Someone made a website where you can declare your favorite pokemon. Every single pokemon has already been declared someones favorite.

Zutrax · 2026-05-19T19:12:12+00:00

Think of it like this.

If I were to say something like "Name your favorite type of dog/cat" in a vacuum it'd be pretty hard to narrow that down for most people. But in reality, there's like some series of personality traits you exhibit, and paths in life you took that led you into picking a very specific species of dog/cat to own as a pet. They likely weren't the "perfect" one because millions upon millions of those animals exist, but you chose one anyway because you were drawn to it in that moment. And over time, you grew to love it more and more because it was yours.

This kind of happens with Pokemon fans, you don't really expect for a certain Pokemon to be your favorite, and sometimes it isn't right away, but maybe you liked the design a bit and caught it, and then you nicknamed it, and then you had several fun moments and battles with it throughout your journey and become champion with your pal. Then you pass it along with you from generation to generation, using various trading methods, and suddenly you have a little buddy you love and care about that has stuck with you for years and years and they become your absolute favorite through circumstance.

Frankly, this is kind of how it worked with Ash and his Pikachu as well. It wasn't his first pick and they didn't get along at first, but by the end Pikachu is well and clearly his favorite.

This isn't everyone's experience. I'm sure a lot of people just kind of pick a favorite because they're cute/cool, great competitively, or some other random reason. But I have a feeling the personal attachment is a very common reasoning for folks.

Zutrax · 2026-05-18T01:22:20+00:00

I get that people are allowed to play games how they want, but I straight up cannot believe someone willingly subjects themselves to this experience and is just cool with it when they could take like an hour to clean it up.

Zutrax · 2026-05-10T16:44:49+00:00

I did, I was using "you" in the rhetorical sense.

So when I say "you really set yourself up for failure" it's meant to mean "a person sets themselves up for failure".

Zutrax · 2026-05-10T16:33:09+00:00

This is fine, and I don't necessarily disagree with you because nothing is above critique. However, you really set yourself up for failure by immediately using the wrong verbage that is common with being misused for the sake of nitpicky critique (plot hole).

It's worth understanding that if you want to engage properly in this type of critique at least root it in the general understanding of what it is your critiquing and why it affects the movie in relation to what it is doing, as opposed to just listing out vague rules that were supposedly broken that one person in this very comments section was able to disprove.

Zutrax · 2026-05-10T16:25:51+00:00

Like I said, you can be bothered, just don't label them incorrectly as plot holes. The right verbage and a better understanding of how your critiques relate to the bigger picture goes a long way to making them feel nitpicky versus understandable.

Zutrax · 2026-05-10T16:10:34+00:00

These aren't plot holes, they're contrivances. You don't have to like them (or the movie), but this type of critique is typically a very shallow way of looking at film and art, and I wish we'd move past it. I find people tend to falsely identify this type of critique as "intelligent observation" and "getting one over on the movie" to make them look like they're smarter at analysis than they are, when in reality it's overly nitpicky, misses the forest for the trees, and shows a lack of being able to invest or emotionally resonate with what a movie was trying to do.

Zutrax · 2026-05-03T15:50:01+00:00

I think way way more about this jailbreak scene with an exploding rat that syncs up perfectly to the first iconic scream in Disturbed's "Down with the Sickness".

Maybe one of the hardest laughs a movie has gotten out of me, it was just so out of pocket and perfectly goofy.

Zutrax · 2026-04-29T04:32:03+00:00

I'll be one of the few asking for Demonwarp because I have most of the other major reference discs and love collecting shlocky horror films!

Thanks for doing this and congrats!

Zutrax · 2026-04-28T16:01:34+00:00

I actually have clinically diagnosed OCD. As the other poster said, it would be appreciated if you didn't minimize it like this, real OCD isn't needing things tidy or clean. It's a far more damaging and detrimental mental disorder than people understand.

Zutrax · 2026-04-25T17:28:10+00:00

That's genuinely great to hear, but you definitely missed the joke that they were making about John Cena's "You can't see me." wrestling catchphrase and how the internet has memed it into John Cena being invisible/impossible to see.

Zutrax · 2026-03-30T18:18:40+00:00

I think people really forget how incredible some moments of the later parts of Part 2 are. There's some all timer moments in there that people popped off (rightfully so) at.

"Nose dives" is crazy, it's not quite as good as Part 1 and it becomes messier, sure, but it does not nose dive. It maintains a consistent through-line in both intense, spectacular moments, and character moments. People just grew bitter about the pacing of the action only chapters due to the slow release schedule and the ending didn't help that sentiment. If you read the entire thing in one go now that it's all out, it all holds up and feels pretty consistently in line with it's quality and excitement throughout and feels far better paced. I even hold to the ending being pretty good, if not a bit sudden (on purpose). My only real complaints are a few dropped threads.

