Is the girl on the left on some meme format? I swear I've seen her before, but I haven't been reading manga recently and the name of it doesn't seem familiar to me at all. So that leaves the possibility of having seen memes of her or she just looks like some other character that I can't pinpoint right now.

I think there's a time and a place. If you make an anime where the point is horniness, then yeah, sure, go nuts. I'm probably less likely to watch it in that case, unless I hear praise for other aspects of it. Since it makes itself clear as ecchi from the get-go, I don't mind. A lot of the times, however, it's just a regular random show with random fanservice that serves no purpose. Looking at you, Fire Force! Specifically that one character.

(They might've toned it down in future seasons, but I wouldn't know cause I didn't keep up with it past the middle of Season 2 for other reasons, but yeah)

And they are indeed peak!

Both for this reason and others.

It is.

Lately Mienfoo and Mienshao really grew on me. And for no reason whatsoever, I didn't even use one recently, that's the weird part.

Going further back, in one of my first few nuzlockes I used a Slowbro, and he's been a favorite of mine ever since.

But probably the most drastic change has been with starters. As a kid, for the first 5 generations I always picked the fire starter. They were my favorites. Now, however? Typhlosion is the only one from the first 5 that is still my favorite from their respective regions. Kanto I like Venusaur more now, Hoenn it's Swampert, Sinnoh it's Torterra and Unova it's Serperior. I still like the fire ones (Infernape and Blaziken in particular are really close to Swampert and Torterra for me), but I like others more now.

I came here since Reddit killed third party apps, so I don't even remember how I chose my instance anymore. I guess someone recommended sh.itjust.works somewhere? Tbh I don't know a lot of the differences between instances (except some well known ones like tankie .ml), but I have no complaints about this instance I'm on. Although I'm not really super active, in all fairness.

I know. I've seen the context. I was just saying that I was hoping it was AI just because the alternative is so messed up.

I'm not American, so I'm just now catching up with what happened over there yesterday. The first time I saw this image (elsewhere), I was praying that this was AI-generated. And I hate seeing AI-generated stuff and I'm not religious either. I still wish it was AI but now I know it's not and... jesus christ.

The Nazis are associated with the Holocaust rightfully so, but it ends up with people thinking that all it entails is anti-semitism. Trump and Elon Musk can back Israel and be Nazis.

No Ave Mujica T_T

I remember playing an anime game on my phone in high school, and this one classmate made fun of me for it. Not because of anime, he already knew I watch them and didn't (seemingly, at least), care one way or the other. But because the game has a hub-like area where the characters are shown in a chibi design. He kept pestering me after that to try out Barbie games.

The "best" part? Dude literally said the game looked fun when he saw me playing the actual gameplay, and even asked me to let him play a round. Then the round ended, saw the hub, and he did a 180 on me and on the game.

To this day I don't feel comfortable watching certain anime in public. I'm not even talking about ecchi here. Just basically any stuff that is "girly".

I appreciate that you call people out on these things. My experience with pointing things out or seeing online conversations where someone else pointing it out has been very different. That's not to say what you're saying doesn't happen. It's probably just different based on where exactly on the internet we've been. Granted, leftist areas of the internet has this issue less, but it's not zero.

Like let's take a conversation about men that are virgins. The more comments there are, the more likely it is that at least one person will make fun of this category of men. And in the cases I've seen, any attempts to counter this is met with "Lol the virgin outed himself". Very rarely does an actual conversation happen (again, in the cases I've seen), because any arguments brought forward about why we shouldn't shame men for being virgins is shot down as invalid because the person bringing these arguments is a virgin. Or heck, he might not even be one, but the other person has already made up their mind on the virginity status of the commenter.

And the fact that it's present, albeit not as often, in leftist spaces as well is really harming and it can push people in the other direction. I'm in my 20s, a leftist man and a virgin, but I was fortunate enough to form my opinions on a lot of issues without encountering douchebags like Andrew Tate. But what about someone that's a teenager right now, doesn't have any opinions on political stuff yet, but sees the left that's fighting for no discrimination, making fun of virgins, which he is? He goes to see what the other side is saying, and boom, he's trapped in there now. Of course, the past couple sentences is my idea of what might go through this hypothetical guy's mind. So it's not that I think the left as a whole makes fun of virgins, but from where my example guy is standing, it could seem that way when a lot of people say those things and they go unchallenged.

Sorry for the long rant, but it's basically a really long way of saying: I'm glad you're calling this shit out and keep at it!

This was one of my early questions and one of the first reasons that started pushing me away from religion.

At one point I asked my religion teacher in high school something among the lines of "So if a hypothetical person is the most good person on Earth from all the ways of looking at things, except he doesn't believe in God, does the latter invalidate everything else and he'd still go to hell?". She pretty much said yes.

Luckily she was chill about some of us in the class not believing. We just agreed to disagree, and while there were multiple debates on various religious subjects started by someone in the class questioning something she was saying, it never got heated.

Ah okay, so I did read that wrong then.

just with half the extensions, though that plan didnt seem to help them avoid people going after them.

Wait, am I interpreting this the wrong way, or did you mean that Mihon is already threatened?

Yeah, that's fair. You said you were curious what other recommendations there are, which is why i mentioned Mihon.

I'm not sure if Aniyomi is going to be affected by what happened to Tachiyomi, cause I haven't used Aniyomi in years, but hey, if it still works and you like it, keep going with it.

I liked Kotatsu for some features, but I ended up trying Mihon after seeing it mentioned a lot, and it has most of what Kotatsu does.

And I also had trouble with Kotatsu's sync. It synced my library, but it wouldn't update read chapters between devices. So if I read up to, say, Chapter 14 of a manga, then did the sync and read Chapter 15 on the other device, the first one would still have me at Chapter 14. Also, not really sure why, but activating the sync on the second device was kind of a pain. I had no trouble setting it up on the main device, but then the second one wouldn't open that screen where you can load your library. I ended up having to make my way through some well hidden settings outside the app (as I figured out that the screen it was meant to open was basically a redirect to the phone's settings), and it wasn't even worth it, since it's not properly being synced anyway.

There also seems to be a mistake in the first map. Down where it says "The least obsessed with spending time online", all three countries actually have the same time as the country above them, from the most obsessed. Japan should have 3:45, but it's noted as 9:38, same as South Africa above it. I could at least tell their actual average from looking at the country, but I can't do the same with Denmark since the text is too small on the map for it.

At least the second and third map don't have that issue, but yes, the color scheme is odd.

Heh, my first site was also Cartoon Network. And I remember the voting too, we had them in my country too. I can't recall if I ever voted myself, but I remember some of the 24 hours days. Sometimes I loved it when it was a show I liked and sometimes I would be like "Well what do I watch today now?" if I wasn't a fan.

I don't know what the very first thing was back when I didn't yet have internet and could only use it when visiting my uncle who did.

But I remember the first site I visited after I had internet myself. I went on the Cartoon Network site to play some of the games they had.