#sao bashing

[crobones]

imagine if you will: izzy and zheng fighting together, back to back, the two most talented sword fighters

#izzy hands #israel hands #zheng yi sao #ofmd #ofmd s2 #then frenchie pops in and bashes someone with his lute #do i want jim's dagger's involved? #yes #but jim and ed make a competition for themselves #ed is good but he keeps running out of daggers because before he only had one and just recently he gave two to some urchin children #the man does not keep track of things #IZZY SACRIFICING HIMSELF AS A DISTRACTION IS NOT AN OPTION IS WHAT THE UNDERLYING CONTEXT OF THIS POST IS

[zodiac-senpai]

The fact they gave this boi a freaking chest window will never NOT be iconic to me (and probably to Kirito) 👓✨

#eugeo slowly breaking down his bashful fanservice walls for kirito lol #good for him #pretty boy #bishonen #sword art online #sao #saolr #sao alicization #sao ​last recollection #sword art online last recollection

[transboykirito]

he definitely does, (progressive book spoilers ish?) if that man will sit in the most uncomfortable chair ever so she can sleep on him and he keeps watch protecting her he def watches her sleep

I think he might have done explicitly that at one poijt in progressive, i might be wrong but theres alot of cute stuff for them and is why i love progressive so much. Not to mention the scene where he sleeps on a couch to be able to keep watch over her as well.

i love the little moments in progressive i just wish we got them in the main series lol, especially irl!!!!

#adorabl8dthirsty #asks #but i will shut up about that. because otherwise a certain someone will attack me for bashing sao and complaining. 🙃

[centrally-unplanned]

Don't care about SAO but adore learning about internet drama so - what's the Great Digibro Divergence?

Sword Art Online's anime was released in 2012, and it was a huge success amoung mainstream audiences. Mainstream audiences don't typically post on Tumblr or Reddit though, that is a fandom thing, and in the West fandom reception was also positive - the reddit threads were hype, reviews were good, and since this was 2012 when the peak of the first "AniTuber" wave was cresting, the YouTuber reviews were positive. People like Glass Reflections, Gigguk, etc, all made positive reviews through 2013. But all the reviews had this note of like, "yeah there are big issues but what it does right, it does right."

Then in 2014 MyLittlePony-Analyst-Turned-Anime-Youtuber-Critic (glorious sentence) Digibro released his "Sword Art Oline - An Analytical Diatribe", a Red Letter Media-inspired long-form takedown of the series. It was one of the first and most influential of that genre of rage-fueled, edgy, but fundamentally analysis-focused videos in the anime space (a genre which was very big in the mid-2010's and lives on through YouTubers like MauLer). It essentially took all the 'it has flaws but' perspectives and flipped them on their head, to say the flaws are overwhelming and erase the good.

Through a combination of the video itself being so successful due to its style & format, to the fact that there was always a large undercurrent of people who didn't like SAO but were always drowned out by fans and so didn't bother, the tide turned. And certainly another factor is the inherent life cycle of a fandom, people love to hate, they love to hate the most popular things the most, and you just need a 'tipping point' to make that hating go from cringe to cool. Digi's video was that tipping point, and by 2015 every Youtuber was posting imitation SAO hate-fests and every reddit thread that wasn't an episode recap or something was bashing it. It was Hamilton or Homestuck on Tumblr all over again, essentially.

THere are other structural reasons around SAO itself, and of course this is a 'straw breaking the camels back' moment not the entire cause, but I think that is a key divergence between west & japan on how SAO is percieved - hating SAO was critical to the birth of an entire subgenre of Anime Fandom so it became way more entrenched than in Japan.

(And I am not linking the review because Digi now goes by Trixie, hates all of her old videos essentially, deleted most of them, and has quit anitubing. But Pendantic Romantic has a video on the fandom around SAO describing this phenomenon, can link that for the insane who are curious)

#anime fandom history

[gen-the-greedy]

List of things I like so that I can remember that I like them, will update as my interests come to me in prophetic visions

I humbly request you engage me in conversation about these topics

Also for the record transphobes dni

Digimon (gabumon, gazimon, and impmon favorites)

Sonic the hedgehog

Mother series

Splatoon

Ace attorney

Smash ultimate (I main Mac and Falco)

Jojo's bizarre adventure

Revali from botw my beloved

Pikmin (have only played 4 but I watched chuggaconroy play the others back in the day)

Xenoblade 1 (mixed feelings on the rest of the series)

STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO why did it take me this many bullets to remember, got tier band

Halo

Fable (second game was never ported to PC so I haven't played it)

InFamous (haven't played second son)

FE three houses was good fight me (edelgard my beloathed)

Anyone remember Epic Battle Fantasy? Ebf 5 was so fucking good

ATLA

Full metal alchemist

Red Vs Blue

The Princess Bride

Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny

Dr pepper 😎

Deltarune

I don't really care for the roleplay elements but I occasionally show up to my local larp group just to bash some heads

