・anime

[tidal shore]

western Europe can afford it

USA can also afford it since if they can afford ret#rded urban design then this shouldn't be an issue too XD

[dusty fable]

So, from egotistical point of view, it would have been better to ditch climate agenda for more profits, to get better bargaining position in the future

[tidal shore]

you're right

[dusty fable]

Which is what America is doing

It's bad for everyone, but good for US

[tidal shore]

wait, they're not doing going green anymore? Trump's fault or what

[outer scaffold]

https://www.ddinstagram.com/reel/DNQLZA-TRAE/?igsh=MTVjemgzZWNlOGc2aA==

kabu.open_reach (@kabu.open_reach)

正拳突き火消しに挑戦しました。(あきこ74歳)

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[outer scaffold]

Latom 🙏

[tidal shore]

tamashi - soul?

hon - flame?

wait

hon is book

how is flame in jp

[outer scaffold]

Honnou.

[dusty fable]

Yes and no. While they can afford it, it does mean EU coffers would have less money in the future

[outer scaffold]

炎 (honoo) - flame

[tidal shore]

actually it would give them more money long term, no?

and create more jobs too (god damn it, politicians and the dumb people love this phrase)\

[dusty fable]

Depends. If you need to solve problems, because someone's else pollution that doesn't make you better positioned in the future

[tidal shore]

yea but business is business

stuff like solar panels for example are a manufacturing issue

that's why they got so cheap in the last 20 years

Idk about batteries and others

but for anything that is a manufacturing issue, making lots of it and early would be very profitable

and then as other countries enter the transition

think India

a whopping 1.4 billion people

how much profits could you get from that?

[dusty fable]

Which makes China, not USA better positioned to profit from energy transition

[tidal shore]

fair

except

China isn't chummy with India

[dusty fable]

It always depends on politics, what will be the best course of Indian leaders in the future. The point is, China is already so far ahead in this industry it won't make sense to join it for EU or USA. It would make sense for India to develop their own manufacturing industry though

[tidal shore]

true

part 2

[tidal shore]

kuru kuru

https://tenor.com/view/hinata-kagiyama-touhou-spin-iosys-gif-24914559

[topaz linden]

I kept out of the discussions in the staff channels, but I can 100% guarentee this had absolutely 0 to do with the decision-making here

This was completely driven around plans to try and revive the server and make it more active by moving away from being exclusively a Genshin-only server and instead generalizing into a broader/more generalized gacha game server. I don't personally think it was the best route to go to achieve this, but that was the motivation behind it.

Keep in mind most of the staff is NA/Asia and frankly would find it hard to give less of a shit about what Europe is up to

[tidal shore]

this is like

bad

not bad

but bad

(i hate gacha)

grahhh

[dusty fable]

You know it's not only EU problem if NA twitch is talking more about it than Europe tgemselves

If anything I knew about this from NA streamers

Not the EU ones even

[dusty fable]

I wonder how many ppl even consider it a Genshin server. I didn't think of it as Genshin oriented for quite a long time

[woeful plinth]

https://x.com/seiyuucorner/status/1956007946464178473?t=VPXf4NcrC0aGMunIqTjNyg&s=19

Seiyuu Corner (@seiyuucorner)

Happy 30th birthday Yui Ogura! 🎉

Let's wish ChanYui all the best @yui_ogura_815

#YuiOgura #小倉唯

X · Aug 14, 2025, 3:00 PM

Nn

[craggy mango]

Me:

i still follow shangri la frontier tho

[rancid ledge]

https://fixvx.com/BuildXueyi/status/1955034467300675625?t=YlzVMHyoi7jw4a01EF7QMg&s=19

Jelly 💥 (@BuildXueyi)

An animated adaptation of Honkai: Star Rail directed by Vivziepop is reportedly in the works.

Caelus will reportedly be voiced by Toby Fox.

(via Deadline) https://t.co/ILmGUHTQZ3

vxTwitter / fixvx · Aug 11, 2025, 10:31 PM

Just imagine

boothill can now curse

[tidal shore]

no way

[ionic schooner]

FUDGE FUDGE FUDGE FUDGE FUDGE

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[next crescent]

If this turns out to be true that's actually kind of awesome

I also hope they keep him not cursing while allowing everyone else to curse, it'd be fucking funny to hear his frustration

[rancid ledge]

"rules are made to be fucking broken"

"brother, the goddamn dream is fucking over."

"check out this fucking awesome move"

[next crescent]

"what da fudge is wrong wich y'all"

[ionic schooner]

😔

imagine clara swearing

[tidal shore]

wha

[ionic schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/boothill-boothill-hsr-hsr-boothill-honkai-star-rail-honkai-star-rail-gif-7330598212356528093

[tidal shore]

https://tenor.com/view/gaboom-qc-fuck-you-fuck-you-tabarnak-gif-12048981

[rancid ledge]

"Svarog, crease his fucking jordans"

[ionic schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/seele-seele-vollerei-veliona-svelionarog-svarog-gif-17225560378419850900

[tidal shore]

whats this rap battle ahh

[ionic schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/hsr-job-hyacine-hyacine-hsr-honkai-star-rail-job-jobless-gif-12118088781839545356

[tidal shore]

https://tenor.com/view/co-ty-pierdolisz-posluchaj-co-ty-pierdolisz-gif-26936388

[ionic schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/herta-hsr-flute-chill-gif-3844333246592552115

[tidal shore]

https://tenor.com/view/guh-flcl-josharo-gif-23897909

[next crescent]

The joke is that there's a character in honkai star rail that (because it's rated teen and has to limit swearing) says placeholder swear words because he has a voice module that broke and filters out swears

And dude has the mouth of a sailor so every sentence that comes out of his mouth has shit like "fork" "fudge" "fudging son of a backside of a mule"

Shirt, shirt balls/bags, etc

[tidal shore]

💀

[ionic schooner]

crazy how in zzz ju fufu's story someone says the s word

but they censor it with a bleep

but you can tell they said it in the english dub and edited it

[tidal shore]

what even is the s word

suck?

steve?

[ionic schooner]

shiht!!

[tidal shore]

is the s word Steve

oh shit

hahhfgldhfbv,jasdcbv

fucking S word I can't

[ionic schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/coin-v1-miku-ultrakill-gif-3452389070908148224

i dont swear!!!

[tidal shore]

https://tenor.com/view/hatsune-miku-vocaloid-akita-neru-bonk-triple-baka-gif-782946233900843498

[ionic schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/hatsune-miku-miku-fortnite-fortnite-dance-fortnite-emote-gif-10738477985769771124

[tidal shore]

oh yeah? spell every word in the dictionary then

[pearl nacelle]

The OG Supergirl

This is pretty much the average anime fight scene in Jojo

[craggy mango]

Imagine HSR anime premiered before Genshin anime

I believe they already scrapped Genshin anime project at this point

[frank musk]

With how late genshin releases its figure and nendo merch (we are only now getting a shenhe figurine btw), ill not be surprised with this either tbh

[rancid ledge]

boat goes binted

[thorny hornet]

@rustic pivot THEY TOOK SAKURA TOO

channels are actually going one by one

[rustic pivot]

yeah, they haven't spared it after all

i wonder, when genshin channels are slayed too

[outer scaffold]

Hey, i've just got back from watching the newest Kimetsu no Yaiba movie and I have a question (don't worry, this post will be a spoilerish-free).

You guys know how it is now known that the visual effects (vfx) on the breathing techniques isn't actually there, but what about the vfx on technique used by the Upper Rank demons? Like, does the vfx on their techniques exist or not? Let's use Akaza vs Rengoku as an example, Rengoku's technique's vfx isn't real, how about Akaza's technique's vfx? Is the snowflake actually appeared on the ground or not?

If the answer is yes, then isn't it a bit bullshit that demons has visual effects, but the slayer doesn't?

Sorry in advance if this question is tone-deaf or something since this is my first post on this sub.

[outer scaffold]

This server eos soon

[rustic pivot]

heavenly principles are gonna eos it

[outer scaffold]

What channel is this rn...

[sullen wyvern]

I thought I went into gtalk

💀

I'm not even subbed to anime why is it on my list now

[thorny hornet]

there are no other channels

[topaz linden]

Gotta go one lower for gtalk. They moved the "General" category of channels above Genshin now 👀

[dusty fable]

What if we combine food, anime and pets channels to make a super strong channel that will never be deleted? Like transformers combining

We could discuss pets as food

Or food as anime pets

[tidal shore]

have a shiba inu taste foods across cultures

[slender iron]

https://tenor.com/view/olivia-wilde-olivia-wilde-nodding-woman-nodding-lady-nodding-stan-twitter-gif-7569054144688646875

[ionic schooner]

right after a beer

[rancid ledge]

anybody here watch digital circus?

