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Rockman Series / Re: A serious Megaman Anime Production. Would you like it?

« on: August 27, 2011, 02:55:58 AM »

Really? I thought the upon a star style was perfect. it was good for what it was. better than RS style anyway, as the characters actually looked halfway like they were supposed to.

From what I understand, the edutainment bits of Upon a Star take up more time than the actual Megaman stuff. Not a good sign.

And RS-MM's designs weren't THAT far off (for the most part). At least they weren't "early US/EU box art" caliber.

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Rockman Series / Re: A serious Megaman Anime Production. Would you like it?

« on: August 27, 2011, 01:03:25 AM »

I, personally, would hope for a continuation of RS-MM that didn't dispose of its weirder elements or try to force it to be exactly like the games. But the cartoon's 17 years old and Japan only ever got the first episode.

If they went the Classic MM route--as long as it wasn't like Upon a Star and didn't turn anyone into moeblob eye candy, I'd give it a chance. (I'd also prefer that they make it 15 years ago or so, when they still used ink and paint, but I'm an old coot)

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Rockman Series / Re: Mega Man Archie Comics

« on: August 22, 2011, 04:30:26 AM »

I also forgot about that court case. But I DO remember that he wasn't too nice to the critics during his run.

If Penders were involved with this comic, I'd imagine it'd quickly degrade into soap opera-esque melodrama, with some uncomfortable harem under/overtones (unless that was another writer's doing).

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Rockman Series / Re: Mega Man Archie Comics

« on: August 22, 2011, 03:48:25 AM »

I forgot about Penders. :/

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Rockman Series / Re: Mega Man Archie Comics

« on: August 21, 2011, 10:06:28 PM »

Coby Robot is where you have a problem with false expectations on the cover?  I'm considerably more concerned with Rush being on the cover of #1.

I thought Rush being on #1's cover was weird too. But I figured, maybe Copy-Mega would have a larger role than he ended up with.

In retrospect, his image isn't as opaque as Wily's machine or the MM1 guys, but it's still taking up a good portion of the cover.

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Rockman Series / Re: Mega Man Archie Comics

« on: August 21, 2011, 08:12:21 PM »

You know, when you consider the number of artists who have worked on Mega Man games, and the differences between NES art, Super NES art, PS1 art, MMPU's art, and MMU's art, I think we can safely say that "like the games" is an extremely ambiguous term.

Durr, should've specified. >.>

But considering the radically different art directions that Japan has taken MegaMan over the last few years, I really can't say that I blame the fans for wanting a little consistency.

Maybe if someone had actually said that over at TMMN (though they might have, and I just forgot), I'd be less bitter.


About the comic itself: I like what I'm reading here, but I hope they take care of this pacing issue soon. Four issues is not enough space for a game adaptation, at least not with that number of pages. Also (issue 4 spoilers):

(click to show/hide)

Why give Copy-Mega a prominent spot on the cover when he's just going to fire at Rock for two pages and then get gang-banged by Set 1, without even a single line of dialogue? Nice to see Archie's false advertising problem hasn't gone away...

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Rockman Series / Re: Mega Man Archie Comics

« on: August 20, 2011, 11:42:16 PM »

As you can see from the images, the art direction is definitely heavily based off of the Japanese official art--thank god. You can tell that the lead artist, Patrick "Spaz" Spaziante, did his research into the style prior to this comic.

Almost none of the people I see talking about the comic's style seem to like it on its own merits. It's always "Yay, it looks like the games!" or "Boo, Chad Thomas has his own style!" (The latter became the former recently) Urgh.

I mean, I like Spaz's style just fine. But a lot of those comments feel like purist bullshit.

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Fan Creations / Re: The Gonzo has art.

« on: August 20, 2011, 12:54:38 AM »

Thanks.

This looks like a scrap. Why's it not in scraps? Dunno.

Two versions of Proto/Rock, plus some doodle at the bottom of RS-X and Zero. Poor Capcom-Proto must've gotten his shades confiscated.

