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[–] cholesterol@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Just the bottom half of the comic goes even harder

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Donald Soprano

I have trouble reading the donald speech bubbles they sound all quacky in my head.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I mean Goofy did pretty much ask for it by saying "let 'er go". I'm not really sure how else Donald should have interpreted that.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 8 points 14 hours ago

Ah, to have a friend like Donald. Wish someone would do that to me.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 97 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Old school Disney characters were downright psychopaths. Mickey was straight up waving his gun around on a regular basis.

Don't forget Pooh!

Okay, fine, it's just a pop gun. But I don't think it ever appeared again, so I think it counts.

[–] gigaqps@lemmy.world 35 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] sundray@lemmus.org 95 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Don't worry--I'm talking about good ol' wholesome firearms:

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

"Some firearms are so iconic, they don't even need a name. No maker, no model, all you need to make an impression is a twin 12-gauge."

  • Ahoy, Iconic Arms - Double Barrel Shotgun
[–] OhShitSon@lemmy.zip 11 points 15 hours ago

Read it in his voice, fucking fantastic channel.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 10 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH HER FILTER?!

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

And more importantly: HOW DID SHE NOT NOTICE BEFORE POSTING AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT?!"

[–] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 39 minutes ago

Could be youtube optimization that borks. They compress the shorts pretty heavily.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social -3 points 13 hours ago

Decaf is always an option.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)

HUH, so there IS a reason why Donald refuse to heal.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 16 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Fun fact, you can adjust his AI to make him much more likely to heal you in the pause menu.

[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 2 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

I am thoroughly confuse right now. Did thy make an ai model out of donald duck or what?

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

Kingdom Hearts. Donald and Goofy are your main allies, with Donald serving as a wizard and Goofy as a knight. You'll have other Disney and Square guest members of the party when you're in their worlds (e.g. Jack Skellington can fight alongside you in Halloween Town and Simba will join you in the Pridelands), but Donald and Goofy travel with you between worlds and can pretty much always be selected for the party.

You can adjust Donald's game AI to use more or less magic and items, and whether to prioritize things like healing or attacking.

[–] Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Mfw people don't know what game ai is anymore.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

We live in an interesting time where people can not know what game AI is yet or anymore, as well as they should know it but don't connect the dots because the term is overloaded.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm assuming Kingdom Hearts. I have no idea which one though. This might be an option in all of them, or maybe just some.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Yup. I know it's an option in KH1, haven't tried it in the others.

[–] CheesyFingers@piefed.social 3 points 12 hours ago

Key words: "pause menu"

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 32 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

Most cartoons were originally for adults. Helping your average schmuck, reading the daily paper, deal with feelings of societal injustice, anger, annoyance, frustration.

I seem to remember that DD used to be particularly vicious and rude in old b/w cartoons.

Is it possible that some duck creature already existed in Disney cartoons long before 1934?

How did (Disney) cartoons become a thing for kids mostly? When did kids become main targets for product development? I suspect the answer involves Edward Bernays...

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

I don't think Donald's schtick was so much rudeness/viciousness as it was that he had no control over his temper and had horrible luck. I remember cartoons opening with him being perfectly pleasant but then getting more and more unhinged as the cartoon goes on and things go wrong for him. To the point of homocidal destruction of everything around him.

He was a character that earned what happened to him after it happened, in his response to it.

Though this was also in a world where a lot of cartoons were casually extremely violent. Like Elmer Fudd was constantly trying to kill Bugs and Daffy, who each tried to get him to target the other or tried to get him, and then they'd casually discuss it at various points during the show. Mickey and Pete had a similar at times homicidal relationship, though Disney seemed to have more "I'm so angry I could kill you" while Looney Tunes had more "Trying to kill you is just what I do".

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

DD also canonically has PTSD from the war. So there's a lot going on there.

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Thanks for the share! Didn't know who Edward Nernays was until today. Super interesting (also not great).

[–] Erusset@slrpnk.net 1 points 18 hours ago

Apparently Sigmund Freud was his double uncle

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 15 hours ago

Most of these comics are from the newspaper funny pages of the 1930's. They had to apply to a broad audience of readers. Something for the adults and the kids. Just no one has to worry about Karen's or if things were appropriate or not.

[–] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 day ago

Hook, line and SUCCOR LMAO

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 21 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, if you have the ability, while drowning, to tie a rope around your own foot… you kinda deserve what’s coming

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, let's fatally punish people for mastering difficult tasks!

You'd be great as a talent show judge πŸ˜„

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

The point they're making is that if he was really drowning, he would not have been able to tie a rope around his foot.

[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

If he was really drowning, he also wouldn’t be an anthropomorphized dog in a comic strip, so I struggle to see your point

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Might have just stood on the bottom with the other foot while tying it before returning to the flailing for his life.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago