Fuck it, I'm gonna say it: the Predator's laser targeting system doesn't do damage. That comes from the shoulder-mounted cannon.
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This isn't a real book cover. You can tell because it's supposed to say Berenstein bears
It's berenstain because the predator is gonna turn them into a stain
Hello, fellow refugee from a better timeline.
Bearenstien.
Bearndtsteen.
I was being facetious.
So are they
It's the Mandela effect; People remember it as the Bearenstein Bears, but it's Bearenstain and it doesn't feel right. I want to go back to my 'verse
Occam's razor suggests that it can't possibly be the fact that -stein is a much more common name ending and since it's children's media most people will have last read the name while still a child and likely never realize that it was specifically a, therefore misremembering the name assuming it was an e. look how long it even took me to type. convoluted, complex theory.
rather the answer must be the simplest: a break in the spacetime continuum.
"Oh look. It's raining again."
It actually is just Berenstein and everyone else in the world just has a shit memory and bootleg merchandise
I legit still have my books from when I was a kid. Berenstien. My friend also has their books from when they were a kid. Berenstain. We argued about it off and on for like a decade before we finally settled it. We only have one book in common, a halloween one, but other than that we have no idea what happened. They were printed in different years, but why would that matter??? IDK, it is a mystery.
I could really use a picture of both books, preferably together (but either way). It would really help me talk to my neighbor who brings up the Mandela effect at least 5x per year.
I'll see if I can track her down. She moved to the UK for university about 6 years ago, but I doubt she brought all her childhood stuff with her(her whole family is still in southern California). My stuff is in storage near Washington at the moment, but I should be going up there before December to nab some stuff.
I bet the photos we took are in those boxes too xD
gesundheit
Bareassteam Bears*
This is one of those Mandela Effect things. It’s actually spelled Preaeadeatour. Most people mix that up.
Sister Bear: You're hit! You're bleeding, man.
Brother Bear: I ain't got time to bleed.
Brother Bear: This stuff’ll make you a goddamn sexual tyrannosaurus, just like me.
60% of the time, it works every time.
spits chewing tobacco in a sexual tyrannosaurussy way
E: God dann i missed the other comment referencing that omega cringe line
This is AI trying to figure out who the old fucks are. I remember watching these bears in black and white TV. You had to wait a few seconds for the vacuum tubes to heat up. If you didn't like it you could clack clack the top knob to one of 13 different channels.
I was jealous of fancy city folks with their 13 channels all showing essentially the same thing. I only had 3 channels essentially showing the same thing.
Same here, I forgot about that. That's right, you can go to channel, 2, 6, 12. Everything else was static...which you could watch if you want to.
Yes. The thirteen positions on the dial seemed to be the product of rampant optimism.
But I imagine some lucky city kid had several additional watching options.
Wasn't there a third knob for more channels? I remember having an old green screen that had a double knob on it for that. I don't remember the number of channels possible though.
Luckily help is on its' way!
This looks like AI and Lemmy hates AI.
People don't have a problem with the Predator shooting an eye-beam out of its nose so...
After the Archie one, I can believe anything.
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As a mobile user with large fingers, I don't like what you did there
Yep, I've been trying to open it for a minute, i don't think it's going to happen.
I had no idea that existed. Thank you.
My childhood best friend would make parody versions of these books in elementary school by tracing the pictures and modifying them. Pretty amusing how violent and sarcastic a child's imagination can get.
tracing the pictures and modifying them
some activists made an entirely new issue of Tintin that way...
Neat, thanks for sharing! :-)
FYI the Predator only fights opponents who are strong and honorable to fight. So with that being said what is the body count of the Berenstain Bears?
I like it. The art style always creeped me out a little ass a kid.
Title doesn't really fit the pattern of the real books; too many words/syllables. "... Get Hunted" or "... meet The Predator" would be more plausible titles.
Show this if you find someone who believes ai doesn't bring any good to this world.
The faces on mom & the kids. Lmfao
I was expecting the predator to be Trump or some other celebrity pedophile.
That doesn’t look like donvict chump
Boy, whatever the mom and kids are looking at must be pretty bad if it has their attention more than a Predator!