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Imagine being buried alive and then seeing this little guy with a backpack suddenly arrive

It gets better. The little backpack has a two-way radio.

So you’re trapped under rubble, and then a rat shows up. Flicks a switch on its little tumtum. And starts talking to you.

The Rescuers live action adaptation looks good as hell actually

they should keep making botw sequels. every six to seven years a new tragedy befalls hyrule that makes link lose another chunk of himself. with every new game link gets a new alien prosthesis and zelda gets a little bit weirder and more offputting. by the end of the franchise link needs weekly blood transfusions because his body is rejecting all of his parts and zelda is scuttling backwards up walls like "l̴̨͍̀̍͌͝ḯ̸̬̮̤n̷̈́̚ͅk̷̛͈͕̇̊̊̑̽ͅ.̷̥͚͔̝̈́͋.̵̻̱̙͠.̸͕̩̣̜̍̑̕ͅ ̶̞̜̬̖̍̎͑̆̚ͅć̸͔͚̲̹̓̅̈́͜͠ỏ̶̥͎̻̩̫̮͂m̵̗͐e̶̞̜̱̣̽̃̈́ ̵̫͈̃̍̄̉͒f̷̺̦̍͑̒͠i̶̛̛̟̅̋̏̓n̴͕͗̔̅͘ḑ̶͒̾͐͘͘ ̶̧̝̙̝̿ͅm̴͉̺̂̈́̏e̵͚͙̊̓" and hyrule is an unrecognizable shell of what it once was.

dont keep this in the tags

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Did you Know Gaming just did a 2-hour episode where they discovered and translated an unofficial Russian Pokedex book a father wrote for his daughter covering all of Gen 1, that later caught on and became a lot of Russian children's first exposure to Pokemon.

I think it's really interesting and funny, all the highly specific details he makes up about each Pokemon.

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WAIT WHAT!!! I saw these illustrations when they were brand new! In 2001! They were all up on a Russian webpage and I thought they were hilarious especially through the filter of bad 2001 autotranslation. I shared them with a handful of people but we all just thought it was a one-off weird fanart thing that only we stumbled upon. I had no idea it was a whole huge thing. I still have some of the web images saved in my "pokemon" folder:

Golem yelling at frogs has never left my mind in 22 years.

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Breath of the Wild: "Link, climb these mysterious towers to get a better view of the surrounding lands."

Tears of the Kingdom: "Link, we're gonna fire you out of this cannon like the god damn Apollo space shuttle, try and get a couple pictures before you pass out."

I always groan when they give me the "you don't have any items now defeat these enemies in your underwear" challenge in both BotW and TotK, but I gotta say, I changed my tune when the challenge turned out to be "get in this monster truck and run over robots. In your underwear."

Inspired.

lol tradcons and redpillers are fighting now because they finally realized how uncompatible their ideologies are and its fucking glorious

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what happened?

rolo tomassi, "the grandfather of the redpill" or whatever, posted a tweet about how the fastest way to become a "high value man" is to avoid creating families, getting a vasectomy, etc. to which people like ben shapiro and matt walsh took issue with and have been arguing about for quite a while

and moreover, kind of the entire philosophy of the red pill is to have lots of unmarried sex with lots of women, treat women like tissue paper that you can just use and discard, live a hyper individualistic life, measure self worth based on how consumerist you are, dont have kids, dont get married.

now of course all of this goes starkly against what a god fearing religious traditional person would consider a virtuous life, since they are all about abstinence from sex, building big families early in life, strong sense of comunity, modesty, etc

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