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Toni vs. Shafir: YAY!

Knowing that means only one women’s title match on the PPV: BOO.

Presumably no TBS and if a tag at all, Zero Hour.

Look, if people don’t know by now not to walk VERY SLOWLY UP THE RAMP with Ciampa, they deserve what they inevitably get at the top.

#AEWCollision

Yeah I heard there’s even an emulator for a modded 3DS that does all the 3D stuff that way.

It’s not anti-VR to understand the Virtual Boy was some fuckin’ weird shit and the add-on is too. I -like- that Nintendo does weird shit but still.

Man, they’ll just slap you on any ol’ list, won’t they?

Gene Wilder’s Dr. Frankenstein and Peter Boyle’s Monster, in Mego 8” doll form, dance on the black and white theater stage from Young Frankenstein. The Doctor is leaning to the right, top hat in his right hand, cane in his left, while The Monster is behind him, leaning left, top hat on his head, cane held along his right forearm straight out past his hand, which is raised up and left.

GOT: Mego Young Frankensteins!

Partner found this two-pack for fifteen bucks in a Half Price books last month so yeah it came home and got added to the 8-9” dollar collection.

Just don’t expect the
doc to wear the hat. Also they’re in color.

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1) See this post.

2) Remember using this moment for Masters of the Universe Stratos

3) Struggle to remember WHY I did it.

4) Finally remember that Stratos’ staff in the cartoon has the power to make mid fireworks.

The curse of evidence-based cynicism.

We’re optimistic by nature, but aware of history and facts.

Outside a castle wall at night, the moon lighting up the clouds, Lt. Griffin, AKA “The Eraser” (Operation Monster Force), a tricked out military dude in a dark uniform but with clear head, neck, hands, and forearms demonstrating his invisibility powers, sneaks up behind Donner Party (Operation Monster Force), a greenish-gray Frankenstein-type monster in a cowboy serape and bandoliers, holding a rifle at the ready like you do when on patrol. The Eraser has a black-bladed knife in his hand, ready to strike, as the moon casts their shadows on the wall to their left.

RNG Vault 836/896 is recent (1/3/26) and it’s a gotchapic for The Eraser, the only “military dude” from Monster Force I’m interested in.

Don’t care about the rest of the fatigues-and-pouches brigade these days.

Also more progress into making day bg’s into night.

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Odd.

Year 10 of “what if the worst, dumbest ideas in the universe were actually innovative thinking and we let /made everyone do them” not going as well as expected..

I mean it’s not like he’s Alf or something.

So, it’s a small thing, but I think I’m annoyed enough at the NECA Super Grover to skip it. It feels like a trick.

Specifically - a variant of a character that could have been accessories for the regular release, shipping out well before the regular release.

I ain’t buying two Grovers.

As someone who knows, I fully support your decision and urge you to stick with it.

You kinda did. We’d just gotten Radar Rat Race, a game I later learned was just a shitty Rally X clone, on cartridge for C64. On Halloween.

Tween me was more interested in the game than candy. Parents, starting to realize the depth of the addiction, disagreed and won.

a 3x3 grid of game covers. Top: Ballblazer, Project: Firestart, Venture (arcade). Middle: Radar Rat Race, Star Wars Arcade, Borderlands 2. Bottom: Samba De Amigo, Rocket League, San Francisco Rush 2049.

The 9 games that made me.

There’s a story for each and every one of these. For example, one of these my parents had to force me to stop playing in order to get me to go trick or treating.

A Commodore 64 300 baud modem. AKA the Commodore MODEL 1880 modem/300

Just saved this to the camera roll on the off chance the Old People Online discourse comes at me.

Don’t even fuckin’ think about it, embryos.

I should -absolutely- be working on the display rotation instead of scrolling.

Skye Blue and Julia Hart (Jazwares AEW) stand on the red-lit Dynamite entrance stage, holding hands. Julia is in her entrance robe and hat. Their chyron reads: “LINE SEGMENT OF MADNESS”.

RNG Vault #703/896! Did you know there was a brief period between the name “Triangle of Madness” and the name “Sisters of Sin”?

I tried to suggest something with the Skye Blue and Julia Hart figs I got but alas AEW went in a different direction.

(8/30/25)

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Thanks! I was very happy the hat fit.

Oh yeah I mean there are all kinds of reasons why a disgraced creator / IP owner would do this, just no answers for why I’d watch even if Whedon and Baldwin weren’t who they are.

I don’t see any good answer to “why” bring back Firefly?

It’s not like they left a bunch of lingering questions. Everything got answered in a moderately disappointing manner. All that’s left is the setting and less than one hand’s worth of viable characters.

Project OK Fine I Guess I’m Getting All The Classified Scubadoodz ha officially commenced.

This isn’t a recommendation, just an observation that Kristi Noem has, in her past, set a very specific precedent on how to deal with poor training and over-aggressiveness.

In a GI Joe cartoon battlefield, in front of a low stone wall, Flint (GI Joe Classified) points at Lifeline (GI Joe Classified, who is trying to treat a completely skinless man (Keepgoing Toys Muscle Model) who is wearing Gung Ho’s vest and hat and is looking in horror at his own condition while lying on a stretcher. Lifeline is kneeling next to him, medical case and oxygen mask in his right hand, IV bag in his left, computer backpack on the ground near him.

GOT: Lifeline!

Only one I got from this wave because I’m not that into what is essentially Joe G2. Lifeline looks great but his gear is fussier than most Classifieds.

MEAT MAN remains useful, but I think Flint’s job expectations are a bit high for a field medic.

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Don’t worry about screwing up. It’ll happen. But it won’t happen to a degree that’ll prevent you from having a great time.

One thing to prepare yourself for mentally is that in the cities, businesses can be 10 stories up. So you look up a restaurant and nav to it and it’s on the 4th floor.

In an arcade filled with various cabinets, Spiral (Marvel Legends) plays a replica Mortal Kombat machine - both players at once with all her arms.

RNG Vault 192/896 was one of the first arcade cabinet replicas I got off Etsy - Mortal Kombat.

I now have both too many and not enough of these things.

(From 9/1/23)

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I didn’t! They look really nice but I think they’re gone? I mean, I don’t need more skeletons at this point but they do look good.

Now I want someone to do a circulatory system dude. or an organs dude.

Yeah, exact same experience for me, so at least I know I ain’t doin’ it wrong. Thanks!

He’s so much fun. Especially the bug-eyed head.

Hey @fridaypfender.bsky.social you have this dude too, right?

Are the shoulder / hipcaps meant to work with full butterfly / splits movement on yours or do they block it? It looks like they should move as part of the joint but I really don’t want to force it.

Oh, hey, just completed the usual Bluesky ritual of scrolling through dozens of Chotiner jokes, screenshots, and commentary to find out who the fuck he was interviewing!

So, any bets on whether the “we’re doing swears!” in Lanterns is part of a naturalistic approach to human language or a desperate bid to be taken seriously and be seen as “prestige TV”?