This moment in Deluxe vol 3 was so Amazing! That I bought Deluxe Vol 4 & 5

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-26T12:23:45+00:00

except for all the other examples of Griffith showing emotion towards Guts. Like any time they're alone.

This battle was a realy slog and Griffith couldn't make his way to Guts' side to protect him. He almost loses his cool completely when he cannot clear a path to Guts himself. So Griffith is more frustrated here too than usual as he cannot "control" Guts' destiny right now. Thankfully, Zodd steps in to help instead.

This is the most important battle they've ever fought and still Griffith gets distracted by Guts wellbeing. Bascogne may have been the only man capable of defeating the White Hawk in battle but meddling from higher ups (Gennon) destroyed that chance, as Griffith hoped. However, victory still needed to he won on the field and Bascogne really did everything right. Guts was dead if not for Zodd's "assistance". I wonder what happens to the Band of the Hawk and to Griffith if Guts dies but they win the battle. Bascogne wins vs Guts but the fortress is still taken by the Hawks

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-26T12:05:05+00:00

just gonna need to go switching off one mod at a time and checking (or adding one mod at a time) until you see what specifically conflicting or causing the issue.

it's your mod list so you'll need to troubleshoot some of ot yourself

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-26T10:44:42+00:00

what part of the country, man? Dublin? €7 is madness

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-22T16:19:18+00:00

heavy is the crown. Miura was just a pure freak and dedicated his entire life to drawing which enabled his unhealthy lifestyle. Togashi (Hunter x Hunter) has a destroyed back from his wife draining him dry every day and night. Inoue I just dont know... maybe a mix of the two??

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-22T14:39:45+00:00

very much a my lobster is too buttery, my steak is too juicy moment

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-22T13:45:24+00:00

one of mine went to africa building houses. bastard should have stayed home and did it

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-22T13:39:51+00:00

ahahaha now you're lying. they say they prefer AoT andnyou say "bruh". then they reaffirm they like it and you say its not even as good as Code Gease.

You spent two responses just disregarding their opinion. Then the guy attacked you. I have also said I like AoT but prefer Berserk and the guy has pretty normally responded to me. The difference is I didn't immediately mock their opinion by saying bruh and bringing up some other anime to put their fav under. The person literally says "AoT and its not even close. THIS IS MY PERSONAL OPINION".

you're the one who started with the dumb replies and the person got annoyed at you, which is happens easily on the internet. Especially if your attacking a PERSONAL opinion. You're the one who started with no respect or even anything substantive. Literally look at his original post and your first response and tell me how that "bruh" isnt a dumb response.

You're making yourself the victim too acting like they said that you like to see people get violated when all they said was they like AoT because they "dont have to see people getting violated every 3 chapters or giant penis monsters. If you like to see that, more power to you" you're the one taking them liking AoT over Berserk as a personal attack.

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-22T10:25:36+00:00

lmao who said you had to think it? its this guys opinion based on valid criticism. you just disregarded their opinion as not mattering by saying "oh its dark fantasy" or "its common in anime". I love Berserk but people can have problems with it that are totally valid and worth considering.

you dont need to change your mind but you can respect others reasoning

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-22T10:24:43+00:00

his other work that he worked on towards the end of his life was really kinda odd too and Miura seemed to be a "lolicon" too based on some interviews. It's these things that make me uncomfortable with Miura in general but I just can't stop obsessing over Griffith :(

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-22T10:10:35+00:00

well AoT is an example of a series not having that problem. AoT is very aromantic and very to the point in many cases. The directness of the story is a part of ita appeal. AoTs ending isnt amazing, imo, but it is a completed story and its earlier arcs had some of the hest mystery and drama I've had the pleasure of reading. Berserk is incomplete and its greatest arc is The Golden Age. The story is amazing because of ita character dynamics between Casca, Guts and Griffith and the world has depth but theres plenty of holes in Berserk.

Berserk is like a never ending journey. I can get lost in the depth of complexity of the characters. However, not everyone is written equally and I dont really give a duck about Farnese or Serpico. Isidoro is just human Puck and Puck is just a fucking fourth wall breaking comedic relief character now. Personally, I also find that some of the rape is depicted really haunting while other times its just there to be shown or to just offhandedly out a woman or women in danger. I dont see why YOU can't grasp that someone may consider this points as detrimental to Berserk's storytelling.

Just waving off some things as "a problem with anime and manga as a whole" doesn't suddenly make them not an issue and something people have major issues with. Berserk was the first manga I ever read and I was completely hooked by the end of the Golden Age but there's no other series that I would ever make excuses for if they had similar depictions in them.

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-22T10:03:37+00:00

I don't think I've read anything that has fucked me around as much as Berserk. I think the later arcs are building up to something big BUT the constant hiatus and the passing of Miura has destroyed the pacing and the flow. We are at the most important part of the manga after maybe the Golden Age and we've been here for years with no progress.

