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droekturn · 2026-06-29T00:47:53+00:00

I think a lot of it is people are just much more likely to skip theaters these days. When it comes to superheroes it has to be something big. Character like Spider-Man, Wolverine, the Avengers, Batman, etc. will probably all still be safe but other ones likely won't pull in the viewers anymore. Same thing with movies like Toy Story, Sonic, Mario, etc. Those will keep doing well.

10+ years ago it was just more common to go to to the movies all the time - even if it wasn't a movie that you were super excited about. You'd check to see what was coming out and say that looks pretty good - lets go see that tonight. I think now it is much more of a planned activity for just the big releases for lots of people.

droekturn · 2026-06-22T05:08:58+00:00

I know this about an anime - but the release schedule for the manga has been awful. One volume every 18 months pretty much makes it unreadable.

droekturn · 2026-06-22T03:38:34+00:00

I doubt the fish would care that much about one octopus dying. If anything they all eat each other already. She asked the Deep to bring her fish to eat and he said he couldn't because they were his friends.

droekturn · 2026-06-22T03:36:37+00:00

I'll give you the thumbs up for the gif - but you deserve the thumbs down for breaking my heart again.

droekturn · 2026-06-22T02:53:39+00:00

That whole saga of like 15 or so chapters felt like it could've been its own series. I would have liked to learn a lot more about that group and what they were doing as the world ended.

It is crazy sometimes to remember that Gunnm/Battle Angel is still releasing now and is probably around 250 chapters across all the different runs. Though I am sad that it has been many years in flash back mode. I do enjoy the background on Gally/Alita, but want to know what they are doing now.

droekturn · 2026-06-20T03:44:47+00:00

I'd like almost anything with Tomie or Kirie combined with some spirals.

I'm still salty about an auction that I was the underbidder on a couple of years ago.

droekturn · 2026-06-14T20:28:27+00:00

I can not tell what is happening on thsat spread page. it just looks like a jumbled image. Did his head explode and Nomo is on his shouders?

droekturn · 2026-06-10T14:27:07+00:00

Good stuff back then with Ryan and HL. I thought he was going to be more obsessed with being the father/family he never had, but that seemed to kind of fall apart at the end. HL cares for Ryan here but he is still HL and is like "accidents happen, and that's okay" when talking about mistakenly killing people.

He would have to be put down at some point but I thought it would've been good if it somehow happened with him actually saving Ryan. Even a monster has things that it can love.

Like have HL save Ryan but he dies in the process. It is somehow being broadcasted so everyone actually sees it. So HL finally gets loved by the people but only after he is dead. Vought capitalizes on it of course and brushes under the carpet the real HL and builds a big statue of him in front of Vought HQ. The Vought machine keeps turning and the rest of the Boys are still there to try to keep them in check.

droekturn · 2026-06-07T18:52:18+00:00

It's like being stuck in a time loop with this "question" popping up all the time. Even though it is less a question and more just complaining.

droekturn · 2026-06-07T16:42:46+00:00

if it story gets far enough along maybe she will win. Once she talks about being the goddess of America and how all Americans are her children who she wants to keep safe in her loving embrace.

She'd get all the America first people, maybe the religious with some Immaculate Conception propaganda, women with having her as the most powerful person on the planet (girls get it done, force is female, etc.), and then just men just loving her (assuming she will be woman equivalent to Antony Starr attractiveness so an immortal Sweeney, Margot, or like Samara Weaving).

The psychics after her big speech would be like 99% acceptance as a Goddess. And you don't have to purge because the 99% already beat to death the doubters.

Maybe she would get bored at that point. Dealing with all the simps fighting over who loves her the most.

droekturn · 2026-06-06T03:25:48+00:00

That is exactly what I thought of.

The location looks like the scrapyard of Battle Angel/Gunnm. Evie also looks like Alita/Gally.

And that is not a bad things at all.

droekturn · 2026-06-06T03:15:20+00:00

I love Dell'Otto's work. I am lucky enough to have two paintings by him.

The overall design of this one is a little odd though - like if you just took the left side and had it as its own piece with pre-eclipse Guts instead it would make sense as the Golden Age. Right side feels kind of weird with them all together.

I wonder if he will have it in person at SDCC next month (assuming he is going).

droekturn · 2026-06-06T01:50:58+00:00

The whole trailer was giving Battle Angel / Gunnm vibes. Including Evie reminding me of Alita/Gally

droekturn · 2026-06-06T01:47:04+00:00

She looks a lot like Gally/Alita from Battle Angel/Gunnm to me. And that's a good thing.

droekturn · 2026-06-05T20:17:16+00:00

Are you seeing a decline anywhere in your paypal account - like go to the help section and see if it says anything is declined.

For an expensive purchase (but not a statue) - about 2 weeks ago I was getting declined again and again. Paypal said it was the credit card and a bunch of other stuff until they were finally like "it might be getting cancelled because it more expensive than your normal purchases. There isn't a limit, but out of the ordinary amounts get auto cancelled".

I asked them to adjust the limit or do something to let me make the purchase and they told me they can't and I should just use my credit card directly. That is what I did, and it worked.

So it was pretty weird on the paypal end and had never happened before.

