#absolute beast ~ [ mega steven ]

[two-sides-halved]

Is Human Steven the type to get jealous or upset about what someone does in a dream of his? Like him not activelly using his dream powers but like having a bad dream like idk... something that's clear as day to him that it was a nightmare and not someones inner most desires.

( He would understand that it's a bad dream so he has no one to blame but himself. But that doesn't mean he wouldn't get upset with himself, and he'd have to double check what happened in his dream didn't happen in real life, so his girlfriend had to come over and comfort him.)

[crystalelemental]

What's one more?  What's one more good showing of something that I legitimately shouldn't be doing?  I'm sure it's fine, right?  It's fine.  Oh wait, it isn't, because everyone wants to act like a clown.

Vs. Lucian Emboldened by hubris, I entered this fight with a team I hadn't used but knew could off-type.  My Lodge Steven is EX now, his sync can absolutely handle it.  Or he would be able to handle it, if he could land the flinch.  And even then we need to survive sync, which only happens by Roxanne's grace.  C!Blue was able to handle finishing up by preparing the sides.  You really need to weaken them so when Steven blows up center with sync, you're in OHKO range.  This team felt like they did well pre-EX in Alola, but Sinnoh is a much different beast.

Vs. Aaron Speaking of beasts, the trial by fire is back, and I am lacking in firepower.  Instead, I got a really funny thought into my head.  Specifically, I bet Emma can do it.  So after a few tries of realizing I accidentally left Strikers Take 3x Damage on, I get to the main show...to find out that Looker/Emma isn't enough.  Looker's damage is too low.  So I had to bring in Iris.  Whose Hyper Beam contributions are just as pathetic, frankly, but at least she has Zone, whereupon Emma was smacking Aaron around for 12k damage per shot.  Which also often wasn't enough!  Because Megahorn can truck Anabel, and you need flinches to ensure second sync, and yeah Emma can wipe them out on her sync but only if she doesn't miss crit, otherwise you're dealing with Endurance.  It's great, everything's fine, I'm not mad who's mad?

Vs. Bertha You know.  I don't think I've ever used base Kris off-type.  We gotta fix that.  Fortunately, she's insane.  Mega Kick is great damage, and her sync is absurd.  Winona is required for a bit of flinch action to reach second sync, and Variety Lorelei...look, I keep forgetting her skill is Fleet Feet, not Pep Rally, which is endlessly disappointing.  This team would be better with Sonia, but weak to Ground.  We did what we had to.  Kris still kicked them apart, but it was rough. Her final sync actually does like half Bertha's HP and obliterates sides. I was impressed.

Vs. Flint Okay, here's where it got bad.  I figured hey.  Lodge Rosa beat Lucian during testing.  Let's try that here.  Hey?  Hey, past me?  You only won because of Colress' accuracy drops.  Flint has Piercing Gaze, you rube.  So, that went great.  Then I thought hey, SC Jasmine!  She can enable someone who can-oh, Hammer Arm.  Hmm.  Eventually, I settled on this shit.  SS Kris is amazing, and Clair is a beneficiary of her abilities.  I figured if I can't dodge, let's debuff with Elesa, who also provides paralysis.  Now, this team should not win.  It had no business winning.  But the universe contorts itself to make Kris incredible, and the end result was the win you see before you.  Kris' buffs kept Clair and Elesa alive through sync.  Elesa dropped just before Flint went down, but Clair endured due to a whopping four paralysis procs.  Clair is alive on accident, but by god she did it.  I have never been more proud of something that was not at all a matter of my actions.

Vs. Cynthia Okay, NOW we can have Lodge Rosa win.  "Did you know H!Caitlin is weak to Fairy?"  Mother of fu-

I feel like this is a testament to Colress.  A bit to Rosa too, but mostly to Colress.  Those accuracy drops mattered tremendously on the sides.  If it weren't for a dodge, Rosa would be a corpse.  Even Fire Blast can miss now.  H!Caitlin is tanky beyond belief, and permanent field effects does keep everyone in top shape.  But the difference between this win and the last one is that this was at least somewhat calculated.  You can plan around the accuracy drops getting you a miss.  Especially when that miss is against Blizzard.  Moreover, Colress also has paralysis, which turns off Cynthia's Healthy Advantage.  Is there anything this man can't do?  Sync.  Because mine is 1/5.  But beyond that, he's ideal.

Final Thoughts I've been avoiding final thoughts broadly because we've been winning fairly easily, but this one took serious effort.  So let's talk.

Aaron is a shitass.  Team Endurance is one of the nastiest things any team has done.  It's so wildly frustrating.  Endure is a major component of why I didn't like Fairy-weak Marshal: Endure with evasion strats is just shitty to deal with.  Getting it on everything, including sides that start spamming AoE?  Awful.  Terrible.  High-DPS on Megahorn combined with AoE moves like Bulldoze and Brutal Swing also just make him a wretched experience.  That said, the real problem is when you go off-type.  Because on-type?  Sync bypasses Endurance.  So someone like Silver can just blow up the sides, problem solved.  That doesn't really happen when you're off-type, unless you are a next-level powerhouse.  This is really the struggle with doing off-type clears with Aaron.  It's an effective deterrent, and one they might want to consider more often. Sincerely, if their current plan is to eliminate off-type offense without ruining stall, Endurance is a very effective tool.

Bertha is pretty easy.  Aside from how easy it is to win at Grass-weak, Bertha just doesn't offer much.  If you can turn off her weather, you've basically won already.  She has trap and flinch through Sand Tomb and Bite, but they're relatively low BP moves and easier to handle than most of this week.

Flint is, in some ways, the hardest fight this week.  Aaron is a punk, but Endurance can be bypassed by a sync.  A strong enough EX Fire-type striker can blow Aaron apart without issue, and Megahorn only happens some of the time.  But Flint?  Flint's got Mind Games 9 on everyone, Piercing Gaze on everyone, Hostile Environment 4 on everyone, and consistently spams high BP moves like Fire Blast, while the sides are Hammer Arm to mess up special tanks, and Heat Wave to mess up everyone.  Flint is just very hard to deal with.  He requires immunity to Burn, immunity to special defense debuffs, and someone tanky enough to take those repeated hits.  It's not an easy thing to do.  The fact that he comes in with +2 special attack and gets Brainy Rush also makes him relatively challenging to keep debuffed without specialization, which makes the fact he has physical moves just great.  I hate him.

Lucian isn't terrible, but he's still a problem.  Satisfied Snarl can really mess up a team, which is extra nasty against Ghost-types that are mostly special.  Earthquake as AoE is also rough, given how many things are apparently weak to it.  Zen Headbutt also causes issues with the flinch rate, and they all seem to have it.  But realistically, that's less devastating.  It's extra manageable because Lucian's moves can miss.  He doesn't have Piercing Gaze, and doesn't seem to buff accuracy, so he's fully manageable.  Bertha at least forces the need for weather.

Cynthia...I feel like she should be trickier than she is.  Togekiss has Fire Blast as a scary move, and again with Hostile Environment 4.  Evasive Rush 3 can also cause problems if it gets that far.  Healthy Advantage providing damage reduction also means there's a gimmick to check.  But strangely, I don't have too much trouble with her?  It's weird, like I expect more resistance than I get.  I definitely don't think she's as tough as Aaron or Flint this week.

[two-sides-halved-comic]

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[gale-gentlepenguin]

Gale’s Top 5: Favorite Pokemon Champions

Rules:

1.Only Pokemon Champions that can be battled are considered champions.

2. The Champion must have been champion at some point in the series. That means the character has become the Champion, no matter how brief the period.

3. I will be using the Games as a reference only. Since the battle is what makes the fight.

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5. Steven Stone (Hoenn Champion)

A collector of rare stones, Steven is the son of the President of the Devon Corporation, and makes his home in Mossdeep.

Steven is a man that takes interest in history and in Geology. A cool guy with a calm attitude that approaches things analytically.

He may seem like an easy opponent, Steven is anything but. His team comprised of powerful Steel types and Fossil Pokemon, giving him solid defense and variety. His Metagross is an absolute Beast, and when it gained Mega Evolution. It became a freaking truck.

His team in Emerald is the one I remember the most, his Level 78 Metagross had such high attack stats it wiped out my team more times then I could count back in my naive early days.

I always thought Steven was a cool Champion. I knew he had to make it on this List. But I was shocked to have to put this majestic man so low on the list.

4.Lance (Johto/Kanto League Champion)

The Dragon Master, The Blackthorn Golden boy. Lance is a powerful trainer whether he is in the games or the anime. In the Games he is a more active Champion, investigating Team Rocket and helping the player stop them. Lance also has that style that makes him just such a boss.

 He wears a cape, He is so extra.

