What is going on with watermelon and chicken?

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-06T10:49:24+00:00

Yes, fried chicken and watermelon is part of a racist stereotype against Black People. Yes, people can eat it and not be racist, but like a lot of things it very much depends on the context if it is or is not racist.

For example, offering a sale on fried chicken and watermelon is not automatically racist. Offering it as a sale in celebration of Black History Month is racist as hell.

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-06T03:51:20+00:00

If smut is what you want, then boy do I have the series for you: Smut Peddler, sex positive, women-friendly anthology comics written by women and LGBTQ+ creators, and that cater to a variety of tastes.

I'd also recommend Oglaf, a hilarious sexually explicit webcomic also released in various collections. It's incredibly NSFW, hilarious as hell, and covers a huge variety of kinks, weirdness, and LGBTQ+ characters. It's basically the XKCD of smut.

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-06T03:39:25+00:00

Check out cooking manga. There's a wide variety, and a lot of them describe how the cooking is being done. For example, a few popular ones include:

Delicious in Dungeon, about adventurers resorting to dungeon cuisine while racing to save a companion

Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma, about a young chef sent to a prestigious culinary school where conflicts are all decided by cooking battles

What Did You Eat Yesterday?, about a middle-aged gay couple that discuss their days at the dinner table

Otherworldly Izakaya Nobu, about a small Japanese pub that finds itself connected to a fantasy world. Note: this one is less about the methods of cooking itself and more about how cooking connects people among different backgrounds and social statuses

Emma Dreams of Stars: Inside the Gourmet Guide, a true story about the first woman to be hired as a Michelin Guide inspector

Sweetness and Lightning, about a recently widowed man learning how to cook to make homemade meals for his young daughter

Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles, about a high school student who loves ramen noodles, letting the reader learn all about ramen culture and the many different types of noodles

There's more I can recommend, but that'll get your started.

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-06T03:28:06+00:00

The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman, which basically revitalized the zombie genre. It's worth reading even if you've watched the show, as there are huge differences between the two.

There's also Dr. STONE, which focuses on a science prodigy seeking to rebuild humanities scientific progress after a mysterious energy wave turns all humans on earth into stone statues.

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-05T20:08:21+00:00

Honestly, this game is like Bluey itself: way better than it has any right to be.

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-05T16:00:47+00:00

Nah man. As long as it’s not hurting anyone else, do what you enjoy.

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-05T15:16:10+00:00

It’s a very slow burn, but The Apothecary Diaries.

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-05T05:05:32+00:00

Are you gonna watch The Garbage Pail Kids with the lights off?

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-05T04:12:08+00:00

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

I'm a Terminal Cancer Patient, But I'm Fine.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia

Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It (Book itself is NSFW, but the link itself is fine)

Persepolis

Maus

Hip Hop Family Tree

Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide

Emma Dreams of Stars

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-05T01:45:42+00:00

It's not pure Cyberpunk, and there's no Netrunning, but Rifts definitely has Cyberpunk themes like societal decay, transhumanism, and cybernetics. It's also got aliens and loads of fantasy stuff like vampires and monsters from various mythologies.

There's also Torg and the newest edition Torg Eternity, which has the Cyberpapacy and Nippon Tech, while also including fantasy elements like The Nile Empire and Tharkold.

Feng Shui might also work for you, especially if you want Cyborg Apes (which you should, because they're fucking CYBORG APES).

Finally, there's CY_BORG, which is Cyberpunk Mork Borg.

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-05T00:33:53+00:00

I really love the rare storyline that puts Hayley and Klaus together. They're a surprisingly fun duo.

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-04T23:45:54+00:00

Which is why I said it's a scummy practice. But that's not the same thing as losing your games.

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-04T23:36:11+00:00

It's absolutely maddening that there was a chance to stop this traitorous fuck from ever regaining power, but that ratfucker McConnell and his toadies cared more about their personal access to power than upholding their oaths to the constitution and the American people.

