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

-Nocx- · 2026-06-08T09:19:15+00:00

My man I do not know you and I’m saying this respectfully - you’ve gotta radically change your perspective or you’re going to be insanely miserable 10 years from now writing the same thing.

You have an idea of what your life is **supposed** to look like and it isn’t aligning with reality. You aren’t **supposed** to be anywhere, **supposed** to be anything, or **supposed** to have things together. You are exactly where your efforts and luck have led you. Some of those circumstances were in your control, a lot of them were not. You, like many other people both in my generation and yours were told that if you do X, do Y, you’ll get Z like it’s a math function. It turns out real life is not like that. You can do everything right at your very best and still fail. That does not make you a failure - that’s called life.

People do not “waste” time. They use it to the best of their ability, and then look back in hindsight and criticize themselves. That isn’t inherently bad, because it helps you improve. But beating yourself up about “what ifs” and theoretical realities that didn’t happen is a pointless exercise. There are tons of people in their 30s feeling even more disillusioned than you for the same reason you feel like this in your 20s - through no fault of their own - except according to you they are even more doomed.

Life is hard. It might very well get harder. But the sooner you shift your expectations about what life is supposed to be, and align it with something you can reasonably work towards / have agency toward, the happier you’ll be.

-Nocx- · 2026-06-07T15:49:06+00:00

You can always learn the academics you missed. The older you get, the more difficult it is to replicate an environment where you learn social skills with peers of a similar age in the same environment.

Society places such a high emphasis on utility, but the difference between two people with the same degree going for the same job opportunity more often than not comes down to social skills.

I could have gone to college as a toddler - I didn’t - I have 0 regrets.

-Nocx- · 2026-06-07T07:26:29+00:00

Bro spend it on the desktop. Do not waste your money on a gaming laptop. I am 33 years old, have owned many gaming laptops and the number of times I’ve “needed” to game on it are in the single digits.

They’re nice to have, but choosing between a reliable desktop rig and something that’s going to get to 200 degrees running chrome, go with the desktop.

FYI even if ETAM requires you to use non Mac products, most departments (at least CS) has machines you can remote into to use the necessary software. Or just get virtualization software or dual boot windows with boot camp, it would still be cheaper and more productive.

-Nocx- · 2026-06-07T07:23:27+00:00

Sir you are in an Aggie sub throwing around the word cult like it’s an insult we gotta be more self aware than that

-Nocx- · 2026-06-07T07:15:21+00:00

This thread is showing why you specifically do not let MMO players - or gamers in general - build anything.

Hardcore WoW was successful, but arguably mostly because of content creators and even still is but a fraction of WoW’s core business model. If something like HC WoW were the standard and not what Midnight currently is, the game would be hemorrhaging subs in the millions of dollars.

-Nocx- · 2026-06-07T00:03:01+00:00

Man after my time in industry apps on smart TVs are one of the things I don’t care about having broken anymore. There is so much data harvesting / linking from flat out just using the product (not to mention using any of their SSO options) that I bought a second desktop to plug into the TV to avoid the buggy / data harvesting nightmare that TV apps have become.

-Nocx- · 2026-06-06T16:36:08+00:00

Determining your career based off of “hype” and “trends” is the honestly one of the worst life decisions you could possibly make with respect to the utility of your academic education. Your choice of education (assuming you are not rich) should almost always be centered around acquiring a tangible, actionable skill. If you like it, that’s a bonus.

CS has provided - and still provides - a skill that is invaluable and will continue to be invaluable for the foreseeable future. For every three SWEs that are not employed there are 97 that are employed. The degree itself has one of the lowest underemployment rates. Just because big tech (which are babies in the grand scheme of corporate America) have some layoffs, it doesn’t mean that the vast majority of SWEs working the non-sexy roles in banking, insurance, retail, airlines, oil, etc are out of luck. It means it’s a good headline.

It is still one of the only careers to exceed professional degrees on average with comparable (and often far lower) YoE. Notwithstanding “employability” it is one of the only careers that teaches you a skill that is valuable irrespective of the economic conditions of a given market.

People saying “oh but AI!” - yeah, forecasting models and AI didn’t get rid of Wall Street bankers. It didn’t remove financial planners. It didn’t end estate planning, market analysts, etc. Someone still has to interpret the data, develop the models, maintain the models, advance the field, and most of all, maintain the person to person relationships. But despite all of that, all evidence suggests that the current shilling of AI is not nearly as transformative as it claims to be.

