In a rare example of the YouTube algorithm doing it's job (mine seems focused on actual comedy, action and food), I kept getting shorts showing off different Manhwa. I knew about thanks to Solo levelling and the few shows that Crunchyroll promoted that didn't live up to the hype they pushed so made a Webtoons account to try it out...

Yeah I fell into a rabbit hole thanks to 4 series....

The short that got me into it was of Teenage Mercenary thanks to a short of him beating the crap out his sister's bullies. This is good action series with one of my favourite characters being Dushik Cha, with many comments calling him the 'gangster uncle'. From there started to move on to ZOMGAN thanks to recommendations. This one REALLY goes hard early on in that it comes with music, great visuals and a dark comedy vibe to it. I then after catching up, moved to The Advanced Player of the Tutorial Tower, an action comedy that is just a fun time especially with the main character's attitude.

Then there is the one that REALLY made me realise I'm in this rabbit hole forever, Omniscient Reader, dear god is this a good series as it even made Twitch streaming sound badass!

So while western comic media is circling the drain and the film universes are fatiguing, it does seem like if you want entertainment both read and watched, you turn East. So has anyone else got into similar rabbit holes as I know we have a large anime viewership here and can maybe have a few recommendations for a guy just starting to branch out.

It's Friday so let's have some good things we can suggest for the weekend rather than be drained by all the shit we see advertised in the West.

Wanted to watch it for 2 main reasons:

1. I enjoyed the first season and wanted to see if second season was as good tdlr: it is

2. The fact there was articles coming out Wednesday/Thursdays about him being investigated for the Markle article made me suspicious they might be trying to start a boycott like Hogwarts Legacy. Wanted to see if there's any reason the left might not want the public to watch it.

Spolier if you want to watch it first from here, skip to the tldr as last line:

It's as funny, informative and interesting as the first season but HEAVILY showed how government interference has brankrupted farmers and is strangling farmers attempts to diversify their income.

The EU essentially had subsidised farmers heavily, with Brexit happening that ends in the UK. Not just that but the EU farmers still have the subsidiary so they can lower the cost of their produce like pigs and undercut UK farmers in price.

The government has been wishy-washy on cowering this (as who cares about food security when Ukraine needs to be funded) so farmers need to look to other methods to balance the books as supermarkets undercut them so Clarkson decides to make a restaurant to sell his and other farmers produce there at a better rate.

The council doesn't just refuses planning permission on his land, but then start pulling every restriction they can to hurt him (even putting cones all along a country road outside his shop). He gets round this with loopholes by using an old barn instead for his restaurant and building it 2 days after they tell the council about it.

He also illustrates the horrible handling of TB with badgers and Cows and of the amount of redtape that holds farmers back.

TLDR: Season 2 illustrates the inadequacies, inefficiencies and pettiness of government that stops farmers earning a livable income from their produce alone including stopping diversification efforts. Not good having this widely viewed if you're trying to take farmer's land from them...

Something that I was thinking about seeing the reaction to the Dead Space remake (TDLR for my opinions on the game, looks alright but an inferior version of the original which you can buy cheaper).

I've seen more and more that media we term as 'woke' (which most of the time we are right about but a few false flags here and there) getting dismissed as us applying our political biases onto a product because of who made it, the characters being displayed etc than valid criticism of an inferior product usually belonging to a franchise that was usurped than built up.

We're risking the same issue the left did with Nazi and racist where it was overused to such a degree it became easy to dismiss. The best way to counter this really is just go tldr than just say 'It's woke'. Quick points to highlight issues (e.g. the writing is terrible, the sound design is poorly utilised) than writing a paragraph to explain your point. If people then respond you can go deeper if they're not being asinine (you only hate it because she no longer has big boobs etc)

So I'm not a hypocrite in this example, TDLR: We're overusing 'woke' that we risk being dismissed easily.

The FEW things Wikipedia is good for, getting plot summaries to games a day after release.

