Saturday, 29 March 2025

Appetizing Appetizers


A roast turkey drumstick can be both an appetizer as well as part of the main course. Also, mixed fruit juice made from a combination of green apple juice and green grape juice exists. This mixed fruit juice goes well with appetizers such as potato wedges.

Friday, 28 March 2025

Differently Coloured Diamonds


Did you know that diamonds come in different colors? In fact, RuneScape, MapleStory, Minecraft and the Microsoft Puzzle Collection's Jewel Chase had to use diamonds that are of a different color so that people can identify which game the diamond came from.

Tuesday, 25 March 2025

The Canard Fighters of 2000 and Beyond


Currently, there are three types of canard fighter jets in active service with any country's air force. All of them are of European origin, and all of them are in the Daisenryaku series of video games. They are the British-German-Italian-Spanish Eurofighter Typhoon, the French Rafale and the Swedish Gripen.

The Eurofighter Typhoon was the third British fighter jet developed in conjunction with other countries. The other two being the SEPECAT Jaguar (UK/France) and the Panavia Tornado (UK/Germany/Italy). It saw no combat service until the Libyan Civil War of 2011.

The Dassault Rafale was originally conceived to complement the Mirage 2000, which is why these two fighter jets are a common sight during Bastille Day. Like the Eurofighter Typhoon, the Rafale did not see combat until the Libyan Civil War of 2011.

The Saab JAS 39 Gripen was originally conceived to be the Saab 37 Viggen's successor. Like the Viggen, the Gripen is a delta wing fighter jet with canards. Unlike the Eurofighter or the Rafale, the Gripen has yet to see any combat whatsoever because none of the Gripen's operators are currently involved in any hostilities for now.

Saturday, 22 March 2025

The Disappointing Lack of Justice


The lack of harmony between the upper class and the lower class in Japanese animation and comics has been a serious issue. We have seen this in Dragon Ball Z, where Vegeta the Prince of the Saiyans has often looked down on the lowly Son Goku. This recurring problem also surfaced in Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh. To make matters worse, when it's the lower class getting bullied by the upper class, nobody stands up for the victims of such bullying. This could explain why the late Takeshi Shudo wanted Pokemon to have a depressing series finale, where the entire Pokemon series turned out to be the dying dream of a mentally ill Ash Ketchum. Do you know why? Because Japanese society rarely believes in the good name of justice. That is why bullying has been one of the biggest problems in Japanese animation (Sailor Moon author Naoko Takeuchi was a bullying victim).

This disappointing lack of justice could be the reason some people have all but given up on Japanese animation and comics. Such people have decided to give up because they believe in the good name of justice, and they were left disappointed. Disillusionment is nothing new, but the lack of justice in Japanese animation and comics has made such disillusionment even more justifiable.

Friday, 21 March 2025

Same Sprite, Different Colour Pattern


Palette swapping has been a mainstay in video game design since Pac-Man. It has been a tried and tested method that has successfully bypassed hardware limitations during the 8- and 16-bit era of video game design, and it is true to this day.

Did you know that the Arianne Skirt and the Split Skirt use the same item sprite as the Armine Skirt? While these Magician skirts have different color pattern designs to distinguish one from the other, all of them are merely different versions of the same item sprite (The Arianne Skirt has two different pattern designs). Coming up with different variations of just about anything using different colors and pattern designs to bypass game design limitations is a recurring theme in the production of MMORPGs such as MapleStory and RuneScape. This made deadlines easier to meet as far as video game design is concerned.

Thursday, 20 March 2025

Resurrected To A Disappointing Truth


If you want to ever get upset over evildoers not getting any comeuppance when they were still alive because they died of natural causes, remember that they will be resurrected during the Great White Throne Judgment. They will be disappointed upon finding out that they are not burning in the Lake of Fire, and that the Devilish One has deceived them all along about being tortured in Hellfire for their misdeeds. All of them will be subjected to a humiliating re-education program during the Great White Throne Judgment. Those that fail after that 100-year long re-education program will definitely get an automatic ticket to the Lake of Fire, and nobody wants an automatic ticket to the Lake of Fire...

Wednesday, 19 March 2025

Disgraced Disney


It's official. The 2025 live-action remake of Snow White is dead on arrival. The people who worked on the original 1937 Snow White film are already rolling in their graves over this abomination.

Here is a list of the people who are rolling in their graves right now:

Walt Disney
David Hand
Otis Harlan
Eddie Collins
Lucille La Verne
Scotty Mattraw
George Magrill
Moroni Olsen
Roy Atwell
Pinto Colvig
Billy Gilbert
Stuart Buchanan
Harry Stockwell
James MacDonald
Marion Darlington
Purv Pullen
Adriana Caselotti

With all that said, Disney is going to lose a lot of income, and it's all the fault of Rachel Zegler and Bob Iger. At least Nickelodeon came up with a SpongeBob SquarePants episode called "Snow Yellow". It's a vastly superior parody, so go and watch this SpongeBob SquarePants episode instead.

Tuesday, 18 March 2025

Charles Schulz's Real Self


Many Peanuts readers are familiar with Charlie Brown having a lot of misfortune. However, in 2015, it was revealed that Charlie Brown and Peanuts author Charles M Schulz were one and the same. This was officially confirmed by Charles Schulz's son Craig Schulz, who revealed that Charlie Brown was Charles Schulz's real self, while Snoopy was what the Peanuts author wanted to be.

Perhaps one day Pokemon fans will find out Ash Ketchum and his namesake Satoshi Tajiri were one and the same all along. This could change everything we know about the Pokemon series, and it may not be in a positive way...

Sunday, 16 March 2025

Showing Yourself


Speak of the Yellow Devil, and Dr Wily's one-eyed blob monster will show up right in front of you.

The Yellow Devil does not speak in the Mega Man games. However, he did speak in a now-deleted GoAnimate Behavior Card Day YouTube video, where he spoke about how he and Dr Wily are in serious trouble after receiving bad behavior cards.

Wednesday, 5 March 2025

The Best Representation of the Russian SFSR


Adding the Russian tricolor stripes to the flag of the Soviet Union would have been the best representation of Russia during the Soviet era. Change my mind.

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