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NECA Sesame Street on display at NYCC.

Storm Collectibles Storm Arena Darkstalkers Morrigan & Lilith on display at NYCC.

GET IT TWISTED nobody gets what they deserve in life, it is unfair and there is nothing we can do about it but be better to each other. Your boss doesn't give a shit about you, return that energy, take more smoke breaks. Phone it in. Never give 110% at work

The babies of Mortal Kombat II

The plot of the next Simpsons movie should be the kids at Springfield Elementary digging up a time capsule that was buried 40 years ago and realizing they're the same children who buried it because their world hasn't aged in 4 decades.

Smilo Ren and his source of power.

a goofy man stands in front on a bunch of cards you can buy

elderly packa of Return of the Jedi and Garbage Pail Kids surround a wind up robot from the 60’s and Darth Vader

a binder full of cheap holograms and several boxes of cool old cards. dutch angle, fancy!

back at the card show, love my set up

I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists."

The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!

the problem with mechsploitation is that if you turn a girl into a dog that's also an ace pilot you've just succeeded in creating Snoopy

Marvel: Infinity War

An OpenBOR fan game which lets you take one of a large roster of characters into pretty much every 90s Marvel console & arcade beat 'em up, plus an original campaign, plus Streets of Rage 2.

So if you ever wanted to beat Mr. X as Hercules or Songbird, here ya go.

assorted trading cards at my table at Louisiana Cardcon

various non sports cards, they look great

my fancy display case with an assortment of cool expensive ish cards

set up at a local card show today, loving my new display case!

me before and after shelling out to see One Battle After Another in IMAX

assorted non-sports trading card packs i have now opened

recorded some new youtubes

YouTube video by Toygrind Lijiang Wuling Truck | TOYGRIND 10

Workers of the world! Take a coffee break and check out the excellent Lijiang Wuling Truck!
youtu.be/ztYd78VyNrg

Soul Blazer Lisa at sunset: "I just want the working class to hate Capitalism as much as it hates them."

Mobile Suit Gundam the Witch from Mercury (EN dub) - YouTube

And if you didn’t already know, you can legally watch all of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury completely free on YouTube, both sub and dub

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Orko’s fellow Trollan tries out his tight 5 at Clamp Champ’s comedy club.

i got a joke for ya: “Stinkor”

you're welcome

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

When a conservative refers to a “mistake” that shouldn’t ruin your life/career, they are referring to a deliberate act in which a woman or marginalized male was a victim.

My Feed Every Morning:

Account 1: "Remember Cookie Crisp?"

Account 2: "SUPER COVID IS COMING AND NO ONE IS READY!!!"

Account 3: *drawing of anthropomorphic raccoon with largest penis you've ever seen*

Account 1: "Here's a link to a podcast I did a decade ago about classic cereals."

"The Secretary of Defense, a dude who once almost killed a dude doing a drunken axe throw during a breakfast news show remote, gathered together the leaders of the American military to say they are a bunch of fatty boom-a-latties."

100% tariff on Tron Ares only.

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

my face and some swat cats and other cool old toys.

my sweet display case showing cool old toys like Shogun Vehicles, She-Ra & a 70’s GI Joe with the box!

a wider shot of my toy booth showing old trading card packs, magnets and tons of toys.

another angle of the toy booth showing some dig bins and shoeboxes full of the fancier items.

had a great time yesterday selling at Totally Rad Vintage Fest!
my first time with all vintage and it went well.

this is the only line i get excited for every single time i see new ones!

