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[–]shieldforyoureyes 363 points364 points ago*

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This is by Matt Brinkman (of Fort Thunder fame).

It was originally from an issue of Paper Rodeo, and was recently reprinted in his "Multi Force" collection published by Picturebox:

http://www.pictureboxinc.com/product/id/440/

[–]chaosgone 90 points91 points ago

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Thanks! This what I like about reddit. People will tell you where to find more information on the link.

[–]shieldforyoureyes 24 points25 points ago

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"given enough eyeballs", etc.

[–]FooHentai 52 points53 points ago

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...a game of billiards and fun was had by all?

[–]nitrousconsumed[S] 23 points24 points ago

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Thanks for that; do you know if he sells prints?

[–]shieldforyoureyes 12 points13 points ago

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There's a few prints for sale through Picturebox. Can't think of anywhere else....

More images of artwork here:

http://www.gigposters.com/designer/2300_Matt_Brinkman.html

He also did the artwork for all of Arab on Radar's albums.

[–]JOKasten 4 points5 points ago

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I love Matt Brinkman. I have several records and cds that are printed by him, and have always enjoyed his comics. Have you read Ninja by Brian Chippendale? It was pretty insane.

[–]trentlott 3 points4 points ago

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I thought that was Brian Chips the first time I saw it

If anybody likes this, Brian Chippendale from Lightning Bolt was in the Fort Thunder collective and does pretty kickass comics.

There was one I read online about these two wandering around a castle being invaded that I loved to death, but can't find anymore.

[–]agaubmayan 1109 points1110 points ago

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This is how life must be for most lower-order animals. You wake up, get horrified by how weird the world is, get confused, meet a few more bugs, and then get eaten.

[–]riemannzetajones 441 points442 points ago

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I probably spend about 20 minutes of every day with this question.

[–]agaubmayan 36 points37 points ago

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And if Skeleton Jelly succeeds in not getting eaten, it gets to have sex with another Skeleton Jelly to (hopefully) reproduce. Then just die basically.

[–]Railboy 36 points37 points ago

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There's a Skeleton Jelly in all of us. More so in that wormy guy, though.

[–]somethingswrong 183 points184 points ago

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This is the first time on Reddit that I've desperately tried clicking the upvote button repeatedly. Seriously, I feel like subconsciously we all walk around going "I am Tom Carroll, I am Tom Carroll..." or whatever your name may be...

[–]davin3000 152 points153 points ago*

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"I am Tim Carroll? No, no. I am Tom Carroll."

[–]Dr-No 168 points169 points ago

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You are Tom Carroll? I've been looking for you! (om nom nom)

[–]foundati 32 points33 points ago

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I am Tim Curry? No I am Tim Curry.

[–]sublimemm 10 points11 points ago

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And Tim Curry, though popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington, D.C.

[–]tsaylor 5 points6 points ago

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Why shouldn't Tim Curry be on my telephone? He's on everyone else's.

[–]bakuretsu 30 points31 points ago

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I've been looking for you! Beep beep, Richie!

[–]lapo3399 13 points14 points ago

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Don't you want... a balloon?

[–]DrGirlfriend 13 points14 points ago

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they all float down here

[–]dropbear 55 points56 points ago

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If you are a pokémon you just repeat your name. Maybe we're all pokémon.

[–]Karlpov 47 points48 points ago

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denny crane

[–][deleted] 108 points109 points ago

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MATT DAMON

[–]sagstercrzzypants 24 points25 points ago

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Johnny Bravo

[–]bollockshr 92 points93 points ago

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STEVE HOLT!

[–]the_green_man 9 points10 points ago

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I am Denny Crane? No, I am Donny Crane.

[–]youdontsmellbad 11 points12 points ago

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Question: So, if you're a pokémon you can speak any of the syllables of your name in any order. And in the game, you can name your pokémon whatever you want (usually mine were named dick chowder or something). I always wondered whether on the cartoon series, Meowth, who could speak perfect English, had been somehow named the entire dictionary.

