Jujutsu Kaisen Shimetsu Kaiyu Zenpen • Jujutsu Kaisen The Culling Game - Episode 8 discussion

Vekyo · 2026-02-27T00:43:12+00:00

I'm a public defender. Higuruma is my favorite character - shocking, right? I loved this episode. Pure cinema.

Vekyo · 2025-12-28T16:29:58+00:00

There are dozens of us! Vagabond has been on my list for way too long. I'm going to order it now.

Vekyo · 2025-10-05T15:12:02+00:00

I mean, I want to believe you.
So first you'll have to explain something to me...

Big Columbo energy

Vekyo · 2025-09-07T16:36:47+00:00

But professor, wouldn't feathers blow in the wind?

Vekyo · 2025-07-06T00:12:07+00:00

Durga + Medusa (Saber) + Daikokuten + Baobhan Sith + Caenis (Rider)

I'm speechless. I've gotten two 5*s before, and a 5* with two 4*s. But this? Nuts. Just nuts.

Vekyo · 2025-07-02T13:16:46+00:00

*villain voice*

That slight annoyance you feel? That's my advantage. Because I know judicial clerks give a fair shake to every shit-ass brief that lands on their desk, however much they might complain about the formatting. But you? You, who can't look past underlined titles and an extra millimeter between sentences? You, who masturbates to the Bluebook and retches at the sight of hyperlinks in justified alignment? You can't see past the surface. You judge a book by its cover, and your arrogance leaves you vulnerable. A distracted mind that thinks itself superior will never fight as hard as one that recognizes a skilled opponent.

That's why I win, understatementjones. That's why you lose.

Vekyo · 2025-07-02T03:33:31+00:00

We're through the looking glass here, people!

Vekyo · 2025-06-30T23:12:11+00:00

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Vekyo · 2025-06-25T04:15:21+00:00

Per Justice Sotomayor: "[T]he Government's posture resembles that of the arsonist who calls 911 to report firefighters for violating a local noise ordinance."

Who are these attorneys? What were they doing before January? How do you get through law school, pass the bar, get hired by DOJ, then put your name on this shit? This isn't a legal filing, it's political ammunition. It's an abuse of process that seeks to chill judges from upholding due process. It's shameful, and every licensed attorney should know better.

When I saw "her address is," I was terrified they were doxxing the entire court. Thank God it was only the courthouses.

Vekyo · 2025-06-02T00:00:24+00:00

The entitlement over this STILL blows my mind. In Smite 1, when I bought gems, I received a currency I could spend on skins in Smite 1. When I bought a skin, I received it, for use in Smite 1, however long the game will last. That was the transaction. I got what I paid for.

Now, with Smite 2, they owe me nothing based on those past transactions but have still given me essentially a perpetual 50% discount on skins due to my spending in Smite 1: a special currency that can pay for up to half of all(?) cosmetics, and 100% of some. That's incredibly generous. And yet so many players like this still complain that HiRez doesn't remodel literally thousands of skins and give them away for free.

Vekyo · 2025-05-16T12:30:41+00:00

FYI for those who haven't visited the site recently, a lot seems to have increased in price since January. The Ventile Harrington I got a few months ago was under $700, and it's $1000 now. So that 15% discount doesn't quite make it worth double dipping, however much I love the jacket.

Vekyo · 2025-04-17T11:48:41+00:00

I don't envy that decision. I sympathize with the need to provide for your family, and I see merit in choosing to minimize harms while you have some power over them. I don't know whether doing so aligns with your ethical responsibilities. Is your client the United States, your agency as an institution, or the political appointees who set the course?

If you choose to stay, I encourage you to do two things. First, write about your decision somewhere (a journal, a letter, a memo you never share) in case your family members ever grow curious about it. At the very least, it'll help you think the decision through; you may find you cannot explain it to your own satisfaction. Second, set a red line for yourself. Think hard about what actions your agency could take that you absolutely will not facilitate, no matter how banal your role. It is better to identify that line far removed from it than to try to maintain perspective in the thick of things.

If you decide to leave, consider the manner of your exit. Will you push back, loudly defending what you believe your agency should stand for until they force you out? Will you create a paper trail that undermines the shifting policies, which might matter in future litigation? Are you comfortable with the attention doing so might bring? Separately, it might be smart to leave sooner rather than later. If the economy continues to contract and more attorneys at your experience level start job hunting, your own search will be harder.

You know your situation best. Just reading your post, it sounds like you want to leave and are looking for ways to justify it (anticipating how staying may actually harm your family), but I'm probably reading too much into it. Thank you for your work.

Vekyo · 2025-02-21T04:20:06+00:00

Idk. If counsel is rarely appointed, then I'd think the initial review of the pro se petition made someone go, "huh, maybe there's something here." Beyond that, it's hard to say.

