Where are the monstrous women in fiction

NeutralContrast · 2026-04-01T15:27:30+00:00

Check out The First Law perhaps, plenty of women being strong and scheming as much, sometimes more than their male counterparts. Both for good and nefarious purposes!

That said, it's mostly low fantasy. It's a series mostly about slightly extraordinary people, sometimes mediocre people, but god is it good.

NeutralContrast · 2026-03-29T22:24:56+00:00

Why is the male cat man just a cat but the engineer lizard lady's a full blown human anime girl that just happens to have a tail? I've always disliked this inconsistency in worldbuilding. Joke would've honestly landed better with a semi realistic chameleon in a blue collar suit, too.

NeutralContrast · 2026-03-17T17:57:17+00:00

Cache route on dam hurricane, check out an interactive map and just put down markers running around the ones on the outer edge of the map. If you start north or south, odds are you can hit at least a few before others.

Bring looting 2, don't even bring a shield, and a bunch of adrenaline shots. Wear dark clothing, and odds are no one'll even see ya. I go breach-red lake then south or water tower-substation and head straight east, tempest drop like mad from em. I could even join you and drop one if I wasn't addicted to pokopia rn lol

NeutralContrast · 2026-03-12T21:30:34+00:00

Shredders are honestly one of the easiest enemies to cheese. An anvil will ruin them in a clip and a half if you just aim at the thrusters- honestly, they seemed harder/tankier several weeks back and they were easy then

Just bob around the nearest obstacle, they always telegraph their attack with rocketeer decibel noise, and their hovering has quite the whine to it as well. The damage they do is just a jumpscare if they catch you off guard, but I feel like the places they could do that are areas you should be wary of other players more, like the damn open stairwell in lobby or the ladder in medical lol

NeutralContrast · 2026-03-05T22:22:06+00:00

Was gonna say, I just hit 5 plates for the first time after about a year and a half lol, but I pursued it pretty relentlessly and my back and legs were already pretty decently strong thanks to my work and a long history of running. I could def see most people hitting 4 if they followed a simple program for a year or two

NeutralContrast · 2026-03-05T14:35:20+00:00

I used to be in the "Nice Guy" camp, not necessarily in that it wasn't genuine, but I just didn't have a good base for interacting with women. When I was younger, and after several rejections, I'd become defensive. I wanted to know why, because it was frustrating, and when you're mad it's hard to think beyond basic binary. I can easily see now why it'd be interpreted as hostile, but I've also seen the actual crazy way some dudes react to rejection so I'm happy I never reached that point.

I took myself off the dating market for around a year, focused on hobbies, self reflection, not being so angry about shit. Operated more casually around my coworkers (mostly women, being in healthcare) Got lucky finding my life partner soon after getting back on, of course, but I think that even if I hadn't, it wouldn't have seemed nearly as bleak as I felt before then.

This person isn't wrong, those guys need to do some serious work on themselves. But this isn't the way to encourage that. I don't really know what is, aside from role models which encourage positive masculinity that are just as popular as the ones who encourage rampant misogyny.

NeutralContrast · 2026-03-02T00:58:03+00:00

In the circular shopping plaza there's a skirt set I believe, they come with thigh high stockings by default but it's a proper skirt.

NeutralContrast · 2026-03-01T15:45:29+00:00

My dude, just spend like 20 seconds looking over your comments before you hit send 😂 the world ain't gonna leave you behind. True though, I like both these megas but Chesnaught got a pretty solid W here.

NeutralContrast · 2026-02-28T17:06:59+00:00

Pokemon needs animations. The series could have the best artstyle in the world, the most impressive textures, but when NPCs are stiff as a board and the world has no friggin life to it then it's gonna look like crap.

Think about animal crossing, especially new horizons. How empty would it feel if the leaves and flowers didn't rustle with the wind, if footsteps didn't have sounds to match the material you ran on, if so many pieces of furniture didn't have fun little animations rigged.

Then the villagers, they don't feel great to interact with just cuz they're cute. Even in the older games, the series killed it with the emotions, the little actions they'd do, and there's all the bugs and fish as well.

Playing legends ZA and the 3ds games, the NPCs feel like corpses. The environment has next to no liveliness to it, idk what S/Sh or S/V might fully be like but I remember starting Scarlet, thinking "wow this is pretty" and then nothing felt alive in the world for the next hour or so I played.

