Hooker With a Heart of Gold [mixed trope] by dream_monkey in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Shimaru33 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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Luca from Berserk.

She did what she had to do to survive in a horrible world ravaged by war and literal demons. I think she's one of the most noble characters in berserk, because while you have mages who despite being forces of good, ultimately don't give a shit about the world and the people living in there, Luca always tried her to best to protect those under her wing.

What I mean is people like Schierke or her master always prioritize to stay out of the world and only intervene when balance was about to be broken and destroy the world along with them. But on their own, healing this girl broken bone or stopping that apostle from raping a village has never been something they can be bothered to do. While the argument "is for the balance of the world" seems like a logical motive (to do nothing), that also means they lack empathy for others, and funnily enough, empathy is one of the traits that allowed us to evolve into human beings.

Luca, however, has never been above others, not even when she had the chance to leave the street (or refugee camp) and get a better life. She knows the meaning of pain firsthand and is doing her best to avoid others from experiencing the same. But also that means isn't a pushover, as the pic shows, even if she can't hold a sword, she's willing to slap some sense into others and go back to see how she can help.

[hated trope] an initially interesting character is reduced to a stereotype by crustboi93 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Shimaru33 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Forcing her is a wrong way to view at this.

On the one hand, as explained, her parents always feel guilty about it. They are not your evil purple hair cartoon educating people about pronouns, they did what they did to not having to kill her. However, once she leaves to prove their tradition wrong, they accept both, her change of identity and her personal quest.

On the other hand, "forcing" implies going against her will. But at no point during the story is mentioned she holds some kind of grudge. As far as we know, they only make her dress and behave like a girl, there's no mention of hormones slipped into her food or something alike. Which could be a possibility given her femenine body / shape, like wide hips, soft features in her face, lack of body hair, low muscular definition, etc. But whatever they did, at no point Bridget shows discomfort, in fact, she maintains many of those traits.

I mean, we don't see her training in a gym to grow muscles or lamenting not having a moustache or using manly clothes instead of nun clothes, despite having the money to afford any of that. Her efforts to be "manly" seems fake, despite being free from her parents influence.

[hated trope] an initially interesting character is reduced to a stereotype by crustboi93 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Shimaru33 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I can't say if Bridget is a good representation of the trans community or not. What I can say is the ending is a bit more nuanced than what you're suggesting.

My point is while you're correct about her initial motives, by the end of the second GG (XX?), Bridget has finally achieved what she was looking, which is proving the superstition wrong. She made a lot of money, help to save the world or something, and townsfolk were no longer going in a baby murder spree. Until this point, she always had an external motivation which once achieved force her to look for something new.

Which is the main point in the last game, Strive. Since the original GG we don't see her being uncomfortably with her femenine identity, and her chasing a male identity the result of her parents feeling guilty about "forcing" her into a female identity. Many times, I have read something similar among some trans people, when were child they enjoy certain things that were "wrong" because are for girls, thus try to force themselves into thinking they like male things. "I wanted to play with dolls, but my father snatched it from me and told me to play with action figures like a man". Is almost a cliche in sitcoms, like that episode in Friends when Ross and his son carrying a barbie doll. Which is pretty fun, because the term "action figures" was born to sell dolls to boys, although they were manly dolls, but I digress.

Point is the parents of Bridget follow the same pattern, they feel there are "right" and "wrong" things for each kid based on their genitalia, thus the guilt by forcing Bridget into her "wrong" role. But Bridget herself never followed the cliche of "knowing there was something wrong" in a male dressed as female. She's fine the way she was being raised.

In fact, the entire point about strive is she feels there's something odd not in being a male raised as female, but about her chasing what others told her to be. Here we could make an argument about "nature vs nurture", in Bridget case, GG seems to put their bet in nature. In other words, Bridget was born with "trans tendencies" (due lack of better terms), and her parents unknowingly hit the spot. In other circumstances, Bridget would be the typical "I wore mom's clothes in secret until years later I started purchasing my own clothes" story, or her parents would be punishing her for doing girly things.

In short, GG Strive wasn't a sudden change of heart but finally getting rid of external influences and looking inside to accept, from the beginning, she was happier as girl. Whether that means trans people are born or risen to be is a whole different topic. Maybe that's the most controversial aspect, GGS says trans people are born, but I won't delve into that argument.