[frank musk]

Im more of a bigtop burger fan

https://tenor.com/view/cesare-bigtop-burger-bigtop-cesare-bigtop-burger-cesare-btb-gif-11127254799766226694

Iirc i only watched 2 eps of digital circus

[rancid ledge]

anybody have a fav romance anime or is romance not their cup of tea?

[ionic schooner]

LOVE IS WAR

is there even a romance anime that isnt a romcom

would people watch romance animes if they werent funny

https://tenor.com/view/kaguya-sama-love-is-war-gif-26184714

[next crescent]

some probably would

or even prefer it

[topaz linden]

Typically I prefer romance as a sub-genre, not the primary focus. But for romance as the main focus anime, I liked Over the Moon for You, Dress-up Darling, and O Maidens in your Savage Seasons

tho last one is more coming-of-age than romance, so it might not count either

[rancid ledge]

romcom?

[rancid ledge]

dress up darling is very good

[topaz linden]

Romantic Comedy

[rancid ledge]

ohhhh comedy in romance, oh hell yeah

[ionic schooner]

ya

[topaz linden]

Comedy as the main focus, romance is mostly there for jokes/as a subplot

[ionic schooner]

cuz whenever i watch a romance anime its always also a comodey

comedy

is angel next door spoils me rotten a romcom

it probably is

[topaz linden]

eh\

that one's closer to a pure romance

the comedy is sprikled on top, vs the main focus

[rancid ledge]

the anime, can a boy and girl friendship last doesnt count as romcom?

[tidal shore]

is peak

it's so peak

it's just soooo peak

[topaz linden]

it counts as painful

[tidal shore]

https://tenor.com/view/chika-gif-26257586

[topaz linden]

what even is this girl

who raised her to be this way

[rancid ledge]

oh ouch, what about the alya anime? although it has some weird stuff there too

[ionic schooner]

mount fuji💯💯💯

[topaz linden]

Alya's definitely a romcom

[ionic schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/chika-detective-kaguya-sama-love-gif-23662119

[tidal shore]

https://tenor.com/view/adalfarus-okbb-okbt-okbu-okbr-gif-23339359

[ionic schooner]

ishigami is so me💔

[topaz linden]

the EN dub tho peak

[ionic schooner]

we even both played apex legends when i was watching the anime

[rancid ledge]

im thinking about watching this one

[ionic schooner]

💔

[ionic schooner]

ya i watched that

[tidal shore]

mb I'm a sub believer

i only sub

even the good dubs suck

[ionic schooner]

narrarator for love is war eng is so goofy

[tidal shore]

don't @ me

[ionic schooner]

like hes his own character

[ionic schooner]

@tidal shore

[tidal shore]

something like that yea

[topaz linden]

Love is War was given a really good dub. To the extent I'd argue it's its own experience

[rancid ledge]

then theres also romantic killer

[tidal shore]

that's what I heard

[rancid ledge]

and sign of affection

[topaz linden]

tbh, when I do consume romance-focused series, I tend to prefer manga cause the pacing is usually so atrocious

[tidal shore]

the best romance is actually Plastic Memories and Hotarubi no Mori e

I will lick your tears as you watch them

oh also Your Lie in April

[tidal shore]

omg yamada kun and 7 witches

the wrong one xd

[ionic schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/horimiya-hori-miyamura-gif-6944457256172224561

[rancid ledge]

oh thats such a sad anime

silent voice is a good one too

[tidal shore]

Silent Voice isn't a romance anime

[topaz linden]

The manga is, but yeh

anime cut it out aside from very vague allusions

which imo works better, but that's just my personal take

mixing in romance with all of that kinda undercuts the universality of the core message

[craggy mango]

Try to watch Insomniacs after School too, it was at same season as this anime

[tidal shore]

agree

don't be shy

ur speaking facts

[rancid ledge]

reminds me of the dont eat pancreas anime

[craggy mango]

Both are good

[dusty fable]

Makeine (Too many losing heroines)- charismatic characters and interesting storytelling. My top recommendation currently

Toradora - interesting character dynamics and great story

Lovely Complex - non standard comedy around a short guy and tall girl with a great humor

Ao no Hako(Blue Box) - a perfect blend of love triangle, sports and romance, where characters act as normal ppl not anime characters

Oregairu(My teen romantic comedy snafu) - complex and interesting romance, with a MC somewhat similar to Classroom of Elites.

School Rumble - top comedy, a bit less romance

Golden Time - interesting story with some twists and likeable characters

Nana - top romantic drama about rock musicians. It really is the best out there

Fuufu ijou, koibito miman - interesting story premise about putting high schoolers into a dorm to act as a married couple and competing for a higher score in that

[rancid ledge]

I like Oregairu

Golden Time, hell yeah

I dont think cote has any romance in it, I could be wrong

[dusty fable]

Also Honey and Clover, but it's a bit less about romance, more about life choices. I would say it's top phylosophical anime with both great comedy and drama

Bakuman - a story about manga writers revolving around romantic life of them and ofc manga. The best manga of the authors of Death Note imo. The story is very engaging, the romance intertwines with MC's strive to get serialized and write the best manga there is

[tidal shore]

ngl Bakuman kinda mid

fun fact: the word count for this manga is insane

[rancid ledge]

interesting animation

[dusty fable]

I would hardly call anything that lands my top5 mid, but I don't mind you thinking like that

[tidal shore]

your top 5, then does this mean it's both good and you immensely enjoyed it? you made a distinction before about ykyk so ykyk

what do you see in Bakuman

that draws you in

[dusty fable]

1. story is very variable, with two main plots (competitive manga and romance) being skillfully meshed to support each other and interchange in order to be more engaging
2. wholesome rivalry and motivational subtext, interesting conflicts that are not toxic
3. powerful scenes that I have seen many SoL and romantic anime try to get right but fail, not in this case

[tidal shore]

what were your personal takeaways

or moments that made it exceptionally good for u

[dusty fable]

They are pretty personal, so I won't share

[tidal shore]

I have only a vague recollection of the story since it's been so long tho

[tidal shore]

man 😔

I get it

but you know, whenever someone shares something they rly enjoy and opt to give it a vaguely general description I can't help but be a little let down still

I get it tho

for some stuff I wouldn't wanna share either

[dusty fable]

Suffice to say, it's one of the first manga I have read and I would say I rarely read manga even if I am very interested in the story or engaged in the anime. I have read no more than 20 manga titles so far that way(compared to 1500+ anime titles watched in almost 20 years of watching anime). Berserk, Nana, Bakuman were pretty much the first manga stories I have read and were in my top 5 for a very long time

[tidal shore]

nice selection

[dusty fable]

You could say I average to about 2-3 manga stories I read and finish per year which means it's a pretty exclusive club

[tidal shore]

better keep it that way I think

[dusty fable]

I could say that Bakuman perfectly aligns with my ideology. After all these years I can't say if it just meshed well with my own paradigm I had at that time or if it actually formed a lot of my current paradigm, but it pretty much depicts what I think the best qualities humans can have(not all of them ofc, but some of the best qualities)

It does be a bit outdated though in many ways

[tidal shore]

ahh icic

from that perspective I also have a couple that speak to me in this kind of way

those usually tend to be my top picks too

[craggy mango]

Breaking bad is my favorite dub anime series
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[rustic pivot]

@thorny hornet #tears-of-themis is also terminated

[thorny hornet]

just axing the server for fun

[rustic pivot]

https://tenor.com/view/chopping-vegetables-mr-ping-kung-fu-panda-4-worried-nervous-gif-13739736522811617662

[next crescent]

Finished watching Arte and it was cute lol

I liked the latter half of the season

[outer scaffold]

You guys know the song Shelter from Porter Robinson? Sorry for dropping this bomb so suddenly, but I would say, that's the highest form of abandonment, it's a good cause to save his daughter, but she was left alone without any concious being, not even an AI

Just my thought.

[next crescent]

Oh of course, that'd be a living hell and you'd slowly go insane from no socialization lol

[outer scaffold]

You know the song right?

[next crescent]

Why else would I comment lol

Also who wouldn't

That'd be in this chat, I mean

[outer scaffold]

This is based on my understanding about humans being a social creature

Going oot now, do any of you have romance manga recommendation where it's about the bully and the bullied become lovers?

