Nevri posted:

BugDevil posted:

Okay, where is this coming from now? The teacher didn't blackmail her at all. She just offered her a deal that has no repercussions if she doesn't agree on it.

Maybe not blackmailing per se, but I'd say the way she's drawn in this last shot and the fact she knows MC's weakness sounds exactly as if she was using it against her and pressuring her to do it, because she knows she won't refuse her offer. In short, she just gave bad vibes to me.

It'd be coercion. It's not quite as bad as blackmail but it's still not exactly good. Blackmail is actively using threats of revealing something to goad someone into doing what you want but coercion would just be convincing someone to do something they probably wouldn't do on their own.

Heavensrun posted:

Laws of Lesbiandynamics:

1) Conservation of Uselessness
2) Direction of angst transfer
3) No lesbian can reach absolute zero uselessness

"Yuridynamics" would probably be a better name since it has the same verbal flow as "thermodynamics" does.

Gamer40000 posted:

Aaaargh! Nikaidou SMASH editor!

Murder is still a crime last time I checked.

Only if you get caught. Do you really think Nikaidou would be that sloppy?

johnb posted:

If manga are to be believed, women are even more obsessed with boobs then men.

Well I've known a surprising amount of straight women and even gay guys who love boobs so it's not really much of a stretch in my opinion.

Nene posted:

Superspeed and superstrength: ok.

Supersenses: not so much. She detected "something flying by" but didn't notice what it was, where it came from or where it went. Kinda disappointing.

Kinda reminded me of Saitama from One Punch Man when what's his face tries to slash him with his sword and Saitama turns around and bites through it then spits out what's in his mouth and goes "what was that?"

gwennie-chan posted:

Yeah I did! It was fun to do~

It'd be a lot of work but you should consider doing it like once a year or so. The main forum I frequent does something similar every year and it's pretty interesting to see how the demographics change over time.

schuyguy posted:

She didn't but she really brought it upon herself. She failed to understand Sato and then in Sato's eyes betrayed her, endangering the single most important thing to Sato. If she hadn't gone about things so stupidly she probably wouldn't have died and things could've found a better ending.

And we're back. Apparently victim-blaming is obviously wrong when it comes to rape but it's perfectly acceptable when it's only something as minor as murder.

I'm not blaming her for getting murdered so much as saying she made a mistake that could have easily been avoided. She put too much trust in Sato despite Sato having just been revealed as a more fucked up individual than she'd thought.

Nevri posted:

Except she doesn't have Asperger. In the afterword they specifically said, she has PDD with ADHD and LD mixed in. Tatsuki said she has asp, only because it's term people know and makes explaining things easier for them. She was simplifying it for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervasive_developmental_disorder

Asperger's and other forms of autism are a form of PDD anyways. Either way my point was that the way it was written was too confusing and simplified to be accurate.

Serenata posted:

In real life, a lot of people get away with murder and die of old age

I was reading a statistic the other day about how in the US apparently only ~40% of murders result in a conviction.

shenron67 posted:

Didn't expect that ending, but didn't expect anything else either.
I just wish Sato's friend was still alive, she didn't deserve that...

She didn't but she really brought it upon herself. She failed to understand Sato and then in Sato's eyes betrayed her, endangering the single most important thing to Sato. If she hadn't gone about things so stupidly she probably wouldn't have died and things could've found a better ending.

sirflimflam posted:

shit taste confirmed. also she only killed one person who did not deserved all other deaths were justified.

One isn't enough?

One death is never enough.

Just using Asperger's was definitely oversimplifying things. Many of the issues she has are things that a typical person with Asperger's Syndrome would have adapted to by the time they were a young adult. Having something like ADHD on top of that, however, would definitely be more like she is. Though the bits during the beginning in the cafe weren't totally inaccurate either. Autistic people tend to get overwhelmed with sensory stimuli but that typically doesn't mean they're less attentive to things that are going on that's directed at them. That part in particular would be far more likely to be ADHD magnifying the sensory overload issue.

shadesofgreymoon posted:

Most people with Asperger's have a difficult time understanding what is and isn't proper behavior. It's sort of a key point of it. While most women with it learn early on how to mask their own "different" behavior by imitating what they see around them, that is only mimicry without a deeper understanding of the motivations and social constructs.

