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May 28, 2026

Amber’s stream

by David M Willis on May 27, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 04 – For Me It Was Tuesday
└ Tags: danny, joe, sal

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    May 27, 2024 at 12:01 am | #

    “Eh, the IMPORTANT things can be done one-handed”

    • Clif
      Clif
      May 27, 2024 at 12:29 am | #

      The real trick is to do them one-handedly with both hands at the same time.

      No, I have no idea what I’m talking about either.

      • Psychie
        Psychie
        May 27, 2024 at 7:47 am | #

        I’m pretty sure that’s the second, third, or fourth level of ambidexterity. The first level is being able to do a task equally well with both hands. The second level is being able to do a task with both hands simultaneously. The third level is being able to do two tasks in concert with one another to accomplish a single goal. The fourth level is to do two unrelated tasks simultaneously.

        • Hexx
          Hexx
          May 28, 2024 at 12:32 am | #

          My ADHD squirrel brain is nudging me to practice that… fml…

        • JasonAW3
          JasonAW3
          May 29, 2024 at 11:54 pm | #

          The fifth level? Being able to do three unrelated tasks using both of yours AND one of someone else’s hands..!

        • JasonAW3
          JasonAW3
          May 29, 2024 at 11:55 pm | #

          The fifth level? Being able to do three unrelated tasks using both of yours AND one of someone else’s hands..!

      • Anna
        Anna
        May 27, 2024 at 10:45 am | #

        Sounds like double the fun, possibly

      • Inahc
        Inahc
        May 29, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

        Thorn Has Two Hands 😀 (…surely someone’s gonna get this, it was someone here who got me into leif&thorn)

    • anon
      anon
      May 27, 2024 at 1:43 am | #

      At least it’s not eaten by a seal lol

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYsJw_SihII&pp=ygUNYnVzdGVyJ3MgaGFuZA%3D%3D

  2. TheKelliestKelly
    TheKelliestKelly
    May 27, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

    You know, speaking as someone who read the Slipshine, Sal should probably slip into the shower with Danny.

    • Rose by Any Other Name
      Rose by Any Other Name
      May 27, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

      Or at least go have a pee.
      Urinary tract health, yo!

      • anon
        anon
        May 27, 2024 at 1:50 am | #

        @rose: i imagine it’d be better to just use their bathroom but i dun rly think they’d include a scene of that in the slipshine lol but i imagine sal’s had sex enough to know

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      May 27, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

      As someone who can’t afford the Slipshine, I am super jealous. I wish I could pay for it; I want to see Sal×Danny more than anything, also the Dina×Becky one.

    • 3oranges
      3oranges
      May 27, 2024 at 12:20 am | #

      I don’t know, I feel like joining him in the relatively open men’s shower room might not be the best solution.

      • Nono
        Nono
        May 27, 2024 at 12:21 am | #

        The men’s shower room has stalls, just like the girls’ one. We saw them when Danny was having gay panic over Ethan.

        • 3oranges
          3oranges
          May 27, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

          Yeah, but the room is still open, hence Danny being able to run into Ethan there.

          • Nono
            Nono
            May 27, 2024 at 12:42 am | #

            Yes? That’s how like… all shower rooms work? There’s a communal area before the stalls?

            • PedanticJerkass
              PedanticJerkass
              May 27, 2024 at 12:46 am | #

              Which is why it would be a bad idea for Sal to go into the one for the men? How is this difficult?

              • Nono
                Nono
                May 27, 2024 at 12:50 am | #

                Eh, it’s not exactly polite society behaviour but couples having sex in the shower stalls is not exactly earth shattering. I don’t think it would stop Sal if she wanted to.

                • Reltzik
                  Reltzik
                  May 27, 2024 at 12:56 am | #

                  You’re not helping your case. I think that would be more likely to stop Sal than if having sex in the shower stalls WAS earth-shattering.

              • John Campbell
                John Campbell
                May 27, 2024 at 5:36 pm | #

                It’s a college dorm. If you’ve never had a strange woman wearing only a towel walk in while you had your dick out at a urinal (or vice versa, I guess, if you’re that way plumbed), can you really say you’ve been to college?

