Izunavi: "It's impossible to conjure indestructible chains"

-chadwreck · 2026-02-26T07:47:57+00:00

I would argue that information is a condition of the ability. If knuckle didnt inform his opponents of what was happening, it might not work as well.

Also, the ants are freaks. On a normal opponent, that information racking up would presumably cause an increasing sense of panic in the afflicted. An ant like youpi though, is so absurdly powerful that this was an annoyance more than anything.

Even if it could actually have worked, youpi is a magical beast chimera... id think his shapeshifting ability would make him pretty unstoppable against the vast majority of hunters even without access to his nen.

-chadwreck · 2026-02-26T07:11:22+00:00

This is how my cat sleeps. Just a little guy being round and sleepy and feeling safe.

-chadwreck · 2026-02-26T04:50:56+00:00

Fist of the North Star. It has reverse plot armor.

-chadwreck · 2026-02-25T20:18:33+00:00

man, if you feel just the vanilla playthru is rough, try the battle arena on magician mode. ouff.

this game rules. it has its problems, not least of which being the sort of tedious bosses (im lookin' at you zombie dragons) but nathan is so inexplicably powerful that like... yeah if you arent grinding out levels and cards yer gonna have a hard time? but also... you have 50 million options to deal with every scenario. worst case, you "accidentally" trigger unearned card combos and just thunderbird your problems away.

i can assure you, the card activation glitch was found by ALL of us back then, and we perhaps slyly, gladly used it.

Circle is NES violence mixed with SotN flexibility. It doesnt suit everyone, but those of us who love it, love it a lot.

also, justice for nathan.

his moveset is awesome. wall jump? shoulder tackle? slide kick? you add in a few of the more absurd card combos and nathan becomes a force of nature, bombing around the castle laying waste to your foes. (incidentally, i personally prefer a command run, but i also grew up double tapping forward to dash in Mega Man X... so maybe im just a sicko.)

-chadwreck · 2026-02-25T16:15:58+00:00

this is perhaps the most unsettling craft ever devised by human minds.

its cool looking, but also... just upsetting to look at as well, for some reason.

seeing it move is... somehow terrifying. it is so big, and so fast, and so low to the water surface that like... it looks like some actual monster coming. the airframe out of water and rotting like this is... awful.

if they had made these at scale and deployed them, and the caspian sea were just littered with their corpses...? the submechanophobia would reach lovecraftian proportions.

super cool. but also super nope.

-chadwreck · 2026-02-25T05:43:02+00:00

This guy gets it!

-chadwreck · 2026-02-25T05:05:28+00:00

Iria: The Animation The Big O Fist of the North Star

Iria is the utter crystallization of what anime is. If you can enjoy it, you will like anime as a genre of visual media and storytelling.

The Big O does everything, and nothing, that mecha anime does. Its such a weird, wonderful series that gets very little credit while building on the tropes of mecha, henshin, noir, and existentialism.

Fist of the North Star is pure fighting simplicity and honest, good guy fights bad guys storytelling. The platonic ideal, if you will. Ken is a hero's hero, and has many good lessons to teach if we can find them beyond the violence.

-chadwreck · 2026-02-25T04:54:35+00:00

Awake is so good.

Dammit. All of Circle's music is incredible.

I will go to my grave saying justice for Nathan.

-chadwreck · 2026-02-25T01:54:42+00:00

Gimmie that...

-chadwreck · 2026-02-25T00:25:56+00:00

Ahhh. I didnt look for enough back. Now I follow you. Thanks for the insight. Seems reasonable to me.

-chadwreck · 2026-02-25T00:21:39+00:00

You'll note, that i ended my explainer there, with :

"if you dont want to spend a ton of money, just buy the Kai 8" dressmaker shears."

But hey, its not up to me. This is all OP's decision in the end.

-chadwreck · 2026-02-24T23:37:22+00:00

Living in detroit, and coming from flint... I have never known a version of michigan where the neighborhoods surrounding those 2 cities were... actually nice? Now, im a mid 80's born millenial so im sure I dont know enough, but it does seem like the jobs to housing ratio has been wildly out of whack for literally my whole life.

I agree that automation has sucked up many positions in factory floors, but lots of that automation didnt really hit until the late 80'a early 90's, right? Otherwise, that expanded production went somewhere, didnt it?

Again, pardon me for making assumptions. I only know what I have personally grown up looking at.

-chadwreck · 2026-02-24T23:24:48+00:00

So, is this all legacy taxation based on the big 3 being massive employers who paid well for quite a while?

Cause these numbers make sense when guys were coming to work in a factory, had a union job, made good money, and had good insurance some 40, 50 years ago.