I just like martial weapons in general

Never used a bardiche but it looks like my kind of thing

I want to play dnd again but haven't had the chance (I mean I could dm a campaign myself but I don't wanna)

They Might be Giants

Lemon Demon/ Neil cicierega

Cake (the band)

Pie (the food)

Anything lemon flavored

The color purple (and that specific shade of lemon juice yellow)

Sao abridged

Calvin and Hobbes is responsible for my absentmindedly archaic and verbose vernacular that I have to go out of my way to subdue to not sound like a fuckin nerd

Coming back to this point, obviously my word choice was intentional but subdue specifically was not, I can't escape this curse

Also hitchhikers guide, but I was too young to actually remember any of it

Red Vox

Funny cat pictures

Fuckin love dragons when they're treated with respect instead of as giant beasts to slay or cute and "smol" I am very opinionated about this I grew up with

Eragon/ The Inheritance Cycle

I am way too opinionated about dragons I think I might be a kobold (the dnd ones not the german ones)

Gryphons are also cool but if you spell it Griffin dni

Might change my name to gryphon, I liked the sound of phoenix shortened to nick like in ace attorney but my friend's brother is already named that and that would get confusing

Been a while since I read Percy Jackson but I liked that

Dragon Age: Origins

Fable 3 totally ripped it's story from DA:O

I bite my ice cream cause I'm not a coward

[freyalorelei]

Okay. Wow. Where do I start.

(HERE THERE BE SPOILERS:)

THEY MADE MERSTEDE HAPPEN. Now we KNOW that the crew reads fic, because that was pure fanservice. When he materialized and swam up to Ed, I couldn't stop giggling. My husband asked what was so funny, and when I refused to reply, he asked if it was a fan fic thing. Why, yes. Yes, it is.

(Also MerStede is a good look and yes it's camp and cheesy and cringefail or whatever the kids say these days, but honestly I can't blame Ed 'cause yeah, I'd go there. Also congrats to Rhys for living out his cryptid dreams. :D)

Not loving where the Olu/Jim relationship is heading. Seeing Archie intrude on their space was uncomfortable. And I don't like that they made Olu incompetent (he's been a pirate for how long and he doesn't recognize a battle map?). Zheng Yi Sao is amazing, though. "Girl, how are you?" 11/10, chef's kiss, you're doing great sweetie, etc.

I'm shocked that Lucius immediately pivoted to blaming STEDE for his misfortune instead of, you know, THE GUY WHO PUSHED HIM. Everyone seemed a little too on board with pointing fingers at Stede, and no one mentioned Chauncey or the effort Stede went through to fix his mistakes. He even admitted to Lucius to his face that he's aware he's a flawed individual who has hurt many people.

Apparently Stede's vision of their reunion involves a full-bearded Ed, even though the last time they saw one another Ed was clean-shaven. I get that they couldn't make Taika grow a short beard within days, but it's an odd choice for the character. I guess he's remembering Ed as he was when they fell in love? Also I was originally anti-Steard, but that opening scene gave me pause. Damn but that's a good look for Rhys.

Alas, poor Ivan, we hardly knew ye. And for Ed to barely twitch at his death? That's cold, man. They need him to atone HARD for his actions this seasons, because so far he's become very unsympathetic.

Ricky idolizes Stede the same way that Izzy idolized Ed, and it's going to end just as badly for him. Also now I want to try a gin Rick(e)y. Watch this become the new signature fandom drink (with orange juice in place of lime, of course). Lavender-eucalyptus scents will surge in popularity as well.

"You smoke now?" babe he just endured a cavalcade of horrors incomprehensible to the human mind, you're lucky he isn't strung out 24/7. Also smoking was probably considered medicinal.

Speaking of hard drugs, apparently Ed's been snorting rhino horn, which is an aphrodisiac. Is he just giving himself constant blue balls over Stede as self-punishment? No wonder his brain finally was like, fine, if you're not gonna get a therapist I guess I'll just have to make one myself. And Ed repaid this with a Looney Tunes sequence of repeatedly killing his hallucination.

Which leads me to ask...how did he get in that state, anyway? Auntie said that a man had his head bashed in, but the cannonball that Jim dropped would have caved in Ed's face, no takesy-backsies. Izzy's failed suicide attempt I get; 17th century pistols were notoriously unreliable and misfired all the time. You can't just lightly bounce a cannonball off someone's head.

ETA: You know what, I'll accept Ed surviving a cannonball to the face the same way that the show itself shrugs off all the various major character stabbings, hangings, and drownings in an era when the most effective medical care was catgut, laudanum, and hope. If Stede can survive being gut-stabbed AND hanged at the same time, not to mention Izzy getting shot minutes after losing a leg, sure Ed can deflect a fatal head wound. Why not.

