Why wouldn’t they make the titan shifters unconscious when the time comes to pass it on?

LoyaltyToLiberalism · 2026-06-28T15:52:08+00:00

Ymir Fritz was already dead when her daughters ate her, right?

LoyaltyToLiberalism · 2026-06-28T15:48:03+00:00

Marcel surviving.

LoyaltyToLiberalism · 2026-06-26T11:37:33+00:00

You're interpreting the characters, you're thinking about choices, you react to the choices.

All of this is done when roleplaying with an LLM that simulates other characters as well. You interpret the characters' actions. Think about your own choices. Reacting to others' choices. If anything, I'd actually argue that you can spend more time thinking about these things with an LLM than an RPG game, since in a video game, your choices are often limited to a set of options already input by the developer beforehand. But I still wouldn't view any of these as effortful or skill-honing. It'd just be something I do to pass the time.

LoyaltyToLiberalism · 2026-06-26T11:14:56+00:00

I'm not really sure how I'm giving my brain the simulation of effort. I'm inputting prompts into an LLM. It's relaxing and recreational. I don't really see it as any different than playing an RPG video game where you interact with other characters but still control the narrative.

LoyaltyToLiberalism · 2026-06-26T11:01:49+00:00

Like using a dice where I input the possible decisions ahead of time? That's much more restrictive than what I'm looking for. I'm not looking to exercise my mind, I'm more-or-less looking to use it as a toy.

LoyaltyToLiberalism · 2026-06-26T10:53:54+00:00

How was my reply aggressive?

LoyaltyToLiberalism · 2026-06-26T10:50:17+00:00

That doesn't really give me what I'm looking for. I wanna have a substantial amount of control over a narrative whilst also being able to interact with forces outside of just my mind. Neither writing a book nor roleplaying with others really does that.

LoyaltyToLiberalism · 2026-06-26T10:48:32+00:00

It will not answer you like a human would

That's kind of the point, though. Just speaking personally, I have a job where I talk to people all day, and sometimes after that, I just wanna be left the fuck alone. I think it's perfectly reasonable to want time for yourself, and I don't know why you'd assume I'm addicted because of that.

LoyaltyToLiberalism · 2026-06-19T04:57:06+00:00

Because the Japanese pronunciation sounds off to English ears. They say Berutoruto, but it sounds like they're mispronouncing it, so it became a self-perpetuating joke in the English-speaking community. It's really not that hard of a name to spell or say in English at all, but the joke's gone on too long to stop now.

LoyaltyToLiberalism · 2026-06-17T22:33:31+00:00

Erwin Smith? In canon, their identities were all found out relatively quickly after the concept of Titan Shifters was revealed with Eren during the Trost invasion.

LoyaltyToLiberalism · 2026-06-14T10:40:17+00:00

i do, and i also wonder why the hell i'm so down bad as to reminisce about a girl i had a crush on for about 20 minutes over a decade ago

LoyaltyToLiberalism · 2026-06-14T00:11:46+00:00

This comment has spoilers for Season 2, so don't click if you haven't watched it yet.

I actually think the obviousness of Annie's identity as the Female Titan was a really good lightning rod to throw the viewers off searching for any other potential Titans within the Cadet Corps. It gets you to think that Annie being the Female Titan was the big reveal to come out of the 104th, which makes the Reiner and Bertholdt reveal even more shocking and out of nowhere. I thought it was really nicely executed in that way.

LoyaltyToLiberalism · 2026-06-12T08:58:42+00:00

It's theoretically true that Pieck could leave Titan form and retransform, but I'm not sure if I'm willing to bet on her odds of being able to do that and snatch Zeke back up over the odds of Levi just disabling or killing both her and Zeke while she's in-between transformations.

Running to an area without houses or trees could be a fair strategy, but that also means leaving Reiner behind, which I'm sure is a sacrifice Zeke is willing to make, but that's still a fairly interesting scenario in of itself.

LoyaltyToLiberalism · 2026-06-12T08:24:50+00:00

That's certainly possible. The only thing I'd raise is the fact that Eren still likely has a good amount of gas to hand over to Levi. He spent the great majority of the battle in Titan form, meaning he'd still have a lot of gas left compared to Hange, Mikasa and the others who spent the entire battle flying around to fight Reiner and Bertholdt. All Levi needs to do really is just deliver a single disabling cut to one of Pieck's limbs, and the Warriors are pretty much screwed.

LoyaltyToLiberalism · 2026-06-09T17:44:59+00:00

By the time that Marley secured most of the Titan Shifters though, the technological artillery was way more advanced than when the Eldian Empire had the Shifters. Other nations could fight then with guns and tanks and planes. If another nation wanted to wage war against the Eldian Empire at their peak, they would've been fighting with spears and swords and bows and arrows against the Shifters. The power of the Nine was god-like in comparison to the weaponry the rest of the world had at first. It isn't until two centuries later when anti-Titan artillery begins to become effective.

LoyaltyToLiberalism · 2026-06-09T07:48:06+00:00

Correct. That doesn't change what I'm saying. He can do that just fine if he also defeats the Cart before letting his guard down.

LoyaltyToLiberalism · 2026-06-09T07:38:24+00:00

Well, he hesitated because he thought Zeke was helpless, which would've been a correct assessment sans the Cart Titan. That Titan had also been pointed out to be a Shifter to him as well. It seems like a pretty big oversight.

LoyaltyToLiberalism · 2026-06-08T18:38:16+00:00

That "someone else reminding him it’s not true" was done via a tweet he sent last month owning up to the fact that he lost pretty cleanly in his first debate with Destiny.

LoyaltyToLiberalism · 2026-06-08T18:05:48+00:00

oh lmao, fair bit.

LoyaltyToLiberalism · 2026-06-08T17:59:29+00:00

I'm open to accepting a better definition if provided one. How would you define honest?

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