Got some spare time and needed a break from the sodium distribution from the return of the American Emperor so thought I'd share some stuff I've been reading.

But unlike doing lists like in the past, I want you to say if theres a genre or story type you're interested in reading and I'll see if I can recommend you something good. Like if you want a story on revenge, regression, fantasy, sci fi, comedy, that has great art etc and I'll try to include how often it is updated or if it's completed.

A bit of disclosure, I don't really read romance, horror or slice of life so might need to ask others on that.

They claim it's because they meed time to 'polish the game' but I think it's more they realise that this game could kill the company in it's present state.

Edit: just realised something as listening to SideScrollers in the background, guess what's in February?

Black history month, I think they're still woke pandering even though they know it's a live bomb like Concord in the making.

Yeah this is vtuber related but this is also leads into discussion of how bad YouTube's strike system is and how it's being abused by malicious actors.

This probably began with her clip channel, a channel just dedicated to making clips out of her stream, being struck down out of nowhere. She herself said on stream she won't fight it conventionally because she would have to give her address as part of the counter claim so she's getting Vshojo her agency to help get it back.

Fast foward to a few hours ago, as she's still hosting a subathon on Twitch, her entire MAIN Youtube channel gets terminated and Vshojo lawyers are now getting involved.

I only have two explanations on this:

1. There's a malicious actor within YouTube targeting vtubers for some reason (a lot have been getting random bans for a while) and decided to ban her channel on a Friday so it wouldn't be resolved till Monday (similar to what Sony did with Helldivers 2 PSN requirement)

2. A malicious actor REALLY wants to dox Ironmouse and is trying to use YouTube's copyright system to get it in the counter claim.

The reason she's avoiding giving her address is she has fucking Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) meaning she can't simply leave ger home if some freak learns her address and stalks her plus she lives with her now getting elderly parents. But this will probably blow up more since she's THE biggest vtuber streamer (nearly the biggest female streamer) in the world so already the pressure is building against Youtube for this.

Maybe this'll go to a court case where Youtube is forced to defend banning a streamer with CVID with no strikes or maybe on Monday her channels get restored and someone is secretly fired, either way this is probably the biggest example of the war on vtubers.

Edit: adding this as a note on the original than a new post, as of 23/09/2024 both her main and VOD channels are back, seems like the banning of her main on Friday WAS like Sony and Helldivers 2 and they immediately returned all her channels back on Monday. Doubt the people responsible will be punished though.

Pour one out for the recent high sea purge, though they've already been mirrored so these sites are like Kane from C&C with how much they resurrect..

Anyway good season overall, a surprise standout and one that gave my brain a vaction. Disclaimer as always, haven't seen EVERYTHING so will miss stuff, key ones is The Elusive Samurai and Pseudo Harem, I am only human (for now, come on cybernetics!) so some slip the net and not caught up on everything, without further ado:

Actually I read the Manga

A journey through another world: Raising kids while adventuring: this is just good male role model vibes where a guy Isakai'd becomes the caring older brother to two orphaned young saiyans, just a pallette cleanser show

Why does nobody remember me in this world: Humanity had a war with magical beings, won and live in peace but some a hole flipped the table and reset the world to where Humanity didn't have the hero that turned the tide, with everyone forgetting him but our MC so becomes the one that needs to help turn the tide in this war. It's ok but nothing big budget.

Failure Frame: I became the strongest and Annihilated Everything with low-level spells: WARNING, heavy use of cgi, it's actually used quite well but I know this is a turn off for some. The main thing that keeps my interest in the series is the MC as going in you thing 'another beta guy exiled for weak abilities but turns out they're cracked' but no he had a psycho switch in him the whole time and he can manipulate, kill no hesitation. Plus while everyone else lusts over the main girl, he's 'revenge first, pussy later' when she actually gives him the green pass.

continuing from previous season

That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime S3 cour 2: I prefer this festival arc as you get more characters coming in, more development in Tempest and character development all round

The heavy hitters

No longer allowed in another world: following the example of Ya boy Kongming, this takes author Osamu Dazai and Isakai's him and like the original, he just REALLY wants to die. Thought it'd be a bit of a one trick joke but damn did this have great characterisation. Episode 8 was a masterpiece to itself.