Forgot to submit this. 'Twas going to be a full pic, then I lost steam.

Those clothes might be 70s-fabulous, but at least they aren't about to go to the disco.

Posted on: July 30, 2011, 07:10:55 PM

GAAAAH

NEVER MAKE THAT FACE AGAIN, PROTOFOX

Based on a planner doodle (I need to scan that page). He was looking at Megabunny's rump there, too.

edit:

Commissioned by =Akutare-Sama; his OC, Zero (named after the plane).

Posted on: July 31, 2011, 06:58:38 PM

Title ["I am not a Death Eater"] refers to the trope "Ron the Death Eater", wherein heroes are twisted into diabolical bastards for whatever "reasons" the author sees fit. This is very relevant.

Let's talk about Ranay. Both of her dA accounts are closed, though there's a blog dedicated to archiving her works/making fun of her: http://ranaythemarysue.tumblr.com/

I'm not trying to hate on the artist. The thing is...Ranay the character is one of the most blatant MM Sues I've ever seen. All the Robot Masters (or at least Set 3) love/like her, she's half-human, half-robot for no apparent reason other than specialness, she can apparently bend reality to her will (would certainly explain the Set 3 bit), she becomes more powerful/convoluted as time goes on, and she hates Megaman with all her being (among other things)

That last one doesn't sound too unusual, considering she's allied with Wily, right? Well, see, she hates him in a way that makes it clear SHE'S right and he's wrong; poor MM got twisted into/reduced to an evil assassin of robots (especially of Topman, with whom Ranay is paired).

Oh, and Set 3? Squeaky-clean good guys who never did anything to deserve Mega's wrath. (At least Needleshota is cute...)

Despite calling Megaman a murderer several times (or at least implying it after that one time she called him that), she's pals with Roll. Presumably, she only got off the hook because the only times she defeats Wily's poor, innocent robots are either non-canon or took place in other continuities (yes, there's a difference).


The pic itself: In RADIX-Land, one does not call Megaman a murderer and get away with it. De-Suified, fully-robot Ranay tried that and it now receiving the beginning of a reality check.

Didn't want this to seem like a hate pic, so I added that bit at the bottom. Getting yelled at once isn't likely to convince her, but perhaps in time, she'd realize that morality has shades of gray.

Also, Mega's face took a while to get right. x.x

Why Tidus? Because I had a dream of him and Sora being all evil and vampy in Halloween Town. Tidus was wearing the same thing as Sora, more or less, so a redesign was in order.

Posted on: August 03, 2011, 01:18:15 AM

Rock needs an adult or two. D:

Seems he ran afoul of Morrigan and Lilith; the former's KH-self was designed by ~KaitlinEXE (unlike her RS-MM/KH sketches, that pic hasn't been reposted), while I threw the latter in. (Shoulda given her a collar thing like Morrigan's...next pic?)

Perhaps they moved to Halloween Town at some undetermined point--certainly wouldn't look too out of place.

Posted on: August 03, 2011, 07:56:53 PM

Hope is very blurry, but I didn't want to spend any more time outside than I had to.

Shortly after he arrived, I went downstairs and out the door to take this shot I had in mind for him. That's our backyard and some neighbors' houses he's surveying, from atop a chunk of cinder block. (Or maybe it's just a brick.)

For a while I thought I'd irreparably smudged the camera lens--nope, just had to remove my hand from it while taking pictures without the flash. Durr.

I know these guys aren't to scale, but MAN Yuna's tiny. :/ She and Rinoa wave hi to the camera (if what Rinoa's doing can be considered waving; perhaps she's requesting that I vacuum my room's filthy carpet).

Edit: this thing.

Posted on: August 06, 2011, 05:00:24 PM

After watching an instructional Alchemy video, I booted it back up and tried again, using Sofonisba as a test subject. Result is PINK AND LOTS OF IT.

Previous version of the above.

