I feel like we might as well just go back to symbol languages. What’s the point of an alphabet if the letters don’t actually convey consistent pronunciation? It’s just more confusing because the letters imply rules which don’t hold.

I continue to be shocked to discover things that seemed very recent to me are now a decade or two old. I probably shouldn’t be, but here I am.

Works on my machine. :P

My dad has been complaining about this kind of thing for baseball. The subscription to watch games online specifically blacks out home games because…l fuck you I guess? He’s paying for the service but he still needs to either use a VPN or pirate just to watch some of the games.

This seems over engineered. I’m pretty sure a simple program that just replies “yeah sure” to anyone from the right department asking about something would outperform most CEOs.

and think Helen Keller wasn’t real

wat? I’m not on any dating apps, is this a real conspiracy theory people believe?

Sounds pretty cooked to me.

Maybe? Not sure. The show itself is trash power fantasy stuff, but I didn’t notice anything exceptional about it. The crazy animation and direction is a sight to behold, but it might get old making fun of it after a while. Your mileage may vary.

We’ve checked out quite a few shows at this point. We’ll probably check out some more, but with continuing and returning shows taking up a lot of space on our schedule I doubt we’ll have much room for more. Although I’ll often end up watching some of the trash on my own if it’s funny enough.

Stuff we liked:

• All Works Maid: While at it’s base it’s still a power fantasy, I do find the premise to be a fun enough twist on the formula to be amusing and there’s some decent comedy to boot. Hopefully it doesn’t get stale.

• Chain Smoker Cat: I can’t say that I’ve watched any other anime where a cat girl squats over a toilet and shits her brains out in ep1. So that’s something. Jokes aside, it was pretty funny. ’

• Goodbye Laura: Little Mermaid but Yuri? Sounds good. Also just a solid production all around.

• Grow Up Show: Is it just me or does the MC seem a bit like Megumin from the spinoff? Either way, I’m always down for a cute girls do cute author’s special interest as long as it seems well made.

• Hanaori-san Still Wants to Fight in the Next Life: Fun setup and characters so far even if it isn’t particularly original at this point. Hopefully they keep it up.

• Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia: Very different setting and style than we usually get in anime and it was just a solid episode.

• Kaiju Girl: Cute with a fun twist. Hopefully the romance part doesn’t get annoying.

• Kaikigumi: Funny premise. Weird looking character designs. An MC who isn’t the basic default HS guy protag. Also, they described the org as a business. How does one make money scaring people?

• Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games: I’m not into fighting games. Whenever I’ve played one I just button mash. Although I have a friend who’s super into them. (Ironically not part of our anime watching group because he’s usually too busy.) The setup sort of reminds me of “Rock is a Lady’s Modesty”, which we also enjoyed. Like I said, CGDCASI is usually a good time. Also maybe yuri?

• Livid Lady: Seems like it has potential to be good revenge trash. Not that that genre usually turns out any good, but honestly just swapping the protag to a woman makes it more bearable.

• Oh Boy Was I Wrong About Her: Man there have been a lot of childhood friend romcoms recently. They seem to have a fun enough dynamic. I really hope the will they won’t they doesn’t end up being torturous.

• Sparks of Tomorrow: Kyoani doing Kyoani things. Also, as of ep 1, the fall counter is at 6.

Trash that’s worth mentioning:

• Frontier Lord: Wife Speedrun any%.

• Heavy Knight: GOHANDS. We didn’t actually know the studio going into it and I’ve never seen their work outside of videos making fun of them. But something felt off, so I had my suspicions and checked and yup, it’s them.

• Rear Guard: Slave loli speedrun any%. Also, what do they mean this town is only Isekai adventurers? Who the hell runs things in town?

• Villager Lv. 999: Somehow the setting is even dumber and more uninspired than the usual I can’t believe it’s not isekai! So… this is just Japan after magic and monsters showed up and… they just decided to rebuild society in the style of Medieval Europe because… um… coming up with original worldbuilding is entirely beyond the scope of these kinds of writers.

Oh well.

Is this the birth of the bunny girl?

People in this thread talking about population issues and I ‘m just here wondering how they knew how to make more sexually attractive rabbit sex toys.

Man, if all it takes to be a CEO is to make stupid decisions, they should just hire me. I’m the master at that.

The problem is trust. They can say whatever the hell they want if they think it’s gonna get them elected but then not follow through. I’m not gonna trust someone who up until now thought killing children was totally cool. I’m also not going to trust someone who’s been taking corporate money, especially if they still are.

Would it be nice if they changed their position? Sure. But why does it need to be them in power? There are over 300 million people in this country. There are plenty of them that never thought killing children was cool. Plenty who have never taken corporate political donations. Plenty who better represent the majority class. Teachers, union organizers, former baristas, etc. A lot of them could do a better job than these opportunistic ghouls. Why do we need the same rotating cast of legacy politicians constantly getting into power when they’re the people who got us here in the first place?