[next crescent]

I don't have any, but maybe someone else does

Other than of course silent voice

But I think that conversation happened earlier already

[craggy mango]

I didnt know Bocchi & Real were doing collabs

[dusty fable]

Ijiranaide Nagatoro-san is the only one I know. Not my cup of tea

[tidal shore]

my most hated genre tbh

can't stand it

[dusty fable]

it could be interesting if done properly. Like in "March comes in like a lion" though it's a secondary theme there. If an author of that calibre took it as a singular theme, it would be tremendously good (tbh, even in that anime where it's secondary or tertiary it's an immensely powerful theme).
But yeah, the genre kinda targets a certain kind of audience

I guess Kuzu no Honkai is a good example, though the themes there are a bit more complex

[tidal shore]

I don't remember this having that kinda relationship

other than abusive sister or something

[dusty fable]

then you sort of missed it. Sister loves her brother and also wants to ruin him. It's very subtly shown, so yeah, it's easily missed since it's not even in the front of the show

[tidal shore]

nah she just seems like a complete psycho

the kind of toxic shitstain you want to steer clear of in life

[dusty fable]

you misunderstood her character a lot

[dusty fable]

she is very calculative one

[tidal shore]

her character is that she's a psycho, what's there to misunderstand

I mean, I will admit, there's the other side you mentioned too, I didn't miss it

but that just makes her seem like more of a psycho

[dusty fable]

ngl, she is a great driving force of the story, so that part is missing for you

[tidal shore]

Ig it's relevant to the internat conflict of the Protag

[dusty fable]

it's more than relevant. Both of them want to be included in the worlds they don't belong to. He wants to be included in family ties, she wants to be included in world of shogi. This yearning is what connects them and they both actively try to destoy this yearning. The show provides a contrast, how MC gets a safe haven in a form of a separate friendly family that takes care of him, on the other hand she gets an abusive partner which creates a dichotomy of choices and asks a question, what would have happened to the main hero if at his lowest he was picked up not by a kind motherly figure and taken care of, but by an abusive person who would want to ensnare him

That's tbh a small part of it even. I don't want to be writing walls of text here

I don't remember if it was said in that anime or somewhere else but the premise is "Noone ever gets what they want in its entirety". Which can be considered as a second equalizer along with mortality

Interestingly, returning back to the discussion of female villains, I would say she is one of the most complex female antagonists there is. Considering how calculative she is, she is way more interesting than other similar characters

I just keep forgetting she is really an antagonist there, at least as far as anime show goes

[tidal shore]

u can also tell that the title was written by a woman

I might just be making shit up atp tho since I didn't properly look at the differences

but when combing my memory

there's this subtle (indirect?) side to the characters' complexity

and a much stronger emphasis on the aspects of a person that would be considered traditionally feminine

or maybe that's just a sign of a good writer Idk

[tidal shore]

I hadn't thought about this, pretty cool

[tidal shore]

villain =/= antagonist tho

a u specified already

mb for da ping

[dusty fable]

Yeah, but it's synonymous and pretty much the same a lot. Tbh, I don't even use the term villain much, marvel poisoned that well as well

[tidal shore]

villain - a very bad guy
antagonist - opposite to protagonist (ideology, beliefs, etc)

[next crescent]

opposite to protagonist you mean?

but yeah, antagonist is generally whatever/whoever is opposing the protagonist, hence the pro/ant in their names
but a villain can be literally anything to the protagonist, even a companion

i forget what the other term is though that's similar to antagonist but doesn't denote a specific thing/person and is more circumstances

nevermind it's still antagonist

[ionic schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/meme-anime-gif-14949650353385364338

[tidal shore]

yea Idk how I fudged this

thanks 😭

[tidal shore]

tickle tickle

[ionic schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/castorice-honkai-star-rail-hsr-cass-cassy-gif-8031912423097135371

[tidal shore]

touch me harder!

[ionic schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/hsr-castorice-im-gonna-touch-you-enthralpy-gif-3842987221577074477

[tidal shore]

not the whiteroom therapy

https://tenor.com/view/poland-patriotic-nichijou-yuuko-aioi-anime-gif-539735937067110517

[ionic schooner]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/483753408051019816/1394135749238067300/yuzuhasuck.gif

[tidal shore]

HUH

[ionic schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/yuzuha-alice-zzz-suck-milk-gif-15514803663428818120

[next crescent]

Ur fine

[rancid ledge]

HE KNOWS!! HE KNOWWWWWWS!!

[tidal shore]

chocolate mint ice cream

[tidal shore]

nani ga suki

skibidi

https://youtu.be/W-0lSiV-H7k

hey check this bop out @ionic schooner https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k8TyiR7BRCkc6u_wf_MNL6IPgBg6auyx0

good music

[ionic schooner]

ok

https://tenor.com/view/fire-piano-music-gif-11016376031114117781

why is the cover girls kissings!!

[tidal shore]

is it possible to touch lips without kissing

[ionic schooner]

@tidal shore ts peak💔💔💔

[tidal shore]

it is peak

it's alt rock

[ionic schooner]

omg she started singing

🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

[tidal shore]

alt rock is peak

[ionic schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/sakuya-gif-7153132318095246524

[tidal shore]

check the 5:22 and 10 min tracks

those r my fav

[ionic schooner]

ok

[tidal shore]

the 5:53 track is also epic

[ionic schooner]

why did the 10 minute one jus start sad

💔

[tidal shore]

it's a slow built up

[ionic schooner]

idk what shes saying

[tidal shore]

it actually peaks at the end

[tidal shore]

me neither bro lmao

[ionic schooner]

why does she have no susbcriber whatdhaail

[tidal shore]

they disbanded in 2008

[ionic schooner]

omg

its building up

[tidal shore]

yeap

[ionic schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/ultrakill-minos-minos-prime-thy-end-is-now-punch-gif-16630674477332190433

@tidal shore ITS BUILDING UP

5:30

omg

ITS STILL BUILDING UP

🦅

its still building up

zamn!!!!!

ts peak!

[tidal shore]

IKR

IT JUST KEEPS GOING

[ionic schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/keroro-letter-f-caption-what-will-i-live-for-now-crying-gif-17897043

that was indeed peak

[tidal shore]

let's go

coco-approved

[ionic schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/phainon-hsr-phainon-its-so-peak-peak-phainon-peak-gif-16944101213904565391

[tidal shore]

https://tenor.com/view/nichijou-yukko-yuuko-aioi-mio-mio-naganohara-gif-1414290421647555478

[topaz linden]

https://youtube.com/shorts/CMt1DcUEuh8

[ionic schooner]

Can I still tap 🔥🔥🔥

[fair wedge]

🤣

[tidal shore]

https://youtu.be/uA8NmYLK-rA?si=x3NiiP-kXOSB3_LC

I'm DYING

[fair wedge]

Sugar apple fairy tale (I still haven't even watched s2 yet lmao)

[fair wedge]

[woeful plinth]

[tidal shore]

I wonder how

https://fixvx.com/kieed23232/status/1956659496576790635

kieed (@kieed23232)

https://t.co/JivekxHB5i

vxTwitter / fixvx · Aug 16, 2025, 10:09 AM

[ionic schooner]

I'm thinking Miku Miku oooeeooo 🔥

[tidal shore]

oooeeeooo

[dusty fable]

Now that is pretty creative

[next crescent]

Balance c:

And strong muscle control

[rancid ledge]

its miku

[rancid ledge]

https://x.com/PeanutVicku/status/1957258457280606357?t=mmndg4PmJyHxVBDSqUmBXg&s=19

Vicku 🌻 (@PeanutVicku)

I love this kind of trope on them

#TBHX #tbhxnice #tbhxwreck #wrice #凸变英雄X

X · Aug 18, 2025, 1:49 AM

is this a sign to watch to be hero x?

[dusty fable]

No

[tidal shore]

watching Weak Hero live adaptation

they changed a lot but I like it

feels a lot more grounded in reality

[tidal shore]

one more to the pile

[tidal shore]

I was tryna do the lyrics for blue blue sky to the image above xd

[next crescent]

Oh

My bad

[rancid ledge]

oh here we go again

[topaz linden]

It's a bit of a mixed bag so far

First two arcs? Fantastic, incredible, amazing.
But then it fell into a bit of a slog for ~10ish episodes, and only recently has started improving again

[rancid ledge]

oooh...