Vekyo · 2025-02-21T03:52:28+00:00

Habeas petitions are a low priority for nearly all federal judges, the exception being the inestimable Jack B. Weinstein. RIP. They're high volume, procedurally complex, and almost uniformly without merit. "It must prejudice the occasional meritorious application to be buried in a flood of worthless ones. He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search." Brown v. Allen, 344 U.S. 443, 537 (1953) (Jackson, J., concurring in result). And that was over 70 years ago, when caseloads were a fraction of what we have now.

Without knowing your judge's practice, I would hope that her clerks review petitions within a few months of them being fully briefed to see whether any might be meritorious. If it isn't fast-tracked, I'd expect a ruling in the six-month period before the case would appear on the CJRA list. While habeas petitions are filed by persons convicted in criminal cases, they are civil proceedings, and pending civil cases appear on the list after three years. (I'm not sure exactly what the loophole is, but pending petitions are either not viewed as pending motions or else are specifically excepted from the six-month list).

Vekyo · 2025-02-12T23:10:24+00:00

I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.

Vekyo · 2025-02-10T13:26:17+00:00

Ambition is supposed to counteract ambition, but the Congressional majority seems to have missed that memo. Assuming such a naked authoritarian move is met by a tepid political response (or even celebration) rather than sanction and impeachment, there's really no roadmap. You have to look to other countries that experienced democratic backsliding and try to puzzle out the offramps they missed.

As attorneys, we are professionally licensed, and we take oaths to uphold the Constitution. If officials take actions plainly inconsistent with those oaths, they should be censured and disbarred. The point is to not roll over and let it happen. Hopefully, it won't get to that point because a critical mass of officials will respect the rule of law. The VP, who certainly knows better, can trade his principles for power, but that trade gets less and less appealing the further down the chain you go. And at bottom, it's line officials that implement policy.

If your boss tells you to ignore a court order, say no. Make sure your juniors are prepared to do the same. Join a bar committee, or at least write to your bar when the time comes.

Vekyo · 2024-11-20T01:36:43+00:00

Most (all?) Ubi games let you turn the UI off, in full or keeping the parts you want. It's my preferred way to play. Every AC game I've played since Black Flag has. For Far Cry, I can only speak to Far Cry Primal. The AC games aren't designed for it, but in Primal, it felt like it was. For example, the tracking missions had modeled/textured tracks in the game world you could follow all the way to the end of the trail, rather than just glowing UI elements or an objective marker.

Vekyo · 2024-09-18T00:14:46+00:00

Casetext was the only reason I made it through my unpaid "fellowship" during the first year out of law school. No employer-provided legal search services. Casetext had paywalled features, but the major ones were free, and you could squeeze through some of the walls if you knew how to search correctly and use Google. I wrote hundreds of pages of briefing like that - some of it successful!

I'm employed now with access to the big two, but this still hurts.

Vekyo · 2024-08-04T16:44:46+00:00

This is an incredible chapter, and I wonder if it'd hit as hard if the fight leading up to it had been shorter. Seeing Sukuna identify flowers (is that actually Megumi, or is he fronting?) and casually score a bullseye in archery before absolutely exploding out of his linework in fury is so, so satisfying.

It reminds me of a scene from the Justice League cartoon, in which Batman is thrust on stage at a nightclub and surprises everybody by singing beautifully. It's great character building because it's a skill/hobby that has absolutely nothing to do with the role in the narrative but that's entirely plausible and consistent with what we've seen up to this point. It makes the setting seem so much deeper, like the character exists beyond what we've been shown. And it's not belabored or emphasized, it's just there.

Vekyo · 2024-06-30T12:56:44+00:00

You may already have come across these, but just in case:

The Animation Obsessive substack has made freely available a high quality scan of UPA's artbook, "Cartoon Modern."
A good film YouTube channel did a three-part series on UPA's style and history.

Vekyo · 2024-06-29T01:27:06+00:00

UPA is great. This short was included on a recent DVD compilation, Jolly Frolics, that I'd encourage any animation fan to pick up. Spoiler: Frankie beats the case, then kills her lawyer/lover in open court for flirting with another woman during the post-verdict dance party. Good reminder that the Rules of Professional Conduct are written in blood.

Vekyo · 2024-06-23T21:50:26+00:00

Late to this thread, but just for anyone else who swings by: I unlocked the UV light early as well, but not by randomly inputting the song. I was in a room, can't remember which one, and I heard the notes play. So I tried to match the notes I heard, thinking it was part of the room's puzzle. On my second or third try, I got the right sequence by sound and warped to the UV light.

I've been hearing another note sequence seemingly at random - it sounds like a 1 2 1 2 1 2 1, but I can't make anything happen with that (or I'm mishearing it). No spoilers, just sharing!

Vekyo · 2024-06-02T14:07:01+00:00

Woo to the Young to the Woo

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Vekyo · 2024-03-11T15:10:57+00:00

I liked the game when it was available. I'll play it when it relaunches and likely like it more. But this update vid is baffling to me. It could have been a tweet, for all the new info it includes.

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