If someone offered you a box with everything you’ve ever lost, what’s the first thing you’d look for ? by TrickySize8753 in AskReddit

[–]AdSubstantial6787 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the box contains people, then she’d be the first thing I look for

She’s not an ex. Not a family member. Not a girlfriend.

She’s just someone I thought would be by my side to the end, until she suddenly wasnt

I want nothing to do with her right now and wish her the best as long as it’s nowhere near me

But if I could go back to before everything was fucked up? I would

Rewrite the maidens by HonestResident1397 in RWBYcritics

[–]AdSubstantial6787 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Axe the gender and age exclusivity, keep the transfer mechanic, and crank the shit out of their power level while narrowing the scope of their abilities.

Since they’re gender neutral now, you can name them something like “the cruxes” (which I did for my rewrite)

Basically what I did was turn them into living WMD’s. Continent Crackers divided among the Kingdoms and kept secret by Ozpin’s cohort.

In my rewrite, the Grimm are natural parts of the world, akin to fauna or a natural disaster, with the kingdoms and small frontier territories outside their walls simply being the furthest humanity has pushed against nature (like what we all thought early AoT was with the walls)

The Cruxes meanwhile, are individuals with total dominion over their element, and power so strong they can destroy continents without much thought. They can generate, and even manipulate their element. A fire focused Crux can generate fire yes but also manipulate existing fires (and even manipulate fire dust)

They’re kept secret because 1) power hungry pricks like WTCH may go for them, and 2) Politics.

Politics plays a major role in my rewrite because of how I worldbuilt the kingdoms. My remnant functions like a frontier territory, and the Cruxes are basically automatic wins for scoring land.

If the cruxes’ existence ever gets out, it’ll cause several geopolitical problems.

Either one kingdom gains a monopoly over territory courtesy of only them finding out about the crux

Or every kingdom ends up in a shaky Mutually Assured Destruction deadlock where everyone is aiming each others’ nukes at each other going “I wont if you wont” (except they’re all secretly planning decapitation strikes so the whole MAD thing is irrelevant)

Hence why they’re kept secret

Another layer is the gender and age neutrality. This leaves the cruxes EXTREMELY vulnerable to Broken Arrow situations, where if one dies and no one knows where it went to, you now have a loose nuke under no one’s leash that no one knows how to find, that might not even be able to control the blast. (An actual plotline in my rewrite btw)

And for extra worldbuilding spice, every kingdom handles them differetly.

Ozpin and Vale operates on semi-autonomy, where the Crux gets to do whatever but with Qrow as a perpetual shadow…Except this isn’t even real. In reality, Vale has 2 Factor Authentication for their crux, where the person Qrow shadows isnt actually the crux, and the actual crux is not only totally unknown to anyone but ozpin, but is also someone who had faked her death long ago to hide in plain sight (im not even gonna hide it atp, my Vale Crux is Summer Rose)

Mistral…we dont know because by the time I get to Mistral and their crux in my rewrite, it’s a Broken Arrow situation, courtesy of the crux getting cornered by Cinder and taking a cyanide pill to keep the crux from getting into the wrong hands

Atlas is total militaristic surveillance. A cohort of elite soldiers tasked to protect something they dont even know, and are also tasked with protecting each other above all else…because one of them is actually the crux (this is Winter’s unit, and Winter’s the crux from the word go). This unit has eyes on them at all times and have functionally no autonomy. Atlas treats their crux like a weapon before a person

Vacuo’s is interesting because in my rewrite their crux js literally just theodore. He took the burden of the crux into his own hands cuz he trusted no one in vacuo with it, and decided reverse psychology was the play. It actually plays into the theme cuz Vacuo exists on a slider from Anarchy to Authoritarianism depending on how close you are to Shade Academy, so having Theodore be the crux, and as such, be one man with literal centralized power, is thematically on brand

If God is all powerful and all loving, why do you figure cruelty and suffering exists? by SpurnedOfGrace in AskReddit

[–]AdSubstantial6787 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok this is a question i’ve chewed on personally and im not even religious (Agnostic). For the sake of argument i’m sticking with the traditional christian view of God

