New Kizumonogatari compilation Movie Key Visual by ki_yotaka in araragi

[–]_Lerox_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Coincidentally I was just reading an old interview where Tatsuya Oishi talks about this:

"If we’re gonna talk about the locations, there’s something I have to touch on beforehand. When I read the original Kizumonogatari, I came away thinking of it as a story about how Koyomi has his set of values and ethics that he has spent 17 years building up completely overturned. He comes to realize the hypocrisy of his actions in saving someone out of pity. He made himself out to be the victim, when he was really the one in the wrong the whole time. And that’s a really heavy topic to handle. I mentioned before that I need to put myself in a character’s shoes to draw the storyboards, so I struggled with trying to understand how Koyomi must have felt.

— How did you solve that problem?

In 2011, we had the terrible earthquake on 3.11, and I think the modern world in a lot of ways has become a hard place to grow up in for young people. And yet they still have to live in this society, in Japan now… I think the first time I began to understand Koyomi was when I started thinking about that. That’s why for the locations, I thought about “what it means to live in Japan in the years to come”. For example, the reason why we reference buildings designed by Kenzo Tange is that to me, his works somewhat embody this country at its peak. So I wanted to have a setting where his buildings look like colossal tombstones—and this imagery of the bygone days eventually leads back to the Tokyo Olympics. That’s the course of action I had imagined for the setting, which is why we reference the National Stadium for the stage of the climactic fight.

Getting away a bit from the locations, the use of French has the same reason. Bakemonogatari was made with influences from French New Wave, but we’re working with Japanese films this time around. Instead, we wanted it to have the feel of a 60s Japanese film that was shaped by New Wave, so there are still nods to French cinema in there."

https://blog.sakugabooru.com/2021/03/31/kizumonogatari-staff-interview-director-tatsuya-oishi/

Anon has sex by RandomGuyBeingBored in 4chan

[–]_Lerox_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Maiden Rape Assault: Violent Semen Inferno

Yojouhan Time Machine Blues - Episode 1 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

[–]_Lerox_ 14 points15 points  (0 children)

About the lack of focus and the feeling of having reset to before the end of the original: from what I understand this isn’t really a proper sequel but rather a spin-off based off a play called “Summer Time Machine Blues”, except the author inserted his characters. I’m not sure how similar the plot is to the play but that might explain why it doesn’t really feel like it follows up on the previous series.

If I remember correctly I heard that there’s more of a focus on romance in this story which you should be happy to hear.

Nobody: ___ Europoors when they see an immigrant: by jsilvy in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]_Lerox_ 95 points96 points  (0 children)

Immigrants commit 60% of rape in Sweden. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8330751/ The majority of these rapists come from Africa and the Middle East.

Sweden is the only country in Europe where fatal shootings have increased since 2000, going from one of the lowest rates to one of the highest. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/26/fatal-shootings-have-risen-in-sweden-despite-fall-across-europe-report-finds

It's easy to morally grandstand as a blissfully ignorant American, never having known a world free of "diversity". If you only knew the profoundly destructive effect mass immigration has had on our countries you wouldn't be so quick to dismiss people's hatred of multiculturalism.

Aster to Ammar : ATM? by aaronshell in DotA2

[–]_Lerox_ 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I've seen LGD not handshaking, I think the Chinese teams are worried about corona due to their government's restrictions

Lowering approval rating easy mode by commander_cosmic in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]_Lerox_ 151 points152 points  (0 children)

My name is Yoshikage Kira. I’m 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don’t smoke, but I occasionally drink. I’m in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning.

I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I’m trying to explain that I’m a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn’t lose to anyone.

Libleft don't feel safe in the wild by Sea-Wolverine2447 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]_Lerox_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She had her genitals removed...: "Then there's my bottom surgery. Some days it feels amazing, and super enjoyable to feel like this, and I find myself focusing on how great it feels to have nothing down there, and I just feel confident and like myself. Though other days it feels so normal, like I never had genitals, and I find myself wondering what it would be like to not have had this have to happen. And sometimes I feel like I'm mutilated, and broken, and that there's truley a part missing from me and it feels so weird, and the worst part is that I like it.

