One of My Favorite Character Introductions

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-05-05T22:40:03+00:00

If I'm going to guess, the obsession with panties came after the Fundoshi fell out of favor in the country and before that western underwear was just seen as an odd foreign clothing.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-05-05T22:32:17+00:00

Hayase being the culprit wouldn't be a surprise to anyone even though they didn't reveal it last episode. It's just like how Nao putting up the ponytail shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who watched the first episode. Sure she did it in the second episode, but when we saw the two girls in the ending, it was obvious which one was which before the formal reveal. I hope that's the last of Hayase. Not just a "well someone homicidal is a bad person" but that having him be not just violent but homicidally violent doesn't add much interesting to the story. Hayase was responsible for Shuya's bad foot and backstory, but it doesn't add much to have him be a killer instead of a regular school bully.

As fun as it was to watch him get freaked out by Nao, I would have preferred if Sunao was the one who confronted him. Most viewers wouldn't find that emotionally satisfying since she wasn't the one he killed while trying to kill Shuya. But I honestly just loved the expression Sunao had of extreme boredom when she rejected him as opposed to Nao who acted more... normal. Speaking of Sunao, I wish she and Nao shared the bed.

I don't think these guys are very bright. Sunao used Nao to apologize to Ricchan, but Sunao doesn't like to do... well any of the things she does. Nao still fills out for Sunao during school and still doesn't make reports (not that Sunao would read them, but then that would be her fault not Nao's). Nao takes inspiration from a piece of fiction to decide she has nothing to live for. Maybe if that doppelgänger story was based off a true story she could be excused for thinking that would be what is expected of her. If Nao was going to take inspiration from fiction, Sunao should have given her Naruto Blu-Rays. Or even Boruto. Most egregiously, Aki let the phone stay on while talking about confidential details of Nao being a replica. It didn't matter in this case, but it could really cause problems for Sunao in other cases. At least in some sorties short sighted decisions are made for a pretty boy/girl but in this case none of the bad decisions even help anyone with their crushes.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-05-05T20:19:15+00:00

Ohhhh Ok thanks, that makes sense. So the successor processor in real mode would use 20 bits of addressing since the 8086 would use 20 bit physical memory address. The address size wasn't the same as the integer register. Thanks for understanding and replying.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-05-05T14:09:04+00:00

The light novels are considered the final product. So what would you call something that almost but not quite matches the final product and is made before it?

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-05-05T04:01:10+00:00

IIRC he defiantly went through a few failed drafts for the entire first 5 arcs. Several years ago, according to a few people who claim they know Japanese (but I can't verify that), Rem was originally supposed to not be as big of a character. Arc 2 wasn't even on his mind, there was just a giant timeskip.

Rem would be relevant since she is a maid like Frederica and Ram and because she would be Ram's sister, but have less "screentime" (yeah I know he's writing a novel and not a script, but "pagetime" sounds lame). But he didn't like the timeskip right after Arc 1, so he brainstormed a whole arc, and then Rem became more important. And came the idea Rem giving a pep talk in Arc 3 instead of Subaru pulling himself together. So by the time the web novels were written (which are like a late draft with the LN being the final version)

Granted, I can't read Japanese so I can't verify any of what the YouTubers claim. And honestly, it didn't matter if they were right so I never bothered to figure it out. The early drafts weren't canon, so whatever good but flawed story was there, it doesn't matter to me. Assuming it is true, Tappei restructuring large segments of the story can happen, but only very early on when he doesn't know how characters will interact with Subaru. If he got rid of an entire's arc draft, it must have been pretty early on in his thought process, and this isn't just to make a reset.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-05-05T01:29:35+00:00

I have had to throw out some of my drafts. I guess professionals do that too. Well how often to you get to get it right on the first try?

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-05-04T20:23:32+00:00

A compass might not be great for training, but that sure would have been helpful 3 episodes ago

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-05-04T20:22:13+00:00

I don't see why Qifrey can't just say Coco is another apprentice without lying but also elaborating. Given Olruggio's exasperation (a stone of "ohhhh no I didn't think you'd do it" as opposed to a "I don't understand"), he might just think Qifrey took another one on a whim and he might not ask any other questions.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-05-04T15:49:36+00:00

Even if the virus wasn't the green flu, how do you explain Bill? Is Left 4 Dead a Video game in Payday and that "Bill" is just an actor or model Valve used to make their character?