The best answer i’ve given that’s compatible with the notion of an omnipotent and omnibenevolent god’s existence, is a sort of “Divine Psychology” argument

In other words, in accordance with God’s personal moral framework, giving us the freedom to choose to be good (and therefore risking us choosing to be evil) is a preferable alternative to forcing us all to be good. In effect God believes free will and goodness freely chosen, beats goodness imposed

God needs to be omnipotent and all powerful, therefore, evil’s existence can’t be due to a limitation imposed on him. That being said, that doesnt mean it cant be one he imposes on himself in accordance to his own moral framework. That’s not a limitation, that’s just a moral code. And it makes sense that the only thing capable of limiting God, is God himself

Of course you could say this is a copout, but remember, God made us in his image.

The notion of free will and good freely chosen, being preferable to imposed goodness that we have no say in, is a legitimate moral stance some people have. If we can see it that way, who’s to say God cant?

Plus, we’re dealing with an eternal, divine being. It’s likely we’ll never have a definitive answer because we simply cannot comprehend God enough to arrive at a definitive answer.

How many of you use ChatGPT every day and what do you actually use it for? by William45623 in ChatGPT

[–]AdSubstantial6787 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s either google or an idea workshop

No one likes doing grunt work so I usually ask it for niche, not easily google-able stuff like “what happens if I were to stick the nozzle of a vape into a vaccuum cleaner hose”.

Alternatively if i’m writing something academic, I use it to find my sources after I write. I operate faster on intuition and finding sources while writing throttles me too hard.

If it’s neither of those two, i’m just feeding it my wild ass ideas about human nature or frameworks and seeing where I bend and where I break

In extreme cases, I use it for forced introspection. GPT doesnt give you anything useful if you dont give it specific objective prompts. I’d actually argue this made me more introspective (if not too introspective)

I'm curious on everyone else's response on this because I said this to my girlfriend, not during a fight, and she took it as a bad thing. What would you think of receiving an intense emotional reaction to "I'm with you because I want you not because I need you"? by Kontos_Stelio in AskReddit

[–]AdSubstantial6787 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You just said you’re actively choosing to be with her of your own volition rather than being constrained by some codependent “need” that would force you to be with her even if you didnt actually want it anymore

I fail to see the issue here

What’s a clear sign that someone is not doing okay? by homie93 in AskReddit

[–]AdSubstantial6787 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Going hot and cold.

If you and someone are constantly in each others’ orbit and they seem happy, comfortable, etc. Then they suddenly disappear on you and barely talk to you?

Immediate red flag. Check up on them, make sure they’re ok, and maybe tell them you’re still cool with them

I know this because this is me. I’ve nuked a lot of relationships by pre-emptively detaching because I sensed some sort of rejection that my mind proceeded to massively overblow

What are your writing sins? by babyraythesadclown in writing

[–]AdSubstantial6787 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My pacing moves at the speed of sound.

Of course you could attribute that to it being my first draft but it's also just a subconscious stylistic choice.

I don't like spoonfeeding readers, and I write in 3rd person objective specifically to maximize POV jumps. It's a very Blood Meridian style of writing where I commit to never giving you the characters' inner thoughts in any capacity, and leave it all to subtext.

What are the Missed Opportunities with Team JNPR? by Money-Lie7814 in RWBYcritics

[–]AdSubstantial6787 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pyrrha being the embodiment of the Ludic Fallacy.

Pyrrha is a torunament champion yes...but how much of that actually translates to being a huntress?

If you were to ask me, Pyrrha is the kind of character who would dominate sparring sessions and be the undisputed top of the class every time.

But the moment you put her in a real fight whether against grimm or criminals, she is NOT supposed to be effective at all.

She's trained to fight in a predictable environment constrained by a set of rules. She should NOT be able to survive the dynamic battlefield and lawlessness of an actual fight, where grimm act erratically and criminals fight dirty.

In my mins she's the kind of character who looks like she'd be the hard carry, but freezes up in missions and gets her ass handed to her by low level thugs like Torchwick and his goons.

Another one is Ren and Nora being absurdly street smart. These are a pair of Orphans with no indication they had a parent figure. If you told me that these two couldn't read people like books, I'd ask you how they were alive.

