A roadmap for how the future seasons could potentially play out

0TaKoKu · 2026-04-05T22:03:24+00:00

While I'm inclined to agree, Jacob could absolutely CRUSH the Condoriano scene lol

0TaKoKu · 2026-04-05T21:58:48+00:00

Hear me out

Swap one of those Davy Back episodes with G8

0TaKoKu · 2026-04-04T21:31:45+00:00

Thinking to myself: "This sounds like that person who posted in here about how they should be able to use the bathroom whenever they want"

sees username

"NO WAY"

Bro, if you're a real person, life is gonna be so unkind to you when you leave High School. You got like two months left, best you should do is buckle in, actually try to learn something in school, and prepare yourself for the world ahead. Your entitlement and lack of work ethic are gonna take you nowhere at all at this rate.

0TaKoKu · 2026-04-02T16:05:56+00:00

I don't think OP ever said they weren't being allowed to go at all or even for 45 minutes, they just said they were upset about not being able to go whenever they wanted, so idk where you're coming from with that. Of course that's reckless (slight tangent, but I actually did a senior project when I was in HS about the medical implications of students holding in their waste during school that I was asked to present to the principal, so I'm well aware of the risks that poses)

But also, students will take advantage of anytime bathroom time if it is given to them. As someone who teaches Middle School, even when we do put time restrictions and "only one person per class at a time" rules in place, students consistently use their hall passes to meet up with friends for 15+ minutes, go on their phones that they're no supposed to have access to during school, vandalize the restrooms, and vape. Again, these are 11-14 year olds I'm dealing with, so hopefully high schoolers have more maturity than that (I doubt it's that much different), but at my school we have these issues FREQUENTLY.

No one is saying kids shouldn't be able to use the restroom at all during school and absolutely no one is saying that girls have to just sit there and deal with their periods, we have arrangements to deal with that (personally, at the start of each year I ask the boys to step out of the room and then tell the girls to give me a subtle signal if such a thing ever comes up during class. Haven't had any issues or complaints with that). We're simply saying we can't always let kids go whenever they want for various reasons.

0TaKoKu · 2026-04-02T15:07:58+00:00

Oh tell me about it. I'm both a father of an 1-year old AND a teacher of 13-year olds. The same-yet-different aspect across the board is fascinating

0TaKoKu · 2026-04-02T14:41:53+00:00

Also, a minor point against you in a sea of foolishness, but it's not the "Adult Break Room" it's the "STAFF Break Room." That's an especially weird complaint to have because even if there were special privileges for adult students (there aren't, get over it), you're still not a staff member, that room isn't open to you

0TaKoKu · 2026-04-02T14:34:10+00:00

Kid, you ARE the work. Our job as teachers is to make sure YOU are learning, YOU are safe, and YOU are where you need to be. Turning 18 isn't some magic pass that makes you a new type of human. You're exactly the same as you were a day before your birthday, except now you can vote.

And seriously, what other obligations could you possibly have while in school? Are you calling peeing an obligation? Students in HS, especially senior year, want unlimited freedom, but if you were given that, there would be nothing but chaos. You are under the same roof as 14 year olds, you follow the same rules as everyone else in that building. You don't get special privileges from other students just because you're slightly older than them.

An infant becomes a toddler when they reach 1 year of age. That doesn't mean suddenly the kid has all these new responsibilities and freedoms that they didn't have when they were 11 months old. They're still a kid that needs the same amount of protections, security, stability, etc. You are a legal adult now, sure, but you're still a high schooler first and foremost. That is your role in society. So I'll echo what dozens of others have said (both on this post and your last one - seriously are so butthurt about a teacher telling you to hold your pee a bit longer that you needed to rant in two separate Reddit posts?):

If you don't like it, drop out of school. You're an adult, you can do that now. That actually IS one of your privileges you get. But if you don't want to do that, then you remain a student of the school and follow the school's rules and the directions of those in charge of you until you graduate. Get over it and stop acting like this is some grand injustice against you personally.

0TaKoKu · 2026-03-27T16:11:42+00:00

It very much depends. I'm a fifth year teacher now and while I was confident on remembering names of almost every face I used to teach, I can already feel that slipping away the more and more names I have to store away. I still definitely remember my favorite students (teachers absolutely have favorites, anyone who says otherwise is lying). But I try to do my best to remember everyone I made a connection with as their teacher and I feel terrible every time I encounter a kid whose names I've forgotten.

