#avoid it

Say what you will about Kira, but my dude has good intuition. I mean.. dude just figured it out in one game what would take Isagi literal chapters to find out.

smol Isagi

Y'know, for a guy that was given an introduction at the very beginning we sure don't see much of him.

go king! give us nothing!

They finally meet the mysterious Jinpachi Ego...

.....who looks like he can give slenderman a run for his money.

So let's see what Blue Lock is actually about

So the hunger games of the sports world???

You know what. That checks out. Makes complete sense. Obviously, everyone thought long and hard about coming here. They read the form, discussed it with a figure of authority like their guardians or coaches and they are here. They obviously though this through-

You make a good point about the writers portraying the women in a bad light.—excuse me, i'm just going to sit here and have war flashbacks about all the hell i caught for agreeing with someone who made the observation that pretty much all the stories for the women in s4 served the men in their lives.

it's not that i think that their stories shouldn't intersect or serve the plot (and each other when needed) as a whole, it's that the shift seemed more obvious at the time compared to what came before it.

(i'm also not a fan of the "strong female needs no man" thing that a lot of people ascribe to, tbh, so it's definitely not that for me either. no woman is an island and it's never quite portrayed as a punishment but she very often sacrifices her love for something else, doesn't she? no thanks from me)

I would argue they are all portrayed in a bad light, and the fandoms perception of flawed women is just different to the flawed men. It’s the internalized misogyny.—for sure, they're all portrayed as flawed humans (mostly) but the flaws of men are often equated with a certain amount of grace and humanness that isn't afforded to women.

(this isn't a riverdale thing, this is an everywhere thing. i can't tell you how many times i've seen the same thing in every fandom i've been in. if the man is dramatic, oh he's a baby boy, he's just got *~emotions~*. if the woman is, god, she's just a whiny bitch. if the woman represses her feelings, she's a cold, unfeeling bitch. if the man does, they want to know who hurt him and give him a hug. and so on and so forth. and god help the woman if the male is a fan favorite)

betty's sins have been amplified a lot over the years, up to and including being accused of things she's never done, the good things she's done being ignored, and "needing to be held accountable" (by parts of the fandom? she's fictional?? make it make sense) in ways that no one else is (past, present, and future. i cannot express how little of a fuck i give about fbi crimes she commits in a show where it's been 2021 for 7 or 8 years. of all the lanes to pick, coming down on betty for that when there are plenty of other characters doing plenty of other shitty things is fairly transparent at times).

(and sure, people come at me for that but i don't care, i think it's been decently clear that i don't really pick at any of the mains for the shit they do in any serious manner. baffled, maybe. a few shitposts here or there, sure. mostly i'm impressed by the total lack of dedication to continuity in any way)

Was Betty’s “consequences ” for cheating that much different than Archie’s? Both were handled terribly I’ll give you that. 🙄 Both lost their significant others. And both eventually lost their friendships.—i agree and disagree, i think. if i had a riverdollar for every time i've been told that betty didn't apologize to jughead for kissing archie, i could probably put a down payment on a glamerge egg.

you know who didn't apologize when he told veronica? archie. he also used what he did as way to stop veronica from making long term choices regarding their future and the show tried to portray it as a noble choice instead of being like, "hey, ruining your girlfriend's senior prom is a dick move, actually. maybe wait a few hours?"

he also was going to drop a bomb on jughead 5 minutes before leaving because he felt guilty. great, he should have felt guilty but it wasn't his place. people have totally rewritten 4x18 to make archie this sort of guileless guy who was just confused and going through it.

pass.

not to mention the veronica erasure that happens in an effort to excuse archie for whatever it is he's doing. or the erasure of her in general? wildly annoying.

the point of the above is that, yes, they both lost their significant others but archie didn't pay for it nearly as much in other ways, including time jump friendships. it was presented as it being his choice with veronica as the sacrifice. and he still got to kiss his girl goodbye and get a pat on the back from his best friend.

that's not even including how s5 veronica said it was in the past and that they should move on (after the whole fwb thing) and betty got the voicemail™ reminding her of her sins after almost reconnecting with jughead platonically.

sure. platonically. ha.

But the fandom crucified Betty for it, it was outrageous. Could the show do a better job of showing these consequences equally? Yes! Or even give these women a break? Yes! But the reaction from fans was over the top internalized misogyny in my opinion.—you really only need to look at what the focus was last night after the episode and this morning to see that the pick me energy is strong with some people in fandom.

between that and that one troll who speaks very specifically and literally by believing everything they read on twitter who is obsessed with a handful of bughead blogs, i am very glad i was busy this morning and afternoon.

