The problem the show has is that the first part - “the punishment for callousness” - is contradicted by the second part - “the sad lives people lead.” Every time a character chooses empathy, they are punished for it. All the most empathetic, open-hearted, and kind people in the show suffer the worst punishments of…

I don’t know why pirate puns are always so much fun. I guess they just arrr.

It’s also another counterpoint to the “devilmen = misunderstood outsiders” narrative. If the devilmen represent, say, LGBT people, well... they have literal demons inside them, and if they aren’t “good enough people,” they eat their own family and have no power to stop it. That isn’t being misunderstood, it’s being…

I know that’s probably what they meant to do, using the devilmen as a metaphor for outsider groups enduring hatred and bigotry for being different. But in this metaphor, is humans are humans and devilmen are the minority groups, what are the demons? Devilmen are people with demons inside them who temper (mostly...)…

That’s a solid analysis, and I could certainly see it as the intent of the piece, but that intention is undercut by how it uses the theme of the need for empathy. There are a few key moments when characters use (or attempt to use) empathy or emotional vulnerability as tools to de-escalate violence and create positive…

Exactly! This is exactly what I mean when I say the show undercuts its own themes and symbols. One minute it’s setting up potentially powerful metaphors or giving us what feels like the start of genuine emotional resonance... then it immediately demolishes any meaning it was building by introducing more brutality and…

There was no forgiveness of or by humanity in this anime. Ryo was a brutal, vicious monster who didn’t even truly regret killing Akira, the only single being in all of existence he was capable of feeling even a minor moment of emotion toward. He never truly cared about Akira other than as a pawn, and had only a…

Come on, now - “Masterpiece?” Really? Devilman was, at best, the equivalent of somebody who took a freshman-level philosophy course, understood some of it, and now loves pretentiously showing how “deep” they are. It makes attempts at symbolism and metaphor, but undermines every symbol it tries to evoke with its…

+1 for reading Seanbaby in college. His treatises on both Superfriends and Mega Man got me through some hard (re: boring) times.

I was that guy up until a few years ago. I thought this was what HDTV was, because every person’s house I went to had it turned on and didn’t know about it. I’d watch TV on these screens and want to scream, wondering how the hell anybody thought this was an upgrade when it ruined everything you played on it.

So is any mechanical construction process, building or maintaining cars for example. There may be more or less steps, but it all breaks down to “order parts, assemble” if you want to be reductive about it.

I feel like any build that won’t work has a coin-toss-chance of being a bad PSU. In my experience - if it’s a hardware problem - it’s almost always a power problem. PSUs just seem to be f’ed up out of the box way more than other components.

Building and tinkering with computers is to our generation what building and tinkering with cars was to our parents and theirs. It’s partly a way of displaying manhood (I’d never felt such a primal sense of masculinity as when I built my first PC), but also our ticket to freedom and the outside world.

Think of it more like Mario - the people who made Odyssey didn’t create the character, but they are the developers in charge of the IP. They didn’t hack the system; the source code was given to them with the intention that they should be in control.

Let’s be honest - you’re playing against the developers. They have access to the internal code for the game and can make it play however they want, with as many lives as they want. Meanwhile, they’re screwing you as hard as they can to shake you down for your quarters.

So, question: How much of this is dubbed, subquestion: of what isn’t, how much is likely to ever BE dubbed?

I’m not totally certain it’s just about perspective. Going by the numbers at AO3, as you pointed out, there are 1961481 same-sex stories to just 849760 m/f. Just looking at m/m, it’s twice as many stories on its own than m/f. So clearly there’s more action in m/m shipping than anywhere else, if we go just by the…

Say what you want about ME:A (and I’ll probably disagree with most, because I really enjoyed that game a lot), but it had a fantastic cast. Every character had something to contribute. I think Drax might even be my favorite Krogan squadmate of all time. It was doing so much right, it’s a shame it couldn’t go the…

This is shocking information. I am shocked. I have literally never seen m/f Dragon Age material except extremely sporadically and never to that kind of extent. I try to stay pretty well-versed in what’s happening in fandoms (to the degree that anybody can) as I see it as part of my job in a way, but this...