!bookworms to discuss the 4th chapter of our book club choice Petersburg. I'm delayed and still in the middle of chapter 4 so I'll post on the following days or catch up by the next thread like I did last week.

Do you guys think Nikolai Apollonovich is like that because of inceldom?

you may wonder why I used /s unironically. dilligaf?

saw a screenie of the original post from two years ago and had to see if it was real

mildly entertaining

Anyone else try to show nearby black people that they're listening to Kendrick Lamar?

Today i was on standing the train, listening to the new album and i noticed that there was a black guy standing behind me.

I wanted to show him that i'm not racist and am in fact all for black rights, so i opened spotify, put brightness on max and held my phone up (discretely) so he could see me jamming it to the 🐐.

On the train ride back there was a black man sitting across from me so i did one better. I chucked on To Pimp a Butterfly, held my phone flat so he could see it and gave him a small nod.

I like to believe that i'm on the right side of history. I feel like they probably respected me for that.

Anyone else do this?

Comment section is mostly Shoah'd. Can't tell if bait or r-slurred.

!masterbaiters !r-slurs !kowalski

!metashit

you need to be fucking serious LMAOOOO i’m way outta your league https://t.co/WIuipsmJeL pic.twitter.com/jtIjkqgIb5

— alexa🧸🪞 (@inmybloodgrande) January 25, 2025

https://x.com/_troubling/status/1883566145489527031

To be fair you guys look closely related

— Mariè (@p8stie) January 26, 2025

Looks matched tbh

— Nugs (@Nugjokes) January 26, 2025

you're barely a 4

— Haile Selassie Groyper (@bannedgroyper23) January 25, 2025

You're both actually looksmatched if you take off the makeup.

— Involuntary Celibate (Incels.is) (@IncelsCo) January 26, 2025

B-word 💀💀💀 pic.twitter.com/sFpvHPUlKD

— ChadCathGroyp ❄️ (@ChadCathGroyper) January 26, 2025

you somehow becoming convinced that this is not your exact stone cold looksmatch is the reason that fertility rates are going to zero https://t.co/rURcM2uOpc

— doomer (@uncledoomer) January 26, 2025

It’s funny in a way because women are delusional when it comes to their looks but it is an actual problem. Many such cases. pic.twitter.com/NH5BwjprZp

— kt🧝🏻‍♀️ (@amishescapee) January 26, 2025

Yea I’m not gon hold you y’all are in the same league, same conference, division rivals even https://t.co/6HctQoqVI3

— Trill Burr (@ReloadedJu) January 26, 2025

This is proof that women can't rate themselves objectively and think they're way more attractive than they actually are.

The truth is that they're both looksmatched and not a single person would bat an eye if they were together. https://t.co/gPpkTtchRe

— Involuntary Celibate (Incels.is) (@IncelsCo) January 26, 2025

Being a narcissistic whore putting down your looksmatch is based and good until enough people start pooping on their appearance too, then suddenly it's about "heart" or whatever the heck. Lol https://t.co/WqZSrqqsBa pic.twitter.com/ngmcyuhcgX

— ᓀ‸ᓂ (@hisenkeigeniac) January 26, 2025

sorry it's such a lazy post but yeah pretty funny huh 😏 I made a post about this guy being ugly and jewish before but they actually do look like my childhood friend's parents and the mom would go all out for every holiday with themed hand towels and such and the dad liked to drink beer and watch hockey but they were nice and wholesome and always bought us chinese food so I feel like these two should get married

The international standing of the US is literally never going to recover https://t.co/k21jJ9fv0z

— #1 Venlil Enjoyer (@EmpressThaliaa) January 27, 2025

Like I don't mean to be overdramatic, but this is straight up the end of the American century

— #1 Venlil Enjoyer (@EmpressThaliaa) January 27, 2025

It’s the fact that Americans have 0 idea how important it is that America has so many Allie’s around the world that Trump is just now cutting off one by one for absolutely no reason because he failed to communicate.