As a result Betty gets called a psycho murderer liar and when Jughead unleashes on her in a voice mail five years later and calls her names, and accuses her of being the very thing she’s terrified of just to hurt her, he gets a pass from the fandom!!! The mixed reaction to that voice Mail was gross. She didn’t deserve that from Jughead, but people still want to see Betty burn.—to be fair, a lot of that stuff comes from one corner of the fandom who is both loud and prolific at being terminally online with their bad takes. it does trickle down when they spam blogs with asks about it and then it goes on from there.

i didn't think the voicemail was warranted but it had to be bad enough for her not to reach out to him so i understand it. it's also a reflection of the consequences for his choices. we can talk about how he lived with and was dating another girl but let's be honest: he wanted to see betty again for a reason. he lashed out when she canceled on him because he was hurt and disappointed. her cutting off communication was his consequence (that and the rabies) for what he did and her losing her relationship with him after high school was hers.

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Alright gamers, here's tip numero uno:

Don't.

Don't play this dumpster fire of a game.

You thought your Gacha Waifu game was bad? Pal, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

This game is a whole new ballpark level of suffering.

It's so bad, that the entire community has come up with a slogan for it:

"War Thunder. It's almost fun."

And that hits the nail right on the head. The game gives you just enough fun to keep you playing and spending money, but that's it. The grind to top tier tanks never ends, you will waste years of your life on this game endlessly grinding and not getting any fun out of it. You'll have a few odd moments of sporadic fun, but those are few and far between. The game actively encourages you to have fun by ruining others playing experiences, the community is beyond toxic, the gameplay is infuriating and throughout my 2 ish (Maybe 3, I've lost track) years of playing, it hasn't gotten better. Quite the opposite in fact, it has gotten noticeably worse. It's extremely pay to play, all the cool shit is locked behind paywalls and to top it all off there's an expensive premium service that gives you an extreme grinding advantage over other players.

I'll let the players speak for themselves here.

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https://youtu.be/YcDSqTODvDg

https://youtu.be/aeh0k5nFsvQ

https://youtu.be/toTyNyllsAs

https://youtu.be/Xm9VjKf5fL0

https://youtu.be/Kfyxkma_Tlw

https://youtu.be/hY3n7qiTJ_Y

https://youtu.be/16D3l5-WxwE

https://youtu.be/iauLaNZzpK4

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The list goes on, and on, and on, and if I were to continue this would become unreadably long.

*massive facepalm*

See? This is the why antis will never understand.

They run like kids throwing a tantrum while covering their ears and singing out loud their favorite song.

This confession blog it's SUPER antirecast, and ain't afraid to show it, giving rush up priority for everything against recasts (or artist they dislike, partial my as*!).

No matter if we've covered every reason why a person would prefer a recast, and why this wouldn't affect the artist, they just keep covering their ears and screaming outloud.

I'll list it once more, with felling:

1) it's true. If a person isn't going to buy (never-ever, for whatever reason you choose, there's a lot of them, I'll list them bellow) the original from the artist, it means, even if this person buys a recast of the same doll, the artist isn't loosing money or sales.

I don't see where on that statement there's a confusing part for antis, but, oh well. But the fact that the OP "doesn't care" how we think it works because we should all accept what some say and "never think or question things by ourselves", just making antirecast (or so called "proartist") arguments a hell of a lot more fishy.

2) sorry, but if a person want to buy a minifee chloe, but then chose to buy a SOOM minigem? pretty sure that's the definition of "Fairyland just lost a sale" regardless of if it's an original or not 😑, since if the person has the money and means to buy a legit (and I'm talking about purchasing straight from the company, secondhand MP isn't even included on this example, as much as you want me to, because you want to sell a ten year old doll all banged up for twice what you paid to the original company brand new and complete), choosing another company that's legit would mean FL lost a sale. Simple logic here.

Only case for FL not to loose such sale it's if (for example) a person it's going to buy a MNF chloe, but then changes it's mind about the MNF model and purchase another MNF, like a mika.

3) Again, if a person goes to buy a recast MNF chloe, FL didn't lost a sale. Here's why, people who will not buy a legit:

- people who can't afford the original. And yes, some people it's not rich, or struggle with a financial situation (ALL their lives! who would have guessed that some people are just born on a working home and die the same way?!).

