Tentai Senshi Sunred 2 (Recommended show, good writing wrapped in superhero parody--- done right)

 The same situation as the first season:

• Good writiing
• fast paced gags
• the gags are actually funny
• it's not set in a stupid highschool
• ---thus no pedo jailbait bullshit. In fact in the entire show, it doesn't even entertain creepy pedo bullshit, not even once. (Props to you writers *cheers)
• 99% of the cast are adults
• a diverse cast of colorful characters that are actually more unique than the average shonen lineup;
• In Season 2 things actually feel like they have progressed since prior season, it's technically a new year in-world.

We get new characters, more shenanigans, same good writing chops, not the same scenario's though, some schticks are wrapped up & we get new ones this time around (very nice).

One of the the MC's "Sunred"" Is basically if Bakugou got a girlfriend and retired from Hero duty--

Nifty recipe's from Vamp & Kayoko, life facts, life hacks; Educational. Excellent show all around for both kids & adults tbh. 

The entire thing is just a good time with competent writing without the pandering & fetishism projection anime as of late if known for, and really we need more of the former.

I finished it myself a couple of a minutes ago as of 2024 & I'm watching it all over again, it's a gem.

Way better Hero subversion than OPM, My Hero and all with cheaper animation. 

Only 13min a episode & each skit is like 2-3min. It doesn't waste your time.

Small Rocket Explosion

In my entire "explosions" library this is one of the juiciest "KA-blams" i have in stock.

Trump is a dictator; Btw Kamala supports censorship, 1984 is now. (#FirstFemalePresident)

regardless of who wins---- Understand that you are in the middle of one of the highest budget skits of human history. There ARE NO SIDES. Both of these mooks answer to the same people. *If you don't accept totalitarianism now:* They will just desensitize the next generation & the one after until they land on a crop that WILL accept it. All they have to do is wait. That's why Harris is comfortable to do this, this wouldn't have flown 15 years ago. NOW it's time, they feel people are dumb enough to not question this. Or so they thought. _It's not scary that Kamala says this, the scary part is the inevitable time that people will be so brainwashed they will tolerate, and accept The Matrix. By choice. _ That's the part you need to be afraid of, the moment when people say "Why not?" Not Big Brother is what you should fear, but people embracing him. Not The Party, people fighting for it to have more control over your lives. Americans are being gestated to be dumber and dumber and dumber. Your jobs as the people is to prove their asses wrong. And a lot of you are kicking ass. You can't stop this, but you can delay it. For god's sakes DELAY it, because when America buckles, the rest of the world will be watching. No matter how you feel about America's history, she matters as a nation more than you know. The rest of the world has always been WATCHING you. This isn't about Harris, this isn't about Biden, this isn't about Trump or Hillary or whoever they send to distract you next finally saying it "out loud" and enough of you clapped your hands for it This is about their bosses. THE PARTY. Mark's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyuYpZduSLI&t=317s

 mark dices video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyuYpZduSLI&t=317s

Transformers Devastation Soundtrack - Final Battle

this is movie/anime level composition, HOLY SHIT!

A Silent Voice (2 hours of melodramatic filler that should've been a short film instead)

 Saw this back when it dropped, never finished an Anime movie so pissed; that 2 hours were spend on what should’ve  been 30min. 

The movie overall could've been a cute short film, without the time skip and unnecessary side characters. Just self indulgence on full display.

And funny how I (a detractor) am talking about the film, thus bringing it back into minor 5sec of relevance, when people who liked the film, (so far as I’ve seen) forgot it even existed. 

When pure raw emotion/ hype is your reason for liking something- when the emotions & hype fade, that’s the hill what you liked dies on.

Hype & emotions do not last forever. Same goes for relationships.

Anyways, 

 The bullying aspect was executed “OK”, very mean stuff.

Though the entire thing was just a huge play on your emotions. Rarely have any female designs that stray from the “stock cute girl design”, no pronounced nose, heavy set, burns that don’t look like tattoos, overbite, sloped eyes, nope just 24/7 the cutest possible iteration. Because how could you feel empathy for someone that isn’t appealing to your Darwinian biases.

Typical presentation, the "insert your tears here" moments were cringeworthy (because you can tell they really, REALLY want you to feel something), didn’t work for me. Worst parts of the movie because it’s so extra and over the top.