Hey, anyone remember Rera/The Architect? No? I did and turned her into a giant pegasus. She can't cast shadows because she's dead (and Rock's was on the same layer as her glow).

Poor Rock was hoping he'd never have to lay eyes on Her Agitatingness again.

Posted on: August 07, 2011, 04:09:04 PM

Boy, is Odille-Splashy gonna be surprised when Rock starts shoving pointy things in HER face.

Resulted from seeing this pic: http://rouge-the-bat-777.deviantart.com/art/swan-lake-ballet-251398955 Admittedly, I'm not too familiar with the original Swan Lake's story, so I just tried to think of something RS-Splashwoman might do if she were told to be as hammy and obvious a villain as possible.

Posted on: August 08, 2011, 01:22:14 PM

Pointless comic is pointless and was made primarily in order to do something with that RS-MM/TMNT/Kampfer crossover (and to see if I could still draw/ink traditionally. Inking was terrible).

Maybe Mikey really did want to see if Kampfer-Proto looked like April. But that desire is strongly tied to "naked Proto".


(And yes, I'd imagine Mikey to be attracted to both forms of Proto, if he were attracted at all--I don't like that "It's only okay if you're the opposite gender to me" crap)

Specifically, they've got that paopu plushie that someone sold at Persacon that one of my sisters bought; I asked to borrow it for a second.

Sora hasn't yet noticed that one of the points is nearly jabbing Riku in the eye.

"I mean, sure, you're a bootleg, but RADIX won't be replacing you any time soon!"

"More like she can't replace me any time soon."


Meaning, official Roxae are about $60-70.

Poor bootleg-Roxas's arm snapped off a while ago; due to the way it broke, I was able to slot it back in, but he toppled over last night and now it's harder to keep his forearm attached to his elbow. I have no idea how to fix that, and I doubt Mom wants to spend time repairing a bootleg. So I'm going to be very, very careful with him.

This photo was taken in my bathroom. Not pictured: fledgling eldritch abomination lurking in the tub.

Not every day that a photo of mine comes out more-or-less perfectly. Possibly helped by one of my sisters aiming the light at just the right spot.

Zidane and Rikku prepare to part ways with their newly-acquired giant shinies.


(Taken in my sisters' room; they let me borrow the shinies)

edit: Unfinished comic.

Posted on: August 10, 2011, 01:28:12 AM

Commissioned by *RockMiyabi, who gave me just enough money to grab Rinoa (seriously, it was right down to the cent), the top of my first list.

He asked that I draw Daigo and Akane dressed as Squall and Rinoa, with Omega-Xis in the background somewhere, saying that line. Went one step further and gave the two their original colour schemes.

Hope you like it, man.

Looking at older pics inspired me to draw Megabat again. Here he is in a purple room, lying on a purple bed with a purple pillow, wondering why everything's gone monochrome.

Mermaids!

Posted on: August 12, 2011, 01:56:21 AM

Normally, I'd give context--but something tells me I shouldn't, so I'll just ask you this:

You know what went on in Bro Bots, yes? (If not, go look up the summary on Random Action Hour) How is ROCK the one to "go bad in the end" there, and not Proto or anyone else?

I think what they were implying was that Rock went after the RMs...which he had every reason to do. Rock wasn't the one who plotted to assassinate a mayor, threaten to shoot that same mayor in the face, or try to replace the mayor, his staff, and Dr. Light with dead-eyed robotic doubles.

Same person doesn't think that RS-Roll is a "bad person" like her brother even though she defeats her fair share of RMs. Just so you know what kind of backwards antimatter logic I had to try and refute.


Roll and Proto try to comfort Rock, presumably after someone tried using that "logic" on him--or maybe distract him from flying into an unstoppable rage. Either way--not a very good day.

Protopony, for whatever reason, had to look after the Cutie Mark Crusaders. They wore him down in record time.

Torin-Pony would be much cuter if he would just stop scowling.

