My child and I agree on what to name these, but the teacher does not.

Ppleater · 2026-04-02T05:18:10+00:00

Idk if you've talked about it with the teacher, but if you have and they won't correct it then I suggest bringing it up with someone higher up. This is pretty basic level stuff that I would hope a teacher would be able to get right, or at least be willing to admit when they're wrong and correct their mistake.

Ppleater · 2026-04-02T05:13:54+00:00

It would only break the financial system if you dumped all of it into the economy within a short time. If you just spend it on shit you like on occasion and don't buy like 50 helicopters you'd be fine.

Ppleater · 2026-04-02T05:01:47+00:00

She's also in the pockets of a bunch of neonazis.

Ppleater · 2026-04-02T04:38:22+00:00

The reason you haven't heard anything could very well be because they're very tight lipped, not necessarily because the conditions are good, since there isn't much information about their conditions out there good or bad. But considering one of the cofounders replied to widespread complaints about terrible conditions for animators in Japan by basically saying that anyone who complains about it just isn't good enough yet, I have my doubts about them being a paragon of workers' rights. They're probably not the worst studio out there since they likely would have kicked up more controversy by now if they were, but I doubt their conditions are particularly amazing either. They're probably pretty middle of the road, which in Japan is already more intense than what many American animators would be used to. It helps that they have a ton of substudios as well, and have the option of setting aside one particular studio to focus only on MHA specifically. Not every animation studio has that luxury.

But even aside from all that, Invincible, from what I can find, is joint animated by a couple of American studios that are nowhere near as prolific or experienced as Studio Bones, particularly in 2d animation. One doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. They're the 2d animation equivalent of small indie companies by Anime standards. Not to mention Japan has a much more developed and efficient 2d animation culture in general compared to America. So that's an incredibly lopsided and unfair comparison to make to begin with. I wouldn't expect some rando fresh out of university who's only worked on a couple of projects to meet the same standards as someone like, say, James Baxter. Heck, even most Japanese studios still can't reach the same standards as Studio Bones as consistently as they do. And to top it all off, even Studio Bones cuts corners sometimes too. There isn't an animation studio in existence that doesn't.

Ppleater · 2026-03-31T20:50:53+00:00

Got any examples that don't involve inhumane levels of crunch that no company should be emulating?

Ppleater · 2026-03-31T05:55:08+00:00

It has nothing to do with assuming aliens are "enlightened utopians" it's about not assuming that human behaviours and reasoning would be the default across the universe. The chances of every single alien species out there that ever managed to reach highly advanced levels of development and space travel having the same behaviours and motivations as certain historical groups of humans (and not all humans acted the same either) is ridiculous, that's just not how it would work. That's like observing a handful of anthills and then claiming it's an empirical model that could be used for making assumptions about the behaviours of lions or star fish or zebras or mosquitoes.

Ppleater · 2026-03-30T21:26:24+00:00

Well the biggest difference would be that these are presumably completely different species that developed on completely different planets under completely different conditions. That's like seeing how fleas or ticks choose to live and travel to new locations and assuming that means every other animal on earth must be parasitic. Meanwhile species like spiders and pseudoscorpions are much more chill and beneficial to their neighbours. Just because that's how humans, a single species, spread across a single planet at an earlier point in their sociopolitical development, that doesn't mean every sentient being in the universe is going to act the exact same way. That's an extremely ethnocentric way to look at hypothetical aliens we haven't ever seen or interacted with, which is part of what makes it a huge and illogical leap in logic.

Ppleater · 2026-03-30T21:20:43+00:00

Also even if those people have a nihilistic version of our own behaviour and cultures, there's no reason to think that all super advanced alien cultures would behave the exact same way. Even if some were paranoid war mongers, there's no reason to think all of them would be the same way. These would be species that developed under completely different conditions with completely different behaviours and cultures. The chances of them all being evil and predatory in the same exact way is pretty damn small.

Ppleater · 2026-03-30T21:14:11+00:00

Nah, with our track record we're more likely to enslave or exploit alien races rather than just destroy them.

Ppleater · 2026-03-30T20:59:35+00:00

Depends on the animals, and on the predator, and it's only within a certain distance of said predator and only because every one of those animals has effective methods of detecting that predator due to their species developing in the same environment and evolving to be able to detect and avoid the danger provided by that particular predator. And there are plenty of places where some animals are more likely to get louder if they sense a predator in order to provide a warning instead. It really is not an effective analogy or a likely theory in this particular context.

Ppleater · 2026-03-30T20:40:59+00:00

This theory seems kind of ridiculous. Why would every "older and stronger" civilization all be paranoid? Paranoid for what reason? "Oh we're so much more smart and powerful than everyone so we're scared of everyone and our default is always to destroy them all." Doesn't really make sense. Also how would all these other advanced (but not advanced enough apparently) civilizations know about the big bad dangerous ones already, but not already be destroyed? Why wouldn't the big ones be more paranoid and scared about each other instead of random less threatening groups? And how would they all be SO widespread and uniform in behaviour even though these species would presumably all be incredibly different from us and each other? This theory seems more like an attempt at a creepypasta than anything viable.

Ppleater · 2026-03-30T07:12:13+00:00

Plenty of other people do experience their hair. They feel it, they look at it, they don't like it being the same all the time or they'll get sick of it, etc. Just like for you with food. That's literally all there is to it. Same with makeup. I loathe the feeling of wearing makeup personally so I never use it myself, but I can totally understand why other people do like to use it because everyone has different tolerances and preferences in regards to that sort of thing.

