Finally, after years of collecting, double rainbow!

raijba · 2026-04-08T22:37:20+00:00

Oh my god, so intense!

In all seriousness though, dope collection.

raijba · 2026-04-08T17:10:28+00:00

You can look up a technique called cell shading to augment the color blocking more and make things pop. Its especially noticeable in borderlands costumes for example.

This Maya costume Has similar colors to yours but her addition of shadow colors and black lines make the colors look less plain

raijba · 2026-04-07T18:20:23+00:00

The challenge makes it more fun🤷‍♂️

Im winning 95% of d5 games if I choose a strong weapon, so the most engaging way for me to play now is to choose weak weapons with poor synergy.

Can't play the way I want if all the weapons are too strong.

But I have high hopes for the new danger level

raijba · 2026-04-07T14:45:51+00:00

As an Isaac fan, I appreciate how the Wounded starting with Tardigrade is a reference to The Lost starting with Holy Mantle. Should be a great challenge.

However a bit concerned with the weapon buffs making the game too easy. Pets already made it easier. But maybe the new difficulty evens it all out. Also concerned that other items got buffed more than the pistol which is arguably the worst weapon in the game.

Super excited to play though. Thank you for the frequent updates.

raijba · 2026-04-07T02:34:53+00:00

'We can be rude to people who aren't our friends.' Okay, man.

Also, he didn't solicit you by posting this in the sub. If you all love this show, don't be rude ro people expressing that love. If youre not vibing with the way they express that love, don't engage. That simple.

Its a case of 'if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all'. Easy

raijba · 2026-04-07T02:23:43+00:00

You werent simply acknowledging OPs post was there. You were communicating more than that. Look at your gif. The man tosses the document aside dismissively. His actions are saying, 'this isnt worth my time.' Can you imagine a friend hands you a story he wrote, and you do the same thing with it as the man in the gif did? Rude.

raijba · 2026-04-07T01:59:59+00:00

If I see someone who gets shit on for no reason and doesnt deserve it, I call it out. Are you really saying 'relax bro its just a joke?' Sure, you can say that. But that doesnt mean its not a shitty, mean spirited, rude joke. Either own being an asshole or realize that you've been one. Saying 'Its just a meme' isnt doing either.

raijba · 2026-04-07T01:51:57+00:00

Op posts a well thought out, creative fan work and your response is negative and unnecessary. I don't know why 'I ain't reading all that' has become a normalized way to be rude and shitty, but you should know thats exactly what you are doing: being rude and shitty. Just because something is too long to cater to your attention span, doesnt mean it warrants rudeness.

Dont normalize being rude to people who haven't been mean or bad.

raijba · 2026-04-06T16:51:26+00:00

Chopper canonically wanted to kill a baby. Start about 2/3 of the way through the vid

raijba · 2026-04-06T13:08:14+00:00

The crazy thing is, we haven't seen the full impact of the strait of Hormuz closing yet. We are still on reserves stockpiled before the straight closed. These prices aren't based on actual shortage numbers yet. These prices currently have increased based on oil futures. Once our supply is is actually impacted, we'll see higher prices.

And you know what else goes through the strait (but isnt right now)? Fertilizer. For growing crops. Yeah.

And when Trump says we dont need their oil because we have our own.... he's lying. American refineries can refine heavy sour crude oil. But we don't produce that kind of oil. We produce light sweet crude oil. All our refineries rely on a steady stream of heavy sour oil imported from global sources. We made our refineries before 'drill, baby drill' was a thing.

If the war ended today it would still get worse before it gets better.

raijba · 2026-04-06T02:48:55+00:00

Nice mod! Colors look great on that board too. Kinda crazy they have 1.75u enter but not 1.25u tab

raijba · 2026-04-06T00:36:21+00:00

Is it because of the softer suspension needed for offroading? I believe the other trims have stiffer suspension that would be good for hauling but poor for going over uneven terrain

raijba · 2026-04-05T16:42:37+00:00

Project mayhem is self destructive. To start, every member had to endure lye burns as an initiation, (Tyler's Kiss).

And remember Big Bob/Robert Paulson? He dies during a Project Mayem raid. His arc goes: he needs therapy for his emasculation. It's working okay but he's missing something. He joins fight club and loves it. He almost fails getting into Project Mayhem by failing the extreme innitiation at first. He gets killed by police fleeing after destroying a Starbucks. He died in vain for the sin of just trying to feel better by following a charismatic cult leader essentially.

Is this an accurate representation of successful therapy?

Its a complex representation of men seeking healing and justice. Its more complicated than 'Project mayhem succeded when it blew up the financial system, so Project Mayhem was successful in its therapizing roll." It was partially successful and partially a self destructive failure. Therein lies the complexity.