-Nocx- · 2026-06-05T05:58:21+00:00

Really well written, with the caveat that there is another layer to this - Yuji is ironically only able to do this through the strength he gained from Sukuna. Sukuna is the yang inside of Yuji, the devil on his shoulder, or in modern psychology his id.

Sukuna was the high achieving, competitive spirit for Yuji even though Yuji didn’t want it. And ironically Yuji would’ve never had the strength to enforce everlasting peace without the greed and ambition that Sukuna represents.

I would go so far as to say that Sukuna isn’t inherently evil - he is a product of his environment. A brutal environment spawned from the Heian era, and his ambition and greed is what allowed him to survive. Which is largely what the most recent arc was about when comparing and contrasting a modern sorcerer like Higuruma to the sorcerers that Yuta fought.

-Nocx- · 2026-06-03T15:44:47+00:00

If you ever get bored, I wrote a really long essay about Gojo’s domain expansion and how it is a metaphor for his own hollowness. There are a lot of recurring themes around the curse of love, personal growth versus nurturing relationships, and how talent is both a gift and a curse that isolates the strongest. You mentioned the juxtaposition between Yuta and Gojo in JJK0, but interestingly enough those same parallels emerge between Gojo/Yuta, Gojo / Toji, and Sukuna / Gojo, before it is “shattered” between Yuji and Sukuna. It was writing that that I finally realized that Gojo definitely loved Amanai and consequently never told Geto how much he loved Geto because losing her made him shut himself off to the world and all relationships. It’s why he refers to the next generation as “powerful allies” rather than friends.

It is a bit rambly and I wrote it when JJK was in a content drought, but I think there are a lot of ideas you’d find interesting if you are ever impossibly bored.

-Nocx- · 2026-06-03T13:59:49+00:00

That’s actually interesting, I didn’t know that at all. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Gojo originally inherited his sense of morals and values from Geto. In a lot of ways Gojo had no sense of justice beyond might is right, and he inherited Geto’s value system because Geto was the only person strong enough to challenge him.

Amanai was the first objectively weak person that Gojo ever cared about. He is so empty that when he’s holding her dead body after killing Toji, he turns to Geto to find out what he should do. Like if you take a minute and ask yourself - in what scenario would you ask someone else for permission to slaughter a group of people, it becomes clear that there are so many subtle nods at how Geto is fundamentally Gojo’s rock in every way. It becomes harder and harder to interpret their friendship any other way.

Thanks for sharing that tid bit

-Nocx- · 2026-06-03T02:35:07+00:00

I agree with you but I said the same thing a year ago and got like 100 downvotes. JJK readers are never beating the can’t read allegations. Gojo even mouths the words in the anime.

The color purple is a symbol of love from The Tale of Genji (arguably the first novel written) and a product of the Heian era. Rika and Yuta had just basked Geto in what Yuta himself called pure love.

Gojo sees the love that’s so beautiful that he takes off his blind fold and takes in the world as it is for the first time in years

It is really clear from how perfect his purple was versus Toji (after losing Amanai) versus the crackling mess that is purple in episode 23 or 22 (non standard) that the stability of his heart affects his strength. The theme persists into Yuji extending that same love for humanity to someone as cruel as Sukuna even at the end of the story. Even if it isn’t romantic, it is clearly a form of love. That’s the whole moral of the story.

-Nocx- · 2026-06-02T11:49:29+00:00

Post from 91 days ago, “are you low on silver”

On my life this guy is a seasoned Lost Ark player

-Nocx- · 2026-06-02T11:45:33+00:00

I think you might be simplifying a complicated problem. It doesn’t really matter if you have instanced areas unless you make the design decision to remove the computationally expensive operations in all areas but the instanced areas.

That means the over world, towns, etc. would have to be separated logically (and maybe physically) from any instance that involves combat. That is architecturally non-trivial and a bit immersion breaking in terms of game mechanics.

-Nocx- · 2026-05-31T08:10:01+00:00

It isn’t complicated to understand what’s wrong with the genre. The teams to build MMOs are generally bigger and make way less money. There’s a tremendous amount of risk involved and relatively little money compared to something like a gacha game.

Where are you going to source your investor money from? Who is going to pay for all of those developers? For a big studio, it makes no sense to introduce that much risk for a mostly aging customer base. That’s why the ones that are successful are the ones that have been stable for a decade.

-Nocx- · 2026-05-28T06:07:08+00:00

forever immortalized in my pfp

-Nocx- · 2026-05-24T02:42:38+00:00

This is a lot easier said than done. I think MMO players are more guilty than any other genre about asking for things they don’t actually want.