His battle involves 3 Dragonites. 3! 3 f***ing Dragonites! If you want to fight him you best be packing an ice type or another Dragonite!

In the rematch his dragons are more diverse and he is just as deadly as before.

Lance is a text book definition of what a champion should be. Intimidating, Inspiring, Stylish, and  tough.

3. Blue (Former Kanto Champion)

Smell ya Later.

The original D-Bag rival.

Yes I put him above Lance, because he has a lot of personality. While he doesn't encompass what a champion looks like, he has the skill and the talent to be one. Second only to Red, he is the champion you have to face in Kanto in the OG games and Fire red/Leaf Green. He is a tough trainer and you will need every ounce of skill to beat him. Since he uses various types of Pokemon, he can be quite a handful.

Blue’s boisterous and Cocky attitude mellows out in the later games. But NOTHING is more satisfying then kicking his butt for the Champion title. Especially because he always seemed one step ahead. Blue is the Champion that You Want to beat. Which has him this high on the list.

2. Cynthia (Sinnoh Champion)

This was so hard for me. Cynthia was my Favorite Champion for a while. Her cool outfit, her astonishing Beauty. Her incredibly OP team! The historian and Champion of Sinnoh. She helps the trainer out and does give the impression that if you don't handle things, She will.

Cynthia is a Champion that goes beyond and delivers an incredible battle. She has an aura of intimidation and respect. You want to be like her, you want to be a champion Like her. She is the ideal. (and she is super hot)

1. Leon (Galar Champion)

The undefeated Champion. The man that gives you your starter, the one that gives you the means to enter the League. Leon is the older brother of Hop and Has been Champion since his first go at the league. He is a lot like the trainer. He is what the trainer is suppose to be having reached the top.

Leon is an active Champion, often taking care of things so the Trainer can usually focus on the challenge at hand. He commands the respect of the people, but is also very human.

He gets lost easy, he is battle focused, he has weird taste. Leon also takes his role as champion seriously. He wants to do his best not just for himself, but for Galar.

He hits all the marks of a champion and also, makes you want to beat him.

Leon is your measuring stick. You see him and try to catch up. In a way, Leon is your final test.

His battle is also incredibly fun. The spectacle, the build up. Everything made me excited when fighting him. I hadn't had this much fun fighting a champion since the early days of Pokemon. I wanted to best him. I wanted to break his winning streak. I wanted to be him.

Leon is a Champion among Champions.

[zephyrthejester]

Sorry! Not quite sure how to write down the sound that’s in my head right now. Let’s say it’s a very intense feeling overall.

...........Wow, dude.

OKAY! Let’s take this BIT by BIT! One at a time! Starting with the least complex up to the most complex! This is gonna be a L O N G P O S T so click below to see the rest.

1: First up, Cactus Stevens. That’s very obviously a plant, namely, a Cactus, that Steven brought to life with his plant powers. You know, like the Watermelon Stevens? Except these/this malformed Cactus Steven/s are looking a fair bit demonic. Erm... Yeah, I guess that’s what this would have to be, right? Unless the bright glow from their eyes and mouths are telltale signs of some outside force making them evil. What I want to know is, what’s so special about this thing that it’s more than just enemy-of-the-day? What’s so special about it that it landed a spot in the show’s intro? Perhaps it is more representative of Steven’s own actions becoming problems. Out with Pink Diamond leaving behind problems, time for Steven to deal with his own mistakes?

2: More Lapis Lazulis. Both wearing Lapis’ old outfit, so I guess that really does prove the skirt was the standard homeworld uniform for Lapis’... Not that I even asked that question, heh. So! We have a Shoulder gem Lapis with a bob and upward curling bangs, with a steely sneer down at us, and then a Belly gem Lapis with relatively short, unkempt hair and what appears to be a tied ponytail in the back, with an expression that’s a bit softer, and more confused/surprised than anything.

Wow, so... Lapis Lazulis, huh? Comin’ in to be bad guys, huh? Wow, that’s pretty interesting, really. Who’d ever predict this? So... Here’s my take on how to explain them. Our Lapis Lazuli was sent to Earth to terraform it, right? Now, per Season 2 we know that Earth was destined to become a mega-colony, all but hollowed out. And, well, that just seems like a job too big for just one terraformer. I can’t believe I never thought of this, but... Yeah, our Lapis probably had some help. So... I guess that’d be a logical reason why these two would be antagonists. They have unsettled beef with our Lapis.

I guess water wings aren’t based on gemstone location, eh? Heh.

3: That’s unquestionably Aquamarine. The very same Aquamarine who hauled Steven and Lars to Homeworld. But... She���s very different. If that is a fusion, we don’t know for sure. Whatever the second Gem that Aquamarine is fused with isn’t visible here, and it looks more like a bizarre mix, like good ol’ “Cotton Candy Garnet.” Cotton Candy Garnet is the only thing this version of Aquamarine looks like, really... However, the extra set of legs is a big hint pointing towards it being a fusion. Hmm... So, yeah, I’d say this absolutely is a fusion featuring Aquamarine and not some weird half-Corrupted form.

That said, she looks to be the same size as default Aquamarine, so whoever she fused with must have been tiny... Maybe tinier than she was already!

Also, between the collared shirt and the tie, that makes me think of the whole “Dad” fiasco, where Aquamarine was looking for “her Dad” by mistake. So congratulations Aquamarine. You have become the Dad.

Finally... Why is Aquamarine an antagonist? This is a question we’ll have to wait and see for. Previously, Aquamarine was simply a stickler for the rules and her job, though she did show a moment of tender mercy by forgiving Topaz’s attempted mutiny.

Finally finally, her mouth is doin’ the cat thing. You know, the :3 thing. Oh boy.

4: We got giant spiky death beast over here. Yeah, um. Yeah, no, I dunno, dude.

Is it a corrupted Gem? Some manner of Fusion Experiment or Cluster off-shoot? A full fledged alien unrelated to Gems? Some sort of primordial Ur-Gem? Its spikes give the impression of being metallic, like steel, or they could just be reflective gemstone material. Whatever this thing is, it’s givin’ me the willies. Look at those sunken eyes with naught but pinpricks of light shining through...

Ah... *sigh* It’s pink colored, by the way. Its got pink skin and pink glowing eyes. Gee, I wonder if this thing has anything to do with Pink Diamond... I dunno, what do you all think?

....Is it just me, or does it have a human nose? That snout looks like Steven’s, frankly.

I have a trillion questions. WHAT ARE YOOOOOU.

5:  I think I know exactly what’s going on here. Now, it may be tempting for some to say that this is some sort of White Diamond clone or replica or what have you, I think the simple truth is that this IS White Diamond, just straight up. And she’s currently having some trouble controlling her emotions.

Think back to the ending of Change Your Mind. The moment Pink Diamond’s composure was broken, the moment her world was shattered around her, the moment she became inescapably affected by the words and actions of another... She began to glow pink all over her body. This, I strongly believe, was literally the emotions and overall world view of Steven bleeding over to her and directly affecting her.

And this? I think this here is White Diamond experiencing too much of a good thing. Look at how she’s grabbing at her head; A typical motion to represent someone struggling with pain in their head. This is a White Diamond who is losing herself to an overwhelming force from beyond herself.

The color White contains all colors, right? What happens when one of those colors takes over...?

6: It’s her. She’s baaaaack.

Jasper is endlessly fascinating to me. When I first liveblogged this show, I wasn’t particularly a fan. But the more I watched, and the more I rewatched, and the more I thought things through? Yeah, no, Jasper’s got all my attention, man.

Born a perfectly flawless Gem in a perfectly awful Kindergarten that produced nothing but Off Colors, born to fight in a war for a Diamond she never met, doomed to failure after a shattering she couldn’t prevent... She ardently clung to her “perfection,” the only thing she had left, which wasn’t even enough to defeat abominable fusions... Until she threw her morals away in a desperate bid for victory, becoming a fusion herself, which resulted in months of mutual mental torment, leaving her addicted to the suffering. She tamed the feral beasts her Diamonds reduced her former comrades to, she was beaten and broken without contest, she lost her mind as she stared down the one person she hated more than herself as he claimed not to know what he even did to her...

AND THEN WA-BAM! She returns to consciousness and suddenly the Diamonds are best buddies with Rose Quartz and Rose Quartz was actually Pink Diamond the entire time and the whole War that Jasper lived through her entire life was literally for nothing but the cruel selfish game of the person she was born for, and, and--

And that’s where we left her.

Jasper, oh, Jasper. What happened to you? Where did you go? What are you thinking?

I need to know.

[evajellion]

Jelli’s problems with ORAS

@subbydations said: Which decisions?

Hohohohohohohooooo… *rubs hands together* where do I begin with ORAS?