Oshi no Ko S2: still top tier quality exploring the entertainment industry and while the opening not as good in my opinion to Season one, still a banger.

Sussy Sisters (should've included Oshi no Ko on this)

Days with my stepsister: actually just a very good story about two strangers now having to live with each other and understand their feelings in this new dynamic.

Alya sometimes Hides her feelings in Russian: Our main girl is a tsundere who says her true feelings in Russian as she's in Japan so who there knows Russian? Our MC so he got a girl acting cold in public but saying in Russian how she'd like to toss him down and french kiss him. Also his sister a bit of a freak.

Aquired taste

Wistoria - wand and sword: from the mind behind Black Clover, this is very well animated story as the one guy that can't use magic in magic school but literally built different. I put it here though as the MC might turn people off as though he can go badass, his whimpy scenes can be annoying.

My dear friend Nokotan: Welcome to the deer world motherfuckers! Everything is deer and you will be deer too hahaha! (This written by 1 braincell, rest of brain took a vaction). Studio Wit KNEW what they wanted with this series and the fact that intro song was as catchy as hell BEFORE it even released, you see why they put their full effort into this than Suicide Squad, speaking of which..

Suicide Squad Isakai: I kinda got bored and dropped it, just ok and other than the Morri ed, it's just average.

The Strongest magician in the Demon lord's army was a Human: liking the story, a human raised in secret by the best magican in the demon lords army and wants to make a world where both humans and demons can live in peace but has to hide his human identity as well as resistance from both sides.

Tower of God S2: this is an improvement over season 1 but still lacking in some explanation and development to get higher, a bit more work and it'll be a lot better.

Vtuber legend: How I went Viral after forgetting to turn off my steam: this is the most ACCURATE portrayal of vtubers in ANY media, so much so I think they watched a vtuber and just went off that. Growing hypothesis, they were watching Bao the Whale just toned down the gooning for the anime...

My wife has no Emotion:welcome to what happens when western women get too bad, we go for the robots. It's light hearted and at least he's simping fir the robot not an ethot.

That's the list of what I have at least viewed, didn't watch the second part of Nier Automata as the delay killed the buzz for me to watch it so on the back burner.

I REALLY wish California would sink into the ocean by now, ever since moved the interactive side that handles PlayStation to California where Crunchyroll is too, it's just gotten stupider and more bone headed. Should also mention their entertainment branch is in New York which explains a lot..

After the COLOSSAL failure of Concord, you'd think they'd look over the games still in production and cut their losses than report another flop? Nope! Looks like they are 'not worried' as they have a NEW LIVE SERVICE GAME that was annouced a year ago, headed by an AC veteran and was as well received as sandpaper toliet paper.

The problem that is often forgotten is that Sony is a Multinational conglomerate which means no matter how much their media divisions suck, the other sides STILL headquartered in Japan are making money with telecommunications, engineering, finance etc.

And what pisses me off the most is that their entertainment side is asset rich just with EXTREMELY poor management. If they weren't around the trans and drug freaks of California and back in Asia, they'd probably still know sex sells so make your characters ATTRACTIVE. Concord might've lasted longer than 10 days if players at least had something good to look at.

Then there's how they are handling PC, just this year alone they managed to take an extremely successful, gaining a cult following game with Helldivers 2 and kill it overnight by demanding PSN requirement to play which locked out many countries that CAN'T get PSN then backtracked but left in shitty community managers. They grab failure from the jaws of victory.

And last part of my rant is Crunchyroll, when anime is getting more popular than Western entertainment, why do not improve your service with better UI, a tagging system like they use for pirate manga sites and even comment sections that would make people not feel inclined TO pirate?

My only hope is either California sinks into the ocean so these brick heads sink with it or the adults in the Japanese side purge it's management as incompetent net losses.

