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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Gundi wrote: »
    Frieren 26:
    I liked the paralleling of the two twists of this episode: Frieren's clone's special attack and Ubel's special attack. Both were unblockable in their own way and for different reasons. Ubel can cut through seemingly anything besides the basic magic shield because she's insane, while Frieren has apparently had this trump card of a weird spell that can't be blocked. I also like the implication that the last time she used that spell it was on the demon king.

    Should I feel bad for
    Being glad Fern's staff got destroyed? I hated that weird stick.
    Yes, because that "weird stick" is one of the few mementos Fern has of her adoptive father (just as Frieren's staff is one of the few she has of Flamme.)

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 14
    Asthariel wrote: »
    1000 years old grandma tries her best, okay

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    considering how oblivious she was of Himmel, this is not only entirely within character but also forgivable

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    So RuriDragon is back, 2 more chapters up and it is continuing to be a cute little slice of life about a teenager living her normal life and having weird magic start manifesting from her, but it's ok and people are rather understanding. At this point I'm rather hoping there's never going to be another shoe dropping with drama and battles and enemies and shit, just because it's cute and comfy low stakes magical realism like this and would be a funny subversion of the setup of a teenager with cool magic powers to have her just live her normal life without any dramatic crisis showing up that she is somehow drawn into.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Today's chapter of Dandadan
    I want that washing machine.

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  • Dex DynamoDex Dynamo Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Hello anime thread, I have an extremely specific question for you

    I am trying to figure out if I missed a very specific subtextual joke in the subbed anime I watched, or if the dub I am now watching just didn't do a good job on translating something

    Here is my question: in ODDTAXI, in the original Japanese... are Yano's raps supposed to be good, or is the joke he is bad at rapping

    Because the raps in the dub are kind of markedly badly written, and it has me questioning if I missed this entire joke in ODDTAXI when I watched it subbed

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Anzekay wrote: »
    Asthariel wrote: »
    1000 years old grandma tries her best, okay

    eiv3cqjqt6wi.jpg

    considering how oblivious she was of Himmel, this is not only entirely within character but also forgivable

    Shout out to elves on the spectrum, it’s their year

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Dex Dynamo wrote: »
    Hello anime thread, I have an extremely specific question for you

    I am trying to figure out if I missed a very specific subtextual joke in the subbed anime I watched, or if the dub I am now watching just didn't do a good job on translating something

    Here is my question: in ODDTAXI, in the original Japanese... are Yano's raps supposed to be good, or is the joke he is bad at rapping

    Because the raps in the dub are kind of markedly badly written, and it has me questioning if I missed this entire joke in ODDTAXI when I watched it subbed

    It might help to have some clips to compare, but from what I recall, he sounded like he was genuinely good in Japanese.

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  • DHSDHS Chase lizards.. ...bark at donkeys..Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    So RuriDragon is back, 2 more chapters up and it is continuing to be a cute little slice of life about a teenager living her normal life and having weird magic start manifesting from her, but it's ok and people are rather understanding. At this point I'm rather hoping there's never going to be another shoe dropping with drama and battles and enemies and shit, just because it's cute and comfy low stakes magical realism like this and would be a funny subversion of the setup of a teenager with cool magic powers to have her just live her normal life without any dramatic crisis showing up that she is somehow drawn into.

    yeah, it's charms are in the super-power non-battle manga. at most maybe one fight with the dad dragon for anime adaptation sakuga, but even that isn't necessary and honestly typing it out would be derivative of Maid Dragon, which this should deffo be a different thing. i think just coming of age with wonder is a thing that needs to be an SJ title, i hope it continues long enough to get that anime version.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    This week in Delicious in Dungeon: The Dragon arrives.

    https://youtu.be/GrsJ72F-VG8

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited April 14
    This week on Maison Ikkoku, the group chat at Godai:
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    Honestly, its an evergreen comment from us at this point...

    Jesus Christ, what a fail-son...

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  • Moth 13Moth 13 Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Dex Dynamo wrote: »
    Hello anime thread, I have an extremely specific question for you

    I am trying to figure out if I missed a very specific subtextual joke in the subbed anime I watched, or if the dub I am now watching just didn't do a good job on translating something

    Here is my question: in ODDTAXI, in the original Japanese... are Yano's raps supposed to be good, or is the joke he is bad at rapping

    Because the raps in the dub are kind of markedly badly written, and it has me questioning if I missed this entire joke in ODDTAXI when I watched it subbed

    Yeah having watched the dub, I thought the joke was that after so many episodes of Yano being hyped up to high heaven, he turns out to be a huge cringelord.

