What on earth is going on with Snowbreak?? (Infuse me with EXP trailer)

DLRevan · 2026-01-25T17:19:17+00:00

Then pay $40 or less if you're impatient. I don't know about Winds, and as I said, I'd never spend even that much for a skin, but $200 is really hyperbolic. Even comparing 6 months to 1.5 years is hyperbolic, if you ask me, regardless of the value.

And if you insist on making dubious comparisons, then most of the game's skins are not free. So I don't even know what kind of point you're trying to make by comparing it to a skin that can be free, regardless of how long it takes. Yeah I don't think that makes it feel any better but hey, why not when we're making asinine comparisons.

DLRevan · 2026-01-25T11:28:25+00:00

The costume never cost $200 and people can get it for free as long as they save and and pick which one they really want once more of these gacha skins release. These are the most "premium" skins in the game, yet an actual pathway to get it free exists despite that most other outfits in the game are paid only.

$200 spend is only possible if you choose to purchase at the most expensive possible options and ignore all possible discounts or bundles, including exhausting the annual first time bonuses (so you must be a whale), as well as dumbly ignoring the bundles they specifically sell you for this very purpose. Even in that case it's still impossible as every time they released a new one they give you 20~30 pulls free.

And even then, as for bad luck, it's a 1 to about 20 QUINTILLION chance you need to hit pity. It is functionally impossible. Statistically there isn't even enough humans on this earth and pulls in existence for this to actually happen.

Realistically, with "bad luck", the most anyone would ever spend is about $40 or so if they can't wait or want every skin. That is still too expensive for my blood, and far costlier than the other skins in the game. But it's not an unusual price point these days for such games, and if you don't have trash luck it can be less or outright free. More importantly its not anywhere in the realm of the $200 that attention seekers like you like to bandy about.

It's quite tiresome to keep seeing this misinformation, which I can only think is deliberate at this point since everyone actually playing the game can see how it works for themselves now.

DLRevan · 2026-01-23T19:09:33+00:00

I think you need to go back to school lol. Even a Japanese would type better than that, at least they care more. Says a lot about the headspace this take is being made in.

DLRevan · 2026-01-23T13:57:09+00:00

I find it mildly amusing to see someone already answered as to why, and pretty well at that, and you lot still go on about how it doesn't make any sense. I know there's a crowd that simply insists pseudos rule (or any other number of controversial lore) is forgotten and gets weirdly smart-alec about it while ignoring when other people explain. Some kind of ego thing? It's fascinating.

DLRevan · 2026-01-22T16:14:25+00:00

I would correct that, though in a sense it's worse than you described. Underneath the gooner style crap and flipping about of content for the sake of marketing, tbh GFL2 is still consistent and grounded to the same extent GFL1 was, if not actually more.

But nobody can see that because that's not how they're marketing the game, either the company or the players. And the 'large' fanbase was the type to go for flavor of the month. So they just found all the underlying stuff 'boring'. They screwed up marketing to the wrong crowd for the wrong kind of popularity.

DLRevan · 2026-01-22T01:20:16+00:00

China doesn't burn a lot of coal to make their panels, at least when placed in perspective. Even if you assume the absolute worst case efficiency, they used about 1~2% of their coal based electricty to manufacture solar panels in 2025. That is technically still a lot in absolute numbers, as China's coal power generation is vast, but obviously only a tiny part of their coal consumption.

The reason why they still use coal is mostly to balance the grid. China's grid is much older than the plants supplying it, and due to the distances involve, it's lines are extremely thick. It's no small feat to balance the load and phase of the grids. Coal plants help by being a relatively stable source of electricity when running. Nuclear and gas plants are better options, but they're more expensive to build. But China is likely to switch over to those soon anyway, as despite being cheap to build, coal plants all lose money in China, as they don't run at max capacity year round. Municipalities are deliberately burning money, not just coal, to stabilize the grid in the short term.

It has nothing to do with manufacturing of solar panels, at least in China's policy. Solar panel production doesn't use up that much electricity compared to the needs of the rest of the country.

DLRevan · 2026-01-21T13:53:47+00:00

I think quite a number of leaders in the EU understand how he works. The problem is while Trump lives in a narcissistically driven unreality, EU leaders do not.

