Recent content by Grevados

You're all not really wrong about catapults and trebuchets not being effective anti-air weapons, but what you're forgetting is that Van has also invented the equivalent of flak rounds for them.

The usual pattern has been 1. Introduce new female character 2. Misunderstanding leads to conflict 3. Conflict resolved 4a. Wife 4b. Roommate

It's not that the problem is intrinsic to capitalism or any other economic system, it's that they organized by humans who have an unfortunate tendency to allow the wealthy to optimize their economic systems to incentivize their own greed. Corporations are just one aspect of that, because...

There's also "genetic chimeras" which are people/animals with two or more sets of genes because they were going to be non-identical twins that didn't separate in the womb.

Gather 'round children and I'll tell you the legend of the kind elf that stayed in our humble village for a few years and completely changed the future of all the people living here.

Shiso-san saying "I'm old enough to have seen it all. I may not remember it all, but I HAVE seen it all."

The problem I have with stocks and by extension corporations is that they insulate the people who profit from the consequences of the company's misdeeds while allowing them to reap the rewards. The only thing shareholders are typically at risk of is losing the value of their shares. It takes...

Proof that Valius really hates this world.

Arte is so precious. I'm glad she's found an environment in which she can thrive.

I foresee her losing her last coin and then exposing the cheating and walking out owning the entire casino as an alternative to the death penalty for scamming someone connected to the royal family.

I wouldn't mind if they regress Kuro to a baby and raise her properly.

And even then their slapfight was erasing mountains like the final Ichigo vs. Aizen fight.

That feeling when somebody finally sees the same things you saw in your favorite movie that everyone else hated.

I made this observation rewatching the anime recently, but it seems like every woman that has more than incidental contact with Cid or Shadow ends up a fanatic, either follower or enemy. There doesn't seem to be anyone that lands in between.

Isn't it fine to be unprotected? If someone crosses a line they'll end up burger-ized by Fran and Shisho anyway.