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Quick romcom recommendation if anyone's looking for one where there's actual progress; "Musubu, the Girl Working There".

    Plot summary -- man likes a woman, she (initially) doesn't know it -- they work in the product development department at the same place, the twist being it's a company that designs and makes condoms. So, yeah, it's NSFW, but until very recently it's only been 'suggestive' at most. (but the last few chapters have more actual nudity, to be fair; I'm up to chapter 72 as I write this, I don't know which direction it'll go from here)

    Other than that (and "we work at a condom company" is definitely a significant part of the worldbuilding, but it's not as lurid/dumb as it sounds like it might be) it's just a really refreshingly positive take on "will they won't they". Earlier on, the woman asks a friend for advice and the friend, like the audience, thinks:
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    but the main couple do talk about things, the guy is supportive of her taking her time to think about what she wants. And there's no confusion where other-character-X shows up to cause unnecessary drama, the only times that looks like it might happen it just, well, doesn't, because they communicate.

    (caveat: it's monthly, and the plot as I type this is, if not strictly speaking at a cliff-hanger, definitely at a point where it feels like Something Will Happen any moment now so you might want to wait a bit before starting; I went through the entire thing in a day and am now stuck waiting for the next chapter)

    (edit: chapter 73 just showed up and is very definitely NSFW at this point)

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    So RuriDragon is back, 2 more chapters up and it is continuing to be a cute little slice of life about a teenager living her normal life and having weird magic start manifesting from her, but it's ok and people are rather understanding. At this point I'm rather hoping there's never going to be another shoe dropping with drama and battles and enemies and shit, just because it's cute and comfy low stakes magical realism like this and would be a funny subversion of the setup of a teenager with cool magic powers to have her just live her normal life without any dramatic crisis showing up that she is somehow drawn into.

    My low key bet is what drama there is going to involve meeting other half-myths and finding out about their own unique challenges and issues they've faced, and set those up as foils to Ruri's experiences.

    The fact there's a classmate who's been persistently absent also seems significant, I'm betting they're another half-something like Ruri is (the teacher is way too blaise about Ruri for this to be the first time)

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Zonugal wrote: »
    This week on Maison Ikkoku, the group chat at Godai:
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    Honestly, its an evergreen comment from us at this point...

    Jesus Christ, what a fail-son...

    Godai is a walking clusterfuck. He allows the other characters to bully him constantly, he's afraid of failure (thereby making bad decisions), and thinks the world is always against him (when he just needs to DO SOMETHING). The dude is a massive frustration.

    Combine that with everyone in the world's inability to communicate and stories getting misconstrued, and you have a recipe for disaster. To be fair though, Kyoko isn't perfect either.

    She's quick to anger, refuses to let go of the past, doesn't say what she wants, and blames others for her shortcomings.

    The thing that I love about the story is how time actually passes in the story and our two main characters evolve and change over time. Sure, it's a slow burn with lots of frustrations, but in the end, they both figure themselves out. Which is something I don't see enough of in the things I read.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I am way behind on Dungeon Meshi (and everything, really) since FF7 came out. I've had enough time for Frieren and Apothecary Diaries, and that's it. Next season is upon us, and I seem to recall eyeing like 20-25 shows. I'm definitely falling behind and getting overwhelmed by my pastime.

    Damn capitalism forcing me to spend most of my waking life away from hobbies!

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    edited April 14
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  • daveNYCdaveNYC Why universe hate Waspinator? Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Hydropolo wrote: »
    There is overlap between guilds and unions, and I'll take guilds any day of the week over nothing, but unions are ostensibly there for the benefit of labor in general and are contagious. Guilds are trying to maximize the benefit for their select membership and often actively put massive obstacles in the way of becoming a member to limit their membership.

    I think ostensibly is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Unions exist for the benefit of their members, anything progressive that they might do after that is nice, but not something that should really be expected. Hell, there's a fair chunk of times where unions don't even manage to work for the benefit of all their members. I think there was a healthcare negotiation mentioned in here a while ago where the healthcare worker group doing the negotiations (nurses? dunno) hooked themselves up nicely, the other workers, not so much. Unions are just organizations made up of people, same as management.

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  • HydropoloHydropolo Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    daveNYC wrote: »
    Hydropolo wrote: »
    There is overlap between guilds and unions, and I'll take guilds any day of the week over nothing, but unions are ostensibly there for the benefit of labor in general and are contagious. Guilds are trying to maximize the benefit for their select membership and often actively put massive obstacles in the way of becoming a member to limit their membership.

