Peripherally relevant but Genshin memes are spreading it seems. Balance change sheet for the Iron Saga patch that just dropped today has these entry headers:

Paimon (not emergency food)
Paimon·Gale (not emergency food)

...yeah. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
(It's a pretty nasty melee mecha in that game btw, Gale is the final kai upgrade form)

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Some funny Qiqi shenanigans. I had no idea she was that short.

fukken lol'd

This is like some demented rerun of the OG Resident Evil lmao

^artists pretty routinely violate canons in service of that bizarre fixation with presenting the "dominant" and/or "male-role" girl taller, it's frankly tiresome -_-

^p much yeah. Red is somewhere between her adoptive daughter and trusted attack dog.

If you can think of a more intensely political (in all senses of the term) and historically fought-over question I'm all ears.

"So, who gets this shitty strip of land, the descendants of Isaac's first son or the descendants of Isaac's first legitimate son?"

Like inheritance rules didn't routinely get coded into and legitimized by exactly such communal moral frameworks...

When such matters get disputed by force, though, moral theory gets benched and to the victor go the spoils; the pious justifications for the fait accompli of arms can then be worked out as needed.

It's fundamentally a question of who gets to define good and evil - and, thus, how people should behave - if such are assumed to exist as objective moral absolutes.

If you can think of a more intensely political (in all senses of the term) and historically fought-over question I'm all ears.

Also I dont think its that contious- compared to say politics or religion etc etc. But I'll leave it there since its totally off topic lol.

Might I just point out that the second you claim an objective morality exist the question of who gets to define what that specifically is automatically follows...?

Religions pretty specifically claim that power, by virtue of putative divine provenance, which by itself should tell you exactly what kind of minefield that topic is.

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^...wasn't it mentioned quite early on that as a Planeswalkerdimensional traveler from Somewhere Else the MC pretty much doesn't play by the same rulebook as the natives to begin with?

Also, I just thought this was funny. This is the item description for the Insulation Potion:

A potion that boosts Electro RES and keeps one from getting electroshocked.
Induces a tingling sensation when drank. However, it's principle is to fill the body with inversely-charged electrons to cancel out the damage from being electroshocked.

So this potion is literally just you drinking antimatter.

I'd worry more about where those particles came from...

...you probably shouldn't be invoking the idea of objective morality as an argument in the first place then. Because that's as contentious a concept as they come.

Gotta love that blithe assumption of an expensive toy for the wealthy minority being even remotely relevant for the overwhelming majority of humanity.

...you do realise Japan's feral cat population goes back like 400+ years right.

Kinda late to start worrying about pretty much anything related to them.

Totally Not Voidqueen Kiana amirite guise?

Ok, that manga have now officially thought me something new. I have no idea that "onani" came from a Biblical character. I didn't even know that character existed, much less associating it to a Japanese word.

For the longest time erudite people have snarkily referred to masturbation as "the sin of Onan".

^^US Americans are the leading world champions in bizarre racial hang-ups, inane Twitter drama and crying wolf so the assumption is only too natural. (That bullshit's contagious too, sadly, on account of international US popular-culture hegemony.)

Frankly I would be greatly surprised if it wasn't Amerifats.

Weak your Fujo-fu is, young Padawan

^"Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology."
- Larry Niven, maybe

:P

^That's basically the standard Army uniform of the period with due branch-insignia differences.
And the jitte was the characteristic truncheon of Edo period police, it poofed from authority arsenals with Meiji. Imperial Japanese cops just had batons and swords plus guns for certain special units.

The military police of course had far more leeway in hardware but you can pretty much assume sword here - compare.

As for the rep, well. You know what a jolly bunch of murdering rapists the IJ military was 'round those days? Well these dipshits were their very own internal Gestapos except with even less oversight than usual for period totalitarian terror police (not in the least because the country was essentially run by a dysfunctional military junta that couldn't agree on anything) so, yeah. Historians tend to use phrases like "extremes of torture and repression" around them.
Non-Japanese ones anyway, because Japanese ones that do so run a very real risk of getting shanked by some ultranationalist nutter.

^ahem. Now the military police forces (the Army's Kempeitai and the Navy's Tokkeitai) did, naturally enough, have uniforms similar to their associated service branches; they were also absolute assholes who made the Gestapo and NKVD look like pretty swell dudes so, yeah.

That handle is probably supposed to belong to a sword btw but QUALITY lol.

^...Edo period is the one that ended with the Meiji Restoration in 1868 you know. Looks mostly like IJA uniform circa World Wars (aka War Crime City) to me.

Finally got my damn Intertubes working again so I could actually read the Ursus traumarama stories, Zima x Rosa is my new entirely unhealthy and fucked-up OTP owo

PSA to fanartist - Rita's the taller of the two, if only by 3 cm

^a terminal case of White Girl Ass, sadly :c

^o shiet it Magatsu D:

^^
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- Mochi Au Lait