Because those animals are cool. You see the others you mentioned too, but you don’t see animals no one likes. It’s less soul searching and finding you are something else and more finding something cool and wanting to be like it.

Which, don’t get me wrong, i totally get. I’m a transhumanist, i understand being just human is a negative.

I completely forgot this got existed. Huh.

Ares macrotechnology. Guns, cars, space, a private military/police force, and ‘Mom and Apple pie.’

That’s what I’m considering once they start killing or putting people into camps (might not happen this 4 years, but that is objectively what they are trying to do). I’m learning Japanese and they have been increasing their protection rate of refugees, and Germany’s rate is routinely very high (last i checked) so that’s an option too.

Mushoku is probably the best by such a large margin i couldn’t think anyone answering different was serious. Log horizon is probably the only isekai that’s done the modern game junk well.

Just a little hinamizawa virus, that’s all

Just the mention of a tutorial system puts me off, but i do conceptually enjoy an isekai where the protagonist is hated. An anti-power fantasy would be greatly enjoyable if that’s what they’re going for.

Iirc that is only true in the sense that being queer does the same. It isn’t anywhere near comparable in severity of course, I’ve never had a single person rant at me for being awake at 3am, but it’s still a constricting society that punishes people for sticking out in big and small ways that causes compounding issues in people.

That’s getting a bookmark

An idea i had that i imagine would turn out pretty well is Japanese speaking forums for westerners specifically. It’d have a buy in that no one interested in only trolling would go in for (learning a language, especially one far from English).

Some pirate coves protect themselves by requiring an invite from someone already in the community, that could work really well too.

Generally, just requiring a little work to get someplace would make communities a lot nicer.

Disagree, lots of stuff can void your right to life. The issue with killing people, even those who deserve it, is that Innocents can be caught up in that.

Yes, and I’m pretty sure it was even more explicit outside of the English translation.

We already knew humans and pokemon ‘got married’ in the franchise.

Bad habits should be broken, not fed.

Anyone who well and truly enjoys their job has severe mental issues that need to be worked out. Why would someone give effort towards something that won’t ultimately reward them? It’s not their project, it’s not their company, it’s not their passion.

Lots of people just can’t or don’t get laid for plenty of reasons, shyness or some kind of disinterest does not an incel make. An incel is mostly synonymous with what you probably think of when you hear basement dweller, but inverse the elitism and with an added sexual element. extreme misogyny, extreme entitlement towards women, extreme resentment towards the sexually active, occasionally fixated on the idea of masculinity, and overwhelming self hatred.

Cultivate your community or become the nazi bar. Removing people well known for being bad is a good thing. All those other reddit alternatives failed because the dregs decided to make those places their new home and no one kicked them out, so no one that could keep those sites healthy ever came into the communities. The only time it doesn’t go down this way is when there is no other alternatives.

Side note: based entirely on that single sentence i wouldn’t let your friend into any bar of mine either, anyone who says that is either way too much of a childish edgelord or an actual horrible person.

Man i wish i lived in a civilized place, my nearest flgs is like 3 counties away. Somehow the bar scene isn’t even any better! If i wanted to make unrelated friends I’d have to go to church (🤮) or something.

I might not be a good lefty for saying it, but I’ve never been against capitalism at like a base level. I imagine it’d be perfectly fine in a species evolution didn’t utterly fail, but example says we humans cannot have it and remain functional.

Man, why are Republicans so fucking stupid? Even the greediest toplofty would benefit more from universal healthcare than they’d lose.