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prints available at:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/513471219/the-last-guardian-art-print-game-poster

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H.R Giger’s Satan I done in a Dark Souls Style.

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Now that Breath of the Wild is widely considered one of the best (if not the absolute best) Zelda game of all time, and the 4th best game of all time according to metacritic, can everyone Please just Shut Up about Ocarina of Time

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The Ol' Switch-a-roo

NINTENDO: Hey, thanks for helping us out with our launch by proving that we have a strong relationship with 3rd party companies this time.

BETHESDA: No problem! Nintendo's a great company, and we're honored to release Skyrim on it. A game full of open-ended exploration, high fantasy, and an ability to define your own journey should be the unique and wholly unexplored genre that will help Nintendo be its best!

NINTENDO: You're fantastic!

BETHESDA: Say, what IS your launch title, anyway?

NINTENDO: Literally Skyrim but better and with stronger name recognition.

BETHESDA: ...

BETHESDA: ...

NINTENDO: What?

BETHESDA: ...

NINTENDO: What!? What's wrong?!

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Despite his major character flaws, I have a great deal of respect for Ganondorf in The Wind Waker, and I think this probably has something to do with how my perspective has changed as I’ve gotten older. I know what it’s like to have to live with the consequences of devastating failure, and I know what it feels like to be convinced that you’ve worked too hard and for too long to simply give up on your goals, even if they’re no longer feasible. The frustration of having one’s identity defined by something that happened in the past and the difficulty of trying to move forward while bearing the weight of painful regrets are themes that aren’t really dealt with seriously in a lot of geek media, and I appreciate the emotional complexity represented by Ganondorf.

As I’ve been playing Breath of the Wild, something that’s started to resonate with me about the various incarnations of Ganondorf in previous games is their disdain for Link’s innocence and the youthful purity of his convictions. There’s a scene early in Breath of the Wild in which Impa asks Link if he intends to fight Ganon despite not knowing or remembering anything about the situation and having only his courage and a sense of justice on his side. Link says yes, because of course he says yes; Link always says yes. I haven’t gotten very far in Breath of the Wild and can’t really talk about what’s going on in the game, but I think I’m beginning to understand how Ganondorf would find that sort of refusal to engage in critical thinking infuriating, especially when it repeatedly manifests itself in a seemingly endless cycle.

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Toriko

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By UG

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What’s really incredible about Mad Max: Fury Road is that our titular, brooding White Male Lead in an Action Movie™ is given no opportunities to appear badass or heroic unless he’s working as a team or directly helping the women.

We see Max alone in the desert, all brooding and action-hero-y, clearly haunted by a tragic past… and he’s immediately captured, chained, humiliated and spends the next half hour tied up and useless while Furiosa is off getting shit done.

Then he gets free and he comes in waving a gun around and embarrassing himself. It’s not until Furiosa calms him down, wins him over, and he starts following her orders that he’s allowed to appear properly badass - in an action sequence that begins with him handing her a gun, and which progresses with the two of them working as the ultimate team while the girls help him as much as he defends them.

Then they’re in the Night Bog. Max fails to hit the Bullet Farmer and instead becomes a prop to steady Furiosa’s shot. Then he runs off on a solo mission and it doesn’t even merit screen time. Some dude lone wolfing it to kill a scary bad guy? Who cares. Let’s watch Nux running in front of the rig and the girls cooling down the engines instead.

Then comes the final chase. Max is undeniably awesome, but he is only allowed to be awesome because all of his efforts are dedicated to helping and protecting his weird new family. And the instant he hears Furiosa is hurt, all of his badass moments are pivoted around reaching her. He fights a hundred war boys, jumps over trucks, swings off poles, sets of explosions, beats someone with a flamethrower guitar, just so he can be there to catch Furiosa once she has killed the big bad Immortan Joe.

And, of course, his biggest heroic moment in the film isn’t even a cool action sequence or taking out a villain - it’s saving someone’s life. It’s being selfless and compassionate. It’s expressing love and humanity. It’s acting as a nurse and donating his blood. Max’s triumph is fixing something that’s broken.

Then, at the end, instead of being rewarded with a sexy girl and something else cool like most action heroes, Max gets nothing. He gives everything to Furiosa - his love, his loyalty, his fighting skills, his blood, his name - and he takes nothing in return, nor does he feel he is owed anything. He is content simply to help her, and thanks to this love and selflessness he was able to achieve some kind of redemption. 

In Fury Road, a man’s heroism is not determined by how strong or tough he is - it is defined by how willing he is to love, help, support and protect others, particularly women, while demanding nothing in return. 

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i’m mentally ill too but fucking listen to me here. you need to take responsibility for your actions regardless of whether or not they’re a product of your mental illness. you don’t get to manipulate, gaslight, take advantage of, or straight up abuse people because you’re mentally ill! you don’t! what the fuck! why are some of you still thinking it’s okay to say things like “manipulation is okay because i have _____ and need attention from my significant other” oh my god. Don’t fucking do that

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true facts: only lgbt ppl have gaydar. straight ppl just have stereotypes.

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In the Philippines, there are caves full of mummified corpses that are curled up inside nutshell-shaped coffins. The process for making ‘Fire Mummies’ began before death, when a dying person had to ingest a very salty drink. After death, the bodies were smoked above a fire, molded into the fetal position, and had tobacco smoke blown into their mouths to shrink their insides. Source

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The man in this image is Veerender Jubbal, an awesome Sikh Canadian Let’s Play Gamer, critic, and outspoken feminist. People photoshopped the image on the right (of him holding an ipad) to look like the image on the left (wearing a suicide vest and holding a quran). The photoshopped image has been picked up by multiple news agencies and distributed as a “selfie of one of the Paris attackers still at large”. It is a selfie of an innocent man who has never been to Paris and was targeted, by all accounts, because he had the *audacity* to be a person of color vocally speaking up against Gamergate.

If you see the image on the left circulating, please speak up for Veerender!

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writers saying characters are lgbt in interviews or on twitter and not actually writing about it in their stories is one of the most annoying things for me because it just feels like they want credit for representation without actually having it

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reason #10000 why straights are dumb as fuck: they saw a band of leather daddies performing a song called “grinder” in which the first two words in it are “never straight” and they still didnt know rob halford was gay