What do INOSUKE from Demon Slayer and computer Webcams have in Common?

They are both inspired by BAD COFFEE!!!!

First, lets start with the WEBCAM.

I mentioned in a previous post that the WEBCAM's development was not by an academic thesis but rather a Faculty's necessity for Caffeine but considering most CAMPUSES cheap out on materials, including COFFEE MIX, to most of the faculty at CAMBRIDGE, the Coffee tasted Terrible if it's not fresh.

And now for INOSUKE from DEMON SLAYER

Why does INOSUKE looks so angry here?

Is it because of all those DEMONS out there?

Yes but the real reason is because they spoiled his COFFEE!!!!

.....

In TAISHO ERA JAPAN of all ERAS!!!!!

.....

Ok that's just my joke but there's a meaning for this.

In the English Dub, Bryce Papenbrook, the voice behind INOSUKE,

He's an avid fan of Coffee and he was surprised that he won the role of the Man wearing the Boar Mask.

At first, he felt that he was gonna voice the character using his fun voice he uses for Comedic characters like he did in the past but without warning, he pushed the wrong button on the Coffee Machine and what was supposed to a nice 6oz our, it spat a meager 1oz of sludge.

Unaware of the error, he drank it and WRETCHED!!!!

Sorry for using this image of DENJI from Chainsaw Man but you can't expect me to fly from Vancouver to Los Angeles just to photograph BRYCE's reaction to bad coffee.

Plus, I don't think even DUB Actors approve of the PAPARAZZI anyway.

But the reaction to bitter coffee is palpable. 

Maybe that's why people put Sugar in their Coffee, even if milk is not enough.

Somehow the people at CRUNCHYROLL loved that reaction to COFFEE so much that they allowed BRYCE to use that reaction to COFFEE as the vocal template.

And Bryce has mentioned that he actually drinks that exact coffee sludge in order to get into character because if INOSUKE is gonna genuinely sound ANGRY & CAFFIENATED, he must drink coffee.

As for my Coffee intake, I usually have a 6oz pour into my cup as well and I have that with Milk. I actually don't put any sugar in my Coffee. I just prefer bitter with a touch of milk.

As a matter of fact, I haven't had sugar in my coffee for about 11 years as of this writing.

Nowadays, I prefer MAXWELL HOUSE Coffee.

Don't ask me why I prefer MAXWELL HOUSE!

I just prefer it for it's fancier taste.

There's another brand called FOLGERS 

I tried FOLGERS several times in the past, 

and it tastes like SHIT to my tongue!!! BLECH!!!

How so?

Ever drank Coffee while under the effects of PAXLOVID during the Pandemic?

I never had Paxlovid during the pandemic as I just have my MODERNA shots, but I heard that the effects of the medication has side effects to your coffee..... according to CLINT BASINGER from LGR.

The one Super Mario Bros. Ripoff that became a favorite amongst software pirates on the BBS-The great Giana Sisters

The year was 1987.

Ronald Reagan journeyed over to WEST BERLIN to denounce the BERLIN WALL's 1961 erection since the end of WWII in 1945 and REAGAN challenged then Soviet Leader MIKHAIL GORBECHEV to "TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!!!"

Also that year, JESSICA MCLURE fell down a well in TEXAS but a very successful rescue mission freed her from the confines of said well.

Oh.... and NEC released the PC ENGINE(TurboGraphx 16 in USA) in Japanese retail....

And IBM introduced their PS/2 architecture.

...........

Oh and in the U.K, this game was released.

THE BROTHERS ARE HISTORY!.....

That's a pretty ballsey move for RAINBOW ARTS to make such a claim... especially for a game meant for the COMMODORE 64 Computer

And it gets even weirder.

Take a look at these Screenshots I've pulled from MOBYGAMES:

Notice anything about this game?

Does this remind of something?

Ok.

We all get it!

GREAT GIANA SISTERS is an attempt by a developer to release a MARIO inspired platformer to the C64 platform since NINTENDO by this point wanted to keep all their games proprietary to their own devices.

Although the C64 & it's competitors did have platformers, they weren't on the same level of fun as MARIO was and still is to this day so RAINBOW ARTS really gambled on the bandwagon with this game.

But then, following the British release of the game, RAINBOW ARTS got what they think was a NASTY LETTER from NINTENDO:

It wasn't a lawsuit but rather it was a threat by the Company to have the game removed from store shelves or RAINBOW ARTS would have their asses sued just because the company had the gall to blatantly copy various assets artistically regardless if the C64's chunkier MULTI-COLORED graphics mode was used.