      • JasonAW3
        JasonAW3
        May 29, 2024 at 11:58 pm | #

        No, but Danny would definitely get the props for doing that!

    • butting
      butting
      May 27, 2024 at 1:31 am | #

      … and Joe. With Danny and Joe. HTH!

    • Maveric1984
      Maveric1984
      May 27, 2024 at 7:33 pm | #

      As someone else who read the Slip shine, her panties are the wrong color

  3. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    May 27, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    Looking forward to seeing the Summoning Salt video where Amber gets shown as someone who broke the record before somehow somebody else breaks it again on the very same day

  4. Nono
    Nono
    May 27, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    I mean Sal really got into Mario Kart.

    I feel like it’d only a matter of time before she gets hooked on this.

    • anonymsly
      anonymsly
      May 27, 2024 at 5:08 am | #

      After that, there’s only one place to go: competitive Tetris

      • Anna
        Anna
        May 27, 2024 at 10:46 am | #

        …some men just wanna watch the world burn

        • JasonAW3
          JasonAW3
          May 30, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

          I ain’t got enough.matches for that…

          Of course, a few deep bore holes in the right super volcanos with the right application of high yield thermonuclear weapons, and, yeah the world would DEFINITELY burn…

      • John Campbell
        John Campbell
        May 27, 2024 at 6:36 pm | #

        Years ago, I managed to get the PC version of Tetris into a loop where it was feeding me the same repeated (and sustainable!) sequence of blocks over and over again. I’d gotten out of my last class about 2, went, “I’ll just play a quick game of Tetris…”

        I missed dinner because I was still playing that game of Tetris. I finally mis-timed a drop, and the wheels pretty much instantly came off everything and it was over half a second later. But I had by that point been playing the same game of Tetris for more than five hours.

        I’m not sure if that repeating loop is what it always does if you play the game long enough, or if it was a quirk of the RNG on the machine I was playing on or what. I’d never seen it do that before. I haven’t seen it since, but that may just be because I stopped playing Tetris after that. I figure I don’t need to play it anymore. I won.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      May 27, 2024 at 6:00 am | #

      An average game of Mario Kart is a lot more forgiving than an unassisted frame-perfect speedrun.

  5. Animedingo
    Animedingo
    May 27, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    Maybe its me, and god knows I dont handle social interactions well. But that doesnt seem like something danny should need to apologize for. In fact I feel like weve had more conversations about her hand this week than the entire series

    • ian livs
      ian livs
      May 27, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

      Idk about Danny, but I apologize for anything and everything that’s inconveniencing other people, whether it’s my fault or not. People pleasers and/or people who grew up in shitty households often do. So I don’t think she’s expecting him to apologize for it, just making a really deadpan joke that he ended up apologizing for regardless? (I’m also not good at social interactions, though)

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        May 27, 2024 at 12:16 am | #

        Hey, sometimes it’s just being Canadian.

        • Nono
          Nono
          May 27, 2024 at 12:16 am | #

          What happens if you’re a Canadian people pleaser?

          • Thag Simmons
            Thag Simmons
            May 27, 2024 at 12:17 am | #

            Multiplication, I think.

            • IntangibleMatter
              IntangibleMatter
              May 27, 2024 at 12:34 am | #

              I can verify this statement as a Canadian people pleaser

              • Miri
                Miri
                May 27, 2024 at 4:13 am | #

                My daughter is a people pleaser who seems to say sorry for being sorry for saying sorry a lot. I usually hug her and say something along the lines of “you didn’t do anything, you have nothing to be sorry for, but I appreciate you feel bad anyway because you’d like the world to be perfect and lovely for everyone” so she doesn’t do that with me at least…. But any other suggestions? Kiddo is 9 and sometimes she *struggles* because she has a tendency to genuinely think if she can just be good enough, she can make the entire world be problem-free, so she is literally apologising for something she feels responsible for, but which is completely out of her sphere of control… Then apologising for apologising when her friends and extended family tell her off for it…

