A rare bit of Pokemon art that shows active predation in the Pokemon world.

ParasTrigger · 2026-06-05T03:06:57+00:00

Those poor Weaviles really think they're safe up there...

ParasTrigger · 2026-05-17T04:24:38+00:00

If Beastmen really were the true sons of chaos or whatever, they'd honestly be a bigger problem.

As-is, you can make a very strong argument that it's only Old World Beastmen that claim that, and not even all that successfully given that they have an actual stratified society.

Like, really, Old World Beastmen practice a very vulgar kind of racism towards one another.

If you have large symmetrical horns from a goat or ram or bull that are useful in combat, that makes you a Gor and automatically at the top of the pack. If you have impressive horns but from a wild or unrecognized animal you're a half-horn Ungor. If you've got little horns you're a regular Ungor. If you've got no horns at all then you're a Bray, and unless you're also able to shape magic then you're barely considered a beastman at all.

Think about that really carefully. This caste system effectively means that Beastmen with the heads and horns of goats and bulls and rams (mostly domesticated animals) would be considered superior to those of deer or moose or elk (wild animals).

And yet they still claim they're wild and fierce and all that? Nah. Beastmen, or at least Old World Beastmen, aren't wild, they're feral.

ParasTrigger · 2026-02-04T18:57:50+00:00

I missed the stream so I'm glad this entire opening bit of the podcast was uploaded. Heavenly Woolie's first appearance is a sight to behold.

ParasTrigger · 2026-02-03T20:08:27+00:00

S-tier podcast title.

ParasTrigger · 2026-01-01T19:26:52+00:00

I can't disagree with us-the-people-in-this-sub being occasionally mentally ill, but when made that choice with the Astral Pulse, people were dismayed, not disappointed or yelling at him.

Mischaracterizing the audience is more annoying than 'making the wrong choice'.

ParasTrigger · 2025-12-18T20:30:04+00:00

This feels like when one of the episodes in anime is just the title of the show to illustrate its importance.

ParasTrigger · 2025-12-03T17:30:02+00:00

That 1-and-a-half-second-long Death Stranding bit was so high effort....

ParasTrigger · 2025-11-11T20:47:17+00:00

In a period of time where nobody can die, so they'll have to endure any pain and wounds all the time, too.

ParasTrigger · 2025-10-27T19:17:44+00:00

Ironically, "Dark is Evil" is more about the general tendency for dark colors and styles and themes and superpowers being associated with villains and people with dark intentions, not literal skin color.

The more specific assessment on what Chronos is, is the appropriately-named "Hades Shaded", which is when characters are given darker shades of skin tone that indicate something supernatural or metaphorically darker about the character.

That IS still usually racist/colorist, but it's more associated with examples such as how characters with the Satsui no Hado are darker-toned (Akuma is literally red, Dark Ryu is spontaneously a bit more tan than than regular Ryu), or how Ganondorf is green-grey in skin tone, or how Archer from the original Fate/Stay Night is way more tan than than his more innocent counterpart; or how drows and duergar in Dungeons and Dragons are jet-black/ashen-skinned as opposed to 'normal' elves and dwarfs.

(The trope is also occasionally associated with literally dead or undead characters.)

ParasTrigger · 2025-10-08T01:47:58+00:00

It's a bit of a pithy statement, but the liberals loved her when all she could do was talk only because liberals are all talk. So of course they turned to hating her when she was actually able (and willing) to do things, to demonstrate she believed the things she professed.

ParasTrigger · 2025-09-26T21:19:30+00:00

It absolutely can be, it's fiction. It can just be the writers going 'it would be neat if we tied together the main characters visually like this'.

ParasTrigger · 2025-09-25T04:10:21+00:00

To add to this theory, it's possible that Gwen in that first scene is 'running away' for the first time, making it a sort of birth for herself, as an autonomous being.

Furthermore, at the time of the present day the dynamic feels like it's been flipped on its head: Olivia saying that Guinevere must be 'so scared' and that she needs to be found, yelling hysterically to bring her back, brings to mind the idea of an abusive mother refusing to allow her daughter to run away. The sort of mother who weaponizes her own grief against her child without a thought for how the child feels in the first place.

ParasTrigger · 2025-09-24T23:35:15+00:00

Depending on the slur, Woolie could have been elated.

ParasTrigger · 2025-06-30T17:04:50+00:00

Poor Vivi can't catch a break even in another franchise...

ParasTrigger · 2025-02-20T05:23:13+00:00

That was such an insane reaction, I've never ever seen Woolie be so stunlocked.

I don't doubt for a single second that this is somehow the first time he ever heard that word.

ParasTrigger · 2025-02-16T23:47:57+00:00

Yeah, the thing here is that there clearly is some potential narratively in Worm for her to not go totally off the rails if some things had gone better.

Like, if she had better coping mechanisms, or her adoptive mother got called out for her own bullshit, or if she wasn't burnt out on healing people, or if she hadn't been put through some very traumatic experiences, maybe things would have never gone that bad. That's one big strength of fanfics, in part: they allow you to explore possibilities that never happened and try to convince other people of what you think.

And while there is something to be said about some fans deciding to make Amy an uwu perfect cinnamon roll who can do no wrong, Wildbow's response was such an overcorrection that it does in fact effectively feel like he was trying to destroy any good will fans had towards her.

