#may as well dub this the long S3 wait

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MP100 Official’s Countdown Compilation

2021/07/17: Given that it now looks likely that MP100 official is counting up to 100 with the 100th day (2021/10/19) being the S3 announcement reveal, I will edit this post with new additions rather than reblogging...

2021/07/12 (1): MP100 official celebrates the 5th anniversary of the MP100 anime, finishing their post with the words, “We’ve got stage play 3 coming this summer, and then... please wait!!” The post includes a screencap of Reigen with a single finger up.

2021/07/13 (2): Captionless Mob with two fingers up.

2021/07/14 (3): Captionless cult leader Dimple with three fingers up.

2021/07/15 (4): Captionless Reigen with four fingers up.

2021/07/15 (4): MP100 anime director Tachikawa Yuzuru retweets the image of Reigen with four fingers up asking for everyone’s support.

2021/07/16 (5): Captionless Mob with five fingers up.

2021/07/17 (6): Captionless Onigawara with the number 6 pictured behind him.

2021/07/18 (7): Captionless “Claw: Seventh Division” pictured.

2021/07/19 (8): Captionless Mob with 8 fingers up.

2021/07/20 (9): Captionless Inukawa with 9 fingers up.

2021/07/21 (10): Reigen holding up a book with the number 10 on it.

2021/07/22 (11): Reigen with 11 fingers.

2021/07/23 (12): LOL cult Dimple with 10 fingers and Tome with 2.

2021/07/24 (13): 13:00 pictured on the whiteboard.

2021/07/25 (14): Mitsuura with 10 fingers, Asahi and Hoshino with a 4 behind them.

2021/07/26 (15): Inukawa with 10 fingers, Saruta with 5.

2021/07/27 (16): Dimple with 10 fingers, Mob with 5, Reigen with 1.

2021/07/28 (17): Onigawara as 1 in the top image (or maybe the “ten” in “tenga”), 7 percent.

2021/07/29 (18): 18 tomatoes.

2021/07/30 (19): Cult leader Dimple with 5 fingers, Koyama with 5 fingers, Ishiguro with 5 fingers, 4% pictured.

2021/07/31 (20): 20% pictured.

2021/08/01 (21): “The rising star of the 21st Century Reigen Arataka’s Spirits and Such Consultation Office” pictured.

2021/08/02 (22): Ritsu & Teru giving 2 twice.

2021/08/03 (23): Asahi with 10 fingers, Hoshino with 10 fingers, Reigen with 3 fingers.

2021/08/04 (24): Mob with 2 fingers 10 times, Teru with 2 fingers, Reigen with 2 fingers.

2021/08/05 (25): 25% pictured.

2021/08/06 (26): 21% pictured, 5 fingers pictured.

2021/08/07 (27): 27% pictured.

2021/08/08 (28): “Mr. Reigen Arataka (28)” pictured.

2021/08/09 (29): 27% pictured, 2 mushrooms pictured.

2021/08/10 (30): 30 pictured.

2021/08/11 (31): 3-1 pictured.

2021/08/12 (32): 3 fingers pictured, gun (juu=10), 2 fingers pictured. 3 * 10 + 2 = 32.

2021/08/13 (33): Tome, Ichi & Tsubomi creating a 3 twice.

2021/08/14 (34): 34 pictured.

2021/08/15 (35): 35% pictured.

2021/08/16 (36): 36 pictured.

2021/08/17 (37): 37 likes on an in-universe tweet pictured.

2021/08/18 (38): Mob with 5 fingers, Teru with 5 fingers, 28 pictured.

2021/08/19 (39): 39 pictured.

2021/08/20 (40): 40% pictured.

2021/08/21 (41): Reigen with 4 fingers (ten times), Mob with 1 finger.

2021/08/22 (42): 7th Division pictured 6 times.

2021/08/23 (43): 43 pictured.

2021/08/24 (44): Onigawara and the Body Improvement Club creating a 4 twice.

2021/08/25 (45): 45% pictured.

2021/08/26 (46): 46 pictured.

2021/08/27 (47): 47% pictured.

2021/08/28 (48): 48 pictured.

2021/08/29 (49): 49 pictured.

2021/08/30 (50): 50% pictured.

2021/08/31 (51): The Ultimate Five pictured 10 times, plus “Ichi” (1) from “Touichirou”.

2021/09/01 (52): 5 yen pictured 10 times, plus 2 fingers.

2021/09/02 (53): 53 pictured.

2021/09/03 (54): 54 pictured.

2021/09/04 (55): MP100 official tweets - then hastily deletes - “We’ll be taking four days off from now… yuppie”, then follows this up with an apology tweet for their mistake. Countdown expected to carry on as usual.

2021/09/04 (55): Shou and SG!Dimple creating a 5 twice.

2021/09/05 (56): 7th Division 8 times.

2021/09/06 (57): 57 pictured.

2021/09/07 (58): 58% pictured.

2021/09/08 (59): 59 likes pictured.

2021/09/09 (60): 60(0) pictured.

2021/09/10 (61): Reigen and Mob creating a 6 and a 1.

2021/09/11 (62): Reigen and Mob creating a 6, Ritsu and Teru creating a 2.

2021/09/12 (63): Reigen and Mob creating a 6, Tome, Ichi and Tsubomi creating a 3.

2021/09/13 (64): Reigen and Mob creating a 6, Onigawara and the Body Improvement Club creating a 4.

2021/09/14 (65): Reigen and Mob creating a 6, Shou and SG!Dimple creating a 5.

2021/09/15 (66): Reigen and Mob creating a 6 twice.

2021/09/16 (67): 67% pictured.

2021/09/17 (68): 68 pictured.

2021/09/18 (69): Reigen and Mob creating a 6 and a 9.

2021/09/19 (70): 7th Division members pictured 10 times.

2021/09/20 (71): 45% pictured, 25% pictured, Reigen with 1 finger up pictured.

2021/09/21 (72): 72% pictured.

2021/09/22 (73): 73 pictured.

2021/09/23 (74): 74% pictured.

2021/09/24 (75): 50% pictured, 20% pictured, Mob with 5 fingers up pictured.

2021/09/25 (76): 47% pictured, 28% pictured, “Maths 1” pictured.

2021/09/26 (77): 77% pictured.

2021/09/27 (78): 78 pictured.

2021/09/28 (79): 79 pictured.

2021/09/29 (80): 10*3 & 10*5 pictured.

2021/09/30 (81): Serizawa Katsuya 27 pictured 3 times.

2021/10/01 (82): 82% pictured.

2021/10/02 (83): 83 pictured.

2021/10/03 (84): 84 pictured.

2021/10/04 (85): 8:15 pictured (pronounced hachijuugo, or 85)

2021/10/05 (86): 58% pictured, 28% pictured.

2021/10/06 (87): The number 7 made up of 8s.

2021/10/07 (88): 88% pictured.

2021/10/08 (89): 4, 5, 10x3 and 10x5 pictured.

2021/10/09 (90): Mob with 10 fingers up pictured 9 times.

2021/10/10 (91): 91% pictured.

2021/10/11 (92): 92% pictured.

2021/10/12 (93): 93% pictured.

2021/10/13 (94): 94% pictured.

2021/10/14 (95): 95% pictured.

2021/10/15 (96): 96% pictured.

2021/10/16 (97): 97% pictured.

2021/10/17 (98): 98% pictured.

2021/10/18 (99): 99% pictured.

2021/10/19 (100): The logo for Mob Psycho 100 III is revealed along with the key visual.

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She-Ra S5 E05 - Save the Cat

ARE YOU READY TO HEAR MY THOUGHTS ON THE BEST SHE-RA EPISODE EVER? SO AM I!

Sorry this took so long. I was pretty nervous to talk about this episode, to be honest, because I love it so much and was scared I’d forget something or wouldn’t do it justice. Don’t know if I still need to say this at this point (since it’s been so long), but there will be spoilers for the rest of the season in this post!

