#memes

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naive thistle
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They are just drowned out by the gamecube intro

thin lynx
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LMAO it is castlevania?? crazy

honest vortex
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2000s white girl pop hits hard

graceful trench
dense onyx
tropic solstice
shell sparrow
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fallow gulch
astral wing
magic whale
normal crown
naive thistle
valid solar
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where's Mr. Ass

runic bolt
random marten
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Would’ve js said hit no one

winged edge
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kendrick lamarr related number

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its brainrot

river dragon
magic whale
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poor kitty cat...

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two more b4 i leave hehe

azure tide
dense onyx
torn olive
lyric river
torn olive
lyric river
random tiger
random marten
torn olive
random marten
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stoppid

thin lynx
tranquil forge
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Salted leaked

sick abyss
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AI detected opinion rejected

warm fractal
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L

jolly egret
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im gonna have to side with ChandraNalaar here

raven light
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Unfortunately, while the rebuttal Reddit post was hilarious, I too must side with ChandraNalaar as well, due to the presence of AI slop

tawny robin
gusty talon
random tiger
thin lynx
runic goblet
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no you have to call it ai slop if you dont call it ai slop it wont resonate with the other zoomers

random marten
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Kitty cat

summer bramble
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is htis real?

graceful trench
shell sparrow
long delta
snow sleet
naive thistle
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Tf happened to this channel

dark aspen
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A posted meme was apparently AI generated so now everyone is hate-swarming it? I think at least.

split dock
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Idk why people hating so much, its just some harmless AI photo, its not that deepskull

dark aspen
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Well, I would argue that, from the moment that it is confirmed as AI generated, it would in fact be harmful to artists and such.

naive thistle
gaunt gale
naive thistle
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But their feet apart

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That is not a naturally comfortable pose and I've been wondering if people actually do that

dark aspen
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I think it's to hide the underwear, but it might also just be a thing to identify the genders.

naive thistle
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Maybe if they didn't make the skirts 5 inches long in shows they would be able to hide it better....

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But I've even seen the pose while standing so, idk

dark aspen
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Which is why it could also just be a Japanese thing.

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Then there's that guy in Mob Psycho doing the exact same thing:

random marten
dark aspen
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Yuck.

worthy axle
jolly egret
vague dock
vague dock
naive thistle
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More so meant this thing

vague dock
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Ah whoops, not this one?

naive thistle
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No clue what that one is

normal crown
torn olive
# tranquil forge

My friend, I am with you; I would not have payed 5$ for commissioning

dusk trail
atomic lodge
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😤

dark aspen
normal crown
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teens can't kiss ig

dark aspen
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"about to have hard sex."

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Plus I don't know if it's allowed on this server...

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But since no one reported it to the mods yet, I'll assume it's fine.

normal crown
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kissing implies skadudilling it's so over

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all kissing is 18+ now

dark aspen
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So, I guess I'm the crazy one?

normal crown
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indeed

summer bramble
shell sparrow
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cobalt holly
supple rapids
naive thistle
normal crown
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it's bonkers that Japan's age of consent was 13 for a while

edgy forge
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On one hand, you're damn well more than entitled to dislike this aspect of anime fans and the behavior around it.
On the other hand, I do think it's a little bit silly to have a moral panic over that particular bocchi artwork

edgy forge
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Or was that in somewhere else

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Anyways, yes, it was kind of bonkers

sick abyss
naive thistle
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I mean I don't see anything wrong with it cause I'm normal but

edgy forge
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I dont think that's a productive way of looking at things

naive thistle
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You don't get to look at things productively when dealing with the anime fandom

edgy forge
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I dont mean to put words in your mouth but the idea that we could presuppose a hidden meaning on a piece of media like that is kind of a hubris-tainted attitude

naive thistle
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Counter point, we wouldn't look for a hidden meaning if we weren't given a reason to do so

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Personally I don't think there is one, the artist just drew two characters from an anime they liked but

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I'm also not going to bash on people for thinking otherwise

edgy forge
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Perhaps but familiarity with the behavior of a group of people is entirely different from the ability to discern the true meaning behind art

edgy forge
supple rapids
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Im ngl I was definitely referring to in general but also you're proving my point better than I ever could

edgy forge
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What do you mean?

supple rapids
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"Erm this bocchi artwork kinda sus" "12 page essay about not reading too deep into media"

edgy forge
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Hey man I agree with your general sentiment

supple rapids
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No like I get that you just gotta step back and realize contextually your response was hilarious

edgy forge
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I guess, but I think this topic is actually worth talking about

naive thistle
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Well at the very least the artist who drew that image didn't draw any specific other art with underage characters so they're fine

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one Google search later

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Oh

thin lynx
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erm well you see this is actually a 500 year old god not a kindergartener in a playground

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i didnt even mean to get the shot in the swing it just happened at the perfect time

dense thicket
thin lynx
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twitter

dense thicket
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ew

thin lynx
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ai witchhunts are crazy

dense thicket
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mistakes in AI generated images have a quite recognizable style, ones that humans just don't make
imperfection is a trait of human made images :/

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and usually you can just tell if an artist is uploading AI crap by looking at how much they upload, and the style of different images in comparison to one another

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that's such an insane mindset to me, that people would ignore easy tells like that

thin lynx
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sometimes its just "they have two left hands"

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"the character has three hands they must have used ai!!!11!1"

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(genuinely happened)