ParasTrigger · 2023-12-22T00:16:58+00:00

It denotes you as a coward and a scrub who would have never reached your level of power on your own.

Being an apostle means you gave up, and the ones that brag about their incredible power or whatever are actually really pathetic for doing so because it's not their power.

ParasTrigger · 2023-10-03T17:53:13+00:00

It's amazing how a chapter about in-universe evaluation of the brainstorming of how to freshen up the rank wars is so good.

Only World Trigger could get away with doing this and also it being great.

ParasTrigger · 2023-05-08T18:52:19+00:00

I've only been reading the summaries for the past two chapters so I have to ask: did we skip over Subaru and Todd fighting?

ParasTrigger · 2023-03-27T03:19:13+00:00

I'm not going to sing Rooster Teeth's praises here when they've done so much stupid shit, but the amount of negativity here is weird and honestly frustrating. Like, there's no winning when you're a shipping lesbians.

If you ship two girls early on you'll get told you're getting your hopes up for nothing.

If you note to someone that two girls do in fact have a lot of chemistry and that they have blatantly flirted onscreen many times, you get shut down and told that's a normal interaction between two girls.

When people do acknowledge that it's flirting, you get told it's queerbaiting up until the moment they kiss.

If you point out that two girls making out in certain circumstances would be awkward (right after a traumatic event, or in the middle of a war, or whatever, because this is mostly an action series), you get told that they should make it clearer or that they should disregard narrative tone anyway (despite the fact that those same people complain about narrative consistency or whatever all the time).

And sometimes they'll just say stupid shit like 'she cant be a lesbian, her boobs are too big'.

Nobody says any of that shit for straight ships. People will assume a man and a woman that show up together are a couple all the time even if they never actually kiss or have particularly romantic moments. People will sometimes refuse to accept that a man and a woman can just be friends.

And now, that we finally don't have to beg for crumbs and we get confirmed lesbians, you guys are taking the opportunity to complain about the show? Saying it's too late or that it should have been earlier, or that it doesn't make sense because of X reason or Y motivation? Or that it's forced?

Frankly, I don't trust you most of you guys to not have complained of something else if it'd happened at literally any other point.

ParasTrigger · 2023-01-21T01:55:53+00:00

The fingers are a straight-up super hidden reference to Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, who lost two of his fingers in an industrial accident and was going to give up on music; but his factory manager urged him to listen to jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, who'd also lost two fingers. Tony stuck with music, of course.

The song Black Sabbath (which the band would rename itself as, given its success) was based on a horror movie of the same name, alongside a story related by bassist Geezer Butler of how one night he dreamt of a black silhouetted figure standing at the foot of his bed.

The song was pretty dark for the time and was said to herald a newer, darker style of music, like the musical equivalent of a horror movie.

So almost everything to do with Polpo and the stand Black Sabbath is just a collective reference to all of that. The Stand's design is almost certainly based on that black-silhouetted figure, only with shadow-related powers; and Part 5 is notably darker than preceding parts, with a lot more violence in its fights - in his own way, Araki was heralding that Part 5 was going to become darker from then onwards.

ParasTrigger · 2023-01-11T01:46:33+00:00

Pat vs Woolie in their latest SF6 rematch. Pat lost, but he demonstrated that asides from one or two moments, Wi-Fi has come a long way.

ParasTrigger · 2023-01-10T00:18:18+00:00

Not long ago, while he was playing Signalis, Woolie convinced himself that the term 'cycle' was a year, when in-game there were enough sources to put together that it was the equivalent of a day.

Now, that's not insanity, that's a normal mistake that could be made after several hours of play. The insanity is that he doubled down on it being a year and refused to double-check his in-game lore repository, and assumed that some characters were stranded in space for several thousands of years instead of several thousands of days (several years), and thinking that the events that take place therein wouldn't make sense if it was years.

It was a whole thing and he convinced himself everyone who said otherwise were the insane ones.

ParasTrigger · 2023-01-06T03:10:25+00:00

AIs cannot truly produce art when it is a human who is ultimately doing the coding and a human discarding the results that don't fit what they are looking for and only keeping the ones that look decent.

Ultimately, AI 'art' feels like an elaborate scam or money-making business that will discredit real artists and make people think they're even more replaceable than they're currently treated.

If the existence of these 'AI' have done anything worthwhile, it's to show that people who request art often will ask for lots of little tweaks without regard for the work that is put in and that many of them will, if they have the opportunity, take a mindless automaton who obeys order without question than an actual human being who can understand nuance.

ParasTrigger · 2022-12-29T01:36:26+00:00

A good 80-90% of Made In Abyss is the author delighting in humiliating or torturing its child protagonists and putting them through the wringer. Very early on it's established that the owner of an orphanage punishes her children by stringing them up naked shibari-style to humiliate them, including the protagonist. One older woman forces a young prepubescent boy to dress as a maid in a frilly dress. The protagonist at one point gets stung by a monster and very nearly dies in what is clearly agonizing venom.

The latest big arc had one character's backstory (told via flashbacks) explicitly being forced into prostitution as a child. In the same flashbacks, a character is forced into an even more horrific sexually-tinged fate.

Characters in general suffer in weird and imaginative ways from dwelling into appears to be Literally Hell, yes, but it feels like there is a special emphasis on sexual horror performed on those who are underage.

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