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Made In Abyss: Binary Star Falling Into Darkness Walkthrough Part 8: White Whistle
The ending showed as Aki took his new White Whistle with him on his last dive. However, this part of the story shows what would happen if Aki didn’t take his last dive, but instead took care of some business with his new White Whistle.
You get some new perks as a White Whistle. For one thing, every Skill tree is now completely accessible. If you reach the level cap of 99, you’ll have just enough points to unlock all the skills. Of these, the highest priority is easily Advanced Gatherer, which will grant double the rewards of mining, including Relics. This along with increasing Backpack capacity will make your adventuring from this point much easier. Lunge 2 speeds up climbing greatly, but the strains of ascension are still a factor.
5-Star Items lets you craft the Feather (Dark) and Agile (Dark) armor sets, and Relic Synthesis (High Class) lets you craft the best Relic weapons (putting aside another weapon you can win a bit later) and the Relic (Special) armor set.
With all the armor available to you, you can now go for the best armor in the game. For combination of Defense to weight, the best armor set is the Feather (Dark) set. But if you don’t care about weight, and want the highest defense possible, you want the Relic (Special) set, swapping out Relic Hat (Special) for Ozen’s Umbrella, if you have it. Just be warned that going for the Relic (Special) set requires first upgrading the Agile set to the Agile (Dark) set. While the Insect Exoskeleton cost seems steep, you can get what you need easily by beating up on the bugs that mess with you when you stick around in the Goblets of Giants for a while. Upgrading to the Relic (Special) set takes a lot of Relics from the 4th and 5th layers, mostly 5th.
There are some new quests at the Guild HQ. As always, you have to accept them for progress toward them to count. The Supply Shop how has White Whistle variants of the Pickax and Hatchet. That aside, there’s nothing new to buy.
When you fast travel, it now costs much less HP and Fullness, to the point that even travelling to the 5th Layer becomes easy. You still won’t be able to fast travel out of the 5th Layer, however.
Any outstanding quests that you haven’t finished will still be available to you. This includes optional bosses, such as Ozen and the Orb Piercer. There will be a new questline available to you which can be initiated in the Goblets of Giants in the 4th Layer. This involves accompanying Reg as he goes searching for Riko. This appears to be an alternative story to the one where you were a Moon Whistle, because Riko and Reg will act like they’ve never met you before. You might want to come prepared with some ropes, though you’ll find Rhombus Thorn Plants in the area.
To begin the quest, approach Reg at the entrance of Goblets of Giants. For a fast way down to the next quest point, there’s a water slide near the entrance, and to the left. There’s plenty of manga and anime references in the exposition, and you get new recipes. It’s also amusing how Reg comments on how you’re cave raiding in the Abyss to search for Tiare, when he’s right there, as your White Whistle.
In the Giant Vine Bridge, you’ll have a fight against a few Horcriers (Subspecies). While just a couple at a time are not usually a problem, the battle begins with a few of them, and you’ll be completely surrounded. Choose a weapon and put some wear on it. After that, it’s back to the Goblets of Giants.
There will be a brief time in which Reg is out of commission. Just travel to the quest point. Once you’re there, Riko will tag along. Once you get back to reg, the questline will be complete, and you’ll be rewarded with Reg’s Helmet. It’s not bad, but it doesn’t have a light.
There will also be a new optional boss waiting for you in the 5th Layer, in Sandy Ice Area 1. To reach him, you’ll have to hop or climb up an adjacent pillar of platforms, and then hop over to him using the top of a nearby Footing Slicer. If the Footing Slicer goes aggro, it may be out of place, which can be an issue if you’re not quick enough up the platforms. Approaching Detchuanga will cause a long exposition dump, followed by a boss battle.
EXTRA BOSS: Detchuanga
Detchuanga had his own self-serving motives all along, and he wants a White Whistle for his collection, and doesn’t care who he has to manipulate to get it.
In addition to a standard Melee attack, Detchuanga has a wide ranged attack that sweeps into an expanding and retracting circle around him. To avoid it, simply duck down. Because you can move while crouching, you can easily take advantage of this to move into position for an opportunity to attack.
While Detchuanga’s attacks are devastating for the damage that they do, his most diabolical is his grenade, which has a wide range, and throws you into the air. This may cause the strains of ascending to trigger. Because this is the 5th Layer, the strains of ascension include hallucinations and the loss of one’s senses. In terms of gameplay mechanics, this means losing Fullness through vomiting, seeing characters who aren’t there, losing HP, having your on-screen character model vanish, having your directional controls messed up and not seeing who or what is attacking you. In a difficult boss battle, this is catastrophic, and if it happens, you’ll probably lose the battle.
Once again, once his HP is down, a quicktime event begins in which you have to mash a button. If you succeed, you’ve won.
Detchuanga wanted to possess a collection of valuable relics. But in the end, one of his own relics ended up controlling his corpse. Sad irony. In any case, you get the Blaze Reap, the highest attack weapon in the game with 999 Attack! And cooler still, it makes a small explosion on impact! But at 4000g, it’s heavy to carry around. And kind of redundant if you’ve got multiple Thousand-Men Wedges equipped. It’s also gone if it breaks. So, to the trunk with it as another trophy item.
I remember that at one point there was a quick way to return to the surface by going back to Ido Front and triggering the credits again, but that doesn’t seem to work for me right now. Perhaps that was patched out.
