iagomago

Hey, at least this year they didn't get last place!

Big difference between Neo-Cons and the alt-right, though.

I walk practically every day in front of a boba tea shop. Never seen someone go in it, or even clerks behind the counter. The shop is open until 10pm every day.

Realistically speaking, Napoli. While Inter has the better team, they are still in three races to the title (UCL, Serie A, Coppa Italia), while Napoli only has to worry about the last 5 games. Conte is going to wring up his players in the usual way he does.

S-silk... S-silk...

A friend made me just realize that it's always checkmate in 2. I need to study more chess.

Doesn't black just need to move Q to F1 to win the game?

One of the most orange and teal movies ever.

Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

To me, "retro" just means something that is now only possible for consumption through the previous, now impossible or highly impractical, acquisition of said medium. PS3? Retro. 3DS? Retro.

I had this conversation with many a friend. It seems that a lot of people fail to see the distinction in how Urasawa decides to construct the (sometimes excessively) over-complicated structure of his work. The fact is that the man is, at heart, a postmodernist: he cares less about traditional tropes such as character development and is rather much more interested in exploring various point of views of a single event, relating the events of his fiction to the real world and inciting the reader to form his own opinion on a subject, a story or a person. I personally love it, being the rive-gauche comp lit post-grad that I am; but I see how it might not be for everyone. ESPECIALLY because the man takes his sweet time in developing plot points. I'd say Monster is by far his most "standardized" work, as in that it's quite understandable to see the evolution of the MC while keeping the eyes on the plot. But things like Billy Bat or 20th Century Boys, imho, pushed the manga medium to a whole another level that we're starting to see as vibrantly influent and foretolding just now with some of the more high-brow stuff made by people like Inio Asano, who are more interested in atypical structures and influences external to the classical manga world.

WTF was this chapter!!!