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tho that was genshin twitter so like yknow

dense thicket
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definitely not just that

west arrow
dense thicket
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some people might assume that means AI, which is stupid
but those aren't the kinds of mistakes I'm referring to, I'm talking stuff like line thickness consistency, text font, occluded objects, what the greebling looks like (minute nonsense features that just add detail), colors, or just stuff like consistency of style across the whole image

thin lynx
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i guess
people dont really look at that tbf

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"minute nonsense features that just add detail" like overdetailing a minecraft build?

dense thicket
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if you see a single leaf with weirdly realistic spines in an otherwise cartoony image with very flat colors, chances are good that it's AI

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random image I pulled from the internet
details like the texturing on the stone walls in the back
a lot of that looks almost architectural, almost rocky, and it makes zero sense when you try to actually look at it closely
if a person had drawn it, minute details like this would be much more clear in what it is, or clearly nothing at all
this weird in-between style is characteristic of ai, when it can't decide what a feature should be

thin lynx
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the front is kinda crazy
like it looks like the front of the train but isnt

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if it werent for that it could be solid

dense thicket
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yeah, it's a pretty crap image
good as a demo though xD

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oh, found a good one for stylistic consistency
the wine glass is super realistic while the right side of the image looks like an oil painting, and again the background on the left looks much closer to photorealistic?
and, like, wtf is that pink blob behind the glass, the ai really couldn't make up its mind xD

thin lynx
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behind the glass?

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on the table? i dont see anything behind it

dense thicket
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yeah, on the table

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that leafy pink grape-looking mass to the screenspace right of the glass

thin lynx
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the flower vine?

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im only concerned about what this spoon spaceship looking thing is

dense thicket
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maybe a spoon, idk xD

thin lynx
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looks like something youd see in MIB

dense thicket
thin lynx
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💀

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me neither
i have not been zooming in

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because like realistically with an image i wouldnt

dark aspen
dense thicket
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so many people have been completely desensitized to the issues with underage characters (or characters designed to look underage) doing weird things, so it's just a losing battle

naive thistle
west arrow
naive thistle
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Most people learn to be mature by age 20 to 30

ashen umbra
naive thistle
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If you somehow don't learn to do that in 500 years your a complete failure

dark aspen
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Introverted elves:

dense thicket
naive thistle
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Also yeah zacha, I basically pointed out the same thing

ashen umbra
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Also in other art styles, AI really cant do flat colors, it will almost always have grainy paper like texture

naive thistle
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With how certain anime fans are

dense thicket
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that's not actually one I've heard of before, I'll try to keep an eye out for that

dark aspen
ashen umbra
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lemme try to find an example, its very common with chatGPTs images

naive thistle
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You can't get 100% close cause obviously anime is so much different then real life but

random marten
naive thistle
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If an adult looks more like Asuka then that works for me

dense thicket
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I mean, that image is clearly AI for so many reasons, it was just the first one I found with the issue I was looking for

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up to and including being labeled as a "Premium AI Image" in image search results xD

random marten
ashen umbra
random marten
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This image is so boring

ashen umbra
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or a heavily compressed JPG, but on those the edges are also ehavily messed up unlike here

random marten
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holy corporate slop

naive thistle
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Corporate may not say it but this is the ideal worker they want you to be

dense thicket
dark aspen
random marten
dense thicket
naive thistle
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This wasn't the one I was thinking of but its the only one Google showed me

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Idk why it looks like it was taken from somebody's page

ashen umbra
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for comparison this one isnt AI, and the main difference is that real JPG artifacting messes up everythig and edges get blurred a lot

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and the grain in what should be a flat color isnt as visible

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yes i know corpo art blow, but its imo the best way to show what i mean

hybrid robin
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Looks shit anyways bc it’s corpo

lucid stag
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the one thing that can unify a community

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shitting on corpos

safe oracle
random tiger
dark aspen
naive thistle
jolly egret
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not anymore

naive thistle
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Well that sucks

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Sorry it didn't work out

lucid stag
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once again, legend spotted (i had reinstalled the game due to some drive shenanigans and the filter settings reset)

naive thistle
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Please seek medical aid before you start assaulting random people in the street because you perceive them to be demons

lucid stag
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anyways time for bunnyposting

naive thistle
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You should be instituted

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Clearly a danger to those around you and yourself

naive thistle
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Wait was it instituted

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Or institutionalized....

worldly field
elfin turret
thin lynx
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crazy

naive thistle
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Idk what that is

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I just searched up their name to check their Twitter profile but remembered I don't have Twitter so I couldn't view it

dusk trail
naive thistle
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But I found a link to a different site they posted their art on and well yeah

naive thistle
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Found at least one artwork of an underage anime character and that was enough to support the joke x)

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Now I'm curious about blue archive...

shell sparrow
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unlucky

naive thistle
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I dont like not knowing things

dusk trail
naive thistle
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Oh that blue archive

dusk trail
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yeah that one

naive thistle
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Wouldn't be a gatcha game without anime women of scrutible age

dusk trail
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i mean

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they look like children, act like children (afaik), and canonically are children

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iirc the entire premise of the game is that you’re their teacher

naive thistle
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I'm sure the community is very mature and handles it properly

dusk trail
jolly egret
naive thistle
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So you are happier now that your single again?

dusk trail
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if you ever see someone call an anime character of questionable age “cute and funny” PLEASE run

naive thistle
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Well it depends

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I know some people do call kids cute

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But just because they are literally cute

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Not in any other way then that

dusk trail
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it’s the added funny part that’s concerning

naive thistle
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Like how some parents comment to other parents how their babies are adorable

dusk trail
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i personally wouldn’t call a small child cute but i wouldn’t bat an eye if someone else did

naive thistle
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I find children extremely obnoxious so I too wouldn't call them cute

magic whale
naive thistle
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Your words confuse me

jolly egret
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you clearly have never played getting over it

dense pebble
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does remkun play too?

