Throbelisk posted:

The "thing" they're referring to in the thread you mentioned is the series the thread is about. Apparently they don't like the subject matter and took it upon themselves to remind us over and over about it.

Alright, I've given him a warning for now. If anyone sees similar behavior in the future, please report it.

Arcanin posted:

Awesome news, it means that thing won't show up here anymore

Don't do this. It adds nothing of value to the discussion and only serves to antagonize other users.

rainbow8 posted:

The theocracy wouldn't have been a problem if the US hadn't installed a dictator.

I'm not excusing the US, but we're not wholly responsible either. The mullahs are making their own decisions to violate human rights, they're being compelled by the US.

You're right that they are the ones responsible for their own actions. You're missing the point I'm making though. There's a very low chance they would have been in a position to make those awful decisions if not for the US's interference.

Lizbo posted:

On a slight tangent, if anyone wants to read an interesting article, give this a read.

I read as far as the point where he misquoted Revelation 13:1 before giving up:

And I saw a beast coming out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads, which stood for seven hills

The bit about the hills isn't in my Bible. Anyway, political leaders have been identified as the Antichrist ever since the time of Nero. What are the chances they got it right this time?

It doesn't appear to be from an "official" translation so it may be from a direct translation of the Hebrew texts, especially since a quick search for the exact phrase used on the website does give results where others are shown using the same quote. Mine (which was my grandfather's and looks to be the King James version) also doesn't use that exact wording. After a bit of searching I found this page which has this bit of text:

Having seven heads - So also the dragon is represented in Revelation 12:3. See the notes on that passage. The representation there is of Satan, as the source of all the power lodged in the two beasts that John subsequently saw. In Revelation 17:9, referring substantially to the same vision, it is said that “the seven heads are seven mountains”; and there can be no difficulty, therefore, in referring this to the seven hills on which the city of Rome was built (compare the notes on Revelation 12:3), and consequently this must be regarded as designed, in some way, to be a representation of Rome.

This suggests it is a matter of translation from the original text. And after a little more searching around, it seems like it could be a matter of another passage further on, Revelations 17:9 that they then backported to 13:1. So it doesn't appear to be so much misquoting as it is a matter of a theologist being more intimately familiar with the entire text than a normal person would.

This is all kinda superfluous to the point I was making anyways though. My point wasn't that Trump is the Antichrist. My point was that he ticks off a lot of the boxes the Bible uses to describe the Antichrist and yet tons of American Christians still support him despite him being so blatantly the antithesis of what a Christian is supposed to be.

Throbelisk posted:

I'd like to call attention to this particular user who seems hell-bent on providing nothing but negativity, even on the thread of a series that will no longer be upadated. And in the case of this post may possibly be in need of having further steps taken.

That post you linked is three years old so it's a bit too old to take action over. (Though if anything like that pops up in the future report it. I don't think it's bad enough to be bannable but it's definitely enough for them to be told to knock it off.) Can you elaborate on the stuff here though? It's not a thread I follow so I'm not sure of the full context. What thing are they referring to?

rainbow8 posted:

"The entire reason Iran is such a shit hole, for example, is specifically due to the United States attempting a coup to install a friendly dictator. This resulted in Iran hating us and devolving into an authoritarian state that's a borderline theocracy."

No, that's not the entire reason. The US fucking around is a factor but let's not minimize the culpability of the theocracy for being a theocracy.

The theocracy wouldn't have been a problem if the US hadn't installed a dictator. The US helped install Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as Shah of Iran in the early 50s. Mosaddegh, the prime minister at the time, was actually popular with the Iranian people. Pahlavi eventually became more and more authoritarian and tried to become an actual autocrat before the 1979 Revolution. Under Mosaddegh the country had become more liberal and progressive. But the UK and US didn't like the fact he had nationalized their oil industry which had been very profitable for the West. The 1979 Revolution was a direct result of the CIA initiating a coup and installing a dictator. If they hadn't done that then Iran would be a more progressive and democratic nation rather than the theocracy it is today.

Throbelisk posted:

I care because I hear every single day how my fellow Americans attempt to distort and deny history and have actually gone completely insane because of it. We have millions of cultists in this country hanging on every word of their god-emperor and there's not a goddamn thing those of us who aren't insane can do about it. And these are the people threatening us daily with another civil war which would spell their complete annihilation. So excuse me if I can't just go, "oh well," and get on with my day.

