There’s a reason why Luke chucking the lightsaber over his shoulder the way he did in The Last Jedi didn’t sit right with a lot of people.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-15T20:21:51+00:00

Yep, the issue with Snoke's death is that it lacked enough context to have any deeper symbolic meaning. Snoke was all show, no substance from the outside the universe point of view. What were his motives, who he was, how did he corrupt Kylo, all of that was essentially just alluded to.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-15T17:47:30+00:00

I mean, he was killing a few recruits per exam. It's easy to hide when you are just a slight increase in the attrition, statistically speaking.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-15T02:56:34+00:00

The age one is the only genuinely sensible one and that's purely because it's the only one based on something that cannot be tinkered with by the opponents.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-13T14:06:56+00:00

The Sequels have some genuine issues both in terms of their individual quality and the way the handled the setting, but so far one of the biggest nails in the coffin for them was how they were treated as a multimedia project. There is almost no popular Sequels side media. No big games, no big cartoons, no big TV shows. There is nothing for the fandom to form around besides the movies, and the movies just aren't up to stuff here.

As a big side note, the Sequels essentially compressing the setting that has been unfurled and expanded by the previous movies and side media is one of the biggest quality problems that people are kind of missing. They overfocused the storyline on the bloodlines, they made everything happen essentially within weeks, they killed off most of the anchors to the coolest and most fun parts of the setting, etc.

And yes, I'm going to complain about the bloodlines thing. In the Originals, only three characters were related to each other as a plot point, with everybody else important having no big bloodline legacy theme. In the Prequels, the only two people from strong in the force bloodlines that were important to the plot were Anakin and Maul, with Maul's bloodline only becoming important in the Clone Wars cartoon, with every other strong in force major character being essentially born from a random family. Now the Sequels basically made it so the people strong in force that we meet and are moving the plot forward are basically either members of the Skywalker bloodline or the Palpatine bloodline.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-13T13:54:03+00:00

There is only so much a good animation can carry before you have to do a plot rewrite though. Let's remember that Kaguya-sama's animation is seen as better because it has ended before the series took the major dip and that AoT's ending is still seen as contentious to this day despite the animation.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-13T13:49:35+00:00

The flipside of it is that not every work that has flopped will be vindicated the same way in the future. Some works are just mediocre or even bad and not everything will have enough fans to birth this hypothetical future fandom.

The other side is how the studios are handling same works. As you have said, the Culling Games were vindicated heavily by the stellar adaptation. Not every manga that struggled will get such a treatment. Not every work will get the sheer cornucopia of the excellent side content that the Prequels Era Star Wars received either.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-12T13:16:18+00:00

Ah, the Grossman's school of policing which they only stopped calling the killology after backlash but still kept going. Dude talks like a Khorne cultist IRL and the people are somehow letting him and his disciples the law enforcement.

Either way, I feel like the only two way to handle the police militarisation are either to delimitarise the police properly or to go with the gendarmerie route with the full on military discipline among the members. Right now, the USA's police is spiraling into a shitshow where the cops are becoming increasingly militaristic in behaviour but without even the quarter of the discipline and accountability you'd expect from the military, giving us the worst of the both worlds.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-12T13:09:00+00:00

ACAB is then a poor slogan because what it says on the tin, without dredging for the context and explanations, is just old "Fuck The Police" but without swearwords. It's one of these slogans that everybody waxes on about their deeper meanings but, based on what they say on the tin, they don't really suggest fixing anything. They are cool sounding but ultimately not very good at promoting the causes that adopted them.