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i got banned offa h*pixel for 14 days

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stoopid

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:(

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i quitted it now and am playing the supireor mmo

naive thistle
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What?

naive thistle
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None of what you said made sense or had relevancy to what moist said though

naive thistle
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That was rude of you

dense pebble
dusk trail
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maybe

astral quiver
naive thistle
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If people wanted to watch children fight they could have just observed a playground

astral quiver
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I forgot to mention everyone else looks to be late twenties/early thirties

shell sparrow
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normal crown
torn olive
dark aspen
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Frfr

random marten
edgy forge
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The GabeCube is absolutely what it's called

jolly egret
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its official now

elfin turret
naive thistle
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Oh my

dark aspen
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"diVine"? The videos better be good on there else I'm... I don't actually know what I would do, even less what I could do...

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Tantrum? Yeah probably tantrum...

thin lynx
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danny divine?

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no ai generated content is a pretty wild stance compared to others

naive thistle
dark aspen
sudden umbra
cosmic sierra
random tiger
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Spong Bop

naive thistle
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I'm honestly not able to tell because of the direction it's gone

random tiger
naive thistle
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just another episode of the writers barely disguised fetish

gritty glade
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why are you clowning at them for deciding not to hide their inner emotions or sexuality

naive thistle
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Any person who shoves their fetish into a kids show should be investigated

thin lynx
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ok ig thats kinda valid

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wasnt it nickelodeon that way overused slime

dense owl
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the feet is the more offensive one

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bcuz slime is like

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awesome

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when ur a kid theres a much higher demand to be slimed than to show your feet on live television

random marten
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Normal preg

gritty glade
thin lynx
naive thistle
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Well yes

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But also no

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There should be limits

gritty glade
naive thistle
magic whale
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the software we use at college is... so fun

".png is not a folder" and the ASSESSMENT upload module fails to load on most browsers by default!

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and our lecturers started using the old submission module again over the new one (':

dense owl
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woo college tech!
i had to use the worst virtual machine ever for a good period of time until one of my teachers started routing their classes around avoiding it lol

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it was rly awesome bcuz they talked abt how they dont trust it and how students average better grades without it and stuff and then the next week during his class the whole thing was down

magic whale
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seems like a good ending o:

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i find it a little silly how like... odd tech can be at times...

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most of the software we use is very expensive but there's lots of free stuff i can use instead and it's often better than what they pay for hehe ^^

magic whale
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ordering by the wrong axis by default. thanks microbal- like

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now i learn i can't even group dates by month/year. one of the biggest companies in the world btw. like
-# im just going to hope my lecturer makes an exception for this "Please submit your work[...] (.pbix)", i can't use this junk!

shell sparrow
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have yall seen their tiktok 😭

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dusk trail
pastel scarab
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💔

dusk trail
magic whale
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uh oh Wybel

summer bramble
random tiger
normal crown
naive thistle
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Holy shit Nagisa is on the content team

jolly egret
naive thistle
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Would this make you feel slightly better

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Look at that happy pupper go

jolly egret
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no

naive thistle
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:(

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It's so happy though...

supple rapids
cerulean cove
lyric river
fading zealot
shell sparrow
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dark aspen
magic whale
random tiger
supple rapids
astral wing
dusk trail
honest vortex
magic whale
green haven
graceful trench
naive thistle
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Yeah you shouldn't do that it's dangerous for your health

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Something could rupture

gaunt gale
dusk furnace
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"gee i sure do wish i could see my game smoothly"
the infamous 1 fps

supple rapids
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light work, try 0.05 FPS

worldly field
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imagine feeling the need to post this

cosmic stratus
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it's not a need its my destiny

worldly field
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see how well that goes

cosmic stratus
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theres been worse posted in here and ignored

worldly field
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Yea well animal cruelty even if AI is a bit different

gusty delta
worldly field
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Consider that one is against discord’s ToS

gusty delta
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It is I…..
Ninja whip electric fence from project remix…….
hello……

worldly field
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idk what u mean I’m sorry,,,

gusty delta
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bah-

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Was that not nagisa wynncraft but an unassociated nagisa-

worldly field
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Idk the only remix I know is world of Warcraft remix servers lol

gusty delta
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IT WAS A DIFFERENT ONE

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NOOOOOO

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shucks

worldly field
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darn gl finding whoever Nagisa Wynncraft is

ashen knoll
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Idk if that fact that this is AI makes it better or worse

elfin locust
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Nagisa streams

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Nagisa memes

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Nagisa!

worldly field
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Hi!!

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Hi tonarn!! Big fan!,

cosmic stratus
sick abyss
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But it's still horrible

vast jasper
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Tonynarn :)))

shell sparrow
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torn olive
torn olive
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…the more you suffer

dusk trail
snow sleet
astral wing
cosmic stratus
wild widget
sage flint
magic whale
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the classic "sorry this chapter is too long" ❤️

sage flint
# magic whale makes the best books tbf <:sh_smug:1074174177063485441>

well depends on what you want from a story.
I love world building, and magic systems especially, with a note on magical physics.
I can't expect maxwells mana equations, but any homage to real science done in a humble way is something i highly appreciate in stories.
I'm a big fan of the Novel of the anime mushoku tensei for this reason.

sage flint
magic whale
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i gotta check out that novel :3
also sounds impressive reading that many chapters in a month!

