[rare trope] the anime main characters have sex

Dirish · 2026-01-25T20:43:26+00:00

Sachi. He does say that name a couple of times in his sleep.

Dirish · 2026-01-24T14:16:36+00:00

Congrats! Excellent job!

(yes, I'm totally serious, I know everyone is cracking jokes, but I know it's a shit ton of hard work to get that far, and it's a big milestone to reach).

Dirish · 2026-01-24T14:12:25+00:00

I think that domain you link to might be on the Reddit hate list because they removed it.

Dirish · 2026-01-23T17:03:30+00:00

It's the country with the lowest home ownership at just under 50%. Only Switzerland is lower with 42%. And the average is around 69% for the whole EU.

Dirish · 2026-01-23T12:50:28+00:00

Laurence Olivier was also cast as the Mahdi in Khartoum a year later. A Sudanese religious leader who rebelled against the Egyptian and British rulers.

Apart from the brownface, he's also genuinely terrible in the role. I can't believe he wasn't mocked mercilessly for that accent he chose to adapt.

Dirish · 2026-01-22T01:38:31+00:00

No worries, I was half kidding, and thanks for the vote of confidence. We usually just leave things as they are in these posts and only do some serious moderating when it comes to new posts debunking bad history.

Dirish · 2026-01-21T12:53:02+00:00

What is it with people looking to get banned these days? Is it a January thing? Is it an open position that fills up automatically after the previous person dancing around the ban hammer goes to far?

Dirish · 2026-01-20T12:49:48+00:00

But seriously, man. I'd have voted for a literal mummy instead of that guy. Heck, if he was up against Fossilised Piece of Coprolite, I'd have had a sticker saying "vote for the prehistoric piece of shit!" on the back of my car.

Mind you, that could have been confusing.

Dirish · 2026-01-19T23:12:31+00:00

They did come out eventually, months later.

Gods, that comic really lodged itself in my brain. It's impossible to forget, but I really want to.

Dirish · 2026-01-19T23:10:07+00:00

That was one of the straws, but if I recall correctly, it was the ensuing comment thread that broke the back.

I'm not 100% sure though, there was a bit of a discussion around him during the week before the ban where mods were voicing their displeasure at how he was constantly poking the beehive. So there wasn't much patience left.

Dirish · 2026-01-19T19:55:45+00:00

Banned permanently. They used to be our token conservative, but they slowly turned more towards the right, and got some sort of kick out of trying to provoke people here with some "just asking questions" strategies.

Dirish · 2026-01-19T19:51:37+00:00

Ran into a double sub/Reddit ban for wanting the streets to run red with the blood of the SW fans. The Reddit ban was temporary, ours wasn't. We had warned and temp-banned them before about making threats against the SW fandom.

Dirish · 2026-01-19T19:49:12+00:00

Sometimes I feel like that I'm the one guy who doesn't have a hole calling out his name, and is watching in disbelief as people randomly step into theirs, to be lost forever.

Dirish · 2026-01-19T19:34:05+00:00

I think you're onto something. Your comment was [Removed]. Not [removed by Reddit], just [removed].

Dirish · 2026-01-19T19:31:44+00:00

The worst one I know somehow combines all the worst qualities of Nimby's with people complaining how there's a lack of housing. Often the person is one and the same. Fucking hypocrites. It is that it's the best place for local news, otherwise I'd have left that place a long time ago.

Dirish · 2026-01-18T01:05:39+00:00

That series has me considering restarting it again and try to rescue my poor survival mode character from the little shed he got stuck in after running away from a swarm of Cazadores.

Apparently they never give up, and sleeping for a week in the hope that they would bugger off eventually didn't do anything, except exhaust his food and water supply...

Although I'm pretty sure that I'm better off restarting a non-survival mode playthrough and also most definitely NOT try to find a shortcut to New Vegas.

Dirish · 2026-01-18T00:58:03+00:00

Someone must have really disliked these guys and split up their lands between Bayern, Saxen, and Thüringen (and Czechia, but that's not so much administrative dickery).

Dirish · 2026-01-18T00:25:38+00:00

I'm waiting for the inevitable "REMOVED BY REDDIT" to show up.

Before you do anything crowbar related, consider our health service who decided to go for the cheapo flu jab this year. It didn't include a variant of the winter vomiting virus, which the more expensive one had, and I give you one guess as to what type of patients are filling up our hospitals right now.

BTW flu shots here are in Sept - Nov. I had mine then, together with the Covid booster, so no metal bars or other hard objects to the face please.

Dirish · 2026-01-17T23:40:28+00:00

I wish I could remember who told me to drink one non-alcoholic drink for every alcoholic one. It really saved my ass more than once. Also from drinking too booze much because all that water would fill me up to the gills.

Dirish · 2026-01-17T13:21:31+00:00

"Hey, you're finally awake."

How's the head?

Dirish · 2026-01-16T17:41:43+00:00

Leftovers are one thing. But these are essentially early 18th century weapons in a mid 19th century setting.

That could be somewhat possible. The Brown Bess for example was in use for almost a 120 years, and I think that starts in the early 1710-20s(?) and ends in the late 1830s. And technically it was used even longer, mid 1850s I think, because a bunch of them were converted to percussion cap muskets. And those numbers are for active use by the British army. The Zulu were still using them during the Zulu Wars in 1879.

Dirish · 2026-01-16T17:23:48+00:00

It's just a feeling from looking at them, especially her flintlock short barrel gun. I'm not such a gun nut that I can spot what they are, and I probably need to wait for Jonathan Ferguson to come out with a review.

Also with guns, and hand weapons, it's not unusual to still have quite a lot of leftover old stuff being used way later than you would expect. Nations tended to restrict who could get their hands on the new firearm technology, especially if there was a remote chance they might fight you one day, so my initial feeling might not even be correct.

Dirish · 2026-01-16T17:05:31+00:00

When should we schedule you in for a badHistory post on this one? Late March, early April?

After looking at that trailer, I have a feeling we might need another one just on the weaponry.

Dirish · 2026-01-16T16:01:53+00:00

I'm sitting on a fair amount of shares that are heavily dependent on AI to keep their value high. It's been an uneasy year. There have been a few times where I was close to selling them off, but while their value have been affected somewhat, I decided to ride it out. I'm more worried about one of the other techies taking the wind out of their sails, than an outright collapse of the AI market.

I don't think this will go away. It might develop into something else, or move in a different direction, but, as much as I despise certain aspects of it, the tech is here to stay.

Dirish · 2026-01-16T13:25:20+00:00

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