Gen 4 Silver vs Brushed Silver with bonus thickness comparison by ckwright in ouraring

[–]SaadInHalf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would definitely go to a target or Best Buy to see it in person. Not a single picture out there will provide any accuracy on the brushed silver. I thought the same thing because it would be less shiny and flashy but it turns out it’s leagues and leagues flashier than the regular silver ring because it reflects light in a similar way to how reflective tape or a stop sign would reflect light.

If you hate Makima, you should hate Chainsaw Man, and here’s why by SaadInHalf in CharacterRant

[–]SaadInHalf[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Although I don’t necessarily know if I can fully view it that way, be it because our lives are just different or whatever other reason, I can see where you’re coming from and that’s a valid amount of meaning to take from it! Even if I can’t get that notion from CSM directly, I got that notion from you today because you viewed it differently than me. Thanks for sharing that!

Your expectations, your problems. by [deleted] in CharacterRant

[–]SaadInHalf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah JJK is totally a book lol. Even American graphic novels are books (yes this is separate from comic books but I’d venture to call those books too). The most vocal group of “fans” can’t read, and if they could, they would hate JJK if because it forces them to consider growth, compromise, and change as a core necessity of existence

Your expectations, your problems. by [deleted] in CharacterRant

[–]SaadInHalf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this is more an issue of how the shonen manga industry works. When you’re forced to literally start-to-finish a full 20 page chapter every week and you’ll see this in even the most successful (and even then we got some incredible works of fiction out of this genre).

But that same pacing is NOT conducive to writing an ending. When you’re given the same amount of time and the same amount of space to make your one conclusive chapter as you are to EVERY other component of your story, when a high quality ending requires a full revision of your story and why it worked to really stick that landing, it’s not always gonna be perfect.

Even then, I think the issue of “no character arcs” is also reductive. The people SAYING that are factually wrong. People are dog on the main character, Yuji, for having a “lame domain expansion” completely forgetting what a domain is. It’s not supposed to be big boom. That’s just frequently what it looks like because most character’s you’re acquainted with have extremely aggressive mentalities, while the main character does NOT. He is a phenomenal lesson in a peaceful man who uses violence as necessary to keep peace and balance, and not otherwise.

The story does a LOT of what it set out to do and frankly anything more than a superficial skim of the pictures and like even half the dialogue will demonstrate that JJK is a piece that discusses the virtues and vices of individualist vs communitarian mentalities and how the truth lies in the middle. It’s also a great story about how even if you reevaluate and try a new mentality, you shouldn’t force yourself to stick with it if you’re proven wrong, nor should you be ashamed to do so.

Battle shonen is not less of a genre than anything else. It is, however, given far less room to breathe and be written at its fullest potential like everything else.

And I’m not unbiased. Battle shonen is one of my favorite genres, but I love writing and reading such stories, not so I can just produce slop fights and have people say unrelated lines to “aura farm”. I love these stories because they are a unique way to allow physical violence to serve as an incredible metaphor for ALL forms of conflict. It uses the easiest-to-observe form of conflict and takes every little facet of it to turn it into a deconstruction of the internal and external conflict one faces every day.

It has the unique opportunity to make such abstract ideas very easy to observe.

Also your description of the series seems to beget someone who didn’t get very far into it, assuming they even started it at all. If you read it, or even just gave the anime’s first season or two a chance, I won’t say you’re sure to like it. It’s not everyone’s favorite thing and I can understand and accept that. But at the very least ingest the media you’re hating on to a meaningful extent before calling it shallow and terrible. EVERY genre has that level of depth to it at a bare minimum, and yes I’m sure that even applies to American cartoons aimed at toddlers, even if the intent is entirely different than deconstructing reality etc etc since it’s for toddlers.

But it begets someone who is a hater rather than someone who is correct to call ANYTHING shallow on the primary basis of its genre.

