That's gonna be me with Armored Core 6.

Well, I figure they deserve it.

Literally whataboutism / whataboutery. 😞

Humans have lived on this earth for ~300k years and most of that time we were basically in harmony with the natural world, whereas capitalism has only been a global system in the last century, which is when we started to see gigantic spikes in CO2.

they celebrate Stepan Bandera

As an example, the Ukrainian government literally put a statue of Stepan Bandera at Lviv, where he and the OUN perpetrated the Lviv pogroms as a part of the greater Holocaust.

slogging through the episodes about the ancap village and its literally-nonce-based-economy is too much to stomach

God damn, it sounds like it took an especially huge dump. I think I only ever watched the first season off of a mother's basement or supereyepatchwolf video suggesting it.

What did you hate about it beyond the creepy stuff though? Personally I liked the basic premise of a mining town centered around a giant hole that basically leads into hell, the different biomes and monsters they encounter as they go in searching for treasure, the video-game-esque mechanics of how they get stuck in deeper and deeper levels because of the sickness thing they get, etc. I would have kept watching it if it didn't do the pedo-stuff.

Made In Abyss was the last anime I tried to watch, and I liked a lot of stuff about it but then I saw some of the creator's other artwork from the manga and noped out of it for reasons of iffyness with the children.

fuck me is it wearying to see sOCiAl CrEDIt SCorE jokes on every fucking thread

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/11/16/chinas-orwellian-social-credit-score-isnt-real/ (pay-walled)

https://web.archive.org/web/20210401000824/https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/11/16/chinas-orwellian-social-credit-score-isnt-real/ (archive link to get around pay-wall)

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/15/china-social-credit-system-authoritarian/ (pay-walled)

https://archive.is/1fzzo (archive link to get around pay-wall)

: the bugs bunny solution to florida (unrealistic, goofy, requires comically large saw the size of which does not currently exist)

: The Escape from New York solution to florida (realistic, cool, tough, sexy, hot, smart, cool)

Y'all ever see / remember that episode of Samurai Champloo where the Dutch guy is sneaking around with the gang trying to be gay in Japan because they were more accepting of homosexuality?

Well, as a person who lives in North America I'm definitely low on hope for the US at least. There is a sort of "just leave" vibe to his particular phrasing though that's kind of off-putting in an out-of-touch way. Like, if I could just fucking leave I probably would have at this point, my guy.

"They were just roommates."