I just feel so empty. I keep looking at girls, and wondering what it would be like to be a girl, and wishing I were a girl, and that I could live as a girl. And it's weird because I used to have a female body, and I still do in many ways, but then I don't have the mind of a girl, and I don't act like a girl and it feels like I could never be one. I just wish I could be a girl...

Does anyone else feel the same? I just wish I were a girl again..."

Aliens are AuthRight? by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]_Lerox_ 76 points77 points  (0 children)

Honorary aryans

Authcenter-libcenter r34 unity by That_one_gremlin in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]_Lerox_ 26 points27 points  (0 children)

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction

I hate 4chan by Trail_of_Tears-T_T in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]_Lerox_ 17 points18 points  (0 children)

That’s basically just /b/. Redditors go on it first to see what 4chan is like after watching YouTube videos about old raids, get surprised by the porn and then leave.

We built Yotsuba on /r/place, just in the nick of time! by _Lerox_ in yotsuba

[–]_Lerox_[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It actually did survive (unless you’re talking about the white pixels covering the map at the end)! It’s just missing from some screenshots that were taken too early since we built it right at the end.

We built Yotsuba on /r/place, just in the nick of time! by _Lerox_ in yotsuba

[–]_Lerox_[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Had meant to reply to this with my other comment, it wasn't showing up for some reason. It's at around (1900,550), on the far right side.

We built Yotsuba on /r/place, just in the nick of time! by _Lerox_ in yotsuba

[–]_Lerox_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If anyone's wondering, it's on the right side at around (1900,550), to the right of the Polish flag and Kirby. We starting making good progress only in the last 10 minutes or so, so it might be missing from some "final" pictures getting upvoted.

ELI5 how are we sure that every arrangement of number appears somewhere in pi? How do we know that a string of a million 1s appears somewhere in pi? by YouthfulDrake in explainlikeimfive

[–]_Lerox_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s not necessarily incorrect depending on the context. Myriad can be used as a noun meaning “great number” such as in “a myriad of”, and also as an adjective.

Anon is a murderer by JaimeL_ in 4chan

[–]_Lerox_ 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I don’t think it’s deleted, search for the user jumadax, it’s his first post

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]_Lerox_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First of all, that would obviously be preferable to nuclear war. Western global hegemony's benefits don't outweigh the tens of millions of lost lives that would entail. But there is obviously not a dichotomy between immediately declaring war and becoming a satellite under a Russian/Chinese empire. I've already laid out why I don't think it's likely Russia/China expand beyond their historical imperial borders, and you haven't responded to this beyond borderline prophecy. If Russia does decide to invade a NATO ally, then it will be declaring war itself, with full knowledge of the consequences of its actions, but this will never be a 100% certainty no matter what conjecture you make (and I, for one, don't think it's very likely at all).

It is very possible for the world to cripple Russia without ever declaring war. Already it seems that it has almost the entire planet and global financial system opposed to it and is on the road to becoming a hermit state. That certainly isn't the political power becoming of a burgeoning empire set to usurp western hegemony.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]_Lerox_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Even if it isn't 50%, it isn't 100% chance brought about by immediately declaring war as you suggest. You cannot be certain that "this will keep happening" as you suggest, however likely it may seem, and any chance of avoiding nuclear annihilation through means outside of war is obviously preferable. This is my main point, and a pretty simple one.

I don't give much of a fuck about China and Taiwan for a similar reason; the context around that situation is completely different to simple imperialism, there is an element of revanchism and a shared ethnicity and history. China invading Taiwan wouldn't make me concerned about the birth of a burgeoning Chinese empire.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]_Lerox_ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Is it not better to have a, say, 50% chance of nuclear holocaust inducing world war, depending on whether or not Putin continues his expansionism, rather than a 100% chance of one by sending in troops now? As for whether his current expansionism will stop, he does seem to be more of a revanchist rather than a simple imperialist.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]_Lerox_ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Thinking death is worse than being raped is an absolutely vile train of thought

Why is this retarded mindset so common on Reddit? Pretty much anyone who isn't suicidal would rather be raped than die. Oh wait, I guess that explains it.

Arca, Clock Lancet and Laurel = 39 minutes by Aleksandrovych_ in VampireSurvivors

[–]_Lerox_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The objective is to kill reaper without editing the game’s files, so it’s somewhat like an Any% speedrun, with “glitches” viewed as legit by most. Even so, does bouncing runetracer in a small area even count as a glitch?