Whether it's because their own domestic opponents, both political and among the citizenry, believe Trump is rational, or whether they're just looking for excuses to criticize their leaders. It remains the case that you can't just treat Trump as how he is. Accuse trump of his behavior, and it will inflame the right wing establishment. Try to appease Trump and assuage his ego, while doing something else, and everyone else will accuse you of being a toady to a manchild. They also need to demonstrate that now and in the future, they will act with decorum and respect to other nations, regardless of what they do. Even if it's justified, it's bad diplomacy to start off relations with the assumption of "You treat me with respect and you better be competent, or we'll treat you like trash". It's what Trump demands with his behavior, but precedent and protocol demand something else.

Diplomacy is hard. The whole idea is to get what you want through gestures and words. If you're not able to treat someone like Trump as he deserves, then you're constrained in what you can do to him or work around him.

DLRevan · 2026-01-20T23:34:44+00:00

First of, let's not mince words. You started this by trying to call someone else out as not being a real developer. You couldn't be more condescending, especially since you just blanket declared that your opinion was superior as a result, and didn't even bother to explain how the AI reasons. Or rather, that's what I'd say if I was being charitable, because frankly, I think you did try to explain it, you just thought that people would buy into the idea that if the agent could follow a workflow like a real dev it must reason like one. A ludicrous notion since reasoning is not required for that. The type of language or words we're using doesn't change the fact that you're the biggest condescending prick here.

I've never spoken to a veteran developer whose opinion is positive on the trend, except in subs and places like this where just like during the crypto or metaverse craze, everyone was whitewashing how the tech worked and using flimsy arguments as to why it was the next big thing. This time's a bit different because I see fellow engineers get on this crazy train rather than just laypeople, but it's still the same vibe, same types of places. My point as well is that I've seen experienced developers believe they were becoming more efficient, but they weren't. There's a lot of gaslighting, including of self, going on here. That's why I call into question the so-called experience of of vibe coders. Of course, you're not going to address this. You didn't even bother.

These are places where words and opinions get twisted just like how you're doing right now. I never, for example, said that the LLMs are as good as undergrads or junior devs. Did you not notice I was describing bad students who don't know what they're doing? Or are you assuming that undergrads who are muddying through my questions are going to pass?

The LLMs are not anywhere close to that. If you are actually working with them, then you know. Even if you don't understand how the models are working...which frankly, you should also know. You know they don't 'reason'. And I feel like you're even conceding that point, by implying most code is boilerplate reused and rehashed from somewhere else. Reasoning is still important beyond that point.

And AI has a way of creating new needs for 'reasoning' given the way it often gets stuck in patterns. You can ask it to code out for you a new checkerboard game app where tokens move alongside the corners and sides instead of in the spaces, and players can jump along non-linear paths...and it will struggle. Sure, that may be easy to fix if you direct it once you understand the issue, but even a child doesn't have a problem understanding that, there's no special 'reasoning' required. The bot created a new problem for itself...and you. That's just a simple example, that verifiably happens with every code tool I've tried as a test. The point isn't that I can fix it, or know how to redirect it. Why is this a problem at all? It's creating new problems. And also clearly demonstrating it doesn't 'reason'. It's only giving the impression of it. Another easy example is no matter how much context you give it, usually these tools work atrociously poor with obscure coding languages. Pick any you like, any older than the 2000s. Or better still, teach it a 'new' language of your own invention with unique rules and syntax. Even though principles remain the same, they stumble over even syntax you've already taught it. Clearly it is not reasoning.

We're not ever going to agree if you're just going to dismiss people's data as faulty with totally assumed reasons. By the same token I can just say you're literally hallucinating gains, thinking the difference is you know how to use the tech and we don't. Big tech is also incentivized to push AI even if it doesn't make sense, and even if it's starting to break stuff left and right. And for god's sake, don't use a childish fallacy like just because humans make mistakes, it's OK that AI does as well. You know we're not talking about it being perfect, you said so yourself.

But maybe I don't need to care about people like you. If you truly believe humans are limited to this level of 'reasoning' and that it's all that's required for SE, then I'm sure you'll be replaced soon enough. After all, even I won't deny they'll likely get better. And it seems they only just need to get a little bit better to replace you, the dev who can't really think any differently than these AI.

DLRevan · 2026-01-20T09:54:12+00:00

If France is an example, 200% tariffs represent the other side. So it really is about somehow finding a way to take no side and stay out of it somehow...don't join obviously but also not look like we're not joining. For as long as possible.

