One kind of interesting twist on that is Fincher's The Game. It remains unclear until the very end of the movie whether the main character is in a convoluted game where people are pretending to conspire against him, or an actual conspiracy using the game as cover.
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They also tended to say the changes made it 'hard to follow' or 'ruined the pacing' or other things, but as an anime-only that just flat wasn't true. I actually really loved the kind of elliptical feel of the story in S1.
I honestly kind of felt that source readers were border-line brigading posts about the anime on reddit. It certainly didn't make me any more inclined to check it out!
You should probably have made some of the questions optional -- "distribute a 100 points" is just not something I'm going to bother thinking about.
Bofuri is surprisingly good! Not in any way serious in tone, since it all takes place in an MMORPG, but some good action scenes, especially in the first season.
Pretty sure it's completely kid friendly (no fan service or other anime weirdness.)
One issue I've seen is that the bot's empty posts tend to flood out other more interesting stuff from my main feed.
I've thought about removing the community from my feed for that reason, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I think Shield Hero and Goblin Slayer have mixed review because the content/story is much more mature than Frieren.
Hmm, the former two shows always seemed extremely juvenile to me.
I've watched four this season:
- Seven Spellblades: I assumed going in it would be fairly generic, but it's turned into my overall favorite, mostly on the merits of the story itself. It does a surprisingly good job of maintaining a relatively large ensemble of MCs. (Also, given that the setting is kind of "dark anime harry potter", I can't help but appreciate the implied "fuck you" to JKR in one subplot.)
- Helck: not all the humor lands for me, but enough does that I really enjoy the show! The slowly unfolding plot is kind of neat too.
- Undead Girl Murder Farce: I really like the sense of humor and style in this one. At the start it seems like it's going to be a bit like In/Spectre in terms of slow-paced mystery solving, but the action starts to pick up ~half way through the first cour.
- The vending machine iskei: I wouldn't say it's exactly a good show, but it's been watchable enough I made it to the end of the season!
Here is some previous discussion on whether to defederate from them due to worries about their moderation capacity (and how it leads to spam/etc): https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1671319
So far, it seems that most of the spam etc isn’t making it through to people, which is great! It means we can keep things going as they are without it impacting people too much. Please use this thread to let me know if that changes though
This is such a shitty way to frame it.
I think folk should default to neutral pronouns, especially in trans safe spaces. But phrasing a failure to do so it as "misgendering trans people" is jumping straight to the most absolute bad-faith interpretation.
Then further, saying that anyone who does it is "a transphobe" is way off base. (It reminds me of Contrapoint's bit about essentialism)
It's also notable to me that you're not asking for e.g. any change of policy here. You're not trying to improve the way this instance is run to discourage folk from using masculine defaults.
You're using this incident only to wage war against someone you were already in conflict with, and assuming that anyone who steps in and criticizes your behavior is taking sides in that conflict.
I can't think of anything less trans-friendly than mandatory pronoun marking.
I quite liked this quote from Isabel Fall (more about identity than pronouns specifically, but still related!)
“We make boxes that seem to enclose a satisfying number of human experiences, and then we put labels on those and argue about them instead,” she says. “The boxes change over time, according to a process which is governed by, as far as I can tell, cycles of human suffering: We realize that forcing people into the last set of boxes was painful and wrong, we wring our hands, we fold up some new boxes and assure ourselves that this time we got it right, or at least right enough for now. Because we need the boxes to argue over. I do not want to be in a box. I want to sift through your fingers, to vanish, to be unseen.”
<3 Shami momo
As a trans woman, I thought it was interesting that in one of the most recent chapters (this is not a spoiler) Shamiko has to deal with some minor awkwardness about her name having changed. The series is consistently queer-adjacent in ways that go way beyond the central relationship!