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Always be capitulating preemptively and never don't compromise even further on that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

It stopped being a particularly meaningful term when the distinction between "middle class" (bourgeoisie) and "upper class" (aristocracy) stopped being meaningful. After that it's just been used to make some variation of "those more privileged workers who get tasty good boy treats as a reward for being white landowners in the imperial core" feel special and separate from other workers.

There's definitely an analysis to be made about how the intersection of privilege, land ownership, and petty capital ownership creates a reactionary class of precarious but entitled shitbags who are simultaneously murderously terrified of losing their meager fiefs and rewarded enough by the system that they support it against any and all change, but "middle class" is too empty and propagandistic a term now.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Isn't that joke older than formal logic being a common nerd thing? Like replying "yes" to an either-or question feels like an old sitcom bit about someone not paying attention and inferring from the tail end that they were asked if they wanted the second option or they stopped listening after the first, or just dismissing the question by agreeing to either in an annoying way. In fact, isn't inappropriately answering "yes" to various questions in general a pretty old bit? Like misinterpreting a question about something as an offer of it, misinterpreting an offer as a request, etc? It's just one of those "it's funny because it's wrong" sort of wordplay gags, similar to "who's on first?"

 

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Well, they're not coherent enough for that but if they were that's what they'd be described as doing .

Isn't what you're describing basically the hyperstition/meme magic shit that at least some of them do proclaim as part of their nihilistic irony poisoning?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

AFAIK it's basically just that math education has been moving more advanced concepts earlier and earlier at least as an optional course. Like calculus has gone from a post-grad level thing to a normal college course to something people can elect to take in high school, algebra went from college level material to normal high school level stuff that people start getting introduced to in middle school, etc.

But also a lot of people struggle with the most basic things in high school, graduate, then forget all of the incomplete-understanding they had by the time they have kids. It's very likely that adults who are baffled and enraged at seeing some basic algebra problem also struggled with math in school and are embarrassed and frustrated that their skills have only gotten worse since then, on top of the possibility that they never even got to algebra when they were in school and instead went through the remedial math track that maybe reaches basic pre-algebra material in their senior year.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

hrt can make your mfing hands smaller

Can confirm, I didn't keep detailed records or anything but I did have a ring that went from being a snug fit on my ring finger to being loose on my thumb, and my hands noticeably look different.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Weren't those mostly just different automod replies. Some of them have gotten replacements, like the volcel-police bot and the amber-snacking bot.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

BNHA is just incoherent liberalism: the writer clearly understands that the world portrayed in it is bad and the whole hero system is hypocritical and rotten to its core, but he's too much of a lib to critique it properly. Like the system is rotting liberalism with a brutally racist undercurrent lurking just beneath the surface, the villains are omnicidal fascist lunatics straight up doing the Pasolini quote about fascism being true freedom for the powerful, and the "good" heroes are the ones that put the lives of others first and try to lift their spirits, which is overall an ok take for capeshit, but that's as far as it goes and there's not a coherent critique or alternative in it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

You forgot one of the best parts of The Witcher III: when the narrator (framed as a character in the story retelling it all later) basically says "racism is bad, and the real monsters are cruel and intolerant men."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Oh no Rae's just an absolutely awful person in a lot of ways. I think at least some of that is her not entirely seeing the world she's in as real and so feeling entitled to use her obsessive meta knowledge and bullshit protagonist powers to do personal wish-fulfillment stuff, though at least some of that involves helping people in ways she couldn't in her former life. But it is very much more just a story doing "normal isekai wish fulfilment with problematic implications, but this time it's queer wish fulfillment instead of straight." I will say that the LN does have Rae reflecting on how she's basically playing a homophobic caricature as a defense mechanism of sorts, but I can't remember if there's a point where she acknowledges that her whole plot to get Claire is gross and bad even if she's also trying to save her life along the way.

I think I've said this before, but her overall character arc should have been to grow and stop trying to impose her own desires on Claire while finding someone who actually reciprocated them, instead of just winning the explicitly-straight Claire as a prize for doing enough good deeds who was then perfectly happy to be her wife and spontaneously started reciprocating her feelings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I'm framing it in a funnier way than it actually shows up. The literal text is a lot of very dancing-around-being-romantic stuff and whenever it puts a label on Akari and Menou/Hakua's relationships it's "dear friend" or "best friend." I don't even know if that's an issue in the original text or a translator thing, but I'm not exactly hopeful that it's just a bad translation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

At least there's I'm in Love with the Villainess which is explicitly, textually gay and in the LN has a lot of somber reflection on real-world LGBT issues.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I usually just mock them and say things like "mEoW mEoW mEoW that's you that's what you sound like" but this time they coordinated to block my path with a united front of spinning and screaming.