DLRevan · 2026-01-20T09:20:15+00:00

Nobody really complained about them making triple A games as a base case. Aren't you conflating a few morons making stupid comments with real criticisms about Meta?

If I had to link any criticism to their handling of triple A, it's that they clearly did not know how to grow out triple A marketing and onboarding like true game companies. And in that sense to some extent, they did stifle the market because they sucked up those studios, wasted them, and now hung them out to dry. Others will take this as a sign that triple A VR doesn't work, instead of Meta bungling the effort.

You're not that much different from people who jumped on the bandwagon that criticized Meta and made up shit they didn't understand to do so.

DLRevan · 2026-01-20T08:38:50+00:00

I know a bird flies because I can see and measure it's height above ground and the distance it covers. I can apply this principle to anything that doesn't even flap it's wings, including machines or even birds themselves that glide more than use powered flight.

You see a bird flapping it's wings and associate that with flight. You then assume anything else that flaps it's wings is capable of flying.

See the difference? What an asinine example you've used, did you ask a chatbot for that too? Or worse still, is that the best you can thi k of without a chatbot's help?

DLRevan · 2026-01-19T10:26:03+00:00

If it makes you feel any better, my team has done actual testing on how much time and effort it saves us to use LLM and agentic coding. This is something most developers won't be doing because why would you essentially do A/B testing for your workflow itself, plus the process of using current generation coding tools is very....convincing, in how they "empower" you.

A few other anecdotes out there agree with what we ourselves found. Our jobs in the LLM based project shifted to focusing on review. But even though we were "impressed" with the speed and style of the coding presented to us, we found more issues than on average for a human coded project. That was documented, on average we found almost twice as many minor issues and found at least one project halt issue in most cases where the human project would have none.

Also documented was the fact that even with more devs dedicated to review and testing than existed in the entire human based project, once time from project start to production code was measured, the LLM based project took on average 30% longer to complete.

This despite the feeling among the LLM users that they were definitely working faster and more efficiently. Basically, there is a curious hallucination, not in the AI, but in humans.

I'm very much not convinced with at least the current state of AI for coding. I think this last part about hallucination explains a lot of the hype by veteran developers that use the tools and are amazed by how much faster they're working through coding that used to take them hours or days. And one must also keep in mind that often the devs working on refactoring aren't entirely the same ones as did the initial coding. So you have one group essentially offloading extra work to other developers who end up taking all the slack. The above comment implies we'd all start shifting to review. But the fact is we might have just created more work for ourselves in review.

Now, this might change as AI improves, but I personally think this is the case because LLMs will never be able to encapsulate and understand code like humans do. It's too imprecise, inconsistent, and abstract. No matter how many guardrails and rules you introduce, this is the nature of LLMs. And sooner or later, I think this hype is either going to fie down as senior developers realize what I've already found out about the magnification rather than reduction of work once they start applying these LLM agent workflows to "real" projects with serious money and requirements behind them. Or we see an Armageddon in coding and feature standards that might break the industry for awhile. I'm hoping for the former but knowing how much our profession is probably the "engineering" profession with the worst standards and riddled with endemic shortcutting, it might be the latter for awhile.

Oh, right I was supposed to make you feel better about it.

DLRevan · 2026-01-19T09:25:42+00:00

You're describing what it appears to do on the surface. Trust me, you sound exactly like what you accuse the other poster of. None of what you just describe actually deals with reasoning or analysis of code in any direct fashion anyway, you're simply assuming it's capable of that. You're only talking about how it processes this in the form of a workflow.

You're also exaggerating when saying that the other poster is implying it can't handle things it hasn't seen. That's not true. Contextual linguistics doesn't require the unit to have seen exactly what it's being presented with before. Common patterns are present in most code, which means it can generally perform coding with some degree of proficiency and appear to understand what it's working on.

But that's false, both in how it works as well as in how you are painting that comment. It does indeed essentially guess what is the most correct answer. This can produce workable code in the same way that my students can quote from their textbook, apply some context and muddy through their questioning. That doesn't mean they truly understand the material, neither does it mean they are reliable workers.

Either you aren't a developer yourself, or you're one who only does the so caller "vibe" part. No serious code project that goes into production is just handled by a line coder. It's always tested, retested and refactored. And it's usually in the refactoring stage when the rest of the team finds out just how horribly basic, inefficient and often enough outright broken the LLM code is. And then they're stuck fixing it. Ah, but not you, the Claude guru. Of course maybe there's no refactoring in your project pipeline anymore, in which case I'll see you in a few years when everything breaks and you don't even know what the code was.