[topaz linden]

for context, S1 (the current season) is more of an anthology to introduce the various heroes of the Top 10

S2, the next season, will be more story-focused

S1's arcs (the ???? one just aired last Saturday):

Nice and E-Soul's arcs were 🔥 tho

[rancid ledge]

ghostblade...

imteresting name

[topaz linden]

his was pretty decent I'd say

Cyan's was kinda generic.
Queen was wasted potential (a lot of hype, then went nowhere)
L's felt like it kinda lost the plot a bit but ended decently.
Ghostblade's was solid. Great action, decent story.
The Johnnies was... okay-ish.
???? was 🔥

Queen's is a shame tho cause the animations were but the story was just all fight, no substance lol

[rancid ledge]

I love the art

[topaz linden]

The English dub for it is fantastic too I will add

2D fights go pretty hard too

(the 3d ones too, but not all arcs will have that)

[craggy mango]

Lil bro is just like me fr fr

I just found out today, DomeKano's author managed to created amazing harem series

I think this one is her best masterpiece

[tidal shore]

what is this english 😭

[craggy mango]

They were talking in local dialect lol

The tl were trying to be creative

The glasses girl is the best girl by far https://mangadex.org/title/4509fd84-c003-4c57-ab07-e207e6999dab/issho-ni-kurashite-ii-desu-ka

[outer scaffold]

@dusty fable i have arrived at Sae's palace, here's what I want to say, first, I don't like how Sae doesn't see us as a threat in the interrogation room, shown by how we are not in our suit when we are questioned by her and I already know roughly the gap between where I am rn and the interrogation scene, second, after Sae's palace, the game will resume its CURRENT TIMELINE story, shown by how the fast forward calender thingy when you developed a new confidant, even though it's already the end of October, it wouldn't moved past 20th November

[outer scaffold]

Now, this is my theory on my very advanced save, Sae's palace will be the only palace where the story will actually immediately followed through and not waiting for the deadline, since we got caught outside of the casino after being betrayed by a certain person

[rancid ledge]

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1957483131940057200?t=mCfIvBrPJU-dpGDH4jwtnA&s=19

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

First look at ‘THE BACKROOMS’ movie.

Kane Parsons is directing the film and will be the youngest director ever for A24 at 20 years old.

X · Aug 18, 2025, 4:42 PM

[tidal shore]

Backrooms 😭

[outer scaffold]

20. The pressure is on them.

[tidal shore]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/584480669586161674/1407329041601663026/Screenshot_20250819_000113_Mihon.jpg?ex=68a5b4ce&is=68a4634e&hm=9a401c41705b4000ab15b0060d17917f6dea09aebcedc00844d2c4ebf46bab07&

John England

[next crescent]

Jack French

[tidal shore]

Jack is so american

make it Charles Brittany

actually Idk about Bretons my bad

[next crescent]

It's funny because it's not

But what about Sean Germany

Berthold Wales

Henry Portugal

[tidal shore]

oooh Henry is good

but the fact u match it with Portugal is scary

ooo Jack originated from English

Idj about Sean

Berthold sounds like nonsense so it's probably welsh

lemme check

it's Germanic

ehh Ig it counts

[next crescent]

Not like Ivan is much for a Scottish name tbf

[outer scaffold]

John Genshin

[craggy mango]

Pretty sure the author loves Johnny English

[tidal shore]

🫵 😭

[outer scaffold]

Jesùs Brazil

[craggy mango]

There are actual people with country name tho

Cuba Gooding, Germany Kent, etc

[next crescent]

Of course

There's also people out there with the names "Guy" or "Buddy"

Anything can be a name unless it's illegal

[craggy mango]

I know an english footballer whose named Danny Drinkwater

[next crescent]

Oh drinkwater, yeah

There's some funny and simple last names around here

I had a substitute teacher whose last name was brickhouse

And others who were fish, spoon, Ferrari, etc

[tidal shore]

John Guy

John Dickenson

D!ck Johnson

kinda crazy I can't say real names because of a filter

[ionic schooner]

Guys is shikanoko nokotan good

!!!

[tidal shore]

shikanoko noko noko noko noko noko noko

somebody ice scream

wait you could make an awesome electro house song from this

someone get katagiri in on this

oh ig i should answer, dunno haven't watched

tried manga didn't like it so /shrug

[outer scaffold]

Nope. They. still. managed. to. make. it. about. waiting. until. deadline.

[outer scaffold]

A fucking STD Devil.

[ionic schooner]

i mean

u gotta admit it makes sense

[outer scaffold]

HOW GLOCK? I DON'T READ CSM PAST PART ONE

[ionic schooner]

devils are made from the fear of humans

its kinda like jjk curses i think

its why gun devil and death devil r super strong

so std devil

cuz people r scared of stds

❤️‍🔥

[next crescent]

Kinda crazy how someone's nickname was turned into a derogatory term for a human body part

More like

[rancid ledge]

https://x.com/animetv_jp/status/1957873265214623764?t=EcQqNSYo6Dz0xzgBHllrSg&s=19

AnimeTV チェーン (@animetv_jp)

【Teaser Visual】
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Anime
Scheduled for 2026 on Crunchyroll!

Title: Sekiro: No Defeat

✨More: https://t.co/a0juDlkwmB

X · Aug 19, 2025, 6:32 PM

[rancid ledge]

https://fixvx.com/animetv_jp/status/1957871397469839503?t=so0HoiP6SEdYL06CD3McOA&s=19

AnimeTV チェーン (@animetv_jp)

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Anime Officially Announced!

Title: Sekiro: No Defeat

The anime is coming exclusively to Crunchyroll!

✨More: https://animetv-jp.net/news/sekiro-no-defeat-anime-officially-announced/
https://t.co/lkzRN3J1WY

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Aug 19, 2025, 6:24 PM

[ionic schooner]

Is dragon maid getting another season

Cuz I saw fire things happen in the manga!!

[topaz linden]

There's a movie that came out in Japan in June that should eventually be getting released globally Soon™, but no plans for an S3 yet

[ionic schooner]

aw

i saw a panel where ||fafnir is dressed as a girl|| and was wondering why bro was doimg that

[outer scaffold]

wtf was that, Dr. Maruki "...and as a phantom thief as well.".

[outer scaffold]

Wait. I just realized this seconds after being caught by the police, we were not in a palace anymore, we're actually irl, when we got out, we were actually outside the courthouse irl and not in a palace anymore

[ionic schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/dream-kamoshida-persona-5-bulie-dream-is-a-joke-gif-37591034649562115

[outer scaffold]

... masterpiece. Planning a fake "real s word".

Also, I'm hoping Akechi hearing Mona "for the first time and be surprised" is actually him surprised to hear Mona talking and not him already knew it from the tv station trip

https://tenor.com/view/pancakes-syrup-breakfast-pancake-gif-8221679989055697021

[outer scaffold]

This food messed up a whole scheme.

[dusty fable]

Sae not seeing MC as a threat is explained depending on your choices. But overall, threat level is influenced by unwillingness of the target to get their mind changed by Phantom Thieves. I think you may deduce further from here

So pretty much threat level corresponds to Target's opposition towards you

[outer scaffold]

Nope, I was wrong and I think you're wrong as well, I think it's because when Y, M, F checks out the interrogation room in Metaverse, they themselves don't change into their Metaverse clothes, essentially confirming that Sae sees people getting arrested and brought to the interrogation room not as a threat anymore

Anyway, where do I find Ryuji in my hiding during Shido's palace mission? Do I need to go to the Shibuya arcade or something?

[dusty fable]

Could be. I thought there was a scene where Joker was in his costume in the interrogation room, compared to other scenes where he is in a school uniform. Maybe I am misremembering an existence of such scene

[tidal shore]

plot twist

[outer scaffold]

Pancake.

[tidal shore]

the pancake was a lie

[dusty fable]

Because Joker being in a costume should indicate one neat trick

And I thought you were referring to it before

Though, if you are going for bad ending, there wouldn't be any tricks

[outer scaffold]

A whole 2.5 year scheme was destroyed just because Akechi played too much the detective role and couldn't blend in well around his age aka teenagers.

[outer scaffold]

Selling out our teammates right?

[dusty fable]

No, I think selling out your friends is a prereq for a good ending, because you show that you trust Sae

[outer scaffold]

Nope, I checked youtube, it was a bad ending

[dusty fable]

Ah, ok, nvm then

[outer scaffold]

https://youtu.be/iI6Ixq97SPc?feature=shared

Nevertheless, I want to play my good ending save first until it ends and then move to the save where I don't finish Sae's palace, but I think I want to make a save branch from that save too where I finished Sae's palace, but sells out our teammates

[dusty fable]

Ah well, I guess you have spoiled yourself the bad ending. Well, at least you get to listen to the great music track during the credits that plays only once in the game(at least I don't remember hearing it anywhere else)

Personally, I would play bad ending first, because that would have been the better way to experience it imo

I don't think it packs the same punch when you know more of the story and other endings

[outer scaffold]

Well, even if I don't spoiler myself through youtube, I would pick not selling out my teammates as well

[ionic schooner]

Ya I ain't being a snitch when I play 👊

[outer scaffold]

I ain't being a teacher's lapdog except when i'm being bullied ✊

[ionic schooner]

I'll be one if it's the baddie one!!!

