Smash Bros 2.

Why are there so many 2's on this list? Fallout 2, Soul Caliber 2, Little Fighter 2, Megaman 2... I realize Soul Caliber 2 is really Soul Blade 3, and Little Fighter 2 is the first like actually commercially available Little Fighter, so it's really just a coincidence but dang

Okay a semi real one. I feel like I need to include Kirby Superstar and Mario Bros 3 and I feel like there's more.

To be clear, this isn't a W for Matt Walsh. He's still wrong about anime not being a part of Western culture right now.

Charles Ephebophile Cheese

Mark is the worst character in the show by a huge margin, to be fair.

god man there’s one scene where the two of them are chatting platonically and we’re supposed to believe they’re barely restraining their lust, desperate for each other’s bodies, and the horniness level that registers is approximately that of two people waiting to get root canals

Boris Vallejo artwork for Playboy’s Pro Football Preview, August 1984.

it's unbelievable to me that someone could actually be a trillionaire. i think most of us have trouble internalizing how much money that truly is. let me put it in simple terms for you: a trillion dollars is three million dollars

For us lady scholars, who have been known to critique homogenous male academic cliques and spaces as exclusionary… consider the money and elite networks that ALL these men benefitted from. All because those lady scholars were likely a bit less interested in sexually assaulting 14 year old girls.

I think a lot of democrat supporters would rather lose than cede ground to leftists they see as disloyal, which is actually, if you think about it, just another "refusing to vote for the less bad option."

Man who admitted making up “stories” about Haitians in Ohio asks us to just believe more “crazy stories”…

Kid in a hat and backpack, maybe 5, getting detained

This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.

Unfortunately, @jfruh.bsky.social has broken this. Due to his investigative journalism of various comic strip universes, there are members of Gen Z with very strong Mary Worth opinions

How much more in your face can it be?

"Why are you asking me for my paperwork?"
"Because of your accent."
"You have an accent too."
"Where were you born sir?"
"Where were you born at?"
"Put your hands behind your back."

REGIME CHANGE 🇺🇸

baby beluga pod rise up

Anyone who

1) likes Gavin Newsom
2) said it was “too early to worry” about who’s running
3) believes, like Gavin suggests, that the Democrats lost the election for being “too woke”

Is: wrong

THE FRONT-RUNNER Californias Gavin Newsom would rather be wrong than weak. By Helen Lewis (Header for an Atlantic article about Gavin Newsom, it features a picture of him looking like a real smart politics guy)

“GAVIN NEWSOM HAS A 30-PAGE FILE of reasons the Democrats lost the 2024 presidential election. Bounding across his Sacramento office, he starts listing them: incumbency, inflation, interest rates, Israel—and that's just the letter I. "Yes, too woke," he adds. "Yes, 107 days, referring to the short campaign after Joe Biden's forced withdrawal. But the California governor distills his party's problem down to one word. *Weak.*” (On the last paragraph the text starts to fade from black to gray)

“Newsom slaps his hand on a marked-up hardback of Bill Clinton's memoir, brought down from the shelf a minute earlier. "Given the choice," he tells me, summing up a crucial Clinton insight—one many Democrats still can't quite seem to grasp—"the American people always support strong and wrong versus weak and” (The text gets lighter and lighter until you can barely read it, that’s how huh kiwi you’ve hit that paywall baybay)

The text faded to the paywall at the same rate as my eyes would have glazed over anyway

It's true-ish for sure, but that shouldn't offer any sort of protection here. If someone made a device that explodes they couldn't respond with "Iunno, shrapnel goes where it goes, too complicated to track perfectly" we wouldn't let them get away with it.

Tired I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two - And see what worms are eating At the rind. Langston Hughes

This Langston Hughes poem is relevant af.

“If a woman dares to show herself in public in any way, then she can and will be sexually harassed with the aid of genAI-driven tools that can easily turn her face into highly realistic pornography” is an absolute red-alarm human rights disaster

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

I wish you, and me, and all of us, strength & solidarity & joy in the new year as we find our way together: which we have done this year already, and will arise tomorrow to do again. /thread

When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?

Is it really a fair look? I've yet to ever see a comics guy be normal about him.