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[Copper Bezel]

Stock photos, obviously, are really great anatomy and fabric reference. So I was browsing, rather more apathetically than I might have been, with some very broad search terms. I encountered this one.
 

 
The title is "A Beautiful Woman and His Dog." 
 
It was a curious drop of joy to encounter. 
 
In any case, this thread also supercedes my dead Ask thread, so watch this space and slash or perform any rituals of conjuration here.

Edited by Copper Bezel, 02 August 2019 - 11:49 PM.

[2019]

 

How many minutes of this can you last?

[Copper Bezel]

All of the minutes. Where are the rest of the minutes? I think I need all of the other minutes. 

[2019]

That's it, sorry.

 

Also the game it's advertising is the most sinful thing ever.

[Copper Bezel]

How so?

 

And why is there not more FF7 via Aardman? Because that's, like, the best pitch ever.

Edited by Copper Bezel, 13 April 2015 - 08:25 AM.

[2019]

Basically you buy the game for your 3DS or mobile phone

 

then you go to a toystore and buy blind-backed treasurechest-shaped boxes to randomly get little plastic keychain items and weapons and gear, scan them into the game, and that's how you get new equipment.

 

And this is aimed at little kids.

[unluckiness]

 

How many minutes of this can you last?

You're losing your touch hecabear. That's not so bad. You would do well to remember, I honed my otaku skills in the pits of Kaon Animax!

[Copper Bezel]

But, like, the video itself took a potshot at that concept. Knowing that context, it's downright subversive. = /

 

I'll be honest, though, I don't think games that require buying toys are any more evil than cartoons that require buying toys. 

[2019]

I'd agree if they were actually toys? They're just hunks of plastic, and you end up buying tons of them. Apparently some of them don't even work as full gear and offer minor stuff like damage percentage buffs or shop discounts.

 

I just picture a growing mound of keychain knicknacks gathering dust in a shoebox and it feels like a huge waste of plastic.

 

 

You're losing your touch hecabear. That's not so bad. You would do well to remember, I honed my otaku skills in the pits of Kaon Animax!

 

 

Okay I'll go find something worse then!

[Copper Bezel]

Okay, that's fair. I can't stand that kind of shit. Make it a toy or just make it a card, but don't try and do the one with the budget of the other. I'm offended by the existence of those sorts of dollar store toys, for the same reasons of waste and the general sense that if you're going to take up space in the world, you ought to at least be pretty.

[Copper Bezel]

But yeah, I actually kinda like this style of humor, that's not so much lolrandom as just absurdly compressed and intercut. Reminds me very much of the "Robbie the Reindeer" shorts.

[NotVeryKnightly]

This might be worse. Or at least somewhat inappropriate.

[2019]

Here's something that makes me giggle insanely

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=MR7uaIFVFiM (WARNING NOT WORKSAFE)

[unluckiness]

I hate Wattpad. One of our local TV stations turns viewer-submitted stories from it into programming and what isn't awful is a ripoff of something else. 

Edited by unluckiness, 13 April 2015 - 09:28 AM.

[NotVeryKnightly]

I hate Wattpad. One of our local TV stations turns viewer-submitted stories from it into programming

That sounds hilarious.

[2019]

Thank god.

[unluckiness]

I got to the part with the horrid Bane impression. Ugh. 

[Patch]

I came across this the other day and was amused (for a short time).

[Copper Bezel]

Yeah, I'm just glad that was already tagged as personal reflection. = /

[Patch]

Fair point. I don't suppose I can generally make any pretense of impartiality myself, so after those few years as a comp teacher, I just try to keep my preferences in line with the objectives at hand (generally not difficult, since that means liking people who impress me and disliking people who create problems.)

Do you write "Like" on the good papers?