[tidal shore]

I still can't get over haha w English dub VAs butcher Japanese name pronunciation

it's worse than eating tomatoes

[outer scaffold]

@dusty fable sorry for tagging, but can you help me with this?

[tidal shore]

straight up google it xd

[outer scaffold]

Couldn't find anything

Even when I asked reddit, no one has answered it

[outer scaffold]

If the game/the studio somehow find a way to redeem Akechi, I would crashout.

This guy kills the principal, Futaba's mother, Haru's father, even going as far as indirectly hurting hundreds of people.

All for what? His fame? If everyone in Japan is going against him, he would kill everyone in Mementos, but if they are killed, then what's his fame for if there wasn't anyone to fame over him

Also

https://www.ddinstagram.com/share/reel/BBV11ko0Ob

aidansantanaa (@aidansantanaa)

InstaFix

[outer scaffold]

Tell me your bad manga that makes you appreciate the good ones

[topaz linden]

Well, in my spreadsheet, these are my 4, 3, and 2's 👀

[outer scaffold]

RAKUDAI KISHI? THE ANIME THAT PEOPLE LOVES AND WANT MORE SEASONS OF IT? (Don't take my capslock seriously, it's just me pretending to overreact)

[topaz linden]

Anime's okay-ish, but both it and the manga annoyed me by ending right before the part people actually cared about (the tournament) 😭

I watched the anime, was like "mannnn, they end right before the tournament, lemme read thr manga to see what happened"...

...then the manga ends on the morning of the tournament

Annoyed me so much

[outer scaffold]

I read Boukun Tyrano, somehow, the weirdest thing for me in that manga was that the male mc aka the hero equivalent of the heroine (idk what it's called) doesn't know what coffee is.

[dusty fable]

No. I played the game 10 years ago. I don't remember major stuff, minor stuff like this never even existed in my timeline at this point

[torn spade]

🔴❇️Did you know the “REAL MYTHOLOGY” behind the Sharingan? It derives from Shintoism/Japanese Culture and the Mangekyou Sharingan’s Ability took inspiration from the Japanese Creation myth too! Most people don’t know that these anime abilities come from Ancient stories or Eastern Philosophy. https://youtube.com/shorts/5zgaMRV2SpA

[ionic schooner]

I didn't 🔥🔥

[rancid ledge]

https://www.vxtiktok.com/t/ZP8BkaWP1/

his fight scenes are so crazy, im concerned

[tidal shore]

weak hero

can't see shit in this edit tho

[topaz linden]

fr

[tidal shore]

it's like the opposite of the kdrama

cuz the kdrama is sloooooow

at least I got confirmation that they speak korean like real people in it so it's good for immersion listening

[topaz linden]

"his fight scenes are so crazy"
The scenes:

https://tenor.com/view/catwoman-halle-berry-basketball-kasper-white-gif-16308001893716951334

[tidal shore]

LMAO

https://youtu.be/873u4tthKvM

here it is actually

context: he got prank drugged during exam

[rancid ledge]

the way he stabs people with a pen, a fucking pen.

should i read the manhwa then?

[tidal shore]

this is a pen

[topaz linden]

https://tenor.com/view/with-a-pencil-john-wick-scary-scared-pencil-gif-16042376

[tidal shore]

kore wa pen desu

i have a bad case of diarrhoea

[topaz linden]

pen doko? pen koko!

[tidal shore]

koko ni

koko da!

[hot notch]

Wait we actually had a decent episode of Shield Hero this week. Is this the real life?

[outer scaffold]

Is this just a fantasy?

[outer scaffold]

You're not gonna believe this guys, but the butt gacha game will be getting Jill (and possibly Leon) from Resident Evil

[frank musk]

He could make an appearance

But definitely not playable for sure

[rancid ledge]

you mean gyatt gacha game?

[outer scaffold]

Yep

[rancid ledge]

butt gacha game lmao

ive seen designs and i cant tell if thats goonerbait or not

[tidal shore]

gyatt

sigma

pog

rizz

skibidi

[rancid ledge]

toilet

[tidal shore]

cheeki breeki i v damke

[rancid ledge]

bombardino crocodilo

[torn spade]

🔴🔴❇️Did you know the Hinduism/Buddhist Mythology behind Indra and Ashura from Naruto?
Indra in Naruto is the evil genius brother to Ashura, the kind and noble character. These two characters
Come from Eastern Philosophy. Only thing is that, in Hinduism, Indra is Good and noble character,
While the Asura are Anti gods or usually evil in Mythology. This is why Naruto kept losing against sasuke
(Although naruto holds back a lot) it comes from REAL Mythology. Indra is known to fight the Asura in
Mythology. https://youtu.be/T1kwF8L3dr0

[tidal shore]

no

bad gen alpha

https://tenor.com/view/chika-fujiwara-bonk-kaguya-sama-kaguya-sama-love-is-war-gif-24048317

bad

[ionic schooner]

tralalero tralala

tung tung tung tung tung sahur

https://tenor.com/view/ellen-joe-tralalero-tralala-tralalero-shark-zzz-gif-10804709472494930644

[tidal shore]

coco

get off brainrot

coco please

you're going to die if this keeps up

[ionic schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/ellen-joe-ellen-ellen-joe-zzz-ellen-zzz-zenless-zone-zero-gif-13165117291605861395

[tidal shore]

people are in danger and you're making jokes 😭

[outer scaffold]

A hero would sacrifice you for the world, a villain would sacrifice the world for you.

But!

There is an additional saying (all of this is not originally by me)

A true hero would sacrifice himself for you and the world.

[tidal shore]

ah the classic Hero Sacrifice trope

[rancid ledge]

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-pokemon-za-victreebel-mega-pokemon-victreebel-mega-gif-13116098916146390642

fatfuck

[outer scaffold]

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/21/japan/panel-hepburn-style-romanization/

[outer scaffold]

I just found out that the japan's government uses the romanization of し, ち, and つ where it sounds like si, ti, tu and not shi, chi, tsu

[tidal shore]

wha

crazy

[rancid ledge]

what the hell, sure

[outer scaffold]

@dusty fable Haru and Futaba are fucking crazy. Sympathize with Akechi's story? DON'T GIVE ME THAT BULLSHIT, HE KILLED YOUR PARENT, HARU AND FUTABA!

[tidal shore]

Ikr

"omg he's such a poor oomfie"

the oomfie: serial killer

the oomfie also: tried to kill your whole squad

the oomfie also also: the reason why you're stuck doing this shit in the first place

[outer scaffold]

The fandom now makes me suffer a tiny bit with their obssesion of Akechi and their "enemy to lovers/friend to lovers" thingy

[tidal shore]

I'm telling you

better learn this now

women are horny asf

they will g00n for the bad boys

it's pretty much a fact of life

like gravity

this propaganda was brought to you by caveradio

[outer scaffold]

The word goon is allowed now

[craggy mango]

Not only women

[tidal shore]

yea guys will simp for some screup like "I can fix her" and I'm like no ur not, u don't wsanna fix her cuz you like her more when she's broken

[ionic schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/azumanga-azumanga-daioh-あずまんが大王-tomo-tomo-takino-gif-18139859974235843679

[dusty fable]

Ah yes, the point where the story sucks. Not because devs try to make you sympathize with Akechi, but because they fail at it miserably. The whole point of Akechis dilemma exists only if you can argue that Phantom Thieves are actually in the wrong, but then devs forget to make Akechi a gray character for that to work

[tidal shore]

noooooo

GED latest chapter

naurrr

they couldn't've done that 😭

[rancid ledge]

i hate that trope

[outer scaffold]

That "normal" new year's sequence of events in P5R has my mind fucked up, i've only realized it was Maruki's doing or "third semester" just a few scene before entering the unknown palace

[outer scaffold]

Also
my top 3 P5R fav song currently:

1. Rivers in the desert
2. Life Will Change
3. Beneath The Mask

One last thing, I don't like how Akechi is that calm seeing his first very well known (by Phantom Thieves) victims, aka Wakaba, is alive

If it was his latest victims, aka Joker, then it makes senses in terms of usual trope where the villain kills the hero as the latest victim, but turned out that the hero was alive, but it was the first known victim

[topaz linden]

Oh yeh, Triple-Q did a great mashup with that second one

https://youtu.be/D94yoe5MmKI

[rancid ledge]

NOT THE DUMBBELL ANIME

[outer scaffold]

Nth with anime, i'm sorry

[ionic schooner]

I loved that one 💔

[rancid ledge]

That one guy had A LOT OF MUSCLES

all under that track jacket

[hot notch]

Yea I like how they killed off the original Blue Protocol and then like 3 months later announced this

[ionic schooner]

They should make more gym animes

[rancid ledge]

yeah lets make a power system around muscles

[rancid ledge]

not mashle, thats for sure

he just has muscle magic

id like a power system around gardening or potions

[ionic schooner]

Full metal Alchemist was so peak 💔💔

[craggy mango]

They need to make anime about bodybuilding championship

I'll be on front seat

[rancid ledge]

which one we talking here?