Posted on: August 12, 2011, 10:01:01 PM

Pinkie Pie tends to wear Rock out. She brought over her beta design/pal Surprise, who acts much like her.

Sorry, Rock.

Is this the second time I've drawn game-Megapony? I think it is.

D'aaw, isn't he so tiny and easily stepped on by accident?

GB'd Megapony met `emlan's GB'd Rarity. Rarity was quick to stick a ribbon on Rock's rump. Rock isn't sure what to think.

Well, not couples. And not all that odd, after I thought about it.

* X and Roll: They're siblings, even if X only resembles one of them with his armour on. My fanon RS-X doesn't like being touched by anyone but Dr. Cain and Zero (and Mega), so Roll could've stabbed him in the thigh with an icepick and it'd feel more or less the same to him.

X must remember that he is unusually tall, and everyone around him is not midgets.

* Elec and Ran: They work together...sorta. They live in the same castle in the middle of the geographically-impossible desert nearby New York. I'd imagine that if Ran ever talked to Elec, it'd only be because he was nearby.

(Also, someone said something like that to me in high school. The AC was also on, and I'm a 98-pound wimp)

* Kaitlin and Proto: Also siblings, but I think she'd go out of her way to avoid the scary redhead who never removes his shades or talks to anyone he doesn't have to. Even if he's her brother and her other brother who she's not afraid of really, really wants him to leave Wily.

* Breakman and Torin: Both copies; in the former's case, of two people. Torin left Vaira (his creator) on his own, forgetting that his circumstances were different than Break's. For this, he shall receive a punch to the face.

* Zero and Kalinka: Uh...they're both blonde. Oh, and Roll ended up with X, so...

* Marquee and Rock: Pair the spares. :/ Marquee probably took one look at Proto's attire and decided he, too, was incapable of cleaning up after himself. (X isn't incapable; he just doesn't care that his apartment is a disaster area)

"Nameless" being Rock's other alter-ego.

I swear, early-90s comic book colouring doesn't seem that complicated until you actually try it. x.x And this pic still doesn't look very 90s.

...Early Image Comics? Just imagine 90s-era Rob Liefeld trying to draw my slender girlymen.

Under the spoiler tag be undetailed nudity.

(click to show/hide)

Originally posted at MMXXX.

Kampfer-Proto, please don't do that. Your brother/sister's got one hell of a pimp arm.

Posted on: August 15, 2011, 05:36:24 AM

My fourth photo of Ashe turned out fine, but this one had better lighting. (The first two were insanely blurry) It was too bright in the room, so I held a sheet of paper over her.

If you go up to her and tell her that "The aftermath of Ashe's life" was completely accurate to her character, Ashe will slice you in half. /couldn't think of anything better to type

Posted on: August 16, 2011, 06:45:45 PM

AU-Proto eventually takes a liking to his little brother and offers him the chance to join his side. Together, they'll overthrow the oppressive government they both live under (and in Mega's case, serve) and free everyone else!

Oh, and AU-Proto is coo-coo for cocoa puffs.

Proto and `emlan's male Rainbow Dash prepare to barrel down a hill. Shame that Rock and Flutterguy weren't around to pull them back.

Posted on: August 17, 2011, 09:09:25 PM

Warning: bitchrant ahead.


So...a certain author. Even though they've left dA yet again, I dunno if I should use their name. Those things turn up in search engines, after all, and I don't want their friends ganging up on me. Suffice it to say, there's a reason why it's Topman in this pic and not, say, Roll.

The week(s) in question went down like this:

1.) A friend and I ask them if we can give them advice (mostly on their Sue) after they discovered this blog about their Sue and felt ashamed; they let us. Then they proceed to ignore/"refute" everything we say. Still, things aren't too bad so far.

(My friend was mostly the one giving advice; I tried to debate after she'd given up. This will be important later)

2.) Friend makes a post on the blog that was meant to be a final bit of advice, since she was tired of that conversation (I think; feel free to correct me if I'm wrong). For a few days, things are quiet.

