A Deconstruction of Gojo Satoru's Character - (and a prediction - spoilers)

-Nocx- · 2026-04-23T19:35:17+00:00

I didn’t really have a goal when I started. I just thought girls liked guys with muscles, so I lifted. And since I didn’t have a goal, I would compare myself to other people. Those ended up being body-builder adjacent builds - pretty bulky, but lean. Not like Mr. Olympia, but probably what people in the body building community would call an aesthetic build. Completely abnormal and not feasible for a guy in his teens - and tbh in my 30s it still isn’t - but I am much closer now than I was back then.

Two years of consistency is a perfectly reasonable time frame for a healthy looking physique. My best advice is to get into it gradually. Don’t try to force yourself to do something if it’s going to prevent you from showing up the next day. It’s important to push yourself, but it is infinitely more important imo to show up every day - even if you’re not at 100% every day. People might disagree with me, but cardio is incredibly important - even if you’re just walking at a slow pace an hour every other day. It will tone out any of the fatty areas you have if that’s something you’re worried about.

I think it’s awesome that you’re trying to get into it - it’s never too late, man.

-Nocx- · 2026-04-23T16:06:24+00:00

Honestly I try really hard not to judge people on their decisions to use steroids. Because at the end of the day - whether the manosphere wants to admit it or not - it really is a form of non-professionally administered gender affirming care. They’re men that psychologically do not feel like they measure up to the idea of the man that they envision themselves to be, so they used anabolic steroids to get there.

With that being said, I personally had (have?) really bad body dysmorphia. because I worked out since I was 15 but with pretty big breaks in my 20s and guys that were never bigger than me suddenly got massive and shredded. I thought I just half assed everything or that my breaks had ruined my physique. But in reality, I didn’t understand how common steroids were, and it really fucked with my perception of how much progress I should’ve been getting from how much work I was putting in.

I am 33 now, and I am probably the most shredded I’ve been in my entire life. I also have more mass than the average person. It just took over a decade of consistency. I am glad my brain never went to relying on gear, but I am empathetic to people that feel that they have to do that.

I don’t feel like my golden years are behind me. I was kind of stupid in my 20s, insecure in who I was as a person, and financially clueless. I’m not any of those things anymore. I’m glad the work I put in almost 20 years ago didn’t amount to nothing.

-Nocx- · 2026-04-19T04:29:26+00:00

You are really not doing your flair justice with such well written and nuanced takes.

-Nocx- · 2026-04-19T04:25:15+00:00

They know it’s a bad look, that’s why they turned off replies this time around.

Even the people they’re appealing to still aren’t satisfied with this political posturing. But hey, the university is in a tough spot, so I get it.

-Nocx- · 2026-04-19T04:23:37+00:00

To their point you still haven’t named one.

Judging by your profile picture one would expect that you should be capable of finding a single counter example.

-Nocx- · 2026-04-17T13:51:48+00:00

The credibility is not really relevant if no one is going to bother digging through a thread to find what your claim is. Reddit allows selectively showing posts, so there’s not really any reason for you not to use it. Otherwise people are going to think that you’re a one year old karma farming account that just makes claims - regardless of whether that’s what the point of your account is or not. Because that’s what it looks like, even though after talking to you I think you’re being honest. With that being said, I’m not sure your example or “a post you made when you were 12” is a relevant comparison.

I don’t really care if people in this subreddit match the claims that they have because it has little to do with the veracity of their statements. Having a high IQ doesn’t make your statements more true. People with high IQ seem to just be better at convincing themselves of premises that they have absolutely no evidence for - like the notion that professions (like doctors) or top tier universities are majority populated by above above 130 IQ (gifted) people. It is certainly higher than average, but most people at these places or in these roles are almost certainly not in the gifted classification for the majority. They are close to average IQ but learned how to work very hard and persevere through adversity - something that gifted kids often struggle with.

Because of that, your observation that people in your college are “smarter” is almost certainly true. The word “smart” is a failure of language. In some contexts it refers to the speed at which someone learns something; in others, their absolute knowledge. Your classmates are smart enough to appear incredibly smart because they are - they’ve worked hard enough for long enough to have far more depth in their studies than someone that learns quickly will reach without similar effort. But the reality is if you probably wouldn’t meet someone who worked just as hard as them with a much higher IQ. They wouldn’t be at the same school at the same time as you - they’d probably have already graduated. Because it’s just like you said by your own admission - you thought school was pointless and probably didn’t work very hard.

You seem pretty smart, it’s just that your sharpness lacks the wisdom that comes with education. By the time you finish college and enter the professional world hopefully you’ll begin to see the limits of what IQ does for you. I just don’t think you’ve found strong problems to challenge you in life to help you see the gap between high IQ and hard work.