Spoiler if you care, TDLR:

Had someone inside your crashed ship so when it explodes, tragic death. Also has the crewmate that dies in the beginning as the Necromoph that infects the Valor and kills Hammond.

Added more back story to Issac and Nicole, his mother was a Unitologist, Nicole said said she was safe, mother commits murder-suicide on father so relationship strained as she is a shit doctor

Story changed that Mercer, Kyne and Nicole were studying Necromophs than the marker as in the original, the focus was the marker to the point the captain used the ship's ADS to shoot down ANY ship to stop the outbreak reaching the ship, one got through (Dead space Downfall)

Instead of Nicole being a pure hallucination made by the marker to manipulate you, it's actually Cross and she see's you as Temple by the Markers influence.

Mercer dies like a bitch than in the original WILLFULLY allowing himself to be turned

The secret ending implies Issac WANTS to build a new marker, than as shown in the second, he first wants to stop the hallucinations but when that plan turns out to be a lie, decides on plan B, destroy the marker which the hallucination allows him to get closer to it to try to kill him (the marker fails). The new marker was only made thanks to reading his brainwaves by that needle machine so by force not willing.

After reading this then looking at a few clips on YouTube, it feels like it's not a bad game but less than the original with unneeded explanations, backstory and plot contrivances. The original had a lot of ambiguity and that added to the thill and tense atmosphere. This also not just negates the originals ending BUT completely destroys Dead Space Downfall which was a good animation showing how everything went to shit and also destroys Dead Space Extraction too by adding in these plot changes.

Spolier: Do not put 'listening to leftists' as your answer, too easy.

With the paracite hangers on of game 'journalists' the first to go, the amount of bleakness from Ubisoft, EA trying to sell itself harder than a crackwhore, we are approaching a point where we may end up with only 3-5 major ones left and a few focused on one title that's been around for decades (eve online, your DOTA games etc).

Doesn't really affect us as I think I'm safe in saying we all have backlogs that can outlast us being on Earth! So why not make this a fun opportunity to go 'you know, if you did this , you wouldn't be begging for money'. Choose whichever companies you want on what you think was a missed opportunity:

EA: Not using their IPs together enough. Seriously how hard would it have been to make a Battlefield game set in the Command and Conquer Red Alert or Tiberium franchise or even do a sports game but in the backdrop of Mass effect. They seemed to be all about processing IPs than using them effectively.

Bethesda: not using an Id engine for Fallout 4. When I played Rage, the story was lackluster but the combat and gameplay was smooth, fun with fantastic visuals. Unless there was a hidden licensing reason, why not use THAT for Fallout 4, that seemed like the perfect engine .

Nintendo: making it too difficult to buy and play older titles so creating a piracy market.

Microsoft: not letting gamers be the one to design their military AR project as they could've probably told you the dumb parts quickly.

Sony: Not embracing Japanese game devs, not leveraging their monopoly on anime with PS+ by doing, for example, free first 3 episodes of a series on Crunchyroll if you have PS+. Also on Crunchyroll, just put an adults only section for uncensored anime, have it behind a paywall of some small fee and a SECOND password and you'll probably get a lot more subscribers.

There's more I could mention like Ubisoft, Rockstar, CD projekt etc but gone on too long and let this be a collective 'I would've done this' thread.

TDLR; Reject modernity, Embrace Empire!

So for the non history guys wondering why this is a big deal 'we already have concrete?' Yes and it can be stronger than Roman concrete but does not have the longevity of roman concrete as look at the amount of Roman architecture still standing when left untouched by humans for thousands of years.

The cause is it's structure, roman concrete has a lot of lime deposits in it. When over time cracks form, when it rains the water reacts with these lime deposits, recrystalise and fill the cracks, essentially self healing the structure. The romans had nanomachines before they were a thing. Near seawater, their structures actually got tougher over time due to exposure to the minerals in the seawater.

So us finally understanding this means we can now create longer lasting and even stronger structures given time. Lets just hope this Roman concrete is ONLY used in ancient, renaissance or gothic architecture and not any of the shit we make nowadays!

