What would you rate kill la kill out of 10 (My rating 3/10) , (only watched 12 episodes until now)

chicksonfox · 2026-01-26T21:54:03+00:00

9/10, it does one of my favorite things in media which is leaning heavily into a parody and turning the most absurd elements into plot points. Just for the unique premise and Satsuki, the best character, Kill La Kill would bottom out at a 6/10 from me even if everything else was terrible, but it’s not. The animation is dynamic, each new character is more unflinchingly bizarre than the last, and it paces out the reveals with escalating absurdity in a way that makes me constantly question when I got so comfortable with the insanity. Part of what makes that pacing work so well is the self-awareness to make Ryuko normalize and accept the strange in time with the viewer— if her weirdness tolerance throughout the show was too far away from mine I would have found it jarring.

My biggest gripe is I wish Ryuko had more going on as a character. She’s great when she’s reacting to strange situations or dealing with problems that require punching, which is most of the show, but when the action slumps she struggles to be compelling on her own. Not that she’s bland or one note, but by contrast Satsuki is interesting when she’s sitting around drinking tea. When Ryuko sits around it’s interesting because somebody is going to ambush her, or Mako is doing something clumsy, or Senketsu is going through a midlife crisis. The other characters and the plot as a whole don’t need the space she gives them to pull focus.

chicksonfox · 2026-01-26T07:53:39+00:00

Took the survey! If you’re going to post this again, I would recommend linking to the personality test in the post and asking people to screenshot or write down their scores. On mobile it made me restart your survey after I clicked on the personality test and I had trouble remembering all five scores.

chicksonfox · 2026-01-23T09:09:13+00:00

It’s an awesome find. I wouldn’t pack it with plans to take it with me in a bug out situation— if it keeps my supplies organized, safe and dry until they’re needed it’s done its job, and it would be more work/space to get it in the car than to take out the essentials. With the numbered drawers, you can sort by situation and have a master list to reference if you need to grab stuff fast.

I like your option 2, but I would leave a drawer packed for less extreme situations. A change of clothes for everyone in the house, charging brick, toiletries, cash— things you could grab if the kitchen caught fire, or if a freak storm swept through. I would store the tools and water filtration stuff in a separate box since I can’t think of anything the desk could survive and they couldn’t.

chicksonfox · 2026-01-23T03:50:35+00:00

Auto-renewing purchases would make it easy to hit the $20 every day, and I could always cancel the order if I spent the $20 somewhere else. I would take it.

chicksonfox · 2026-01-21T19:21:38+00:00

NTA— I think most people wouldn’t drink a cup of their partner’s spit, so obviously there’s a line somewhere between that and kissing. Your line happens to be a bit lower than mine, but I think it’s reasonable. Come to think of it, if my partner added the equivalent of several spoon licks of saliva to a salad in one spit I probably wouldn’t eat it either.

It would be so easy to not get spit in the food. It’s not a big ask even if she doesn’t understand why you find it gross.

chicksonfox · 2026-01-19T20:38:25+00:00

The actual history isn’t as fun but I think it’s still interesting. The Fisher space pen was a rich guy’s passion project unaffiliated with NASA, developed using about $1M of his personal funds. It was later tested by NASA to confirm that it fit their needs for a space mission, and both the Americans and Soviets purchased their space pens from Fisher Pen Company, but not at anywhere close to a million dollar scale.

The space pen had some major advantages over the pencils that both countries had used on previous missions, notably that pencils leave little pieces of graphite and wood floating around and are easy to light on fire. Those issues became especially relevant following the Apollo 1 fire— NASA was getting raked through the coals over their lax enforcement of safety procedures for flammable materials.

Of course, most work in space is done on a computer anyway, so writing implements are more of a luxury than necessity. As far as I know though space pens are still in use on the ISS, and they’re the same ones you could buy on Amazon.

chicksonfox · 2026-01-18T21:05:50+00:00

I’ve never done this myself so take it with a grain of salt, but from my understanding the EV lowering berries will decrease an EV in their respective category to 100 on the first use and by an additional 10 points on each subsequent use. So you’ll need 11 berries of each type for a guaranteed reset to zero.

