The Last Day Before The Purge

Author's Note: Some regions are not even past midnight yet at the time this comic was uploaded. Therefore, the regions that are already past midnight have less than 24 hours left before 1 December 2023. Also, the "Dawn Of The Final Day" image comes from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.

This is it. The purge that everybody dreaded is near. However, dormant YouTube channels are exempted and therefore, will not be purged. Meanwhile, Gab users who are calling for internet users to de-Google their digital footprint would probably be laughing at the possibility that Google is running out of space and needs to declutter their servers. How this turns out, we do not know...

Update: The purge did happen, and there were cases of Blogspot blogs disappearing as a result. Looks like internet users are going to end up like Smeagol from Lord of the Rings, speaking about how Google betrayed internet users. In other words, not only did Blogspot have its "MySpace" moment, this incident will prove that Google has turned its back on the internet users.

No Justice for Comfort Women

Sometimes, bad people die in their sleep without receiving any comeuppance whatsoever, and those who humiliated the comfort women are no exception. All of this has to be due to war criminals being acquitted or punished lightly, which could explain why Japan still refuses to apologize for all the wrongs they did to the Asian countries they subjugated, terrorized and humiliated. Therefore, expect the last comfort woman to die without receiving any justice whatsoever in our lifetime.

Then again, almost all of the people who have wronged the comfort women are dead, and those that are not dead are at Death's Door. Even then, we should forget about justice for comfort women because if I had to choose between letting the villains who humiliated the comfort women die from natural causes and delivering justice for comfort women, I would go for the former, because the latter had already been entangled by feminism, which is no longer seen as the noble cause it had been portrayed to be but rather it had left us with dysfunctional families.

Not So Honorable

Ever wondered why Japan hasn't been sincere with their apologies for World War 2 atrocities? What if it turns out that not many of Japan's war criminals were punished because they were needed to be the counterbalance against Asian communism? If that is true, then this could explain why those who have been wronged by Japan during World War 2 will not have any justice at all, and also the reason the Yasukuni Shrine that the Allies ordered to be demolished still stands to this day.

Swimming Pool Matriarch Visual Gag Variations

Author's Note: This comic was inspired by the Senpai of the Pool meme, which in turn was inspired by the Panzer of the Lake meme.

Ah, yes. Nothing like a visual gag variations comic. It gets even better when combined with existing Internet memes.

You do remember that comic where leotards and lingerie looked similar to female swimwear. Well, it turns out leotards and lingerie did influenced modern female swimwear designs. That's why leotards and lingerie look similar to female swimsuits.

Pulling down anybody's pants or skirt is no longer funny and can get you into trouble with the long arm of the law. Even the bikini top falling off cliche is not funny anymore and some call for wardrobe malfunctions and deliberate underwear exposure to be banned.

Pokemon's Professor Oak was called Professor Okido in the Japanese version. But the Japanese word for Oak is Ooku, not Okido. This means Game Freak had been lying to Pokemon fans all along. Speaking of falsehoods in the Pokemon franchise, did you know that Ash "Satoshi" Ketchum does not have a surname in the Japanese version? The idea of Ash having the surname Ketchum was actually Nintendo of America's idea when they were localizing Pokemon Red and Blue, as well as the Pokemon TV series.

Remember the times when Magical Girls were portrayed as heroines of justice with attitude? Unfortunately, Puella Magi Madoka Magica ruined everything we love about magical girls. Simply put it, Puella Magi Madoka Magica lied about the promotional material, from the beach scenes that they promised in some posters, but was never featured in the TV series at all, to how they expected us to see magical girls as the heroines of justice who fight for what's right. Well, it turns out the magical girls of Puella Magi Madoka Magica were nothing more than pawns in Kyubey's plans to prevent the heat death of the universe. Therefore, Puella Magi Madoka Magica has always been lying to us, and on top of that even more than Game Freak lying to us about the Pokemon series.

Mario VS Pokemon Mental Gymnastics

Maybe the real reason those who wronged Ash Ketchum were never punished was because Nintendo knows that Ash Ketchum's namesake Satoshi Tajiri was the reason Game Freak almost went bankrupt back in the mid-1990s. Another reason is that Satoshi Tajiri wanted to surpass Shigeru Miyamoto, but that has not come to fruition due to Little Town Hero being a disappointment, and the fact that the Mario series also includes the Yoshi, Donkey Kong and Wario series as well. Therefore, the decision was made to have Ash's journey end with the intellectually disabled illiterate go on one last journey of friendship and co-existence.