Firstly, let’s get the obvious out of the way which is removing the Battle Frontier and just copypasting the extremely boring Battle Maison from X/Y, lacking in any sort of interesting challenges that gens 3 and 4 presented. 

GameFreak never patched it in either in spite of having the technology to do so now. Insult to injury is the fact that Anabel made it into Sun/Moon, which makes me theorize they planned designs for BF leaders but just didn’t put them in ORAS.

But that’s just one small thing, I mean, I could let it go if not for all of the other flaws ORAS presents (especially when put next to HG/SS or Emerald)

The Gym Leaders

When ORAS was announced, I figured “oh cool, the gym leaders might all get a buff by using mega evolutions”… and they did not. No, they all have their parties from the original Ruby and Sapphire, some of which, well, let’s face it, are pathetic compared to Emerald.

Wattson just has his Magnetson, no Manectric or Mega Manectric-- y’know, the signature Electric-type of Gen 3? Something that would have been cool and challenging?

Winona doesn’t have a Mega Altaria either, again, stuck with the mediocre party she had in the original R/S, no Tropius in sight. Giving her a Mega Altaria would have been a good challenge because people who come into the gym with electric types would have no idea how to deal with Dragon/Fairy.

And oh boy, how can we forget Tate and Liza? You would think ORAS would have changed something to make them a bit more challenging, but no. You just double battle their Solrock and Lunatone, probably wiping them before they get a chance.

Also, unlike in Emerald or HG/SS… you can’t even rematch the Gym leaders (except for Wallace in the Delta Episode). You just fight them once with their pathetically weak teams, then that’s it, no more from them ever again.

The Elite Four members got the better end of it mostly, but their initial teams are still weak. I also hate Steven’s rematch team. Why does he have Carbink and Aerodactyl? There are plenty of Steel-types, one of which is a fossil Pokémon! Carbink is weak to Steel anyway!

Wally’s party also made me sad. GameFreak didn’t like the idea of a boy trainer having a male Gardevoir I guess, so they forced a Gallade on him prior to getting National Dex or whatever. :\

Legendaries

While I already hated the roaming legendaries (seriously GameFreak, remove these), simply handing over Latios and Latias with their Mega Evolution and zero effort to obtain them was… pretty awful. It makes the entire game pathetically easy from there on out if you do speedrunning. I dunno about you, but I like getting my legendaries through a challenge.

Remember in gens 3, 4, and 5 when certain legendaries, when found, would give you a cool event? Well, ORAS just hands everything to you by flying around on Latios/Latias to certain areas, and you go to dimensional rips and rings created by Hoopa.

I have a feeling Hoopa was just made to create the excuse of randomly dropping Pokémon… I don’t know why they didn’t make a small, new area for each legendary available. FireRed/LeafGreen and Emerald did that for Lugia, Ho-Oh, Mew, and Deoxys. Simply recycling assets from the already existing mystery lands from soaring would have worked just fine.

Of course, this is a minor nitpick compared to actual issues I have. I’m glad that Pokémon like Zekrom are in the game at all, but I wish a little more effort was put in.

The Audio

I don’t like the soundtrack ORAS introduced compared to the original gen 3 games. The Champion theme against Steven, in particular, feels neutered of its GBA trumpets.

Honestly, I would be fine with it-- if they programmed in the GB Sounds, an item that was available in HG/SS! Gee, imagine that, an item that lets you play classic sounds if you prefer some of the original, classic soundtracks!

“Jelli they can’t program in old music!” Is what you’re going to say, and I’m going to prove you wrong, because somehow GameFreak managed to copypaste the themes of Lugia, Ho-Oh, Giratina, etc into ORAS… from their original DS sound fonts.

Wanna know what’s even funnier about this? In ORAS, Ho-Oh and Lugia have their themes from HG/SS, but the legendary beasts all have their Pokémon Crystal theme as opposed to the separate ones given in HG/SS. Sure, it’s nostalgic, but it clashes horribly given the others themes being from DS games.

I think if they cropped out all that legendary music (and simply made one song for all of them), they could have fit the GB (or rather GBA) Sounds into ORAS.

“But Jelli, that sounds like it would be too much for the 3DS.”

Definitely not, but if it was, here’s my last point.

The Delta Episode

I hated this, lol. I was fine with the remake up until this point. This was a poor excuse of post-game, it’s basically one big, handheld cutscene where you go from place to place and put up with the most annoying character in the world; Zinnia. (who is an even more obnoxious jerk in the manga if one can believe that)

Honestly, they should have cut this entirely and allowed the players to find Mega Rayquaza on their own so they could use the remaining data to put in the Battle Frontier, GB Sounds, and Gym leader rematches. I don’t play Pokémon to watch a short movie with poor story-telling, sorry.

I know it sounds like I’m being harsh for the sake of shitting on GameFreak but… that’s not true. I’m saying this because I absolutely love Gen 3! It’s my favorite Pokémon generation next to 5 and Hoenn is probably my favorite region. I still go back to Pokémon Emerald sometimes (I recently transferred my shinies to SoulSilver) and just embrace everything.

ORAS… I have not gone back to. It made me feel empty from how unfinished this was. This game didn’t have the love put into it like HG/SS or FR/LG did, and as someone who did want Hoenn remakes, that makes me extremely depressed.

It makes me worry for the people who want Sinnoh remakes, they’re going to be stuck with the Gym leaders having terrible parties like in the original Diamond/Pearl rather than Platinum, with no post-game content.

Sorry if this was a long read and if people don’t agree, again, I’m just super passionate about Gen 3.

[doshmanziari]

2019 Mega Drive Explorations [3]

A continuation of parts 1 and 2. Click the link below the first entry to read more.

Fist of the North Star: The New Legend of the Post-Apocalyptic Messiah (1989)

Absolute garbage. Since I couldn’t give less of a shit about Fist of the North Star’s plot, I played it in Japanese; the English localization of the game did not retain the Fist of the North Star license, and was renamed Last Battle. You guide Kenshiro, slowest man in the world, through a bunch of ruinous stages, fending off opponents including: men with jack-knives for arms who live underground, men with scythe-arms who form three-man-towers, men wielding shotguns who do not move at all, and harpoons. A bar runs along the bottom of the HUD, and each time one of its thresholds is passed Kenshiro will destroy his shirt and get strong. You have to face around ten bosses, and there is, barring the last point on the map, never any way to tell if the next stage is a boss or not. This is a problem when you can get destroyed in mere seconds (as far as I could tell, the best strategy for nearly every boss was to keep jump-kicking and hope the sketchy hit detection worked). If you go the wrong way on the map, you must backtrack, and it is never fun to return to any of these places. The worst are the warehouses, each acting like Sword of Sodan’s horrendous Craggamoor gauntlet, except that they are mazes with nothing to do but walk one way, see if it dead-ends, and proceed from there. The music may have, for all I know, been the work of Fatal Labyrinth’s composer, and that’s not a happy comparison. Through it all, New Legend has a kind of graphic appeal that’s tough to put to words besides shrugging and saying that maybe I just have a weak spot for coarse ugly-banal stuff that’s pumped full of shrieking colors (such colors aren’t so present here, but when they are you know it, as the second screenshot demonstrates). My final opinion is that I don’t think that Fist of the North Star deserves to have good videogames, so whatever.

Mega Turrican (1993)

This was my first Turrican game and I thought it was a lot of fun! Exciting stages, surprisingly reasonable bosses, responsive controls and neat subsidiary mechanics, and one of the system’s very best credits themes. Sometimes you can forget how many videogames had enemy placement that was “BOOM! Here’s this thing (or these things) just outta nowhere, get fucked, lmao,” and, well, every one of Mega Turrican’s stages has parts like that. This is mitigated by it being a minor trend, and the unexpected plentifulness of items that fully restore your lifebar. My main concern is one vertical room right near the end that’s structured like an extreme fan-hack for a Metroid game. Its assembly is interesting -- a sequence of platforms and recesses in either wall that come together for a series of precision-based grapple-hook challenges -- but having the likely consequence of one mistake be falling all the way back down is too much (this was also where I wished that you had a line of sight for your grapple-hook; the angle of your arm is not as reliable as it would appear). Anyway: another example of welcome mitigation was entering an enormous organic den with literal xenomorphs and facehuggers prowling about and having arrows indicating the way to the exit -- a blessing when I was expecting to contend with a maze made to make you time-out over and over again. As you can partly see, the game is visually astounding, a dense maximalist masterpiece evoking the look of an Amiga platformer, and the level design -- what’s interactive, what’s background, etc. -- remains remarkably legible, for the most part.