— You were warned 🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@Rickie99_) January 27, 2025

I can’t believe we’re burning down the world for literally no reason. I am never forgiving republicans

— Flaming (@FlamingAUS) January 27, 2025

me when i have to end my alliances built up over a century because i'm bored

— Amadán (@Mr_Elephant2004) January 27, 2025

its true lol. i think many countries are going to rely far less on the us now

the hostility is insane, the amount of people on here who act like its deserved and shows the us is strong is insane aha. comes across as incredibly petty and weak

— pierbi (@pierbiwierbi) January 27, 2025

pic.twitter.com/ZGWLGeZGjq

— Jan202021 (@Dixie202021) January 27, 2025

losing power in the global south speed run (new record: 6 days)

— SandstormRefrigerator (@Pokemonprimed) January 27, 2025

Yeah, it's basic diplomacy. America would lose badly in Sid Meyer's Civ right now.

— Tom (@iamtomgranger) January 27, 2025

Anyway remittances from the US account for 3% of Colombia's GDP so a single deportation flight is pretty devastating to their national economy. And the threats worked immediately

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/26/trump-colombia-deportation-flights-migrants-tariffs/

So we are thankfully not going to be deprived of all the many things Colombia exports here. I don't know what those things are besides coffee and cocaine but X (formerly Twitter) informs me it's a lot and very important. Crisis averted.

Here's what I did. I called my congressional representative (R) hoping to leave a message but instead his staff picked up. I awkwardly stumbled my way through why I think Elon Musk is insanity. Could tell the sweet little republican staffer hated her life so much as she said, "I'll pass that along." :) I also called my senators and complained again.

Finally, and my personal fave thing I did today, I rolled down my car windows on the way back from school drop off and BLARED the FDT rap by YG & Nippsey Hussle. I made one VT girl's day when she smiled at me because of the song and then I literally yelled "frick Donald Trump" at the top of my lungs. She started laughing in her car. I also made quite an impression on a car full of frat bros who probably voted for him.

Viva la revolución, Dramatards.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Virginia/comments/1ihjqfg/what_one_tiny_stupid_thing_are_you_doing_to_fight/

Burgers why are you like this?

Rouge nukes and bird flu on my bingo for Musk/Trump incoming frickups.

I really hope Burgers will get cut off Medicaid and Medicare.

Also drew these with a mouse in MS paint while at work:

!animalposters

In Europe and Switzerland, we don't need social or economic refugees from the USA any other country in the world. Stay in your own country.

He's not going to hurt you, you know? The US is a strong democracy.

Maybe you are trolling, but no, you simply can't just move to Switzerland because you feel like it. You need specialist skills and a company willing to sponsor you, just like it would be if I was to move to the US.

If you husband has mid 8 figures CHF to invest in Switzerland, that might be difficult.

How exactly do you propose moving here? Have you seen the visa requirements?

Also, how exceedingly arrogant to just claim you can live here when your country makes it so difficult for everyone else.

Is this a troll post?

I saw this:

• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snow_bunny

2. (Canada, US, slang) A young, attractive, female skier; a sexually active young woman attracted to the promiscuous après-ski way of life.

naturally, I looked it up immediately:

• https://www.google.com/search?q=the+promiscuous+apr%C3%A8s-ski+way+of+life

VICE confirmed it's foids slooting, whether rich or poor I just wanted to see the term used somewhere:

"while, I went on a one-woman rampage, spending most of my days either up to my armpits in soap-suds and other people's pubic hair, having s*x with stoned, broke teenagers on Tabasco-soaked mattresses"

https://www.vice.com/en/article/belle-de-neige-ski-underbelly/#:~:text=while%2C%20I%20went%20on%20a%20one%2Dwoman%20rampage%2C%20spending%20most%20of%20my%20days%20either%20up%20to%20my%20armpits%20in%20soap%2Dsuds%20and%20other%20people%E2%80%99s%20pubic%20hair%2C%20having%20sex%20with%20stoned%2C%20broke%20teenagers%20on%20Tabasco%2Dsoaked%20mattresses

For some reason I had to click at least one Reddit link before I backed out. This proved to be a good idea, shout-out to epic definition definer /u/Piper6728:

It originally meant after skiing social activity, but it eventually became lewd and sexual (in superman 3 evil superman used Après ski to screw a woman's brains out)

(in superman 3 evil superman used Après ski to screw a woman's brains out)

• https://old.reddit.com/r/skiing/comments/1b1tve9/serious_question_dont_attack_me_please_but_what/

Gemini explained the Superman III scene with this link

• https://imdb.com/title/tt0086393/quotes/?item=qt1763099&ref_=ext_shr_lnk

[Superman slowly walks into Lorelei's room]

Lorelei: How about a little après-ski?