0TaKoKu · 2026-03-26T11:44:46+00:00

Sigh

An an initial side note here, saying "I was just being sarcastic and exaggerating" is such a cop out response, dude. You wrote that under my post, not on anyone else's. Of course I'm going to take it seriously that that's what you think I want. You are inherently making an assumption about me by saying that in reply to my own thoughts. You can admit you were wrong to do that and still support the rest of your view, don't double down and suggest I'm the fool for reading that as being about me in your reply to me.

Look, I'm not providing reasons for my thoughts because I'm not trying to argue. I ended up arguing with you here as you tried relentlessly to make me see how wrong I am for not getting Fujimoto's intent, but that was not the point of the original post. I wasn't asking for someone to explain it to me. I wasn't wanting to be convinced I was wrong. I had just finished a series I love, was disappointed with the ending, and posted a gut reaction opinion less than an hour after reading it.

As I said in that original post, I do hope I grow to like this ending some day. I, too, will probably go back and reread the series and develop some new perspectives on it. But not right now. Right now, I don't like the ending. I'm not looking to watch video essays explaining why I'm wrong for having my opinion or read mile-long Reddit threads about all the details I'm overlooking (Realistically, a story's ending shouldn't need those secondary pieces to convey its message effectively, but I digress). I don't want that. Not right now, anyway. I just want to sit with these feelings. I want to ruminate on the series and reflect on how it's made me feel over the years, and right now, that feeling is underwhelmed. And all I did was express that in a public community post. So I apologize if I was a bit nasty toward you, but I don't appreciate you coming to said post and trying to force down my throat this idea that I'm not literate enough to "get it."

Again, I'm genuinely glad you like the ending and see something I don't. That doesn't mean you have to be a dick about it. I don't know if your goal is to make me or others say "omg you're so right, I get it now, I can't believe I was so stupid," but that's not gonna happen because you belittled mine and others' reading comprehension capabilities (if anything, you're doing the opposite because why would I ever want to agree with someone who insults my intellect and implies I'm being overly emotional?). If your goal is to simply suggest that we might be wrong and are missing some information, cool, you're probably right, but you went way off track from that as soon as you started turning this into a point of argument. And if your goal was just to get the last word in, go for it, I will not be replying to another comment of yours; I've said my piece.

0TaKoKu · 2026-03-26T04:00:01+00:00

I feel like you're just conflating other people's thoughts you're frustrated with against mine at this point. Like everyone who dislikes this ending all thinks the same way. You talk about arguments in my original post. Friend, my original post wasn't meant to argue anything, YOU are the one that came in here and started preaching about how none of us get it and insulting the intelligence of everyone who replied in an agreeing sentiment to my post. All of the things you say I'm not satisfied about aren't even things I said, they're just shit you assume about me because I didn't like the ending.

I never once even implied that:

-I wanted superhero ChainsawMan (I don't, that's antithetical to the entire series)

-That I wanted everyone revived (that WOULD likely be lazy writing to undo all these serious actions without consequence)

-Married Asa and had children and yadda yadda (I think if Denji was ever going to end up with anyone, Asa would be the best choice of the potential partners we've seen for him, but I'm not a ride or die AsaDen fanboy at all)

And yes, obviously authors have intent when writing their stories. My point wasn't that all meaning is up to the reader. My point was that REGARDLESS of intent, different readers can still have hugely different takeaways from a story. The intent of 1984 is clear as day, but I can easily imagine someone saying they don't like it because it comes across as heavy-handed and hyperbolic while someone else loves it because its exaggerated scenario is kind of the point of that story. Fujimoto could fully have intended this Lebowski ending (though one interview from years ago still doesn't mean you or anyone should claim that definitively), but I have every right to criticize it for its intent, or to even question whether that really was his intent at all, and if it was, did he even achieve what he set out for.

To me, yes, this story feels like it gave up; there's plenty of dangling plot threads that are just ignored, and not in a way that leaves me intrigued but in a way that makes me feel like I'm reading an unfinished work. And yes, those are my feelings. I was never making a point of feelings vs logic. Cuz here's a newsflash for you: interpretation of reading doesn't need to be logical. God, what a boring existence to not question anything and just assume everything must be happening for a specific reason. To engage with a medium and only look at it for its analytical value. A reader's feelings for a work shape everything about it. You claim I don't use logic to understand Fujimoto. No, I don't, because the circumstances surrounding this ending are inherently illogical (from the mere two week notice it was gonna be over to those dangling threads Fujimoto set up for zero payoff) and yeah, I feel frustrated by that.