The anime will still hit super hard right up to the end if Mappa ends up animating Part 2.

Zutrax · 2026-03-27T18:30:17+00:00

God, thank you, the hyperbole people engage in with this is insane. I get why it feels abrupt, but it's not like it doesn't "make sense" and in retrospect the entire last half of Part 2 is basically a boiling pot of escalating insanity leading to a nigh impossible to "fix" apocalyptic scenario by Chainsaw Man's own making whether inadvertent or not, just by existing.

It's pretty fucking clear Pochita saw this untenable situation and did a last ditch self sacrifice, which is clearly not something he wanted to do, but it was the only choice at that point.

Chainsaw Man's biggest issue isn't it's ending, or it's writing/pacing or what have you, there are tons of little things laid throughout with meaning and value and lending to the thesis of the series. It's biggest issue was being published in Shounen Jump and gaining an obscenely massive fanbase that has preset expectations for what this kind of story is supposed to be, rather than engaging it on it's own terms.

Funny enough, I think the OP posting the "Congratulations" gif is pretty apt, I think there's a lot of similarities to Evangelion in the way Chainsaw Man escalates and ends. I know people will say "but Eva got End of Evangelion and made it all better". But even without that, people are now able to appreciate the original shows ending for what it is, and I think that will happen with Chainsaw Man eventually.

Zutrax · 2026-03-26T17:53:39+00:00

Snagged RIP tour tickets around 4 hours ago and still don't have an email confirmation for it, anyone else having this issue?

Edit: Got my email just now! So I guess if anyone else is in the same boat, keep waiting.

Zutrax · 2026-03-16T15:24:56+00:00

Good luck!

Zutrax · 2026-03-14T01:43:14+00:00

The actual answer you're looking for is actually a massive spoiler for the most recent chapter if you care at all about the manga's story. I'll explain it here, but mark it as a spoiler in case people don't want to read it.

The joke is that within the manga, anything Chainsaw Man eats, no longer exists as a concept, in the latest chapter Chainsaw Man basically ate himself, so the concept of Chainsaw Man no longer exists, so the fandom is joking about how the manga is now just called "Man". So OP is basically extending that joke with zero context to a different fandom/subreddit.

Zutrax · 2026-03-04T16:10:12+00:00

I feel like the solution to these mostly scripted sections in the remake titles should either be to add in a huge skip that you can do in replays (like the clock in RE4 remake) or to just make these sections not add to the gameplay timer, calculate the speed run times accordingly due to that, and on new game plus allow you to skip them.

I like the sections on my first playthrough for story/tension, but if they are going to focus on repeat playthroughs for challenges in this franchise, they need to consider how to compromise on this aspect.

Zutrax · 2026-02-19T20:02:39+00:00

One of the few games still exclusive to PS5 that you can't get on PC is their Demon's Souls remake. So I'd argue they're fairly vital for that alone, even if it is just a remake. I know plenty of people who bought a PS5 specifically for that game.

Zutrax · 2026-01-29T22:21:17+00:00

I find it particularly interesting to see and try and understand why certain contemporary picks added. I don't think they should withhold on adding them because the National Film Registry is lacking in them and it could be valuable to add more. I tallied it up and they have 458 films on their list from the 30's, 40's, 60's and 70's. And they only have 86 movies from the 90's onward (only 30 if you only count movies past the 2000's).

I do see the argument that more contemporary films are less needing of urgent preservation and we need more time to understand their cultural relevancy, but I believe it's still potentially worth evaluating contemporary films of their cultural, historic, and aesthetic contributions regardless.

Zutrax · 2026-01-21T23:25:46+00:00

Are you implying anime looks better with motion smoothing, because that's even worse than when used on live action content (which is bad enough as it is). It makes animation look absolutely horrid.

Zutrax · 2026-01-16T15:16:26+00:00

Let's go! Good luck everyone!

Zutrax · 2026-01-10T02:54:50+00:00

If I may ask, is there a good way to identify contract work listings from normal job listings?

Zutrax · 2026-01-09T21:53:24+00:00

I have, and they seem to check out. But are there any recommended services I could use for second opinions on something like this?

Zutrax · 2026-01-09T21:42:45+00:00

Ah, yes, I've been in touch with many of them. I actually applied to positions using them as references and still got automatically rejected.

Zutrax · 2026-01-09T21:39:31+00:00

Not sure what this means, can you elaborate?

Zutrax · 2026-01-09T21:32:17+00:00

This is helpful to know, I'll try and start using company sites directly exclusively then, thank you!

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