BV, give it a rest with self-promoting your meme videos. It's okay in the Cafe or the Discord, but no place else on the site.

To say nothing of how off-topic your views on representative democracy, which to the best of my knowledge Their Story isn't about. So maybe next time you want to apologize for changing topics, maybe hit the back button instead and don't.

Yeah, understood. Now, what I'm about to say isn't really a defence, but more of an explanation of myself - often I tend to change topics due to real-time word association. The fault's all mine and while I can control it to an extent, it seems to be an unfixable problem. I'll try to keep it an in-thoughts-only thing as much as I can (and honestly I actually did/do so for the majority of stuff; I've lost count of how many times I had such mental rounds of real-time word association just from reading or merely thinking about these forums...).

Maybe some sort of self-imposed exile is in order... Can't punish me if I punish myself first!

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^ I actually put the spoilers so everyone'd know which stuff to skip if they aren't interested, so they could just keep the reading of my comment as short as possible.

[...] Violence is the result of traumatic childhood, poverty, mental disorders, etc. [...]

We definitely should be asking why the powers that be ignore poverty and mental health.

Better question would be why the voters ignore them, in the context of societies where - as one cynic put it - "the people get exactly the leaders they deserve" by way of the ballot box...

I apologize for changing topics a bit, but, as shown in - not one - not two - but three memes in my most recent meme video, I question whether representative democracy is a legitimate democracy. As a LibSoc, with very scant few ideological differences from an anarchist, I'm in favour of some kind of direct or semi-direct democracy, with the power structure being bottom-up, rather than top-down (like it is in representative democracies, as well as dictatorships). It's such hierarchical top-down systems that cause oppression, division and group hate (however you want to define that last bit).
But I digress.

EDIT:
Before you ask:
In that video, it's memes 1, 2 and 8.

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^ I didn't watch it, but I did watch an AlternateHistoryHub video on it and a Vogel im Kafig lyrics video. How do I even know of Vogel im Kafig if I haven't watched Attack on Titan? Why, Daniel Mapper used it several years ago (back when he was either the only mapper or one of the very few mappers I watched, and long before I discovered the yuri genre, let alone the Dynasty Reader site) in his (now, unfortunately, deleted) AFOE Season 2. But, luckily, several other mappers have used it since (him too, of course, but... he deleted and re-established his channel several times over the course of these past few years, so...). Hanybal, for example, used it expertly in this scene of this video

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NTR is the Lesbian Manga Bible.

Many people, myself included, wholeheartedly disagree with that.

^^ Oh, damn. Now I really wanna see both their moms be wingmoms AND dating each other. Damn you, Mayjaplaya!

Mmm... So we've got a wingmom on our hands, huh? grins

Actual criminal psychopaths are a sufficiently marginal demographic segment to be essentially irrelevant to the discussion - though it's probably worth noting that apparently one of the few therapy methods that shows any promise with those people is along the lines of "enlightened self-interest".

The overwhelming majority of crimes are committed by quite normally functioning people being selfish pricks for any number of reasons.

In addition, I'd like to back-up your point even more by saying that, not only do mentally ill criminals make an tiny minority of criminals, but they also make an tiny minority of mentally ill people.

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This was nice.

TBF teenagers in general are annoying. Thankfully most get better, if not necessarily by much.

As a teenager myself, I agree with both sentences in this post.

it was obvious that I was joking right?... right?

You know it's obvious when even I can notice it.

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^ Oh, y'know what I meant: there were volumes in which there were no chapters in which they were the focus, and are thus easy to forget (for those chapters, anyway).

wait what where did this happen

Well aside from the innate perfection of the greatest pairing in the YagaKimi verse there is also this.
(https://i.imgur.com/D44X9pw.jpg)

Naturally I cannot read moon runes, but thankfully a friend of mine has translated it into old Elvish, which I can read. Thus I translated it into pure English and behold the dialogue I am 99% this represents:

Manaka: "Wanna get married?"
Midori: "We weren't married already?"

...they said it a lot longer with more words to fit it on 2 pages, but it's entirely accurate.

read the real translation on another site, because Dynasty still hasnt uploaded it here for no discernable reason. It's just subtext, but I think Nakatani is teasing us on purpose

OK. To correct myself:

THIS is my current nominee for "Dynasty Reader comment of the year"!

