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Clockwork_PurBle said:
Have the dick pics leaked yet or is this just what we know from what was released?
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One of his accusers described it in detail and it wasn't long until it became clear he had a bad necrosis of the groin due to diabetes. Honestly if the Harvey weinstein story is a cautionary tale about anything it's don't shovel sugary junk in your gob unless you want your dick to rot off from the loss of circulation the bettus causes.
 
The Seinfeld episode about -I think- Kramer playing the board game Risk, and then ending up with only Ukraine as his last country is a non-too subtle joke Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David is making that they knew of the Bolshevik Revolution and the mass genocide of Ukrainian Christians and others and were cool with the concept. Jews are obsessed with hating white people, Europoors and Christians.
 
Wraith said:
The Seinfeld episode about -I think- Kramer playing the board game Risk, and then ending up with only Ukraine as his last country is a non-too subtle joke Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David is making that they knew of the Bolshevik Revolution and the mass genocide of Ukrainian Christians and others and were cool with the concept. Jews are obsessed with hating white people, Europoors and Christians.
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Larry David wasnt involved with the show by then.
 
During development of resident evil, the devs at Capcom studied real spiders assiduously in order to get a detailed idea on how the giant spider enemies should realistically move.

The dev team working on kid icarus would often stay at the Nintendo offices, sleeping for only a few hours a night on flattened cardboard boxes, in offices that were either freezing cold or uncomfortably hot. One programmer's wife got so worried when her husband never came home from work that she filled a missing persons report.
 
It's time to go full samurai autist again.

Everyone knows about samurai helmets and how ornate they are, but the core designs became much simpler and more utilitarian in construction during the late Sengoku period, which is why you got more of the wackier designs that people associate with them nowadays. The function of the ornamentation on the helmets was similar to the function of a personal coat of arms that European nobles had on their shields - to easily distinguish the commanding officers on the field, and even today the more famous designs are still associated with the samurai that wore them. Most of those ornaments, while looking metallic, were actually mostly made out of light materials such as lightweight wood which was lacquered in such a way to make it seem metallic. As such, they were easy to replace should they be damaged, it is said that Date Masamune's famous crescent moon on his helmet was made in a way that if someone tries to capture him or use it against him in battle by grabbing it for example, it would easily break off from the helmet.

Here's some examples, either famous ones or my personal favorites and some which aren't my favorites but had interesting designs just to show off the diversity on display.

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As mentioned earlier, Date Masamune had an asymmetrical crescent moon ornament on his helmet, it is probably one of the most recognizable designs today when people think of samurai helmets.

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Naoe Kanetsugu, a loyal retainer of the Uesugi clan, first serving as a page under Kenshin, one of the most famous warlords of the era, and later as strategist and advisor of Kenshin's adopted son and heir, Kagekatsu. The symbol on his helmet is the word "Love".

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Toyotomi Hideyoshi was one of the three great unifiers of Japan and his helmet is probably the most striking one out of the three, it is shaped in the style of the crown Ming dynasty dignitaries wore, with the ornamentation on the back representing the leaves of the Iris flower

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Satake Yoshishige was a powerful warlord and one of the big players in the Kanto region. The wild ornament on his helmet represents a hairy caterpillar.

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Vikings may not have actually worn horned helmets, but samurai sure as shit did, this one is Fukushima Masanori's water buffalo helmet. He distinguished himself as a powerful warrior under the service of Hideyoshi. His helmet was originally owned by Kuroda Nagamasa, but Nagamasa had multiple of that style of helmet made and gave one of them to Masanori. Nagamasa is more famously known today to have worn a different style of helmet, speaking of...

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Bruh... looga dis dood... uhuhu... wait until you see the... uuuu... ONONONO OHOHO, OOOOOO
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PFAHAHAHAHAHAHA OH LOOK AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD!!! PFAHAHAHAHAHA!!! LOOK AT HIS LIPS!!!

Seriously though, the helmet is supposed to symbolize the victory at the battle of Ichi-no-Tani during the Genpei war where the Minamoto clan defeated the Taira clan in a siege on their previously thought unbeatable fortress.
 
