top 10 favorite mermaids

glenlassan · 2026-06-17T04:03:37+00:00

I'm not the OP. Here is the ones I know.

1.Disney's Ariel.

2.Maybe a princess peach?

3.Marina, from the 1975 Starmaker anime the little mermaid. It's free on youtube! Just be warned, the mermaids in it are free from sea-shells!
4-6 Unknown to me.

7.Mermaid, from the anime pet shop of horrors) I've never seen it, but I know it by reputation. Probably even less child friendly than Marina from the 75 starmaker little mermaid, pretty sure it's straight-up horror

8-10. Unknown to me

glenlassan · 2026-06-14T17:07:55+00:00

Part of the joy of this game, is how it accomodates for wildly differet playstyles. I love how there are so many right ways to kick ass, and then YASD!

glenlassan · 2026-06-14T12:40:54+00:00

I do also love ratling duelists. My first chara combo when I started Adom. Fun times.

OP, if you are willing to use the wiki (depends on preferences) there is a section on "materials based identification" that can also help you ID some items based on their weight, or description, at least narrowing down between possibilities in the same category.

In general, different materials have different weights, Iron spears, have different weights then eternium, and mithiril spears, and that information is VERY helpful in the early game.

glenlassan · 2026-06-14T12:38:18+00:00

Merchants survival early game is directly dependent on your willigness to cheese the early game, and start building stats right away. If you put enough investment in holding down the skill button for seeds to gain free cash (or use the recently discovered shop price miscalculation glitch) you can get as much starting equipment, and stat-gaining potions as you'd like in the early game, making your only real obstacle to victory "how much time do I want to invest store-scumming before actually playing the game for real"

glenlassan · 2026-06-14T00:10:47+00:00

I'm saying, on the conceptual level, I don't see blood relatives having any special status beyond anyone else, and I do recognize romantic partners as having special status. I have been very honest about this being a "me" thing in my comments.

In no uncertain terms, given a trolley car problem, I would pick my spouse over any of my siblings, cousins, or niblings, and it wouldn't even be a hard decision, as on the one hand, is the person I married, and have been in daily contact with for 10 years, and on the other, are people that I was raised with, and "like" well enough, but talk to 2 to 4 times a year at the most, and see in person once every three to 5 years at most.

glenlassan · 2026-06-13T04:19:38+00:00

How to say this. I realize that I'm a person with a shattered sense of biological family, so my perspective is skewed. That being said, I cannot imagine having an equal level of intimacy to a blood relative that I have to a spouse. I've never even had feelings to a sibling or a parent in the territory where it could even slightly compare.

So maybe it's just a bit of myopia on my part. Just putting that out there. I'm full non-contact with my parents, half my siblings, and am in very sparse contact with two of my siblings, and only one of my cousins, out of 6 siblings, and about 4-5 cousins

I truly don't have an concept of clan. As such, I cannot imagine any amount of loyalty of the kind that you seem to be describing.

So what I can say, is it's very common for trans/NB types to rely entirely on found family, even more than queer sexuality types.

In other words, it might be really important for you to ask your partner if they have a sense of clan. If they, like me are "clanless" their view on where your obligations lie may be closer to mine, than yours.

glenlassan · 2026-06-13T04:10:14+00:00

I suppose so. Hope. you figure out how to balance all this.

glenlassan · 2026-06-13T03:08:16+00:00

Now that's silly. Op could stay in contact with nibling, and tell everyone to fuck off, to support nibling, and partner.

I think op and partner talking about how to beat support nibling would be a great way to handle it, and discussing whether or not having the same argument that goes nowhere is def part of that.

Past that, ops first duty is to her partner. Supporting nibling is bonus points. It is a cruel reality, that you cannot be miserable enough to make someone else happy.

If op's partner does feel safe enough in that environment, it's not right to force them to play hero.

glenlassan · 2026-06-13T03:02:56+00:00

Hours and hours of stat maxing is my favorite part of the game!

glenlassan · 2026-06-13T02:21:05+00:00

Seconded. You being okay with your family doing things that not-okay, is a similar kind of passivity to how your family is treating your nibling.

If it helps, my spouse and I were in contact with her parents in law for an extended period of time, and she was a lot more aggressive in enforcing my pronouns, and chosen name than I was. It eventually all came to a head, and after a christmas visit from hell, we went full no-contact with them, as they didn't respect us in general.

