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I haven't really kept up to date on Rowling's comments, but... I don't see any discrimination?

She's been regularly spewing and boosting TERF shit over on twitter, and publicly palling around with virulent transphobes, just as an easy starting point.

Like, there's problems with her writing on the discrimination front, too, but so far as more recent stuff goes, it's been her public/social media comments that have been not exactly covering her in glory. I've been mostly avoiding exposure 'cause I don't need that shit in my life, but it hasn't been particularly subtle.

Were the world just, it'd be the idiot customer rep that okayed that.

Parts of it are actually pretty telegraphed -- that the MC could probably get huge at some point is something implied just about straight out the gate, ferex, 'cause mama was hella' big -- but yeah, it's pretty close to xianxia tier (first you punch goblins, then you punch mountains, then you punch planets!) in how far things go once it really takes off.

Reincarnated as a spider manages to do something like that in a fairly fun way. 99% of the show is literally just the MC levelling up as a spider and trying to overcome status effects... But it's strangely compelling, especially as they switch between the MC's self perspective (as a cute spider) and the perspective of random adventurers (seeing giant monstrous spider)

Kumo desu ga was one of my earlier exposures to litrpg (though I think moonlight sculptor was the earliest), well before it had an anime, heh... nearly a decade ago, at this point, checking the dates. There's several other stories around now (mostly over on royal road, The Snake Report is one off the top of my head) that have that sort of airheaded red in tooth and claw vibe that characterizes the early parts of the story, if you're interested in more and willing to read it.

Reincarnated as a spider - no harem. No plot. MC is a spider. That's all you get, that's all you need.

It's worth noting/warning that vis a vis the originating written material, a plot does end up showing up eventually, sorta' -- after a point it transitions from MC is a spider to... something else. It honestly gets kinda' weird, there's like ancient mecha and all sorts of things. The earlier bits are absolutely ace, though, very distinct and wonderful style going on.

Interesting point regarding DQ and orcs, though -- Dragon Quest is largely the primary reason you actually see Porcs more in japanese fantasy. Between it and Zelda's Moblin-line, you still have a genuine pig-orc line in fantasy sticking around as opposed to just the green stuff.

... and for the audience that might be interested in how to do that...?

They should send me binding contracts giving me sole legal control over that decision, and then I'll name them.

You may ask the cats I've had, which includes luminaries such as You, You Two, and Lowercase You (tentative), how that will pan out.

... if israel had had near daily 9/11s for decades, they would have been losing over a million people per year. You're talking a death count literally greater than its current population.

Monthly would have been less, but I don't recall there being a period of decades where israel was losing upwards 36k people a year to suicide bombers, either.

I get what you're trying to say, even if I doubt it's particularly accurate, but regardless of that you've picked a shit example to use for the point you're trying to make. For all I wish we'd just put it fucking behind us at this point, 9/11 saw nearly 3 thousand people killed; it wasn't an event on the scale of blowing up a series of tourist buses.

Though I just wasn't a fan of it changing from an RPG to Action RPG and the weird redesigns from medieval to square enix's FF7's type aesthetics.

That's fair, though it's probably worth noting Lufia always had a style that was FF7-ish in general theme in places, if admittedly with a less washed out aesthetic; like a weirdly large number of old JRPGs (Final Fantasy itself very much included), they had a pretty substantial magitech/sci-fi design in parts of them. Lufia's sinistral stuff totally had a technologically advanced vibe to some of it, Lufia II outright had submarines and the like, so on and so forth. For whatever reason, old RPGs in particular were pretty fond of including that kind of design at some point or another, usually as some kind of late game area. It's kinda' understandable how a remake would end up with similar vibes as FF7 in places.

Honestly, I hadn't even noticed the ARPG remake, though -- the last time I paid attention to the series people were kvetching about the GBA one, and it was... pretty alright, in my experience. Particularly enjoyed the expanded pokemon monster ally aspect.

... anyway, it'll be interesting to see how it goes with FF. 6 is... still my favorite, although I'm not sure if I'll ever play through it again just due to how kinda' depressing it is. So much is just really damn awesome, Mog is GMOAT, you suplex trains, etc., etc., but at the same time... FF6 was the first game that made me cry when I was a kiddo. Fucked up the one minigame you don't want to fuck up and might not realize what you need to do when you're a kid, and consequences ensued. Hell, just thinking of it kinda' hits harder nowadays... was a primary caretaker for my grandparents, and they both passed last year. FF6 be too damn real right now, which on one had is probably high praise in some sense, but on the other hand I don't want to play it, so...