TL;DR: I'm a fucking dork.

[–]TonyHxC 15 points16 points ago

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No, how Meowth learned to speak and walk upright is explained in season 1 Episode 72 called "Go West young Meowth".

However if you don't want to watch the episode then I will explain it. Meowth grows up in a harsh life style where he was constantly hungry and had no friends. One day he climbs a tree and sees a movie playing in which a Meowth is eating ice cream and fried chicken. So he goes to hollywood on a quest to get all the food he wants.

While there he meets a female Meowth named "Meowzie", he falls in love with her instantly but she wants nothing to do with him because he is not a human and her owner is very wealthy and gives her everything. So in his bid to get Meowzie's love Meowth teaches him self english by listening in on classes through an air duct and reading childrens books. He also teaches him self how to walk upright just by practicing.

TL;DR : Meowth taught him self how to talk because he was in love with another Meowth, he also taught him self to walk upright.

Here is a link to the episode is you feel like watching it, it has Meowth's entire backstory in it.

Pokemon S1E72- Go West Young Meowth

[–]DoubleDown 8 points9 points ago

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And to think the previous post ended with "I'm a fucking dork."

[–]Cygni 12 points13 points ago

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The sad thing is that if skeleton jelly had not struggled so hard to affirm his identity, he would not have been identified then subsequently eaten in the end.

From introduction to buddhism : "Nirvana simply means cessation. It is the cessation of passion, aggression and ignorance; the cessation of the struggle to prove our existence to the world, to survive. We don't have to struggle to survive after all. We have already survived. We survive now; the struggle was just an extra complication that we added to our lives because we had lost our confidence in the way things are."

[–]mediasnipe 4 points5 points ago

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You do. It's called "brain chatter." In her book "My Stroke of Insight", Dr. Jill Taylor said several times that if you didn't frequently remind yourself who you are and what you're doing, you'd start to lose track of your identity.

It sounds kinda weird to me, but she didn't seem to think it was a controversial thing to say. More like it's how neuroscientists in general think about it.

This isn't my area of expertise, but maybe there's a neuroscientist on reddit who can confirm or deny this.

[–]commentastic 28 points29 points ago

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My name is Robert Paulson?

[–]papadopus 9 points10 points ago

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not your name silly

[–]delvach 12 points13 points ago

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In death, a member of Project Mayhem does have a name. His name was Robert Paulson. His name... was Robert Paulson.

[–]phreadj 20 points21 points ago

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upvoted for mathematically exciting name.

[–]f4cepalm 7 points8 points ago

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I wish you had detailed this comment so I could feel smug in knowing this, too, and not just having to hope that something similar is put into light for me later in the thread.

[–]tschutti 32 points33 points ago

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riemannzetajones = portmanteau of Riemann Zeta Function and Catherine Zeta-Jones

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points ago

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portmanteau represent

[–]f4cepalm 2 points3 points ago

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Exactly what I wanted.

[–]thecompletegeek2 5 points6 points ago

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Your username is beautiful in at least two fundamental ways.

[–]gibs 2 points3 points ago

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Try spending several hours like this, through multiple dimensions and versions of reality, with no foreseeable way out. Acid is a hell of a drug (this was my first trip - 4 tabs is waaaay too much). A few hours ago I dropped one tab, and this comic still wigged me out, but in a good way.

[–][deleted] 21 points22 points ago

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I didnt realize that I am a lower order animal until I read your comment. Well, aside from the getting eaten part. That hasnt happened to me... yet.

[–]Thepher 34 points35 points ago

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Nearly everybody gets eaten... in the end.

As soon as you die all the bacteria you've had a nice symbiotic relationship with is the first to have at you. Then ambient bacteria starts working from the outside.

So then they are all happily eating you until they burn your corpse or pump it full of embalming fluid... but even the fluid fails eventually and all your remaining nutrients get eaten.

So chances are you'll get eaten.

[–]albino_wino 28 points29 points ago

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Not me; I'm going in the furnace.

[–]wanderingjew 61 points62 points ago

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so am I.

