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  • d.fish
    It would be more interesting if xianxia alchemists acted more like cartel druglords

    I mean, like, you know, you'd think Walter White would be a superb alchemist and immortality cultivator
    d.fish
    So basically, here, it's not called something stupid like "reverse sexual morality" or whatever other retard label that sprung up from the internet, instead, it's called "Women's Rights". I'm not joking, you can search for the stories that start with "女尊：..." . Of course, the literal translation is "Female Respect", but you know. Still silly, like still not meaning what it means, but very different.
    d.fish
    So the reason why Douluo Dalu is called the "sewer gutters of xianxia genre", one reason is because of the trashy (but still better than RWBY) writing, but the main reason is that the MC could kill the peak power level people with gadgets from a middle level wuxia world, as well as the cultivation methods from a second rate sect stolen by the MC in that world are OP and considered cheats in Douluo Dalu
    d.fish
    So you know, the Chinese/Taiwanese version of the game is so nice, elegant, and has some big ideals and stuff, and the title is the same, with the same kind of poetic nature, but the moment the title is translated to English, it becomes this shitty "Chinese Paladin: Sword and Fairy" lmao what the fuck is this
    d.fish
    Like you know, "ANBU" is used more by the English audience used to the American three letter organizations, but in Japanese and Chinese they're always addressed as "the dark part", but it feels like English readers would get angry and would be hardheaded against that kind of title in a story
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    d.fish
    d.fish
    naruto is very chuuni
    NTR Commissar
    NTR Commissar
    部 on its own is really more appropriately translated as 'division' tbh, so even ignoring that it's shortened from 暗殺戦術特殊部隊 in which case 'unit' might be appropriate, 暗部 (ANBU) is still more literally 'shadow division' when translated in a vacuum.
    NTR Commissar
    NTR Commissar
    Good point about it being rendered in all upper case to evoke the feeling of an acronym though.
    d.fish
    It's like, you know, I think, you could picture an asian Emperor Palpatine going like, you know, "Excellent, something something, dark side, something something, it has begun, something something, Opium War Part Three, something something, complete"
    d.fish
    I mean, the short videos do have some titles, but I'm not sure if they correspond with the actual series I'm talking about; comic "囤货时代", web novel "囤货主宰", audio "囤货主宰世界"... and apparently names and original work has been modified hm
    d.fish
    So there's this one web novel about the end of the world in ice, and the dude returned from dying once to redo, and made his apartment a shelter, and then the whole setting changed to like a x-men-like thing, where people have superpowers... it's trashy but kinda good, like the overall plot is shit, but you know, the drama is written well... like the gooder x-men stories
    d.fish
    *plays black lotus*
    *plays black lotus*
    *time walk, time walk, time walk*
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    Biigoh
    Plays Black Lotus and then Black Lotus again
    Plays Pryomancer's Ascension
    Plays Lightning bolt twice for 6 damage and 2 tokens on Ascension.
    Plays Lightning bolt another two times for 12 damage
    d.fish
    In China, "操你妈" is the national phrase, the raised middle finger is the international greeting gesture, and "卧槽" are the words of culture.
    d.fish
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    d.fish
    So there's a singer named Liang Jingru, who made a song called 'Courage', so there's a meme here that goes like, "Who gave you the courage to do this? Liang Jingru?" whenever someone is like being ostentatious
    d.fish
    There is a saying, 'ten years of Taiji can't hurt anyone, one year of Baji will kill everyone', but eh, I don't believe in 'ancient martial arts of the mysterious east'
    d.fish
    There's such a weird meme about a domineering president/empress/god/whatever, and they say "男人，你成功引起了我的注意" or "女人，你成功引起了我的注意", as a kind of way of showing someone's personality as being chuuni and overbearing through a single line
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    How to show chuuni without saying chuuni
    d.fish
    one of these days, just you wait, it's totally gonna happen, like, for realsies, you know, for sure, gonna definitely wake up to a 'ding!'

    and then it's finally gonna be like, a string of notifications, like

    [you awakened the god-level sign-in system]
    [you awakened the strongest afk system]
    [you awakened the divine neet system]
    [you awakened...]
    [...]
    d.fish
    So actually, historically correct Three Kingdoms is not like Romance of the Three Kingdoms; Zhang Fei is the one who is idealistic, and Liu Bei is actually the outrageous one, but when writing the story, Luo Guanzhong, you can't have an asshole protagonist, so swapped their personalities around
    d.fish
    I think I'm kinda addicted to just listening to people read them books now, you know, the shitty villain in the city kind, it's gratifying and at the same time, it's like, lets me rest my eyes, you know
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    d.fish
    There's so much of that trashy shit on youtube, I love it

    just press play and then go workout to it hahahaha

    https://youtu.be/KiU1RtlKw3o like this one, for example

    ah, well

    it's just, you know, the feeling of "everything goes my way forever" kind of thing that's lacking irl lmao sigh cry
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    Audio book'ed Fishie
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    d.fish
    nevermind, these urban stories have too much "water", as in filler, they never kill their enemies, and keeps dragging it on and on, it's better to listen to some fanfic stories like https://youtu.be/uRhuMtZLbwE
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    d.fish
    Every Pokemon fanfic seems to like Solgaleo more, maybe because protagonist effect or just cuz it's the one Ash got, but I like Lunala more because it reminds me of Griffith as Femto, who is the true hero of the story, of course
    d.fish
    Top search query this week here was "The one that shouldn't have died has died, the one that should have died hasn't died" lmao

    there's also "heroes have short lives, villains live for a thousand years" hahahahahaaa
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