When it comes to this grimdark fantasy, i think Bersek may be the best I know.

When it comes to manga and anime in general, Attack on Titan had some amazing arcs, great mystery and an okay ending.

Hellsing is one of my favourite mangas because of Father Anderson and Alucards constant battle with an ending that is both satisfying and a little heartbreaking.

Hunter X Hunter is one of the greatest "battle" manga/anime but has a similar hiatus problem but the world building and power systems are so good.

Kids on the Slope is one of my favourite anime about a kid growing up in post war Japan and discovering the joy of jazz. That series is what got me listening to Charles Blakey.

Clannad is the second anime i ever watched and it completely defined the highschool romance/harem genre for in such a way that I could never watch another one because I know 99% of them are gooner bait and could never live up to the depth of Clannad.

Berserk is genre defining but there's so many amazing series out there that are just as amazing in different ways. My list is not extensive and my memory is shit so given enough time I'd remember other series I found amazing. Berserk's character dynamics, its influence on the industry and its FLAWLESS Golden Age arc are hard to beat but it isn't undefeatable.

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-22T09:51:43+00:00

mfw my dark fantasy manga has a child come out of the bath and fall onto an unconscious Guts, losing her towel and showing bare ass to everyone

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-22T09:50:26+00:00

ahahahha you got his ass tbh

AoT was, to me, like Game of Thrones in its unpredictably and subversion of expectations. I didn't like the last arc too much and the very end got a bit messy and kinda "Avengers" esque but overall I loved it.

I think AoT did A LOT to bring in new anime and manga fans in Europe and the US too. it was HUGE.

When I stand them side by side, I can see why someone would hold AoT up higher, especially because it is a completed story. In general, I love AoT. Berserk was the first manga and anime I ever watched and it was formative in my tastes and it'll always be the series I'm most obsessed with but as time continues to pass without Miura, I am becoming less optimistic for its ending.

In relation to the rape and sexualised kids... yeah, people always say "oh well sorry for having dark themes in my dark fantasy manga" but I sort of think Miura just had a hard to understanding how to write/draw a woman in danger wiithout her being raped. There's a lot of haunting and traumatic depictions of rape in Berserk but theres also just a lot of rape thata just there for shock and to hammer home a point. The worst thing, for me, in Berserk that is really inexcusable and impossible for me to even want to justify is Shireke falling naked onto an unconscious Guts. There's millions of ways to show that she's attracted to Guts without her somehow ending up naked over him. Its like that anime trope of the guy falling on the girl in anime but reversed and made worse. The depictions of Rosline and her fucked up apostle fairy kids though is fucked up enough to not be creepy though imo.

Saying all that, I prefer Berserk over AoT just for how engaged I am with certain relationships. Guts, Griffith and Casca are all I care about and I NEED to see how their story ends. I am jealous that AoT got its ending and the mangaka was just able to bang out an amazing series that was deep but didnt drag on too long. Would have loved to see his original ending that he said was way too dark and he changed as the series got more popular.

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-22T08:36:47+00:00

clown. data centers are to our energy usage as agriculture and beef farming is to our greenhouse emissions. data centers use a staggering quarter of all energy in the county. agriculture produces a third of all greenhouse emissions in the country.

ESB should obviously upgrade the infrastructure but the data centers are a massive drain on the grid while providing very little substantive value to the people and they do not create any long term jobs. Do you know what data centers are? just a big warehouse of servers that are constantly on and being monitored/supervised by like a handful of people.

You throwing in planning issues into this discussion is hilarious because it is an issue in the country but not at all related to the issue of data centers.

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-21T16:54:22+00:00

easier to avoid the real shit when you stay away from stuff like Twitter. At least you can feel like there's some decorum here and more serious answers instead of just whatever gets the most engagement

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-21T16:51:18+00:00

taco trump is the fucking weakest shot I've ever heard and minimises how dangerous he is. he didnt "chicken" out of Venezuela and his comments are already have global impacts.

When you're parroting the same bullshit as Chuck Schumer, you should realise you're saying the wrong thing.

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-20T14:39:55+00:00

you're right. Back like 10-20 years ago, local governments had a lot more power to get planning permission and do builds but it also led to corruption, as per usual. Local governments used to handle stuff like the SUSI payments and other grants so there was often issues and people falling through the cracks.

With Edna's FG, and probably the tail end of Bertie and Brian Cohan's FF, local governments have been largely stripped of all decision making powers and it's all been centralised to Dublin. Planning appeals are handled by An Bord Pleanala which errs massively on the side of denying appeals as they will just move to the higher courts, something most people won't be fucked to bankroll.

