EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
To my understanding it's fuckery from Google, who deprioritize search results not from Fandom due to the ad-space (or lack thereof).
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To my understanding it's fuckery from Google, who deprioritize search results not from Fandom due to the ad-space (or lack thereof).
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
What about Venom.
zac 3amsoda (@3amsoda.bsky.social) reposted
apparently they blur the yaoi sex cg with blinding white lights in the switch version be warned it is not kodaka's vision
arimia (@arimiadev.com) reposted
"games aren't political" fans sure silent now that they can't play games due to politics (please support JAST and make some noise about this)
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
You say that, but one of the later girls is literally from an alt-universe. umamusu.wiki/Neo_Universe
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Which Tomino protag had worse parents - Show, or Kamille.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social)
People seem to forget that a major part of why the eroge/doujin sphere was as highly valued as it was is because it was capable of tackling subject matter which would be ruthlessly pinned down by censorship elsewhere. It might not be "clean", but they could talk about anything without repose.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Nonsense, Gerald was enacting revenge because of what the government did to him.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
I'd say it's purely down to people having the delusion of the imaginary "true" Sonic which has been somehow defiled. It's all made to justify their attachment, at the end of the day.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Legit, given how seriously Japan treats cheating scandals (see what happened to Aya Hirano), I imagine Gold Ship would not have a fun time.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Gold Ship periodically interrupts your date with Super Creek to text you about the office worker she met at a bar (they're wanted for embezzlement).
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
I've mentioned this a bunch, but Gold Ship's route in a hypothetical UmaMus galge would be a short joke route that ends in her shattering the Trainer's spine mid-hug.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
And then Okina talks, to quote one JP speaker I saw, "like a 35-year-old otaku".
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social)
What the ever-qwacking fuck happens in Mallard Filmore.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Why does this feel like it should be the banner for r/incel.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social)
Never forget that Matt Groening created Bart Simpson purely out of his burning hatred for Dennis and all he ideologically stood for.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Bendis is a writer I find curious in essence because he essentially walked backwards into being Marvel's No. 1 writer for an entire decade in spite of literally in no way fitting the role. USM and Daredevil are excellent, but they're also openly disinterested in traditional superhero stuff.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social)
@comradebullski.bsky.social What's your view on Bendis.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
I think the funniest part to me is how dead-set they were with Cyborg even years after it'd become apparent that the attempt to push him as a core JL member was objectively not working.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
It was more that DC hyped her up as the "Amazon from the Amazon", only to make her an adult woman from Idaho with absolutely no cultural history with the Amazon. Add in the entire fiasco with Future State and its company politics, and the character ended up being dropped like a stone.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
The actually funny part is that ZUN doesn't even like them. He basically has an entire section in the HSiFS interview calling Nemuno a failed idea.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Only change I'd make is relegating Golshi to a short side-route, and have the "default" be Special Week. Since you know, she's already built to be the default heroine as is.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Gold Ship's route no doubt ends in her crushing your spine mid-hug.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
*Shinn, actually I am genuinely baffled why on Earth the Agnes plotline is even *in* the movie, when it's clearly struggling to fit the scenario into a 2-hour runtime.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social)
Alright, thought experiment time. You've got the basic blueprint for a Uma Musume galge. 5 routes, standard format. Which characters would you pick as heroines?
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
I would say it's more that Kogasa is very, very easy to waifu.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Utena gets her long hair back at the end of the movie, though.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait, where? Are you talking about Miu's Free Times?
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Shout-out to how barely anyone cares about the nuking of Moscow.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Gotta love how Akyuu is just casually classist.
AnnieChara (Keep calling VISA) (@kodochara.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
The class traitors at AniFem can kiss the fattest part of my ass for that.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
This is appropriate given that centipedes are an Eastern symbol of spiritual impurity.
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I'm so proud of this team. See you September 19th. 💙🪐 youtu.be/G4Df2vAnKZo?...
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social)
So is ZUN going to suddenly stick Koishi into a bunch of random places now like he did Flandre.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Hmm? What examples of world-building are you referring to?
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social)
Ironically, despite the continuing crash of the AAA games market, this year is rapidly looking to have possibly the strongest GOTY collection in years.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
.....Well, I guess WWF/E has a longer history of being involved in corrupt presidencies than I'd assumed.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Somehow "The key informant's pseudonym was taken from a widely publicized porn film" is only the third-strangest thing about the Watergate saga.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Eh, Waid and Williamson have been pushing her a decent bit overall, so I don't think it's unreasonable.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
I'd wager they're saving an Infinity arc for a big occasion - seems like an obvious way to get hype by announcing Thanos joining the roster.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
A lot of JP purists resent Omega becoming a funny murder robot as well, I'd note.
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EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait, what backlash towards Deep Throat. How does Watergate factor into this.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Lowkey reminds me also of the similar backlash to Kill la Kill "promoting rape culture" - a backlash now entirely forgotten as the series is primarily remembered for being good.
