Don't you see, the devious celestials have rudely and sneakily placed their country atop this bounty of naturally occurring industrial extractive capital and resource extraction operations, and in their peerless arrogance they have not simply gifted it to us, the divine and rightful masters of all creation!

You're talking about people defined by the way they dive into treat consumption to escape from hellworld and build their entire worldview around their treats. Within a libertine framework like that the single gravest sin someone can commit is in some way threatening their endless treat flow.

It's the same way that a bunch of disaffected passively-chauvinist libertines with vaguely socdem and anti-clerical beliefs became motivated gibbering bloodthirsty tradcath fascists the second they became the target of an astroturfing campaign to convince them women and minorities were conspiring to make their fun time treats less tasty.

This is just a rare case of their boundless treat lust being targeted onto parasitic capitalists who are trying to extract extra value out of commodities by hoarding them and serving as extra-legal middlemen.

I hate that the LN series is finished but there's still 3 volumes that haven't been translated yet. I have to know if it's the most absurd yuri-bait to ever exist or if it's actually yuri and Menou is just oblivious. The answer is out there already and I just can't read it yet.

"Marx could not explain why kids love ["breakfast cereal" that is literally just cookies, you're feeding them literal fucking cookies for a meal]!"

I recommend the LNs more than the anime tbh. The worst thing I can say about them is that they're ultimately just a wish-fulfillment isekai except lesbian this time and despite being self-aware and class-conscious they don't go far enough with it.

"How are they gonna stretch this premise out to twelve episodes?"

The I'm in Love with the Villainess anime barely manages to get halfway through the Revolution arc. It doesn't get to Claire being radicalized and instantly becoming a better person than Rae, the "this is explicitly and textually a trans allegory" character's story, or the actual revolution part of the story. Looking back at the anime I'm realizing how much literally nothing happens for almost all of the season, and IIRC it even cut out the bits of Rae explicitly talking about homophobia and self-critting over what a creep she's being. If they'd paced it better they could have easily covered the first two books in one season imo.

Despite my criticisms of the series I still wish they'd get a second season to at least finish that first major arc with. Also I still need to read the other 3 novels.

It's the best game in the Batman Arkham series.

Even without seeing that my first guess was dead on: they think it's a vice, like just a little crime that special good boy rich white patriarchs can do as a treat, and are very, very invested in insisting that it's not disordered and it doesn't make them other and weird. Crimes against people they see as beneath them are just fun little treats that rich guys get to do as long as they don't piss off the wrong people, but having something wrong with them? The very notion of it is deeply offensive to their fragile little egos.

I hate that there's so little yuri anime that ever actually finishes the story paired with how much yuri treats the buildup to a relationship starting as at least the first 90% of the story, such that Bloom into You is a standout just for being unambiguously gay and starting the relationship immediately, since its drama is more about the main characters' toxic idealist brainworms and how they work through them.

I'm in Love with the Villainess is another one that's at once toxic and bad but still a standout just for being completely and unambiguously gay, even though the LN tackles how it talks about LGBT issues better than the anime and is more open about the fact that Rae is being toxic and creepy with how she acts towards Claire and how it's bad that she feels entitled to win her as a prize for doing good deeds (but then she still does, because it's still ultimately a wish-fulfillment isekai).

I'd say it's wild how reactionaries are so insistent on trying to draw a line between pedophilia (the predatory crime) and pedophilia (the disorder), but it really makes perfect sense: they revel in hurting others, they revel in having power over others and abusing that power, and they don't care about consent in the first place, but they will be absolutely livid if you suggest there's something wrong with them that makes them weird and bad.

There's also the extreme normalization of teenage girls as "acceptable" targets for adult men that all these fascists grew up immersed in, and which realistically has only started breaking down bit by bit in the past 20-30 years. To them preying on teenage girls is a socially acceptable vice like day drinking or doing rich guy drugs, because the world revolves around their own libertine treat lust and they perceive themselves as the sole arbiters of what is "normal", which makes them confused and angry when someone starts telling them that preying on their choice victims is not only bad but it makes them weird and other. It's one big mess of misogyny and libertine sociopathy and toxic masculine posturing/fragility.

i honestly don't like the relationship dynamic between the two main leads for the majority of the anime and the fact that it just stops in the smack middle of the story.

It definitely would be better if they'd gotten a second season to actually finish the story with, because their weird toxic brainworms about relationships are eventually resolved and they ultimately look back on them with something like "damn we sure had some messed up ideas and expectations when we were kids, huh?"

There's also a spinoff LN series about Saeki Sayaka that I haven't read yet.

There's like 0% chance the AI gets it right, it gets "close enough".

That's true for just throwing prompts at a black box and slapping "generate" like it's a slot machine, but in the same way that LLMs are good for like OCR, speech-to-text, or transforming existing blocks of text but terrible at generating things from whole cloth, image generating AI is fairly good at merging composites together or otherwise transforming an extant image. AI assisted rotoscoping like ebsynth (which uses provided keyframes alongside a video to rotoscope the rest of the frames) is also extremely impressive, more so than the dogshit full AI video generation I've seen.

Local, open source AI models are fascinating and potentially useful in the right hands in a way that proprietary corporate models running on remote servers are not. The problem is that the AI hobbyist community is like >90% irredeemable garbage ranging from fascists to pedophiles to grifters, along with a quite a few people who are just too cringe to be allowed.