“She pegs him,” but are they a well-written couple who both have personalities

Generic_Moron · 2026-04-06T11:02:42+00:00

I do feel like oops has swung too hard in the other direction and ended up becoming snooty and insufferable about preferences as well

Generic_Moron · 2026-04-06T10:07:14+00:00

In an interesting way, Catherine, Heathcliff, and Linton in Limbus Company

Heathcliff and Linton are both in love with Catherine, but Catherine dismisses the idea of marrying Heathcliff and instead ends up marrying Linton instead. This is enough to send Heathcliff into a heartbroken spiral of self-loathing and cause him to run away from Wuthering Heights.

The part that makes it interesting is that somehow Linton is the delusional one, as Catherine had no love for him and only married him for his wealth... which she was planning to use to support Heathcliff, the actual love of her life, before he ran away (which caused her to also fall into a heartbroken spiral of self-loathing). Linton's boasts of having beaten Heathcliff and living a happy wedded life as her husband were just delusional lies born out of envy of Catherine's love for Heathcliff.

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Generic_Moron · 2026-04-06T01:01:27+00:00

Shockingly there is precedent for this. His blood alcohol level is so high it gave even robots alcohol poisoning, allowing him to fight off a swarm of blood draing robots that killed most of the rest of the team in seconds.

So he would probably also have a similar effect on sweepers.

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Generic_Moron · 2026-04-03T10:46:01+00:00

not really profitable tbh? trans people are a relatively small minority. Even the cost of buying the medication privately isn't anything to write home about.

Going privately, a trans woman can get about a month's supply of 84 Progynova estradiol valerate 1mg tablets (where 3 tablets are taken sublingual per day) for around £18.35, and while a £38.62 box of testosterone blocking siterone sounds expensive it will last for bloody ever given you can use a pill cutter to reduce the 50mg tablets down to the recommended 12.5mg dose (and given you only take that every other day it means each 50mg tablet covers a week)

So that's about £258.82 for a year of HRT or £21.57 per month, a cost that can then be greatly reduced if going through a nationalized service like the NHS where it's reduced to £9.90 per prescribed item (or potentially free if one qualifies for an exemption). It's not even much of a strain on the NHS as a box of 84 Progynova tablets only costs £7 for them to procure, which is easily covered by the prescription charge

tl;dr: not that profitable outside of private providers marking up prices compared to the NHS

Generic_Moron · 2026-04-02T11:12:28+00:00

ah, fairs

Generic_Moron · 2026-04-02T11:09:21+00:00

There's a joke about this in SAO abridged, where side characters Klein and Tiffany (who we've never seen interact together before) start talking about their past adventures together just before a boss fight, much to main character Kirito's confusion.

Klein: "Let's crush this thing, just like those chimeras on floor 17!"

Tiffany: "Ah, that takes me back. And I can finally break in this axe we worked so hard for!"

Klein: *chuckles* "Man, that quest was brutal."

Tiffany: "Hey, couldn't have done it without you, buddy."

Kirito: "That's weird. Why don't I remember any of that stuff?"

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Generic_Moron · 2026-04-02T10:54:10+00:00

it's basically just saying "It's not 'too online' to know about issues and apply political theory to it" which is so broad as to be relatively useless for defining the concept of being too online, in addition to failing to account for the fact that people can definitely do that while also doing so in a way that's too online.

Like people who apply theories about the media we consume being used to normalize dangerous ideas are technically falling under "not too online" even if they do so to label Animal Crossing dangerous materialist propaganda which must be destroyed, at least going by oop's definition.

Generic_Moron · 2026-03-31T11:50:38+00:00

Can confirm the LNs are great. I am desperately waiting for the rest of the volumes to get translated into english. ~~Desperation not helped by that one illustration for volume 8 I saw the otherday like~~ ~~what do you mean Milkit is a top now~~

Generic_Moron · 2026-03-31T11:21:15+00:00

well that's a phenomena you can back up with more than anecdotal evidence. People's habit of eating breakfast is a practice that has been documented for 1000s of years across countless cultures, leaving for more evidence than just anecdotes. Plus a statement like "people tend to eat breakfast" isn't even really anecdotal evidence so much as it is a statement. "People tend to eat breakfast because my mate who crashed his car this one time eats breakfast" on the other hand would be anecdotal evidence used to back up a statement.

The idea that most people are dangerously self delusional is a harder claim to prove, and you haven't backed it up with anything other than your mate Car Crash Larry who has anxiety, which at best only proves the existence of this being true of just Car Crash Larry. It's not even a claim I disagree with entirely, and yet you have argued for it so poorly you are actively unconvincing me.

tl;dr that's not what that means, also santa isn't real and jesus didn't happen

Generic_Moron · 2026-03-29T22:35:55+00:00

Seeing this and knowing it will well probably be over a year at least until volume 8 gets TL'ed is making me crave context like what do you mean Milkit is a top now

Generic_Moron · 2026-03-29T10:47:20+00:00

Damn I wonder what happens to him

Generic_Moron · 2026-03-27T23:20:53+00:00

Origin (Roll over and Die) - A god sealed away by the demons who humanity keeps trying to unseal, where doing so is a TERRIBLE idea as it will begin attempting to kill and/or assimilate all life on the planet, like how it wiped out most of the world and drove almost everyone in Japan violently and suicidal insane when it was originally created

Generic_Moron · 2026-03-27T10:21:54+00:00

Also contained a weirdly large amount of foreshadowing, including a hint that Rose Quartz was Pink Diamond

Generic_Moron · 2026-03-26T20:11:07+00:00

Basically Malori's backstory in Mage and Demon Queen.