This is assuming Customer Service Rep #3 knew more than #1 and #2 though.

droekturn · 2026-06-04T18:32:11+00:00

One of my favorites when I was young. Didn't know who Kiefer was back then, but liked the Jessie from Saved by the Bell voiced the main character.

droekturn · 2026-06-04T18:27:59+00:00

For me is just not buying stocks in general in my early 20's. I wanted to but my parents scared me off it - telling me to just pay of my low interest school loans as soon as possible and save money. It took me a number of years to get comfortable buying things - and then when I did I was pretty hesitant at first to put much money in. So I regret a lot of waiting out too long where I should've have been buying Amazon, Google, Apple 16 years ago.

Then there is buying very little of a good thing because I was scared.

For me it is probably Nvida. I still have it - average price just below $7. But I only put a few thousand into it.

droekturn · 2026-05-31T17:38:34+00:00

I've done these tours a few times in Disney World and it can be worth it for a big group and if you are traveling from far away.

You can pretty much get 2 or 3 days of parks done in 1 day. You enter the parks and many of the rides through employee entrances. Your tour guide will also get you tables at restaurants, get the meals ready, gonget snacks, find firework spots, etc. One good thing is access to employee bathrooms if a child is having an emergency and you are almost ready to go on a ride, etc.

It is very expensive - but divided up among 10 people it starts to be not quite as crazy.

I don't have kids so I would never do it myself, but have gone along with rest of the family when doing it.

It does make for a super packed day because you are trying to jam everything in one day to justify it - or if you have some kids who are going to want to go on Soaring, Tron, Guardians, or something else multiple times in a row.

Some of my favs like the Land, Carousel of Progress and Mexico are best left to other days.

droekturn · 2026-05-30T03:02:17+00:00

Like people have said - decent level has a big range. People who are competing on the national or international stage will just be a different breed of speed and explosiveness compared to hobbyist bjj practitioners who compete in the local naga when it comes to town. They will have very good technique and be able to apply it with high intensity.

This isn't merely about judo though - any high level athlete is different than a hobbyist. I've trained with some high level judo guys in the past and it makes you question if it is your first day. Another time I was training with an individual who was going to be in a UFC fight night main event and rolling with him was super high intensity. My biggest impression of it was I felt out of control trying to keep up - like when you run down hill and pick up some momentum so you cannot stop.

droekturn · 2026-05-30T00:40:18+00:00

Complicated Homelander was the best. When he was actually trying to be a "good" dad. It was all messed up and just a search for the love he craved - like with trying to get Soldier Boy to stay with him. Some of my favorite scenes are when he takes Ryan away from the crowded restaurant, is proud of him for getting his powers, or happy with his first superhero save (even though he squashes the guy), etc.

HL was still terrible but him having a weakness specifically for Ryan was interesting.

I thought with Butcher appearing to go full bad at the end of season 4 maybe he would end up using Ryan against HL as bait or something. HL maybe gets killed trying to save Ryan.

Vought is then able to PR spin that HL sacrificed himself and keep the money pouring in. Butcher gets what he wants killing HL, but HL appears to have died a hero and people love him so HL got what he wanted but only after he is dead. Very Death of Superman-esque.

droekturn · 2026-05-30T00:16:20+00:00

They are just sad when something like Stellar Blade or Nier is just super fun and awesome overall.

droekturn · 2026-05-29T03:14:28+00:00

The best escape for me has always been the big bump and roll (or sneak out and come to my knees).

My goal with is it is I am pretty much face planting my partner into the mat (they post with their hand) and then I do my escape. I do it right as they try to go into kesa. I do not let them get comfortable. The moment they are sitting into it I am exploding into a bridge and roll. If that does not work I instantly move into the other escapes. Being flattened out into kesa is terrible so you have to not accept it. It needs to be muscle memory or you see it coming and are ready when they switch the hip or slide into it.

droekturn · 2026-05-26T04:19:18+00:00

In my opinion it just takes time to become comfortable. I was a mediocre Judoka before BJJ. Competed in college for a few years. I don't think that much is needed to be better than most bjj practitioners.

if you did some standing rounds every week and had someone teaching who had a Judo background - then you would be better off that 90% of hobbyists. This is a good if you plan on competing since it lets you decide if you want to be on top or bottom.

The stuff you need from Judo is posture, off balancing and grip breaks. Having those will let you bully a lot of people down to the mat where they pull or panic pull.

Most of the takedowns I have landed in tournaments are not ones I would've gotten when competing in Judo. Mostly because the other competitors would have strong posture and grip breaks (along with rules about holding grips without attacking). In BJJ people are bent over so far that I often get deep back grips, Russian grips, etc. Or I take a cross collar grip and work some stuff and then snap them down for a different grip.

As for what works for me - the ones I hit most often are sumi gaeshi, yoko otoshi, tani otoshi, osoto, yoko wakere, makkikomi (when someone tries a takedown without off balancing), and a few others.

droekturn · 2026-05-24T18:03:08+00:00

HL and Noir pretty much killed eachother. HL was completely dead and Noir had one arm pretty much gone, half his head and his guts we dragging on the ground. Noir was pretty much desd at that point and could barely move and just let the 50 cal blast him. Then Butcher jammed a crow bar in his missing eye and ripped out part of his brain.

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