I'm afraid not, my apologies.

But never stop learning, because KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!

The technical term is "Ace²". Not to be confused with ACE2, which means "Ace Combat 2".

That and the sky starts speaking Latin.

Yes, but the road is arduous and fraught with peril.

Nintendo lowers the prices of their games?

I told my family that I'm pansexual. They are like "Do whatever you want if it makes you happy" and "Congrats on finding a new chapter in your life"

Sure would be nice wouldn't it!

Those are both correct responses, and awesome responses. Glad to hear you've got people who are supporting you!

Nice family you have there.

Alright this is getting weird. So Netflix keeps recommending narco docudramas since it reasonably believes that's all I watch, and I just got bamboozled by an ad on the home screen for Pablo Escobar: El Patron del Mal and recognized two actors who were on Narcos for very different roles- namely Mauricio MejÃ*a, who was Carlos Castaño in Narcos, but Pablo in, well, Pablo.

AND THEN it turns out he's played Escobar in A LOT of stuff, including El Chapo and American Made. So apparently these narco series just have a stable of actors that switch roles every show or so. It is weird.

I'm watching Kiva right now, where one of the main characters was Zanki in Hibiki a few years earlier, and his rival would play Grease in Build a few years later.

Nothing you're talking about sounds surprising to me at all.

You say that as if Kiva and Build aren't a decade apart :lol

It's true! But those were just the easy examples at hand. I also could've mentioned that Kiriya from the second half of Hibiki would show up less than two years later as the secondary Rider in Den-O, but I know how people hate to be reminded of the second half of Hibiki. I was trying to be civic-minded!

My point, though, is that toku actors are constantly recurring (there's a callout on the Yodonna trailer post that's both a prime example, and also woefully incomplete for some of those actors), and that makes it funny to see someone on a toku board highlighting the weirdness of a non-American production using a small pool of actors for works within the same genre. It is weird, being a regular in Cartel Stories! But it also sounds weirdly familiar.

Well, yes, but you have to understand, there's a difference between toku actors reappearing in other shows later (or earlier) down the line, and this, because these are the same handful of people more or less just playing football with the same handful of roles. I'm not trying to complain, I'm just... it takes a lot of adjusting because you recognize That One Guy as being Dude 1, and That Other Guy as being Dude 2, and now That One Guy is Dude 2 and That Other Guy being Dude 1, and then you start another series and there they are again but now someone else entirely are Dude 1 and Dude 2 and That Other Guy and That One Guy are now entirely different characters and probably now shooting at their old roles. It just causes your brain to scream trying to reconcile it for a time.

Fair enough! That does sound like it'd start to get needlessly confusing.

I know, I'm just saying. I wouldn't exactly call 10 years "A few years later" is all :lol

Ever wanted to see Thomas the Train Sentai?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8FNMNyydsY

Ah yes those guys. Their Gundam videos are a lot of fun


Anyways allow me to go on a rant for a bit. I just got to say that I'm a pretty laid-back guy. I don't get mad when other people make fun of me. Heck I'd probably join them while they're at it. And despite all the emotional abuse I got from my mother for two decades, I still grew up a well adjusted if not a bit of an awkward guy and still try to get along with her unlike my siblings cut off all contact with her.

But still even with my ability to keep my cool, My patience still has it's limits which my new workplace is surely testing.

I could forgive that my workplace had no other artists to train me as I was starting out, forcing me to learn everything on my own

I could forgive that my boss is bad at explaining things and often forgets the stuff he told me earlier

I could forgive that unlike all my co workers, I have to work on Saturdays. Leaving me in the office all by myself.

I could forgive that they're giving me work that was not in the Job Hiring ad they posted online. I went in this job thinking that I'll only be doing design lay outs and T-shirt/Mug prints. Now it turns out I'll also be doing metal etching on gun parts.

I could forgive that I had to work for an entire month before I get paid but since I started on the middle of a previous cut off period, I have to wait 8 days more

But what I COULD NOT forget is our payday...My FIRST payday! getting delayed by almost a week!! (even worse payday was on the 31st and on a Monday) Sigh..I even promised my sister that I was gonna return the money I borrowed this Monday. And also imagine heading home tired only to be greeted by my mom who is pissed that our pay keep getting delayed.

