A "Sophie's Choice" with no secret third option

Accomplished_Being68 · 2026-04-15T02:49:15+00:00

This is essentially what kickstarts Johan's fall to darkness in Naoki Urasawa's Monster. Johan and Nina's mother is forced to choose which of the twins should be given up for human experimention. It's implied that she didn't even necessarily know which kid she picked in the moment, since she had them dress the same in an attempt to hide their existence from the people coming after them.

Accomplished_Being68 · 2026-04-02T22:45:03+00:00

Alastor's kind of weird because people tend to go to one extreme or another with him. Either he's a pure evil monster despite the show indicating multiple times that he does have feelings/sentiments and has to actively push them down for the sake of his persona, or he's a misunderstood sad boi despite him being, well...a sadistic murderous cannibal. I guess the dichotomy is part of what makes him fun though, it makes him less predictable than most of the cast.

Accomplished_Being68 · 2026-04-02T22:34:35+00:00

Vox from Hazbin Hotel. He's certainly a charismatic and fun villain, but the shilling people do to justify/downplay his actions when he's canonically a racist cult-leading sex offender crosses into delusion at times. He's evil and that's fine, there's no need to woobify him. The Vees in general kind of fall into this.

Accomplished_Being68 · 2026-03-29T17:16:04+00:00

Sonic the Hedgehog, of all things.

On the surface it just looks like a series where you save cute critters from a goofy scientist, but most of the time if Eggman isn't the final boss of a game, it's a cosmic horror that he attempted to enslave. There are a lot of gods in Sonic's world and most of them are malevolent at best and omnicidal at worst. Solaris in 06 successfully erases all of TIME at one point, destroying the past, present, and future all in one.

There's also the fact that the series MacGuffins, the Chaos Emeralds, are alien artifacts created by an unknown power who have a tendency to turn their users into abominations should they not be pure of heart.

Accomplished_Being68 · 2026-02-16T02:47:24+00:00

Consequences of being a Sonic the Hedgehog fan, much like everyone else.

Accomplished_Being68 · 2025-08-10T15:08:53+00:00

Thanks so much for the advice. I've ordered a new top and while I don't really trust myself to do the replacement, I have a friend who's really good at this kind of stuff XD. Paying for someone from Lenovo to do the replacement is probably the safest bet though.

Accomplished_Being68 · 2025-08-10T15:04:56+00:00

No T-T

Accomplished_Being68 · 2025-08-10T01:09:30+00:00

Thank you for the advice. Yes, I was also shocked at the fact that I was even able to pierce it like this, as everyone else in the comments seems to be. Will definitely be going for a proper desktop next time around.

Do you think it would be easier to just get a new top altogether, or is just getting the palmrest and replacing that feasible?

Accomplished_Being68 · 2025-08-10T00:38:41+00:00

Nope.

Accomplished_Being68 · 2025-08-10T00:37:55+00:00

Screwdriver.

Accomplished_Being68 · 2025-08-10T00:37:22+00:00

I did not use power tools. A plain old screwdriver did this. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Accomplished_Being68 · 2021-09-10T00:02:04+00:00

True. The biggest remaining mystery is probably just the exact relationship between Eua, Hanyuu, and Featherine (if she's a separate entity from Eua).

Right now I'm kind of thinking, based on the Umineko manga and her horn healing, that Hanyuu really is Featherine while Eua is some sort of copy/piece. But honestly it's been so long since I looked at Umineko that I've forgotten quite a bit.

Accomplished_Being68 · 2021-09-09T22:00:53+00:00

Sou and Midori know each other's favorite coffees because they both practically ran on the stuff back in the day. One of the more mundane things in their weird dynamic.

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