From what I recall sans-pants was something of an aesthetic in Strike Witches.

There's a lot more to it, and her, but explaining it would require a lot of spoilers

I think they're pruny.

rainbow8 posted:

The series seems to be different from "She's Too Kind", though using the 'same' characters.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/just_the_two_of_us_ch04#13

"broke up because I'm a big eater" instead of "broke up because you told me he was cheating on me."

That or she's referring to a different BF.

Also, about the person saying that Marika did all of this to possess Yuina, just like a flower, that is SO RIGHT and so true, that's definitely what's happening. And it becomes really obvious at the end, where She's drawing her and calling her beautiful just like a flower

She didn't even bother to untie Yuina before she started sketching.

So, are we just slowly getting all the scienceyscans? If so, I'll be looking forward to the reactions to that one about the weird town.

fauce posted:

I've just realized that this is technically a cooking manga. Has anyone tried the ch. 7 peach ice cream recipe? It sounds kinda good.

I've made ice cream in a ziplock bag before, but that recipe seems off, since it doesn't seem to involve any ice or freezing temps. I might be missing something with how it's supposed to work, though, since the multiple transfer and mix steps also seem unnecessary.

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If factoids are invented facts and that's not a factoid, does that mean Cece just admitted she's always thinking about Bae.

Marisa's about to put Reimu's instructions into practice.

Ah. I see Meiling's asleep on the job, again.

FluffyCow posted:

FluffyCow posted:

Battan gets sure gets a lot of hate huh?

I'm not sure they are getting that much hate, but to be honest, I find this short story pretty bad.

It was 2 comments here and your "but" follow up statement makes 3 lmao

It's also that I see a fair amount of hate for her around the forums. I get that her work isn't for everyone but she has grown a lot on me over the years. Also I don't think this work was bad personally, it's a cute little short comic with a comedic scenario. I think calling it bad is overkill, but ah well everyone has their opinions lol

Calling someone not liking a story "hate" seems a bit extreme? Similarly, "bad" isn't a particularly intense descriptor for something you don't think is good.

Personally, I think the story is kind-of meh. The "Damn it" at the end is a bit funny, but Reina immediately falling for her once she makes eye contact through the book shelf, after not caring through all her stalking also feels a bit like an anticlimax. It also leaves the discomfort from the stalking undressed, which detracts from the ending.

I feel like the story could have been better if it was about half as long, making it punchier, putting less focus on the stalking, and making it easier for the joke at the end to carry it. Alternatively, it could have gone longer and actually explored each of the character's emotions a bit more, allowing the body of the story to carry more weight. As it stands, it's a bit of an awkward middle ground.

I think I didn't have as nearly as many problems as others did with this comedic little story. In my opinion it was cute and I love the art, that's about it. Also if someone thought the story was bad that strikes me as adjacent to hating it, but I suppose that depends on how one defines "bad" and "hate", maybe for you and the person I was responding to bad doesn't equate to hate. I don't think it's that extreme to hate something that you think is bad, but maybe that's just me.

Anyways, you have a lot of reasons you don't like the story, and that's fair. If people don't like it, think it's bad, hate it, or however you want to describe it that's fine. I enjoyed it more than some people like yourself, and you liked it less. Not the end of the world and no point in arguing. Also I want to apologize for any rudeness on my end.

I think your overall take is pretty reasonable, but I'd caution against equating thinking something is bad and hating on, or viewing them as adjacent to each other.

For starters it removes a lot of nuance from the conversation by collapsing the range of possible opinions down to a binary. Either you like it or you hate it; either its great or its awful. In reality, that's not true, there's an entire spectrum of opinions between those extremes and even within that spectrum, people can feels differently about different parts of the work. For example, I found the overall story kind-of meh, but Battan is an excellent artist with a distinctive style. If we were just talking about aesthetics, I'd say she did a great job.

In a similar vein, when just thinking something is bad is synonymous with hating it, you lose the ability to coherently talk about people who legitimately hate on on a work or artist. I'm sure you know the type of person I'm talking about; the type who's rude to other posters, generally vitriolic and not interested in the engaging with the discussion beyond loudly declaring how awful everything is. It helps to be able to distinguish that from more reasonable criticism. Because you do legitimately want to be able to call that out and put a stop to it.