    I think ostensibly is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Unions exist for the benefit of their members, anything progressive that they might do after that is nice, but not something that should really be expected. Hell, there's a fair chunk of times where unions don't even manage to work for the benefit of all their members. I think there was a healthcare negotiation mentioned in here a while ago where the healthcare worker group doing the negotiations (nurses? dunno) hooked themselves up nicely, the other workers, not so much. Unions are just organizations made up of people, same as management.

    No, I don't think ostensibly is doing that much lifting. The ostensibly is SPECIFICALLY acknowledging that there are sometimes failures, because as you mentioned, people, but by and large unions work for the betterment of their members and get things done (especially in the current era of resurgence)

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  • DissociaterDissociater Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I can't speak for every one of those bodies, but I'm a bar association licensee (edit: it's more accurate to say I'm a law society licensee, in my jurisdiction 'bar associations' are more like optional clubs that licensees (and sometimes non-licensees) join for the purposes of knowledge sharing and networking). It's not a union, it's a regulatory body. It's different from most regulatory bodies because the regulators are chosen from among the members, so it's self-regulation. Basically the government has told us we can self-regulate, and as long as we do so reasonably, the government is fine to let us continue to do so. The unspoken threat is if it becomes an unreasonably regulated profession, the government can step in an set up their own regulatory body any time they want. It's an understanding that the field is pretty specialized, and the best person to regulate lawyers are other lawyers (maybe true, maybe not).

    They don't really look out for members, they don't collectively bargain for members, you don't have to be actively employed to be a member. They're not pro-labour, they're pro-legal-industry. Their primary motivating factor is to ensure the legal industry in my jurisdiction remains reputable and professional. If they were pro-labour they wouldn't have (in my jurisdiction) specifically exempted their own students (articling students) from employment standard protections (which is why you can be paid less than minimum wage, and work inhumane hours as an articling student). They collect dues to run the administrative processes which are usually things like the overhead to ensure that people are properly licensed, that licensees run through the required and appropriate continuing-education each year, and they also adjudicate suspensions/ejections, etc.

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  • aStoryAboutYouaStoryAboutYou Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    in a rare non-frieren non-meshi post:

    Villainess Level 99 is a hoot:
    I loved the bit where the dungeon boss kept saying the same intro line; just immediate flashbacks to facing Malenia, Blade of Miquella over and over last year. and we even got some worldbuilding! what a treat.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Shower thoughts about Frieren episode 26:
    So Ubel is able to replicate the magic of anyone she can empathize with. She did this with Wribel's binding magic, and now she's following Land around trying to learn about him (slash possibly crushing on him with some yandere vibes).

    But her explanation about how she was able cut Sense's doppelganger (the only thing she can't visualize cutting is defensive magic), coupled with her introduction (Kraft saving the bandits from being slaughtered by her after he found another set of bandits cut to pieces), makes me think she might be a bit of a psychopath, which presents an interesting contrast to how she copies magic from other mages.

    Just a fascinating character all around.

    Also I found a Frieren fan artist on twitter that does adorable 4-koma that's worth checking out: (twitter doesn't embed anymore, right?)

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Shower thoughts about Frieren episode 26:
    So Ubel is able to replicate the magic of anyone she can empathize with. She did this with Wribel's binding magic, and now she's following Land around trying to learn about him (slash possibly crushing on him with some yandere vibes).

    But her explanation about how she was able cut Sense's doppelganger (the only thing she can't visualize cutting is defensive magic), coupled with her introduction (Kraft saving the bandits from being slaughtered by her after he found another set of bandits cut to pieces), makes me think she might be a bit of a psychopath, which presents an interesting contrast to how she copies magic from other mages.

    Just a fascinating character all around.

    Also I found a Frieren fan artist on twitter that does adorable 4-koma that's worth checking out: (twitter doesn't embed anymore, right?)
    She's literally named "Evil". Her deal is not subtle.

    The characters pretty much have names that give their deal away - it's just that it's all in German, so it doesn't come across as revealing. And it's not the first show to pull this particular dodge (looking at you, G Gundam, with "Schwarz Bruder" - might as well spell the plot point out there.)

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  • enc0reenc0re Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Unions are legally required to be democracies. Like all democracies, each of them can and should be criticized on a variety of issues. But when people with lots of money hold up these failures and say, "See! Democracy is bad for you!"; well let's just say I get a little skeptical.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Shower thoughts about Frieren episode 26:
    So Ubel is able to replicate the magic of anyone she can empathize with. She did this with Wribel's binding magic, and now she's following Land around trying to learn about him (slash possibly crushing on him with some yandere vibes).