[as Superman walks closer to Lorelei,]

Lorelei: Champagne?

[Superman proceeds to make out with Lorelei]

SPIDERCHAD ALWAYS HELPED ME WHENEVER I NEEDED

HE IS A JACKED BWC BVLL WHO MET BARDFINN IRL

UNIRONICALLY ONE OF THE BEST USERS ON RDRAMA.NET

I DUNNO WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE CURRENT META DRAMA AROUND HIM BUT HE ALWAYS SEEMED TO BE A COOL AND DOWN TO EARTH DUDE

LEAVE SPIDERMAN ALONE AND STOP HARASSING HIM IMMEDIATELY

!metashit !friendsofspiderman

!soren !anime !2dgooners !coomers !sigmastacies REMEMBER THE MOTTO SISTERS: ratsex + ratlove FRICKING GALENTINES SISTERS LETS. FUXXING. HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP

been getting into ja rule, mystikal, missy elliot, ludacris, all the greats of the 2000s

got any favorites?

Introduction

Y'all remember the smash hit One Punch Man (OPM) in the mid to late '10s? The persiflage of the entire shounen genre as an invincible but bored superhero defeats all enemies with just one punch? Filled with other nonsensical characters like the strongest man on earth who's essentially the weakest man alive or the guy whose basically just a male feminist (male feminist) in real life? Anyways, that shit is still going strong but I've to elaborate here, OPM is based on a shitty drawn but sovlful webcomic by ONE, which in turn got adapted into an official (tm) manga with much better art by MURATA. The thingy got picked up as an anime and rose to immense popularity. Naturally, the original tone of the comic has been lost as it essentially became what it was making fun of - but that's a given for japanese "writers" as they're all whiny or talentless hacks or a combination of the aforementioned - except Fukumoto he's bae(sed). Anyway, OPM has always had a terrible release schedule but lately it's gotten so disgusting that even long-time fans are dropping the series.

Context

To reiterate, here's the release schedule of the original comic (ONE):

while lazy he managed something

Here's what Murata has managed to draw after late 2023:

You may notice the Retconned tag after some chapters. And yes, it's exactly like you are thinking. He draws those chapters, releases them, and then later decides he isn't happy with the chapter (or the entire arc) and revisions all of it while making slight adjustments. Anyway, the latest chapter is a redraw of an already redrawn chapter originally released in 2023 featuring a filler side story of a filler arc. So basically the entirety of chapters released in 2024 are retconned - people don't like this ... at all:

Drama

/r/OnePunchMan

This sub can be insufferable

I love OPM, I love all the stupid drama over which wiafu is best (they're cartoons and y'all are weird), I love the characters and story, I love the art. But the thing is we are getting a product for free here, and early. We don't have to wait for the Manga to get released, we don't have to wait for the finalized product to be able to read what's going on. We literally get a look behind the curtain as this is being made. And part of that process is fixing work that they felt needed to be fixed. Who's to blame? Murata? One? Who cares. It's their work. I'll complain about redraws when I have to rebuy my physical mangas because there's an updated version. It's not done until it's been printed and released. It feels like people are acting privileged and entitled because One released his content online, and now they assume they deserve access to finalized and completed content at our convenience. It will be done when they say it's done. Can we just enjoy what we have in the meantime?

https://old.reddit.com/r/OnePunchMan/comments/1i8rbxz/this_sub_can_be_insufferable/m8vtavd/?context=8

I'd argue that trying to pretend that deleting 14 month of progress out of nowhere is completely fine is far more insufferable.

This isn't a look behind the curtains. It's officially released chapters that also gets official translations. No other series even remotely com close to this mess so of course there is nothing wrong about pointing it out.

Another moment of silence for the poor fools read the official version of OPM on VIZ's app. Because VIZ doesn't translate redrawings.