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yoshitsune said:
It's time to go full samurai autist again.

Everyone knows about samurai helmets and how ornate they are, but the core designs became much simpler and more utilitarian in construction during the late Sengoku period, which is why you got more of the wackier designs that people associate with them nowadays. The function of the ornamentation on the helmets was similar to the function of a personal coat of arms that European nobles had on their shields - to easily distinguish the commanding officers on the field, and even today the more famous designs are still associated with the samurai that wore them. Most of those ornaments, while looking metallic, were actually mostly made out of light materials such as lightweight wood which was lacquered in such a way to make it seem metallic. As such, they were easy to replace should they be damaged, it is said that Date Masamune's famous crescent moon on his helmet was made in a way that if someone tries to capture him or use it against him in battle by grabbing it for example, it would easily break off from the helmet.

Here's some examples, either famous ones or my personal favorites and some which aren't my favorites but had interesting designs just to show off the diversity on display.

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As mentioned earlier, Date Masamune had an asymmetrical crescent moon ornament on his helmet, it is probably one of the most recognizable designs today when people think of samurai helmets.

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Naoe Kanetsugu, a loyal retainer of the Uesugi clan, first serving as a page under Kenshin, one of the most famous warlords of the era, and later as strategist and advisor of Kenshin's adopted son and heir, Kagekatsu. The symbol on his helmet is the word "Love".

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Toyotomi Hideyoshi was one of the three great unifiers of Japan and his helmet is probably the most striking one out of the three, it is shaped in the style of the crown Ming dynasty dignitaries wore, with the ornamentation on the back representing the leaves of the Iris flower

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Satake Yoshishige was a powerful warlord and one of the big players in the Kanto region. The wild ornament on his helmet represents a hairy caterpillar.

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Vikings may not have actually worn horned helmets, but samurai sure as shit did, this one is Fukushima Masanori's water buffalo helmet. He distinguished himself as a powerful warrior under the service of Hideyoshi. His helmet was originally owned by Kuroda Nagamasa, but Nagamasa had multiple of that style of helmet made and gave one of them to Masanori. Nagamasa is more famously known today to have worn a different style of helmet, speaking of...

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Bruh... looga dis dood... uhuhu... wait until you see the... uuuu... ONONONO OHOHO, OOOOOO
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PFAHAHAHAHAHAHA OH LOOK AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD!!! PFAHAHAHAHAHA!!! LOOK AT HIS LIPS!!!

Seriously though, the helmet is supposed to symbolize the victory at the battle of Ichi-no-Tani during the Genpei war where the Minamoto clan defeated the Taira clan in a siege on their previously thought unbeatable fortress.
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Curiously enough, all of these are in Nioh and Nioh 2. It was peculiar to see the "Love crest helmet", the "Rabbit ear helmet", the "Golden turban helmet" or the "Elephant Trunk helmet". They are not part of any set of armor, but the item description states that "They are from a rare collection of helmets with unique and peculiar designs".

A couple of personal favs are the Warrior of the East and the Warrior of the West. AKA, the helmets of Tachibana Muneshige and Honda Tadakatsu.

For an extremely long time during the middle ages and reinassance, in most towns the most important place for social meetings were the mills. It was at the mills where most young people would mingle (since they were sent there by their parents) and eventually find a bride or a husband thanks to this form of social gathering.
 
I heard on a "Five Fun Facts" short radio segment while driving yesterday that PBS was the first channel to air something with nudity in it in America, which was a recording of a stage play where there was a titty. I did some Google Fu to get a source for this and I can't find it, though it looks like PBS was the first to air nudity regardless because PBS aired a lot of documentaries, both anthropological and medical (so therefore you'd see the naked bodies of remote tribes and stuff).
 
