Melancholy of the Next Generation

Author's Note: I don't think there will be any time left for me to get married and become a father, because I can actually see the future ahead, and it's not a bright one...

Remember when Elon Musk announced that the Twitter bluebird was finally free? Unfortunately, that victory was sadly short-lived. Elon Musk wasn't perfect, just like Donald Trump wasn't perfect. However, the billionaire's quest to free the bluebird has exposed the true nature of Germany's shadow government, and by extension, the European Union. And it doesn't help that Elon Musk made many blunders along the way that eventually forced him to resign. At the end of the day, the unelected bureaucrats that seek to impose their will upon the Internet will unleash far worse misery than you think.

This is also bad for our next generation as well. The misery that befell upon us will also be shared with our children, if we ever beget any. They too will have to suffer alongside us because of the policies implemented by unelected technocrats. But that will be nothing compared to the destruction that will obliterate our warped society.

Yet, all of this madness will be cut short, and those who survived the Great Tribulation will no longer be melancholic, for all who have died for Christ before and during the Great Tribulation will be resurrected. Then the survivors and the resurrected alike will have more than enough time to get married and have children, and not be miserable or melancholic anymore.

Tearing Down The Paywalls

Author's Note: This comic was inspired by the Gru's Bad News meme from Despicable Me 2, Ronald Reagan's "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" quote, Internet paywalls getting more restrictive, and the recent implementation of Sensitive Content filters on various pictures and artworks uploaded on Instagram, Tumblr, DeviantArt, Pixiv, ArtStation and countless other websites. Of course, I designed my own royalty-free version of the Bad News meme to avoid copyright issues as well as to not be called lazy.

Attention, Internet users. We are heading towards dark days. First, we have to deal with paywalls barring us from the full stories on some news headlines, and now, we have to deal with Sensitive Content filters labelling some pictures of girls and ladies in skimpy attires as sensitive content. In regards to sensitive content, this filtering is happening on Instagram, Tumblr, DeviantArt, Pixiv, and ArtStation. But it will get worse. There will come a day when the Holy Bible, one of the most wholesome books in the history of literature, gets labelled as "Sensitive Content", as well as paywalls becoming unbreachable that even the Ultimate Subscription Package will be unable to breach them.

So, what is the solution? Convince the Internet's regulators to tear down the paywalls and remove the sensitive content filters on all artworks and pictures except for the very explicit ones.

Update: DeviantArt took down their Sensitive Content filter, meaning the only artworks that are not viewable are those labelled Mature by the artists.

I AM ERROR

Do you think I would do a comic not found error comic? I don't think so. Instead, here is a picture of 404 clones of the character Error from Zelda 2, complete with the "I AM ERROR" quote.

The Adventure of Link © Nintendo.

Polygon Man Wins At Last

Ladies and gentlemen, E3 2023, like E3 2022, has been cancelled. To make matters worse, E3 in 2024 and 2025 are also cancelled as well.

Remember the very first E3 back in 1995? Well, that was where Polygon Man got rejected by Ken Kutaragi for being too ugly. No wonder Polygon Man was so spiteful towards Sony's mascots. Being sidelined for 17 years transformed Polygon Man into a malevolent mastermind seeking to take over Sony. And now, with E3 being cancelled for four years in a row, looks like E3 is officially dead. In other words, Polygon Man finally had the last laugh that he had been waiting for since the launch of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.

Update: E3 has been officially discontinued. There will be no more E3 conventions from 2024 onwards. Polygon Man did have the last laugh after all.

Eggman gets Blasted

If there is anyone who should face the fury of those who greatly dislike the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise for everything wrong with it, it's the Sonic villains like Dr Eggman who gets the lion's share of the haters' fury. In this comic, Dr Eggman gets blasted by a dynamite, a gooey bomb and a stick grenade hurled at him by one of the haters. He deserves what he gets for all his villainy, which was largely to blame for all that is wrong with the Sonic franchise...

How we got to Nuclear War...

In my honest opinion, Germany is not a rotten country. However, Germany has been a pawn of a rotten system that hates freedom of expression...

If you want to know who is masterminding all the cease and desists against fair use and fair dealing, keep in mind that Germany's shadow government has always hated America and democracy even before the start of World War 1. This shadow government was also the mastermind behind the two World Wars, and will start a third World War by going on a warpath against a dictatorial madman. All they need is a strongman who knows dark sentences. One who will be more nefarious than the warmongers that started World War 2. This tyrant will demand that fair use and fair dealing be banned, issue a shut down order to the soup kitchens that issue free food to homeless people, and outlaw the true Gospel in Germany, Europe and possibly the whole world. He will, however, make the fatal mistake of launching a full scale assault on a conglomerate of rogue states led by Russia and China. The end result was a global nuclear war that can only be halted by the return of Christ, who will then terminate this tyrant who knows dark sentences by deporting him to the lake of hellfire before obliterating all the legions sent to destroy Christ. Only then will freedom come to Germany, but it came at a ridiculously high price...