gonna be heartbroken if it gets chopped

Facebook post from Kaleb Horton, September 18, 2017: Toys R Us is probably going out of business this year. I'm fascinated by the collapse of retail, because what it really signifies is the collapse of the 20th century. The reason I pushed to profile guys like Harry Dean Stanton, Merle Haggard and Chuck Berry, was that writing about them is a way of writing about the 20th century, and how different it was from where we are now. How shockingly different, in retrospect. The migration out of the south, the descent of the Dust Bowl, which was a Biblical plague; the millions of people who were killed during World War Two. Monoculture, and the idea that a great episode of a television show would be seen by *half of all people.* The arrival of flight, and the end of horses. Homes without electricity. Coming of age without computers, without television. Listening to the radio for entertainment. The 20th century was a long time ago and it's a ghost now. It's a ghost you see in the places you wouldn't expect. It's seen in towns that were bypassed by the freeways, the dusty little towns out west that still have old diners and motels and payphones. It's seen in the places that we left, places where mines shut down, places where tourist attractions died off. It's seen in Bakersfield with Buck Owens' Crystal Palace and it's seen in Roswell, which stubbornly maintains the relics of the '90s UFO boom. Things like that won't be around forever. Someday owners will die and towns will burn and they won't be rebuilt. And it's difficult to suss out what those things are, because they're on roads, physical and metaphorical, that we no longer travel.

The ghost sightings happen in stupid places, unexpected places, and uncool places. A few months ago, I went with Marie to the Toys R Us on Victory Blvd. in Burbank, which still looks exactly like it did in Back to the Future in 1985 somehow. It's not nostalgia that you see there, it's just a customer base and economic model that's aging and won't be around a lot longer, and it's *boring.* There's no reason for anyone to ever go to Lancer's, the little diner by that Toys R Us. Because it's not good. People go there out of tradition, and old habits. 80 and 90 year olds go there. We were lining up for a Nintendo, which is still a hard thing to keep stocked in stores. Toys R Us was actually the best place to obtain one, because it's no longer a place children beg their parents to take them to. When we went in, wham, there it was. The ghost of 1996. I was 8 years old, for a fraction of a second. The feeling wasn't nostalgia, it was a kind of temporal dislocation. A confusion. But it wasn't an immaculate 1996, it was a fading 1996. It was lonelier than I remember it. It's time for Toys R Us to go out of business. It was time ten years ago, fifteen. There are reasons to be nostalgic about the 20th century. We weren't plugged into so many wires, so many screens. We were a little bit closer to the process of manufacturing and agriculture than we are now. We made more things by hand, and our goals as people were uniquely audacious and driven by mad, desperate power that was temporary and had to end.

But the 20th century was hopelessly cruel and soaked in blood. The 20th century gave us flight, but it also gave us bombs that can end the world and Richard Nixon and his evil sidekick Kissinger and it gave us new mutations of slavery and race and class subjugation and it gave us useless, disgusting monuments to Confederate slavers and traitors and cowards. It gave us President Trump, who wouldn't exist today without New York City's collective cocaine addiction in the 1980s. I want to find the ghosts, not because I miss the past -- the good old days can't return because they're imaginary and what you really miss is youth and if you're lucky a warm feeling of safety -- but because I don't even know what things we'll lose, or when we'll lose them, or how long we have to document them. I know ghosts when I see them. Toys R Us for the mundane side and the Salton Sea for the widescreen wasteland side. But I have absolutely no idea how many there are. I figure people go first, then places. Those are the things we have a limited time to physically document and historically examine and preserve on film. The ideas will go away much slower, and some of them may be eternal, like cold wars. But those are a lot less fun because you don't get to drive to them.

And now I'm just spelunking around and here's this Facebook post by Kaleb Horton from September 2017. It was three months after MTV dumped its freelancers. I'm sure it would have been a piece there; instead he posted this on FB just to have it written out: Toys 'R' Us as societal microcosm.

@PeteHegseth on X: Cool story, General QT of @general_ben on X: July 1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions.

No matter what this meeting is about, Pete will always be a National Guardsman assigned to a Civil Affairs unit who got a bunch of crusader tattoos in his 40s because he wants you to think he's a cool, war-criming operator instead of an extremely online wife-beating loser

I finished the infamous Chun-Li pose series by adding Ken and Akuma. And Chun-Li is not amused by their antics.

Christian persecution in America is best defined by this image: No actual struggle, wearing clothes that cost more than my entire wardrobe, polished cross instead of rugged, and surrounded by crowds of fellow hypocrites cheering on bigotry who believe they're the victims.