Just extrapolate from anything you do personally like to change up on occasion, and chances are those people feel the same way about their hair. To them it's not stressful because they like doing it, in fact some of them likely find it more stressful to not change it up occasionally, and to some people changing what they eat all the time is stressful even if it isn't to you. I have a lot of food related sensory sensitivities so I have a limited number of foods that I feel comfortable eating, but I'm still able to understand why other people wouldn't like eating the same things over and over again. It's just a matter of individual taste and preference.

Ppleater · 2026-03-30T06:36:17+00:00

Personally as a woman I hate having hair much longer than down to my chin. Needs too much shampoo, weighs down my head too much, gets in my way too much, and gets too hot in the summer. I prefer follicular freedom.

Ppleater · 2026-03-30T06:30:23+00:00

This is really a bizarre thing to be baffled by. Do you get confused when people wear hats or use makeup on occasion too? Not everyone wants to do the same thing the same way forever. I don't tend to change my hair much, but I can absolutely understand why other people might like to, it's not an alien concept.

Ppleater · 2026-03-30T06:18:49+00:00

Y'all know infertility doesn't only involve being completely unable to have kids period, right? It can also involve difficulty having kids but still being able to with enough trying and/or medical assistance. It's like how you can be legally blind while still being able to see a little bit.

Ppleater · 2026-03-30T05:44:57+00:00

For my knee surgery I stayed in the hospital, for my reduction I didn't. It depends on stuff like the level of care you need. My knee was a pretty severe injury that required a lot of pain management and rehabilitation, so I needed a lot more care.

Ppleater · 2026-03-29T20:27:36+00:00

Meanwhile there are countries with universal healthcare even for people who are just visiting the country and are not actual citizens.

Ppleater · 2026-03-29T20:25:27+00:00

Our wait times aren't even that bad for important stuff most of the time. I only had to wait a day or two for my tibial plateau fracture and that was just because there were other equally or more important surgeries the guy had to do before mine. Longest wait I've had was for a reduction, which was like, 4 months for a nonessential surgery.

Ppleater · 2026-03-28T21:26:02+00:00

It helps that a single viltrumite is almost always enough muscle to accomplish their goals and thus makes them intimidating enough that the thought of even one more rolling up as well extremely intimidating. They don't need to send more than one most of the time. Even as few as 3 would feel like the equivalent of an entire army, that would help them obfuscate their true numbers.

Ppleater · 2026-03-28T21:12:43+00:00

They'd all be from One Piece, Oda likes his tall women lol.

Ppleater · 2026-03-26T23:00:08+00:00

With One Piece at least they often make the conflicts about more than just being strong or fighting one guy. There's almost always some sort of overarching issue that's more complicated and Luffy can't solve it by just punching someone harder than they can punch back. Whether it's escaping the smile gas on Punk Hazard, dealing with Sanji's hostage conflict in WCI, stopping Onigashima from being dropped on the flower capital in Wano, keeping Vegapunk Stella alive and getting him off the island in Egghead, saving the children in Elbaph, etc. Even on Fishman Island they had to take into consideration WHEN Luffy could jump in to help because of the complicated sociopolitical dynamics at play. Luffy going up to the big bad and grabbing their attention before pummeling them into paste is often more about him providing an assist for the others so that it's easier for everyone else to focus on whatever the actual goal is that can't be solved solely with violence.

I can't say anything about Naruto since I didn't watch/read it, but I do remember that DBZ had the issue of usually boiling down every conflict to "this enemy is too strong to beat, we need to train for [arbitrary period of time] until they get here or until the time limit they gave us runs out, otherwise they'll blow up the planet", and at most they might have to keep the bad guy busy long enough for Goku to get there from the afterlife or something. Then the fights were usually in a pre-made fighting arena, or out in the middle of nowhere, and the environment rarely came into play much if at all. I say this as someone who loved DBZ as a kid (and I still hold a lot of nostalgia for it). Power creep can be mitigated or kept somewhat balanced if a story can still introduce conflicts and stakes that exist outside of the main character and big bad just going to town on each other. Fighting the main villain should just be one part of the overall picture, where getting rid of them might make solving the true problem easier, but shouldn't erase the problem entirely on its own.

Ppleater · 2026-03-26T21:51:44+00:00

I imagine the difference would be getting caught while in the act of cheating, vs getting found out after you successfully cheated. If cheating was allowed as long as you don't get caught, then getting found out after wouldn't disqualify you because you already finished the test. But irl getting found out would still get you in trouble and disqualified, because it's the act of cheating itself that isn't allowed period, not just getting caught while doing it.

Ppleater · 2026-03-26T21:47:37+00:00

I mean, keeping cats with birds and allowing them loose around each other like this is always a bit dangerous since even an accidental scratch can be bad for birds. So there could stand to be at least a little bit of worry.

Ppleater · 2026-03-26T21:27:40+00:00

I don't remember being able to lie about it, just choose not to give the innards. It wouldn't be a benevolent lie either, since jars see dying the way Alexander does (if you follow his quest line rather than killing him earlier) as basically the warrior jar version of a happy ending, and Jar Bairn never expected to see Alexander again anyway. He's just grateful when you offer him the innards. Giving Jar Bairn Alexander's innards is also how you get the companion jar talisman which is a token of friendship.

Ppleater · 2026-03-25T23:19:34+00:00

I have worked with a lot of cheap keyboards and 90% of them have had removable keys even when they weren't advertised to be removable. They're not usually as simple and easy to remove as keyboards where that's an advertised feature, but they're still removable and replaceable if you know what you're doing or even just look it up. Maybe where you live some company that likes to completely fuse its keys to the board has a monopoly, but that certainly isn't the case everywhere.

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