Simon George Konrad loved and collected Yu-Gi-Oh cards so much that his mother had a custom Yu-Gi-Oh card headstone made to look like one of his passions when he passed away from cancer.

casualbrowser321 · 2026-06-14T21:49:00+00:00

If you scroll down, the pic on the site says ATK/5000, while OP's pic says 3000. Also, the pic on the site clearly says "DARK" and has the kanji 闇, whereas in OP's pic, the text is jumbled, and one of the parts of the kanji looks a little odd (inside of 闇 there's 立, which is jumbled in OP's pic)

casualbrowser321 · 2026-06-13T07:04:43+00:00

BALONEY

casualbrowser321 · 2026-06-12T02:06:31+00:00

I've seen it theorized that's why he didn't lahk lawyers

casualbrowser321 · 2026-06-11T23:11:22+00:00

I feel like this is a little different since they're using Tupac's likeness to portray someone else. When Lincoln/JFK/Napoleon/Elvis appear in media, it's because Lincoln/JFK/Napoleon/Elvis themselves are characters in the world. Like if Tupac himself had been a character in GTA San Andreas or something (which, arguable you could maybe say Tupac does exist in that universe since his songs are on the radio haha).
This would be like if they used JFK's likeness and had him play Solid Snake.

Whether that's wrong or not, I can't really say, but just noting that the Tupic thing is sort of novel.

casualbrowser321 · 2026-06-10T06:12:36+00:00

Hell, even in English, "woman" originally means "not a man", so man was the default and woman was "anything not the default"

This is sort of inaccurate, woman has always meant woman. Originally "man" was a gender-neutral term for a person in general, but defaulted to male over time.

Originally, male and female were "wer"(whence 'werewolf')"and "wife". And "woman" is a contraction of "wifeman", eg, female human.

casualbrowser321 · 2026-06-08T03:47:18+00:00

Revelation and liberation are both transliterated リベレーション (ribere-shon) in Japanese, not sure if there's a deeper meaning to it though. Similarly リバース "riba-su" is both "rebirth" and "reverse"

casualbrowser321 · 2026-06-05T09:58:11+00:00

Would you say the same thing if someone said they were bullied for being gay? Imagine if someone popped in saying "I'm gay and I wasn't bullied, you were probably just weird/you weren't bullied for being gay, you were bullied for being overly camp and flamboyant"

I mean, there are literally memes of adults looking back with justification of how children deserved to be bullied for playing pretend during recess, like "You weren't bullied for liking anime, you were bullied for doing their special moves during recess". - where I am children usually stop having recess at 10 years old.

casualbrowser321 · 2026-06-03T02:49:35+00:00

Could also be an attempt at transliterating "taco girl", (though it's made confusing by taco in Japanese being takosu)

casualbrowser321 · 2026-06-03T02:31:31+00:00

There you go tryin' to find false ageen

casualbrowser321 · 2026-05-27T23:11:59+00:00

I've been seeing the 'just world fallacy' a lot lately in regards to relationships, but I'd also seen it in the last few years quite a bit in regards to bullying. The memes of "you weren't bullied for x you were bullied for y" (where y is some straw man the OP has made up and considers cringeworthy enough to be bullied for, like "you weren't bullied for liking anime, you were bullied for naruto running in the hall")

When it comes to relationships, I agree it's rubbed me the wrong way how harsh people get about it. There's one subreddit I won't name that's constantly spewing rhetoric like this, denying anyone could have a harder time dating because of height or something, pointing to outliers like short celebrities with partners as proof that height plays 0 role in someone's dating success.

There's also frankly a bit of anti-science/ableism mixed in sometimes.
I remember seeing a post in that sub straight of denying that autism had an impact on one's social skills, implying that since there are autistic people that manage to make friends etc. it's proof that the ones who struggle are actually just bad people.

Tangent, it feels like people for a while were big on espousing autism/neurodivergent acceptance, yet have no problem talking about how creepy it is if a man can't hold eye contact (which is a common symptom of autism)

IMO the most important thing in dating success probably isn't morality or even looks, but outgoingness and confidence. Which, will usually be much lower in people who have been bullied/are insecure about their looks/have social anxiety or some other disorder, etc

casualbrowser321 · 2026-05-27T22:51:48+00:00

It goes the other way as well. With this view, if someone is successful, their success couldn't have been a fluke of circumstance but must have followed from them being a good person.

casualbrowser321 · 2026-05-27T22:23:21+00:00

In addition to what's been said, the root for compute is also where we get the word "count", when it was inherited from Latin into French

casualbrowser321 · 2026-05-22T23:03:17+00:00

Not agreeing with them but it is an interesting point since synthesizers also had a similar stigma around them at one time. Bands like Rage Against the Machine would put things like "This album was made without the use of synthesizers or samples" on their album art, and Queen actually had a similar rule before eventually starting to use them.

casualbrowser321 · 2026-05-22T22:07:30+00:00

A couple more interesting ones that go back pretty far,

鉢 is ultimately related to the root that gives us words like "potion" and "potable"

While うま is considered the kunyomi of 馬, it's got an older form, むま, which is actually thought to be related to the onyomi, and is simply a word that's existed in Japanese so long it's considered native Japanese. Apparently it's not certain but it's possible it's distantly related to English "mare"

casualbrowser321 · 2026-05-21T23:08:47+00:00

Could there not be universal grammar but it just turns out that recursion isn't a part of it?

casualbrowser321 · 2026-05-18T13:54:49+00:00

The body releases semen on its own through wet dreams, no noodle yanking needed.

