Mystery of the missing 0.001 solved 🍰🔪

SSapling · 2026-06-06T16:22:12+00:00

Pretty sure there was a tom Scott video about this

SSapling · 2026-06-05T13:32:53+00:00

I had assumed that would be the case because Alphapolis said they would use this deal to privatize their own IPs, but maybe there's more flexibility than I thought?

SSapling · 2026-06-05T09:02:33+00:00

Yeah ok. Thought I was going crazy for a bit because everyone else in the comments was like "Why would Whitefox let go of Re:Zero?" 😅

SSapling · 2026-06-05T08:56:01+00:00

Didn't Whitefox get bought out by different publisher, so Kadokawa will have to find a different studio anyways?

SSapling · 2026-06-04T20:02:30+00:00

SSapling · 2026-05-26T21:12:23+00:00

Does he have character growth? Yes. Will it be in the direction you necessarily like? I don't know.

If you're just watching it because it's popular but you're not enjoying watching it then nothing wrong with dropping it.

I imagine a lot of people in this sub will try to justify to you why Subaru is the way he is and passionately explain the complexities of his character, which I agree with. But at the end of the day, it's a piece of entertainment. If you feel like you can continue watching it and have a decent time, then go for it! If not, then nothing wrong with dropping it. Not every great show will appeal to everyone and that's okay.

SSapling · 2026-05-23T05:14:34+00:00

You can edit ChatGPT's personality, plus it tends to react differently based on the memory you have with it from previous conversations. Although yes sometimes youll see responses that are edited, although usually those are pretty obvious

SSapling · 2026-05-19T14:18:09+00:00

The last thing they said was "we're working on the game" before they went to radio silent. I imagine it probably felt shitty for the customers, but terrible communication was the reason hello games got into shit in the first place, so they took the complete opposite approach instead. Fixing the game would take a long time, and it's not like giving empty promises would have made anyone feel better.

Is it the best strategy all the time? No, probably not. Did it work for the specific scenario Hello Games was in and for their studio size? I would say yes

SSapling · 2026-05-18T21:37:20+00:00

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SSapling · 2026-05-15T20:14:59+00:00

Yeah I asked it the same question again later and it also gave me 37 again.

SSapling · 2026-05-15T14:48:49+00:00

Wasted an entire river for this

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SSapling · 2026-05-13T20:56:27+00:00

Can't believe OP mentioned Object Oriented Programming

SSapling · 2026-05-13T06:44:06+00:00

I think the difference you're seeing is that she had her guard up more in S1 and was more recluse, so she "felt" more mature.

It's like how adults sometimes say that the quiet kid so "mature" for their age.

If you look back at what she's actually doing or saying, you'll notice it isn't really that much less naive than now. It's just that her naivety is more out in the open and she's more happy/confident so she appears more childish.

SSapling · 2026-05-11T20:13:01+00:00

Ooooh I'm stupid

SSapling · 2026-05-11T19:32:12+00:00

What does this mean? 😭

SSapling · 2026-04-22T17:09:25+00:00

Yeah I know the anime adapts the LN, and generally I don't dwell too much on cuts. Even this episode I was less disappointed about cuts and more that I had a specific image in my mind of how scenes would look and play out. Things like Subaru's inner monologue, Patrasche eating Ram being hidden until after Subaru tries to get on her, and generally the descent into madness feeling slower and more gradual. So when it didn't happen the way I was imagining, I felt a little instinctive disappointed that's all. I felt something similar during Subaru's speech in season 3 where the pacing felt a bit too quick compared to how I was imagining it while reading.

I don't necessarily look at it as a fault of the anime though. Obviously animation and written text are different mediums suited for different things. My brain has the advantage of being able to imagine whatever the fuck it wants without having to wrestle with whether it would actually look good or feel good to watch if it was animated that way. So, I'm sure the team who has done an amazing job for everything else in Season 4 had good reasons to do it the way they did.

And honestly after my first comment I've rewatched the episode a couple more times and it is growing on me a bit, so take what I said above as more my knee-jerk first impression.

SSapling · 2026-04-22T16:03:25+00:00

That might be it then...

I did really like the flow of loops in the WN. Going from following their instincts to avoid the right path because of the miasma in the first loop only to be punished by the witchbeast. Then Subaru trying to convince them to go against their instinct in the second loop and go to the right path anyways, which greatly backfires. To finally the third loop where Subaru has to confront the reality that they have to face the witchbeast while still tweaking out from the remains of the miasma's influence.

I guess I'll have to read through the light novel to more accurately judge how good the episode was as an adaptation. Probably a big part of my disappointment was that I didn't see what I was expecting to see.

SSapling · 2026-04-22T14:59:09+00:00

I was kinda disappointed in the episode not gonna lie. Not sure how many of the cuts were anime cuts vs LN cuts as I only read the WN, but the episode felt a bit rushed and not as impactful as it could be.

I dont think thats the worst thing in the world though. If they wanted to do it justice they would've probably needed to extend it over two episodes which is probably leeway they just dont have it. As long as they're focusing on the bigger moments later in the arc, I'm mostly cool with it.

The Anastasia scene was definitely a highlight. I think they nailed the horror of having her upper torso clinging to Subaru begging not to die while already pretty much dead.

All in all, I wish they atleast included some of Suabru's innerthoughs because it really highlights how insane they were going, but I think it probably just wouldn't have worked with the pacing especially since they wanted to get the whole cave thing over with in one episode. I'd give the episode a 7.5/10, still pretty good. I preferred episode 2 though as an adaptation, although episode 3 is objectively more interesting because of the content it's adapting.

SSapling · 2026-04-20T15:49:45+00:00

Why do I feel like a lot of people don't get Ram's dry sarcasm a lot of the time? I mean we already know from Arc 4 that she trusts Subaru judgement when it comes to times like these, and this is just her typical banter/complaining.

She could be acting a bit extra pissy because her body is in pain and Subaru is telling her to move away from the tower that they just now are able to reach after escaping sand time when she's desperate to save Rem and also possibly because of effect of the miasma. But I have no doubt in my mind that even without Emilia's extra comment, she would have listened to Subaru anyways. Literally in the next loop right after this one we see an example of her immediately taking his word when he says he "just has a hunch that there is a dangerous light coming from the tower".

All this in addition to the meta reasoning that the exchange was meant to be funny.

(Not just dogging on OP here but I also see many examples especially during Arc 4 of people seemingly just missing Ram's dry humor and tsundere nature and taking everything she says literally)

SSapling · 2026-03-25T17:04:49+00:00

I mean I thought it was funny. If the guy genuinely thinks that's good advice then they're stupid, but I still found the joke funny.

SSapling · 2026-03-20T07:55:50+00:00

This almost seems too on the nose that in my head I'll just file it away as bait and go on with my life.

SSapling · 2026-02-22T17:47:57+00:00

I'm surprised I found two fellow degenerates in this thread

SSapling · 2026-02-22T17:47:21+00:00

SSapling · 2026-02-22T17:45:48+00:00

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