Is it me or were there a LOT of suicide attempts, particularly on Ed's part? Like, I get that he's long past spiraled into insanity, but it's unnerving to watch someone repeatedly hold a gun barrel under their chin. I knew a guy (not well) who did kill himself this way, and in front of his kid no less. She was 18 months old and has no memory of it, thank god, but it was horribly traumatic for his wife and older sons, who were in the next room. So yeah. A trigger warning specifically for suicide attempts would have been nice.

They seem to be leaning hard into Buttons's mysticism. Now he can not only talk to birds, but he's being treated as some sort of sea god who can maybe turn into a bird? I hope they don't veer too far into fantasy; I like that it's more grounded with just a hint of theatricality.

Ed puts 'orgasms' as a priority on his list of three reasons to live. Oooooh, they gonna fuck nasty this season.

...they never did explain exactly how Stede got the crew off that island in a dinghy. Did he row them to land one by one? There's no way he piled them all in...the boat wouldn't support their combined weight.

#ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd spoilers #ofmd season 2 thoughts & musings #ofmd #ofmd season 2

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Brazil's Carnival finally reborn in full form after pandemic

Brazil’s Carnival is back.

Glittery and outrageous costumes are once again being prepared. Samba songs will ring out ‘til dawn at Rio de Janeiro’s sold-out parade grounds. Hundreds of raucous, roaming parties will flood the streets. And working-class communities will be buoyed, emotionally and economically, by the renewed revelry.

The COVID-19 pandemic last year prompted Rio to delay Carnival by two months, and watered down some of the fun, which was attended mostly by locals. This year, Brazil’s federal government expects 46 million people to join the festivities that officially begin Friday and run through Feb. 22. That includes visitors to cities that make Carnival a world-famous bash, especially Rio but also Salvador, Recife and metropolitan Sao Paulo, which has recently emerged as a hotspot.

These cities have already begun letting loose with street parties.

“We’ve waited for so long, we deserve this catharsis,” Thiago Varella, a 38-year-old engineer wearing a Hawaiian shirt drenched by the rain, said at a bash in Sao Paulo on Feb. 10.

Continue reading.

#brazil #politics #brazilian politics #carnival #mod nise da silveira #image description in alt

[jjraderftw]

Sword Art Online (ep.1,2,5,8)

Oh boy, SAO! What else can I say except that it’s the tried and true classic that every anime fan loves to bash. Regardless of what the stigma tied to it, SAO popularized the ever famous isekai style of anime to a larger audience and made fantasy stories a lot more popular than they would have otherwise been. The first half of the season, which we will be focusing on, tells the story of Kirito and his trials to escape the world of Sword Art Online. In a not too distant future, a form of virtual reality headsets allow you to connect your entire nervous system to a VRV world and truly live the game. Once an MMO game is released that brings about the mechanics of a video game into a real life scenario, the players are trapped and forced to finish the game or else risk dying. The classic quote “if you die in the game you die in real life” comes from this show after all. Though Kirito is an experienced player, he struggles for survival because the normal world of games he is used to (one with no real repercussions) meets the real risks of life. This show makes you think about how far VR has come, what is the difference between life and simulations, and how the idea of being behind an “online” avatar changes a person.

Virtual reality has come a long way. Today, we see the development and use of Oculus Rifts and Vive headsets that break the barriers of reality. We can now play, game, and entertain ourselves in worlds that aren’t even real, imagining things that aren’t physically possible. We can reach new heights and create situations like SAO’s fantasy settings that feel real because we can see and interact with the environment with our own peripheral vision. As we move, our characters move. As we move our hands, so do the avatars. It is a new level of immersion because we can no longer see the physical boundaries of our controllers and a television screen. Instead, we only see the world we are simulated in. As of now, development of full body suits, trackpads, and much more are revolutionizing the way we live by making online environments. That brings up the question, however, of how we will be able to tell real from simulated? The show brings up the idea that a simulated world could potentially have the same feelings (the five senses) and consequences of real life. You can die, marry, and live out your life in an online world. At that point, will the real world be outclassed? Will the limitless bounds of the online world create situations that are more ideal than the real world? It’s up to us to determine what we will make out of this potential future. Given an SAO style world existed, would entire civilizations, families, and relationships be preferably fostered there? I believe that we would ideally want a mix of the two. Simulations could create an ideal world but it will always lack the fact that you are not physically present. Your being is not linked to the online world, but the physical one. Then again, the argument exists that your physical senses would be present thus making your being present. It’s very much in the eyes of the beholder. I think our physical world, though littered with flaws, should not be replaced. Think of it as your main save file in a game. The physical world is our main save and simulations are branch saves.

SAO brings up an interesting idea about what online avatars allow people to do. The mask that people can have online allows them to do and say whatever they want without filters. As a result, many people on anonymous social forums and video games are often crude and filterless in their mannerism. The idea of a privacy safety shield allows people to have freedom not known before. In SAO, this is symbolized by the avatar creation. By making a character, you can hide your true person. However, when the real game begins, the avatars are dissipated, exposing everyone’s true identities. This tied with the fact that SAO simulates reality can be a commentary that in real life, and even in the internet, you are never truly anonymous. In reality, you always show your face and use your voice to communicate. In the online world, however, you may also be exposing yourself. The existence of cookies, online accounts, and social media allow your online identity to be somewhat easily trackable. Third party sources can also gain access to your personal cameras, microphones, and virtual addresses, which when considered with the technologically filled world we live in, makes you ask: are we ever truly in privacy?

