No problem! It can be very confusing when you’re first getting into manga trying to figure out how you move through the panels. Once you get the hang of the ideas though most mangaka nowadays have been pretty good at laying out their panels to kind of draw your eyes naturally through the page in the order you need to go.

Yeah I missed that one. When I was writing it I changed my wording from “they should not be allowed,” to “no one should be allowed,” and missed a word. Thanks.

Basically the priority is to make as many unbroken right to left lines across the whole page as possible. You don’t generally move down unless you’ve reached the leftmost edge of the page. Notice how here if I draw lines across the panels to show the path my eyes take and read 12 before 10-11 my reading line is going to run back into the line I made already? So you read 9 and go to the next line, considering 12 to be part of that lower line so that your reading lines don’t intersect.

Kind of, yeah. Though if a larger panel is on the right rather than the left you consider the top of the panel rather than the bottom. So like if you swapped 12 with the 9, 10, 11 cluster it would just be 12, 9, 10, 11.

You tend to finish the right to left line to the end of the page before moving down any. So if 2 panels are in the same “line” like 2 and 3 are, then you finish out that line before moving down. In a case where one panel is larger and spans multiple lines it’ll generally be laid out to belong to it’s lowest line if it’s on the left side of the page, or the highest line on the right side of the page. So since 12 covers both the line with 9, and the one with 10 and 11 on it you’ll generally read it as belonging to that lower line and it’ll be 12.

Add to that radicalization pipeline bit the fact that obscene wealth like what Notch came into tends to be extremely socially isolating and directly causes people to lose touch with reality. Not to be like “oh the poor billionaires,” but having that kind of money literally causes mental illness. For their own good, no one should be allowed to have that kind of money.

IMO it’s probably most likely an overzealous bootleg detection system hitting a false positive or someone selling a really convincing bootleg.

Don’t get me wrong, Nintendo absolutely wants to kill the used market. Iirc multiple executives have been on record voicing opposition to the used game market. But I definitely think it’s more likely that they got a false positive on the “is this game pirated?” detector and nuked the console.

Something something Shiego.

Based schizoaffective hallucination?

They’re supposed to have different tastes? I’ve tried several different kinds of rum and vodka along with a Buddy of mine buying some Crown Royal Black to share with me at my 21st and I couldn’t tell the difference between any of them. I could tell the difference between a few of the different beers I’ve tried but none of them tasted anything like they were described to me.

I’ll see about giving that a shot then.

I’ve tried wines like that before. I apparently have that gene where you super taste bitter and it just tasted like flat LaCroix mixed with paint thinner.

I probably won’t be able to tolerate it then sadly. I’m super sensitive to bitter flavors that’s seemingly why alcohol is always so unpleasant to me. I’ve tried so many drinks that even friends who barely drink at all say they can hardly taste the alcohol that all tasted just vile to me. Thanks though!

Now I kinda want to try soju. I have yet to meet a drink with any appreciable amount of alcohol in it that doesn’t taste like paint thinner smells to me. The only way I’ve ever been able to “not taste the alcohol” is if there’s barely any in the drink.

No no no, it’s where you learn to make partially dehydrated juice that you can freeze for easy storage and just add water to when you’re ready to make it.

1992 when he was an MP according to this article. He’s been saying they’re only X years/months/weeks away almost as long as I’ve been alive.

Shinji, crank that Soulja Boy!

Biggest reason I never picked it up back in the day. I’m too ace for that fandom.

Huh TIL… That’s actually kinda funny to me since the tail end of my time working retail happens to be when I first started developing gynecomastia. I’m nonbinary so it never bothered me but I found out shortly after when my doctor was trying to figure out another issue that I’ve got really low T levels so it’s funny to me that there’s technically a remote possibility that working retail caused that whole thing.

Like, get enough people signing up or youre fired push.

I used to work at a place that was like this with their loyalty card subscription. The worst part was that only US residents were eligible for it but the last location I worked at was right next to the Canadian border so we got a ton of Canadian customers. Management however would still count all of those as missed sales even though we literally couldn’t sign them up for it. Too high a ratio of missed sales and you started losing hours up to them letting you go.

Not only that but if you started recognizing Canadian bank cards and didn’t still try to sell them on the membership that they couldn’t sign up for you’d get in trouble for that too. So we were forced to be super aggressive with it on those we could sell to if we didn’t want to get in trouble for poor performance. Was totally not worth minimum wage with no commission. I was so glad to finally quit that job.