Well you said it best, “it costs more than money.”

I’ve never heard of the site until now. But indeed, there is no such “Register new account” page, it all goes to the stupid “Sign in with the Big 3” modal. What a fucking joke.

It doesn’t help that I learned this site operates on a “gem” economy, and I just do not fucking understand why commercial manga sites do this. Steam charges you cash for games, Amazon and Netflix charge cash for movies and series, even the Google Play Store just uses USD (or whatever local currency). Why do manga sites operate like a fucking pachinko parlor?

I’ve always felt that the author dropped the ball by writing Sein out too early. For the chapters and episodes where he’s in the party, he’s like the salt that brings out the flavor of the other characters. Any time Sein is having a one on one chat with Frieren, Fern, or Stark, they open up and reveal a lot more about their qualities and character. Sein gets plenty of development of his own in this short time.

But having him for only 4 episodes just seems wasteful. If his departure was written, idk, 10 episodes out, then it would have felt like we actually spent good quality time with him. And his journey would still be but a fleeting intersection with the others’.

Wait what, they don’t run their own accounts?

i’ve noticed a surge of anti-piefed posts coming from tankies, seems like they’re afraid

Secure, confident people rarely feel the need to attack people with different opinions.

@[email protected] heard great things about SAC, but I’ve only seen the original anime.

@[email protected] @[email protected]

@[email protected] Oh, and if you need a site to track everything you’ve watched or read: https://anilist.co/. I’d recommend it over MAL at this point.

@[email protected] I mean, it’s your list. People can argue for their favorites, but at the end of the day, the list reflects your opinions, not theirs.

As for recommendations, I have a few I think you may enjoy!

CITY The Animation - A slice of life featuring a medley of characters. High production value and a unique, vibrant color palette. Chaotic Good.

Ghost in the Shell - A staple of cyberpunk literature. Stands up there with Blade Runner. See also: Psychopass, Cyberpunk Edgerunners.

Baccano! - An ensemble cast-driven romp through Depression-era America with light fantastical elements.

REDLINE - Speed Racer on crack cocaine. Nuff said.

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If I were a bot farm operator, that’s exactly what I would do. Right-wing authoritarian talking points branded with “Leftist” packaging.

USAID which is a CIA cutout

This claim is literally standing shoulder to shoulder with known Hitler-worshipper Elon Musk’s attacks on USAID last year. The only group that can out-conspiracy theory Hexbear and Grad is Qanon at this point.

-415 reputation

aaaand that’s why Piefed has a reputation flag.

Text can’t capture the emotion and vulnerability that Alec put on the line here. A summary betrays the time and effort he put into making the video. He’s even got carefully crafted subtitles in case you watch it silently.

This made me laugh. Americans do forget they put their founding documents on a pedestal, when to the rest of the world they are just a series of essays and letters.

Well… I can’t say his complaints were unfounded! Maybe he swapped to a different instance, maybe Mastodon tools got better since then, who knows.

I was thinking about the corn field -> solar farm conversion he mentioned in the video, and I thought “jeez, if they did that, then they could actually honest to god power their AI data centers and still be green!”

I think conservatives have finally hit the end of Yoda’s “fear to anger to hatred to suffering” pipeline. It’s not just that they don’t understand solar or are scared of solar, they actively despise it because it represents their sworn enemies. Even if solar would demonstrably make their lives better by lowering their energy bill, they can never ever admit that they were wrong about it.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that more jackasses started rolling coal in the past 10 years. I can only say that anecdotally, but I never saw it a single time as a kid before 2016, while I’ve seen it at least a dozen times in the past five years just driving around my own home town. It costs them hundreds of dollars to modify their vehicles this way, but they still do it out of spite.

I’m including three articles that back me up, even though I couldn’t find any hard statistics about their prevalence. Emphasis mine.

While VW made international headlines in 2015 for intentionally misleading customers and cheating emissions standards and through the use of “defeat device” software, a subculture of American motorists, those who “roll coal,” are out to leave an even blacker mark on diesel.

https://journals.law.unc.edu/ncjolt/blogs/regulatory-pressures-coal/

Various media accounts have highlighted coal rolling cases as politically motivated, targeting those as seen as environmentally friendly like cyclists and owners of EVs. Diesel drivers have also rolled coal on Black Lives Matter protesters and others.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-red-light-district/202404/the-cruel-practice-of-rolling-coal

Basically, the Justice Department signals that it will turn a blind eye to environmental crimes in the future. According to CBS News, the decision could impact more than a dozen pending criminal cases and over 20 ongoing investigations targeting companies and individuals who allegedly sold aftermarket defeat devices.

… the administration appears to send a strong message that it no longer wants to hear anything about the environment. If anything, it seems the US government deeply resents anything with words like “clean” or “green” in its name or description.

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/doj-makes-coal-rolling-legal-again-by-killing-cases-cracking-down-on-emissions-cheating-264515.html

Watch the video.

You sure? He posted this very video 9 hours ago, and his last post was only a month ago.

Wow that’s pathetic. You can just smell the desperation to turn a profit, they baked their agita right into their dashboard. And it’s quite the dark pattern too, in showing the administrator adoption rates, it singles out the team with the lowest adoption for harassment.

Welp, there’s still value in fucking with them I suppose. Send Copilot a “write me an email with no intent to send” request every so often, and you can bump your numbers up.

brain in a box so he doesn’t have to think anymore