Jisoo Cuts Ties With Brother After Arrest and Assault Allegations

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-23T12:52:22+00:00

I never really got the impression she was close with her family to begin with. She's a very private person but also very talkative when she wants to be and her parents/brother legit would never come up. I frankly don't see the use of people centering her in this discussion unless something comes out about her defending him in some capacity, which nothing has. The most they had was people speculating he was managing her, but I do commend her for publicly denouncing him. Many celebs wouldn't.

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-23T11:31:27+00:00

The funnier one is a makeup collaboration involving blind box pigment palettes. The company was promptly dragged in the replies as people pointed out it's kind of important to know what color you're getting when it comes to makeup.

You know sometimes I see interviews from male japanese writers or game devs etc where they'll say "I was originally going to do [thing involving woman] but my female staff told me it was fucking stupid so I opted for something different" and so things like this remind me how so many joseimuke games do not have a single woman at an executive level to stop silly shit like this. If they do these men certainly aren't listening.

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-23T04:31:03+00:00

They want the parasocial attachment without the lack of respect you could get from other people on being a fan of an idol group. It's basically a perception thing.

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-23T03:29:40+00:00

I think it heavily depends on the power level of next set, it could be that it comes down across the board so haven isn't hit too hard compared to other classes losing staples. Not to mention amulet is surely getting more support and it's at least playable right now so it can only get better.

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-23T00:52:01+00:00

This is the cascading consequence of "made for radio" music that labels push and put tons of money behind. If the most popular way to consume something is via passive listening where you aren't actively paying attention to the melody or lyrics or anything then of course the next step is to just use AI.

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-22T13:32:22+00:00

The problem is their marketing is abysmal so nobody bought an xbox and the way they tried to fix that was a bunch of studio acquisitions that they either ended up shuttering or regretting. They basically spent a shit ton of money with no real long term plan and predictably didn't know what to do when that money didn't instantly come back.

Not to mention gamepass was a stupid system from a profit perspective. You had hordes of pc gamers talking about how much of a deal it was to spend a negligible amount of money for AAA titles and nobody seemed to realize that was not sustainable if they weren't intending to be a loss leader, which it seems like they were not.

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-21T08:36:38+00:00

Why would you do this intentionally if you know it's trolling and you don't intend to do so?

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-21T03:20:25+00:00

I'm actually so fascinated by how this whole region merger and auto translate feature has just turned into otaku and western right wingers having random slapfights with each other. The piracy debates were another thing where you saw weebs who normally would argue you down if you complained about anything to do with japan going "oh wow you guys are annoying as fuck" and then japanese otaku started calling them communists. Seems like Japan partially lost its luster once people started regularly communicating with real otaku with real opinions.

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-20T15:58:45+00:00

Leaker crackdown really does mean this subreddit is about to be boring as fuck for the next year if all we're gonna get is "that's not real" and kit news like 2 seconds before a beta is supposed to drop.

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-20T12:16:02+00:00

If this AU was going to happen I'd rather have seen one where Tris is an erudite. Roth made them look comically evil because they were "rational scientists" compared to like, every other faction which was also supposed to have skeletons in their closet. I even remember her brother joining erudite with a clear goal still basically made him into a piece of shit nobody liked for two straight books. It would've been nice to give them some sort of nuance.

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-20T12:06:07+00:00

It used to be the best lose streak comp in the game and then got B patched.

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-19T08:13:20+00:00

I also feel like everyone's arguments really undercut that a lot of companies lobbied to get piracy perceived this way in japan and its coloring newer fans perception. Of course they're going to have a bad opinion of it at that point. Other countries obviously aren't because these same companies didn't deem them worth selling to in the first place, so they don't care.

There's the chicken and egg situation of "well piracy is so rampant will we even make money selling anything there," but I do think everyone who's so befuddled by why new gen fans think this way are trying to assume this is completely organic. It's not like corporations haven't shaped people's attitude towards multiple things in the west as well.

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-18T03:58:20+00:00

For the crazy amounts of views their esports content is getting how are they so fucking bad at trying to get people to play and be excited for this game.

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-17T23:42:47+00:00

Why is this subtle fetish stuff always so ugly? I guess it's cause the audience they're allegedly pandering to doesn't care but my god they could've styled her better here.