[–]ximan 7 points8 points ago

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wanderingjew heading to the furnace...?

[–]rsynnott 7 points8 points ago

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You presumably should not have to worry about dying.

[–]brainburger 12 points13 points ago*

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Your molecules will oxidise and come apart in different ways, and be spread around in the eco-system, getting eaten, eventually.

It's the circle of l-i-i-i-f-e!

[–]brianbrianbrian 4 points5 points ago

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And it moves us all.

[–]jjdmol 9 points10 points ago

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Just pray that you will be eaten first.

[–]pickmanmike 8 points9 points ago

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I can't understand why he's not Skeleton Gelatin. Superior by an order of magnitude.

[–]henryfool 6 points7 points ago

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you just rhymed skeleton with gelatin. i have never seen that before.

[–]Brank_Manderbeak 6 points7 points ago

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Jedi Mind Tricks actually did that in a song

[–]neverether 18 points19 points ago

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You wake up, get horrified by how weird the world is, get confused, meet a few more bugs, and then get eaten.

I'm pretty sure that's how life is for all animals, including us human-things. We just have fancy words for this...and digital wristwatches.

[–]withnailandI 11 points12 points ago

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Luckily humans have consciousness so we can see that the world is indeed weird and that we will get eaten. And we can contemplate the myriad ways it will happen. Thanks consciousness!

[–]lozzobear 20 points21 points ago

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There's another point of view that would say that they feel and understand as much as we do, without the distraction of thinking.

<drops smoke bomb, disappears>

[–]chiswede 4 points5 points ago

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Where the hell did you go????

[–]johnjay 4 points5 points ago

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he's behind the curtains, I can see his shoes.

[–]the8thbit 13 points14 points ago

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There's another point of view that says that we should observe the world and then form conclusions based on those observations, not the other way around.

<drops science bomb, disappears>

[–]multirachael 6 points7 points ago

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I'm pretty sure dogs do this, to some extent. Every time I see one, I can just tell it's trotting along thinking, "I'm a dog I'm a dog I'm a dog I'm a dog SQUIRREL I'm a dog I'm a dog HI, I WANNA SMELL YOU I'm a dog..."

[–]FormerLurker 278 points279 points ago

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Wow, the first WTF submission that made me actually say out loud to myself "What the fuck did I just read?"

[–][deleted] 223 points224 points ago

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This is because you are not skeleton jelly.

[–]thejellydude 93 points94 points ago

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But I may very well be.

[–]Azured 30 points31 points ago

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I am now in a foreign state of mind.

[–][deleted] 36 points37 points ago

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Papers please.

[–]Azured 13 points14 points ago*

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I meant I was in a jelly state of foreign.

[–]PurpleDingo 4 points5 points ago

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Calypso urethane Beelzebub?

[–]voyetra8 36 points37 points ago

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I am upvoting jelly?

[–][deleted] 16 points17 points ago

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Jelly.....jelly...jelly...jelly...jelly...jelly...jelly...

[–]regul 18 points19 points ago

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Jellyboooones!

[–]lovehate 3 points4 points ago

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I love the Unicorns.

[–]highonhorse 3 points4 points ago

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they're more than horses

[–]monkeybomb 6 points7 points ago

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I am not Skeleton Jelly?

[–]tonynojutsu 13 points14 points ago

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I am....skulltown jelly?

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points ago

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No! I am skeleton jelly.

[–]OutsideObserver 2 points3 points ago

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I am not skeleton jelly.

I am not skeleton jelly?

No, I am skeleton jelly!

[–]scoops22 28 points29 points ago

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Probably because your brain is made of tiny animals.

[–]Railboy 30 points31 points ago

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The freaky thing is that my brain basically IS made of tiny animals. Each little cell is just doing its thing, living in a soup of organic material, totally unaware that it just contributed to the thought that I'm expressing right now.

[–]RescuePilot 21 points22 points ago

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We are just the clown cars that mitochondria rides around in.

[–]JKoss 11 points12 points ago

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...I am skeleton jelly.