    But her explanation about how she was able cut Sense's doppelganger (the only thing she can't visualize cutting is defensive magic), coupled with her introduction (Kraft saving the bandits from being slaughtered by her after he found another set of bandits cut to pieces), makes me think she might be a bit of a psychopath, which presents an interesting contrast to how she copies magic from other mages.

    Just a fascinating character all around.

    Also I found a Frieren fan artist on twitter that does adorable 4-koma that's worth checking out: (twitter doesn't embed anymore, right?)

    Frieren 26
    She is absolutely a sociopath, in that her mind is functionally very different from everyone else's. As Sense said, a normal person would sense the layers of defense on the cloth/hair and inherently understand they cannot be cut even if they don't directly think that thought. It's like knowing an apple dropped from your hand will hit the ground, because of gravity, and no matter how much you might try to believe gravity doesn't exist everyone understands an object will fall "downward" when dropped.

    Ubel is someone who believes that apple can fall up. Or sideways. Or not fall at all. It's an alien mindset that is difficult to grasp since truth is whatever she perceives it to be and her power follows from that. It makes for a broken human being but a potentially ludicrously-overpowered mage.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    frieren 26
    ubel with land's personal magic would be utterly terrifying

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    A few weeks old, but this is incredible:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhSAtZCrIMA&t=993s
    -F' yo' dusty shades and yo' broke-ass starter locks!
    -Wearing 100 thousand dollar shades and still can't see where I'm comin' from.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Madican wrote: »
    Shower thoughts about Frieren episode 26:
    So Ubel is able to replicate the magic of anyone she can empathize with. She did this with Wribel's binding magic, and now she's following Land around trying to learn about him (slash possibly crushing on him with some yandere vibes).

    But her explanation about how she was able cut Sense's doppelganger (the only thing she can't visualize cutting is defensive magic), coupled with her introduction (Kraft saving the bandits from being slaughtered by her after he found another set of bandits cut to pieces), makes me think she might be a bit of a psychopath, which presents an interesting contrast to how she copies magic from other mages.

    Just a fascinating character all around.

    Also I found a Frieren fan artist on twitter that does adorable 4-koma that's worth checking out: (twitter doesn't embed anymore, right?)

    Frieren 26
    She is absolutely a sociopath, in that her mind is functionally very different from everyone else's. As Sense said, a normal person would sense the layers of defense on the cloth/hair and inherently understand they cannot be cut even if they don't directly think that thought. It's like knowing an apple dropped from your hand will hit the ground, because of gravity, and no matter how much you might try to believe gravity doesn't exist everyone understands an object will fall "downward" when dropped.

    Ubel is someone who believes that apple can fall up. Or sideways. Or not fall at all. It's an alien mindset that is difficult to grasp since truth is whatever she perceives it to be and her power follows from that. It makes for a broken human being but a potentially ludicrously-overpowered mage.
    Ubel has been a wonderfully entertaining character to watch from the safety of the fourth wall. I like the emphasis on magic leaning so much on visualization - because her thought processes are so different her magic is basically playing by its own set of rules that let it trump normally strong defenses like Sense's.

    On a different note, I do kind of wonder how Frieren would have tackled that whole making the guy step back test. ...and if she'd just do something like "did you know there's a spell for making people dance?" or just use brute force.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Madican wrote: »
    Shower thoughts about Frieren episode 26:
    So Ubel is able to replicate the magic of anyone she can empathize with. She did this with Wribel's binding magic, and now she's following Land around trying to learn about him (slash possibly crushing on him with some yandere vibes).

    But her explanation about how she was able cut Sense's doppelganger (the only thing she can't visualize cutting is defensive magic), coupled with her introduction (Kraft saving the bandits from being slaughtered by her after he found another set of bandits cut to pieces), makes me think she might be a bit of a psychopath, which presents an interesting contrast to how she copies magic from other mages.

    Just a fascinating character all around.

    Also I found a Frieren fan artist on twitter that does adorable 4-koma that's worth checking out: (twitter doesn't embed anymore, right?)

    Frieren 26
    She is absolutely a sociopath, in that her mind is functionally very different from everyone else's. As Sense said, a normal person would sense the layers of defense on the cloth/hair and inherently understand they cannot be cut even if they don't directly think that thought. It's like knowing an apple dropped from your hand will hit the ground, because of gravity, and no matter how much you might try to believe gravity doesn't exist everyone understands an object will fall "downward" when dropped.