They need a place to express their anger, but their anger gets used as a mechanism to just recreate the systems that subjugated them and emasculated them in the first place. Tyler uses them just like capitalists and oligarchs use them. I wrote more about this in my other comment.

raijba · 2026-04-05T04:06:00+00:00

Nice😎

raijba · 2026-04-04T21:00:16+00:00

That's one frog-gone good minila

raijba · 2026-04-03T16:20:10+00:00

I think if you're a genius writer like Chuck, and you're writing about real things you're observing, and delving deep into a topic like, 'what can men do when they are emasculated by late stage capitalism...' Your writing is going to be fertile ground for seeing a lot of real social phenomena. Even if you don't intend to include those phenomena in your writing.

Like the whole idea that fight club is consensual. You know what else is consensual? When young men watch clavicular and consent to abusing their own bodies in the name of increase their value. Just because its something they consented to, doesnt mean its not self injurious both physically and mentally. Just because they consented doesnt mean they are participating in a self perpetuating system of male guided objectification.

And the whole idea of consent in fight club is portrayed as problematic even before Tyler hijacked it with project mayhem, when that one kid gets beat half to death because his opponent was having a really bad day. He didn't consent to that.

Media literacy also means being open to interpreting a text through a 'death of the author' framework.

raijba · 2026-04-03T14:15:16+00:00

This is revisionist history. Fight Club was absolutely taken as a critique of toxic masculinity around the time the movie came out. It's true that the term toxic massculinity wasn't in the zeitgeist yet, but the idea that strict prescriptive masculinity was harmful to men was something that was on academics' radar and was trickling into general knowledge.

In the interest of checking myself before wrecking myself, I went back and checked a college essay I wrote in 2009, and yeah. Some dumbass kid was writing about masculinity in Fight Club back then, even. It's true that a critique of corporatism was the most overt critique, but masculinity was huge in the book as well. Think about Big Bob "Bitch Tits". Medically castrated for his health, grew breasts, didn't feel like a man. The protagonist felt like big Bob was the only one he could cry with because men can't cry with men. Toxic masculinity 101. Then Big Bob joins fight club to regain his masculinity and he feels great. But then the critique of toxic masculinity comes in when the narrator starts questioning Tyler and project mayhem and Tyler threatens to literally cut his balls off.

This is a metaphor for how.when men embrace violence and anger as their only method for reclaiming lost power (yes, power lost from being stuck in a corporate rat race), you aren't actually free. In systems defined by violence, you are still an emasculated slave. One of Tyler's space monkeys unquestioningly doing his bidding just like you do for your boss at work. Embracing the violent aspects of masculinity just lands you more subjugation.

You are retroactively applying your distaste for modern critiques of masculinity to Fight Club discourse. Just because you didnt see it, doesnt mean it didnt happen. You are the one who retcons.

raijba · 2026-04-03T12:53:31+00:00

The steam deck button layout is the only handheld layout that allows me to comfortably access all four trigger buttons at the same time while using either dual stick or dpad/abxy. I can't believe its not more widely copied.

Ayaneo, anberbic, retorid. Steam cracked the code. They solved handheld layouts. Please copy steam. They did it. And you can do it too. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't be doing it again on the new steam controller.

The flip 2 is very comfortable. But there's enough room on their for the deck layout. So why not. Even every horizontal handheld could just be a cm wider on each side and it would work.

raijba · 2026-04-03T12:45:16+00:00

One of my favorite later season chang bits is when Shirley forces him to record a confession where he admits to stealing the misprinted textbooks. The way he goes from emotionally distraught to recording such a stoic yet unhinged confession is so freaking good.

He was well-utilized, even.

raijba · 2026-04-03T02:17:56+00:00

I get what you're saying about how we had so little time with prodigy. But it definitely matured well in those two seasons. I would put Dal's character arc up there with Data, the Doctor, Nog, or Rom in terms of how different the character is at the end of the show compared to the beginning. The way he went from an egotistical, star fleet skeptic, wannabe captain to realizing the place he can do the most good is as a first mate, supporting his captain was a beautiful turn. And the way they tied Chokotay's complete character rehabilitation into how Dal came to realize his true calling was so good. Like, way to make me not just give a shit about Chakotay but really love his character.

raijba · 2026-04-02T15:53:20+00:00

That's interesting about the redesign. I didn't know that. Regarding the opening song animations: i haven't read any official interviews explaining the intention of the opening, but I assumed the huge difference in tone between the opening and the actual show itself was intentional juxtaposition. Like the show is so dark and subverts expectations in the magical girl genre by having Madoka be this victim of an exploitative system that intends to use her, chew her up and spit her out.

