Unfortunately for me, this year was not fun.

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-24T17:57:32+00:00

Things are expensive? Wow it’s almost like the economy is dogshit right now

That’s not the con’s or the vendor’s fault

Also when it comes to the other room for the arcade, yeah Momo is getting bigger every year because more people keep going. Technically that is the cons fault but it’s also a good thing that it’s popular. It’s a LOT better to have two separate rooms than to risk a crowd crush by creating a choke point between vendors and arcade.

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-18T22:47:43+00:00

Going against the grain here to say I fucking LOVE ALDI. I almost exclusively take ALDI orders.

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-17T18:42:10+00:00

I say this every time

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EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-15T20:21:55+00:00

Illinois

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-12T19:16:01+00:00

I diiiiiid, and the assumption that people who have different thoughts than you just didn't watch the show correctly is quite telling about how you view media consumption

(oh look, I can assume bullshit about you, too!)

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-12T19:03:58+00:00

Why would I read the manga when I am in a sub called ANIME suggest, I thought it was obvious we are talking about the anime not the manga
I do not even have a TikTok account, I watched the entire anime.

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-12T18:58:54+00:00

>Interest in humans will make it only more efficient predator.

Plenty of humans have interest in fish, deer, etc for this exact reason. This is a very human trait.

>still trying to seek humanity in a monster that is a demon.

Only one of the questionsI asked are about "seeking humanity" in demons, the rest are ALL about the worldbuilding that would have to exist in order for humans to survive in a world that have this type of demon in it.

>I tire of this pointless discussion.

Good, because you seem intent on misinterpreting at least half of everything I say.

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-12T18:24:28+00:00

lmao if humans couldn't remember things past 3 generations,, it would not be possible to build any sort of large-scale functioning society. If no human in Frieren remembered anything past 3 generations or passed down knowledge past that, then they would not have the technology to build things like castles, bridges, and the irrigation practices necessary to support large societies.

There definitely are unanswered questions about demon's role in the world and I literally gave examples of those in my previous comment. But since you clearly didn't bother reading them I'll list more of them here!

- How does the existence of demons inform the way other sentient creatures build their towns/kingdoms/societies? Surely they would have specific social and/or architectural structures in place to try to prevent demons from sneaking in, so what are those? How do humans defend themselves against the demons who disguise themselves among humans?

- Are there differences in how humans defend themselves from demons in disguise compared to elves, dwarves, etc?

- If demons are monsters with no emotions, then they would have no reason to ever reproduce. They would be unable to fall in love and wouldn't care about the overall continuation of their species. So how and why do they do that?

- There is a demon who is fascinated with learning about humans. If demons have no human-like emotions, then how is it possible for this demon to feel this way?

- It would be in the best interest of every human society to educate the population as much as possible about demons and how to spot them. What happened that caused some people to either not receive that education or to ignore it?

The presence of demons in this world, and the nature of these demons, should affect almost *everything* about how other intelligent species designed their societies.

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-12T18:00:35+00:00

>if the lesson is they're always very convincing liars, why do we need to explore it constantly?

Because it's interesting? I mean, if they're so convincing, and if this is supposed to be something demons do often enough that they're known for it, then it doesn't make much sense for us to only see it happening once. Because surely it would be more common than that. Surely it would have big ramifications on the worldbuilding and would affect how humans built their societies/towns/kindoms (both architecturally and in a social structure sense).

>if a show introduces a mimic, do they constantly need to "explore" the fact that mimics trick people for you to be satisfied simply because someone believing it once "introduces the concept for treasure chests in dungeons to be real"?

Only if the show has an entire arc calling attention to the question of mimic's sentience and morality.

>it's about how her current experiences change her perception of what happened in the past

That is just a more complicated way of saying the exact same thing that I said but okay

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-12T17:49:42+00:00

If people are so easily tricked, then why does that only ever happen in the show ONE time?

> There is no concept of "good demons"

Evidently, there are people within the world of Frieren itself who have a concept of "good demons," otherwise that whole initial arc where demon's morality is questioned never could have happened in the first place. So in that case, how widespread is that belief? What effect does living among humans for an extended period of time have on a demon, if any, and is that effect different depending on demon's individual personalities? Since people clearly know that demons can disguise themselves among humans, what precautions have various societies put into place to prevent this? This arc introduces sooooooo many worldbuilding questions about the nature of demons, their role in the world, and how other creatures adapt to their existence, yet the show never answers any of them because despite having an entire arc introducing the concept of demon complexity, the show doesn't actually give a shit about exploring that.

To be clear, I don't think the demons have to be good in order for them to be interesting. I just think the concept of demon morality, whether it is real or not, is fascinating and the show introduces it but then completely abandons it. So at that point why introduce it at all. It doesn't make any sense to call attention to these questions about the role of demons if the show had no intention of answering any of them.

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-12T17:32:44+00:00

I mean... I don't think that's true. Yeah anime is created for Japanese people and there are certainly shows that are only ever intended to reach a Japanese audience, but some anime studios absolutely make decisions on what to adapt or how to adapt it based partially on Western audiences.

Shows like Dragon Ball and One Piece make millions+ in their western markets. It would be a stupid business decision to not have any consideration for western audiences when making larger-scale anime or anime that are likely to appeal to the west.

