Dan

I make YouTube videos and somehow have 20K subs. You met me at a very Arc 7 time in my life.

[Dan @Screen_Takes]

As the strongest existence, Dan’s Screen Takes will trample upon the YouTube algorithm. Check out my 41 minute video on Re:Zero Arc 7!

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Doing the superhero secret identity trope but making it so Denji desperately WANTS to be exposed, and no one believes him when he says he's Chainsaw Man because he's a dirtbag is a solid bit. Great stuff

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By far, the most surprising thing about Chainsaw Man Part 2 is how genuinely funny it is to me. Part 1 had its moments, but Part 2 is a full-on dark comedy. Denji ripping off homeless people by selling them used cigarettes plays out like an Always Sunny in Philadelpha gag

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@Terribledefen @AsarathaHS Asa and I are on the same page today, don't worry! We're not fighting! Your parents love you

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Need to make a video on Lore Bloat in Re:Zero. It's fine in the story. Issue is all the Q&A's people treat as just as valid as the actual text. I've been asked why I post about Subaru's tracksuit so much. It's a great example of destroying the significance of something clear--

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@AsarathaHS This is what a lot of people don't get about the Q&A's. He improvises answers to dumb questions. He contradicts himself. Many of the answers are just straight up jokes! Nothing he says in them is actually binding!

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@AsarathaHS I'm willing to surrender the jersey in the Lore War but I am DYING on the hill of the tracksuit

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@AsarathaHS WRONG!!!! That was about his shirt, not the full tracksuit. Significantly less dumb to sew a another basic black jersey
(but also if the reproduced tracksuit is anywhere in the actual text that I don't remember, that's also dumb)

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Marty McFly dresses the way he does because it makes him stand out in 1955. Imagine learning that in between scenes, Doc made a bunch of perfect copies of the puffer vest for him. Defeats the point! The clothes are representative of 1985! It works because its simple AGHHHH!!!

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Subaru's tracksuit makes him stand out. It's a reminder of Earth, a symbol of how alien he is. Great character design. "Actually Tapppei said Rem sewed a GLORBILLION identical copies" Oh ok, so it's not alien I guess. It's worthless now. An addition that subtracts meaning. Cool.

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@viki20711804 It's not the same horse because... there are multiple horses. Multiple horse. I know.

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This was not a mistake. The "Bigger Beako Hypothesis," which has circulated for more than a decade now, states there are canonically two different Beatrices. In an author Q&A from 2019, Tappei soft-confirmed Bigger Beako and alluded to her being connected to Echidna's schemes.

[Kire // Re:Arc2 @KirePerona]

#ReKire #arc2

WHAT 😭

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@brd__100001 There was also a short story from a couple years back where Subaru explicitly asks Beatrice if she's bigger than usual today, and she immediately changes the subject, then mutters something under her breath. Unfortunately, it was shop-exclusive and is currently untranslated still

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@RandomArtDudee @s_splott Why do you think I haven’t ready the EXs? I’ve read 3 of them. Those are books, they tell their own stories. The “lore” present in them means something in the story they’re telling. That’s a lot different than author Q&As. It confuses me why you place those on the same level

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One of the most alienating things about the Re:Zero community is they like to analyze author Q&A's, while I like to analyze Re:Zero. I like Re:Zero for its storytelling. "Lore" only matters to me in service of storytelling, not as a series of disconnected data points in a wiki

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@AsarathaHS It bothers me a little that this conversation unfolds in a considerably more interesting way here in the WN than in the LN, even though I see the LN as superior in almost every other case. There’s just so much more to read into here

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@s_splott This is my point though. No, it does not have an impact on the lore. Nothing has an impact on the lore until it’s actually in the story. You guys talk about “lore” like it’s a separate entity

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@DaWeirdSlimy something particularly frustrating about re zero discussion being so cut content-centric is it becomes clear after engaging with those people for longer than two minutes that they haven't read the books they're saying got butchered, they just watched cut content videos on youtube

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@Terribledefen Just wanted a captive audience to show those Honoka honkers

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The professor of my New Media Studies course in college showed us the trailer for this game in one of the lectures and I don't really remember why

[couch @honokouch]

at the gym thinking about how im gonna eat a burger afterwards

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Just finished Volume 15. I must not have reached the “bad” part yet because so far Chainsaw Man Part 2 is the most fun I’ve had with the series. Asa is great. Denji is better here than in Part 1. Its also very funny

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Now starting: Chainsaw Man Part 2. My YouTube comments have told me it's a "major flop," there's "no real point in reading" it, and they "feel bad for me." I'm excited!