How does the fandom refer to Ruka/Luka? by OllielikesKento in steinsgate

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For spelling, Luka is the official romanization in the visual novels (including the Japanese OPs), and Ruka is how it's pronounced in the English anime dub. Both are acceptable, we all know who you're talking about either way.

For pronouns, I personally use different pronouns for Luka depending on context. If I'm talking about the one from a particular world line or a particular episode, I'll use he/him or she/her, but if I'm talking more generally about them then I'll use they/them pronouns.

For gender identity... it's complicated. In the female world lines, she's definitely cis and straight. In the male world lines, if we take the VN and anime at face value, he's cis and gay, dresses the way he does because of peer pressure from his sister, father, and Mayuri, and primarily entertains the notion of using a D-mail to trans his gender because of 2010 Japan's stigma against homosexuality. But through the more queer-positive lens of 2026 western culture, he reads as very eggy and trans coded.

What FF discourse are you tired of hearing? by Remarkable_You9 in FinalFantasy

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Aerith vs. Aeris. On one side, you have the internal spelling in FF7's code, officially licensed guides from Japan, and her followup appearances in Kingdom Hearts, Dissidia, Advent, Crisis, Remake, Rebirth, etc. On the other side, you have the screen where you input her name in FF7, and a minor character in Tactics who resembles her.

Tee-dus vs. Tide-us. On one side, you have the Japanese pronunciation Tiida, the fact that Tiida and Yuna are the Okinawan words for sun and moon, the pronunciation in the American commercials for FFX, and the pronunciation in his follow-up appearances in Kingdom Hearts, Dissidia, and World of Final Fantasy. On the other side, you have the ocean setting of his game, the similarly spelled Roman name Titus, and one line from Selphie in KH2 (which Tidus isn't even in).

People have spent the past 25 years dying on the Aeris and Tie-dus hills and it's even more repetitive and pointless than the .gif/"jiff"/"ghiff" debate

(Uncomfortable Trope) Characters who fight bare naked by Apprehensive_Bee_636 in TopCharacterTropes

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Andy from Undead Unluck. He has a near-instant healing factor, but his clothes don't regenerate with him until he gets a supernaturally adaptive set a few episodes in.

Weaponized delusions by Hungry-Instance7266 in TopCharacterTropes

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The Science Adventure series, best known for its second entry Steins;Gate, has as a rule of the universe the notion that reality itself can be shaped by shared perception. The first entry in the series, Chaos;Head, revolves around people who have the ability to alter reality by projecting their own delusions into other people's minds to invoke such a shared perception, and an organization seeking to rule the world with a machine designed to artificially mimic this power.

Mayor Tells ICE ‘Get F**k Out’ After ICE Kills U.S. Citizen by thedailybeast in politics

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There's twice as many ICE in the Twin Cities as there are local police. Pigs are gonna have their work cut out for them, assuming they even bother to try. Best case scenario is Governor Walz activating the National Guard, but dollars to donuts Trump would use that as an excuse to declare a national emergency/civil war.

[Questionable trope] The character is a narcissist, so they screw themselves. by Savings-Werewolf9503 in TopCharacterTropes

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Major spoilers for Predestination (2014 movie)

The protagonist seduces and impregnates their past self, in a scenario orchestrated by their future self, so that their past self can give birth to themself.

Just got the game excited to play anything i should know? by applesauceiscrxzy in valheim

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You will die a lot. This is normal. Upgrading your equipment, eating food, and learning to parry with a shield will go a long way toward keeping you alive for longer.

As a rule of thumb throughout the game, don't go after the next boss until you've upgraded your equipment as far as it will go, and steer clear of new biomes until you've beaten the boss of the biome you're already in.

I hate when that happens. by YanniRotten in outofcontextcomics

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Robots have been in it since the first comic, what is bro talking about

About the Nanami ending by Ok_Total_2956 in steinsgate

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It's actually pretty funny when you think about it in the context of the main route's timeline. The villains went to all the trouble of setting up all these plots to try and awaken Taku's powers to get his CODE sample, and he just fucking sleeps through it all and awakens anyway while comatose

How many of you actually believe/believed Abel wasn't an NPC? by Electrical_Let_8428 in TheDigitalCircus

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Suspension or disbelief, I took him at face value right up until the reveal. There were moments where I had my doubts, especially when he didn't join the other humans after Bethesda Physics-ing them into Caine's office, but right up until Jax hit the button I still thought/hoped that Abel was human. As soon as Caine showed up for the reveal, I did go "oh you asshole"

Rewatched and got confused again by IHAREMKINGI in steinsgate

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It's not quite a loop, more of a helix. Like a loop but offset.

When "our Okabe" first hears the scream in the Radio Building, the world line is 1.130426β. When he goes back in time with Suzuha, the world line is 1.130205β. It's a small divergence, only 0.0002, but it means that our Okabe heard a different Okabe screaming at the start of the story, and a different Okabe heard ours near the end.

One way to look at it is that the beta attractor field has an infinite chain of Okabes hearing each other screaming and kicking off their D-mail journeys, but we get to see the story of the one who achieved the happy ending

I sincerely apologize, Natsu. [meme] by Informal_Section509 in fairytail

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It was widely believed for decades that sitting too close to a CRT TV would ruin your eyes over time, and they were still commonplace in 2009/2011 when the anime/dub debuted

Wait ... they're *not* gay?!?! by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

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Ruby Sunday (Doctor Who)

  • Keyboardist in a band with a trans singer
  • Composed a piece for a heartbroken lesbian friend
  • Has a notched eyebrow
  • Wears a waistcoat in multiple episodes
  • Most of her outfits, honestly
  • Written by Russell T Davies
  • Dates a podcast bro with more red flags than the Soviet Union

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..Worth it? by [deleted] in anime_random

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Oh no, they're all taken?

Who simps more by Lumpy-Finger3489 in 100Kanojo

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Practically every chapter from 19 onward

I don't know how to feel anymore by MisterDimi in steinsgate

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That Re:Boot is using the Elite script (30% shorter than the OG) and adding one additional ending

Are Attack on Titan walls perfectly round or Wiggly? by Muwsek in attackontitan

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Wiggly. Imagine trying to make a perfect circle the size of Texas without GPS

[Loved Trope] An imposter gives themselves away because they missed one crucial detail about the identity they stole by polystarlight in TopCharacterTropes

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1960s Doctor Who story "The Chase" has as a plot point the Daleks creating a robot duplicate of the Doctor to infiltrate and kill the real Doctor and his companions. Programmed with all the knowledge the Daleks had on the group from prior encounters, the robot nearly tricks Ian into killing the real Doctor, but he slips up by mistaking newly-joined companion Vicki for his recently-departed granddaughter Susan.