“Spoiler effect” is so dumb. like oh, i’m the bad guy for voting for the candidate that you agree is better than the one you voted for??
give me a break. i’m literally not the one to blame for that.
allegedly, Gerber had trouble entering regions where the literacy rate is low because in such places consumers identify food products based on the imagery on the packaging, or the contents itself if the packaging is clear. in Gerber’s case, you have a jar of unidentifiable mush, with the image of a (likely foreign-looking) baby. conclusion: what’s in the jar?
dunno if that’s folklore or real. but the Wendy thing is just that they’re always doing edgy stuff on their socials. they know how to spot an innuendo, because that’s what they do.
i’ve never seen this many airplanes in one thread before
honestly i never would have noticed it had i not been primed by the question.
as for marketing, there’s a lot of inconsistency. you’ve got the Gerbers and Tony the Tigers of the world, completely blind to how things might be misinterpreted, and you’ve got the Wendy’s of the world, who 100% know what they’re doing. Venom? dunno enough to place them in one camp or the other.
big whoop, i can do that too
so the title’s left unresolved, and next episode there could either be an unnecessary killing, or a killing to prevent an unnecessary killing – with the obvious question in the latter case of “was that a necessary killing?”
until recently the series has been war between humans and demons, and they go out of their way to convince the viewer that the villains (demons) really are inhuman: creatures incapable of feeling empathy toward anyone and therefore not worth your own empathy. and the heroes (at least in the ideal) are those who do exactly what’s necessary, but no more, when it comes to violence. i don’t know that the story can veer too far from that ideal framing of heroism without losing its charm, but they may be setting up to challenge that framing of villainy.
also, seems it’s becoming a pattern that Fern’s opponents are caught off-guard by her speed & stamina. when she fought the demon in episode 10, that was explained as her suppressing her mana, and the demon being careless/overconfident against such a technique. but here in ep 20 everyone is familiar with mana suppression: that Fern’s overwhelming experienced mages with just raw speed/stamina has me suspicious.
as far as i can tell, it’s a freeware mobile app called “Lonely Girl”. but please, anyone who knows more, infodump on me. i can’t find any gameplay, and i don’t have an android/iOS device even if i wanted to install it.
Crowder says stupid words specifically designed to provoke a reaction from people.
196ers react to it.
we had a phrase for how to respond to this type of person/provocation, back in the day. something about food and trolls… but it’s long forgotten 😐️
the pills in the photo are too oval shaped though. honestly just looks like Aleve to me
Nichijou was ahead of its time. but 15 years is a lot of time in which manga authors have caught up, or absorbed the potent parts of Nichijou into their own works, and on the anime side the budgets on hit series are wayyyy higher now.
Nichijou is underrated, in terms of its impact, and of what it was. but Nichijou is overrated, in terms of how it would stack up against the competition if it had been released today. but that’s coming from an English speaker: i hear the amount of humor which “doesn’t translate” is reallly high for this one.
we’re experts at claiming to be expertised. how do you know? because of how confidently i just claimed to be an expert.
so are we still calling 3rd-party voters evil or are we done with that yet? need to know before November thx