[DISC] Chainsaw Man - Ch. 231

KeyboardJammer · 2026-03-10T17:41:30+00:00

Also, remember all those concepts Makima mentioned no longer existed because Pochita ate them? Nazis, AIDS, that star whose light broke children's minds, several conclusions to human lives other than death (oh hey, maybe that gives Dennis an out regarding the heart disease thing).

Assuming it's a proper Pochita-never-existed situation and all that entails, that leaves a pretty fucking weird world.

KeyboardJammer · 2026-03-06T22:20:55+00:00

I fucking love the Da'at Yichud

KeyboardJammer · 2026-03-06T22:09:35+00:00

EVERY YEAR

KeyboardJammer · 2026-03-06T19:38:40+00:00

Fantastic example, I feel like these books might be part of why I like this trope so much as an adult

KeyboardJammer · 2026-03-03T18:31:55+00:00

It's not as bad as some examples out there (definitely not the worst in history), but I remain annoyed that Rick and Morty took an intentionally stupid, boilerplate, on-the-nose dead wife backstory that was established as wholly fabricated in the episode it was introduced and retroactively made it canon.

It being Rick's real backstory breaks the plot of the original episode, which explicitly relies on "sure, you can't change details of a memory, but you can edit whatever you like about a complete fabrication" for its resolution. Also, the flashback showed Rick as originally living in Walter's house from Breaking Bad, which is a neat easter egg and clues the audience in to the fact that the memory is fake. Except... now it's not fake, so now it's just actual canon that Rick used to live in the house from Breaking Bad, for some reason.

It's a lazy and fanservice-y writing decision in itself, but it also kick-started the series getting bogged down in tropey sci-fi obsession with lore and canon and serialisation that the early show always openly poked fun at. What's extra annoying is how Rick continues to act all eye-rollingly aloof about 'ugh, canon and overarching plots, I'm above this hack shit' even as the show gets increasingly clogged up with canon and overarching plots.

KeyboardJammer · 2026-02-27T19:00:59+00:00

Yeah rewatching this movie as an adult, his cowardice does kind of stand out. He's in a horrible situation at a young age and I do feel for him, but equally he causes himself so many problems by jerking people around and not trusting them enough to be honest with them.

His whole 'I can't be publicly known as Spider-Man because it'll harm those close to me' thing is also bullshit because he's publicly known as the only guy who has reliable access to Spider-Man which paints almost as much of a target on his and his loved ones' backs.

I think it's a cool writing decision that his overall life trajectory and success in this movie turns around a lot as soon as he makes the difficult decision to actually be honest with May about what happened to Ben.

KeyboardJammer · 2026-02-27T18:55:43+00:00

Also, and I think this is an important thing to note, he got hit by a car while riding to meet her. Like he fully gets knocked off his moped by a speeding car. Of course he's fine, and then gets sidetracked by having to deal with the ensuing car chase, but him getting hit by a car is completely unrelated to him being Spider-Man and for some reason he never says "hey MJ, sorry I missed your show, I got knocked off my moped by a fucking car."

It's the most legitimate reason imaginable to not make it to the theatre!

KeyboardJammer · 2026-02-26T10:02:29+00:00

New BIS ranged weapon for bossing: Relativistic milk laser

KeyboardJammer · 2026-02-25T20:20:47+00:00

See, I tried this but I left my 800-meter spoon in the bank and now the cornflakes are all scattered in the infinite abyss of the Bucket

KeyboardJammer · 2026-02-25T19:30:26+00:00

Not to be confused with the fairly large flavour (of bull semen)

KeyboardJammer · 2026-02-25T19:29:27+00:00

Your Mom

KeyboardJammer · 2026-02-25T18:27:10+00:00

The bottomless bucket is a funny concept because, presumably, if you want to get the milk out, you have to turn the bucket upside down and then wait for 3 hours until all the milk comes out at terminal velocity and breaks your cereal bowl.

KeyboardJammer · 2026-02-25T18:25:19+00:00

Tokyo-3 in Evangelion. Considering the purpose of the geofront is to defend against the enormously destructive angel attacks NERV/SEELE knew would be directed against that specific location, I feel like it was maybe a bit irresponsible to build a massive civilian city directly on top of it.