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^ The popularity part is a no brainer. But it's the way Canno structured the story that is difficult to adapt into an anime. The story is basically a main couple that doesn't even show up in a few of the volumes (correct me if I'm wrong: 4 volumes) with a lot of side characters, most of them being side couples, but some being in a side poly trio, and a side group of friends. Try adapting that into an anime, without ignoring at least some of the side characters.

EDIT:
More reasons in favour of me re-reading this (I'm currently having an internal debate on whether to re-read it in the near future).

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Ya know, if Nakatani leans in on the whole touching each other's funbuns stuff, I kinda wonder if that is her final side-quest for this manga.
Usually when you only have three chapters left you don't start a new side-mission. So I figure this will actually culminate in the Christmas play they talked about and then some implied unspeakable handholding in bed.

Which means there isn't really any room for a serious coming out. It's an either or thing at this point I feel. Or at the very least, that plot point might be waved through real fast. Maybe even without dialogue a la "Look at these three panels of Yuu's mom first looking shocked, then rejecting, then happy."
please our godess Nakatani Nio, let my stupid made up scenario not become real, like you made Midori x Manaka real, although thanks for that one

My current nominee for "Dynasty Reader comment of the year".

In the end we're all useless
Especially when wet

Wiser words are yet to be said.

Now that I actually recall where I saw this stuff last time, this has be a very direct critique of victim blaming and fearmongering, regardless of who is doing it. Last year there was a deadly incident in China, where a young woman named Li Mingzhu was raped and killed after using a popular ride-share application.

Professor Wang Dawei gave this exact advice we see in this chapter to women, so they can avoid getting assaulted or killed. Also, this insensitive prick even said that more attractive women have to do be even more careful about it:

"In a now-deleted Weibo post regarding the Didi case, Wang suggested women should not hail rides under three circumstances — when it’s late at night, when the destination is a remote or unfamiliar location, or when the passenger is a single woman without any companion."

https://supchina.com/2018/05/23/safety-tips-are-the-last-thing-that-chinese-women-need-after-didis-murder-case/

Dawei is hardly the only one doing this, of course.

Because good advice is now offensive.
Lets face some reality here: You can not prevent a murder, rape or whatever by telling people not to do it. They already know that and do it anyway.
You have no control whatsoever over the action of other people. None. Nada.
What you have control over is your own actions.

Make of that what you will.

Also the overwhelming majority of murder victims in the entire world are men.
About 80% of victims are male: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide_statistics_by_gender

What do we do about it? - Not giving a fuck. We do not think about it. We accept the risk. We always do. 90% of job fatalities are also men. Men do not give a fuck.
So women of the world: Learn to not give a fuck.
Then maybe you can close that pay gab.

When you have the time to, watch these two videos by Knowing Better:
Feminism and Social Justice
Taking on the Red Pill: Men's Rights Activism

OK, now it's impossible for me to get this grin off my face for at least the next 10 minutes.

Given what kind of posture both of them took, I think they're about to dance to a waltz.

Is it just me, or are they even more cute that usual?

Things should get rectified once they’ve been naked in bed together, would be my guess.

That's a weirdly specific time to get over her issue of calling out her partner's name- Oh. OH. Oh.

If that were to happen, I don't know if it'd be hilariously lewd or lewdly hilarious. And before you ask: it's a subtle difference, but an important one.

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But for whatever reason she also calls her "Nanami-senpai" in her thoughts. That strikes me as really odd. I honeslty can't find any rhyme or reason for this.

Maybe she's still not fully used to calling her Touko-senpai yet?

The Great Ejima Eri war.

When did it happen? Please give me a medium-sized summary of it. The causes, the course, the consequences, the aftermath and how it affected Dynasty Reader and how it affects it to today. Preferably, send that over to Dynasty Café. I don't know anything about this war, but I feel like it's an important part of the history of this site, and if there's anything I'm overly enthusiastic and obsessing about, it's history.

Imagine how beautiful it would be if Yuu request is the same as Hino San No baka request and they're both released at the same time ⁽˙³˙⁾

Even if it means delaying Hino san Another 2 weeks

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