[–]WetxFlatulence 13 points14 points ago

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See you in my nightmares and acid-trips skeleton jelly.

[–]discom 2 points3 points ago

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What's so strange about a hovering twelve-armed mutated skeleton pumpkin?

[–]svengalus 40 points41 points ago

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I always wondered what the monsters in dungeons do when there are no heroes around.

[–]securitygate 113 points114 points ago

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I feel bad that he got eaten. I sorta grew attached to something called a Skeleton Jelly.

Does that make me weird?

[–]chaosgone 80 points81 points ago

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Skeleton Jelly seemed like such a nice guy. Maybe we will see him again someday.

[–]MrDanger 76 points77 points ago

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I really admired his focus. He really knew how to stay on message.

[–]AmbitionOfPhilipJFry 7 points8 points ago

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Jelly teleprompters.

[–]OutsideObserver 2 points3 points ago

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Jellyprompters.

[–]atheist_creationist 14 points15 points ago

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HonestyWorks started a fanfic above.

[–]MistaBig 16 points17 points ago

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I'm sure he'll return...as Skeleton feces.

[–]runningraleigh 30 points31 points ago

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I am skeleton pieces? No, I am skeleton feces.

[–]frid 2 points3 points ago

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No!! Awww poor Skeleton Jelly.

[–][deleted] 198 points199 points ago

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I was hoping for a happy ending. Like, Skeleton Jelly meets Skeleton Peanut Butter and then they make Skeleton PB&J's...

THESE STORIES NEVER END THE WAY I WANT THEM TO

[–]atheist_creationist 109 points110 points ago

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This is why they invented fan fiction.

[–]PurpleDingo 79 points80 points ago

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I thought fan fiction was invented because of lonely people?

[–]asperger 57 points58 points ago

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Yes?

[–]RobotBuddha 15 points16 points ago

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AND THEN JOHN WAS THE LONELY PEOPLE.

[–][deleted] 20 points21 points ago

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Wouldn't fan fiction often involve sex between Skeleton Jelly, Skeleton Peanut Butter, and a hermaphroditic version of Animal-brain Dude?

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points ago

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yes, and Cloud and Sephiroth too.

[–]runningraleigh 3 points4 points ago

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Rule 34...go!

[–]ali0 31 points32 points ago

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Is it strange that though i found that weird, i thought it was internally consistent and reasonable that the monster ate skeleton jelly?

[–]derleth 17 points18 points ago

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Well, it was foreshadowed, and the story structure was pretty simple, even though it was in the service of a nonsensical story.

[–]bernerowner 4 points5 points ago

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Well, almost everyone likes a little jelly now and again. I prefer jam.

[–]PD711 27 points28 points ago

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It reminds me of early Dungeons and Dragons illustrations.

[–]iupetre 24 points25 points ago

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This submission satisfies the WTF prerequisites.

[–]thatswhatsup 113 points114 points ago

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wat

[–]blanketjackson 46 points47 points ago

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AM I DRUNK ON JELLY?

[–]TheDentite 13 points14 points ago

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Every time you make a comment that you think is clever and adds greatly to the conversation, but gets -2 karma you will look back on this comment and scratch your head.

[–]marceriksen 30 points31 points ago

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I'm going to be repeating "I am skeleton Jelly" constantly in my head because I have a tape player that is inside of my brain that plays the same words over and over again frequently when I find amusing things such as this.

[–]csdthegreat 76 points77 points ago

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You should upgrade to saying it out loud.

You: "I am skeleton jelly"

Person: "You are skeleton jelly?"

You: "I am skeleton jelly"

Person: "What? Why do you keep saying that?"

You: "I am saying that?"

You: "I am saying jelly?"

You: "No! I am skeleton jelly!"

Person: "..."

[–]KarlMarxman 30 points31 points ago

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IAmA Request: Skeleton Jelly or his creator, Matt Brinkman

[–]ElkFlipper 38 points39 points ago

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How do you know when to stop wiping?

I am skeleton jelly.

