Elevator7009

Formerly @Elevator7009@kbin.run, kbin.run died, moved here.

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  • Good intentions but I never read peoples’ bios, I do not usually click on their profiles. Feels stalkerish. I’m here on Lemmy for conversation about the things I care about, not to get to know specific online strangers. I only check profiles if you say something that makes me suspicious of your intentions so I decide to look at your engagement on that account overall, or if you have an interesting username and I am curious about where it came from.

    EDIT: forgot I have to click a profile to direct message people






  • Elevator7009toManga[DISC] Pakupaku Desu Wa - Chapter 2
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    2 days ago

    Glad I gave this a shot.

    I am a big fan of obliviously OP protags. I can see her noble background and lack of adventuring knowledge being easy conflict/humor fodder, they clearly made use of it this chapter.

    Not sure what the “desu wa” thing is though.

    Wonder if we will ever get an angst scene about her getting kicked out of the house. Everyone deals with grief differently though, and I know some people shove it down and deal with what is in front of them, only for it to reemerge later, so no issues with not seeing a breakdown right off the bat.



  • I’m kind of picky with what manga I’m willing to start, but almost anything I do pick will be something I enjoy. Really appreciate this community (as well as the anime discussion one, if I see an interesting-looking anime I’ll probably look up if it has a manga first) for making me aware of a lot more manga I ended up enjoying.

    I admit I don’t post myself. I have no sense of taste or quality, just “I enjoyed this” and “I did not enjoy this” and am not sure too many of my comments would be constructive. But I do think a general appreciation comment is constructive enough to post, so I am posting this ;)




  • Thanks for clarifying. I do my best to compensate for any of my differences from what the average person wants, but it’s a bit hard if you and your environment also skews in that direction.

    At least with tech I feel I’ve got a somewhat decent handle on “normal,” at least for my age group, which is not “grandparent struggling to turn on the computer”. I probably skew a little more crazy compared to average, I did switch my computer’s OS to Linux, but way less than people on this instance. Although I have no comment on the Switch/Steam Deck thing, I have zero desire to participate in console gaming and none of my friends are passionate enough about consoles to leak any information over to me. I’ve seen Switches around and have no idea what a Deck looks like, which might be telling, but it is also possible some of my friends have Decks and I just dismissed it as “some object”.


  • I feel on every single social media platform I have ever been on I will see the comment

    [This social media platform’s users] are completely disconnected from the real world.

    I never know how seriously to take this. I always want to automatically dismiss it because it seems like a “everyone here is delusional” type of comment and if I have had a majority of pleasant, reasonable-seeming interactions there I will really not like the idea that these seemingly nice people who had a civil, reasonable discussion with me are actually delusional, and by extension I probably am delusional too. And since I have seen it everywhere it basically seems to say nowhere online has (a decent amount of) people in touch with reality. But setting that aside for a moment…

    Obviously every platform will attract different types of people, probably not a fully representative sample of the population, a skew towards this or that type of person… but how far skewed from the “normal” experience is each platform on average? What is normal? If one platform has a wild skew towards one type of person, but that type of person makes up most of what I’ll see in real life due to my environment (like who my friends and family are, what my workplace is like), does its distance from normal matter if it’s no different from my real life normal? How much? Given that a lot of people spend a lot of time online, in which they often express opinions they truly hold that they would not vocalize in real life, would you say people who eschew social media have their own disconnect from reality in some way? What social media platform is closest to the average real life normal, which is the least “disconnected from the real world”?



  • I came here for the entire premise of a dragon maid, and stuck around for the found family and the slice of life. The sexualization I just kind of blatantly ignore—kind of helps to be a woman not sexually interested in my own gender, in a world full of sexualizing my gender, so I have a lot of practice with it. (I’ll usually try to avoid sexual fanservice, but if I like something/think I’ll enjoy enough I seem to be really good at just hitting the IGNORE button.) It’s fun to watch. I’m cognizant of the issues but I certainly do not expect everything I watch to be perfect. Also, since you are saying the portrayal of women is an issue… ignoring the fanservice I do not really see anything wrong with the female characters as characters here? Am I just stupid? I especially like Kobayashi. Really not a fan of Lucoa’s entire thing with Shota, but in the end, unfortunately some women are indeed pedophiles. Very realistic character defect.

    Not a fan of the loli/shota stuff. However I am more “ehhh, I wish this wasn’t there” than “absolute disgust,” probably because in the end, the characters are pixels, no real kids are coming to harm; so when weighing whether or not to watch I still come down on the watch side.

    For what it is worth, the anime’s sexualization and underage sexualization seems to be toned down from the manga.



  • A normal amount, but I also have a tendency to take things at face value right off the bat.

    I did recognize the Shota name thing but at most that seemed like a single playful jab, not the whole thing being satire. And the “lolicon character is actually 943948 years old!” thing is common enough that it just passed me by. I didn’t see enough parody to call this satire. And I have not seen anyone engage with this any differently than they would with non-satire content, so…

    Why is it concerning that I didn’t see this as satire? Does it imply low media literacy, or something negative about my morals?























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