- First of all, and I’ve already talked about this in my review of Stranded, but I need to say it again: Just the premise that Adora is going back to save Catra from Horde Prime really makes their story come full circle: Back in the pilot, Adora left the Horde without Catra, and Catra has been accusing her of “leaving her behind” ever since. In Catra’s mind, Adora leaving the Horde meant that Adora didn’t care about her, and it’s been a huge source of grief and bitterness for her. And now, so many seasons later, even after Catra has hurt so many people, even after she’s asked Adora not to come for her, Adora is literally walking up to Horde Prime himself (way more dangerous than Hordak’s version of the Horde) and endangering her mission and the entire world because she doesn’t want to leave Catra behind again. Because Catra means that much to her. It’s such good storytelling! If Corridors was what started Catra’s redemption, then I think Save the Cat is what redeemed Adora in Catra’s eyes (or at least, what made her understand that Adora does care about her).

- I love how determined Adora looks in that beginning shot. That’s the look of a girl about to go save her gf!

- I thought it was a bit strange that the clones didn’t notice that Adora’s talking to the others on her way to Prime, but since Prime later reveals he knows her friends are there, they probably actually did notice and just didn’t say anything.

- I wish they’d kept that scene of Glimmer having a more elaborate flashback, but I get that they just didn’t have the time for it.

- I love how Entrapta just goes *heart eyes* at the many clones. And Bow asking if they’d believe they’re the inspectors 😂 - great way to bring back that gag.

- “You would never risk the safety of your Catra.” PRIME SHIPS IT. No, seriously though - Prime says he “sees all” (and we know he’s seen Catra’s thoughts) and he said “your” Catra. This, and some other lines in this episode, made me realize it would be canon. (Also, fun fact, because I watched some bits of this show in other languages for fun: As awful as the French dub is for changing that “Kyle had a crush on Rogelio” line to “Catra had a crush on Rogelio”, in this instant they did really well: In French, Prime goes a step further and says “your precious Catra” instead of just “your Catra”.)

- The way Prime touches his clones is so creepy.

- Entrapta asking Wrong Hordak (thinking he’s Hordak) if he recognizes her made me so emotional. I wasn’t even that into Entrapdak back in s2/s3, but the way their relationship was written in season 5 really made me ship it. It’s about the PINING, the LONGING, the TRAGEDY, the way his memories of her make him overcome two mindwipes... I’m here for it!

- I always wonder if it hurts Entrapta when someone grabs her by the hair. Since her hair is magical and all that.

- “We’re not keeping him.” “But we broke him! We’re responsible for him now.” Okay, I love Wrong Hordak. I love how Bow talks about ‘keeping’ him as if he was a pet. And I also like how Entrapta immediately realizes how useful having him around could be. Also, I love that they name him “Wrong Hordak” and seriously just keep calling him that. 😂

- “I don’t fight for the first ones. I fight for my home, for myself and for my friends.” I honestly really like that the show never showed us the first ones or Adora’s birth family. Not that it would necessarily be a bad thing, but I like the message that it doesn’t really matter where she came from - Etheria is her home and what she’s fighting for and that’s enough.

- “Of course, your Catra.” He said it again!

- “She hoped you would come for her, poor thing.” Oh, the angst is real, I love it! Just thinking about Catra (who’d told Adora to stay away) eventually getting so scared that she started to wish Adora would come for her after all... I love angsty stuff like this.

- Oh, that first look of Catra with the gelled back hair and green eyes is so properly creepy.

- When Wrong Hordak complained about the ship being designed “so that it may only be navigated by one who access to the hivemind” it reminded me of Entrapta’s castle that only she can navigate. I think some people have pointed out before that Entrapta and Horde Prime are foils to each other (especially when it comes to Hordak), so that’s a really nice parallel there.

- How did Glimmer manage to open that door when she’s running from the clones? I thought only the clones could open them? Is that a mistake, or is there some canon explanation?

- “What did you do to her?” Oh, I love it when Adora’s so worried about Catra. These two and how cute they are will be the death of me.

- Oh, Prime’s so creepy when he touches Catra... I love him as a villain, but I love to hate him, you know?

- “My place is with Horde Prime, Adora. I don’t want to leave.” Can we talk about the parallel between this line, and Catra insisting back in season 1 (in Promise, I think) that she doesn’t want to leave the Horde?

- “You broke my heart.” I mean, come on! That’s gay!

- Catra and Adora’s fight is so tragic because it’s the first time they’re fighting but both genuinely don’t want to hurt each other.

- “I’m not leaving without you.” Exactly what Catra wanted to hear from Adora back in The Sword Part 2 - You know what I said in the beginning of this post about their story coming full circle?

- “I don’t wanna hurt you!” “But you have already hurt me.” This is supreme lesbian drama, and it’s so good! (I’ve been waiting so long for a show to give a lesbian romance this kind of attention!)

- Adora’s terrified expression when Catra almost lets herself fall is so painful. And the way she hugs Catra afterwards... my heart.

- Catra and Horde Prime talking together is creepy in just the right way.

- “I always hated that guy in particular.” Hell yes, Glimmer!

- “She was afraid in the end. And she suffered. Perhaps I will make her my new vessel, though she would not last me long.” Oh, the angst hurts so good, I love it! (Why do I love seeing my faves suffer?) Also, this slicked back hairstyle on Catra looks kind of amazing.

- “Why did you come back? We both know I don’t matter.” “You matter to me.” 😭😭😭😭😭😭 Yes, tell her, Adora! Tell her you care! Don’t let her talk herself down like that!

- “Come on, Catra! You’ve never listened to anyone in your life. Are you really going to start now?” I love how this is what gets through to her. I could also just quote the entire dialogue from here because everything about it is pure perfection:

Catra: “You’re such an idiot.”

Adora: [smiling and crying] “Yeah. I know.”

Catra: [laughs]

Adora: “I’m going to take you home.”

Catra: “Promise?”

Adora: “I promise.”

Catra: “Adora...”

I mean, what do I even say to that? Catra affectionately calling Adora an idiot, the callback to Promise, how Adora doesn’t hesitate to say “I promise”, how Catra breaks free of Prime’s control... it’s all so perfect. 😭

- Adora just not hesitating to jump after Catra - that’s love, holy shit!

- God, Aimee’s voice acting when Adora cradles Catra... so good. (And that’s their childhood theme playing in the background.) Didn’t Aimee (or someone else?) say on Twitter that that was intentional since your most vulnerable moments make you feel like a child again, or something like that?

- Adora’s transformation into She-Ra gives me chills every single time. Best scene in the entire show, don’t @ me (or at least second best after the kiss). The way she cradles Catra’s lifeless body, Horde Prime’s taunting words, and then she opens those glowing eyes... amazing. And what makes it even better is that this is her first proper transformation after breaking the sword. We got a tease of it in Stranded, but this is when She-Ra really comes back, and it’s her love for Catra that enables her to transform. PERFECTION.

- “You miscalculated.” Yeah, you miscalculated how gay she is.

- Entrapta whistling Darla over like a dog is amazing. 😂

- Adora carrying Catra bridal style while that epic music plays... I’m living!

- Also, side-note: Adora’s new She-Ra look is SO MUCH BETTER than the old one! She also seems a lot stronger now - look at that fancy stuff she can do with the new sword! (I like the idea that the Sword of Protection was only holding her true power back.)

- That healing scene! Adora’s healed people before, but it’s never looked this gay. And Catra waking up and saying “Hey Adora” is just so fitting.

- That hug... I’m not crying, you’re crying. They’re finally together! And Catra’s clinging to Adora so tightly! 😭 Also, she’s purring! (When I first watched this ep with my sisters, one of them literally went “Finally!” at this moment - mood.)

- Hordak finding the LUVD-Crystal and saying Entrapta’s name also gives me chills. I also just realized that he thought Entrapta was dead until this moment - holy hell!

- One more thing I love about this episode is that their plan to save Catra actually worked. Because it’s a plan that seems so stupid and risky at first, and while you’re watching you kind of expect it to go completely wrong and expect Horde Prime to catch them... and then it seems like he does, only for Adora and her friends to turn things around and succeed. I love that.

- Another thing worth pointing out is the whole symbolism of Catra’s death and rebirth and how it marks the beginning of a new chapter in her life.

So yeah, this is the best She-Ra episode ever, I rest my case. Before I watched season 5, I expected it to be gay (I even estimated the chances of Catradora becoming canon at around 70%), but I didn’t expect it to be THIS gay. This episode went beyond my wildest dreams and expectations. Horde Prime saying “your Catra” twice, that whole “You broke my heart / Prime has set me free of that pain” talk, Adora being so scared for Catra during their fight and so determined to save her, the whole “I’m going to take you home / I promise” part, Adora jumping after Catra and cradling her in her arms, her love for Catra bringing back She-Ra, the bridal carry, the healing scene, the hug, and I could go on. Noelle said on twitter that there were two versions of this episode and the gay version is what we ended up getting - AND IT SHOWS.

