Super fair. I kept expecting to get there, but haven’t yet. So far I’m still loving it, though I’ll admit there’s been plenty of low times that felt like a real slog. And of course I still have like half the series so far to go, so who knows what the future holds?

Yeah I watched a bit of One Pace with a friend to catch them up and it was pretty great, but my partner felt like we were missing out on something so we switched back over to the full episodes. But in general One Pace is solid way to approach the series. Hope you enjoy it!

Because it’s contextual. The point is that comparisons between human races and dog breeds are almost never (I hope you appreciate the caveat I made for you here) brought up in good faith ways, and are almost always used disingenuously or to evoke emotional response to manipulate the conversation inernestly.

Can you pedantically pick at the statement? Sure, but not without willfully ignoring the greater point.

Yes, I’m aware that evil exists, but it is still nowhere equivalent to the selective breeding of dogs. There are entire oceans of nuance that separate the particulars of the two (note: nuance is not justification and I have absolutely nothing but complete condemnation for slavery and this sort of human rights violating experimentation; this is evil) and even if you disagree with or choose to ignore that the sheer scale is still so astronomically different as to render any comparison entirely invalid.

protein, fiber, carbohydrates, and a staple grain - feels like an exceptional and healthy choice to me

Absolutely true. In fact, a funny effect that happens is as the show goes on it becomes increasingly jarring when they use flashbacks to earlier episodes because the juxtaposition between the ever-improving art and the genuinely ugly episode art becomes ever-increasingly disparate!

That said, regarding it starting in 1999, while I agree on the time capsule aspect, I have point out that as a 40yr old man who has been watching anime since single-digit age, One Piece was indisputably ugly even by 1999 standards. By this point we already had Cowboy Bebop, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Rurouni Kenshin, Ghost in the Shell… Hell, I think Love Hina came out the following year and in terms of appearance it absolutely blows the first 100 episodes of One Piece out of the water, no contest.

So yes, One Piece is a cool time capsule to see how an artist can grow and develop over time, but I’d hesitate to call it an accurate time capsule reflective of anime as a whole.

Yeah tbh when we started it we were sort of just giving it a shot because we didn’t have anything else to watch at the moment. For about the first 30 episodes we kept saying “this is fine, we’ll probably stop it as soon as we have something better to watch.” But then boom, Arlong Park happens from episode 31 through 45, and basically as soon as we finished Arlong Park we understood something had changed and that now we were gonna see it through to the end.

Honestly it’s hard to recommend One Piece to anyone, because it is insanely frustrating at times, especially in terms of pacing, and it’s a legitimate commitment to get into… But goddamn, once it gets going, there’s just nothing like it. The only thing I could even remotely compare One Piece to is not any other anime, it’s literally the goddamn Odyssey by Homer. That’s the kind of scale we’re dealing with here. We’re only halfway through and I already feel like One Piece is one of the greatest and most important pieces in television or animation history, but it is not without effort.

Oh regarding the art style and animation, yeah, One Piece is fucking ugly at time, especially in the first 100 episodes. It does genuinely get a lot better, especially the animation (later fight scenes go crazy), but I have to admit that as much as I genuinely love One Piece, the art is absolutely not one of the selling points. There are hundreds of better-looking anime out there, no doubt.

The frustrating thing about Iron Fist is that while the main character mails in his performance meekly, especially in the fight scenes (yes I’m aware of the extenuating circumstances), Tom Pelphrey delivers some of the absolute best acting in the entire MCU as Ward Meachum. Like Iron Fist isn’t a great series, and it’s hard to recommend, but goddamn Tom’s performance is so good it’s worth watching just for the moments he’s on screen. Thankfully the show’s quality increases enormously in the second season, including Finn’s performance marginally, but even that is really only enough to bring it up to middling amongst the rest of the Marvel Netflix bounty, in my opinion.

Still prefer it vastly to Punisher, though.

Partner and I have been working through One Piece, about to hit episode 600. Aside from that, mostly we’ve been watching season three of Resident Alien and a lot of Sorted Food on youtube.

I’m hyped as well. I loved all the Netflix Marvel offerings aside from Iron Fist season 1 and Punisher, so I hope eventually more of the characters migrate their way over.

They can’t just let all paycheck to paycheck people die.

Real question here - why not? If the powers that be are facing the potential of unrest in the face of their tyranny, why wouldn’t they let the protesters starve? Does this not only preemptively eliminate potential opposition? Do you think they simply care out of some hidden shred of dignity of something?

I think all of you black & white accelerationists are either ignorant or deceitful about the reality of the stakes in play here. I’m not saying revolution shouldn’t happen, won’t happen, can’t happen, or any of that, but I’m tired of listening to people acting like this choice is as casual as picking what sandwich to have and not the very real acceptance of potentially fatal or otherwise devastating consequences. Necessary action or not, that’s not the kind of thing to treat so cavalier.

As an endnote, human race isn’t real. Perhaps this applies to dog breeds as well, which one commenter noted but you just dismissed it and threw a bunch of slop articles at them instead.

Humans have never undergone countless generations of intentional selective breeding devoid of personal autonomy. There is no reasonable comparison between the constructed human concept of “race” and the undeniable reality of dog breeds as crafted through selective breeding, and everyone should be extremely wary of any attempts to ever conflate the two.

Bro wait until you hear that I bought twelve whole eggs last time I went to the grocery store.

We living big out here

I actually feel similarly but I don’t omit them, I substitute shallots instead which I find have a more complex but vastly less aggressive flavor.

Speak for yourself. Being a part of the debuting of a brand new track is a huge part of the concert experience to me, and some of my favorite concert memories are hearing tracks from my favorite bands for the first time live before the studio version.

I’ll never understand people who don’t love leftovers.

Bro, leftovers are a free bonus meal.

They’re the ‘Buy 1 Get 1 Free’ of cooking.

There’s nothing better than coming home and knowing you’ve already got a bomb ass dinner ready because you made enough the night before.

The people who need this message are unfortunately also the people who aren’t going to understand this message.

Not upset, just confused. No ire anywhere, I assure you. Cheers.

I mean of course, yes, but since I can’t change my environment or context all I can do is speak on my own perspective informed my own context and experiences.

Like I’m not sure what your point is here, just that this obviously subjective topic is subjective? Yes, of course it is. And yes of course my response was likewise subjective, but given the inherent nature of the topic the idea of addending “in my opinion” to the end feels extremely unnecessary.

So again, I don’t disagree with you, but this feels entirely non-sequitur to me.

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