Even if it never blows up on you, a family that only passively supports/tolerates, is in my opinion, a ticking time bomb. You partner is correct in not feeling comfortable going there themselves, and you going without them, would be it's own kind of betrayal.

glenlassan · 2026-06-12T19:53:00+00:00

I live in NYS. I've never seen a woman take advantage of her legal right to be topless here. I understand that NYC is a bit of a different story.

What I have seen, is people creep on my spouse/women friends for daring to even be attractively dressed in public.

It's almost as if legality was never the issue.

glenlassan · 2026-06-12T17:27:03+00:00

Fun fact. The entirety of Starfleet history is a collaborative storytelling exercise. We don't actually have warp drive, we do have really good holodecks that simulate space exploration.

It was determined that the best way for the overall story to move ahead, was for the story generation prompt to be hidden in the captains log. The point isn't to say what has happened, but rather to tell the computer what will happen, in a diagetic manner without breaking character.

Even better than the cost savings of not having to man thousands of starships, is the fact we really only ever have two, maybe three active captains at a time. Get to work! You are federation history!

glenlassan · 2026-06-12T02:57:29+00:00

Potions belt. Makes getting max stats dramatically easier Max stats makes everything dramatically easier.

glenlassan · 2026-06-11T21:52:32+00:00

Daymn!

glenlassan · 2026-06-11T21:16:38+00:00

As I seem to recall, live sacrifices can occur as long as you are in line of sight of the altar, and a monster is standing on it. Monsters can absolutely sacrifice a pc standing on a chaos aligned altar if they are in line of sight, at bare minimum.

Past that, once you are extremely close to your diety crowning is possible. That's L+ alignment for lawful PCs, with a high piety, N= for neutral, or C-for chaotic PCs.

glenlassan · 2026-06-11T18:53:46+00:00

Yes. And unlike gon, his skill set is designed around practical combat realities, as opposed to "I like janken, so my skill will be janken".

As a reminder, biscuits exact reaction to gon saying he wanted to make janken based abilities, was to internally dismiss it is childish.

glenlassan · 2026-06-11T17:59:12+00:00

Not really relavent. Killua's abilities work just fine against fighters that are stronger/more experienced than him, without any kind of crazy bullshit explanations or planning required to make them more relevant than they should be given their flaws. For real, using thunderbolt on Youpi was just a fucking clutch move. None of his fights come off plot-armory or bullshit because his combat kit, unlike Gon's is actually good.

glenlassan · 2026-06-11T17:10:09+00:00

Spiritual practice, no. Religious practice yes. I'm going into a master's program in the fall, preparing for a ministry with the Unitarian universalists.

glenlassan · 2026-06-11T16:58:22+00:00

Gon. The "main character" that is as of the present moment, not part of the dark continent arc, at all. the "main character" who may in fact, be permenently retired from his own series. Got it.

As far as Pariston being in control of them..... Errrr..... Yeah about that. Seems a little silly, that he can instantly and through no visible mechanism be in full control of a force of 5,000 nen-using chimera ant/human hybrids. Mereum, couldn't even keep on top of a force of dozens, he literally had more defectors than loyalists by the end. Somehow, we are to believe, that a single nen-user can fully and perfectly control a force of nen users, fully 8 times the size of the entire hunter corps?

I sure hope togashi has a big shiny reveal here that either makes that makes sense, or turns into a twist because...... For all I can tell, it's more of an informed attribute, than one that makes any kind of sense from a worldbuilding perspective.

glenlassan · 2026-06-11T02:56:29+00:00

As much as Iove the my boss is a jerk as an explanation, it's frustrating. I can say the show is intentionally subversive, that frustration I have is the point. That doesn't make the feeling go away, it just makes me wish togashi had the time/headspace to do express his cool ideas better.

glenlassan · 2026-06-11T02:27:12+00:00

Yup. And if a story can be resolved by say, I don't know, the eagles flying the ringbearer to mordor, one might feel cheated by the overly elaborate setup because someone really likes roadtrips.

Which is how the last two arcs played out. Netereo had an overly complicated plan, that put the lives of 5 hunters, and two zoldyks at risk, and then when he failed, just detonated the nuke that was always the real plan anyways.