3.) Suethor sends the blog a RAGE STORM the likes of which I had never seen before, basically denying everything that was said in that "final" advisory post, and screaming about how my friend was wrong and they were right.

4.) Friend counters this. Meanwhile, I try to tell one of the Suethor's buddies that nothing that was said was done so out of jealousy; I get a denial in return. So much for tha--

5.) Wait, why can I no longer comment here? Turns out the Suethor went and BAAAAAWlocked everyone associated with that blog, and everyone who tried to give her advice. Now, I dunno if I got blocked because of a certain pic, or because I tried to debate with her--either way, MAN. :C

6.) Suethor deactivates account. Again.


So yeah, I was being too nice with this person before. Even prior to that rage storm, my friend and I were frustrated over the complete lack of progress we were making. Keep in mind, we were both trying to be as polite as possible right up until that point. Neither of us were expecting it.


As for Mega...he likely got tired of being called a thoughtless murderer and just had a few cakes.

Hopefully, after this and that upcoming article about the Suethor's bizarro-world Mega and Roll, we can put all this crap behind us.


...just realized that I forgot to put highlights on Top's armour. :/

Posted on: August 18, 2011, 02:31:21 AM

Very largely inspired by one of *RandyPandy's six-word fics; includes her Copy-Quint (a.k.a. the Quint that was in MMV). Hope I got the colour scheme right.

Added Proto and Megagirl (the former because I didn't want to stick either copy too close to their original; the latter for space reasons), and blatantly didn't use M-Shadow's colour scheme from that CoroCoro scan. Because it's Quint's. Come on, RnF2 guys--you're not helping the "Quint is not M-Shadow" debate.

Sure, Proto looks tough now. But then Gilda rolls all over his ass.

One of my sisters wanted me to draw her Nitori. So I did.


Don't like how that face came out. :/

So it seems RS-Rock has ended up in DB-Land, and is currently being greeted by an Online-era Nameki--

wait why am i drawing db stuff again

(Rock's fightin' clothes are a dead ringer for Goku's. >.> )

Poor RS-Rock-in-DB. He's surrounded by guys with muscles the size of his head; in comparison, he's a beanpole.

And he's kinda torn on the whole Z-fighters thing. On the one hand, he'd rather just stay home and cook/do the laundry/whatever, knowing the shape his pals usually come back in. On the other hand, those battles aren't gonna fight themselves. Damn Chronic Hero Syndrome...

And hey, I think I finally drew Goku (and Piccolo) looking halfway-decent!


(Whilst trying to save this, my computer had a brain fart, disabled my keyboard, and screwed around with my mouse's bindings. Ending two processes seemed to fix things, but I'm still wary)

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Fan Creations / Re: Rebirth of the Rockman-Themed Stolen *Bleep* Thread!!

« on: August 19, 2011, 05:30:30 AM »

Speaking of Protoman:


By MatiasSoto.

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DASH / Re: It's dead, Jim.

« on: August 19, 2011, 04:28:55 AM »

I liked X-Play back in '03-'06... :/

Also, dunno if this was mentioned yet, but: http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2011/08/farwell-devroom.html

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DASH / Re: It's dead, Jim.

« on: August 16, 2011, 01:59:28 PM »

Was it really those two, or that episode's writer?

Either way, depressing as hell.


edit: http://www.themmnetwork.com/2011/08/16/why-was-capcom-going-to-charge-for-the-mega-man-legends-3-prototype-version/

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X / Re: Why does everyone hate Mega Man X6?

« on: August 15, 2011, 01:07:55 AM »

Define "fluff".

The example I was given was the method by which Dr. Cossack contacted Light in MM4.

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X / Re: Why does everyone hate Mega Man X6?

« on: August 14, 2011, 11:56:13 PM »

In videogames, especially Mega Man, it's far more common than you think.

I was told that most of the "story-changing" in MM (Classic mostly, I think) amounted to fluff. >.>

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X / Re: Why does everyone hate Mega Man X6?