This is when I knew for sure that Catradora was going to be canon. Before season 5, I gave it a chance of 70%. After those little hints in the first few episodes, I said 80%. But after Save the Cat, I was 100% sure. I basically already considered it canon after this. I kept wondering how it would happen, but the "if" wasn’t a question to me anymore - so I decided to just lean back and enjoy the ride through the rest of the season :)

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Yugioh S3 Ep22: Mokuba Gets Murdered

So today’s is...a long update, I may half it, but I’m gonna be away from my computer a whole bunch for a few weeks so like...if I half it you’re gonna be waiting on that other half for...kind of a while and by then I may have sort of forgotten what was happening in the first half. So I dunno, maybe I’ll just make this a huge ass...59 cap post.

honestly it’s mostly 59 caps because, surprisingly, no one dueled this episode.

I KNOW.

When I saw that “To be continued” last episode I really thought I’d have to deal with more paper-form BS but Noah finally plopped over at the beginning of this episode so I guess he’s just officially done playing cards now. Everyone has been turned back from being stoneware with absolutely no consequential brain damage. Probably because you could not do any more damage than what has been previously done.

But don’t worry he’ll get some more brain damage in by the end of this episode.

Remember the plot point that Tristan was slowly becoming a real monkey? I think he forgot about that because he’s been a monkey for...a realllllly long time and he kinda like...continues to just be Tristan. Maybe Tristan was nearly a monkey to begin with?

We also get a rare sighting of an actual real deal hug on this show and it was from the last person you’d ever expect.

Surprisingly heartwarming for this show.

If that duel disk goes off, both of them are super dead. Hugging in a duel disk might be the most dangerous sport either of these boys have ever done.

Anyway, because Seto and Mokuba were the first ones to go, they have no idea that any time has passed at all.

He seems pretty OK for Yugi just nonchalantly taking his dragons but this is VR and...the cards aren’t...actually here. So like...Yugi didn’t actually steal anything? No proof, no crime.

To be honest, no one should have any cards in any of their decks right now, but the show kind of forgets that these digital cards need to be drafted each round. It’s fine.

Anyway, in the wake of losing a card game, Noah just remembered that he’s a freakin god of this universe so he decides to just go for plan B, which you would think would be most people’s plan A.

(more under the cut)

Ya Noah could have peaced out at any point in this show, but because he was trying to impress Daddy he just...didn’t?

Not like it mattered because the integral plot device was like “oh yeah guys, I’m in this show, too, completely forgot. Oops, is it too late? It’s already episode 22? Eh, better late than never.”

and don’t be deceived by the cap, it showed like...every millennium item for some reason. You’d think it wouldn't show the rod because Yugi doesn’t have that, but apparently Marik up there on the ship was like “the hell is this going off for?” and then just shrugged it off.

Noah gets...mostly this image of a well waxed Pharaoh while Yugi gets images of Noah’s memories, where he finds out each of Yugi’s friends and Yugi himself were stuffed in little sci fi VR pods. You’d think that they wouldn’t need to access Noah’s memories to realize that. Should’ve been the first thing they realized when they got here. In VR.

Like, think about it, the only other person that got kicked out of here was Pegasus. And to kick out Pegasus it took all of Yugi’s friends except Bakura. Apparently this time all Yugi needs is for Pharaoh to focus (and Bakura to be just...youknow...present, I guess. Assuming the writers haven’t forgotten that Bakura’s still in there)

I think they mostly did this memory exchange as an excuse to give us a review--thing is there’s so much weird stuff to review it feels a lot like exposition. Like I don’t remember seeing these big boys before:

There is just...a lot of design put into this robot you only see like a couple of times. Some concept artist when all ham so I wonder...was this his OC? I’m so glad his weird OC sleepytime bot got into Yugioh. Good for him.

So at this point I kinda turned to my bro and was like “this feels a lot like the Matrix, doesn’t it?” and then in rolls in the bright purple cloud of “you don’t even know.”

I’ll just leave this here.

back to Yugioh.

Yo I kinda forgot in the mayhem that Kaiba’s Dad was clearly here this whole time. I figured we’d run into him, I didn’t really think he’d Castlevania it up in the sky in order to do it.

So this show presents these two brain orb AI monsters as being pretty well...alive...in that Orb because we’ve only heard this explanation from two AI beings who are pretty sure they never died. But, are they alive, really? Did they really transcend to a higher plane like Noah thinks? Or was this a thinly veiled murder/suicide? Did Gozaburo Kaiba kill his son because he could not allow him to be crippled, seeing an opportunity test out this crazy orb AI that needed a human brain in order to function--knowing full well what he was doing? And then later kill himself after losing everything to Seto?

Like, I’ve heard that in the Japanese version, Gozaburo commits suicide and in the English version he does not. But, at least from where I’m sitting...I think he commits suicide in both versions. Like, maybe it’s because I’m an adult watching this and not a child, but it feels like Gozaburo did this in order to set a trap for Seto as his last screw you before he left this mortal plane.

Either way, Noah’s kind of an idiot and so he still has not caught on. What followed was the three very worst Kaiba boys just kind of shouting at eachother for 5-10 minutes but, like, on completely different wavelengths, every single one. The lack of communication between these dumbasses right after Gozaburo drops this horrifying bomb of “and then I killed myself to kill all of you” was actually pretty low key hilarious.

The dub then got very confused as to when Noah died. Really confused, I’m not going to analyze that too much, it’s dub problems. Dubs do that sometimes.

Also, this is a new Noah outfit. Huh. shame we never got to know it.

Anyway, as the truth comes out, suddenly this accidental Kaiba family therapy

sesh everyone else in this High School class is privy to just starts escalating.

OH OK, KID’S SHOW.

Yo, remember how many jokes I made that Kaiba was raised in Outer Heaven? Apparently I was WAY closer than I realized.

And speaking of Metal Gear:

Anyway, remember that random idea that Noah dropped on us to consume the world with VR tech? I knew it would come back, just not quite like this. Not with a nice Power Point slide show via the sky from the Most Evil Mufasa.

And that was how Kaiba’s Dad decided “I was once scorned by a rude 12 year old, lets destroy every human on Earth and extinguish all civilization.”

So basically the entire freakin ocean is just filled with these robots? Just completely polluted with nighty-night bots?

Yo.

So like this whole time we’ve been following Marik, who’s trying to destroy the world, and keeping babysitting tabs on Bakura, who’s trying to destroy the world, but Kaiba just wants to be the best and show everyone else up so he just decided to set in motion the entirety of humanity’s destruction BEFORE THIS SERIES EVER STARTED.

*coughs* I can’t believe Yugioh just did the Matrix better than the Matrix.

Now listen, I know what I said--and I have to tell you, the Matrix was one of my favorite movies when it came out when I was wee middle schooler and watched it secretly at my friend’s house. It was rated R for absolutely no reason, and so I wasn’t supposed to watch it--but I did anyway and it was very thrilling to break the law like that. Keanu Reeves did a middle finger--yes, that was the cuss that put it into R territory--and I was like “wow, he is crazy!”

But, while it’ll always hold a place in my little tween heart, that one did not age well. Mostly because, once it stepped away from the cave allegory you have to start asking questions like “so...how did everyone get trapped in the Matrix?” and it was like “because the robots needed batteries. So like...humans...became batteries...rather than..........actual batteries.” which makes a lot of sense when you’re like a child and you don’t know how batteries work, but as an adult it’s like “...so they’re not very smart robots, then?”

But, Matrix came out about 1999, and because it was super cool, it influenced everything. This show was about 2001, and Kaiba’s wearing a floor length coat--I really think there may have been a bit of an influence?

And I think they may have explained how all humanity would get placed in the Matrix better than that movie series that was like 3 movies and a bunch of video games and a very violent cartoon. And like, the Yugioh explanation is still balls insane, but hey, at least this motive makes sense.

And then, at this point, Mokuba’s Stockholm Syndrome came back, but this time it’s just plain old fashioned Stockholm Syndrome, no weird brainwashing on the part of Noah was necessary to make any of this happen.

