Wandering Adventure Party

@yon@sakurajima.moe the only reason to argue online is if you know you have an audience. You can win the audience, but yeah that’s it. It’s not too different in person. Once someone gets defensive, you’ve pretty much lost them. If you’re lucky they’ll go home and stew and maybe realize you were right. I’ve always found the real way to sway people is to ensure they never realize that they’re in an argument. “I agree but here’s why I don't” works better than people think.

@literalgrill@sakurajima.moe @yon@sakurajima.moe I'd forgotten about these two. I've read With you in the Rain and I can confirm this one is just gentle silliness the whole time. Cultural Exchange with a Game Centre Girl is good I am just trying to get used to the anime-girl-in-english voice.

@yon@sakurajima.moe I wonder if this is in reference to the upcoming anime "Busu ni Hanataba wo"? It might be the slightest of spoilers, but that's not the direction this one goes.

@yon@sakurajima.moe it blows my mind that there are legitimate monarchists out there, who just ignore literal millennias Worth of “this is an awful system” data. I kinda blame fantasy literature. The king in those stories is so often a good dude, where an inbred megalomaniac manchild would be a more historically accurate depiction.

@yon@sakurajima.moe You’re kind of overlooking the fact that we, too, are moving through space, and doing so at the same speed as the Earth’s surface. So, even if you were freed from the confines of gravity, you would still be moving laterally at the same speed as the ground. And so would any device or portal you were utilising. There’s no reason to treat the timd travel device as stationary in space. And that’s ignoring the fact that “stationary” is an inherently relative term. You always measure velocity relative to a reference point, and the universe has no universal standard for this. There is no background, stationary coordinate system underpinning space. The question of where Earth was yesterday is totally meaningless without pointint to some other object in space.

@NaraMoore@sakurajima.moe @yon@sakurajima.moe "You know, What this mutually genocidal war needs is a classroom full of displaced, emotionally unstable teenagers from a famously demilitarized country. They'll really take care of those horrific abominations that are completely beyond their imagining."-- Some totally sane Isekai-world's king.

@yon@sakurajima.moe I feel that with most anime villains, there is something usually “wrong” with them. Very rarely do see a villain who just has a different set of priorities than the hero or is deeply sympathetic. They’re most often sociopaths, petty tyrants, psychos, or morally unsound. I think that’s why you get so many of these batmanesque Joker villains.

@yon@sakurajima.moe Matthew Hopkins. Rest in Piss.

@yon@sakurajima.moe We say "Self published", but that's not entirely accurate in this case. The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows started as a self-published work, and then was picked up by SB Creative, and it's that version that I read. So these companies are kinda doing the music industry thing: they've thrown away developing talents and works, and are just picking thunderdome winners from the self-published world. You'd expect them at this point to polish up the work but ... I suspect they really don't. That's just extra cost for what they treat as a commodity product.The saint one looks like it could be the better one, as long as it doesn’t derail. Time will tell.I think this is the more enjoyable work of the two. It's main problem is break-neck pacing and leaping from thing-to-thing without proper developing anything. An enterprising writer could have easily turned the first volume into 3, instead you get one really short anemic one. At least it's not too cringey. In other words, there's a lot of room for a script writer here to insert their own thing here and not miss out on too many of the LN's actual plot points.