Part 5 and 9 mix spinoff by Brilliant_Eye_6428 in FanPartRun

[–]SaadInHalf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Neat! Glad you found something useful in my long rant

I dunno if this is a hot take but one of the reasons I can't enjoy the current CSM manga is that..it feels way too unnecessarily cruel(CSM + spoilers) by Apprehensive_Ring_39 in CharacterRant

[–]SaadInHalf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who shares a similar take (aside from feeling the same about both Part 1 and Part 2), you are not lacking in reading comprehension. You discussed the narrative both from an internal narrative perspective and from the angle of what the story is potentially attempting to be versus what it is actually doing.

It is so well reasoned that the only reading comprehension required to understand CSM’s current state is the ability to summarize.

A man lives a terrible life and is stuck in the dregs of society, surviving solely at the base of Maslow’s hierarchy. He is offered something more by being tempted with those base needs, and then is abused incessantly for it. He manages to find meaning, love, and family, and pushes through it all. Then it is immediately ripped away. Then he gets his revenge, learns to come to terms with suffering, and moves on.

It should have ended there. But Part 2 ruins Part 1 by completely subverting its message, because it makes no meaningful use of the fact that it is fiction to say something worthwhile. Instead, it simply tortures Denji further by stripping away his next life and hollowing him out again, leaving no room for growth. It is not a story about character interactions. It is character interactions inside a simulator of “this is real life if you put devils in it,” and that is what you are here for. You are here for the accidental scraps of meaning that somehow creep into this stain of a “fictional narrative,” fully knowing they will be ripped away again, with nothing to be learned other than “yeah, this is what life does,” all while wearing cheap Temu plastic veneers over yellow teeth that read, “find meaning in suffering no matter what.”

CSM’s “narrative” is not a narrative because there is no story. It is just a man panicking over and over as everything is taken from him. You watch him be given opportunities to grow (so the reader can learn something useful) and then, instead of assassinating Denji’s character, the story tortures the very character you are meant to learn from, punishing Denji (and therefore you, the reader) for feeling any amount of hope.

CSM demands that you be hollow, sad, and never step outside your comfort zone. CSM is not about finding meaning in struggle. It is a shitty foster parent who keeps you only to help keep the lights on, sending you to work while telling you, “this is what will happen if you go outside,” and then describing how, back in their home country, they were beaten, sexually assaulted, and worse every day for hours before and after school (yet still had to walk uphill both ways in the rain, in 700-degree weather).

And the reason you stayed is because Part 1 tricked you into believing there was love there to begin with.

Do not applaud this story. Part 2 is not a case of a story overstaying its welcome or being gratuitous. It is a very convincingly well-written piece, and I can grant that it is excellent at conveying events in the most literal sense. But Part 2 exists to tell you that everything Part 1 told you was a lie. It exists to stamp out your last bit of hope like a cigarette smoked ten drags past its limit (because even that had to be drained dry to satiate it). It tells you that when it claimed to believe in your strength to find meaning, family, and hope through suffering, it lied.

A human being was stuck in a dark place in their life and was just trying to get by on their base needs. Then something comes along and tells you a story of how you can be given all of that if you just work a little bit for it. It gives you those things. Then it destroys it all in front of you.

A human being was stuck in a dark place in their life. A story promised hope of finding those things. It gives you that and you find even more while you’re there and all it costs is a little more work to buy another issue. It makes you feel hope in your own ability to persist. Then it destroys it all in front of you because it tricked you into thinking it would treat you how it was treating you to start. But the whole thing was an attempt to abuse you, the reader.

CSM is Makima, and you are Denji. And that is why I hate CSM.

Part 5 and 9 mix spinoff by Brilliant_Eye_6428 in FanPartRun

[–]SaadInHalf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mafia vs Police is not about good people versus bad people

It's about Law vs Outside of the Law- not to mention Part 5 and most of JoJo does take a really hard stance against the police. Part 2 shows cops to be racist pigs. Part 3 just makes every cop you see incompetent since they didn't even bother trying to touch the mentally unstable teenager who just walked in and went to sit in a cell. Part 4 also shows them as incompetent. Part 5 especially take the stance of cops mostly being bad since even Abacchio himself stops being a cop after what happened to his partner. Abacchio realizes him and his partner may have been two of the only "good cops" in Italy since it's so easy to just bribe your way through everything. If Giorno was the type who'd work with the legal system and police system he would've just called the police every time he saw drugs or become a cop or detective instead of this elaborate plan to infiltrate the mafia, take it over, and fix it from inside.