Like I really think Moki’s finally snapped. It’s finally snapped. He doesn’t know have any idea what is going on anymore and desperately needs a nap. A nap that will last like 5 days. Moki needs to go to the beach and just...not move for about a straight week to recover from the mess of this tournament.

Most people at this point would be like “yeah I think maybe Noah isn’t trustworthy” but this group of kids--this is the only group of kids that sees a cackling undead digital ghost dude hunched over like this who has already tried to kill them on multiple occasions--straight up just 10 minutes ago--and says “he’s probably much better now.”

Just 10 feet away from them, Marik is desperately trying to finish the arc he started, but keeps running into filler problems. Which is this door.

This X-men door, the most powerful filler villain in the Yugioh universe.

I can’t believe they explained away Marik--super powerful evil villain that bested Bakura--by using one singular door that kept him occupied for like 20 episodes.

Apparently the bedtime bots are equiped with Huge Lasers.

Which kind of defeats the purpose of keeping everyone alive to send them to the VR realm?

But whatever, they have huge lasers, but little do they know, Marik can shoot lasers out of that necklace he stole off Bakura, and he didn’t actually do that and it’s kind of a bummer. Instead he reflects the lasers with the rod. Which then makes you wonder--is that why Bakura didn’t use his laser attack then? Because of the reflection issue?

Sorry I can’t believe I even entertained that idea. Clearly they completely forgot about S1 at this point. It feels like it’s been so many years since things were simple and you could shoot lasers out of your eyeball/necklace.

And then, canonically, Marik gave up on this door. This normal ass door. The only foe he has ever stepped down to.

This door has faced the ultimate evil, it has stared down an actual fallen god born of anger and violence, who, after thousands of years steeped in an abusive tomb, has risen to consume the entire world, but, this door, using all of it’s bolts and joints you can buy at your local Home Depot, sent that fallen god back whence he came. Which was a blimp. Marik came from a blimp.

This door should be the 4th God Card.

(I want y’all to know that I originally wrote “5th” god card and bro corrected me because I literally thought there were 4 this entire time.)

The amount of time that Mokuba was not kidnapped after Yugi and co just saved him? I want to say maybe 10 minutes. He got one hug from Seto, and then went back to the kidnap zone.

Apparently, Noah decided to trap everyone else in their old memories--which is an interesting way to recap what happened in S2. The trap doesn’t trick them very well because these guys are missing a fair amount of memory at this point, so they basically got served a bunch of weird nonsense.

So while those guys are going to go down their very, very short memory lanes, Noah takes Mokuba to the same exact Dave & Busters that Tea and Yugi went on a date to back in like S2. Like this is the same exact one. And what’s nuts is I think they even redid the backgrounds, but definitely used S2 as reference. It’s quite the devotion to detail.

Noah tried to invent some sort of weird mystery doorway but then Mokuba was like “yeah it’s in the game right? Don’t say no, because I am hankering for some arcade time--don’t touch the other stick though, I want to play solo.″ and then Mokuba just proceeded to play this 2 person arcade game by himself while Noah just...watches.

In Dukes memories, Tristan looks the same as Duke’s always perceived him.

There’s just a lot to take in here.

But don’t worry, it gets weirder than three cultists on one small toy monkey, because here comes some romantic development that had absolutely no basis in reality. This is just so freakin weird, get ready for it.

They definitely almost run over Duke and Serenity--Joey’s sister--and Joey does not not seem to have any reaction to nearly running over his little sister on the road, because one second later, this is happening.

And that was how Noah managed to insert his JoeyxMai fanfiction into Joey’s head and tried his damnedest to make it canon. It’s wild. I can’t believe Noah was a shipper this whole time. Like, who else has he been secretly shipping???

Noah had a split second to use his fabulous orb brain to deal with Joey, and while he used actual memories from the other kids, when it came to Joey, he sort of stopped and went “oh yes, my OTP!”

So then, in this split second Noah kinda turned to his pile of Joey fanfic he keeps stashed in the corner of his Orb Brain Consciousness and was like “well I have this really good one I wrote where Mai wasn’t in the coma yet, and there clearly aren’t enough romantic sunsets, and like...what if they were getting married? Oh man I love this AU! This is so good, can’t wait to upload it to his brain, OMG, he’ll love it. What if they were in Hawaii or something!? OMG they’re so freakin cute.”

Like everyone else on this show who has a canon relationship had to go through some type of sweet hell terror memory but Joey--just Joey--got to go on a date or something and then seal his love with a ring. Like we’ve seen many indicators that Noah is a small child but this was probably the biggest indicator we’ve seen of Noah’s maturity level when he was like “this is how relationships work.”

Again, Yugioh just writing your fanfiction for you--did you want an AU where Mai and Joey’s age wasn’t an issue and she also wasn’t in a coma yet and was uncharacteristically like “lets run off and get married?” because usually you’d have to search Google for that content, but now it’s just here and given to you on a silver platter.

At about the same time they were fully convinced none of this was a real memory, they all ended up back here, minus Kaibas. Joey apparently took the longest amount of time although he had the most bizarre set of memories. He probably just wanted to see where that fic would pan out, but like most fic’s, it kinda stopped updating at about chapter 3 so he gave up on it.

Just a few blocks away, Mokuba and Noah’s playdate from Hell is going according to plan, and Noah is just biding his time before snatching a body. But, before he does, I guess Noah did want to see what happens in this arcade game Moki’s playing because he’s just been standing here admiring Mokuba’s work.

Even Noah at this point is surprised at how deeply Mokuba has Stockholm Syndrome. Noah was just not prepared for how low Mokuba’s expectations are regarding his evil and pathological brothers.

Actual line of the show through this whole ironic experience, Noah just saying “wow...I almost feel bad”

Anyway remember that DDR game--that huge screened DDR game where Tea had a dance fight with Johnny Steps during her date with Yugi?

Did you ever think it would, one and half seasons later, become the scene of a horrific crime?

Did you ever think that the crime that would occur on the inane DDR machine that Tea once had a dance fight on against a guy wearing fringe moccasins would later be the scene of a family betrayal where Mokuba got murdered by his own dead secret older brother?

Because I sure didn’t.

Anyway, now equipped with his ultimate form--a very small kid with hair that weighs more than the kid itself, Noah rises from his grave.

I kind of love evil Moki, not going to lie.

Apparently Moki’s evil in Season 0 so I’ll probs have to go back to that season eventually to get more of that evil Moki fix.

I hope this is the type of scene that will end this entire show, TBH, just a crazy ass Moki cackling over the bodies of every other card player. That would be such a good way to end this series.

Anyway, I don't know whennnn the next update will be. I may update on that later--maybe not, but until we meet again, we’ll just leave evil Moki here in this nearly abandoned SeaQuest, laughing his face off over the sweet tunes of some Plantasia.

