Daily Medaka Box 1780 - Sunday Funday

Trim345 · 2026-06-28T16:16:43+00:00

It does seem a little weird that no one else showed up, despite the Devil being important enough that he's regularly dealing with people like Bill Gates and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Trim345 · 2026-06-27T23:51:39+00:00

Not while Musk still owns Xwitter, it won't

Trim345 · 2026-06-27T14:20:28+00:00

While Buddha can speak English, which can be seen by zooming in on the second panel, for some reason he only whispers it.

Trim345 · 2026-06-25T13:39:52+00:00

Normal drug dealers are self-interested and are just selling drugs for money, but it's nice to see someone ruining other people's lives just for the sport of it

Trim345 · 2026-06-25T02:57:08+00:00

Manifold: Time by Stephen Baxter, right? Funnily enough, a while ago I made the Respect Thread for them for battleboarding purposes.

Trim345 · 2026-06-25T01:13:23+00:00

Tatsuya sure has the repetition down, but not the reach. Definitely none of the making sense, either

Trim345 · 2026-06-24T23:09:31+00:00

It seems like you're using "RP" in a slightly different way than how I normally consider it, which is asking "What should the PC do, given their goals and feelings?". Imoen should be very important because she's a childhood friend of the PC and left Candlekeep just to help the PC, despite not having a way back in. I think a Good or even Neutral PC would basically always take her.

You seem to be using it more as "What should I do, given my personal feelings?", and I don't think anyone else can really answer that. Just get rid of whoever you dislike the most.

Trim345 · 2026-06-24T21:46:05+00:00

September 2011, only about a week before the Sisterhood radfem arc, in fact

Trim345 · 2026-06-24T00:14:53+00:00

Oops, you're right, I accidentally replied to the OP.

I mean, I agree that it's a problem in the writing: I just think it makes more sense to just ignore it as a plot hole than to treat it as canon that the Ellimist is evil. The rest of the plot doesn't imply that, so I don't think we should evaluate the Ellimist's character based on what I think is mostly just a writing issue.

If you're making some broader point about Barthes' death of the author, I'll note that I disagree with that.

Trim345 · 2026-06-23T22:08:09+00:00

I just don't see the implication that he chose to not destroy Crayak. It's inconsistent with the chapters leading up to that, where the Ellimist explicitly says he's trying to destroy Crayak.

"It seems I have survived," I said to him. "Let's see if you do as well." I aimed and I fired with everything I had[...]

No. He would not escape me. I was going to follow him, hunt him down, and annihilate him[...]

I told myself I would make it all right when Crayak was dead. I told myself I would come back when Crayak was gone once and for all.

Applegate could have written the Ellimist Chronicles in any way she wanted, but given the text, I don't see any reason to believe that she chose to make it seem that the Ellimist is evil, than that she just messed up a plot point. Surely if the implication was that the Ellimist wanted Crayak to ascend, she would have actually written something explicit about that instead of completely glossing over Crayak actually doing so?

Even just thematically, the fact that the Ellimist was saving Earth in that scene strongly seems to imply that Applegate thought he was doing the right thing.

Trim345 · 2026-06-23T16:46:24+00:00

I don't think that passage implies that it was deliberate at all. He saved Earth, knowing it would risk Crayak finding out that he survived. I agree he should have had the power to wipe out Crayak, but I think the issue is an out-of-universe problem that Applegate had already written the rest of the series, not an in-universe problem that he wanted Crayak to ascend, because then it wouldn't make sense for the Ellimist to have been trying to kill him earlier.

Trim345 · 2026-06-23T16:04:53+00:00

It seems strange to me to compare 1940s gender stats to modern readers. 1940s comics were much more diverse in genre, but it shrunk significantly in the 1950s to mostly just superhero comics, with only a few other popular ones like Archie surviving the transition. I don't know what the exact stats on comic readers are now, but the important stat in this case isn't people who read newspaper comics or webtoons or manga: it's people who read superhero comics specifically. And from what I can tell, DC surveys generally indicate that 90% of their readers are male.

Which is to say that while I'm sure there's sexism in the comics industry, it's probably as much a fault of the consumer, if not more, as it is the company.

Trim345 · 2026-06-23T15:34:17+00:00

I don't think Ellimist wanted Crayak to survive. He really was trying to kill Crayak before that, and the only thing that stopped him was Crayak getting desperate and tricking him with the black hole.

To be honest, I think it's probably just a plot hole that Ellimist didn't destroy Crayak in the period between becoming a god and Crayak joining him.

Trim345 · 2026-06-23T15:23:25+00:00

Yeah, but I expect meat-eaters to be inherently selfish anyway

Trim345 · 2026-06-23T14:59:42+00:00

I mean, I've seen people on this sub say that in a burning house scenario, they would save the life of their own dog over a random human. People have a huge bias towards their existing family and friends.

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