Thought this was a fun example of how much studying history is extremely important to improving the current world.

Alright may as well talk about it, the recent Archcast brought this to light but everything from trans pushes to how people apply social media to the real world this is something that's been on my mind a lot.

We should have in our heads a clear distinction between what is fiction and what is reality. Reality is the empirical, from our senses, experience and anaylsis of the environment. Fiction is the opposite, it be based on aspects of reality but isn't required and should have little to no consequences on reality.

We've always had issues with the two with superstitions and mysticism but usually they were either because of lack of knowledge or to remember real world dangers (a tale of a monster attacking if you build there is a warning tsunamis hit this area)

But now it's gone nuts. We have a media encouraging delusions on sex, right and left saying drawings are immoral yet the left say that teaching kids about sex positions is fine and that a woman can beat up a man twice her size.

If I were to pin point when the acceleration pedal was pushed down on this, I'd say it's when normies hit the Internet. They were used to every communication being with an actual person that when they got on the Internet, they didn't understand the etiquette that you can be whatever you want here. They have never caught onto that distinction and it's why we see so many pushes to remove anonymity.

Then there's the lolicon 'debate', it's more a canary in the coal mine for us all than a hill not to die on. Look at everything that happened to it first, payment processors refusing service, refusal to allow content despite meeting tos, criminalisation in some countries of a drawing. This started with fictional content but has bled so easily into speech laws, the fictional was the thin edge of the wedge to then target the real.

I'll stop here to not go too long tldr; The West at large has lost a lot of it's ability to tell fiction from reality and it's led to the mass adoptions of delusions along with using fictional content to target the real world

I'm getting in early so I can win 'Transphobe of the year 2023'

Joking aside, we've seen in the past decades, although I'd argue a century at least, how women's roles have changed in WESTERN society. The result, increased depression and stress rates, lower birth rates, more people maiming themselves to 'turn into a woman' and truly evil amounts of abortions each year.

And part of the problem is shifting the concept of femininity, if you ask the feminists you seem to get a response of being a man-whore (acting with behaviours associated with men along with free to sleep around with no attachments), the left say it can be applied to anyone that identifies as female (which is why they try to shift goal posts to include men with femininity) and the right at least focuses on being a competent mother first.

We can all see how this has translated in our media, we went from supporting wives and girlfriends caring for the kids while helping their man overcoming their enemies to women being invincible warriors and all men are dumb so why be tied down to one.

I think a lot of this push to change what femininity means comes from a fundamental aspect of it, it has an element of submission to it. Not in a full 'Handmaid's tale' that feminists like to jerk off to, but there seems to an element of willingly placing yourself behind a man and supporting him in life, something that is consitently mocked and belittled in western media and social media now.

It's one aspect of why western media is dying because of what they portray isn't femininity but men in female skinsuits. I'll stop it here so it doesn't become an essay but I do think the rejection of femininity is one aspect of our current societal collapse.

Do I know or claim to know everything, no. If I did I'd probably be dead in an alley in a 'mugging gone wrong' where they leave my wallet or become this world's Jigsaw.

Point is though, with the different backgrounds and people we have on here, I think we can build up a picture of globally, where each part of the world currently stands, what are the current patterns and what might be an opportunity or an impending issue.

I am going to put on here 'lack information' when I don't have enough knowledge to work on personally. This is my impressions from all the information I have seen so if you want to add or disagree feel free to.

North America Canada: If is hasn't already fallen off the cliff, it's hanging on by it's fingertips. Euthanasia ads, targeting of private bank accounts, the failure to remove the current government despite it's actions during lockdowns in a recent election, my hopes for Canada coming back are extremely slim.

US: the recent Kari Lake lawsuit have shown how far the establishment will corrupt the election process to maintain power, and how much GOP establishment will scorch their own party to maintain their personal control. I'm seeing bulkanization as a really high possibility as red states still in control move to reduce federal control and be more independent/allying with fellow morally and aligned states. There is a possibility of civil war but the likely starting point will be a red state refusing to comply with federal orders, the federal institutions trying to use force to get compliance and the state defending itself.

