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OK Joe is psychopath and it’s wrong to ship him with Beck. But! Why Hannibal and Villanelle are any better? Yes, kids, YOU demonstrates exactly how it looks like when murderous psychopath has a crush on you.

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Is any one else getting Space Marine vibes from the German Crusaders from Overwatch?

Young Reinhardt looks like Sanguinius if he landed on Fenris instead of Leman

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They not much into sieges, esp DE, who’s very tactic based on “hit-and-run”. Actually, all three factions prefer broke logistic. And yep, Tau able to organize defense. Death Watch rulebook describes how FireCast army fought on a planet, which was almost eaten’ by Nids. Even without support from space and without aircraft they survived for weeks until reinforcements have come.

Lore Question

How do factions like Eldar/Dark Eldar/Tau fare in sieges? All the other factions seem to have at least one sub-faction that specialises in it. Space Marines, Chaos Marines, and Imperial Guard all have siege experts and dedicated vehicles for it. Sisters of Battle were made to defend shrine worlds, also flamers. Necrons seem like they’d do pretty well, they’re tanky and manoeuvrability was never their strong suit anyways. Orks also seem like they’d enjoy a good siege, more so attacking but I could see them defending as well.

From what I know of the Tau, they don’t like entrenched positions. They don’t do static defences and instead fight sort of similar to the Dark Eldar. But what happens when both of these factions are forced into a corner? I could see Craftworld Eldar faring better. They have in general better armour than their dark cousins, their psychic stuff could be used to bolster their defence, their Wraithbone constructs seem like they’d do well. I still don’t see them setting up turrets and barricades however. Then they’re factions like Daemons or Tyranids. I just don’t know where to begin with them.

Maybe it’s just because I’m not very imaginative, but the concept of never being able to bunker down and defend a critical location, it just seems so impractical. So how do the Eldar/Tau/Daemons/Tyranids do it? I generally would like some opinions on the matter.

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She thought you abandoned her. That you didn’t care how that affected her.

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I ship them! Kind of weird (Lici is kind of her father, giving he created her) but very shippable couple

Sooo I see everyone shipping Chloe and Lucifer (which I sorta brotp personally) but anyone with me on the Maze x Lucifer side? If yes, feel free to send me a message or sth? 

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the magnificent seven // all female cast Viola Davis • Chisolm Bryce Dallas Howard • Josh Faraday Alana de la Garza • Vasquez Jodie Foster • Goodnight Robicheaux Grace Park • Billy Rocks Tanaya Beatty • Red Harvest

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H-m-m... unexpectedly.  

I fill bad for SBG. People will call him Uncle Tom for this.

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What I didn’t got about HZD is how everyone of Nora tribe know that Aloy is outcast. I mean, the tribe is too big for everyone know each other personally, and there were nether tattoo nor scars which marking outcasts. How they know, who is outcast?

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http://sixeightsuited.tumblr.com/post/158034901417/horizon-zero-dawn-and-cultural-appropriation-a

I just leave it here.

Horizon Zero Dawn and its image problem

Horizon Zero Dawn is a pretty great game. It’s fun to play, looks great, has some good characters and the story has neat twists that wrap up nicely at the end. It’s a shame it’s suffering from direct comparisons to Zelda: Breath of the Wild, because in any other year it’d be the open world game to beat.

One aspect of Horizon that doesn’t work is in the aesthetic presentation of the disparate tribes in the game. Each of the four principle tribes bears an aesthetic drawn from an existing or historical culture, the Nora and the Banuk are broadly Native American, the Carja draw from Mesopotamian and ancient Persian imagery and the Osram have some sort of mix of post-roman Europe with elements of East Asian culture mixed in, Steppe tribe imagery. Each tribe has a strong aesthetic, they all look great and stand out nicely from each other. The problem is that the reasons for their look are not well supported, and it has lead to perfectly understandable accusations of appropriation (principally aimed at the lead character, who, if I’m being reductive, looks like if Merida from Brave cosplayed as Pocahontas).

I’d been putting writing this off until I had played through the main story in Horizon just to see if the game offered some explanation when, in fact, once it does wrap up, the game actually provides a hard counterargument to why any of the tribes in the game would have a strong visual semblance to existing cultures in the first place. Horizon is set in post-post apocalypse (i.e. civilisation has ended and a new, functioning civilisation independent from what came before now exists) Colorado for the most part, a fact discovered by the community when they recognised certain landmarks and vistas that resembled parts of the state. It’s never explicitly stated in the main story, although it might be in some of the collectables. Regardless, the game is set in North America, some 1000 years in the future.