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DESPERATION TO KEEP DINOSAUR SOFT TISSUE OLD

The big guns are out to prove dinosaur blood vessels and collagen really can last tens of millions of years. Do they succeed? A new theory for preservation of dinosaur soft tissue was just published in Nature‘s open-access journal Scientific Reports. The team, including soft-tissue expert Mary Schweitzer, used multiple methods of imaging to try to disprove the creationist claim that the presence of original material disproves long ages. A press release from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBL) website BioSciences announce on Valentine’s Day, “Berkeley Lab Helps Reveal How Dinosaur Blood Vessels Can Preserve Through the Ages.” (The copy on Phys.org was more ostentatious, announcing pompously, “How dinosaur blood vessels are preserved through the ages.” The press release explains their challenge: A team of scientists led by Elizabeth Boatman at the University of Wisconsin Stout used infrared and X-ray imaging and spectromicroscopy performed at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS) to demonstrate how soft tissue structures may be preserved in dinosaur bones—countering the long-standing scientific dogma that protein-based body parts cannot survive more than 1 million years. What they call a “dogma” is simple common sense. Proteins are delicate; amino acids racemize over time; therefore, the lifetime of original proteins has a time limit that is a tiny fraction of the assumed age of dinosaurs. Even one million years seemed indefensible. Mary Schweitzer’s discovery of soft, flexible blood vessels in a T. Rex femur in 2005, highlighted on the TV news show 60 Minutes, initiated a clash between expectations of observations. TV anchor Lesley Stahl gasped when the stretchy blood vessels that Schweitzer tugged on snapped back into position like soft plastic—right before her eyes. Paleontologist Jack Horner had no explanation, nor did Schweitzer. This tissue was supposed to be over 60 million years old! Creationists who believe in a young earth and teach that dinosaurs perished in the global Flood only thousands of years ago, took this observational evidence and ran with it. The documentary Is Genesis History? featured it. The situation called for desperate measures by old-earthers. Totalitarian Darwinists—never willing to even acknowledge the existence of creationists—realized this looked bad for their narrative of hundreds of millions of Darwin Years in the history of evolving life. Consequently, they have offered several theories to keep the soft tissue old. CEH has kept on top of those theories as they made the news and shown them to be inadequate: e.g., the slime theory (30 June 2008), the toast theory (10 Nov 2018), and the bacteria theory (18 June 2019). Will this one score better? Protein Magic The new paper, building on previous work about iron as a stabilizing factor, relies on two chemical processes that the scientists hope “could” make the soft tissue endure much longer than thought. BioSciences explains: In their paper, now published in Scientific Reports, the team analyzed a sample from a 66-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex tibia to provide evidence that vertebrate blood vessels—collagen and elastin structures that don’t fossilize like mineral-based bone—may persist across geologic time through two natural, protein-fusing “cross-linking” processes called Fenton chemistry and glycation.* *Fenton chemistry, as defined by Science Direct, is “a catalytic process that converts hydrogen peroxide, a product of mitochondrial oxidative respiration, into a highly toxic hydroxyl free radical.” Glycation could be dubbed “sugar-ation” since the prefix gly– indicates sugar. Science Direct explains that glycation is “a nonenzymatic reaction of reducing sugars or oxaldehydes with proteins, DNA, or lipids, resulting in the formation of glycation adducts (fructosamines) and advanced glycation end-products….” It’s not important to get into the weeds about these processes, since psychological influences on the research are more telling. We shall consider those shortly. The paper relies heavily on free radicals formed by these processes that could induce iron in the blood to create cross-links in the proteins, stabilizing them from decay. Watch for the perhapsimaybecouldness score: Fenton chemistry and glycation are both non-enzymatic reactions – meaning they can occur in deceased organisms – that are driven by the iron present in the body. “The XRF microprobe revealed the presence of finely crystalline goethite, a very stable iron oxyhydroxide mineral, on the vessels that likely contributed to the preservation of organic molecules,” said Fakra, an ALS research scientist. The authors believe that the cross-linking reactions they found evidence of, combined with the protection offered from being surrounded by dense mineralized bone, can explain how original soft tissues persist. They observed goethite in close proximity to the tissues; this iron-rich mineral, they think, could have contributed to the preservation. Fine differences between sites led them to “the notion that preservation depends on the microenvironment.” If the soft tissues were encased in mineralized bones, they think it would help protect the tissues. They ran some experiments – on chickens. They used Fenton chemistry and glycation on the tissues of a recently deceased chicken to see if the same cross-links formed. They did not, however, run the critical experiment that would clinch their case: they did not observe the chicken tissues for 60 million years. Guesswork Notable in the paper are the instances of perhapsimaybecouldness words. Scientists obviously cannot wait millions of years to test their theory; all they can do is speculate whether the stabilizing process are likely to preserve the tissue back to the age of dinosaurs. Here are some word counts: Could: 9 times. This admission in the ending Discussion section reveals the desperation in the scientists’ minds: “Data supporting endogeneity have been viewed with scepticism, in part because no mechanisms have been identified that could reasonably contribute to such preservation.” Perhaps: 2 times, e.g.: “We hypothesise that early in diagenesis, perhaps immediately post mortem, iron-mediated Fenton and glycation pathways contributed to enhanced T. rex tissue longevity….” May: 2 times, e.g.: “These post mortem reactions may contribute significantly to tissue preservation by conferring resistance to degradation to the structural proteins that form the basis for the vessel structure.” Hypothesis, hypothesize, 5 times: e.g., “We hypothesize that the enzymatic and non-enzymatic pathways described herein, coupled with adsorbance to the mineralized components of bone, can result in exceptional preservation of the original organic components of dinosaurian vascular tissues.” The Real Deal A very important contribution this paper makes is that the dinosaur soft tissue is real. It’s not fake. It’s not bacteria. It’s not slime. It’s not a product of diagenesis (rock formation). It’s not a product of taphonomy (fossil formation). The original, primordial, honest-to-goodness, rootin’ tootin’ dinosaur protein is right there in front of their eyes. It responds to antibodies. It is pliable. It has branching, tubular structure like blood vessels. It looks and acts like protein. Multiple high-tech imaging methods guarantee it. Quotes: We demonstrate the endogeneity of the fossil vessel tissues, as well as the presence of type I collagen in the outermost vessel layers, using imaging, diffraction, spectroscopy, and immunohistochemistry. Hollow, pliable, and transparent vessel-like structures have been recovered from skeletal elements of multiple fossil vertebrates, including non-avian dinosaurs. Their vascular affinities have been supported through the application of varied independent methods to identify endogenous component proteins including collagen, which is not produced by microbes, and elastin, which is vertebrate-specific. Three types of vessels were liberated from demineralised (see Methods) T. rex cortical bone (Fig. S3), characterised as: (1) extensive, brown-hued, pliable vessel networks (Fig. 2a), (2) fragmented, opaque structures (Fig. S4a), and (3) fragmented, semi-translucent structures (Fig. S4a) under visible light microscopy (VLM). The pliable vessels (1) were hollow, ranged from 10–40 µm in width, and demonstrated branching networks consistent in size and morphology with microvascular tissues in extant bone. Mass spectrometry sequencing of isolated vessels recovered from the cortical bone of a non-avian dinosaur further supported the presence of vertebrate-specific vascular proteins in isolated dinosaurian vessels. All key bands for the identification of protein (Amide I, Amide II, Amide III) are present in the dinosaur tissue spectrum. The above results indicate that these T. rex tissues are composed of a significant fraction of protein-derived compounds, and possess a degree of structural character consistent with fibrillar collagen. The response of these dinosaur vessels to actin antibodies (Fig. 4e,f) was observed as a thin and evenly distributed layer, whereas antibodies raised against the muscle protein tropomyosin (Fig. 4g,h) were bound with greater intensity over a broader portion of the vessel walls, consistent with the distribution of these proteins in extant vessels. Our data support the presence of vertebrate-specific endogenous proteins, localized to these soft tissue dinosaur structures, including the presence of a significant quantity of type I collagen, consistent in location and chemistry with the vasculature of extant vertebrates. Burden of Proof These scientists used a lot of whiz-bang scientific imaging equipment to scrutinize the dinosaur tissue in every way possible. That effort alone, however, does not fulfill the burden of proof. Since “long-standing scientific dogma” concurred that proteins cannot last even one million years, the burden of proof has been on old-earthers to convince unbiased observers to agree that these tissues not only “could” last 66 million years or more, but actually “did” last that long. A speculative scenario is not enough. When the burden of proof is against them, when “long-standing scientific dogma” says it cannot be that old, they need a stronger case than just ‘possibility thinking.’ Notice the bluffing and futureware in their final statements: These results confirm earlier findings, and those reported in other studies, and shed light on the possible suite of processes involved in fossilisation at the molecular level. The ability to localize structural proteins within vascular tissues and correlate these observations to chemical and structural alterations in fossil soft tissues will contribute to the development of a comprehensive model of mechanisms that contribute to vascular tissue survival from deep time. It will “contribute” to “contribute”? This is a house of cards, with possibilities depending on other possibilities. Their view is even more difficult to believe when a reader applies the common sense test. A lot can happen in 66 million years! Continents move, meteorites hit, earthquakes shake, floods scour, and bioturbation mixes up the layers. In addition, biomolecules degrade from cosmic rays, radon, chemical processes and thermal effects over many millions of cycles of heat and cold. Take another look at Figure 2. Does it look like these delicate, branching blood vessels, with intact proteins, are anywhere near as old as Darwinists claim? A picture is worth a thousand words.