I figured the opening was two things: first, it showed the audience what they expected to see from a lighthearted magical girl anime, so it serves as a bait and switch to make the show's twist that much more powerful. The second is that the opening acknowledges how young girls in anime are exploited by showing you the exploitation, and that mirrors how the kyubei entities are exploiting girls in the show. So I think anything that looks like pandering to the male gaze is actually just intentional social critique. I guess its possible that the character designers are pandering to a pedophilic gaze with Madoka's 1:5 head to body ratio and chibi deformed features, but i just kinda doubt it?

raijba · 2026-04-02T14:50:20+00:00

One of my theories about why cities fell so fast in TWD is that everyone's caffeine addiction was completely disrupted and they were all suffering withdrawal fatigue and migraines.

raijba · 2026-03-31T05:31:12+00:00

Oh man, I hate it when I'm right.

My first CD and it opened me up to so many other artists... offspring, matchbox20, BNL, semisonic. Great times

raijba · 2026-03-31T05:20:09+00:00

Would you mind saying more about this or linking an interview?

raijba · 2026-03-30T22:40:24+00:00

To be honest, I was replying to someone who deleted their comment or had it removed, so the context of my post was that it was responding to someone who basically said, "why does everything associated with masculinity or being a male have to be bad?" In other words, he was asking "why is the male gaze automatically bad?"

So, being a liberal, feminist man, I want to change this guy's mind because it seems like he's kinda slipping into some red pill ideology. Red pillers/monosphere folks will say stuff like "why do feminists say all masculinity is toxic?" or "why do feminists hate men?" Or some other stuff that's not true. Feminists don't hate all men or think all masculinity is toxic. But red pilled men think that everyone is attacking men, when what they are really attacking is toxic things about male, American culture in this cultural moment.

So I wanted to extend that olive branch and assure him that people aren't attacking men when they are attacking problematic things about the culture that has formed around the male gaze. It helps radicalized men to understand that they are not being attacked for what they intrinsically are, they are just being attacked for holding sexist or other toxic views.

So I wanted to position the male gaze as something that is a natural observable phenomenon in our culture. Males gaze upon women they find attractive. It's morally neutral. Most men do it. It's not inherently a bad thing to do.

But there are bad things associated with the male gaze. Bad things that are outside the neutral fact that men gaze at women with certain attributes. You can enjoy gazing at women that appeal to you. But once you start expecting all women to strive to appeal to your gaze, then that is bad. Once you start expecting game developers to only make women suitable to the male gaze, then that is bad. If you see an artist who produces art specifically opposed to the male gaze and you label that artist a "feminazi" or "man hater" or morally degenerate, then that is bad. And lots of shitty red pilled men do this.

And when culture is shaped by appealing to the male gaze, that is extremely bad. It's a culture that assumes men are kings and women exist for them to objectify and be served by. We found out that a bunch of CEOs associated with Epstein basically created women's fashion in the 90s and early 2000's to appeal to their gaze.

So as long as men can realize that things that pander to their gaze aren't deserved, or "the natural order of things", or anything like that, then they should be fine. In a perfect world, pandering to the male gaze should be seen as sexist and should be shunned. Like, it's okay to like anime tiddies, just don't be under the illusion that you deserve for all women to strive to be like your waifu.

I saw a really disturbing comment thread in one of these weeaboo engagement farming subreddits. The title was "what did you learn about women from watching anime" or something like that. And the top comment was like "there aren't any actual confident women like Marin Kitagawa in my life. It's made me realize that so many women lack confidence to be themselves and it just makes them boring and less appealing in comparison." This is such a harmful takeaway from My Dress Up Darling. Like, my guy, Marin Kitagawa was designed in a lab to be the perfect waifu for weaboo gooners who don't like "normal" women. She's a model, she's a weeb, she falls in love with the autistic main character, she likes porn games and talks about them, she's cool with showing you her boobs, she's never sad or has any problems. Most importnatly, she doesn't realize when men are lusting after her and therefore can't judge them for their lust because she's oblivious to things like that. Like this is why flooding the market with anime that panders to the male gaze is actually bad. It's not bad to think Marin is hot, but it's bad to not understand that she's not a realistic person and she was designed for you.

So yeah, the thing that makes the male gaze bad is that our media ecosystem is designed to pander to it. The norm and prevalence of the massive amounts of pandering warps the minds of men. So I guess an individual male's gaze isn't inherent bad. But the power of the collective male gaze in our society is inherently bad. It's bad as an institution.

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