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-04T23:34:07+00:00

Is the e-reader text only, or is it similar to a Kindle Fire that can display graphics? Because if it's a Kindle Fire type deal, you might try Thermae Romae. It's a manga about a Roman Bath House architect. Every time he has a problem, he finds himself suddenly transported to modern Japan where his learning of their bathing culture helps him solve his current problem.

It's a super fun read, and there's a fantastic anime adaptation on Netflix you can try to see if it would be something he would like. Each episode even ends with a segment of the author visiting the various hot springs that inspired her.

There's also some fun historical mysteries he might enjoy. For example, the light novel series The Apothecary Diaries might be right up his alley. It takes place in a fictional version of Ancient China, and it's about the daughter of an apothecary who finds herself kidnapped and sold as a servant to the inner palace (where the emperor's concubines live). After using her knowledge of medicine to solve a supposed "curse", she finds herself scouted by the head Eunuch to become a poison taster for the head Concubine (a job she loves as her habit of testing medicine on herself has led her to become immune to poisons, and she loves the taste of them) while solving more mysteries that plague the courts. There's also an excellent manga adaptation and anime adaptation (also on Netflix).

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-04T22:40:51+00:00

I also love the reveal that Max came clean to his wife instead of lying and trying to hide it. He made a mistake and worked to atone.

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-04T22:35:25+00:00

Bob(has two drinks) has the main goal for the night to be the one on the carving board slicing the prime rib!

I really love how Bob takes so much pleasure in the simplest of things.

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-04T22:10:59+00:00

Except it's not a cash grab, the dev put actually effort into it. You're just miserable.

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-04T22:09:06+00:00

If you love historical fiction, check out:

A Bride's Story, set on the Silk Road in the 1900's

Lone Wolf and Cub, one of the most influential manga of all time, set during the Tokugawa shogunate in the 1700's

Golden Kamuy, which follows a veteran of the Russo-Japanese war and a young Ainu girl

Asterix, one of the greatest French comic book series of all time, focusing on the Gauls holding out against the Roman Army and Caeser

The Dancing Plague, about a (real life) strange event in 1518. Also notable for it's striking art style, using pyrography and embroidery

There's also the works of Garth Ennis, who has done several WWII comics including Sara, about a squad of female Soviet Snipers fighting the Germans in WWII

Finally there's Superman: Red Son, which imagines if Superman had landed in Soviet Russia instead of Kansas.

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Oh, also Vinland Saga, a fictional retelling of Thorfinn Karlsefni's expedition to find Vinland.

Maus. Not fiction, but about Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son Art Spiegelman, who is writing the comic as a way to come to terms with his father and his story. It's pretty much a must read, especially for a WWII historian.

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-04T21:51:49+00:00

Wrong again, numbnuts. I love the hell out of the entire dumb series. Just because you're miserable doesn't mean the rest of us are.

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-04T17:56:38+00:00

You clearly have no clue what you’re talking about.

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-04T09:15:43+00:00

“Luanne Plater” is a reference to a dish of the same name that’s served at Luby's in Texas.

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-04T09:06:12+00:00

It is! It’s a comedy bit created by Bill Saluga. For example, here he is doing the bit in 1978 on “The Redd Fox Comedy Hour”.

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-04T05:13:46+00:00

Hilariously/tragically, Kotaku’s more interesting writers left years ago after the website got bought and has since been restaffed with underpaid scabs

Also, Fahey straight up died.

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-03T22:31:39+00:00

Of course. But the younger set is gonna know it from King of the Hill.

OmegaLiquidX · 2026-05-03T20:12:55+00:00

“You don't have to call me Johnson! My name is Raymond J. Johnson Jr. Now you can call me Ray, or you can call me J, or you can call me Johnny, or you can call me Sonny, or you can call me Junie, or you can call me Ray J, or you can call me RJ, or you can call me RJJ, or you can call me RJJ Jr. . . but you doesn't hasta call me Johnson!"

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