[bribriz]

Sword Art Online (Pt.1)

SAO is one of those animes everyone knows from the last decade. Some may say it is amazing. Others may bash it into the ground. All things considered, SAO created a world that blurred the lines between reality and fiction.

Although one might use video games, such as MMORPGs, as a way of escaping reality, SAO is ironically the opposite: a hyperreality.

Basically everyone in Aincad displays tendencies that conform with the hyperreality they are in. For example, I do not know if it exaggerated because it is an anime, but everyone act in ways they would only do in the real world, such as flinching from non-existent pain. Even Kirito is starting to believe he is only alive in Aincrad; he is forgetting about the real world as if his life transferred over from the real world. Whether or not Kirito is trying to escape from reality, it is unmistakable that he has already accepted Aincrad as his current reality. Asuna is a foil to Kirito, in that she desires to beat Aincrad so that she can return to the real world. In this way, she is the only one who is highly aware and can distinguish reality and fiction.

The mechanics and features of Aincrad contribute to its hyperreality. When everyone learns of the true intentions of the creator, Kayaba Akihiko, their avatars change into their real selves with the help of an in-game item. Also, despite eating not having a tangible effect, Asuna still maxes out her cooking skill. Aincrad has replicated many things from the real world so that it presents itself as more real to the players.

I never thought about SAO as a sort of hyperreality, but now that I know, I believe Akihiko designed SAO as an experiment to monitor over the 10000 players to ascertain whether or not they would eventually perceive SAO as reality or cling onto the hope that they would return to the real world.

[thaiantravel2]

Tour Dubai 4 ngày 3 đêm khám phá vẻ đẹp sa mạc Safari

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- Tham quan Đại lộ Shaikh Zayed là một trong những con đường đẹp nhất Dubai với những công trình kiến trúc mỹ lệ

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- Đến hòn đảo Jumeirah Island, hòn đảo nhân tạo lấn biển mang hình dáng cây cọ này được mệnh danh là kỳ quan thứ 8 của thế giới bởi kiến trúc và vẻ đẹp không tưởng.

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Ngày 01 Tour Dubai 4 ngày 3 đêm:  Hà Nội  Dubai (Ăn sáng & chiều)

Sân bay Dubai, phục vụ vài chục triệu lượt khách đến và đi mỗi năm, được cho là một trong những sân bay bận rộn của thế giới, đón quý khách trong sự tất bật và náo nhiệt. Đây là điểm dừng chân của bạn khi đáp chuyến bay khởi hành từ Hà Nội với tâm trạng háo hức cho một chuyến tham quan đáng nhớ.

Với khí hậu khô nóng đặc trưng vùng sa mạc, tạo cho bạn sự hào hứng với hành trình khám phá đặc biệt và nhiều bí ẩn.

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Ngày 02 Tour Dubai 4 ngày 3 đêm:   Sa mạc Safari (Ăn sáng & chiều)

Buổi sáng, các bạn có thể tự do khám phá thành phố Dubai, tới những điểm mua sắm sầm uất và hàng hóa miễn thuế như: Hermes, Chanel, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Dior, Armani, D&G…. và giá cả rẻ hơn ở những trung tâm mua sắm khác trên thế giới từ 10-50%. Bạn có cơ hội thăm quan và mua sắm với một chất lượng dịch vụ tốt nhất.

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Quý khách sẽ được chiêm ngưỡng vẻ đẹp của vùng biển cát này với những đụn cát cao ngất rất ấn tượng cùng những mép dốc sâu do gió tạo thành. Tour Dubai 4 ngày 3 đêm đưa du khách tới vùng đất sa mạc kỳ thú, trải nghiệm lều trại giữa sa mạc, hòa mình vào đời sống sinh hoạt về đêm tại sa mạc của dân Ả Rập.

Đêm sa mạc Dubai có lẽ thu hút mọi người nhất bởi những tiết mục múa bụng (Belly Dance) trong các điệu nhạc truyền thống của người dân du cư Ả-rập.

Du khách hoàn toàn có thể tham gia vào điệu nhảy này cùng các vũ công xinh đẹp, càng làm tăng thêm sự say mê đối với những nét văn hóa rất đặc trưng của vùng Trung Đông này

Ngày 03 Tour Dubai 4 ngày 3 đêm: Dubai City Tour (Ăn sáng & chiều)

Đại lộ Shaikh Zayed là một trong những con đường đẹp nhất Dubai với những công trình kiến trúc mỹ lệ hai bên đường.