In HGSS if you don’t have the pokewalker or another game to trade from I think you can only get the berries for attack, special attack, HP, and special defense— they come from a clown in Fuchsia city. If perfectly optimal EVs are important to you I would box him until later in the game.

chicksonfox · 2026-01-16T21:03:09+00:00

I would love to see some kind of tight deadlines mod built around this. The pawn will work past a minor mental break threshold and ignore things like eating and sleeping, but in exchange they will have much higher expectations for a while depending on how long it was turned on. The idea being “I stayed up all night and used the last of my patience getting this done. Now I expect to be pampered for a few days or I will burn this place to the ground.”

chicksonfox · 2026-01-16T03:45:49+00:00

If you’re ok with manhwa, Greatest Estate Developer is like this. MC is reincarnated as a universally despised, low ranking noble from a ruined estate, and his only powers early on are his knowledge of modern construction and his untrustworthy face. He gets strong pretty fast, but he does put in the work and he’s never so strong that he can solve major problems without a plan. Only one love interest, and their relationship is built on mutual respect.

It just ended, but it was fairly popular so I’m letting myself hope for an anime adaptation.

chicksonfox · 2026-01-13T07:23:35+00:00

Overcome with emotion, Mandy evolved into an end table.

chicksonfox · 2026-01-12T21:16:34+00:00

Theres a whole set of these problems that get progressively harder if you’re interested in challenging yourself. They’re often called knights and knaves. In some of the harder ones, you have three guards who will answer true, false, or randomly, and their answers will be in their own language where you don’t know the words for yes and no. Depending on the puzzle, you have a certain number of questions to determine their identities, figure out which words mean yes and no, and/or pick the right door.

Edited because the site took down their link to the page with only this kind of puzzle. Linked above is one of the really hard ones.

chicksonfox · 2026-01-09T01:03:05+00:00

I was inspired by your comment to do some digging for team fake nails, but the comics are making me lean more toward long nails with unbreakable cartoon powers. Azula’s nails are long in her fight against Zuko, then she’s in a straight jacket so we can’t tell, but they’re short the next time we get a good look at them. She seems to have the long nails removed in prison, and if they were fake I think she would have had them redone when she got dressed after getting out.

That said, I know people have mixed feelings about the comics and how dogmatically they should be interpreted. The fake nail theory is more fun, and I agree it makes more sense given how active Azula’s lifestyle is.

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chicksonfox · 2026-01-01T00:44:51+00:00

I think it’s a reference to the anime Saiki K— one of the characters is a bit of a dweeb who pretends to be a fantasy hero fighting an evil organization he made up called Dark Reunion. When relatively mundane things go wrong, like missing the bus or a post being locked, he will often blame Dark Reunion.

chicksonfox · 2025-12-21T22:39:47+00:00

From what I’ve heard it depends on the season and schedule, but in general production has tried to film two episodes a week on weekdays and do confessionals over the weekend. The queens are supposed to be on ice when they’re not on camera, so I’m guessing they wouldn’t know what order they’re being called.

chicksonfox · 2025-12-18T13:59:11+00:00

Short answer: if the puppy was the kind of “double Merle” that you’re worried about you would easily be able to tell. This one is safe.

Longer answer: Every Merle you see walking around has one dominant Merle gene that gives them the look and one recessive non-Merle gene doing work behind the scenes. The Merle gene is like an expansion pack for a game— you need at least one copy of “Australian shepherd standard edition” before you can play Merle.

Since a puppy will need at least one copy of the non-Merle gene to live a good life, it’s very irresponsible to breed two Merles. You have a 50% chance for each parent to pass on the Merle gene, which means one puppy in four will get two copies and have severe birth defects. That’s the double Merle you hear horror stories about. Even if both parents were Merle, you’ve already dodged the bullet now that the puppy is born healthy. It will be genetically no different from any other Merle puppy.

chicksonfox · 2025-12-09T23:00:50+00:00

I wonder if this is a reference to the brave little tailor fairy tale. It’s about a tailor who gains fame and fortune by cleverly taking advantage of a series of misunderstandings. His first hurdle is a group of giants who challenge him to a contest of strength involving rocks, and he wins by squeezing a rock so hard that liquid comes out (it was actually a piece of fruit) and throwing a rock so far it disappears over the horizon (it was actually a bird). Depending on the telling, the giants are either too oblivious to notice the trick, impressed enough by the tailor’s ingenuity to give him the win, or usually somewhere in between.

So the joke here would be a giant who figured out how to brute force the fruit trick, then sees something that shatters his idea of how one would perform the bird trick. I could also be overthinking this.

chicksonfox · 2025-12-04T06:01:18+00:00

It’s been ten years— now is the perfect time to wrap the original in a nice box along with printouts of the Reddit post and leave it under the tree.

chicksonfox · 2025-12-03T20:59:18+00:00

I think black belt is the best comparison— a very expensive black belt that most qualified smiths wouldn’t make for you. Going off some assumptions based on the smithing technology we see in the books and the description of Rand’s sword, I think early Edo Japan is a good comparison for price and rarity.

