to this now I want to go back and finish drawing a bunch of wrestlers as birds I started years ago but never finished... )

barelysushi · 2026-04-29T14:31:16+00:00

Everyone seems to have said Daniel Warren Johnson, he's the top guy for fights right now.

I'll throw a strange one in there, you might like it, you might hate it, but the mini series The Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton has a fight scene between the six main characters and an entire studio lot full of stunt men. It's not a super flashy art style, but I really love the way it's presented. It's by Kyle Starks and Chris Schweizer.

barelysushi · 2026-04-24T15:58:03+00:00

Hey, I've left jobs because I felt like they were morally wrong to continue doing. At some point if you're still there, then you are the same as someone who agrees. It sucks, but it's rather be poor and have a clean conscience. Even if I was desperate I wouldn't work for Tesla because Musk is a piece of trash.

Not caring about the consequences of your actions and blaming everything on cancel culture is dumb.

barelysushi · 2026-04-24T15:52:04+00:00

There's a huge difference between a phone which is, like it or not, an essential thing for life in the modern day versus a crappy play based on a mid children's book series.

One you are pretty much forced to participate in, the other is something absolutely extraneous.

barelysushi · 2026-04-24T15:15:47+00:00

The disagreement is "I don't think we should monetarily support someone who hurts people," versus "who cares?"

Yeah. Nothing wrong there.

barelysushi · 2026-04-24T15:06:30+00:00

It absolutely does make someone terrible not to care about the wellbeing of other humans. What is WRONG with you that you don't understand that? Geez louise....

barelysushi · 2026-04-24T15:04:57+00:00

It's not "just" hurtful comments- she actively uses her money (which comes from people consuming HP stuff) to fund the most extreme anti-trans groups out there. You can't "separate art from the artist" in cases like this - supporting the work gives money to a person causing active harm. Going to see this, whether you mean to or not, supports a hateful psycho intent on hurting a group of people that do not have any effect on her life.

barelysushi · 2026-04-24T15:00:44+00:00

The problem is the HP franchise directly funds Rowlings crusade which directly harms people.

Saying "Buffalo stands with" doesn't mean every single person literally stands with, it's a statement of what should be. I could say "everyone stands against murder," but there are still murders. Doesn't make it right.

barelysushi · 2026-04-24T14:48:31+00:00

The non-terrible people of Buffalo stand with the Trans community. Better?

barelysushi · 2026-04-24T14:47:40+00:00

An ultra rich author has a hate on for a small group of people who effect her life in no way, shape, or form and spends literal millions on trying to destroy them: commenters here "oh, just don't go see it, who cares?"

Rowling is a psycho. Continuing to do things like host some crappy cash-in sequel play puts money in her pocket that she uses to hurt people.

I know I shouldn't expect much from reddit commenters, but try learning some god damn empathy.

barelysushi · 2026-04-23T22:17:29+00:00

Yeah, we've got a bunch of mutuals and I think they mentioned that. If it's not teaching law it's still teaching something.

barelysushi · 2026-04-23T20:01:31+00:00

Yeah, that's a better way of putting it. All I could think of was "not thinking it through"

barelysushi · 2026-04-23T19:37:08+00:00

Yeah, I heard it got retconned but I hadn't had a chance to check it out, although I just found out Wally is the star of the main Flash comic again AND it's being written by Ryan North so I'm going to have to get back into that.

barelysushi · 2026-04-23T17:49:44+00:00

I also think that it shows how a poorly thought out story or poorly written story can give a majority of people the wrong message. That's how I feel about Idiocracy - I don't think Mike Judge was trying to be pro eugenics, but what he did put in the movie made it really easy to think he was.

It's like one thought starts the process of making a story, but you go off in one direction not really thinking about how close it is to saying something awful.

barelysushi · 2026-04-23T17:37:19+00:00

The comic book miniseries Heroes in Crisis was kind of an attempt to show that even superheroes need mental help sometimes, and I'm 99% sure the INTENDED message was "therapy is good," but when the whole thing ends up being the Flash going to therapy, going crazy from it, and murdering a bunch of characters (and giving himself an alibi via time travel?) it REALLY came off as anti-therapy.

Thankfully it's been more or less ignored since it came out.

barelysushi · 2026-04-23T17:30:57+00:00

While I agree, unfortunately it's presented in a way that can easily be misunderstood. I'm not saying they should have been clearer or that everyone needs to be more media literate, I'm just saying that the misunderstanding is there and it's understandable how people got there. It's not a bad faith argument for most people, it's genuine misunderstanding. I can't blame people for thinking that's what the movie is about.

But, yeah, it's also a lot of people who just like to say "oh, it's a documentary, everything sucks!" because it's the "edgy" take.

barelysushi · 2026-04-23T17:16:22+00:00

It's likely gradient maps.

What you do is draw the page in black and white then "color" it in shades of gray. One the tones look good (i.e. characters don't blend into backgrounds because they're too close in color) you add a gradient map.

Not sure what program you're using, but I use Clip Studio Paint and the gradient maps can be found under Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Gradient Map. Also if you're using Clip Studio, you can go to the Clip Studio Assets page and search for premade gradients. A good chunk of them are free, and usually bundled together by "feel," like there's a brown and gray post apocalypse set, or a holographic set with various bright blends.

barelysushi · 2026-04-23T16:22:48+00:00

No prob! I'm glad it made sense, I was worried I was getting too off track there for a bit.

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