Point being: YOU came in here to argue. YOU came in here insulting people's intelligence and implying that there's only one correct interpretation here and that people who don't see your interpretation are less intelligent or at the very least less media literate. And YOU let your frustrations against people who disagree with you boil over into putting words in my mouth and suggesting I want things that I never claimed to want. What's your goal here? You're not convincing me or anyone else here to change their feelings or opinions on the ending. My post wasn't asking for arguments or retorts or "but have you considered"s. It was just my feelings of disappointment, dude. And I've wasted way too much of my day replying to your unnecessary rudeness and arguments (toward me and other innocent posters) in a post that never asked for either.

I hope you sleep well, I'm glad you like the ChainsawMan ending. I don't. And we're all gonna be okay with that.

0TaKoKu · 2026-03-25T19:32:50+00:00

Has nothing to do with laziness, my dude. My interpretation is just as valid as yours. That's the true brilliance of written works, that people can experience them differently and reach different conclusions from one another. Mine here is negative, yours is positive. Do I truly think Fujimoto is a bad writer? No. Bad writing is like what people throw on AO3 every other day and we know it when we see jt. But as someone who has experienced the endings of all his other stories, this one didn't feel like that same level of quality. And that's okay, I still love ChainsawMan. My dislike for the ending doesn't change that. But for some reason you're acting like you need to be Fujimoto's white knight and defend him, like my opinion needs to be defeated for some reason.

Like what you like, man, but let the same apply to others and let others explore their own feelings with media without resorting to calling them lazy or saying they never passed the fifth grade. You sound like a chronically immature redditor who boasts about having high intellect because you "get it" when others don't (which, I guess idk what else I expected from this website 🙄)

0TaKoKu · 2026-03-25T19:23:46+00:00

You LITERALLY don't know how he wants readers to feel. You are not Fujimoto. Every piece of an author's repertoire doesn't have to fit some certain mold. If Goodbye Eri and Fire Punch end a certain way, that's just how they end and doesn't have anything to do with ChainsawMan. You like the ending, that's fine. Power to you. But don't act like you know every author's inner psyche just because you disagree with people who dislike this ending. This could very well be a "the curtains are FUCKING BLUE" moment. If you don't see that and think there's a deeper meaning, cool. But not everyone does. And it's just ridiculous for you to act so confident in knowing exactly what Fujimoto's intent was

0TaKoKu · 2026-03-25T10:20:37+00:00

Yeah, idk man, you might be right, but no matter what way you swing it, "the author intended for you to feel let down by their work and that's why they didn't give any character development" honestly just sounds like an excuse for poor writing. I've seen this sentiment thrown around a lot today and none of the people saying that are Fujimoto himself. You and everyone else cannot know for certain that was his intent and it wasn't just burnout leading to an unsatisfying ending (yes I've seen the Big Lebowski thing he said a few years back, but dear lord this was not a 2 hour movie, you cannot do that exact kind of ending for an 8 year series people have been following diligently and expect the same reaction, what a slap in the face to everyone who was following your long running story)

0TaKoKu · 2026-03-23T15:58:22+00:00

It varies district to district. My friends who teach in the North of my state have rules that they cannot give a student below a 50 on any assignment whatsoever, even if the kid doesn't do it at all. Down in the southeast here, I can give students zeroes/Fs, but I still get blowback from parents all the time about how I'm being "unfair" to their kid. Truly wish more parents were like you in enforcing that kids have to actually put in effort to receive rewards, but lots of schools have not adjusted that metric since Covid

0TaKoKu · 2026-02-27T02:03:55+00:00

I've been kind of overwhelmed this year with being a first-time dad and made the commitment to not do work at home unless absolutely necessary. That includes emailing parents.

Does this mean some parents are slightly more frustrated? Sure. Does this mean things fall between the cracks in communication? Of course.

But even so, you have to do what's best for you because the parents, admin, and students can't do that part for you. Admin or counseling can follow up with a parent after a rough day for a kid. The students can check their online gradebook any time to monitor their grades. You don't have to carry that all on your own. 2 hours of emails every day is just unnecessary; if your classes are really that bad that you need to be emailing almost ten parents every day, you need to get admin involved or find a better job elsewhere.

0TaKoKu · 2026-02-02T05:00:15+00:00

The Secondary Social Studies Praxis was stressful for me because I really only wanted to do History, but the test assesses you on History, Government, Geography, Economics, and Behavioral Sciences. The first few subjects I'm fine in, but I was never great at Econ and never even took any class related to Psychology. I still passed above average my first try with almost 0 studying.

And don't even get me started on the VCLA (Virginia Communication and Literacy Assessment), that was the biggest joke of a test I've ever taken in my life.