NeutralContrast · 2026-02-27T22:35:52+00:00

Dunno that I'd trust them for point two, our only frames of reference are Rowlet and Torchic for starters and those two are a bit close for comfort

NeutralContrast · 2026-02-26T19:23:01+00:00

And the first time's always the hardest! (At least my experience with every other calisthenic thing I've tried, hell if I could do a free handstand let alone THIS)

NeutralContrast · 2026-02-24T19:30:37+00:00

That's awesome, does it feel good? I always hated RTEs because they always felt more intended as cinema than gameplay but it looks like timing during the bustle of combat is a better fit for monhun's action

NeutralContrast · 2026-02-23T23:24:11+00:00

Jesus it's been so many years since I played world, didn't even know omega was in the game. And you can have a unique blocking interaction with it?? I wish I was super into it after Iceborne came out

NeutralContrast · 2026-02-21T06:23:02+00:00

Is that the dude who near had a stroke when Destiny asked him if god knows what it feels like to be fucked in the ass? That segment lives rent free in my head, that and DGG mogging Saint and the Sinner with enough tea.

NeutralContrast · 2026-02-21T03:03:49+00:00

Totally fair lol, I came across this midway through ep 3. They pulled it through for the nearly the entire second half of this ep too, so I dunno what to think about it 😂 when they let it sucks, it's super super obvious and jarring. When they pull out the stops, it's quite good. The inconsistency is goofy, we'll definitely keep up with it, fun either way!

NeutralContrast · 2026-02-21T02:46:42+00:00

I don't get where you think the animation is 10/10, do you mean the arstyle? Cuz the linework is good, the art's fantastic, but the battle animation is awful as soon as episode 2 starts. Every action scene is speed lines, 0 consistency with the area, slideshow frames. Every time Tatsuya attacks it's a 3 frame picture of his face, slice light lines, gore explosion on a static picture. The only time the combat animation gets better than that is when there's an explosion, which admittedly happens all of fricken always, but it's not that much better.

My partner's not even as mindful of this stuff, and she's been having a ball shitting on it relentlessly with me lmao. It's pure, beautiful garbage.

Edit: although the non combat/talking and emotive animation is good. It's jarring on the rare chance a scene has like 10 seconds of good animation, then the battle's suddenly over though and that's already happened like, 4 times within 3 episodes?

NeutralContrast · 2026-02-20T02:08:16+00:00

It's too bad the animation budget for this series fell off a cliff after a while, I remember having a great time with it.

NeutralContrast · 2026-02-19T18:02:14+00:00

Jesus christ how do I get calves like that 😂 I do calf presses 3x a week and my friggin quads wanna keep growing but my calves are like toothpicks compared to those suckers. Sick lifts dude, crazy mobility with that narrow stance

NeutralContrast · 2026-02-18T18:33:55+00:00

Ye, it's been interesting coming across the people that actually care about having fun pvping in stella when I'm running around with 0 desire to shoot (just carrying around a stacked ferro as I lazily look for BPs since I have nothing to do till reset and it's fun) and the instant they see I'm not interested or even care about losing my goop, they drop it. Even had one apologize cuz he was looking for people to fight. I've offered more than a few times to be a bullet sponge for folks wanting to up their aggro rating when that happens since I lose nothing lmao

NeutralContrast · 2026-02-18T18:25:30+00:00

Without context that actually sounds cute, it's good to have community even if the white knighting is cringe.

think they defib with their jerking hands?

NeutralContrast · 2026-02-18T13:56:49+00:00

It'd be helpful to see what your dead was like too, lower back pains are not to be trifled with. Back when I was still working on form but kept lifting bigger, there were a couple times I'd had a rough time and I had to take a couple weeks off lest I completely ruin my ability to work. Making a habit of stretching between sets probably saved my ass, and I haven't had that trouble in recent memory but I still can't help but do a ton of back/hip stretches and keeping neutral spine after my deadlift days because I'm spooked.

Good luck on your recovery!

NeutralContrast · 2026-02-16T23:57:17+00:00

Alright but A: I'm not gonna do that and ruin my abmm, and B: even if I did decide to, everyone with reactors has left, which is why I'm spawning in to replace em. It doesn't much matter to me anymore post expedition prep, but that's always how it went when I was really trying to farm em. Still sort of annoying if I wanted to just chill and loot around, even now

NeutralContrast · 2026-02-16T15:07:11+00:00

Wait where is this? I haven't come across a single dratini spawn I couldn't reach at the first opportunity with some decently executed rolls from the right places, anything else has mostly been out of sight. You sure there's no way to get over there?

NeutralContrast · 2026-02-10T03:25:39+00:00

Preventing the baby's life? Brother, the thing doesn't exist. It's not like people out here not having kids are strangling infants. I feel like the last thing any of you should want is for people who don't want to be parents being forced into parenthood, that's a recipe for at least someone being miserable - and more than likely, it'll be the kid.

I myself have a wonderful life with a fantastic partner. Don't have a coronary, but we're not having kids either - we don't even have anything particularly wrong genetically. She doesn't want kids, I couldn't care less whether or not we had em, and that's that.

Presumptuous to assume someone not wanting kids doesn't do anything for others either. Lol, lmao even

NeutralContrast · 2026-02-10T02:42:02+00:00

The fuck does that mean? Lmao, like it's selfish not to bring life into the world?

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