So, RAINBOW ARTS proceeded to remove the game off of store shelves.

"AHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

And you'd think this would have killed GIANA from the face of the computer world....RIGHT?

WRONG!!!!

Because when word got out that a game that looks like SUPER MARIO BROS. got pulled out of store shelves, it suddenly became well known amongst computer users who'd want to play a platformer that's more akin to what NINTENDO was doing.

The game would be copied and distributed across the BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEMS

which led to the game have more recognition amongst the BBS loving folks who have their C64s connected to the internet using a 300 baud Modem installed on the computer's User Port.

Even better if you had a much more capable 1200 Baud Modem.

Even though the game was originally made in Europe and RAINBOW ARTS had no interest in localizing it outside of the UK and Germany, the BBS made it much more easier for people living in the USA 

 to copy the game into their FLOPPY DISKS but this came at a cost:

Since the game was originally meant to run on Machines running at PAL Speeds of 50hz and a clock speed of 0.985mhz instead of the US' NTSC 60hz Video and 1.023mhz, 

The game had issues. 

It played as normal on an NTSC but the music played faster and the assets flicked at parts such as on the shrubberies since the game was optimized for the slower PAL Speed of the UK C64s.

But many American C64 users had to contend with those issues for 36 years until a group of enthusiasts managed to readjust the game to fix these issues which brought back the slower tempo of the music and fixed the flickering.

On an interesting Off-Tangent: I've read that MANFRED TRENZ disliked the UK Cover for the GIANA SISTERS game with him saying that the MISS PIGGY Aesthetic of the artwork made the titular sisters look off-putting

I don't see anything wrong with this artwork.

It gives me MAD MAX vibes...... the MEL GIBSON version that is.

The design of the sisters in the UK Artwork also give a similarity to these two guys shown below from the 1983 HITCHHIKER series from HBO

This is the two of them walking through a passageway

at STADIUM Station in my home city of VANCOUVER.

but at the same time, the UK artwork is a far cry different compared to the German cover of the game which has a more sexier girl with enemy characters that look much closer to the pixelated sprites found on the game.

Also, I find it IRONIC that despite NINTENDO trying to smite this game out of existence, they eventually relaxed their stance and let the game have another game of sorts...

Oh...

And I've read that there are NO SISTERS in GREAT GIANA SISTERS!

It's all a mismarketing lie!

The reality is that GIANA's got a Split Personality that allows her to turn into a punk girl but RAINBOW ARTS decided not to mention this any further for the sake of Sales and Marketing. 

Ok. Maybe I got a little Misconstrued.

The reality is that the girls you see on both the UK Cover of the C64 game and the Nintendo DS Game and to a lesser extent TWISTED DREAMS,

The Punky GIANA is really a SPLIT PERSONALITY because GIANA's sister MARIA is suppose to be identical to GIANA in terms of design and outfit, just with a different Hair Color.

So in essence MARIA is a palette Swap.....

Similar to how LUIGI was a palette swap of his older brother MARIO but then again, the profession kind of required him to have his own signature color

While the MARIO series is still around which makes sense since that's NINTENDO's flagship, the GIANA SISTERS have remained Dormant for the longest time since 2012.

And is it just me, or....

DOES GIANA herself give me PRINCESS PEACH Vibes?

Unlike with the MARIO BROS where I used a screenshot from ILLUMINATION's SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE from 2023,

I used a screenshot of PEACH as she appeared in the 1986 GREAT MISSION Anime film.

Man, I really should have waited until 2027 before I made this post due to the game's 1987 release but I got impatient.

And I am aware that GIANA Sisters was also available on the COMMODORE AMIGA, ATARI ST, AMSTRAD CPC, and the MSX.

But for the sake of my mostly American(and Canadian) readers, 

I limited my mentioning of the game to the C64 game since I figured people preferred the C64 version of GIANA SISTERS than they did the other ports.

And I'm sure the British also agree with my sentiment about the superiority of the C64 Port.

Peanuts, EAT YOUR HEART OUT!!!-The times that media have inadvertently spoiled the ending of CITIZEN KANE just to get back at THE PEANUTS

Beware of Spoiler alerts!

If you don't like spoilers, then this particular blogpost is not for you.

If so, go read something else or wait for my next post.

But, if you've already seen the movie and/or don't mind spoilers, then enjoy this tantalizing blogpost about Spoilers and Consequences.