Trong ngày thứ 3 này, du khách sẽ được ghé thăm Tòa tháp cao nhất thế giới Burj Khalifa với Trung Tâm Thương Mại Thế Giới Dubai cùng khách sạn 6 sao Burj Al Arab. Chỉ khi đứng trước tòa tháp này, quý khách mới thực sự cảm nhận hết được công nghệ xây dựng đỉnh cao, sự giàu có ở Dubai cũng như sự sáng tạo của con người đã phá vỡ những giới hạn về không gian.

Tiếp tục hành trình đến hòn đảo Jumeirah Island, hòn đảo nhân tạo lấn biển mang hình dáng cây cọ này được mệnh danh là kỳ quan thứ 8 của thế giới bởi kiến trúc và vẻ đẹp không tưởng được của nó.

Từ nơi đây, du khách sẽ được mãn nhãn ngắm nhìn cảnh vật xung quanh Dubai Marina và khách sạn Atlantis. Rời kỳ quan này, quý khách sẽ viếng Nhà thờ Hồi Giáo Jumeirah-một trong những nhà thờ Hồi Giáo lớn nhất thế giới với lối kiến trúc đậm chất Ả-rập.

Ghé thăm Bảo tàng Dubai là nơi ghi lại chặng hành trình vươn lên của các cư dân Ả Rập từ một dãy đất sa mạc cằn cỗi trờ thành một thành phố diệu kỳ. Trải nghiệm thú vị cuối ngày cho quý khách là đi cano taxi (Taxi đường thủy-Abra) đến Spice Souk và Gold Souk, phương tiện đặc trưng này sẽ tạo cho quý khách cảm giác lạ lẫm và rất thú vị với tầm nhìn bao quát 360 độ về khung cảnh quanh mình.

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Sau khi dùng Buffet sáng tại khách sạn, Quý khách tiếp tục tự do tham quan mua sắm ở thành phố thiên đường trước khi về lại Hà Nội.

Dubai không chỉ có những khu mua sắm hiện đại với những thương hiệu lớn của thế giới thời trang, mà quý khách cũng có thể tham quan và mua sắm những sản phẩm đặc trưng của xứ sở này như sản phẩm tơ lụa, thảm Ba Tư nổi tiếng….để làm kỷ niệm cho chuyến đi hoặc làm quà cho người thân và bạn bè của mình.

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Thỉnh thoảng vẫn tự hỏi vì sao lại thích anh ấy, đóng phim không hay, nhiều năm rồi không có tiến bộ gì nhiều, con người cũng chẳng thú vị, ưu điểm lớn nhất... chắc là đẹp ha?

Đẹp thật, trong lòng tôi vẫn còn lưu giữ hình ảnh chàng trai đi dưới ánh mặt trời quay đầu lại cười, dường như thượng đế ban phát ánh sáng cho nhân gian cũng chỉ vì để người ta nhìn thấy nụ cười đó mà thôi. 

Nói thế có hơi lố, nhưng tóm lại là đẹp, đẹp từ cái thuở mới chân ướt chân ráo bước vào showbiz, hiện tại đã là chàng trai 30 rồi vẫn còn đẹp. Đóng phim dở thì dở thật đấy, nhưng đẹp quá lại chẳng nỡ mắng. 

Cái lúc mới thích anh thì fanpage ở Việt Nam mới có vài trăm like thì phải, hiện tại đã là nửa triệu rồi, một chặng đường dài ơi là dài. Theo anh từ thuở chẳng ai biết Dương Dương là ai cho đến lúc đi qua bao trận bão táp mưa sa, cũng chẳng làm được gì cho anh hết, nhưng mà vẫn cứ thích như vậy, nhắc tới thì có cảm giác như nhớ về tình đầu, vừa hoài niệm, vừa như có nắng trong lòng. 

Nhiều hồi cũng bực anh đóng phim mãi không lên tay gì cả vậy, thấy fan gắng gượng bênh anh mà xót, cũng không thể như fan nhà khác vỗ ngực tự hào vì idol. Nhưng biết sao được, không hay thì là không hay thôi, thích thì vẫn cứ thích, dù sao cũng thích được gần chục năm rồi còn gì. Trên tất cả thì vẫn cảm ơn anh vì mãi không thay đổi, cảm ơn anh vì sống chân thành trong sạch, diễn dở đấy nhưng cũng chẳng để ai bash đến đời tư nhân phẩm, phim có thể flop đấy nhưng vĩnh viễn là Dương Dương không thẹn với lòng. 

Làm fan anh, thực sự cũng không thẹn với lòng. 