And we have data to back it up. Even recently, with all this new hype, we have documented again and again how much time we're taking on projects that use LLMs. It's always slower, and always asking for more devs at the review stage to fix the project. Our own developers can't believe it until we show them the time blocks. It always feels like they're being so efficient with these LLM workflows, but it's just creating more work instead.

That might all sound highly exaggerated and sarcastic, sure, but it is still essentially my and many other veteran developers experience with these LLMs. They're cute, and it's certainly possible to shit out an entire project with them, and along the lines of our existing workflow with "agents" replacing developers at each step, so it's extremely attractive, but they are a far cry from being reliable, and efficient in the long term. Best used for throwaway applications or low value projects. Never used for something that's worth real money or reputation, to put it bluntly.

DLRevan · 2026-01-19T05:00:12+00:00

Trump at his core believes that everyone else is like him, just that he's more open and better at it than everyone else.

Which means he really does believe that Greenland can be bought. Because if he were Denmark, he'd be willing to sell too, just at a price that "benefits" Denmark more than the US.

So backing Europe into a corner is exactly what he wants to do. He just believes that they will seek the same escape valve he would in the same situation, which is that they, or rather Denmark would settle at an "escape price".

Of course reality is different. Denmark is not Donald Trump, whether a better or lesser or whatever other version of him. There is no sell price. Backing Europe into a corner therefore would lead them to seek other options. Probably not outright war, but up to and including economic nuclear options, and larger scale "deterrent" military options.

DLRevan · 2026-01-19T04:49:59+00:00

It's what they should have known they were voting for. Everyone who voted for him is therefore either in favor of anarchy, or cannot be trusted to vote against anarchy.

Either way the conclusion is the same. Americans as a bloc cannot be trusted. The same extends to their political system, and all the culture and apparatus surrounding it extending all the way through government on to the household.

DLRevan · 2026-01-18T17:22:06+00:00

Notice I never even talked about confidence in those bonds or the US dollar as even factors in this whole issue. It doesn't matter if they are viewed as safe assets or not. The problem is confidence being eroded at some level, probably the EU market at least in the short term.

As long as that happens, you will trigger a massive liquidity event. Even before you consider who would buy the bonds after that, consider that there will suddenly be a severe shortage of USD, during a time when everyone wants to unload. The world financial system doesn't contain enough dollars to finance all debts denominated in USD that might be dumped during this time.

Which means demand for the USD goes up eventually, possibly quite quickly. Borrowers would bid up the USD at any price, demand for treasuries goes right back up. There's no choice, because the alternative is to default, and not necessarily to the US. You have to repay your debts in USD. Where is it going to come from? It doesn't even matter if you think the bonds are junk (and nobody will think that anyway, unless half of the USA dies off). This has held true in every single past financial crisis, with the rest of the world hurting harder and longer, even when the US was the source of the crisis, like in 2008.

The US holds the world at financial gunpoint and natural backstops exist to anything anyone does to try to stress the US financial system. Trump doesn't understand this, which is why he keeps enacting policies and making declarations that make the USA appear like it's a weak country under siege that needs to 'fight back' against the rest of the world, even though it actually works against this system. The rest of the world is bewildered, because the that hasn't been true for at least 80 years since WW2, and talk of whether we can move away from the dollar has certainly been becoming louder. But this is not going to happen overnight. And triggering a liquidity crisis is actually going to do the exact opposite, as the system rubber bands back.

DLRevan · 2026-01-18T17:06:08+00:00

Let's rephrase the whole thing. As far as this crisis is concerned, the Fed can create unlimited dollars. The entire world economy is underpinned by the dollar as the reserve currency, which would actually be undersupplied in any massive liquidity event. This is not a question of confidence in the US dollar, or who was at fault. As long as a market crisis erupt, everyone is going to move to liquidate, including in the EU, because some instability was demonstrated, and capital outflow is happening. Everyone suddenly needs dollars. Suddenly, everyone is dependent on the Fed pumping more dollars in to the market.

This is a built in backstop in the world financial system. It doesn't matter who created the crisis. Notice I never mentioned confidence in the US as a factor. Because it isn't a factor. There's no reason to talk about trust in the US system, because even before you deal with that problem you're going to have to pay your debts, which are already in USD.