Whatever they already promised 3 times so I hope that this time they really do give us our pay tommorow

It's 2:30 AM where I'm at right now so all I can say is that I'm sorry you're going through that. Having to slug through all that and then not having your work pay off (literally) can blow absolute chunks. Don't you have like a HR Department or something like that to report this to?

I'd say change jobs but regarding the current situation, well...Hang in there buddy. I really wish I can say more but my brain's about to catatonic.

Good heavens it's ToQger Sweded. :lolol

My mom wanted some art of mine for a display (I graduate high school on Saturday) so I'm having some buds vote on which pieces are best

Even if I embarrass myself, at least I can figure out what my friends like.

For the last several weeks, I have been checking out the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comics from Boom Studios which I wanted to for some time now and have just finished its fourth volume today. They are pretty enjoyable so far.

Congrats on your graduation! And maybe post a piece or two of your art for your friends on TokuNation!

Thanks!

And I would, but I don't know how to change image sizes and have art not come out the size of Texas.

Boy it sure was something watching the entire chat and half of Twitter turn against the Hasbro stream today because of how badly they've handled the G.I. Joe line.

It’s weird how these are some of the best looking figures they ever made but refuse to properly market them. That Major Bludd could pass for a Mezco One:12, the headsculpt is phenomenal.

But - I can’t get one. And neither can the people who actually care for and collect G.I. Joe, who actually try to find store exclusives, well, in stores.

Marvel, Star Wars, Transformers, Power Rangers, most of this stuff you can get everywhere with maybe one or two exclusive exceptions. But G.I. Joe Classified - you might as well count the few figures that aren't exclusive. To eBay that is.

Here's the thing, I was really excited for the line and they really are great figures. I even spent months waiting on a restock of the Pulse exclusive Snake Eyes set.

I just sold all five of the figures I had managed to get my hands on (Duke, Scarlett, Beachhead, PDD Destro, Pulse Snake Eyes) because even though I want to support the line, even though I love most of what they've put out, I can't because of all the hoops one has to jump through. Want the cool Troop builders? Hope you're ready to fight scalpers at Target for the possibility of them MAYBE getting a case. Want to try and get it off of Hasbro's own shop? Hope you paid up for the Premium membership so you can have the chance to beat the scalpers to order one single figure. Miss out on both? Welp, not our problem. Enjoy the scalper prices, better luck next time.

It is unbelievable how they've managed to mishandle this line so badly for almost a year. I almost feel like it's intentional on Hasbro's part because no company making that much money should have this much trouble figuring out the logistics for their product, pandemic or not. At this point it is both easier and cheaper to get the third party Not-Joes than it is the real deal, and that is depressing.

Twitter has a monthly paid subscription service now... this is one of those times where it feels like it's impossible to do an exaggerated "what if lol" joke about anything anymore because it'll just be real

Wait I have to PAY to use Twitter now?

No, it's added features. You get such premium services as... spelling corrections

https://64.media.tumblr.com/a0c95b83...2a2bba579f.png

Spelling correction is one of the perks of paying?

"In the future... We'll be charged five bucks to go to the bathroom."

-Someone who works for Jurassic Park

We talking G.I.Joe Classified? Cause that was their recent lineup, correct? If so, boy is that sad news. Classified looks good.

Correct on all counts. I'll be surprised if it actually sticks around for another year at this rate.

Ok I laughed way too hard at this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-8N6HojHJ8

Best meme of the year! AHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Someone needs to show Shuichiro this. :lolol

Can someone explain the GI Joe thing to me?

Long story short, the Classified series has become notorious for being extremely hard to find due to short supply ontop of like half the figures being exclusives.

And Hasbro, after acknowledging that this is a problem, made nearly all of their latest reveals continue to be exclusives. Even the reissues.

Exactly this, though with the clarification that the majority are Target exclusives. Which, as you may recall, is having a serious scalper problem in general right now and has always kind of been notorious for having spotty logistics.

Hi friends, I'm here. How are you all as of late?

Edit: also anyone have suggestions for wireless shelf lights?

Doing good! How about you?

This sign really gave my autism a hard time hahaha.

https://i.imgur.com/pCD6Pkg.jpg