Có lẽ rồi sẽ đến ngày anh không còn nổi tiếng nữa, trở thành lớp idol lưu lượng hết thời trong lời bàn tán của thiên hạ, kể cả như vậy thì tôi vẫn cảm thấy thật may khi gặp được anh. Gặp được anh từ cái thời còn lận đận ngược xuôi cho tới khi nổi tiếng nhất rồi chìm dần, gặp được anh phiên bản trẻ trung đẹp đẽ nhất cho đến lúc chín chắn trưởng thành nhất, gặp được anh từ năm anh hai mươi tôi mười mấy, người ta gọi là độ tuổi niên hoa, thật tốt. Rất có thể sau này lớn tuổi rồi tôi còn quên mất mình từng thích một người như anh, nhưng thực ra cũng chẳng sao cả, chỉ mong dương quang vĩnh viễn sưởi ấm bước chân anh, với tôi đã đủ mãn nguyện rồi.

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On a more possitive note, I’ve started watching Sword Art Online. It’s one of the worst things I’ve ever seen (and the last film I saw in cinemas was Cats to give you context for the scale i’m working on here) and I kind of adore it in much the same way I love garbage like Smallville or Twilight. It’s so stupid on so many levels. You could challenge someone to write the worst anime, and it would almost certainly be better than SAO. It’s almost hypnotic how terrible it is.

No one should watch this terrible terrible show so I therefore don’t feel at all bad that I’m about the spoil absolutely everything, but honestly if you do also hate-watch this please come talk to me about how terrible it is. I don’t know anyone else who watches it.

Highlights of Season 1 include:

everyone is trapped in an MMO, and if you die in the MMO you die IRL. but if you were a beta-tester you’re probably fine because they just let them keep all their levels and items from the testing, so they’re all massively OP and everyone just accepts this as a normal and non-game-breaking thing

it’s a fantasy MMO but there’s no races, no magic system, no weapons except swords and maces, and not even an option to dual wield - literally all you can do in this fucking game is stand in front of an enemy and mash the attack button. I’m pretty sure they’re trapped there because the devs realised no one would play this post launch-day otherwise because it’s boring as shit

when the villain traps everyone he also just changs all their avatars to look like they do IRL for absolutely no reason, like actually none, he doesn’t even say he thinks it would be funny, he just does it and no one questions it and it is literally never mentioned again because this is the worst TV show ever animated.

in the second episode the main character deliberately witholds information about how to defeat a boss, indirectly causing multiple deaths. there is absolutely no reason for him to withhold it, he was just being a jerk because he doesn’t like people

in the third episode they reset his entire personality and he’s now a selfless hero pretending to be a lower level than he really is so people will find him more relateable and be his friend because all he wants is to help people. this is not a consequence of episode 2, they just decided they didnt like the character as he’d previously been written.

he makes some new friends who are all objectively terrible people who have decided for no season that the twelve year old who doesn’t really know how to play and keeps having anxiety attacks about the very real possibility of death has to be the guild tank. the MC is high enough level to be functionally immortal in like half the levels, but doesn’t tell anyone this he just lets them go on bullying this child

none of his friends survive that episode, in the game or IRL. which is also a christmas epsiode. a child dies in battle because she’s a terrible tank and then a man commits suicide out of guilt, so then the main character murders santa to try and bring them back from the actual dead but it doesn’t work because again, this is a video game and they are dead IRL, so then he walks off into the snow alone. Christmas!

we meet the best character in the entire show in episode 4, Rosalia, who has gone evil and started just straight murdering people because she’s sick of being an attractive adult woman who can’t get a date because she’s surrounded by lolicons who are only interested in the preteen characters (not a joke, that comes up, the show is firmly on the side of the lolicons)

in the same episode we get an extended bra and panty sequence staring an actual fucking child, like canonically this character is maybe 13 at best. this is one of only 2 occaisions when they feel the need to undress a character and it’s the fucking 12 year old, it’s so gross it reads like a parody of itself

literally every single named female character aged over 8 who talks to the MC falls in love with him after like 5 minutes (and in season 2 this includes his actual sister). he shows absolutely no interest in any of them (including his sister, thank god) until...

the main character gets engaged to a girl he only knows from an MMO after a virtual single date (he doesn’t actually win her in a PVP match but only because he looses the match, he 100% canonically tries to win her in a match, which she is apparently fine with). he then doesn’t bother to ask for her real name until the final episode, he just calls her by her screen name

(that’s okay though becuase it turns out that this moron of a love interest used her real name, on a local server, in a game where your character looks like you do IRL, because apparently getting doxxed is her hobby)

they then get in-game married off screen. there’s not even like a still of a wedding photo. nothing. the main character proposes and then the show immediately jumps to the honeymoon, it’s fucking bizarre.