                One of the hardest lessons I had to learn was that you have to live your own life and let other people make their own mistakes, but at least I was into my teens when I was seriously tying myself into pretzels trying to shoulder everyone else’s emotional baggage… And started off being aware that it’s OK if not everyone likes you and there are some people whose opinions of you are worth less than the carbon dioxide they expell sharing them. She genuinely likes everyone, bless her precious, tender heart ❤️

                I worry about her…

                • Sere
                  Sere
                  May 27, 2024 at 10:14 am | #

                  Sorry has more than one meaning. I say sorry all the time, but it doesn’t mean I’m accepting responsibility or fault. ‘Sorry for your loss’ doesn’t mean I murdered your grandda but that im giving condolences and I feel for you having to go through something hard. Telling people ‘I’m sorry I can’t make your party’ due to other events/prior obligations/poor health doesn’t mean I feel bad for having those events… just that I didn’t like that I contributed to their disappointment.

                • Pergola
                  Pergola
                  May 27, 2024 at 10:15 am | #

                  Her name is Dorothy, right?

          • Taellosse
            Taellosse
            May 27, 2024 at 3:01 pm | #

            I think that’s just automatic admission into the nearest BDSM community.

    • Uly
      Uly
      May 27, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

      Sometimes the phrase “I’m sorry” means “I apologize”. Sometimes it just means “yeah, that sucks”.

      • Jeremiah
        Jeremiah
        May 27, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

        Yeah, general solution to that misunderstanding is adding “to hear that” at the end of it. Doesn’t really fit in this situation, but it usually does.

        • 3oranges
          3oranges
          May 27, 2024 at 12:18 am | #

          “I know what I did” (from https://xkcd.com/945) is a pretty good way to make things worse instead.

        • Masumi
          Masumi
          May 27, 2024 at 7:03 am | #

          I always feel weird with that formulation, because it sounds like “well now I wish I didn’t hear that, why did you say it”
          Even though I’m aware how people mean it normally.

        • Mark
          Mark
          May 27, 2024 at 7:17 am | #

          T’pau said it best: “I grieve with thee.” What a powerful line.

        • Steamweed
          Steamweed
          May 27, 2024 at 8:00 am | #

          Or “about that”. I hear “sorry about that” as often as I hear “sorry to hear that.”

        • HueSatLight
          HueSatLight
          May 27, 2024 at 10:02 am | #

          Or the solution, when you’re apologizing for something, say what you’re apologizing for. Acknowledge what you’re sorry for doing, like you’re actually contrite.

      • Dante
        Dante
        May 27, 2024 at 12:41 am | #

        +1

        My friends are trying to break me out of it but it’s frustrating when this is what I mean half of the time.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        May 27, 2024 at 3:18 am | #

        Just to avoid potential ambiguity, I never say “I’m sorry” if I’m not actually sorry. Somebody might think I’m apologising when I’m not, and it would be dishonest to let them.

      • Sere
        Sere
        May 27, 2024 at 10:14 am | #

        Much more eloquent than mine

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      May 27, 2024 at 1:25 am | #

      As a Canuck, I’m sorry but I must point out that, while “sorry” can be an apology, it isn’t always. “Sorry” can be to get attention, demonstrate non-comprehension, express empathy/sympathy, regret, and a myriad of other behavioural/emotional blends.

    • Bash
      Bash
      May 27, 2024 at 1:34 am | #

      Honestly I cannot think of anything else that would be appropriate in this situation. It’s too serious for “oh that sucks.” Trying to cheer her up with “it’s not that bad,” would be incredibly heartless.

    • anon
      anon
      May 27, 2024 at 1:45 am | #

      well, she did bring it up and self deprecating, but i think if she was really upset she would’ve just shut off the laptop/change vids

      or like make danny pick up some hand cream from amber , if she’s still doing that, since even normal hand cream/other skincare stuff could get pricey/tedious to deal with over time

    • tbf
      tbf
      May 27, 2024 at 5:51 am | #

      I suspect the limited use of her hand came up during the Slip shine interlude. It seems like the sort of character based interaction that would get tossed in.