Then again, Gary Oak's namesake Shigeru Miyamoto does not hate Waluigi, contrary to popular belief. Miyamoto also allows other Nintendo franchises that's not Pokemon to have crossovers with the Mario series outside of Super Smash Bros. Even Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog series was allowed to enter Mario territory. Perhaps this is why Satoshi Tajiri will never be able to surpass Shigeru Miyamoto, because Pokemon licensing is harder to obtain than third-party character licensing, which is why the Mario series can have crossovers with Zelda, Splatoon, Animal Crossing, Pikmin and even Sonic, but not Pokemon, if you do not count Mario Pikachu, that is.

The True Cost of Black Friday

Author's Note: Once again, the template from We Never Learn has been reused. This time, to send an anti-Black Friday message.

Let's face it. there is nothing great about the massive discount mega-sale that is Black Friday because the real truth about Black Friday is that the term originated from the crash of the U.S. gold market in 1869 and had nothing to do with shopping. Another theory about the term's origins could be from the days when the slave trade was not illegal, when plantation owners could buy slaves at a discount on the day after Thanksgiving, but this theory has no historical evidence, however. Black Friday's most famous origin story traces its origins to Philadelphia in the 1950s to describe the chaos that ensued in the day after Thanksgiving as a result of an Army-Navy football game that took place on the Saturday after Thanksgiving every year. Nowadays, Black Friday is associated with the huge discount sale taking place on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, there have been stampedes and fights that have resulted in injuries and even deaths.

At the end of the day, if the death of a Walmart employee in 2008 was anything, it's that we should do away with Black Friday altogether before more injuries and deaths occur...

We Never Learn © Shueisha.

Same Name, Different Number

Author's Note: I created lawyer-friendly versions of Phineas and Ferb's "Doofenshmirtz's Two Nickels" meme and Breaking Bad's "What Are You Talking About?" meme for this comic.

Fun Fact: Denmark preserved two submarines of the Royal Danish Navy bearing the name HDMS Springeren. One was a Delfinen-class submarine with the pennant number S329. The other was a Norwegian-made Tumleren-class submarine with the pennant number S324 and was formerly the Norwegian submarine HNoMS Kya. For those wondering what the Tumleren-class is, it's a subclass of Norway's Kobben-class submarines designated for second-hand export to Denmark. In June 2004, Denmark's Ministry of Defence decided to decommission their submarine flotilla and cease operating submarines altogether. Of Denmark's four remaining submarines at the time the announcement was made, HDMS Tumleren was scrapped while the Swedish-made Näcken-class submarine HDMS Kronborg was returned to Sweden, only to be scrapped in 2016 after another 11 years of serving the Swedish flag. The other two remaining Danish submarines became museum ships after their decommissioning. It just so happens that there was a museum ship named HDMS Springeren when HDMS Springeren (S324) was turned into a museum ship. However, both submarines have different pennant numbers and are from different classes, so there was very little confusion when it comes to distinguishing between the two, if any at all. These two submarines are located in different locations in Denmark a few hundred kilometers away from each other. HDMS Springeren (S329) is located in the Aalborg Maritime Museum while HDMS Springeren (S324) is located in the Langelandsfort Cold War Museum in Bagenkop.

If you happen to visit Denmark, you might want to visit some of their museum ships that once served Denmark from the Cold War years up until 2004.

The Misery of 2023

2023 isn't over, but this depressing year continues to claim more lives, including a prominent pastor by the name of Joseph Chean, who used to be a guest speaker at Pentecost Methodist Church. For those wondering how Joseph Chean perished in Turkey, his cause of death was an automobile accident on the way back to the airport when the taxi he was on board crashed onto another car. This sad news came amid the wars in Israel and Ukraine.

But the deaths are not the only thing to worry about. Internet censorship is getting worse and worse. Content creators and archivists can be censored or banned for just committing minor violations, let alone the "offensive content" isn't offensive at all. Looks like we are approaching the time of the end indeed...

Rejecting Black Friday

Only one more week until Black Friday. Until then, exposing the truth about Black Friday is all that matters...

You know that Black Friday has already lost its luster when there are businesses that shun Black Friday's highly discounted mega-sales altogether. To make matters worse, there was already a history of Black Friday-related injuries and deaths. Think about all the stampedes and fights that have happened during the Black Friday mega-sales of yesteryear. All in all, if you value your finances, health and life, stay out of Black Friday mega-sales altogether.

