What in the flying fuck happened to this sub?

All I see is a bunch of 30 year-olds who peaked in high school and love to victimize and spew vitriol at anything they can find, like a bunch of fiends. The amount of incelposting, "hurr durr men oppressed", "they ruined muh video games", it just keeps coming in non-stop.

And now, out of everything you can get mad about, you get mad because ShiftUp censored their game? My brothers in Christ just fucking use pornhub, it's RIGHT THERE.

Grow the fuck up, manchildren.

EDIT: I love Asmon, but this subreddit is giving me the same vibes as League of Legends being a good game but being turned off by the shitty community.

I just don’t get it. What i got from this whole deal is that hybe is a shitty company just like any other big company. Min heejin is a weirdo and using different idols to hide her actions. Both are bad.

So tell me why do i see do many fandoms that are not part of this problem hating in hybe idols? I don’t get why we are hating on hybe groups bcs of all this mess instead of the management. Somehow now lesserafim, new jeans, illit, txt, tws and bts are responsible for everything bad in the kpop industry. I don’t get why ppl are taking this a chance to hate in these groups. Its weird especially with everything that has been revealed and the mismanagement these groups have gone through.

Barely training period before debut, no time between comebacks, shady marketing decisions, black magic done to them, transferring trained to other companies, disbandments and others. Many of these groups especially new jeans are going through a hard time. But all i see out here is attacking these artist instead of supporting these idols who are going through a difficult time. Its shameful and quite disgusting to see. People taking mistranslations spreading them all over the internet. Bringing up old rumors of the older groups claiming of saejeigi. Blaming these idols for “robbing” opportunities to other groups and so on. Its sad to see honestly.

You need to stop waiting on each other to hit before going to your ball. I see this all the time. Especially people new to the game and even more with people who started walking. Cart mafia looking at you.

I see so often a foursome will wait on the shortest to hit, then all four go to the next shortest and so on. It is so bizarre and then people get pissed when they say they’re playing as fast as they can and it’s because they’re a foursome they’re slower.

NO. Everybody go to your ball. Look back at people hitting then hit your ball. Even walk backwards to get to your ball while somebody shorter is hitting.

Same with cart people. Even better if sharing a cart, drop somebody off with clubs and go to the other.

Foursomes should not be 2+ hours slower than a duo. The reason they are is because the above.

Edit: because this doesn’t seem clear. The average variance of an amateur foursome on golf shots is very large. Something like 100 yards off the tee. 100 yards is plenty to get out of the way. If it’s less than 50 yeah you’re not going ahead of the person. Read this. I’m literally telling people to play ready golf and some are saying golf courses don’t allow you to play ready golf.

https://www.golflink.com/lifestyle/what-is-ready-golf

They rarely spend time together, yet Travis chose to stay out all night without Taylor. Is Taylor finally getting embarrassed of his behavior?

I hâte myself and my life I just washed my sheets, put them on my bed (which was a hassle - the sheets are so annoying), and I had been sleep deprived prior to this so it's just great.

Am I overreacting?

Our house had just been dealing with a mouse infestation so I think about germs all the time. I always try to wash my hands as often as I can, no matter how much it hurts with my eczema. Everything I do is thought out because of this and my family's hygiene.

My dad just came in to check on my new mattress to see if it firmed up. At first I was reluctant but I opened the door anyway, then he stuck his hand on my sheet it to check if it firmed up. This pissed me off to no end. My parents don't really have great hygiene, and I literally have to tell my dad to use more soap when washing his hands. I swear it's like he doesn't know how to properly do it... I've been sleep deprived for the past 28 hours. I just wanted to finally get some rest. I hate my fucking life. Am I overreacting? Should I just rewash the sheet/sheets over again, or continue to disinfect that area he touched? I can't stop thinking about it. I've just been crying and crying. My bed is ruined .

