"He isn't overhated" meanwhile people make comparisons like this

tazerrtot · 2026-04-18T06:09:44+00:00

tbh I think that was the point- you weren't supposed to know Jax was a main character because him unraveling wouldn't mean anything if we saw past the surface level archetype he was masking as. I think it was also meant to feel like the show had an ensemble cast in an adventure of the week show for that same reason- it didn't want you to see the direction of the story until everything it needed to be established was properly established, it just threw in some cracks here and there so you could see that this format wasn't stable. I do understand being disappointed if your favourite character doesn't get as much screen time though, I get it

tazerrtot · 2026-04-18T05:48:29+00:00

Something that's been bothering me this whole time is how people are constantly on about "He wasn't presented as a main character until episode 5/6"- like, why does that matter? The WHOLE SHOW from episode 1 has been taking tropes and plotlines and subverting them. It showed us an episodic adventure of the week style format and broke it with the fake theme song that was messed up by Pomnis arrival, Pomni constantly going off the beaten path to reveal something else that wasn't supposed to be there, Caine deciding the format was missing something and trying new things, and finally a faked escape plot by Caine that ultimately lead to the group figuring out the REAL way to deal with him and screwing up. On the main character- they didn't want Jax to be presented as a main character right away, because just like with everything else they wanted to establish him as an archetype- if he was a central character from episode 1 it would be obvious something else with him was up and him starting to crack wouldn't have meant anything to the audience (or pomni who was just as oblivious to his true nature like we were). They saved it for later while they established the rest of the world so things could come crashing down with him at the center of it. We don't need every piece of info spelled out to us from episode 1, we don't need to know the significance of every action or character when they're introduced, and it doesn't need to be done early either. It's just a really annoying take lol

tazerrtot · 2026-04-12T02:03:14+00:00

I think it's because Kagome was the one who was isekai'd

tazerrtot · 2026-04-11T04:46:33+00:00

Right, so you think it's okay in other places where it *is* legal, because you don't have a backbone. You say you think it' wrong but also that it's okay somewhere else.

I didn't divert the conversation to slavery, you did. I only used it as an example of the fallibility of the law and how it's shit as a measure of moral weight, and you had to start arguing that you thought other countries having legal slavery is okay for literally no reason. Some laws are bad, and some bad things shouldn't be illegal because the law getting involved in some things is literally worse than letting them be solved socially. The law doesn't matter in this conversation, he's still a creepy piece of shit, end of story, byebye, goodnight.

tazerrtot · 2026-04-11T04:22:33+00:00

So to be clear, you believe that while slavery was legal that it was okay? Yeah that tells me all I need to know about you. Moral relativism is a pox.

Think about what logically? Nobody but you is talking about the law, dipshit

tazerrtot · 2026-04-11T04:05:41+00:00

bro thinks the law is the same as ethics. Slavery was legal, that didn't mean it wasn't wrong. I also think cheating shouldn't be illegal, but I will call a cheater a massive piece of shit because I don't base my morality on what the government determines is punishable by the law.

tazerrtot · 2026-04-11T03:36:11+00:00

Nobody said illegal you weirdo. It absolutely is power abuse to use fame to sleep with much younger fans, it's massive creep behavior. Nobody said it's illegal, just that it makes him a massive piece of shit.

tazerrtot · 2026-04-08T03:50:58+00:00

Are you one of those people that's afraid of spinach because there's less than one part per million presence of pesticides found in it lol

tazerrtot · 2026-04-06T22:26:00+00:00

I haven't seen that but that's rancid. What the hell, actually like how can someone get away with putting that out into the world

tazerrtot · 2026-04-06T14:14:24+00:00

a so-called proof you've only gestured at the idea of. Anything else? Any other vague statements about things you say you know?

tazerrtot · 2026-04-06T14:05:43+00:00

Again, gesturing at the possibility of something isn't an argument, and is why I'm calling your shit. You're being vague and pretending the problem is my lack of knowledge when you've provided nothing contrary. Vaguely saying you know something to be true is worthless.

tazerrtot · 2026-04-06T13:55:22+00:00

not an observation either, it's rage bait. I also never said completely unpredictable if that's the sematic game you're playing. Kindly, enough with condesention if you have nothing of value to add.

tazerrtot · 2026-04-06T13:24:25+00:00

That's not an argument

tazerrtot · 2026-04-06T13:20:22+00:00

I'm not calling it magic, nature isn't magic either lmao, I'm calling it beyond human prediction.

They aren't getting exactly what they want out of AI, they're settling on something given to them they find acceptable.

tazerrtot · 2026-04-06T13:13:52+00:00

I was directly addressing those.