Mexico: not enough information but the continuing flood of migrants into the US means that the revolution they need to reorganise the country into something productive won't happen so long as this release valve is open.

South America: Lack information but recent events in Brazil and elections show that the lefts infiltration is at a institutional level but not at a populous or military level.

Europe: UK: ok this one is a weird mix. On the one hand, DEEP infiltration on establishment, police, media and even military command by the left. On the other, they hold not much to no sway on monarchy (they tried hard after Queen's death but Charles is seeming to take his lead from how his mother ruled) and even less of the population actually respects their authority. There is a growing power vacuum happening as it seems like no institution holds true control.

Wrstern Europe: There has been a mass effort to disenfranchise voters by making them not want to vote instead of the US's route of actively screwing with the elections. This has meant that when voters DO turn out, it can cause big changes. The results of constant migration has weakened support for the left for all non-brainwashed and the growing resentment is also weakening support for the EU as it is slowly dying being proped up by global interests.

Eastern Europe: The war in Ukraine has eased in more leftist infiltration under the guise of defence support but the overt pushes by the EU to force their 'morality' over their sovereignty is getting increased pushback

Russia: the current war has highlighted the technological disadvantage Russia has against the West and the need for after this War to reorganise and restructure their military. Outside of that, they are not in the worst position. The west's isolation strategy has backfired as Russia has the raw materials to maintain itself and has cut off the leftist brainwashing propaganda. Not just that but the 'everyone opposes you strategy' has probably solidified support for Putin in a siege mentality.

Africa: Lack information for clear picture but the fact many nations told the US to fuck off not buying grain from Russia implies they have too many issues to be anythng but pragmatic.

Middle East: lack information for full picture but Opec countries siding more with Russia over oil shows either A) they know Russia long term is the best bet and/or B) that the West's green agenda while on paper would greatly hurt them, in reality is maiming themselves so taking advantage to apply pressure for more gains in the future.

India: Lack information for full picture, only fragmented assumptions

Asia: lack information but on two major players

China: seems history repeats itself with the Covid 0 policy. It's internally crippling the country and while it might have started as an excuse to solidify power to remove people under 'health concerns', it's backfiring HARD as the power structure in China has never incentivised giving accurate information, rather for governors to lie to the central authorities to save their own skins. There is a collapse on the way and hopefully it means China cannot attack Taiwan otherwise it might end up like the Falklands War.

Japan: In a weird state as they have always been slow to adopt and even slower to get rid of it. An example of this is covid policy as it seems a mismatch of there's no official policy but some businesses acting like it's still policy. A small light into something promising is when Elon took over Twitter and their trending feeds immediately was full of Anime, Manga and Jpop. This MIGHT show that leftist infiltration was not embedded enough and without constant pushing is easily forgotten. If more of these western pushes can be shut down then all Japan needs to focus on is their birthrates (which might be more reliant on work culture) and can easily be a heavy hitter again.

Oceania:

Australia: have gone largely authoritarian, not to the extent of Canada telling their population if they can't get up the stairs they should kill themselves but used covid as an excuse to turn the country back into a prison colony.

New Zealand: pretty much copying Australia though it can be argued thanks to the reduced population size being easier to monitor, even more restrictive.

Feel free to add as I only have a picture on certain places.

We get bombarded by a lot of shit all year round, from governments, media sites to the dying old media. Under this constant barrage of sewage, it's good to have things you can escape to rather than just sit there and absorbing it all like a Liberal arts student.

So whether it's working out, taking walks in a park, gaming, anime or sneaking your trash into that annoying neighbour you have, it's the little things in life.

And although we can hate the management at the top, Youtube is still the number one in terms of content creators and podcasts so what have you enjoyed on that side that stop you looking at bulldozer sales.

I've every week enjoyed Solus Astorias comic dubs, Templin Institute when they are active (off for holidays), Count Dankula and when they drop the Kane Pixels backrooms series showing a teenager has more talent than 99% of Hollywood and media giants. And let's not forget the foriegn market though that language barrier will only last so long to keep out the leftists..

