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... man, reading through what's been translated of the Made in Abyss manga. Like. It could do without playing prepubescent or nearly so sexuality for jokes. And maybe the occasional dip into guroland. But the bits outside like ten year old nudity/bondage/shotaboners (why that last one actually ends up being a semi-important plot point bloody hell) and organ puree are pretty incredible.

Looking back at parts of the thread that mention it and seeing it called kid friendly blows my mind, though. The anime must be majorly fucking different than the manga.

Seriously though this shit has me pretty conflicted but reading anyway. Sorta' reminds me of Franken Fran on that front, now that I think about it. Swear to the gods, though, if the ruler they broke off up the shotabot's ass ends up being a late story plot point I quit then and there. Chekhov's Pegging is my limit. _{Also yeah I really do kinda' wish that wasn't an accurate description of something mentioned in the story BUT IT WAS!}

So, when he says the system failed him, it's because he was already at a university-education level at age nine but they failed to provide any sort of suitable plan for him to get into higher education without sitting through a shitload of pointless classes and such.

Huh, definitely some sympathy there. Didn't have the drive or was that far ahead, but I was starting in on high school level mathematics around 4th grade, ran into a teacher that wouldn't let me substitute the higher level work for their math class, and ended up basically saying fuckit to math in general for like the next decade or more. Wasn't a chance in hell I would have managed both workloads and it's a hell of a lot easier to just underperform instead.

Didn't really catch back up to my younger years in terms of general proficiency and comfort until around college, heh. Probably will never mess with much of anything besides accounting level algebra type stuff.

Plus there would most likely always be decent populations of them in places that aren't farms - I'm pretty sure that's the case for most such species already.

Far as I can recall there are populations, but decent isn't how they're generally described... and it's only going to get worse going forward. Also could swear I remember them tending to be pretty fragile populations vis a vis disease or environmental disruption or whatev'. Farm animals generally aren't exactly the most competitive anymore, heh, barring the occasional one that's an invasive species (and introducing those en-masse makes you a colossal biosphere wrecking dickwad, by the by).

You could probably stop animal farming outright, conceptually, but you'd see the populations involved shrink drastically (with the varying consequences involved with probably scattershot introducing that many corpses to wherever they end up, 'coz gods know we don't have the patience to ramp things down over decades/centuries) if they managed to survive at all. If for whatever reason you give a shit about the critters' wellbeing, it's largely one of those damned either way situations.

Quote from: Gentlefish on November 28, 2018, 11:58:06 am

There is nothing inherently ethical or unethical about the consumption of meat.

...You're saying there's nothing inherently unethical about enslaving an entire friggin' species for use as food products?    

Eh. If you're going that route eating anything period is also massively unethical. Murdering and eating random members of a species isn't exactly what you'd call some great improvement.

N'that's not getting into the whole issue with non-animals being species, too. You're not going to manage ethical consumption if you're expanding your ethical consideration much beyond humans, if that. There's still plenty of reason to oppose many of our farming (and general animal treatment, really) practices, but the only way you're going to avoid being the bad guy extraterrestrials is suicide.

That would unfortunately be true pretty much regardless of what we were, physiology wise. Plants probably come closest but even they're pretty messed up if you stop to think much about how they go about propagating and surviving, and what it entails for stuff around them. Just generally slower.

That is a remarkably unilluminating trailer for a deeply dubious concept. The reactions on twitter seem to kinda' sum things up otherwise...

E: For those unwilling to follow a link with no description or whatev'. That's a link to an announcement for a live action Cowboy Bebop. It's basically fifteen seconds of nothing.

Started out wanting to build a dagger deck. Real simple idea, get lots of dagger cards and the dagger fate thing, that makes it so playing a dagger draws another card. So I proceeded through the game getting basically all the daggers and blowing all the monies on upgrading daggers.

Five floors in, I'm full up on fate slots and the dagger fate never showed up.

Alright, I says to myself. Screw you anyway. Plan Hobo Knife Fight is still a go.

And so I kept getting daggers and blowing money on upgrading daggers.

One (final) floor later and I've shanked the everything with my excessive amount of daggers, ruining the final boss in about three turns, taking no damage whatsoever from it. Welp.

Didn't it get itself locked some way or another?

E: Yes, yes it did. Back in march.