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Cancel cult said:
you can just... wait to watch the next one
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The problem with that is if you're remotely involved in the community you will get spoiled on everything. As an example, JoJo's bizzare adventure was the victim of netflix's batch release and both the main sub and shitposting subs required part 6 posts to be tagged for spoilers for like 3 months. Compare that to when part 5 was releasing weekly and people could still make coherent posts about late part 5 with no issues. There are probably more factors than the weekly release system, such as the fact that most manga discussion of part 5 pertains to "how does king crimson work" and "how the fuck does ger work", but weekly releases helped conversations flow much easier because the manga readers also knew how much they could share to anime onlies (except dipshit289 who keeps saying "don't get too attached" whenever someone brings up a character who dies) whereas part 6 had to be spoilered entirely because someone who watched 16 episodes in 1 sitting could be involved in a conversation with someone who wanted to slow down and is currently on episode 7 or something.
 
cat memes are very unfunny and the worst recent addition to the humor meta. the cat picture itself has no inherent humor so you have to add an unrelated caption such as “im going to kill you” or “search up big boobs.” occasionally the picture-unrelated caption can be funny but ive seen every combination with a cat picture and none of them are. please leave this shit in 2008 where it belongs

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anaconja said:
cat memes are very unfunny and the worst recent addition to the humor meta. the cat picture itself has no inherent humor so you have to add an unrelated caption such as “im going to kill you” or “search up big boobs.” occasionally the picture-unrelated caption can be funny but ive seen every combination with a cat picture and none of them are. please leave this shit in 2008 where it belongs

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anaconja said:
cat memes are very unfunny and the worst recent addition to the humor meta. the cat picture itself has no inherent humor so you have to add an unrelated caption such as “im going to kill you” or “search up big boobs.” occasionally the picture-unrelated caption can be funny but ive seen every combination with a cat picture and none of them are. please leave this shit in 2008 where it belongs

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Yeah man fuck cats
 
Sword Art Online's Alicization arc was actually pretty good. The plotline is solid, Eugeo gets actual character development, Kirito loses a fight, and Kawahara found out how to make sexual assault look like a bad thing (only took 3 fucking seasons). The fights are now less about "who's better at stabbing other people" and actually utilize the environment around them for once. Eugeo vs. Bercouli stands as my favourite fight in the whole series.

Since you can never talk about SAO without bringing up it's problems, I am going to say that Fanatio's story kind of doesn't make sense. She claims to have hidden her face because she didn't want her opponents to handicap themselves, but it's pretty clearly shown that most people, including the integrity knights, don't really care about the gender of their opponent. I also kind of don't like the final fight of the series, as a lot of what happens seems really asspull-y and the deaths seem incredibly forced.

The war arc is also really good. In a vacuum, it's pretty good, and it's definitely the best arc in SAO. Kirito is almost completely taken out of the picture for most of the fight, and the show is overwhelmingly better off because of it. Fights have much more on the line because the main character can't bail out the good guy if they start losing, and he's not there to beat the hell out of everyone remotely dangerous to the rest of the main cast. The old cast members are brought back, the emotional moments are actually emotional, and the new characters introduced have a personality. The plotline is good, there are actual stakes on the line this time, and the final villain fight is not exactly terrible. Was the last fight a bit of an asspull? Yes, definitely. Do I care? No. The animation was cool as fuck, and it's the only time I've actually rooted for Kirito to win through the show's 80+ episode runtime. I'd compare the villain fight to SAO 2's final fight, but instead of being the only good part of an otherwise terrible arc, it's an iffy ending to an otherwise fantastic arc. Then, the ending scene was so utterly nonsensical that it forced everyone to keep the show in the back of their mind to find out why kirito "fought" a big ass space squid for literally no reason.

I am not counting the GGO spinoff as the best as it wasn't written by Kawahara and therefore should not be compared to any part of mainline SAO.
 
Festival Plaza was not that bad.
I know it had no reason to exist, and replaced a much better system. I also know it failed to make competitive pokemon easier to access. But I think what it did do is make grinding less tedious. The minigames that you play to earn FC might not be the most exciting things in the world, but they are a lot more fun than grinding in pokemon typically is. And the Battle Agency, while practically impossible to play once you go over level 15, does let you grind and try out new strategies at the same time, while also teaching you how to assess the capabilities of pokemon. Did it do a great job at any of these things? No, being more fun than typical grinding in pokemon is an incredibly low bar, and not only is it not efficient at it, it is done better by the Battle Tree and Mantine Surfing. But the ideas they had were good ideas, and I would gladly welcome Festival Plaza were it to come back in a new game more polished, as long as it stops pretending to be an online system.
 
wheat is great and I am fucking tired of pretending it's not

There's not a single piece of scientific proof that wheat is unhealthy. It's nutrient rich in it's natural state. Stop blaming all the problems of overprocessed white bread on wheat as a whole. A slice of toasted, sourdough, dark bread is a gift from the Gods and we should all thank the Mesopotamians for inventing bread
 