In any case, you beat the game. If you want to continue playing, that’s up to you. You can try to reach the level cap of 99 and thus access all Skills. You can try filling out your Notebook. Or, if you want to, you can take on some quests that remain unfinished. It’s up to you what you want to do, you can explore the first five layers as you wish.
Thank you for reading!
Made In Abyss: Binary Star Falling Into Darkness Walkthrough Part 4: Blue Whistle
With the rank of Blue Whistle, there are new benefits. For one thing, you now get to start from the 2nd Layer when you enter the Abyss. What’s more, you get to fast travel from anywhere in the 1st layer, so long as you have the health and fullness for it.
You’ll also have more quests at the guild. Accept them all so your progress towards them will count.
There are new items available at the shop, including Pitons, of which you’ll probably want a few in your kit at any given time. There’s a new Cook armor set, new weapons, and a new, much lighter Lt. Fishing Pole. To increase cost efficiency, it might not be a bad idea to bring 3 or 4 different kinds of Pickax, one of each, and switch between them as they wear down. They get restored each time you return to the surface, so try to avoid breaking any, unless you’re specifically going for a combat mission in which you anticipate needing a stack.
Laffi stocks new items, including Bird Egg, an ingredient to a couple recipes that you’ll be using a lot: Boiled Egg and Crumbled Boiled Egg, which are fantastic in terms of how much you restore your HP and fullness for their cost and weight. Make plenty of them.
You can buy new items at the Caravan Fleet, as well. The Ankle Charm and Wrist Charm are worth equipping, as being injured in the middle of battle would be disastrous. Mio is also getting into the Armor biz, and now stocks a Scarlet armor set.
You also get new options to spend your skill points on, and if you’ve overleveled as a Red Whistle, you’ll probably already have a few to spend. As with Red Whistle, the Cave Raid skills are non-negotiable, and you’ll particularly want Backpack Up 2 and Dash Speed Up. Under Craft, Steamed Dishes gives you access to Crumbled Boiled Egg, one of your best healing items by pound. This also gives you access to upgraded armor. To be honest, I haven’t really bothered much with crafting ammo recipes. It seems like a lot of trouble, and you can just buy ammo at the supply shop, instead.
The armor set I recommend is the Scarlet set. The reason being, it’s upgraded set is comparable to the upgraded Cook set, in that the upgraded Cook set offers a bit more protection for a bit new weight, but with one huge perk: It costs far fewer Limber Scales to upgrade the Scarlet set to the Ocean set. It’s not a great idea to put a lot more work into something that you’re just going to replace when you become a Moon Whistle, so Scarlet set it is. Also, you obtain Marulk’s Hat a little later on, which isn’t bad. If you plan on using a slightly weaker hat with a far better light, then it might be a waste of scales to upgrade the Scarlet hat.
By the way, this is about the time that you can start finding Flash Stones by excavating. There’s a recurring quest at the Orphanage where Kiyui requests a shiny stone, and the Flash Stone fits the description. In return, he’ll give you a random material. He seems to ask for a shiny stone each time you return from a cave raid with a stone you can give him, but only the yellow and blue ones result in rewards. If you want Limber Scales, to save scum for them from Kiyui isn’t a bad way to go about it. Just save the game before talking to him, and reset if you’d rather have a different reward. To stock up on Flash Stones to give to him might not be a bad idea.
Let’s hear it for Jiruo, assigning a fresh Blue Whistle the task of surveying the most dangerous creature on the second layer, and threatening to demote them if anything goes wrong. So anyway, it’s off to the 2nd Layer! And go ahead and pretend it’s your first time here, if it’s not. Aki, acting all innocent.
The first area of the 2nd Layer has the Forest of Temptation. The main quest doesn’t allow you to deviate from the intended path, so go ahead and finish it. Basically it’s going from Forest of Temptation, to the intended spot in Corpse-Weeper Den. That’s all there is to it. A cutscene plays, and you’re automatically taken to the surface.
It’s worth noting that you can now encounter Corpse Weepers in the Forest of Temptation. You’re probably better off avoiding them, because they’ll be well beyond your skill level at this point. On the plus side, they’ll be easy to avoid; if you avoid the elevated plateaus, you shouldn’t catch their attention. If you do go up there for some items, and one spots you, get off there and run away. If you somehow slay one, the drops won’t be that great.
Next Main quest is Investigate the Second Layer. You’re going to want to bring plenty of ropes for this one, about 10 to be safe. I used 8, but you’ll want at least one more for a shortcut on the return trip. And maybe also gather some Rhombus Thorn Plants along the way to craft some more. And maybe a Mail Balloon or two. The route is Forest of Temptation to Inverted Forest to Hell’s Crossing to Seeker Camp. You’ll also want to bring plenty of weapons, as theres a couple fights against groups of Inbyos at Seeker Camp that are part of the story.
Hell’s Crossing is one of the most annoying areas in the game, and it’s not a bad idea to use a Mail Balloon to make yourself a checkpoint in case things go wrong.
It’s possible to cheese the Inbyos with blue poison, so bringing some arrows that can inflict that is a great idea. The poison doesn’t seem to wear off when used on Inbyos, so one blue arrow per will probably do it. First, beat the group of three, then beat two more from the next group. After that, Marulk will tag along for a bit to the gondola. The reward, Marulk’s Hat, is actually pretty nice. It’s defense may not be as high as the Ocean Hat, but it has the benefit of an extra bright light. It’s worth using it.