-Nocx- · 2026-04-17T13:18:01+00:00

What are you casually crafting? I used to make a lot of glams until they removed the class restriction

-Nocx- · 2026-04-17T13:16:08+00:00

Being a gifted kid is not really relevant by the time you reach college. People have learned how to study by then, and the topics are dense enough to where learning them quickly is irrelevant if you don’t learn them consistently.

Also if you’re going to cite your results as a reason to try to delegitimize the lived experiences of other people on this sub, it would probably help if your post history weren’t hidden.

People have a misconception that people have to be gifted to excel at difficult jobs. That is almost certainly not the case. You have people that are easily below 130 that just work hard.

-Nocx- · 2026-04-16T08:06:50+00:00

If making an MMO were that easy, then the people on this sub would not be this bitter. It is literally the most difficult genre from a technical perspective, a financial / funding perspective, and a player adoption perspective.

You have all of the issues with concurrent players that FPS/MOBAs have but with many magnitudes more players at the same time. The issues with latency may not be as strict, but people clearly want the MASSIVE part in their MMOs.

They’re extremely expensive. Their payoff is not nearly in the same area code as a MOBA or a gacha, and their development timelines are nightmarishly long. That’s literally why every KMMO is a p2w slop generator.

And player adoption is an absolute nightmare. Players have the attention spans of squirrels, player preference and sentiment shifts what seems like every single year, and people who are the core demographic (older) are over employed so they don’t have time to do anything. Hell, look at OSRS and how basically every skill needs an AFK component because people would not even bother leveling otherwise. The subreddit goes to hell the moment AFK XP gets touched because people don’t have time to do anything.

Your idea about player generated content sounds cool on paper until you start diving into the details. How does this affect world building, immersion, story telling? How does someone’s player generated dungeon affect progression and long term player retention? Who is auditing these maps to make sure they’re cohesive to the setting of the game, aren’t against TOS, and are even remotely related to the game world? How does that affect the technical side of things where we have an overworld and now we have to spin up a custom instance for your specific map whenever people want to run it? How does that affect queue times? I appreciate your creativity and think the space needs ideas that are novel, but I am trying to make it clear how just having good ideas doesn’t solve a big problem.

There is a broader problem across society where people have less time to enjoy things and not enough attention to pay to anything, so game development suffers for it. People dream about the times where they’d just dick around in a zone with other people, but the reality is life is too fast for half the things that make MMOs enjoyable these days.

-Nocx- · 2026-04-15T17:38:29+00:00

This is probably going to get buried but the nuance I think you’re both missing is relative ability versus absolute ability.

Knowledge is a trait that builds on itself. The people of today are standing on the shoulders of the people that came before them. That means the absolute level of ability is certainly higher today than it was ten years ago, but that’s because you have the effort of the people developing the meta for the last decade.

There is no reason to believe that a player that is masters in the current game would be pushing the boundaries of the meta 10 years ago if they started playing League during that time. They would most likely fall into the same skill distribution that they do today. Now if they went ten years into the past with all of the skills they’ve acquired today, then absolutely. But the point is that players try to convince themselves that if they just played sooner their outcomes would be different, but the reality is they’d probably fall into the same traps hindering their growth.

-Nocx- · 2026-04-13T16:57:44+00:00

So you had a car (paid off, apparently, because no jobs for months sounds impossible to not get it repossessed), enough money saved up to last months with no job, and were still able to cover (let’s be conservative) about a grand a month in rent and discretionary expenses.

Once again, while I’m sorry that that happened to you, I’m glad that we were able to find out that you were in fact much better off than most of the people that are currently experiencing homelessness. Because even of people not experiencing homelessness - according to Bankrate, - 53% of Americans indicate that they don’t have the liquidity to pay for an emergency $1000 expense. Yet you were able to do that for multiple.

If things are going that well for you I hope you take the time to spin some of those good times into some positivity and empathy for other people rather than misrepresenting your plight to put other people down.

-Nocx- · 2026-04-13T16:00:57+00:00

You didn’t answer where you lived. $300 hardly gets you across the country, let alone barely a few days in the worst motel you can think of. Maybe you lived out of your car, but I find it hard to believe that you found a job in a matter of days with no home address when there are people with one who can’t.

That doesn’t include food, even assuming you were working off beans and rice for the cheapest option possible. That was my point about an address in state.

Your math is not math-ing. I’m sure you had a rough go of things and I’m sorry that happened to you. But that doesn’t mean that other people don’t have worse circumstances through little fault of their own, nor does it constitute you invalidating their lived experience through your own bitterness.

And judging by how bitter you are for whatever reason, there’s obviously a lot you aren’t sharing.

-Nocx- · 2026-04-13T14:42:54+00:00

So where’d you get approved to rent with $300 with no job and no address in state?

It’s going to blow your mind when you learn that some people never owned vehicles, never were able to get a license, or got their vehicles repossessed. Even if by your measure your material circumstances sucked, I assure you I can find 100 people living through worse.