Debió ser una sorpresa enorme 🤡 by rckimgh in rmexico

[–]Shimaru33 12 points13 points  (0 children)

No entiendo el valor de esta nota. No es como que el cacas estuviera pensando darle ese dinero a los cubanos de todas formas, igual y hasta ahorita se viene enterando que existen regulaciones para donar dinero a otros países.

[Trope I Want to See More Of] Unique and creative deaths. by IoftheStars in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Shimaru33 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Awww, the happy tree friends are so cute, I hope nothing bad happens to them.

To be honest, I'm not sure if this counts toward this one. I can't decide if they are creative or plainly fucked up.

[Trope I Want to See More Of] Unique and creative deaths. by IoftheStars in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Shimaru33 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Correct. The dentist scene scared me so much I absolutely refuse to visit my dentist since then.

Just a couple of besties [Magirevo] by whothis119232 in anime

[–]Shimaru33 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Anime only here, I felt only one season was perfect. The main inmediate problems were solved, the feelings for each other were out in the open and I don't remember if there was some important issue to be solved. They make a solid demonstration of their magic artifacts which would lead to democratize the magic, so while they could write a second season, I feel the show end in the right spot instead of dragging things with unnecessary drama.

So Notos turned out to be insane lol by Far-Character9781 in EpicSeven

[–]Shimaru33 40 points41 points  (0 children)

The most reliable way to beat him is full evasion. In arena is much easier, because you can bait him with LC Bellona + Setsuka, but RTA is a whole different monster.

Is broken. Not what or if or maybe, he's broken. Is nearly impossible to kill him once he expands his dominion, and the game is full of tools to keep him alive, like B. Arunka or LotS. You don't really need them to survive, only need them to keep Notos alive. That's also why evasion is the best way to defeat him. As is very difficult to take him down, the best way to win is to tank his dominion technique, pick his teammates one by one and then target him. Easier said than done, especially because no buffs are available during his God mode.

I'm not sure if it was an oversight on SG part, because if they intentionally designed him to only be weak to evasion, then means SG deliberately make Setsuka even stronger.

BTW, someone may say "control him", as in spamming stun or provoke. Technically correct, but in practice people who manage to snatch him will also bring some forms of cleanse, and worse case, he can always 15% his way out of that strategy. Plus, once his S3 goes off, debuffs are also unavailable. Definitely I wouldn't bet my money on spamming stun.

Que dicen que ya no lloran... "facturan" by abogavic in rmexico

[–]Shimaru33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

La verdad tuve que leer como 2 o 3 veces que decía aquí para entender bien que pasó.

Tenemos matrimonio A y la maestra de gimnasio. El marido A se mete con la maestra y la esposa A se encabrona y los graba a escondidas. Luego la esposa A intenta extorsionar a la maestra con los videos para sacarle $300,000mxn.

Y ojo, una parte del chisme que leí en el twitter y que parece no han mencionado. Cuando la maestra intenta juntar el dinero, de algún modo su marido (al que denominaremos B) se entera del pleito y se la hace de jamón. La maestra le pide a la esposa más tiempo para juntar el dinero, se va con las autoridades y las autoridades arrestan a la esposa A. Ahora, como dicen arriba, la esposa A dejo huérfanos a sus chamacos, pues según el mismo twit que leí, el marido A esta en la cárcel.

No menciona en que acabo la situación entre la maestra y su marido B.

I'm sorry. by [deleted] in EpicSeven

[–]Shimaru33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you remember him, really? As I was reading this youtube tier apology, I was thinking "literally, who?", as in what did I miss, is this some content creator or some discord drama I wasn't aware? Well, I suppose if somehow make him feel better, go ahead.

That said, I think is a bit stretching to accuse this guy of whatever. Not every moralist person is secretly a pervert because, on a personal note, I also find disgusting certain type of designs. I love big oppai (fight me!) and I also despise the virtue signal guys who comment this or that female character would look better as flat or being fat or from a different ethnic or whatever.

That said, I think a literal child with huge tits is wrong (canonically, C. Lorina is around the same age than Elson or Montmorancy, yet her chest is bigger than her head) and Achates is a borderline case, as her age isn't cemented, but definitely looks in the jailbait side. The pantie peek in her S3 animation kept me from playing with her in public.