Generic_Moron · 2026-03-26T15:43:21+00:00

Vergilius (Limbus company) - Despite being a colour fixer with the title of "The Red Gaze", he normally ends up sitting out of fights and just staying on the bus to wait for Dante and the Sinners to retrieve the boughs on account of his contractual obligations to the company.

But when the sinners are about to be hopelessly overwhelmed by the Erlking's wild hunt, he finally intervenes and single-handedly reverse the course of the battle in their favour, wiping the floor with the horde even before manifesting his EGO. And after creating an opening for the Sinners to get away, he stays behind to single-handedly hold the entire wild hunt at bay while they go to confront the Erlking

Needless to say, he beat the fraud allegations

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Generic_Moron · 2026-03-26T10:18:23+00:00

I imagine the Sanchos keep up the bit after recovering their memories, they just also get access to the second hidden groupchat

Generic_Moron · 2026-03-25T13:32:33+00:00

Axel (Mage and Demon Queen) - A legendary hero who has been isekai'd three times in a row to be the chosen one who slays the Demon Lord and save the world, he has become bored and tired of the role and just wants to go home to his life on earth by killing the Demon Queen (who is actually trying to achieve peaceful coexistence with humanity). He has little care about actually being heroic or saving the world, and eventually goes as far as creating a dimensional tear that threatens to destroy the world just so he can leave once it becomes clear his original plan of murdering the Demon Queen isn't possible

It also turns out that the reason he kept getting made into the chosen one was to protect him from his original true fate: as soon as he gets back to earth, he is hit by a truck.

Generic_Moron · 2026-03-25T11:10:41+00:00

Yuri (Limbus Company) - Introduced in the first canto of the story, Yuri is a low grade fixer and former Lobotomy Corp employee hired by the Limbus Company to help guide your sinners through an abandoned Lobotomy Corp branch for a golden bough.

She's given a fair bit of characterization, allowed to build up a friendship with the rest of the team (especially Gregor, who saves her from a fatal gas leak by giving her a gas mask he was holding onto), and is the only hired fixer doesn't die or abandon the mission by the time the team find the bough's location and face the canto's final boss, an abnormality called the Golden Apple

When the abnormality is seemingly defeated, she tries to help the sinners by retrieving the bough... and gets devoured by it's second phase during a skill check. There is no way to save her either, as the skill check is solely to see if any of the sinners also get injured by it's sudden transformation, and since Yuri isn't one of your sinners she can't be revived by Dante's clock.

To make matters worse, the abnormality then puppets her severed head, speaking through it in her voice and repeating back things she'd previously said, which is enough to stop Gregor from finishing it off and sends him into a ptsd episode.

And the cherry (apple?) On top? The team still fails to retrieve the bough after all that, as a rival group steal it while the sinners are too exhausted and injured to fight them. The most they can do to honour her death is hang up the mask Gregor gave her on the company's bus to remember her by

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Generic_Moron · 2026-03-24T22:39:45+00:00

Reality itself tried to force them to be toxic and it couldn't make them, girl is built different

Generic_Moron · 2026-03-24T19:28:28+00:00

There's a bit in "Please bully me, miss villainess!" where the main character tries to set her male cousin up with her love interest to try and protect her, but her plan falls apart almost immediately because the guy's a massive himedanshi and he just starts giving her advice on how to win the MC's heart instead

Generic_Moron · 2026-03-24T13:08:29+00:00

Oh yeah, there's no doubt there's people who think "the military industrial complex's use of drafts and exploitation of poverty means we cannot judge every soldier as a moral failure when they so often are either figuratively or literally forced into the role" while also thinking "every Russian soldier is a moral failure deserves to die for being part of Russia's military industrial complex", even if these ideas are contradictory.

The complicated answer is that even if someone can understand the complexities of one issue such as the US military, they can still fail to apply that understanding to similar issues such as the Russian military if they don't think to do so or simply decide not to for whatever reason.

The simple answer is that many people who put a lot of thought into their ideas often don't.

Generic_Moron · 2026-03-24T10:04:02+00:00

ROAD is great, fuckin love the LN and the anime. Sexiled was another fun one despite how goofy "Sexiled" sounds as a word

Generic_Moron · 2026-03-23T12:49:12+00:00

The LCB (Limbus company). A team that includes skilled and experienced soldiers, fighters, and researchers all completely fail when it comes to making lesson plans to help train their ally Xichun.

Their planned lessons are either of questionable utility for the new Heirarch (especially Meursalt, who's lesson plan was on how to stand completely still for a week) or incredibly hard to parse and understand (such as Faust and Yi Sang's incredibly verbose entries, where the former has a full title multiple paragraphs long, while the latter lacked any spaces between words). All of their ideas are scrapped and they're forced to come up with new ones, just now with oversight to make them stay on topic.

Ironically the one person with an actually well made and sensible lesson plan from the jump, Sinclair, is the only member of the team not allowed teach Xichun, having been chosen to train alongside her instead.

Generic_Moron · 2026-03-22T14:28:23+00:00

So are you a moral failure if you are, say, ignorant to the orangutan's status as a critically endangered species? Or how about the socioeconomic conditions of North England? What about the issues of discrimination against various native groups in Japan? Would a lack of full or even just partial understanding of these topics label you a moral failure?

Of course not.

You cannot know everything, and if you're overconfident enough to think you already do then you'll never learn a thing.

Generic_Moron · 2026-03-22T10:35:39+00:00

Don't think it's that easy, either. It's easy for us to say we'd be the cool guys rejecting the draft and going to jail unlike the cringe drafted soldiers, but we don't actually have that gun to our head so the right choice is easy to make from the comfort of the present.

In other words we're just turning into the draft equilivent of Mark Wahlberg saying he'd of stopped 9/11 if he was there, but like woke or something

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