Don't worry, no images so no looking at his face but yeah, barely 24hrs and he's gone, no longer going to be working there or in any future videos. Despite getting raked over coals for saying it initially, this SunnyV2 video became very prophetic.

If only we could make ALL degenerates leave YouTube in 24hrs but because this one had even Sneako and Keemstar looking like moral authorities in comparison, probably a special case unfortunately..

The difference a day makes, I swear this drama has escalated quick in TWO days, he's put out a full tweet of it, I don't have X so someone else link it as I ain't making an account to that hellscape for this.

TLDR, he DID talk to a minor (hard on what age as that could be a 15 year old in the states but they live in France) back in 2017 but NO pictures were sent, NEVER met and it says it sometimes was inappropriate talk but that could've been the average gamer talk. Now he was banned in 2020 so they sat on this for 3 YEARS but Twitch settled a lawsuit he had with them and there was NO criminal charges at all for him.

So after the studio he founded kicked him out and a sponsor dropped him, other than be an idiot talking to a minor this is a nothing burger. It speaks WORSE on Twitch that they couldn't vet their internal messager given that Disrespect doesn't state if he KNEW at the time they were a minor and dropped talking to them when they found out.

And also speaks ill on all those saying "We knew about this for years" what that he was a fucking idiot for a basic mistake (why I mute everyone unless they're friends) or dod you think he was a pedo but sat on this waiting for blood in the water as that's even more disgusting.

Fathers STILL get the rough treatment in media, from being portrayed as too old to understand the modern day, feckless, violent, cold and just plain absent.

And we all see the fatherless behaviour that in reality causes...

So to celebrate a day that often gets overlooked to the female equivalent, what are some of the best representations of fathers you've seen in media?

Anime My daughter left the nest and Returned an S Rank adventurer: Belgrieve or 'the red ogre' is a perfect example of a positive role model I can think of in Anime. He's strict but fair, patient when he needs to be but not a push over, knows when to be emotional and when to think with a clear head. He's such a good role model that even former enemies switch to following his leads and former friends who fell off the right path immediately get back on the path just knowing He's around.

**As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll use my appraisal skill to Rise in the world **: for the time he's on screen, Raven shows he's not just a great warrior and lord but an excellent father, encouraging his son when he can, traching him the right values and when it matters most, just talking to him when he needed it and that attitude extended to all the other members of the cast.

Western Media: I think the diluge of propaganda over the years is making my mind a bit blank on this unfortunately. Had to delve into my brain for this:

The Fresh Prince of Bel Air (1990s): James Avery played uncle Philip PERFECTLY, he was the greatest role model of a good Black father figure so no wonder they character assassinated him in the 'remake'

What are you're picks as to save it going to long, I should mention there are quite a few 'regression father stories' in Manhwa too where a father who makes mistakes raising their child (usually daughter) regresses in time to raise them properly, it's a genre to itself at this point.

The positive of a meritocratic media industry: lots to watch

The negatives: viewing it all on release...

There will be stuff I miss it's a given, but been another good season and thankfully no production delays, so without futher adou:

Actually I read the Manga

The Banished Former Hero lives as he pleases: tried reading this a while back....dropped it after 2 chapters because it was bland. The anime ain't different in fact only thing good about it was Outro by AIMI

Chillin in Another World with level 2 super cheat powers: in comparison to the above, THIS is a lot better, lot more light hearted and fun tone (though the MC has a 'rage of quiet man moment) fun op, I realise between this and Eminence in shadow, I may have a thing for voluptuous wolf girls....

As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll use my appraisal skill to Rise in the world: before you go 'another Isakai', I'd give this a shot especially if you loved Realist Hero or recruiting in Slime. The MC isn't powerful but can see the talents of others and recruits those talented to improve his domain. Can't praise it enough and one of the best father's in Anime too.

Grandpa and Grandma turn young again: This is concentrated wholesomeness, as couple been together for 70 years thanks to a golden apple on their orchard gain the ability to turn young again, but still retain their grandparent way of living. It's just sweet to watch and makes you happy.