    • Mark
      Mark
      May 27, 2024 at 7:15 am | #

      I had the same thought. But sometimes I do this kind of ironically, to mean “I wasn’t involved in that, so why are you bringing it up now?”

      Or it could be an apology for reminding her, however inadvertently, of a painful episode of which she has far too frequent reminders just from living.

      Lately I’ve been trying to use “I’m sorry” less often and more precisely, and you might hear me say “I apologize, and I’m sorry.” The apology is about your feelings and the sorrow is about mine.

    • Psychie
      Psychie
      May 27, 2024 at 7:54 am | #

      I think the apology was for having Amber’s stream on his computer where it could be a reminder about Amber stabbing her hand.

    • Sam
      Sam
      May 27, 2024 at 12:53 pm | #

      Sometimes sorry doesn’t mean ‘this is my fault and I apologise’, sometimes it means ‘yeah, that sounds hard, wish you didn’t have to deal with that as an issue’.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      May 28, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

      This is what we call a sympathy sorry – i.e. ‘I’m sorry that that happened to you, sounds like it sucks’ vs a ‘sorry my bad’.

      Growing up in Canada, you learn the difference.

  6. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    May 27, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    It never occurred to me that Sal might not have full use of her scarred hand. As someone who loves to play videogames, and write, the idea of losing control of part of my hand is terrifying.

    I’m glad she can at least play Mario Kart.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      May 27, 2024 at 12:17 am | #

      Considering the extent of her injury I’m amazed she has any motor function in that hand at all.

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        May 27, 2024 at 10:04 am | #

        same. That scar crosses bones. There’s nerves that go through there. Even if the muscles healed all the way back.

    • Dante
      Dante
      May 27, 2024 at 12:39 am | #

      She talked once about having trouble with the guitar so she now played bass, I think? Because, motor control. But yeah that was a gruesome injury, glad she can still move at all

      • Schpoonman
        Schpoonman
        May 27, 2024 at 9:51 am | #

        She originally played bass and the injury kept her from playing.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      May 27, 2024 at 3:02 am | #

      See, this is why modern games allow for customizable input mapping and likewise — accessibility.

      In fact it’s on the list of things to do in the near future for many games I’m hired to code.

      • Kyrik Michalowski
        Kyrik Michalowski
        May 27, 2024 at 3:14 am | #

        Thank you for doing so. I’ve always wanted to make games, and customizable input is one of my self-requirements. In the slim chance I will be able to make/help with a game customizable input matters to me; I have issues with motion controls due to my hands shaking at all times. So needing a custom layout of controls is something I can empathize with.

        • Hedgie
          Hedgie
          May 27, 2024 at 12:14 pm | #

          Surprisingly, my intermittent tremors went away some time after I stopped taking Lithium. I had expected them never to go. I still do need to heavily customise my controls to balance out the duties of each hand though, just because in my 40s, I’m far slower than I was in my 20s. My standard MMO setup is left-hand mouse for turning, keyboard for movement keys, and all keybinds balanced between mouse binds and keyboard, often in an alternating order for burst phases. At least for now, improved coordination makes up for the loss of speed.

    • Chubseus
      Chubseus
      May 27, 2024 at 8:10 am | #

      I knew it was bad, but until a few strips ago I hadn’t realized the scar was on both sides of her hand. I hadn’t realized that Amber had stabbed all the way through

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        May 28, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

        Yeah, the book PDF mentioned Amber stabbed Sal through the hand but I don’t think we’d ever seen her scarred up palm.

  7. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    May 27, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

    Joe and Danny shower together confirmed. Its why they’re known as having incredibly clean backs.

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      May 27, 2024 at 12:50 am | #

      What is that underlining and what does it mean?

      • BarerMender
        BarerMender
        May 27, 2024 at 3:05 am | #

        If you hover your mouse on it, it’ll reveal a floating text.