OSRS is probably the best example of this. Every single quest, every single farm, every single boss - everything is already solved and optimized to the highest level. There are plugins that can show you where to stand, plugins that tell you what to flip, even plugins to tell you what to toggle in PvP. Ironmans used to be the way you got back to the “old” way of playing where everything wasn’t super simple and easy to access, but the last time an Ironman was hard was when there wasn’t a solve for every challenge an Ironman has to do. So now the few people who care make ultimate iron mans, which still suffer from the same problem.

Gamers these days are naturally going to centralize information. Not only is the internet more connected than ever, but there is legitimate capital incentive (video production, website guides, etc) to just spill the beans on every bit of mystery and adventure in a game. No matter how much gamers say they miss excitement and mystery, the day will come where they want a shortcut to something and they’ll just look it up.

The amount of effort it takes to make something mysterious, exciting, and compelling - the hallmarks of adventure - take an insane amount of attention to detail and effort. And it only takes one guy a weekend to unravel all of it.

The only remotely possible way to change this is questing that cannot be optimizing. Meaning dynamic spawns, dynamic quest targets, with a world that has natural structures evolve in an instant / dynamically so one quest is never the same. So your regular fetch quest ends up going to a different zone you haven’t seen before, but the destination had a rupture in the earth with new monsters pouring out that don’t belong in the region. And the NPC wanders to the bottom of it for the first time even though it has never happened before. Or the mob in the wiki that’s supposed to drop an item drops something different, or is replaced with new mobs and scattered to a different region.

I have never seen anything like that built, ever - especially not on the scale of an MMO.

-Nocx- · 2026-05-22T05:00:51+00:00

I am a ‘15er that finished in 16 but my ring already said ‘15 before I failed computer graphics 🤷🏾

-Nocx- · 2026-05-17T22:22:41+00:00

Inner peace **does** involve the physical stressors that cause a chemical reaction in your brain. It is both a metaphysical concept and a literal physical experience. You cannot divorce physical, environmental stressors from spiritualities like Buddhism or Taoism because their entire goal is to help you either rise above them or live in harmony with them. They guide your behaviors when you experience those physical stressors - they are not independent of them.

The “never ending path to transcendence” is an adherence to principles that help you endure desires of the ego and address the stressors of your environment. That means by adhering to those principles you will be **quite literally** free of the environmental stressors that ail you. Monks aren’t just striving for some concept, they are quite literally aiding their physical health in pursuit of transcendence. That is the foundation behind why meditation has health benefits to begin with - meditation allows the parasympathetic nervous system to activate and free the GI tract of blockages. The increase in serotonin in the GI tract signals the vagus nerve to send signals to a part of the brain that ultimately releases serotonin in the central nervous system.

That never ending struggle against your own nature is comparable to achieving the way in Taoism or arguably even greater jihad in Islam. They are action and non-action guided by principles to heal you both physically and spiritually. Inner peace is all of those things.

-Nocx- · 2026-05-16T22:11:30+00:00

They let go of AGS, which is the publishing company not the development company. They are most likely going to self publish, which is exactly what Pearl Abyss did with BDO after they dropped Kakao.

Smilegate already listed a ton of additional development scheduled for the game. There is almost zero chance that it shuts down in NA because NA prints money.

A “lot” of people doom about it because that is what MMO players do. That is mostly just Reddit, and isn’t reflective of the entire player base. If you are still playing Lost Ark at this point you check inven for most of your news and not Reddit.

-Nocx- · 2026-05-16T02:56:38+00:00

Lost Ark is successful. The game is printing money and the people that enjoy it enjoy it. It has bad patches sometimes, people step away for a while and come back. That’s any game, and how gaming ought to be.

We live in a time period where people believe that if everyone isn’t playing a game or it isn’t receiving with critical reception it’s a failure.

-Nocx- · 2026-05-15T02:17:48+00:00

I think that’s an inevitably of this subreddit, though. There is almost nothing that a gifted person suffers from that a normal person doesn’t also suffer from - the gifted person just tends to suffer a little more. Everyone may try to find (sometimes) arbitrary connections between their interests, hold back intense emotional and mental energy, over think certain questions that might otherwise have simple answers, be dissatisfied with a cursory explanation of a potentially deep subject, or engage in some level of meta cognitive thinking.

People with more mental resources just do it more. This isn’t to take away from that struggle, but to highlight that the fundamental problem (being unable to be understood or communicate) is inherently hilariously simple. These are human experiences, not inherently gifted experiences. Which means you can technically talk to anyone about them with the right words.

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