Pretty neat. It also moves. And there was a projection on the wall of the shopping mall it's at, featuring Char, Amuro and Lalah. A neat place to wait for a bus at.
Just how the fuck did they discover this lol
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I'd wager if you ask most people under the age of 50, they'll think it's from the Netflix series "Money Heist" .at least in Europe.
It's interesting how Medvedev turned from a somewhat more lib Putin, to Russia's most prominent foreign policy Twitter troll
They dislike Praxis. Really, ALL you need to do is argue with people. If you reach a critical mass of people, capitalism MIGHT fall apart by itself. That's really ALL they believe in (and you can recognize them by this exact enounciation I'm using rn) - so there is literally 0 reason for doing anything beyond posting. Praxis is thus seen as useless at best, damaging at worst.
"Destructive Criticism" is what they call it. Basically everyone who isn't entirely on the GSP line is an enemy, someone to combat and convince, even internally. And the GSP line is always correct.
They'd scorn at this characterization, because it gives them an attribute, instead of examining the exact content (which I do have little specific to say against - I am undoubtedly influenced by my time reading their stuff and listening to the lectures with shitty audio), but it's the cult version of a left communism.
Sure, and they believe that agitation (to THEIR correct way of thinking, breaking down ideology through STRONG ARGUMENTS and promoting the advancement of self-interests) is the absolutely only way to... do nothing. Because all you need is to advance scientific debate and promote reason and the enlightenment, so it doesn't really matter if there is any result in their agitation, be it socialism or not.
It's an intellectual ultraleft (actual, not in the insult sense) circlejerk of absolutely insufferable people who want to be 18th century enlightenment thinkers. Because clearly, if you don't agree completely with their argument, you simply don't understand it enough yet, and have to keep debating.
Eventually, GSP supporters either burn out / are thrown out by the group like someone like Renate Dillmann or base basically all their political knowledge from reading GSP publications and discuss them with each other to write more GSP stuff.
GSP-Posting, on Hexbear?
Both really. I was also in incel-lite spaces (the forever alone crowd), until I started to realize what they want, isn't really what I wanted. I did of course also try dating apps, but it feels all extremely superficial and artificial. I will occasionally find someone aesthetically pleasing, but "making a move" is completely out of the question, especially because of the implications in case of success.
Being ace is the only thing that makes sense really.
Yes, same here (except for the match stuff. I'd probably chicken out at the first one tbh). It also sucks to crave social connection anyway.
That's all there is though. What other ways are there to meet people?
You either play algorithms online, find a niche community where everyone lives 500 Km + apart.
Or use your time after the slog of the 40 hour work week (+ commute + the things you need to survive) to either go to clubs / classes you have to pay for 200 โฌ + to even get into and hope you can find people there, or you apparently bond with people over shared drug consumption.
Alternatively, you can also seek people at work or perhaps an org you're in, but that has the chance to backfire spectacularly.
Slightly faster than the first option.
If you grab some food at the mall, it's more than enough of a justification.
Another month gone, another month older, another month at work.
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I've been reading Great Teacher Onizuka and so far it's almost exactly 1:1 like the anime... which means, the horribly aged ableism is about to hit, beyond all the other problematic stuff. Beyond that, it remains as fun as I remember. It's neat. B+
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Gundam SEED has managed to make it across its entire 50 episode run without making me too annoyed or in amused disbelief over the nonsense happening on the screen. Really, it's... alright. I wish Kira and Lacus were less wooden characters. Athrun and Cagalli were significantly more interesting and 500x more likeable than Ange and Tusk in the trainwreck of a show named Cross Ange, who used them as a ~~self-plagiarism~~ source of inspiration B-
SEED Destiny too... has been pretty alright so far. However, I do like Shinn's character. That man has definitely every reason to be as angry as he is... but I am fairly confident the show won't do too much with that. Speaking of Cagalli, wow, that is a massive downgrade in character writing compared to S1. Supposedly, there's IRL drama that caused that! C+
CITY is Nichijou 2, not much else to say about it. It doesn't quite live up to the predecessor, and with the shorter show run it probably never will, but it is undeniably still a good show. A
Dragon Ball Z - almost done with the Freeza fight. That was... pretty long. But consistently good, even though some previously impactful stuff, like people dying, is not much of a big deal now. A
Ranma 1/2 is also consistently entertaining. Not much else to say about it at this point. A
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I knew Gravity Falls was always a highly regarded show... but I did not expect it to be this good. There's an iconic cast of characters, compelling storytelling... it's just very very competent at what it sets out to do. A+
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A challenging Super Robot Wars game in the year of our Lord 2025? One that has, so far, good writing? One that is available in a language I speak? Y is shockingly good. I've been on a binge this weekend. A+
Wake up, eat, commute to work, work, lunch break, work, commute home, two hours, fall asleep, repeat
Manga
Blooming Love is a pretty generic romcom. A competent one so far, but it's VERY familiar slop. B-
Anime
Gundam SEED, at around 3/4 of the show is... alright. It has not shit the bed... yet (?). Definitely not the best, but less of a trainwreck I expected. We'll see about SEED Destiny. B-
CITY. Nichijou 2 is peak. The most recent episode was mesmerizing, and like a comrade stated, it evokes the feeling of being in a social situation and being sensory overloaded quite well lol. A+
Nisemonogatari. Horrible Oreimo flashbacks. Please no. Kizumonogatari was shockingly peak before that (but I am de jure a goth and vampire slop is always fun). Apparently the infamous toothbrush scene is as horny as it gets. Will it continue being questionable? Almost certainly lol. ๐ฅด
Dragon Ball Z. The refrigerator man is a good villain. The pace is still slowwwwww. A
Western Animation
Gravity Falls is still fun. Though I feel so far Mabel was a less obnoxiously written character in S1? Stan on the other hand, a kid friendly version of Quark from DS9. I love that old bastard.