      • Rectilinear Propagation
        Rectilinear Propagation
        May 27, 2024 at 3:13 am | #

        They added a title attribute to that text so if you hover over it, it shows additional text. It’s a global HTML attribute but I think the comments section only allows it for and tags.

        • Rectilinear Propagation
          Rectilinear Propagation
          May 27, 2024 at 3:14 am | #

          Dagnabbit: The “abbr” and “acronym” tags.

          I thought using the code tags would make it show the actual HTML tags.

          • Mark
            Mark
            May 27, 2024 at 7:25 am | #

            Humph, now I’m wondering whether CDATA works here. <![CDATA[]]> should show a broketed “element” element.

            • Mark
              Mark
              May 27, 2024 at 7:26 am | #

              Nope.

        • Kyrik Michalowski
          Kyrik Michalowski
          May 27, 2024 at 3:15 am | #

          I’m on a mobile device; what does it say?

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            May 27, 2024 at 3:42 am | #

            “dumbingofage.com/irishspring”

            • deliverything
              deliverything
              May 27, 2024 at 4:01 am | #

              To save others searching: there doesn’t seem to be a strip in the archives with that name.

              There also doesn’t seem to be a way to search the archives by strip name, other than using ctrl+F on the source of each archive calendar page; if I’m wrong, someone please tell me what I should’ve been doing?

              • thejeff
                thejeff
                May 27, 2024 at 8:59 am | #

                I don’t know a way to search, but if it was a real strip name, it should resolve.

                For example: http://www.dumbingofage.com/ambersstream

                irishspring doesn’t.

                • deliverything
                  deliverything
                  May 27, 2024 at 11:11 am | #

                  Thank you. I should’ve tried that.

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        May 27, 2024 at 9:55 am | #

        It’s a fake link.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      May 27, 2024 at 2:16 am | #

      There’s a communal shower, everyone showers together in separate booths.

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        May 27, 2024 at 9:56 am | #

        Except Joe and Danny, they use the same booth so they can wash each other’s backs.

        • Nymph
          Nymph
          May 27, 2024 at 7:27 pm | #

          slipshine or it didn’t happen.

          • HueSatLight
            HueSatLight
            May 28, 2024 at 12:01 am | #

            They are exploring each other’s soapy bodies in a completely platonic non-sexual way.

  8. Ray Radlein
    Ray Radlein
    May 27, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

    Fun? Who said anything about “Fun”? This is a compulsion

  9. Hazel
    Hazel
    May 27, 2024 at 12:21 am | #

    She still plays, just not to break records. Or maybe it’s a time constraint?

  10. Dante
    Dante
    May 27, 2024 at 12:41 am | #

    It feels like Sal has finally opened up about her hand not so long ago… And now she’s doing all the complaining about it she rightfully deserves.

  11. Suet
    Suet
    May 27, 2024 at 12:54 am | #

    It makes sense but also completely nonsensical that Amber’s a streamer… or is she on ScroobToob

    I bet this won’t be Danny’s last shower of the day

    • Francoinblanco
      Francoinblanco
      May 27, 2024 at 2:50 am | #

      Probably just because of the requirement to legalize the record

  12. Bash
    Bash
    May 27, 2024 at 1:42 am | #

    Aww, look at Sal getting all cozy and not wanting to leave Danny’s room.

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      May 27, 2024 at 8:03 am | #

      The reluctance to put on pants and go elsewhere is real.

  13. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    May 27, 2024 at 1:43 am | #

    “ah no tools, eh? I guess that explains why you’re not helping her.”

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      May 27, 2024 at 1:56 am | #

      That doesn’t sound like Sal, but I’d expect that comment to come out of Joe’s mouth.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        May 27, 2024 at 5:57 am | #

        Or Malaya’s.

  14. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    May 27, 2024 at 2:05 am | #

    …so there were sequels after all

  15. Taffy
    Taffy
    May 27, 2024 at 3:24 am | #

    Love that Sal’s comfy enough to chill in her underwear.