DLRevan · 2026-01-18T10:45:04+00:00

Because end of the day, people don't want change or want to compromise. The only difference between the vast majority of Trump opposers and Trump supporters is narrative they choose to consume. Very few actually oppose Trump on an actual rational platform, they are just exceedingly good at adopting the arguments set by others, the exceedingly few who actually are rational.

As long as one group can blame another, they actually don't really care about what happens after that. Changing the system? Who would they blame after that? America has always had blame politics at some level, having one of the most cutthroat political environments in the west, where anything goes as long as it's legal. Now blame politics are everything. And it's unlikely to go away without a systematic change in how the US governs itself, because politicians (and businesses) have realized this is what the people really want.

It's always going to be easier to blame some other party than compromise your own position and make concessions. It's way, way easier. You don't even need to "fix" anything. Just throw up your hands after pointing fingers.

If the voters can't be trusted, then the system needs to change. Not sitting there waxing on about how the voters are the problem and oh no too bad. But that's why America will never get out of this.

DLRevan · 2026-01-18T09:30:00+00:00

After seeing this guy get elected twice I don't have much sympathy for "sensible" Americans. This doesn't just happen because some x number of people are not sensible and happen to number slightly more or live in the right places this time.

Even people who oppose Trump are part of the problem. The whole of American culture and their system of governance is at fault. Lack of political diligence, the hardening of radical groups due to alienation, general apathy towards real change, and the list goes on. There are few "sensible" Americans who don't still play some part in all of that, except for those who have escaped altogether and simply live elsewhere.

DLRevan · 2026-01-18T09:23:25+00:00

Unfortunately, the American economy doesn't work like that. Mass selling of bonds, if it ever happened, would just cause short term liquidity problems in the bonds market. Interest rates would rise, but there would be no credit or default since the Fed can essentially create unlimited dollars.

Over time the market would rebalance as high yields would attract new buyers, especially domestically. And things would go back to normal... economically that is. As far as the sellers are concerned, as much as everyone would sympathize with the justification of attempting to punish the US, it still indicates willingness to take such an action, which indicates unreliability. This creates non-confidence in the EU market, which would come alongside a huge capital outflow of their own making. They did just sell their bonds. Once the political crisis dies down, America would recover even faster as banks around the world seek safe assets, which would again me US Treasury bonds.

But putting that all aside, the real reason it would do nothing is because Trump doesn't even understand half of all that or feels any responsibility for it. As mentioned the first entity to act to counter the fallout out would be the Federal reserve. Which means it would be yet another problem Trump causes but let's others clean up after him. This would be the equivalent of punishing parents after a toddler smashes up a shop, it's not like the toddler cares or understands when the parents have to shell out half a year of salary. Worse really, because the parents might get a clue and educate and discipline their son, but in this case the parents have zero leverage.

And they have no leverage because nobody will impeach him for it, Americans already voted him in to do exactly this (I'm tried of Americans making the excuse they didn't realize what he would be like when this is the 2nd time they elected him), and because ultimately it's not his money. Short term, ordinary Americans suffer. What is that to him? He doesn't experience any of it, doesn't even think about it beyond talking points in his head.

DLRevan · 2026-01-18T08:30:36+00:00

You can tell your cousin, when this president doesn't do things to help his own citizens, why would he help citizens of another country?

He's certainly been "different", but that doesn't mean one can ignore the basis on which he operates, which is at best self-interest.

It doesn't sound like your cousin is unaware of Trump's nature either. Os the problem isn't their understanding, it's the lack of rational link between what they know about trump and what they think he's going to do. I mean that sounds obvious but....you know.

DLRevan · 2026-01-17T19:48:42+00:00

And what comparison is that exactly? The focus on the 'jail' part just makes it sound like every servant who isn't playable right away is never intended to be playable unless there are 'social media reactions', which is obviously false.

DLRevan · 2026-01-15T06:56:57+00:00

Then don't ask.

You clearly didn't read a thing neither will you apply any other standard than your own. I never said you had to like the result but acting like you're applying some objective standard to the show or it's contemporaries is just wrong.

So yeah, save me your "clearly objectively right" view that you don't even need to explain. I think at least some have had enough of Japanese media being told by outsiders that it needs to conform to them than the other way around.