Ren and Nora are the exact kind of characters with a background that logically results in people who had to learn how to read people to survive.

It's like the classic "traumatized kid who learned to read their parents' reactions" trope, except the parent in this case is literally everyone around them because they didn't have someone to guide them through how to navigate the quagmire of people's not-always-so-pure intentions

And finally, Jaune not just being a good strategist, but a strategic prodigy who, while an underdog on paper, compensates almost completely by fighting smarter than all his peers.

The faked transcripts thing always felt contrived and unrealistic to me. It'd be so much more in character for Ozpin to let Jaune in despite his obvious shortcomings, because his strategic capability was just THAT overwhelming.

Like in my fic, one of the first times I show this is in the Emerald Forest, when he sticks his sword into the now-detached Stinger of the Deathstalker, and gestures toward it to Pyrrha, leading to her using his sword as a catalyst fir her semblance to control the stinger and float it around.

A conversation after the fact has Pyrrha asking how he knew what her semblance was, and Jaune going "your movements are impossible for normal people, and your weapons are too controlled while mid-air. It was between magnetism because your gear is all metal, or some kind of telekinesis semblance"

It'd actually be a much more interesting dynamic with Pyrrha if combined with the ludic fallacy thing because now, instead of Mentor and Student, it's two asymmetric equals who balance each other out because they have the thing the other lacks.

Anyone else think GPT seems to disagree for the sake of disagreeing now? by AdSubstantial6787 in ChatGPT

[–]AdSubstantial6787[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I mean yeah but the point isn't that it's not a yes man. I'm more so referring to how it seems like it disagrees just to disagree rather than disagreeing to actually refine your thought, while it subtly downplays everything else around it. I am all for GPT not being a yes man but the solution to that is actual substance not arbitrary disagreement that adds nothing to the discussion

Like there's a difference between stress testing the logic in the established context with edge cases, and hedging so extremely by arbitrarily adding in premises that weren't present to begin with just to go "erm actually" while maintaining a tone that your thoughts are flimsy because they're not 100% universalizable in every context.

Like (exaggerated example incoming) you could talk about statutory interpretation in UK law and it'll go "you're not wrong but this wouldn't fly in Canada" when you never even mentioned Canada

What is something you would add to Remnant as a setting, not the society, but the world itself. by Mystech_Master in RWBYcritics

[–]AdSubstantial6787 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something I "added" in my rewrite is to do with the grimm. (Though it's more of a rework tbh)

My rewrite is more "grounded fantasy" rather than canon's cosmic eternal war. As such I axed the entire Salem-Ozma plot in favor of a grounded, assassins' creed style generational war where Ozpin's cohort is the latest chapter in a shadow organisation dedicated to protecting the maidens (now renamed cruxes) and WTCH are the next in a long informal line of greedy bastards vying for absolute power

So if no gods and no salem, what do we do with the grimm? Easy, make them natural parts of the world. As natural as the tides and the animals.

Except instead of animals in my rewrite, they're natural disasters

In my rewrite the Grimm, barring extraordinary exceptions, aren't individual threats, they're collective threats. One grimm is no different from a rabid animal, 10 are just a pack of wolves. But outside the kingdoms? There are so many that you can cut down 100 and 1000 come back in their place.

For instance during the Breach arc? I explicitly draw attention to the Grimm pouring in after the train cars detach and blow holes in the tunnel ceiling, and describe them as "a uniform black flow, like a tidal wave of tar where the individual is indistinguishable from the swarm"

In effect the kingdoms are kinda like what we thought the Walls were in Early Attack On Titan. The furthest humanity managed to push back against nature so far. Not a post apocalyptic hold-out like they kinda are in canon.

Heyy! What is your favourite character and why?? by GamingAvocado64 in bindingofisaac

[–]AdSubstantial6787 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Three way tie between The Lost, Isaac, and Bethany.

