EmptySlime

It's a regular cognitohazard now that I think about it huh?

A jar of pickles right? Not... The Jar right? ... Right?

Now I'm imagining the difference between normal and Weapons-Grade Hand Holding.

That's only if you're a person from outside that was put into the simulation. If we're all just simulated beings we'd never know.

The absolute least surprising thing about that situation. He's been so absolutely weird about her every time he speaks about her. Makes my fucking skin crawl.

No problem! It can be very confusing when you're first getting into manga trying to figure out how you move through the panels. Once you get the hang of the ideas though most mangaka nowadays have been pretty good at laying out their panels to kind of draw your eyes naturally through the page in the order you need to go.

Basically the priority is to make as many unbroken right to left lines across the whole page as possible. You don't generally move down unless you've reached the leftmost edge of the page. Notice how here if I draw lines across the panels to show the path my eyes take and read 12 before 10-11 my reading line is going to run back into the line I made already? So you read 9 and go to the next line, considering 12 to be part of that lower line so that your reading lines don't intersect.

Kind of, yeah. Though if a larger panel is on the right rather than the left you consider the top of the panel rather than the bottom. So like if you swapped 12 with the 9, 10, 11 cluster it would just be 12, 9, 10, 11.

You tend to finish the right to left line to the end of the page before moving down any. So if 2 panels are in the same "line" like 2 and 3 are, then you finish out that line before moving down. In a case where one panel is larger and spans multiple lines it'll generally be laid out to belong to it's lowest line if it's on the left side of the page, or the highest line on the right side of the page. So since 12 covers both the line with 9, and the one with 10 and 11 on it you'll generally read it as belonging to that lower line and it'll be 12.

IMO it's probably most likely an overzealous bootleg detection system hitting a false positive or someone selling a really convincing bootleg.

Don't get me wrong, Nintendo absolutely wants to kill the used market. Iirc multiple executives have been on record voicing opposition to the used game market. But I definitely think it's more likely that they got a false positive on the "is this game pirated?" detector and nuked the console.

The thing that gets me is they've apparently done multiple rounds of "correcting" Grok for being too "Woke" and it just keeps happening!

Reality has a well known liberal bias headass.

Something something Shiego.