An entire village. That is some impressive range for a Wi-Fi jamming vintage television.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/22/uk/old-tv-breaks-broadband-village-scli-intl-gbr/index.html

Lawl!  Damn old TV knocked out the internet for these folks in Wales every day. 

Desperation. Unsure if it's a Korean or Chinese manga

https://wakamics.com/manga/vampire-charming/chapter-41/

Glad to see that you're still around Packrat. I'm not sure if we've directly interacted before, but I recognize your profile pic. Sorry to get your hopes up for a newcomer joining, lol.

Aw, I saw a new post and got my hopes up.    Oh well, glad to see I'm not the only one who still comes back every now and then.    Since I don't think I gave you the customary greeting before, I'll give it to you now.

Welcome to the forums.  I'm packrat.  Pleased to meet you. ^_^

Hello to everyone who still uses this site. I joined this site back in 2010 on this account, and first used the site back in 2008. I thought I might come back here and see how things are. I know there's another bigger forum for this sort of stuff that many people use now, but I remember the people here being a lot more chill than they are there. It looks like there's been no introductions for years, so hopefully someone reads this.

Desperation

https://mangakakalot.com/chapter/ei918261/chapter_2

Quote from: FallenStar on June 08, 2020, 01:00:28 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/08/entertainment/looney-tunes-reboot-guns-trnd/index.html

It's gonna be bland, flavorless, corporate approved drivel for sure.

John Kricfalusi, the creator of Ren and Stimpy, has some good rants on the decay of American cartoons. In the director's commentary track of the Ren and Stimpy DVDs he explains that the story of any given cartoon used to be up to the cartoonist himself. The boss of the company was only interested in finished products, so the cartoonist could draw whatever he wanted and as long as it didn't have DICKS in it the boss would usually buy it from him and put it on TV. That's why cartoons from the first half of the 20th century had such extreme violence.

Time passed, and these small animation companies became large corporations with big studios, lots of employees, and worst of all, stockholders. The CEO then had to make sure his cartoons wouldn't offend advertisers who buy commercial slots. Knowing how filthy and crazy most animators were, these companies moved the job of story writing away from the animators to other people. People who used to just wing it and draw their own stuff were then told exactly what to draw, and were not allowed to draw anything else. This was the late 20th century.

Now, in the early 21st century, these big television monopolies have entire departments devoted to public relations and political correctness. Computers do all the animation, everything is reviewed for possible offensive content, and the end result is crap. Big business killed the cartoon.


Don't get me wrong. The racist cartoons were dumb and i'm glad those were boxed up and left in the vault. I just want sex and violence. That's the main reason I drifted away from western cartoons and started watching anime as a teenager.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/08/entertainment/looney-tunes-reboot-guns-trnd/index.html

This is getting old. Now Elmer Fudd can't go "wabbit" hunting with a gun but a scythe is perfectly okay?! And we can't have our "rootin' tootin' shootin'" firebrand with his trademark pistols anymore?!

Fuck this world, I swear.