Despite the setting, Horizon provides no reason for why the Nora and Banuk tribes to share common visual themes with Native American tribes. The setting certainly doesn’t explain why the Carja and the Osram have their look either, as the Middle East and the Eurasian Steppe are nowhere near Colorado. To be honest, as the game went on and it became clear that it was set in North America, I was half expecting the story to explain how each tribe had found a casino in the ruins of Las Vegas and themed themselves after that. As silly as that would have been, its unfortunately not he case.

I was ready to dismiss Horizon’s use of appropriated cultural imagery as just another case of a developer using existing visual language to set a certain tone, without nessecary regard to the original context or value that imagery might represent. It wouldn’t be the first time and I’m damn sure it wont be the last. However, as I wrapped up Horizon it became harder and harder to simply ignore the tribal imagery as just scene setting.

Let’s just say this now, Here Be Spoilers. Yarr.

Ready?

Ok.

The last couple hours of Horizon has you exploring ruins of the old world and finding out exactly what happened. And I mean EXACTLY what happened. The closing act of the game is a very deliberate, text-and-dialogue heavy exposition romp through the hows and whys of the end of the world. It goes into detail about the killer robot plague that destroyed all organic life on the planet, the desperate rush to develop a system to restart the human race and re-seed the planet with life after the killer robots shut down and how parts of that system, in particular the archive of knowledge intended to inform the new humans about the past, failed. It even goes out of it’s way to explain why the good, animal-like robots exist (even the dinosaur ones), why true organic animals are limited to a handful of species and what exactly the big bad is and how it relates to the program to re-seed the world. Horizon’s last few hours are incredibly specific on almost every aspect of the world-that-was and the new world that came of it.

It seems really egregious that the tribes are not explained at all. They have history, sure, a few hundred years of it, but it never manages to describe why they look the way they do, and how they managed to adapt so well to the world without the knowledge archive. In one sequence we understand that the first humans  to be born and leave the underground shelters received some limited education, likely up to preschool level, but that would hardly give them specific knowledge of ancient Persian architecture. It’s a misstep, and a big one, that speaks to a story so eager to explain its science but unable, or unwilling, to explain its society. The expectation that lightning would strike twice, but in a different time, with different variables, and produce very similar imagery seems like a massive stretch.

If Horizon had gone as far out of its way to explain why the Nora have braves and feathered headdresses as it did to explain why there are Zoids running around, it would have been a commendable piece of science fiction. As it stands, it’s a neat story that looks great that I find I can’t lose myself in because it doesn’t explain itself properly. If you’re going to go down the route of justifying your fantastical world, make sure you justify all of it because the parts you leave out are going to hurt the rest.

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Not sure, should I recommend it here, but for those who really (REALLY) can’t wait - try this. Here the translation a bit faster... but it’s not in English(((

http://readmanga.me/beloved__jaeliu_

from the other hand, this is comic book, so you still can get what happening.

Beloved.

Chapter 1.1/ /1.2/ /1.3/ /1.4/ /1.5/ /1.6/ /1.7/ /1.8/ 2.1/ /2.2/ /2.3/ /2.4/ /2.5/ /2.6/ /2.7/ /2.8/ /2.9/ /3.1/ /3.2/ /3.3/ /3.4/ /3.5/ /3.6/ /3.7/ /3.8/ /4.1/ /4.2/ /4.3/ /4.4/ /4.5/ /4.6/ /4.7/ /4.8/ /5.1/ /5.2/ /5.3/ /5.4/ /5.5/ /5.6/ /6.1/ /6.2/ /6.3/ /6.4/ /6.5/ /6.6/ 6.7/ /6.8/ /6.9/ /7.1/ /7.2/ /7.3/ /7.4/ /7.5/ /7.6/ /7.7/ /7.8/ /7.9/ /8.1/ /8.2/ /8.3/ /8.4/ /8.5/ /8.6a/ /8.6b/ /8.7a/ /8.7b/ /8.8/ /8.9/ /9.1/ /9.2/ /9.3/ /9.4/ /9.5/ /9.6/ /9.7/ /9.8/ /9.9/ /10.1/ /10.2/ /10.3a/ /10.3b/ /10.4/ /10.5/ /10.6/ /10.7a/ /10.7b/ /10.8/ /10.9/ /11.1/ /11.2/ /11.3/ /11.4/ /11.5/ /11.6/ /11.7/ /11.8/ /next/

Artist: Jaeliu    Translated by Manhua-ABCD

*Any use of images must credit the original author. Not for use for any commercial reason without permission from the author.