By the way, Seeker Camp is adjacent to Edge of the Abyss, which has a great fishing spot near the entrance. If you have a fishing rod and an abundance of Lugworms (which can be found near the pond) you can score some Limber Scales. If you leave the area and return, the fish respawn (though the bait doesn’t, and your fishing pole has limited durability).
It’s on you to find your way back to the surface from here, and to backtrack the whole way through Hell’s Crossing isn’t a whole lot of fun. Thankfully, there’s a shortcut back that’ll work for you if you have at least one Rope. When reentering Hell’s Crossing from Seeker Camp, there will be another exit to your right that leads to Inverted Arbor. Carefully navigate the wood platforms, accepting a letter to Laffi from Hablog if you meet him along the way, until you reach Corpse-Weeper Den. The shortcut is one-way, because a Rope is needed to decend in Corpse-Weeper Den. From there, it’s a short trip to Forest of Temptation, and a fast-travel to the surface. Then, if no one is watching, feel free to do a little dance, because you just completed one of the most arduous questlines in the game.
After this, you have just one more Main quest as a Blue Whistle, and that’s to make it to a certain point in Heaven’s Waterfall and make it back alive. Making it through Hell’s Crossing again may not sound like fun, but you should have an idea of how to prepare and what to expect, except this time, no mandatory Inbyo fights.
Bring your best armor, plenty of food (Boiled Egg and Crumbled Boiled Egg recommended), two or three Mail Balloons for convenience (one for about halfway through Hell’s Crossing, and another for just before the boss battle), and plenty of weapons because you might break a few. If your pack is near full, you’re probably overpreparing, but that’s better than not having something that you need.
The route is: Forest of Temptation to Inverted Forest to the slog that is Hell’s Crossing to Seeker Camp to Heaven’s Waterfall. The boss will be in plain sight. Approach it to initiate the battle.
BOSS: Interference Device #2
This one is far more mobile, and it has three main phases of attack. If it charges you, get out of the way. When it stops in place, it will do an obvious wind-up for an attack that does a lot of damage. It also dives into the ground and emerges where you’re standing after a couple seconds. Finally, it will run around the arena in circles, which seems pretty much harmless, even if you collide with it. Once you learn this thing’s attack patterns, you should notice some pretty obvious opportunities to heal or attack, especially as it runs around. You might be doing plenty of running around, but this boss isn’t hard. You might break a weapon or two over it.
As before, no need to scan this boss. Its Notebook entry is added automatically.
Once the boss is defeated, it’ll create an entrance to the 3rd Layer. Enter, then exit, and you’ll have a fast-travel point to enjoy for when you’ve returned to the surface to claim your new Moon Whistle.
The route to the surface is up to you. Similar to before, you’ll want to go from Heaven’s Waterfall to Seeker Camp to briefly in Hell’s Crossing to Inverted Arbor to Corpse-Weeper Den, where you’ll use a rope so you can access Forest of Temptation, then it’s back to the first layer where you can fast travel back to the surface. Of course, if you want to spend some time fishing at Edge of the Abyss first, that’s up to you.
Made In Abyss: Binary Star Falling Into Darkness Walkthrough Part 1: Introduction
Made In Abyss
Binary Star Falling Into Darkness
Version 1.1
Walkthrough by Raizen
This is my first ever walkthrough, and I’m open to criticism.
As far as my experience goes: On Switch, I’ve played four different save files to the end, one of which to the level cap, one of which on a different profile. I’ve played the PSN and Steam versions to the end. Altogether, I’ve beaten this game six times. I have obtained all achievements and trophies in the Steam and PSN versions.
While there are spoilers in this guide, to find them, one must advance to the appropriate part of the guide that corresponds to that part of the game.
This guide focuses on the main campaign, Deep In Abyss. It does not focus on the short, Riko-centered Hello Abyss mode, which is optional as of version 1.0.3 of the game.
This guide is current as of Ver. 1.0.3 of Made In Abyss: Binary Star Falling Into Darkness. Some aspects of this guide may become obsolete if the software were to be patched.
Version History:
Version 1.0 – 29 Dec 2023
- Initial version published.
Version 1.1 – 1 Sep 2025
- Updated with a discovery about the bosses, that they didn’t need to be scanned to be added to the notebook
- Added a method for unequipping charms from armor in Part 2 of this guide
- Added Part 9, Achievements and Other Random Things
Spelling, grammatical, and various minor updates may be made to this guide without being noted in the Version History.
Maddox Publishes Video Nearly Three Hours Long Laying Into Dick Masterson
I’ll say first of all that I’m not taking sides on this conflict, because even though I was once a fan of Maddox’s writing, I find it believable that either side has misbehaved in at least one way over the course of this drama.
Maddox has published a video on YouTube that is over two-and-a-half hours long, making the case that there has been a long effort on the part of Dick Masterson to harass Maddox, and bait Maddox into a response. In the video, Maddox calls Masterson “Fanboy”, in an obvious effort to reduce him while referring to him.
Embedded here is the video in question. Don’t worry, I’m not placing the onus on you of watching the whole thing. Just know that this video provides the context for the opinion that I offer on it.
Earlier in his online career, Maddox was frequently targeted by fans who have developed an unhealthy obsession with him. This is a hazard that comes with fame, including online fame, a game which Maddox was early to. When you have a website that’s been read by millions of people, you’re likely to get a few with ideas of reference that believe that your words were somehow intended specifically for them.