Fig. 2 from Boatman et al., “Mechanisms of soft tissue and protein preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex,” Scientific Reports, 14 Feb 2020. Click to find caption in the paper. Update: The paper was published October 30, 2019, but the press release from LBL came out Feb 14, 2020 and Phys.org echoed it on Feb 17th. Why did LBL make this stale claim look like news? Dr. Brian Thomas at ICR had responded to the claim on December 5, 2019. He keeps a list of over 100 scientifically published claims of original biomaterials in ‘old’ fossils. When reading papers that try to defend Darwinism and deep time, one has to be scrupulously critical. There’s a lot of bluffing going on, using highfalutin big words. There are bald assertions. When talking BAD, evolutionists expect readers to take their word for it. But if you ask the important questions (Where is your evidence these are really 66 million years old, not just might be?), and understand their motivations (Darwin and deep time must be preserved at all costs!), you can begin to see through the fogma. Notice, also, that they never engage the serious critiques coming from creationist physicists, paleontologists and biologists. Not a single creationist paper ever shows up in their References—only links to other Darwinist papers. The DODO researchers beat a straw man when they only counter the assertions of other evolutionists who find the soft-tissue claim “controversial” or who critique various models of preservation. All those buddies of theirs believe in deep time to begin with. Evolutionists need to listen to, understand, and respond to the PhDs who defy deep time assertions, showing that the Darwinian ages of these soft tissue observations (and there are many of them now) contradict well-established upper limits on age. Until they stop ignoring the existence of qualified Darwin skeptics, we should read these DODO papers as internecine squabbles among buddies who are not taking the issue seriously enough. Read the full article

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Why River Plate coach Gallardo could end up at Barcelona

Marcelo Gallardo has put together an impressive CV in his six years in South America.

Pep Guardiola is a big fan of River Plate coach Marcelo Gallardo and it’s looking increasingly likely the Manchester City coach will be able to see his work more closely in the coming year.

“What Gallardo has done with River is incredible,” Guardiola told an Argentine TV station. “Some things are inexplicable. Every year three coaches are named as the best in the world, and he’s never among them. I can’t understand it. It’s as if there’s nothing else in the world apart from Europe.”

– FIFA Club World Cup: All you need to know 

Before long, though, Gallardo will probably have crossed the Atlantic. After over five years in charge of River Plate, he is surely running out of road. He has won the Copa Libertadores twice, and his team appear well set for another final appearance after their 2-0 win over historic rivals Boca Juniors in the first leg of this year’s semifinal.

How much more can he possibly achieve in his current position? So far, it seems, he has not been tempted by the Argentina national team — and recent speculation is linking him to Barcelona, as a possible successor to Ernesto Valverde. It is certainly possible to imagine Gallardo receiving the blessing of Lionel Messi. With a combination of youth, experience, a commitment to attacking football and an impressive CV as a player, Gallardo ticks most of the boxes.

He was a top-class attacking midfielder in his playing days, subtle and skillful, with over 40 caps and two World Cups to his credit. His playing career is mostly associated with River Plate, but he had some good times in France (more with Monaco, less with PSG) and spells in the United States and Uruguay, where he ended his playing days and promptly started coaching with Nacional, taking them to the league title.

But it is his time with River that has put him on the map. He is now well into his sixth year in charge — a rare enough feat in European football, and all but unthinkable in South America, where demands change so quickly. It is very difficult to maintain consistency in an environment where the best players are continually being sold. But as Guardiola pointed out, at River Plate “every year the players leave, but the work continues.”

Coping with this has given Gallardo a depth of experience beyond his 43 years and certainly beyond the baby-faced appearance that has left him dubbed “The Doll.”

The most impressive part of his work is how he has grown over the course of his reign at River. Initially, it appeared that he was happiest playing a 4-4-2 formation, featuring the old-fashioned Argentine diamond — a holder in front of the centre-backs, two mixed midfielders either side and the traditional No. 10, the type of player Gallardo had been to direct operations. Over time, though, he has become proficient at reading the opposition, studying his own resources and tweaking the tactical plan, always, it would, seem, without over complicating and confusing his players.

Marcelo Gallardo guided River Plate to the 2018 Copa Libertadores title over Boca Juniors.

On occasions — the first leg of last year’s Libertadores final against Boca the most notable, but there have been others — he has caused a surprise by going with a back three. Ten days ago against Boca, he had obviously prepared his team to use width to get around and outside a tight defensive line. It will be fascinating indeed to see what he comes up with later this month for the second leg. At home, in their intimidating stadium, Boca are obliged to chase the game. Gallardo is unlikely to think only of defence. An away goal could clinch things in his side’s favour, and the coach will doubtless be thinking of how to get it.

A one-off decider against either of the Brazilian semifinalists, Flamengo or Gremio, would be a test. River rode their luck to get past Gremio in last year’s semifinal, and under Portuguese coach Jorge Jesus, Flamengo have become a hugely attractive and efficient attacking threat.

Get past that and there is another crack at the FIFA Club World Cup — the one place where Gallardo has been found wanting. In 2015, his side did little of note in a 1-0 semifinal win over Sanfrecce Hiroshima of Japan, and then caved in timidly to a 3-0 defeat in the final against Barcelona. And last year River did not even make the final, falling on penalties to Al Ain of the Arab Emirates.

It is surely Gallardo’s failure in these competitions that has stopped him getting on the podium in the world coach of the year awards. He has not yet shown that he can do it outside South America, but he may not have much longer to wait.

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Yugioh S3 Ep 19: Seto and Mokuba are Turned Into Inanimate Objects...Again

Last we left off on the world’s most awkward family reunion, Moki was being used to take advantage of Seto again, which happens at least 2 times a season.

What’s kind of wild about this, is that everyone jumps to the conclusion that Seto is absolutely going to murder his little brother. Seto. The guy who 2 seasons ago was willing to absolutely jump off a ledge for his little brother.

And then suddenly, Duke makes his feelings known about just life in general at this point.

Duke in the background just spiraling deeper and deeper into his IDGAF apathy. And to be honest, Duke might not be fully aware of who Mokuba even is. It’s not like they’ve ever had a conversation, other than maybe ���ah, you work for Pegasus, he locked me in a tower for weeks and then killed me by turning me into a little paper card and then tried to seize control of my company. Nice. Nice that he isn’t in jail.”

In fact, since Duke does work with Pegasus who probably is still doing his best to compete with/work with the Kaiba business...Duke actually has a lot to gain, business wise, by killing Mokuba. Like, I’m pretty sure Duke isn’t a mole but he could be. He has...a lot of motive, actually.

If bro hadn’t straight up told me that Duke isn’t a mole like I suspected, than I’d still be waiting for that other shoe to drop. But it won’t. A shame.

Anyways this shows up:

All I’m saying is that a black hole is an astronomical region in space and a dark hole is very often a butthole, but youknow...maybe that’s just a very particular English language thing that no one will ever teach you from a textbook and it just didn’t quite get translated over correctly. But yeah, in my eye, Noah's just up there holding up a sphincter. It’s very fitting, he is an asshole. Congrats, Noah Kaiba, you’ve found your card.

Meanwhile, Yugi is doing his very best to try and backseat, even if Kaiba instinctively slaps it out of his hands at every opportunity.

So I figured that he’d mention that both of these boys carry these card lockets around their necks with a little picture of the other brother inside--a little thing they carry for no other reason than to remember eachother. Which makes sense, because Kaiba forgets things SO OFTEN. The necklace around their necks is almost like those bracelets you wear to let police and medics know if you’re prone to narcolepsy--it even has a nice picture inside to indicate “please return this boy to this pictured person in case you find him wandering about completely lost.”

I kinda figured that necklace would be used at some point but nah, we’re gonna talk about cards. Which is fine, because we get to see this good drawing Mokuba made once.

Which, PS, it was sort of hard to pick up on the first time Kaiba talked about this period of his life, but this time when he talked about this incident it like...left quite a bit highly implied there by what Seto meant when he said Mokuba “saved me.” It’s some pretty heavy stuff that kind of gets blown over by the massive magic dragon that shows up in the next scene and then just flies Mokuba, who is wearing very cute fuzzy socks, up into the sky and into the moon like ET.

Nowadays they do this by hanging off of Helicopters, but flying on dangerous things to escape their horrible childhood has been their Fantasy for a very long time. These kids and their obsession with heights and dangerous ledges.

