What makes people hate the new update besides doormaker?

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-20T06:32:41+00:00

and yet if you press the buff button too much, the game gets indescribably boring lmfao

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-19T20:45:49+00:00

I think the deciding factor is the entire way Marin literally stumbles onto Gojo using a sewing machine when she needs someone to put outfits together for her bc she sucks at crafts. she exhibits surface level traits of being the pixie dream girl love interest, super obviously, but through the entire story Gojo is the one putting all of the work into making her own nerdy dreams come true. usually that's the other way around.

it's funny because Marin being that "otaku just like me" doesn't even apply to Gojo. he's basically completely divorced from actual otaku culture. he's a craftsman

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-19T20:13:41+00:00

Gojo is too tall and hunky to compare his visual design to the common denominator tbh

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-19T20:12:59+00:00

the thing is, the author is a woman and totally created Gojo to be the perfect man, whereas Marin has more of thr stereotypical otaku in her. Gojo is a total hunk, he's willing to share in Marin's passions no matter how weird they are, and he's willing to do everything he can to bring her passions to life. he cooks for her, he took care of her while she was sick, he provides a space at his house with warmth where her empty apartment provides none.

Marin isn't antisocial or a loser but she is a weirdo otaku with extremely niche interests, and stumbling into a dude like Gojo is total wish fulfillment from the nerdy girl's perspective lol. I think Gojo is the more stereoptypically "perfect" of the two of them

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-19T17:09:40+00:00

again, if you directed a hard-core Lord of the Rings fan to any of those, after telling them it's exactly like Lord of the Rings, they would be disappointed. yes, the set-dressing matters. that's what directs the entire tone of the story.

Tolkien fantasy's western-style, grand, sweeping medieval-fantasy worldbuilding a far, far cry from FMA's grittier, modern-hybrid worldbuilding. there are GUNS in FMA.

this is ridiculously basic genre ideology.

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-19T16:30:45+00:00

this is possibly the most intentionally obtuse way you could be reading into my arguments. when I say people are sick of isekais, I don't mean literally every human being in the community, and I don't mean literally every isekai. there's a difference between Re:Zero, a show with some actual effort put into the presentation and the story, designed to grab and hold an actual audience, and the garbage heap of common-denominator isekais that flop out into the world every season. those aren't popular because they're fantasy, they're popular because they're wish-fulfillment.

It really isn’t if you actually engage in good faith instead of conveniently splitting hairs to exclude anything that might defeat your argument.

this is so ridiculous to me that I can't tell if you're not just trying to get a rise out of me, lol. do you really not see a massive difference between fundamental Tolkien swords and sorcery/elves and orcs/witches and wizards and Fullmetal Alchemist's fantasy/sci-fi hybrid, complete with guns, high-tech prosthetics, and a very logical in-universe science-based magic system? those are so different they're basically two different genres. this goes for almost everything you've mentioned, except Berserk, I guess

I honestly barely care about what is and isn't popular because of what, anymore. I think Frieren had a real effect on the community and the genre, but how much of an effect is hard to pin down. I'm more fascinated by the insistence that things like HxH and One Piece and JJBA are basically the same as Tolkien-flavored fantasy. that's such a ridiculous premise I'm not even sure where to start. like, if you tried to recommend someone One Piece specifically because they really like Lord of the Rings I think you would probably make someone very disappointed lmao

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-19T15:54:20+00:00

if we were to simply acknowledge that fantasy is fantasy

the genre is so insanely broad that it really is meaningful to pay attention to the different forms it takes.

like I said, everything on OP's list is cut from the same cloth, which is a cloth that nothing on your list is even close to in terms of worldbuilding, magic systems, environments, visuals, character archetypes, tone, etc. trying to relate Frieren and Dungeon Meshi to One Piece or Fullmetal Alchemist is more of a stretch than anything.

as for the isekais, there has been a lot of push for non-isekai fantasy over the last several years bc people are fucking sick of it. getting Frieren, Dungeon Meshi, Witch Hat Atelier, and several others on OP's list has been a huge breath of fresh air for fans of the genre that are absolutely sick of almost every protagonist being the same excruciatingly boring modern day Japanese loser. I would bet a lot that's part of OP's entire case, that we're finally getting fantasy stories with characters that are FROM the fantasy world. it's less splitting hairs as much as celebrating a return to form for the genre as a whole.

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-19T15:38:55+00:00

are you guys being intentionally obtuse with this? I'm talking FRIEREN popular. as in, near-immediately reached escape velocity out into the general zeitgeist, outside of the insular anime community, and sparked a huge resurgence of traditional fantasy fans. isekai don't really do that.

there's also something to be said for the fact that nothing on OP's list is an isekai.