2003 or 2009

[ionic schooner]

I jus watched the newer one

[outer scaffold]

This time, Aka Akasaka finally makes a manga that is accustomed to his hobbies, Crazy Racoon Battle Royale, genre action

[dusty fable]

Lord of Mysteries powersystem is based off potions. There is also a book Mistborn that is based off solutions of metallic alloys. Both are pretty great

[rancid ledge]

okay score

[dusty fable]

Tbh, idk if it's an anime production issue or setting issue, but Lord of Mysteries would definitely benefit from deliberating on ingredients gathering part. So far, all ingredients were mostly immediately available when needed (with only a slight hint at their scarcity)

[rancid ledge]

as long as its not as bad as the tbate animation

[dusty fable]

It's quite the opposite. It's probably one of the best animations out there

By anime production I meant the way they warp the story to suit the episode and season lengtg

[tidal shore]

donghua 🤨

[tidal shore]

I'm watching the ONA and the animation is so goofy

wdym one of the best

it's like it's AI upscaled

framegen type shit

[dusty fable]

Erm, you do know that Lotm is released as a proper anime and as a chibi version, so it's 2 anime in parallel?

[tidal shore]

crazy

don't try to pull this on me tho

I can't unsee the stiffness in movement

in the "quality" version

[dusty fable]

This is one of the better moments https://youtu.be/5wx-SMm8xCE

[tidal shore]

yea I was just on this part in the show

xd

LMAO

no way they jsut did this transition

actually tragic

top 10 transition sins

[dusty fable]

https://youtu.be/Ge04IGJFXoc couldn't find a short with his fight unfortunately, only snippets here

It's interesting how they are doing Character PV trailers, as if it was a gacha game. Do Japanese anime do this?

[topaz linden]

I've seen it for some manwha adaptions, but only rarely

[dusty fable]

Now go watch Naruto with 10x slowdown as a punishment for posting anime upskirts

[tidal shore]

idk what's anime upskirt but

I'm just posting stuff that bothers me, that plays out in real time

unlike with naruto where people were posting stills which weren't meant to be viewed outside of the animation context

[outer scaffold]

Fortnite.

[tidal shore]

the way the hair moves and the shadows are here especially makes me feel like there was AI involved

it just looks off

I don't even care if they used AI btw

[outer scaffold]

https://tenor.com/view/lighthouse-the-lighthouse-wake-laugh-wake-laughing-gif-16420751

[tidal shore]

I just can't help noticing this

[dusty fable]

Nani, I think you are watching the wrong version, or maybe it has additional content, like directors cut or something. It's not in the aired version

[tidal shore]

https://hianime.to/watch/lord-of-mysteries-19802?ep=141322

its around 17-19 min mark idk

[outer scaffold]

But seriously, just how popular LoTM is? I heard that the entirety of the novel would take 17 years to adapt, this is coming from an LoTM enthusiast account

[topaz linden]

No idea, only heard about it with this adaption

But very much been enjoying it so far

Dub's great, and the fight scenes have had pretty nice choreography so far to them (especially nice given so many of their battles are with things that are hard to do typical fight choreography for)

[dusty fable]

Yeah, 1st episode is the worst in terms of animation. I also found a lot of animations that were sort of unfinished there, at least 4

But I kinda skipped a lot of that unpolished stuff mainly because I was too preoccupied thinking about stuff on the screen

[next crescent]

The animation at the end of episode 1 is probably the best animation in the episode

And then that quality just carries over to the future episodes

I think it just suffers from being the episode to try and establish everything

Before they move onto the fights, the magic, and everything else

[rancid ledge]

link click lan studio used ai btw

[woeful plinth]

happy anniversary- oh wait something not right

[deft needle]

https://tenor.com/view/blue-lock-anime-football-animation-meme-gif-2424577874364122807

[ionic schooner]

I never watched original sin what's the squid doing 💔

🦑

[craggy mango]

It basically Doraemon but from happy planet

It has a lot of happy gadget, the camera is one of it

[dusty fable]

Preparing The Game of Squid

[ionic schooner]

SQUID GAMES

https://tenor.com/view/thanos-squid-game-gif-3133994138096023026

[dusty fable]

This is pretty funny https://youtu.be/ASwJSpA8ISI Heroes of Might and MagicTelevision

[ionic schooner]

IS THAT LINK

https://tenor.com/view/legend-of-zelda-botw-totk-link-thumbs-up-gif-17944850775285823178

[outer scaffold]

Hey uhh, do any of you read Komi-san until the end?

I wanna ask, are there people irl who would do the same as Kawai? As in, rejected their own crush in order for the crush to have a development to the one who's rejecting them's liking?

[tidal shore]

as in

playing cold so that they seem more desirable to the other party?

[outer scaffold]

If you read the manga, you know that after Tadano was rejected by Kawai, he returned to being normal from being chuunibyou and that is what Kawai wanted

[tidal shore]

I didn't read the manga (or even watch the anime for that matter, not interested)

bottle it down for me without all the fluff

[dusty fable]

No, that s Zelda, considering she is a girl

[ionic schooner]

Skibidi!!

[tidal shore]

GYATT

[outer scaffold]

P5R normal gameplay, done.

Man, that ending of Maruki and the grand ending is so good

[tidal shore]

GG

wdyt of ||Maruki's moral dilemma|| @outer scaffold ?

[outer scaffold]

The same as Akechi.

[tidal shore]

what

no I'm asking the ||choice he gave you||

Akechi is a villain

[outer scaffold]

Akechi wants to carve out his own path after Maruki's confrontation on LeBlanc, I chose to comply with him

Let me tell u a story before i'm going to bed

[tidal shore]

no, like, are you even reading what I'm saying 😭

[outer scaffold]

Yes?

What choice first? The Sumire one or during in LeBlanc?

[tidal shore]

Idfk about any other choices

I'm talking about the ending

pretty sure there are no meaningful choices that you have control over in this game other than the endings

the ||"keep the illusion going vs destroy it"|| choice

[outer scaffold]

||Destroy it.||

[outer scaffold]

Continuing this

2019 was one of the worse year for me, immediately on the night on the New Year's day (not from 31st to 1st), I was sick so much that I vomited until nothing was left in my stomach and began vomiting green stuff

After that, I was brought into the hospital until I was brought into one of the bigger hospital in the capital

A few days to weeks go by and I was fine, that is until around may, where I was dripping blood from (sorry to say this disgusting thing) my butt, so I was brought into a specific clinic for teenagers, the doctor thought it wasn't something that is serious, until he saw my lower mouth lips

It had black spots, me and my family thought for the whole life it was some sort of birth mark, but it wasn't

It's called Peutz Jeghers Syndrome

A syndrome where you would polyps or small pieces of meat growing inside your intestines

And I was immediately scheduled for a colonoscopy to remove any polyps that have grown

The medical act was through and nothing seems happening until I was back at home and started feeling so much in pain that made me unconsciously spasms

Turns out, my big intestine were swallowed into my small intestine, I had to get an operation with the possibility of me having to use a stoma or a tube on my intestine, turns out, my intestine were fine and I was stitched up again

Maybe in ||Maruki's version, I would never had any of that, but because of that experience, I experience my first major height growth, getting into my college, and having fun with my friends||

I would reject any of ||Maruki's version of my "happy" reality||

Sorry for writing so much

[dusty fable]

It seems to me that you put superficial value to "objective reality". In my case, I would choose a reality in which I am a better person or have a potential to become a better person. And I think for different people the answer would be different. Some experiences simply make you a worse person and a chance to avoid such experiences would have been better for such people

Again, the weakness of p5r story is that Marukis reality is crafted to have glaring deficiencies thus making you reject it. Similarly to how Akechi is depicted. Not a very interesting choice for me

[topaz linden]

Kinda sounds like the character growth version of that one broken window economics meme

[tidal shore]

sad, sad reality

[dusty fable]

Tbh, we might be a lucky generation(s) that doesn't have to choose between objective reality and simulated reality. We are kinda forced into a single one for the life. Might not be a case in the maybe close future

There is an emerging social | digital reality and people already cope with dividing their facilities between real and digital.