Anyway, 

in the wake of CITIZEN KANE's 85th Anniversary, lets look at the many times that CITIZEN KANE's ending has been inadvertently spoiled by other media.

This all started when PEANUTS did a tribute to the 1941 movie in this cartoon printed on December 9 1973:

SWEET BEJESUS LUCY!!!! YOU HAVE NO SHAME!!!!

wait.....

This was 1973. How was LINUS watching what was then a 32 year old film on TV?

A showing on a Movie Channel I suppose since VHS didn't become a thing until late 1977.

After that, this caused a wave of several pieces of media to take advantage of the joke.

Though for now I'll only post three that I know of.

WALLACE & GROMIT's first film A GRAND DAY OUT inadvertently spoiled the ending of the movie via this camera pan down to the basement/workshop of the duo.

How did Wallace import that Sled from the UNITED STATES into ENGLAND? 

And how much in BRITSH POUNDS did he pay for the Import Fees?

ROGER KLOTZ infamously managed to do the same when he at first refused to leave FAT JACK's TRAILER PARK after his mother EDWINA sold the land property to the BLUFFs.

Don't worry. The sled's a replica because EDWINA's watched

CITIZEN KANE on the Criterion Collection's 1992 LaserDisc.

And then the most famous(or infamous if you think so),

PETER GRIFFIN spoiling the ending via taping over a VHS copy of the movie.

And I'll embed a video here:

No wonder why PETER got banned from the VIDEO STORES.

Sorry but I had to for my own amusement.

If anybody wants to complain about this post,

Take your conversations to the children of the late Charles M Schulz, 

Nick Park, Jim Jinkin's, or Seth Macfarlane.

Stewie vs. Underdog-Coca Cola's IT'S MINE Commercial from Superbowl XLII+Any ideas for a SUPERBOWL LXI Commercial?

Well, I missed my chance to post during Superbowl LX when the SEATTLE SEAHAWKS beat the NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS by 29-13.

But I need to keep this blog active.

And what has emerged from my cerebellum this time?

Why none other than this COCA-COLA Ad from when they made STEWIE fight with UNDERDOG over a bottle of COKE.

Here's the ad in full:

And yes, I've stumbled upon the BEHIND THE SCENES look at how the commercial was shot, animated, composited, color corrected, etc.

Sorry if I'm repeating the Commercial but if you watch past the Coke Logo at the end,

then you will see the Behind the Scenes look.

Pretty Cool logo from the bygone years when COCA-COLA allowed any sort of artistic creativity by the hands of those manipulating the skeletons of CG rigs.

I will admit, I prefer PEPSI these days but at the same time, COKE seemed to get all the glory these days in terms of their advertising.

But with COCA-COLA turning to AI for their commercials and their refusal to back down from it much to the chagrin of artists and fans, PEPSI should instead dominate the SUPER BOWL AD SPACE next year in 2027 and beyond so.....

Here's my Idea for a pitch for what can be done for PEPSI's 2027 Super Bowl Commercial:

Have DOUG FUNNIE from DISNEY'S DOUG get into a argument with BENDER from FUTURAMA over who gets the last 2L Bottle of PEPSI at a PARTY before STEWIE GRIFFIN from FAMILY GUY shows up and claims the bottle to himself, all while saying his classic catchphrase "VICTORY SHALL BE MINE!!!"

All while DOUG threatens to throw Stewie like a football towards Bender's Chest Cavity due to his head being literally shaped that way, but by the time the commercial comes to a close, Stewie makes his escape using his TIME MACHINE's Return Pod. Much to the annoyance of both DOUG and BENDER.

And have it be animated on TOON BOOM HARMONY all by hand.

On WACOM CINTIQs that is.

AND HIRE BACK BILLY WEST as DOUG FUNNIE because I want my DOUG with the VOICE of PHILLIP J. FRY and not FRANCIS MCREARY.

Now that's a good pitch.

Or submit in your comments what could be your ideal PEPSI ad for next year's Super Bowl.

My very first Exposure to an Internet Meme circa 1999

It's hard to see in this Screengrab but this was my Set up from late 1999....

Well.... technically this was my Dad's Set up since he was the one who bought that COMPAQ PRESARIO 5477 back in 1999.

Anyway, This was a screen from one of my old 1999 High8 TAPEs featuring me when I was 2 years old and in it, I was eating some GUMMY WORMs. 

And I was watching this meme called HAMPSTER DANCE.

This is a very interesting internet meme that permeated mid-to-late 90s INTERNET alongside the DANCING BABY but in an interesting way.