Another month, another time to be exhausted by employment.
Manga
Nothing new! Just slowly reading new chapters of Shibuya Near Family and reading Full Metal Panic! Sigma at a glacial pace.
...but
Manhwa
Villains Are Destined to Die! - finally finding a second korean comic that is not in the wretched long strip format*, and it's a really good one. The isekai is interesting, the game mechanics actually feel like they add to the story instead of being there because gamers. The writing is shockingly excellent, with the story being unpredictable so far, and there is a sense that there something below the surface. Maybe I'll be disappointed yet (probably by the lack of John Browning tbh). but this is one of the best manga (oh wait) I've read in a while.
( * - idk if all the chapters so far are available as comic pages unfortunately)
Anime
Following Gundam G-Spam being mid, I have instead jumped onto two other series: Gundam Unicorn and Gundam SEED. I don't have high expectations, and so far both are... okay.
Dragon Ball Z is getting slow. But it's consistently good so far! Maybe I'll turn sour on it in a hundred episodes. Probably not.
Monogatari, oh boy. The show's source of deserved sordid reputation does rear its ugly head sometimes. Other times, it's an entertaining Shaft show, with all that entails. Bakemonogatari was pretty good, with Hitagi Senjougahara being the standout character, but the Kizumonogatari movies were genuinely very entertaining. Probably because I'm a member of a goth-adjacent subculture and I love vampire slop lol.
Before it released, I joked about CITY: The Animation being Nichijou 2... but it is Nichijou 2. I'll miss the original's characters, but this is very promising, based on episode 1.
You're Under Arrest! continues being shockingly entertaining. The show's main strength is the Patlabor style workplace shenanigans with the ensemble cast, as well as the reoccurring characters, which the author is surprisingly good at not forgetting about. Strike Man is a hyperchad.
Also a few shows I need to watch more of to mini-review.
Western Animation & Live Action
Evil triangle guy is the only thing I knew about Gravity Falls, and I have now reached them. The show is very fun so far. Stan's Quark for zoomer children.
Andor started kinda slow, but the heist episode was fantastic, and the quality is indeed as high as people claim it has. And season 2 is better? I'm looking forward to it. Even though I'm going through it slow, since I mostly watch it when it's pretty late and I don't have the energy to stay up that much anymore.
The confrontation between Machu and Nyaan ended up being kind of a nothinburger, and Machu easily succeeded in awakening Lalah. So what did that do? As we discovered later in the episode, something. Maybe the third impact again. We can never have enough of those, I suppose.
Enter Char.
The final confrontation with Kycilia happening on a theatre stage was a forceful, but still pretty good visual symbolism. As they have their talk, the play is crashed by the MCs of the show, who take the wheel in the usual search of Mr. Walking Plot Device, who sheepdogged them back into Lalah's presence. Kycilia gets unceremoniously dispatched as not relevant anymore to the plot, and both Chekov's guns go off, not at who'd you'd expect.
Char getting subconsciously magically dressed into his uniform by Lalah was utterly hilarious and blatantly a "hey guys its me, the guy from the merch" moment.
And while the battle outside rages on, we discover - Mr. Walking Plot Device is... from the UC, and might be, if I interpreted the scene correctly, Amuro Ray - here to destroy the G-Spam timeline.
Queue the late 80s Album Oriented Rock / Synthpop blend, it's Beyond the Time time, and time to bring back the RX-78-2 to the fight for the cool of it. Gonna buy the merch yet?
My cynical commentary aside
Any thoughts on the episode? I liked most of it, beyond the quick dressup scene I mocked and the finale. Lalah as a world ending threat (or is she? that's actually a question that remains unanswered and is interpreted differently by characters!) was probably an inevitable plot development, in a society that knows only the apocalypse and status quo (I'm talking to you liberals), and Char vs Machu vs Nyaan could have been a decent final battle for it.
However, the ending was just awful imo. If that is Amuro in the graffiti man's soul, or inside that Gundam, then any conflicts from the G-Spam universe become completely meaningless.
It all becomes background noise to Amuro vs Char, because Tomino wrote so in 1979 and 1988.
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More time passed since the last good non-Gundam Mechanime than between it and the construction of the pyramids
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Think about it...
Jokes aside, it's sad how the genre has outright gone the way of the Dodo since like 2009.
...is basically the backstory to Star Trek, but worse?
Going from the Season 2 shenanigans, continuing on the "love is the answer" themes. I understand what it was going for as a movie, and pulled it off kinda competently.
The ending was frankly weird, with Setsuna going all Mass Effect 3 ending to end the conflict out of nowhere. But I did like the portrayal of the aliens themselves. An unknowable entity you might not even be able to communicate with, not to mention know their intentions. You know what this reminds me of? Oh wait I already mentioned that series in the first sentence.
Overall, a good Gundam AU, that failed to live up to its heights from Season 1. Fantastic music though. It made me go down a kick of 2000s Japanese Alt Rock.
Antideutsche plotting to make me laugh my ass off in public during my break smh
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