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics (@psychopopular.com) reposted
Here we see the American progressive cultural critic speaking in their mother tongue: moral majority conservatism. Inspiring.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social)
@just9art.bsky.social Relating to your latest post on Miko, I think it's worth noting that ZUN self-admittedly had basically zero knowledge on Taoism prior to working on TD, and basically went in with the mentality of just making a rival to the Shinto/Buddhist characters.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
It's basically the two words off throwing out "degenerate art" as a phrase.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, Chairman Akikawa and Tazuna are heavily *implied* to be Uma, it's just unconfirmed.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Read it and it's basically a lot of the author admitting they knew nothing about W (which seems...counter-intuitive for a sequel), and complaining about Tokime being naked.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
In fairness, JP understanding of neurodivergence is vastly different to the West. I think Your Turn to Die is the only work which explicitly used the term "autistic" in reference to an important character.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social)
Onimai is such an interesting cultural item in how it has become embraced by queer otaku as an openly trans and yuri work while being labelled essentially a hate crime by more "respected" platforms. Just behold what our good friends at AniFem had to say about the first episode.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social)
Honestly feel like the part of the conversation people are forgetting in this is that the entire reason why terms like "elevated horror" even exist is because of a pushback against the image of lowbrow entertainment the genre was consumed by in the 2000s. The shift is more a retaking if anything.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
This is funny because I made Sekibanki in my fan-work a shitty pulp romance author convinced of her literary skill.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
I dunno what's weirder, that this ended up with the honour of being Precure's first canon yuri relationship, or they did it *immediately* after the sequel to the series about arguably the most popular yuri pair in the franchise.
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EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Why does this feel like the lead-in to a H-Scene.
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I genuinely feel bad for the kind of people who never fully grasp that mature and darker subject matter has to actually contain moral complexity and a slightly bleak conclusion rather than mere aesthetics of "sex, violence, swearing." Imagine being an adult in your 'just read a Deadpool comic' era.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Honestly I just find it funny that they did this after several months of debate on Uma/Trainer shipping.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Does Krakoa even count as gone when the "new" X-Men era seems utterly obsessed with it.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Did you see Kyle Kallgreen's essay on PragerU and its obsession with Shakespeare?
[???] | DEBUT SEP. 13 (@daihime.bsky.social) reposted
True #DarkWoke leftism is partially about reviving the sexual expression of old otaku culture. It's a little about being able to say "incest is wincest" about anime characters again.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
This sounds borderline illegal. Like, I'm not crazy, right? Tampering with work people do for money without their permission is illegal, right?
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
I dunno, the more I ponder over FW's story and what it seems to be trying to say, the less I like it.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah. And in general, the entire "rejection/embrace of change" theme feels completely at odds with how entrenched the series is in the status quo, not least of which being in the baffling way Yuiman's story is resolved. It instead seems all built on "accepting" AI, which is....bad, to be blunt.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
He improves as the manga goes on, but Sakura still sticks around as obvious narrative dead weight for the entire run.
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics (@psychopopular.com) reposted
It's far less depth than the game deserves and maybe not my best post ever, but I wanted to talk about Cross Channel, masculinity, and gender norms. blog.psychopopular.com/other-media/...
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Not a battle manga, but have you read Blue Box? Because you should read Blue Box.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Really, I'd say it's more the fact that Sakura specifically is written like an alien.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
This legit makes me wonder who would work as the main heroines of a full Uma Musume galge.
Dan Olson @ PAX West (@foldablehuman.bsky.social) reposted
I love that XBox naming conventions are so bad that as a matter of course I find myself fact checking which post-360 release was which.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Been reading - Great stuff! Like that you're actually willing to critique ZUN's choices even while discussing the long chain of inspirations he's used. That kind of nuance is something I find lacking in a lot of 2hu discussions.
Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social) reposted
BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really. Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are. This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
I genuinely hadn't considered how, thematically speaking, Nina should've been AI-generated. Would've fit better than the convoluted Venus de Milo reference ZUN went with.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait, what happened.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey, she has a mom.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah. Light's primary fault as described Ohba is that he is *naïve*, genuinely convinced that the hundreds of murders he commits are entirely morally justified purely on the basis that they might make a better world. Which the epilogue makes clear they don't, since things revert the moment he dies.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
With Marvel it feels more like they've hit a point in lore where it's just very difficult to meaningfully expand on stuff. Venom and Hulk are literally empowered by the divine forces of the universe now.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Honestly feel like marketing Marvel/DC stuff to kids *this* young is basically guaranteed to end in tears.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
And sex. Don't forget about sex.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Legit feels like the most Wildstorm has gotten out of the DCU is being Superman's posse in books like Warworld Saga.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social)
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EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
The thing is that most of the people who gas up Death Note unironically do note understand Death Note - as evidenced by how they think actual fascist mass-murderer Light Yagami is meant to be a morally grey anti-hero.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social)
Just learnt that Swarm is a recurring villain in the new pre-schooler Iron Man cartoon. What is with these shows and focusing on Nazi supervillains. This has happened twice now.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
King (good King, anyway) can get pretty graphic, as seen in parts of Mister Miracle and Strange Adventures. It's just very...muted violence, so to speak, where the horror is more at the casual brutality more than in the literal act itself.
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EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Not denying that, but I feel like it's *really* weird to do this after more than 20 straight (no pun intended) years of having zero canonical yuri whatsoever - even while getting yuri artists to draw the canon manga!
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
My personal guess is that people are more interested in being able to emotionally insert themselves into a work of fiction, and the setting of anime high-school blocks them from doing that. It's a very "Witch in Alps" kind of paradigm, if you get my reference.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe it's just me, but I feel there should be a convo about how the first canonically lesbian character in a franchise iconic for its yuri fanbase being a creepy stalker with a one-sided fixation on her boss (who doesn't appear to even like her), and what that says about the franchise itself.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social)
Genuinely surprised more Touhou fans aren't upset or angry about Hisami.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social)
What makes this especially funny is how the entire conclusion of the video is literally about how Arthmoor basically won.
EndSky (@end-sky.bsky.social) reply parent
The running gag of Knudsen zooming in further and further on Arthmoor's PFP as he goes off the rails is peak comedy.