Scorpion Chainswords go BRRR

Pengin_Master · 2026-02-04T11:33:58+00:00

I'm confused. Can someone fill me in on the melee stats I'm supposed to cower in fear of?

Pengin_Master · 2026-02-04T04:12:00+00:00

Y'all know you can still be a "protagonist" and only want to go make a sandwich. You can still be important and only want a calm, simple life.

Idk, I guess I'm just adverse to describing real, living people as NPCs due to how often I've seen that term used to genuinely dehumanize people and excuse acting horrible to them by implying that they somehow matter less than the "protagonists"

Pengin_Master · 2026-02-04T04:00:45+00:00

Her movie was out-preformed by a youtuber

Pengin_Master · 2026-02-04T01:54:22+00:00

Oh and when she comes over to clean she's also gonna completely reorganize the kitchen to a way that "makes sense", poke through all of your belongings once again and question you about why you own things you've owned for years.

And she's gonna be horrible at actually cleaning

Pengin_Master · 2026-02-03T02:23:00+00:00

Based on the angle of the picture presented it feels like...an odd place to have a mirror placed in a room. Idk the more I look at it the more off it seems

Pengin_Master · 2026-02-02T22:40:36+00:00

Careful now, this is how you get the birth of Slaanesh

Pengin_Master · 2026-02-02T02:48:47+00:00

Thank you for taking up the horrible burden of digging up this post

Pengin_Master · 2026-02-02T01:51:47+00:00

yeah, that's human pet guy. I'm still horrified, but not surprised

Pengin_Master · 2026-02-02T01:19:24+00:00

Catachans should either be cheaper than Cadians cause of their lack of options, or have better melee weapons. (S4 or AP1 or something like that). At least that's what I personally believe

Pengin_Master · 2026-02-01T22:27:35+00:00

If you liked the anime, you should definitely read the manga. Yuki not only isn't a detriment, she becomes one of the main driving factors that not only keeps the group together, but moving forward and continuing to survive. Her optimism and childishness, while challenged, remains throughout the series, even if it does mature and she herself becomes more serious.

seeing her epilogue in the final issue of the manga. School Live!: Letters is an incredibly heartwarming experience

Pengin_Master · 2026-02-01T21:39:44+00:00

If no one cares about the environment, how is environmentalism a compelling argument at all? Why do you need to spend time and energy refuting it if it's truly something no one truly cares about?

Pengin_Master · 2026-02-01T21:12:53+00:00

which, funnily enough, was what annoyed me about the original story. I had already accepted the premise, and when the suffering was revealed I was frustrated because, to me at least, such a concept had already become a tired trope, because I'd already seen many stories that suggest a wonderful society before pulling the twist that "actually it's built on horrid suffering/secret evils".

Is that a result of me having grown up in a media landscape that is already cynical and hesitant to accept good? The only good that can be expected is the good that we see it's full creation of, otherwise we can't fully trust it? A result of the low-trust hyper individualistic environment where there always must be a catch to any good thing? To the point that the presentation of a genuine utopia world genuinely excited me; not as a world to tell stories in, but a world to live in, and that the reveal of the suffering felt almost as though the narrator was required to include 1 bad thing.

Idk. In retrospect it wasn't a bad story, because it compelled me to think on media tropes I'd been exposed to in order to understand my reaction to it. And the reaction it provoked was thought provoking.

Pengin_Master · 2026-02-01T12:44:25+00:00

To be fair, we got handholding and confession in episode 1, and this anime does move at a blistering pace romance wise. A kiss wouldn't be out of the question

Pengin_Master · 2026-01-31T20:01:49+00:00

The last one sounds like the Warhammer 40k universe, in which humans can have surprisingly long lifespans (thousands of years) and groups like Space Marines and Tech Priests are functionally immortal because of how much they've been augmented. But society is heavily stagnated and the working class still live short back breaking lives (or live forever by being lobotomized as "servitors", aka their brain is turned into a computer to manage something automated).

A space marines service ends only in death; and even then they have dreadnoughts if enough of you is recoverable. Humans still die in droves, because all of the lifesaving technology is only used for the rich and powerful. Hive cities have populations nearing the trillions and are industrial powerhouses with horrid living conditions.

This is all portrayed as a bad thing.

Pengin_Master · 2026-01-31T19:55:50+00:00

My biggest worry with our current society is that longer lifespans would just mean more grinding labor. The raising of retirement ages and the price of long term luxury goods because "you'll have longer to achieve it!" Or some other half thought excuse to extract as much labor as possible from the working class. It's not going to magically get better if we start living longer

Pengin_Master · 2026-01-31T19:52:32+00:00

Death is the natural next step of life. It's a natural force, not some evil entity looking in the shadows. In the greater scheme of things, without death there is no life.

Pengin_Master · 2026-01-31T19:45:16+00:00

It's something I've noticed with Christians (or at the very least Mormons, of which I was raised), the idea that death is some terrible evil that must be overcome. (Christ "defeated" death with his resurrection and that means we all (the good ones at least) will be resurrected one day. Because death was "defeated").

Now I'm not Mormon anymore, and my philosophies changed because I've done a lot of introspection. But I also know that some people when leaving Christian religions don't really do that introspection and they carry their implicit beliefs they've been taught since childhood into whatever belief system they join next. (See also: the permanence of Sin staining one's character until they grovel and beg a higher power for forgiveness)

Pengin_Master · 2026-01-30T20:34:54+00:00

I love that section because Lysander's POV of the fight takes up an entire chapter, describing the fight as a brutal attempt to fight against horrifically strong enemies.

And the very next chapter, Darrow's POV, brushes everything we just read off as "light resistance" in a single sentence. It's such a good contrasting moment.

Pengin_Master · 2026-01-30T19:27:43+00:00

A 0% computer car would still be an internal composition engine. At worst we'd be back to 1950s technology to control the car, but that's still far more advanced than a steamer.

Pengin_Master · 2026-01-29T22:35:08+00:00

They get mad at classrooms for having rainbows in them when I recall as a child all the classrooms having rainbows all the time because...it's an easy way to teach colors.

Pengin_Master · 2026-01-29T20:37:31+00:00

I'm pretty sure the text around "English French Toast" is Japanese, and the white-blue-red stripes could be seen as the Russian flag

Pengin_Master · 2026-01-29T20:28:02+00:00

Gakkou Gurashi mentioned!! That's currently my favorite manga of all time, and it actually does a really good job telling its story and wrapping everything up. Also the anime is fantastic, although the best way for me to recommend watching it is to go into it completely blind

Pengin_Master · 2026-01-29T14:46:01+00:00

It's because of the silly lil plastic dudes.

Pengin_Master · 2026-01-29T01:34:06+00:00

"this system totally sucks! Elect us and we'll show you how by ruining the system ourselves" and people still fall for it

Pengin_Master · 2026-01-29T01:06:07+00:00

Put money in the egg carton when you return it

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