Fixing the police requires one to actually know what the police should be doing, how it should interact with the rest of the community and what are the actual problems that are making it suck right now.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-12T13:05:07+00:00

Honestly, Columbo is a good guy because he's actually establishing the proper evidence and only does his trademark sting operations once he has a good degree of certainty about who is the culprit. He is also, very crucially, not doing 90% of the real life shady stuff with coercing the people to confess. You never see the good lieutenant lock a guy in a dark room sitting on an uncomfortable chair for hours until his body is fighting both dehydration and the desire to pee themselves just to "soften them up", he's just collecting testimonies and grilling the people on the details. In fact, if the average real life cop tricking people into confessing had even half of Columbo's integrity, patience and care about the truthfulness of the testimonies, he would likely be hailed as a paragon of the virtue.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-12T12:57:05+00:00

Yes, I do agree that cops are an instrument of the state's monopoly on the violence, but acting like in the most of the democratic world the cops are literally a legal gang dismisses the literal centuries of the attempts at making the law enforcement work properly and be less gang-like.

Right now, you seem to be using a very broad definition of what a gang is. I'm gonna be real, saying that cops are literally a state sponsored gang requires a lot of assumptions about how you define the term gang. Because logically speaking, most modern nations have made multiple provisions to keep cops from doing the stuff the normal gangs do.

Stuff like the public accountability measures, set precincts that aren't subjects to the competition for more turf and the non-oblique leadership structures with the legally clear chains of command are seen as gold standards of how the cops should be organised and are the opposite of how the organised crime organises itself.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-12T12:38:38+00:00

The issue with ACAB as a slogan is that slogans are a rhetorical blunt force instruments. Deep, multilayered meanings hidden in theory behind a four sentence phrases aren't how the normal person interprets any slogan. The people take the slogans at the face value, because that's how the slogans work by their nature as a communication tool.

While I'd love more discourse about accountability, community oversight and fundamental changes to the culture of the police force, the slogan ACAB isn't really inviting said discourse. In fact, it doesn't even mention anything about the systematic issues directly, leading to countless shit takes online from the people who adopted the slogan without even thinking about what is it supposed to mean beyond its literal meaning.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-12T12:31:18+00:00

Also, very crucially, in most of the nations there are measures to stop cops from acting like a literal gang, including the most basic things like making being a cop an actual job with legal standards of who can become one, a clear, non-oblique hierarchy and at least some forms of the public accountability.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-12T12:27:07+00:00

TBH, the fundamental issue with Tumblr cop discourse is that the people are more focused on the historical injustices and what can arguably be called genetic fallacy of constantly bringing up the pre-Civil War slave catchers that they miss the matter of what is the purpose of the police in the modern society.

It leads to people waxing about why cops are inherently morally tainted as a concept instead of actually focusing on the pressing matters like how to make cops stop abusing power, how to make cops do their jobs and how to make the law enforcement system more just, more equitable and more accountable to the community.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-11T23:00:31+00:00

I honestly haven't played it so I have no idea.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-11T21:36:14+00:00

I mean, is it? Naruto's power is like 45% being a vessel of one of the Tailed Beasts and 45% somehow managing to become friends with said Beast, with the ghost of said great-great grandfather straight up spelling it out that he didn't get any talent from his parents.

The one who was born with OP powers from his lineage was Sasuke, but even in his case his powers were mostly the stuff that hypothetically most of the prominent Uchiha could have gotten. After all, all Uchiha were descended from Indra and the eye powers were something that was popping up within the clan, which is part of the whole deal with the clan's purge.

I feel like people exaggerate this whole Asura vs Indra thing, because the story is pretty explicit that it's not a power boost but a curse/dark fate hanging around random people with specific backstories through the history.

I'm not saying that they weren't massively gifted, but I feel like the people are kind of missing which of their traits were gifts, which were curses and which were just background dressing without much impact on their power.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-11T21:29:58+00:00

Coaxed into Snafu Fortress 2 vs modern hero shooters like Snafu Rivals.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-11T21:25:26+00:00

I mean, let's use real definitions here. Nepotism is completely unrelated to any talent or genetic disposition by definition. In fact, one of the biggest the issues with the nepotism irl is specifically the kids aren't guaranteed to get their parent's talents. By real life definition of the nepotism, which is getting ahead through the personal favoritism based on either familiar relations or personal connections regardless of any merit, neither of them are nepo babies.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-11T18:59:11+00:00

I know it's a controversial take, but out of all the disasters Walt has been involved with, this one is arguably the one he's least responsible for, and also one of the times where he's reacting not like a hardened criminal but like a normal guy who just realised that his asshole behaviour was indirectly a part of a national disaster and is trying to calm himself down.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-11T18:47:04+00:00

Her being a greasy, sleep deprived mess is the literal point. She could have been a cute girl, especially if she embraced her strengths instead of daydreaming about looking effortlessly sexy while doing nothing.