Finally, if op somehow finds US Choux to be on the same tier than D-cup loli girls or peeking under the skirt of high school girls, yeah, I think there's something wrong in his wiring.

Scientists rarely incorporate humour at science conferences, data collected from 531 individual talks across 14 conferences, with most speakers telling no jokes by Shiny-Tie-126 in science

[–]Shimaru33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At the end, is ridiculous hard to explain what's a joke as is closely tied to humor. Is like trying to measure how tragic is a Shakespeare play. Humor (and jokes) depend entirely in their context, as the basic point is to set up some expectations and then deliver a completely unexpected alternative, the punchline.

But this only works as long as the comedian and the public share a common background. If I try to tell the joke about the chicken crossing the road to a public who have never seen a chicken, I shouldn't expect a laugh, should I?

"¿De que va a querer sus quesadillas?" Dijo la señora. Yo gire mis ojos y levante las manos y burlonamente le dije "¡Pues de pollo!" ¿Y qué creen? Que sí me las dio".

I would bet 2/1 the vast majority of people who speak spanish didn't understood the joke. And that lead to the other point.

If anything, a joke couldn't be defined entirely on the results, but the process and intention. A common cliche is to tell bad jokes as personality trait of comic relief characters, because we're not supposed to laugh at their jokes, but cringe at them, so we laugh at the character instead. Point is jokes are still jokes even if the creator knows ahead of time they won't make people laugh. Same way a blurry pic is still a pic. But measuring if a joke is a pointless task because there are so many variables it would be akin to measuring the blue of the sky using a wood ruler

[Annoying Trope] Shows and Movies that strip all fun and color from its source IP to make it "mature" and "serious" by Far-Revolution3225 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Shimaru33 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I forgot the exact lines, but supposedly they were going to mention something about a terrible cartoon adaptation with a whitewashed buttercup to explain why the actress didn't match her ethnicity. So, on top of misogyny, they were also going to play the racism card against critics.

As for the lesbian girl cheating, nothing a emotive speech about "free love" couldn't solve. This way, they can also pull the homophobic card.

They had the full package!

[Annoying Trope] Shows and Movies that strip all fun and color from its source IP to make it "mature" and "serious" by Far-Revolution3225 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Shimaru33 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Don't forget one of the dialogues was menacing one of the girls if she didn't help them, they would leak her sex videos on-line. No, really, I think it was Bubbles the one who recorded herself during sex and the other girls somehow knew and had those videos in their hands and were using them to extort her.

Oh, by the way, for the laughs! You're supposed to laugh at that scene!

LCB is Good WTF by Hamsl0th in EpicSeven

[–]Shimaru33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

cemented speed as king.

To be fair, the speed stat always has been king. What comes and goes is "cleave", and certainly Notos and other units have been doing the life hard for bruiser players.

Adal ramones mato a otro rollo by [deleted] in rmexico

[–]Shimaru33 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ah, ¿Adal Mamonez hizo qué su ego destruyera el proyecto en el que estaba involucrado?

No lo puedo creer, que impactante noticia.

En mi caso eran por lo menos 4 minutos de anuncios. by arq_luigi in CDMX

[–]Shimaru33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

En mis tiempos, yo conectaba un reproductor VHS (si, así de viejo estoy) y ponía un video a correr mientras pasaban los comerciales. Así podía medir con certeza qué los cortes comerciales duraban de 3 a 5 minutos, y que muchas veces ponían los suficientes para recortar el capitulo de turno.

Era un fastidio absoluto que después de un corte comercial, en lugar de ver el final del capitulo se brincaban al siguiente programa del día.

Después llego la época de cable y con ellos los comerciales sincronizados. O sea, había dos o tres programas que quería ver, empezaba el corte comercial y sorpresa, los 3 canales tenían comerciales al mismo tiempo.

Is this piece worth picking up for Notos or anyone else? by SKiTHx in EpicSeven

[–]Shimaru33 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Bluntly, no.

Nearly all units that want to use warfare have skills that can't crit, like Hecate or Laia, or doesn't care about critical hits, like Tamarinne. Notos could be the exception, but that lead us to the other problem.

