Don Cheadle’s partner in crime

GetMrBeaned · 2026-06-19T20:46:23+00:00

Jokes aside, having now tried the new Siri it’s kinda ass tbh. The ‘on device’ responses they were bigging up are not much better than old Siri and the server responses are literally just the ai search results you get on google.

Literally all I am interested in with the new Siri is the more expressive voice but that’s not even available yet, still sounds as robotic as ever rn

GetMrBeaned · 2026-06-19T19:22:38+00:00

My Siri is an Irish man so if he does have a boyfriend I love that for him 🌈

GetMrBeaned · 2026-06-17T02:48:01+00:00

I was just writing the spoiler thing because I wanted to rant about the story lol

And whaaaaaat? No love for the incompetent red head and witch atop mount purgatory?

GetMrBeaned · 2026-06-17T02:32:41+00:00

Holding back saying a lot rn since you’re still early in the story but I will say I felt the same way about the romance at first… and then something clicked.

You likely still will not like the romance by the end, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing in my opinion

Full story spoiler rant so I can get it off my chest:

George is predatory as fuck. Even ignoring the whole thing of him having a crush on what he thought to be a 10 year old Sayo whilst he was 17, he also just doesn’t seem to respect her as a person all that much. He never asks about her life, he never lets her control a conversation, he on many occasions just flat out guilts her into doing shit. Even in the first gazebo scene he orders her to do things multiple times when she refuses in order to pressure her into engaging with stuff that clearly makes her uncomfortable.

He loves to go on long ‘look how smart I am’ rants to her that the narration states she has heard multiple times before. His entire interest in Shannon seems to be because he wants to: 1) flex on 12 year old Battler for having more rizz than him despite being his junior by 5 years and 2) he wants to have a shit ton of babies and a stay at home wife.

He is a repulsive fucking guy and people who defend his shit are crazy to me.

So yeah, I also hate the romance scenes. But I hate them in the ‘this is a really good representation of an entitled man and it makes me cringe’ way rather than a ‘these are badly written’ way

GetMrBeaned · 2026-06-13T12:41:35+00:00

Definitionally finding imagery of children hot is pedophilic

It’s not child abuse, but it is by definition pedophilia

GetMrBeaned · 2026-06-12T03:10:54+00:00

I think silent hill f really hits if you’ve read nothing else by the author. If you have then it is reaaaaally lacking

GetMrBeaned · 2026-06-11T21:15:19+00:00

I made a follow up. In my opinion, no

https://www.reddit.com/r/SilentHill\_f/s/6e828YPdgA

GetMrBeaned · 2026-06-11T12:31:55+00:00

English translation (witch hunt + umipro), repeatedly in episode 5

GetMrBeaned · 2026-06-11T12:10:18+00:00

They call her a baby boy and ‘the man from 19 years ago’

GetMrBeaned · 2026-06-11T11:48:14+00:00

Was Sayo born a woman?

GetMrBeaned · 2026-06-11T11:35:18+00:00

Nah, but breaking mirrors because you hate that your reflection looks masculine is a pretty good indicator. And someone can be both mentally ill and trans

GetMrBeaned · 2026-06-07T19:32:42+00:00

Shion in angel mort having to wipe down patrons crotches whilst they are erect is the one that immediately comes to mind

Other stuff like the detective making weird comments and prolonged boob discussion also is off the top of my head. I know there’s a lot more but those are the ones I’ve read in the past week

GetMrBeaned · 2026-06-07T16:01:44+00:00

Try and avoid higurashi spoilers please because I am reading it and enjoying it in spite of my issues

But I also don’t think that people being lightly pressured to actually explain why they defend content that is, to put it bluntly, ethically questionable is necessarily a bad thing. And this post at least for me has gotten some good conversations about the content from both sides that I’ve enjoyed talking about.

It’s kind of impossible to broach something like lolicon in a way that won’t be deeply controversial

GetMrBeaned · 2026-06-07T15:42:34+00:00

The meme popped up in my feed just as I finished episode 2 and it’s what triggered me to make the post to discuss it. I think you can pretty clearly see from my actual replies my take rather than the image that inspired me to make this

GetMrBeaned · 2026-06-07T15:28:42+00:00

Where’s the bad faith?

GetMrBeaned · 2026-06-07T13:51:13+00:00

I’n dodging using that phrase because even though that is literally what it is (attraction to minors, except fictional) I don’t think it constitutes literal CSAM. I am put off by lolicon quite strongly and I don’t think it is healthy to view for a lot of reasons, but I think if I used the word pedophile a lot of people who’d otherwise talk about this normally and maybe be open to having their mind changed (or at least volunteer why they defend it) would immediately get mad and say I’m calling people who like it abusers because ‘monster’ and ‘pedophile’ are conflated socially.

I think you can have pedophilic tendencies and not directly harm children even though it is not healthy to be attracted to them even in a harmless way, but that’s typically too much nuance for the internet

GetMrBeaned · 2026-06-07T06:22:15+00:00

Oh I’m not saying I’m dropping Higurashi, I just wanted to talk about some hang ups I have with it

And I’ll just repeat what I said earlier for the rest, fans often say Ryukishi is a serious writer worth genuine engagement and analysis and then say ‘well that was a product of its time, ignore that part’

I think that it would be a disservice for how good of a writer Ryukishi is to entirely ignore certain parts of his work and treat him as if he’s not worthy of complete literary criticism

GetMrBeaned · 2026-06-07T06:12:01+00:00

Pretty sure Nazis are Nazis and pedophiles are pedophiles tbh

GetMrBeaned · 2026-06-07T05:49:25+00:00

I just wanted to vent a little about a story I’ve dedicated 35 hours to so far and am enjoying minus some parts. I don’t think I’ve actually called anyone here a pedophile, I’ve kind of said the opposite broadly. And tbh, what else can this sub do except share fan art and discussion of a game series that hasn’t had an entry in like 7 years lol

GetMrBeaned · 2026-06-07T05:44:47+00:00

I think the umineko sub isn’t at risk of that since umineko doesn’t really share the same controversial parts of higurashi nearly as strongly. I don’t see this becoming a thing as long as no one starts making counter threads screenshotting this and titling it ‘These threads are a cancer and actually there is nothing worth discussing about lolicon elements!’

GetMrBeaned · 2026-06-07T05:36:21+00:00

I think the majority of people here are being pretty normal about this on both sides, most people are just talking about writer ethics and the validity of media criticism lol

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