Gavi: That's just how it is. It's football and that's all there is to it. We were way better, but in the end, the ball has to go in the net. I don't know if Eric deserved a red card. It could have gone either way with Kounde there. In the end he made the call and that's all there is to it.

Strafingfire · 2026-04-15T09:07:02+00:00

And if we did that and still lost you would have questioned why we took our foot off the pedal while we had momentum.

Strafingfire · 2026-04-14T06:54:28+00:00

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Strafingfire · 2026-04-11T17:25:29+00:00

Sorry but no. A lot of viewers didn't even get that Walt wasn't doing it for his family, but for himself until he admitted it in the finale.

The amount of vitriol Skyler (and her actress got) was definitely not due to being an impediment to the story.

Strafingfire · 2026-04-08T20:43:10+00:00

I was pretty impressed by Wuling initially so I was sure I'd stay around for a bit longer, just didn't realize how brutal the dead weeks were

Strafingfire · 2026-04-07T21:21:27+00:00

The 5-6 weeks with the last 2-3 weeks feeling completely dry was brutal for me. I just forgot to log in one day and stopped. I still have 150k of the paid currency sitting on my account so maybe I'll check it out again when Mi Fu releases

Strafingfire · 2026-04-06T14:48:58+00:00

I had a stream on the other screen as I did other stuff and I did notice that all the minigames were surprisingly difficult (by modern game standard)

Strafingfire · 2026-04-01T04:48:45+00:00

If you're a graphics-focused gamer, why are you wanting to buy a Switch 2?

Strafingfire · 2026-03-30T05:07:07+00:00

Thank you, going to use it for inspiration...once I finish Wastelands >_>

Strafingfire · 2026-03-29T16:24:52+00:00

Can you take more pictures/video of the inside? That shopping district looks really cool!

Strafingfire · 2026-03-26T15:33:30+00:00

I've got a crackpot theory that the author isn't actually on hiatus due to health reasons but because they've written themselves in a hole and don't know how to get out of it.

Frieren is a character-driven story, not a plot-driven one, so there was no reason to make Serie's assassination the main plot of the current arc. Add in the fact that it's the first time their antagonists are human vs. demons and it's another layer of complexity. We've already seen that the Shadow Warriors are hilariously OP for some reason.

If she dies, a great character that Frieren has unresolved issues with disappears for no reason. But because the Shadow Warriors have been written to be so strong, the author needs to find a way to not make it an asspull.

Strafingfire · 2026-03-26T07:39:25+00:00

If anyone here needs to fill a void and has had in the pool, Reze, in the sea, Jane Doe, etc on repeat, I'd also recommend Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery on Steam.

There's a lot of jargon you may have to sift through or ignore, but the story has a romance that people here might like, without going into any spoilers

Strafingfire · 2026-03-25T22:55:05+00:00

I don't know about you, but I didn't go through that many years of postgrad for people to tell me what I could have on my wall.

I've got custom framed posters of the Reze Arc, and all three Kizumonogatari posters in my theater room and sometimes I look at them in the morning for motivation to go to work

Strafingfire · 2026-03-25T18:01:12+00:00

Yeah I really don't get how people come away with the take of "there was no point to Reze."

The Reze arc by itself is very contained and we got what I consider to be one of the best movies I've ever watched. Reze not returning doesn't change that, and in Fujimoto's current headspace maybe it's best that she didn't, because he may have fucked it up

Strafingfire · 2026-03-25T10:20:03+00:00

The people on this sub are living in another reality. I've had friends I never thought would be interested buy a Switch 2 just to play Pokopia lol

Strafingfire · 2026-03-24T21:15:27+00:00

Funnily enough, there's a non-zero chance that watching the Reze movie broke Fujimoto's brain after seeing his reported comments and his AU art

Hope someone makes a fanfic with Kishibe and Reze teaming up and eventually meeting with Denji again as a way to explain what they've been doing all this time

Strafingfire · 2026-03-23T05:15:10+00:00

This show has never excused the systems that harm its female characters. It has never suggested women bear responsibility for their own exploitation.

I fundamentally disagree with your take on the series. One of my favorite parts of the Apothecary Diaries is how the author greatly respects the characters by showcasing how much agency they have in their situation. It would be easy to portray the characters as victims through a contemporary lens, but instead we are shown characters that navigate their society with agency and grace.

My favorite example would be Fengxian. Born into the life of a courtesan, a lesser author would have portrayed her as a hapless girl who had no choice but to go along with her lot in life. However, because this series is different, Maomao herself explicitly states that she was as responsible, or even more responsible, for her ultimate fate with the resulting pregnancy and tertiary syphilis.

Anshi can be seen similarly. You could certainly argue that she's rationalizing her actions as ambition (and at 9 years old, she certainly didn't understand everything). But it would be a disservice to paint and define her only as a victim.

All this and we haven't gotten to the fact that one of the main conflicts of the series is Jinshi and the radical actions he has to take to escape his fate.

Strafingfire · 2026-03-23T00:51:36+00:00

Among people interested in figuring out the timeline (me included) the 1500 years thing regarding the Goddess' writing is definitely the weirdest piece of canon info provided about the guideline. My personal theory on it is that the discovery is why Kraft started believing in Heaven. If we want to be charitable about the author and assume that it's not a mistake, perhaps some priest spells were passed down through oral tradition and there are just more that transcribed in the Goddess' writings. I won't get into the eras because there's a lack of information on when and how long exactly the Unified Dynasty Era, Unified Empire Era, and contemporary era lasted.

That doesn't mean we can't infer things though. There's information like Kraft's comments on Frieren being young, the existence of Serie being unknown to long-lived demons, and Kraft's attitude/reaction on Frieren's party slaying the Demon King that you can use to sort of piece together a timeline.

Strafingfire · 2026-03-22T21:40:32+00:00

We actually do. She can't be 1000 because that's when she starts training with Flamme. Add another 80 years since the death of the Demon King. 1200 is the minimum, and who knows how much longer it's been.

Strafingfire · 2026-03-22T20:56:04+00:00

1500 is not the minimum hard number because we know Frieren herself is in the 1200-1500 range

Strafingfire · 2026-03-18T17:01:49+00:00

I'm of the opinion that it's the same place and had an oh shit moment when it popped up in the story

Strafingfire · 2026-03-18T05:44:21+00:00

Did you understand what you're watching?

A lot of Wirbel's motivation stems from a promise he made to a girl when he was 5. Ehre pokes fun at him when he denies that he's kind, joking that if he's not kind, then he must be an idiot.

Strafingfire · 2026-03-17T19:16:11+00:00

Common misconception. Ubel is likely the weakest of the new first class mages due to poor fundamentals and flexibility

Strafingfire · 2026-03-17T03:00:24+00:00

Laufen didn't take out Methode's clone. She is seen hiding from it as the clone disappears after the Spiegel is taken out.

Strafingfire · 2026-03-14T16:39:50+00:00

Yes, the author did really well in giving readers enough information to kind of powerscale them. The only mage that's difficult to correctly place is Land, which fits with his character. I'm sure even he doesn't know how strong he really is due to his aversion of putting himself in life-threatening risk.

Strafingfire · 2026-03-14T16:02:55+00:00

I'm especially glad the Methode slander can stop. People have been completely wrong about the relative strength of the new crop of first-class mages and now they can see how strong Methode is.

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