No Optimism for 2024...

Remember the days when the World Wide Web was the place where you can become an overnight sensation? Well, it still is that place. However, the European Union's Digital Services Act seeks to limit our freedoms, regardless of whether we live inside or outside the European Union. It gets even worse when California, the home of Silicon Valley, was forced to plagiarize EU internet regulations. Even worse still is that Germany is the lead country in the EU, and the only countries that know of Germany's plans to impose its will on the world are Russia and China. And to think rogue nations and militant organizations that threaten the Free World are the bad guys...

If you want to understand why Big Tech is turning on the customers that made them who they are today, keep in mind that the European Union and American leftists are working together to make life miserable for millions of netizens. This in turn will lead to the biggest betrayal, and then a time of tribulation that results in a massive nuclear war...

No wonder some people are sad or disgruntled. A system that is holding Earth captive is at its death throes, and it will take a destructive combination of nuclear war and divine judgement to overthrow it...

Konami characters © Konami. SpongeBob SquarePants © Nickelodeon.

More icons of the post-1990s era

Author's Note: All copyrights for the images in this comic go to their respective owners.

While the 1990s was one of the greatest decades of pop culture history, not everything that we have grown up with made their debut in the 1990s or 1980s. RuneScape came out in 2001. Team Fortress 2 was launched in 2007. 2009 saw the release of Angry Birds and League of Legends, with both games soaring in popularity in 2010. We Bare Bears is a Cartoon Network TV series that aired from 2015 to 2019. It was very popular back in those years. Therefore, we can say that not everything that defines nostalgia come from the 1990s and the decades before. But that is not to say we do not miss the days before the year 2000 because we surely miss the days before the year 2020...

Icons of the post-1990s era

Author's Note: All copyrights for the images in this comic go to their respective owners.

There are some pop culture icons that made their debut after the last day of 1999 ended. For example,Waluigi debuted in 2000 with Mario Tennis for the N64. The first Animal Crossing was released in 2001, the same year Microsoft's XBox was launched. The Miis made their debut with the Wii's launch in 2006, and the first Minecraft video on YouTube was uploaded in 2009.

Booster Course Pass Finale

As an old saying goes, all good things come to an end, and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe's Booster Course Pass is no exception.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe's Booster Course Pass has finally been concluded, and it ended on a very high note. With that, the Wii U's best selling video game's Redemption Arc finally got the happy ending it deserves after nine years. 2023 looks like the year of conclusions, from the end of Ash "Satoshi" Ketchum's Journey, to the end of Charles Martinet's days as the voice of Mario. Even Mario Kart Tour discontinued new content after the 4th Anniversary Tour, and let's not forget that Tears of the Kingdom could mark the end of a saga that began with Breath of the Wild, and hopefully, Tears of the Kingdom will be the end of Ganon's reign of terror.

Farewell, Mario Kart 8, and thanks for the memories and death stares!

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe © Nintendo.

Even more Rare Gems from the Bargain Bin

The Atari 7800 was clearly underappreciated because it was actually the last good Atari console before the infamous Atari Jaguar, and was the best attempt by Atari to win back their customers after the North American Video Game Crash of 1983. Therefore, this underrated console from Atari would be a respectable find from the bargain bin, if they can be found in the bargain bin that is.

Who would have thought the original arcade version of Mortal Kombat would have gotten the Plug & Play treatment? Surely there are some people who would have tried to lay their hands on this piece of video game history if Mortal Kombat was not banned in whichever country they come from...

If you dislike the North American box art for Karnaaj Rally to the point you chose not to pick up a copy of the game, then you have not heard about the European box art for Karnaaj Rally, which was actually good box art design. Karnaaj Rally is actually a decent racing game for the Game Boy Advance. Therefore, ignore the awful box art and go get a copy of Karnaaj Rally from the bargain bin if you regretted your decision to give Karnaaj Rally a miss due to the bad box art.

Another underappreciated console that can be found in the bargain bin as a rare find is the PlayStation Vita. This was a handheld that cost more than the Nintendo 3DS even when these two handhelds had similar battery life. No wonder the 3DS outsold the Vita by a long shot. Gamers are becoming more thrifty as the effects of the 2008 downturn lingers on after 15 years.

PES 2014 was officially confirmed to be the last game released for the PlayStation 2, so you can expect this game to be a rare find in the bargain bin.

