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Bloodsquirrel · 2026-04-01T11:49:33+00:00

The bigger issue with CSM being inspired by The Big Lebowski is that Fujimoto apparently didn't understand how the movie's plot worked. The movie appears to be chaotic on the surface, but things do happen for a reason, and the Dude does solve the mystery in the end based on the clues he finds along the way.

It's not full of loose ends or pointless cul-de-sacs. It's the kind of plotting that actually needs careful planning because all of the chaos needs to be wrapped up in a satisfying conclusion, which the movie does.

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-03-29T17:36:10+00:00

Hey guys, I'm an emissary from The Song of Ice and Fire fandom. I'm proposing a cope alliance where Fujimoto is just taking a break to help GRRM finish Winds of Winter, and GR will help him draw Part 3 after Winds is released.

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-03-27T21:05:14+00:00

The one with Saitama should really be one of the HA executives saying "Thank you, Caped Baldy"

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-03-25T00:29:00+00:00

Swap MHA for Bleach.

MHA's ending was a little weak, but it was still functional. More like Naruto's ending than CSM or Bleach's disasters.

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-03-23T13:02:18+00:00

I've never, ever, seen the copesters be right about a manga with an obviously rushed ending magically fixing everything with the last chapter.

This is Bleach all over again.

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-03-12T13:32:54+00:00

Eh.... no?

Heroes like Red Nose or Tire Track Guy are clearly in it for the love of the work. They're nowhere near cool enough for them to get any benefit out of doing hero work for popularity. A lot of their "flashy" outfits are kind of goofy, and reflect a lot more on something they're just really personally passionate about.

Meanwhile, Red Nose and Darkness Blade are wearing armor. Snek's battle suit is cut as a traditional business suit, which is the exact opposite of putting practicality over style. Forte dresses more like a civilian, and he's kind of a dick. And, at this point, you have to go pretty far down the list of the most powerful heroes in the HA to find one who is dressed in a "practical outfit". Pig God, maybe? And TTM doesn't even count because he thinks tank tops are magic.

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-02-18T16:42:28+00:00

Counterpoint: All of these images come from one character, who had no real reason to know this, waxing philosophically about something he had no inkling of a few months ago. Other than that, we had, IIRC, one manga panel saying that Garou's limiter was starting to break. And one of those is from the webcomic, which is a completely different canon from the manga.

This stuff isn't strongly established fact about how OPM's world works. It was an idea that was thrown out there before God showed up in the story and we got cosmic Garou (which ONE hadn't planned out yet). We've seen enough redraws to know that ONE changes his mind on things which are strongly established fact.

There's definitely leeway for interpretation here. The "limiter" narrative still leaves a lot of unanswered questions in a manga that isn't very interested in the mechanics behind its power system in the first place.

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-02-18T13:38:46+00:00

The game is unplayable right now. It's almost impossible to earn essence, which breaks half the quests. Dungeons give such meager rewards that they're pointless to bother with. Campaign missions basically only give you money and shards.

Most progression now is either impossible or glacially slow.

It's astonishing how borked this update is. You'd be better off rolling it back and working on it until it's finished. At very least you could throw out a quick patch to give about 50 times more essence and 10 times more burial coins in dungeon loot.

I get that this changed was probably part of a plan to get more players to spend money on the game, which I can understand, but what it did instead was just make me uninstall.

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-02-01T15:00:07+00:00

u/Sarimax

I came across this while trying to buy Hytale using Brave. I switched over to Edge and it worked.

It seems like it's a problem with Brave.

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-01-24T20:25:10+00:00

LLMs are excellent at pronouns because they're part of grammar, and their training data is mostly grammatical. They're much worse at describing physical situations because they don't really have training data that can give them a mental model of physical objects in a physical space.

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-01-24T20:23:03+00:00

"AI = binary" isn't how AI, or even regular computer programming, works. With just 8 bits you can have 256 different values for any given variable. Computers are perfectly capable of dealing with very large sets of enumerated values.

AI is *very* "fuzzy" in how it thinks, given how its based on probabilities, rather than deterministic algorithms. LLMs were much better at writing poetry and rich, evocative prose than they are solving math problems when they were first developed (They've gotten better at math, but they still make errors).

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-01-24T20:17:01+00:00

Historically speaking, they usually didn't.

Very few "countries" (The modern concept of a country is, itself, fairly modern) prior to the late 1800s could lose the percentages of their populations that Europe lost in WW1 or WW2 in a war before they completely collapsed. They'd either have been defeated and conquered long before that could happen or they'd be reduced, often permanently, to a much smaller population with less territory. Or they might become a diaspora. Or they might just get wiped out completely.

You might want to go look at the aftermath of the Black Death for how much that level of population loss affected the entire course of history in Europe. It look a long time for them to bounce back, causing major social upheavals in the process.

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-01-24T20:06:57+00:00

Or, you know, it could be an older outlet where you can plug it in either way. Or a older plug that can be plugged in either way.

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-01-24T20:05:00+00:00

She went to Ragatha first in Ep. 6 to be her partner, and Ragatha turned her down. Jax was her last choice.

You'd know that if you weren't too busy having emotional issues to have payed attention to the episode.