 

I eventually gave in and fed them, and I'm still half convinced they have tricked me.

 

Like as of the latest book to be translated to english Akari and Menou's relationship has basically been (spoilers)Akari: *actively declares undying love and attraction towards Menou, constantly*

Menou: blob-no-thoughts

Akari: *actively conspires to die in the hopes of saving Menou's life, while burning her literal soul as fuel to keep a three month timeloop going for an unknown number of years in the hopes of finding an iteration where Menou lives* (corny as that sounds, the gradual reveal that that's what was happening was great)

Menou: blob-no-thoughts

Akari and Menou: *merge their literal souls together, becoming one singular being split between two bodies, in language that's explicitly romantic and euphemistic*

Menou: blob-no-thoughts "I made a friend."

Akari: *gets mind-wiped by the original Menou, Hakua, who is both the literal god of the world's main religion and so madly infatuated with Akari that she betrayed and murdered every other friend she ever had, waited a thousand years, and plotted to kill an entire world just in the hopes of being reunited with Akari*

Menou: blob-no-thoughts "I must kill god, alter the basic mechanical rules of this world, and save my friend. Then I will spend my life with her and hold her hand, as is normal for friends."

I want to scream. meow-knife-trans

Still a shame the anime never got picked up for another season.

 

This isn't the most egregious shit I've seen from the SD community, but goddamn if it isn't some of the highest effort pure-cringe shit.

 

Like as far as writing quality in general, art, characters, etc it's all quite good, but the whole "dungeon ecology" stuff being retconned away with "actually it's all eldritch horror wish magic so all that monster ecology stuff is fake bullshit that doesn't matter" kind of sucked as a core plot point, as was downgrading the dungeon lord from "scary ancient mage who knew how to make such a big and complex dungeon" to "just some dumbass who didn't understand the most basic things, and it was all just eldritch horror wish magic doing the heavy lifting." Making a core point of the wish magic "greed and cruelty are harmless and normal, but wanting to improve the material conditions of others? That's a serious moral hazard that feeds a world eating demon!" is some peak liberal bullshit, too.

Also I hate the narrative device of "this arc has reached it's climax and finished and we've wound it all down now, time to move on to the next-PSYCH lmao I take it back it's not done I'm undoing it now it's still on we're still doing the thing that just finished lol" because it's lazy and ruins tension and pacing compared to just finding some better way to segue into a new arc. Especially since it doesn't even really do much of anything with the retcon, and it was practically just an excuse to get rid of the timer they had and replace it with a different one they didn't know about.

Apart from those things it was all good enough, though.

 

Like the way its structured to start with is the extremely tight view that drives home that all these other characters have their own lives and existence but you only ever the few bits when Frieren's around and then they're gone, while the pacing keeps up this constant feeling of time slipping inexorably away and being lost forever. It hits hard and is structured perfectly for those themes.

Then it hits a point where the story shatters into a bunch of separate threads and grinds to a complete halt in the way that stories that split into a bunch of threads inevitably do. It loses the tight focus and the feeling of "yes, these characters have their own existence but you only interact that during the moments you're actually there" sort of thing in favor of just showing you a blow by blow of everything that's going on with them, and instead of time slipping away no matter how hard you hold onto it it instead stands completely still.

It stops being unique and impactful and starts being "that annoying thing from BNHA where they spend like half an entire season going into excruciating detail about some little training exercise with mild competitive elements that every single member of a huge cast is participating in" instead.

 

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I know you have to soak them overnight to rehydrate them and leach out poisonous shit, but is there more to it than that? Can this go along with seasoning them or does the water need to be as clean as possible to make them safe to eat?

 

And also civitai ones.

sicko-wistful

 

Here's one begging the mods to curtail all the AI generated slop in the AI slop generation sub.

Another post asking how to filter out all the low effort memes, and another providing a link to hide them.

The meme in question is also some vaguely racist riff on the weird facebook spam pictures, focused on an african child making things out of garbage.

It's just really funny the bitter fighting that's happening between "don't ruin this useful informational sub with the literal fruits of its efforts" wojak-nooo people and the soypoint-1 "lol lmao slop machine go brrrr" soypoint-2 trolls.

 

They're holes in the water you throw money into.

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