The heavy hitters

Mushoku Tensei jobless reincarnation S2 cour 2: shits hitting the fan again, we had another 'Turning point' episode. It's just the king of Isakai, excellent animation, story and va work like this scene REALLY showing how a person trapped in another world might react thinking there's no way back.

Konosuba, God's blessing on this wonderful world S3: the patron saint of gender equality is back and it's just fun with the gang back together.

Kaiju No. 8: This one you can tell is getting HEAVY investment to be a longer franchise, from the great animation and music, op and ed the story has the right mix of humour, action and character moments to watch

Bartender Glass of Gods: This is apparently one of two old shows coming back this season, they REALLY put their all in the animation quality for this show and it's a perfect nightcap anime, something after a long day at work to turn on and watch

Spice and Wolf: Merchant meets the Wise Wolf: the other returner and making my 'wolf girl' problem worse. They focused hard on animation, va work, music from the op alone it's fantastic to see this return in a proper way

Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc: the quality is still top tier, all that needs to be said on this series.

That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime S3: warning the first episodes are mainly talking and meetings to provide set up, THEN you get the payoff and realise 'Rimaru's side is OP as fuck!', good to see it back and hopefully regularly but sane quality as I want to eventually get to see our boy Zegion in his prime...

****Aquired taste ****

Tsukimichi Moonlit fantasy S2 cour 2: I WISH I could put this at the same level as Slime (especially since the manga came out before) but it hasn't been given the same time to establish itself so still aquired taste. Does the same as slime as slow build up but when the MC realises 'oh the goddess isn't looking', shit kicks off FAST lol

Viral Hit: Korea really portraying their schools having a bullying epidemic lol, but in this one a bullying victim learns how to fight thanks to a mysterious YouTube channel and streams his own fights with bullies to earn money.

Re:Monster: this is very early slime in the way the MC is Isakai'd as a monster and gains powers by consuming others but in this one, well...

The Irregular at Magic School S3: The return of the op MC with a sister who's favourite song is 'Sweet home Alabama'. It's enjoyable if you like an OP MC and the this series always have great op and ed

Not seen enough of so first impressions

Wind Breaker: The fight scene in episode one was fantastic alone so I'll try to watch more of it later

I didn't see Black Butler or Train to the End of the World as well as others as didn't have time, but I'd like to DISHONOURABLELY mention The Misfit if Demon King Academy as wtf are they doing with the CGI!?! I stopped watching after the production issues last time but holy crap I have no intention of picking it back up if they go Seven deadly Sins level of bad in animation!

That is recount territory as I'm hearing it was just around a 400 vote difference but with Abbot supporting the incumbent and Trump not being involved at all, doubt it'll change.

The good news to take from this is NOT to get blackpilled as has been shouted by the media cronies, a 'far right gun YouTuber' with little political experience and has video like this managed to SERIOUSLY challenge an establishment crony.

Just observing the disaster of Suicide Squad game, the calamity of the current Doctor Who and many other franchises along the way, it feels like we are on the eve of a purge in western media where a lot of franchises are going to die or at the very least, be put on a very long hiatus.

In my opinion, a lot of these survive off habit, you get used to enjoying a certain thing, you regularly consume certain thing and never think about it. Until they make something that breaks that habit it won't die so thought I'd list off some of those bits of media that killed off a franchise:

Command and Conquer= C&C4: This one singlehandedly killed the franchise, even before they used it's corpse for a mobile game. The complete removal of bases from the game itself was the dumbest decision ever made, but not the first time EA would remove a core mechanic from a major franchise..

Battlefield: Battlefield 2042: the other example by removing classes for 'operators' in the game probably damaged it more than just how much it was a buggy unplayable mess. It was such a bad decision that they put the classes back in but with talk of the next being a live service and even the return of operators, I can hear the death chimes for this franchise just like honourable mention the Medal of Honour series.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi: it's amazing how this single film started this franchise tanking that was bought for billions and even had people appreciating the prequels more. From the bad writing, stale acting and stupid plot, this killed the enthusiasm for a decades long series.

