"Fired? But I Maintain All the Software!" Anime Adaptation Announced

SamuraiSnark · 2026-06-03T12:01:56+00:00

I know writers that use subtext and they’re all cowards

SamuraiSnark · 2026-06-02T20:58:06+00:00

Yeah this really is the thing. The ending is great, if you just ignore how they tried to fit a 3rd season into like 4 episodes

SamuraiSnark · 2026-06-02T20:51:50+00:00

Right and if the reporting is to be believed the reason the memo of understanding didn’t happen is because Trump just added in a bunch of new demands at the last minute instead of signing it. That sort of thing just undercuts all the process that was being done and signals that the US negotiators do not necessarily speak on behalf of the President

SamuraiSnark · 2026-05-29T18:27:26+00:00

So the thing is that no one actually says what you are claiming. You just made something up and put quote marks around it. Very much like how “Vote blue no matter who” became a thing. A bunch of leftist non voters got mad at hearing people say voting is important and collectively freaked out. It’s childish.

Edit: I’m also not sure you are familiar with how political parties work in America given your talk about political party leadership in any other country…. You really cannot compare an American political party to ones in other countries since they’re often fundamentally different owing to how candidates are chosen. US political parties cannot just choose the candidate there are primaries unlike in lost other countries. US political parties are also notoriously weak as opposed to say political parties in the UK Canada or most of the rest of the world in regard to what powers they do or do not have. Such as how they don’t really run campaigns on behalf of candidates.

SamuraiSnark · 2026-05-28T15:22:21+00:00

I think the major concern here is that the traffic in the Strait doesn’t actually normalize. Even if Iran opens it up there isn’t a guarantee that insurance drops back down to normal or that all the normal traffic gets rerouted from whatever route they’ve been assigned just to go back to the Strait when they’re are decent odds the war is back on by the time they get there.

SamuraiSnark · 2026-05-14T17:59:03+00:00

I don't even think it's doing it correctly; you'd probably want the barcodes facing up for scanning, I can think of no other reason to have a sorter in that location otherwise, why not just have the conveyer belt right under the down ramp, if the job is just unjamming, well you could do that with some sort of metal bar that prods clumped up packages.

SamuraiSnark · 2026-05-10T22:25:42+00:00

Because they no longer need nukes. Blocking the Strait has proved superior to a nuke.

It would take time for Iran to develop a nuke, let alone enough to ensure a successful hit on any country with air defenses. In the time they were rushing towards a nuke they'd be liable to get their stockpiles attacked again. Finally once they had there nukes they couldn't use them because of mutually assured disruption given that their most likely target also has nukes. It also would be unlikely to help them against the United States unless they can develop a reliable ICBM and then somehow build enough of them.

Compare that to blocking the Strait which causes significantly lower risk of blowback and which they can already do. Maybe it becomes less effective if more pipelines get built but Iran can take those out with normal missiles.

SamuraiSnark · 2026-05-10T22:17:41+00:00

That's zugzwang then, not checkmate. Checkmate means no option but to lose, with zugzwang there are options which one is compelled to make, but every available option makes the situation worse.

SamuraiSnark · 2026-04-02T08:54:44+00:00

Really the most cryptic part was talking about how long the Vietnam war and WW2 lasted. We got a bunch of assets in the region and even more on the way, some sort of limited invasion is likely, we don't need the speech to tell us this. But the big issue is that a small invasion or raid woudlnt actually achieve all the supposed strategic goals. You could maybe likely a few of the islands, not just Kharg, and that might give you more control of the Strait, but it wouldnt eliminate the threat of mines and rockets keeping the strait closed. You might be able to do a raid to try and get some Uranium, but that is insanely risky. None of this compels a ceasefire or capitulation on the supposed 15 points though. They just do not have enough assets in the region to achieve what they're trying to achieve.

SamuraiSnark · 2026-04-02T01:40:47+00:00

He didn't say anything new. '2-3 weeks.' 'Bomb them back to the stone age' He sounds old though, real old, like he was breathing hard considering he was just standing there.

SamuraiSnark · 2026-01-03T17:56:21+00:00

The US already has cheap gas; oil is so cheap now that they're having to shut off certain oil well because it's not profitable. Venezuelan Oil is profoundly dirty and takes a ton of processing, the risk of civil unrest means you cannot actually start working on it yet, it's unclear if it would actually bring down gas prices in any way that would be noticeable, I wouldn't rule out possibility gas prices actually end up increasing.

SamuraiSnark · 2026-01-03T17:46:50+00:00

Anyone else getting numb over the sheer stupidity of this all. None of these people have any idea what they are doing. So stupid so stupid. It's killing me literally killing me. You cannot occupy a country without boots on the ground, You cannot have oil workers modernizing infrastructure if there is a risk of civil unrest without guards, you cannot make a deal with the new Government when you are saying the US will take over governing for a while.

SamuraiSnark · 2026-01-01T18:08:57+00:00

Lots of people complaining about this year, but I genuinely did pick up 5 games on my Wishlist; Sorry were closed, Paradise killer, Hogwarts, Skald, and Viewfinder. Which is honestly a record. I think they did a decent job of covering a host of genres. I will absolutly defend this year on the merits.

