And how do you think he expected us to achieve that dream? By hugging each other really hard? King said in other speeches and writings that equality could only be achieved when white people acknowledged the harm they had done, when reparations were paid to black Americans, and when we changed our economic system to…

Yeah, the first arc feels very different from the rest of the series, which is why the anime skips it. I can understand the logic behind that choice, because ultimately YYH didn’t become all that popular until it became a battle manga, so that’s what someone tuning into a YYH anime is going to want to see. I just…

Pretty sure the whole point of that sentence in the article was to clarify that there’s a difference between gatekeeping and informing, and they were doing the latter.

Nah, the main cast in FF1 had no personalities whatsoever. They didn’t even have names or backstories, nor do they ever speak. The opening narration just announces “you are the Light Warriors who must save the crystals” and that is literally the only thing we ever learn about our heroes.

“Since X” is probably going a bit too far. FFXII is a game that absolutely knew what it was doing, it just was doing something kinda weird for its time. But its aged better than 98% of that generation’s JRPG’s.

FF15 is one of the few all-male casts I could get behind, because the game nailed the whole “bros hanging out together” vibe INCREDIBLY well.

Yu Yu Hakusho is a great anime, but it doesn’t fit the modern idea of what makes for a great adaption. I think it might have lost esteem among present-day audiences because it makes some fairly big changes to the manga stories, most notably skipping almost all of the manga’s first arc. That wasn’t a big deal in 1992…

One Piece’s production values have greatly improved in the last two years, thanks to a new director and an increased budget. Its Japanese TV ratings have gone up as a result, so the ranking could be in response to that.

It’s crazy to remember today how after the Sasuke Retrieval Arc, the Naruto anime had two straight years of nothing but filler. And people kept saying, “it’s okay, this just means that once it returns to canon material, they’ll have built up such a huge buffer that they’ll never have to do filler again!” Oops.

Also, the definition of what makes for a good adaptation has changed over time. If you go back and look at earlier anime adapted from manga, especially anime from the 70's and 80's, you see those shows were a lot more likely to make big changes to the stories, add characters who weren’t there in the original, or skip…

I mean, one feeds into the other. These IP’s would likely be far less popular if they lacked good anime adaptions, since anime is one of the primary ways to boost a manga’s popularity.

Yeah, you clearly haven’t watched in a while. As a result of doing 1:1 chapters, there is barely any filler in One Piece and hasn’t been for years, which is exactly why they’re doing it that way. In the last four years there have been maybe around 6 or 7 filler episodes total, which is incredible for a show that does…

Famous skeleton wizard Noam Chomsky.

“BY THE POWER OF A TRUCK!”

The whole gag was that they spent a solid minute having Bart run around naked and having random objects cover it up, then a random hole in a fence just unceremoniously exposed it anyway.

Ironically, the treasure turned out to be a free copy of Among Us.

“I refuse to enjoy something which I paid for because other people showed enthusiasm for it,” is certainly a choice that people can make, yes.

That’s nice. But as long as capitalism is around, us being “the product” is an inescapable aspect of our interaction with the world around us, and hundreds of companies (including whichever launcher you use to play PC games) are just as guilty of it. Hell, just by posting here you’re serving as Kinja’s “product,” and…

It’s called “Assistant Manager and Lieutenant,” and it’s mostly about them drafting emails to their respective bosses about why they deserve that big promotion.