yetAnotherUser

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Gen Iseksai Title⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like isekai is an interesting concept, but it is very poorly explored by the countless attempts at it (mostly because most of those attempts are low quality).

  Why does the MC rarely miss anything important from the previous world? I mean, even if the MC was such a loner as they always are, wouldn’t they miss a parent, a sibling, an old friend they no longer talked much with? If you reincarnated in another world, would you immediately forget everything that came before that? And wouldn’t the thoughts about the world you came from come back, even if you tried avoiding them?

  Also, why does the MC always become immediately overpowered? Like, other than being an overused comedy trope that is barely funny anymore, I know it’s fun to see a character hiding their own trump cards from everyone else and carefully choosing when to reveal them, but why would we root for a generic-ass stranger that got immediately cool because of some abilities they gained out of nowhere?

  I now understand why so many people like Solo Leveling, which I’m bringing to this conversation because I feel like has an isekai-esque setting. Other than being a really good story, it does a better job than most isekai at making you care about the protagonist, because the main character actually struggles to get the OP abilities, putting his everything on the line to become stronger, even in situations in which he wasn’t supposed to, and not just for himself, but for his family too. This means that the character walks down a path of trials and tribulation to become a hero, he doesn’t just arrive and say “hello, I’m OP now, dw I’ll singlehandedly destroy the villains, just did it, bye”, or instead say “sssh, I’m secretly OP and I want to siglehandedly defeat the bad guys without anyone thinking I did it because otherwise I get pestered by people who would want to use me for my OP abilities”. That makes him way more likable than most other MCs, you see him struggle. Not just that, but his job just becomes harder once he becomes OP, and there’s an actual good reason why he gets the abilities (won’t spoil much more, just read the manhwa or watch the anime, you won’t regret it). I think it should be tried to make an MC that doesn’t want to live forever in another world, but instead wants to come back to his world, and it should be possible for it to happen, but extremely hard. In Ascendance of a Bookworm, the MC wishes they could do that, but just can’t because they died and then reincarnated. But afaik there isn’t an anime/manga where the MC sets on a quest, or has the ultimate goal to go back to their world, and I think it would be interesting. lmk if there are already stories like that.

  (Also, IseGure is a funny anti-isekai manga you might want to read)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give permission. Don't give permission. They know where you are anyway⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But when Firebase gets that network/IP change report, what information does it get? Because if it only gets the public IP address, the reported IP will still be the VPN one, not the real one, right? So, if that were the only information reported to Firebase, wouldn’t you still be protected? Does Firebase block requests when you’re using a VPN (this could be detected, for example, if certain aspects of the network have changed but the IP hasn’t)? Is that what you mean with not getting push notifications when simulating a local IP with filters?

  PS: From my research, the WiFi’s SSID can also be used to track someone’s whereabouts, but depending on where you are and how many networks have used the same SSID, it may work work well or badly. You can see that by going to wigle.net (which is a database on WiFi networks with some publicly-available information), go to the map, type in the SSID field, and click “Filter”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please Look After the Dragon Volume 3 Cover⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I need to know more about this manga right now. This is too cool of a volume cover.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[DISC] IseGure - Isekai Cheat Musou Ore TUEEE-kei Ikiri Tenseisha ni Kamaseinu ni sare Tsuzuketa Elite Kishi, Chou Gureru. - Chapter 3⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I take back a lot of the things I said in the Chapter 1 disscussion thread. This manga is simply beautiful in every sense of the word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] IseGure: After Constantly Being Used as a Foil for OP Isekai Protagonists, The Elite Knight Has Finally Had It - Chapter 1⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for making this disscussion thread. I would never learn about this manga if it weren’t because of it.

  As I see it, this chapter gives a compelling reason for a warrior that used to be so noble to go haywire over people isekai’ing to his world. I also enjoyed the fact that they made this chapter really long to explain the manga’s premise, instead of only giving it a few chapters in after introducing essential concepts of the story, as some stories do. Plus, the chapter was overall funny.

  I really hope that the author is able to keep it up and not make the story turn bland. Joking with the oversaturation of the manga industry with isekais is funny, but things are prone to turn stale if that ever becomes the only running theme of the manga.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky: eXodus continues as TERFS lose their brain-rotted minds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I DISAGREE with you. YOU ARE NOW OBLIGATED TO ENTER AN EPIC DEBATE TO THE DEATH WITH ME BECAUSE REACHING A CONSENSUS IS IMPOSSIBLE IN THE INTERET!!!

  (((((((((((((((((/s (in case it wasn’t obvious))))))))))))))))))

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new way to support open-source: OpenPledge⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, sounds good to me. Thanks for the quick reply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new way to support open-source: OpenPledge⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So it’s like a bounty system then? Wouldn’t that contribute to low-quality PRs that are rushed to get the money ASAP? And what if the company tries to cancel the bounty right before the commit is pushed, when all the work is done?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Catholic Church Unveils Anime Inspired Official Mascot Of The Holy Year 2025⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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  I don’t like it that much…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What a great way to build trust in a newly born platform! And how respecting to the people that are using the platform! Way to go!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I loved that the VP of Content added that mods will still be able to protest when Reddit is literally is getting rid of major tools for mods to do an effective protest. Like, I get that Reddit is a company, and that it’s a platform they own, and that they lose profit whenever a big subreddits get privated, but they keep giving mods middle finger after middle finger.