Oh, hey, I’m pretty sure this is the game Punchy covered a while ago! I’m sure he’ll be glad to be yet again proven wrong that the game he thought would never get an English translation did in fact get an English translation.

Huh, fair enough. I hadn’t intended any of that tbh, except maybe the illegal stuff. In my head, it’s less that she’s used to being high/savvy enough to have avoided it and more she’s just built different so a single edible wouldn’t fuck her up like it did Haru who’s a lightweight.

I can see how maybe Yusha was like ⅒th as high as Haru was but she doesn’t seem as straight-laced as Haru so it wouldn’t surprise me if she’s like, used to a light buzz? Especially given the “interested in ‘illegal stuff’” bit.

Also in my head Yusha isn’t necessarily totally oblivious, she also likes Haru a lot but doesn’t know how to react to someone liking her back / expressing interest in her. Which I should lean into more.

Probably wouldn’t hurt. I think I mentioned a few chapters back that we haven’t gotten much insight into Yusha’s perspective on all this yet.

Hm, would be interesting to do but I’m not sure if Haru is the kind of person to become intoxicated often voluntarily. Maybe someone poisons her, or an enemy’s semblance is getting people high/drunk on the fly?

Or they end up busting a drug ring? Like a fight breaks out in a lab and Haru ends up inhaling something? Or a crop field ends up on fire? The latter one could be funny because you could have the entire team high.

I literally haven’t used the subscribed feed in over a decade ever since they first started doing that shit. At one time I was subscribed to 300+ channels, now I’m only subscribed to one singular channel I never check (Tomii11, a young boy who at the time had brain cancer and wanted to be a youtuber so there was a grassroots effort to help him find success) because they thoroughly enshittified the subscribed feed (and no I’m not going to click the fucking bell I don’t want notifications, I want a functioning feed).

I don’t doubt that happens to people but I’ve been curating my feed for over a decade, I don’t get any of that – for my main feed it’s a mix of video game analysis/essays, speedrunning, science videos, and RWBY, and I’m in the process of re-curating to get RWBY to show up instead of science because I never actually interact with the science videos beyond watching and I have an entire other feed for edutainment.

HEY YO XBOX AHOY IS BACK?

Hold up I’ve missed how many videos?

Why hasn’t youtube been pushing them to me I used to love their vids

I don’t doubt, I’ve just never come across those homophobes. But since I didn’t start dipping into the fandom until after news of the RT shutdown filtered down to me, I’ve had to dig up all of the old lore for myself (shoutout to the Yorse) and don’t have a great idea of the different eras of memery and fan theories.

Meanwhile I tend to sit on the other side of that shirt spectrum.

Aww but I love my one-off bits (◞‸ ◟)

You could probably lean into it a little more (and thus make it not a one-off) to make it stand out less, but on the other side of the coin I don’t want you think my opinion is the end-all be-all here. I mean, I know I’m like the only one actually providing feedback but don’t think you have to stop just because I say it’s bad, especially if it gives you joy.

huh really? I thought it was not enough set up.

I mean, we get insights into Yusha’s character a bit here – interested in “illegal stuff”, probably too eager to get into fights, either used to being high or savvy enough to have avoided it, might be a little oblivious to Haru’s feelings but definitely concerned about her – and Haru being high feels like a Checkov’s gun especially since she had a moment where she was surprised by her own hand touching her horn (so I expect we’ll see that come back where she’ll be intoxicated and her Semblance is off). Sky being in the night market is suspicious enough but he’s probably not supposed to be there, either, and the students just don’t realize that, so it makes sense that we’ll learn why he was there by the end of the arc (also it seemed like he recognized what Yusha meant by “the Artist”), plus there’s the whole Perry-goes-missing aspect that will probably open the next chapter. I can’t say what exactly you’re planning from this but there’s a number of little seeds with opportunity to grow.

I think he reads as casual because in my head, Sky is not much older than the students.

