I’m asking for the image to be replaced, and suggesting a way to do that. If we do that, and if there’s compensation, can be a later discussion.

Yeah, 100%, which is why I’m making the case to convince them. If nothing else, I’m letting my voice be heard.

There’s an anime called ZatsuTabi, where every episode has the main character go somewhere different, and every place is a real place. It almost feels like cheating.

I would also suggest Syowa Station in antarctica, visited in A Place Further Than the Universe. It’s already listed with Singapore, but the station is a real place too.

Edit: Oh! Also, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics is set in Gifu.

I’m glad someone said something about it, because I don’t like having to see it when I look at the main page. The uneven fingers disturb me. I’m sure we have a few artists on here that wouldn’t mind their work getting main-page treatment. You could run a contest!

I mean, why not? The tree’s empty now.

all of your claims have so many asterisks attached that they’re essentially pointless

No they don’t, but say whatever you need to ignore me. That’s definitely what someone arguing in good faith would do.

internet access has been shown to have all the same negative effects

Citation needed.

it’s a useful technology

Quite the opposite, actually. It causes enormous problems and has no benefits that aren’t better served by existing technologies that lack those problems.

Nobody who uses AI treats it like a tool, they treat it like an employee they can claim credit for. And most tools aren’t actively detrimental to the user to the point of proven intelligence drops, lawsuits and environmental destruction. Also, the enemy charges you money to use it.

The only person who benefits from AI is the person selling it. So why are you trying to defend it?

Retro Lara Croft booba is definitely kiki, so I dunno.

Now I just need to figure out if I’m more kiki or bouba so I know where to shit.

Well, if they didn’t notice it, then that’s their loss.

I’m also in the UK, and imgur blocks my VPN, so I get the worst of both worlds.

There’s a version of it on patreon, but nothing public that I could find. And it looks like it’s only 4 and a half hours long, which… It’s not progress, but…

Nope. High Frontier 4 All, plus all expansions. Muahaha.

“If you want to serve your country, you should enlist in the military.”
“Actually, I’m happy to abandon my country so I can go around killing civilians, breaking the law and causing chaos for my own personal gratification.”
“…You should enlist in the military twice.”

Not just that: a piece that’s almost essential to understand the plot going forward. There’s a fandub that’s actually pretty decent, and it’s the only easily accessible way to experience the story anymore.

I’m done arguing against the single argument you’ve made time and time and time again. For my rebuttal, simply look four comments up from this one. Goodbye.

There is fan merch of The Room. Theme parks don’t need a popular franchise connected to be popular, so long as there’s a rollercoaster and something fun for the whole family. People will happily spend money on nostalgia and fitting in with others, or on gifts for someone you think likes the thing.

All of this is, once again, an appeal to popularity. It has nothing to do with the quality of the books. And you saying the book isn’t bad despite bad plot, world, characters and implications just condemns your judgement.

First, it’s only a measure that people consume the media, not that they enjoy it. Hate-watching is a thing, as you can tell from a comment higher up. Or they watched because someone else wanted to watch (or they thought someone else wanted to watch).

Second, enjoyment does not reflect quality. People can like bad media. I like the second D&D movie, and even I can only rate it’s quality as “fine”.

Third, even at the height of its popularity and among its strongest fans, there are flaws galore in the books. Even ignoring the racism, sexism, ablism, slavery, “ugly is bad” mindset, and all that, there’s also stupid plot decisions and lazy world building. Of all the fanfics on AO3, well over a third of them are fix-fics.

I do think a lot of that popularity was because it came out when internet forums were a novelty. If you’re used to only one or two people liking the same book as you, then you see thousands liking the same book, that book must be popular.

Then the popularity fed itself. Movies, merch, games, everything was done to capitalise on the “popularity” of a new series, and this introduced it to a new audience. Media started to talk about the new book series that people were going mad for. People who didn’t read the books wanted to find out what everyone was talking about. Time passes, and people look back on the books with nostalgia goggles. Even you, when defending the book, can only point to its popularity as an argument.

The actual book doesn’t matter. It’s popular because it’s popular.

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