Golden Axe III (1993)

I was hoping to come away from Golden Axe 3 with a better impression than the one I had when cooperatively playing it years ago, but I think beat ‘em ups aren’t a genre I can get into past screenshots and soundtracks. For me, enemies have too much behavioral randomness (if they, e.g., suddenly decide to charge at you, it’s almost impossible to react in time), and the best strategies for someone who’s not mastered the mechanics often feel tedious -- cautious jump-attacks and protracted turf wars with opponents who’ve been knocked offscreen and are edging their way back. Golden Axe 3 offers the unusual opportunity to take alternative paths, which I’m guessing lead to other stages, and it does unquestionably have the series’ best avatar roster, but even the promise of new sights and sounds can’t compel me to be enthusiastic about seeing the game’s five or so endlessly palette swapped barbarians again. With these qualities and a final stage that belabored its point about being the final stage, Golden Axe 3 is another title I won’t be returning to.

X-Men 2: Clone Wars (1995)

Although it might be an unfair association, when I think of Mega Drive action-platformers I think of hellishly large layouts featuring repeating level designs and little to no grounding setpieces. Now, there are numerous western-developed games for the Super Nintendo which fit this description, but as I had little experience with those growing up, aside from the occasional Bubsy or Marvin Missions, and as that was almost exclusively what I found when playing on someone else’s Genesis, it became a stereotype. Clone Wars doesn’t escape that sort of level design -- there’s a lot of impossible-to-anticipate enemy placement, some stretches where the visual homogeneity of your surroundings gives rise to the boring sort of dislocation, a few places that could be trimmed -- but it’s also better than I was expecting. Prior to starting a stage, you can choose from, ultimately, a total of seven characters. Aside from the last few stages, where it seemed practically necessary to choose Beast for his sheer strength, I could keep switching to a different character and not feel like I was inconveniencing myself for variety's sake. Perhaps because it was a late Mega Drive release, but also certainly because of the combined talents of the background artists who included Steven A. Ross (an artist for Chakan: The Forever Man), Clone Wars is hardly ever dull to look at. It harnesses that almost over-detailed, modular aesthetic many superhero comics came to have during the 90s: characters with too many muscles, machines with too many tubes, all of those melodramatic grotesqueries that are an irresistible attractant when you’re an adolescent. And Kurt Harland’s forceful, metalized score is the best audio accompaniment that you could wish for, maybe occupying the pinnacle of EDM/IDM on the system, right next to Bare Knuckle 3. I’d love to see a ROM-hack of this that adjusted the level design, or lessened damage taken.

[osrasaskblog]

Mega Steven Universe ask meme: 6, 14, 17, 19, 25, 37, 38, and 41... sorry if that's too many!

I'm happy!! I like questions!6. Who do you ship Lapis with, if anyone?Canonically, Peridot is the only Gem she interacts with, and those interactions are cute!! So I'd say Lapidot, but I also say that Pearlapis would be interesting, even if it's probably not going to happen.Also the 10- things in the Larzuli tag are pretty heckin cute.14. Which episode of the Peridot redemption are is your favorite?"It Could've Been Great". It was the last episode that showed Peridot's loyalty to Homeworld, and I think it captured how hard it would be to turn away from everything you've ever known. Peridot cared about the Earth (or at least, saw its potential) but still thought Homeworlds original plan for it was great, so it captured a lot of conflicting feelings. I also liked how the CGs didn't just go "Oh, Peridot, if only you knew~!"—they got MAD. legit MAD. In short, it captured how turning someone away from evil can be really, really hard.17. Top Five Episodes?Whoo, boy...5) Future Vision 4) On the Run 3) Keep Beach City Weird 2) Off Colors 1) Rose's Scabbard19. Which corrupted Gem is your favorite?Not counting Centipeetle, I'd say any of the Quartz beasts. I like their design, and how they have some form of sentience to them, unlike other corrupted Gems.25. Do It for Him or Stronger Than You?Stronger Than You, but both songs are in my top 5.37. Who do you think Pearl belonged to?Hands down, White Diamond. Forehead Gem, spiky hair, white skin... If it ends up being someone else, I'll be shocked.38. Who is your favorite Ruby on the Ruby Squad?Navy. Something about her absolute delight in being evil just makes me love her.41. Raise your hand if you aren't here.Is this one of those memes that all the kids are doing these days?

[spiritgriffon]

Rachael’s favorite Pokemon + Pokemon related things!

In preparation for Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon, I figured I’d post a list of my favorite Pokemon, games & characters!

Blue or Red versions: Blue, Silver, Sapphire, Leaf Green, Diamond, Soul Silver, Black, Black 2, X, Alpha Sapphire, and Moon. I didn’t realize how consistent I was until just a couple or years ago lol

Favorite Main Game: Part of me is tempted to say Silver or Soul Silver, since it was not just my first Pokemon game, but my first game period (Mom bought me Silver & a GBA for Christmas and took me out to eat at Wendys. I can still pick out the booth we were sitting in. I got stuck in the bedroom bc we both thought the stairs were a bookshelf lol). It still holds a very special place in my heart but Black is the BEST. Pokemon has yet to outdo itself.

Favorite Side Game: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon- Explorers of Sky! (SERIOUSLY GUYS THIS IS MY FAVORITE POKEMON GAME OUT OF ALL OF THEM EVERYONE SHOULD PLAY IT AAAAAAAAAA)

Favorite Generation: GEN 5 GUYS. GEN 5. Sinnoh is another one that means a lot to me bc Diamond was the first Pokemon game I ever beat (Way back in 2007!) but I LOVE GEN 5 SO MUCH.

Favorite song: Temporal Tower, Temporal Spire & the final boss theme for PMD:EoS! Though if I had to pick a top 5 from the main series, I guess;

1- Red/Lance

2- Zinnia

3- N’s Castle

4- Ghetsis (Black/White version)

5- Team Galactic Grunt (The Smash version especially)

Favorite Villainous Team: PLAZMAAAAAA!!!!! (tho. Galactic has a way better battle theme. The Brawl remix is still my jam all these years later- and part of the reason I love Lucario so much! Oh man, that intro in Subspace Emissary!)

Favorite Character: I bow before my Lord and Savior, N. I mean there’s a BUNCH I like (Silver, Green/Blue/Gary, Steven, Looker, Cheren, Guzma, Lillie, Gladion, AND ZINNIA, ESPECIALLY ZINNIA, are all great too! I love them all!) But N is like, an all-time fave for me outside of the Pokemon series too.

Favorite Anime-Only Character: Sir Aaron form Lucario & the Mystery of Mew! (I love Lucario. I love the Lucario man.)

Favorite Player Character: Hilda from Black/White! Out of all the main series games, it feels like she has the most personality, and I like her design the best. Though if we’re including side games, the avatar from any of the PMD games is a better character... by virtue of having any character at all. (I like the female avatar in Conquest a lot as well! Not a lot of personality, but she’s really cute!)

Favorite Gen 1 Pokemon: Lapras

Favorite Gen 2 Pokemon: Lugia

Favorite Gen  3 Pokemon: Absol

Favorite Gen 4 Pokemon: Lucario

Favorite Gen 5 Pokemon: Zoroark (tho Hydreigon is such a close second.)

Favorite Gen 6 Pokemon : Xerneas

Favorite Gen 7 Pokemon: Silvally

Favorite Starter: Typhlosion (I didn't really love them until I played Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, but now they’re my go-to starter! Fun fact: I much prefer Quilava to either of it’s other evolutions. By like, a lot.)

And my favorite water & grass starters are Samurott and Decidueye~

Favorite Eeveelution: Umbreon! It’s a real shame it’s stats are so mediocre bc I love it lots

Favorite Legend: Lugia! (Tho Lunala and Dialga are really close. Dialga due to Diamond the Dialga being the first mascot legend I ever caught back in 2007 and Lunala bc Nebby is amazing and I love them.)

Favorite Mythical Pokemon: Jirachi (I remember watching Wish Maker back when it first came out and loving it except that Absol needed way more screen time. I never got quite as attached to Jirachi as I did Lugia from 2000 but they’re still my favorite mythical Pokemon by quite a bit)

Favorite Ultra Beast: Pheromosa (Why can’t I get one at a low enough level to use on my team during a playthrough rip)

Favorite Mega: MEGA ABSOL YO. (It made one of my old favorites actually viable to play AND IT’S SO GORGEOUS OH MY ARCEUS)

Favorite form variation: Alolan Ninetails/Vulpix!!! (I’ve loved Ninetails since Gen 1 but it just isn’t that useful of a Pokemon in game play normally. It’s still not the best BUT IT HAS THE BEST DESIGN SO I BRED ONE AND USED IT ON MY TEAM IN MOON FIGHT ME AND MY PRETTY FOX)

Favorite Pokemon Overall: Lucario!!!!! Ok, story time:

(under a cut bc it got a bit long)

It was 2010. I was a lonely, home schooled 13 year old, an only child with only one parent, and said parent owned and was the head chef in a struggling restaurant. I had exactly one friend- my best friend had moved away a short while ago and my home school group, including the teacher, absolutely hated me because I didn’t go to their church. Said singular friend is special needs and hadn’t been allowed to spend the day at a friend’s house without her parents ever.

