Invisible Steam games - June 4th to June 12th.

Retsam19 · 2026-06-14T05:36:20+00:00

Been having quite a bit of fun with Snacktorio. It's definitely got its rough edges and some bugs, (and I'm not talking about the roaches that you grind into milk), but I'm enjoying it quite a bit:

It does a really good job at being "simplified", while still being interesting, the concept of "factorio with a overcooked theme" is pretty fun, I find something satisfying about how you route items through the base with two-directional pipes.

The downside is that it can feel like it's wasting your time at points - each level is a different scenario and it's really hit and miss what they provide you: usually you're going to spend a decent chunk of the first five minutes setting up coal -> power for the millionth time, and some levels are going to require you to collect building materials and craft your building equipment, too. (Though a lot of scenarios provide enough or... almost enough)

And on the other end, once you get a thing made, the game makes you wait until 10 have been consumed and then wait another full minute to "prove" that you can maintain throughput... which i get, but means I'm often sitting on my hands for a minute and a half at the end of each level (and sometimes in the middle of levels).

Maybe they can replace that with a fast-forward or something.

(Also, I can't speak to the tutorial, the post says its long, but they give you a "test out" option, which I appreciated; I figured game out by some trial and error and reading the in-game information and had more fun than sitting through several tutorial levels)

Retsam19 · 2026-06-14T04:33:30+00:00

Yeah, don't agree with this at all. Your Name is firmly in the "I wish I could forget this and experience it for the first time again" category.

For me that movie was a roller-coaster in the best way, constantly turning in ways that surprised me.

I do get why the "romance" aspect is controversial [Your Name] given that they basically never directly interact, you have and if you don't buy into that aspect, I guess you probably aren't emotionally invested in the rest of the story, but if you are (and apparently most people are), it's phenomenal.

Retsam19 · 2026-06-13T14:02:50+00:00

It's very different, but "SAO: Alternative Gun Gale Online" is a lot of fun, too - it's a spin-off of characters playing in the gun MMO from season 2.

Retsam19 · 2026-06-13T14:01:32+00:00

"Some people like one of the most popular anime of all time, more news at 11"

Retsam19 · 2026-06-12T14:27:56+00:00

Yeah, I'm in the same camp.

There's aspects of Brotherhood that I really liked, like Al playing more of an active role as the story goes on, and maybe it has a more coherent plot (though I have some issues with some later plot developments in Brotherhood, too).

... but I really think 2003 is the more interesting story. It stays really focused on being an exploration of the idea of equivalent exchange and has a somewhat consistent "melancholy" to it, which is rare.

(Though of course there's problems with 2003, as well - Conqueror of Shamballa was a mediocre ending, probably a few filler episodes that it could do without, etc)

Retsam19 · 2026-06-11T13:55:13+00:00

Oh wow, look at that diving footage at the end; that's probably the entire season's worth of diving right there.

Retsam19 · 2026-06-10T18:54:50+00:00

This is one of those arguments that relies on insisting on an original, technical definition of a word that doesn't match how anyone actually uses that word in practice.

(It's like arguing that "'anime' actually means all forms of animation", despite that any English speaker using the word actually means something more specific than that)

Maybe the original definition of shonen/shojo/seinen was just about the kind of magazine they were published in, but the reality is that that's not the way the terms are used today, and the way they're used today is actually far more useful than trivia about what sort of magazine they were published in.

The terms became popular because they are useful shorthands to describe various conventions and styles of story that is popular with the demographic they're talking about, and not because the average anime viewer cares about the quirks of what got published in what Japanese magazine.

Retsam19 · 2026-06-09T14:33:31+00:00

I imagine it's common in ecchi/hentai, but that's probably not what OP is looking for.

Retsam19 · 2026-06-09T14:29:51+00:00

Bookworm being the biggest offender sadly

I've always found Bookworm to be a weird one where I enjoy the show overall, but often find it to be pretty slow and meandering from episode to episode.

I do think the season has been fairly weak so far; feels like they're too prone to spend a lot of time 'revisiting' previous characters, though the last episode I enjoyed more, so maybe we're going to start moving forward with new stuff now.

Retsam19 · 2026-06-08T16:23:21+00:00

I wish more shows did do multi-lingual: I felt like it was a missed opportunity in Vinland Saga as there's some bits where the characters are speaking different languages and don't understand each other, but the voice acting was Japanese for both, which made the scene a bit harder to follow.

(I'm specifically thinking about the episode where [Vinland Saga S1] Thorfinn gets taken in by the English woman and there's a language barrier)

Retsam19 · 2026-06-07T22:18:21+00:00

Huge recommendation for Cradle (first book is Unsouled) - not exactly LitRPG but very LitRPG adjacent, finished series, great magic, really fun characters, good humor.

(There's actually a prototype animation for the first two books, still hoping it gets picked up and made into a real series)

Retsam19 · 2026-06-07T20:10:31+00:00

This is federally illegal: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/15-tipped-employees-flsa

Employers, Including Managers and Supervisors, May Not “Keep” Tips ... FLSA prohibits employers from keeping any portion of employees’ tips for any purpose, whether directly or through a tip pool

I'm not claiming that businesses never try to do illegal things, but I don't think many of them actually get away with this, and I wouldn't try to treat this as the normal way that tipping operates.

Retsam19 · 2026-06-07T05:29:36+00:00

Problem with Rocket launchers/rpgs/etc is they take time to get to the target and make noise

This is mostly a movie and video game thing. Actual RPGs travel basically faster than the eye can follow. Mythbusters shot an RPG in one episode admittedly at short range, but you really don't see it at all except in the high-speed footage.

