I love how the Entrapta’s a literal genius who can upgrade pretty much everything she touches, Scorpia is this big tough and competent captain, and Catra is very aware of how fucked up the Horde is but is smart, cunning and ambitious enough to overtake Shadow Weaver, but their personalities are so out of sync when you get the trio of them together it’s like they share 8 brain cells.
Vulrak was an evil Zookeeper/poacher in the old show.
Now, what we see from the new show, Hordak doesn’t seem the the type to keep a personal menagerie. So what role could Vultrak fill?
A warbeast tamer.
A guy who grumbles about the good old days when the horde hadn’t fully built up its technological base, and when they used to have do things the more fun way, before all the automation.
So in modern times he just sits in his office, doing paperwork.
I was watching last Jimquisition where Jim Sterling mentioned a very concerning argument about video game piracy. Namely that it might as well be irrelevant when game companies no longer care for actual sales and day one sales of games but embraced preorder culture completely.
And I thought to myself…isn’t it the same for comics then?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not gonna go flat out scream piracy isn’t bad or shit but…..when, sales of a comics have been decided in time from 3 months to 2 weeks before the issue is out, can we honestly say piracy hurts sales?
If you buy a book through comics store and you heard there is a good book out there…going and picking it from the shelf will not affect the sales figures on any level above the store itself and even then you are unlikely to actually make the store preorder more copies of next issue.
I could see more point about the digital version but people, especially those who buy through floppies, constantly keep claiming these are only a small fraction of floppy sales anyway and as far as we know won’t save a book with few exceptions like Ms. Marvel or Runaways.
Like, someone can convince me I’m wrong? Because if I’m not then…I’m terrified how broken this whole system is and how little actual people buying comics matter anymore.
Nintendo says don’t be greedy. They sued a husband and wife for $12 million for having a ROM site. They lock in game content behind amiibos. For example, Fusion Mode in Metroid: Samus Returns was locked behind an amiibo which is priced at $30 at GameStop. They locked Mew behind a $50 pay wall in Let’s Go. Until recently, they would copyright claim gameplay videos and take the revenue from it for themselves. The app Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is heavily monetized.
Nintendo wants people to believe that they are the friendly gaming company. They have always been hyper aggressive about their IP and are adopting similar monetizing strategies of the “greedy developers.”
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This has nothing to do with anything but it’s the greatest headline I’ve ever seen
This article is amazing
I’d put my favourite quotes from the article up, but it’s the whole dang article.
“It’s just so shocking,” Claire Simeone, a veterinarian and monk seal
expert based in Hawaii, told The Washington Post on Thursday. “It’s an
animal that has another animal stuck up its nose.”
The “most plausible” theory, he said, is that monk
seal teenagers aren’t all that different from their human counterparts.
Monk seals “seem naturally attracted to getting into troublesome
situations,” Littnan said.
“It almost does feel
like one of those teenage trends that happen,” he said. “One juvenile
seal did this very stupid thing and now the others are trying to mimic
it.”
This is my favorite part of the article:
“It was just like, ‘We found a seal with an eel stuck in its nose. Do we have a protocol?’ ” Littnan told The Post in a phone interview.
There was none, Littnan said, and it took several emails and phone calls before the decision was made to grab the eel and try pulling it out.
“There was only maybe two inches of the eel actually still sticking out of the nose, so it was very much akin to the magician’s trick when they’re pulling out the handkerchiefs and they keep coming and coming and coming,” he said.
“Researchers have already determined this is not the result of a human with a personal vendetta against seals and eels”
Monsters and Stuff 