Also, this JoJo shitpost unironically inspired me to do this meme as well.
(CHICAGO - OLD DAYS STARTS)
Since I played Shadow Generations, I went back to re-watch the opening cutscene of the 2005 game. And wow, my 8 year old brain definitely filtered some of the stuff in the intro, or didn't notice it because of how fast it played. The black arms are probably one of the most brutal factions in sonic history. They literally just drop out of the sky and start raising hell, which is unironically terrifying if you were just a civilian living in the city.
Like, look at the scene where the giant one tosses an entire car and causes an explosion. It rolls, and explodes right by a gun squad, ragdolling them all instantly. That's three or four people DEAD.
The next scene has a POV of a Gun Soldier, and you see a black arms trooper hop up on a car, and guns down a soldier. And another black arms on the left just walking casually shoots the other one (and continues shooting the dude's body, absolutely brutal.) The only gun soldier standing which is the soldier we have the POV of, gets attacked by one of the flying black arms. That's presumably three more dead, possibly even more, since the one on top of the car continues shooting at something off screen.
Even while GUN troops are getting destroyed, not even civilians are safe, because although the car this behemoth lands on is empty, he slams a civilian car into the building. I thought it was a cop car, but this is a solid black car, no white doors or anything. All of the civilians in that car (Possibly a family with children) are now gone.
The final scene in the intro is probably the most brutal, because of how much stuff happens in just a few seconds. In fact if you blink you'll probably miss it, so I zoomed in a little.
On the top left you can see a squad of three GUN soldiers being absolutely demolished by some sort of explosion launched by the Black Arms troopers charging at them. Then those same troops keep sprinting past their bodies and begin shooting at presumably more people between the buildings who were probably survivors trying to hide.
On the lower right we see that there's an entire horde of them, a behemoth throwing a police car at something off screen. (Probably a person) and all around him there's like a dozen or so black arm troops walking around and shooting at everything and everyone (once more off screen)
I find this one the most disturbing for two reasons. One is that if you look closely, some of them who are hanging behind the parade are just purposefully shooting at wrecked cars and debris piles. Which could mean either they're purposefully causing as much destruction as possible, or they're trying to scare survivors out. (They even bothered animating the sparks of laser bolts hitting the cars and walls, which meant the animators purposefully animated some of them doing that.)
The other reason I find it somewhat unnerving is that the idea of an entire horde of black arm troops just walking down the street and brutally massacring the town, and in such a casual manner as if it's a completely normal thing.
All those people dead in like a twenty or thirty second timespan. The fact that somehow all this stuff was in a sonic game. A SONIC GAME. ONLY RATED E 10 AND UP, LIKE NONE OF THIS WAS WORTH THE TEEN RATING?
H O W ? !
Back in the 2000s, people accused this game of blatantly copying the Covenant from the Halo series, and even if they did, they definitely were faithful to the original material, considering they kept in the part of the aliens wanting to genocide humanity and will gun down any human they see.
Anyways rambling over. I love Shadow and I love his game. :-)
Godzilla facing Kong: Just another Tuesday.
Godzilla facing Mechagodzilla:
held by your own wires
Sales of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have fallen 92 per cent since September, according to new data.
Analysis by the website NonFungible, first cited by the Wall Street Journal, found that NFT sales fell to a daily average of 19,000 this week, compared to 225,000 seven months ago.
Active wallets, which are used to store NFTs, also dropped by 88 per cent. The article concluded: “The NFT market is collapsing.”
Data from Google Trends also shows that online search interest in the technology – which allows assets like digital artwork to be traded and stored through online ledgers – has plummeted by 89 per cent since peaking in January 2022.
I'm looking like hell for that video you made of Ghidora and Godzilla scrapping with "Gladiator Theme" pulsing in the background. I can't bloody find it.
Late response, but I deleted it because, admittedly, I'm not exactly too proud of that rescore.
I did make a rescore of Godzilla and Kong's battle in Hong Kong with the same song, so I could perhaps upload that here since I find it to be much more fitting.
Thanks to @mrbeastie87‘s suggestion, there is now an Abraxas server on Discord, and you’re invited to join us! Praise the Two Who are One! Where I guess if you like that one fic I wrote you can show up and hang out if you so wish, BUT WAIT… THERE’S MORE?! Seriously, there’s a lot here.
We have channels for gaming, music, streaming, rp channels of the crack and serious and naughty varieties, an entire NSFW channel, arts and crafts channel, and voice channel for the aforementioned streaming and gaming! Share your artistic side or maybe connect to voice chat to make streams more fun! Do what you want… just remember to check the rules, or you’ll get the Ban Hammer!
https://discord.gg/eXX4EwwA
did i forget tumblr existed? yeah sorry 💔 i miss this site so i’m gonna try to get back to posting on here
enjoy some king ghidorah sketches he needs to die and go to hell
[[WARNING, the following contains graphic descriptions of bodily harm;
I was walking my dog in our neighborhood today when I spotted what looked like a stray dog wandering the street. Not sure if it was a certain neighbor’s or not (sometimes their dog gets loose, they’re harmless though), I continued to walk with caution. I then got clearer look at it as it walked toward us, and saw it wasn’t a dog I was familiar with. Then the dog spotted us, more specifically, it spotted MY dog. It bolted over, and I could tell by its body language, it was going to get aggressive with my pup. Thinking quickly, I hoisted Audi (my dog) over my head to keep her safe. But, the stray dog continued to snap at her, and in process of me trying to get away from it, hopped up, and bit right into my arm, right by the elbow joint. I screamed, not just because it hurt like hell, but because I felt something tear. One of our neighbors was luckily outside at the time, and rushed me into their home, effectively saving my life, along with Audi’s. I took a look at my injury, and saw it was deeper than I feared, with a good bit of my flesh torn off, showing something very WHITE. Which was great for my anxiety lol. After checking my pup to see if she was injured at all (thank god, she wasn’t) my neighbor drove me home. My girlfriend, who is a nurse, took a look at my wound, and to my dismay said, “I see bone.” Cue the panic attack My girlfriend rushed me to the ER. Turns out this dog was in fact a neighbor dog that wasn’t trained properly. Luckily, what she thought was bone turned out to be a layer of flesh, but the wound was too big to get stitched. So, a cleaning, an x-ray, and a few rabies shots later, I got patched up and sent home with a week’s worth of antibiotics. The neighbor was also very apologetic and said they’d cover the medical expenses (my gf on the other hand wants to sue them into the ground lol). But, I won’t be able to use my arm, my DRAWING ARM for a while because of this. Plus I need to get another round of shots in the next two days. I’m honestly more pissed than in pain. This was something I REALLY didn’t need. I can’t work on my commissions, I can barely write, shit, TYPING THIS DAMN MESSAGE IS A PAIN IN THE ASS. So yea, that’s what’s going on with me, sorry for anyone messaging me if I respond slower than usual, if at all.
I will update everyone on when I’m healed up enough to work on everyone’s commissions again, which should be in a couple weeks. I hope you all understand
-Danny-Mun ]]
Ok ok, new sheet with minor price changes and new examples!