Favorite stories?

I am skeleton jelly.

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[deleted]

[–]shockimages 5 points6 points ago

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I liked it...as it is somewhat a metaphor for our actual minds.

[–]Fantasysage 11 points12 points ago

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This is the kinda shit the subreddit was made for, bravo sir.

[–]SolInvictus 10 points11 points ago

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It's an illustration of man's absurd search for truth and identity despite the inevitability of death.

[–]dubyuh 28 points29 points ago

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My tumblr is titled "Gelatin Skeleton".

Well, this is a little awkward.

[–]shockimages 19 points20 points ago

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Now you are compelled to tumbl this.

[–]french1canadian2 8 points9 points ago

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Hey! That's my underground rap name!

[–]back-in-black 11 points12 points ago

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What the fuck

[–]aisforappalled 345 points346 points ago

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I can't believe the number of, quite frankly, dim-witted responses. This comic is clearly a critique of Marxist notions of labour. Skeleton Jelly questions himself only to reaffirm his identity as a "unit of labour". The social elite (brains made up of many animals) is unable to communicate the situation to Skeleton Jelly, this is shown pictorially as a height difference. They are set apart by height, literally "apart-height".

The many armed creature (industrialised production) also warns of the danger to no avail. Lastly Skeleton Jelly drinks from the "poisoned well" of Marxist thought and becomes the prey of a creature that even a child could tell is a "protected market".

REDdit, hang your collective heads in shame!

[–]Zulban 341 points342 points ago

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I am also in university.

[–]sam480 144 points145 points ago

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Likewise, which means I know this has nothing to do with Marxism. The comic follows the self destruction of a guilt ridden mind.

Skeleton jelly is the most simple structure of the mind. It knows that it exists and what it is, but it does not know anything else.

It meets the creature with the brain made of animals; it's awareness grows. It understands there is more than skeleton jelly. It questions what skeleton jelly is, but reaffirms its previous conclusions. If there is more to be than just skeleton jelly, and skeleton jelly is only skeleton jelly, then these different things must exist separate of skeleton jelly.

It meets a second creature. Its circumferential eyes and arms awareness and pervasiveness. This creature is a higher structure of the mind. By telling what must happen to skeleton jelly, the creature shows an understanding of right and wrong. The creature is the ethical centre of man's mind.

Skeleton Jelly knowledges he is to be eaten, but does not comprehend what that is.

The jelly in context. By hearing the ethics and taking in context, skeleton jelly is now capable of morality. Skeleton jelly understand's its guilt and communicates it with the rest of the mind. The final creature it encounters, the wall creature, is an even higher structure of the mind. It is blind until skeleton jelly relays it information. It is justice. Unlike the other structures of the mind, justice is able to perform actions. Once skeleton jelly provides the information it needs ("I am skeleton jelly" mixed with its new sense of morality) justice is obligated to devour skeleton jelly- the base (in all senses of the world) on man's mind.

[–][deleted] 89 points90 points ago*

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No, you both have it wrong.

Skeleton Jelly is a generic programming object, that exists purely due to the programmers delight. As he goes along he is duck typed into certain types so that he can be used in the situation he is supposed to be in.

Some situations he can be used in, others not so much.

The first creature/object it interacts with exposes its innards and "reflects", showing skeleton jelly the basics of introspection.

The multi-armed creature/object is a basic multi function object attempting to tell skeleton jelly what to do, what its base form is. The skeleton jelly accepts his fate as fate is not his to control, he can see the object destructor needs to be called.

We see the many references of skeleton jelly appear in the end of the comic, and then he eventually gets garbage collected by the drinking pool monster.

Its soooo obvious.

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Nono, the comic is clearly a description of the bewildering space between death and birth, as referenced in the Bardo Thodol, or Tibetan Book of the Dead.

Skeleton Jelly has recently died and is wandering in the Bardo, or intermediate state. His former life has dropped away, and without a body or brain, maintaining a separate ego is extremely difficult. All that remains is the imprint of self formed through fear of nothingness. As he wanders, he encounters reflections of his own mind, the histories of his countless lifetimes, now strange and alien to him.