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largest thing i've read is super short in comparison (50 chapters)

normal crown
sage flint
sage flint
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it does get better.
but yeah it's weird.

normal crown
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stopped watching when they had what I can only assume was leading to a skadoodle scene between a minor and a 40 yr old man in the body of a minor

magic whale
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D: but also :D i'll take a looksie but i really hope the protagonist isn't the kind of weird im thinking about...

sage flint
normal crown
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after

magic whale
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alrightyyy, i'll pass on reading that- Wybel

normal crown
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from what I understand (and what I've seen) it's a fine story if you can ignore the MC

sage flint
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i see.
yeah, they didn't animate that part.
I would still recommend to watch the part afterwards.

sage flint
normal crown
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maybe I'll try it again atsp, but I couldn't look past how just how horrid of a guy the MC was

sage flint
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ahh i suck with words, i'm sorry.

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I love anime with strong emotions.
i like seeing sad stuff as well, as far as i can handle it, for it makes me feel human to empathise with someone.
for this seeing him going through depression due to a sense of betrayel, and his attempts to get back was a pleasent thing to watch.
One of the results of his depression was that he started suffering from ed.

sage flint
# normal crown maybe I'll try it again atsp, but I couldn't look past how just how horrid of a ...

I agree that this setting is quite unfortunate. He can't just get better at once, for that would be unrealistic, so improvements happened slowly.
But I can state that while that setting is ass, it's at least well executed.

Further i finished the webnovel, It does get better, though there are a few moments in the university arc where it still peaks.
And if you also feel fed up from lower quality anime. then mushoku tensei is worth a 2nd watch.
Just skip the parts when it's too much.
Btw the development of elinalise dragonroad will also be positively surprising.

fathom willow
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Fuckin hate mushoku tensei, if i ever see someone glaze that show as the best isekai ever again i am packing my bags

normal crown
sage flint
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it's also the existence of his negative sides, which make what growth he experiences more valuable.
anyone can be born into a good life, and live a good life.
But to become tainted by the darksides, and to be able to bounce back from it, that is something worthy of admiration.
Well i don't know how much of this is fully my true reflection. but it doesn't feel false.

normal crown
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it's fine to have a flawed MC, but this takes it WAY too far

tame bay
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Personally a fan of the cooking isekai that mappa is animating

normal crown
tame bay
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Yup

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Believe so at least

normal crown
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been meaning to try that

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looks fun

tame bay
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Yeah it’s great

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Just an all around chill show

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The type of stuff you can throw on when you wake up in the middle of the night and can’t fall asleep then one episode down you hittin the sack again

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In a good way

normal crown
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Been watching Bocchi, Frieren, and Dungeon Meshi, I'm always down for some wholesome feel good stuff

tame bay
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good spread of shows there

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Frieren is that show that everyone keeps telling me is so amazing but I just can’t motivate myself to watch it

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Even though I’m a sucker for anything fantasy

normal crown
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it's genuinely so good

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best fantasy anime I've seen yet

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lots of good feels and messages throughout

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while still maintaining a good through-plot and goals for the characters

tame bay
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Yeah you know what

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You convinced me

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Gonna go check that out

normal crown
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it's a heartwrencher

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one of the pieces of media that've actualy made me cry

sage flint
# normal crown I don't see any benefit to having him be such a scumbag in the first place

Well i disagree on calling it a bad anime, you and i just have a subjective opinion, and taking the avarage over all opinions, viewing it in context of what one wants out of an anime and what an anime provides would be a better reflection of it's quality.
But i agree that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and i should be accepting of how you guys and others feel about it, i think i could have approached this differently, the focus was on magic system, since you didn't like it, i could have just accepted it, and solely focused on what i liked about the magic system there.
I'm sorry for disregarding your opinions as much as i used to, i want try to do a bit better than this from now on.

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Have any of you watched re zero.
While their magic system is quite simple in some aspect, i still find it quite interesting, and well developed in others.

normal crown
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It WOULD be good, but because of the mc, it is bad

sage flint
normal crown
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even if he does get better throughout the show, having him be such an aweful and unlikeable person, AND TO THIS EXTENT, ruins the show

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it would have been infinitely better if the MC just wasn't a pedophile

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it's that easy

reef fox
reef fox
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Like, the whole point is that it IS gross and he's a gross little creature, but he's not a bad person because "haha funny" it's because he LITERALLY conditioned himself to be that way. bro literally skipped the funeral for his parents so he could, you know, to cartoon girls on his TV screen instead of going. That's the start of the anime and how he gets kicked out of his home

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The protag for Myshoku Tensei ^ his flaws are meant to accurately portray the mindset of a hikikomori, not a "Master Roshi" pervert character who's overly sexual for purely comedic relief

reef fox
# normal crown it would have been infinitely better if the MC just wasn't a pedophile

Yeah, not everyone has the stomach to keep watching the show because of that being one of the topics they address. I don't blame anyone who stops watching for that reason, but it is a shame because it's such a good exploration into the mentality and character development of someone like that from a more realistic lens. Dude rotted his brain for, what we can assume, over a decade, and we're supposed to expect that he will be a normal person after that? Ofc not

full vigil
reef fox
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Anyway here meme

sage flint
# normal crown it would have been infinitely better if the MC just wasn't a pedophile

i wouldn't call it the same, It's a reincarnation with a complete new birth anime, i agree that is morally wrong of the protagonist though.
And yeah it's morally wrong, it's despisebale in my eyes for someone to take the actions he did. I'd beat up a person like this if i knew that happened.
But the anime doesn't glorify his action, and to me it feels like this is a false understanding of yours.
You don't have to like a character. you don't have to like a show.

