noo. :(

Sorry didn't mean to be paternalistic/patronizing or weird I just really don't like Chapo anymore/grew out of it

You're right. Though it was not my intention to pedestal the nuclear family or building one as an ultimate goal, I suppose I was measuring the milestones of life through the parallels of responsibility and personal growth, and used that observation about him to mean that he sees a future and existence for himself outside of the podcast. And that sort of seriousness and forecasting is a mark of adulthood and maturity, from my perspective.

Will's alright; I guess I was trying to not singularly focus on Felix.

Felix to me is my personal bogeyman, that despite success and affluence, he is seemingly incapable of escaping his adolescence in both his manner of speech, presentation, habits, and career. A "positive" identity is what a person identifies themselves by what they are, Felix has helped me form a "negative" identity by telling myself what I should not be.

I dunno. I just knew people like that, blessed by success or fortune from birth, and saw them spend their lives in adolescence way into their late 30s.

yu yu hakusho, I think is probably better dubbed.

12 Kingdoms, Rayearth, Escaflowne, and El Hazard were decent Isekai from what I remember. They're all from the 90s/00s though.

They still had trash Isekai in the 90s, like Those Who Hunt Elves.

If you've seen Scary Movie, it's the same sort of humor from that era. It isn't just shows from the 2000s, it's being a Millennial child in the 2000s that made it palatable.

Rewatching it now is really ugly. Kind of like that Marge Simpson story where her story is really gross, bizarre, and bigoted - a reference to the caricature of Apu - where you'd just find it severely distasteful.

I think that is their rationale; I didn't mean to imply that I believe this but it is on the back of my mind that this is a grim possibility.

Don't destroy your life to spite theirs. Spite their life by keeping consistent course of reminding them that their ideology demanded genocide and demanded it be normal. Don't let it be normal.

I just binged KAOS on Netflix and was amazed at how well it was written and narrated. Instantly recognized Cassandra (as the character) haha.

Faraway Paladin stays away from the video game analogue and is just pure fantasy without any real , from what I could remember, slavery/harem tropes.

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3 minutes in and I can hear Felix's gaming addiction leak through.

I think Hannah Arendt and others have touched on this before, but most fascists and monsters of political regimes are not all stone cold psychopaths but ordinary, mundane, trite, and ambitious careerists who pursue monstrous goals and policies out of professional aspirations and vanity, out of routine (just following orders), or fear of reprisal.

Of course they were thinking about their careers. It just so happens that despite that, those people in particular had a conscience that broke free.