Redesigned versions of great consoles often get released near the start of the twilight years, and the original PlayStation was no exception. The PS One was released in 2000, the same year Sony released the Playstation 2. Therefore, expect to find a PS One in the bargain bin, although such an item will be a rarity.

Speaking of bargain bin rarities, Compile's last game, Pochi and Nyaa, is an uncommon PlayStation 2 game that can be found in the bargain bin. But it is not easy to find the PS2 version of Pochi and Nyaa in the Japanese video game store bargain bin because Pochi and Nyaa was Compile's very last game before they closed their doors for good.

More Rare Gems from the Bargain Bin

The Commodore VIC-20 was not as fondly remembered as the Commodore C64, but it definitely deserves some respect for being the precursor to the iconic C64.

Poor Luigi. He just cannot get enough of the injustices Nintendo is doing to him. Just because he is merely a similarity, does not mean you have the right to make him suffer. Then again, it was his fault that the Year of Luigi made Nintendo lose $456 million, which justifies Nintendo's vindictive disdain towards Luigi. And if anybody wants to find a special Wiimote in a bargain bin, you will most likely find Luigi Wiimotes in the bargain bin.

Was it necessary for Nintendo to come up with a Wii Mini? That version of the Wii was disappointing compared to other versions of the Wii. Therefore, finding the Wii Mini inside a bargain bin would be justifiable.

As if Luigi wasn't the only person Nintendo likes to mistreat, his purple arch-rival Waluigi is being mistreated by Nintendo even more than the green guy. If you are looking for Super Mario series T-shirts in the bargain bin, expect to find mostly Luigi or Waluigi T-shirts.

Normally, Data East games wouldn't end up in the bargain bin, but unlike SNK Arcade Classics, Data East Arcade Classics isn't as fondly remembered, but we should delve deeper into the history of Data East. It will help G-Mode, and perhaps Paon DP, reawaken nostalgia for Data East franchises, many of which have been dormant since Data East's demise.

Apparently, the 3rd edition of the Sega Genesis should have more respect since it was a Sega console that was on the market during the time period between the discontinuation of the Sega Saturn in North America and the North American release of the Sega Dreamcast. Basically the 3rd edition Sega Genesis was the stop-gap solution Sega's North American operations desperately needed but it was one that was sidelined by the Sega executives amid the Sega Saturn's shortcomings and the imminent launch of the Sega Dreamcast.

Rare Gems from the Bargain Bin

Author's Note: All copyrights for the items featured in this comic go to their respective owners.

While Dragon's Lair was ported to multiple platforms, it was also available as an interactive game for the DVD Player. Yet, almost nobody who owns a DVD Player bothers to get the game, which would make this item a good find if you can find one in a bargain bin, that is.

The Su Chi Pai OVA was originally below average at best when it first came out, but the passage of time has its way of vindicating history, by having Jaleco fans search for a DVD copy of the Su Chi Pai OVA. The Tekken Motion Picture from 1998 was actually good, and it was better than the live action Tekken Movie. And for those who are looking for DVDs of both OVAs, you might find them as rare items in a bargain bin.

Recently, Wii Party and Wii Party U have been getting a nostalgic resurgence through multiple videos posted on YouTube. The Wii Party series was not destined to be the next Mario Party, but it was better than Mario Party in several ways almost no one took note of. It's a huge shame that Wii Party's lifetime sales are less than Nintendo Switch Sports sales figures as at May 2023. Wii Party U's sales figures ended up doing worse than Wii Music, which was a huge shame. No wonder Nintendo started relegating Miis to the sidelines. Maybe they should stop disrespecting their loyal customers if they want to survive...

If you think Soldam was an Arcade exclusive title, then you have not heard of the Game Boy port of Soldam. This Game Boy game would be very hard to find inside the bargain bin, and even if you find one copy, it would be a very expensive item, even if its price tag has a 90% discount on it.

F-Zero GP Legend has to be the last F-Zero game in the series before F-Zero 99, if you do not count the Japan-only F-Zero Climax. Of course the Game Boy Advance F-Zero GP Legend is a game worth getting for any GameCube owner who still has the GameCube's Game Boy Player.

Volvo B10M The Ol' Reliable

Can you imagine that SBS Transit has been part of Singapore's roads for 50 years? Well, the Volvo B10M was a part of SBS Transit's bus fleet for over 30 years, meaning they have been the "Ol' Reliable" for more than half of the 50 years SBS Transit has been moving commuters on Singapore's roads. If that's not incredible, then which part of Singapore's public transport history is?