« on: August 14, 2011, 05:12:49 PM »

It's also the same way that one establishes that Erasure was centered around a reploid bathroom.

Am I the only person who thinks this might be just a typo? A really bad one?

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Off The Wall / Re: Reposted Picture Thread (56K Warning)

« on: August 12, 2011, 11:43:01 PM »

Sayaka screenshot = Demonophobia?

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Original / Re: No Charge Shot.....Why?

« on: August 12, 2011, 11:15:31 PM »

I would HOPE that part of the reasoning behind removing Mega of his slide is to help further differentiate him from Proto, Bass, and any other playable characters. Granted, I'd rather they give him the slide back, too. Or if not, at least let him duck.

(Not that Proto doesn't play differently than Mega-slidey already)

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Fan Creations / Re: Rebirth of the Rockman-Themed Stolen *Bleep* Thread!!

« on: August 12, 2011, 08:03:56 PM »

All I'm getting is "bald guy in a suit".


Steve Napierski feels our pain.

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Original / Re: Finally! Megaman's Soccer ending has been found!

« on: August 12, 2011, 03:16:13 AM »

Depressing as hell, man.

It reminds me of the ending of MM3, where that image of Proto in the sky led some to believe he died somehow.

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Fan Creations / Re: Rebirth of the Rockman-Themed Stolen *Bleep* Thread!!

« on: August 11, 2011, 09:48:54 PM »

Scan of the fifth Retro Gamer Collection (Photobucket squashed it down, sorry). There's a couple of Megaman sprites at the top and bottom--plus one oddity underneath the cyclopean ogre-bot and next to Zool.

It's blatantly an edited X sprite. I have no idea where it (or that one Link sprite not too far away) came from, and didn't see anything in the magazine itself about it.

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Rockman Series / Re: Games Similar to Megaman

« on: August 11, 2011, 04:16:49 PM »

Heh, wasn't expecting a Touhou/MMBN crossover.

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X / Re: Why does everyone hate Mega Man X6?

« on: August 10, 2011, 05:00:19 PM »

Eh, good point, I guess. But I was also talking about localizers, not just translators.

What excuse does Capcom have, to be any worse than 2 semi-amateur guys?

Maybe CoJ just didn't bother telling them anything about tone, intent etc. Wouldn't surprise me.

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X / Re: Why does everyone hate Mega Man X6?

« on: August 10, 2011, 04:28:22 PM »

not having accesss is no excuse to just completely rewrite entire story scripts and badly translate things. Its not relevant at all in fact.

What if it couldn't be helped, though? Maybe the translators did a competent job, and the localizers refined it (for lack of a better word) without knowing there was something else to the story that wasn't the same as what they came up with?

And yet it's all the translators' fault for not being clairvoyant?

Also, IIRC a few changed words does not equal "total story script rewrite". All of these accusations of mistranslating just feel really knee-jerk to me now.

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Fan Creations / Re: Gaia's Stuff

« on: August 10, 2011, 03:08:00 PM »

I think 8-bit Dragoon came out nicely.

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X / Re: Why does everyone hate Mega Man X6?

« on: August 10, 2011, 02:56:54 PM »

That just shifts the blame from the writers to the translators.

Seriously--I don't think ALL of the X series story's problems can be blamed on "mistranslations" (or perhaps "shoddy localization").

I was thinking the other night--you know how a lot of the story is inaccessible to us? Maybe the translators and localizers didn't have it either. Not very fair to blame them for divergences if that's the case.

but it's not much less preposterous than taking a wrench with his one arm and fixing the rest of his body. Nanites can do an awful lot but they're not magical...

Not too out of place next to X being saved by deus ex machina, though, is it?

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Gaming / Re: The Kingdom Hearts Thread

« on: August 10, 2011, 03:37:12 AM »

sorry, i couldn`t resist, do you know how many gay jokes those guys have inspired?

Not an excuse.