Neon Genesis Evangelion had hard to watch scenes because in context they were supposed to be actual larger than life problems. But they were not this pedantic. (and thats coming from me)

Same with that stair climax scene in Garden of Words, with the crying, and leaping on him & shit, the music swell, all over a misunderstanding. Just melodrama stupidity.

You’d think a fool legit died or something.

This is what most Anime (slice of nothing happens) movies are, just unintentional Rom-coms taking themselves too goddamn seriously.

Cause the easiest road to 5 stars for Otaku’s is make a mf cry, that’s all it takes. and what does that even matter when recent generations are so overly emotional these days anyway. WHO ISN’T crying nowadays.

The voice acting was good, from all the cast. (SUB)

 The titular couple had little in common as people, let alone a would be couple,  she was a blank slate of nauseating innocence, but she was cute. (Per japanese obsession = cute cute cute, thats her existence. No attitude, no allergy, no weird hobbies. Nope just Angel in incarnate. Too good for this world.)

He remembered her & kept hounding her out of curiosity, guilt, intrigue and because he’s tall & endearing and she’s short & cute- we’re supposed to want him to succeed in re-entering her life.

Pure superficial aesthetic.

If she had a temper or something, an ugly laugh, sore loser, something/ anything resembling a flawed human being, that would be better. Hell if she went through a transformation and became like a UFC or underground deaf streetfighter badass, that shit would be fucking wild, the movie just throws you the biggest curveball of the anime industry  and funny given she was bullied so that's how she'd cope. 

And it wouldn’t just be a contrived plot point, because it’d make narrative sense as to why she’d feel driven to be a fighter, to never be preyed on again.

The joke would be you'd expect exactly what you got in the movie, someone whose ripe for romantic crap, but she ends up being the exact opposite, still feminine, but not available & has better things to do. Because why not.

Leagues more entertaining, because now the intrigue is: HOW TF is he going to end up with her, HOW?!

But you see, this only works if she’s frail, “cute cute cute” and vulnerable 24/7- ya know the Japanese’ peak standard for a domestic infantile pet, Errr i mean a “WAIFU” guys, my bad. Got the two mixed up...

Otherwise how could the movie possibly end without some kind of contrived romance thread that realistically shouldn’t exist.

And all that time & she has no partner?

If they had any balls they’d made her like girls, instead of some side characters being subtly lesbian, so bold guys, very brave. 

So him getting with her is an impossibility and him making amends can be genuine in isolation outside romantic motivations, thus removed from the fact that he’s obviously guaranteed her hand after the bullshit drama is done. Because that’s the agenda of the events, not actual redemption.

Predictable.

 Him grown up, he was more vulnerable & apologetic due to him being bullied to balance out her innocent nature and that alone was enough to get them to develop feelings. Zero chemistry, just well drawn/animated/colored scenes of being in the same vicinity and being wholesome.

Wholesome isn’t chemistry (*Cough Clark-Kun and Lois-Chan *cough cough), that’s the problem with Deku and Ochako, & it took me a while to figure that out cause it’s easy to think just being cute means that’s a recipe for success. 

 

And because he became a victim of bullying like she was, another indicator that we’re supposed to  want them together. More manipulation, so he didn’t have to earn shit. Despite the fact that he deserved that shit, she didn’t. 

You don’t get rewarded for suffering consequences of your own actions. 

  Stock syndrome is cute because the girl is cute, the movie.

Could've been better but could've been worse. never watched it again, but unfortunately the good animation burned it’s existence into my mind.

It was a nice/ “sweet” film for what it was. 

Overly drawn out, melodramatic; The entire story could've been wrapped up as a more concise short film. Under an hour.

Just watch Spirited Away, Mirai, “Flavors of Youth”

or the underrated Dareka no Manazashi (A good short film people forgot existed because it’s not highschool Tween melodrama bait)

Gets the point across without holding you hostage for 2 hours.

Darth Malgus vs Darth Vader (accurate simulation)

Darth Malgus vs Darth Vader

Thats exactly how it'd end. In a tie. 

 Malgus in a 1v1 is too intense, he's hyper adaptive, and has the most insane clutches if the fight drags. One of the best duelists in SW. He has a habit of dropping his guard when outnumbered or distracted (which Vader would exploit if he sees an opening, throwing shit with The Force) but even then Malgus is a tank & also uses The Force to distract, like that Force Lightning which Vader specifically gets disrupted by. 

 Vader is too versatile, he'll switch up styles. And has Anakin’s entire skillset (including that little habit he has when he starts flexing style points but somehow incorporates that into the fight to confuse his opponent). 