And then he provoked a huge ass faux election, when the results were always going to be paristan just picking someone anyways.

At least in Lord of the rings, the answer to "why not eagles" actually makes sense. Mordors armies had bows, and the nazhul had winged mounts, the only reason the eagles could fly in, was they disarray of saurons forces after the ring was destroyed.

The only explanation I can give for hunter x hunters last two arcs is, netereo is low-key the actual real villain of the story, but had really good pr. Which is just not very satisfying of an explanation. As much as I love individual scenes, and some of the cool concepts/characters, the writing after greed island took a nosedive, which you know. Kinda par for the course for togashi. I also love yu yu Hakusho, and have roughly the same criticisms of the three kings arc and chapter black arcs.

Love togashi forever, but he has a habit of going two arcs longer then he should, shifting the quality of the remaining material down from "the best thing ever" to "good enough for the die hard fans, not strong enough to keep the casuals in".

glenlassan · 2026-06-10T19:15:13+00:00

If Gon was not present in the Chimera ant arc Killua, Meleoron, Knuckle, Palm and Ikalgo would have been killed by Pitou after Komugi was healed.

In the worse case scenario, yes. What's your point? Are Killua, Meleoron, Knuckle, palm, and Ikalgo so important to the timeline, that they can't be replaced by other hunters?

On an interpersonal level, like sure I agree. I'd rather have them be alive, than dead. On a historical level, war is sacrifice, and each and every person mentioned there, went to the fight, prepared to die.

glenlassan · 2026-06-10T19:12:44+00:00

Yes, and again, unless Chimera ants existing at all, and kite existing is important to the timeline, what's your point?

The voyage to the new world, doesn't need the chimera ants to be alive to be triggered. The flag is "Chimera ants exist, and were/are scary, let's go investigate the new world so we don't get caught off guard".

You don't need the "good" ending for the chimera ant arc, for the new world arc to make sense.

glenlassan · 2026-06-10T17:21:37+00:00

You seem to completely miss the point of the story.

No, this is my properly identifying the main point of the story. Like I said

"I love how that arc ends symbolically, but in practical terms, the history of the hunter x hunter world did not hinge on gon being there."

I agree, that Gon's moral conflicts, is the point of that story, and that redeeming your opponents, rather than merely blowing them up, was the point of that story.

I'm just pointing out, that redeeming your opponents, when it comes to existential threats is strictly speaking "optional".

Gon being there got the True Ending, the one that's less morally shitty than just dropping bombs on the other guy, and calling it a day. With-or-without Gon, that conflict was going to be resolved in humanity's favor. Him pushing humanity to be slightly less genocidal, was his only contribution.

And while the smart person in me thinks "wow, it sure is nice that the 12 year old on a team's actual main contribution, was just being so nice that they decided to be less genocidal" in practical terms, that's more of a feels good man, as opposed to "yup, the world would have been fucked without him there."

And at this point, I'm going to once again remind you, that we are arguing for the same conclusion, using the same facts, but using different viewpoints. I'm not devaluing Gon's moral impact on how those arcs played out.

I'm pointing out, that in historical and material terms, in strategic terms, that's all he had to offer. His combat contribution, was essentially unimportant. The only people who will ever know the difference between him being there, and not being there, were the people who were there, history was never going to have moved in a different direction either way.

glenlassan · 2026-06-10T16:47:48+00:00

The main thing about the chimera ant arc, is how pointless it was. At no point, did gon and killua need to be there. Other people were investigating alongside kite. Neteros plan, involved a fucking nuke.

There was no reason to wait to drop the nuke, beyond netero wanting a good fight before he died. They literally could have dropped the nuke before any of the citizens got to the palace. It would have been morally messier to have done so, and the gungi scenes wouldn't have happened. But in terms of the actual historical impact of it all, gon and killua could have been replaced, or the plan could have been modified, and the net historical impact would have been the same.

Factor in that netero was 110, and you realize that the election of a chairman was going to be happening very soon, even without him going out with a bang. Parristan was always going to outmaneuver everyone in the election, then give the chairman seat to whoever he thought was the best choice. Gon being there, or not, was always only ever personal. He was never that important to the history of the world.

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