  16. AK
    AK
    May 27, 2024 at 4:29 am | #

    Is Sal being territorial?

  17. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    May 27, 2024 at 6:16 am | #

    “Yeah, it took me a bit of searchin’ to find it. Damn algorithm kept suggesting a MommyMilkers420.”

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      May 27, 2024 at 7:55 am | #

      “Ever since I clicked that one dang time on that BurgerOni chick, the dang algorithm’s has been givin’ me this stuff.”

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      May 27, 2024 at 9:12 am | #

      I think Danny’s a little too vanilla to be getting a fetish V-tuber recommended to him.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        May 27, 2024 at 1:15 pm | #

        Danny may be least vanilla of our cast, at least sexually.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          May 27, 2024 at 8:16 pm | #

          A grappling hook is still miles away from a 4-titted anthropomorphic cow woman who reads toilet TF fanfics on-stream.

  18. Steamweed
    Steamweed
    May 27, 2024 at 7:56 am | #

    Poor Sal got cock-blocked on gettin’ cuddles.

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      May 27, 2024 at 11:46 am | #

      Sal’s getting cuddlefuddled.

  19. Yeet
    Yeet
    May 27, 2024 at 9:02 am | #

    Maybe leave the jacket behind dan

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      May 27, 2024 at 9:11 am | #

      No, it’s on him

      • eh, whatever
        eh, whatever
        May 27, 2024 at 1:31 pm | #

        Commas are important people!

  20. Clell65619
    Clell65619
    May 27, 2024 at 9:11 am | #

    He’s going to wear the (presumably) leather jacket into a shower room? Interesting choice.

  21. Matrix
    Matrix
    May 27, 2024 at 9:34 am | #

    “ah but what about speedrun cheater drama streams?”

    “Eh”

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      May 27, 2024 at 10:46 am | #

      There are a few ways to interpret that string of words, and none of them seem like valuable ways for a human to spend their time.

      • Imogen
        Imogen
        May 27, 2024 at 11:29 am | #

        Speedrunning cheater drama s is what Dorothy will do when she composes a formal flow chart for how to scratch “homewreck” off her self-destruction bucket list.

  22. Zaxares
    Zaxares
    May 27, 2024 at 12:40 pm | #

    I’m a lifelong diehard gamer and even I think that attempting to break NTA speedrun records sounds like more pain than fun. 😛

  23. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    May 27, 2024 at 1:22 pm | #

    Sal, but the stream can get interesting: maybe it can happen a sudden Mike-situation.

  24. Icalasari
    Icalasari
    May 27, 2024 at 1:59 pm | #

    To be fair, Sal, it takes a special kind of person to grind a level.over and over again for better and better times. So yes, for most people, this ain’t going to be fun

    • Da Boy
      Da Boy
      May 27, 2024 at 2:37 pm | #

      I can grind for a specific reward, like Radiant difficulty markers or Chains on Pantheons in Hollow Knight but better times/higher scores never appealed to me.

  25. yak
    yak
    May 27, 2024 at 6:28 pm | #

    Grinding video games is a great way to *lose* full motor control in your hands, temporarily.

  26. Pseudowolf
    Pseudowolf
    May 27, 2024 at 8:42 pm | #

    Reminds me of an article by a guy who had actual Yakuza give their take on the Yakuza video games. He mentioned that not all of them could actually play the game themselves since some of them were lacking all 10 fingers.

    • deliverything
      deliverything
      May 27, 2024 at 10:39 pm | #

      Apparently, Yukako Fukushima makes replacement pinkies for ex-Yakuza people: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/18/woman-makes-fake-fingers-yakuza-japan-reformed-gangsters
      She’s pretty strict about the “ex-” part, though, so that mightn’t help some of those from the article.

  27. BBCC
    BBCC
    May 28, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    Yeah, that’s…that’s rough.

  28. Kazuma Taichi
    Kazuma Taichi
    May 28, 2024 at 8:05 am | #

    ngl, the zoom in of the batman poster with that particular cropping made me think it was captain falcon

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