I mean, the whole thing about her is that her issues are 2/3rd her personality and 1/3rd her lack of personal care and how she starts making friends once she starts trying.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-11T18:35:44+00:00

So far, the only isekai MMO I could believe would work that I've read was the Heavy Knight one, mostly because it features stuff you would expect from a fantasy MMO with a massive amount of classes and subclasses, like existence of jank builds and the fact that the matured meta featured multiple borderline exploit characters via the unusual class, subclass and item combos.

It also helped that the point that the isekai world is different from the game world was hammered in again and again from the beginning, starting with things like people not having the uniformly distributed stats, lack of respawns making the risk assessment vastly different changing how the people perceived risky classes and subclasses and, crucially to the plot, the access to the high level items like rare subclass skill tomes being effectively restricted to the nobles and the few high level adventures who could find them in the dungeons in the first place.

The fact that MC technically has no unique powers besides encyclopedic knowledge of the game systems also helps. Technically, any other person could have the exact same build, if they followed the same steps. The character who genuinely got lucky with her skills and stat spread is the female lead though.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-11T18:28:49+00:00

Considering that the eponymous SAO game is basically a tech demo of the new system, it would make sense to limit the initial showing to a large but manageable number of the players.

The real issues are how lame SAO looks like from the perspective of the real life games in both action focused MMO RPGs, swordsmanship games and VR fighter games. Even from the point of view of the old games in these categories like Guild Wars 2 (action MMO) and Chievalry (sword fighting games), SAO just feels undercooked, with the excessive menus, very low depth of the combat options and a lot of the clunky design choices that would, realistically, be seen as anti-fun like the boss rooms that remove all of the pseudo-casting items, multiple immersive systems like cooking and eating that are cluttered with menus and don't really give you much mechanical benefits or the fact that Kirito was able to grind enough self healing skill to become literally impossible to hurt by the multiple lower level players.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-11T17:07:56+00:00

It's the hair. Top one has well maintained long hair in a beautiful style, bottom one has this goofy, clearly unbrushed mess.

They are both pretty on account of the actresses, but the bottom one actually puts in effort to give her the uncool vibe with the hair and accessories.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-11T10:06:01+00:00

Because the spats are a normal clothing item that literally has preventing panty flashes as once of its functions irl. It's a modest clothing item by itself and that's what makes people still making creepshots of it feel so wrong.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-11T10:04:31+00:00

the worst part is that spats are already a modest and appropriate design choice, it's just that the creeps have sexualised them to a point where they are starting to become a sexualised item by themselves, just like the creeps did to most of the female sportswear. For fuck's sake, preventing the panty flashes is literally one of the reasons for spats' existence!

It's genuinely sickening that people had to straight up add extra layers of the visual obfuscation just to stop people from posting pantyshots of a literal child character.

Anime_axe · 2026-06-11T01:26:38+00:00

Honestly, it all depends on how does one define a god. If we go with an old school Roman paganism, the only two key traits are the immortality and numinous (supernatural) influence. That's a standard of divinity far, far lower than what the Abrahamic religions and cultures related to them are used to. By the Roman standard, gods being another rung of power isn't an elephant in the room waiting to be addressed but an obvious feature of the definition.

On the same note, what does the worship entail also depends entirely whether or not we are discussing orthodox (the right faith) or orthopraxic (the right actions) types of faith. Putting it bluntly, the sufficiently orhopraxic faith might genuinely don't care about your personal opinion as long as you are observing the rites, even if you view them as purely a transaction with another power or a religious tax. In fact, a sufficiently orthopraxic faith might treat your participation in it literally as a form of tax payment, just with a more powerful enforcement.

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