There are many, many flavors of crazy out there, and in today’s connected world, it’s simple for some of them to reach back to content creators. Don’t give me that look.
As Maddox explained, part of the motivation for making his video was to raise a big stink, explaining that that’s the kind of thing that you have to do to get social media companies to care. Apparently, his reputation being at stake was not enough of a motivation, though he did make a fair point when he pointed out that when someone backbites against you, you have a choice between saying nothing and taking a hit to your reputation, or saying something and giving the trolls what’s they’re looking for.
Still, it’s hard to imagine anyone besides Maddox is going to care about his reputation if he’s not willing to defend it, himself. It’s true that a person doesn’t have to speak in his defense in every case (the expression “don’t feed the trolls” exists for a reason), but when your livelihood and reputation are significantly impacted, to answer your accusers seems expedient.
Considering the damage that has been done to Maddox’s reputation over the course of years, it’s a valid question why such an answer was so long overdue, and why Maddox didn’t take a more proactive approach to defending his online reputation. After all, his online reputation is central to his online career. His brand is impacted, for better or worse, based on his online reputation. That he was as silent as he was for as long as he was expressed a highly misplaced belief in the benevolence of his his accusers to eventually realize their wrong in continually berating him to no apparent consequences, and decide on their own that it’s time to move on to something else.
I’m speaking as someone who has been slandered, on more than one occasion. It happens to everyone. Every playground has a piece-of-shit kid who invents rumors about other kids, because that’s the worst thing that he could do to them with the least potential for immediate backlash. Preferably, you don’t have to deal with such threats to your reputation, but life doesn’t guarantee ideal circumstances, and sometimes, the best course of action is not clear.
Now that Maddox has finally come forward with an answer to his accusers, one of the chief weapons in his arsenal is to wage an accusation right back. And not only that, it’s the grand F.U. of all accusations: to call someone a pedophile.
He does bring evidence. For one thing, the projection that asserts that every male has a secret desire to do things with 17-year-olds, which isn’t true, and merely an assumption about the desires of other people based on one’s own desires (that’s what makes it projection).
The other, more flimsy, inference is that “Fanboy” likes stylized cartoon drawings. And for some reason, Maddox continued to refer to the flimsier reasoning, rather than the use of projection that most thinking people would consider the stronger evidence.
By the way, Masterson could have exercised more discretion in sharing his preference for lolicon. Like masturbation, just because it’s legal doesn’t mean that you tell everyone about it. Among the reasons being that not everyone gives the benefit of the doubt. Think of all the people who assume that playing violent video games means you secretly want to commit violent crimes.
While it might sound like a slight to Maddox, it can be pointed out that since the falling out with him, Dick Masterson has gone on to enjoy more fame than even Maddox himself. This seems to have a lot to do with a willingness to ride the wave of the algorithm, which may have rewarded him for talking about Maddox. People are drawn to drama, and the algorithm boosts what gets engagement.
Maddox doesn’t seem as willing to do this, which may be a matter of principle, like when he refuses to place ads on his website, due to his sheer unwillingness to self-censor. While one can respect a willingness to be so principled, it’s a fact of the modern world that such principles have potential to be seen as a liability. And in Maddox’s case, it’s cost him a lot of money in the long term.
There’s a lot to be said for remaining principled, even to one’s detriment. But not everyone might see that as a virtue.
But returning to Masterson, there’s a lot to say. I know that he’s a comedian, which gives someone license for a bit of edge. But if what Maddox said about “rape lists” is true, and if Masterson was sincere in his defense of sexual abuse, then that would explain why Masterson’s performances aren’t recommended to me. And I would avoid listening to them to spare my hearing in the same way that not huffing turd fires would spare my nose.
The cancellation, doxxing, and apparent attempts to recruit his own audience to fight his battles for him does not put Dick Masterson in good light, to say the least. Particularly the doxxing.
Yet through it all, Maddox has come out looking like a punching bag, even though he handled matters in the recommended fashion for those who are being bullied online. But while it’s true that it’s usually best to not answer the people who are trolling you, it’s also true that there are certain fights that one is better off not avoiding. Sometimes, the best course of action is not clear, which can be deeply unsettling.
I suppose that Maddox’s overly-macho online persona makes it difficult to pity him.
But finally, the whole drama between Maddox and Masterson has turned from being entirely one-sided, with an answer from Maddox. And true to his style, Maddox’s answer was lengthy and sardonic.
I suppose it’s likely that soon we’ll be hearing a reply from Masterson. I think it’s obvious how he’ll likely answer, based on what I’ve been hearing about his opinion about Maddox, even though I don’t follow him or care for his routine, in much the same way that I don’t have to smoke cigarettes to know what they smell like. It happens too often that some yutz will light one up right by the door, unaware or not caring that that shit will just blow inside.
Things Are Starting to Move Right Along.
A short while ago, I pointed out that unfettered immigration would lead to unrest. Since then, unrest has started to pick up in places like France, and particularly in Ireland, where things exploded after a piece of filth attacked children with a knife.
In light of this, I’ll go ahead and offer my opinion on the matter, and I’ll keep it brief, because that would suffice.
I don’t have a knack for seeing the future. I didn’t need it because I could already see the tension that was there. In this environment, all that’s needed for things to move along in a hurry is for someone to do something incredibly stupid, which will cause people to react in a way that expresses the tension.