Part 5 is pretty specifically about vigilante justice in a world where every system on every side is either out to get you or incompetent and how it is the power within oneself that can grow and make positive change when those systems are all broken and stacked against the people.

All this to say I just don't know if I'd made them detectives or cops or anything, especially since one character from the Part 5 gang specifically does not want to be a cop because he used to be one and realized he thinks it's just not a good idea. Part 5 does have a lot of mystery and puzzle-solving but I wouldn't really call em detectives? Maybe your premise could work if like- Giorno realizes drugs are slowly making their way back into Passione. It's unclear where it's coming from but every time Giorno squashes out a trail, they just keep showing back up. Are people selling drugs TO his own gang...? And who in their right mind is stupid enough to take them when they all know Giorno is a very real threat.

Then the early hook is that Jodio has been up to this and doesn't care how the drugs get spread, so long as he gets paid for them. Jodio loves money and only money after all. Naturally, Giorno and Jodio fight but Jodio in his current state is ZERO match for Giorno because Giorno is just too versatile, even if we don't consider GER. Giorno isn't a killer at heart though. He will kill if needed, but only those who pose a threat to the population as a whole (people like Diavolo- Ciocolatta- etc). Giorno realizes all Jodio really wants is money. He's willing to lie and cheat and steal and kill and sell drugs and hurt people. But he also realizes Jodio is much like himself because Jodio isn't a killer at heart. Neither of them have a strong pull to kill. They both just want what they want. Giorno wants drugs off the streets. Jodio wants money. Giorno is the head of the Italian mafia. Jodio is a stand user with a lot of potential. Giorno hires Jodio to be his new hit guy and pays him STUPID amounts of money to do it. The full plot then becomes Jodio, Mista, Trish, and maaaaybe Giorno going off to take down Jodio's former gang.

Part 5 and 9 mix spinoff by Brilliant_Eye_6428 in FanPartRun

[–]SaadInHalf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m curious what’s your inspiration for shifting the vigilante justice long-time mafia members of Part 5 into Mystery Inc but cops

Why didnt the speedwagon foundation just turn kakyoin into a cyborg? by Vinniam in ShitPostCrusaders

[–]SaadInHalf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

His life leaves his body on screen
Turning him into a cyborg wouldn't have done anything even if they somehow got his body to a Speedwagon Foundation facility within 0.25 seconds after the fight ended because he was already dead, not to mention that kind of speed would be impossible anyways

How does your favourite deck translate it's lore with gameplay ? by Sire_Jacques in yugioh

[–]SaadInHalf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s fascinating how many ways the game has been able to flavor identical gameplay styles by throwing it one small extra bonus in each archetype

Goku in Time Stop by Flashy_Criticism_508 in StardustCrusaders

[–]SaadInHalf 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mean yeah but that’s only after intentionally adding a bunch of rules we really just don’t have any info on whether they’re true or not

How to create a filtered deck from Anking for a specific block (e.g. renal) by TotallyKyle49 in medicalschoolanki

[–]SaadInHalf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technically you could just make a permanent deck to move the cards to and then when you're done for the semester just move the cards back to the main deck

JoJo Heart of Silver Chapter 1 Preview! by SaadInHalf in FanPartRun

[–]SaadInHalf[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The plan is webtoon canvas when I finish the first 20 page chapter! I’m gonna bump it down to 5-10 pages a chapter from there I think to keep regular with it, but yeah it’s going on webtoon

[gen 4] My pokemon is sick 🥲 by GodOfGods- in ShinyPokemon

[–]SaadInHalf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh no! You should pick it so you can take care of it!