Those people are really quite frustrating. I recently ended a friendship with someone I've known for almost 20 years because he just refused to see any reason. He started falling for propaganda and misinformation and refused to listen to anything that ran contrary to the things he heard from that. People like Andy Ngo and James O'Keefe of Project Veritas are reliable and trustworthy despite both having a longstanding history of lying and misrepresenting information to try to paint a picture and one of them literally having been convicted over it in the past. Meanwhile experts in a given field with decades of experience are just full of shit. Random Youtube channels with <100 subscribers and unbiased titles such as "WHAT THE LEFTWING MEDIA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE!!" (yes, that was literally the title of a video he linked once to back up his views on BLM) are trustworthy but reputable media sources like Reuters and the Associated Press are not. He genuinely believes that the media is aligned against Trump and the Republicans. If you point out that there are dozens, if not hundreds, of different major media groups around the globe that support widely varying and often conflicting ideologies then he just brushes it off as if that doesn't matter. But then you need to look no further than your bog standard Trump supporters the past few months to see the willful delusion. They're so far gone that they're starting to shit on Fox News for being liberal media despite having relied on Fox News as their "unbiased" news source for the last four years. And that's all because Fox News had the audacity to call the election for the candidate who won. The Republican party is starting to eat itself over this and these people are the reason why.

On a slight tangent, if anyone wants to read an interesting article, give this a read. I'm not going to suggest it's correct, in fact a decent chunk of the things given in the article seem to be some really generous interpretations, but it's still disconcerting just how many of the ones that are difficult to interpret differently seem to describe Trump. (And for the record I'm not suggesting Trump is actually the Antichrist or anything. Someone on another site I frequent linked in and I thought it was actually kinda interesting if for no other reason than to highlight the hypocrisy of American Christians supporting Donald Trump.)

Sakura Cartelet posted:

And other countries don't do similar things? Don't fool yourself. Other countries have exploited people, engaged in wars of aggression, deliberately spread illnesses... No person, city, country or whatever is or ever will be perfect.

No country is perfect but the US is one of the worse ones due to our global status. Since the end of WW2 we did a lot to help the Allies and Germany and Japan recover but due to the Cold War we did a lot of really shady shit like installing literal dictators in a lot of countries (mostly in the Middle East and South America) which really screwed those nations up for decades. And most off them still haven't recovered from our interference. The only modern nation that I'd say comes close to being as bad as the US is the UK but most of their bullshit comes from the 1600-1800 timeframe or so and as such it's fairly removed from the modern UK.

The entire reason Iran is such a shit hole, for example, is specifically due to the United States attempting a coup to install a friendly dictator. This resulted in Iran hating us and devolving into an authoritarian state that's a borderline theocracy. And we've done that in a lot of different nations. If I recall correctly, Saddam Hussein came to power because of the US. Osama bin Laden was originally working with the CIA. As someone else pointed out, we basically genocided Native Americans. (Canada actually has quite a bad track record with that as well.) For decades after the end of WW2 our government has used our position to force most of the world to kowtow to their whims, often to the detriment of those other nations and their people. I want to say it was Nixon who actually tried to undermine diplomacy in the Middle East or SE Asia before he became president in order to delay it until he could claim credit for it. A lot of nations have done much of this too. But a lot of them are also currently considered global villains as it is, ie: Russia and China. And they deserve to be considered villains. But for some reason the US is exempt from this despite being just as bad in most ways. (Well I'd actually say we're better than China and Russia in particular since those two countries completely disregard the needs of other nations. But we're not a huge amount better.)

UranusAndNeptuneAreJustCousins posted:

I do like the block of text accompanied with the usual smugness, though. I especially like it when it comes after a failure to use something as simple as a mirror.

Don't do this. It adds nothing to the conversation, is inflammatory, and undermines any point you might've otherwise had.

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rainbow8 posted:

Also I feel disloyal but it's a lot easier to read on mangadex, with all-page load. Comment system sucks though

You shouldn't feel bad. Dynasty is better for discussion (most Mangadex chapter discussions really suck. There's a lot of people on that site with some serious issues) but reading on Mangadex reduces load on Dynasty's servers. And Dynasty's server load seems to be a bit of an issue considering we have a daily download limit and, in my case at least, it takes quite awhile to read even a single chapter because I spend 10-30 seconds loading a single page on a regular basis despite my internet being fairly fast.

Lizbo posted:

It's a bit risky drawing a story where one of the characters is a "godly artist" when your own art isn't necessarily in that category. I mean, look at Misumi's arms in the top panel here. The left one is twice as long as the right, plus she has two right hands. But maybe that's what makes her such a good artist?

