It is true that they are much less likely to bark....

Is that he man?

I haven't investigated this personally. But I get the feeling you haven't really gone over specific data either. All I know is the disparity in ratio of attacks is pretty stark. The other main contenders tend to be breeds which are extremely common or often used as guard dogs or for law enforcement.

Just shoot any dog that attacks. Ez

And there seem to be a lot of "pit mommies" whose dogs just go berserk, and maybe there's some other reason beyond temperament and nature. But it seems like until that is known, it's probably a good idea to not get this breed of dog.

Lots of testimony of people who just didn't know what the hell happened, and that the dog never behaved this way before for the years they've owned it, and then it just sort of snaps.

@HurtChain that is He-Man

Hopefully it’s good

Wokeflix has me concerned

@HurtChain you see Netflix Castlevania?

It's entirely possible a good portion of the disparity could be explained just by the kinds of people who tend to get pits. People who themselves lack discipline, or are too lazy to properly train them, or get them explicitly because they think it makes them look tougher, and then behave in a way that gets the dogs worked up.

Nope

Watch it

I’ve literally only seen Star Trek on Netflix

Netflix Castlevania is alright. Not great, but alright. There were some parts that still irritated me,.

https://youtu.be/BC1kke-WgLo

When the next season comes out, I'll probably still watch it. Which is something I can say for very few shows.

The way the church is depicted in Castlevania is so hilariously stupid and over the top, tbh. Probably one of the points I got closer to just switching it off.

It's a Church in a world where Demons and Dracula actually exist

But then, that might just be something from the game as source material

It's allowed to be over the top

that IS source material

Indeed

the Church did kinda kick out the best fucking vampire hunter

And cause Dracula to attack

^

I've never really played Castlevania, so it was jarring. It's like, they took the worst, most bigoted, ignorant, corrupt caricature of the catholic church from fiction, and just dialed it up to 11.

welcome to Castlevania

That is how the church game is, it is a Japanese persons view of crusader era Catholicism

a Westaboo's view

It's so Stupid Evil, you're left wondering how they ever actually managed to deal with any legitimate threats ever, as they seem more concerned with declaring anyone who is actually capable or competent as some kind of heretic

why do you think Trevor doesn't give a shit in the beginning

They're a church that let the Belmonts handle everything and when the threats were gone they kicked them out

Nah, the main character's motivations were pretty spot on.

That was fine.

But just, the whole rest of humanity, and particularly the church, it's like, "oh, you can actually do something that might save us? fuck you!"

welcome to Castlevania

You've never met an evangelical catholic have you?

^

other japanese media has had a more credible depiction of a catholicism type church as antagonists, though

like in, what was it called.... Blue Exorcist

That made much more sense.

Blue exorcist isn't credible

It's modern

Japanese media is always leagues ahead of everything else

this is medieval evangelical Catholics

Wallachia is a 13th century nation

It's credible from the point of view of having a religious order that knows demonic threats exists, has the general obedience and loyalty of the masses, but can still be used as an antagonistic force.

ooga booga is a accurate description

Blue Exorcist is still a modern lens

@Miniature Menace do you think 13th century peasants are rational people?

I think most healthy people are rational, they just have finite data, and often very stupid priorities.

Also, they're lazy

Then you know nothing of the Medieval era

^

So not putting too much effort into things they deem neither enjoyable or essential to survival, tends to be one of those priorities

the medieval period is defined by ooga booga

I doubt the average person (in any time period) would go "hey, there's a place with dog-headed people"

Medeival folk weren't like, some kind of tards. They were superstitious, sure, but it often took a lot of circumstantial evidence to really get them worked up enough to use it as a justification to kill people.

you say that

Wallachia is 13th century Theocratic Romania

And even then, these periods where that happened were usually the exception, rather than the rule.

@Miniature Menace medieval peasants had no education aside from the church, they worked to live and not dying was a bonus, they had no need to be rational

Everyone needs to be rational to a point.

not really

look at leftists

Your modern views don't negate human nature

Even the choice to obey the church so you don't get labelled a heretic and excommunicated is an act of reason

No, that's an act of survival

Even leftists behave rationally based on their perception of reality, and their priorities.

People do irrational things to survive

@Miniature Menace

Some of the disparity is from people who get Pits because they want a tough strong dog. This shows up in the meme of the 100 lb Pittbull (breed standard is a maximum weight of 80 for males and 60 for females. No 100 lb dog is a Pitt by definition). This is further exacerbated by the lugenpress who know 'Pit Bull" sells more ad space so virtually any bull or terrier breed involved in an incident gets reported as a "Pit Bull Attack!"

Irrationality is doing something deliberately under the assumption that it will take you *further* from your chief desirable outcomes.

Did they ever state the date the show is set in? Because a lot of the technologies seem a bit later than that

Like, i would estimate late 14th/early 15th century from havibg watched it

But sure people who buy Pitts but do not bother to learn how to raise one properly are a large part of the problem.

@Miniature Menace that isn't the definition of irrational

I never played the games, though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g43PelSOB68

I'm operating on the assumption that the Castlevania series occurs in an alternate history where the church actually behaves in a stupid evil fashion. And that's how I've basically compartmentalized it.

One of the dumbest yet most entertaining anime’s ive ever seen was the GATE anime.

GATE was pretty good.

I just loved it for the dumb action

https://youtu.be/cYrTlEBxaDw

@Gservator Then it's not *your* definition of irrational. And that's fine. Are you going to argue that people generally make conscious and deliberate choices to take them further from their chief objectives?

Also not actually that dumb. Did a good job of avoiding being contrived.

@Nevis it's set in Wallachia, the year is 1476

I liked that blood bath.

@Miniature Menace no, it's not THE definition

>For Whom The Bell Tolls, instead of the in-show meme of Ride of the Valkyries
Not sure how I feel about this.

Also, this was _long_ before the church had any of the reformations that has calmed it down today. This was presumably before the Protestant-Catholic wars, in a territory right on the edge of Islamic invasion, in the grip of several competing monotheistic religions (Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Islam, whatever remnants of paganism remained)

I just grabbed the top search result.

It’s been a couple years since I watched it

@Gservator I literally don't care. Because that's not really what I'm arguing about. My criticism is related to *my* definition. Address how my argument is actually invalid using the way I have described my criticism.

Yeah, this was right on the cusp of the collapse of the Byzantine Empire and Islamic threat, then

@Nevis so for a modern view it's post crusade era Romania

Regardless, really sad that Bookwalker doesn't have it

@Miniature Menace you don't understand english if you think you can have your own definitions

Religious zealotry against due to hostile foreignersbwould have made religious tensions very high

Whether or not the definition you use for "reason" corresponds to the way I use it has no bearing on whether what I'm describing is how people generally behave.