Humankind Cannot Gain Anything Without First Giving Something In Return. To Obtain, Something Of Equal

um, in 1958, 14 years before pong, there was a game called “Tennis for Two”. it was created by American Physicist William Higinbotham.

today is video games’s birthday.

this.is.EPIC!!!!!!!11

Pirates of the Caribbean/Skyrim Mashup by flipboit4midles.

(Bask in the awesomeness of this.)

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except they far better aesthetically

touhou fumos look like plush funko pops

A claim repeatedly brought up online, in some media, in antiquated “scholarly” works, as well as seemingly in the online lectures of a certain Canadian self-help guru who shall not be named here is that the „storm god slays chaos serpent” motif – so called “chaoskampf” - found especially commonly in the mythologies of ancient Middle East and Anatolia represents some allegorical tale about the fall of primordial matriarchy and associated religious figures, or a broader triumph of some abstract masculine principle over feminine. This assumption is entirely ahistorical, and its spread is only possible due to the fact that despite being among the oldest recorded stories of the world, the myths of Mesopotamia and culturally related areas remain largely unknown to the modern audience, making it easy for various dubious authorities to claim they contain what’s not exactly present in them. See, the problem is… the „chaos dragons” in most versions of this narrative aren’t even female. Additionally, most if not all of them aren’t vilified echoes of older figures, but merely antagonists devised for already popular gods and heroes and figures which belonged in both these categories at once to defeat. They’re not demonized “primordial earth and sea mothers” or whatever, they’re cheesy, hammy over the top saturday morning cartoon villains of their era. Like the titans in Greek mythology, Apep in Egyptian, and so on, the likes of Tiamat, Yam or Illuyanka never served a purpose different than that of an antagonist for an established figure. And, most importantly, only one of them, Babylonian Tiamat, famous for her role in the Enuma Elish (the epic describing the deeds of Marduk, the lead god of Babylon) and not much more, is female – and even Tiamat was likely developed based on older figures of such mythical antagonists, like Ugaritic Yam.

Would you still love me if I was the official Kamen Rider Ryuki Chess Pcs (12pcs) by MegaHouse

...Akira Toriyama died, honestly, of all the people i i thought we might lose this year, no, THIS DECADE, that man was definitely the very last one. Rest in Power

I really thought he would experience Shigeru Mizuki levels of longevity. This one hit me hard, not like any artist or celebrity death in my lifetime. Just instantly felt numb and empty. As a toddler, drawing shovel-faced Dragon Ball caricatures in spiral bound notebooks was my formative experience with visual art and the bedrock for anything I've drawn or observed about art ever since. Only Kenji Watanabe's early TCG work had a comparable hold over me. Growing older and realizing that he was genuinely one of the greatest comic draughtsman and designers who ever lived ensured that impact would survive into adulthood. Can't believe he's already gone.

R.I.P.

Sraosha

Guys 2014 is in two months

So… my boyfriend has gotten me into kirby recently and I was disappointed that there weren’t more depictions of meta knight as a bat. 

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