Holy shit, I need to rant about this because it’s driving me insane. Lately, it feels like every new show drops a single episode and then forces you to wait months for the rest.
Who actually enjoys this? A whole week for one episode? That’s an eternity in real life. By the time the next episode airs, I could be a completely different person—new job, new hobbies, maybe even a new brain—and suddenly, I don’t even care about the show anymore.
It’s like some 80-year-old corporate exec is sitting in a boardroom, smashing a big red button labeled "FEED THE MASSES" once a week, doling out TV like it’s fucking rations.
Some more reasons why it sucks:
You forget the plot (and the whole vibe) between episodes.
If an episode sucks, you just wasted a week of anticipation for nothing.
It’s like walking out of a movie halfway through and coming back seven days later for the rest. Who does that?
How I cope? I refuse to watch until the entire season is out. I want to enjoy the story prope
After just seeing so many articles of people being sad I really just have to say the pope was an asshole. You don't even have to do good research to see that this guy and his administration was still hiding pedophiles, hating gay people, and generally being a jerk all while pretending he was better than everyone else. The only thing he did was say he loved everyone and be a nice guy on camera which literally anyone could pretend to do. Meanwhile his administration was just more of the same shit. Just creating some counterpoint to the nonsense narrative I keep seeing.
Game prices for the past 30 years haven't kept pace with inflation.
I recognise the argument that publishers are shifting larger volumes of units now, which has been a factor that has allowed the industry to keep price increases below inflation for the last 30 years.
Wages not being even close to keeping up with inflation (especially housing inflation) is the real issue here, not the $70/$80 video game.
You should be angry at your reduced purchasing power in all of society, not just with the price of Nintendo games.
(Secondary less unpopular opinion, the best games out these days are multiplatform and released at least 5 years ago, buy them for << $80 and wait for sale the new releases, when they too are 5 years old)
Unpopular preference, maybe? I've worked the title a few times but can't get it phrased as a concise opinion. Regardless, I think it still fits the spirit of the group.
SMS Texting in 2025 sucks. The overwhelming majority of "unknowns" texting me are marketing BS (that I didn't sign up for), scams, and other junk. It's almost at the same state that calling was ~10 years ago. Even besides that, texting a friend/family member to have a conversation feels so... wasteful? It's something I used to do and now never would. Anecdote: I also barely respond to texts at this point unless it's a direct question, "I'm at the store, do we need milk?" "Yes." Even still, half the time I'd just call them to say "yes." According to my cellular provider, I've sent 16 SMS messages since March 25th.
If I'm trying to contact someone, I always just call them unless I know they won't pick up and have told others to do the same with me.
Counterpoint to this is that some people think it's rude to col
It’s lazy. It has no place in quality communities. If you are a mod and feel so overwhelmed unable to keep up with the posts in your communities, then you need to please consider bringing on other quality mods and /or step down and let someone else do the job to help you.
/rant
Edit: as was pointed out, my post was overly negative toward mods. I apologize. I should’ve waited before posting this so I didn’t come across as inflammatory.
If you don't know what a scanlator is, it's a portmanteau of scan + translator and is a person or group that scans and translates Manga from Japan.
Online theirs this unspoken rule that scanlators seem to follow of not scanlating if another group is scanlating the Manga.
But the problem is that sometimes you can get stuck with a bad scanlator either from not translating things well or being a horrible human being and inserting that into the translation or just ruining the Manga somehow or some sort of combination of those.
It's why I'm fine with multiple scanlators especially when theirs a bad scanlator ruining things
Just look at fitness influencers, atheletes, male and female who have peak human bodies as examples, ppl like showing off their bodies when they are physically fit and look good.
I never got the whole oversexualized angle when it comed to most comic book appearences, they look very tame compared to rave or even gym outfits meant for mobility, do superheroes not need mobility?
I don't care if it's in a shitposting community, a meme community, or a news community. If the image or text is generated it should be labeled as such, and failing to label it should be grounds to remove the post. AI slop is a plague and its only going to get worse as the tech matures (if it hasn't already peaked).
I'm so tired of having to call it out every time I see it, especially when people in the comments think it's a photoshop work or (heavens help us) real. Human labor has real tangible value that plagiarism machines can't even pretend to imitate and I'm sick of seeing that shit without it being labeled (so I can filter it out).
The entitled attitude and acting like there's something unethical about article paywalls makes me roll my eyes. Find a way to bypass it or a copy on one of the archive sites, and post that. Or post nothing. Responding with just "ugh paywall, how dare you/they" sucks.
His art somehow manages like every single scifi concept art you will find on Artstation and Deviantart combined. And the consumerist slope that the Electric State movie wound up being kind of proves he is a sell out given the anti-consumerist message of the book.
The way LOTR was written made it so fucking boring, I dropped it halfway through The Two Towers.
The Twilight series, on the other hand, was so entertaining that I read it till the very end. I don't care if the characters are trashy / drama is crap / whatever; I just want to be entertained.
I think it's good that it exist though it being own by giant corporation and the copyright issues along with it is questionable. But in terms increasing productivity it's obvious. Though everyone can generate but not everyone has an artistic mindset and be able to produce what their thinking. Artist should leverage it to increase or get inspiration for their next big thing, essentially treat it like those custom brushes but on a higher level. Imagine animators having the ability to tweak movements in between frames making it super crisp without much effort. All they will have to do now is produce key frames and describe the in between process. Graphic artist generating starting scenes which they can work further to do some concept art. No longer having to spend overtime animating a scene for an episode that is to be aired the next day. A mangaka having to draw backgrounds for their manga. This means no need to do overtime to reach a certain quality that customers demand. Though the que