But it doesn't mean that the story itself is of bad quality.
It's quite consistent, characters are extremely well developed.
It's just not what you like, and it's fine. but it's not a bad show.

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ahh re zero, what a wonderful anime you are.
A great morally good and real human protagonist. and great world building.
When will tappei release a new chapter. (he released one yesterday :P)

reef fox
# sage flint yep. There's so many trash anime out there. I despise how common harem are out...

The first episode sets the entire precedent from the first 5 minutes. He's a disgusting and selfish human being that would rather touch himself than go to his own parents' funeral, but he's simultaneously a selfless person who sacrificed himself to save the life of a girl he doesn't even know. He's not a hero, and he's not some villain either, he's just an incredibly flawed human being, and the show explores HIS adventure through the fantasy genre.

So many trash anime used the same "pervert main character" trope that Mushoku Tensei utilized, but completely abandon all the complexity and set up that makes it a compelling and realistic story telling device 🤦

normal crown
# reef fox Yeah, not everyone has the stomach to keep watching the show because of that bei...

It's not that I think he should have instantly become a good person. Again, from what I understand, it's a wonderfully written show.
I just don't see enough of a benefit to take it to this extreme.
I prefer a main character that watch make good choices and be someone that I would want to emulate, which is something I don't get from this.

This being said, I also love Death Note, and Light is NOT a good person, and he doesn't become one by the end of the story, but the difference there is that it makes it clear that he is not the hero of this story and shouldn't be treated as such.
Whereas with mushoku tensei I'm meant to be rooting for the pedophile

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So once again, I'm a fan of what they were trying to do, I just think they didn't need to take it as far as they did with how aweful he is

reef fox
# sage flint ahh re zero, what a wonderful anime you are. A great morally good and real hum...

Top tier anime. If you were a failure in real life what makes you think you'd magically become a success in a new, harsher environment?
Subaru's journey hits hard for all the shut-in neets who tell themselves they would succeed if only the world was different because, no, YOUR inner failures will not magically disappear with a magic world. Escapism doesn't work when all your problems follow you into the escapism world lol

sage flint
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To say to just root for him, is a damn simplification for a complex character development.

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But also, no, you're not meant to be rooting for him and shout his name like a champion I literally said it already he's not a good person and he's not the hero

normal crown
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reef fox
# normal crown Re-read my message please, I didn't say he should change at the drop of a hat, I...

"to take it to this extreme" except nothing about it is extreme. It's a realistic take on someone with that lifestyle transported to another world.

"I prefer a main character I want to emulate" there's your problem. He will never be a self-insert character because he's not supposed to be.

Every 13 year old on the plane thought Kira was cool and wanted to emulate him because our society supports violence (for males) as an explicitly positive trait, so putting them side by side and saying "he's also a bad person but I like him more" is not a fair comparison because they are fundamentally treated differently

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oh he isn't.
There's a hero in this world building, and it's not him.
the hero ain't even born.

reef fox
# normal crown Even if he isn't, with how he is framed (I mean how his character and his action...

He has good traits. And he has bad ones. Really bad ones. He's not the hero, he's just one particular dude born with an advantage, and the story follows him and his adventure. He is the protagonist not a hero. Of course it's going to seem like he does cool things because he's literally the main character.

Would you prefer if the show just spent episode after episode showing him homeless and how it's his eternal punishment for his wicked ways or something? Thats boring AF and doesn't make for a compelling story

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reef fox
# normal crown I'd prefer if he was a side character, honestly

Except the entire premise of the story is to explore the choices and psychology of a shut-in, neet, hikikomori, who poisoned their brain over YEARS, and how they would reasonably act if put into a fantasy world. That's such an insanely complex story that you cannot possibly explore that with just a side character.

Look, you don't have to like the story. There's plenty of Anime that I personally recognize are good anime but don't personally interest me. My girlfriend, for example, recognizes that the Cyberpunk anime is absolutely amazing, but because she's not interested in cyber punk, she doesn't watch it or like it. The same thing applies here. It's a genuinely good anime that gets so many things right, but ultimately the topic itself is going to make people uncomfortable. It's supposed to. If you don't have the stomach for it, I don't blame you honestly

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btw not liking extremes is fine, but i'd argue it's a subjective preference in that sense.
I like to avoid extremely sad stuff, cause it often ends up being too painful too me.
In school we watched shindlers list, and i had to look away when they killed the one armed man.
It deeply hurt me, i watched the rest of the show. but strong sadness, is something i often avoid.
I also avoid show that feature cheating as a core aspect.

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Oh are we talking about Jobless Reincarnation the most overhyped anime ever? God I love writing where an entire arc is motivated by the main character being impotent in bed.

reef fox
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A large amount of plot Would Not Have Happened without it

reef fox
normal crown
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See also I'd be fine with the cheating thing if the characters around the MC actually responded in a reasonable way

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There is nothing reasonable or realistic about their response

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if the anime wants to explore what happens when a shut in neet goes into a fantasy world it should explore the realistic reprecussions of his shitass actions

sage flint
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The way they handle it it's not an exploration of anything it's just obvious author wish fulfillment

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no oversimplification of course :P

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Another problem I've had (from what little I've seen), is that his shitty actions rarely have intense consequences

reef fox
# normal crown Fair point, I just can't justify myself to watch something with an MC that I fin...

You can relate to him making progress and self identifying his flaws. You can relate to his journey in exploring just how much of a screw up he is. You can identify with the turmoil of emotions he feels of pride in change, shame in how little he's changed, fear and apprehension in how much further he has to go, and insecurities about whether he will fail or not.
You don't need to personally identify with his exact flaws that lead him to feel that way.