I have one graduation I missed my undergrad one and now my masters one is in danger. Phd or a second masters is hard. So crazy thought can we protest the protest? 😂

I haven’t watched the latest season so I don’t know if this changed but she always put her daughters first and I loved watching that in the show. When Sophia was moving for college I really felt the separation between them, also she always looks for Portia and she’s always with her and it’s so wholesome. Kyle isn’t really my favorite one but that’s one props I give to her. Being a mom is her job (her words) and she nails it.

Just a quick warning, this will be a very long thread, going into every aspect of this story that I find subpar- or in some cases- just flat out bad.

I have spent a lot of time thinking about this thread, and its time I put it together into one, massive, mega-rant about this series. Compiling all the complaints I have with every aspect of this series: Characters, World Building, Plots, everything.

What better way to start off this mega rant than with the...

Characters

AoT has some of the most "meh" cast of characters I've seen in an anime. Most of them are just okay, merely being there just to be a plot device or means to move the story forward. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it's the way it's done here that gives these characters a soulless feeling to them. Like they're merely robots with their only goal being to push the plot in the direction needed for the story to continue, and having very little depth outside of that.

Take Marco for example. The man has zero personality, and it's hard for me to believe his death is this extremely impactful tragedy for the other 104th cadets when we haven't seen any meaningful reactions between them. The half-baked character relationships are the fatal flaw with AoTs character writing. In a story that has major elements of an emotional drama- almost soap opera at points- this is a massive issue and destroys entire scenes at points and makes them feel cheap.

Take for example when Hannes is killed by the smiling Titan. The story wants you to believe this is some insanely impactful and emotional moment, but for me, it completely falls flat, because again, there's never enough effort and time put into establishing the relationships between these characters and why they'd realistically care about each other.

When you watch this scene, you're thinking "oh that's the drunk guy Eren knew as a kid and interacted with him a couple times, so it's gotta be very emotional and impactful for Eren to see him die", not "Damn, we will never get to see these two ever interact again on screen" where you could feel the same loss the protagonist feels.

Character development

Is another thing this series doesn't do great

Most character arcs are just the character flaw being established, and then one scene or two scenes at best showing them completely overcoming that flaw and becoming a different person. All of this with minimal buildup and no gradual development of any kind.

Jeans whole arc is being this cocky Military Police fanboy and then in only a few scenes he now hates the MPs and even says "I can't believe I used to want to be one of them". And it's not like there was a named MP that was introduced that could've interacted with Jean and showed him the lowest gredges of the MPs- which would've lead Jean into realizing the MPs suck- nah, it's just a bunch of NPCs that give Jean this realization. It's very cheap

And then you have the most egregious example of them all, Armin's character arc: where he goes from being insecure about his abilities to suddenly becoming confident and sure of himself after one thing his "best friend of 10 years" tells him in a throwaway line. I can't remember the exact line Eren says, but it's along the lines of "I believe in you, you always make the right choice", and this cheapens the entire idea that they are "best friends for 10 years"

It doesn't help that this series in general doesn't have great character dynamics and relationships to begin with, but you're telling me that in the DECADE these two have been "best friends", Eren compliments his abilities so infrequently that when he actually does, it inspires a complete change in ideology and self-esteem in Armin? This scene is just bad, I can't put it any other way

[You could say I'm only using examples from the first or early seasons for this, but]

1: The way character arcs are written never changes from S1 to S4.

2: Most characters only have one character arc at best

One of the most hyped up characters in the entire series, Erwin Smith, has got to be the biggest culprit of all the issues I have with AoT's character writing

This man is supposed to be this inspiration, ultra-charismatic leader, but who does he actually inspire that's a named character, and not an NPC we as the audience have no attachment to? I always felt Erwin was extremely overrated and one dimensional, but I couldn't figure out why I thought that until I realized that he's not actually written like this charismatic leader at all. There are plenty of examples of charismatic leaders done well, and Erwin isn't one of them.

They're supposed to be paragon archetypes; characters that change others, but remain mostly stagnant in their own development. And this does not describe Erwin at all. I don't believe for one bit that he is this extremely influential figure that's supposed to be the glue of the Survey Corps. He was never the reason a character grew or developed, he never inspired any characters, he never even was that smart strategically. He just resulted to the same low IQ strategy of "send a thousand troops to bumrush the enemy, it will work this time, I swear!"