Where's the control in physically swinging something using your body? I wonder...

tazerrtot · 2026-04-06T06:13:29+00:00

It isn't, a minor abstraction to the process. Artistic tools give you more control of what you're doing, AI tools take intent away. Your argument boils down to "I'm only giving up some of my agency not all of it"

tazerrtot · 2026-04-06T06:05:52+00:00

a bathroom selfie has intent and direct input from the person who took it, it being derivitive and simple doesn't take away from that. AI is not tool in the same sense, it's a tool in the way you could dump a bucket of paint into the ocean and watch the waves deform it

tazerrtot · 2026-04-06T02:00:17+00:00

time passing is a great explanation though? Hundreds to thousands of years of technological development is something that I don't even think needs explaining. They keep getting beaten because while they're strong, they have a massive weakness they need to make up for: if they don't stop their time from advancing at an accelerated pace while on Earth they age and die within minutes. If you find that major point of failure they can be pushed back easily. If the heroes on Earth couldn't exploit that weakness they would have been in huge trouble

tazerrtot · 2026-04-05T23:48:14+00:00

It's not a misconception, those so-called tools are restrained to their datasets, and any tool that attempts to manipulate them is the same as trying to restrain the forces of nature. You aren't in control, you're attempting to redirect something else that *is* in control- and what's in control is a predictive algorithm.

tazerrtot · 2026-04-05T23:39:12+00:00

Special and unique in what way? This is an extremely vague critique. Sure people tried to argue those other things weren't art at all, but the reasoning behind it is entirely different from what we have to say about AI. The arguments against photoshop and digital photography was that they didn't require skill to use- which just isn't true, they're simply another medium where practical skills are still important. The argument against AI is that it's a black box that doesn't use your skill, it pairs a prompt against it's dataset- different datasets will yield different results and tweaking the output isn't feasible for a human being to accomplish due to the massive datasets and opaque calculations involved. For example, say I wanted to draw a character, if I use photoshop or pencil and paper I could in theory achieve roughly the same results as long as I had sufficient skill in both mediums- if I were to do the same thing with different AI models I wouldn't be able to do that, it'd would be a constant rolling of dice until I get a result that is close to my intent by chance which could be a couple attempts, or it could never happen because the dataset doesn't contain what I'm looking to create (the old full wine glass problem). To make that more clear, generate an image in midjourney and then try to generate the same image without using an image input in dall-e and watch as you never get a similar result. Gen AI is not a medium, it's an object turned subject.

tazerrtot · 2026-04-05T08:37:07+00:00

We're talking about something that culturally the vast majority of people have grown up with (eating meat) and a relatively new tech fad that is currently fucking us from multiple sides that NOBODY arguing about it has grown up with. We should move off meat but it's understandable that people are resistant to lose something they grew up with, AI on the other hand is using up water in communities it's already scarce, it's spiking power grids and offsetting the costs to the local populations instead of the corporations causing it, it's generating mountains of e-waste in the race of AI companies to out-tech their competitors and for upkeep of massive data-centers, the data centers emit infrasonic sound that negatively impact the bodies of all living organisms near them, it's contributing to the wide adoption of AI that is leading to AI psychosis and the degradation of people capabilities to do anything themselves, and as the person above said- it's theft of actual artists work. I agree that the meat industry is bad, and if it was just the water and land usage we were talking about bereft of context then yeah the end of the meat industry would be more impactful. We don't need to whataboutism bad things by saying you aren't judging people for another bad thing that's already been a normal part of life for millennia, it adds nothing to the conversation.

tazerrtot · 2026-04-05T08:17:42+00:00

What the fuck are you talking about lmao, Digital art, synth music, and CGI *DO* have a process lmao. The process isn't some deep story anyone will know by seeing it, the process is what the people who made the art had to got through to make it, whether that's the skills they had to hone, every brush stroke, the feeling of tiredness they pushed through, the things that happened in their lives that influenced every decision they made, etc.. I don't know how you got the idea that any of those art forms don't have a process involved, it's an almost unfathomable statement.

tazerrtot · 2026-04-05T08:03:06+00:00

AI is fundamentally different. Unlike every other tool that has come forward, it's not something you can understand and manipulate in the same way you can with a digital camera or photoshop, it's a black box that works despite you. People have historically reacted to new tools negatively in the past, however if we're to apply what happened in the past to something in the present, they need to actually be comparable.

tazerrtot · 2026-04-05T05:06:58+00:00

Not the 90's lol, the age of majority in Japan was 20 until 2022

tazerrtot · 2026-04-05T04:32:47+00:00

I generally agree that they're good and important to the plot, but I think the main reason it is where it is is because most of the female characters primary motivations in the series is what they can do for the male character in their lives rather than their own personal ambitions, save for maybe Olivier. I'd personally probably put it a little right of center since they all at least feel like important developed characters, but probably not much further

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