Mandate all new laws and bills can only be a maximum of 3-5 pages, that's it. Is it really that stupid that all you need to do is limit the printer so that they can't flood you with paper trying to hide things?

This was brought on from the recent omnibus bill and if it's just because they flood the system late that they keep getting things through.

Could use a light topic from all the bs, with it nearly being Christmas so why not look at the one medium not actively calling white people devils.

I'd say it was a good season personally, feel free to put down what you liked or want to recommend. Here's my picks:

Standouts/ must watch: Bleach TYBW, Chainsaw Man, Mob psycho 100 III and Spy x Family cour 2

Suprises: The Eminence in Shadow: I went in blind to this one and the tone shift from ep 1 after credits was massive. A very good show with the perfect mix of cringe and badass scenes.

Akiba Maid war: Yakusa gang wars but in maid cosplay, seriously

Personal likes:

Reincarnated as a sword: could easily be dismissed as isekai trash but has cute then brutal moments mixed in (Fran's hands all I'll say)

Mobile suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury: despite early attempts by leftists to call it yuri, no it's just a good introduction to Gundam for new viewers, excellent art and has the political intrigue you expect from Gundam.

Ituma-kun season 3: it's my lighthearted weekly watch.

Would like to highlight Isekai Ojisan is back after both Netflix and production hell which is also worth a watch.

We've had an extremely light discussion around AI with artists complaining realising they too can be automated, we had the concept of a literal baby making facility, I'm assuming genetic rewriting for immortality is next week...

But getting away from the leftist takes on these subjects and the meming on facing a skynet/matrix future, what are the real opinions you have on this kind of tech?

Personally, with AI it's a Pandora's box, if we CAN create sentient artificial life, best hope is not to do it but if a dumbass does we imbrace and integrate that being, as starting conflict will probably be the reason we die.

As for artificial wombs, having the tech is needed but not in this commercial sense that video presentation gave, more as a 'last resort, literally required to save humanity' sense.

These are the two ones mentioned this week alone but any other tech you put on the 'forbidden' side or your takes on the ones disscussed.

While the US got a basketball player that can't stop being high for too long to not risk a foriegn prison.

Apparently, the US also wanted an ex-marine but looks like he was left to rot for the virtue signal. I doubt Viktor's contacts are still active after nearly a decade but it's more showing that being loyal to Russia means they will get you back eventually is good PR for them.

Edit: Thought I'd add this on as credit to MagnumRabbits who brought up something that I overlooked. What are the two things Russia is having issues with:

Weapons supply

Sanctions and embargoes

This man, just this man if he still has his golden touch, could negate a lot of the impact for BOTH of these issues, Biden just traded Russia's Oppenheimer for a knock-off LeBron James.

This ought to be fun and seperate the men from the boys in regards to the last option.

A fun game for Sunday after this weird week, inspired by a crazy ski masked rapper and a livestream I watched yesterday

I'll put 3 categories of villain for you to choose from, and also note I said favourite not greatest so you can't hide behind killcount, effectiveness or effect they still had on society now. In rising spiciness, the choices are:

Favourite gaming villain

Favourite media villain so can be anime or western media

Favourite historical villain

And since I suggested it I'll go first:

Gaming villain: Kane from C&C franchise, he was a mastermind with style and in the 3rd game played EVERYONE to win in the end

Media Villain: Demiurge from Overlord series, despite putting himself as number 2 behind the MC, the actual mastermind of the series, from 'happy farms' to his 'majestic weapon', you want evil look this guy up

Historical villain: I could be a wuss and say Vlad the Impaler or someone similar but let's go with someone very spicy, Shiro Ishii. Why him? Because after ALL the atrocities he committed for his 'scientific experiments' in Unit 731, he not only got away with it after the war but got military medals for it, pardoned and paid $200k by the Americans in exchange for his research and is responsible for a lot of the true vaccines we use today.

So anyone want to play?