BlindDeafRat
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BlindDeafRat
9d ago
Succession ended well, but it still had a lot of repeat of the same plots. The protagonists learn something, and then next season forget it, and learn it again, only to forget it again.
BlindDeafRat
1mo ago
Freesia has a really sketchy artstyle that can almost hurt to read sometimes, but it works considering the main character's mental state.
Baki also has a very strange artstyle that can take time getting used to, but it also has the best fight choreography of any manga.
BlindDeafRat
1mo ago
It might be bad art, but it's presented well. Like in many ways the quality of the characters, and the general look is worse than Murata, the fights themselves are better presented in One's original web comic.
BlindDeafRat
1mo ago
I would recommend sticking with Baki. It's the best fighting manga, way better than Ashura, with some amazing fights. But like you said, it's a shounen, it's meant for teenage boys, it's not meant to be realistic.
Also if you do read it, start with the original Grappler Baki (1991) which is more grounded than than later ones.
Otherwise if you want realistic martial arts manga, the best one I know is All-Rounder Meguru, which is about MMA.
There's also Asumi Kakeru which is also MMA, and quite close to All-Rounder Meguru. The author also has another manga about Sumo.
I love fighting manga and martial arts, and so I've read basically everything translated, but if you're looking for something realistic for a HEMA practitioner, you're not going to find much. Either try lowering your standards, or just skipping manga. Besides All-Rounder Meguru.
Maybe try Vagabond, which is a manga about Musashi, but it's not finished, what is there is really good though, but again, I don't know how realistic the fights are.
BlindDeafRat
2mo ago
That's the one. From what I hear the series gets better after that, but that book demolished any interest I had in continuing it.
BlindDeafRat
2mo ago
I read the first few books of that series a couple of years ago, and I really liked it until like the third or fourth book, after which I dropped it and never read more. The author was going through some shit and decided to include it in the book and it was one of the worst things I've ever read.
BlindDeafRat
3mo ago
If you want a simple introduction to the setting, it's hard to beat Dynasty Warriors 7 or 8 because they have a route for every major faction, including Jin. Everything else tends to focus more on chronological order which I think is way more confusing than just strictly following one side because there are a lot of characters.
There's also Team Ninja's Wu Long which is set in Three Kingdom and starts off with the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Team Ninja made Nioh 2 which is one of my favourite games of all time, and Wu Long is pretty similar except with more of a parry focus, I haven't played the game beyond the demo though.
I would also second the recommendation for the 2010 series, it is very long, at times dry, boring, especially the parts with Diaochan(Lu Bu is more like a bratty child in this show) but overall is really solid. Cao Cao is the best part, and he has a ton of great scenes.
BlindDeafRat
3mo ago
Same, I read Whatever right after reading The Elementary Particles, which I really enjoyed, and it was so boring I haven't read any of his books since.
BlindDeafRat
3mo ago
PGTE has a very slow start and I dropped it like three times before getting into it. Once she's recruited by Black it gets better.
Also, the entire premise of the story is based on capital Good vs capital Evil and narrative around it, with Cat and Black standing somewhere in-between. You do get to see characters that are actually Evil, but Cat isn't a part of that faction.
Since you've read xianxia, I'd say they're closer compared to Orthodox vs Demonic, with Good being Orthodox, aka do plenty of bad things in the background but cover it up as actually good, or shove it under the rug, while Good is Demonic, and at times openly evil, but also less likely to stab you if you make them look bad.
Personally, the narrative framing is the element I like the least, and it's also why I stopped reading it later on, but if you enjoy meta elements in storytelling you might like it. Although from your comment it seems like you're not a fan.
BlindDeafRat
4mo ago
Group #2 is much smaller than #1. Probably at most 10% of group #1. So why would you focus on #2? If you have a 1% converting success on both groups, you'll influence more people on #1. And in terms of society overall it's better if you don't have a large group of single males that are single and resentful towards society.
What you should do instead, is force women to lower their standards. Women are the gatekeepers here, and if you (somehow) convince them to date lower, which considering there are more educated women than men, will have to happen at some point, would work more towards solving this than anything.
BlindDeafRat
4mo ago
Chatgpt in my experience isn't very good at my specific small European language. I've used it for studying a few times, and it's been very hit or a miss, which when you're learning and don't know what's a miss is pretty bad, so I've stopped using it.
BlindDeafRat
6mo ago
Have you played Monster Hunter? It has i-frames but much shorter than Dark Souls, and the attacks are longer, so you might get hit anyway. So you generally dodge to move out of enemy attacks rather than dodge through them.
