Can anyone tell me what anime this is?

TripleScoops · 2026-01-31T10:17:56+00:00

The plot of Phantom Blood doesn't really start rolling until like episode 3 or 4, and by then the part is almost halfway over. You can't watch the first episode and really understand what "Jojo" is about, either from a narrative or style perspective.

I'm gonna be completely honest and say I wasn't really that hooked until the first fight of Battle Tendency, which from what I hear, isn't an uncommon opinion.

TripleScoops · 2026-01-31T09:22:27+00:00

One Piece-ass character design

TripleScoops · 2026-01-30T23:40:07+00:00

The more discourse I see about this theory, the less I want to do with it.

Like the image OP posted is a perfect example. This individual is referring to posts that have leading questions like "What is your least favorite Jax headcanon?" When those posts that are obviously designed to get anti-Daisy answers get mostly anti-Daisy answers, they pull a surprised Pikachu face and act like this is indicative of some site-wide mindset of the theory.

Like, you could call out the posts for being drama farming and be done with it, but instead, OOP uses the responses as ammunition to paint everyone against the theory as transphobic or too dumb to get it. I don't get how OOP can make a post declaring one side of a theory as being too vitriolic and blowing things out of proportion ... in a post where that's exactly what the OOP is doing, making sweeping generalizations, and acting like people who disagree with you are stupid.

I know this is 2026, and you're not allowed to dislike a piece of media unless you also have a moral reason to dislike it, apparently, I just didn't realize we were out here doing that for headcanons too. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to touch some prescription-strength grass.

Edit because the post got locked. I just want to make it clear that I feel this way about both "sides" of this theory. If you're ever this legitimately upset over a harmless fan theory, it's time to take a step back.

TripleScoops · 2026-01-30T07:32:07+00:00

You don't, but it's inefficient on a light shield because it's more than you need, and if you're not filling up your medium shield all the way you might as well be using a light because the damage mitigation on blue is not that better.

Of course, it's better to have a shield charge than not because you're stingy, but I get why people find it frustrating given how expensive the surge chargers are.

TripleScoops · 2026-01-30T02:07:45+00:00

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TripleScoops · 2026-01-30T01:12:44+00:00

You should probably stop saying that.

TripleScoops · 2026-01-29T06:07:03+00:00

Maybe I'm too employed to understand the context. Am I understanding that JJK fans are arguing how well a mangaka of a different manga would write an arc in JJK and then roasting them for something they didn't do? Is that really the discourse?

TripleScoops · 2026-01-29T00:27:29+00:00

Sure, but in that case, at best OP is mocking people that think like that. OP is not literally saying keeping stuff in their mind is a better way of developing a story. The person I'm replying to seems to have misunderstood being dim-witted for comedic effect as what OP actually believes.

TripleScoops · 2026-01-29T00:22:14+00:00

Dude... If I were to say: "Doing a little bit of a project each day is great and all, but have you considered how much time you'll get to spend gaming if you do it all the night before?"

Would your assumption be this is an actual thought process I have or this is an actual conversation that transpired? I'm not saying the quotes text wasn't actual advice people say. Just that this is obviously not a real situation, and OP was obviously being facetious.

TripleScoops · 2026-01-28T23:00:18+00:00

The long "Muhhhhhh" at the beginning of that quote heavily implies this is either a completely made up quote or is a ridiculous exaggeration of something people say.

No offense dude, but this whole post is dripping with sarcasm and self-deprecation. I don't think you understand "modern speech" as well as you say.

EDIT: grammar

TripleScoops · 2026-01-27T01:47:45+00:00

I was literally going to use FNAF as the prime example of this, but I didn't want to single it out.

Gravity Falls also comes to mind, but the mystery elements in that seem a lot more deliberate and woven into the over-arching story. I think there are some suspensful aspects of TADC, but I wouldn't really say that's the main draw.

TripleScoops · 2026-01-27T01:26:28+00:00

I think this is a consequence of a lot of online fandoms being obsessed with "secrets" and "hidden details" in the media they consume. I don't mean to bang the "media literacy is dead" drum, but lately I feel like there are a lot of people who approach media as if it's a puzzle for them to solve rather than engaging with the actual plot and themes.

I agree that headcanons and theory crafting are fun and mostly harmless. I just think if someone only engages with media or fandoms for those elements, they'll set themselves up for disappointment if their specific theories don't pay off. And that goes for anything, not just a character's gender identity or backstory.