And apparently it was this moment in his youth that Seto decided he wanted to be “worthy enough to hold a Blue Eyes.” And like...I remember S1 Seto. That was the worthy Seto?

I guess “worthy enough” doesn’t really imply any sort of moral code, just if you have enough money and can like play cards pretty OK.

Anyways, it was a lot of new stuff applied to this card that I just only recently accepted as a GF and so it was like “All right show, I see what you’re doing, I guess we’re going to walk slowly out of the paper romance realm and into...some sort of card-honor brother realm.”

So, using the Blue Eyes, Kaiba destroys a bunch of Gradius ships, which Noah was like “These Gradius ships represent our Father’s company!” in case you’re a child and didn’t see the symbolism. And, along the way, he destroys what he thinks is Noah’s Game Master card but like...it’s this show, so apparently inside the Boat was another dude and the game is going to keep on going, fml.

Ah buckle up this...this is going to be a long one. This is going to be a lot more cards, huh?

Anyway, when I saw this card that is clearly based on a couple of Gods I was like “so um...isn’t that a...God card?” so I looked it up, also because it was BS and I was frustrated that it was even here after the boat thing ended, and this card is a...get this...a Fairy card.

Cuz it has wings? Like a Seraphim? Everything about this looks like a conglomeration of different Gods but--I guess since God Cards can only have the 4 God Cards, this is a...Fairy card. Interesting. That is a huge ass Fairy. Yugioh biology really eludes me.

Anyway, First thing Noah does as a fairy is destroy his younger brother who is also older than him, don’tthinkaboutit. He’s again sporting the poorly photoshopped glowing romper that the dub gave us in order to spare us.

Hey!

Question!

So when Noah’s wearing the game Master outfit, he’s ass naked underneath--but the Big 5 weren’t? Like wouldn’t the Big 5 have had the same issue of Noah here where they have no body, so whatever they’re wearing is just whatever they’re in?

Meaning that when they were all shoved in Tristan’s body wouldn’t they have just been 5 naked fat old guys hanging out like a European sauna? 

Or is this just Noah’s preference? To be ass naked when no one’s looking? Because he’s been here all alone for 6 years, so why the hell not? Like, no one cares. No one’s looking. You can’t get splinters or whatever. Just let it all hang loose, man, it’s not even a real body. 

Like, if you look closely, Noah only has ... one outfit he’s had here for 6 years. I’ve noticed this maybe more than most because...it’s not a great outfit. He had that same suit and shorts combo right after he woke up and got out of his jammies from the accident all those years ago. He also wore a space suit once, but that was a Birthday present from Dad and I haven't seen the suit since.

Did Noah recognize that People Are Coming and was like “oh dammit, dammit, I have to cover the goods” and just throw on literally the only thing in his closet? The office shorts combo from 6 years ago? Is that why? Is that the big secret of the baby boy suit shorts? That he, in reality, never really wears them?

Questions about nudity aside, out of freakin no where Noah just turns the Kaibas into this:

Noah spent like 20 episodes saying no one is ever allowed to cheat and then just flippin does this and is like “What? It’s almost legal enough.”

I mean, it’s not like there’s any official rules for Duel Monsters anyway but apparently you can just turn each other into statuary and it’s like...fine. That’s fine.

Also, fun fact, about Yugioh statues, they come with eyeliner built in.

So much dedication to the guyliner in this show, mad respect.

And yes, I have sort of thought that Moki’s been sporting a teeny tiny Adam Lambert line this whole time. Like most our cast, honestly. But not Joey. I feel like Joey would never have the patience to learn how to waterline.

I mean the Kaiba’s are essentially brain dead, yes? Their brain functions have been removed and uploaded to the cloud to never be downloaded back into their vegetable bodies? That counts enough for me.

Seto Kaiba just 2 corpses away from 169ing the Hell out of that death scene. A shame.

Bro was like “well at least this crying statue stuff is more like something that normally happens in a kid’s show.” and I was like “THIS? So this ever happened in Pokemon?” and bro was like “It did actually, Ash Ketchum was turned into stone and then cried as a rock statue, and then Pikachu hugged him to make him all better” And as you may be aware my bro is full of spicy headcanons so I’m not sure if that’s actually true but it was like

“Bro, was Ash Ketchum ever turned to stone because his abusive Father’s secret son, who has been turned into an evil computer, wants to kill his brother and then take over his body to run the Patriots from Metal Gear? That happened on Pokemon?” And Bro admitted “Ok, maybe not so much.”

Anyway, Pharaoh awakens to put a stop to this nonsense by bringing up the long list of things that Noah did just now that is absolutely cheating.

Anyway, this is Noah now.

He’s just this...huge 100 story tall person with very bored judgy eyes just floating in the sky with vaguely religious iconography going on and bunch of wings like that one character design that we all have in our portfolio. Yeah, you know the one. It’s this guy. We’ve all drawn this guy. Anyway, it’s going to be very hard to take him seriously when this guy has Noah’s voice.

Again, he is not, he is ass naked in there, though the dub did try and cover it up.

Anyway, next episode we get to basically start this entire duel over.

That’s nice. That’s nice of them to do to me. At least these kids finally got a chance to do some duel prep for the actual tourney they’re supposed to be doing later this season. Yeah. Remember that apocalypse? That’s still going on somehow. Maybe by the time they’ll get to it, most of the competitors will be dead?