Right now, the left is blaming the right for the public’s reaction, when in reality, the left bears the blame for what is the natural and expected outcomes of their policies.
The left believed that they could retire easier in spite of falling birth rates by inviting immigrants into their country with the idea that they could be put to work, and feed into the Social Security scheme. Such an idea is damnably idiotic. The outcome is that these very same immigrants have largely gone on welfare, turning into a drain on the system, rather than contributing. Worse yet, many of them turned out to be criminals on the run, some are human traffickers working for cartels, and some have brought a culture with them that is absolutely incompatible with a civil society.
As it turns out, assuming good intentions can be dangerously naive.
I’m not really worried that the political right is going to capitalize on recent trends, and gain institutional power with the support of a common population who would be more interested in leaders that more closely mirror their values. At this point, it’s all but a certainty. What’s worrisome is that those who assume authority will tend towards extremes in their positions. The right would do well to remember their own virtues regarding limited government and personal liberties, and know that the immigration crisis can be reversed in a responsible manner.
Having said that, it’s obvious that the responsible way to go about it involves mass deportations. The left will scream bloody murder over it, and bang their pots and pans together. They’re free to make their noise. But after decades of getting their way with minimal resistance, to not have their way would be something for them to get accustomed to.
The left has a bad habit of attempting to disassociate their policy positions from the consequences of those positions, even when the consequences are so obvious that any reasonable person could see them coming. To see such belligerent foolishness would be almost rewarding, if it weren’t the common population who pays the price.
In any case, it remains that one of the most rewarding things about basic observation of reality is seeing things play out predictably. And I hope you’re ready, because this is going to be quite a show.
There’s something screwy going on in the K-pop community.
The Hindustan Times reported a story which alleged that a few K-pop idols are receiving backlash for enjoying a “dark anime” with “pedophilic content”. The anime in question is Made In Abyss, an adventure anime wherein a girl and a robotic boy explore a gigantic chasm, navigating its dangerous ecosystems in a quest to reach its bottom.
The Hindustan Times can be blamed for burying the lede, as the real story that led to the controversy would be the cancel culture of the K-pop community, and it turns out that much of its community is pretty toxic.
One might imagine that a collective appreciation for K-pop would bring the K-pop community together, but what we instead see is a toxicity among fans who divide themselves into factions based on their preferences for K-pop artists.
Personally, I’m glad that it’s the K-pop brand of tribalist bullshit that’s keeping these clowns occupied, because if they got into either sports or religion, they’d probably cause some riots.
The K-pop tribalism is so toxic that some fans will actually dig into the social media activity of the other tribe’s K-pop artist of choice to find anything that can be held against them. Pretty much cancel culture per se.
It so happens that this time, the K-pop artists under scrutiny are Soobin, Woozi, and Taeyong for liking Made In Abyss, an exquisite anime with developed characters, excellent worldbuilding, a heavily-favored soundtrack, and a tone that indicates that it takes its viewers seriously. The problem is, the anime is sometimes accused of promoting pedophilia by people who aren’t mature enough for the anime.
It’s disturbing enough that the toxicity of the K-pop community has reached the point that fans are willing to drag K-pop idols enjoyed by another K-pop faction down by making them out to be pariahs, it’s even worse when they are willing to drag down anime communities that weren’t even involved to begin with, and don’t deserve the negative attention that they might end up getting.
Being one who enjoys Pokémon, I can point out that, while there has been some amount of toxicity in the community, much of it came from bad actors who were quickly recognized, and the Pokémon community has mostly resisted dividing up into factions. If you can avoid certain bad influencers, you’ll generally have no problem avoiding drama in the Pokémon community.
That being my point of reference, from my perspective, the state of the K-pop community is surprising and horrifying. I didn’t have much interest in K-pop to begin with, but with the pervasiveness of toxicity and cancel culture within its community, I have no problem keeping my distance.
I suppose some might expect that I’d defend Made In Abyss from accusations that it somehow promotes pedophilia. The fact is, I really don’t have to. For one thing, I’ll refer to this flowchart that I like sharing:
One of the things I like about the Made In Abyss community is that when someone attempts to describe it to someone who hasn’t seen it, they might bring up some of its more extreme elements in an effort to warn someone that they’re there. But in doing so, they might make it sound like some hyper-edgelord anime that it’s actually not. While it’s true that there are some disturbing scenes, they don’t make up the majority of the anime’s runtime, but instead serves to make the point that there is a connotation of danger for the protagonists.
While it’s true that there are brief instances of nudity, no sex acts were committed, and the scenes played out naturally. Anyone who holds these brief scenes against the whole of the anime are failing to evaluate it from a position of honest criticism. One may even get the idea that they haven’t actually watched it.
But in any case, Made In Abyss was made for grownups, and it’s obvious that much of the K-pop community is way too young to watch anime like Made In Abyss.
And what’s more, when someone can be rightly described as smug and closed-minded, I don’t really mind that they don’t enjoy the same things that I do. As I’d have it, I’d prefer that such people were not in my own community.
Finally, it can be pointed out that we live in a world where trafficking of actual, living human children is a real problem. When someone throws themselves into a tizzy because a fictional character, a literal piece of merchandise, may be doing something sexual, they are expressing some misplaced priorities.