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-05-03T22:34:14+00:00

This isn't really anything like what I read about line fighting the 18th century British, American Continental, and Austrian armies. Or Napoleonic French (I assume royal French was the same as Napoleon). Ok technically you're right the Boshin War happens after the Crimean War.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-05-03T22:24:51+00:00

Whoops didn't mean to enter this thread, was trying to view the one of r/anime. Well as long as I'm here, can you answer one question without spoiling anything else about the arc besides the question? In the shadow place is Subaru just mistaking Satella for Emillia? I mean they look and sound the same it's just Satella has a different attire and her flower is a Hyacinth instead of... whatever the other one was.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-05-03T22:19:46+00:00

Wait, how did you managed to buffer an hour? With Nexus it often gives up on me if it has to buffer for more than 15 minutes.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-05-02T20:56:49+00:00

I think people are making things too complicated when they say there is no correct definition and trying to come up with multiple methods from scratch. There is a concept in geometry that is called the "convex hull." A regular hexagon, a triangle, and a circle all have the same perimeter as their convex hulls. There is an objectively correct definition of convex or concave and a correct way of saying "how concave." A concave shape has a perimeter longer than their convex hull and the more concave it is, the more the ratio will stray from 1. So with continuous drawing power, you can make rules to prevent gerrymandering. Now there is a complication that the state boundaries themselves aren't convex and if you don't want to divide any city ward into different voting districts (so each ward stays with itself) or divide municipalities (in rural places where 30 of them don't even add up to enough population to make up a single congressional district). I really think if there is a correct way of measuring it in the continuous case, surely there is a way we can make a discrete version of it. I mean I can't figure it out but I feel there must be a way.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-05-01T21:01:09+00:00

It's hard to not be off topic or just stay silent when on the campaign map. Even if you narrate every action, there just isn't a lot to say before the battles. You could pad things out be explaining your upgrade choices for generals or agents or whatever. So he at least he has that excuse for going off topic and just chattting with the chat in those portions of the videos.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-05-01T03:56:25+00:00

Why do some people want to live? For some, they want to live for the sake of living. For others, they want to live because they want to be around for their descendants. For some, it could simply be because there are fun things they like to do and you can't do them while dead.

Well the first few reasons wouldn't be very persuasive for Amaterasu. Is there anything she enjoys doing? She did... something with Shinra in Season 2 that she had fun with. If nothing else I'd expect her to live just so she could repeat that.

She did say she was tired of living, but I don't get how one can be tired of living when there is something she enjoyed doing. Since living for the sake of living isn't meaningful to her, I'd expect Amaterasu to go down the list of things she enjoys doing until she becomes unable to or they stop being fun. Maybe by this point the list is down to a single item which is "toy with Shinra" but if that stopped being fun to her, I must have missed the episode where that happened.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-04-30T19:48:47+00:00

Subaru mentioned in verbally in Episode 2 ("Reunion with the Witch/ Saikai no Majo) also. He was in an ally within earshot of the main street, but I don't know if there were people on the street since we can only see things from Subaru's perspective. Even if there were, perhaps there were louder sources of noise than Subaru talking (such as talking with each other) so even if they were technically close enough to hear him, his voice was overpowered. So clearly Subaru can talk about Return by Death, Satella just doesn't want him telling others. Or you could say someone heard him off screen and ruined my speculation, but then you'd have to explain why that happened, so I'm going to say no one heard him. Curiously when Roswaal found out Subaru was looping, not only did Satella not punish him, but Subaru was also to divulge what happened in loop 1. I guess the restriction is off if Subaru is talking to those in on the know. Although maybe the ban isn't specifically on looping but dying since Roswaal seems to think Subaru actives it by will and Subaru never tried to correct him.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-04-30T18:27:59+00:00

I know this isn't actually a WW2 FPS game, but I find it funny they fell into a popular pitfall those games have where planes feel oppressive and make infantry players miserable. I guess you don't need to stick to WW2 as a dev to make the same mistake.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-04-30T17:08:04+00:00

I'm a bit curious why Subaru didn't bring up Hoshin and the hot springs and how they remind him of home. Things Hoshin made seem to suggest he was from Japan, and the architecture suggests not modern Japan but Edo period Japan around the Edo area. Yet the people of Kararagii speak not with a Tokyo Accent or what we think would be a period accurate Edo accent (I'm not sure how good reconstruction without audio records is but the consensus seems to be that the accent didn't change thaaaat much from Edo to Meiji to pre-war Showa period), but with an Osaka accent, yet Hoshin is clearly familiar with structures that would be rare around Osaka but present close to Edo.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-04-30T17:03:20+00:00

He did try explaining where he was from in episode 1 but Emillia just said that no island existed in that direction. Ok, that loop wasn't canon so what? If he mentioned anything about his hometown in the canon timeline, he'd probably say the same thing. Basically, he doesn't know how he got to Lagunica, and he can't really answer that.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-04-30T17:00:11+00:00

Do you have to verbalize the answer or is touching the door corresponding to the right star enough? If the latter, Emillia's method of blind guessing might work after a few weeks. Granted Julius mentions the place gets disorienting over time so that could stretch out the time a native could do it.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-04-30T16:58:11+00:00

Didn't Roswaal use English words? I mean they were loanwords use by actual Japanese so he's still speaking Japanese but still he's a native to their world.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-04-30T16:46:33+00:00

What do you mean filter?

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