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- Comment on [Discussion] What is the most niche genre that you like? 13 hours ago:
Sports anime about things that can only vaguely be considered sports.
Hibike! Euphonium, Initial D, March comes in like a lion are more obvious ones but band anime like K-On!, Bocchi the Rock!, and Nana also have a similar appeal.
These all have some kind of competition or performance involved, so they are structurally similar to sports anime with character drama and training/practice leading up to a big climax that caps off both the drama and the training.Maybe this genre isn’t so niche as these shows are all very popular, but I don’t often see people consider them to be similar in any way.
- Comment on [Discussion] What is the most niche genre that you like? 13 hours ago:
Good pick. I would say Haruhi Suzumiya, Gamers!, B-Gata H-Kei, and The Tatami Galaxy also fit this description.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 day ago:
It’s not actually a tier list, I just used a tier maker website to put together this play order and put rough labels on them. BotW and TotK are far apart cause we didn’t want to play them back-to-back.
Also, who’s the genius that said we don’t play Hyrule Warriors, and what is wrong with them?
I humbly admit that I am the genius in question.
Doesn’t really look very fun or interesting, and it’s certainly not mainline. So to be honest, I didn’t even consider including it. Maybe I will try it at your recommendation. - Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 days ago:
Currently playing through all the Zelda games with a friend in this curated order:
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So far I recommend it, although I’m only 3 games in.I just finished Wind Waker and it was far worse than I remembered, and I didn’t remember it being very good in the first place. Probably a conversational opinion, but I think Wind Waker is the most lazy and forgettable Zelda game. Curious if anybody liked this one for more than just the music and artstyle.
I can’t wait to move on to the DS games which I really like, but I’m waiting for my buddy to play Wind Waker first.
- Comment on When was the first time you cried over an anime? 1 week ago:
There are 8 anime that made me cry, in order from ~2019 to 2024:
- Sora yori mo Tooi Basho
- Hibike! Euphonium 2
- Mawaru Penguindrum
- March comes in like a lion
- Clannad: After Story
- March comes in like a lion 2nd Season
- Toradora!
- Spirited Away
Highly recommend all of these
- Comment on What anime has the best romance? - July 2025 3 weeks ago:
The tl;dr is “Yui x Ritsu”
The slightly longer story is that if you watch K-On! while really trying to overinterpret every interaction and assume more stuff is happening off-screen, a few romantic dynamics develop, with Yui x Ritsu being the most obvious.
The full story is 13+ charts and an 8 page writeup that I did as a personal project to justify this overinterpretation. I may post it somewhere if I ever decide to clean it up and make it presentable to the public eye, but there’s a lot in there. Ui x Nodoka. The Azusa->Yui->Ui and Jun->Mio->Azusa parallel. Yui-Mugi breakup arc. The Azusa human instrumentality arc.
My friends have called me schizophrenic for making these charts and while I don’t agree with their non-clinical use of the word “schizophrenic”, you should know that when I say “speculative / non-obvious” for K-On! in particular, it’s at about that level of extreme interpretation. - Comment on What anime has the best romance? - July 2025 3 weeks ago:
Cardcaptor Sakura, Princess Tutu, Toradora!, Maison Ikkoku, Chuunibyou, and Kare Kano are all contenders. If I can expand to speculative / non-obvious romance, then K-On!, Hidamari Sketch, Hibike! Euphonium, and Bocchi the Rock! are also up there.
Overall, the main couple from Cardcaptor Sakura may be my favorite, just extremely cute and well-paced. Miya & Yuno from Hidamari Sketch are also a really great couple.
Also, shoutouts to this guy who did an extreme overanalysis of how gay Hidamari Sketch is. - Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 5 weeks ago:
Also, I don’t think anybody honestly believes the argument that it is immoral to have children “without their consent.” The idea that you cannot do anything to someone else without their consent is a very useful idea in 95% of situations, and this is clearly one in which it does not apply. I did not consent to being born, but I would have if I could. Imagine a bureaucracy in which to apply for a passport, you needed to have an existing passport. It just doesn’t work. I can see the logic, but the idea has failed on a functional level. You can apply this to anything and make fake disingenuous arguments for any cause: “I don’t think we should elect a president unless they’ve already been president before. I think it’s a role where you absolutely need to have prior experience.” “You need to consent before being born. Since it’s impossible to do so, I guess it’s just immoral to have children.” See: Catch-22.
It is more difficult to have children now than it was 20, 40, 60 years ago. Some people feel the need to further justify their decision by convincing themselves that would be immoral to do anything else.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 1 month ago:
Pseudoregalia is insanely good
- Comment on Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme 1 month ago:
Remember some year ago when people were posting online like “in Russia it’s illegal to post this picture of Putin 🤣” with this pic: Image
Now that’s the USA.
- Comment on Non-Japanese Native Speakers: How long were you watching anime before you are comfortable with watching your first episode without subtitles? 1 month ago:
As someone who actually did learn Japanese through watching anime, it took me about 3 years. I started watching anime regularly in 2018 and when I was watching Hori-san to Miyamura-kun in 2021, the last two episodes had not been subtitled, so I watched them raw and mostly understood it.
A lot of people will say that it’s impossible to learn just via watching anime, but have not actually tried it. Yes, if you have subtitles on, it’s easy to let yourself totally ignore the Japanese. But it’s not impossible, and if you are focused, you can still learn even with subs turned on.
