• LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    10 days ago

    i hate all the gooner shit coming out of Japan anyway, there are so many anime where it’s just like predictable that they’re gonna turn some like, thing into a girl waifu because the show has to for some reason be about the MC collecting waifu companions instead of like, the actual plot that it’s about

    there’s one out now like about a guy who has really good search magic (and magic in general but the title focuses on that) and he asks the Reincarnation Guy to “give him a cute companion” and the guy’s like “oh yeah, she’s gonna be cute alright” and he gets this cute little dragon hatchling

    and it’s like, I KNOOOOOOOW deep in my BONES that they’re gonna turn this little dragon into a humanoid waifu and it’s like can we just not, can he just have a cute little dragon buddy that smells like fish?

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      the 65 year old ex navy (IT nerd, not SEAL) guy I work with LIKES ALL THAT SHIT. He’s so gruff and serious too and all about golf and drinking bourbon but he clearly watches all the same isekai slop I do, not for the sometimes-cool-to-watch fight animation and escapist fantasy, but because he likes all the fucking Waifuism

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      10 days ago

      Currently playing Ghost of Tsushima and a few hours in there has been zero gooner service. It does however have a pretty reactionary glorification of Samurai but whatever I knew that going into it.

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        Tbf in Yotei the Samurais are potrayed far more negatively, although the Samurai caring about “dishonorable tactics” at all is unrealistic.

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          Yeah it is really funny how you go through a whole flashback scene about looking a man in the eyes before killing him right before you start the stealth tutorial and before that you literally cannot do stealth kills.