400 and counting

Author's Note: While this is my 400th comic uploaded, this is however, not my 400th blog post.

Once again, we have successfully crossed yet another milestone, readers. This time, we have finally reached 400 comics. A huge thank you to all the people reading my comics. I wouldn't have the motivation to reach this incredible milestone if not for readers.

Dirk the Daring's Victory 40 Years On

While the Dragon's Lair series hasn't aged well, despite the hilarious death scenes, we should also remember Dirk the Daring's victory over the fearsome dragon Singe because that would have been the fruits of persevering despite having to spend loads of quarters just to beat the game. Even the epic fails merely reward us with hilarious death scenes.

Happy 40th Anniversary, Dragon's Lair! And thanks for giving us some of the most hilarious death scenes, as well as an epic final battle where victory over Singe gave us a great ending!

Dragon's Lair © Digital Leisure.

Birthdays and meaning

Author's Note: This comic was uploaded to commemorate my 32nd birthday.

As we grow older, we need to ask this question: Are birthdays losing their meaning?

If there was any legitimate reason for us not to keep birthdays, it has to be due to the deaths of Pharaoh's chief baker and John the Baptist happening on someone's birthday as recorded by the Bible. Both deaths were horrific. But if that wasn't enough, maybe copyright issues concerning one of the most famous birthday songs will be the reason. Still not convinced? Imagine one of your guests at your birthday party telling you that you are one year closer to your death. That will make you want to not remember birthdays anymore...

Escape from a Failed State

If escaping from South Africa by paying 5 coins to take a ship ride to Panama was possible in real life just like in Wii Party's Globe Trot, then things would be easier for people who wish to migrate out of South Africa...

Let's face it. South Africa was already on course to becoming a failed state during the dark days of Apartheid. Even when Apartheid was finally abolished, things didn't become better. Instead, South Africa became worse off than during Apartheid because of the lack of equality between ethnic groups that still persisted after Apartheid was abolished.

Which comes to South Africans of European origin planning to migrate to some other country. The United States and Canada are becoming just as dysfunctional as South Africa, meaning South Africans of European ancestry will have to migrate to either Costa Rica or Panama, which is what some Canadians are doing right now. The only problem is that anybody migrating to Costa Rica or Panama will have to learn Spanish if they wish to acquire citizenship in those two countries. But learning a new language isn't a problem, though. Instead, it will be adjusting to their new home country that may be a big problem. But that will eventually be resolved with the help of some friendly locals.

In conclusion, even countries that are less wealthy than yours in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita can sometimes have far more friendly environments that will make you want to migrate there. Ironically, South Africa has a lower GDP per capita than Costa Rica or Panama, meaning for South Africans, migrating to Costa Rica or Panama means going to a place with both a more friendly environment and higher GDP per capita.

Friendship Killers

If Nintendo's broken copyright system isn't bad enough to make you boycott them, then the friendships that they have destroyed since the launch of the very first Mario Party game will surely make you wished you had boycotted them when you had the chance to do so.

If the Super Smash Bros series was a war, it would have been a war that lasted longer than the two World Wars combined. Not to mention that Super Smash Bros came out over a month after the first Mario Party game was released, and that was only the Japanese version. In fact, when Mario Party was released in Western markets, it started destroying friendships and family fun. If that was not enough, Mario Party got involved in a hand injury controversy so bad that the game was never to be re-released on the Virtual Console's N64 emulators for both Wii and Wii U, and its re-release had to wait until months after the Nintendo Switch Online's N64 emulator went live. Talk about creating a product so sinister that it was denied of a re-release for over two decades...

If there was any item that Mario Kart players hate most, it's the blue spiny shell. It always targets whoever is in first place, essentially destroying their lead. Starting from Mario Kart 7 onwards, it started knocking others who were not the intended target, and it became an item in Super Smash Bros starting from the 3DS and Wii U versions.

Even on non-video game media like card games and board games, Nintendo is not safe from being antagonized for destroying friendships. UNO was notorious for ruining friendships in many ways, and so did Monopoly. Both UNO and Monopoly had Nintendo versions as well. Well played, Nintendo. You just made lots of enemies through ruining friendships and carrying out legal actions against intellectual property piracy.

Nintendo games and characters © Nintendo.

Opinions on Intellectual Property

We should be raging at copyright trolls. They are the real enemy of creativity on the World Wide Web. If I were a lawyer, I would have called for my fellow lawyers to boycott and defund copyright trolls.