they find a creepy child dressed all in white with no memory alone in the woods a week into their honeymoon who starts calling them mommy and daddy literally seconds after they first meet her, and they don’t suspect anything suss is going on and adopt her

for hilarity bear in mind the main character may only be 15 at this point (he says he’s only just turned 16 in the last epsiode, but his actual birthday is never mentioned), and his virtual wifu is 16, but no one ever questions the marriage or the adoption, even though ‘hey marriage in a video game is as important and meaningful as marriage in real life’ is an actual conversation people have multiple times. also they think the child they adopt is an actual IRL 8 year old who thinks these randos she met in an MMO are her mum and dad and everyone just goes with that like it’s a totally normal thing

a character called ‘Thinker’ agrees to meet an enemy faction leader for peace talks. the “peace talks” take place in a high level dungeon and he is told to come alone with no weapons and no fast travel. he does this. no one ever comments that his name is ironic, and in fact they seem to think that being betrayed and trapped in a dungeon with a boss is a totally unexpected turn of events Thinker could never have planned for

they take their new baby into the dungeon to rescue thinker, because they went to the jean grey school of baby rearing, and she imediately reveals that she’s actually a magical maggufin with infinite power, murders the grim reaper, and then dies. In literally the second episode she’s in

after she dies the MC hacks the admin account of the game, converts her corpse into an in game item, and saves to the local storage on his console, with the intention of bringing her back to life as a robot once they’re saved from the game. I’m not joking, that’s an actual thing that happens.

the fact that the main character can just access the main admin account and make massive game-breaking changes isn’t used again in that game and he never thinks to try and use it to force log people out or give himself infinite life so he can just rush the game and free everyone. nope, convert a corpse into an item and then never think about it again.

there’s an entire episode where all they do is go fishing. its the only filler episode in the season, and it immediately follows the death of a small child. it’s the most tone-deaf beach episode in writing history

it turns out this game, this game where they didn’t bother coding in any difference races, weapons, or any kind of magic system, was intended to have fully sentient AI therapists, because why the fuck not at this point honestly

oh also the game has PVP and you can trick the game into thinking a sleeping player is in PVP with you in order to actually murder a real person without it flagging in-game as a murder making the crime impossible for the real life legal system to investigate even though you just murdered a person. and they expect us to believe this game had actual beta testers. at least cyberpunk wasn’t played on microwaves you connected straight to your brain (also not a joke, the VR consoles canonically work by sending microwave radiation into your brain, no wonder VR never caught on)

the set up for the show is that they have to reach level 100 of a dungeon in order to win. At level 75, the writers got bored and the show just ends.

it turns out the power of love allows you to just break the fucking game and the main villain literally has a line about how ‘love allows you to remove debuffs, huh, we didn’t think to plan for that’ because again, there’s no metaphors in this show, everything is 100% literal including the fact that falling in love with another player means you’re immune to the paralysis status effect

power of love also allows you to very briefly become a poltergeist after being killed, but only for like 2 seconds. again not a joke or a metaphor, main character is killed but then gets to hang around as a ghost for a little bit to enable him to defeat the boss. he also doesn’t die in real life despite that being the entire fucking premise of the show, again because power of love.

the bad guy literally has no plan, he’s just doing shit for the sake of having something to do. His actions directly cause the deaths of more than 4,000 people, and it’s not even in aid of anything. they ask him why he trapped 10,000 people in an MMO and allowed them to slowly die, and he’s just like ‘huh, i forgot i did that, random’ and then just fucking peaces out

the fact that he committed one of the largest mass killings outside of war never really comes up again, as far as we know he doesn’t even go to jail. i think the show actually kind of thinks he’s a good guy, which is a fucking WILD moral stance to take on the deaths of 4000 completely innocent people for absolutely no reason

If this sounds hilari-bad but you don’t want to invest the time to watch a show which is objectively garbage, it has an abridged series which is famously better than the show it’s parodying (i’m dead serious, people have character arcs, the getting married after one date thing is properly addressed, the mc has to deal with PTSD because of all his friends dying in epsidode 3, they don’t immediately follow the death of a child with an extended fishing montage, the villain has an actual plan). It’s mostly actually pretty good, but this is the internet and it’s an abridged series, so while there are a lot fewer yikes moments than most it still has enough that I’m not comfortable recommending it without the caveat. that said I still enjoyed it a lot, although possibly not at much as pointing and laughing at the garbage that is the actual show.

#sao bashing #kirito bashing #sao abridged #good bad shows #i love this garbage show so much #it's one of the funniest things i've watched all year #and none of that is intentional #sword art online bashing #if you also love hate this show please come talk to me about how terrible it is

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My regret over being into vampire knight is immeasurable

But at least I was never into sao /hj

#I say half joke cuz I’m poking fun tbh #everyone bashes sao #and one of my friends forced me to watch it #it was kinda boring ngl #the only other anime I can think of where I have been apprehensive to talk about it... would probably be Tokyo ghoul #I like the concept and the first season was good #but I heard it took a totally different route from the manga #I drew zonta as a ghoul for fun one time when I was in college #I think my interest in vk was more embarrassing than tg tho

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Brazil's Carnival returns to Rio, despite cancellations in some cities due to mudslides

Rio De Janeiro's famously colourful Carnival festival has returned in full swing this year after years of delays and cancellations caused by the pandemic, but devastating mudslides in some cities have seen festivities cancelled.