He first encounters his lives in the animal realm, which symbolize ignorance and powerlessness. In so many lives he was at the mercy of circumstances, powerless to change his station and unable to comprehend it, ruled only by reaction, instinct, and terror.

Next, he encounters his lives in the human realm, whose many arms symbolize the accumulation of karma. In so many lives he worked and built meaninglessly, attempting to find meaning or to seek immortality through his impact on the world, or simply to reinforce his ego. All only to have his work destroyed by inevitable death and impermanence. This part remembers, and warns him, but Skeleton Jelly is still unformed and, having to maintain his sense of self, cannot heed the warnings.

Lastly, Desire compels him to drink from the well of Samsara. His Bardo self is annihilated, and he is pulled into the mouth of birth and death yet again.

[–][deleted] 127 points128 points ago

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You're all wrong. He is skeleton jelly.

[–]TheSkeletonJelly 14 points15 points ago

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I most certainly am. Skeleton Jelly.

[–]skeletonjelly 5 points6 points ago

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YOU STOLE MY NAME

I am Skeleton Jelly!

[–]TundraWolf_ 9 points10 points ago

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I hate watching movies with you all around.

[–]Ortus 13 points14 points ago

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You are all wrong, skeleton jelly is a manifestation of misogyny, the only reason it has been upvoted is because reddit is misogynist and sexist.

[–]crusoe 17 points18 points ago

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WALL MONSTER IS A F*CKING WHORE! Leave that bitch!

[–]deinem 2 points3 points ago

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These conversations on levels of human consciousness remind me of one of my favorite quotes:

An argument for consciousness / The instinct of the blind insect / Who makes love to the flower bed / And dies in the first freeze / Oh I want to learn such simple things / No politics, no history / Till what I want and what I need / Can finally be the same.

[–]PurpleDingo 12 points13 points ago

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I just want you to know that I read that in a Turkish accent. I'm not positive why that was.

[–]skooma714 3 points4 points ago

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I am in university? No I am on reddit.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points ago

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...studying a liberal-arts degree.

[–]dropbear 56 points57 points ago

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I am Marxist Jelly? No, I am Skeleton Jelly.

[–]brodieface 25 points26 points ago

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You're reading way too much into Scrotie McBoogerballs.

[–]thespag 4 points5 points ago

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thats a quick pop culture reference

[–]brodieface 8 points9 points ago

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I'm not ashamed to say that I usually pop my culture quickly.

[–]IkoIkoComic 53 points54 points ago

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I can't believe the number of, quite frankly, dim-witted responses. This comic is clearly a critique of Ayn Rand's objectivism. Skeleton Jelly questions himself only to reaffirm his identity as a self-interested being. The social elite (brains made up of many animals) is unable to communicate the situation to Skeleton Jelly, this is shown pictorially with tiny animals - literally "mumbo-fucking-jumbo".

The many armed creature (social safety net) also warns of the danger to no avail. Lastly Skeleton Jelly exhibits rational self-interest in taking water from the well, and is consumed by the collective unconscious.

REDdit, hang your collective heads in shame!

[–]FooHentai 41 points42 points ago

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My name is Skeleton Jelly, and I hate every single one of you. All of you are ground-dwelling, sun-lit, soul-possessors who spend every second of their day reading stupid ass internet links. You are everything bad in the overworld. Honestly, have any of you ever gotten any tiny animals? I mean, I guess it's fun making fun of people who are made of jelly, but you all take to a whole new level. This is even worse than that one time I got eaten by a great big fucking face.

Don't be a stranger. Just hit me with your best shot. I'm pretty much water soluble. I was captain of the football team, and starter on my not-getting-eaten team. What sports do you play, other than "jack off while upvoting people you agree with"? I also get straight A's, and have a banging hot girlfriend (She just leapt out of a dark corner at me; Shit was SO cash). You are all faggots who should just kill yourselves. Thanks for listening.