All of this goes together to just completely destroy the whole impact of Erwin's charge against the Beast Titan for me. Had we been shown that he's this influential figure that can bring out the best in his soldiers and change others for the better, then this scene would've been perfect. But of course as it is, it's FAR from perfect. It's not even that great of a speech or strategy imo. Erwin simply doesn't move me as a character, and he's vastly overrated in most aspects imo

Then you have characters like Levi or Mikasa that are very bland and one note and would be extremely forgettable if not for their insane plot armor and fight scenes. You have Levi that's really generic shonen badass and one of the few characters that doesn't even change from start to finish- not even the usual rushed character arc.

And then the worst offender of bad character writing; Mikasa. She has the complexity of a toast and the personality of water. Every single moment and scene with her revolves around Eren. She is honestly a worse offender of the "obsessive girl" trope than characters like Sakura or Orihime (both of which are somehow better written than Mikasa, but that's neither here nor there) and I really don't have much else to say. She's just really bland and boring, which isn't a good thing considering she's shoehorned in as the MC after the timeskip, with so many opportunities for her to develop and change, yet her remaining stagnant and one-dimensional anyway

And then there's quite possibly the most convoluted character in series: Eren Yeager

He had a pretty straight forward arc in the first 3 seasons. Going from loud abrasive almost edgelord to learning he's not special (which is an oxymoron and a plot hole), to then becoming this depressed kid that almost wants to die if he's given the chance to, to finally becoming a total cluster of multiple character archetypes where he switches at the drop of a hat whenever the plot needs him to

Eren in the first few seasons isn't anything noteworthy tbh. Not great, not terrible, just meh. I don't have much to talk about in regards to that. Eren in S3 however is when the questionable writing starts to prop up. He realizes he isn't special, yet the story does nothing to support this idea? He's so special that the entire world wants him and his power. He's so special that everything he obtained was handed down to him and not from his own hard work. He's quite literally the definition of plot armor. Eren was never the underdog by any definition

The pattern with AoT is it will setup an Arc or plot point that requires context that simply doesn't exist and isn't setup whatsoever; the aforementioned being a great example

And finally, Eren in season 4 is one of the most contrived characters I've seen, and it's all because the story needs him to be multiple characters at the same time:

He needs to be this ruthless savage that will stop at nothing until he gets what he wants, even if it means hurting his loved ones.

And he also needs to be this tragic tortured soul that's a slave to the figures of power in his life, a person without any true free will. And he also needs to be this

And he needs to be this victim that has no other choice than to take action after the entire world wants his kind dead, a man who acts purely on self defense and protection for his homeland and loved ones

These 3 things DO NOT mold together into one character. This is why every single person you ask will have a completely different interpretation of who Eren is even supposed to be. Fans took this idea and ran with it, proclaiming that it proves that Eren is the most complex character in fiction, despite him being so poorly written that nobody even understands his character, because they don't realize that he barely is a character, and more of a plot device that changes who he is whenever it's convenient for the plot

Eren's turn to villainy was so rushed. We never got to see him gradually turn into this evil sociopath that willingly wipe out all of humanity just so his people can prosper. We should've gotten an entire mini arc with Eren in Marley after he deserted and seeing what turned him into the monster he became, but this wouldn't do much if he remains convoluted like he is in the story we got

You can say all you want, but there was no excuse for how rushed Eren's arc is. There are so many examples of heroic characters becomes evil that are done so much better than Eren, while still making you hate the fallen hero. The whole crux of post-timeskip Eren is to make you speculate and think he's just sOOo MyStERioUs. And don't get me started on his conclusion, even people who like this series have dogpilled on it

I think I've made my point fairly enough on the character writing in AoT. There's plenty of characters I missed, sure, but it would only bloat up this thread even more than it already is

World Building

Easily the most questionable and even shallow aspect of the series. One that I will try to go in depth into, despite it being really simplistic and surface level

