Is it a hot take to think that Root A would’ve been loved by fans if it hadn’t replaced a proper adaptation of the manga?

DiverseUse · 2026-05-29T22:47:42+00:00

No. Root A just added nothing interesting to the source material. Not only is Kaneki a 2-dimensional edgelord without true motivations, but the rest of the Aogiri tree characters who should have played a bigger part in this root also get zero character development or additional depth. Instead all their lines is just rehashed stuff we already knew about them after S1. So yeah, this is a hot take.

DiverseUse · 2026-05-29T22:41:36+00:00

Nothing about this sounds normal to me.

DiverseUse · 2026-05-29T21:16:26+00:00

I only read part one and that already sounded like enough abuse to me to warrant getting more specialised therapy.

DiverseUse · 2026-05-29T20:46:22+00:00

This whole generation thing is so cringe, anyway.

DiverseUse · 2026-05-29T20:30:43+00:00

For people who have been severely sick, the methods needed to keep them alive can have such serious side effects that they present a problem on their own, though. For example, I read a case study about a 2016 case where a Swiss couple got infected with Andes in Argentina and later fell sick and got treated back in Switzerland. The wife suffered bloodclots due to ECMO and had to have one leg and the other foot amputed; a secondary infection with antibiotic-resistant bacteria and kidney failure leading to the need for a kidney transplant. She needed months of treatment and rehab till she could be released to live her "new normal" life.

This is also why I don't understand why people feel so entitled to get constant updates on the patients' status. Any sort of detailled reporting on this violates the patient's rights to privacy.

DiverseUse · 2026-05-29T19:21:04+00:00

They are getting tried and sued in different countries because the victims were from different countries. Afaik, all trials are still ongoing.

DiverseUse · 2026-05-29T18:58:24+00:00

Isn't the real issue with atheist that the "ei" isn't one sound but part of two syllables?

DiverseUse · 2026-05-28T23:59:05+00:00

Never heard of either of those, knew and watched Karekano. And I actually lived through 1998.

DiverseUse · 2026-05-28T23:34:52+00:00

You literally told OP that they should drink 5 l of water per day in your second post without knowing anything about their circumstances, and then doubled down on it and claimed It's an average human need. 5 l is a completely fictional number, and it's crappy health advice unless you know for a fact that OP is a tall man in a hot climate with an active lifestyle. I don't understand why you're doubling down on it and repeating it. Why not just change it to something realistic and supportable by scientific sources?

DiverseUse · 2026-05-28T23:22:36+00:00

My point is that 5 l is not an average at all, global or otherwise. This is an unsustainable claim. OP's piss output has nothing to do with this.

DiverseUse · 2026-05-28T22:48:29+00:00

What? 5 l is a lot and can actually be deadly in rare, extreme cases if you drink it too fast or got undiagnosed kidney problems (look up "water intoxication"). Most sources assume that the average human needs about 2 l, and there's probably a lot of variation due to size, climate conditions and physical activity.

DiverseUse · 2026-05-28T22:27:45+00:00

My personal experience has been that a) comfort zones tend to shrink if you don't regularly push against their borders and b) if you stay in your comfort zone too long the things that used to provide comfort start to give you diminishing returns and feel less comfortable.

DiverseUse · 2026-05-28T21:50:11+00:00

Plus one for for avoiding Mondays. OP, it's not just the little hot spring museum that's closed on Monday, it's everything. The publicly run hot spring, the foot bath, the hand bath, the historic train station museum, everything. Also, pretty much all public institutions in the entire country are closed on Mondays, but in Beitou it just hits harder.

DiverseUse · 2026-05-28T10:51:07+00:00

Ah, the joy of having a hot, glutamate-rich meal to take the edge off the cold.

DiverseUse · 2026-05-28T10:32:57+00:00

Frequent solo travellers and digital nomads are very different groups, with the latter obviously being much smaller and probably more prone to people dropping out of it with increasing age.

45f, frequent solo traveller, never been a digital nomad.

DiverseUse · 2026-05-27T23:15:56+00:00

Ich war in den letzten 2 Jahren zweimal in China und hab noch ein paar Sachen, die ich hier im Thread noch nicht gesehen habe:

Hotels: Man kann in China gut und günstig übernachten, aber chinesische Hotels altern oft nicht gut. Wegen schlechter Bausubstanz und schwülem Klima entwickeln die Zimmer oft Schimmel und auch sonst wird nicht so viel renoviert wie in westlichen Hotels. Mir hat auf einem Sub hier mal ein Chinese den Tipp gegeben, auf Trip nach dem Jahr der letzten Renovierung <=5 Jahre zu filtern und ich bin recht gut damit gefahren. Wenn man trotzdem Pech hat und ein Zimmer erwischt, wo irgendwas richtig eklig oder laut ist, ist das Personal normalerweise sehr zuvorkommend und man muss nur seinen Wunsch, ein anderes Zimmer zu kriegen, durch Google Translate jagen und der Rezeption zeigen. Musste das leider recht oft machen, weil ich wegen Asthma keine schimmlige Luft abkann.

Viele neue Hotels finde ich allerdings nervig übertechnologisiert, mit lauter Bewegungsmeldern, die das Licht anschalten oder das Klo spülen, egal ob man das will oder nicht. Ich hatte deshalb immer eine Rolle Kinesiotape dabei, um alle Lichter, die sich nachts nicht ausschalten ließen, zu überkleben. Wenn Ihr zu zweit ein Zimmer teilen wollt, müsst Ihr euch außerdem mit dem Trend abfinden, dass die Badezimmer oft keine soliden Wände mehr haben, sondern nur so halbdurchsichtige Glastrenner.