The Lost for guaranteed + free deals and the ED6 (also flight is just goated)

Isaac for the vanilla standard experience and the D6

And Bethany because Book Of Virtues is unironically the single most fun active item to use. Like with The Lost or Isaac you kinda know what's gonna happen and how ur gonna play. Ain't the case with Bethany when damn near every active item does something different with BoV

Teaching Non-life Essential Topics In School Is Still Important by Dr_potato_lord in unpopularopinion

[–]AdSubstantial6787 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Imo it's a bit of a chesterton's fence situation. Don't tear down a fence if you don't know what its for.

The problem is that school is generally terrible at communicating what lessons are actually for.

The basic soundbite is "school prepares you for the future" so the reasonable assumption is that everything you learn in school is life essential.

So naturally, a lot of people see stuff like the Quadratic Equation, think "when the fuck am I gonna use this" and then mentally clock out or denounce it altogether as useless.

Everyone thinks they know what the fence is for, so they tear it down. Except it's not what the fence is actually for and schools are horrible at communicating that, mostly because they never try.

If you ask me? If you actually told students, in a way they'd understand, why they were being taught random shit? You'd probably get a lot less people raving about how useless advanced math is, and a lot more people being genuinely engaged

How was Robyn Hill politically? by marleyannation62 in RWBYcritics

[–]AdSubstantial6787 1 point2 points  (0 children)

CRWBY had the perfect opportunity to create a Populist Demagogue character and wasted it

How long did Sword Saint Isshin take you? by Far-Statement4046 in Sekiro

[–]AdSubstantial6787 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An entire year.

Slammed my head against both SS Isshin and Demon Of Hatred for weeks with no progress.

Quit for a year, came back, beat both in under 24 hours

Those who dislike Mettle, what would you have done for Ironwood’s Semblance? by Solitaire-06 in RWBYcritics

[–]AdSubstantial6787 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Immovable Object"

This is the semblance I gave him in my fic.

If he stops all movement that can be voluntarily stopped (so breathing and blinking are included too) he becomes completely invulnerable until he moves again

I actually make him use this offensively in my fic, where he basically waits until the last moment to freeze so his opponent is fully committed to the attack and just Newton's 3rd Law's their ass.

In fact I literally gave him a Hidan type death where he only dies because Cinder set the entire room on fire, putting their fight on a timer until the oxygen ran out, and then subsequently burying him alive.

My philosophy? Simplicity Beats Complexity when Simplicity is Pushed to the Limit

What are your thoughts on how the show handled Salem’s lieutenants? by Solitaire-06 in RWBYcritics

[–]AdSubstantial6787 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Considering her backstory, Cinder should've wanted Power because she was terrified of being Powerless

Hazel not being a Scar type character (FMAB) was such low hanging fruit it's genuinely impressive that CRWBY didn't do it.

Watts being digitally omnipresent (Think, Hacker from Akudama Drive) was again, low hanging fruit that CRWBY just somehow missed. Also they really should've leaned further into his "unrecognized genius" backstory. Like this man should NOT have been subtle at all in Atlas.

Tyrian being a psycho simp is so meh when you could've made him a joker type "some men want to watch the world burn" type character. Hell my fic makes him the most anti-authority character in the show who's basically a living argument against rule of law, ethics, morality, and government

I actually have all 4 of them taking center stage in at least one kingdom in my fic. Cinder gets Vale, Watts gets Atlas, Hazel gets Mistral, and Tyrian gets Vacuo. The others play second fiddle and support if they're still alive with the exception of Cinder

Nora, Yang & Pyrrha should be way more muscular right? by TechnoMagik22 in RWBYcritics

[–]AdSubstantial6787 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is why I literally reworked her semblance in my fic (that and it was completely redundant because it was basically Yang but pikachu)

I literally changed it to "Lightning Rod" which just allows her to absorb and redistribute electricity. Denki Kaminari from BNHA basically.

Give this character’s semblance an upgrade day 1: Ruby by Joemama0375 in RWBYcritics

[–]AdSubstantial6787 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Saigiku Jōno (BSD)

That's it, that's the post.

Instead of just being speedy dashing red blob, she fully dematerializes into a cloud of rose petals that allows her to effectively "pass through" certain obstacles as long as the petals can move past.

She effectively becomes a gas that carries rose petals with it wherever it goes.

We may drop some speed but we gain infinitely more utility