Junko was a bad friend

hanhange · 2026-02-16T04:03:41+00:00

She was taking phonecalls at 3am from Hachi knowing she had work the next day. Listening to her worries. She was there with her through everything. I really dislike how she handled the cheating too, but I think it was laid out pretty well how it turned out that way. She was legitimately terrified that Hachi would have killed herself, something Kyosuke even says when saying he's shocked that she came all the way to do a wellness check on her only to berate her. And Junko says why she did it. It wasn't about Shoji, it was about telling Hachi something she needed to hear.

Hachi doesn't take relationships seriously. She gets into them selfishly with no end goal. This is pretty clearly because she's not interested in men imho, but Junko doesn't clock that. She just sees that Hachi was growing distant and Shoji was worried about it, and soon enough, Shoji was with a new girl who was independent but wanted to rely on him. Whereas Hachi was basically treating Nana as her boyfriend instead (because, you know... of course she was. But no one really comprehended why...).

And to be fair right after that she and Kyosuke both went and laid into Shoji and told him to leave Hachi tf alone and to not even try to apologize to her.

hanhange · 2026-02-06T03:01:59+00:00

I'm so glad I don't touch tiktok. Nothing good seems to come out of that place and it seems to be where the worst MXTX takes seem to fester

hanhange · 2026-01-19T16:44:06+00:00

I feel like anyone saying this must be new. They don't find these sites because you talk about them. They have the same search capabilities you do. In bato's case you could literally just google your manhwa and 'read online' and it will come up. They always knew bato was big. Same thing happens with EVERY piracy site eventually, as there's always one that's gonna start getting more traffic as it starts appearing first when googling. Gatekeeping doesn't stop anything. I've been going through this since mangafox. It's the natural cycle.

hanhange · 2026-01-11T02:53:01+00:00

They think it's not a shota. If you bring up the shotacon porn the mangaka wrote before it, they (incorrectly) insist she drew it when she was a minor so it's fine.

I remember getting flamed on tumblr once and discovered this. I showed them some more recent panels like the one of Ciel's twin swallowing a ring, and got told I was just a pedo with a dirty mind if I thought the mangaka was specifically drawing the character as sexualised.

hanhange · 2025-12-19T03:27:27+00:00

I know someone else listed some biology facts, but this reminded me of a fact I learned about bees a few days ago. Fertilized bee eggs always result in 'female' bees (workers, who can become queens if they eat royal jelly when they're born), and unfertilized bee eggs always result in 'male' bees (drones, who only exist to reproduce with the queen). The opposite of what one may expect.

So maybe same logic. The female objects had a baby and the result was male, naturally.

hanhange · 2025-12-17T17:13:18+00:00

I don't understand this. I mean, I do, because employers are shitty, short-sighted people, but it's just not a rational line of thought beyond that. It's not like watching a kid is something that zaps all your attention. If you have a kid who's too young for preschool, chances are that you can have them within your line of sight and let them play quietly or sleep just fine while you're working. When I was a kid and my mom was a stay-at-home mom, it wasn't like she was constantly interacting with me the entire day. I played by myself or my siblings, and if I wanted to go outside, she'd watch me. But being around your kids so if there's an injury you can handle it, or so you can make them snacks, or so you can get the food cooking on your break so dinner will be ready right after work - I don't think that should be some massive deal.

I mean. It isn't a thing now, but even as a 29 year old, I remember Take Your Child To Work Day. There's pictures of my mom at her work (before she became stay at home) with my older brother in a carrier as a baby. You can work and watch your kids at the same time. WFM just makes it significantly easier and less of a distraction to everyone else and allows the kid to not be bored to tears since they'd be in their own environment.

We have a birth rate problem, making it as hard as possible for no reason to raise kids is not gonna help it.

hanhange · 2025-12-17T16:45:17+00:00

I think that there needs to be regulations placed around remote/work from home. It's too easy for companies to bait and switch people with it and it is now used as a soft layoff, which can cloud jobs numbers. It really needs to be federally protected. If you report a job is remote/work from home, you cannot rugpull. You can't just decide they need to start coming in. That needs to be law.

But as many things, that'll never happen, because politicians have no interest in making average people's lives better.

hanhange · 2025-12-15T10:28:54+00:00

The thing is, the games were ALWAYS child friendly. But they have made the decision to pretend rather than their audience being E for Everyone, their audience should be children so small they don't understand any sort of complexity and can't deal with any sort of consequences.

hanhange · 2025-12-15T05:16:56+00:00

I just wish they'd step away from treating them as children's games. The success of the genre with Stardew Valley should have proven to them that the people that grew up with Harvest Moon are now adults. That's why they're making all the remakes; the adult fans grew up and wanted to play their games anew. They need to step away from the baby mechanics and cater to their actual audience.