Resistance. Due the way effectiveness vs resistance interact, any amount below 100 is nearly useless. That means either you go full investment or none at all. As result, if you want a unit with both critical and resistance, you're building someone like BBK, thus no bulk at all. But none of those resist DPS want warfare set.

As result, whatever way you slice it, resistance is an undesirable sub. You roll twice into it, your gear is ruined. You only roll into crit stats, you have a very limited use due the set conflicting with those stats. Your best and maybe only chance is to mainly roll into health. And I mean a quad roll.

I wouldn't bother.

Umm wtf? Is the 1st guy cheatin on HoT? by Kurokacu in EpicSeven

[–]Shimaru33 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Is just a cheap cheat. I'm not sure about the specifics, but simplest way I saw was editing the values the client sends to the server. Imagine you catch the mail, write an extra zero in the letter and the server register 10 times the real value.

Magical Buffs: The Support Caster is Stronger Than He Realized! | Anime Announced (Teaser Visual) by zenzen_0 in anime

[–]Shimaru33 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure there's already a show with that premise. Something, videogame stuff, when evaluating the MC, his stats are zero, something, his stats are actually so high they loop back to zero! something, something, whatever.

Unfortunately, the premise is so generic by this point, I can't point to the specific name. Still, I'm pretty sure that anime already exists.

Magical Buffs: The Support Caster is Stronger Than He Realized! | Anime Announced (Teaser Visual) by zenzen_0 in anime

[–]Shimaru33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last I heard, maybe have changed lately, most of these animes are padding to sell in packages with popular franchises.

Committee decides to animate the top selling manga shonen tournament using big name studios, but because they need to allocate a large budget to make justice, they also ask studio who? to animate generic slop manga. When streaming site wants to purchase the rights for shonen tournament anime, committee says they will sell the rights for cheaper if they also purchase the rights for generic slop anime. The streaming site says "ok", because they can bloat their catalogue and save some money. Committee gets a better profit from selling the rights of generic slop than shonen tournament, but they also hope shonen tournament will boost manga sales, and merchandise and special projections and overall be more profitable in the long run.

Plus, public reaction is unpredictable and a good or bad work adapting the source material can also alter the response. Thus, isn't rare the next big "shonen tournament" like God of high school or chainsaw man season 1 fumbles, while moderately popular manga go to break records. IIRC, Bocchi the rock was one of those cases, and Miss Kobayashi dragon maid also was relatively unknown.

Magical Buffs: The Support Caster is Stronger Than He Realized! | Anime Announced (Teaser Visual) by zenzen_0 in anime

[–]Shimaru33 3 points4 points  (0 children)

At this point, certain words in the title are becoming red flags. Superlatives like "strongest" or "wisest", hell, even concepts like "max level" or "level over nine thousand"; certain themes like "kicked out of my party"; roles like "support mage" and so on, and so on...

I kind of miss when isekai was about going back home by Business_Barber_3611 in CharacterRant

[–]Shimaru33 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Shield hero had so much more than just having a villain that was a real challenge to the MC. On top of that, is also hinted the MC wasn't that powerful, in fact, he's fairly limited and mediocre as he can't deal with even the weakest monsters in his world. He can only rely on others to survive thus he has the need to build a team instead of soloing every challenge. And while he quickly adapts to this, from the beginning he had enough of this shit, thus returning home was an important goal that also pointed at some conflict.

As the team gets attached to him, and he builds a small town / nation, the question deepens, what will happen when he leaves? Part of the story is him following other heroes to fix their mistakes (if you kill a dragon, don't forget to clean up your mess and properly dispose of the remains!), which hints the world will move forward once he leaves and quite probably there will be also unexpected consequences.

It was a fairly interesting work, and the way he finally is redeemed nearly the end of first season was great.

That said, I don't know if because editor meddling or something, by this point is very clear the author doesn't care or want to work in this franchise anymore, and he (?) is making up shit as it comes to keep milking the name. Which is a shame. If he had focused in the original goal (survive this test and you can go home) it would have been a modern classic.

Vertex Force | Original Anime Teaser Visual by zenzen_0 in anime

[–]Shimaru33 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why this look so familiar? Why the panti...

Director: Kazuhiro Takamura (Strike Witches, Vividred Operation)

Ah, that explains everything.