And, (because I know you're going to bring it up), YES, poor people deserve "nice things too", even more than wealthy people, because they actually appreciate saving every penny until they can snuggle "a cheap recast" for themselves to help them cope with a life you snobby antis might never understand (unless you're one of the brainwashed newest generations that just wanted to "fit in" somewhere and now think "this is your war" while actually making the rich people dirty work for free).

- people who can't save for 5 years (like you say you did so "everyone can") to ""support the artist"" because they don't have an extra to "save", they just cash in and pay medical bills, rent, food, ... and they're back to square one with no capacity to save a single penny.

- people who want a discontinued doll (or part) no longer sold and oftenly not even sold in any MP secondhand either ("splits" were a snob orders a full set just to get the items they want and sell spare stuff to the meaningless crowd aren't new).

- people who want to be able to actually play with their dolls and not being afraid of touching something that worth more than several internal organs.

- people who want a resin skin color not offered by the company and don't have the guts and cash to go around painting or blushing expensive dolls that WILL have chips of paint constantly falling off, OR, uneven dye on each part of the body (process that, by the way, fades away with time).

- people who just don't want ANY doll, but a SPECIFIC one, and for any previously listed reason, can't get the original. Because, let's face it, in any other context it'll be hilarious if you go buy chocolate chip cookies and another costumer at the store force you to take cinnamon cookies that you don't like just because "you shouldn't buy generic brand cookies, it's taking money out the original manufacturer! YOU MONSTER!" (🤣).

(and I could go on all day long, like artist who don't ship to the place you're from, small waiting lists that you never can get into for years, horrible quality issues with legit original dolls that the seller doesn't want to fix, or will only fix if you cover shipping back and forth, irrational waiting periods of time from 3 to over 8 months to sometimes a year+, and more)

So yeah, plenty of reasons to buy recast.

4) "the main issue with people buying recast" it's not about companies or artist, it's about old fandom crew brainwashing new members into their benefit.

Ya no gonna lie t me yo!

I was there when you, hating elitists snobs pro artist sc*ms , told people who didn't got a Volks that "it wasn't a real BJD", I was there when you called "Dorito fingers" to people just because you mean to be evil at them, or "cheap bastards" to the ones who couldn't buy imported clothes from japan, I was there as you called "hobo doll" to a resinsoul doll because the owner only got her a ""sock dress"" and ""the fussy cheap fur wig"", I was there when it was NEARLY ILLEGAL according to "the doll police" to make a legit hybrid with one head from a company and a body from another (and this was a perfect solution for people who couldn't pay the full doll, so they got the legit head of their grail and a cheaper legit body, but for the ""now called pro artist"" this was TRAVESTY!), I was there when CustomHouse and BrownieFelix, original companies with ""loving artists"" took money in advance and banished never delivering a thing, I was there when the now "conveniently banished" topic on DeanOfAngels was how the owner of legit BrownieFelix Doll declared bankruptcy after two years of taking order and not shipping a thing for then to sell the company TO HIS EX WIFE who legally didn't had to own any of the mess!, I was there when DeanOfAngels decided it was OK to exclude 5stardoll "aiden" because "it didn't had a defined nose bridge" according to snob admins (or other dolls, for reasons like "the high heels part doesn't have a joint in the ankle"), but DolfieDream wasn't even made of resin and still wasn't banned as "off topic" just because it was Volks.

I was there for ALL your sh$#@&$* and you, you guys, where blaming people who got a doll from a legit original artist or company long before recast were a thing. So own your actions, all of it, not just "the convenient part".

You push people around for a decade at least, telling that big obitsus aren't real BJDs because they're made of vinyl and "not resin", but Volks DolfieDream was fine "because VOLKS". You trashed (constantly for years) people who couldn't get an expensive brand name, marking them as "inferior", excluding them from your meetups and reunions, insulting them even if they owned legit, or ignoring them if they just didn't got the doll yet and were still saving for it, just because they had a resinsoul, a lostangel (now it's mirodoll), or a bobobie, you, YOU, told people in front of me that they would NEVER be ""part of the hobby"" because it was a hobby ONLY FOR THE PEOPLE WHO COULD AFFORD IT (rich people like you consider yourself), ...and then you give me a lecture on moral because karma hit your back door and EVERYONE can have the doll they want?!

Laughable.

And you know the funniest thing?

Recast weren't even made or sold back then, and you were still trying to put a "I'm better than you" difference between people who could pay $1500 upfront and people who could only pay $300 tops. FROM LEGIT ORIGINAL COMPANIES.