My local network habitually aired Power Rangers episodes all out of order when I was a kid – we were lucky if both parts of a two-parter ended up airing consecutively, much less anything further-reaching – so I always had a fuzzy idea of how some of the plot points lined up.

For example, I didn't realise until just now that the gag where Bulk and Skull got turned into chimpanzees wasn't a one-off thing? Apparently they just stayed that way for the next fifteen episodes, and continued to serve as the show's comic relief B-plot in spite of being monkeys, voice-acted Garfield style by their regular human actors?

Now I'm wondering what else the out-of-order airing made me fail to connect the dots for.

@shinobicyrus replied:

I have no idea, but according to his IMDB page, Paul Schrier – the guy who plays Bulk – is credited as director of three of the sixteen episodes in which he voices a chimpanzee, so it must be a fun story.

(Oddly, Jason Narvy, the guy who played Skull, also appears to have an assistant director credit, though not for any of those episodes.)

Help me raise awareness - Did you ever want a mainline Pokemon game for the Nintendo 64? Well, it kind of happened with Onegai Monsters; A so-obscure-it’s-almost-non-existent Japanese exclusive.

Yes this is real, and It’s a crime almost no one knows about it. Onegai Monsters is a Pokemon clone released exclusively in Japan in 1999. There’s little to nothing online about it aside from a few Youtube videos and a couple of translation guides. Needless to say, it didn’t make a big splash upon release.

It has breeding, turn-based battles, a bunch of monsters to collect, a journey that involves letting a 10-year-old out into the world on their own. WHY ISN’T THIS MORE WELL KNOWN? I can kind of see why it’s not exactly popular. It’s not the prettiest game but when do we care about graphics around here anyway? As long as the game is decent, we can handle walking animations with a whopping 3 frames right?

2023 is the year we put Onegai Monsters on the map. The good folks behind it tried to give the people what they wanted when Game Freak refused and their efforts amounted to near nothing. We have to get this a proper translation and into the hands of geeks like me and you. How do we do that? Spread awareness until someone smart enough does so!

Until then, we have to rough it and play it with what little guides are available on the internet. Incoming link dump:

How to play guide on GameFAQs courtesy of “whowasphone404”

Video from Corruption Quest - “The Forgotten N64 Game”

Translation Guide from Corruption Quest

Discord with a wealth of information

From: Industrial Spy: Operation Espionage (aka Espion-Age-Nts)

(NEC - 2000)

feeling the i love pirlouit emotion again, bc of @hedgehog-moss‘ recent post, and remembered that i had a brief pirlouit/donkey art making fixation a few months back

I love these so much!! Thank you for tagging me, the second one especially looks just like Pirou with his forehead fluff <3

hey slurt

ty for the warmup

bites u but i have abandonment issues so i never let go and am now a permanent ornament to your person

✨male angler fish✨

@marinebiologyshitposts

I am actually the opposite of a fungus in that you can actually only kill me in a way that matters, because human life is intrinsically valuable.

So write that down first of all.

Drawing Rika on a train journey

Pokémon | Rika | Wooper | Clodsire (c) Game Freak  

every time I've gotten an indie writer pitching a comic to me it's always like the worst shit I have ever read with rates that would not sustain a medieval peasant. no sir I will not illustrate your mid 150 page comic for $5 per page and only 15% royalties pls get a grip my guy

Superb Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus superbus), female, family Columbidae, from Australia, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Indonesia

photograph by Tobias Spaltenberger 

reading the receipts on how bethesda resorted to fucking extortion in a pathetic attempt to force Leona (a trans woman) to resign without pursuing a discrimination lawsuit by holding her fucking surgeries hostage & holy fuck

her experience at bethesda was a harrowing but depressingly familliar one filled with a sudden loss of respect by her superiors, public outing by her manager, falsified reports on her yearly review to convince corporate that she was a liability...

i struggle to find the words to descrive how i felt going through it all.

they were HOLDING HER SURGERIES HOSTAGE TO COERCE HER TO RESIGN

fuck this fucking industry. you cannot fix this. it is beyond saving

Bro is looking fecund

We dont like fancy talk round these parts. Just call the fella submissive and breedable

Bro looking servile af

When my kiddo finally decided (at age 20) that it was time for (most of) his enormous Lego collection to go, it was a gut-wrenching moment for me (goodbye childhood!). However, we used this service, which was simple and hassle-free.

This is wonderful to know.

July 2021: Prime Minister Scott Morrison uses a radio appearance to announce, unprompted, that he had not soiled himself at a Sydney McDonalds in 1997.

The denial followed months of circulating rumours about the event across the press and social media, which had seen the location of the restaurant 'Engadine' become shorthand for the Prime Minister.

The event was commemorated by a plaque installed outside the infamous "Engadine Maccas", which quickly became a tourist drawcard.

The restaurant was once again in the headlines in 2022, after hundreds of revellers turned up to celebrate Scott Morrison's loss in the federal election, with 15,000 pledging to attend on Facebook.

13 Jul 23

It is 1880s America, you are about to spawn as a Historically Significant White Guy. Choose a class:

TROUBLEMAKING FRONTIER PREACHER

MANICALLY AMBITIOUS CON ARTIST

EUROPEAN NOBLE FAILSON

DOOMED FRONTIER EXPLORER