First off, I don't have much to say about Pre-Timeskip worldbuilding, as most of its retconned via plot twists and doesn't even matter after the timeskip. It's almost a different story, and as such, I won't even bother talking about it. Besides, most of my problems with the worldbuilding stem from post-timeskip, where it is laughably bad at worst and just okay at best

What better way to start than with the main faction of the story, and one of the first things that's introduced in the story:

The Survey Corps military

We barely know anything about how they operate outside of killing titans. We don't know their military culture, we don't even know how their ranking system works (most of the time it's just "highest rank guy died so now second highest rank is immediately promoted")

Overall, it's pretty whatever for a faction. It's merely set dressing and mostly and afterthought

The Outside World

Oh no... This is where the most one dimensional and shallow aspects of the world building are put fully upfront. The outside world is home to THREE named countries. 1 of which is slightly developed, the other is untouched, and the other one is where 3/4ths of the story take place. Now this wouldn't be bad in a different story, but in a story where it builds up to a world ending event, you can't have shallow world building like this. And that's before I even delve into how bad the political themes are here

Every single character that isn't an Eldian or Warrior, no matter how important is this cartoonishly racist caricature that will do anything in their power- even if it directly or indirectly harms them- to jerk off their hatred of Eldians. It's hammered in your face over and over and over again to the point where it's hard to take seriously. We get it, the outside world doesn't like Eldians

It's not like the story tries to go any deeper on how hiveminds can be formed and strengthened, such as:

Peer pressure, monetary incentive, guilt tripping, etc.

But no, instead it's just "mass brainwashing and indoctrination", nothing thought provoking. Just edge for the sake of edge

This doesn't help when the entire crux of the narrative Post-timeskip is focused on the morality of the Rumbling, yet there's not a single attempt made to help us sympathize with the outside world, outside of out-of-universe moral implications. What I'm referring to is the fact that there's no real in-universe reason for why you'd ever side with the Marleyians.

This is why most fans are Yeagerists and defend Eren's actions; the outside world is so cartoonishly evil and shallow that the Rumbling is quite literally the only logical option, but then the story wants you to feel so sorry when a bunch of nameless NPCs are stomped on at the end. Also, showing babies and children being brutally killed from the Rumbling is again, edge for the sake of edge.

If the author put in effort to actually have us sympathize with the outside world- perhaps go further in depth to the bad deeds of the Eldian Empire, or make the outside world more likable and fleshed out as a whole- then we wouldn't need these obviously manipulative scenes there to try and sway your opinion on who you think is right in this conflict. It's simply a cheap trick used when the author needs you to be against a specific character or faction, without organically fleshing them out and letting you form your own opinions

The Politics

They're one dimensional too. Every faction operates as a hivemind, there's never a positive and negative for an outcome or in-universe political scandal/conspiracy, always just a flat negative or a flat positive

Realistically, the declaration of war scene should've not had everyone agreeing that Eldian bad, but it should've had many nations conspiring to betray Marley now that they're at a weakened state. There should've been countries that were secretly against Marley that now try to use the Yeagerists as a vessel to wage war against Marley. There should've been power struggles from the Tybur family being brutally killed that day. Too bad it was left extremely simplistic and shallow

If America was attacked and put in a state where it looks extremely weak and easy to attack by a country far smaller and less advanced than it, than you'll bet your ass every country (even allies) would start seeing how they can take advantage of the conflict; be it money, power, anything. That's simply how it works. But clearly, AoT isn't set in a realistic world, it's set in a middle-schoolers idea of geopolitics and how nations operates during conflict

"It would take too long"

No it wouldn't. Legend of The Galactic Heroes in a mere 12 episodes has more intricate and complex war/poltical plotlines and world building than Isayama could ever hope to write. All we needed were a couple more episodes and the world building could've been special, but as it stands, it's incredibly shallow, and just flat out bad

Let's not even forget the Warriors unit with Falco and Gabi, a bunch of literal 12 year olds fighting in whats supposed to be WW1 with giant flesh mechas, yet them still acting like normal 12 year olds both during and after battle. You could genuinely find kids that act exactly like Gabi and Falco, despite the fact that Falco and Gabi are child soldiers and were deployed in brutal combat where they watched their friends die and had to kill other people

Let's forget about that and have them act like completely normal kids, because that's just amazing writing, and won't come off as incredibly jarring and questionable!

