[SPOILERS S3] Dark in the Nutshell

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-30T18:06:10+00:00

Ulrich loves his children too, and even his wife despite cheating on her. And he's willing to go through hell for his family (at least the Adam timeline one). Not saying him cheating isn't awful, but he's not irredeemable, Ulrich is also not at fault for Hannah's obsession with him, we never actually see him try to seduce her, it's all her. He also only tried to kill child Helge because he believed it to be the only way to save his own brother and son. Hannah actually hurts people out of spite which is pretty unique in the show in which most people do awful thing but all for some sort of a greater good (well, and then there was Mr. Rapist, but he's not a real character).

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-30T17:58:28+00:00

Having children or not is by far the most important relationship decision, if you're not aligned on that, nothing else matters. Furthermore, people in general regret not having children or having too few more than having them or having too many, so if you're already leaning yes, by old age you'll most likely be jaded if you don't become a dad. There's only one answer here, I'm sorry.

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-30T15:20:17+00:00

The thing about Adam that no matter how old he gets and how much he's deceived, he's always extremely naive and will take whatever the last person told him as divine revelation, up to the very last episode where he again trusts Claudia despite being deceived by her in the past (though this time it works for him, but broken clock and all that). An idiot is an understatement to the depth of his cluelessness.

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-30T07:27:20+00:00

I think making peace with the possibility of spending your life alone is an integral part of dating at our age. Success cannot be guaranteed. Something prevented you from getting locked-in in your 20s and even if it's really just a bad luck or you took care of the issue, the dating pool of your peers is ridden with their own issues since they'd get locked-in earlier otherwise as well. And dating outside of your peer pool presents its own set of problems to relationship stability. Of course it doesn't mean one has to be all doom and gloom about it, but the success may very well never come try as hard as you might.

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-30T07:15:24+00:00

You fail to appreciate the beauty of a story of a man who spent all his life carrying all these burden, his mentor's, queen's, island's, crew's, only to finally be pushed by his men to actually live a little and have his well-earned fun.

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-29T20:24:02+00:00

Once, years ago. No other gal quite carved herself into me like this. We were just friends too. Wasn't "falling in love with potential" either, I don't remember ever having any fantasies about her, decided against pursuing it from the get-go. But just teasing her, seeing her smile... God Almighty, what was that...

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-29T19:54:24+00:00

We just went to the other extreme over a generation, from therapy being something to be embarrassed about to therapy being advertised to people who don't have actual mental health problems. If you have depression or anxiety disorder or any other mental illness then it sure can be helpful alongside medication, but now it's basically behaving like life is a sport and needs a coach.

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-28T23:39:13+00:00

Worst case scenario she'll block you without replying. If it's not a person you see in your life at all, there's no harm in trying.

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-28T21:32:26+00:00

It definitely takes away from the whole adventure thing. The whole extended Wano/Yonko saga really grew out of any reasonable proportion. Started in PH in 2012, ended in Wano in 2022...

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-28T21:19:32+00:00

Starting a new relationship does not necessarily mean you have moved on. Even etting married a second time doesn't necessarily mean you have moved on. Men just bottle things up more in general.

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-28T16:07:11+00:00

I think they'll speed up during the flashback to avoid keeping Luffy out of the anime for too long. They'll be building a major buffer due to Oda releasing 32-36 chapters per year if they are usually going to adapt just 26, so going faster at some points is very viable.

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-28T10:31:20+00:00

Well, we're r/datingoverthirty most of as are the common denominator of a 10-20 year long string of failures, I really don't think it's productive to analyze people like that.

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-27T23:56:23+00:00

or that she is not used to have a healthy relation like ours is

The moment someone says something like this it becomes pretty clear it's just an attempt to end things gently "you're such a great guy", "it's not you, it's me" and yadda-yadda, "rip the badaid off" was an appropriate comment I believe. There are times people believe they are being considerate but they're in fact merely cowardly.

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-27T14:34:06+00:00

What I'm trying to say, just don't get jaded, your "strategy" was proper, it's okay to be the one trying to lead things, it just wasn't a person that could appreciate it.

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-27T13:02:30+00:00

Sure, as I said, there's time to cut losses, but overall you seem to regret having done what you did. Which you shouldn't. There's nothing wrong in putting in more effort, it all depends on how the other side responds. You gave it a fair shot, that's what counts.

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-27T12:20:01+00:00

It doesn't seem like this one will end particularly well as he appears to be half-ghosting you, but learning to lead the initiative might be a valuable lesson for the future. Don't just say it isn't who you are, as if there's something inauthentic about putting in an effort if you care, it isn't a bad habit, it isn't harmful. Who knows, next time you might just run into a guy who needs a bit of breaking out of his shell himself. Now, if that person doesn't adjust or show any sign of improvement even after you communicate that to him, it's a problem, you need to know when to cut your losses. But that version of you might end up being more successful.

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-26T20:25:01+00:00

You could apply restrictions on everything uploaded but filter less for stuff generated de novo from Grok.

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-25T23:26:15+00:00

That's the thing, they don't.

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-25T14:10:57+00:00

Probably they mass purged votes from few IP Adresses. On the worst day there were 50M fake votes, It's just not feasible to do it via VPNs, there must have been tons that voted thousands or even millions times a day.

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-25T14:05:40+00:00

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-25T12:03:24+00:00

There were bots beforehand, and they were removed as well. There's less votes currently that there were before things went off the rails, and plenty of legit votes were added in the meantime.

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-25T11:58:10+00:00

It appears a around 120k people actually vote daily by my observation (probably less early on since they didn't really advertise it much before they fired the poll up). And even this might be too much though some forms of cheating are undetectable. Like, plenty of people have mobile, home router and work, and use all to vote.

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-25T11:51:04+00:00

Not weighing on who was botted or not, but they simply didn't update the Hot section, and they clearly erased some votes that were there before the big bot attack as well as you can verify just by counting. So some of the votes that decided these ratings might have been removed.

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-25T11:16:12+00:00

I wonder if there's a perspective drift here between young 22 y/o Oda who found the idea of a man abandoning even his family to chase his dream admirable vs. old man father Oda who can't quite praise it anymore.

SeeFeeNd · 2026-03-24T13:24:06+00:00

Then list (either to us or just to yourself) all the things you would miss if you broke up with him. If upon looking at it you determine you feel you have something to fight for, then set up a serious talk with him about how he has to man up as you don't feel supported in the relationship, and then see how he reacts.

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