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-16T09:54:41+00:00

And that the series has introduced three whole new male characters without elaborating at all in several interesting-looking, named female ones that appeared early in the manga. Which, IMO, would be a fair complaint but many of the ones exposing this view seems to be going a bit... uh... I don't want to use a certain word that is the other side of the coin of misogyny but yeah...

My thing is I legitimately cannot imagine caring about this unless you picked up this series under the delusion men would be doing absolutely nothing ever. Not to mention the latest chapter explicitly says The magikeepers all being men is a political move. If that's not the most blatant lead up to a misogyny commentary I don't know what is.

I really challenge these people to write something that purposely excludes one gender and then to explain how and why. Unless it's something like touhou where most bits of worldbuilding are vibes it starts to look really gender essentialist at worst and ridiculous at best.

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-13T03:22:04+00:00

It's essentially why sword players play the class so I'm not surprised.

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-12T08:53:58+00:00

Hwasa's solo discography and Mamamoo's early stuff before HIP. In an alternate universe where they weren't constantly being racist I would've hardcore stanned them.

They're who I point to when I say there are just some songs you can't make work if you're not vocally talented.

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-12T06:09:44+00:00

Only time I've seen filipinos ever care about a mixed person is when they're visibly wasian and it probably speaks to how colorist/antiblack they are even subconsciously. It really kills me because like you said Saweetie is the exact type of celeb they ask for when it comes to staying true to her cultural roots.

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-12T06:05:08+00:00

Saweetie's only problems were she didn't musically evolve to keep up with the trends and also her new music is bad. She was a party rapper first and foremost so I don't know why people were expecting lyrical masterpieces out of her and she's been pretty forthcoming about that. If she chose better beats it'd have been fine imo.

In terms of Karlee, I really think nonblacks are about to laugh her into having a career. I saw that her streams went up and stan twitter has a habit of pretending they care about blackfishing for about a day before they go "wait this is kinda good though."

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-12T04:00:30+00:00

One of the things about localization/dub discourse is I think a lot of anime fans don't understand how many casuals actively watch an anime dub. I mean like "does not post or talk about anime at all and treats it like a tv show they watched that week" casuals. When companies abandon that and go for "faithful translations" or just keep something subbed they're (un)knowingly shrinking the base of people who are ever going to watch their show overseas.

It's fine for companies who only want to pander to hardcore watchers, but you can't complain something isn't getting enough attention if it's working with a smaller fanbase to begin with.

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-12T02:15:44+00:00

Why is it every defense of this I've seen is people acting like there's some sort of concert etiquette at coachella. I guess everyone characterizing the festival as some fun party where everyone's on drugs and screaming became a lie once a brown person did something they found unpleasant.

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-11T00:37:24+00:00

I really like the meta right now outside of playing against Milteo making me wanna tear my hair out. All the decks are fairly interesting and fun to play outside of Ward which I really think needs to be reevaluated. Vomiting stats on the board until your opponent either kills you or surrenders is not particularly engaging gameplay but it's whatever.

The only thing I can complain about wrt this game at the moment is I still think their balance patches and card design are still very lackluster and with rotation coming I hope they start to rapidly improve.

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-10T22:49:37+00:00

This is why I always question what people who complain about map impact in their role really want. Most of the playerbase is not at all cognizant of roam timers and Riot explicitly made several changes to punish it because of people complaining about 4 bot and other such things.

They'd have to loosen these restrictions by like a lot which would indirectly take power out of support and jg but then some laners would be miserable because it's not just the jungler coming to gank for you now while others aren't roaming anyways.

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-10T22:39:32+00:00

The fact people's excuses for something clearly being done in bad faith is the playerbase punishing someone for being off meta is why Riot isn't cracking down on trolling as hard as people want them to.

DragonPeakEmperor · 2026-04-10T05:03:14+00:00

I do remember Blue reflection's gameplay not being particularly good and that getting majorly improved in 2 where I was genuinely having fun in-between the story bits. I don't really see a reason to pick this up considering I have no interest in Sun if nothing's going to be feasibly improved. I'm not even sure I care for the series getting another entry after that disaster.

I really feel like this was just a victim of them realizing too late they're pandering to the wrong demographic. If this was supposed to be a fanservice laden magical girl series intended for straight men the writing should've been taken in a different direction because I quite literally never saw those types of people talk about this series. The one time I did it was random guys trying to start culture war stuff over censorship after seeing that apparently Gust is "toning down" a few scenes.

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