Oh, and we had dial-up internet. The restaurant’s back room was close enough to someone with wifi down the block that I could watch Youtube during business hours, but none of my game systems could pick it up.

Life kinda sucked hard. But that’s not my point. BUT IT DID IT SUCKED SO BAD

Mom had helped me dig out my old Nintendo 64, so I had that, my Gamecube, Youtube, and my DS to entertain me for about 5 years. One day I’d decided to look up Smash videos- and there was a sequel! It had Princess Zelda from my favorite game, Ocarina of Time in it! So I bought Melee, and then I bought Twilight Princess when I found out that was a thing, and then my mom’s childhood friend took pity on me & bought me a Wii (I’m p sure I cried trying to thank him) and then I got Brawl!

So it’s 2010, and I go into brawl completely blind- the only characters I know are the Zelda ones, Pokemon Trainer/Pikachu, & the Mario characters from Mario 64. I start playing Subspace Emissary and even though I don’t know most of the characters it is awesome. So I get to the Ice type level- I know the Ice Climbers from Melee & Meta Knight from the old Kirby anime, and this awesome jackal ninja character shows up and oh my god it’s so cool!!!

And then the Pokemon music starts playing.

I think I screamed. I hadn’t evolved my Riolu that Riley gave me in Diamond, and it had been long enough since I’d beaten Cynthia that I’d forgotten Lucario existed. There has never been another Pokemon that I’ve seen in my entire life that made me go “WOW!!!” half as much as Lucario.

And that’s how Lucario got to be my favorite Pokemon~

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This is a glass key and Jason bermas of we are changed in Oregon as you all know there’s a huge mega PR media War happening right now between Alex Jones and Joe Rogan and that’s why in this video show me and Jason want to tell you about the latest developments and our own personal kind of made-up assessments on who is figuratively winning the bigger PR War here and Jason why not let’s also maybe even discuss what would happen in the cage match between Joe Rogan and Alex Jones but personally before we get into all that I Blame You Jason for absolutely all of it.

Oh boy for those that don’t know.

Back in the day when Infowars was actually producing my material and I was living in Austin Texas I was big then as I am now and Rogan and Jones had a relationship since the late 90s for those who don’t know Joe actually called in on the 911 show trying to argue with Alex He’s already calling it a government Inside Job talking about bombs in the building the whole 9.

And Rogan was upset now on top of that Jones is in one of his comedy DVDs Belly of the Beast where they both dress up like a bush and son and go around and cloaks in that intros the DVD stay a long history that’s like you know why.

Even after you’re falling out because of some Fear Factor stuff.

The horse drink will call it that the horse drink that’s a nice way of saying it there Jason.

And then you know people being like needle through their bodies and dehumanizing stuff that really caused a rift.

End up getting back together and obviously Rogan is now like the biggest thing and podcasting out their Jones’s Empire has only grown and unfortunately especially recently Loop they have been butting heads.

Well you know people have to understand here there’s a big history here on this Feud actually was going back even before Joe Rogan had Jack Dorsey on even a couple days before that Alex Jones had yon Arvin supposedly the person that introduced Joe Rogan to DMT in Ayahuasca to on kind of bashing him for an hour and Joe and Alex is kind of going off on a lot of kind of hyperbolic made up things talking about how the CIA is pushing DMT in Ayahuasca get a lot of those things haven’t been confirmed a lot of assumptions being made but I do believe essentially that there are still some legitimate criticisms of Joe Rogan that do need to be taken very seriously cuz he is supported by the cash app some people even make the estimates that he receives require a lot of money from that sponsorship which is directly tied into Jack Dorsey which of course is controversy all erupted because people are accusing him of being very soft handed on him and some people are estimated that the Joe Rogan gets $300,000 per month from. The cash app and an estimated 3.5 million per year from that larger kind of sponsorship and that’s why a lot of people were kind of very disappointed with Joe Rogan when especially the question turned it to Alex Jones where Joe Rogan specifically asked Jack Dorsey why was Alex Jones banned in people notice Lee noticeably saw a major body shift in the CEO of Jack Dorsey we saw him kind of recoil we saw him stutter we saw him lose eye contact and safe leave that because rightfully so they shouldn’t this is a billion Aaron and if he is either completely gone for major decisions from this.

Huge institution of power Twitter there’s no other explanation for this and Joe kind of kind of let it by kind of let it swing and gone to change the topic right away when he personally know those individuals who were censored were bad not just Alex Jones but other individuals in the bias is very clear here there’s a reason Saudi Arabia and high Saudi Royal officials are investing so much in Twitter and have such a majority ownership of Twitter this is because Twitter is a main political weapon and it is being used in many different ways we saw many anti-war figures like Carey wedler be completely bad without explanation without reason Racine people targeted within the Venezuelan government within the Syrian government obviously serving bigger geopolitical US Coast clearly do see a bigger kind of political bias when it comes to him Joe Rogan and Jack Dorsey excuse me let me just focus on Jack Dorsey here with Jack Dorsey Banning people for saying that. The people who are getting fired right now should learn to code code like we saw tweeted by a Daily Caller editor who now had his account suspended because he just tweeted learn-to-code to the mainstream media that is obviously losing their jobs right now people who also bring up facts that fatherless homes lead to more crimes are also being bad while of course there’s literally a New York Times Asian lady just putting out a full-on war on slab against white people and she gets verified we’re seeing the Covenant kids being called to be docked being called for harm to be done to them by Major celebrities major media figures no banning at all huge discrepancies huge political war happening here and Joe Rogan who says he believes in the rights of people to communicate with each other to give everyone a platform everyone thought he was going to make a strong stance on that and he didn’t and this is why there’s been a lot of questions out of course. Logan answered back answer back of course against Alex Jones as well and answered back even mentioning how Media Matters said that Alex Jones was like and when you talk about Media Matters than Alex Jones you pretty much have some of the most erroneous institutions of media out there because Media Matters is supported by George Soros Alex Jones that’s a lot of hyperbolic stuff with Jason you’re going to get into as well because Alex Jones is kind of going all off literally calling to God himself God to rage this war against Joe Rogan and it’s only getting crazier from here right Jason it absolutely is only getting crazier you’re my friend so.

Let’s talk about that the Thunder that erupted because of the Dorsey thing because that.

You have some value.

On both side so when you look at the Dorsey interview.

Rogan said that he disclosed that he was a sponsor through the cash app I’m not sure if he did that I didn’t watch the entire interview I’ll maybe he did so in another interview but he absolutely was taking that money if I could if I can interrupt he should have been more transparent with that his main, twas I think I mentioned it if you’re taking money from Jack dorsey’s company and you’re interviewing him I think you have to talk about it I think you do have to mention it out when it’s on such a large scale of influence and power and money and not much money that that is a legitimate.

Criticism there’s a legitimate criticism when he didn’t follow up on things like using facial recognition again another legitimate criticism.

And and the criticism I think is more value when you look at Joe Rogan’s other interviews when he’s interviewing people like Steven Crowder and Candace Owens in and he’s going at them hard he’s questioning them he’s not letting them get by with any easy lazy answer he’s being very digilent a Vigilant and we’ve haven’t seen that with a lot of other figures on the completely other put beside this is another argument that people are making of course against Joe Road.

Yes absolutely and and let’s continue just a little bit further and Rogan really is not been honest about George Soros and what Jones has said about him and we have to acknowledge that for instance when we talk about Media Matters that is a George Soros David Brock.

And it is there is.

Free documentation not only with interviews from Soros himself but that he was taken in by a Nazi collaborator his name was kissed sander and yes he to also work with now she’s making him a Nazi collaborator in taking people’s property that is absolutely 100% factual that doesn’t need me and you know he was by the side of Hitler Zig hailing but in those interviews he certainly not remorseful or regretful about it so let’s be clear about that so that gives all cretans to Jones let’s swing it around now for a sec.

Things that Jones has said about Rodan first of all before the Dorsey interview.

Being a CIA puppet essentially you watch those those that interview and that’s where he starts to go off.

The rails that you bring up a good point here Jason because Alex Jones is definitely really great at kind of bringing up extremely crazy points and then walking them back and be like I never said that.

Which of course Joe Rogan also accuses him of doing when he talked about Sandy Hook on his podcast saying essentially with Alex Jones was saying was not true.

Exactly so let’s go back to the main thing with Sandy Hook.

And anyway Jones wants to spend it there was a point in time where he called the thing a completely synthetic event with actor.

So you know side from Sandy Hook you know what is Alex Jones talking about that’s not true number one.

