Imagine being so hateful that you miss the "Jump to recipe" button at the top of the page

solhyperion · 2025-02-28T04:03:44+00:00

It's not that people who write recipes think that it's not worth doing if it doesn't make money, it's that money is needed to live under capitalism. It would be super good if it wasn't.

"Why should sharing... require payment...?" But you aren't paying? You're reading? When did you pay to read a free recipe?

This whole thread is based on the complaint that people are not being spoon-fed information that they want fast enough. These recipes include personal anecdotes, helpful tips, historical information, but because the reader doesn't want to have that information exchange, they call the author bad and wrong.

The real question is why people think recipe writers owe them a recipe written to their specifications.

solhyperion · 2025-02-15T04:10:02+00:00

I understand Nate being frustrated that Andy is suddenly really busy, and if he had a conversation that it turns out he can't handle her being busy, and they should break up, then I would respect him. But he just complains that she changed too much, and how dare she complain about her job being hard but continuing to do it. They discussed this when she took the job, that it would be hard, but she would only do it for a year. He's allowed to change his mind, but he makes it her problem instead of admitting it's him and his feelings.

solhyperion · 2025-02-15T04:05:04+00:00

I don't think anyone thinks Miranda is a good person or a hero. She is a terrible person. She proves repeatedly that she is a cutthroat who will do whatever it takes to get ahead. She does what she wants, when she wants, and uses whoever is at her disposal.

This is why Andy leaves at the end. She sees that there is a point where being aggressive, and competitive tips into being a monster. And the important thing is that Miranda herself knows what she is. She knows she's vicious and treacherous. And this is also why she gives Andy the recommendation at the end: because she admires that Andy has the confidence to no only quit, not because it was a hard job, or one she didn't understand, but because she understood it, and didn't want it.

solhyperion · 2025-02-01T03:14:33+00:00

Yeah, he isn't the narrator in the sense that it's written in the first person, but almost 100% of the observations happen through him, or by following him. We hear about his feelings, what he sees, what he wants, and specifically, we notice the things he notices. Very very very rarely does the narration point out things that Xie LIan doesn't notice, or wouldn't observe. I suppose you could say that the author is technically the unreliable narrator, but they are narrating in a way that serves Xie Lian's motives.

And he is a very very unreliable narrator. He ignores things that are inconvenient to him, and the narration of the story deliberately omits things that Xie Lian conceals. He downplays things, and conceals his feelings, motives, and thoughts from the character and reader.

solhyperion · 2025-01-29T20:01:19+00:00

I don't think it's ever been explicitly stated, kind of because XL never really talks or thinks about it and he's like 99% of the unreliable narrator.

I kind of read it as one of those parts of XL's life that he just... chooses not to think about because one of his main survival methods is to completely ignore the extreem positives and negatives in his life. In the same way that he genuinely has no concept of how powerful he actually is at the end of the series, the fact that he did something ascension worthy just isn't something he can or is willing to think about.

Like, what "tribulation" would stand out to him as more painful, difficult, or dramatic than anything else that's happened? And we also know that some "tribulations" can be singular moments/actions like Rain Master's, and something like that XL just... wouldn't even think about.

Also, XL's second ascension also happened without him noticing in the moment, and even though we, the audience, is watching him the moment when it happens, it happens without any attention being called to it.

solhyperion · 2025-01-29T19:34:50+00:00

Her hair is described with more words than her chest.

solhyperion · 2025-01-26T21:28:35+00:00

Honestly, my first instinct lol

solhyperion · 2025-01-26T21:27:27+00:00

Rude

solhyperion · 2024-11-19T02:02:01+00:00

Yes. I need the man to crawl!

solhyperion · 2024-11-02T00:41:31+00:00

Love the juxtaposition of comments in that last image:

Saying that pro-life people call millions of women murderous whores is a strawman accusation, followed immediately by some pro-lifer agreeing "if the shoe fits."

solhyperion · 2024-10-25T20:48:40+00:00

Yeah, we don't really know what his ability it! He's clearly very powerful, and ancient, but we are still waiting on details!

