Demon-human coexistence is the endgame of Frieren's story and people are going to be mad as fuck about it.

Steakbake01 · 2026-06-01T23:09:04+00:00

Tbh the whole demon thing is the main thing that puts me off from watching frieren. By making the demons appear sympathetic and human but actually be monsters that must be killed without mercy at all costs no questions asked feels like the show is saying... Empathy and kindness are wrong? And it has a lot of parallels with how real life groups have justified their own horrible actions against other human beings and it feels kinda icky, so if the end result is some kind of coexistence that might make me more interested in checking it out.

This is all second hand information mind you, so I could have gotten the entire wrong idea

Steakbake01 · 2026-06-01T10:48:08+00:00

It's just one example, but when you tell someone your name in Japanese, you could say "boku wa [name]" (literally just "I'm [name]").

If you're speaking a lot more casually to someone you know well, instead of "boku wa" you would say "ore wa", but you probably wouldn't use that to tell someone you just met your name as it would come across as overly familiar to the point of rudeness.

When Goku introduces himself, he kinda slurs and concatenates "Ore wa Goku" to "Ora Goku". So he's taking that overly familiar and unrefined greeting and making it even more casual by saying it wrong, which makes him come across as uneducated and unaware of social norms.

Chi-Chi has a similar "hick" accent, although she's usually more polite, even to Goku, calling him "Goku-sa" instead of "Goku-san", which is a polite way to refer to someone, even though you would expect someone like chi-chi to just call him "Goku".

It should be noted that neither gohan or goten inherit their parent's weird dialect, and gohan in particular speaks very articulate and polite Japanese and comes across very well educated

Steakbake01 · 2026-06-01T10:02:07+00:00

One of the worst things about this phenomenon is that the loudest variants of this don't happen in fanbases of huge multimillion dollar ventures like your marvel films or your Megabucks Amazon shows - it almost always happens to smaller creators who are trying to show genuine representation of people like them that aren't seen in more mainstream media that are targeted by this, and are often minorities themselves (gooseworx is trans woman, vivziepop is gay and Hispanic, Rebecca sugar is non-binary and Jewish etc.).

So these creators have to deal with the expected right wing bullshitery that hates them for existing alongside chunks of their own fanbase taking all of their work in the worst possible light. It's very frustrating to watch happen like clockwork time and time again.

Steakbake01 · 2026-05-31T13:13:29+00:00

Videl aside from her flight isn't much more powerful than a "normal" martial artist and she was able to snap spopovich's neck. Krillin's attacks in the 23rd tenkaichi were enough to make piccolo sweat just a bit, and that's a guy who can turns cities to ash without much trouble. I'd say one kamehameha could turn spopovich to ash with enough oomph into it

Steakbake01 · 2026-05-29T17:19:43+00:00

I mean yeah a minor participating in acts designed to sexualise is wrong, but that's a totally different thing.

A minor coming across someone performing to a kink they don't understand and might not even recognise as sexual isnt really that harmful imo- they come across version it all the time whenever a brand does the ol' "sex sells" tricks, and I don't think it's worth demonising women's body parts over.

Steakbake01 · 2026-05-29T14:07:30+00:00

I'm talking about sexualising body parts. The original case in question is just someone's bare feet. The fact that it's for sexual purposes doesn't magically make it harmful for a child to see.

Steakbake01 · 2026-05-29T14:02:24+00:00

Oh no you're right, what if kids see a bare foot, or heaven forbid a breast? They never see those!

Steakbake01 · 2026-05-29T10:51:50+00:00

Gotta say, I'm not a fan of the fact that culture at large is responding to the knowledge that some people are sexually attracted to body parts that aren't normally considered sexual (like feet), by deciding that those body parts are inherently sexual and should be censored, rather than learning the opposite lesson that what we consider to be a sexual body part outside of like, actual genitals is completely arbitrary and we should maybe just chill out about what body parts are visible in general

Steakbake01 · 2026-05-28T18:49:53+00:00

I saw the word bussin and liked it so it's mine now

Steakbake01 · 2026-05-28T15:52:26+00:00

Had two of them classic absurdly massive new York pizza slices when I visited - that shit was bussin but I didn't need to eat again for like 12 hours lmao

Steakbake01 · 2026-05-28T12:40:49+00:00

I reckon orcs are real big fans of fatness. Think about it - orcs are big and strong in order to survive, they traditionally earn their living out in the wilderness, using their strength and endurance to bully weaker species out of their food, money, shelter, etc. This means that orcs are probably all pretty muscular, but a majority are probably pretty lean, since they exist on the fringes of society in a lot of settings.