Here’s a link to read the recaps in order from S1 Ep1

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DESPERATION TO KEEP DINOSAUR SOFT TISSUE OLD

The big guns are out to prove dinosaur blood vessels and collagen really can last tens of millions of years. Do they succeed? A new theory for preservation of dinosaur soft tissue was just published in Nature‘s open-access journal Scientific Reports. The team, including soft-tissue expert Mary Schweitzer, used multiple methods of imaging to try to disprove the creationist claim that the presence of original material disproves long ages. A press release from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBL) website BioSciences announce on Valentine’s Day, “Berkeley Lab Helps Reveal How Dinosaur Blood Vessels Can Preserve Through the Ages.” (The copy on Phys.org was more ostentatious, announcing pompously, “How dinosaur blood vessels are preserved through the ages.” The press release explains their challenge: A team of scientists led by Elizabeth Boatman at the University of Wisconsin Stout used infrared and X-ray imaging and spectromicroscopy performed at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS) to demonstrate how soft tissue structures may be preserved in dinosaur bones—countering the long-standing scientific dogma that protein-based body parts cannot survive more than 1 million years. What they call a “dogma” is simple common sense. Proteins are delicate; amino acids racemize over time; therefore, the lifetime of original proteins has a time limit that is a tiny fraction of the assumed age of dinosaurs. Even one million years seemed indefensible. Mary Schweitzer’s discovery of soft, flexible blood vessels in a T. Rex femur in 2005, highlighted on the TV news show 60 Minutes, initiated a clash between expectations of observations. TV anchor Lesley Stahl gasped when the stretchy blood vessels that Schweitzer tugged on snapped back into position like soft plastic—right before her eyes. Paleontologist Jack Horner had no explanation, nor did Schweitzer. This tissue was supposed to be over 60 million years old! Creationists who believe in a young earth and teach that dinosaurs perished in the global Flood only thousands of years ago, took this observational evidence and ran with it. The documentary Is Genesis History? featured it. The situation called for desperate measures by old-earthers. Totalitarian Darwinists—never willing to even acknowledge the existence of creationists—realized this looked bad for their narrative of hundreds of millions of Darwin Years in the history of evolving life. Consequently, they have offered several theories to keep the soft tissue old. CEH has kept on top of those theories as they made the news and shown them to be inadequate: e.g., the slime theory (30 June 2008), the toast theory (10 Nov 2018), and the bacteria theory (18 June 2019). Will this one score better? Protein Magic The new paper, building on previous work about iron as a stabilizing factor, relies on two chemical processes that the scientists hope “could” make the soft tissue endure much longer than thought. BioSciences explains: In their paper, now published in Scientific Reports, the team analyzed a sample from a 66-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex tibia to provide evidence that vertebrate blood vessels—collagen and elastin structures that don’t fossilize like mineral-based bone—may persist across geologic time through two natural, protein-fusing “cross-linking” processes called Fenton chemistry and glycation.* *Fenton chemistry, as defined by Science Direct, is “a catalytic process that converts hydrogen peroxide, a product of mitochondrial oxidative respiration, into a highly toxic hydroxyl free radical.” Glycation could be dubbed “sugar-ation” since the prefix gly– indicates sugar. Science Direct explains that glycation is “a nonenzymatic reaction of reducing sugars or oxaldehydes with proteins, DNA, or lipids, resulting in the formation of glycation adducts (fructosamines) and advanced glycation end-products….” It’s not important to get into the weeds about these processes, since psychological influences on the research are more telling. We shall consider those shortly. The paper relies heavily on free radicals formed by these processes that could induce iron in the blood to create cross-links in the proteins, stabilizing them from decay. Watch for the perhapsimaybecouldness score: Fenton chemistry and glycation are both non-enzymatic reactions – meaning they can occur in deceased organisms – that are driven by the iron present in the body. “The XRF microprobe revealed the presence of finely crystalline goethite, a very stable iron oxyhydroxide mineral, on the vessels that likely contributed to the preservation of organic molecules,” said Fakra, an ALS research scientist. The authors believe that the cross-linking reactions they found evidence of, combined with the protection offered from being surrounded by dense mineralized bone, can explain how original soft tissues persist. They observed goethite in close proximity to the tissues; this iron-rich mineral, they think, could have contributed to the preservation. Fine differences between sites led them to “the notion that preservation depends on the microenvironment.” If the soft tissues were encased in mineralized bones, they think it would help protect the tissues. They ran some experiments – on chickens. They used Fenton chemistry and glycation on the tissues of a recently deceased chicken to see if the same cross-links formed. They did not, however, run the critical experiment that would clinch their case: they did not observe the chicken tissues for 60 million years. Guesswork Notable in the paper are the instances of perhapsimaybecouldness words. Scientists obviously cannot wait millions of years to test their theory; all they can do is speculate whether the stabilizing process are likely to preserve the tissue back to the age of dinosaurs. Here are some word counts: Could: 9 times. This admission in the ending Discussion section reveals the desperation in the scientists’ minds: “Data supporting endogeneity have been viewed with scepticism, in part because no mechanisms have been identified that could reasonably contribute to such preservation.” Perhaps: 2 times, e.g.: “We hypothesise that early in diagenesis, perhaps immediately post mortem, iron-mediated Fenton and glycation pathways contributed to enhanced T. rex tissue longevity….” May: 2 times, e.g.: “These post mortem reactions may contribute significantly to tissue preservation by conferring resistance to degradation to the structural proteins that form the basis for the vessel structure.” Hypothesis, hypothesize, 5 times: e.g., “We hypothesize that the enzymatic and non-enzymatic pathways described herein, coupled with adsorbance to the mineralized components of bone, can result in exceptional preservation of the original organic components of dinosaurian vascular tissues.” The Real Deal A very important contribution this paper makes is that the dinosaur soft tissue is real. It’s not fake. It’s not bacteria. It’s not slime. It’s not a product of diagenesis (rock formation). It’s not a product of taphonomy (fossil formation). The original, primordial, honest-to-goodness, rootin’ tootin’ dinosaur protein is right there in front of their eyes. It responds to antibodies. It is pliable. It has branching, tubular structure like blood vessels. It looks and acts like protein. Multiple high-tech imaging methods guarantee it. Quotes: We demonstrate the endogeneity of the fossil vessel tissues, as well as the presence of type I collagen in the outermost vessel layers, using imaging, diffraction, spectroscopy, and immunohistochemistry. Hollow, pliable, and transparent vessel-like structures have been recovered from skeletal elements of multiple fossil vertebrates, including non-avian dinosaurs. Their vascular affinities have been supported through the application of varied independent methods to identify endogenous component proteins including collagen, which is not produced by microbes, and elastin, which is vertebrate-specific. Three types of vessels were liberated from demineralised (see Methods) T. rex cortical bone (Fig. S3), characterised as: (1) extensive, brown-hued, pliable vessel networks (Fig. 2a), (2) fragmented, opaque structures (Fig. S4a), and (3) fragmented, semi-translucent structures (Fig. S4a) under visible light microscopy (VLM). The pliable vessels (1) were hollow, ranged from 10–40 µm in width, and demonstrated branching networks consistent in size and morphology with microvascular tissues in extant bone. Mass spectrometry sequencing of isolated vessels recovered from the cortical bone of a non-avian dinosaur further supported the presence of vertebrate-specific vascular proteins in isolated dinosaurian vessels. All key bands for the identification of protein (Amide I, Amide II, Amide III) are present in the dinosaur tissue spectrum. The above results indicate that these T. rex tissues are composed of a significant fraction of protein-derived compounds, and possess a degree of structural character consistent with fibrillar collagen. The response of these dinosaur vessels to actin antibodies (Fig. 4e,f) was observed as a thin and evenly distributed layer, whereas antibodies raised against the muscle protein tropomyosin (Fig. 4g,h) were bound with greater intensity over a broader portion of the vessel walls, consistent with the distribution of these proteins in extant vessels. Our data support the presence of vertebrate-specific endogenous proteins, localized to these soft tissue dinosaur structures, including the presence of a significant quantity of type I collagen, consistent in location and chemistry with the vasculature of extant vertebrates. Burden of Proof These scientists used a lot of whiz-bang scientific imaging equipment to scrutinize the dinosaur tissue in every way possible. That effort alone, however, does not fulfill the burden of proof. Since “long-standing scientific dogma” concurred that proteins cannot last even one million years, the burden of proof has been on old-earthers to convince unbiased observers to agree that these tissues not only “could” last 66 million years or more, but actually “did” last that long. A speculative scenario is not enough. When the burden of proof is against them, when “long-standing scientific dogma” says it cannot be that old, they need a stronger case than just ‘possibility thinking.’ Notice the bluffing and futureware in their final statements: These results confirm earlier findings, and those reported in other studies, and shed light on the possible suite of processes involved in fossilisation at the molecular level. The ability to localize structural proteins within vascular tissues and correlate these observations to chemical and structural alterations in fossil soft tissues will contribute to the development of a comprehensive model of mechanisms that contribute to vascular tissue survival from deep time. It will “contribute” to “contribute”? This is a house of cards, with possibilities depending on other possibilities. Their view is even more difficult to believe when a reader applies the common sense test. A lot can happen in 66 million years! Continents move, meteorites hit, earthquakes shake, floods scour, and bioturbation mixes up the layers. In addition, biomolecules degrade from cosmic rays, radon, chemical processes and thermal effects over many millions of cycles of heat and cold. Take another look at Figure 2. Does it look like these delicate, branching blood vessels, with intact proteins, are anywhere near as old as Darwinists claim? A picture is worth a thousand words.

Fig. 2 from Boatman et al., “Mechanisms of soft tissue and protein preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex,” Scientific Reports, 14 Feb 2020. Click to find caption in the paper. Update: The paper was published October 30, 2019, but the press release from LBL came out Feb 14, 2020 and Phys.org echoed it on Feb 17th. Why did LBL make this stale claim look like news? Dr. Brian Thomas at ICR had responded to the claim on December 5, 2019. He keeps a list of over 100 scientifically published claims of original biomaterials in ‘old’ fossils. When reading papers that try to defend Darwinism and deep time, one has to be scrupulously critical. There’s a lot of bluffing going on, using highfalutin big words. There are bald assertions. When talking BAD, evolutionists expect readers to take their word for it. But if you ask the important questions (Where is your evidence these are really 66 million years old, not just might be?), and understand their motivations (Darwin and deep time must be preserved at all costs!), you can begin to see through the fogma. Notice, also, that they never engage the serious critiques coming from creationist physicists, paleontologists and biologists. Not a single creationist paper ever shows up in their References—only links to other Darwinist papers. The DODO researchers beat a straw man when they only counter the assertions of other evolutionists who find the soft-tissue claim “controversial” or who critique various models of preservation. All those buddies of theirs believe in deep time to begin with. Evolutionists need to listen to, understand, and respond to the PhDs who defy deep time assertions, showing that the Darwinian ages of these soft tissue observations (and there are many of them now) contradict well-established upper limits on age. Until they stop ignoring the existence of qualified Darwin skeptics, we should read these DODO papers as internecine squabbles among buddies who are not taking the issue seriously enough. Original Article by Creation - Evolution Headlines Read the full article