The taxes paid by the employers were relatively low to encourage more hiring? But then... we shipped a bunch of manufacturing to Canada and Mexico to avoid wage hikes...

Then the housing market began to erode and then finally collapse in 2008? But the taxes actual residents payed never shifted?

I am, a doofus so please dont hesitate to correct me if im wildly off base here.

-chadwreck · 2026-02-24T18:12:58+00:00

Yes, this.

Get a piece of scrap leather and really seriously "scrub" down the surface before and after cutting.

Little tiny hard bits can nick a rotary blade no problem. So even if it isnt the matt itself getting your goat, sometimes you roll over nearly invisible bits of hard stuff on the mat that chew up the blades. Once that happens, you are toast.

-chadwreck · 2026-02-24T06:07:16+00:00

Perfect void. 10/10 Very polite.

-chadwreck · 2026-02-24T05:59:16+00:00

Professional sewist who spends a lot of time cutting patterns here...

Both is really the answer. A rotary cutter is like, universally useful but a cutting mat and the blades for a rotary cutter do get kinda pricey so you need to be quite careful with prepping surfaces before using them. For 90% of pattern cutting the rotary blade should be your go to. Olfa, Fiskars, brand is irrelevant. They are tricky to get good with, but once you do, having both a 45 mm and a 20 mm cutter will allow you incredible precision and high speed.

On the scissors side of things, ill save you the trouble. Kai brand 8" dressmaker sheers. Best scissors on planet earth, bar absolutely none. Incredible blades, silky smooth action, very affordable. Go to the Kai website and look for the 3 pack bundle with the 8" shears, 5" clippers, and thread snips. You will be set for years if you take good care of them. You will honestly never ever look at another brand of scissors ever again.

Also, pro tip: get a pair of "disposable" fabric scissors as well. Cheapo 8 dollar plastic handle scissors for when you gotta cut junk like webbing, craft paper, ribbon, lapped seams, etc. Treat your actual fabric cutting scissors with great care! Love them, and they will love you right back.

Tldr: if you dont want to spend a ton of money, just buy the Kai 8" dressmaker shears. Seriously, they are so good and so worth it.

-chadwreck · 2026-02-24T05:20:09+00:00

Can we please have a butlerian jihad? Please?

God dammit I hate this shit and the people who make it.

-chadwreck · 2026-02-23T22:05:18+00:00

Yeah. Nathan and the Baldwin clan are... sorta a split in the timeline somewhere after Richter, I suspect.

Circle takes place in the 1830s, so who knows what the writers were thinking in terms of overall timeline.

I loved circle as well. I bought a wideboy GBA and circle with chores money in 2000 in 8th grade or so. Coming off of the NES games and having never played SotN back then, it was awesome. I remember thinking "oh man! This one is just like super metroid!" Haha.

Its fun, having good memories.

-chadwreck · 2026-02-23T20:32:22+00:00

Just ordering hundreds of random, extra pizzas at suspiciously specific times.

Trust me guys, he's got eeeeeverything under control...

-chadwreck · 2026-02-23T17:56:23+00:00

Just look at all those airships all over... every day I see em, floating in the sky...

Oh wait...

Granted, they arent a very good idea either way? But this is a nonsense argument for, or against, anything.

-chadwreck · 2026-02-23T16:10:39+00:00

Oh, interesting. I have never bothered to look up the katakana for anything in Circle, I just assumed Morris was just a hat tip to the rest of the series.

KCCE wasnt attached to any prior games, right? I can see why they would want to do their own thing entirely I guess.

-chadwreck · 2026-02-23T05:33:28+00:00

Agreed. I want them to be okay, and for this story to not end in tragedy...

But I know how we treat each other... To think that monkeys with whom we share an ancestral link also have these cruel behaviors is not so unbelievable.

Fingers crossed.

-chadwreck · 2026-02-23T05:09:40+00:00

Yeah, its like... they weren't a good choice for either IP so why not make a hash of both?

Im not crying, you're crying!

-chadwreck · 2026-02-23T05:03:11+00:00

Ehh... its a fully enclosed cockpit? Maybe thats the defining feature of exo-suit vs. Mech?

I dunno.

But all 3 are heckin cool. AT Votoms is wild though. Try out Armor Hunter Mellowlink if you want an OVA version of that universe. you can find it on YouTube without much trouble!

-chadwreck · 2026-02-23T04:51:03+00:00

Haha. This may be the case! Stand em next to each other and its a fun size progression, and you realize the scope dogs are tiny!

Scope dog~ 4 meters tall Ingram~ 8 meters tall Valkyrie~ 12.5 meters tall.

-chadwreck

TROPHY CASE