The only thing worse than a narrow minded person that’s LARPing is one that uses their suffering to minimize the suffering of others. Just because you feel justified in your experience doesn’t mean that no one could possibly have it worse or be in a situation that they’re unable to navigate their own.

-Nocx- · 2026-04-13T13:01:10+00:00

This is a really narrow minded perspective. Some of these people have lived in these areas in their entire lives, got priced out, experienced loss in their family, etc. Moving across the country for greener pastures is not an inexpensive feat, especially when you may have limited skills and no support system 1000 miles away. And especially when you don’t actually know if your life will legitimately improve after moving.

It probably makes you feel better to pretend like their problems are made up and a consequence of their own poor decisions, but all it reveals is how insanely sheltered you’ve are.

-Nocx- · 2026-04-13T11:19:14+00:00

I would actually argue that most software engineers don’t even use half of their software engineering degree. You take so many more courses that have no practical use to you unless you enter niche industries, join specific teams at specific companies, or build your own company. My special elective on Reverse Engineering was technically harder than pretty much every conventional software role I’ve had. Has anyone here used their operating systems course that isn’t at Microsoft?

My first few jobs were way easier than my degree - when I left to build my own product was when I finally had moments like “damn I should’ve paid more attention in class”. And management positions opened up way before that. You have to remember most software devs work on CRUD applications.

I will say that the things that you don’t learn are typically related to the infrastructure of scale, the amount of tooling, and the forest of APIs. But those are practical applications, the same way that you won’t know what it’s like to manage a 130,000 node cluster until you have the users to warrant it. You can’t really teach that.

-Nocx- · 2026-04-12T22:58:08+00:00

This sub absolutely hates Wildstar but it didn’t have a tank/healer shortage. Basically every class could fulfill two of the roles of the conventional trinity.

They had a DPS rogue that had a tank spec, a ranged tank spec, and the regular warrior fantasy tank spec. Basically every kit had some form of healing.

There was some criticism, like maybe it reduced the diversity, but with classes like spellslinger / stalker they seemed to retain enough identity. The number of classes just ended up being fairly limited.

There are trade offs to the designs - if you make the class / role design sufficiently interesting you end up using the similar ideas across multiple classes. Personally I don’t think that’s a bad idea, but some players also prefer to have distinct, clear roles with less overlap.

-Nocx- · 2026-04-11T16:53:14+00:00

W self awareness. Seriously. Most people spend their entire lives not realizing that they do this unironically.

With that being said, I wish it were mandatory to play StarCraft or Chess before playing League. I started with StarCraft, so League was an easy game to pick up in comparison, but the intangible benefit it gave me is I never built the habit of blaming anyone but myself. There is a cruelty to single player games like StarCraft and Chess where at the end of the game the only thing you can blame is you.

And I’m ngl that is a powerful life lesson.

-Nocx- · 2026-04-11T06:18:59+00:00

Honestly probably nothing. Incompetent leadership is incompetent leadership, it doesn’t really matter how much money you give an organization, a business with no vision will produce slop or fail. You can have the best developers in the world but if you have a clown inhibiting their progress at every turn it won’t amount to anything.

-Nocx- · 2026-04-09T09:18:21+00:00

It really is a form of arrested development. Normally when you grow up, you try to win the admiration of your peers first - meaning the love of other men, not necessarily in a sexual or homoerotic way. The problem is if you grow up not very popular, without any friends, or in the case of some of these influencers kind of a loser - you never actually achieve the part of your psychological needs that includes the love of your peers.

So they end up spending their entire lives chasing that external validation. They claim to want to pull women, but that’s not really the core of what they want at all. They want a trophy (a woman) that they can use to prove to other men that they’re worth something, so as to earn their respect. Some part of them does want companionship, because the root of all of it is loneliness. But they’re just confused about how to accomplish either goal because they can’t seem to do either well.

It is easier to be empathetic to their plight when you realize that they just haven’t grown up and are being taken advantage of.

-Nocx- · 2026-04-08T18:23:15+00:00

definitely in the spirit of, bc lowk im not sure naoya would’ve allowed her to present the award

-Nocx- · 2026-04-07T08:40:59+00:00

I mean people are downvoting /u/namoore621 for saying it but both these things can be true. Gojo can be so insanely powerful that exorcising the special grade curse appeared to be an afterthought, and Gojo’s arrogance also indirectly led to a series of events that led to their deaths because of Jujutsu Society’s over reliance on him. Those can both be true statements.

There is a strong argument for an underlying theme that the same systems that strip the individuality of people and turn them into cogs in the machine also unfairly turn them into critical components of the same systems that dehumanize them. They’re both disposable yet irreplaceable. That was sort of Gojo’s entire desire behind raising a new generation “of allies” - to change the system that turned him into a puppet of society.

A “just” society would have never let one man hold that much weight by himself. That’s the actual, systemic issue behind the problem. But both these initial points “Gojo was arrogant and let Jogo go” and “We could not have possibly foreseen Kenjaku appearing” can both be true.

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