Vader is just not as powerful as Skywalker, but the skill is concrete. 

And he's physically stronger than most cause of cybernetics. Meaning his swing is undoubtedly stronger, he’s heavier, which is shown here. Good match

LowTierGod Says Black People Deserve To Be Harassed Especially If They're Dark Skinned

"Mom said it was after the hurricane, and his cell phone got better reception outside- so he took a walk to talk to his girlfriend."

they shouldn't have been following him like that,, stalking yet why couldn't he just answer the question instead of exacerbating suspicion and deflecting.

I get he didn't want to possibly expose his home maybe? But he didn't ask WHERE he lived, the other guy asked if he lived there thats it.

He didn't owe them no explanation but if you see the situation you in, clearly there's a cult hysteria riling up, these people know each other, do your part to mitigate the situation, control it.

Cause if he was a California 9 in the wrong Brooklyn hood, there wouldn't be no talking from the stalkers.

So If you can speak? Speak and squash it. This the world you live in and this ain't even the worst it can get .

Shame this happened when all he did was walk in what they deem the wrong skin, but don't just chuckle off a bad situation, handle it better so it don't handle you.

"Women have to be less educated for the birth rate to increase in first world countries" - incorrect, It's not about the education, it's the time and the message. (response)

It's not about the education, it's the time invested into it is all.

Women do not have to be less educated, it's about time management, they choose to spend it elsewhere (does not mean educated women do not have kids ever, just later & fewer frequency, more priorities, a good thing). As do the men.

"My mother graduated college and went on to have 9 kids. Her best friend graduated from college and had 5. Another friends mother was a diploma nurse and had 14 kids. They were all born in the 1920s."
-ktp806

(The economy was mad different back then, so was the culture)

Furthermore, the men have to want to engage with women at all for the reproduction process for her begin in the first place, on average. (And that's assuming the men and women of said country are in a good place for that to be free of complications, which is a whole other situation)

That leads into the cultural attitude people possess towards the family unit as a whole, fact is when privilege world economy enjoys a state of normalcy, complacency sets in, with a hint of gynocentrism. Reinforcement & respect for the family unit tends to wane. Taken for granted, it happens.

the cultural attitude/ the relevance of the family unit's importance & whether or not it's revered or honored anymore has more weight in magnitude in the matter than a woman getting a bachelor's degree which doesn't take 6-11 years of her youth to get done.

But when culture doesn't value the family unit, most people emulate the same mindset & then don't seek it on mass, emulation.

If casual sex/hedonism/lessening the importance of familial stability & emphasizing secular conquests, achievement: If that is more of the predominant culture than building families, then that is what will likely be emulated. People aren't robots, but they do imprint on consensus, signals & subliminal messaging. Especially if it's through a digestible medium like music, movies, etc.

(while non-offensive in isolation & endorsing people focusing on themselves can add a different form of fulfilment in a persons life, when you promote that AND leave the importance of the family unit behind-- that's when problems start. Lack of balance.) that paradigm can span for decades unnoticed until suddenly you can't ignore it anymore because the collective leaned too hard in that direction. The culture has a responsibility as to what signals it's sending, if you're trivializing the family, then consequence will be as such.

Cultural Sociological Science is an underrepresented beast in this topic.

With the escalating economic demands, are programs being set to financially afford mothers/fathers/parents a more smooth parenting simulation. Is COMPETENT parenting being cultivated in the collective party?

You can have time to parent & have nothing to teach or offer, while afford having a child- are the parents being trained to TRAIN their kids and not just raise them-

A generation of people child-less calling it "child-free" is rationalization. It's really not about convincing people to have children, it's whether people were giving the impression that children or the family mattered in the first place: Culture.

• You can't teach girls "single ladies" ministry 90% of their young lives, make men irrelevant to their experience, then switch the formula at 30 (because society all of a sudden needs people/ NOT FAMI(LIES but "bodies") Meaning the culture learned nothing, it's just needy now.
• Then tell them they're selfish when you taught them to be selfish to prioritize the self. They didn't come out the womb saying #FutureisFemale, THAT came from the collective.
• Groomed to be independent of men to the point of politicization & isolating themselves when they didn't need to, to be bachelorette's, CEO's, not wives, not mothers, not humble, not desirable seldom by ANY other crop of men on the planet, nor competent partners. A lot are suffering a generational accountability deficit.

many may feel they're not even worth fighting for, The real tragedy.

