To show how much I don’t deserve the machine, I spent the first half of the video thinking you had to hand pump the thing with the giant lever! Nobody that can afford that thing is doing that kind of manual labor! 😂

I liked that he had already given it away to a patreon person before the video was posted.

While it was very extravagant, it was fun to watch. It looked like part of a satellite.

I’m fairly new to One Piece as well although I’ve watched anime for about 20 years. I generally avoid super long things because DBZ just made me feel anything that big had to have tons of filler, plus it’s just a heck of a commitment. One of the guys at my work has read it and watched it all more than once and he says it’s coming to an end in the near future, and he said as much of an anime fan as you are, you aren’t curious to know what the One Piece is?

I looked at it, and the art didn’t look great, and what bits I saw on Toonami just looked ridiculous and childish. I kept putting it off and putting it off. But I found a colored version of the manga and started reading from the beginning. It takes a good minute to get up to speed, but the characters are fun and you care about them, the world building is good. The battles have weight to them. It’s really been a ton of fun. I’m excited to finish out this epic journey now, and I totally get why this is a classic.

I read the Wikipedia summary of the coup fallout. It seems Prigozhin was cooperative to turn all legit businesses and paramilitary equipment over to Putin. His former media outlets turned on him and painted him as a traitor, but he still cooperated. I feel it’s unlikely to be a mutual plot to fake his death, they’ve executed other people for far less than a public coup though. He may have thought he was getting some kind of lieniency, but I think they’re toast.