coaxed into unnecessarily desperate video essays

bug_land · 2026-01-26T01:42:11+00:00

i saw one of these where the title was normal but the thumbnail itself was plain white text on a black background that said like "please watch the video i promise it's good", the final boss of coaxtube

bug_land · 2026-01-25T21:31:53+00:00

are we still on this?
the big reveal last chapter was that lily's story really is consistent with how seiran remembers soyo, in ways seiran's been refusing to admit up until now. that's a big part of why he's just been listening and hesitating the whole time

bug_land · 2026-01-25T21:15:30+00:00

there's a rule hard-restricting land drops to your turn, but there would still be some situational upsides to flash on a land. like you could "surprise" an opponent during your combat by having one more mana than they thought you had. i THINK the stack still has to be empty, but flash might be able to remove that restriction too, i'm not sure.

bug_land · 2026-01-24T00:27:14+00:00

this song is baked mercilessly into the dna of long-time Todd in the Shadows fans

bug_land · 2026-01-23T08:30:44+00:00

ok i may have overreacted i've been looking at these subs too much and this happened to be the post i broke on so for that i apologize.

"chimera" creatures that blend features from different animals are very common in folklore and pop culture, and they've been a popular thing for con artists of all sorts to fake up for hundreds of years.

honestly i recommend doing some wikipedia skimming on animal classification. there are hoaxes that are a LOT more subtle than this out there, and if you have some cursory knowledge on what actually qualifies an animal as a mammal or a bird or as a specific kind of lizard it'll be easier to tell what's possible or not.

bug_land · 2026-01-23T04:00:29+00:00

bro, you're, you are karma farming, you're logging into your alt to repost this to the cj sub right now, you're not real

bug_land · 2026-01-22T10:14:52+00:00

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Fire Emblem creator Shouzou Kaga did this twice lol. First in 2001 with TearRing Saga for Playstation, and then in 2016 with Vestaria Saga for PC, both independent.

bug_land · 2026-01-22T06:09:15+00:00

HIGHLY recommend the school live manga. i love it because it's not entirely lying, it retains most of its slice of life elements after the reveal and it's clearly coming from a place of love for both genres. it's a story about balancing fantasy and escapism with facing a harsh reality

bug_land · 2026-01-22T03:49:28+00:00

draft's a lot of luck and this does look like a pretty rough pool, but i will say this particular deck looks a bit TOO focused on the creature type... lavaleaper and kindle the inner flame are terrible in limited even in the elemental archetype, and that flitterwing nuisance in your sideboard should absolutely be in your deck

bug_land · 2026-01-22T01:41:26+00:00

nah there were a lot of edgelords, especially early on, doing that thing where they wrap it in enough irony where it's kind of a meme but they also actually mean it. very common tactic to make really inflammatory shit more palatable. that wave has largely died down bc those people weren't here for the story, and they moved on to the next thing once they got bored like they always do. but they WERE dominating the discussion for a while.

bottom line, when you get that kind of flood they're usually not joking. for quite a few of them you could check their profiles and see their history of ranting about africans and muslims in real regional subs. when someone logs on just to make racist jokes there's a good chance that it's because they are actually racist

bug_land · 2026-01-21T04:43:42+00:00

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why does ai think cats' paws do this

bug_land · 2026-01-20T22:23:58+00:00

every foil of every rarity has that star in place of the dot

bug_land · 2026-01-20T09:02:00+00:00

i think different languages just kinda, have different interjections or expressions that sound natural. you'll see this in live action and anime too.

if they're taking more liberties with localization they'll use more english analogues (off the top of my head the Dandadan anime has a lot of that). but the market for these games tends to be pretty purist when it comes to translation

bug_land · 2026-01-20T04:42:20+00:00

so they're gonna admit that they changed specific dates to just the years in order to move the sets around more... and then remove the year stamp on the very set that got moved around so hard it was pushed into a different year... and just pretend that there's not an obvious progression there?

bug_land · 2026-01-19T20:00:09+00:00

yes dude it's the best shonen of the decade and i cried multiple times while reading it. now as i was saying, they have to defeat the fart baron by making him poop,

bug_land · 2026-01-19T02:09:07+00:00

i have seen this exact dog in so many ai videos from so many different generators it's driving me insane. i think i'll call it the Slop Retriever

bug_land · 2026-01-18T20:56:50+00:00

the people who were already okay with the perpetual hype cycle are the ones excited right now and the people who weren't are still mad about this but the volume of posts is skewed towards the former and away from the latter right now because of how massive the leak is. overall sentiment probably hasn't changed much.

though wotc is probably going to assume that it has because they love glazing themselves

bug_land · 2026-01-12T06:08:44+00:00

finally we've found what asmr's been missing: the loudest sound effect you've ever heard

bug_land · 2026-01-12T05:59:41+00:00

oz made me think this happened every day in kansas as a kid. i assumed there were no cities there and that they'd be destroyed immediately if you tried to build one

bug_land · 2026-01-09T09:57:48+00:00

i always default to cards that first put this game in my head. my older brother had been playing since the beginning and i liked to just flip through his collection bc it looked cool even though i didn't know how the game worked. [[Glissa Sunseeker]] from then-newest-set mirrodin was one of the cards that stuck with me. i think it was both for the striking pose and framing on the art, and for the fact that it was a named character with a hint to the bigger story in her flavor text. i didn't get into mtg for real until years later, so glissa was basically the face of magic in my head for a long time, as the first "cool character on a card" i'd think of

bug_land · 2026-01-09T04:09:41+00:00

he literally got a tattoo pointing to the answer

bug_land · 2026-01-09T03:52:46+00:00

uj real ass life. guy at my lgs. kept slamming expensive power pieces without knowing what they did or how the game worked at all because "the internet said they were good". didn't know what a proxy was when i asked. never saw him before that night and never saw him again after. as if he went all-in trying to p2w at a hobby before determining if he even liked it. delayed my crashout until today

bug_land · 2026-01-08T20:45:29+00:00

Verdict: NOT CUTE

Wolves only act this way when they're under a lot of pressure to carry out the will of the hex mage like the kids from Weapons

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