It is fine? That's how the creative process works sometimes

Literally no other manga series does that.

https://old.reddit.com/r/OnePunchMan/comments/1i8rbxz/this_sub_can_be_insufferable/m8vsw9i/?context=8

why make us wait a whole year for a promised move forward in this story and then throw it all away? Its not us being ungrateful but if Murata truly wants quality for this manga he ought to take his time rather than rush and give us half-assed butchered storylines and retcon it constantly

What you don't understand is you're not the audience.

He is getting it right, and the version he wants is what will actually make it into the volume.

He is the audience. Fans like him are the reason why OPM got an official English physicals in the first place. His opinion will be valid if he says it in Japanese or so? That's just silly. He's still a supporting fan, and he could buy the physical manga just like any Japanese fan could. That's a narrow way of looking at it. Every fan contributes to the series' success.

Thread Dump

/r/Manga

DISC One Punch Man Chapter 195 - 2nd Revision

To be entirely precise, we were at chapter 195 in November 2023. We're in January 2025 and we're now at chapter 195. A whole year thrown away.

https://old.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/1ia11m5/disc_one_punch_man_chapter_195_2nd_revision/m96wrxa/?context=8

Ngl the constant redraws have killed my excitement for this series. Doesn't help that I personally think the story gets worse with each version (just my own opinion)

Simple redraws or changes to the pacing is one thing, but changing the literal plot or direction is too far. It feels like that they don't have a vision for the manga and is just drawing whatever they feel works, which they then don't stick to and subsequently and in my opinion wastes my time and attention.

https://old.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/1ia11m5/disc_one_punch_man_chapter_195_2nd_revision/m96oshu/?context=8

This manga fell off so hard, it really needs to be studied. Being so utterly clueless in what direction you want to take the story that you have to rewrite an arc for a third time. Just copy paste the webcomic at this point.

The funny thing is the defenders of the comic on the main subreddit

Well, it's easy to find defenders when the powertripping mods on there will parma ban anybody even remotely stating something negative about the manga.

https://old.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/1ia11m5/disc_one_punch_man_chapter_195_2nd_revision/m97n48e/?context=8

OPM is genuinely starting to feel like an afterthought with both of its artists at this point.

I know Murata has that animation project he's working on, and ONE seems occupied with Versus and Bug Ego.

Deleting an entire year's worth of chapters, after having already done a complete 180 on the direction of the climax of the most pivotal arc of the series, is actually mental.

What's the point of reading any of this if it can just be retconned whenever ONE or Murata feel like it?

And the people that are on maximum strength copium trying to justify this shit by saying it's some sort of meta-level 4th wall interference by God to prevent his will from being hindered by the plot are just hilarious. Yes, it's totally that and not just blatant mismanagement and confusion by the creators as to where they want to take the narrative.

/r/OPMfolk

Thread Dump

https://old.reddit.com/r/OPMFolk/comments/1i7d8f0/redraw_chapter_195240_raw/m8jpizt/?context=8

All of 2024's chapters are gone from the site lol.

Get ready for another year of ninjas

I'm bored and this isn't as interesting as I've initially assumed. I'll revision this thread in the future.

EDIT: OP IS A MOID!

No drama but it just seemed funny to me, like why are you humblebragging on Reddit to a bunch of minimum wage wagies?

Also what the frick is up with that house? Why does it have two garages?

https://old.reddit.com/r/Homebuilding/comments/1hgjwyz/we_are_almost_there/

OP also sucks at parking:

https://old.reddit.com/r/HummerEV/comments/1g343jk/i_pulled_the_trigger_this_weekend/

She posts to /r/ebayselleradvice so I assume she's a stay at home wife with a rich husband.

She really loves humblebragging

And she has some Karen story that I didn't read:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Diesel/comments/1eb968p/i_know_we_all_have_had_bad_experiences_at/

His final post: https://wilkes888.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/my-final-blog-entry-love-you-all/

He seems pretty intelligent but somewhat neurodivergent. He conducted a "study" over 4-5 year period counting the number of white x asian couples and found that surprisingly 95% of the 10,000 he counted were WMAF.

This is the post that does a nice writeup if u dont want to read the whole blog :marseylongpost https://old.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/1il1kd5/the_life_and_death_of_a_lonely_asian_man/