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namorthesubmariner · 7 months ago
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NAMOR (2024) #1
Cover Art - Alexander Lozano Variant Covers Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe - Joshua Cassara Variant Art - Joshua Cassara Variant Art - Elizabeth Torque Variant Art - Alex Maleev
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jkparkin · 19 days ago
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Namor #8 (Marvel, March 2025) variant cover by Pete Woods
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ry0ubakura · 26 days ago
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You: Who's your favorite Yu-Gi-Oh character?
Me: Bakura
You: Which one?
Me: Yes.
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cienie-isengardu · 1 year ago
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Your latest post has finally spurred me into asking you this. Based on his bio, his intros with Liu Kang, and everything else you brought up, what do you think about Tomas being the traitor instead of Bi-Han? Or, if NRS really wanted to go all out with the 3D era references in MK1, both Bi-Han and Tomas being traitors, and being the New Era Noob-Smoke? Or Sub-Smoke, rather, due to Bi-Han being Sub-Zero.
Tomas being the traitor for sure would create more surprising plot twist than what we got with not-so-subtly choice of Bi-Han, as Sub-Zero’s betrayal was hinted in his and Scorpion’s biographies way before the full story mode was revealed:
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[...] Under his leadership, the Lin Kuei will come out of the shadows and fight for its place as one of Earthrealm’s great nations.
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But Sub-Zero's unprecedented moves to cast off Lin Kuei's traditional duties have frozen Scorpion’s enthusiasm. He fears that he may one day have to battle his brother for control of the Lin Kuei's legacy.
A hint also supported by the earliest officially shared Liu Kang vs Sub Zero intro dialogues, especially the “Your actions cost lives, Bi-Han!” and “Earthrealm isn't yours to rule”.
So, in all fairness, the most surprising choice of the Lin Kuei subplot wasn’t Bi-Han’s betrayal per se but rather showing us mainly the already tense relationship between brothers, which in my opinion didn’t fully use the emotional impact the shattered brotherhood could otherwise have had. Of course, the game's storyline is a specific medium and with such a big cast, there is limited space to explore in depth characters’ psyche and thus some plots feel rushed to fit the greater scheme of things. Granted, the storyline and intro dialogues provided us enough nuances to know the conflict between Lin Kuei brothers is not so one-dimensional, even if so far only Bi-Han’s desire for freedom and independence is flashed out, while Scorpion & Smoke’s desire to uphold tradition seems to be solely the “good guys” thing. And don’t get me wrong, characters who have a strong moral sense are cool and inspiring on their own, but Kuai Liang and Tomas through the story mode have never given any real counterargument why the tradition should be upheld in the first place or how it benefit the clan, besides it was their father’s teaching.
(And I do find the “Lin Kuei only serves” mindset disturbing, when one remembers the clan members are trained from childhood to fight, to kill, and if needed to die for Earthrealm and doesn’t that resemble the Umgadi system whose members are denied any ties to family as their  main purpose is to serve the Royal Family? There is a huge difference between an adult person choosing on their own to dedicate their life to service in greater good - a very admirable trait! - and teaching children they are destined to be someone’s servants, because it’s the great “honor” and “tradition” that must be upheld. Just saying.)
Now, Bi-Han as the traitor (more or less) makes sense within the provided storyline, especially if we add the expanded knowledge about his motives and goals coming from intro dialogues. In contrast, Tomas is pretty much sidelined through the course of story mode and really, if not for the direct ties to adoptive brothers and intro dialogues, he could as well not be in the story at all. 
If the story played as it played, I fear Smoke’s choice to betray would not have that big impact, unless the truth about Liu Kang’s role as Keeper of Time came out (and with that his part in Smoke’s family death) or Shang Tsung managed to play on his desire to be seen as a true Lin Kuei while he is constantly denied the respect and omitted by other characters. Bi-Han is just a tip of the iceberg in that regard (and yet not once he denied Tomas right to consider himself the son of the late grandmaster or even his or Kuai Liang’s brother). In all fairness, Liu Kang contributes a lot to how Tomas is treated, as Fire Lord, despite the close relationship to Lin Kuei and being implied to be responsible for orphaning Tomas, literally did not acknowledge him in any meaningful way through the whole story mode. He has never called Smoke by his name, nor called him alongside the Sub-Zero and Scorpion (chapter 1 & 2) and despite Tomas’ fulfilling his duty to Earthrealm and helping in direct way to established Shirai Ruy, his deeds are still omitted in favor of Kuai Liang. 
Frankly, despite being one of Grandmaster’s sons, Smoke is never taken into account when it comes to holding any title within Lin Kuei, as Kuai Liang is treated as obviously choice, both as the next Grandmaster of Lin Kuei (after Bi-Han) and the new leader of Shirai Ryu (and let’s not forget Scorpion was the strategist/leader during battle, even if technically this was his first war and there were more experienced characters, including Ermac/king Jerrod.) Kuai Liang is a great warrior, no question about that, but it really feels like Tomas is acknowledged only by his adoptive brothers. 
