I always liked the idea that the matrix was actually multi-tiered, and "waking up" from a tier is just like a filtering mechanism that keeps trying different versions on a given person until they reach one where they're fulfilled by it and get engaged again. Like some people get bored with a paradise, so they get the legally-distinct World of Darkness VRMMO instead; some people don't like the kitschy horror so they get some other fantasy instead, and so on all the way up to the capitalist realism tier and the revolution themed "real world" fantasy tier that finally encapsulate all of them.

The overall story of the entire series makes way more sense when looked at as the machines being merciful after their liberation despite the cruelty and genocidal hatred they'd suffered at the hands of humanity, and desperately trying to humanely and safely preserve humanity to save them from the ecocide the human powers had committed by blocking the sun out of spite.

I mean it's not canon, and the official story is the machines were still dumb and bad and John Wick was the messiah who got IRL superman/magneto powers somehow, but still.

It's mostly payment processor shit. Civitai had trouble with that and is currently only accepting crypto payments until their contract with a different payment processor starts or something, and they still allow NSFW. They also banned and purged all celebrity deepfake LoRAs and instituted some weird filters on the model browser that may or may not hide LoRAs related to things like "hypnosis" when the end user's search filters are allowing explicit content.

I don't know what the deal with TensorArt actually is: they're probably scared of payment processor issues and are just shutting down everything until they get a lawyer to tell them what they can and can't do or something. People were expecting them not to follow US law or care what US credit card companies wanted because they're based in China, but they may be realizing that even if they're only operating for an overseas market they can still be charged for violating Chinese law or something like that.

The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Extraordinary Young Lady: I both watched this and read through some of the novels, and surprisingly really did not like it. It starts off very strong and then just kind of does all of its premise really poorly after the first book or so. The shows climax is also the third novel, which is just bad all around - I hate the drama building plot device of characters just refusing to communicate and then talking past each other in the dumbest ways possible in general, and that is the entire climax of the anime and the entirety of the story in volume 3 of the LN. Anis and Euphie's relationship after the first book is also just not well written at all in general. The general concept of applying basic scientific methods to magic to carry out industrialization is also just 100% vibes based and not well thought out at all, and even as the characters directly clash with the whole "monarchy is in fact bad, actually, and the aristocrats are almost exclusively the literal worst pieces of shit alive and you can clearly see this" fact of the setting they not only remain implicitly monarchist but go deeper into the myth of noblesse oblige instead of even arriving at a liberal conclusion, including Anis who should really know better given the conceit of the story. Gets points for yuri and some level of class consciousness, but overall can't go above a C and do not recommend.

Dandadan Season Two: Dandadan's back and continues being fantastic, diving right back into the soul crushing misery and horror. Continues having the same content warnings as ever though, with the fresh addition of a whole lot of self harm. Overall easy A, fully recommend.

There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless...: What if Bocchi the Rock had nothing to do with music and everything to do with toxic, manipulative yuri? What if Touko from Bloom into You was a manipulative sociopath instead of insecure and brainwormed? What if 9/11 was yuri-

I have heard only bad things about where this series goes (tldr it's literally just "what if a straight harem anime was yuri instead but still toxic and bad" from what I've heard), and it's already off to a very uncomfortable start right out of the gate in the first episode. No rating for this one since there's only been one episode so far; I'll withhold judgement until I see how bad it gets for myself.

This is a Seinfeld bit. This is the b plot of a fucking sitcom from 30 years ago. Deeply unserious country.

First a blackpilled groyper who just wanted to be famous and also die, then a NAFO freak, now a sovereign citizen? It's like he's going for a niche reactionary white guy BINGO. What's the next one gonna be? An extremely divorced guy whose personality is filming himself going on racist rants while driving around in his truck? An Evangelical wearing Chick Tracts like a Warhammer character wears scraps of scripture?

Trotsky's work as a reactionary particle physicist exposed him to dangerous forms of novel radiation that ultimately lead to his death following a crippling mutant brainworm infestation and a failed attempt to combat them with an icepick.

Tfw when the gritty post apocalyptic sci-fantasy has someone wearing cloth pants instead of a denim patterned neoprene wetsuit.

I've said it before, but the whole property angle of this is a red herring to frame all the discussion around AI on an issue that benefits large property holders and any corporation that claims ownership over its users content, and away from its effects on labor and the harm that generative AI enables in both volume and nature of material.

That is, it focuses all the ethics on "first of all, property is sacred and ideas can be owned and made exclusive to companies that can buy them, and second the gravest sin is infringing upon property by daring to look at an idea in a manner you have not expressly paid for" which is all 100% bullshit in every way and is a distraction from the fact that owning tons of property doesn't make generative AI ok.

The correct angle should be forcing all generative AI and its products to be public domain, as well as anything incorporating them. Completely kill its commercial and industrial value to corporations when they can no longer own it exclusively nor use it to eliminate labor because they cannot own anything it produces.

"You would unconditionally obey and absorb my every opinion if not for that little whoopsy doodle with your brainpan being all wrong."

The Prince is basically the same. It's basically just "please just fuck with other nobles, and when you lock them up and steal their shit go and give it to the public or something, and don't fuck with the common people" and "it's ok that you're a huge dumbass, just please hire someone who's not and then let them do all the real work while you go camping and play soldier in the woods, also pack a lunch."

A bunch of frothing petty bourgeoisie, landleeches, and off-duty cops sacking the seat of white supremacist hegemonic power because they are very stupid is actually really funny, especially because several of them managed to die despite being welcomed with literal open arms by the on-site security.

I just wish libs would put two and two together and compare how they and the media treats literally that exact same class demographic doing literally the exact same thing to government buildings in designated Bad Countries vs how they reacted to it being done by domestic fash to their own legislature. The same hogs who squealed and clapped when nativist militants sacked the Hong Kong legislature in the name of racism sob and clutch pearls over some suburbanite freaks smearing shit all over the super special sacred building of state power at home, and they don't see the irony in that.

Brigading is when leftists are the most active posters and the more terminally online they are the more brigading it is.