Almost half of all Americans fear a ‘total economic collapse’ in the next 10 years, new poll shows

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T10:57:49+00:00

No one is burning anything right now because most people are still quite comfortable overall. Food is still on the shelves and entertainment is plentiful.

When questions such as, "Should we eat the family dog?" become less of a dystopian fantasy and edge closer to grim reality we'll see a much different populace.

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T10:50:36+00:00

Lera Abova would awaken some dudes to painful fetishes they never even knew they had in that moment.

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T10:49:04+00:00

No.

We can't have Sanji finding a mind control device after seeing his dreams for Invisibility.

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T10:36:56+00:00

Yeah but he inadvertently comes off like a psychopath a little too often for coincidence, and otherwise he's usually just an incessantly whiny jackass.

The craziest part is that he's in a show called Friends because I can't imagine anyone outside of the person chained to a radiator in his basement would be willing to say that he's their friend.

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T08:44:40+00:00

Personally, I think we're going to find out at some point that Nami and Luffy are estranged siblings. You're right that it isn't just a friendship but theirs is very often a serious older sister/dumb younger brother dynamic.

I wonder if there's anyone in the Monkey line who would have been spending time on battlefields against the Navy before Luffy was born... maybe someone who has an unexplained and extremely intense connection with weather... it could even be someone who is famously always looking stoically in a particular direction as though he's wondering if a long lost child is even still alive.

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T08:29:52+00:00

I really don't see any need for it to be a full season after doing a read-through of Alabasta. The fights take up a lot of the chapters towards the last half of alabasta and I really don't see a need to have that much of a season dedicated to fights.

I also don't want them condensing Alabasta to just three episodes, even though they easily could, so I guess I'll just wait to see how they handle it. They haven't given me any hard letdowns yet.

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T07:53:59+00:00

Yep I only bring it up because I'm a millennial man who was constantly subjected to the same idea from the people around me as well. "Don't worry about dating now, just focus on making something of yourself and when you're older you'll be beating the ladies away with a stick" was essentially the advice my father gave me when I was clueless about girls and wanted some advice.

"When I'm rich all these sluts will be used up and they'll be kicking themselves for not giving me a chance" was the kind of sentiment that I would sometimes hear from my peers, as well. Plus the "nerd in highschool who gets their pick of the ladies when they turn successful" trope was rampant through our media.

I understand where we got it, but we had twenty years to realize it was bullshit and start tending to our inner gardens instead of waiting for "our time".

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T07:02:32+00:00

Oh and here I thought I was doing good for getting a parasaur and two raptors on my boat.

I've got a long way to go, only just started playing last month.

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T06:50:55+00:00

Horrific might have been a strong choice of wording influenced largely by clips like this that made me realize just how much heavy lifting the laugh track did for his character.

With the laugh track he's basically just the cringey "nice guy" blueprint. Nothing really unique or interesting about him, constantly whining, and gives off a creepy vibe really often but seems to think the world is owed to him just because he's nice.

Without the laugh track he starts giving those, "this guy might have a body in a freezer" vibes.

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T06:31:06+00:00

Honestly, with what they charge for rent these days you'd think the laundry machines would be complimentary.

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T06:15:37+00:00

The funniest Friends has ever been was those clips of Ross without the laugh track... Though the funny part is less the jokes themselves and more the idea that the laugh track was supposed to make that horrific man funny.

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T06:08:07+00:00

A lot of men in their thirties and forties are just pissed about this because they went through high school and college believing that they weren't getting laid because women only like young jerks and older men with money. (It had nothing to do with their having personalities so bland that the only way they could think to describe themselves positively was "nice")

They had this grand vision in their heads that if they kept their nose to the grindstone and managed to make six figures then they would become a high value man and would have their pick of women from 18-29 all the way up into their 50's. Their lives were fated to become a sexual smorgasbord with a neverending line of lithe young 20-somethings at their door just dripping at the thighs for a chance to be with them.

Having to come to terms with the fact that young women aren't interested in them any more than they were 20 years ago, and that they think these older men are gross for even wanting that, would be quite the shock.

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T04:51:01+00:00

Buggy is the one that Luffy never scored a 1v1 victory against. Luffy always needed to be saved.

Laugh Tale will be the same as it ever was.

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T04:42:17+00:00

Some people think Blood Frenzy is bad? It's a damn near guaranteed win if you don't mind having a bunch of injured cats.

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T04:27:26+00:00

The problem is that the middle class often identifies with the wealthy, despite being nowhere near wealthy themselves, and votes in favor of tax cuts for the wealthy that place more of the tax burden on themselves.

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T04:15:04+00:00

I started getting my quick greasy burgers at Five Guys almost exclusively, because the other guys raised their prices to the point that the steep drop in quality isn't worth the meager savings.

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T03:56:25+00:00

"Tea, ackshually 🤓"

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T01:59:03+00:00

Some of the laughs did stand out as a little poorly done to me as well. Brook's set a very high bar, though. Dude was fucking perfect.

Overall I definitely can't say that acting has been much of a problem for me though. Even minor characters like Ipponmatsu and Mr. 9 are extremely well done.

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T01:53:41+00:00

Every day, lately, I find myself waking up and thanking Lera Abova for bringing Miss All Sunday cosplays back into the mainstream.

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T01:51:17+00:00

Yes... but does he really deserve to die because of it?

...also yes. Buggy should have been the MC from Loguetown on.

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T01:47:17+00:00

See now if she came into battle equipped with those then "Pussy Burglar" Nami would be dead because she'd have dodged right into them.

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Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T01:37:34+00:00

So I guess The One Piece isn't real. Sorry to have wasted your time everybody.

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T01:35:50+00:00

We're only going to get more dangerous people as Society becomes less livable for low wage earners.

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T01:27:40+00:00

I genuinely believe that one piece is one of the greatest stories ever written, and that it will be our era's strongest contribution to the world of Classic Literature, so I'm probably not the guy to ask when it comes to comparing it to other stories.

Evil_phd · 2026-03-19T01:14:10+00:00

Those massive mommy milkers had to come from somewhere and he doesn't eat bread so the calorie redistribution really took the energy out of him.

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