The way he’s attacked Rogan and he’s got a snake and he’s called him snake Joe and he’s twisting his his neck and call him a tough Jiu-Jitsu guy I guess we’ll get into the fight later but that is,.

That at one point he literally says and I quote and we’re going to play this for.

Exactly the fire dude Jesus who you hate so much said Jesus.

Show me to destroy Joe Rogan.

I pulled a fire dude Jesus who you hate so much said Jesus told me destroys all right.

Next I don’t think Joe Rogan has ever said he hates Jesus he’s never been a religious guy but he certainly acknowledge the good points of religion he actually talks about being agnostic and believing something Beyond a you know especially after those DMT trips that Alex Jones is condemning so much that there may be an afterlife or something more to this so he’s being very dishonest there let’s be out let’s all be honest when we play this clip you look at Jones’s face even Jose knows he didn’t talk to Jesus and Jesus didn’t tell him to destroy anybody level on Joe Rogan.

Alex is going off he’s talking about Italian Guys in Vegas he’s making so many just generalized off the wall like topics that he’s not being specific about and showing absolutely no evidence about so that definitely needs to be called out as well because I got Alex Jones says the most craziest stuff and then comes back like I never said that fast talk tasting thing where he essentially always just creates his own kind of reality in some of the stuff he says is not only hyperbolic but just straight-out wrong about Joe Rogan and if they’re true show us some evidence which he’s not and he’s going from literal Walnut sauce pineal gland Luke on top of that while he’s going off on his little road going to rant here he starts talking about viral videos and he starts talking about I produce loose change their food.

187 million hits before they erased on Google video now that part is again that’s him spitting the truth so just so everybody understand Alex Jones produced Loose Change Final Cut Loose Change 2nd edition had nothing to do with him is that Joe Rogan actually bought the film before Alex Jones even carried it so let’s get that little factoid out there Jerome was the first guy to buy off our website he bought the 10-pack okay and Jones still had not even contacted us at that.

Keep reduce Loose Change Final Cut now to file tax credit probably online you know maybe over 10 let’s let’s give it 20 million views not 187 million views had nothing to do with that but I’m not jealous and he actually calls Rogan jealous he also says that he was bigger on YouTube than Rogan now again overall.

Infowars been around forever maybe more views but if you looked at not only Joe Rogan’s podcast.

King Joe Rogan and the other dozen bootleg things out there with Rogan there is no doubt in the past few years that Rogan has been much larger.

And then he says he’s going to take him down while I hate to tell you but Rogan’s not going anywhere.

To a large audience that doesn’t mean I agree with everything that he says but I enjoy his long format of a two to three-hour interview with something someone you use the Alex Jones used to do our two-hour-long interviews with people yeah you would interrupt a lot but those long-form interviews are long..

Yeah yeah yeah I was on some of those you were on some of those as well but I think it’s let’s talk to you about this kind of longer PR War that’s happening here because from what I see happening here obviously a lot of people are being extremely divided on on major sides here but as far as PR wise I think Alex Jones is winning at what he wants which is attention and he’s doing anything and saying anything for it and we’re talking about him because of that so far as attention wise and people paying attention and clicking an end and looking at him I think Alex Jones wins..

Specific portion but as far as just explaining himself I think Joe Rogan is definitely done a better job at that and it does have to be pointed out that Joe Rogan is coming off very kind of naive now either he’s pretending to be naive or he’s really naive because he’s quoting Media Matters and saying well Jack Dorsey this billionaire Saudi Arabia funded huge technocrat motor size and made Twitter big political weapon he’s telling me that it’s not true so it’s not true even a lot of the body of evidence kind of shows that it’s not so I think that is all going to be figured out with Jack Dorsey coming back on the show and if Jack Dorsey does not come back on the show on The Joe Rogan experiment to be kind of question on these very big important issues this is going to be over all a bigger loss for Joe Rogan who at the time right now you know his reaction.

Does deserve some scrutiny but makes sense in the long-term that’s kind of my assessment what’s yours will see where that goes again I’m not that hopeful because you have one end where you don’t think Joe Rogan can be that naive especially being around somebody like Eddie Bravo you know Eddie Bravo super conspiratorial so at some point he hears them all what he believes what he what he knows to be true who knows but for instance attacking a Jones for some of the pedogate stuff you know the Jimmy Savile raping corpses Jones Is Right that that is absolutely been proven that something that’s been put out there by law enforcement it’s extremely disturbing you know the adrenochrome stuff whether they were taking that from pituitary glands I’ve seen that in other reports I don’t know that I’ve seen it in the civil case so again that maybe one of those things that’s being. Construed and Rogan may have a point. So what I tell the audience is this there’s no way you can keep your eyes off of this.

Jones like you said kind of does need this attention after all these bendy platform he’s lost a lot of Revenue he’s probably feeling it no matter what he says out there yes in the very beginning that sent a lot.

But nobody left YouTube you know what I’m saying nobody left YouTube Luke and out Rogan’s got that voice got that platform and many other so in that respect I am sympathetic to Joan’s but how long it lasts I don’t know am I a hoe.

The both of them do get together on one of their larger platforms and kind of hash this out.

I want to see cagematch I think would be interesting to see a WWE stop this is where we have Alex the answer to 1984 is 1999 plus shipping and handling and one side of the Ring another side of the Ring we have Joe the toe snake close the cage let them have at it I mean I just see a whole what do you think would happen in a cage match I mean they’re both about the same height they’re both about kind of the same way I mean it would be a crazy fight it would be very simple and if here’s the deal you could have let let’s do it for Alex would rip his shirt up starts pounding his chest charging error what happens next he would say that he was anointed by God to defeat Joe Rogan even though I don’t know of anybody that’s actually physically talk to Jesus or God for that matter any of their deed. That’s beyond the point first of all you have 2 Outlaw striking just on Rogan’s end right and allow No Holds Barred cage match what happened again to try to make it fair for Alex you have to Bar all strikes and Rogan Rogan did Karate for decades now doesn’t matter what happened just give me the run by run play-by-play here Rogan Sidekicks him and and that’s the end of the fight is going to pull some crazy stuff you know he’s going to try to bite your offer. Do something crazy Luke the horse kick makes it over immediately he’s going to kick him across the thing he will collapse in pain and say he ate a big bowl of chili before the batch that was it now let’s say for instance Rogan cannot strike this is how the match go.

Alex again charges at Joe Rogan.

Joe Rogan then side steps and takes his back and chokes him until he Taps because I guarantee you as as as country boy and toughest Alex thinks he is he’s not going to sleep he will tag number and Cialis pulling a metal chair out of of nowhere all the time sneak attack wouldn’t surprise me in this matter but overall the reason we’re laughing is because we’ll be crying situation have been completely honest with you and that’s what you got to do you just got to kind of make the light of it I got these are just our opinions if you think we’re wrong or if you have any predictions of what would happen in the steel cage between Joe Rogan and Alex Jones let us know in the comments section below I’m right now off to Paris to do some on-the-ground reporting we’re going to be back also Saturday for 4 p.m. Eastern live stream Saturday not Sunday from Sunday 7 p.m. Eastern we’re changing that right now to Saturday so TuneIn Saturday 7 p.m. 4 p.m. Eastern for the live show.

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[two-sides-halved]

"... good lird"

[clubofinfo]