Besides, we shouldn’t need to reward them for eventually coming around to the right position if it’s a genuine belief and not just trying to catch the shifting political winds. If it’s genuine, good for them! Even setting aside the effect these beliefs have on other people, it must be truly toxic to the soul to believe in such callous things. May they go on to live a happier life way the fuck away from all of us. Actually, if they want to go back some actual socialists, I’d be cool with that too.

EDIT: Actually, now that I’m thinking about it, it’s fine if people who weren’t gov officials with a hand in the genocide want to change their positions. Saying Kamala and those like her were “cool” with genocide is woefully understating what they did. They participated in it. Regardless of any change in views, these are people who all deserve to be put on trial for what they’ve done. Let them think about it from inside a jail cell.

The extra strange thing is he usually just leaves afterwards. He doesn’t move into any spot where he’s ok with getting pet.

My cat is kinda weird. No real proper meows, but a few sounds and mannerisms that tell me what he wants and one which I genuinely have no clue about.

• A kind of low volume, breathy, “heh”. He only really does this if we are already close to the food. If he’s anywhere else, he doesn’t say anything, he just behaves differently to how he acts when he wants attention. Way more mischievous and annoying.
• He wants attention frequently, but only in certain spots. For example, in my room he will only sit at the foot of my bed. He won’t sit on my desk or the chair next to me, nor will he move closer if I’m already in bed so I can pet him without moving. So what he will do if he comes in the room and I’m not in position, he goes to his spot, then just purrs or breathes really loudly. It’s super passive aggressive. He wants to let me know he is not pleased to be ignored, but not enough to move to me. Eventually he leaves if I don’t give him enough attention quickly enough. Idk why he can’t just sleep on my bed for a while if he’s just gonna go sleep somewhere else anyway.
• Sometimes he walks around the house carrying stuffed animals in his mouth and makes weird, pathetic sounding noises. Hard to describe. But it doesn’t SEEM like he wants our attention or anything. So, idk.

The only season I can enjoy outside is Fall. Summer is too hot, Winter is too cold, and I get allergies in the Spring.

Fall is perfect.

I’ve been showing my mom some of my favorite shows which I think she would like. At the moment we’re in the middle of Carole and Tuesday. We’ve also watched Little Witch Academia, Bookworm, A Place Further Than The Universe, Frieren, Ya Boi Kongming, Keep Your Hands off Eizouken, Apocalypse Hotel, and I think some other shows which I’m forgetting.

For me, in particular I’ve really enjoyed the LWA rewatch. It’s like the 3rd or 4th time I’ve seen it and it still just very reliably makes me feel happy.

We actually tried Dress Up Darling despite me being very hesitant about it for obvious reasons. She was kind of ok with the parts I was worried about, but she got bored of it after a little while.

I’d definitely be interested in some other potential “mom shows”, whether I’ve seen them before or not.

There were famines before the Soviet Union. That’s kind of how things worked before modern industrial agriculture.

As for Korea… just think about it for 30 seconds… I’ll give you time…

…ok: South Korea was allied with the US, which helped rebuild it and became a trading partner. North Korea is an enemy of the US and has spent it’s entire existence being blockaded and provoked by the world’s largest superpower. Gee, why might they have had different economic outcomes?

As for the central planning point: idk. That’s something to figure out. It’s not even really the important part of socialism/communism. The important part is making sure the state can’t be taken over by a ruling class. Capitalism absolutely can’t keep capitalists from taking over the state. Whatever we should do, we don’t get to choose until we get the government in the hands of the people.

Do you not believe the US or the other imperialist nations have lied about their enemies at all? If not, do you understand why people should at the very least be suspicious of any claims made by known liars who have an interest in the narrative presented?

Not to say that any of these states have never done any wrong. None of us want the bad things and it’s useful to critically analyze past failures to do better in the future. But it’s hard to sift through the lies to find the truth so we can do that in any useful way.

Considering that the failures of the past aren’t what we want for the future, demonizing these societies isn’t particularly useful. It just serves the interest of the currently dominant powers. You can say that it doesn’t and that you also don’t like the US, but if your position on every country or movement that the US labels as an enemy is conveniently aligned with them… then… it’s doing it’s job whether you intend it to or not. It’s just stoking more red scare sentiment, which gets used against even whatever you think “real leftists” are. It’s not like the McCarthy hearings only went after secret soviet spies. It was just a tool to go after political opponents. It’s this fear that allowed the US to justify becoming the biggest military in the world, invading tons of countries, spying on everyone, etc.

If we were to actually identify an agreed upon truth of some bad thing done by these states, I wouldn’t disagree with you. However, in the context of a world dominated by the US and it’s allies, this just doesn’t serve a purpose. We need to work on ways to move forward and deal with capitalism. This doesn’t do that. It just helps to justify the current world order.