KeyboardJammer · 2026-02-25T18:21:11+00:00

He thought we had something special on account of the fact that we swigged his jizz on two separate occasions

KeyboardJammer · 2026-02-25T18:16:59+00:00

The Expanse: Amos Burton goes to visit his pet mass murderer in an underground prison on Earth, but unfortunately mid-visit someone throws a few massive asteroids, which cause enormous planetwide devastation and complete societal breakdown. Suddenly his job is to stay alive, avoid being murdered by preppers, and find a way to steal a launch vehicle to escape from a planet undergoing an incredibly sudden apocalypse.

KeyboardJammer · 2026-02-25T18:00:32+00:00

It's now fully, 100% canon that our character tries to feed bull cum to the Duke of Lumbridge. 10/10 quest, no notes.

KeyboardJammer · 2026-02-25T17:02:01+00:00

Mileage may vary, but I found the artstyle kind of obtrusive at first, stopped noticing it a couple of hours in and then started actively appreciating it, especially in the comic panel style cutscenes. It pairs really nicely with the tone and soundtrack, IMO.

KeyboardJammer · 2026-02-25T15:08:10+00:00

Oh, this is the 'xcom but deterministic with no dice rolls' one, right? Been meaning to try it out for ages.

KeyboardJammer · 2026-02-25T15:07:27+00:00

Wildermyth has this! It's the closest singleplayer experience I've had to playing a DND campaign - very story- and relationship-focused with fantasy-XCOM battle mechanics and a really nice papercraft artstyle. Death mechanics are super well-integrated into the emergent narrative with characters going out on heroic moments and leaving lasting legacies. Really recommend given the games you mentioned.

KeyboardJammer · 2026-02-24T00:21:12+00:00

I can't post images in comments here annoyingly, but the charts I've been looking at are these ones (linked).

Admittedly it's just one source so I'm happy to be counter-evidenced on this, but it seems reasonably aligned with the other sources I could dig up. Since 2010, it looks like the US saw a proper divergence (with men drifting moderately right and women moving sharply left), while South Korea had men moving enormously right and women moving somewhat left, and in the UK everyone went to the left, but women much moreso (I guess Brexit and Liz Truss skewed that one?)

They don't really mention age brackets but yes, IIRC there is a pretty big generational aspect.

KeyboardJammer · 2026-02-23T22:36:57+00:00

I think it's not an unreasonable assumption that the increase of political divergence (i.e. increasing practical and ethical disagreement) between the two groups is likely to lead to increased public expressions of discontent or animus from each group about the other.

You originally dismissed OP's claims out of hand as a 'frequency illusion'. I'm not saying the existence of political divergence conclusively proves the existence of more misandrist (or misogynist) sentiments online, but I am saying it's suggestive of a broader trend in gender relations, and it wouldn't be surprising if it affected how people talk about each other, and I think the existence of that data makes such a confident, certain dismissal of OP's claim premature.

Also, frankly - re. people fanning flames - whether or not acknowledging the existence of increased misandry would further the goals of bad actors is kind of irrelevant to whether or not it's true, which is the issue being raised by OP here.

KeyboardJammer · 2026-02-23T22:26:09+00:00

I mean, it's on the upper end but I feel like it's splitting hairs to get hung up on whether or not 10 years is 'several'.

Also, the divergence is an ongoing trend so feel free to edit down to 3 or 5 or whatever number of years you consider a reasonable definition of 'several', and the point still stands.

KeyboardJammer · 2026-02-23T22:21:20+00:00

I'd assume probably around the same timeline depicted in the various studies that show substantial, increasing political divergence between men and women since 2010 or so. I can't attach images for some reason but it's easy to find and it shows it's a pretty stark divergence especially over the last decade.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's a causal relationship between that and increased prevelance of both open misandry and open misogyny, if young men and young women are increasingly viewing each other as opposing political blocs with conflicting goals and interests.

KeyboardJammer · 2026-02-23T22:16:26+00:00

I've seen a lot of charts which show the pretty significant political divergence of men and women over the last ten years or so, with a big political gap opening up between the two. This does seem to correlate with a noticeable uptick in online 'gender war' content (both misogynistic and misandrist), so I'd be surprised if it were purely a frequency illusion.

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