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Mainly in the show, Franz Ferdinand was never shot, so WWI didn’t kick off until a decade later, but the Russian revolution still happened anyway (which is by far the weirdest historical detail about the show imo) and somehow their version of the USSR stabilizes 10 years early.

Since it takes place in interwar years, you effectively have Imperial Germany fighting in what’s a blend of WWI and WWII. Since Germany’s overall strategies (Schleifen Plan/Blitzkrieg) were effectively the same between both wars it’s fairly believeable.

And in the show it’s pretty clear that there’s no side that’s an unequivocal hero. They all sucked themselves into the war and are stuck in it, just like WWI.

Yes

Pretty much. Bit of a letdown tbh

Wait, this show is still going? I though it ended a decade ago

Live-action adaptations of anime are abominations without exception

Tbh, this one felt like a filler episode. Up until the end there wasn’t anything that moved the plot forward.

I stoll enjoed it, but it’s one of the weaker epispdes this season

I’d be a bit surprised if they released the Steam Frame this Monday, seeing as it’s a holiday (labor day in the US).

That being said, if they did so that’d probably tank their servers since they won’t have work keeping people away from checling Steam for the drop

The developer has already demonstrated they’re a greedy asshole. I’m surprised they didnt pack up and get a different job after the first game

They have closed source code, so nobody besides Apple’s engineers and programmers can verify those claims. And since they work for Apple they have an inherent bias.

Since their claims cannot be independently verified, we cannot take their claims at face value. It doesn’t prove they’re lying, but it also doesn’t prove that they’re telling the truth. All people know is what their marketing department puts out.

But if that’s enough for you to believe that they respect privacy, then I have a bridge to sell you as well…

You have to buy a Google phone (i.e. pay iPhone 17 Pro money for an iPhone 11-powered phone), so Google already double dipped.

1: You can buy used, which means not giving money to Google

2: In what way is this “already double dipped”? Double dipping would be selling your data after selling you the phone, but you reserved that for “triple dipping”

Just like Android users who say they want to get away from Google, all the while shouting “never Apple” despite Apple claiming to stand for privacy while Google does not hide the fact that they sell your data to the highest bidder.

despite Apple claiming to stand for privacy

CLAIMING.

They’re both multibillion dollar tech corps that sell your data. Trust neither.

I should also point out that one has had a defacto walled garden for decades now, the other is still putting up the walls. But regardless, trust neither.

Don’t switch to Apple. Switch to actually private operating systems like GrapheneOS or Linux.

So it was less of a “incest relationship”, and more a someone who wanted her brother back

Wasn’t there a scene where it was heavily implied that Suguha had just masturbated to Kirito? You’re writing an entire essay to argue against what the anime very directly states.

The series NEVER fantasized SA, it clearly shows how bad it is and has our protagonist stops it

Take a step back and actually loom at the show. None of the actions or plans for any of the villians ever make any sense. The sexual assualts are distractions to prevent the audience from realizing that. But the author picks distractions that he thinks are cool. It’s a tactic called ‘debate and switch’. It’s when the author writes themselves into a corner that they don’t want to address, so they have the villain do something ridiculously evil out of left field to distract the audience.

These reasons are why I can’t SAO haters, your heads so far up your ass

Ironic. A lot of us can actually tell when the author makes immature asspulls throughout the series. But you seem incapable of that and get irrationally angry about it.

Also as a sidenote: this asshole also wrote “glomping 2 years of cum into her pussy” in one of SAO’s side stories. The author hasn’t matured past age 14. Maybe that’s why you’re a fan of the series.

Wonderful timing! I just started reading The Word Hord: Daily Life in Old English and this comes up at the start of chapter 3. In Old English it’s called “morgen-colla”, which translates to modern english as “morning dread” or “morning rage”.

Granted it’s in the wee hours of the morning, not as you’re trying to fall asleep, but it still demonstrates how humans are gonna human.