    Ubel is someone who believes that apple can fall up. Or sideways. Or not fall at all. It's an alien mindset that is difficult to grasp since truth is whatever she perceives it to be and her power follows from that. It makes for a broken human being but a potentially ludicrously-overpowered mage.
    Ubel has been a wonderfully entertaining character to watch from the safety of the fourth wall. I like the emphasis on magic leaning so much on visualization - because her thought processes are so different her magic is basically playing by its own set of rules that let it trump normally strong defenses like Sense's.

    On a different note, I do kind of wonder how Frieren would have tackled that whole making the guy step back test. ...and if she'd just do something like "did you know there's a spell for making people dance?" or just use brute force.
    I imagine she'd either target the ground beneath his feet or move him indirectly. Personally I'd try walking up and pushing him without using magic and see if that worked; the rules didn't state a spell has to be the one to make him take a step back.

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  • GoumindongGoumindong Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    [
    Hydropolo wrote: »
    daveNYC wrote: »
    Hydropolo wrote: »
    There is overlap between guilds and unions, and I'll take guilds any day of the week over nothing, but unions are ostensibly there for the benefit of labor in general and are contagious. Guilds are trying to maximize the benefit for their select membership and often actively put massive obstacles in the way of becoming a member to limit their membership.

    I think ostensibly is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Unions exist for the benefit of their members, anything progressive that they might do after that is nice, but not something that should really be expected. Hell, there's a fair chunk of times where unions don't even manage to work for the benefit of all their members. I think there was a healthcare negotiation mentioned in here a while ago where the healthcare worker group doing the negotiations (nurses? dunno) hooked themselves up nicely, the other workers, not so much. Unions are just organizations made up of people, same as management.

    No, I don't think ostensibly is doing that much lifting. The ostensibly is SPECIFICALLY acknowledging that there are sometimes failures, because as you mentioned, people, but by and large unions work for the betterment of their members and get things done (especially in the current era of resurgence)

    Betterment of their members and “betterment of labor in general” are two very different things.

    Very few unions are structured after the IWW.

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  • HydropoloHydropolo Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Goumindong wrote: »
    [
    Hydropolo wrote: »
    daveNYC wrote: »
    Hydropolo wrote: »
    There is overlap between guilds and unions, and I'll take guilds any day of the week over nothing, but unions are ostensibly there for the benefit of labor in general and are contagious. Guilds are trying to maximize the benefit for their select membership and often actively put massive obstacles in the way of becoming a member to limit their membership.

    I think ostensibly is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Unions exist for the benefit of their members, anything progressive that they might do after that is nice, but not something that should really be expected. Hell, there's a fair chunk of times where unions don't even manage to work for the benefit of all their members. I think there was a healthcare negotiation mentioned in here a while ago where the healthcare worker group doing the negotiations (nurses? dunno) hooked themselves up nicely, the other workers, not so much. Unions are just organizations made up of people, same as management.

    No, I don't think ostensibly is doing that much lifting. The ostensibly is SPECIFICALLY acknowledging that there are sometimes failures, because as you mentioned, people, but by and large unions work for the betterment of their members and get things done (especially in the current era of resurgence)

    Betterment of their members and “betterment of labor in general” are two very different things.

    Very few unions are structured after the IWW.

    And? This seems like you are trying to make a distinction just to pick a fight? Almost every union and union member I am aware of will always advocate for labor over capital and that people should have union protections and the benefits thus derived.

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  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Gundi wrote: »
    Frieren 26:
    I liked the paralleling of the two twists of this episode: Frieren's clone's special attack and Ubel's special attack. Both were unblockable in their own way and for different reasons. Ubel can cut through seemingly anything besides the basic magic shield because she's insane, while Frieren has apparently had this trump card of a weird spell that can't be blocked. I also like the implication that the last time she used that spell it was on the demon king.

    Should I feel bad for
    Being glad Fern's staff got destroyed? I hated that weird stick.
    That stick was my favourite character.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Frieren 127:
    Introducing Unrequited Sexual Tension, starring Ubel and Land!

    Though them going Magical Mr. And Mrs. Smith does work quite well.

    And the outfits - they do clean up well.

    I also like that the guards are Actually Competent, which adds some genuine stakes.

    Speaking of Actually Competent, our favorite elf mage has a body count of those who underestimated her.