It's a bit confusing but she doesn't have two right hands. If you try to duplicate her exact pose (which can be a bit confusing to do actually, lol) you'll find out that your hands end up looking just like hers are drawn here. Also I think that the reason one arm looks shorter than the other is just a matter of perspective. From the perspective you're viewing the panel it looks like the arm under her head is lying parallel to her torso but I don't think that's actually the case. I'm pretty sure her elbow is out past her head with her arm angled inwards towards her head which would make it look shorter. On the other hand though, the shadow under her hand makes it look like part of her arm isn't even lying flat on the desk despite the fact she's resting her head on it which looks awkward.

You should suggest this in the Suggestions For Improvement thread instead. It's more likely that those in charge of tags for the site will see it there and it's also technically the right thread for this anyways.

Lizbo posted:

Look, we're all thinking so I'm just gonna say it. It would have been amazing if it just cut to them fucking.

I would certainly be amazed if anything like that happened.

I'm pretty sure they'd both spontaneously combust if they tried anytime soon, lol.

OrangePekoe posted:

I'd like to extend a small and humble welcome to Alice Cheshire, our latest addition to the Moderation team. Surely now, the bot wars can be settled once and for all. Please be kind to her!

I'll do my best to help out.

Apparently this was a series I was subscribed to. But even after reading the first chapter I don't remember a thing about it.

It's kinda ironic for a bot to post spam in one of the threads site staff are most likely to notice it, lol.

@Serenata That's exactly it. It's the episode where Misaka gets a card from one of Shokuho's fan group who shares an interest in that frog thing with her. I want to say it was episode 16 or 17 of Railgun T in particular.

It actually took me several rereads of this page to realize that "trash" wasn't being used here as a sound effect, lol.

OrangePekoe posted:

Not only does Serenata have good taste, but also good predictive abilities, too! Here's the top 10.

It's sad that Miku x Luka didn't even make it into the top 10. Though Nanoha x Fate taking the top spot makes up for that some at least.

Surya P posted:

That last editor was a huge asshole, and his moms a hoe.

What did the mother do?!

Clearly didn't raise her son right.

random posted:

...I've never seen shoes grow MOLD. And they're treating it like something that happens all the time.

Well, it's a pretty subtropical climate in much of the islands. And humidity up the wazoo too.

The state I live in gets about the same amount of rain as Japan and shoes molding isn't really much of a problem so humidity is definitely not the only factor at play here.

Random Wanderer posted:

Hopefully this means the shit editor got fired. Out of a cannon. Into a brick wall.

I like where you're going with this, although I was thinking "volcano" rather than "brick wall."

No need to pollute the volcano with his worthless carcass though, lol.

Hopefully this means the shit editor got fired. Out of a cannon. Into a brick wall.

Random Wanderer posted:

This is random but since everyone is on the comments can anyone suggest any good Yuri Visual novels on Steam?

KIndred Spirits on the Roof.

Heart of the Woods.

Advance Tabco posted:

The "Flowers" series of VNs on Steam is worth looking at too.

Seconding these ones. (Haven't played the other two though.) The second Flowers VN (Flowers -Le volume sur ete-) is the best one that's been released, though I haven't actually started the third one yet myself. It'd be difficult to beat though since Erika's the best character in the entire series.

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Empirella posted:

I was hoping that in the 21st century we'd finally get over the need to categorize and label everyone's identity and sexuality and just let people be unique individuals who don't fit into little boxes, but I guess it's still too soon for that.

If you're expecting humanity to be able to move beyond stuff like that, you're vastly overestimating the species as a whole. There's a depressingly large chunk of the populace dead set on nothing more than backsliding and regressing. And that portion of the populace seems to be impossible to actually get rid of unfortunately.

sirflimflam posted:

I don't really get why people are going nuts over the mangadex comments. I went over there expecting some juicy vitriol and left disappointed in the pretty common arguments being made. Do you guys really think this site is somehow better regarding comments? Any series here with a straight character integrated into the drama is pretty much a de facto nuclear wasteland in the comments. Each side appears to have their own pain points.

While any given chapter on Mangadex might be fine, if you read the comments for a random selection of chapters/series you'll find some of the dumbest shit you'll ever read. You'll find comments ranging from inane complaints about pointless shit to this one guy who makes sexual comments on every chapter he reads even when you couldn't possibly take anything in said chapter as sexual in any way. You also get people who are just plain asshats to anyone and everyone around them for no real reason as well as those who do nothing but complain about a series and yet continue to read it. (It's a weirdly common thing over there from what I've seen.) Dynasty comments at their worst are around Mangadex's average.

Nevri posted:

Somebody actually translated chapter 2, it's on mangadex.

Actually it's up to chapter 3 now and the translator seems to be interested in continuing. (https://mangadex.org/title/41195/kami-eshi-jk-to-ol-fujoshi)