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That art & loop is absolutely delightful
The game has some serious reaction gif-worthy material!
Hey HEY WE DON'T TALK ABOUT THAT GAME. That didn't happen /lh
Who's talking s*** about the mouse?
What's all this I hear about not wanting to wear the purity rings, ha ha? You need to wear the purity rings, so we can sell sex to little girls!
The famous Wally Wood Mickey Mouse orgy poster.
Back in the day, Wally Wood was as big as Jack Kirby. According to legend, he created Power Girl's bosom window.
https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.-xIzUkvIKh5vEQ10K_CrSQAAAA?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain
Ah yes, the booby hatch
Fitting that he's the main Disney character
Oh my god I hated that show so much when my daughter watched it as a kid.
I realize that Disney characters aren't the most well-nuanced to begin with, but they took what little personality they had and stripped it from them to make every episode as bland as possible. The conflict was minimal. Donald and Daisy never got angry, Pete was slightly self-centered but not especially bad.
There was one on Netflix she loved called Mickey's Road Rally where they decided to have a Road Rally- not a race because no one wins- and the big conflict was that Pete wanted to win anyway.
And the really sad thing is They Might Be Giants wrote the end music.
As much as Disney uses Mickey as its main mascot, it really doesn't respect the character. I don't know what movie this is from, but it's likely relatively recent. Yet, student CGI projects in the late 90s were putting out more complex scenes than this.
Looking over the list of releases:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mickey_Mouse_films_and_appearances
Disney has done very little with the character besides shorts, cameos, and home video releases. This is like if Nintendo only used Mario for Smash Bros and a few throwaway mobile app games.
This is from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. It is mind-numbingly stupid, makes a vague attempt at being educational, has the cheapest animation I've ever seen in a children's show, and it is basically crack for toddlers.
And has a theme song from They Might Be Giants, which is right at the intersection of a corporate behemoth making the rare right decision and a beloved weirdo niche band selling out in a fairly impressive fashion.
Oh that's just the tip of the iceberg. David Tennant inexplicably has a cameo as a talking door that only has 5 lines. Dick Van Dyke appears in what will almost certainly be one of his last roles. Yet they also put something like this horrifying, cross-eyed elephant onscreen.
I thought this was his house.
Narendra Modi
Same guy
N*rcissist is an ancient Greek slur for asexuals
As an ace, wtf are you talking about
The word is based on the ancient Greek character Narcissus, who was put to death by the gods for not sexing anyone. Ancient greeks didn't understand asexuals and thought we just don't sex anyone because we think we're better than others.
Modern english speaking people ported the word over and used it to mean a selfish abuser, while pointing to the asexual Narcissus as an example of selfish abusers, because they forgot to think critically and just accepted the Greek cultural interpretation without question
What? In the myth of Narcissus he was not cursed. There was a prophecy but no curse. Echo was the one who was cursed. Narcissus was just so vain he fell in love with his own reflection because no one else could compare.
Nah, one of the incels he rejected prayed to Nemesis to punish him, and she did. Read Ovid's Metamorphoses. The prayer was "let him also love what he cannot have", so she made him fall in love with his reflection. It was divine punishment.
Interesting, good to know and thank you for that bit of history!
I'm so glad we don't live in ancient Greece anymore!
Yeah! These days it's a slur for disabled people with subtle aphobic connotations! That's much better! /s