The biggest enemy of the Autobots in the old 1984 Transformers cartoon was not the Decepticons, not Megatron, and later not even the (((Quintesssssssssons))) or that Unicron, but their first ship computer, Teletran 1. In the very first episode after crashing and being dormant for millions of years, this bitch cunt computer wakes up and start repairing all aboard. The problem is that the Autobots and Decepticons had been fighting on board the bright orange ship when they crashed. Teletran 1 is an intelligent computer with analysis abilities. What does it do? It detects a robot, Skywarp, a Decepticon, AND REPAIRS THIS GUY. Skywarp is a mental midget, a mean spirited jackass with the power to teleport and most of all very loyal to Megatron. He then uses this idiotic computer to repair the other bad guys and thus the war starts again on Earth anew.
Teletran 1 knew what he was doing. Just like he knew when to wake up just when America's top 40 DJ would be there- looking for another voice acting job.
THAT'S WHY he was just a computer, and wasn't allowed to have his own robot body. They knew. They couldn't let him go, but they knew.
Casey Kasem is spinning in his grave at 45 rpm as I write this.
If Teletran 1 didn't revive the Decepticons first, everything would have been fine.
I have you, Teletran 1. I'm glad you got destroyed. I bet your mother was a pocket calculator from romania.
 
Forgetful Gynn said:
Fun fact: there are two a's in Teletraan I.
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I knew it! never trust someone with a repeated vowel in their name! Eric Coomer is especially dangerous!


Anyway I thought this quote from Malcolm X is a neat thing:

"I had always been very careful to stay completely clear of any personal closeness with any of the Muslim sisters. My total commitment to Islam demanded having no other interests, especially, I felt, no women. In almost every temple at least one single sister had let out some broad hint that she thought I needed a wife. So I always made it clear that marriage had no interest for me whatsoever; I was too busy.

Every month, when I went to Chicago, I would find that some sister had written complaining to Mr. Muhammad that I talked so hard against women when I taught our special classes about the different natures of the two sexes. Now, Islam has very strict laws and teachings about women, the core of them being that the true nature of a man is to be strong, and a woman's true nature is to be weak, and while a man must at all times respect his woman, at the same time he needs to understand that he must control her if he expects to get her respect.

But in those days I had my own personal reasons. I wouldn't have considered it possible for me to love any woman. I'd had too much experience that women were only tricky, deceitful, untrustworthy flesh. I had seen too many men ruined, or at least tied down, or in some other way messed up by women. Women talked too much. To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or telling a hen not to cackle. Can you imagine Jesse James without a gun, or a hen that didn't cackle? And for anyone in any kind of a leadership position, such as I was, the worst thing in the world that he could have was the wrong woman. Even Samson, the world's strongest man, was destroyed by the woman who slept in his arms. She was the one whose words hurt him.

I mean, I'd had so much experience. I had talked to too many prostitutes and mistresses. They knew more about a whole lot of husbands than the wives of those husbands did. The wives always filled their husbands' ears so full of wife complaints that it wasn't the wives, it was the prostitutes and mistresses who heard the husbands' innermost problems and secrets. They thought of him, and comforted him, and that included listening to him, and so he would tell them everything."
 
Up the academy was a 1980 movie made to cash in on the success of 1978's animal house. It was funded and produced by ec publications formerly ec comics and then publishers of mad magazine. However up the academy was such a failure when initially released ec and mad recut the film to remove all references to their connection to the film including the first live action appearance of Alfred E neumann
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A few more notes on the film. That alfred prosthetic was designed by rick baker, who a year later would win the first academy award for best makeup for an American werewolf in London.

William gaines the head publisher of mad paid warner bros 30 grand to remove all references to the magazine and they stayed that way on all future airings of the film until 1992 when William Gaines died. The film wasn't released on DVD until 2006, also with the references to mad magazine restored
 
A major chunk of the Sword & Sandal B-movies from the 1950's and 1960's all have the same protagonist, a generic strongman named Maciste, but only in the original Italian prints.

The character Maciste dates back to the late 1800's and the Silent Era of movies but is unknown outside of Italy, so whenever the movies were dubbed into English, Maciste would often be renamed to Hercules or other well-known heroes from Greco-Roman or Biblical sources
 
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the pilgrims landing on plymouth rock. And next year will mark the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving was previously celebrated the last Thursday of November from the 1860s untill 1939, when president FDR moved the date to either the third or last depending on how close to the end of the month Thursday would be.

The only president who didn't vote in favor of making Thanksgiving a national holiday in the early days of the US, was Thomas Jefferson.