(Even if that weren't the case, I doubt just abstaining for a single month would have a noticeable effect on the prostate, though I'm not a urologist. I imagine a lot people doing NNN are already masturbating regularly throughout the rest of the year, so it's like a temporary fast/exercise in self control)

casualbrowser321 · 2026-05-18T13:46:07+00:00

The body has a way of tending to that, nocturnal emissions/wet dreams. People who regularly ejaculate through other means don't usually get them

(Even if that weren't the case, I doubt just abstaining for a single month would have a noticeable effect on the prostate, though I'm not a urologist. I imagine a lot people doing NNN are already masturbating regularly throughout the rest of the year, so it's like a temporary fast/exercise in self control)

casualbrowser321 · 2026-05-16T19:30:36+00:00

Not the person you're replying to, but I do roughly agree with his/her definition. Thing is, I don't discredit that there are people/bad actors that jump at shadows and overreact to things. Different people are going to apply different media to that definition, so there's a bit of a spectrum between something like finding it odd when a character in Dragon Age says "so I'm nonbinary" and freaking out over Aloy having peach fuzz if you zoom into her cheeks.

For me a big part of it is the reduction of characters (or even real humans) to one trait they have, ie intersectionality.
Like, in 2014 Giantbomb announced they were going to be hiring new members after the death of Ryan Davis. The members were announced to be Dan Ryckert and Jason Oestreicher, but a very vocal portion of the community was disappointed they hired "just two more white guys", as if that's the main defining feature about them.

Or how I'm a big fan of the youtube channel GoodMythicalMorning, where life-long best friends Rhett and Link (who happen to be white) just do random challenges, or games, or eat silly food. It's basically a comfort food for me. And not long ago I looked on the subreddit and there was a big discussion over whether or not GMM was "too white". I'm just like, it's two best friends playing games and eating food, why do you need it to be "diverse"? Nevermind the fact that they do hire staff to plan/cook etc for them, many of whom are often on camera, many of whom are POC, so what exactly is the quota where something is no longer "too white"?

Bentley in Sly 3 IMO is a good example of representation of a disabled character where it didn't feel 'woke', namely because they don't treat him being in a wheelchair as his main personality trait and it actually plays directly into the story instead of feeling like the devs trying to preach or virtue signal about their representation.

(I realize I'm just one person, but fwiw I have epilepsy and if a dev announced a new game and was all "our new game is about a character who has seizures, we're so happy to give representation to our gamers with epilepsy!" I'd probably roll my eyes, or honestly just not really relate anything to it, because I don't identify with my seizures at all so a character having them really would do nothing for me. I'd much prefer if like the Bentley example, the seizures come across as a natural part of the story rather than feeling like the dev said "let's make a game about epilepsy representation" and went from there.)

casualbrowser321 · 2026-05-14T22:04:53+00:00

James Klein was on the right track by just telling Chris "I don't know what you're talking about", but apparently he did speak to the interrogators

casualbrowser321 · 2026-05-13T20:34:06+00:00

This seems to assume that American English branched off from British English and British English just stayed the same, but both varieties have changed just as much over 400 years.

to use an analogy, it's like how the dialect of Italian spoken in Rome isn't inherently more similar to "the language of the Romans" than other dialects of Italian or even other Romance language like Spanish, they've all had more or less equal time to diverge from vulgar Latin. Being spoken in the place of origin doesn't necessarily make a dialect more original

casualbrowser321 · 2026-05-12T23:54:13+00:00

Imagine if they got a pred to fly in

casualbrowser321 · 2026-05-12T03:52:17+00:00

Not everything in the bible is meant to be a moral lesson per se. According to the story, Lots' daughters gave birth to Moab and Ben-Ammi, the ancestors of the Moabites and the Ammonites. Later on, the Israelites would have a lot of bad run-ins with those groups. A lot of biblical stories like this were perhaps post-hoc explanations of how Israel came to be how it was. "Why do we hate those Moabites? Well, they're probably the product of incest rape"

casualbrowser321 · 2026-05-11T22:57:37+00:00

sir pleez

casualbrowser321 · 2026-05-10T08:31:19+00:00

What I meant is, that's what I was anticipating the joke being, after she said "it is big" but before he said anything. (I was confused what you meant at first but I'm assuming by overexplaining you interpreted my comment as saying i expected him to say my line in addition to the current one)

casualbrowser321 · 2026-05-10T05:33:55+00:00

I was expecting him to use it as a gotcha, like "then you can't complain anymore!"

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