Expert: Indeed, the young are tethered to a slumber land of no ideas or ideals. Shackled to the beasts of debt and endless consumer-rent-mortgage-fee-levy-tax-fine-surcharge-hidden add on Capitalism. They amble to the nearest Starbucks and find the plastic putrid world and shitty coffee essence safe, conformist, the place to snuggle in with Twitter-Snapchat-Instagram-Facebook-Spotify. Add to that the general malaise of wanting nothing to do with politics, and everything to do with hipster joker-a-second crap they have downloading and meandering through their apps, and we have a country of no serious thinking. Tapped into the spine of the controllers, the brain centers micro-processing the emotions of the dictators. Not to say the oldsters in US of A aren’t the same – ambulating in the grand isles of Costco and Walmart, and, yes, juiced up on a triple-shot foamy caramel latte. The faces of red-white-and-blue are the hollowed-out skulls of the zombie culture of wanting-getting-having-buying-discarding-paying it down through the ka-chang of the ever-present ATM. I worked hard as a social worker-case manager-breeder of anarchy with old and young, now the young, kids in care, state custody, plied by the champions of bureaucracy, who have some shekels and grants here and there to help them get way past the eight ball they are behind. Shuffled from foster home to foster home, many intersecting with the juvenile injustice system, and many bouncing from school to school, no foundations, no biological link to a put-together family, whatever that is these days in the land of ballooning debts and general anxiety disorder over the simple disparity of why the gap of accumulation of wealth is getting bigger and bigger. With fewer haves than can be imaginable, and mostly haves not wondering how each and every public service had now been captured by the MBA Gestapo and elite SS forces of financial felonies. That is the anxiety of the rebellious like me. Youth having to make a choice of learning how to weld metal for a living, at the community college, then hunkering down three to a room, or five to a living room. Rents are criminal, and available places for kids coming out of state foster custody are about as rare as a wild living trotting wolf in Wyoming. Kids go from state custody to homelessness . . . or variations on a theme . . . sometimes back to the very mothers or fathers that state bureaucracy yanked them from in the first place for heinous crimes. We play charades with these youth, with their minds, their dreams, their futures, their lives. We de-link ourselves from screaming at the top of our lungs – “The systems are broken, gone, because we let the billionaires and millionaires set policy, hold sway over states, cities, regions, denude all agency for a public commons, public good, public health, public economy and public investment track.” We have tuition debts in the hundreds of thousands per graduate student (AKA mark, sucker born every nano second, PT Barnum, yeah!) after a few years past the undergraduate degree. We have a beleaguered youth who know nothing but the logo-brand game, know nothing but what they might want on top of their triple-decker quadruple-supreme, triple-dipped seven-scoop ice cream Sunday. Conversations are about things, about stupid shows, about video games, about the nothingness, zilch of the inhumane celebrity-actor-musician-athlete culture. And, is it their fault, these Gen Z kids, when we have ball-and-chained their barely burgeoning lives and decades of future absurd toil to the whims of the murderous marketers and money mongers? I have youth who can’t hitch a ride on public transportation because it’s buggered up, runs one bus to the hour, or never makes it out to rural or suburban locales, and then they have to throw down for Lyft or Uber just to make it to their shit jobs where they are cogs . . . . I was just talking to them about how screwed up Uber is . . . “I didn’t even think about getting workers’ compensation,” John said. “Uber wasn’t paying for anything.” John knew what many drivers know: that Uber fights tooth and nail in courts and in front of labor boards from New York to California to classify its drivers as independent contractors, in part to avoid having to pay for workers’ compensation payouts to its more than 300,000 drivers, a workforce comparable to major employers like Home Depot and Target. . . . . or how rotten Google et al are The Highlands Forum doesn’t need to produce consensus recommendations. Its purpose is to provide the Pentagon a shadow social networking mechanism to cement lasting relationships with corporate power, and to identify new talent, that can be used to fine-tune information warfare strategies in absolute secrecy. Total participants in the DoD’s Highlands Forum number over a thousand, although sessions largely consist of small closed workshop style gatherings of maximum 25–30 people, bringing together experts and officials depending on the subject. Delegates have included senior personnel from SAIC and Booz Allen Hamilton, RAND Corp., Cisco, Human Genome Sciences, eBay, PayPal, IBM, Google, Microsoft, AT&T, the BBC, Disney, General Electric, Enron, among innumerable others; Democrat and Republican members of Congress and the Senate; senior executives from the US energy industry such as Daniel Yergin of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates; and key people involved in both sides of presidential campaigns. Other participants have included senior media professionals: David Ignatius, associate editor of the Washington Post and at the time the executive editor of the International Herald Tribune; Thomas Friedman, long-time New York Times columnist; Arnaud de Borchgrave, an editor at Washington Times and United Press International; Steven Levy, a former Newsweek editor, senior writer for Wired and now chief tech editor at Medium; Lawrence Wright, staff writer at the New Yorker; Noah Shachtmann, executive editor at the Daily Beast; Rebecca McKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices Online; Nik Gowing of the BBC; and John Markoff of the New York Times. … or how felonious Amazon has always been, continues to be, and will forever be a curse to all humanity if we do not just stop using it, and taking the big guy to tax court, like the courts of Inquisition taking youth to court if they fudge on their housing subsidy, or the court of Scarlet Letter for daddies in arrears for child support . . . . Yep, I try and tell the Latte Lads and Lasses that Amazon is the criminal enterprise, maximum security vanguard of all bad things . . . . As Amazon spreads around the world selling everything and squeezing other businesses that use its platform, is Jeff Bezos laughing at humanity? His ultimate objective seems to preside over a mega-trillion dollar global juggernaut that is largely automated, except for that man at the top with the booming laugh who rules over the means by which we consume everything from goods, to media, to groceries. Crushing competitors, history shows, is leads to raising prices by monopolizers. Consumers, workers and retailers alike must be on higher alert and address this growing threat. You have nothing to lose except Bezos’s tightening algorithmic chains. To start the conversation, you can wait for Franklin Foer’s new book out this September, titled World Without a Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech. Until then, a good substitute is his 2014 article in The New Republic, ‘Amazon Must be Stopped.’ I tell my youth to look into it, how the billionaires’ club is made up of perverts – hating man and woman kind, hating the poor, the downtrodden, and certainly hating foster youth or recovering adults, and the homeless, and the working poor looking for a decent clinic to set a broken bone from working like slaves for these millionaires and billionaires. Our youth are prime victims of agnotolgy – the deliberate erasing of facts, truths, beliefs, but truly, history. The Jewish Nakba scrubbing. Holocaust deniers in Zion, and the new Zion, the American continent. How Canadians know nothing of their own terrible rape and murder of first nations peoples . . . their support of African despots . . . their terrible homegrown devils of international mining and arms sales . . . . Agnotology, the Two Minutes of Hate, a la Orwell, the fabricated Emmanuel Goldstein. Youth who know nothing of North Korea, of Vietnam, of any of the truths of their own womb . . . truths scrubbed by schools, by the controllers, facilitated by the Media and Publishing, and consumed by overworked, overwrought parents. Youth that hate government but love the big boys and girls running roughshod over our-their own survival: the business class. I find it interesting that Ralph Nader goes on an attack of Just Jeff Bezos (Amazon dot conned) without footnoting his piece that ALL the Fortune 1000 captains (Goose-stepping toward the vaults of shekels) of industry-finance-military-real estate-technology-media-energy are dirtier than the Mafioso, dirtier than any El Chapo, dirtier than any den of pimps and pornographers. Is there a clean, good one on the lists below? And think of the investments, the power these people wield to determine global financial-military-cultural future: Bill Gates: $86.0 billion,  United States, Microsoft Warren Buffett: $75.6 billion, United States, Berkshire Hathaway Jeff Bezos: $72.8 billion, United States, Amazon.com Amancio Ortega: $71.3 billion, Spain, Inditex, Zara Mark Zuckerberg: $56.0 billion, United States, Facebook Carlos Slim: $54.5 billion, Mexico, América Móvil, Grupo Carso Larry Ellison: $52.2 billion, United States, Oracle Corporation Charles Koch: $48.3 billion, United States, Koch Industries David Koch: $48.3 billion,United States, Koch Industries Michael Bloomberg: $47.5 billion, United States, Bloomberg L.P. Or the entire DNA strains of the World’s Richest Families, they any better than Jeff Bezos and Monopoly Amazon? That’s the rub is it not, that the poverty my youth suffer, the poverty I suffer, all these shell games played with our social right: national health care; real social security; public schools and colleges; libraries for the people; banks of the states; water, air, land, food, press/journalism part of the public commons; the right to a roof over your head and a light bulb and plate of slop and a flicker of heat in the dead of winter; the vast collective right of nature to persist, excel, and evolve. This country is set ablaze by the entire Little Eichmann and Big Himmler and Ugly Zionist and Crusader logic of pain and theft. My small charges, 16 to 21, are caught in a web of psychological-physiological-economic-educational-medical-spiritual deception, and they have nothing to turn to than the ebbing and flowing corpuscles created by the generators of multi-syllabic, three dozen hyphenated things they consume, all nano-particled and sliced and diced with the magic of the chemical still. We have kids with ticks, kids with obesity-lethargy-lingering intelligence and cognition. We have children who are the essence of the Stanley Milgram experiment on obedience, except his was an experiment on authority, lab coats and Yale basement authority, whereas today, the Milgram experiment is fluid, directly wired into Facebook-Google-Anything Digital. Today, youth and the old are kettled to consumer and be all they can be based on a giant interstellar Madison Avenue-PsyOps experiment to lobotomize-confuse-disassociate-deny humans in this country. Imagine, no rebellion, no running through the streets, no daily Molotov’s thrown into the limos and onto the doorsteps of the millionaire and billionaire murderers. Milgram examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the World War II, Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based on “obedience” – that they were just following orders from their superiors. The experiments began in July 1961, a year after the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Milgram devised the experiment to answer the question: Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices?” (Milgram, 1974). These finance-foisting, tax-robbing, war-creating, debt-inducing, human/child/ecosystem-sacrificing pigs are given more than a trillion get out of jail cards. They are running things, playing editor like Jeff Bezos, ruining everything like Mr. PayPal – My joke about Thiel’s “Brownshirt Combinator” isn’t as funny now, is it? ‘Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations’: Palantir Technologies, the data-mining company co-founded by billionaire and Trump transition adviser Peter Thiel, will likely assist the Trump administration in its efforts to track and collect intelligence on immigrants, according to a review of public records by The Intercept. Since 2011, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s Office of Homeland Security Investigations has paid Palantir tens of millions of dollars to help construct and operate a complex intelligence system called FALCON, which allows ICE to store, search, and analyze troves of data that include family relationships, employment information, immigration history, criminal records, and home and work addresses. […] Working closely with a president-elect who has pledged to dramatically expand ICE, Thiel’s varied connections to the immigration agency place him in a position to potentially benefit financially from a deportation campaign that carries highly personal stakes for millions of Americans. […] In addition to containing information on family relationships and immigration history, the records FALCON collects can also include photographs of subjects, employment information, educational background, and “geospatial data.” […] Last month, it was reported that Trump and his advisers are drafting plans to launch a campaign of workplace raids across the country to find undocumented immigrants. With a mandate to enforce laws relating to unauthorized employment, HSI has been identified as the primary component within ICE that conducts such job-site raids. This past October, after a lengthy investigation, HSI agents raided several Mexican restaurants in Buffalo, New York, arresting more than a dozen workers, some of whom were charged with criminal counts of “illegal re-entry,” raising an outcry from immigrant advocates. In 2013, after an HSI raid on carwashes in Phoenix, more than two dozen immigrants were reportedly sent to Enforcement and Removal Operations officers for possible deportation. ICE can conduct such raids even in so-called sanctuary cities that have refused to allow local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE in finding and removing undocumented immigrants. […] Palantir, which is backed by the CIA’s venture capital arm, did not respond to a request for comment regarding its ICE contracts and concerns over potential conflicts of interest. Peter Thiel spokesperson Jeremiah Hall declined to comment on a list of emailed queries, including a question asking whether Thiel has yet signed the Trump transition ethics agreement. While Ralph Nader is huge in so many ways, and I worked for his campaigns and was lambasted by colleagues in journalism, education and the environmental movement, the real rub is how he at his wise age can even stomach ANYTHING the billionaire class says, does, and infers. His Utopian thing, Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us, was and is off the mark, big-time – In the cozy den of the large but modest house in Omaha where he has lived since he started on his first billion, Warren Buffett watched the horrors of Hurricane Katrina unfold on television in early September 2005. . . . On the fourth day, he beheld in disbelief the paralysis of local, state, and federal authorities unable to commence basic operations of rescue and sustenance, not just in New Orleans, but in towns and villages all along the Gulf Coast. . . He knew exactly what he had to do. . . So begins the vivid fictional account by political activist and bestselling author Ralph Nader that answers the question, “What if?” What if a cadre of super-rich individuals tried to become a driving force in America to organize and institutionalize the interests of the citizens of this troubled nation? What if some of America’s most powerful individuals decided it was time to fix our government and return the power to the people? What if they focused their power on unionizing Wal-Mart? What if a national political party were formed with the sole purpose of advancing clean elections? What if these seventeen superrich individuals decided to galvanize a movement for alternative forms of energy that will effectively clean up the environment? What if together they took on corporate Goliaths and Congress to provide the necessities of life and advance the solutions so long left on the shelf by an avaricious oligarchy? What could happen? America is a country of the dead. As is Israel, and note that not ONE cute-real-serious-well-acted-poorly- acted movie about the perfect Milgram subjects – Israelis – has ever been made, produced, shown on the Media, one clearly hoisted by Zionists – in some of their own words, as Gilad Atzmon lends some weight to this, In his recent address to the ultra-Zionist and war-mongering Stand With Us, Alan Dershowitz said, ‘People say Jews are too powerful, too strong, too rich, we control the media, we’ve too much this, too much that and we often apologetically deny our strength and our power. Don’t do that!’ Elder Zionist Dershowitz who acquired for himself the reputation of a “remarkable liar” (Chomsky) and a “serial plagiarist” (Finkelstein) probably decided, just before he meets his creator, to give truth one last try. In our world, no one can deny that Jews are “too powerful,” “too rich” or that they “control the media.” Yet no one can ignore that Jews themselves are rarely apologetic about their extensive and overblown power. In fact, as with Dershowitz, most Jews tend to boast about the various facets of Jewish domination and, while boasting, use every trick in the book to silence anyone else who points to that power. As I have been arguing for several years, Jewish power is the ability to suppress the discussion on Jewish power. Actually, Dershowitz’ approach here is rather refreshing. He admits that Jews are overwhelmingly powerful yet insists on presenting a rationale as to why Jews should never apologize about this overbearing and abusive power. ‘WE (the Jews, presumably) have earned the right to influence public debate, WE have earned the right to be heard, WE have contributed disproportionately to success of this country.’ One may wonder who is included in that ‘WE’ that has contributed so much to the ‘success’ of America. Is he referring to his client and close friend Jeffrey Epstein who pimped under-aged girls for the elites? Does Dershowitz’ ‘WE’ include Alan Greenspan who led the country to class genocide? Or perhaps his ‘WE’ denotes all those Wall Street Jewish bankers, like the Goldmans, the Sachs and the Soroses – those who, on a daily basis, gamble on the American future and the global economy. And almost certainly, Dershowitz’ ‘WE’ includes Haim Saban and Sheldon Adelson who have managed to reduce American politics into merely an internal Zionist affair. These are daunting times, the entire globe sucked of its telephone calls, its computer messages, all the uploads and downloads, every human individual defecation and urination and climax cataloged in these nuclear-powered cloud servers. Battened down, these surveillance hatches. Young people are now the cows, bred to follow the orders of Old Navy and any new shiny merchant of duncery and death; to pay for their cell phones, diligently, to pay-pay-pay for the poisons going into their brains and bellies. They are taught to not question or to not rebel, or to not just sit down and start a ruckus. Daily, the power of corrupted commercialization is like s drug resistant tuberculosis eating at our next and our next generation’s soul. Until there is no resistant antinode or antibiotic to stop the final solution drawn through the elaborate algorithms of controllers – massive forgetting, massive insanity. These demigods — the monopolies — supplying every microgram of humanity’s needs, now that we are sealed in this fate of capitalism – addicted to goods and services unnecessary, and willing to watch all good and common needs vanish with each new libertarian sucking the blood from us all like the vampires and nematodes of the capitalist elites. http://clubof.info/