Bin Laden and the Algorithmic Manipulators
Before we get into this, I’m curious how many of you had “leftists voice agreement with Osama Bin Laden” on your bingo card for 2023. It’s understandable if you didn’t, but what a year this is turning out to be.
In the year 2002, Osama Bin Laden, the very same Bin Laden that ran the terror network Al Qaeda, had issued a letter titled, A Letter to America, wherein he laid out his rationale for the 9/11 terror attacks.
I, for one, am skeptical that Bin Laden actually authored the letter, as he had initially steadfastly denied being involved in the attacks, and each of the hijackers actually attended the Al Quds mosque in Hamburg, Germany, which was never shut down, as far as I could tell.
In the letter, Bin Laden pointed out that there was no such thing as innocent civilians in the U.S.’s democracy, pointing out that his violent actions were a reaction to the policy positions of representatives that civilians voted into office. He voiced such an opposition to U.S. policy that it sounded suspiciously like it was intended to feed into a casus belli for further American intervention. Hopefully it’s understandable why I’m skeptical.
The letter had been published by British news outlet The Guardian, who took it down when a recent spate of TikTok videos appeared expressing surprise at the contents of the letter, with some expressing agreement with Bin Laden’s sentiments, saying that they’ve had their preconceived notions challenged, and encouraging their viewers to also read the letter.
Normally, I’d embed at least one example of such a video here, but I’m not doing that this time, for a reason that I’ll get into later on in this post.
When it comes to a letter from Osama Bin Laden, I’m curious what people were expecting. Did they expect something like five paragraphs of hand-wringing and mustache-twirling, proceeded by cartoon-villain cackling? The guy had a following, and he had a following for a reason: he was able to justify his positions, even if through faulty reasoning, and he did so in such a way that would have been considered convincing to those who lacked the ability to comprehend true evil, or at least those who would be dumb enough to fall for his arguments.
People with bad positions are usually able to justify their positions. Take the flat-earthers, for example. People know that flat-earthers are wrong. However, they take for granted that flat-earthers are wrong. So when they get into a debate with one, they imagine that it will be a piece-of-cake slam dunk victory. But then the debate begins, and the flat-earther runs circles around them, because they know how the game is played, they have rhetorical deceit down to a science, they came prepared with arguments that most people are not prepared for, and they themselves came prepared for the arguments and rebuttals that they could reasonably expect. The result is that a typical, middle-of-the-road thinker is left to kick dust on the way home, knowing that he lost a debate to a flat-earther.
While we’re at it, I’m curious as to what people think is in Hitler’s Mein Kampf. While it’s true that much of it is a hateful tirade made to appeal to one with an external locus of control, it’s also a political manifesto that would have been considered encouraging to a German who would have felt downtrodden in Hitler’s time.
Evil people are able to justify their wickedness, even if their reasoning is deeply flawed. To them, what most would see as wicked may be what they see as justifiable, or even banal.
By way of another example, there’s also the manifesto of Ted Kazynski, the person who is popularly known as the Unabomber. When his manifesto was published, the expectation would have understandably been the ramblings of a deluded psychopath who believed that the moon followed him as he walked around. As it turns out, he made some points about society that many people considered valid.
Returning to Bin Laden, I wonder how many people out there have forgotten that he was a religious zealot, whose own religion is pretty-much everything that a stereotypical leftist pretends that Christianity is. Bin Laden was an Islamist, who wanted to implement Sharia in the west.
The following is a few of Bin Laden’s policy positions:
- Executing gays,
- Normalizing slavery (and no, I’m not kidding),
- Outlawing bacon,
- Outlawing grown-up beverages,
- Outlawing non-religious music,
- A functionally-retarded banking system that’s somehow supposed to run without interest,
- Normalizing pederasty, which has been legal in Afghanistan for decades,
- State-sponsorship of a cult that discourages the pursuit of anything outside of itself,
- That science is not allowed to question, among other things, that the earth is flat,
- A judicial system that’s so capricious that tyrants are needed to maintain order,
- That the testimony of a woman is either 1/2 or 1/4 that of a man in courts of law.
There’s a lot more. And a bunch of simpletons are impressed with this guy?
Now, let’s get into the reason why I’m not leaving a video embed in this post. Personally, I doubt that these people actually believe what they’re saying. The fact is, the TikTok algorithm boosts what gets plenty of engagement, and what’s rage-inducing (such as police-brutality videos) tend to get more attention. I suspect that these are just people who know how the game is played, and are attempting to farm the algorithm for views. I don’t want to give them a signal boost, because I don’t want them to have more attention.
But even if they don’t believe it, they still have followings that may take their words for it. And that’s how attempts to game an algorithm can have potentially harmful outcomes. We’ve already seen how videos of police brutality have inspired looting and rioting. Now, there are social media influencers out to make a quick buck who don’t care about the long-term social damage that can occur as a result of algorithmic manipulation.
But if the social media influencers were sincere, then there’s no telling how they’ll react when they get around to reading something that’s actually reasonable, such as the basic philosophical underpinnings of Libertarianism, or that of Austrian economics.
To get to the heart of the matter, however eloquent that his justifications could have possibly been, it still remains that Osama Bin Laden was a murderous nutjob who hid behind his religion, which played a significant role in motivating him to become the killer he ended up becoming.