Cultural consequences.

We need to stop deferring to "women's education" or "education" being the #1 why or "the" reason or the fault so quickly every time this is brought up like it takes women 10 years to get a degree or every other educated woman is aiming to be an astronaut or a Licensed practicing Medical Doctor. This is bunk, that's not the average nor reality. (Women's education is a factor, not one of "the" reasons vs What was the society's priority in terms of pop culture or overarching overtone BEFORE this couldn't be ignored anymore,) that needs to be looked into more.

Were women & men painted in a good light, in a good place? Brought together or pitted against the other in pop culture? Politicization spreading the joy.

If the family was always supported and this decline still happened, then we can go from there.

Otherwise, the chronological math doesn't add up, this is a situation spanning back to the 70s, women's education would non-debatably cause a shift & delay but a dramatic tank like we're seeing now? Is way beyond women going to school or a slight shift in societal "norms" ( More like abolishment)

This is concerning both men & women, talking about birthrates & excluding where the headspace of men is & their own multiverse of complications, again and expect progress in the matter is asinine. That neglect in fact is part of the problem.

This isn't on women, this isn't on men. This is a culture skill issue.

The data analysts are just repeating affirmed/safe talking points, that's all that is, psychologist do the same thing. And the common denominator is they tend to overlook other factors in the matter that really have more pull in what's actually going on.

All in all it's not worth immediate panic, there's ways countries could get around this, but as a collective.

And unfortunately the system "adapting" to new state of society vs forcefully rising the numbers is not a solution in either case, it's moving the goalpost. It's desperate patchwork, not a fix.

If it took 30-50yrs to get here, then it's going to take some serious asspull to get things fixed. But that requires admitting maybe how western culture propagandized women & men politically and how the two sides were made to see each other was a blatantly dire mistake.

There's a big difference between the societal party: "Needing people" vs "society needing strong families units back", if you don't hear some variation of the latter, then the society hasn't learned. It's just meeting a cold statistical demand, the problem remains.

If you completely overhaul the system to adapt to the decline and you neglect to fix the cultural issue that sabotaged that last one, what caused the previous decline (ill-prep, neglect, and politically driven division etc.) will just follow you into the new system.

If you cram immigrants into a country to supplant tanked birthrates because your society's men & women on mass don't desire each other for family building. You're patchworking a very VERY deep rooted problem, not a solution. The change needs to be in what caused the problem, culture, how the people think, what the collective values as relevant and worth honoring..

How is society supposed to change when the change isn't in the people? How's the collective's attitude toward the family supposed to change when the attitude in the people is the exact same, 30+ years worth of trivialization, destabilization.

People & Gov. are too focused on numbers & not the sociology,, *this is the power of propaganda.* People of a country are looking at graphs (because that’s tangible, easier evidence to observe, *more importantly:* it’s something easier to blame)  and don't even know half of what actually happened to them. Propaganda.

You can give someone a new body because of an airbourne virus that killed the old one. Yes, you have a new body to start fresh with, but the virus is still there in the atmosphere so you just made a change without changing anything, without addressing the looming problem. Patchwork and no solution.

Changing the system without changing the culture is applying the right change in the wrong direction.

Men should NEVER have the right to complain about the falling birth rates (response)

 

"99% of the work that goes into childbearing and childraising falls into womens bodies and minds and puts them into a vulnerable financial, emotional and societal position that more often than not leaves them at a disavantage for life."

100% of the childbearing is on women, less actual active work vs it being taxing, a physical sacrifice.

99% Child raising? Hardly, the child for the average parent is not in his or her presence 24/7, them going to school at all, sports, any social functions, relatives, their friends, Church is the village doing what it does. not the best it could be tho. Unless they're isolated with you off grid in the mountains, then it is not 99%.

Choose to have a child in a period that is favorable, stable and with a stable partner that you vetted and chose properly to begin with (which mitigates all kinds of issues). Make better life decisions and one is less likely to be in a bad position.

"They are shamed for staying with the kids when the father leaves and shamed for staying in a abusive relationship to avoid raising the kids without the father. They risk not getting employment, being fired from their jobs."

Unless she was forced, she made the choice to give an abuser kids at all. Her body, her choice, her consequence. 

And if she's shamed for leaving, she still won because she doesn't have an abuser in her life anymore. Let the shamers shame, people having opinions is not a life crisis.