We literally do this all the time with every character in media. I don't need to personally have a family member die in order to identify with the sheer depression that is from losing a loved one in an earthquake, or a shooting, etc etc etc.

I will say it again, the anime itself tackles a genuinely heavy topic that most people wouldn't even touch with a ten foot pole. It does it well, but that doesn't change the fact that the core nature of it makes people uncomfortable. If that's not for you that's totally fine, but no one can make a justified argument in saying it's a "bad anime" and that's ultimately what I'm getting at here

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sage flint
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There are worse anime to hate on as well.
let's hate on those together :P

reef fox
# supple rapids if the anime wants to explore what happens when a shut in neet goes into a fanta...

Btw they literally foreshadow this with his own dad cheating with the maid. Not only does the mother stay with him, but the maid becomes family and the child becomes their kid too. Idk if you knew this but medieval worlds where the majority of your town/kingdom's safety comes from military power and volume of soldiers is extremely misogynistic and disproportionately gives men power.
That whole arc is not just an inner family dynamic it's a microcosm for world building.

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I think it's a good idea to make a show that explores this, but I don't agree with the way they did it.
Now, I don't know any way I'd do it better (I'm not a show-writer after all), but I don't like it as-is

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I hate solo levelling a lot more

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sage flint
# supple rapids if the anime wants to explore what happens when a shut in neet goes into a fanta...

oh this is spoiler territory so don't unspoil if you wnat to watch it.
|| the dad dies due to rudeus not paying attention in a decisive moment and his father saves him by sacrificing himself his ego is shatterd and he becomes normal at this point., his family suffers, his mother suffers form living in a permenant dream like awake state and can't properly interact with the outer world, rudeus saves her sister form the following depression, ||

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reef fox
# normal crown I think it's a good idea to make a show that explores this, but I don't agree wi...

They explore slavery too, and the main character doesn't protest the entire system either. His companion who is meant to be portrayed as kind and loving doesn't even look twice at children in cages because her environment has conditioned her to accept this as a fact of life. Meanwhile, our main character interact with hesitation as he has earth-centric knowledge of how slavery is fundamentally evil as a concept.
The anime is complex in the sense that it explores these topics from a very nuanced position. Even if he did want to dismantle the system, what, he's supposed to take on an entire kingdom by himself? Or put a huge assassination target on his back that the kingdom very explicitly would not protect him from?

supple rapids
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bold of you to assume I would judge an anime this hard that I havent watched (sans a few... exceptions)

normal crown
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Plus I like Jinwoo's character more in the webcomic vrs

supple rapids
# normal crown solo leveling is overrated as all hell

I could write an entire essay on why it is entirely the most awful anime I've seen recently, partially because it took potential and dropped it into the drain. Every new character you meet becomes irrelevant to the plot moments after you meet them.

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they skipped manag content as well, which is quite dissapointing.

normal crown
reef fox
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It's peak

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i'm a bit numb from rezeros glory.

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especially since there were opportunities.

normal crown
sage flint
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oh hey while we're on the topic of Anime/Webcomics make sure yall check out Omniscient Reader

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best webcomic I've ever read

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the novel is peak as well

reef fox
# supple rapids Its especially frustrating because they'll spend time building up characters onl...

Literally the only purpose in suspense and introducing new, powerful people with impressive names or powers is just so Jinwoo can topple them down effortlessly and everyone can stare in awe at how cool Jinwoo is.

It's like that one anime of the dude who is fat and then goes through a mirror portal in his grandpa's basement and becomes overpowered and skinny, and gets invited to a prestigious school because "he's just a good guy" 💀

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If you like MCs who actually use their brains then you'll like ORV

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For a moment I thought you were describing the isekai where the basically normal dude with the ugly face reincarnates himself as the ugliest person alive then I realized you were describing it backwards

reef fox
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smart guy reincarnation, a world were witches and demons exist.
but no male witches.
And the church tries to kill them not out of prejudice, but they achieve the goal through making the masses hate witches, so the normal people just want to kill them.
And the guy changes everything, shows how witches are a source to industrial revolution, to improve the world.
And in the end bring the world to harmony.

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Best isekai I've seen recently was the executioner and her way of life

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rarely that is, and then it only works halfway often.

supple rapids
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talk about actually doing something interesting with the premise for once

normal crown
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From the (very) little I've heard it doesn't seem all that good

supple rapids
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If you read konosuba as lambasting anime tropes it comes across as pretty funny

normal crown
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So it's the Isekai that makes fun of Isekais

frank pine
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Memes 😔

supple rapids
normal crown
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But I beg of you go read Omniscient Reader 🙏

reef fox
sage flint
# normal crown is Konosuba genuinely any good?

yep.
mc is a bit questionable, but it should be tolerable.
It's comedic.
a party of 4.
A weak almost good for nothing, but high luck and above average int.
An op water goddess arch priest, with low int and maxed out stats.
An archmage, that can cast powerful magic, but only one type, once a day.
And a crusader, the strongest human probably in the world, but she can't hit things, and is a masochist.

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give it a go, and see wether the humor is good enough for you.

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it may be.

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reef fox
supple rapids
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Thanks👍

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Well his annoyance to the bullshit that happens to him is relatable.

reef fox
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Very lmfao

reef fox
# normal crown is Konosuba genuinely any good?