Whereas the DANCING BABY was an accident based on the leaking of a 3DS STUDIO file to others who have access to the software and proceeded to share it to this guy in WASHINGTON STATE named ROB SHERIDAN, 

The HAMPSTER DANCE was just an early meme created by a CANADIAN Martial Arts instructor at NANAIMO, BC who goes by DEIDRE LACARTE.

She was in a competition with her best friend and sister on who could generate the most web traffic on their websites.

The website host she decided to use was GeoCities.

Remember GeoCities?

Anyway, she created the webpage and dedicated it to her pet hamster at the time who went by the name of HAMPTON HAMPSTER. 

The website consisted of nothing but a bunch of GIF images of Cartoon Hamsters dancing.

And it was often paired with a snippet of music lifted from the 1973 Disney Animated film ROBIN HOOD.

Specifically the part in the song WHISTLE STOP

where a part of ALAN-A-DALE vocalizes to the song in his own way.

And that part was sped up:

dedodedo

Infectious. Isn't it?

Don't make me share that photo of LITTLE CAT from TWEETERMAN287 trying to cover his ears again!

"TOO LATE!"

Even after the original GeoCities website has long since closed down, the meme still lived.

It was given it's own MUSIC VIDEO done with more oomph and I remember having to listen to that version of the song back in elementary school in the mid to late 2000s.... specifically during a Dance Class we had in one of the basement cafeterias at what's referred to as the PRIMARY BUILDING.

And to this day, the website has found a new home which I'll provide a link to:

THE NEW HAMPSTER DANCE WEBSITE

Such were the times of PRE-DOTCOM BUBBLE BURST era of the Internet.

My thoughts on the RK ROYAL KLUDGE R87 Mechanical Keyboard

It was sometime around 5PM on April 23 2026 when I saw a notification on my Cosmic Orange iPhone 17 Pro Max that an AMAZON PACKAGE showed up at the front door so I went out to the back and saw a big AMAZON box.

I took it back out to my Suite, unboxed it and it's there.

Pay no attention to the BOX.

What's represented are the wrong keycaps.

This Keyboard is an MLA Format Mechanical Keyboard as shown below on my desk next to my Current Razer Mouse and below my WACOM TABLET.

So about my thoughts on this Keyboard?

I like the fact that it's Mechanical but I also noticed how thocky it sounds when I type on it thought that may be just because I've seen YOUTUBE Shorts, Facebook Reels, and TikTok videos of people 

Another thing that I like is the fact that it uses USB-C.

It's not a wireless Keyboard so I need to connect it to a computer in order for it to work so instead of using the Included USB-C Cable the keyboard came with, I just used the Braided USB-C Cable that came with my RAZER BASILISK though it may be only temporary because I plan to buy in the future a separate USB-C Cable that connects to the rear USB-C Port of my Motherboard since It's somewhat disused.

One thing that may take some getting used to are the switches underneath the keycaps.

They are slightly heavier than the ones in the FEKER IK65 I have in my room but not as heavy as the AKKOs that my EPOMAKER uses.

If the RK Switches drive me nuts, then I can just swap them out for some AKKOs or Kailh Box Yellows in the future since this is a GASKET MOUNTED Keyboard.

Either way, I look forward to gaming and using this Keyboard on my Daily Driver of a Custom Built AMD RYZEN 9 9950X3D SYSTEM: MAVERICK FALCON 7900RT.

Tweety Bird's fight with STIMPY's ancestors-A Gruesome Twosome

Here's another Cartoon starring the then-naked featherless TWEETY BIRD before FRIZ FRELENG took the BOID into his mantle:

This is 

This is TWEETY's THIRD Cartoon he starred in.

Just like with my previous post about A TALE OF TWO KITTIES, 

This Cartoon features CATS who want to deal with birds.

But it starts off a little unrelated to that.

It all begins with a beautifully done multiplane pan to the right.

We see a silhouette of two cats.

Who could they be?

Why it's a Yellow Cat trying to make the moves with a Fancy ass Female PERSIAN CAT

But then......

Suddenly, a RED CAT shows up.

I've read that THAT RED CAT is a dead ringer for Comedian/Singer JIMMY DURANTE.

Though I barely seen his films with the sole exception being SMILER GROGAN in STANLEY KRAMER's 1963 epic comedy IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD

Anyway, the JIMMY DURANTE CAT whacks the YELLOW CAT.

It looks like DURANTE CAT isn't gonna allow MR. YELLOW CAT hog the Female Cat to himself.