As for the job situation, agreed. Unless you're in the Military or have a job with packages. Not all "jobs" are universal in how it handles maternity.

"Change the distorted society we live in and offer great financial benefits for women who want to have kids and you shall see the birth rate raising massively everywhere.

You won't see "birth rate raising massively everywhere", because that still doesn't address the fact that people on mass on a sociological level: do not want the emotional tax, physical tax (already addressed this), time tax, social tax. The burden. And the role culture played in germinating that attitude.

When people say "CF" / "ChildFree" its in the word = "FREE."

Majority who already decided not to have children aren't likely to180 because of Gov, incentive, which already is not working in other locations like China which is a tad bit more hardass than the west and even they are struggling.

If anything it would incentivize some to hop into being parents for the wrong reasons, just using kids to get paychecks to stay home. As if people needed more reasons to exploit children as means for selfish gain.

That shit is a slippery slope.

One hand, you don't get rewarded for a personal decision, you either can or can't.

And if the consequence is birthrate drop, so be it. Otherwise it's literally just bulk child support on steroids.

But on the other hand, It's a practical policy for housewives/mothers definitely, but not realistic to recover birthrates "massively", it's just a good deal for women who actually want to be mothers, and only women at that.

Is it worth a try? Sure.

Husbands aren't exactly living the dream yet housewives (excluding divorce fallout settlements that stand) definitely need more gain in the martial exchange while the marriage itself stands.

She loses so much more than he does in an active sense during, not even including the birthing process itself which is a beast.

Sociologically speaking, culture has a huge impact on what people value in life & how they treat each other after they imprint on certain elements over some decades. Society in some respects is one big ass parent.

• If the society doesn't care, The people won't care.
• If the culture doesn't train girls to be wives men actually want or train boys to be husbands women actually need in demand, that disparity won't be fixed with money.

• People are less likely to care and marriages won't last no matter how much money is thrown.
• The core issue is the culture: women going school is a reason not the reason vs What kind of people is the collective party/parents training up to be competent options of the era vs just being raised
• What standards are being installed into the youth, if the old ways are being erased, what is taking it's place? Cause it is not working as a formula. And if nothing is being passed on, that also needs to change. If success is the goal.

"Wisemen used to say it took a village to raise a child. Nowadays we abandon women to deal with the whole load of having a child by themselves and shame them if they can't manage to do it alone on a tight budget."

Along with men, society does leave women out to dry in some respects: mainly by not training them to be more accountable or competent with their reproductive powers; Which opens a can of so much worms because of that one thing. Otherwise doing it alone on budgets is mostly consequences of bad decisions. Not things just happening, thus victim.

Otherwise, the people that build the cities, the people who keep the country's lights on, the founding block of a baby being possible, the people that maintenance the traffic lights, build the highways, install the ceiling ducts, HVAC units blablabla Etc. functions of infrastructure most women don't even have to think about because : Thank God men exist and just get it done without demanding a trophy for it.

When children inherit civilization/& women blissfully utilize what men built in the first place. Yes men do have the right to talk & speak on declining birthrates in a civilization they maintain.

That aside, as others have stated, the socio/economic system has to adapt to the decline. yes. however another change needs to accompany that. Again, Fix the culture that caused the cultural division in the first place or else the social virus is just going to infect whatever it is you cultivate next. The predominant culture has to change with the adaption.

There will be/ and is a push for babies for the sake of bodies, but not because the culture learned a lesson, nor actually giving a shit about the family & wants men and women to get along.

Otherwise: As far as functionality/being practical goes, yes, I agree that mothers (varying on prior income+ how many children she has+ Spouse+ location ) should be offered more financial support for the sake of the household rising to the costs for her sake of well being, and more so for the child, the casualty in all this. It'd be similar but not rival to the Military's own Disability or Retirement pay programs.

Though problems with exploitation would come with this, no system transition comes without issues. A state policy trial run wouldn't hurt just to get the ball rolling.

"Governments creating a panic around declining childbirth isn’t going to help anybody. But implementing policies to actually support women who want babies? That just might."
- Helen Coffey (The truth about why we stopped having babies)

However, again, Incentive is just a patch, it's not going to solve the core issue being how the collective party thinks, the culture. That is what needs to change, though it seldom will due to various reasons. (Otherwise birthrate decline, people's martial options, & a parent's economic experience falls under cultural priorities and lack thereof.)