Gippy Galois

The parking attendant moved on.

I was going to just queue it for later but then it stuck in my brain, and I decided to make it everyone's problem

That has to be the most humiliating way to describe one of Earth's most terrifyingly effective predators.

Picture of her from the USA Today

Finally, we have them all.

Just the world “deactivated.” Look upon their post, ye mighty, and despair.

Out of Touch

happy birthday.

Like, there are plenty of shows that nobody would disagree with calling them isekai, where the fact that one of the characters came from another world is not a particularly important plot point. Like it's mentioned once in the first episode and then never again, or it's left as an implication that's never confirmed or directly discussed. To say that such a thing in the definitive statement on the show's genre is silly, surely!

Is portal fantasy the kind where they're able to go back and forth between the two worlds at will, like Digimon Adventure 02?

And, furthermore, I would argue that series such as Digimon Adventure, or Inuyasha, or other similar series, are a third genre that's distinct from either of the above- they functionally have so little in common that it doesn't feel useful to me to act like they're the same thing, beyond the macro level of analyzing trends in anime.

Is what she said when I immediately reached for my phone and opened Tumblr instead of responding

But I feel in my bones that you are right. If this is to be my wife's moment of glory, I am willing to suffer notification overload, that the world may know she is funny. #MyFunnyWife

Also this house is definitively hostile to any form of accessibility.

Bestie's mom found this sealed pack of... some kind of TCG cards. We think it's Pokemon? Kinda looks like Zekrom? But I was wondering if anyone out there might recognize this art and know what we've got our hands on before we open it.

Reverse Google Image Search got me to this. As an aside, are you gonna try to make money off of this or do you just wanna satisfy your personal curiosity? Because in the latter, it's usually best practice to not open unopened packs

If the card pack has any text on it, I suggest fnding as much identifying information as you can, since that'll help determining potential value

Just the same picture repeated on the backside.

Card packs normally don't have the same picture on both sides; one side would be the picture (and usually the title of the card set), and then the back has the flap for opening (length-wise down the center). Is the flap at the top meant to open it?

I asked Bestie where they got it, and they said their mom bought it off some influencer. So now I'm thinking maybe it's like a custom "surprise pack" of cards rather than an official booster pack.