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Welp, voting for the Saxxys are on. Some of them are pretty darn good. This one is cute as fuck.

​Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise.

I remembered my dream last night, if only because I ran it over again in my head when I woke up because of how absurd it was. It had this distinct feel of being a disney movie for some reason. This princess snuck out from her kingdom and went on a sort of adventure with me to get away from her dad, the king. We got caught together by a guard when I was trying to sneak her back in and since it was clear that I wasn't from the kingdom, the royal guard came after me and tried to kill me by throwing bombs at me. This ended up destroying the entire city (I distinctly remember a top down view of it being reduced to a bunch of fire) and the princess gives me this look and walks off. The weird thing was the setting went from being this underwater/atlantis place (she was a mermaid) then to an arabian desert sort of deal to a wintery tundra. I don't remember much of this part clearly but The part I do remember is that right after, it cut to a training regimen for the royal guard (presumably to catch me and find the princess?). They were all mounted, and though most of them were on horses, a few were on giant spiders. When I say giant, I don't mean horse-sized, just big for a spider, like the size of a large dog or a sheep. These spiders were only native to this area. I reasoned it out in my dream (even though I wasn't present at this training thing) that years and years ago when the guard was formed, the king was having a conversation with the guy he was appointing the captain that went like this: Captain: So, we'll need about this many horses for the guard. King: Hmm. That's fine, but don't you think it would be pretty menacing if we had some of your men ride on those giant spiders? Captain: A-alright? The result being that there was these poor spiders who had to support the weight of a full grown man in armor. So they could barely move around anywhere and would get almost crushed before they reached wherever they were trying to get to (which would take a stupidly long time). Anyway there's this one speccy, scrawny ginger guard who's there quietly giving his spider orders as the rest of the guard watches in awe. Like in the history of the kingdom, no one had ever piloted a spider like this before. He isn't even moving very fast or controlling it very well, it's just the spider is able to support him without getting fucked up. He completes one lap of this tiny training course and everyone bursts into applause, whooping at him. He smiles, forgets where he's going and then his spider careens into a huge pile of snow, leaving his and his spider's legs poking out of the snow, flailing in the air. At this point I woke up a little bit, imagined a giant spider was on my pillow next to me, then fully woke up. Fucking hate spiders by the way.

I've been watching Hellsing Ultimate. I watched it a few years ago but back then it wasn't finished yet so I figured to just start from the beginning again It's a fun anime, really over the top and the writers are clearly in on the joke. Or at least I hope so, because boy are those English spoken lines silly and is Arucard edgy. Something I noticed is that they are really good at explaining just enough about how their universe works and then shutting up before they go nanomachines/medichloreans/quantum physics; these are the rules of how becoming a vampire or ghoul works. Why? No shut up. This guy does the coolest shit with thin wires that sometimes can cut through entire torsos but not always through hands. Why? No shut up. This man resembling a shaved bear is human but can stand up against high level vampires, pulls infinite swords out of his ass and regenerates from explosive bullets because genetics. How? NO SHUT UP JUST LOOK AT THE COOL THING. They also went the only possible route they could have taken to write a character more worthy of the title "bad guy" than the good guys are by making him very literally worse than Hitler Two things that really hurt the series are first of all that the episodes last a whole hour: I do not have much free time and am not always willing or able to put an entire hour into watching anime. I've mostly watched the episodes in halves because of that, which is annoying and takes me out of the story. Much worse than that however, are the "silly joke" bits they sprinkle around here and there where the artstyle goes simplified and I have to sit through a sequence of epic exdee holds up spork anime humour, which in an hour long video time bar are JUST too short to be able to properly skip through. They are so goddamn awful and out of place, why the fuck was this necessary? The series already has comedic moments without these skits and even if I had the required amount of chromosomes to enjoy them it would still completely break the grimdark style and atmosphere of the show. FMA did this too and even though there it was less out of place it still bothered the hell out of me. At least now whenever I bitch about "generic anime humour" I have a perfect example of what I mean and what's wrong with it. So yeah very fun series but those joke skits really need to go and stay go. I still have 3 episodes to go now which I will hopefully have watched before the weekend after which I can say what I thought of the story bits

Tell them that you've made up your mind and are sticking with it, and that if all they're going to do is try and push you into a place you don't want to be in, that they can just stuff it.

Madokami is down for good, why live.

Saying this is an Islam-based ordeal is like saying the Westboro Baptist Church is the average christian church-goer. It ain't true.

Enough with the bullshit, this is a political thread on the internet. Literally everyone knows to not fuck up and suck on your ego here.

​No. Fuck off. It's not "the Muslim world." It's a bunch of lunatics. And people calling Islam as a whole, or the Muslim world, responsible for this is why more people become jaded and join these lunatic movements. Because assholes say shit like this and propagate the cycle. I reiterate: Fuck off.