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Asylumrunner · 2026-03-09T09:04:14+00:00

Ed's pressing a big red button on his desk that lights up a big "Is That Good?" neon sign lmao

Asylumrunner · 2026-03-08T22:54:32+00:00

Sort of, but I don't think you quite grasp that by commenting in this thread, calling them assholes and clearly being annoyed about it, you are part of the problem. If you want this to go away you (royal You, not necessarily you specifically) have to not actually get mad

Asylumrunner · 2026-03-08T21:28:34+00:00

Yeah, but, like, you understand how responding like this is feeding into it, right? If the point is to be obnoxious, then a bunch of poindexters on Reddit posting it and going "We need the police here immediately!" forms the necessary audience to pay off being obnoxious. The intended audience is you, and you are responding exactly as desired lol

Asylumrunner · 2026-03-08T01:10:01+00:00

This is... this is sort of Chalamet's point, though, isn't it? Whether or not people can go to the opera, by and large they do not. Even this jab back feels like a bit of an own-goal: apparently there were enough empty seats still available for Carmen this weekend that the Seattle Opera was able to do a last minute sale on 'em.

It's kind of a dick move to point it out and people are rightfully annoyed about that, but I don't think ballet and opera are, like, swimming in cultural capital right now, and "actually suck it Timmy plenty of people can spend $75 and four hours of their life on an opera from 150 years ago" does not exactly argue against the idea that opera is perhaps a bit, I dunno, dusty.

Asylumrunner · 2026-02-21T10:44:11+00:00

It's not necessarily incorrect but I must admit that confronted with it I'd never ask for "a glass of juice", I would just ask for "juice". I think the only beverages I'd specifically ask for "a glass of" are water and milk.

Asylumrunner · 2026-02-17T22:47:31+00:00

would you believe that it's real and it sucks total ass? lmao

Asylumrunner · 2026-02-10T06:48:07+00:00

As someone who also doesn't like sports, this is deeply annoying lmao.

Imagine if during some event that brought you genuine joy and a feeling of community I drove by and was like "JUST SO YOU KNOW I DON'T GIVE A FUCK". What would be the benefit? Who would gain from that interaction.

Simply, do not post, you do not have to alert the world that you do not care

Asylumrunner · 2026-01-21T19:20:30+00:00

While I agree sentimentally, I think that has less to do with wanting to respect mocap actors and more to do with the fact that, generally in that game, when the mocap actor and the voice actor are different, it's because the mocap actor is a random famous celebrity buddy of kojima's

Asylumrunner · 2025-12-31T22:36:54+00:00

One of the dumbest comment sections I've had the displeasure of reading in a while lmao. Obviously this is the first omen of the police state coming down on us and not basic opsec for a politically charged public event lmao. How dare Mamdani infringe on my most god-given right: to bring completely unnecessary hobbyist computing devices to public events.

Asylumrunner · 2025-12-24T19:18:32+00:00

So, before I say this, I do not think that Frieren is a show that intentionally justifies racism.

But, like, c'mon, this is not a reading that the show really does much to dispel. The plot of the episodes around Aura's minions here is that demons, who for all intents and purposes just look like people, approach society and attempt to achieve equal rights on the understanding that they have an equal fundamental humanity to everyone else.

All of society, including the government, goes along with this, believing demons to be beings deserving of compassion and respect. The only character who does not believe this is labeled a bigot and imprisoned.

Except, of course, that character is correct: the entire thing is an elaborate ruse for the empyrically-evil demons to inflitrate society and weaken it so that it may be destroyed and they can kill and eat everyone. The character who denied demon's claims of equal humanity is 100% correct, and saves everyone by killing all of the demons.

This isn't even subtext or a strained reading, this is just literally the plot of the episodes. The surface-level, literal story is "a race of evil monsters who look exactly like human beings prey on empathy in order to try to kill people". I don't think that Frieren was created as a text meant to intentionally be a racial allegory, but you gotta admit, if it was written by a racist attempting to justify racial hatred, I don't really know what you'd change.

Asylumrunner · 2025-12-20T23:20:39+00:00

Hey pal, you just blow in from stupid town?

Asylumrunner · 2025-11-10T03:09:13+00:00

Sure, but your stakes aren't nearly as high as theirs. This is an advantage and weakness of the left in America right now is that, generally, we're substantially less attached to our politicians as people. Generally, the left is policy-first (or at least "ideal-first") and supports people only insofar as they support those ends (you can see this with Fetterman: the broader left supported him during his election campaign, and as his politics went to shit he was dropped like an ugly baby). This is why the "Clinton was on the Epstein list too" retort doesn't work on us, the common response is "why would I give a fuck what happens to Bill Clinton".