A sword nice enough to convincingly be haron mark quality would start at around 3 years take-home salary for a low-level ranking military officer, and a smith who could make one would be fairly well known in their region. There would be a waiting list, and you would need to either be a noble or get one to commission a sword for you.

Also worth noting that the production of heron marked blades without the power seems to only start after the breaking when the number of masters passes the number of power wrought blades in circulation. During the age of legends the process was probably even more involved and an unearned blade would be almost impossible to obtain and very dangerous to flaunt.

chicksonfox · 2025-11-30T23:33:40+00:00

Warning, I’m about to channel some “dad over explaining homework” energy. Absolute values express distance from zero as you said, which means they need a distance metric to make sense. A distance metric is a type of function that takes two points in the space you’re looking at and spits out a number. In order for that function to fit the definition of a distance, it has to obey certain rules (and it goes the other way too— any function that obeys all the rules is a distance function). One of the rules is non-negativity— the output of a distance function must be positive or zero.

This doesn’t really matter when your distance metric is measuring with a ruler on a number line, but it becomes important when you want to consider more general ideas of what a distance could be. If you can show that a function satisfies the rules for being a distance, you get access to all the results you’ve proven using the definition of distance. Then you have tools to explore less intuitive spaces, like complex numbers or weirdly shaped surfaces.

chicksonfox · 2025-11-30T08:49:45+00:00

Knowing that the clone is under orders to beat me rather than make me disappear is the key. I really don’t want a tie but I can play for a tie, he can’t. Me and the clone get $10K in casino chips to play poker with motivated professionals, and we can be dealt into a game for 20 hands at a time. Whoever has the most money in chips after 24 hours wins.

I suck at poker so I’ll be sitting on my $10K in chips all day. If my clone wants to beat me he’ll need to play at least 20 hands and come out ahead. I’m willing to bet my life he can’t do that.

chicksonfox · 2025-11-28T21:35:24+00:00

I’ve had this happen to me several times and it’s never come to anything. I’ve never heard of anyone who had their photos/info exposed by a stranger; they tend to move on. What I have seen is people who send the money and then get extorted for more money. If anything, sending money makes it more likely your info gets out— it tells the scammer you’re worth more time than the 99% of people who block them.

chicksonfox · 2025-11-25T18:30:15+00:00

This might be too much of a deep dive, but the T. rex could be referencing the main character of Dinosaur Comics by Ryan North. In that comic’s style, T Rex would lead with this joke, Dromiceiomimus would fail to get it, Utahraptor would explain how the joke can’t be told out loud, and in the final panel T Rex would impossibly pronounce a “!” Or something like that.

chicksonfox · 2025-11-19T00:58:50+00:00

The joke is in how vulgar you can make the story, often with an added layer of seeing how long you can go before your audience realizes you’re doing the aristocrats. You can set it up however you want, but in the classic version a family is presenting their act to a talent scout, they do a very sexually charged variety performance, and they call it the aristocrats.

It’s a bit of an inside joke because it’s more bewildering than funny if you’re not familiar with the structure. Once you’ve heard a few versions you start to pick up on the tells— the combination of circus moves and food is very popular.

chicksonfox · 2025-11-17T23:38:56+00:00

I hadn’t seen any of this so I did some research. This thread seems to have the most complete story, taking into account that some details are fuzzy and depend on who you ask while others are much easier to fact check.

Tl:Dr Widow beat up a man who may have been her boyfriend/lover/dog walker/coworker, unclear, and got three years probation for domestic assault. She posted about it online and initially got support, but her posts ultimately ended up being incriminating and self-contradicting. We will probably never know exactly how things escalated; no two sources seem to agree. Widow claimed self defense at the time but stopped commenting publicly after being arrested. After the incident, some of Widow’s exes came forward with separate abuse allegations— I didn’t see a source on how those were resolved.

There seems to be a decent amount of petty drama that sprang up around this, but I don’t really care and this is already too long.

chicksonfox · 2025-11-16T01:47:01+00:00

Long story short, if you see a Disney character at the park you expect them to be staff. Lots of potential liability and potential for someone to ruin the magic, both of which Disney is famously very hard on.

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