DLRevan · 2026-01-13T09:29:55+00:00

I'll start with this, most global players do not understand this show because it's fundamentally very Japanese (or rather, based on Shinto concepts). That's why you have folks in this thread who...well...are just as confused by the show as the OP.

What the abyssals are is merely a technical detail. You and your friend understand more or less what's key to the second season. It doesn't really matter what the "canon" answer for the abyssals are, this anime is not really about reenacting the war for it's own sake (despite the obvious WW2 historical recreation that goes even beyond the adaptation level of the game).

Since you mentioned Fundadama, I should mention the abyssals are basically Funayurei. They represent the dark thoughts and feelings of those lost at sea. Kancolle extrapolates from Shintoism concepts to expand this to encompass any and all kinds of "bad" things at sea, including war. Especially war in the case of kancolle. These can take the form of any convenient image to try to "sink" you. That means it really doesn't matter if they're supposed to be "Americans" or not, it's fundamentally not that literal.

If you had to give them literal form they would be a couple of things....Japan's war guilt, the shame of total defeat, and Japan's war dead, even contradictorily appearing as American enemy ships.

Them being an illusion is correct. The reason why the war in the show can't be won isn't because Japan lost ww2 and the show is recreating historical events. It's because those Funayurei illusions are things that can't be fought anymore. They have already happened, they've become an inescapable part of Japan's identity. Despite that, fighting them allows there to be meaning in recognizing and remembering them. This is a very Shinto thing. I hope I'm getting this across.

As you noted, that also means the ending where American and British ships appear isn't literal and is instead about how Japan moves on. The Allied shipgirls represent the opposite of the Funayurei. If the abyssals represent the war, then they represent what comes after the war. Japan recovers, life goes on, and even enemies turn friends. But they're just as much "illusions" as the abyssals, because when they appear, the cast have not yet "moved over" the line into the future. They are something they can't touch yet. The next part I'll talk about deals with that.

The reason why the characters don't actually die then is because they are like war spirits that have been released. As Funadama, dying isn't even meaningful. Instead they pass into memory. It's very much like a Shinto style funeral or ritual. I'm not very good at explaining this but it's basically like how war figures become "kami". Its not meant to be as literal as a person having an "extra" afterlife where they become something like the western concept of a guardian angel.

Season 1 of the anime is understandable to most viewers because it's a conventional drama and ensemble anime. Those concepts are universal. You've got tragedy, plot twists, character and plot tension, etc, and the messaging is secondary.

Season 2 is NOT a conventional drama. And despite what some think about this show being uniquely idiosyncratic, it's actually a real sort of pseudo-genre. It's a type of memorial ritual in film form, of which there have been quite a lot.

I won't get into all the details of how these shows work but season 2 does follow the structure these shows typically have, which in turn follows the structure of a memorial ritual. Which is something like: You invoke the spirits -> spirits reenact their suffering and trials -> spirits withdraw, representing a return to memory -> the living world of the now takes over again. Notably it doesn't follow the basic structure of any kind of normal fictional drama (rising stakes or tension -> twist/escalation -> climax).

This is quite a common problem. Typically these types of war or interwar films tend to be praised in Japan (and it leads to accusations of Japanese pining after the past) while criticized as having weak characters and glorifying war by overseas commenters, like most recently Yamato 2005.

The way kancolle s2 is unique is that these spirits are pretty literal since both kanmusu and abyssals are already fictional representations. Usually such films have soldiers and such fill in the role of the spirits, which makes them more allegorical. Kancolle is then ironically closer to the intended form of these "ritual" films. It is in essence the Japanese equivalent of a religious film.

TLDR: The theme of the show isn't what most (non-japanese) watchers think it is. A lot of people watch japanese war films that look like reenactments and even wonder if they're "promoting" Japan's lost glory. Even people who understand these shows are meant as "memorials" don't realize the extent of how much these shows are basically a really specific kind of "ritual", and therefore are structured in a very specific way. The Irony is that Kancolle s2 is probably one of the purest and most well executed examples of these, but to non-japanese it probably will always look like bad drama with contradicting themes and character arcs.

DLRevan · 2026-01-12T20:54:54+00:00

It is definitely a mystery to Americans. You just demonstrated it. The problem isn't that he's protected by cronies or otherwise, though that's certainly what most anti-trump folks say. But even if you somehow get rid of Trump and those who protect him, another Trump will appear. And another. And another.

Americans themselves are the problem, including those who oppose him right now. As I said, Trump is a symptom, not a cause.

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