Compared to the YELLOW CAT who just meowed a Serenade based on the 1909 Pop-tune "ME-OW", DURANTE CAT's serenade is actually based on JIMMY DURANTE himself.

Like I said, DURANTE CAT is indeed a dead ringer for the actor because the Cat says HA-CHA-CHA-CHA just like JIMMY did in his routines.

But then.....

"Hey, Pardon me Friend but...."

"That's my girl!!!"

"BEAT IT BUB!!!!"

"I work at this side of the alley!"

*Kicks the Cat out of the way.*

The fights between the two cats kind of drag on especially for BLOG standards so let's just skip ahead to the good parts.

Though in between the acts, this dog shows up out of nowhere.

Anyway, the Persian Cat does not appreciate the two Cats fighting.

"Are you two fighting?"

Uh Oh.... Two Cats caught in a fight.

I wish I had a screengrab but I'm missing one but the Persian Cat makes a bet to the two Cats that if they can catch a bird for her, then she'll forgive the two for their indiscretion. 

Now unlike in A TALE OF TWO KITTIES which featured two Cats having to work together in catching a bird

There's a COCKFIGHT between two Cats this time around due to the bumbling antics of both the JIMMY DURANTE CAT & the YELLOW CAT.

"A BOID'S NEST!!!!"

Well Look who Won the race to get the boid!

But come on, this is a TWEETY BIRD Cartoon. You know what's gonna happen.

"Ya Know, I TAWT A TAW A PUDDY TAT!!!!"

"Hey.... I TAWT I TAW ANOTHER PUDDY TAT!!!"

"I DID! I DID!

I TAW TWO PUDDY TATS!!!"

"Have you PUDDY TATS met?"

!!!!!!

As far as I know, these two Cats are fighting over the retrieval of the BOID.....

But TWEETY has something up his featherless sleeve.

"YEAAAAAAOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW!!!!!"

Yup.

Even after a previous outing, Tweety has not yet lost his touch.

Nor his wit.

"Bombs away!"

"Oh the poor PUDDY TATS"

"They fall down and go..."

"BOOM!!!!"

The two cats wake up to the tune....

"Who's singing?"

Why none other that TWEETY BIRD,

After a Brief fight between the two Cats,

The Durante Cat realizes that.....

Both of them are gonna go nowhere if they keep squabbling over a bird

So....

They decide it's better off to work together....

Of course, TWEETY BIRD is not gonna make this easy to pull off

"Oh... Look what you've done now you stupid Boid!!!"

"It wasn't me! I didn't do nothin to them PUDDY TATS.

I swear."

Alright. I'll take your word for it....

As if the main header for this post hadn't tipped you off,

This Cartoon was the one that inspired JOHN KRICFALUSI to create his famous STIMPY Character back when he studied Animation at Sheridan College in 1978.

All it took was to take the Red Fur, White Paws, and Large Bulbous nose of the JIMMY DURANTE CAT and combine that with the Retarded Personality of the YELLOW CAT

and we get the lovable MANX CAT of an EEDIOT!!!

Of course, 

Once Nickelodeon picked up the series, they demanded that STIMPY should be less RETARDED, 

both in the design

and Personality

"Oh Joy!!!"

And he also has the voice of LARRY FINE from THE THREE STOOGES

"I may have died in 1975 but I didn't sign for BILLY WEST

to impersonate me for that Retarded Manx Cat"

This Cartoon is also the very last to which we have the original NAKED TWEETY

because the HAYS OFFICE cried afoul(No Avian Puns please) 

not just because of the proper biology of an semi-altricial Baby Bird

but rather due to the fact that he's based on BOB CLAMPETT's naked baby butt photo.

Although CLAMPETT was susposed to clean up TWEETY's act both in design and biology, he left Warner Bros. in 1945 due to wanting to pursue a Television career so FRIZ FRELENG took the BOID and gave him Yellow Canary Feathers...

The FEATHERED TWEETY actually was supposed to be credited to CLAMPETT but like I said, he left, so FRELENG took all the credit for giving our Favorite BOID his feathers and later a new adversary.....

Uh Oh... Sylvester's mighty pissed towards me because I haven't given him any respect.

Unfortunate however that SR. BULLET BILL doesn't have this cartoon in his archive.org account.

I was able to find a print from user dcaligari, hence the screenshots but for the sake of preservation, I won't provide a link to the print, not because the cartoon is still under Copyright until January 1st 2041 but because I don't want any dead links if in the event, the cartoon is suddenly removed from the user's account,

From which I've been there.