The potential new ones: AC Shadows and GTA6: these two in the future have the possibility to kill their respective franchises. We are finding more and more on AC that it's looking like every wrong move has been taken and with how lackluster Mirage was received, it ain't looking good. GTA6 however, there's a possibility it'll simply be another Cyberpunk in just not meeting expectations which IS recoverable.

Just thought this was interesting to discuss seeing franchises both established and barely formed (cough Trench Crusade) killing themselves in a single release especially around our current time.

Prefix: This has NOTHING to do with the US elections or Trump directly, this is about the principle in general.

Have one of my friends in London (pray for them) recently chatting to me over some games, talking about how they recently got their voting ballots mailed to them. It's slim pickings to say the least but for one of the positions they only had the option of Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem, Greens snd Reform.

They're looking into the Reform candidate as they MASSIVELY went down in their opinion due to recent capitulations so they told me they'd spoil their ballot like last time when they only had 4 options and Reform wasn't even a choice than endorse ANY of these parties.

I personally think this is the right choice. Everyone SHOULD vote but if none of the candidates match up to your morality or standards, you should be given the right to put none of the above or straight up spoil your ballot in refusal to endorse. The UK ballots apparently don't have a 'none of the above' option even though it is perfectly legal to spoil your ballot and is in fact counted as a spoiled ballot on election day.

I'm just thinking back on how humiliated Haley was when she lost a primary to 'none of the above' and relating it to the poor voter turnout numbers of the UK and other Western countries. Imagine if all those didn't vote turned into refuse to endorse votes, might be enough to show how much the emperor is without clothes.

If you want a detailed explanation of the Amazon show, I did it in this post here but the short answer is it's actually good and not really woke at all.

This post is more discussing a something that looks to be the future of the franchise in terms of lore so there will be spoilers for the show.

Basically in the show, ALL lore related to Fallout New Vegas has been erased. The fractions are either not mentioned at all or severely diminished in terms of the NCR, some things in 1 and 2 have been changed (like Vault 15 which Shady Sands was built around is not mentioned at all) and it looks like they are only using the setting of New Vegas in a season 2 as they show the strip at the end of the season.

This is one thing, but I also recently heard of a Fallout 4 update and DLC planned where the update is optimising for 'next gen' consoles and the free DLC will introduce a new fraction to the commonwealth to stop...

..the fucking Enclave...

They seem to be only keeping lore cannon completely in Fallout 3 and 4 so does the Legion exist any more? Are the Followers of the Apocalypse still around or they gone too? Does any of the characters we liked from New Vegas exist either like Boone, Veronica or Cass?

The other thing that urks me is Fallout New Vegas was the best written and world built game in the franchise in competition with 1 and 2. The fact they are bringing back the Enclave for 4 just makes me think the writing staff at Bethesda aren't that creative at all and they're just rehashing old plots again and again than try some other direction or a new take on an old fraction. It's REALLY not giving me hope for Elder Scrolls 6...

TDLR: Bethesda may be doing what Disney did to Star Wars Extended Universe and erasing lore not made directly with Bethesda

So I watched the whole thing, I had a day off today (didn't time it like that) and I thought I'd share my opinions on it. I took a few notes thoughout but I'll give a TDLR then I'll go for spoilers to discuss it. As a prefix, I went in with low expectations.

TDLR: it's actually alright, the one thing that might bother me most is a few lore issues

Spoilers: To set this out, three things I have to state:

Fallout 2: 2241

Fallout New Vegas: 2281

This TV show Fallout: 2296

Ok now the timeline is set up I can state this, THEY NUKED SHADY SANDS AFTER 2277. NCR are practically gone, they either joined the Brotherhood, joined Vault 4 which is a Amazon made Vault along with 33, 32 and 31 or exist as a remnant faction. They were the raiders in the first episode that infiltrated 32 to get to the MC's Vault 33 to get her dad who turns out, an ORIGINAL vault tec employee and HE was the one that nuked Shady Sands...because his wife (MC's mom) found out NCR existed so they don't need to be in the vaults anymore. This was the BIG thing that stuck out to me as a "WTF they did this? This can't be cannon!?' moment. Oh and the show confirmed Vault-Tec started the great war, they arranged it in co-operation with Robco, Big MT, REPCONN and West-Tek. And the end of this show (which is setting up for a season 2) implied a House Wins ending for Fallout New Vegas