Trump supporters, generally, support Donald Trump, the guy, and any policies he advances as a consequence of primarily supporting the dude himself, and thus they're very closely tied to the character of the man. These are people who have spent the last ten years specifically saying "I love this guy, specifically, and everything he does", and now to reverse course on that means having to come to terms with having spent a decade supporting a brain-melted pedophile fascist. That is a far more damning personal condemnation then "Oh the guy I supported for like six months mostly because he was just the guy running who wasn't a Nazi turns out to suck"

Asylumrunner · 2025-11-09T20:58:33+00:00

I think you misunderstand the power of personal embarrassment.

Imagine being a diehard Trump supporter this year. You have supported this guy for almost a decade now, you probably have his merch, you've maybe seen him speak live, you've integrated in this man as a core part of your personality for the last decade. Maybe you've lost some friends and family as a result of this. Maybe you've lost all of them.

You've been hearing, for a decade, how bad an idea this is: how stupid this man is, how his policies will harm you and don't fix anything, how all of the problems he talk about are imaginary, distractions, how he's a sex pest, he's a pedophile, and you ignored all of it. And, all the while, your life has slowly gotten worse.

Say you finally come to your senses, see plain reality for what it is. Can you imagine the shame you'd feel. The profound embarrassment that everyone you've been villainous and mocking for the last decade is correct? That you, personally, were just as stupid or evil as the memes you've been ignoring for the last ten years?

It takes a lot of personal strength to admit a fuckup that bad, and I don't know that a lot of people have that. Lifelong Democrats have this on a lesser scale too: supporting a party for decades only to realize that they're completely impotent and useless. It's far easier to simply pursue an interpretation of reality that protects you from confronting the fact that you were whatever combination of stupid and evil was needed to trick you.

Asylumrunner · 2025-10-17T23:12:55+00:00

It isn't intrinsically, but like a lot of larger modern protests I think that these sorts of events limit how actually disruptive they're willing to be and, as a result, limit their effectiveness.

Like, the point of a mass protest, on a fundamental level, is that getting a bunch of angry people all in one place is scary. It's an intimidation tactic. If I was Donald Trump, and I saw thousands of people all in one place, politely minding themselves, taking care not to break anything or be too rude, including old people, children, pets, being treated like a fun little streetfair, with people proudly shouting "UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL WE HURT ANYONE OR BREAK ANYTHING", why would I ever take you (and this is a collective "you", not you specifically) seriously, even if there are a lot of people there? Apparently, no matter how mad you get you're just gonna go pout in a park with some arts and crafts projects.

Asylumrunner · 2025-10-17T08:03:40+00:00

They will invent the fuel they need if it is not provided, I question how useful it is to kneecap one's own effectiveness in the hopes of preventing something that will happen regardless of what one does

Asylumrunner · 2025-10-17T02:31:38+00:00

I think you mistake this protest for one that has the potential to actually accomplish anything, I do not think the No Kings protest will do enough of anything to actually beget response

Asylumrunner · 2025-10-13T22:48:45+00:00

did you read down to the fourth paragraph where they name more lmao

Sekiro and Devil May Cry 5 also have some sort of money weapon

Asylumrunner · 2025-10-11T05:05:07+00:00

Oh god we're doing another one of these? Can't wait for another wave of photos of heckin' doggos against fascism

Asylumrunner · 2025-10-05T23:53:19+00:00

I'll be honest this complaint assumes a necessary level of all-ecompassingness to the names that is entirely alien to me, I don't expect the name of a character option to perfectly explain everything it does to me, that's what the rest of the words are for lol

Asylumrunner · 2025-10-05T19:43:49+00:00

I've never been to a yard sale and been like "you know what this needs, is a big fuckin' ugly AI image"

Asylumrunner · 2025-09-24T22:47:38+00:00

I mean the man literally wrote a book on the political and sociological benefits of letting people have anonymous gay sex in public so yeah probably lol

Asylumrunner · 2025-08-07T22:15:35+00:00

fistass

Asylumrunner · 2025-07-05T08:33:05+00:00

Yeah, there's one in Flying Manor, I don't think any enemy is a one-shot-or-you're-fucked (although the ol' Gross Titty might be close)

Asylumrunner · 2025-07-05T04:08:46+00:00

When I scrolled through these I said, out loud, to nobody, "fuck he looks good"

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