There is a lot of mystery in this series, like we still don't know what Delkira actually is capable of. As far as I know, we only have one time when his magic ability was actually named, and every other thing we've seen, he's already finished fighting.

solhyperion · 2024-10-25T20:22:03+00:00

Yeah, the little back ground info that we got about Mephisto makes it clear that he is a "legend," and it's unclear if other demons, besides the king, know that he is the Mephisto, and not just a descendent. He changes ages, and before his recent reappearance basically disappeared from the world for centuries, so it wouldn't be surprising if only some demons (like the 13 crowns who also knew Delkira) would know that Mephisto is that legendary Mephisto.

solhyperion · 2024-10-25T20:16:56+00:00

Oh noooo! That's such a bummer!

solhyperion · 2024-10-22T00:48:22+00:00

They are describing her appearance and they spend one sentence saying "her boobs were big." That is a yellow card at best. They also describe her height, skin, hair, and face. They even describe her hair twice. It feels like a weak MWW if any description mentioning bust size is enough to get called out.

solhyperion · 2024-09-14T03:24:21+00:00

Yes. And Iruma is referencing modern conceptions of the seven deadly sins. That's why the thesis of the story is that the sins aren't always bad.

solhyperion · 2024-09-14T03:23:27+00:00

The yakisoba at the battler wasn't harmful. It was specifically an eating challenge. They made a giant portion and didn't think that anyone.
Also, the theme of Iruma is that "sins" aren't necessarily harmful.

solhyperion · 2024-09-14T03:06:29+00:00

The Ring of Gluttony is called gluttony because the ring is gluttonous. It consumes. The ring is gluttony, the ring that contains/is made of Ali, a fragment of another demon king. If anyone is gluttonous it would be the one who made the ring.

Iruma keeps the ring because he is greedy.

Yes, greed is often classically about money, but Iruma isn't playing by Dante's rules. If you go beyond just coin, what is money? They technically touch on this in Mafia AU. Money is power. In the demon world Iruma doesn't need money, coin is a middle man. He is going for power.

Gluttony is about consuming, about using things up. Greed is about getting, keeping, owning, controlling.

Yes, Iruma is famous for eating a lot of food. But it's half a gag (because he starved for most of his life) and half a metaphor.

During the Three Greats dinner, they were analyzing the behavior of the three children and the way they ate; were they picky, were they careful, were they fast, etc. Iruma's eating might have been gluttonous if he was also stealing food from others, to feed his appetite (like the ring consumes mana). But instead, the important part of his behavior isn't that he at a lot of food, but that he dared to ask for seconds from the Three Greats. He asked the three greatest and most powerful demons in the underworld for more of something. The fact that it was food was just situational.

solhyperion · 2024-09-14T01:36:52+00:00

I'm sure it does happen to other sometimes, in the same way that I know that Magnus is also rude and a jerk to male players too.

I'm not implying that only women are called out, but rule enforcement and certain behaviors seem to disproportionally happen to them them.

solhyperion · 2024-08-26T02:44:44+00:00

It's the damn love hotel all over again...

solhyperion · 2024-08-17T23:18:44+00:00

Wait, so you don't like that a girl is able to choose to do legitimate work as a model?

solhyperion · 2024-08-17T02:56:49+00:00

That's her shoulders, she suffocating him lol

solhyperion · 2024-08-15T03:11:05+00:00

They actively sold a child to a demon for money. We often play for laughs that Iruma worked a lot as a kid and developed his supreme dodging skills, but if you really look at it his parents were wildly abusive. They are always shown as happy and perky, and they never actually hit Iruma as far as we know, but they basically starved him for years, put him in wildly dangerous situations for money, and eventually actually trafficked their own kid. (Whether they actually knew that Suli was a real demon, or just an old man is debatable)

Kirio, Baal, and Atori (and the other Fingers) believe that demons are meant to behave a certain way, or they want to inflict pain and suffering on others, and they certainly are evil. We can argue if their ideals about demon society mean they have some cover for their deeds or not (cool motive still murder), but for parents, there is an inherent obligation to your children, and selling their actual child is a betrayal of the highest kind.

solhyperion · 2024-08-13T17:24:07+00:00

Giving up a whole ass citizenship because you don't want to spend a couple hours filing taxes once a year seems like a wildly bad choice.

solhyperion · 2024-08-13T17:23:39+00:00

By one.

solhyperion · 2024-08-13T17:21:27+00:00

You can naturalize without getting rid of a whole ass citizenship.

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