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Adventures In Blog Maintenance

Attempt 1. Leg

Attempt 2. Better but I don't want the white paint background remnants

Attempt 3. FUCKING FINALLY.

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(70 horrible questions)oi question 69 for mega steven? *le wink*

69: Do you believe in soulmates?

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Name: Mega Steven

Species: Gem/Human Hybrid Fusion

Gem: Pink Diamond

Gem placement: Navel

Weapon: Shield, occasionally spiked bubble fists, sharp teeth

Alignment: Crystal Gems

Appearance

Hair color: pale pink hair

Eye color: right eye, pink with white star pupil, left eye, pink with black diamond pupil

Clothes: bright hot pink jacket, dark blue uniform shirt, dark purple with neon pink star, with black jeans that have been stretched out to make shorts.

Fun Fact(s)

Mega Steven is a relatively calm fusion unless any form of Spinel is in his presence, he would go into an ungodly rage, that would only calm after Spinel has been poofed and her gem has been taken care of

Mega Steven has two rows of teeth. An outer row of teeth that are big and sharp, and an inner row of normal teeth, due to the size and shape of his outer teeth, Mega Steven has a hard time speaking and is unable to close his mouth fully resulting in tons of slobber that end up creating trails of pink flowers and thorny vines depending on his mood where he walks

Favorite(s)

Quote: “oh shit... oh fuck” - Spinel, prior to getting dunked on by several sharp teeth tearing her form to figurative shreds

Food: Pasta with meat sauce

Snacks: Spinel,  Barbeque flavored, Chaaaps brand potato chips

Book: none

Background

Mega Steven was first formed while Human and Gem Steven were fused as Steven Squared. After Spinel had cut Connie in half, Steven Squared broke down into tears, frustrated with being unable to save her. Spinel’s taunting and laughing was the straws that broke the camel’s back.

Steven Squared’s tears had made thorny vines grow from the cracked dying Earth beneath them. The emotional distress was so great that their gem orientation changed from their mother, Rose Quartz, to their figurative grandmother, Pink Diamond’s orientation.

Mega Steven’s first sight was the world dying, the sky’s were dark, the ground was flowing with bright red lava, as well as glowing pink planet killing poison, and his eyes set on the laughing form of Spinel, before catching her off guard and biting her in half.

Mega Steven is the size of Pink Diamond, while Steven Squared is the size for Rose Quartz