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So Fedi, what makes elves superior?

Extremely light weight so you can just pick them up and take them home.

@SuperSnekFriend Motorcycles

@Goalkeeper
I should try that sometime.

@Zettour
What makes elven motorcycles better than human ones or even dwarven?

@SuperSnekFriend Not all of them are disgraceful pieces of uppity shit.

@koropokkur
Whoa! That's a good argument.

@SuperSnekFriend@poa.st I'd like to see an elve defeat the DOMINATOR

@SuperSnekFriend Elf milkers

@Tamamo
Whoa! Elves are superior after all.

SEX WITCH!

@SuperSnekFriend superior wives

@SuperSnekFriend It's not about who manufactured it, that one is actually dwarven design. It's about the free spirited motorcycle-based culture, regardless of machine.

@branman65
So true!

@Zettour
What manga?

@SuperSnekFriend "Elf to Bike to Teikoku Chiri Chousain to"

@Zettour
Arigatou!

@SuperSnekFriend Nothing, dragons are supreme

A cat (girl) is fine too.

@William_The_Dragonborn
>Dragons are used by Ellie the Sex Witch to conquer the elven queendon
Looks like your right. I'm a #TeamDragon now.

BOOOOOO!

@SuperSnekFriend @William_The_Dragonborn And my gobbo is a dragon, so I’m also team dragon

@SuperSnekFriend What a faggy line.

Especially since this 'hero' has no problem slaughtering people.

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Mugen Gacha Lvl 9999 was a stupid cheat power show, but I had fun. It had more animation than OPM and budget shows this season. The revenge plot was simplistic, but at least Light stuck with it, even if he avenged himself for 2000's edge lord reasons. The girls were all cute and memorable, especially Ellie, Nazuna, and Nemumu. I didn't like Light's cheat power being a gacha because it never felt like it was random like a real gacha. It seemed more like your standard summoning power. Overall, average anime.

5/10

@SuperSnekFriend Every time I hear the word discrimination or bigotry I am one finger shy of dropping a series.

@SuperSnekFriend That's because Light already did 3 YEARS world of 10 spins and honestly, I'd rather see the growth arc.

But NOOOOOOOOO, we have to water down the manga moments.

@SuperSnekFriend Well this is a localizer line, I want to say this sets the tone for the entire rest of the series after the elf revenge. They get increasingly less interesting as far as I actually was willing to read. Once he's in the dwarf kingdom the whole racism element basically just vanishes entirely like it never existed and getting revenge feels like it's a secondary plot point to the author's desires to write trash fantasy tropes.

@SuperSnekFriend “There is a fine line between justice and bigotry, be careful not to cross it.” -Newest Code Vein 2 trailer
Nah fuck that shit I will buy vintage story and say nigger in chat as much as I want.

There are lots of five out of 10 anime that I really enjoyed. I haven't watched that anime yet, because I think I'm still reading the light novel series. Between everything I feel like my reading has dropped off I should probably get back on that.
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@SuperSnekFriend 1st game rated M
2nd game rated T
Yeah not lookin too good.

@SuperSnekFriend A side note related to this, but there's a comical level of dissonance at that point too as the main character is still half his super edgy character, but now he occasionally completely forgets that he wanted revenge or even was edgy because a side quest popped up. His character is actively contradictory to what the author wants to do so his character will just vanish from time to time. Some dwarves want to explore a big hole full of one of the worst trash fantasy tropes? Yeah sure quest taken, who really cares about revenge anyways?

@Iffine
>full of one of the worst trash fantasy tropes
Which one?

@SuperSnekFriend Still I shall reserve my judgement until I obtain more information about it. It is on thin ice but not a lost cause, regardless Vintage Story seems more promising.

@SuperSnekFriend
Their capacity for resilience in the face of adversity?

Because they have several flaws... (combined points)
1) They possess technology but are useless in the face of imminent change.
2) They are proud, stubborn, and insecure.
3) Their temperament, depending on how it is written, can be calm, proud, clumsy in expressing emotions, or irascible.
4) They can be hostile to humankind, causing problems.
5) Low birth rate.
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6) They can be great as long as their personality resembles a human's, ceasing to be perfect and rigid.
7) Even so, they can raise children with humans.
8) They fear the unpredictable.
🙇🫡🤔👋

@Ota1504
>Low birth rate.
That can be fixed.

@SuperSnekFriend Looking again, it’s not as bad as I thought, but there’s a whole ass modern day Japanese shipyard for no real reason. There’s also some other stuff like the typical fantasy “dungeons can have anything in them” beaches and grasslands but those are less offensive than the story just dropping a “hey look there was a future not-Japan here in this ruins.” The author spends way too much time on this diversion too, the only real plot progression from it being that the dwarves all want to suck off the main character now and the whole “master” thing is brought up again but with no meaingful new information, more of a just in case you forgot what the instigating incident of the plot was.

@SuperSnekFriend
I've tried to summarize some points I remember, but it's more of a collage of various sources: mythology/folklore, anime, and new information. I know I might be inaccurate at some points; it's just an attempt to outline an argument.

@LoliHat @SuperSnekFriend
That's why it depends on the medium it's adapted to. I use the Eddas as a base, but other sources could be used to build a personality. Eddas, folklore, anime, novels... doujinshi

@SuperSnekFriend Their control of media is such that they can get people to either forget or joke about their faults, crimes, and dangerous representatives. If you criticize them too harshly, they can get you canceled.
Not a point in their favor morally, but they are better at it than Whites.

@Iffine @SuperSnekFriend

If you are going to write a story whose hook is "revenge", you'd better commit to the revenge.

Nidome no Yuusha is an example of this being done well. The MC sticks to revenge as his animating motivator, with bonus points for going the "I wouldn't even rape you" route. And getting poetic revenge is the primary reason complete with mind break. He doesn't go out of the way to hurt innocents, but doesn't care if they are collateral damage just as long as its in service to his desire for revenge.

The light novel is complete (the 8th volume is near the top of my "to read" pile), though it's a pity that the manga adaptation was cancelled so early and that it'll likely not get an anime adaptation.

@LoliHat @SuperSnekFriend I’m not all that interested in that one, though I do agree it’s best to focus the revenge. Backwater Gacha Level 9999 over there starts the plot off all in on the revenge with the hint of the “master” plot point, and then barrels through around the 2nd to 3rd arc saying “No wait I don’t want a revenge plot, I want a generic trash fantasy where a super secret evil organization is doing stuff in the background that our OP MC who is literally impossible to beat cannot ever catch.” Similar problem to what I had with Seirei Gensouki, decent opening but the author shits the bed (by introducing a saturday morning cartoon villain who always escapes while cursing the main character for foiling his plot to his semi-serious isekai), looks at the shit in bed, and decides he likes shitting the bed.

@SuperSnekFriend I wanted to post something funny in response to this, but I've come to a startling realization. I don't have a favorite elf character off the top of my head. Sure, I like Frieren, but that's not quite the same as that series got to me for the odd feelings it invoked.