Downtown Khazan: Ice Cold Utopia

[bruceleegreyhulk]

Well that one was my main point of reference.



Huh, I had Nintendo.

be glad, the genesis version was horrible.

[Nik Hasta]

Rise April has a magic baseball bat and was acknowledged as being a member of the Hamato Clan.

She can fight pretty well!

[grampagen]

Your parents are good people, then.

Yeah, I sit and look at millennials and all of the bad press they get ('Millennials have destroyed this industry!' or 'Millennials aren't willing to work') and think about how bullshit it is. If industries are falling apart because Millennials don't buy their crap, it's because...Millennials don't have the money to waste on that stuff. No, Millennials aren't lazy, they're just coming to terms with the wise idea that they don't want to work themselves to death for crap pay. And it's Millennials who are suffering because of what Boomers set up and Gen X mostly enjoyed (my generation).

And Gen Z? Ugh. They're SO screwed.

I deeply apologize for the crap my generation assisted in setting up, and assure you I support Gen Z and Millennials.

Hey, Gen X wasn't that bad. I suppose there's something ironic to be said that the - admittedly stereotypical - aesthetic of rebellion becoming a saleable commodity, but the foundations of today's big tech wouldn't exist without the Internet. As much as folks can't help but take advantage of the structures open to them, new ones are made year by year, and on and on it goes.

Canadians, get out there and vote. And vote for the NDP, don't believe the Liberal lies about 'a vote for us is a vote against the Cons'. Look at the past elections, not the projections; in many areas, the Libs were BELOW the NDP in votes.

Okay, that's my limit on politics here.

I dunno, we've had our alternative third party for years, and a solid chunk of our provinces likely won't vote for Jagmeet Singh simply because he's a practicing Sikh that wears a turban. Moreover, the Trudeau glamour is strangely resonant; Many of the Pandemic measures passed were rolled out, implementing many of the NDP's ideas he's taking sole credit for and trying to consolidate into a majority with this election.

But yeah, the status quo is very tiresome. I still remember how he mobilized the youth vote to his first majority, promising 2015 would be "the last First-Past-The-Post" federal election, then dialed it back profusely, saying he specifically wanted ranked ballots while other proponents wanted a mixed-member proportional system.

Still waiting for that while he jogs off about the pipeline being the greenest solution we have at the moment, lol

[grampagen]

Of course, this is adamantly not a political space as I understand it, let's brighten the doomer mood. You ever see a girl fly with air combo jabs?

[The Dog]

In 2003, she received training from Splinter and was shown fighting alongside the Turtles on several occasions. She wasn't on their level, but she could hold her own.

Rise April has a magic baseball bat and was acknowledged as being a member of the Hamato Clan.

She can fight pretty well!

Ah. But none of the other April O'Neils can best Next Mutation April O'Neil. She's such a master of stealth that she's in every episode but no one ever noticed, meaning she could slit the throats of the others without them realizing it until it's too late.

[Jcogginsa]

[Sharkerbob]

Didja know they made a "Ninjak vs the Valiant Universe" web movie? Was a fun B-movie romp of an action series. Kinda surprised how many characters there were able to throw in there, but I guess it's assumed you know who everyone is going in (although this is the more recent continuity line-up). Made-for-TV budget, effects, and writing, kind of a live-action-Saturday-Morning-Cartoon, but it's kinda nice they got a thing made.

You can find it on YouTube, not sure if I should link it, actually.

[Guy1]

[Sharkerbob]

Yeah, I sit and look at millennials and all of the bad press they get ('Millennials have destroyed this industry!' or 'Millennials aren't willing to work') and think about how bullshit it is. If industries are falling apart because Millennials don't buy their crap, it's because...Millennials don't have the money to waste on that stuff. No, Millennials aren't lazy, they're just coming to terms with the wise idea that they don't want to work themselves to death for crap pay. And it's Millennials who are suffering because of what Boomers set up and Gen X mostly enjoyed (my generation).

Sorry to drag the point, but I think Gen X is kinda split between how close they are to the other generations. "Lost Generation" indeed. They're lumped in with either Boomers or Millennials, despite ostensibly being a separate group. I know my end of Gen X was basically where society really started feeling the weight of the economic situation shifting. At the time, Gen X was the "lazy lay abouts who didn't want to work", and there was a nihilistic bitterness to it all, like, "haha, the world sucks, we don't have a grand purpose like the previous generations had, so let's rip our jeans and thrash our hair to loud music, but anyway, our folks tell us we still gotta go into debt to get that college degree, because nobody outside of car manufacturers has even heard of automation yet."

At least it seems like Millennials and Gen Z are more tuned into the actual problems. Gen X got thrown blinkering into a system at the beginning of its slide down, and Boomers didn't yet believe anything could go wrong, so what did Gen X even know? We weren't in a position to. Now we're on the slide, and it's very clear that things flat out don't work like they used to, and finally people are taking notice. Actually doing anything about it? Eh. Remains to be seen. But we're not just bumbling in the dark anymore, so that's something.

[bruceleegreyhulk]

Millennials sure aren't ruining the videogame industry, they grew up on it, starting from the Nes.

[Sharkerbob]

Millennials sure aren't ruining the videogame industry, they grew up on it, starting from the Nes.

Nah, Gen Z's ruining it by not buying enough micro-transactions. :B

[Tami]

Sorry to drag the point, but I think Gen X is kinda split between how close they are to the other generations. "Lost Generation" indeed. They're lumped in with either Boomers or Millennials, despite ostensibly being a separate group. I know my end of Gen X was basically where society really started feeling the weight of the economic situation shifting. At the time, Gen X was the "lazy lay abouts who didn't want to work", and there was a nihilistic bitterness to it all, like, "haha, the world sucks, we don't have a grand purpose like the previous generations had, so let's rip our jeans and thrash our hair to loud music, but anyway, our folks tell us we still gotta go into debt to get that college degree, because nobody outside of car manufacturers has even heard of automation yet."

At least it seems like Millennials and Gen Z are more tuned into the actual problems. Gen X got thrown blinkering into a system at the beginning of its slide down, and Boomers didn't yet believe anything could go wrong, so what did Gen X even know? We weren't in a position to. Now we're on the slide, and it's very clear that things flat out don't work like they used to, and finally people are taking notice. Actually doing anything about it? Eh. Remains to be seen. But we're not just bumbling in the dark anymore, so that's something.

At least it's better than being a Baby Boomer.

[The Dog]

And Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl keeps bringing out the Nicktoons deep cuts with Catdog. While not quite as deep as Powdered Toast Man, its still surprising to see them in the game. Then there's '87 April O'Neil. Not '03 April O'Neil. Not 2012 April O'Neil. Not even Rise of the TMNT April O'Neil.

But '87 April? Never expected her to appear in the game.

[Len Ikari145]

[Dark Soul # 7]