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Writer and photographer. Published in Anime News Network, IGN, Playboy, Nerdist and more. Used to have a minorly notable podcast about cartoons.

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We can't keep having like 100 new shows/seasons every year. Something's gotta give.

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Nickelodeon Green Slime Cereal (2003-2003): This limited edition cereal was made to promote that year's Kids' Choice Awards. It featured green "slime-shaped" corn puffs, and orange marshmallows shaped like the Nick blimp logo/award statues

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It's so rough out here. Long Beach is one of the cheaper places in SoCal and even then you really need to be making $50-60k to comfortably afford a studio apartment.

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Someone had to finally say it. I've been suspecting that CN was getting killed since they rebranded a bunch of shows for the HBO MAX launch. It was really cathartic to see an official acknowledgement of it. Especially after they announced Invincible Fight Girl's going to Adult Swim.

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I don't even like her but situations like this are the entire reason the VP exists and picking anyone else would be wildly undemocratic in comparison so it's insane that anyone else is even being considered at all.

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It's wild seeing blue MAGA simultaneously hold "It's racist to want Biden to drop out" and "being a black women makes her incapable of winning the presidential election" positions. I do think if Biden drops out there will be some level of internal revolt against her. Hard to tell how much though.

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At last! Our next @mangasplaining release from @UdonEnt is available for pre-order! Gigatown: A Guide to Manga Iconography by Fumiyo Kouno (In This Corner of the World) explains commonly seen symbols of manga in charming 4-panel comics and will be in stores on Sept 3!

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I really want to sit down with the people who says it "enhances" their writing and see how their brain works. Every time I see someone making that claim I can't help but think they're semi-illiterate.

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LRT I still don't understand* why more manga publishers don't hire at least some folks to letter/translate full-time, when it would solve so many logistical issues (*) I understand the reason is money

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I hate these accounts so much because they're not just random people sharing stuff they think is cool for fun. It's a hustle to build followers and make money. Often they know exactly who the artist is and do extra work to make sure no one else does.

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The second panel reminds me of how there's a bunch of manga competitions that develop talent for the major publishers but there's really no equivalent in America

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Biden would win if he did steroids and went GOMAD

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Yup but if you're a loyal Democrat with a hard-on for Newsome you gotta pretend he did it so he can win coal miners in West Virginia in 2028.

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Atp I think the triangulation talk is just post-hoc justification for stuff they wanted to do anyway, or to invent a secret smart reason why a favored pol did something dumb. Like how people said Newsome vetoed the anti caste discrimination law to appeal to moderates even though that makes no sense

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Even from a cynical profit over everything perspective I can't imagine how these columnists could possibly bring in enough money to justify being paid as much as an entire newsroom combined.

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It's even more infuriating when you remember how support for fracking doubled overnight in the polls after Biden said he wouldn't ban it in the 2020 primary debates.

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My crank conspiracy theory is that he set up Kamala to fail because he sadistically wanted to see the black woman who called him racist writhe under his thumb. I think Buttigieg getting slapped in what was supposed to be a cushy do-nothing appointment was accidental though.

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Robert Downey Jr. rolling his eyes. Michael Scott yelling no Baby having a tantrum in the autumn leaves You are all weak

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People think your reaction images are cringe because you rely on a third-party database and you post the same 5 GIFs as everyone else. They would respect you if you had spent the last decade + curating a collection of 30,000 hand-picked images like I did.

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A Dragon Ball FighterZ-style Shonen Jump crossover fighting game would heal wounds and unite nations.

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Yang Wen Li obeying the surrender order because of his principles that the military should not supercede democracy kinda becomes meaningless because he starts plotting a coup 5 minutes later.

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Just did the numbers and nearly half of my office job's take-home pay goes to my car. And I don't even have a car note.

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Reminds me of how Lindsay Ellis made a whole video on Bush-era protest music and made it a point to say nothing was going on in rap except for Will. i. am being goofy

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Finall6 a fellow Jason X appreciator (too late to take it back)

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"Favorite" is in Aliens for Breakfast they describe a "death pizza" that has a reputation for being so hardcore it could kill you. But then they actually describe the pizza and it's just got peas and carrots for toppings.

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jawor's fun golf, roseville, michigan, 1986

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I spent so long imagining that would happen at the debate I got surprised it didn't happen.

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Black Lagoon made me get over the whole "wow sure is convenient how all these characters from different countries can speak the same language" nitpick. It's not worth trying to work out logically how Japanese, Columbian, American, Russian and Taiwanese people living in Thailand can speak each other

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"-san" can mean Mr/Ms depending on the context but most of the time it's just the default way you address someone so it's usually more correct to just drop it when translating to English. Please I'm begging you localizers, the 16 year old boy is not calling his 15 year old classmate "Miss"

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the proto-gay friend group

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I remember when Jill Biden made a huge deal about unmasking and how sweet the air smells without them right before a big surge.

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The HP 100LX with wireless internet through the Motorola MicroTAC

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Been thinking lately about how whatever problems Facebook has, at least it doesn't have Main Characters.

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They look like the drawing of 4chan's fashion board meetup

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I've seen people retweet the accounts that spam their replies begging for money, so I'd assume that this unfortunately does work.

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At least it seems like nature is healing with Catcher in the Rye. The last few engagement bait posts I've seen about it have increasingly got pushback from people who actually read the book and weren't just parroting Quagmire from Family Guy.

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I love to Be Normal by getting into an argument with a stranger and ordering them to identify their race, sexuality and disability status.

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Cyclops actually kinda was president lol except instead of America it was a mutant country built on top of an asteroid floating off the coast of San Francisco and they made a really big deal about him owning a jetpack.

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Right now we're in a golden age where (location depending) you can see 1-2 different anime screenings in a movie theater per month. Take advantage while you can because this could end very suddenly at any moment. Check your local listings frequently because it's not advertised very well.

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I always skip forward when an abridged series decides to do a musical number.

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Idk it makes sense to me that Hazbin would keep it tight and focused on doing a million Sharkrobot drops instead of going full shotgun blast with Wal-Mart and Hot Topic.

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It's not even a matter of choosing between "enjoy the camps" liberal racism and blood and soil Nazis because Twitter has 1)Both 2)more of them and 3)they work together.

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