Rio has awarded more than 600 permits for street parties, with many more unofficial bashes expected to erupt in the days to come.

With the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic seemingly behind them, authorities expect the annual celebration to break records.

The cities of Sao Sebastiao and Bertioga cancelled their Carnival festivities due to mudslides.

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#brazil #brazilian politics #politics #carnival #environmental jsutice #mod nise da silveira #image description in alt

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ALICI-FUCKING-ZATION

Okay so the first thing I want to comment on is the visual direction is a bit different now, particularly when it comes to outlines and hair colours and stuff. Currently, I’m not super fond of the new aesthetic. However, chances are it’ll grow on me and I’ll get to say the show looks good. Actual direction seems a bit more creative so hey. At one point, lighting is used to subtly (or maybe not so subtly) foreshadow the appearance of a later character! One that was foreshadowed earlier in the episode in the first place! Yes!

We only got a mere 2 scenes spent in cafes where the characters dispense exposition. That’s not bad for your first episode.

Speaking of first episodes, it was double length which was a ballsy move, but I think it paid off. Both halves seemed equally important and whatnot.

First half focuses on the Underworld as it were, a VR world where the time passed is way longer than the time spent in full dive, so Kirito spent 3 days IRL full-diving and either 10 days or a month in-game time. He’s not sure. Heck, maybe he’s way off and his entire life in that world happened in those 3 days. I don’t know. It’s a decently interesting world though, with some interesting rules that when broken result in spooky Paladin dudes kidnapping you and later killing you. The titular Alice fell in a pretty dumb scene and touched the Dark Side or whatever so she’s gonna be killed, and before Kirito and his coward buddy Eugeo can save her, Kirito gets decked by some villagers while Eugeo has a stroke. I’m excited to see where this goes.

Regarding the second half, I’ve got some fucking incredible news. Sinon has retained her personality and development that she had in Phantom Bullet! Woohoo! No longer is she just another part of Kirito’s fucking harem like the Fairy Dance Arc and a bit of Ordinal Scale idk I’d need to rewatch it.

Also Ordinal Scale is referenced quite significantly and Yuna’s in the ED which means it’s canon to the anime from this point onwards which is a big deal because it was an original movie that came after the Alicization light novel so we might be seeing some interesting changes to the Alicizaton story. Not that I’d know they were changes since I’ve read none of the light novels but hey-ho.

That little foreshadowing tangent I went on in the first paragraph was referring to the third Death Gun who escaped after the events of Phantom Bullet. Kirito and Sinon are talking about Death Gun so the guy gets brought up, and in a later scene when Kirito and Asuna are walking home car lights cast his shadow on a wall briefly, indicating that someone’s following them. And indeed, it’s the Death Gun boy. He’s got the same poison as before and at the end of the episode he stabs Kirito who also stabs him in the leg with an umbrella. It’d be a funny meme if Kirito survived from that electrode that saved him when this happened before, but I’m calling it right now that the microchip near his heart that lets Asuna know his heartbeat they brought up earlier will be what saved him. I guess. In which case I’d honestly be disappointed because while it’s great that the third Death Gun is here and we’re getting some continuity, they’d basically be doing what they did before having Kirito be so miraculously okay, which was already pretty stupid in the first place. Maybe they’ll surprise me though. I sure hope so.

Decent first episode, I think. Definitely better than the first episode of Fairy Dance and Phantom Bullet and Caliber and maybe Mother’s Rosario. If this quality is maintained or surpassed we might actually see the best SAO arc. I don’t know. It’ll take a lot to beat Mother’s Rosario for me, I think. Though Mother’s Rosario was 7 episodes and this’ll be like 50 episodes so it’s definitely got the time to be better than it.

Originally I’d planned to watch this episode after all the other first episodes I need to watch, save the best till last and all, but it’s Kirito’s birthday so I should get it out today while I’ve got the time.

#just to clarify right now #there's not a hint of irony in this review #yeah blah fucking blah sao's garbage whatever #i'm not even one of those people that necessarily cares about people bashing sao constantly #but #give it a fucking chance at least? #i got shit for recommending sao alternative literally just because it has sao in the title #but it's not even by the same writer! #like #sao's obviously not great #but to completely disregard any potential quality it could have because hur-dur sao? #that's not fair #i want to be totally fair in how i'm judging this anime #and i think i was fair enough #maybe #it's not exactly a review so much as it is just letting my thoughts on the episode run but hey #anyway it's not an ironic review #my praises are actual praises #if you're thinking of telling me 'lol sao's bad' #just don't #i just want to watch alicization in peace #if you've got legitimate criticisms though fuckin go for it #i mean i criticised it a fair bit here #i don't want to be overly negative and just go 'it's sao obviously it's shit' that'd be hypocritical as fuck #but i also don't want to be 100% positive and only look for the good just so i can say it's good #when it's finally over we'll see my final thoughts #what was the point of these tags again? #honestly i've kinda just muttered on about useless garbage #7.10.18 #sao