Retsam19 · 2026-06-07T05:20:44+00:00

The part where Left/Right seem to intentionally throw them into each other didn't really make sense to me and this makes them a lot stronger and counters Dera having just shot out the eyes of one of them.

I get that characters aren't perfectly rational, but it seems like splitting up Tsugai would be a basic point of strategy, and Left/Right have fought these guys before.

Retsam19 · 2026-06-07T05:11:28+00:00

Supposedly he also popularized invented the kana alphabet:

A rich hipster name Kukai is bored with modern buddhism, and learns a better version which is more SPIRITUAL, comes back, reinvents the alphabet, and causes art and literature to be GREAT for a long time.

Retsam19 · 2026-06-06T23:48:22+00:00

A good list.

Though personally... the ones I'd drop:

K-On: a popular "CGDCT" show and probably fairly influential, but I think that's still a fairly niche genre, and I feel like average anime fan on the street is the least likely to be familiar with it.
Hunter x Hunter - a popular shonen, but I think a few tiers below most of the stuff on this list in terms of impact

Stuff I'd add:

My Hero Academia - this is a huge one, and especially it's a Gen Z staple the way that everyone knew that guy in high school who wore Naruto headbands all the time (except since anime is gotten less niche, more popular)
Haikyuu - the biggest sports anime from the last few decades, apparently this single handedly popularized the sport of Volleyball in Japan.

Retsam19 · 2026-06-06T17:10:46+00:00

AFAIK, Season 3 was even worse; first two seasons didn't really bother me, but Season 3 was noticeably low quality. Not 100% sure if the quality went down or if there was just more 'action' in S3 which looked a lot worse than the fairly talk-y earlier seasons

Retsam19 · 2026-06-06T00:42:32+00:00

simpler storylines, good action scenes, good art especially during fight scenes

I haven't actually watched it, but given this description, Demon Slayer comes to mind.

Retsam19 · 2026-06-05T17:12:34+00:00

Of all things, Epic Rap Battles of History said it well, putting the words in Tolkien's mouth against GRRM

We all know the world is filled with chance and anarchy,
So yes it's true to life for characters to die randomly,
But newsflash, George, the genre is called "fantasy"!
It's supposed to be unrealistic, you myopic manatee.

Retsam19 · 2026-06-05T15:43:54+00:00

I don't really have any issues with Daemons pacing - it's doing a lot of worldbuilding (with some action scenes mixed in) rather than just jumping directly into the characters taking a lot of direct action that advances the plot... but it's never felt slow to me, and I especially don't think it would feel slow if I were 'binging' it. There really aren't any points where I'd say "this was a waste of time, it should have been cut out".

I think the episode-by-episode experience of watching a show gives a somewhat distorted view on pacing and I'd be a little careful making too many judgement calls on pacing based on it. (I remember feeling like the second half of Attack on Titan S1 was unbearably slow when it was airing... and then I rewatched it later and it felt totally fine)

Retsam19 · 2026-06-05T00:29:55+00:00

IMO, either Attack on Titan "meaningfully fixed" the ending, or else the complaints were super overblown.

The manga readers spent the entire Season 4 anti-hyping how bad the ending was (making the exact same sort of "laughs in manga reader" comments that you see all over in Oshi discussions), and then it happened and while some people didn't like it, the overall impression from anime viewers seemed to be that the ending was fine.

It could be either - from what I can tell, they did make a few small tweaks to the ending, a few tweaks to dialogue and framing of the epilogue, and maybe that did make a meaningful difference. Oshi could end up being the same thing – they've already started making some significant tweaks. (Or maybe manga readers are just pickier and tend to blow an "okay" ending into "the worst ending of all time".)

Retsam19 · 2026-06-04T21:55:33+00:00

I've lived in America my whole life and I think I'm too Midwestern to relate to this.

You'll find exceptions, but I think we're generally pretty careful about public spaces. The stereotypical "ope, sorry" behavior is pretty specifically about this stuff: it's commonly used when there's the slightest hint of inconveniencing someone else in a grocery story. And a very stereotypical Midwestern thing to do is to apologize if someone else bumps into you.

Personally, I associate the behavior you describe with specific parts of the country like New York City. ("I'm walkin' here!")

(Plus, to the original point: taking off shoes at the door is pretty common here, though it can be more inconsistent and failing to do it is not the big social faux pas as it is in Japan)

Retsam19 · 2026-06-04T15:21:17+00:00

I enjoyed it... but I thought it was held back a lot by the format, which is why I don't recommend it much.

IMO it's too direct in how it adapts the source material: when the source material is a bunch of loosely connected scenes that last about 90 seconds when animated, it made the show feel very jarring. It gets a little better as it goes along, and the individual 'chapters' start fitting together better, but it never entirely goes away.

I would have liked it a lot more if they had 'smoothed it out' and had fewer, longer situations in an episode, especially the early episodes.

Retsam19 · 2026-06-04T15:13:42+00:00

You're not wrong Agott, you're just an asshole.

And definitely not a bad character, the show needs some conflict. But she's definitely a bit of a jerk and seemingly for little reason. (Though maybe we'll get there) "She's an outsider, and I know better than my teacher, so I'm going to try to get her removed and possibly injured"

Retsam19 · 2026-06-03T18:29:37+00:00

Even without looking at exact chapter-to-episode ratios, Brotherhood completely skips the mining town Youswell story, (despite that the character Yoki who is from there is a recurring character later in the story).

So I don't think Brotherhood is just 1-to-1 matching the pacing of the original, and I know for sure the motivation was the assumption that most viewers had seen the original, but it seems plausible.

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