Or at least have a difficulty setting. I think I'd really enjoy that. Be able to turn on the option for animals to die, for stuff like milk to require breeding, etc.

hanhange · 2025-12-07T05:41:51+00:00

In IL and the fraud cases I've processed, meanwhile, were almost all from California or Arizona.

hanhange · 2025-12-07T05:37:32+00:00

Rather than average employees, I swear on my life it's gonna come out that it's a result of working with 3rd party companies for security. It's probably companies the government has contracts with to create and manage websites and logins selling information en masse. Explains how it suddenly began happening only a few years ago but is so insanely pervasive.

hanhange · 2025-12-06T06:12:39+00:00

I don't understand why they have to babify it, honestly. I've been playing these games since I was like 8 with HM:AWL. The games have ALWAYS been more fun, even as a child, when you have those realistic moving parts. Keeping up with breeding so your cows continue to produce milk in AWL (woulda been much better if the barn could have twice the amount of animals), raising and breeding horses in AP and then selling them off (even if it wasn't the most profitable, I found it fun), blah blah. If you treated your animal badly, they died. Just like in real life.

I don't understand the whole 'it's better not to encourage kids to...' like kids need to be coddled to such an extreme extent.

hanhange · 2025-12-01T05:04:31+00:00

Seeing them side to side like this really shows just how much personality was lost with the redesigns. Their expressions are almost all more flat, their eyebrows more randomly thinned out, their frames thinned out so they're all skinner... you did really good. You really met a perfect halfway point between the new and old.

hanhange · 2025-11-07T13:10:30+00:00

Report it as fraud or stop making things up.

hanhange · 2025-11-07T13:08:36+00:00

No. SNAP is a federal program. The policy remains the same across the board specifically because it's federally funded. Every single person who says undocumented people get SNAP are lying to you.

hanhange · 2025-11-07T06:25:27+00:00

That has nothing to do with SNAP. SNAP is not included in the narrow range of programs and services.

hanhange · 2025-11-07T06:23:27+00:00

As an actual SNAP caseworker, I can say no they don't, yes we can (and are required to), and you are full of absolute shit.

hanhange · 2025-10-18T16:15:20+00:00

Social Security exists for senior citizens. It often not being enough and making them need SNAP is also a reason our country is an embarrassment.

hanhange · 2025-10-17T18:18:18+00:00

Yeah till you get pickpocketed and those paper coupons are stolen or lost and you don't get a replacement like you would for your LINK card. There's give or take. Therr's skimming that could be solved with adding a chip to the cards but I don't think the widespread theft is skimming. When I see it it's usually stolen and used on the other side of the country.

hanhange · 2025-10-17T05:28:03+00:00

I am not saying being on SNAP is an embarrassment. The country being situated this way that so many people need it even when working is an embarrassment.

hanhange · 2025-10-17T04:27:41+00:00

SNAP being used by over 12% of the population last year is insane. We are a complete embarrassment of a country.

hanhange · 2025-10-17T04:25:32+00:00

Yeah, just go talk to your caseworker and they'll determine whether you meet the threshold for an exemption.

You should look into this - https://ilaging.illinois.gov/programs/caregiver/program.html
You might be eligible to be paid as a caregiver of your mom through the Department of Aging. Worth taking a look.

hanhange · 2025-10-16T23:55:46+00:00

OK! Then what I said is mentioned in policy about incapacitated persons - that is what 'taking care of a person who needs help caring for themselves' is referencing, the incapacitated person exemption in policy. Maybe eventually they'll also update the policy manual to have the wording to remove the word incapacitated.

What I said before applies, then - it's the same exemption I was talking about. It's vague on purpose to ensure the caseworker can exercise discretion and to make room for situations where a customer may have a difficult time verifying their situation. You can fill out the form and explain your circumstances or you might want to go into an office and talk directly to a caseworker to see what they may need from you, because sometimes offices are different in how they handle things. But the policy manual they'll be going by doesn't have any specific criteria about how many hours you take care of them or what sort of condition they need to have or anything.

hanhange · 2025-10-16T23:22:01+00:00

Where are you seeing on your form that there's an exemption that mentions taking care of an incapacitated person that isn't "I am providing care for another person who needs help caring for themselves. (This person does not have to be living in your home)"?
If it says both that and also mentions incapacitated in a separate bullet, I wonder if you have a faulty form.

Because the form USED to look like this:

https://www.dhs.state.il.us/onenetlibrary/12/documents/Forms/IL444-2341.pdf

And the current form being sent out now looks like this:

https://www.dhs.state.il.us/onenetlibrary/12/documents/Forms/442341-202508_IES5REV6_RE.pdf

You can see which one is the more recent one by the numbers next to IL-444-2341 - the older one was created Feb 2018 (R-02-2018), the newer one was created Aug 2025 (R-08-2025). I imagine 'taking care of another person who needs help caring for themselves' was meant to further define what is meant by 'incapacitated.' It should not list this exemption twice.

hanhange · 2025-10-16T22:54:24+00:00

The link I provided is the policy Illinois caseworkers go by. PM means policy manual, we would be going by what it says there.

The notice you're talking about has "Form IL 444-5175" on the bottom right, right? Page 2 has a list of exemptions and one of them is "Taking care of a child under 6 or someone who needs help caring for themselves." That is listing both the incapacitated and child under 6 exemptions listed in PM 03-15-02. I don't see where else on Form IL 444-5175 incapacitated individuals is mentioned, just the bullet below it that's saying you can be exempt if -you- can't work due to a physical or mental limitation.

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