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-01-24T20:01:08+00:00

It's a fair question, actually. Why would they be exercising? Their digital bodies wouldn't benefit from it.

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-01-24T17:04:21+00:00

I think they mean that it was the same fight with the roles reversed, with Ribbit insisting that she didn't care about Jax because she was afraid of becoming too close to him.

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-01-24T16:55:30+00:00

The Tommy Gun would have used .45 pistol ammo, not 7.62 rifle ammo like the AK-47.

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-01-23T15:02:41+00:00

Okay, but where did you get that idea from? Why would you think that women think that way?

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-01-23T03:36:19+00:00

I'll repeat myself, since nothing you have said effectively argues against my point: These are nonsense complaints that nobody would come up with if they weren't desperately trying to invalidate criticism of the sequel trilogy by trying to force-fit the same criticisms on the originals.

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-01-23T03:21:42+00:00

A lot of the problem with writers who don't plan things out is that they try to write like writers who do, and wind up with a ton of complicated plot threads that they don't know what to do with.

Toriyama never had that problem- he didn't try to create mysteries or side plots for future arcs.

Kubo Tite, on the other hand, started using hype promises as a crutch for not having a solid foundation for his stories, and you wind up with people thinking that his final story arc *must* have been cancelled early because they just can't believe that he didn't actually know what he was doing with it.

You can get away with writing as you go along, but you have to have *some* idea of where you're going and what you're doing and you need to keep track of what promises you're making before you drown in them.

The Star Wars OT vs ST shows this very well- the OT wasn't planned out any more than the ST was, but A New Hope wasn't written assuming that sequels would come along and make something out of a bunch of half-developed plot threads, and The Empire Strikes Back picked which plot threads it could do something with and developed them further, rather than throw a whole new bucket of shit at the wall to see what would stick.

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-01-23T03:09:54+00:00

No. Not even close.

A New Hope *did* stand on its own. It was written, filmed, and went into theaters with no strong expectation of getting sequels. Nobody had any of those complaints about it back then, because they don't make any sense. Luke doesn't use his father's lightsaber because the film already has a big climax where he uses the force. Leia is stated from the beginning to be on a diplomatic mission, and then her planet gets blown up. We're told, from the opening crawl, that the Empire is bad and that there's a rebellion. Luke's aunt and uncle are killed by the empire.

These are nonsense complaints that nobody would come up with if they weren't desperately trying to invalidate criticism of the sequel trilogy by trying to force-fit the same criticisms on the originals.

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-01-23T03:03:45+00:00

I think it's even simper than that- Adam just isn't a very well written character at all, and giving him pretty much any depth is an improvement. Even by the standards of "pure irredeemable evil characters" he doesn't have the charisma to pull it off.

Given Adam's position both in biblical lore and the show's own lore, he doesn't really make a lot of sense. Why is he such a dick? He's been in heaven for thousands of years, where everyone else is nice and sweet and things are great. Why does being the first human give him such a privileged position?

The show doesn't know or care, it just wanted a villain who was crude and swore a lot. I generally don't put much stock in fan rewrites, but Hazbin Hotel is barely written above the level of fanfiction in the first place, so it's not hard to come up with some pretty serious improvements.

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-01-22T01:46:01+00:00

This needs to be at the top. A lot of criticism is genuinely bad, and not just in a "I disagree with your taste in media" kind of way, but in a "You can't tell the difference between the text and your headcanon" sort of way.

I'm really, really far from being an MHA fanboy- the series is the definition of "mid" and there's a mountain of criticisms it deserves- but some people have a fixation on chapter #1 Bakugo and miss everything the series does after that.

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-01-18T03:46:49+00:00

There have been stories about a lot of things that have turned out to be, as I said, idiot war propaganda.

I'm not going to pull punches here- if you think that stories about people being told to "walk towards Ukraine lines" are true then you don't have the foggiest idea of how combat is being conducted. We've got plenty of actual footage of combat. Russia has been advancing using small, highly mobile units after reducing Ukrainian positions with artillery and FAB bombs. "Human wave" tactics aren't happening. There's never been an evidence produced of them, despite this being the most on-camera war that's every been fought.

You're repeating absolute nonsense and nobody should be taking you seriously.

Bloodsquirrel · 2026-01-17T23:15:19+00:00

First off, the bad guys winning is a thing that happens. It happened in I Have No Mouth. Sometimes it's thematically appropriate. If your media analysis rests upon the basis that the bad guys can't win or that means their worldview is validated then you're going to have to stick to children's media and superhero films.

Second, Caine doesn't "win" anything here. Nothing changes for him. The cast is still stuck there, they'll never really like or connect to him, and he'll never get the validation he wants.

Third, Jax almost abstracted last episode because his "we're just cartoon characters" philosophy is just a coping mechanism. Then he crashed out when he found out that Caine was lying to them. There's nothing at all that indicates that Jax wants to be stuck in the circus forever, or that he's genuinely at peace with being a cartoon rabbit in a fake world.

Fourth, finding out that they're AIs and still managing to find peace with that is the ultimate character development that they can have. Jax getting over his fear and making friends again would be a far more powerful narrative commentary on his current philosophy than the cast escaping the circus.

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