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[–]joe12321 9 points10 points ago

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Thank the gods we're back to an American viewpoint.

[–]aisforappalled 8 points9 points ago

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I am Ayn Rand? No, I am Skeleton Jelly.

[–]concreteclam 14 points15 points ago

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Hello, my name is Skeleton Jelly, and I'm here to ask you a question: is a skeleton not entitled to the jelly of his brow?

No, says the tiny animal head beast in Washington, it belongs to the poor. No, says the many armed abomination in the Vatican, it belongs to God. No, says the poisoned well in Moscow, it belongs to everyone.

I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible.

I chose... Skeleton Jelly.

[–]ascii 7 points8 points ago

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I can't believe the number of, quite frankly, dim-witted responses. This comic is clearly a critique of reliGious nOtions of faith. Skeleton Jelly questions himself only to reaffirm his faith as a "gooD ChrIStian". The liberal atheist elite (brains maDE up of mAny animals) is unable to communicate the situation to Skeleton Jelly, this is shown pictorially as a the elite's heaD slowly cracks, an obvious reference to Golgotha.

The many armed creature (Christian church) also warns of the danger to no avail. Lastly Skeleton Jelly drinks from the "poisoned well" of secularized thought and becomes the prey of a creature that even a child could tell is "godless liberal media".

reddit, hang your collective heads in shame!

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points ago

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This explanation makes less sense than the comic.

[–]bbrizzi 10 points11 points ago

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You had me there for a second.

Obligatory.

[–]sy5551 4 points5 points ago

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THIS GUYS A COMMUNIST!

[–]Leischa 2 points3 points ago

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You are wrong, because the correct pronunciation of 'apartheid' is 'apart-hate'.

This is a vicious work of right wing propaganda, and typifies the fascist urge to self-destruction. Clearly, Marxism has the ability to liberate Skeleton Jelly from his alienated position as a unit of labour, yet when he drinks from the well of conscientisation, he is immediately annihilated by the repressive apparatus of the the State, in service of global capital. This is the fate of all who resist, unless resistance is collective and total.

Jellies of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your wobble.

[–]readcommentbackwards 91 points92 points ago

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If you read it backwards it's about a big monster creating a drunk skeleton monster who wonders around until he discovers himself.

[–]PRSNA 12 points13 points ago

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haha, yes.

[–]atheist_creationist 7 points8 points ago

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If you read this comment backwards it makes more sense.

[–]MrDanger 16 points17 points ago

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Sense more makes it backwards comment this read you if.

[–]captainAwesomePants 8 points9 points ago

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I hate Sense more. He's always taking my perfectly forwards stuff and making it backwards and shit. But you're right. I'm going to comment on this and then go read. if.

[–]Railboy 8 points9 points ago

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˙ɟı noʎ pɐǝɹ sıɥʇ ʇuǝɯɯoɔ spɹɐʍʞɔɐq ʇı sǝʞɐɯ ǝɹoɯ ǝsuǝs

[–]alphabeat 4 points5 points ago

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I think I just brained my damage.

[–]cheeses 3 points4 points ago

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I read your comment backwards and it just described what happens in the comic. Booooooooring!

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points ago

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Did NOT need to read this high.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points ago

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Your opinions on skeleton jelly are arbitrary and promote personal ideals that are more central to you than the comic. It is surreal, not symbolic. Skeleton jelly is skeleton jelly. It exists for its' own sake. That is all. Stop taking the fun out of absurdism.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points ago

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Does anyone know the artist?

[–]punspinner 11 points12 points ago

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Mat Brinkman.

[–]jookz 15 points16 points ago

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i'm ron burgundy?

[–]swiss_miss 10 points11 points ago

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Great, I was going to go to bed just now, but noooo, I had to click on one last link. Now I have to spend the next 20 minutes looking at pictures of puppies to avoid having nightmares.

[–]nitrousconsumed[S] 7 points8 points ago

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Im still looking at puppies.

[–]MrDanger 9 points10 points ago

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Jelly skeleton puppies?