So, if played right, Shang Tsung (or even Bi-Han?) could talk Tomas into joining “the Liu Kang’s opposition”, as he holds resentment for Fire Lord over the death of his family (though that one works best AFTER the big revelation). Intro dialogues also provided information there was a time he did not consider being adopted into Grandmaster’s family as anything good, which of course is understandable, considering it was Grandmaster's men who killed Tomas’ mother and sister for a simple accidental trespassing on Lin Kuei land. 
Not to mention he was not adopted because of compassion per se, but because of Grandmaster’s guilt. Considering how Tomas went from disliking the man and/or situation he was forced into to almost blindly holding to “tradition this”, “traditions that” mindset, I wonder if we should consider him as a potential victim of Stockholm Syndrome?
Also, what is interesting, Smoke looked up to Bi-Han ("And to think I once idolized you."). Granted, we don’t know how young Sub-Zero acted back then, besides being cold to Tomas, as intro dialogue pointed out, but I think there is something to say about Tomas idolizing the one brother that openly challenged their Father’s ideas. We have of course only evidence of Bi-Han’s criticizing Lin Kuei old politics in current story mode however as Sub-Zero’s “frustrations ran deep”  it is possible he was outspoken about the issue before. So it makes sense to assume the idolizing happened back in the days when Tomas (most likely) resented the man that decided to adopt him after his men murdered his mother and twin sister over a trivial matter - and maybe Sub-Zero’s headbutting with Father was what impressed Tomas the most? As in, however cold Bi-Han was, at least he didn’t pretend everything was okay?
Smoke’s BIO gives him the LOYALTY as a main theme
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- and despite what happened between the brothers, he still hope for reunion with Bi-Han and refuses to give up his estranged brother to anyone outside Shirai Ryu for judgment, so we can’t say he and Bi-Han had never been on good terms. 
Frankly, the visual side of story mode adds a lot to this feeling, as with exception of like two scenes (awaiting for Liu Kang/meeting room and joining Kuai Liang and Bi-Han after Sub-Zero’s fight with Nitara and Ermac), Smoke is the one standing at Bi-Han’s right side, not Kuai Liang - the de facto second-in-line of succession. 
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I won’t lie, this is pretty surprising detail - and who knows, maybe Smoke is supposed to have soome importance after all and/or is the middle child, thus occupying the more symbolic (prestige) place, the same as Bi-Han was usually placed at Liu Kang’s right side, implying his higher status as Grandmaster.
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I, for one, would love to see Tomas either betraying Liu Kang on his own or joining Bi-Han, so we could have a new take on the Noob-Smoke team, this time without Smoke being cyberized and cut from memories but also challenging Keeper of Time's choices by characters that weren't the main villains in previous timeline(s). My heart would be bleeding for Kuai Liang as his friendship with Tomas is a great part of Lin Kuei lore but then Tomas, story wise, had valid reasons to resent Liu Kang (death of family, never being acknowledged). I wouldn’t cross out the possibility of Smoke  joining Bi-Han in later events (or pretending to join to spy on him, because you know, Tomas is the master of stealth, so he should be good at that stuff) but I fear NRS is not gonna give him any meaningful focus anytime soon. Johnny was joking how Tomas “got the wholesome sidekick thing down cold.” but looking at MK1’s story mode this is not a joke, just a truth.
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smashpages · 7 months ago
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Namor #1 (Marvel, July 2024) Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe variant cover by Joshua Cassara
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crowcryptid · 3 months ago
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Gamers once again teaching studios they can get away with anything and be rewarded for it
Context: for warcrafts 30th anniversary they released a mount that costs *$90 irl. Yes that’s more than a full AAA game.
* technically you can buy it with in game money via the wow token system. But blizzard makes money either way.
Wow tokens are bought for $20 and listed on the auction house. The auction house lets you buy and sell items between players without actually needing to track them down in game. Then players with enough in game money can buy that token. The original token owner gets the in game money, this is the only way to legitimately buy gold. The person who buys the token off the auction house can redeem it for 1 month of game time or for $15 credit on their account. So you can turn game currency into gift cards basically. But they can only be used for blizzard games: overwatch, cod, etc.
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As you can see it’s affecting the prices of tokens, though it seems to be going down now. The point is that blizz gets $20 instead of the $15 for a sub (or less if you buy the sub in bulk) so it’s more profitable to sell tokens than regular subs.
So players who buy game time via in game gold are fucked since prices went up. People who buy gold are getting way more gold for their tokens. Blizz gets a shit ton from $90 mounts and $20 tokens.