Oh, yeah that always throws me off when you have fresh graduates as teachers. It happens a lot in anime where there’s only supposed to be like at most a 5-year gap but probably because of my own upbringing it’s hard for me not to read every teacher as being like 15 years older than their students.

Sensing the mood had become Grimm,

I assume this is intentional and not like an autocorrect goof, but I tend to avoid turns of phrase like this because it stands out unless you go through the effort of changing the entire world’s vocab to account for it being fantastical. Like, don’t get me wrong, I can appreciate the occasional “I swear to Dust” or “oh my Oum” but it just looks odd when it’s one-off like this.

They found J’atoh gambling at a table, and clearly losing.

This may be my own preferences here, but both halves of this description are annoyingly vague. Gambling with what? Cards? Dice? Beyblades? Is it something like you’d see at a casino or more like the 3-card monte scam? And how can they tell J’atoh is “clearly” losing? Have they been playing strip poker? Is the pot sitting out on the table? I’m just not able to picture what they found.

Haru scanned the crowd, her eyes lazily drifting person to person until she spotted who Yusha was talking about a few moments later.

May have missed a word – should be something like “from person to person”

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I can practically hear the sinister music sting at the end of the chapter here. I think you did a decent amount of setup here but yeah it definitely reads as if this and the previous should have just been one chapter. The encounter with Sky reads a little odd to me but that’s mostly because he keeps being so casual with the students, waiting to threaten to report them for breaking curfew until the very end.

I don’t normally just post reaction gifs but

I didn’t even think about that. It could have been loosely inspired by Lopunny, though I expect if anything it’s convergent evolution based on common rabbit traits.

Ah, no problem! Sorry for assuming!

So, while there have never been any actual mirror-world shenanigans in the show,^[1] the character depicted^[2] has a recurring mirror theme due to being based on Snow White. In-universe, she struggles with being true to herself over being the elite rich heiress she was raised to be, which is what this image is tapping into.

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With the qualifier you put at the beginning, I can’t tell if you’re being genuine or making a joke.

I know I’ve seen a couple of AU fics floating around with Neo Politan being Weiss’s stage name so I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a few along the lines of what you said already.

Oh yeah, fair enough, although taking it that way raises A LOT of questions when Casey is also Neo’s actual voice actress. Cue the old Superman memes – have we ever seen Weiss and Neo in the same room? (DW I know the answer is “yes”).

The idea of Weiss being a Dragon Ball fan is funny though.

Yang you mean :P But it would be hilarious if it turned out Weiss was into Dragon Ball. Everyone expecting her to sing some aria in the karaoke booth and suddenly she busts out with CHA-LA! HEAD CHA-LA!

Kek, the same song makes reference to Otis Redding. The full version of “I Burn” also makes references to Super Saiyan, Human Torch, and Johnny Blaze (one of the Ghost Riders, I believe).

But you reminded of a meme I saw probably on r/FNKI – the Tom vs. Spike dueling meme with the two sides arguing why Yang is or isn’t Chinese with another panel of Jerry squinting at the camera and the text “Yang isn’t Chinese because China doesn’t exist on Remnant”.

110% this is the way.

I still have friends of nearly 20 years whom I met on the official Wizards of the Coast forums back when those still existed and I’ve managed to meet a handful in person once or twice. I’ve made friends through Discord, fanfic sites, even youtube whom I’ve also met IRL (usually at cons), even if I have been terrible at sticking around sometimes. I’m even making friends on here just by posting and generally being nice and being around, which tbh I wasn’t expecting both because of the low traffic and because of the depersonalized nature of this inherited-from-reddit interface.

Every now and then I come across some piece of Japanese memery worth a whole documentary video and it’s just wild, man. They’re just built different over there I guess.

And yeah, I tried sifting through the entirety of SUPER EFFECTIVE (it even had a dozen new pages since I last checked it like 8 years ago!) because I was sure it was there, but no dice.