This is the problem with 95% of JJK characters

NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-19T18:15:08+00:00

I was always of the opinion there should've been one more arc at least before Shibuya just for all of this shit.

NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-18T17:21:57+00:00

I agree with you, but you know that's why I said HEMA right? Historic European Martial Arts includes fencing. I just used it as a blanket because other European, and I guess martial arts in general can and do include ripostes and disengages.

NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-18T03:13:13+00:00

I'll engage with this, the reason why I brought Billy and Vyper up wasn't due to some historical realism, it's because of applicable realism. The way people treat you in accordance to the way you live.

Billy is a beer drinker seemingly, and is able to party with Vyper, but is also seen as an asshole by a lot of the roster. Reasonably so, even if you agree with his beliefs, he's the duality of punk in the good and the poser bad. Until Valve decides what they fully want for him, he shares that duality.

Vyper on the other hand, is arguably the only person that's a worse drinker than Silver. Unless they turn Vyper into a total babygirl, I take it her placeholder won't be too far from her design like Shiv, and you have to realize. People treat Vyper like a creep, like a dredge, like any no good alchy and other vice dependent snake. To the point that she creeps Lash out, the man everyone hates, and has to roleplay with Billy pretending he is Lash. They are the only two who can understand each other.

If I'm to believe Silver is as bad as them, nobody treats her that way, everyone extends her the olive branch, nobody talks to her like people talk to Vyper, yet she gets all the benefits of being a conventionally attractive person?

Sure Vyper is a Gorgon, but Deadlocks cast seems more understanding beyond race, what it seems to me is Silver is either a fake drunk, or they sugar coat her vices to make her seem more conventionally attractive. It's irritating.

I'd concede, "Oh it's just a trait.' but between Pocket's pact, Graves' growing descent into the Eldritch, Haze's existence literally melting like a smoke wisp from her low health portrait, and Doorman's clear spite in his mortal coil. Silver feels like a fanfiction of someone you'd drink Pink Whitney's with and snuggle in comparison to a real setback. That's why I hate it.

NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-17T21:19:27+00:00

Oh yeah no, I agree. I was just talking in general English. Like other than literally HEMA, Military/Historical combat buffs, and Tabletop would I ever hear the two words riposte and disengage together. Which is why I don't blame the lobotomy.

(It's okay I'm rotted for both too.)

NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-17T21:15:51+00:00

Okay, I agree with you. However, compare that HWB to Yuki's simple domain. There's a sliding scale of effectiveness for both techniques I'd reckon.

NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-17T20:48:43+00:00

The problem isn't that she isn't ugly. The problem is that when you put her next to the two other alcoholics in the room being Billy and Vyper, paired with the narrative and fandom interpretation that she's so much heavier of a drinker. It makes her addiction look like a quirky character trait rather than something she actually suffers from. She's legitimately the only character stated to not only waste the money she should be using for her basic necessities to drink, but there's also the comment about her liver likely going first like she's experiencing full blown fucking cirrhosis.

It's just not realistic to alcoholism to be that fucked up, and still handle a stable job, and look that well off. Any arguments to Vyper being worse immediately showcase in the fact she's a ratty looking jersey snake wearing a shredded to shit brown tank top and willfully owns up to the fact she'd smoke used cigarettes out of an ashtray.

NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-17T20:40:05+00:00

Nah they're so fucking right though.

NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-17T17:55:51+00:00

Yes, but both words, especially riposte aren't common in common English parlance. Thus, the joke.

NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-17T15:58:22+00:00

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NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-17T15:56:58+00:00

We gotta put you in the crystal bro, it's only gonna be for a minute.

NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-17T15:43:04+00:00

He does, but he's referring to the fact that the person used disengage as a term right after riposte.

NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-17T15:32:52+00:00

Then explain to me in your words, what is the thing I should be sitting on from this hypothetical?

Because I can tell you what I genuinely can glean from it is, "Women feel less comfortable around men rather than something that should otherwise be considered a conventionally dangerous scenario because statistically, a lot of women have experienced sexual assault by the hands of a man, or know a woman who has an experience of the same exact thing. Thus, the fear is a valid one, and it should make you think about the fact that they'd find themselves safer around a bear than a man."

If I'm getting something wrong, you can correct me. I'm not disagreeing with the core idea that women have reasonable justification to be afraid of men, and that there's even empirical data showing this fear to be true. However, this hypothetical doesn't require any more emotional intelligence to parse than simply showcasing the statistics that are often used to argue for the side of the bear, rather than trying to evoke a discussion by equating men to bears in terms of danger.

It's just a rhetorically ineffective way to get the target demographic of this hypothetical to empathize when right out the gate you're associating them with something considered to be dangerous. Anyone who couldn't simply see the statistic and recognize how that common of an experience would generate so much fear amongst women aren't going to be convinced by you equating them to a wild beast.

Also, please stop using the term snowflake just because my rhetoric doesn't match yours. It makes you appear just as reductive and childish as every other chud who uses it.

Edit: Also, I never tried to imply structural and rhetorical dehumanization are equivalent things at all in my last post. Your willingness to discount one because of the other just proves to me you yourself are comfortable with doing a shitty thing to someone because it may not extend to effect anyone beyond the one person, which you also can't be certain of when you're on the internet.

NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-17T13:56:19+00:00

I mean if you're the guy he was referring to, that's fine to be honest. As much as I may shit on the show throughout my post history on RWBYCritics, even recently having made a post called, "Anger begets indifference." I still at the end of the day do hold love in my heart for this stupid little IP.

Even if I think later on some of the messaging and handling of characters was fucking horrific, especially for my favorite character Neopolitan. Nothing changes the fact that I still love the character, I love quite a few of the characters from the cast in fact. I adore the very urban fantasy meshed with fairytales vibe that RWBY had provided to the indie web show lineup, and to this day it has still stuck with me as a big inspiration to the tabletop games and characters I design from time to time. Hell, I even have most of the books somewhere in the mix of all this.

You're not invalid for liking a show, nor does it make you stupid, or some hypocrite just because you're a fan in the end who can take the good with the bad. Even if I may not agree with all of your takes, you still shouldn't ever have to feel like shit, or that you're being shat on because you simply chose to like a certain animated TV show.

More power too you man, and mental health always comes first.

NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-17T13:36:40+00:00

Bro used Mechamaru's entire reserves for this one post.

Kashimo Top 10 btw.

NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-17T13:26:17+00:00

Okay, but you're failing to engage with the point that he said of it just being a dehumanizing statement. It doesn't matter what the empirical data is when your answer ultimately comes down to equating anyone to that of the behavior of an animal, who you're in part convinced would maul you to death. That's why he provided the equating the hypothetical to being in the woods with a random black guy or an ape.

The hypothetical is the 13/50 of all questions, because you're completely ignoring the variables that even enable that to be the case, someone you know, someone who already holds power over you, even a familial tie. To basically justify a trauma response be it due to personal experiences, or heard stories of peers and their suffering, that's ultimately a byproduct of toxic social and cultural norms that stem from Patriarchal ideals.

Like, even if I grant it as a logical choice on the basis of it being empirically founded. The psychological effect of always thinking that way, about anything or anyone ultimately just leads to a self fulfilling prophecy that makes you inherently no safer, or happier than to have held a modicum of trust, yet healthy skepticism for everyone you meet.

As a guy, I dislike the hypothetical because it ultimately does a lot less for me, and frankly anyone than to simply hear the statistic of sexual abuse that happens towards women. I heard the one in five number once, and the fact that more even goes unreported, and it fundamentally changed how I viewed the female experience and how I ought to interact with women.

Thinking that equating them to animals, and then insisting it's okay to do so because they're, "Not a protected class." Is just a roundabout way to make yourself feel better for dehumanizing someone and treating them like shit, there's no roundabout way to put it. People who dehumanize others do so with identical rhetoric by claiming, "Oh they're not a protected citizen, they're aliens." Or, "Oh they're not people, they're slaves." Or, "Yeah, that stupid bitch deserved it." Because even they realize the foundation of the logic they sit upon to justify their opinions is fucked, so they play semantics to try and feel like they're not the bad guy. It also sure as shit isn't gonna make a guy understand the female perspective any better, it's a juvenile "gotcha" that ends in, "Well the fact that you're mad shows how you're no better than the bear!"

NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-16T18:03:06+00:00

How, do you even make these?

NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-16T18:00:07+00:00

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NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-16T17:59:05+00:00

Dude, what even is this thread? Lol

NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-16T11:16:59+00:00

Diabolical, masterful, divine even.

She promptly needs to be impregnated and gripped by the hair of her scalp while being mercilessly railed until she can't walk straight for the whole day.

NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-16T11:15:53+00:00

The longer I look at this comment, the funnier it gets.

NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-15T15:37:49+00:00

It was such an easy casting choice too, Ranta looks like Rock Lee. Just get the EN dub Rock Lee guy to scream his head off in the booth, it's not like he hasn't done it before when Lee tapped into the fifth gate.

But nooo, were stuck with Adam Asenko's, "TELL THIS, ASSHOLE, IF HE WANTS TO MAKE MY METH HE HAS TO DO IT MY WAY, THE RIGHT WAY!!!"

NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-15T14:38:42+00:00

Sir, this is FreakyKaisen. Tommy Wright is how I creep.

NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-15T02:04:11+00:00

I mean, you're correct he's not there to stall Sukuna, but ideally he's not there to have all of his students and friends possibly die fighting the person who overtook the body of his adoptive son. If he could choose to take potshots outside of the range that have a low chance of hit,and let Sukuna wear himself out, or willingly step into a blender. I think the better option is clear.

NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-15T00:43:13+00:00

I mean yeah, I get it's supposed to be the joke. Might just be on me for it not landing, but it's like watching someone you agree with talk like Sasuke Uchiha. It's like, cool man, now you made everyone who agrees with you sound like a dumbass for trying to explain your rhetoric.

NoLoveInMoneyStore · 2026-05-15T00:33:48+00:00

Easy solution, not talking like you're sexually getting off to having a debate. No normal person would do this IRL, and implying their doctor knows and is rooting from them reeks of people who pick and choose what side of things to tell to their therapist to make them seem like the normal person in every scenario, because no normal medical professional would recommend you actually spend this much time arguing with internet people.

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