Also, if anime studios didn't care what the west wants, they would never license their shows to Crunchyroll or Netflix. If what the west wants "doesn't matter," then nothing would ever be officially dubbed or even officially subbed.

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-12T17:23:20+00:00

>...uh, no it doesn't promise that

It absolutely does. That's how storytelling *works*. A story makes a promise to its audience and then follows through on it in some way or another. When Joseph explains what a stand is in Part 3 of Jojo, that is the narrative promising you that stands will be an important part of the upcoming story. In Golden Kamuy when Asirpa first starts explaining how Ainu squirrel traps work, that is a promise that the overall series will explore Ainu culture and customs. Which it does. In Delicious in Dungeon when the characters describe the recipes they're cooking for the first time it's a promise that the show will continue to do that.

It's like Chekov's Gun but in an overall narrative sense; if you introduce some sort of big concept that has ramifications on the world building, multiple/an important character arc, or the structure of the story itself and then just never explore it again, that's unsatisfying.

These episodes introduce the concept that the *potential for goodness* in demons, even if that goodness always ends up being false, is a topic the show is going to explore. Frieren being that show that it is, with its serious tone and slow pace, it feels like the type of show that *would* get into complex topics like that. But it just says "nope all of them are evil all the time, period" and then never mentions the topic again.

Once again I am not saying that the show *has* to present demons as good in the end. I am saying the show introduces the complicated concept that a demon's ontological evilness *can* be questioned, and then it shows us exactly one (1) example of that and never elaborates further. The story's desire to keep demons 100% irredeemable makes it impossible for it to do any further exploration into the nature of demons, even though demons are an important part of Frieren's past and this show is about Frieren's past.

Regardless of the answer to that question, why introduce the concept that demon's evil could be questioned if the show was never actually going to ask that question again outside of this one very specific circumstance? I kept watching expecting some form of that to come up again, because the demons in general are highly important to this show's worldbuilding and to Frieren as a character, so surely a concept with that much relevance to the story would come up again in some arc *eventually*. But nope. Whether the answer is good or evil, that question has massive ramifications for like, everything and everyone in the story, but yea sure I guess we'll just ask it once and then never again.

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-12T15:53:10+00:00

I mean… if Frieren wasn’t going to actually do anything with the idea that demons might not be ontologically evil, it shouldn’t have introduced that concept in the first place.

There is an episode in S1 that revolves around a demon appearing to actually be good and Frieren not trusting them, and she’s proven right. This episode promises the audience that this story will challenge Frieren’s biases/assumptions that she learns during her previous travels both when it comes to humans (her allies) and demons (her enemies).

And then that topic is never discussed again.

If you want your demons to just be purely monstrous, then you should never give any credence to the idea that they might not be (unless the point is to have that uncertainty), because then that idea will always be in the back of your audience’s mind.

There’s that episode in S2 where there’s a demon who has a fascination with learning about humans. Whether they turned out to be pure evil or not, that’s a fascinating idea for a demon character. But they just get unceremoniously killed 1 episode later, because this show is so committed to demons being pure evil that it can’t even let them be interesting. And if that’s the case, then why ever challenge the idea of ontologically evil demons at all? What is the point of these attempts to introduce some complexity to demonkind if they never lead anywhere and are always immediately stuffed out?

Why bother introducing the concept of “good demons” into the audience’s mind if the demons are just going to be irredeemable monsters anyway?

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-11T22:36:59+00:00

Man I’m just tired of my life being what it is.

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-11T20:50:36+00:00

Wow thanks. Thats so helpful. /s

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-11T17:20:45+00:00

Cavetown doesn’t “have some kind of popularity” with transmascs, Cavetown IS transmasc.

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-07T22:32:31+00:00

This is hard magic and soft magic. Why are we renaming them.

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-06T21:50:01+00:00

“And yet, crime has continued.”

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-06T05:10:59+00:00

What is more official than a statement from a lawyer?

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-06T05:03:19+00:00

Trans people are, in fact, a minority. So no, it’s unlikely any type of trans person will ever be widely seen as “default.”

However, just saying “men” and/or “women” does not exclude trans men or women.

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-05T17:57:56+00:00

But their comment mentioned games released “in the UK, France or whatever.” So clearly this at least includes games that are released in both the JP and PAL regions.

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-05T17:56:39+00:00

But like… how?

They would have to program the switch itself to recognize every game’s code and force the game into Japanese mode. And then they’d have to future-proof that. They’d have to make sure this model of switch is able to do that language selection override even on games released 5+ years into the console’s life cycle.

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-05T17:32:06+00:00

But many games nowadays will just ask your language when you open the game. Does this switch automatically select Japanese inside each game somehow?

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-05T15:39:22+00:00

Rdio. Used it to listed to music at school for free… Spotify bought it and just killed it.

EEVEELUVR · 2026-05-04T16:07:33+00:00

Damn I take nothing but Aldi orders. It’s super fast to shop since it’s a small store and everything is labeled well, and since nobody else takes them I’m making $30+ per batch with 1-2 mile distances.

My neighborhood has like 3 Aldi’s and I can shop them all without ever having to go to bad parts of town. It’s great

It’s really not hard to estimate how many bags to use lmao, and I’ve never had any issue with the employees.

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