Local Dog said:
wheat is great and I am fucking tired of pretending it's not

There's not a single piece of scientific proof that wheat is unhealthy. It's nutrient rich in it's natural state. Stop blaming all the problems of overprocessed white bread on wheat as a whole. A slice of toasted, sourdough, dark bread is a gift from the Gods and we should all thank the Mesopotamians for inventing bread
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...People say this? I've never seen anyone claim that wheat is less healthy than any other grain. It's possible that my perspective is skewed because I'm from America, where we love our wheat products almost as much as God and gridiron football, but I don't think that I've ever heard this claim in my life. Many people in developed nations consume too much of it, to be sure, and the super processed stuff is never great for you, but most everyone seems to be in agreement that the grain itself isn't the problem.
 
adjectivenoun said:
...People say this? I've never seen anyone claim that wheat is less healthy than any other grain. It's possible that my perspective is skewed because I'm from America, where we love our wheat products almost as much as God and gridiron football, but I don't think that I've ever heard this claim in my life. Many people in developed nations consume too much of it, to be sure, and the super processed stuff is never great for you, but most everyone seems to be in agreement that the grain itself isn't the problem.
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in urban areas, wheat is very demonized. I think it started with the whole gluten scare, when that lost steam, people starting talking about anti-nutrients in wheat, intestine inflammation, it was blamed for arthritis (for some reason) and all that kinda shit

Rural areas don't think that way, and middle-easteners, Africans, south Asians and Caucasians (who at times eat even more wheat than Westeners) would never blame wheat for health issues. I guess it's just an urban westeners thing
 
Local Dog said:
in urban areas, wheat is very demonized. I think it started with the whole gluten scare, when that lost steam, people starting talking about anti-nutrients in wheat, intestine inflammation, it was blamed for arthritis (for some reason) and all that kinda shit

Rural areas don't think that way, and middle-easteners, Africans, south Asians and Caucasians (who at times eat even more wheat than Westeners) would never blame wheat for health issues. I guess it's just an urban westeners thing
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Very bizarre. This is not rhetoric that I hear in my corner of the world, but my prejudice against urban areas makes it easy for me to accept this uncritically.
 
Local Dog said:
wheat is great and I am fucking tired of pretending it's not

There's not a single piece of scientific proof that wheat is unhealthy. It's nutrient rich in it's natural state. Stop blaming all the problems of overprocessed white bread on wheat as a whole. A slice of toasted, sourdough, dark bread is a gift from the Gods and we should all thank the Mesopotamians for inventing bread
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same goes with fat. the only bad fat is trans fat.

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Straight Edge punks are honestly not that bad. The guys that date minors, beat up people who drink and constantly talk about how cool it is to not drink and take drugs are goofs but there are guys like that in any punk group (or any group for that matter)

I like the idea that you can be a rebel whilst taking care of yourself. A lot of punk seems almost like accelerationism, only being for the destruction of what you consider bad whilst destroying yourself in the process. Straight Edges, by taking care of themselves, kinda reject this accelerationism and start to stand for something instead of just standing against everything
 
Local Dog said:
Straight Edge punks are honestly not that bad. The guys that date minors, beat up people who drink and constantly talk about how cool it is to not drink and take drugs are goofs but there are guys like that in any punk group (or any group for that matter)

I like the idea that you can be a rebel whilst taking care of yourself. A lot of punk seems almost like accelerationism, only being for the destruction of what you consider bad whilst destroying yourself in the process. Straight Edges, by taking care of themselves, kinda reject this accelerationism and start to stand for something instead of just standing against everything
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It always seemed to me that continuing to be alive was an important part of rebelling against anything.
 
Being antisocial is a good thing. It allows you to build your own identity without becoming a replica of the people around you by copying aspects they have and rather you can find things that others around you may not even consider. Sometimes being too social is bad since you end up as a lifeless husk that mirrors others around you and thus become a boring person.
 
Heatranator said:
Being antisocial is a good thing. It allows you to build your own identity without becoming a replica of the people around you by copying aspects they have and rather you can find things that others around you may not even consider. Sometimes being too social is bad since you end up as a lifeless husk that mirrors others around you and thus become a boring person.
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I appreciate the sentiment, but I'm not sure that you know what "antisocial" actually means.
 
So, I have gone on record to defend SV in the past, however what I realized I have failed to mention is that up until recently, I have not actually played the game. I was relying on sources I trust for this information. A few weeks ago, I got SV, and now that I have finally played it, my opinions have changed.



This is the best Pokemon game I have ever played, and I have played Pokemon Emerald. It obviously has its flaws, but it is just so much fun. I have never had more fun playing a pokemon game. And the performance issues were massively overblown. While pokemon clipping into things does happen, this does not affect the gameplay basically at all. And when it comes to the lag I have heard so much about, it is actually pretty rare. I have only ever been slightly inconvenienced by lag ONCE. And the story, while simple, is quite fulfilling. I especially liked the Starfall segment, as the characters there feel three dimensional and complex. This game is nowhere near as bad as people claim. I am so glad I played SV, and people who say it is the worst in the series are lying to themselves.
 
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