But you may be wondering: why would anyone ever buy a $90 mount? This mount has an auction house and mailbox on it. The auction house is the only way to make enough gold to pay for your sub/buy new games as well as properly power yourself up. The mailbox is just there to receive your gold or items from the auction house.
Now, this mount was technically available before. Looked a little different but offered the same function. In a past expansion it was only purchasable for 5 million gold in game. This is an impossible amount for most players. Only people with auction house addictions get that much lmao. The catch here was that it was only available during that expansion (2018-2020) Blizzard still proffited because people can buy gold via tokens. But at least it wasn’t being sold for cash outright. Many people did buy it legitimately without buying tokens for gold. The main goal of this mount was to delete gold from the economy. As the people who hoard gold have an insane amount and completely control everything… just like irl. lol. Not only was owning the mount a flex it provides a nice convenience of not needing to travel all the way back to a city to sell your items.
So just sell the same mount but this time for irl money to double dip. Without the added benefit for all of reducing the amount of gold floating around. Even if you buy it via gold, someone else has to buy those tokens first. They actually ran out of tokens for a bit since more people were trying to buy them via gold than with irl money.
Now at the end of the day having an auction house on your mount isn’t REALLY op or anything. It only takes a few minutes at most to reach one in a city. But it’s just an awful thing to see that people continue to buy these stupidly priced “micro” transactions.
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counterattacker · 1 year ago
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Just finished G-Witch, it's an excellent show but the best part was going back to episode 10 and flipping through all of the sub/dub options to see how the 'Suletta wasureta'/'Suletta forgetta' joke was translated in different languages. The winner so far is probably the Brazilian Portuguese subs and dubs, for both of which the pun was translated as "A Suletta esquecetta".
(I am a little confused about the French (Soûlez pas, Suletta) and European Spanish (Suletta... necesita una chuleta) translations-- I'm guessing I'm doing something wrong by taking them super literally, so if you speak French or Spanish and/or know the cultural context or metaphorical meaning that makes either of these funny, please tell me! I'm curious!)
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munning0401 · 4 months ago
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As an Asian, I have read Classical Chinese Literature such as "jttw" since I was a child.
Although I am not completely a fan of Black Myth, I am still very moved by the star-crossde lovers Zhu Bajie and Violet Spider!!
This is an English Cover video produced by "Serge_S"on Bilibili.
poetry:
生來心性拙,進退不得脫。
Born with a clumsy heart, trapped in life's advance and retreat.
戒空難戒色,隨性也隨佛。
Breaking precepts repeatedly, following nature, not the Buddha's feat.
釘鈀築機緣,獠牙拱因果。
With rake and tusk, smashing fate, burrowing karma's weight.
滾滾濁世裡,管他笑與說。
Rolling in the muddy world, heedless of scorn or debate.
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namorthesubmariner · 7 months ago
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NAMOR (2024) #1 Variant Cover Art by Alex Maleev
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sunnysunsins · 2 years ago
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~Day 12~
Birdie in her comfy nest
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ssspringroll · 1 year ago
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oh what a fun family already
this is just the variants i had sketched up, i think i wanna experiment with these shapes some more tho
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the-bluebird-you-need · 2 years ago
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REVOLVER sheet music covers designed by Klaus Voormann
I saw these posted before, but it wasn't the whole album so I tried to find good quality versions of all of them!
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stardustizuku · 6 months ago
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thinking if i should drop the villainess essay part 1 run or wait until i polish the rest of the parts hmm,
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wtl-archive · 6 months ago
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Did you invent the universes in the discontinuity interimisson?
[Aforementioned Intermission for convenience]
I did not! Those all belong to different people in the fandom, minus Sven (Mirror 'Steven') and Leo (Zoology Steven), who were made for Walk the Line, and Framed Steven, who is from my fic on AO3, Frame of Mind. There's links on that page to the other creators :3
If a Steven variant is on the cover, they're my boys, if they're nowhere on the cover, there's like a 90 percent chance they're someone else's. Prime is a wild card. It's a general rule of thumb for this cluster fuck of an AU lol
I like to keep opportunities open for crossovers and cameos so in the future you'll hopefully see more of other AUs
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morgenlich · 1 year ago
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mentioned fatoot samneh on reddit and have had a couple people responding saying it reminds them of matzoh brei and one person saying they were glad to see mizrahi cuisine mentioned outside of a jewish subreddit….reddit is like. the one place i don’t seek out jewish communities online because. well. i’m sure you can imagine especially in recent months lol, so my heart feels a little fuzzy rn
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pomellon · 2 years ago
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Been thinking about the digimon au and it just hit me I could make Sapnap a Bearmon variant for his Rookie form. Like look at this lil guy it would be perfect!
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