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Hi. I can see why so mad about this, but by definition it is NOT child molesting. Words mean something. “Child molesting” is an sexual act with someone under age of consent. Ding is 16, so she matched AoC even in most states of US (and in most European countries including my own). She can sleep with anyone she like. Period. Tbh I personally was more frustrated when she seduced the doc couple of hours after she had a concussion. Everyone who had such trauma can say how bad this combined with sex))

I love this blog and your translations but... don't you think it's wrong to translate and spread a manga talking about statutory rape? The art is amazing but the plot is just plainly wrong :/

We’ve seen a few comments like this. First, we acknowledge that Beloved. is not for everyone, because it gets into murky areas that really go against cultural norms. Without making any endorsements, we feel there is artistic merit in exploring these themes. 

A couple things to keep in perspective: It is a work of fiction. Additionally, the age of consent in China, where the manga is set, is 14 years old. Statutory rape does not apply.  

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Beloved

Chapter 1.1/ /next/

Artist: Jaeliu

Translated by Manhua-ABCD

*Any use of images must credit the original author. Not for use for any commercial reason without permission from the author.

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That was the main problem with him, I think. He never was really ready to this war. Other TM members, even Fusco, were warriors in their very core, while Harold... he could be normal, not bad person, but he was awrong man in wrong place.

Root and Elias were the two people who told Harold exactly what he was doing wrong in the war against Samaritan and it took both of them dying for him to take notice

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> We are grateful to the creators

Actually, lot of people act to creators exactly as clexa-funs scted to jroth.

Why we will never be on the same side.

clexa shippers: The 100 is a piece of shit. It’s nothing without us and Alicia. It’s getting worse every day. This show have to be closed.

shoot shippers: POI has disadvantages, but it was a great show. It was qualitative,logical and elaborate. One of the best series on TV. We really enjoyed it.

clexa shippers: F*ck Jason Rothenberg. Only an idiot could do this.*show the third finger his photo*

shoot shippers: We are grateful to the creators for the fact that they saw the chemistry of our couple аnd decided to make it a canon. It was not planned and very risky on CBS. They gave us even more than we could have dreamed of.

clexa shippers: dead lesbian plot

shoot shippers: Root is not “dead lesbian” - she is dead person, dead part of machine’s team, dead аnalog interface, dead former killer for hire. Her role in the series has never been reduced to orientation. Root was important for the show outside the love line. Her death was predetermined as soon as she joined the team Machine. It has nothing about her sexuality.

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Forgive the intrusion, historically Portuguese people subjected to strong Arabian influence. Their skin-color is  darker in average, than for ‘pure’ Spaniriads. While their culture is Westernized, I think, average American would not considering them as visually “white”. I think, that is what  anonymous wrote about.

wouldn't portugese people be considered poc though? so technically floriana isn't white

Why do you think Portuguese people would be considered PoC?

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Hi. Everything below is just IMHO and my vision.

About  Russia (I'm Russian, if anything). 

First - there is a LOT of nationalities (white and non-white) inside Russia. We live together... hardly, but - somehow. Second (and this fact make our nationalists piss off) - a lot of Russians (here: white North-Eastern slavs) deeply have some Asian heritage (google Golden Horde... just one e.g.). Third - modern Russia is mostly westernized - if I get American racial classification (which is real mindf*ck, btw) correctly - those Russians who are ‘racially ambiguous’ but involved in ‘medium culture’ are white for you.

For Americans it'll sound weird, but most tolerant to POC (and other nations) it was in Soviets time. No ideal (at all), but at least it was a part of ideology - Peace, Equality, Brotherhood, etc. USSR did enough shit in politics, but it at least it tried to pretend to be (or becoming) smt better. But... ironically, it reminds me today US (as I see it). Like, yeah old grudges are forgotten, we’re all good, we are all friends - you people speak about such things constantly. When it collapsed (with economics, social service and lot of other things) it turned out all shit wasn’t forgotten. The problems wasn’t solved, they were just driven inside where hey slowly rot and swollen, like an abscess. When everything went south, abscess bursting.

Russia isnt in Asia it's in Europe........

Should I even get into the very non-white history of Russia and their repeated historical and current attempts to separate themselves from “Asia” and align with “Europe” or would that be too much?

- Mod K