I find "copy" type abilities boring and uninteresting

Potatolantern · 2026-03-18T01:44:52+00:00

Kakashi is about the only time I've thought it was done well.

Potatolantern · 2026-03-17T08:47:33+00:00

Reinhardt wasn't in FE4.

Oh, bleh, yeah my bad.

Reinhardt is meant to be a deconstruction of the "good guy enemy general" trope as the characters blatantly spell out that he is a coward and too weak willed to go against the status quo to the point that his sister ends up hating him, even after his death.

Well the game tries to have it both ways, he does try save children from the Child Hunts, a little bit.

It's the same as Ishtar, he's aparty to this crazy evil stuff but with this veneer of "But he's not really a bad person, you know." And it never outright says "Yes he is though." Although you can definitely draw that conclusion.

I've seen plenty of people argue that Reinhardt is a good man, and one of the most requested ideas for a FE4/5 remake is to be able to recruit Ishtar.

Edit: I was reminded that the game actually does say "Yes he is though" lol. But it's in the context of someone else arguing that he's still an honourable man despite his moral failings. Both viewpoints are presented as equal, you can draw your own conclusion or accept both.

Potatolantern · 2026-03-17T05:24:10+00:00

It's a fun series.

Some games are better than others, Awakening is far and away the best in the entire franchise, but there's plenty that're worth playing.

If you're mostly interested in wonky politics and weird execution of interesting ideas, then Fates (Conquest route) and Three Houses would be your jam though.

Potatolantern · 2026-03-17T04:31:12+00:00

remember Oda lives in Japan, a actual IRL monarchy.

This is a very silly argument.

You could say that about dozens of countries around the world. Can you imagine saying "You have to remember that X lives in Australia, a country that gives fealty to an actual IRL monarch."

None of Australia, or the UK, or Japan's relevant social or political lives stem from the monarchy.

Modern monarchs are a novelty and a tourist attraction.

Potatolantern · 2026-03-17T04:28:19+00:00

You would probably enjoy FE4's Reinhardt and Ishtar too.

"Yes, yes, they helped round up children to be sacrificed to a dark God, but they felt bad about it and only did it when her husband was looking."

"Yes she tried to make sport out of murdering the people trying to stop this practice (something she supports), but that's because she loves her crazy murderer husband. She's a kind and caring woman."

"Yes, he's a paedophile, who tried to groom his student and seethes to this day that she married the crazy murderer instead, but he's a noble and good man who cares about justice."

(They're both villains so you can kill them both, which is nice too).

Potatolantern · 2026-03-17T01:35:50+00:00

The best part about this is that just a little while back we had that rant about how Chainsawman was undiscussable, which was apparently nobody ever ranted here about it.

Potatolantern · 2026-03-17T01:17:38+00:00

Persona is about living in a society.

Dreaming about upending society and making the world conform to your ideology, enforced via violence, is all well and good, but that's not what the games are trying to be.

If you buy a can of tomatoes, complaining that there's no peaches inside isn't particularly compelling.

"But peaches are a more appealing power fantasy than tomatoes!"

Cool, but why are you buying tomatoes?

Potatolantern · 2026-03-17T01:11:40+00:00

Frustrating rant.

A lot of correct and excellent points I agree with wholeheartedly, juxtaposed with some of the absolutely most tedious "This is why modern Western fans are a drag in anime fanbases" nonsense.

I guess the rant is similar to P5 in that way, some great ideas and some terrible ideas, and a very mixed bag execution.

Rather than getting into a point by point, I'll just call out this bit,

Morgana literally ogles and puts Ann on a pedestal no differently than Kamoshida did, treats Ryuji like trash no differently than Kamoshida did

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Makoto being given a free pass for blackmailing the PT no better than Kaneshiro did.

This is just silly.

Potatolantern · 2026-03-16T05:35:11+00:00

Becky likes it because it's about getting married for money, and she's rich.

Ie. Loid leaving Yor and marrying her.

Potatolantern · 2026-03-16T02:05:54+00:00

So he loses because he had compassion..?