The good: Set design was on point, I can't really complain about that as they portrayed power Armour well. One of the main characters, the ghoul Cooper (best character) because he fought in them during the battle for anchorage KNEW their weakpoint so in the last episode took out several Brotherhood. The OST is still good and enjoyed seeing before the war and the action scenes were good and very gory.

The bad: Lore wise, it's a mess. Not just the whole 'a bad dad nuked Shady Sands' and no explanation for it other than 'he's a Vault-Tec employee', a lot of things were inconsistent. The West Coast Brotherhood having the same Vertibirds as the East coast and an airship not to mention the West Coast recruiting openly. The main 'bad woman' is over 200 years old but no explanation for it really, oh and shes the original creatir of Cold Fusion, that's the Macguffin everyone is working around (it was on an Enclave scientist which also Enclave exist on the MAINLAND WEST both Brotherhood and NCR wiped them out) and in the end, the Brotherhood now have access to cold fusion. The lore is such a mess to a long term gamer. Also apparently there's a serum now that halts Ghouls going feral, that's new. And no mention of any other vaults most critically Vault 15 which Shady Sands was built around.

The ugly: let's talk about how woke it is, to be honest it isn't that woke. The biggest woke character might be the 'main villain' who made to be the sympathetic villian as it was actually the MC's father fault. You might say the evil capitalists colluding with Vault-Tec not just to start the Great War (which goes against House's lore in Fallout NV) but the experiments in the vaults but that's a stretch as Cooper's wife who's Black, she's the cunt that proposes that idea in the meeting, so not painting diversity in a good light as the new villain in Vault 33 is also diverse. Maybe Knight Titus who was such an unlikeable dick was hating on white guys but he barely lasted one scene so meh.

Honestly, the best people were the white guys, the MC's brother using his own intellect investigates the truth behind their vault on their own and it's heavily implied either him or Betty the new Black overseer posioned all the raiders in revenge. Cooper as it showed prewar him discovering the truth behind Vault-Tec and as a Ghoul the guy everyone is scared to fuck with as he demonstrates his skills.

The main two, Lucy the Vault dweller and Maximus the Scribe are pretty incompetent. Lucy is just TOO naive for the wastelands and suffers everytime for it and Maximus is more aware of his surroundings but isn't the most competent or making the best decisions.

So that's my notes for Fallout series, I know it's weird, it ain't too woke, is actually alright but the one part it doesn't make sense is the lore timeline. This has to be a seperate TV universe is my only conclusion. Feel free to ask about any aspects of the show and I'll try answer as best I can.

TDLR of my answer: yes because they're a shortsighted death cult

Was watching this latest video from Sargon (which sidenote glad he's back to these short form videos) and was going over how the left tried to use the recent strike in Israel that killed aid workers including 3 Brits to get a heavy response but there was no call for action, just a lackluster 'that's bad, shame they died' than the gunboat response they PROCLAIM the West still does.

I say this many times, the left live SO LONG as the West protects them and rather than forming a symbiotic relationship with this knowledge, they're a parasite that drained the strength of the West and are now surprised that the protection is disappearing. Especially on the LGBTwhatever side as I have warned only 14% (probably less) of the Earth even TOLERATE gays, and you introduced the 86% to your safe zone.

This will probably end up in a purge, either the Muslims/Latins/Africans do it because they tried to target THEIR kids or they complete the death cult and essentially kill themselves by their own idiocy. What I will warn though is we are approaching the point where there will be NONE that can realise reality and there will be only the zealots remaining in the left. In these circumstances, we can only purge and no second chances, remove from any kind of power and put your own protection first, we may be approaching the final act on this cult.