Finally, calling any criticism hating is, itself, toxic to healthy discussion. When you do that you're effectively dismissing the other poster's opinion as excessive and unfounded. You're saying that they're not worth engaging with and then demonstrating that stance by responding to their presumed mental state rather than the content of their post.

To be fair, I don't think you intended to come off like that, based on your responses, but it's hard to not get that impression from your initial post. Like you said, people can have different opinions about how good a work is and it's not really worth arguing about it, but I do think it's worth discussion those opinions, both the positive and the negative, because that's how you discover new aspects of stories and learn more about art as a medium.

FluffyCow posted:

Battan gets sure gets a lot of hate huh?

I'm not sure they are getting that much hate, but to be honest, I find this short story pretty bad.

It was 2 comments here and your "but" follow up statement makes 3 lmao

It's also that I see a fair amount of hate for her around the forums. I get that her work isn't for everyone but she has grown a lot on me over the years. Also I don't think this work was bad personally, it's a cute little short comic with a comedic scenario. I think calling it bad is overkill, but ah well everyone has their opinions lol

Calling someone not liking a story "hate" seems a bit extreme? Similarly, "bad" isn't a particularly intense descriptor for something you don't think is good.

Personally, I think the story is kind-of meh. The "Damn it" at the end is a bit funny, but Reina immediately falling for her once she makes eye contact through the book shelf, after not caring through all her stalking also feels a bit like an anticlimax. It also leaves the discomfort from the stalking undressed, which detracts from the ending.

I feel like the story could have been better if it was about half as long, making it punchier, putting less focus on the stalking, and making it easier for the joke at the end to carry it. Alternatively, it could have gone longer and actually explored each of the character's emotions a bit more, allowing the body of the story to carry more weight. As it stands, it's a bit of an awkward middle ground.

Is there a reason you're assuming she's cheating?

Well, YOU try explaining to the ace-coded, perennialy 19 y/o that the character with bat wings and bat-themed thighs who feeds on victims by draining their bodily fluids with her lips is not a vampire. (Please don't actualy dump Aensland Succubi lore at me, thx.)

What are you talking about? That's clearly Luffy. Ace is his older brother. /jk

I love this art style and I really want to see more of Hinori's stuff translated. The one with the psycho spider nun looks particularly interesting and I have no clue what's going on in it.

FluffyCow posted:

I'm not sure I get this chapter. Assuming there is anything to get in the first place.

Main thing I think is that her...friend(?) wasn't happy about her arm being touched like how Aya probably touches her girlfriend's arm when it comes to scary movies

I don't think "wasn't happy" is quite the right descriptor. Rather, I think she's catching feelings for Aya and being attracted to someone who's already in a relationship is making her uncomfortable.

she should've been more prepared when she say that

I'm pretty sure her trainer is the one who's speaking and another racer who's panicking.

Sakuya, if you're going to stare intently at your wife's face, you should probably stop time first. Lower odds of getting interrupted that way.

motormind posted:

Good for Joe; you can tell he's acclimatized well to life in the States, because he's holding his phone like all the dipshits here do.

What are you talking about? That's a normal way to hold it if you have speakerphone on.

You actually don't need to hold it like that.

And I wouldn't if I trusted the mic at all, but I don't, because it's awful. In my experience, most phones have pretty trash mics and the person on the other end often has trouble understanding me.

She made her choice.

Wait, did they really introduce a new electric trainer who's also a streamer in L:ZA? Why?

Cornonthekopp posted:
I agree with @Cogito Houjou is extremely deranged. Does she even realize that from her perspective she's basically leading three different people on right now??? I love how unwittingly self centered she is, it really makes the relationship feel much more equal, since both characters are equally committed to "decieving" the other lol.

I don't think that thoughts even entered her head. I don't think she even fully realizes what it means that she's asking to be lovers since she thought just hanging out and holding hands made them lovers.

To be fair to Mari, tarrot cards are cool. They're basically playing cards that come with interesting art and outside of using them for games, you can also use them for things like plotting stories. Also, Nagi's dress seemed more gothic lolita than chuni and it was a pretty good look for her. The saw and model gun were a bit too chuni though.

Did Amy have glasses in Sonic Underground?

I think she's doing that to grab her sandal, so she can squash the bug. As for where they are, I'd assume on the floor. That looks like the kind of cushion you sit on or lean against.