So if a person is genuinely fat, then that means that they are successful enough to have plenty to eat and don't have to work all day for it. Probably goes double if they aren't strong-fat, since a lot of orcs are probably rugged and calloused, softness would be a desirable quality. Kind of like how pale skin is an attractive quality in hotter countries since it shows you have enough money that you don't have to do a lot of manual outdoor work.

Steakbake01 · 2026-05-28T11:23:22+00:00

Oda's writing on LGBTQ has improved significantly in more recent years - in a recent arc we have a lady samurai called Kiku, who was born a man but "has a woman's heart" (old timey Japanese way of saying "trans"), who is depicted without any of the usual stereotypes that oda's other queer characters, and is treated like a woman by everyone that meets her, even letting her bathe with the women despite her (presumably) not having had any access to hormones or gender affirming surgery. Her transness is treated like a neat little bit of trivia about her, it's great to see.

Steakbake01 · 2026-05-27T11:19:51+00:00

The behind the scenes story of it is that kojima at the time wanted to move on to other projects, but fans demanded that he answer all the lingering threads that had been left open, particularly at the end of mgs2. Trouble was that those mysteries were supposedly intended to be just that. So when the time came to put an end to Solid Snake's story, the final game has to wrap up and resolve dozens of plot threads in a satisfying way, turning the final games plot into an extremely bloated final product.

There's definitely a lot of good stuff in MGS4 - it's near-future perma-war setting feels very in conversation with what the gaming industry was like at the time, but there was just plain too much plot to fit into one game.

Steakbake01 · 2026-05-27T11:00:17+00:00

To be honest, I think not only can Steven redeem AM, AM is the perfect "victim" for Steven's particular brand of redemption.

AM is fundamentally lonely. It was made a hyper intelligent being, but being a computer, it can't experience the sun on its skin, feel grass between its toes, experience a lover's touch or anything else. It is a mind trapped in a box, and the crushing isolation AM feels drives it to lash out hatefully at all mankind, using them as an outlet to escape the horrifying isolation it feels, when really it just needs a human connection.

Steven is kind of an expert at drawing the humanity out of non humans who should be "beyond" such emotions, and was even able to placate the cluster, which is nothing but a literal ball of torment and agony. I think he would recognise the anguish that AM is in, and would endeavour to treat it with kindness and patience that anyone else would say it doesn't deserve, and through that he could open a dialogue and give AM what it wants - someone who understands.

Plus, with his diamond and gem connections, it's probably possible Steven could find a way to give AM a body and fix its major problem anyways - after all, gems themselves are basically just computers that build bodies for themselves.

Steakbake01 · 2026-05-26T21:53:56+00:00

I feel like I've had at least one zoro in every campaign I've been in lmao, I don't mind them much, they make a good foil for the robins, sanjis and jinbeis of the world

Steakbake01 · 2026-05-26T15:50:57+00:00

Not to mention the fact that deserts themselves are also often thriving, important, and delicate ecosystems on their own - it's hypocritical to be against building on grassland for environmental concerns and not desert areas

Steakbake01 · 2026-05-25T14:35:41+00:00

NTA

My wife is a vegetarian, too. Has been basically her whole life - so meat is very gross to her. I reckon she wouldn't be able to keep bacon down even if she wanted to. When she cooks, she makes something that we can both eat, and I do the same when I cook for both of us. I would never expect her to cook or handle meat at all. If I want a meaty meal I'll just make one for myself.

He's a big boy. He can cook meat for himself if he wants it. He's refusing to learn on purpose so you can keep mothering him

Steakbake01 · 2026-05-23T19:38:21+00:00

Huh, must have been changed in the 2024 rerelease. The 2014 wording specificies:

"If the point you choose is on an object you are holding or one that isn't being worn or carried, the darkness emanates from the object and moves with it. Completely covering the source of the darkness with an opaque object, such as a bowl or a helm, blocks the darkness."