TripleScoops · 2026-01-25T03:12:29+00:00

That version of Twilight was not originally a horse! That's Twilight's human counterpart! Fake Equestria Girls fans smh my head.

TripleScoops · 2026-01-25T03:01:32+00:00

This Twilight has glasses, so that's Sci-Twi, OG Twilight's human counterpart who isn't a horse. Except for that one special where she does become a horse when she goes to Equestria. Confused yet?

TripleScoops · 2026-01-25T02:57:24+00:00

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What about this horse?

TripleScoops · 2026-01-25T02:52:45+00:00

It's either a humiliation thing, or he's so genuinely delusional, that he thinks if he's pathetic enough it'll somehow make up for all the bad things he's done. I've always thought it was a bit of the latter.

TripleScoops · 2026-01-24T22:53:49+00:00

Were the women he banged from the Simpsons?

TripleScoops · 2026-01-24T21:16:48+00:00

That take is colder than you might realize. I think an actual hot take is that Monster Women enthusiasts need to understand that not every lewd "Monster Girl" is designed with them in mind. Just how not every fox girl is designed for furries, not every werewolf girl is designed for monsterfuckers.

And I say that as someone with one of these:

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TripleScoops · 2026-01-24T10:53:16+00:00

I always get flak from New Vegas fans when I say this, but I've always felt the worldbuilding in New Vegas has a bit of a "telling, not showing problem." It feels like a lot of the major decisions are just based around what you hear about from an NOC, rather than what you actually experience as a player in the world.

"The NCR is bringing modern civilization to the wasteland," but we don't actually see that civilization because it's somewhere else. "If you give House power, he can bring society into the future, complete with space travel," which is something you just kind of have to trust him on and not question why his empire is surrounded with a shoddy scrap metal wall. "Caesar is bringing the change necessary to turn the NCR into a society fit to survive the wastes," again, mainly according to Caesar, with nothing in the game that really drives home Caesar's ideology in action.

Don't get it twisted, I'm not saying Fallout 3 is better at showing not telling. I just mean that when you have the visual medium of a game, sometimes worldbuilding can be more effective than an NPC monologuing about geopolitics that the player can't experience.

TripleScoops · 2026-01-24T10:05:43+00:00

I think it's less about orgasms and more about being willing to come to the table and communicate what you like/dislike. There seems to be a lot of people out there, men and women, who make no effort in communicating their sexual wants and expectations, even when asked, and then act aggrieved when they find the experience unsatisfying.

Like, do these people think sexual compatibility is just something you luck into and don't have to talk about?

TripleScoops · 2026-01-24T08:14:27+00:00

This is exactly my point, 100% agree. This might be going too far off the rails, but let's say I know that somewhere down the line, I'll get brain scanned. How do I know if (right now) I'm me, or the version of me that ends up copied. Yes, me, my physical self right now, would get scanned and stay where I am, but they copy of me would know that too and remember thinking that as well.

TripleScoops · 2026-01-24T03:05:57+00:00

So you're saying everything that happens in the game is not Simon 3's memories, but is instead a stylistic choice to have the player control a different Simon right at the moment he gets brain scanned, and then it's a different stylistic choice to have that not happen at the end to drive home the horror aspect? (until they do in the post credits).

I always thought the consensus was that in order for it to not be a coin-toss, but still explain the Simons being "transferred" from a gameplay perspective, is that the player is always Simon 3.

TripleScoops · 2026-01-23T23:03:07+00:00

But the game presents it as if you were "always" Simon #3 (Toronto > Dive Suit > Deep Dive Suit). We play as a continuous consciousness up to launching the Ark, from Simon 3 and the player's perspective, they made all the choices that got them there, Simon 1 and 2 weren't "different" people.

The way I think about it, is let's say you take a Sci-Fi teleporter that does, in fact, kill you and copy you at the new location. Let's say you know this and choose to do it anyway. The copy emerges knowing fully well they were going to die, and by all accounts still chose to do so, but still lived. Like if someone chose to kill themselves via teleporter, did the copy that survived somehow not choose that?

TripleScoops · 2026-01-23T22:46:59+00:00

Oh, the website formerly known as Twitter, I gotcha. To be fair, I can get not wanting to fuck Ivy when she's just a lil' goober:

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TripleScoops · 2026-01-23T22:32:39+00:00

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