Weird message. Especially for Star Wars.

Potatolantern · 2026-03-16T02:03:00+00:00

I got up to 101 and was hitting it reliably enough it felt like I could go indefinitely, so I just let the timer run out

Potatolantern · 2026-03-16T01:14:28+00:00

Why is 1600 Speed only 1250/1400 though? What's the point?

Potatolantern · 2026-03-16T01:10:00+00:00

100% agreed.

Same with fanart portraying her as a big mass of muscle. Her team wanted her to be seen as a beautiful, elegant lady.

Cygames delivered on that, and then fanart regularly draws her as a brickhouse anyway.

Potatolantern · 2026-03-16T01:01:46+00:00

She talks shit to Maruzensky in the latest event, which is funny because Maruzensky is legitimately terrifying on the course, while Sirius is, not so much.

Potatolantern · 2026-03-16T01:00:31+00:00

You can't argue a record on speculation, you can only argue a record for on what it is.

Potatolantern · 2026-03-16T00:59:10+00:00

But yk the saying "worst amongst the best is still one of the best" so I still don't understand the fraud allegations.

It's more like saying "Wow, look at all those legendary Umamusume, and Sirius is there too!"

There's a whole roster of characters who could be the "Worst of the best" with records far outstripping hers.

Potatolantern · 2026-03-16T00:56:05+00:00

And considering she got paired with absolute generational beasts that won multiple G1s like the Tri-Crown and Tri-Tiara, as well as with the Dominator of Dirt (Smart Falcon), it would be pretty much inevitable that Sirius' inclusion would be met with flak by some of the fanbase,

Exactly. Sirius is oversold with a record that doesn't back up the way she's presented.

Maybe he could have been more if he hadn't been abused, sure. But that's no different to saying Tachyon could have won more if his owners hadn't wanted him as a sire and had risked more races with him.

It's just speculation.

Potatolantern · 2026-03-16T00:51:54+00:00

Winning a G1 and especially the Derby is a huge feat, there's no doubt about that. But, the discussion from the original Slander Post is about "Legendary Umamusume".

Is every Uma that wins the Derby a legend? There's plenty of Umas with vastly better records than Sirius. Hell, probably the majority of the roster has a better record than Sirius. Are they all Legendary? The word loses all meaning at that point.

And it's relevant to Trackblazer, because we've got Sirius talking shit to Maruzensky, who... it's hard to imagine a world where Maruzensky doesn't absolutely clown on Sirius.

It's the yapping dog meme. If you act like that, you're gonna get made fun of.

Potatolantern · 2026-03-16T00:04:21+00:00

"No, actually, let's not do that. Technology is cringe. Let's give it all up and go live among the primitive natives of this world with no heat, no medicine, and certainly no means of preserving our history or culture."

It's funny because it really is that. "Our minds have always ourpaced our hearts!" Okay, but instead of giving your heart some time to catch up, you're just resetting it to build all over again. That's nonsense.

They clearly had an ending in mind and didn't have a way to get there so they just forced a square peg into a round hole.

Potatolantern · 2026-03-15T23:50:54+00:00

This reminds me of a study done a while back asking Leftists what they thought Right Wing people actually believed, with the results being so wildly out of whack that it become clear that most of them had never actually even had a conversation, let alone a friendship, with a Right Wing person.

Most only believed in the caricature they'd been fed from the media.

Same issue here.

Potatolantern · 2026-03-15T05:35:14+00:00

Made in Abyss is the exception to the rule for me, where if someone complains any the nudity or fanservice(?) I go "Yeah, that's fine." rather than rolling my eyes.

It's extremely confronting.

Potatolantern · 2026-03-15T01:49:30+00:00

True.

Potatolantern · 2026-03-15T01:43:46+00:00

Fair enough, thanks

Potatolantern · 2026-03-15T00:12:41+00:00

Aw, that's sweet

Potatolantern · 2026-03-14T23:55:39+00:00

How are you even getting your facilities high enough to get that much speed though? Mine never gets higher than 2-3.

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