Now, the indoctrinators of the political left are looking on in horror as the very children that they indoctrinated went on to side with terrorists like Al Qaeda and Hamas, simply because those terrorist organizations have been using similar rhetoric to justify themselves. And now said indoctrinators are losing control of the very generation with which they had hoped to usher in a revolution, and are losing control of them to a bunch of religious fanatics who are far more hateful than even themselves.
I can think of no better way to fight back than to make it known why their new ideology is not worth fighting for. Just because it’s obvious to me why this is the case doesn’t mean that everyone can be reasoned with.
If it turns out that the letter actually was a U.S. psy-op, the consequences might almost be funny. Except not quite.
Is Chris Chan’s Diet Killing Him?
A couple days ago, Chris Chan complained of feeling “a bit woozy at times” on X, with his friends attributing this to his diet.
Here’s what he had to say:
#TF2AnalysisAnarchy reminded me of the 6-2-1 (Convention) Rule years ago. That was a common practice with me, in general, which aided me in weight loss.
But in recent days, my Body has been feeling a bit woozy at times. My friends made me realize that I could be eating more, especially considering how tall I am. So, I’m readjusting my meal plan for filling breakfast/brunch and dinner, while enjoying Fruits and/or Salad at lunch or snackage throughout the day.
Okay then, let’s see how Chris Chan has been eating fruits, by looking at a fruit salad that he shared weeks ago. And let me know whether this could contribute to his woozy feeling:
Okay, this looks like the beginning of a fruit salad. There’s a diversity of fruit there, with diced apple, strawberries, banana, and what looks like a peeled tangerine. As long as he doesn’t somehow ruin it, there’s nothing to object to, at all.
But he’s not done yet. To him, nature’s candy is not sweet enough, he has to add additional candy to taste:
He ruined it. First, with a mound of whipped cream and a literal chocolate bar. Sure, it’s just a small square, but it’s even more sugar.
But then, he adds maraschino cherries. They may be cherries, but they’re swimming in sweeteners such as sugar or high fructose corn syrup! No wonder the guy is woozy, he thinks that this is the kind of meal that’s so healthy, that he can snap pictures of it to show off as an example of his better judgment to the world!
Chris Chan handles his diet the same way he handles Biblical law keeping: lackadaisically. Here’s what he has to say about that:
I am thankful for the 6-2-1 Rule, but as a guideline like the Bible, we are meant to keep it as a guideline in our minds, souls and hearts and think outside of that in common sense for ourselves, respectively.
If you’re wondering what the “6-2-1 Rule” is, so was I. I looked it up, and apparently, it’s a furry convention guideline that recommends 6 hours of sleep, 2 meals a day, and one shower a day. But like many rules, Chris Chan regards it as a “guideline”, similar to how he regards other rules, including the ones found in the Bible.
Apparently, to him the Ten Commandments are more like the Ten Suggestions, in that he follows them when it’s nice and convenient, but considers them something to ignore in favor of his own personal dictates of common sense.
This person is claiming to be the Messiah?
The situational ethics crowd is about as scary as those who insist that Biblical law keeping has been done away with, but they have no idea. Biblical law includes the Ten Commandments, and they say that you’re not to murder, steal, or bear false witness. Which of these things would they object to happening to them?
Chris Chan has a problem that many Americans do: he has received almost nothing in the way of dietary education, and only has vague notions of what is healthy to go on. That’s a problem when the rules of diet and nutrition are such that, if you break them and are ignorant of it, the consequences of breaking those rules still apply to you.
No, I don’t claim to be perfect in this regard. When I was in my twenties, I usually had a big ol’ heaping plate of pasta for dinner, reasoning that that was healthy enough. While it’s true that there was some nutritional benefit to be had, I was consuming a monster pile of calories nearly every evening, which was only offset by the fact that I was highly physically active, walking miles on most days.
After college, I returned to that for a short while. But as my means improved, I decided to figure a few things out about my diet.
Because we have technology that can help us with our diets, why not use it? I use an app to track my caloric intake. What’s more, I got a kitchen scale to help measure out my portions. I also did a lot of research on what foods can have what benefits for me.
Here’s an example of what breakfast can look like for me:
The Grapenuts and milk are consumed together as a cereal. As for the fruit, they are blended together with water, a scoop of protein shake, a couple scoops of powdered collagen, and the “Daily Fiber” is a psyllium husk supplement like Metamucil. The result is a super-tasty and super-healthy breakfast smoothie. The fruit volume can vary, but this is what reasonably fits in my blender.
In addition to this, I’ll often have some black coffee (zero calories), as well as supplements such as vitamin D, creatine, and perhaps even some fish oil, and maybe some other supplements.
Thanks to a diet like this, I actually feel better now than when I was in my twenties, and perhaps ever have. And if you wish to copy me, now you have an idea of what I’ve been having for breakfast, lately.
If you still have doubts as to Chris Chan’s state of mind, he closes out his statement with the following:
Every religion and scripture is a piece of the Bigger Truth; they combine in all to form that, in a way. But Meditation and Connection with the Cosmos, Akashic Records and Alpha/Omega Point well beyond our Universe’s and Timeline’s Core and Matrix puts further insights and revelations into all of us to really understand ourselves and the truths and to put them to Good use with Light Power and Righteous Paths. ⚡️💙⚡️
Though he claims to have access to the comprehensive compendium of events and thoughts in all the history of the universe, Chris Chan still doesn’t know how to eat right.
