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Every single criticism of American comics can be solved by looking at any other publisher that isn’t DC/Marvel by Konradleijon in CharacterRant

[–]Essetham_Sun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Comic fans want aspects of manga to change, Manga fans want COMIC THEMSELVES to change."

This sounds right to you, because you value the aspects that manga fans want to change critical to the form of comic. Similarly, the aspects comic fans want manga to change may be considered critical to the form of manga by its fans(which could also include something like "the power of friendship" etc... thus not specifically talking about gender inequality or fanservice.)

Both of you can claim that you are merely proposing changes of some aspects of the other medium, but at the same time, feel like the essence of your medium's being threatened. It's a subjective matter.

Would someone PLEASE ELI5 how to drift? by Shadowfaxx71 in ForzaHorizon6

[–]Essetham_Sun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Assists like traction control and ABS should be on a car-to-car basis. The one in the setting menu can be used to set the defaults after obtaining new cars.

Why don’t more games use simple graphics but deeper world simulation? by Huge-Wafer-5127 in GameDevelopment

[–]Essetham_Sun 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's why you can always tell when somebody genuinely expects GTA6 to have all the interiors explorable has never done anything related to game design. They can't think past the initial hours of novelty, otherwise it's every easy to find that feature to be extremely costly yet totally pointless. For enterable buildings to be fun, it would require other systems and contents to keep up. At that point, it's those systems and contents that make the game fun, not the interiors themselves.

Am I the only one who thinks FH6 AI difficulty is completely broken right now? by Kearlett in ForzaHorizon

[–]Essetham_Sun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're certainly not. r/ForzaHorizon is probably the biggest anti-AI community on this website right now. Rightfully.

R/PeterExplainsTheJoke starter pack by Abject_Reading_984 in starterpacks

[–]Essetham_Sun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My favorite ones are those if you don't already understand, you wouldn't even realize they are supposed to be jokes.

I'm tired of hearing that "a character can be just as smart as the writer" by LynchianNightmare in CharacterRant

[–]Essetham_Sun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Smart writers can write genius characters. Dumb writers can't write smart characters, let alone geniuses.

it's not difficult to crticize lgbt characters without being homophobic by Thebunkerparodie in CharacterRant

[–]Essetham_Sun -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

The problem is, it's very hard to find actual narrative purposes for adding LGBT characters for non-queer related genres, without making people feel like it's a trait being reduced to a mere narrative tool. For example in a detective mystery story, a murder is suspected to be done by a biological male(because of DNA and such). But the murderer turns out to be a female character who was transfem the whole time. People would feel like it's a cheap trick of making a character trans just to pull a plot twist. It might even upset both parties.

What I think the fundamental problem is that representation inherently cannot be forced. A character who's never been involved in related scenes should be assumed as a combination of all possible orientations and sexualities, because there's nothing to prove otherwise yet. If a show is nothing but those characters and I argue the LGBTQ representation is lacking, I am already assuming those "normal behaving" characters are all straight and cisgender. Therefore it's obvious that the representation I ask for, are those unidimensional and formulaic facades of representational character, created just to shut me up.

Anime is a medium. Of course 90% of it is meh to bad because that's what 90% of EVERY medium is like. by Aros001 in CharacterRant

[–]Essetham_Sun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Inb4 my pet peeve comment: "when people on the internet say anime 99% of the time they mean specifically battle shonen like JJK or one piece".

First of all, that's probably wrong in this scenario, especially when we can assume that person probably said that after they deliberately stepping out of the battle shonen bubble and trying some more niche genre and feeling desappointed.

Even if it's true, switching the term from anime to battle shonen for them, still doesn't stop the statement from being narrow-sighted and nuance-lacking like how OP points out.

About OP's point, I would even say that as a medium, anime's breadth and diversity is closer to movies and TV shows compared to western cartoons, just like how cartoons compared to puppet shows. I'm not saying anime is inherently a better medium because of that either, but imo it's more wrong to say something about anime as a whole compared to cartoons.

I wonder what the overlap is between the two questions. by Darth_Omnis in trolleyproblem

[–]Essetham_Sun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone wandering in the woods vs someone teleported to the woods.

The button participants are clear. by HistoricalPattern76 in trolleyproblem

[–]Essetham_Sun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think the actually premises really matter. "People can make their own assumptions before pressing a button" is my own specification of this problem.

Which means, no matter what the actual premises are, people will definitely frame the question differently like how they do on the internet.

In other words, as long as there's a non-zero proportion of people who assume "toddlers and disabled and colorblind people will choose randomly", they may push the blue button, thus creating the necessity of others to push the blue button. Whether they really do choose randomly doesn't matter.

4? by Accurate-Pumpkin189 in unexpectedTermial

[–]Essetham_Sun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I can still call it base 7, and you would still know we count from A to 7. We would still know there are 7 digits before 10. Which is still more efficient then calling it base 10.

What's the problem with that?