If there is anything that will make copyright trolls throw tantrums, it has to be Russia's copyright authorities legitimizing piracy of copyrighted content originating from countries that are unfriendly towards Russia. One of these countries on Russia's unfriendly countries blacklist is South Korea. Would South Korea go ballistic if Russian netizens pirate Crash Landing on You or Squid Game? Probably not. Especially when you are under siege from extremely unfriendly neighbours who possess nuclear weapons...

In contrast, Japanese copyright trolls issuing cease and desists against acts of copyright infringement, regardless of how severe or how minor, will provoke angry responses such as boycotts. Even worse is the possibility that Japan's copyright trolls are being paid to issue cease and desists on behalf of Japan's copyright authorities that Japanese copyright holders have to answer to, and Japan's copyright authorities, like other Japanese government officials do not want Japan's World War 2 war crimes to be made known to the whole world. What's more, these copyright trolls will never tell you that the people that have received the cease and desists are all in violation of Japan's anti-terrorism law. Imagine being a Japanese netizen watching a livestream of a concert from South Korea, and the police arrest you for copyright violations you did not commit. That will prompt netizens from South Korea to scream for the heads of copyright trolls to be on rusty pikes. Whether the copyright trolls are American, British, German or Japanese, if they do not renounce their wicked ways, they will perish just like Shinzo Abe, proving that Romans 6:23 is correct about the wages of sin being death.

However, it does not matter which country the copyright trolls that hate us come from. They are all pawns of a sinister beast power hailing from the same country that started two World Wars. So watch the video below before the copyright trolls issue a cease and desist against The Trumpet Magazine for publishing hate speech against Germany's shadow government.

Post-War Japan's Dirty Secret

Author's Note: The meme about Homer Simpson's back fat is a popular meme that is sometimes used to discuss certain historical topics.

Ever wondered why Japan still has yet to give a formal apology despite individuals carrying out their apologies? That's because Nobuskue Kishi, a Class A War Criminal was hand-picked to be Japan's first post-war Prime Minister, and it doesn't help that his grandson Shinzo Abe would become Prime Minister as well. Such people would consider carrying out a formal apology to all the countries Japan wronged during World War 2 unacceptable. Maybe that's why Japan's unfriendly neighbours, which are administered by autocratic strongmen who threatened to do all sorts of bad things to the Free World, are behaving so roguishly. It could also be the reason why some Japanese copyright holders issue cease and desists against people who allegedly infringed on their copyrights just by showing their love for their franchises.

If Japan chose to apologize for all the wrongs they did during World War 2 instead of going after alleged acts of copyright infringement, we would have been living in a better world by now. But no, Japan still insists on denying war crimes responsibility. Therefore, boycotts can be justified against Japanese copyright holders who issue cease and desists to anybody who just want to show their love for their franchises.

The Simpsons © FOX.

Stab The Jerk 3

Weapons stabbing Gary Oak, from left to right: Dragon Slayer (Berserk), Dark Repulser (Sword Art Online), Lionheart (MapleStory).

Yet another comic about Ash's original nemesis Gary being stabbed? Looks like I really hate Professor Oak's grandson a lot, even if he was named after Shigeru Miyamoto...

Then again, I think Gary Oak must die over 9000 times for humiliating Ash Ketchum and tormenting millions of Pokemon players. Even if Ash Ketchum turns out to be a Zainichi Korean, his namesake Satoshi Tajiri a sympathizer of Zainichi Koreans, and over half of Zainichi Koreans confirmed to be communist sympathizers, the injustices Gary Oak did to Ash Ketchum outweigh the Zainichi Koreans' sympathy towards communism. And I don't care if Gary Oak's death will result in Waluigi becoming playable in a future Super Smash Bros title or erase Mario's existence. I still think the end of the Ash Ketchum Arc of the Pokemon TV series did no justice for the Pokemon fanbase.

Lamentation about Justice

Remember when justice was all about giving wicked evildoers a proper punishment? I do. Unfortunately, justice has lost its meaning because leftists seek to use the good name of justice not to demand power for the oppressed but to turn the tables on the oppressors. Leftists have been looking for opportunity to take offense and cling to every grievance, no matter how small or how long ago. In contrast, the Bible commands us not to harbor grievances, but according to 1 Corinthians 13:5, we are to keep no record of wrongs and in Matthew 5:44, we should instead love and pray for those who persecute us.

Sadly, humanity has never learned the lessons of the Bible. Whereas the Gospels instruct us to love our enemies and even die for them, and not kill them, the Crusades did not abide to the rules of the Gospel. Instead, the Crusaders slaughtered their enemies without any regard to the instructions found in the Bible.