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  • ElvenshaeElvenshae Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Hydropolo wrote: »
    Goumindong wrote: »
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    daveNYC wrote: »
    Hydropolo wrote: »
    There is overlap between guilds and unions, and I'll take guilds any day of the week over nothing, but unions are ostensibly there for the benefit of labor in general and are contagious. Guilds are trying to maximize the benefit for their select membership and often actively put massive obstacles in the way of becoming a member to limit their membership.

    I think ostensibly is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Unions exist for the benefit of their members, anything progressive that they might do after that is nice, but not something that should really be expected. Hell, there's a fair chunk of times where unions don't even manage to work for the benefit of all their members. I think there was a healthcare negotiation mentioned in here a while ago where the healthcare worker group doing the negotiations (nurses? dunno) hooked themselves up nicely, the other workers, not so much. Unions are just organizations made up of people, same as management.

    No, I don't think ostensibly is doing that much lifting. The ostensibly is SPECIFICALLY acknowledging that there are sometimes failures, because as you mentioned, people, but by and large unions work for the betterment of their members and get things done (especially in the current era of resurgence)

    Betterment of their members and “betterment of labor in general” are two very different things.

    Very few unions are structured after the IWW.

    And? This seems like you are trying to make a distinction just to pick a fight?

    People are disagreeing with this comment you made:
    unions are ostensibly there for the benefit of labor in general

    Unions are there to support their members, and may decide that the best way to do that is solidarity with all labor, but I don’t think that’s a given as a goal and is definitely not true in practice.

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  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Elvenshae wrote: »
    Hydropolo wrote: »
    Goumindong wrote: »
    [
    Hydropolo wrote: »
    daveNYC wrote: »
    Hydropolo wrote: »
    There is overlap between guilds and unions, and I'll take guilds any day of the week over nothing, but unions are ostensibly there for the benefit of labor in general and are contagious. Guilds are trying to maximize the benefit for their select membership and often actively put massive obstacles in the way of becoming a member to limit their membership.

    I think ostensibly is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Unions exist for the benefit of their members, anything progressive that they might do after that is nice, but not something that should really be expected. Hell, there's a fair chunk of times where unions don't even manage to work for the benefit of all their members. I think there was a healthcare negotiation mentioned in here a while ago where the healthcare worker group doing the negotiations (nurses? dunno) hooked themselves up nicely, the other workers, not so much. Unions are just organizations made up of people, same as management.

    No, I don't think ostensibly is doing that much lifting. The ostensibly is SPECIFICALLY acknowledging that there are sometimes failures, because as you mentioned, people, but by and large unions work for the betterment of their members and get things done (especially in the current era of resurgence)

    Betterment of their members and “betterment of labor in general” are two very different things.

    Very few unions are structured after the IWW.

    And? This seems like you are trying to make a distinction just to pick a fight?

    People are disagreeing with this comment you made:
    unions are ostensibly there for the benefit of labor in general

    Unions are there to support their members, and may decide that the best way to do that is solidarity with all labor, but I don’t think that’s a given as a goal and is definitely not true in practice.

    Just look at how unions will support tariffs and the like because it benefits their own industry. Even though it's at the expense of everyone else.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    emnmnme wrote: »
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    Roger Rabbit Universe where a gag manga character enters the Olympics.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    emnmnme wrote: »
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    So, let's have fun with this by really overthinking it!

    The first thing to consider is that the film is set pre-anime (though not terribly so - the movie takes place in 1947, while Alakazam The Great - the first animated adaptation of a Tezuka work - is from 1960.) Prior to Tezuka, Japanese animation more closely followed Western trends (and again, Tezuka did derive his own style from Western sources just as much as Eastern ones) - animation history YouTuber Kaiserbeamz has a good video on pre-war influences on Japanese animation, in particular Betty Boop (who, as you may recall, was a minor side character in the film.) And speaking of Tezuka, he had an interesting view of his characters as actors - the "star system", as he called it - that would slot in perfectly with the world building of the film as well.

    In short, why wouldn't there be "anime" in the setting? Extrapolating from the film's concept, it's not hard to believe that there was an enclave similar to ToonTown (which, remember, has physical presence - that's a key plot point driving the film), but said enclave was likely damaged severely or outright destroyed in the fallout of WWII. So you see rebuilding by Japanese animated citizens, but the fallout of the war leaves a wedge between them and their Western brethren, which results in a divergence and separate evolution in terms of their culture.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Of course, Donald Duck is a veteran.

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  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Unions also fight over who gets what work with overlapping skill sets, like metal roofing.

    Unions are still part of a capitalist system and mindset.

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