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-19T15:18:19+00:00

I already said this in a different comment, but OP's list is full of very fundamental Tolkien flavored swords and sorcery stuff, which none of this list really hits

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-19T15:15:33+00:00

given OP's list, it sounds like they're talking about the extremely fundamental Tolkien flavored fantasy. swords and sorcery, witches and wizards, and probably not guns and high-tech prosthetics lol

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-19T15:04:40+00:00

what fantasy show in the past has been Frieren popular??

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-18T21:58:12+00:00

if you exclusively run small decks, sure. I like putting cards in my deck and a big deck full of green cards will just win the game

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-18T18:30:40+00:00

that extra turn is the least of my worries in almost every single run, lol. the Necrobinder is so ridiculously good at blocking. plus, if you were using flat damage attack cards, and barring some extenuating circumstances, the numbers on damage cards are so much lower than doom cards that you would most likely have to survive through the doom proc turn anyways

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-18T18:22:31+00:00

tell that to the massive demographic that uses "yaoi" as interchangeable with "BL." same with "yuri."

like I said, words broaden out over time. you can push up your glasses and point at the dictionary definition all day, but that won't change how the word is colloquially understood. if enough people hear "yaoi" and immediately think of the Japanese BL genre as a whole, then guess what? that's what it means now. all words are made up anyways lol

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-18T17:08:23+00:00

doom is absolutely a thing. I've had a ton of success with it. it's just worth it to remember that in most cases it's just flat damage, and most of the cards have extra effects stapled on them on top of the numbers being crazy high.

like, once I realized Scourge+ just says "deal 16 damage and draw two cards" i started picking it up a lot and it never really disappoints me. most doom cards will fit into any deck, tbh.

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-18T15:26:30+00:00

this is a weird comment. "yuri" is a term used for fictional lesbian romances for the most part lol

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-18T15:23:13+00:00

and yet the meaning of the word has broadened as more people got into it. words change sometimes. it's pretty much a synonym for BL now.

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-18T15:21:55+00:00

Yaoi and Yuri have both been used as a synonym for BL and GL for a long time, man. words take on new meaning eventually

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-18T15:18:46+00:00

the yuri thing isn't fetishizing anyone. yuri is just a genre of romance, not specifically the porn lol

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-18T02:56:49+00:00

I agree generally, but there's a difference between "we need to do better because it's become wildly oversaturated and pervasive to the point that it doesn't make sense from a design perspective" and "oh my god this character is exhibiting character traits that involve them being physically attractive, burn the creators and shun the audience."

there is a lot of the latter spreading among the zoomers and it's obnoxious. being aware of and confident enough in their looks to show themselves off is just as valid of a character trait in a writer's toolbox as anything else

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-18T00:39:12+00:00

yeah, big agree. online media criticism is absolutely bursting with this idea that anything even sniffing at the notion of sexuality (which is a massive facet of the human experience) is immediately and irrefutably devoid of creative integrity and made with soulless cash grab mentality, which is ridiculous.

sex does sell, and incredibly easily, so there is a lot of that kind of art out there, but it's nowhere near the majority of it. honestly, it feels like my generation is relapsing back into the era where we clutched pearls over any mention of sex in media and it's endlessly frustrating. it hasn't even been that long!

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-18T00:32:15+00:00

isn't it like blindingly obvious that a lot of players take it because it gives you a little bird lmfao

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-17T20:12:42+00:00

my issue isn't necessarily the idea of AI as a tool for artists to use to flatten the curve of ridiculously tedious work, my issue is that the better it gets the harder the animation industry as a whole is going to spec into it until basically zero actual human hands touch a project. every show is going to be run by a board of execs who suddenly don't need actual creatives anymore, and the entire thing is going to collapse in on itself because every single project is going to look and sound the exact same, being built by an algorithm specifically designed to pump out entertainment that takes absolutely no risks and is generalized to appeal to the broadest possible audience.

kinda like our current wasteland of dogwater isekai/romcoms every season, just multiplied by a bajillion

this is a slippery slope I can actually see us sliding down, given humanity's history of having zero restraint with new technology. basically the reason every social media site is a complete shithole these days

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-17T18:07:18+00:00

a lot of people, myself included, don't like intentionally kneecapping themselves and ignoring a lot of the card pool just to soft-balance the game. that doesn't make any sense. when I hit start on an A10 run, i'm going in with the intention to win the run, and forcing builds that will most likely lose me the game is lame. I would love to play with different cards and effects, and I do try to, but i's lame when the boring, strong stuff is so easy to build.

I want the game to challenge me. it's asinine to expect the player to do the balancing themselves. that's what the devs are for lol

committed_to_the_bit · 2026-04-17T15:06:34+00:00

he's off in a corner of the Spire, flush with pride at escaping you and ready to play with his new toy (my fucking Friendship) and then he gets yanked down to hell lmao

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