There are technically two charlie brown specials about Thanksgiving, the well known one and an episode of the Charlie Brown and snoopy show that recast the characters as pilgrims.

Yes I know I'm a day late but I was busy yesterday
 
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Malagor the dank omen said:
Curiously enough, all of these are in Nioh and Nioh 2. It was peculiar to see the "Love crest helmet", the "Rabbit ear helmet", the "Golden turban helmet" or the "Elephant Trunk helmet". They are not part of any set of armor, but the item description states that "They are from a rare collection of helmets with unique and peculiar designs".
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Yeah, the idea was that they'd give unique inbuilt effects, and when they introduced Graces, setless helmets like those could be created to be part of the unique Grace sets. Though some of them were from the Edo period, like from the ones you mentioned the Love-crested one is the only one that's associated with a particular samurai of the era, in the Edo period even wackier helmets were made because there was no war, so they just went nuts with it. The late Sengoku period helmets at least had the base be of a standard helmet of the time which was based on the design of European helmets, while the decorations were just made of light materials.
There was however a samurai who had a rabbit-eared helmet, but it's a different design from the one in the game, that being Akechi Hidemitsu, one of Akechi Mitsuhide's most loyal retainers, Mitsuhide adopted him into the clan by marrying one of his daughters to him.
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Malagor the dank omen said:
A couple of personal favs are the Warrior of the East and the Warrior of the West. AKA, the helmets of Tachibana Muneshige and Honda Tadakatsu.
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His helmet's pretty cool, yeah, it features a plum on the back and the circular thing is the symbol of the moon which is associated with the Buddhist deity Marici, she was often worshiped by the samurai class and was seen as the patron of warriors. He was known as Takahashi Munetora, the eldest son of Takahashi Joun, who was one of the most powerful warriors of the Otomo clan of his generation along with Tachibana Dosetsu. Dosetsu only had a daughter that survived infancy, Ginchiyo, but he also adopted Munetora and gave him the name Muneshige.
Now there is a huge clusterfuck when it comes to the Tachibana clan with conflicting info regarding what happened to it after Dosetsu died. Dosetsu originally wanted Muneshige to inherit the clan by marrying Ginchiyo, but he died before that could happen. There's another theory which says that he retired as clan head before death and already made Ginchiyo the successor. It took 6 years for Muneshige to marry Ginchiyo after Dosetsu's death and finally becoming clan head. In any case, him and Ginchiyo allegedly despised each other and even lived in separate castles, they may have even divorced, so it's no surprise that they produced no children. Muneshige made his younger brother's son the heir of the clan. Ginchiyo herself was one of the most famous warrior women of the era.
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Tadakatsu needs no introduction, yet he will have one. He is one of the four great Tokugawa generals as well as one of the most celebrated and romanticized samurai of all times. He participated in over 50 battles and emerged either very lightly injured or completely uninjured from each one of them, and it wasn't because he ran away like a bitch, far from it, he was a powerful warrior with the spear. His helmet has 2 major adornments, the small horned face thingy is a lion showing its teeth, later on he added those massive deer antlers that his helmet is famous for. The antlers of course weren't made from actual deer antlers, it was made from lacquered paper-mache. Interestingly enough, the other samurai of the era who was just as romanticized also had a deer-horned helmet...
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Sanada Yukimura, romanticized as the Greatest Warrior of All Japan, needs no introduction, yet he will have one. Well, he does kind of need an introduction since "Yukimura" is the name that was made up for him during the Edo period when people were sucking him off and making up various fables about his exploits, he was never referred to with that name during his lifetime by anyone, so it'd be more accurate to call him by his actual name, Sanada Nobushige. He was a master warrior with the cross-shaped spear. His helmet is adorned with deer antlers and the six circles represent the Sanada clan's coat of arms, which are the six coins one must pay to the ferryman to get to the afterlife.

He was also really short for a samurai man of the era, allegedly standing at an "impressive" 148cm or 4'10'', according to measurements of his armor. Even in primary sources during the Siege of Osaka he was referred to as "the small man commanding Toyotomi troops". Looks like he channeled his manlet rage into martial prowess.
 
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