I’m very excited, especially if it’s at the level of Garden of Sinners.

some of the most unstable and lunatic people, seemingly directing the president’s actions.

He seems to imply here that Trump himself is not the one responsible here, as if this is not what he wanted. I don’t disagree that Trump is being used, but he is definitely responsible.

The mission is intended to make the idea of interstellar travel real

It already is more real than this project’s goals seem to want. Both Voyagers are in interstellar space, as the article points out as well.

Thanks for sharing. It was installed for me as well on the 14th apparently, even though my phone’s not getting updates anymore. I was hoping I wouldn’t get it because of that, but I guess it’s purely a play services thing.

The people in this sub didn’t read the article, they’re just reacting to the headline

I mean, so am I.

Maybe it’s my English, but I don’t read this as NYT defending the current US medical system

So on that note, maybe the Kin clan has been constantly giving Reirin these “gifts”.

I think it’s not the Kin clan in the same way it likely wasn’t the Kin clan that made Leelee do what she did with no one knowing Gayou. The 2nd one coming from Shu, makes me suspect the 1st one also came from her and also that she’s Gayou, or someone under her.

I think she’s quite a bit more ruthless than she looks.

It feels like it’s skipping a lot of things this episode… Like, a whole friend group got added off screen and they kept talking about off screen events

Why do people still use Crunchy Roll or centralized media distribution/streaming sites?

Simple: it’s much easier and requires no effort on your end. Also, because people want to pay for media.

You can build a better library with a VPN, some good Torrent sites, and about 2 TB of storage.

This requires quite a bit more effort, especially if you just want to watch on your TV or phone.

Good torrent sites are pretty annoying to find tbh. There are online resources, but they’re harder to find compared to streaming, especially private trackers.

Storage is very expensive. A 2 TB NVME SSD is like 4-5 years worth of annual Crunchyroll subscriptions. About 2-3 years for HDDs.

2 TB might also not be enough if you want the quality Bluray rips.

You’ll have better quality

Only if you download the Bluray rips, sure, but these take up quite a bit of space and don’t exist yet when you’re wanting to watch the current season or previous 2 seasons. Those rips are at best the same quality as the streaming service. I have my own Jellyfin server (mostly for my own Bluray rips), but I still have a CR subscription for this reason. And if physical media will really stop, you’re own library will be the same quality or slightly worse than the streaming services, since the source of the better quality is gone.

won’t get ads

If you use an adblocker or pay for a subscription you won’t on streaming either.

WHY AM I NOT ALLOWED TO PUT SUBTITLES ON WITH THE ENGLISH AUDIO‽‽‽ IF YOU’RE NOT GOING TO PROVIDE CAPTIONS I NEED SOMETHING)

My guess: because the English subtitles will not match with the English dub. I can imagine that would be even more confusing/distracting.

Not sure what internet circles you were in, but I’ve hardly ever seen people be positive about NFTs in mine

I’ve never watched a single episode of Naruto, so I’m only going off your post here.

Yes, in-universe it is going against societal norms, but by going along with real-life societal norms. That matters. What is the message there?

Having your women be on equal footing with the men in terms of career path only to then have them follow real-life patriarchal standards as a way of “going against societal norms” seems… odd. It essentially reinforces real-life patriarchal standards in that way.

I don’t think you can always view a story purely in its own context. The mangaka created that universe in the context of the real word and his beliefs. He has control over what their universe looks like and how going against the norm looks like. Here it does sound based on less-than-stellar views on women (which was more common at the time).

You might want to keep watching then. At least in the manga (havent seen the anime yet):

I never bought directly from CR, because they don’t sell it here either and are the wrong region for my player, but they do a lot of releasing here through other sellers. But if they don’t sell through their own shop, I doubt they will through others…

That’s the wild thing, they actually get less money that way. There are like 4 cases:

1. You have both a CR subscription and buy the Blurays (that’s me).
2. You pirate the simulcasts and buy the Blurays.
3. You only stream.
4. You only pirate.

Cases 3 & 4 remain the same. Case 2 will not suddenly go to a subscription and case 1 already has a subscription. So cases 1 & 2 simply become cases 3 & 4. There is no extra money to be made, only less.

Technically there is a case 5, where you only buy the Blurays, but that seems very much an edge case or only theoretical.

Considering Sony’s/CR’s near monopoly on both streaming and physical anime, this leaves me very somber for the future. I hope parties like MVM and AllTheAnime can license some of the titles to release physically…

Yeah, that’s a good point. I was just thinking in terms of the law alone without the broader context.

But good-faith compliance would look the same way, wouldn’t it? It’s not against the spirit of the law, because this is the actual intent of the law.

So, these men took action—using malicious compliance to prove their point.

Is it malicious compliance? They went to the restroom they were told to go to. It’s more a demonstration of what Kansas law actually means.

I think the reputation is also because the Netherlands was the first country to legalize gay marriage, but that’s like 25 years ago. We’ve certainly not become more tolerant in the mean time unfortunately.