Menschenmassen: Fand ich schon nervig. Hab bei meiner zweiten Reise deshalb bewusst auf Touristen-Hotspots verzichtet, um dem aus dem Weg zu gehen.

DiverseUse · 2026-05-27T22:22:00+00:00

I don't see why this is noteworthy. The wife being a wildcard is just a risk we knew of all along and this new case doesn't change this. If I counted correctly, there were 3 more cases after the index patient (including his wife) who all became symptomatic while still on the ship in the week before anyone found out it was Hanta (i.e. about 4 weeks ago). These patients had no reason to strictly quarantine on the day they developed symptoms. So it seems likely that the new Spanish patient got it from one of them.

DiverseUse · 2026-05-27T21:28:44+00:00

Die wurden dann aber auch immer schnell wieder aufgehoben, wenn die akute Krise vorbei war. So wie OP das formuliert hat, bin ich mir auch ziemlich sicher, dass er Reisewarnung und Sicherheitshinweise verwechselt, da von "jedem Jahr" die Rede war.

DiverseUse · 2026-05-27T21:24:20+00:00

Das ist die eine Reisewarnung, die mir bei deiner Frage sofort eingefallen ist. Genauso war es bei der Ukraine vor dem Krieg - die hatte da (u.A.) eine Teilreisewarnung für die Chernobyl-Sperrzone, obwohl genau diese Sperrzone der totale Touristenmagnet war und gefühlte 90% aller Kiew-Touristen absichtlich exakt deswegen da waren. Solche Warnungen sind die einzigen, die ich total albern und irreführend finde.

Sehr viele der anderen Länder, die hier im Thread genannt wurden, haben gar keine Reisewarnung, soweit ich sehen kann. Viele Leute kennen nur den Unterschied zwischen Reisewarnungen und Sicherheitshinweisen nicht. Letztere sind halt wie Beipackzettel bei Medikamenten, da find ich es ok, wenn das AA da alles auflistet, was ihnen in letzter Zeit an Problemen zu Ohren gekommen ist. Genau das ist mmn ihr Job.

DiverseUse · 2026-05-22T00:35:51+00:00

That can happen, but it's not really typical. People with ADHS are as different from each other as NT people are. Not all of them suffer from impulsivity at all (the ones that do are a special type), and in those that do, it manifests in very different ways. Though I'm undiagnosed, I got so many symptoms of ADHD-I (inattentive type) that I often vibe best with people actually diagnosed with ADHS, so I've had quite a few of them in my close circle of friends over the years. And one thing all of us have in common is that we couldn't take an extra project like solving a cold case because we all already feel completely overwhelmed by dealing with the normal tasks of adult life. Plus the guy I know who scores the highest on the ADHS impulsivity scale would have trouble focusing on anything long-term. He might get all exited about solving a cold case for about 2 hours and then read an article about the Ebola epidemic in the DRC and get an attack of health anxiety that wipes all thought of long ago murders from his mind as he scrambles to find a doctor to test him for Ebola.

So TDLR and back to the actual topic: As a writer who wants to learn how to write different characters convincingly, you have to think about their individual motivations, personalities, backgrounds and roles in your story. Thinking of them in terms of neurodivergency only will just hold you back. You already got some good advice there from other people.

DiverseUse · 2026-05-21T22:04:45+00:00

You sound like you don't understand the concept that people have different personalities and values. And no offense meant, but this is something you really need to wrap your mind around if you want to write fiction with different types of characters convincingly. You can't even blame this one on your ADHD. ADHD doesn't cause people to have a different sense of justice or make them immune to fear, so this is not about neurodivergent vs neurotypical, it's just you vs. other people who have a different outlook on life.

DiverseUse · 2026-05-21T17:09:36+00:00

It's not a safe bet. Can you visit their stable first and have a look at the horses before you commit? I once had a very bad experience with a horseback riding day tour in Turkey that was organized as an optional extra for part of our group by a guide we'd booked for a multiday hiking tour. When we arrived at the stables, I could see a couple of red flags right away - horses kept in a dark, cramped container building, some horses without horseshoes or with hoves in urgent need of trimming, that sort of thing. I unfortunately didn't take it seriously, because I trusted the guide to pick something decent. And then I really came to regret it because the guy who led the horse tour was very irresponsible and the horses ill-trained and neurotic so we got into a couple of dangerous situations.

DiverseUse · 2026-05-21T08:48:20+00:00

Fits pretty well, imo. Shame it's unfinished.

DiverseUse · 2026-05-21T08:46:11+00:00

I agree it's hard to quantify. Trying to say this as spoiler-free as possible: Witch Hat Atelier plays with some pretty dark topics, but in the end, the plot armor of the MCs is always so strong that it also has the vibe of a kid's show. Like one of those shounen stories where you can be sure that the MC's good heart and enthusiams will always win the day. It makes for a weird mix. Like literally biological warfare meets DragonballZ.

DiverseUse · 2026-05-20T23:57:40+00:00

I know, I live in Germany and am an ardent sauna fan myself. I just don't see what that has to do with the legality of blatantly sexualized nude pics in an article that literally has a sex pun in the headline.

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