It also has visible damage to monsters with them getting more beat up, and eventually start limping.
BlindDeafRat
6mo ago
Nine Sol is much closer to Sekiro than Souls, but Salt & Sanctuary is heavily inspired by Dark Souls 1.
Starting the series with Elden Ring isn't ideal. The game is made to be a culmination of the series. If you're into that it's great, but it can be overwhelming as well.
I would also recommend Bloodborne in addition to Dark Souls 2, but it's a pain because you need a PS3/PS4 or use an emulator on PC. I think these days emulators should run decently well.
Also if you like Nine Sol, I would recommend Sekiro. It's the best From Software game in terms of gameplay, with only Bloodborne beating it in aesthetics and some cool exploration.
BlindDeafRat
6mo ago
A lot of those Italian buildings are centuries old. Where as most of California's cities rose up in the last two centuries, especially the last one.
So why not compare it with China instead? They've created cities even faster than USA, and their cities are still much closer to California's design and Italy's.
This is one of those things that sounds easy in theory, but in practice, with the needs of the city you will rarely get city design of Europe unless that's the goal you want to achieve from the start. Which would probably require extremely restrictive building laws.
And speaking of roads, I know people shit on "Just one more lane" road design, but in my experience driving in Italy it has the opposite problem of roads which really do need an extra lane or two, because on a two lane road, one is full of trucks, so you're constantly stuck in traffic. And in general the quality of their roads is much worse than the surrounding countries'.
BlindDeafRat
7mo ago
The idea is great, being open your ideas being challenged in public, and being able to argue for them. But in practice, that's not how it goes. Whoever talks faster, and is more skilled with "debating" has a clear advantage, regardless of whether they actually believe in their ideas or not. Regardless of whether their ideas are good. As long as you can present them as being such, you can have the upper hand.
I didn't know a thing about Charlie Kirk before he got shot. But you have a similar example in the streamer Destiny. He does the same thing, primarily does online "debates", but he's also visited a few colleges. But in the end, it's literally his job, it's his life mission to do this, he knows his subject well, he knows the tricks of the trade, he has great control of his emotions, all of which give him a huge advantage over anyone else. If you pit him and some random college student up against him, the student will almost certainly look worse by the end.
The same can happen even with people more educated than him.
BlindDeafRat
7mo ago
Note, none of this matters if what you mean by chargebacks is when you do it through the bank rather than the store itself.
Depends on what you count as a lot. I've done up to three refunds per month a few years ago and they all got refunded, I think at some point I went up to five and only then received a warning, but after taking a break, my account is fine, and I can still get refunds.
BlindDeafRat
8mo ago
That's not a good comparison though. USSR also invaded it, and they lost. And then USA lost too. Like sure they could have won if they went full scorched earth, and decimated any civilian areas. But at that point it's a slaughter, it's not a war. There wouldn't be anything left to conquer.
And I think that if they were more ruthless, there would be far more attacks on the West too.
I'm think USA could've actually won if they were far more aggressive and stern handed, and focused into making it into a new state of USA, and not the half-assed version they did. But ultraviolence wouldn't be the answer.
BlindDeafRat
8mo ago
AuDHD is a combination of Autism and ADHD.
BlindDeafRat
9mo ago
I would be very interested in reading a longer post about Sumo if you wrote it. Or if you know of any blog posts that talk about it in general.
BlindDeafRat
11mo ago
Also for someone smart, she acted kinda dumb.
She was 8 years old at that time. I know I wouldn't be able to do any better at 8.
BlindDeafRat
11mo ago
What is "keyboard turning"?
You can turn your character with A and D, or you can do it with your mouse. Mouse is much, much faster and more precise. It's easier to dodge mechanics and have better awareness if you use your mouse.
A some people (usually beginners) also click on their abilities instead of using hotkeys. So their mouse is too busy to focus on turning.
It's a sign of not playing in an optimal way.
BlindDeafRat
11mo ago
To add to the other comments. It also has a lot of mods. Some that focus on action and adventure, others that focus more on the pure creation lego aspect, and then you also have automation mods. Like Factorio was inspired by a Minecraft mod originally. So an entire genre came out of it.
The lego aspect of it really appealed to me as a kid, but I still love the automation mods. Especially when your base is functional and looks good.
I agree. This site's block function is really good. I would've stopped coming here a long time ago if it didn't have it because some posters are so predictable and irritating that I'd rather not see the site at all than see what they have to say.
Overall, a few bad apples(quite a few..) doesn't prevent this site from being my favourite place for politics.
On a side-note, I'm curious which user has been blocked the most times, and which user has the most other users blocked.
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