If you’ve met someone who doesn’t respect cartoons as art and says they’re just for kids — even after being told about shows like South Park and Castlevania — you’ve probably met a concrete operational “adult”.
Lmao these people don't like my slop so they must be mentally undeveloped
Systems of moderation for forums like this necessarily need to be a bit arbitrary and, for this forum in particular, very opaque. This creates a situation where the users' trust in the moderation team becomes a critical resource for the community. In my admittedly vibes-based analysis this trust, while still relatively high, is at an all-time low.
Trust is generated over time, but this site being populated mostly by different varieties of contrarians and malcontents seems to make generating trust pretty inefficient. I suspect even moderately big reforms for accountability or whatever will be seen as empty attempts at legitimation. Of course, trust will still need to be spent from time to time, but before any reforms, I would make sure internally that it isn't being wasted. To make this a little less uselessly abstract, for example (chosen randomly, please do not take this as a complaint about this case in particular), punishing users for upvoting a pretty bad post probably isn't worth it from the perspective of trust.
People say all kinds of mean things about Adolf Hitler, but when I say those same things about some random guy people look at me funny, the hypocrisy!
WOTC should make a sex MTG set. It could have cards like "1UU Enchantment: You may start jacking off. If you cum, you win the game"
Incels are, sadly, an actual thing and even a self-identity beyond just an insult towards virgins. They are a phenomenon worth discussing on a forum like this, mods should just remove posts that use the word inappropriately, like they probably are already doing.
I think it is overall humanizing, and the weird stuff is just the already existing dehumanization becoming more visible, but I do wish we could skip the part where white people do the 'you swan he swan' meme thing at pretty asian couples
The news cycle about the new popular tik tok replacement being called "little red book" is going to be so good
The Cybertruck will protect you from most muzzleloader fire, but watch out for the enemy 12-pounders
Germans today should not still be punished for what their old government and what some of their ancestors did over 80 years ago?
It's so unfair that just because my grandad was a nazi I can't have access to biological weapons and territorial expansion
That first paragraph is hilariously nonsensical
Under communism, you will be able to email them and they will send you a brand-new one
A person who is okay with the American ruling class but hates regular Yanks is obviously imaginary, so the left being criticized here is the one that wishes ill on regular Americans (in this case probably the victims of those fires in California). I would compare those leftists to so-called anti-white racists or misandrists, in that they do not exist in any real social way and as far as they have an ideology it has absolutely no vitality. Similarly, criticizing them as if they are a danger to the movement is a form of white/male/Yank chauvinism, respectively.
Modern spaghetti cultivars naturally grow to be around half a meter long, and they used to cook them like that with just the inedible bit at the end removed, but after the introduction of the spaghetti harvesting machine it became more practical to cut them in half right after they were picked from the tree
beanis means beanis
Isekai and the adjacent genres are all about power fantasy wish fulfillment (or its negation for comedic value, or both), but of a very specific kind where the protagonist is externally different from the reader and at the same time, internally a normal person/a sad loser, just like the reader. A main form this wish fulfillment takes is getting to spend time with attractive women. It is more compelling if they like the protagonist for who they are internally rather than externally, but why would a woman like the reader?
The world needs to be such that the reader would be special in it, and a natural ways to do this include having the main character not be racist towards catgirls or whatever, and not be cruel to their slaves, unlike the general population. We have arrived at weird slave fiction.
Then finally, the way the manga industry works, where the most realistic way to actually make money as an artist is to produce a lot of beginnings of stories that would catch people's attention, causes popular concepts to be iterated endlessly and distilled. Add some misogyny and a lot of horniness, and you have slaveslop.
I'm pretty sure that's what a caveman would call a church bell
Getting mad at badly written science articles is a favorite hobby of mine, and it has been ages since I saw something this dogshit.
I have so many anatomical features
That is a rat version of Jean-Luc Picard vaping solemnly