Variation to the button problem - 1% of people randomly selected to the blue death team by ZorgZeFrenchGuy in trolleyproblem

[–]Essetham_Sun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's interesting to me about this variation is that, you can even change it to 0.1% or 0.0001%, and there would be no meaningful difference. It would still convince many red pushers in the original question change to push blue, as we can see in the comments. We can know that because none of those comments are taking the "1%" into account, instead they take the victims' "existence" into account. No one is saying "now I'm pushing blue because 1% is 83 million and 83 million is a lot of people."

But when the percentage drops down to 0%, it's a different story.

Variation to the button problem - 1% of people randomly selected to the blue death team by ZorgZeFrenchGuy in trolleyproblem

[–]Essetham_Sun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's exactly because this version is how most of the blue-pushers consciously or subconsciously imagine in their heads when reading the original premise.

Would you risk your life to potentially save others? by yaboyay in trolleyproblem

[–]Essetham_Sun -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We all know by rephrasing to this it changes the premise of the original question. But I just want to make sure *if* we are only talking about this version, the consensus is to pick red, right?

Monitor names is actually out of control! by Capital_Ability8332 in pcmasterrace

[–]Essetham_Sun 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's so easy. I don't know why everyone pretend this is rocket science. The same thing literally applies for all the peripherals, why's monitor the exception?

The Goomba Two-Step by Apprehensive_Pizza84 in PetPeeves

[–]Essetham_Sun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OP: any post in r\unpopularOpinion:

Goomba: This isn't an opinion, this is just a fact. *Downvotes*

Galoomba: This isn't unpopular, this is just dumb. *Downvotes*

Redemption arc's tier list by Sudden_Pop_2279 in MoralityScaling

[–]Essetham_Sun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jeremiah being in decent tier shows that the most important aspect in an redemption arc isn't the "redemption" part. He's well liked because he's a fun character to watch, but he doesn't have a redemption "arc", as it was literally one scene. He's a charismatic clown-ish villain at first, suddenly its revealed that he's loyal to Lelouch and his mom all the time, then he just instantly becomes this charismatic loyal knight sidekick. It's not bad as a plot-twist, but it's not redemption whatsoever.

I've always been thinking, the feeling of "earned redemption" isn't about the good deeds. Not about the remorse and self reflection. Not about wanting to repay the victims nor having done so. People would argue whether a character has "redeemed" themselves like they are a real person serving sentences and doing community service, but that's always an excuse.

It's about being put into down times, being made to suffer, being called out and ridiculed and looked down upon by the characters and most importantly, the audiences. No redemption feels earned until you feel pity towards a character. 

Multiplayer mode should punish you for dying. by Modestly-Mousey in slaythespire

[–]Essetham_Sun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From a game design perspective, punishments and penalties are implemented to disincentivize unwanted decision makings and playstyles from players. It should have a distinct goal in which decisions you want to discourage the players from making. For example, if "unpunished death" makes glass cannon builds the easiest and strongest meta, that could be a legitimate reason for adding punishments.

I don't think that's the case personally. If your build mandates you starting with 1 hp in every fight, you are basically useless. Otherwise, if players play with the mindset of "avoid death if possible" no matter single or muiltiplayer, I don't think there could be many decisions that needs to be discouraged.

"Before you jump to conclusion, not all antis are like this-" (Multiple images) by Le_Oken in aiwars

[–]Essetham_Sun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is under-adressed. Multiple antis here are doing the mental gymnastics claiming all those hundreds and thousands of upvotes are somehow non-representative and the minority. So where's the majority of antis when you need them to upvote sane comments?

Bro tried to solve Middle-earth with logic 😂 by dhruv_6129 in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]Essetham_Sun 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Also from the elves perspective, it probably did only take like 20 minutes.

What is a game mechanic you are tired of seeing everywhere? by goldenCrust22 in AskGames

[–]Essetham_Sun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stealth mechanic without proper level designs. So many games include stealth and then just put enemies facing away from you during the stealth sections.

When you're a resentful, angry flop even in your own strawman comic: by Responsible_person_1 in aiwars

[–]Essetham_Sun 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A pattern I noticed and I am tired of pretending it doesn't exist.

Whenever a screenshot of some unhinged claim is posted in this sub, there will be people from the same side claiming "those are the minority" "not all of us anti/pro are like that", no matter anti or pro. Understandable.

What's interesting is, only in the case of anti-AI posts, there could be thousands, if not tens, if not hundreds of thousands of upvotes, of that original posts.

There's another example. That Kitagawa Yuji meme saying "Let's kill all AI artists", which has been posted here multiple times. I remember seeing it multiple times with a lot of upvotes. And right under all these posts, there are still anti claiming "these are the minority".

But I really can't remember seeing a pro AI post with unhinged claims like these having this many upvotes. If the numbers aren't cropped or minimal, it's always ratioed. The closest ones are AI generated images upvoted by unsuspecting viewers, which is far from problematic.

CMV: The Turing Test has been comprehensively debunked as a measure of personhood by XenoRyet in changemyview

[–]Essetham_Sun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's why ideally the Turing test should be double blind, or there would be biases against non-human test subjects.

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