In recent decades, awareness had been raised about Japan's war crimes, from the Nanjing Massacre, to the Comfort Women and possibly the mistreatment of Zainichi Koreans. Even noble causes have started to lose popularity in the wake of leftists taking over this particular cause and other noble causes calling for justice.

Even if we wish for wicked evildoers to perish, when they do perish, rejoicing over their demise may not be all that great, for there will be others who wish for these wicked evildoers to perish for reasons different from us, and they will take advantage of us. In other words, be careful what you wish for. We could end up creating a far worse situation than whatever misdeeds the wicked evildoers that we greatly dislike are capable of.

If Japan Apologized...

Let's face it. Japanese companies may not be prepared for the boycotts that will damage their reputation even if their income doesn't take a devastating hit from these boycotts. Besides Japan's broken copyright system that does not respect fair use, Japan continues to deny its war crimes from World War 2. To this day, the countries that have been wronged by Japan still do not have any justice done for them at all. Therefore, these countries do not see any problem with boycotting Japanese companies, especially those who crack down on so-called acts of intellectual property theft on the World Wide Web, because they can always buycott from others who do not go after alleged acts of copyright infringement on the World Wide Web.

Had Japan formally apologized to many of the countries they have wronged during World War 2 instead of going after alleged acts of copyright infringement in cyberspace, Asia and maybe most of the Earth would have been a better place.

Bowser Gets Boycotted

Author's Note: This particular image where Bowser is facing a boycott is an actual image from the Mario Quiz Cards that were published from 1995 to 1997.

Nintendo, your cease and desists have once again provoked another boycott. And it's not just Doug Bowser who has to face the boycotts. A management policy that was updated when the late Satoru Iwata was in charge means that Doug Bowser currently answers to Shuntaro Furukawa, meaning Furukawa should also get the blame as well.

But then again, Nintendo's litigations against intellectual property piracy are due to Japan's anti-terrorism law classifying copyright infringement as an act of domestic terrorism, as well as the European Union Copyright Directive dictating that even copyright holders from countries that are not part of the European Union must comply with European Union copyright regulations if they are doing business in EU member states. This means boycotting may not be as effective as long as the "Great Mart of Nations" dictates the rules, for it will besiege any nation that rejects them.

Super Mario Bros © Nintendo.

Ready For The Ice Buckets

Another comic about wearing swimwear for the Ice Bucket Challenge? Guess swimwear and buckets filled with ice water go hand in hand.

If Arle was to wear a bikini for the Ice Bucket Challenge, she would prefer to wear a striped bikini. After all, striped bikinis are popular in Japanese pop culture, just like the female underwear their color pattern was based on.

Samus isn't the only person who is not afraid to be seen wearing an itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka-dot bikini. Princess Daisy is wearing a yellow polka-dot bikini for the Ice Bucket Challenge, meaning she is also not afraid to be seen wearing a yellow polka-dot bikini.

Rosalina saying that her strapless bikini is ready for the Ice Bucket Challenge is another reference to the famous "My Body Is Ready" quote by Reggie Fils-Aime.

Sakura Kinomoto prefers to wear a triathlon bikini because she is not ready for any real fanservice yet as she is still currently in middle school. However, a triathlon bikini does strike a balance between modesty and fanservice. Therefore, she should be fine.

But that's not all. Their bikinis would have no problem getting wet when it comes to doing forehead coin to funnel, because bikinis are designed for getting wet. To quote Princess Kida from Disney's Atlantis when she took off her skirt before going for a swim, "You do swim, do you not?"

Slapping Denial

Hands grabbing Jenova's appendage and telling her enough, from left to right: Yuna (Final Fantasy X), Kazuya Mishima (Tekken), Doom Slayer (Doom), Goku (Dragon Ball Z), Needles Kane (Twisted Metal).

In the penultimate boss battle of Final Fantasy VII, Jenova slaps her enemies with her appendages, and she slaps hard. That's why in this comic, various characters are grabbing the appendage of this evil matriarch responsible for masterminding all of Sephiroth's villainy.

I can understand that Yuna is from a different Final Fantasy game, but she made her stance crystal clear that she stands with Cloud and his friends against Sephiroth, Professor Hojo and Jenova.

If Kazuya found out that Professor Hojo, like Jenova, was also another mastermind behind Sephiroth's villainy, in addition to the mad genius being a terrible father who could be worse than Kazuya's father Heihachi Mishima, Kazuya is going to get Professor Hojo dead for sure...

Doom Slayer would mistake Jenova for a Cacodemon from the Doom series. Goku prefers to punish villains such as Jenova by teaching them the error of their ways, and when that doesn't succeed, he will have to wipe them off from the face of the planet.

Needles Kane would just be somebody who suspects that Jenova was colluding with the malevolent purple head responsible for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.