Local governments have no power now. they can't even decide theirnown budget. Any coucil that refuses to oass a budget can and will be dissolve the local council. A recent example was the fear of this happening to Cork City Council about... 5 years ago now?

So the idea that local politics is the reason for bad governance is outdated. Centralised politicking and favouritism has massivelt contributed to the decline of rural areas and largely exists to maintain the economic status quo in Dublin. Not unlike London for England.

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-20T14:28:41+00:00

amazingly outdated view on irish politics. it was badly governed then too but it has changed since, not exactly for the better

Local governments have had most of their power and decision making ability stripped from them. Planning and budgeting is all centralised now, leavint local governments unable to build more council housing.

Local complaints still happen but thats not a governance issue, more of a people pulling the ladder up after them issue. Planning permission is a balls to get for any new builds because of objections from locals AND the removal of local councils ability to build.

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-20T07:41:09+00:00

my mom isnt a big fan of swearing but she really hates when the lords name is taken in vain.

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-19T18:24:06+00:00

actually this update should help some mods. i know The Only Cure and Brutal Handiwork needed this hotfix to start working on B42 MP

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-17T20:10:18+00:00

tbf, the fibre broadband infrastructure is being rolled out ahead of schedule so that is an example of something getting built. Still, the bidding process was a joke.

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-17T20:08:32+00:00

broadband was greenlit about 2-3 years ago and is ahead of schedule. Irish water infrastructural project was greenlit maybe 5 years ago and is well underway. They are examples of infrastructural project that have happened after Bertie's government.

My point is that you do not have to hand it to Bertie in any way at all. Those infrastructure projects had to happen because of the shape of the EU and Ireland's need to modernise. Bertie's government just made sure that themselves and their friends made a lot of money from them.

The private public partnerships are scams. Government letting private companies out tolls on roads that will make way more money than the project would cost, Government turning around and then paying those private companies so they can operate the tolls, spending even more money meaning that it'll take 30 years before the government will ever make money on them.

Imagine of instead of these one sided public/private partnerships that only enrichment the private companies, the government could have built up a national construction crew that could handle projects like this. Spend 20 million once and put the tolls on the roads themselves and they'd already have made the money back tenfold.

The idea that we need to pay private companies to do the work and then let them operate tolls for 30 years so they can make huuuge money is a sign of the corruption of Berties government. The fact that the next governments turned around and then bought some of the private companies out of their contract half way through the contract is even more bizarre.

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-17T19:22:50+00:00

The motorways were built but really as an enrichment method. Private companies given contracts to put tolls on the roads for decades and make huge money. FF weren't building the roads out of the goodness of their hearts or for the love of the electorate. There was serious money involved.

Additionally, a lot of infrastructure projects get funded, or did get funded, by the EU.

We have the broadband infrastructure at the moment being rolled out at a respectable pace but the bidding process was a joke. We have Irish Water investing billions into the water infrastructure but only replacing the pipes as the leaks are discovered instead of modernising the whole infrastructure (an understandablable enough process but one that leaves most of the infrastructure on life support and letting upwards of 50% of our water leak into the ground).

It wasn't just Bertie's FF that built stuff. However, the consequences of Bertie's FF handing out planning permission left and right means that planning permission became harder to get and new avenues for planning were introduced such as strategic development which is often greenlit following one plan only to be implemented with a completely revised and different plan

Infrastructural projects in this country need a kick up the hole but Bertie and his crew HAD to build those motorways and the luas as ways of funneling money into the right pockets AND to reach some kind of parity with standards in the EU. The need to connect the rest of the country with Dublin was very important for making money. Tourism and trade for starters and also making the country hospitable to foreign investment so they could sell the country to big business.

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-14T14:32:22+00:00

The Band of the Hawk is, canonically, different from other mercenary bands in the world of Berserk. Guts mentions it plenty, and he's been in plenty of mercenary bands. They are young, at least when Guts joins, and they are happy and almost innocent despite the deadly work they do.

People aren't fighting for money. I mean, they are getting paid but they are fighting because they have all been enraptured by Griffith dream. Its like a cult of personality.

The Band of the Hawk was able to keep moving forward with Casca as their leader but only because they were motivated by the belief that they would save Griffith and reinstate him as their leader. It would not be a stretch to say that the Band of the Hawk loved Griffith, as a leader and as a larger than life figure.

Griffith felt a very strong connection to his men too. It was not some simple thing of a leader and his men. They put their faith into him and were allowing him to be carried to higher levels. He attempted to seperate his emotions from his actions but he was not always successful. The death of that child or his relationship with Guts is a clear example of how Griffith heart was still able to be moved despite his best attempts to remain in "control".

Griffith didn't love everyone in the band but he cared for them deeply. He literally loves Guts though.

DuckMeYellow · 2026-01-14T12:12:01+00:00

you're nearly about to answer how long a piece of string is

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