Girls with Asperger's are actually a lot more difficult to even diagnose in the first place because they tend to adapt a lot earlier than boys do. My highschool had a homeroom class that specialized in dealing with autistic students, the overwhelming majority of whom had Asperger's rather than another autism spectrum disorder, and in my 4-1/2 years there (when I first transferred in, it was a more general alternative school for the district so there were a fair few middle schoolers), the class only had a grand total of two female students to a whopping 30-40 male students.

I remember when I was in school I was always confused about how people acted. When I was in elementary and middle school I would sit and just watch people, and literally take notes to try and at least solve the mystery enough that I could "fake it till I make it". Now I'm super good at mimicry and I can blend in with just about any crowd, at least in a more cursory sense, but deeper relationships tend to escape me. It's just how I am, and it won't ever change.

I did this myself too. Though I still find it extremely exhausting to deal with regardless. It's why I was considered the role model for the other students in the autistic class the entirety of my time in highschool and was the first one put on the integrated track taking more classes with the rest of the school's more normal students. (More normal being subjective though since it was an alternative highschool for the district for a reason, lol.)

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As much a fan as I am of Kase-san and, especially, Alice in Wonderland, this was impressively mediocre.

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Did everyone forget that the third hero they have with them is a medical expert? It's safe to assume that Spirits is probably going to be just fine.

Edit: Oh, Koveras said the same basic thing I did between the time I loaded the thread and the time I posted, lol.

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hausenmaster posted:

I dont think that was the intent here. Afterall a gun was recommended for self defense.

If that's the case then they definitely didn't communicate what they meant properly and should probably clarify.

Remy posted:

If u look like that ofc u gonna get sexually harassed

Neeko might as well carry a gun with that face and bod

Er, are you blaming her for getting sexually harassed? Cause that's completely on the person doing the harassing.

random posted:

Plus she's herself Exhibit A of there indeed certifiably existing things that go bump in the night... :d

Maybe she should try turning on the lights before wandering around the house in the middle of the night.

Dysema posted:

Hey guys, Bugdevil is just saying his opinion and I agree with his arguments. So, leave him be and stop calling him a troller.

Do you not see how hilariously biased this argument sounds? "Wow guys, lay off him. I agree with him after all!"

I may be misremembering since I don't use that function but I believe one of the site staff have said in the past that it only actually works for a single tag.

Polycell posted:

Can't believe there's people that still hate Homura.

Something something Rebellion. It might work for her plotline, but that's still a level of crazy too far in many eyes.

After all the trauma she's been through, regardless of whether she went too far, it's completely understandable. And considering her overarching motivations and the fact she's still attempting to keep her original promise to Madoka I don't think she's actually in the wrong honestly.

Nezchan posted:

Y'all aren't owed any sort of explanation for why someone feels the way they do

Nope, but when they make a big deal in public about it, they're entitled to ask.

You mean forums are actually for discussing topics and not just dropping your opinion and bailing on the thread? Wtf.

A-chan posted:

Well this is horrible

This and Force are probably the worst Nanoha has to offer, in my opinion.

I haven't read Force but this is in no way worse than Vivid. Though I'm not sure it's possible to be worse even with a great deal of effort.

IwantYourMom posted:

I'm licking this art so much XD

Please don't lick the art.

I'm glad I put off reading this one until it was finished. I don't think I would have had the patience to wait for the next chapter, lol.

MZH posted:

It's very common in English--biblical, even.

It's not terribly common at all. It's valid, yes. But it's quite uncommon.

Nya-chan posted:

Yume... having a girl as a lover was not necessarily the easiest way to become a mom.

Just saying.

Some people like a challenge.

Wulfila posted:

Listen...

Unlike what the manga made it seem like, humans are NOT made of candy, NOT tasty, NOT stretchy-yum-yum-hooboi-noblood-sodelish-gumballonastick.

Since when???