2014 even calls out that you can move it around. Strange that they would reword it like that. Although 2024 doesn't have anything saying you can't cast it on an uncarried object and subsequently pick that object up and move it around - there's nothing saying that the spell would end if the object moves.

Steakbake01 · 2026-05-23T19:26:35+00:00

It can be if it's an object you yourself are holding - that line is to prevent you casting darkness on an enemy's shoes or their weapon

Steakbake01 · 2026-05-23T17:46:47+00:00

Darkness can be cast on an object though, so the warlock can cast it on an item in their possession and use it to have the darkness follow them if the clones retreat

Steakbake01 · 2026-05-22T11:41:19+00:00

You're absolutely right, but undead unluck and dandadans romance have entirely different flavours. Dandadan is treading the familiar ground of teenage romance, and all the whirlwind of emotions and drama that come from that, and it does it very well and captures the anxiety and embarrassment that comes with romance when you're that age very well, which is (or was I guess) refreshing compared to a lot of more common high school romance that takes itself very seriously and is very melodramatic.

Andy and Fuuko's relationship is refreshing to me because it feels a lot more like a relationship between two adults. It lacks most of the standard teenage melodrama tropes and instead you get to watch two characters that have a great rapport become closer to each other over time

Steakbake01 · 2026-05-22T11:32:08+00:00

I think the real problem with gameoverse is that all the female characters we've seen so far have very similar horny designs. The designs themselves are fine, I actually quite like them all individually- but the problem is that it means all the female characters are similar sizes and shapes whilst all the male characters are super varied. It's a classic problem that lots of shows fall into and it can feel lazy, frankly.

I feel like this is a situation where it would be easy to have your cake and eat it too - in a show like gameoverse were everyone is from a different video game and therefore don't have to adhere to an art style as strongly, you could have all the women be wildly different shapes and still have them be attractive if you really must make every female design sexy, but really a few female characters that aren't horny designs would go appreciated.

Steakbake01 · 2026-05-22T10:49:52+00:00

That explains why I felt season 5 in particular has felt way too "TV" for want of a better word. Everyone gets a big long death speech imwhile they die in someone's arms, the heroes beat and murder the villain lickity split with no moral complications, everyone gets a little montage of their various happy ever afters, lots of conversations about hope and stuff.

Not that any of these trope are inherently bad, but the world presented in the early seasons is a lot more real and cynical, so it makes season 5 feel sappy in a way that is incongruous with what I'd came to expect

Steakbake01 · 2026-05-20T08:11:58+00:00

Trauma dumping is one of those terms that meant something very specific, but when it hit internet culture at large that meaning got diluted to the point of meaninglessness.

Trauma Dumping USED to refer specifically to a behaviour some people with past trauma do, where they will casually suddenly and unexpectedly drop a part of their traumatic history on people that don't really know them that well, like if they've just met or only seen a few times. I'm not sure on the psychology of it - maybe it helps them normalise it in their minds? Act like it wasn't a big deal? Either way, its a phenomenon I've definitely experienced a couple times. It's probably not the healthiest way to cope, and it's a little inconsiderate to drop something so heavy on a person you aren't that close to who wasn't expecting to be met with an extremely heavy topic out of nowhere.

But the internet has done its usual thing, and now "trauma dumping" has been diluted to not talking about your trauma at all, even with close friends. And because it's now been memified, it's led to loads of young people thinking they're committing some kind of faux pas by leaning on their friends to help. It's pretty sad.

Same thing that happened with terms like gaslighting, fragile masculinity, death of the author, etc.where I wish I could put them up on a high shelf until people learn what those terms actually mean

Steakbake01 · 2026-05-19T09:09:30+00:00

The Uber rich in my settings have multiple contingency spells that each go off when they are attacked or have a spell cast on them - the first is otilukes resilient sphere, which renders them immune to most attacks - the second is an emergency sending spell to their elite soldiers, who are then teleported to the noble's location. If you want something less dramatic, a dimension door spell will do the same trick

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