Let’s end this with a quote from a far more sensible man:
The production of artificial food as a means for causing an increase of the human mass naturally suggests itself, but a direct attempt of this kind to provide nourishment does not appear to me rational, at least not for the present. Whether we could thrive on such food is very doubtful. We are the result of ages of continuous adaptation, and we cannot radically change without unforeseen and, in all probability, disastrous consequences. So uncertain an experiment should not be tried.
Nikola Tesla
The GODCULT Complex of MamaMax
I was a legacy subscriber of MamaMax on YouTube, from back when his channel was funny, but then I dropped off when he started commentating on bad hentai. Since then, the algorithm itself seldom floated any of his stuff to me.
However, that changed today, after happening upon a new offering, which was when I discovered that he now goes by a new handle, GODCULT. And not only that, he reiterated his cause, which is to encourage vigilante activity, outing child predators.
While the cause of stopping child predators is something I don’t object to, there are problems with having someone like GODCULT being the one to champion the cause. And I don’t just mean because of his hentai commentary.
For those who are interested, the video is embedded below. Watching it is helpful for establishing the context of my critique, but is not completely necessary. It’s about 25 minutes long.
GODCULT spends much of the video answering critics who have left him comments. Many of them are legacy subscribers who would agree that his new super-serious content is not what they subscribed to, and GODCULT takes them to task for not being on board with the change of his channel’s focus.
Reminiscent of the days of Maddox, to cherry pick comments that you can easily answer is highly expedient to expressing your intellectual superiority. Also of note is that he altered his voice in an obvious effort to be taken seriously, which is a nice throwback to “We are Anonymous, we are legion!”
But what’s especially disturbing is that GODCULT presumes to psychoanalyze these critics, as if to suggest that criticism of his channel’s new direction indicates a sort of permissiveness of child abuse. Whether he’s explicit in this implication, it’s easy to hear in his tone.
If one were to turn the psychoanalytic eye back on GODCULT, it would be plain to see that he derives pleasure from expressing superiority over other people. Of course, this would be difficult to reconcile with a culture that has a distaste for abusive relationships. Except, when that same appetite for domination is expressed against those who are abusive, it becomes easier to justify. When answering his critics, it’s plain to see that his deep, booming voice disguise is intended to intimidate. Whether his intention to protect children is sincere or not, it’s evidently a convenient outlet with which he could play the intellectual tyrant, fulfilling his own appetite for domination.
As explained by GODCULT, he has spun a dystopian fictional narrative of a future time in which child abuse is normalized. Because GODCULT is of the opinion that fictitious depictions indicate the sensibilities of the authors, GODCULT shouldn’t consider it scandalous to say that this indicates a sincere belief that humanity, if left on its current course, would normalize pedophilia within years.
I have my doubts. As of this typing, child abuse is highly illegal. It tends to carry a harsh prison sentence. What’s more, anyone in prison for child abuse is usually singled out for abuse by other prisoners, because even ordinary criminals can’t stand their presence. What’s more, child molesters tend to be harassed anywhere that their reputation follows them, which is usually everywhere, considering that they’re usually required to submit to a registry that would indicate where they live. Most people can’t stand the company of child molesters.
Considering all this, I think it should be understandable why I would be skeptical of the idea that child abuse would be normalized anytime soon. Having said that, I’m aware that QAnon would differ on the matter, why they would differ, and the kind of information that they habitually limit themselves to and how it informs their worldview.
While it was a throwaway line near the start of his video, we can bring attention to his calling out of Japanese media for sometimes sexualizing minors. Which would make Japanese media like most media one can find anywhere in the world. While it’s true that Japanese media has a relatively high occurrence rate of humor that would be considered insensitive to victims of sexual abuse, it’s also true that a person doesn’t have to consume media that they don’t want to. And, in any case, Japan enjoys low crime rates in spite of how racy some its media can be. It’s almost as though media is not strongly indicative of cultural norms, right MamaMax, reviewer of bad hentai?
Because we’re sensible adults, we should know that any fictitious depictions of crime does not equate to a desire on the part of the authors to commit such crimes, nor does the consumption of such media indicate such desires from consumers. Otherwise, we could assume some pretty nasty things about the people who play games from the Mortal Kombat and Grand Theft Auto series’.
Having been through all that, as much of a problem as child abuse is, there are better things we can do about it than using our positions as influencers to recruit your viewers as vigilantes. Vigilantism is counterproductive. There has been many a case where a predator has actually gotten off because some vigilante bozo disrupted an investigation in progress.
If child abuse is occurring, you notify law enforcement. Unless the crime is in progress in your physical presence, that is the extent of what you can do to be helpful. Even if you want to do more, in informing law enforcement you’ve accomplished everything you could do to be helpful. Let the police do their jobs, they actually do want to stop these guys.
Having said this, I have a suspicion that in the event that GODCULT discovers this page, he might distort my criticisms of his approach as being adversarial towards efforts to stop child abuse, similar to how he answered his critics.
Still, GODCULT has a freedom to further whatever cause that he may wish to, so long as he can do so lawfully. And if he can rescue at least one person in so doing, then this would make it easier for him to avoid confronting his own methods for how counterproductive they may be.
I know I may be laboring the point by bringing this up again, but vigilantism is usually counterproductive, as it has the potential to disrupt investigations that are the job of law enforcement, resulting in people who commit crimes getting off scot free. Don’t want child molesters to get away with it? Then don’t be dumb.
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