Like, for example, what is better: developing real or digital skills? Maintaining your real or digital persona? For now this is still skewed towards physical you, but some people already spend more time maintaining their digital image compared to the real self (sometimes even neglecting their real self)

[topaz linden]

Meanwhile, pretty much my entire extended friend group irl just refers to each other by our usernames

[ionic schooner]

guys

is gurren lagaan good

ima watch it

[dusty fable]

Yes

But it's Gainax

[ionic schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/super-tengen-toppa-gurren-lagann-simon-the-digger-gurren-lagann-anti-spiral-gif-13657098657597392500

[dusty fable]

Sometimes you just don't get Gainax until you do

[ionic schooner]

it looks like edgerunners but older!!

[dusty fable]

It looks similar only because the talent involved is connected(Gainax => Trigger). They don't have any other similarities tbh, just a little bit in how characters are depicted maybe

[ionic schooner]

ya i jus meant the look

kamina looks like hed be in edgerunners

https://tenor.com/view/kamina-sunglasses-kamina-gurren-lagann-kamina-gurren-lagann-kamina-gurren-lagann-sunglasses-gif-6561685705402811748

[dusty fable]

Kamina is Trigger's mild obsession. It seems like they want Kamina in their own anime too. Tried multiple times too not quite successfully

Finally, third time is the charm. Surprising, how many synonyms to "mild obsession" are banned on this server

[dusty fable]

Btw there is a Humble Bundle choice with Persona 5 Royal and a few other games for 12 bucks or something right now until August ends. A VERY good proposition, and the game is worth it

Tbh, the game is totally worth 60 bucks, but for 12 bucks is just a steal

[outer scaffold]

Where? Steam? PS store?

[ionic schooner]

Whatdahail

What's a humble bundle

Cuz I got the game for like

40 or 50 dollars

[outer scaffold]

LET ME TAKE IT BACK, THAT SHIT WAS NOT ROMANCE AT ALL, IT WAS PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA

@dusty fable I don't like how at the end of Kawakami's confidant stuff, she STILL doesn't know what actually happened to us prior to us entering Shujin

At least, that's how it is in my save where Kawakami wasn't dating Ren

Also, how the fuck does ||Sumire have the photo with us at the shrine if we were locked up actually irl from last year?||

[topaz linden]

TL;DR: Bundles of itemd and/or subscription that gets you bundles (there's overlap between the two, but also some seperate) where you can acquire batches of games at very cheap prices and all the items go to charity.

Not 100% sure about the subscription-based ones, but for the detached/standalone bundles, there's typically a "Pay What You Want" price, with the lowest getting a small bunch of items, a few dollars getting you more, then the median/average donation getting you the full bundle.

(They also have bundles for things besides games too. Have seen everything from video editing software to manga to dnd books)

[ionic schooner]

ic

[topaz linden]

TL;DR: Companies let Humble Bundle sell bundles of their stuff (games, books, programs, etc.) for dirt cheap to raise money for charity

[ionic schooner]

u mean its not like

playstation plus

where u get it temporarily

[topaz linden]

Nah

[ionic schooner]

whatthesigma i paid half my birthday money

[topaz linden]

You get the games permanently with Humble Bundle

[topaz linden]

Just have more birthdays

[sullen wyvern]

Humble used to be so good originally, I remember getting the WB bundle for like, 4.50

Nowadays they're all pretty pricy

Like, comparatively.

I miss the days of being a broke high schooler and discovering neat new games through cheap bundles

[frigid jasper]

man

they dont make ops and eds like they used to

not necessarily a bad thing, lots of amazing stuff still today

but stuff like kalafina or the spice n wolf op is what i miss most

[sullen wyvern]

https://youtu.be/XW9BapLxwkw it's true

[topaz linden]

nowdays it's the randomest shows that get the banger openings tbh

[frigid jasper]

these days the genre is more towards rap/hiphop as well

theyre great, like stuff from creepynuts and that lost in paradise song

but i miss the mystical feeling if old songs

or maybe im just feeling nostalgia

[topaz linden]

Like one of my favorites from last year was a super pretty opening from The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash of all things

https://youtu.be/-biFNoRk-3I

[frigid jasper]

my god what is that title

[topaz linden]

actually unironically a pretty nice grounded fantasy series

[frigid jasper]

https://youtu.be/KGAnRPnl-qQ?si=wNCfsvHvWMhw8urg

yea, these days u really cant judge even if the title is so corny

this one was also a great ed and a chill show

[topaz linden]

Sort of a slice of life story focused on a wandering traveler girl and her trash-eating slime just trying to survive in the broader world after getting chased out of her hometown. Very chill, very nice art too

[frigid jasper]

ooh i see

also guys

pls watch dekin no mogura

i need it to be popular enough so someone will pick up the manga TL

[next crescent]

Why does the hello kitty pajamas girl look like she'd probably be a certified psycho

[topaz linden]

https://youtu.be/XRZKXPpvCds

ZZZ... but Persona 5

[rancid ledge]

ranma 1/2 is peak

[rancid ledge]

would yall like a zelda anime or nah?

[topaz linden]

There's a lot of angles you could go with it. Some I would like, some nah

a Majora's Mask zelda anime would be very different than a Tears of the Kingdom or Wind Waker one

[rancid ledge]

a majoras mask anime would have a bit of horror stuff

just dark

[tidal shore]

twilight princess would be epic

[rancid ledge]

https://x.com/Lazoonny/status/1959895874059780243?t=MtCZAG4POENPP0UQbmf33w&s=19

ＬＡＺＯＯ🐰 busy workin on comms 📝 (@Lazoonny)

GUYS, HEAR ME PLS
Link (TOTK) and 9S (NieR: Automata) have something in common:

X · Aug 25, 2025, 8:29 AM

lucky ass bastards

[tidal shore]

androgynous mfs be like

[rancid ledge]

i needa play it

[outer scaffold]

I have a question

Why do some languages seperate their formal/work linguistic and their non-formal/socially linguistic very much?

In Indonesia, we don't have that much of separation, other than one example "kamu" became "lu", sort of a like "you" became "u"

[dusty fable]

@ionic schooner https://www.humblebundle.com/membership/home it's 15 bucks nowadays, though it's a membership so they will charge every month unless you cancel or pause. Kinda scummy, but there are often really good games for cheap, so I don't mind too much. The games are yours to keep usually through a steam code

[dusty fable]

Sounds like a solution to Asian birthrate problem.

[outer scaffold]

For the workforce here, you just need low tone, good attitude, and professionalism that isn't too much

[ionic schooner]

Fire!!

[sullen wyvern]

I've been watching the original since the subbed version is free on YouTube TV and movies nowadays

[outer scaffold]

Is Metaphor Refantazio worth it?

Does it have the weakness system like Persona has?

Because what is bothering me a bit is the changing turn thingy, where when it changes to player's turn, it plays an animation of dark teal circle thingy and that is overload sensory for me

[craggy mango]

Just read new Shangri la Frontier new chapter

Right at big revelation, mc is showing his bird brain again even without his bird mask

Only took them (check notes) 234 chapters for this moment

[frank musk]

So sugoi, so yeehaw

https://x.com/nekomikuri/status/1960042888618025164?t=UnY3hYqaJCs6D8WNF58OIg&s=19

寝込み栗 NekomiKuri (@nekomikuri)

The American ekiben, so sugoi, so yeehaw

X · Aug 25, 2025, 6:13 PM

[next crescent]

That meal unironically slaps as airplane food

I'd take that over a tiny bag of stale chips any day

[rancid ledge]

would yall reccomend me to watch ace attorney or play the game?

[outer scaffold]

Hello guys??

[topaz linden]

never heard of it, so no idea

[dusty fable]

The game had a great response from the community. Some ppl even nominated it for the game of the year. It has a great music, interesting more engaging gameplay and fascinating story. Somehow, I don't think those things work. I don't know a single person who completed the game. So my verdict: see if you can try it yourself by borrowing from someone else, don't buy it. Tbh, I have a lot of Atlus fans among friends. Only one person, thoroughly enjoyed the game. Around 15 other ppl enjoyed parts of it, but felt unimpressed

[outer scaffold]

Ok

Let me ask another channel

[dusty fable]

If you want to try a really good game from Atlus, see Shin Megami Tensei 5. It goes back to Atlus roots as a studio. Can feel pretty unusual at first, but has significant depth

[outer scaffold]

Saw some gameplay, don't know why, but don't like it

[dusty fable]

Tbh, there aren't many Persona like games out there that are really good. Persona 3 remake is your best choice. Otherwise Fire Emblem Three Houses is probably the greatest second option

[dusty fable]

The game is pretty much superior.