Also, to emphasize my point about how good it is, it's one of the most popular anime of all time and has wide spread merchandise and advertising because the characters are so immediately recognizable and lovable

normal crown
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Oh I forgot who but someone here told me to watch The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic, thanks for that it's been a fun watch so far

sage flint
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yall ever read a great web novel, then check out the anime and want to actually cry at how bad the adaptation is?

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They went form big plot, to small.
season 2 was bad animation.
season 3 suffered from worse story writing when they rewrote the story for the lightnovel.
Webnovle and lightnovel diverge in time point season 2.

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rising of the shield hero season 2 was so boring, i read the wn. it didn't grip me at all.
I expected peak and it wasn#t delivered.

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well at leats less than i hoped.

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I genuinely thought So I'm a Spider So What had one of the best tragedy narratives I've read probably ever, and the anime probably would have been better if it was a slideshow than the dogshit they came out with.

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then I got the light novels and they removed actually my favorite scene in the entire series and I wanted to perish

sage flint
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agree.
I don't like the new characters added.

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i read the wn before s1 was fully out.

supple rapids
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They also changed the ending in ways I found less impactful, ngl it was just a lot less satisfying

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I'd love to give an example of mine, but it's to late and i can feel my memory not functioning that well rn. i should get some sleep.
gn

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Goodnight!

normal crown
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anyway

tropic yarrow
normal crown
wispy pecan
tropic yarrow
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basically the main character is stuck in a time loop and has to save the world

dusk trail
jolly egret
sage flint
stable dagger
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little dorito

supple rapids
dusk trail
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oh ohhhhhhhhhh

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yeah

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I have heard nothing but awful things about promised neverland s2

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@supple rapids @sage flint @normal crown
Btw if you want to be exposed to crappy yet hilarious anime, look up Your Mother's Basement on YouTube and he has a whole playlist of top 10's of trash anime. If you want proper quality, he has good lists too but those aren't as funny and exciting as hate-watching the trash ones imo.
Dude is a novelist iirc and actually took courses on cinematography and stuff, so he goes into specifics of what makes a show good or bad from a point of what the author was trying to do and how well they executed it as opposed to "It's bad because I personally don't like it"

river dragon
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idek what the fuck they are saying due to funny dogshit mic

ashen knoll
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This is so true

naive thistle
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Poor wright

cerulean cove
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Psychos and weirdos are the norm in Phoenix's and Apollo's cases

naive thistle
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The legal system is a joke and Wright is its punching bag

torn olive
reef fox
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Renaming my horse Bubba for no particular reason today

hushed light
runic bolt
normal crown
dusk trail
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YOU CANT THE HORSE JOKER

reef fox
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@dusk trail Bill Clinton and Ghislaine's horse are both named "Bubba". Somehow, I think that makes things worse 💀

dusk trail
normal crown
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From a recent conversation I had about Cyborg's color scheme

thin lynx
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why cant we have actual memes like a discussion on the ethics of ai

gusty vale
dusk trail
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that is my humble opinion

naive thistle
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Perfectly duo costume

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I'm sure they will have a lovely meal later and perhaps a second one after that

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For safekeeping and sending purposes, I'd decided to separate and upload this absolute masterpiece from, I presume, Katie. Civvie 11's sister and editor. Enjoy!

*Due to certain recent comments I must clarify here that his video was uploaded BEFORE Civvie 11 would upload his hour-long version of the clip, which you can find here:https://www.yout...

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Meh

naive thistle
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The second reference is in referral to them having a relationship

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Also hytale is back :)

dense onyx
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funny thing, that announcement came out at around the same time I was talking to somebody about it and doubting if it was ever gonna return

green haven
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Why would people doubt it

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According to beta testers its like 70% done

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If you're John Businessman and you have a mostly completed video game that people said they were very, very, excited for, what do you think they're gonna do

dense onyx
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i didn't know that

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in fact the last thing I saw about hytale was that it was cancelled

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and that it maybe could return, but nobody was sure about it

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that's the last I saw about it

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and the algorithm is a funny thing, not showing me things that I don't look for intentionally

green haven
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At least from what I've seen (and granted that source was like, one video and like 2 tweets), a large component of it was completed and mismanagement of the devs had stalled it

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I didn't even know it was a thing until I heard it was cancelled, so can't speak for algorithms. They're super weird

dense onyx
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i hate the algorithm, specifically youtube's algorithm

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it's so dogshit

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I watch one video from a youtuber i haven't seen before, and suddenly my entire recommended is previous videos from that youtuber

green haven
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It's very overzealous with certain topics

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I watch ONE Baldur's Gate video by accident and for like 3 days it was half of my reccomendeds

dense onyx
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and don't get me started on the ads

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even when using adblocker, it actually decreases the amount of videos that are in front of you, because the empty slot used to have an ad in it

green haven
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They're trying to wring money outta it best they cna

dense onyx
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too bad

green haven
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It's gonna be looking like a Fandom page in a couple years

dense onyx
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my money

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and I'm unemployed, so I'm not wasting it on YT premium

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i've got about 6 months worth of car payments saved up

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i lowkey need a job here soon

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then I can consider YT premium

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but i probably still won't buy it

simple basalt
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last time i didnt use an adblocker on youtube was like 10 years ago so i have no idea how its like

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i cant imagine why anyone would pay for yt premium when a silly browser extension does it better

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sick abyss
supple rapids
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Are they that incompetent

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Fair, I only have experience with coding mc mods and scratch lol so I'll take your word for it

dense thicket
# sick abyss Are they that incompetent

this is Google we're talking about, with some of the best engineers in the world on deck
so nah, it's a manager who made that decision to not add that logic, not a developer
it's always the managers

sick abyss
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Oh I'm aware

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I did not expect the programmers to not understand how to do it

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normal crown
dusk trail
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you can’t say that word??