[–]blitzkrieg3 3 points4 points ago

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No! I am skeleton jelly puppy!

[–]Zulban 5 points6 points ago

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Skeleton jelly would not want to be so easily forgotten.

[–]Jabronie 3 points4 points ago

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Kafka-esque

[–]den31 5 points6 points ago

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Holy shit. That was awesome, it really made my day. I haven't seen anything this original in ages.

[–]Jafit 4 points5 points ago

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I am Jack's gelatinous skeleton

[–]Recluse 6 points7 points ago

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Poor Skeleton Jelly :(

[–]Shugyosha 4 points5 points ago

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bad trip

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points ago

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Oh, I've been there. That is a street in Paris.

[–]Reanimator 13 points14 points ago

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Acid is one hell of a drug.

[–]gliscameria 11 points12 points ago

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Yeah, my friends would do acid and go cave exploring. They'd video tape the excursion. I just imagined someone finding the tape years later to explain the mystery of how they disappeared. I stayed outside of the cave by camp and honestly thought that the cave ate them and somehow gave me their power. In reality I think I was just sitting too close to the fire.

[–]angryman 9 points10 points ago

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Skeleton Jelly: tastes great on WTF toast

[–]akallio9000 8 points9 points ago

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That's as bad as Salad Fingers

[–]RobotBuddha 5 points6 points ago

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I think salad fingers is worse. Because it has all the horrific oddity combined with events such as remembering that you haven't watched it in a year only to discover that there's been only one new episode :(

[–]KevinMcCallister 32 points33 points ago

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what is this i don't even

[–]jackthefork 4 points5 points ago

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I just happened to be listening to Pink Floyd as I read that strip, and the result is a cornucopia of WTF. I think that I am done on the internet for today.

[–]coldplane 3 points4 points ago

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So pure.

[–]pinderschmit 4 points5 points ago

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Is this an AMA?

[–]RabidReader 3 points4 points ago

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The crazy thing is that somewhere in another dimension, or perhaps in the universe, this is actually going on... Fuck you, skeleton jell.

[–]shredditbro 3 points4 points ago

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I kinda want a tattoo of skeleton jelly now...

[–]w4lt3r 16 points17 points ago

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AM I DRUNK ON JELLY? NO I AM SKELETON JELLY

[–]bravelyboldsirtj 5 points6 points ago

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Cuil factor rising...

[–]Bobo_bobbins 6 points7 points ago

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MOAR

[–]cloudcuckoo 2 points3 points ago

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It might be a commentary on identity.

Skeleton Jelly keeps on reminding itself that it is Skeleton Jelly, but distractions along the road confuse it for a frame before it then returns to its senses and recognises that it is Skeleton Jelly.

The narrative doesn't explain why it must remind itself that it is Skeleton Jelly because, to the audience, it clearly and undoubtedly is Skeleton Jelly. ... See more Unless it is playing a game with itself, perhaps it feels that it needs to remind itself that it is Skeleton Jelly for some reason.

But, ultimately, its constantly reminding itself that it is Skeleton Jelly leads to its downfall and it is eaten for being Skeleton Jelly.

It may not have been eaten if it wasn't Skeleton Jelly, but it was Skeleton Jelly whether or not it reminded itself of that fact.

Or none of the above.

[–]MSTRGEO 2 points3 points ago

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I must make a game with this concept. It's fucking genius.

[–]SupaFurry 2 points3 points ago

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This is in the correct subreddit.

[–]IAMAMOTHERFUCKER-AMA 2 points3 points ago

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Did anyone get reminded of Goro's stage from Mortal Kombat?

[–]gosassin 2 points3 points ago

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Truly, W.T.F.

[–]freeload 2 points3 points ago

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He is a Skeleton Jelly.

[–]gipsy-king 2 points3 points ago

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This is how I feel about my life.

[–]MrDanger 11 points12 points ago

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L

[–]jewish_zombie_wizard 16 points17 points ago

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A

[–]PurpleDingo 14 points15 points ago

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W