How To End A Great Series

There was an old saying "All good things come to an end". Sometimes, we need to end a great video game series before the fanbase turns toxic, like in the cases of Sonic, Warcraft and Pokemon.

To be fair and honest, thwarting the Burning Legion was futile, since the Void Lords always win. Due to the campaign to boycott Blizzard over somebody's suspension because he speaks for freedom and justice, the only merciful thing to do for the Warcraft series right now is for the Void Lords to devour Azeroth and bring World of Warcraft to an end so everybody can get back to their lives.

The Pokemon Sword and Shield controversy over omitted Pokemon is a possible sign that the Pokemon fanbase has also turned toxic. However, there is a way to rectify everything. There had been theories over a war that took place before Generation 1, as well as theories about Silph Co being the true villain of Pokemon and not the criminal gangs that seek to cause trouble. From my point of view, the reason the gangs of organised crime seek to cause trouble, even pursue world domination, is because their villainy was motivated by the fact they wish to overthrow Silph Co. But they have always failed because a low intelligence hero foiled their plans. Perhaps if Ash could gather his friends and foes to fight against Silph Co in a final battle similar to Avengers: Endgame, the Pokemon fanbase would finally get the ending for the Pokemon anime that they wished for, even if Ash perishes at the end, because it will have to end with Silph Co vanquished at the end.

All the clues about the Toads' true identity could finally add up. While the mystery of the Toads may remain unsolved, not everyone is deterred by that. The existence of parasitic toadstools that destroys its hosts will be one of the biggest game changers. If the Toads turn out to be an anthropomorphic species of parasitic toadstool, this could justify Bowser's villainy in the Super Mario series. Given that Bowser has a heroic side that has him confront villains nastier than him, he could have been fighting a losing battle against a sinister parasite since 1985, and that could have been our fault. The only reason the parasite has not truly won yet was that it had been stymied by the Toads' incompetence. Should the parasite finally infect everybody, nobody will survive its destructive power, not even Waluigi.

Should General Morden finally win after years of defeats, he will not restart the Holocaust, but instead he will pull a Nick Fury and expose the Regular Army's leaders for the corrupt crooks that they had been since the Central Park terror attacks that killed his son. But like most SNK villains, he was doomed to perish. Yet he will tell the Metal Slug heroes that he wanted to get rid of the corrupt officials who caused his son's death. This could be the plot twist that will bring the Metal Slug series to an end because the corrupt bureaucrats who General Morden sought to bring to justice had been getting away unpunished for years, and our heroes finally turn against them upon learning who the true villain of the Metal Slug series had been all along.

Update: The Ash Ketchum Arc has officially ended, and it ended with "Next Time, A New Beginning". However, it left me disappointed over a few things. If Silph Co was a greater evil than the criminal gangs, why hasn't there been a hero who will rise to overthrow Silph Co? I guess justice is a theme Pokemon will not cover...

Internet Pioneers' World War 3 Emergency Plan

Given the rampant amount of cyber-crime, where even the co-founders of Twitter and YouTube are not spared from hacking, the Heartbleed, Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, data breaches, and censorship of the web in some places, Sir Tim Berners-Lee was right to say that the World Wide Web is no longer a "force for good" and that it had failed instead of served humanity, and failed in many places.

Thankfully, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is calling for new regulations for the World Wide Web in regards to cracking down on cyber-crime. But if all else fails, he still has access to the off switch to turn off the World Wide Web, if cyber warfare ever gets involved in World War 3...

Great Tribulation Emergency Plan

It would eventually pay off to be a doomsday prepper if we hear the Word of God, especially when the world is going out of control.

We could be very close to finding who the two beasts of Revelation 13 are and when they will come. The European Union's copyright directive that was approved earlier this year could be the first clue of what the dictatorship of the Beast regime will be like, where nobody can do business without receiving the Mark of the Beast. Talk about a dystopian society in the future... All we did was delay the inevitable... Our efforts will be for nothing, and we will lose everything we hold dearly, including our lives.

However, the best good news awaits us all at the end of the tunnel. Jesus will overthrow the Beast dictatorship and terminate the Evil One's reign of terror for 1000 years.

Veteran's Day

It's sad that World War 1 was supposed to be the war to end all wars. But there had been multiple smaller wars in the years between the end of World War 1 and the start of World War 2. To make things worse, the armistice that ended World War 1 became null and void when World War 2 broke out. Therefore, the United States had the right to rename Armistice Day to Veteran's Day to remember the armed forces servicemen who perished during the two World Wars, and other conflicts after World War 2. Perhaps Great Britain and Commonwealth countries should rename Armistice Day to Veteran's Day, because almost all of World War One's generation have passed away, with the World War 2 generation also passing away.

Happy Veteran's Day to all armed forces veterans of the Free World.

Pitman Reunion

Well, this has to be an awkward reunion of Pitman protagonists...

Did you know that pitman is a slang term for a coal miner from Scotland or Northern England? In fact, the original Pitman game that Yutaka Isokawa designed for the Sharp MZ-700 was about an archaeological explorer pushing rocks and digging through earth to get all the gold in every level. The Game Boy version, while retaining the earth digging and rock pushing elements, changed the plot to a Catboy and Catgirl punching out bad guys to escape a forbidden haunted house, and was launched in North America as Catrap with one level being altered differently being the biggest regional difference.

The word catrap refers to the frequent number of times the player is trapped and needs to reverse their movements.

While Catrap was proposed to be launched in Europe as Power Paws, the game never had an official launch in that region until the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console re-release under the Catrap title in 2011.

An Overdue Blizzcon Announcement

Not even Doctor Strange would be able to find a single outcome in the Warcraft series where the Void Lords finally get defeated.

If people who wish to quit World of Warcraft have a genuine reason to quit the game (other than cutting costs, boycotting Blizzard for disqualifying Hearthstone tournament winners who are willing to stand up for democracy, Activision's bad management, etc.), it would be the sad realization that not one outcome, not even a single what if scenario, end with the Void Lords being defeated by anybody.

This would mean that if it was confirmed that the Dark Titan Sargeras did actually win when he stabbed Silithus, then his victory would actually be a hollow one, because the Void Lords always win, and not even the what if scenarios where the bad guys win will do anything to prevent the Void Lords from winning at the end. In other words, the Burning Legion's campaign to take over Azeroth was doomed from the start. Even if the Burning Legion won, which they actually did, thanks to Sargeras stabbing Silithus, their victory will be short-lived, because they will have to deal with the Void Lords themselves, and defeat at the hands of the Void Lords will be inevitable.

Imagine if somebody were to make this important revelation at Blizzcon about analyzing millions of outcomes in the Warcraft series, and every one of them ended with the Void Lords winning, how will everybody attending Blizzcon react to this announcement?

In other words, well played, Chris Metzen.

Exeggcuted

Now you know how it feels to be a victim of being inflated, Dr Eggman, given that you have never been inflated before.

Today's comic is a portmanteau of Exeggcute and executed.

Another comic about execution? What kind of people are we appeasing? People who, like Mayor Gene, dislike video game villains?

For more than a decade, Sonic fan art had been plagued by inflation fetish. Between this, the upcoming Sonic film, and some terrible Sonic games, the Sonic series has really fallen on hard times. Even the Puyo Puyo series is in far better shape than the Sonic series right now...

To vent my frustration on the disgraceful state of the Sonic series, I drew Dr Eggman being inflated by Dig Dug's Taizo Hori, just to appease people who, like me, dislike video game villains, to the point that they have to be executed.