Later on, I started taking classes in Japanese at college and started learning a lot more. But just knowledge from watching anime was enough to pass an oral placement test and skip the first 2 semesters. If you are serious about learning Japanese, I recommend taking classes or studying it seriously online. There’s also better input resources than anime such as streamers or even conversation analysis audio for linguistics research.
But I am convinced that anime is still a very good tool because many people like anime and are already very motivated to watch it. This is a very big strength because the biggest obstacle to learning language is giving up. This, combined with Japanese’s very very simple grammar and verb conjugations actually makes it a very easy language to learn, imo.
- Comment on Name an older anime you'd love to see make a full comeback? 1 month ago:
Imo, pre-2012. I think you could also argue that 2018 or 2020/2021 is the start of the modem era of anime, or even 2006.
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 1 month ago:
Picture is of “Front Mission” (1995). I’ve never played or heard of it, tbh it is just taken from the Wikipedia page for tactical RPG.
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- Comment on PC Gaming’s Mascot Squad—who makes the cut? 2 months ago:
Agree with Gordon Freeman 100%. I might also suggest the Guide from Terraria and the CS:GO player models. Maybe also the player character from Noita, the goat from Goat Simulator, Quote from Cave Story.
These ones may be more niche, but for me personally I would also add Guy Spelunky, Princess Remedy, and Worm (Worms Armageddon).
- Comment on New Japanese Law Stops Parents From Naming Their Baby 'Pikachu' 2 months ago:
I don’t believe it actually bans “Pikachu” when spelled as 光宙 because ピカチュウ is actually a pretty reasonable reading, although maybe not the #1 most obvious one. Based on a random Japanese article I read about it (link), I really don’t think 光宙/Pikachu will be technically illegal, although all the English articles will say so because it’s click fodder.
The law bans: things that are not related to the kanji reading at all, things that add unexpected extra stuff on the end of the obvious reading, or things that mean the opposite of what the kanji means.
I don’t believe any of this applies to Pikachu, and the examples they cite are not really comparable.
- Comment on Undertale will be 10 years old in 3 months 2 months ago:
In 10 months, Dark Souls III will be 10 years old
- Comment on Tsukasa (by YUKIHE) 2 months ago:
あのーヒトデと交換していただけませんでしょうか？ Text: Ummm, could I trade it for a starfish? (Spoken very formally)
Not 100% sure what she is talking about, maybe the popsicle.
Maybe should be interpreted more like “could I have that [popsicle] in exchange for a starfish?” - Comment on Can you read and understand this passage? 2 months ago:
You say in another comment that this is indicative of a failed American education experiment, and that there’s a generation of illiteracy. I’m not saying that’s wrong, but it’s a much bigger generalization than “Kansas English undergrads” (which is such a specific category, why should I care about data that relates specifically to Kansas English undergrads?).
But my main gripe is the use of just one text. “People cannot understand this one book (therefore literacy is deficient)” is a much less convincing argument than “people cannot understand these 6 popular books from this time period” or “these 30 randomly selected fiction works” etc.
Is it well-established that Bleak House is representative of all the works we think about when we consider “literacy” and “illiteracy” as people’s ability to understand texts? - Comment on Can you read and understand this passage? 2 months ago:
This is interesting but with n=85 and Bleak House being the ONLY sample text they use, I wouldn’t really put much trust in the results.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I only know Japanese, but it is 親指 (oya yubi) which means parent-finger.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 3 months ago:
Actually 🤓 if we use the sun as our reference, they could not be light years away and would in fact be relatively close to the Earth, the distance being at most the diameter of Earth’s orbit, which even at most is less than 20 light minutes.
- Comment on My grandma passed away and my aunt sent me a selfie of her, my uncle, and my deceased grandma in the hospital bed, is it normal that I'm put off by this? 4 months ago:
“Victorian Death Photos” are a thing, and were probably more socially acceptable then than in present-day society
- Comment on What are your top three recommendations for someone new to anime? 4 months ago:
If someone has never really seen any anime before, I think Mushishi is a good one to recommend to people. It doesn’t contain any of the less-palatable anime tropes, can be enjoyed by any age group, and is just overall really chill and interesting. It’s also episodic, so if they watch 2 or 3 episodes and decide it’s not for them, they still get a full story without missing out on anything.
- Comment on What are your top three recommendations for someone new to anime? 4 months ago:
Little Witch Academia is what got me into anime, good pick.
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 4 months ago:
I assumed for closure, to put it behind you after you leave.
- Comment on Best game ever? 4 months ago:
For me it’s tied between Dark Souls (2011) and Universal Paperclips (2017)
- Comment on How would world politics be like if the top 100 countries (in terms of military strength) all had their own nuclear arsenals? 4 months ago:
Vasily Arkhipov in 1962 and Stanislav Petrov in 1983 are usually credited as single-handedly preventing nuclear launches. If it wasn’t for them, perhaps people wouldn’t think that nuclear weapons are such a strong deterrent.
- Comment on Favorite Racing Game Soundtrack? 5 months ago:
Nightmare Kart
youtu.be/t7nGTQZJiSw
youtu.be/QwcVSTkZf-k - Comment on Why We Love to Get Lost in Games: The Enduring Appeal of Metroidvanias 5 months ago:
I’m never sure where to draw the line with metroidvanias. Does Dark Souls count as metroidvania? or Link’s Awakening? Cave Story?