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crazy

supple rapids
dark aspen
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I would assume the slowdown is caused by Youtube detecting that its ads are being removed from the html code and it tries to resolve this by... doing something?

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No... simply removing the ads from the html code wouldn't remove the ads from the videos...

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But I think it's safe to assume that Youtube detects when the ads are removed and, when that happens, launches a bunch of countermeasures in an attempt to put them back, and that slows down the rendering and such, much like how a body catches a cold and the immune system kicks in...

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Perhaps, when a video loads, it will try to load the ads as well and, if unable to load them after a few seconds, it will launch a error code, catch it and then... process it?

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I may not know why it happens, but now I'm fully invested in what's going on in the background.

supple rapids
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Your average website has like 8 console errors every load

dark aspen
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No, it wouldn't...

supple rapids
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Yep

dark aspen
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And it's not due to the number of requests on its servers either...

supple rapids
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It actually depends on the slowdown incident you're talking about, there has been more than one

dark aspen
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Well, the only slowdown I'm aware of is when you load a video and it takes like 20 seconds before the content starts.

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With adblocks, obviously.

dense thicket
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The back and forth between adblockers and youtube/google is fascinating

dense thicket
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yeah

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I never ever want to do web dev, but it's interesting to see the kind of tech that's behind it, and how it's used in a battle like this xD

torn olive
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Curious

supple rapids
dense thicket
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oh yeah this server blocks masked links

magic whale
dense thicket
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every time I use it, I learn something new that I wish I hadn't
like, what the hell is hoisting, it makes no sense in a procedural language like JS!
It's not even particularly convenient, it just allows even more awful formatting!
https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_hoisting.asp

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as if web devs weren't bad enough about formatting in the first place xD

magic whale
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eek, hoisting...

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coming over from python & c#, it just weirds me out so much... why is it a thing- (and like who is it for?)

summer bramble
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The last time I used JS it was to write a one line program that fit into a bookmark and would steal your username and search history if clicked while on specific websites on old versions of firefox

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That was a fun security exercise

dense thicket
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bookmarks can run js??

supple rapids
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The thing is on old versions of firefox it bypasses cross site scripting protections

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The bookmark script just inherits the current page as its origin

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Was patched ages ago but fascinating nonetheless

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random marten
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thin lynx
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weird

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do you think gen z reminisces over 08 because we like being poor lowkey, or because it was a bad time for millennials, and we hate millennials

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I reminisce over older times for the customs or way of life

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For example people being more polite and respectful, people dressing better, etc

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Wow, live WetEntity meme drop!

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wdym?

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it's minecraft

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it's E10

raven light
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That’s like the least sus thing though? Between mojangs chat filters, single player, no blood etc it’s totally E for everyone

dark aspen
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Even if I made a game fit for toddlers, I would never in my 9 lives have such a thing in the title screen.

gaunt lake
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this was added like
in the way early days

wary idol
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I dont mean anything

raven light
wary idol
deft moss
# wary idol WHAT

I mean with the amount of Minecraft YouTubers on a certain national list... That tracks.

normal crown
naive thistle
shell sparrow
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As far as I remember they were just considered a channel that did dumb skits for fun

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wary idol
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the evil lack of character limit

worldly field
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the evil lack of cancel button

tropic yarrow
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the beloved yoinking of power cord

dark aspen
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So I don't even think it could be called ancient like it's from the past.

tropic yarrow
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afaik it got bought back? and the quality’s improved? got this from acquaintances so idk

dark aspen
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Well, yeah, Smosh was bought back, but I wouldn't know if anything improved.

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I just know that Anthony Padilla features in that video:
https://youtu.be/owndmaLyeuo?si=ZwGutMvXcT9pbRy5

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random tiger
summer bramble
green haven
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It ain't happening

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dusk trail
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like 3/4ths the stuff i see it overlayed on top of just doesn’t look like it

craggy scarab
worldly field
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Golden ratio fans when I put a rectangle on literally anything

river dragon
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In mathematics, two quantities are in the golden ratio if their ratio is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities. Expressed algebraically, for quantities ⁠

    a
  

{\displaystyle a}

⁠ and ⁠

    b
  

{\displaystyle b}

⁠ with ⁠

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It's real, yeah.

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It's just cool symmetry in patterns. Humans like patterns

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Humans are designed to like patterns

magic whale
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this channel used to be funny

raven light
normal crown
jagged bison
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these are like reddit tier

normal crown
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i love that the common theme in all of these photos is

wise isle
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the sharks new when it was suposed to go offline everything after the sharks attemted to sto the disaster was down hill

cerulean cove
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I will eat fiber optic cables and you can't stop me

frigid rock
ashen knoll
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Fibre optic cables do look delicious

random marten
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I love eating glass

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adds a bit of crunch to everything

dark aspen
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It pays the dentists too! What a lovely contribution to society 🥰

naive thistle
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How and why it got greenlit is beyond me

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They clearly are either lacking in funds or decent animators

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Or time or all three

cerulean cove
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hollow ocean
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ts is my favorite room ❤️

drowsy siren
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I think this qualifies

thin lynx
plush bay
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torn olive
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So confidence is the devils work now?

subtle osprey
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no, train networks are the devils work

worldly field
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Train networks

normal crown
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thin lynx
reef fox
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normal crown
green haven
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We're having burgers tonight

green haven
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normal crown
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obviously

green haven
thin lynx
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understandable

naive thistle
# normal crown

I must remain focused, I must remain focused, I must remain focused