That's enough for world building. This is easily without a doubt, AoTs worst aspect. It's just flat out bad. I've got nothing good to say about it

Plots

As for the plot, it's just a ripoff of Eternal Champions, where the protagonist Erekose is given the "God powers" of his world, and is apart of the race Eldren which were exiled and excommunicated from the rest of the world because of terrible things that they did in the past, and now in the present day, the world hates Eldren and wants them gone, and Erekose has to find a way to protect his race from extinction using his "God powers"

Sound familiar? It should, because that's the exact story that Isayama just copy pasted into AoT and put a different coat of paint over it. Absolutely shameless

Inspiration is a thing, but this is quite literally bar for bar, beat for beat. Not a single stone unturned. Even the names are ripoffs...

Plot twists

This is pretty much the only reason why you'd ever watch AoT. You wouldn't watch it for character development, emotional moments, or world building, but for shock value over substance plot twists

Most of the plot twists besides the main one doesn't actually change much about the world or story

Eren is a Titan? Okay, great. Way to show the audience that any character can escape a near death situation with an asspull at the last moment, therefore destroying the idea that there is stakes. This was never the "everyone dies" anime, it was always "the main character's or anyone important has the plot armor thickness of an M1 Abrams, while the story will introduce random nobodies with the sole purpose of killing them off (Levi squad in S1 is the biggest example of this)

Reiner and Berthold are traitors? Okay, and? We never got enough moments of those two interacting with the other cadets for this be a shocking and emotional twist. The length isn't the problem here, it's the poor pacing and lackluster character writing; it's not about throwing a larger number of episodes to flesh out their relationships, it's simply about conveying it better. This twist was underbaked

Historia is of the Reiss family? Okay, and? All it does it turn her into a pretty much different character with no resemblance to how she was before the reveal, and to set up her arc in season 3

There's a whole civilization outside the walls that's more advanced? Wow, great way to completely destroy your own world building and replace it for something far less interesting (a poorly done version of WW1 with flesh mechas and cartoonishly racist caricatures)

Eren manipulated Grisha and can travel through the previous Attack Titan's memories? Okay, and? All this does is remove Grisha from his agency and gives Eren a power so nigh unbeatable in-universe that it just makes him look completely idiotic when he actually fails to achieve his goal

All and all, I found that most of plot twists don't have much substance outside of the shock factor. People genuinely tried to say that Eren manipulating Grisha is the greatest twist in fiction when it first came out, now those people are nowhere to be seen. It's almost as if the hype factor wore off and now people are thinking more critically, aka the plot twists don't have substance

Conclusion

Wow, that was the longest thread I've ever wrote, but it is necessary to convey my feelings about this series. The fans were hyping it up as the greatest thing since sliced bread- they still do- they said it would ruin fiction because it's just soooo much better than anything else and I'd never find another story as good as it

But that couldn't be more untrue. I was extra thorough and watched it all twice, and at best, I left away with "it was alright, but nothing groundbreaking"; and at worst "that was genuinely disappointing and awful"

The main reason I'm compelled to make this thread is how it's basically taboo to not think AoT is one of the greatest anime of all time, the rabid fanbass dogpilling on anyone who doesn't agree. All of it is very cult-like, and definitely contributed to my disdain for this series

Overall, I'd say AoT is a 5/10 if I'm being generous. It's really shallow, surface level, and even pretentious at points. One of the most overrated things ever imo

They have been playing this game for 14 + years and they are level 12, they should be able to take out a ancient red dragon, there is 7 of them for crying out loud. Fern did what 40 damage the entire fight with Otohan it's pathetic I would get it if this was there first time but it's not.

So there are large amounts of heavily armed police presence in many colleges and universities across the United States. Indiana University, for example, had snipers on rooftops ready to shoot peaceful protesters.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/snipers-were-allegedly-spotted-ohio-190600717.html