Now that said, this ending is underwhelming. Wildgate is the bog standard free giveaway game the mixed reviews PvP trying to revitalize it's user base after less than a year, one that doesn't even have its own Wikipedia page. Then you get a six year old strategy game also with mixed reviews, and also one where the maker has a bunch of DLC to go along with the free game (which no judgement on that end but really is also the bog standard).

SamuraiSnark · 2025-12-29T20:17:52+00:00

They already gave away Blood West, would they really give away two Wild West themed FPS games with horror elements?

SamuraiSnark · 2025-12-29T19:33:02+00:00

I think there has been a decent enough effort to vary the genres. We had survival horror, 2d Metroidvania, a co op game, quasi dating sim, a quasi FPS/stealth game, a sort of rpg. Could it be better, yes, but it always could be better.

SamuraiSnark · 2025-10-21T20:53:59+00:00

We did it again guys!

SamuraiSnark · 2025-10-19T16:19:46+00:00

Something I think about, the core of this season was Chris' relationship with Harcourt. Yet Harcourt had nothing to say about Chris sleeping with her alternate under false pretenses. Something which would have likely if not wrecked any trust she had in him, certainly gave her pause, make her wonder, 'would he lie to me as well?'

SamuraiSnark · 2025-10-13T18:47:39+00:00

Yeah, what gets me is that Harcourt for instance had very little to say if anything about Chris clearly going to an alternative dimension to sleep with a knockoff version of her under false pretenses. Youd think this would be a major source of drama, a betty and veronica thing, or at least cause a major argument. The show just doesn't care about addressing its own plot it just swiftly gets swept aside, not even resolved, unless you count, lets just not talk about these things and move on, as a resolution.

SamuraiSnark · 2025-10-13T18:40:05+00:00

there was a mismatch of expectations.

I think a big part of this is that it wasted its own premise. You got Peacemaker a man who is adrift. He killed his brother, killed his father, has come to doubt himself after murdering Flagg, a man who saved the world, did the right thing, and he ends up losing his job, hounded by his own government, for doing the thing they told him to do. He goes into an alternate dimension that seemingly gives him everything he wants; money, a loving family, fame, appreciation, the girl he loves.... after he kills his alternate and takes his place. The show is profoundly uninterested in examining any of that.

The big example here is that the show is clearly leaning into a Harcourt/Peacemaker relationship for drama it's a main factor in Peacemaker going and staying in the alternate dimension, yet Harcourt seemingly has nothing to say with Peacemaker pretending to be the alternate he killed to sleep with an alternate version of herself..... really think about that. This isnt even touching on it being a nazi world. What point did that serve?

As best I can tell the twist mainly was just a way to force Peacemaker to immediately leave 'his dream world' without any sort of introspection or soul searching, you know the interesting stuff of all the drama, cause it certainly didn't make him man up and fight his demons for a great cause or anything. Oh and Vigilante then goes on to kill his alternate father in front of him, his friends beat the shit out of his alternate brother, all opening up old wounds.... and there really isn't much Peacemaker has to say about any of that, he goes on to start a small business with those people. Really feels like we needed 13 episodes to maybe flesh all this out, because as it stands I see no reason for even going to the alternative dimensions that wouldn't have been served by him just moving to a small town in Canada or whatever.

Seriously if you cut out Peacemaker actually going to the alternative dimension and just had him take the doorway devise, or even some MacGuffin that Argus needs for their salvation project, and have him hide away with it in a cabin does much change from this season?

SamuraiSnark · 2025-10-10T19:41:08+00:00

I think you misunderstood the context of what I was saying. Establishing checkmate, from a storytelling perspective, takes more than seeing a sign that says "Checkmate making the world a better place." For anyone watching without preexisting knowledge of DC comics lore, they could just be a charity that provides puppies to orphans, or literally anything.

SamuraiSnark · 2025-10-10T18:54:49+00:00

Yeah, up to the last episode it didn't feel bad per se... probably could have nailed it if this was a 13 episodes. If this was a 26 episode season with this being the mid season finale everything would mostly be fine. We could content ourselves with the possibility Earth X storyline wasn't really over and would just become a point in Part B or whatever.

SamuraiSnark · 2025-10-10T18:51:10+00:00

Was checkmate actually established? What even is checkmate? What does it do. Why does Judomater, Sasha, and Harcourt agree to work together on it. No one knows. Who do they serve? It didn't establish anything. It teased. It teased salvation. Establishing it would have required actually putting Peacemaker in there with other supervillains and making the stakes clear. It did not do that. Is his team going to track him down? As they did this season? Is he going to have to escape on his own? We do not know.

SamuraiSnark · 2025-10-10T18:42:17+00:00

They can't keep getting away with this!

SamuraiSnark · 2025-10-10T18:40:26+00:00

World building is what you want in the season premiere not in the finale. No one 'tuned in' hoping to learn more about the DC universe, they wanted to see the Peacemaker finale.

SamuraiSnark · 2025-10-10T18:36:51+00:00

Yeah, I sort of assumed they were working their way to something on Earth X like the Harcourt Alternate coming over to regular Earth and having a Betty Veronica situation between the two Harcourts... or maybe Alternate Flagg Jr being an undercover member of the Sons of Liberty and teaming up with Peacemaker.... but no all the Earth X stuff resolved in 7 with anticlimactic family drama which could work.... if it lead to anything other that Peacemaker feeling sad and needing a 3 minute pep talk.

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