True. Though unfortunately Goblin Slayer ends up being uninteresting after season 1. I wouldn’t say it’s bland (because it still has a fair bit of violence), but it just seems to stall out

Suguha is explicitly stated to be Kirito’s cousin and was also raised as his sister. It’s alsoexplicitly stated that she was in love with Kirito. This is in the 2nd half of season 1, the Alfheim Online Arc.

And there’s also the scene where Asuna escapes from her cell in the 2nd half of season 1, where she ends up recaptured by guards who for some “mysterious” reason are tentacle monsters, and casually suggest tentacle raping Asuna before putting her back in her cage. And there is literally 0 point for the scene to be like this except the writer and anime studio wanted to suggest tentacle rape.

If you had instead said it’s just a couple of bad scenes in an otherwise good show, that’d be one thing. I wouldn’t agree, but I could at least respect that argument. But no, you didn’t make that argument. You instead feigned ignorance of a show you claim to be a fan of just to call me a poser.

And for the record, I watched through Gun Gale Online when it came out. The end of that was barely less gross than the Alfheim Arc.

I’m pretty sure the show’s insistence on injecting incest and rape into the story is what truggered that

No, we hate because it’s garbage. It’s annoying garbage because people won’t shut the fuck up about it

God, I ducking despise NGE and how people won’t shut up about it

I filled out an IT helpdesk request last week because I couldn’t push any updates to GitHub. I was able to access the site, so I though my access token was retired since that happens every once in awhile.

Nope. It was GitHub. For some reason it couldn’t accept my push despite the website still being up. And I didn’t find out until the tech called the the next day and it worked when I tried to recreate it in front of them

Tbh, I think Soul Eater is fine as it is. And yes, I read the manga too. They diverse 3/4 of the way through, but I wouldn’t say the manga’s ending was particularly better

Did Nanahoshi just react poorly to mana, or was it specifically to the mana used inside the fortress 🤔

I’m wondering if it’s lung cancer. In a lot of other media, healing spells don’t do anything to cancer spells since they still have the same DNA as the rest of the body

Lung cancer?

In what universe is Aldnoah.Zero “divisive”?

I have never seen anyone like it, apart from the opening 10 minutes.

"Gets better with every arc"

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No, just no

Maybe vaguely in general, but you have to look at each show individually.

I’ve had conversations about One Piece before where the other person didn’t want to watch it solely because it had slavery in it, despite every depiction of slavery in the show being blatantly evil.

That was only a year ago. And collections were added way before the merger.

Honestly, I haven’t seen anything get added since the purchase. The main change I’ve seen is more pushing of vortex and collections when you go to the download page, there’s an extra page/window you have to click through now.

Also, splitting requirements and dependencies in different sections of mods’ description tabs. While they did need more differentiation, putting them in separate expansion buttons was too much and actually makes checking dependencies harder, especially with having pages instead of a long list

For an unpaid mod? Thats about the only time I’d be ok with it. But I wouldn’t want to install a mod AI coded.

Another factor is if it’s the difference between getting expanded dialogue for a character with the same voice, or with a different VA that can significantly change the personality.

For example, Serana Dialogue Add-On vs Serana Dialogue Expansion. I personally can’t stand the new personality added with SDA.

That being said, I’m significantly less tolerant of dialogue expansion mods that have spotty quality for the voice or writing. If you’re taking a shortcut in one area (aka AI voice acting), you should be more scruitinizing for the other parts of the mod. AnBeeGod is guilty of this at times. He’s about 50/50 on whether it’s great or sub-par

Doesn’t have it off by default, and not all browsers let you set a custom search engine to direct to the “No AI” version

I still use DDG since it’s the least bad, but it’s still hypocritical for a “private” search engine to default to an AI

Strange, didn’t they already launch a sequel? Not complaining, just surprised.

Interesting, though I have to point out that most survival city builders (aka Banished and its spiritual successors like Settlement Survival and Patron) factor in seasons as well, so that’s not a unique feature. Still, I love that genre so I’ll be paying attention to it