If you can handle VN style

[rancid ledge]

okay ill emulate them

[craggy mango]

They went full original with season 3, coming next month
https://youtu.be/_8p6YkEPVco

Tbh Alice in Borderline Retry wasnt really good, so maybe the mangaka gave green light for original story

[outer scaffold]

My next game surely, probably wait until next weekend

https://comick.io/comic/boku-to-kimi-gyaru-ga-fufu-ni-naru-made

This manga will not be continued since the author died back in June but was announced today

[tidal shore]

sounds like slop

[dusty fable]

Is it a case of a death by the slop? 🫡

[tidal shore]

i sentence you to death by slop

[dusty fable]

Hmm, I am slop resistant. It slips through the slopes of my brain

Slapped myself with an Unsloppable label.

[tidal shore]

slop overcomes all

[rancid ledge]

give me a anime thats not even slop

[dusty fable]

Am I correct in understanding that you have just proclaimed the entirety of all anime as slop?

[rancid ledge]

did i say all anime is slop

[dusty fable]

That's exactly what I am asking. Did you?

[rancid ledge]

im asking you.

[ionic schooner]

ODD TAXI

[dusty fable]

Don't ask the asker. Be the answerer.

[rancid ledge]

no thanks.

[dusty fable]

Is the Slopover coming to claim our souls?

Because

Slopover comes, y'all

[hard scarab]

the game is much better

[dusty fable]

Prime slop, btw. "Slop taxi". Imagine this line of work not being slop. And about animals to the boot. Animals is the embodiment of slop. They eat slop, sh*t slop and if you are a lama, make slop sounds with lips. Even the main hero suffers PTSD - post traumatic slop disorder, because he suffered so much from slop /j

[rancid ledge]

does the same go for danganronpa and persona games?

[hard scarab]

for persona yeah for Danganronpa, Anime and the games have connected continuity

[hard scarab]

aside from that, the anime adaptations typically don't adapt the full game and story so it won't feel complete fr aa and persona

[rancid ledge]

ah okay, i see

[hard scarab]

prime example for this is that ace attorney has 6 mainline games, and 5 spin-offs and the anime only depicts aa1 2 and 3

[tidal shore]

Heaveny Delusions

[rancid ledge]

well damn.

[outer scaffold]

Is P5R ending where Mementos fused with the real world a good representation of what would happened if we only target the head of a crime organization instead of clearing out every single thing in it?

[ionic schooner]

idk i havent played it yet

[tidal shore]

leading question innit

can you tl;dr describe what happens?

@outer scaffold

[outer scaffold]

Spoiler alert down below

[tidal shore]

without knowing the context, I can answer this partially I think

first you gotta know what the crime organisation does, whether it procures or produces the goods, how their internal seniority system works, what country is it (surveillance influences the end answer a lot)

the answer can vary wildly depending on these criteria

[outer scaffold]

||So after Shido's confession live on TV, his lackeys were very much panicking of being arrested, that they pushed forward with tweaking the Mementos by foreign affairs, they tried to push down PT's news and popularity to make them "disappeared" in Mementos (although this part might be a miss)||

[tidal shore]

ah if it's related to that then

this is how corrupt government operates in general

[outer scaffold]

||And the tweaked Mementos causes the Holy Grail to appear because they want Shido to stay in power and make people rely on the pre-corrupted/corrupted government||

[tidal shore]

a criminal organisation typically does not have that kind of reach, unless we're talking about Nestle (all my homies hate Nestle) and oligarchs, but "lawfully" they can get away from any sort of crime they commit anyway /shrug

[outer scaffold]

||Effectively making people only rely to anything that would lead them and not thinking for themselves||

[tidal shore]

the common thing is going underground yea

[tidal shore]

Idk how to interpret this part tho, could be a metaphor for people prefering to stick with what they know, or for people who prefer to avoid their eyes from the uncomfortable truth

or I'm rading too much into this and it's just Persona-esque fantasy fiction

[outer scaffold]

Yes, it's actually the second part, but more so unconsciously through mementos by the lackeys

[tidal shore]

yeee

what usually happens with criminal organisations though is:

• if you don't seize their means of production, a new group will appear
• if you only take the boss, the underlings might go "quiet", some might quit, some might go on to make their own crime rings
• if you take it all, you create a hole in the black market which someone could fill in, so if you're going to commit then commit all the way

that reminds me of Akatsuki no Yome, when the topic came around to illegal deals they'd usually stomp the problem at the source

good writer

also bad writer, but for different reasons, good grasp on reality tho

[outer scaffold]

Uhhh, couldn't the law enforcement do something about the hole in the market, rather than waiting for a new group to fill it?

[tidal shore]

that's a very optimistic view

[dusty fable]

Heaveny Delulu is a major slop candidate. The story is about monsters that convert humans into slop and main characters that try to escape being converted into slop. As if it wasn't enough, the secondary story is about an organization experimenting with slop on children. If you think it's too much, then not yet: children themselves start to produce slop. It goes so far, that some slop in form of pictures encourages other kids for slop behaviour, and the pictures themselves become monsters, which encloses the circle of slop in the story

[tidal shore]

the mere existence of crime organisations in an area points at the shortcomings of the law enforcement

they wouldn't exist if law enfcorcement was effective

[dusty fable]

Not quite, criminal organisation is a natural result of unfulfilled supply-demand chain. Meaning, it's a hole in economy and legislation, not law-enforcement

[tidal shore]

yea I omitted that

there's also

where crime originates from

usually in poor areas, where people don't have many opportunities too

because those areas are not cared for

[dusty fable]

While true, it's partially a misconception. Criminals also thrive in rich areas too. Sometimes even more so than in poor ones, because the rich are a naturally better target

[tidal shore]

the rich areas, really? where people have the most to lose?

[dusty fable]

Again, it comes down to supply-demand chains and ability to fulfill them. Rich create a bigger volume of demand since they have more means for it. Which is why USA is a bigger target for criminals than the rest of the world

[tidal shore]

so USA centric

the rich just so happen to work differently in the likes of the USA

you also create more demand by taking away social and economic mobility

[dusty fable]

The rich are the same everywhere. They create demand. USA just has more rich ppl

[tidal shore]

nah the rich are like 200x more corrupt there than whatever is happening in my own country

cuz they pretty much ruined an entire nation

ever since Henry Ford

and even before that

you can't compare a country ruled by oligarchs to a democracy

[dusty fable]

Maybe short term. Long term it reduces demand because it reduces the available funds in possession of ppl to create said demand. Demand is inseparable from the ability to buy things

[tidal shore]

Idt crime lords care about the funds tho

but I do know that crime stops being viable once you can make a good living by having a job

[dusty fable]

It starts to become viable again as soon, as you get more money than you know what to do with. So, pretty much like any stochastic process in theory of failure, it has a U shape. It is the smallest in the middle, while rich and poor generate the most crime

[robust vortex]

What was the author cooking bruh , I promise this is not what the manga is about

Source: The Sorcerer King of Destruction and the Golem of the Barbarian Queen

[tidal shore]

lmao got real suddenly

[dusty fable]

Which is why when your middle class is thinning, you start to get more problems with crime (USA is a prime example of a thinning middle class). The solution, is to expand middle class through legislation

[tidal shore]

yea I don't think that's going to work

the ruling class don't care as long as not too many people are unhappy

[dusty fable]

You just said that yourself, only yours wasn't a full picture.

[tidal shore]

but it also makes no sense because logically speaking the ruling class (and the rich class of people) should be interested in enriching their own citizens so that more money can flow so that they can make more money

if they make everyone poor then I don't see what long term gains from this could exist

[tidal shore]

ok I will concede

corruption also goes up with power, the crime side I hadn't thought of

[dusty fable]

America just suffers a runaway process. Because capitalism is still pretty young as a concept

[tidal shore]

I don't buy it

Norway and Finland seem to have it sorted out, sorta

the Netherlands too

[dusty fable]

Norway and Finland so far existed in an area devoid of much geopolitical interest.

It would change in the future, because of the Arctic

[tidal shore]

that seems overly simplistic

[dusty fable]

And Netherlands should be credited with inventing stock market and the market as we know it. So they know a thing or two about proper self-enrichment. I would say, they might be the 1 of only 2 nations who are actually savvy

[dusty fable]

It's not simplistic if you consider that they didn't experience much of adversity in modern history(with small exceptions). And they didn't project much influence too to gain adversity. So they had plenty of opportunity to focus on their own inner affairs

[tidal shore]

fair enough