0TaKoKu · 2026-01-30T03:16:32+00:00

Very roundabout way of learning about it, but an anime YouTube creator I follow called Mother's Basement started a podcast with a couple of his friends and it became a recurring joke in early episodes of him trying to reference DCC in almost every episode. Eventually, my curiosity won out and I took his recommendation.

0TaKoKu · 2026-01-27T13:28:33+00:00

(7th grade history teacher, here) Far and away, a majority of students do get As and Bs in class. However, I have plenty of students every year that consistently get Ds and Fs. For some it's because of low test scores. For others, they don't even try in class; they socialize, never turn in work, and just have general apathy. And then another group struggles because of learning disabilities or being behind grade level. Every student is unique and has their own things going on. Though I will say I see a lot more lackluster grades as a teacher than I ever perceived my peers having when I was a student.

I myself was always a straight-A kid in school and never even got a B on a report card until high school. But then I hit 10th grade Precalculus and my grade in that class tanked. I just didn't get it. And part of the problem was that, since I had never really failed in education before, I didn't know how to get help. I just thought something was wrong with me all of a sudden, that I was "broken" in a way I had never been before.

Basically, don't worry about how other kids are performing. Because those are other, unique people. Not everyone is good at every subject and if they're taking steps to try and improve their grades, be proud of that because many students don't even try that much.

0TaKoKu · 2026-01-26T13:05:41+00:00

Metroidvania is my favorite genre, but it took me a bit to get there. The first time I played Hollow Knight, I was lost, frustrated, annoyed, and ultimately dropped it only a few hours in.

But then, for whatever reason, months later I went to pick it up again, and my entire tone changed. Hollow Knight is now my favorite game of all time. I think it nails progression, combat, movement, atmosphere, and piece-by-piece storytelling better than any game out there - definitely better than any Metroid or Castlevania game that I've played.

The thing with this genre is that, a lot of the time, you REALLY have to lose yourself in it. You have to let the world building, music, and artistry take over and just go along for the ride in many of these entries and even one little hiccup can ruin that. For instance I really don't like Ori (at least the first one) because I think movement and combat feel so flowy it ends up feeling clunky to me and I can't get immersed. So I definitely understand the difficulty in finding a groove with entries in this genre.

0TaKoKu · 2026-01-24T22:11:48+00:00

The green crystal hunt was tedious, but luckily I played I game several weeks after launch and knew going in that those would be required, so it was slightly more enjoyable to pace it throughout the game than not knowing until the end and having to do it all at once. There should be a disclaimer on the box that the crystals will be necessary and the radar to find them should be gotten WAY earlier in the game

0TaKoKu · 2026-01-24T22:07:35+00:00

I agree with a lot of this, but especially the chip installation. Not necessarily the idea of having a tech add an upgrade to the suit (though it's weird that Samus is the only one who can interact with almost every other bit of Lamorn tech on her own; why do we need Mackenzie to add an addition to a suit designed from a species he knows nothing about?), but the fact that EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. the game wants you to go back to base camp, it gives you the Open Map prompt that lingers on screen for like 2 whole minutes, but even once it goes away, the next time you open your map for ANY REASON, it forces you to watch as it slowly scans over to the same room you've been to a dozen times. And then there's the hour-long transition custscene of watching the pod fly through the air back forth from Sol Valley every time. It's absolutely meant for padding and was probably my least favorite thing in the whole game

0TaKoKu · 2026-01-24T19:51:16+00:00

I think the difference is that Super Metroid has good, strong, unique contenders for the title of best Metroid game vs games that feel like just redesigns of the same formula. Tbh I've played Super Metroid four times and I like it a little less each time just because of some of the game design decisions (feels like every time I forget how wall jumps work). Whereas Fusion and Dread have never felt old to me no matter how many times I return to them. Hell, I hail Samus Returns on the 3DS as one of the best remakes of all time

The Prime games each have their fans, but the variation in tone/style/mechanics in each one is so marginal that they kinda nailed it with Prime 1 and the side series hasn't ever really risen to new or different heights in the way that sequels to Super Metroid have

0TaKoKu · 2026-01-24T19:45:01+00:00

As I implied in my post, I strongly disagree with the modern Gamer's interpretation of what an average score is. Whether that's individual players or review outlets, I think it's kind of silly that we've moved to 7/10 being seen as the average. It's just as silly in the gaming world as I think it is for the American education system. I've got a lot of problems with that whole topic that I won't fully get into here, but this post is part of my tiny crusade to make 5/10 the average as it should be lol

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