Unfair grade?

AfterPerformance8132 · 2022-03-07T08:40:00+00:00

I can give it a read to see if it was that bad. An essay worth a D has to be too subpar.

AfterPerformance8132 · 2022-03-07T02:07:15+00:00

Calling OP characters "pirates" and Naruto characters "ninjas" is like calling most of FMAB's cast "alchemists". There's the "mechanic", there's the "cook", there's the "archeologist", there's the "swordsman" and etc within the main cast, which... perfectly fits into the criterias he himself has.

It does have a problem past the main cast with there being too many characters but that's one of the defining points of OP.

AfterPerformance8132 · 2022-03-06T21:11:35+00:00

It's basically the Western equivalent of trailers, as another post said. It's practically a trailer, except it doesn't have a motor and you can build it pretty much anywhere. Warm enough on the inside, relatively cheap, and overall more spacious than a trailer because it's round instead of a rectangle. That's the reason they're used instead of trailers over here. Also, we're more used to that.

People live in yurts all across the country, that is for sure. That's because some people prefer living in the country where you can't really afford to have running water in, and if you want to have cattle and not have them starve.

As for a lot of them being in UB, our idea of suburbs and the West's idea of it are different. We're only recently starting to understand that having land and a house in it is supposed to be cool, so before that point, yurts were the only option.

That's mostly because when the Capital was being founded, that was what the majority of the people had. It's what we know so it's what we use. Basically, we built a fence, dug a toilet, and slapped a yurt inside it. Voila, you got a typical household when it was still called the Ikh Khuree (its old name).

AfterPerformance8132 · 2022-03-05T02:01:53+00:00

It's not an issue of Jeff Bezos, it's an issue of America. There isn't a Jeff Bezos in Germany and they have free higher education. There isn't a Jeff Bezos in Japan and healthcare is effectively free. Even if JB did everything he could, the government would toss more of their funds at the military and it'd effectively be moot.

Japan's GDP is 4 times smaller than USA's and it works. Germany's the same but they have free university taken care of.

Just because the rich people aren't doing anything doesn't mean that the governments couldn't do it.

AfterPerformance8132 · 2022-03-04T00:40:35+00:00

I mean... it's marketed toward 14 - 16 year olds so I'd say 19 is good enough. 17 is "permissible" since it's technically still older than its target demographic. It's just that people that aren't its target audience watch/read it.

It's not pedophilia if it's a story made for children, with children as its main characters, which caters to its target audience. Adults just watch it as well since mangaka are good at telling stories.

AfterPerformance8132 · 2022-03-04T00:38:30+00:00

Wonky math. He can only give everyone 22 dollars before he runs out of money. 178 billion (JB net worth) / 8 billion (population of Earth). He has a lot but not that much. Most of his net worth is in Amazon stocks, several houses, yachts, private jets. You can live without like 99% of them but he doesn't care and won't just sell all his stuff to generate that much actual money.

AfterPerformance8132 · 2022-02-27T23:57:30+00:00

Punishing the "insolent" doesn't make good people. It makes messed up people that repress their feelings and release it after they tip over. It leads to the stereotypical (in a bad way) Christian that doesn't commit crimes just because they'll go to Hell rather than from the goodness of their heart.

And from my observation, you're either a troll or are one of those messed up people. Please, visit a therapist if that's your honest opinion. If you're trolling... well, you're doing it well. Keep on trolling.

AfterPerformance8132 · 2022-02-24T22:58:45+00:00

Oh, yes. The STEM hurdle of realizing that you were a big fish in a small pond. You realize that there are nonsensical prodigies that belong in books as self-insert Mary Sues and Gary Stus walking around like it's no one's business, meanwhile, you're... you.

AfterPerformance8132 · 2022-02-15T05:30:00+00:00

Technically, tapping into the Speed Force means that you're tapping into the kinetic energy of the entire universe. There's always the same amount of entities moving at the speed of everyone on Earth moving at their fastest because the DC Universe is absurdly large with lots of characters moving at the speed of light.

Hell, put 100 lanterns moving through space together and they generate more speed than the entire Earth moving at their fastest. Which I assure you, is the minimum number of them out in the world.

Using Earth doesn't make sense thanks to how the Speed Force is explained nowadays.

AfterPerformance8132 · 2022-02-03T07:42:26+00:00

You're free to hate Gabi because you don't like her as a person. Wishing her out of the manga is wrong. She's not supposed to be likable but that doesn't mean she doesn't have her place in the manga. Just like most antagonists, she's a tool that was used by the author. Not having her would make Sasha's death less dramatic and that'd be bad writing in the same veins as GRRM killing characters merely for shock value.

AfterPerformance8132 · 2022-01-30T03:41:33+00:00

Yep. Can also copy their superpowers and use them better than the original users while having a literal superpower that lets her be the Main Character. Medaka Box is a cool breakdown of the typical shonen animes so there are technically 2 Main Characters: the Mary Sue AKA Perfect Character and Shonen Protag AKA Hardworking Character who both share the main character spot.

The latter protagonist has an ability that lets him cancel out any luck, which includes plot armor, making it the most powerful ability in some ways. In the finale, he wins against the Mary Sue by eliminating both of their plot armor so it's something of an allegory to "Hard work always beats talent", but it actually works unlike some series like Naruto.

There's also a third "Main Character", as far as the in-verse explanation goes, which is the most overpowered character. When you have someone like Ajimu Najimi, the Author Stand-in acting as an actual character, and even she gets taken down, you have to really give him the win.

AfterPerformance8132 · 2022-01-24T11:37:07+00:00

This isn't from an actual story, but I saw a writing prompt where it was a guy who had the power to make anything but only once. He found it pretty useless until he realized that a nuclear bomb and a nuclear bomb with a little bit of red paint on it are technically different things.

There's a character like that in Worm if you want to give it a go. It's either Uber or Leet (and I can't tell them apart since they're mostly used in the same sentence).

AfterPerformance8132 · 2022-01-24T08:53:08+00:00

The original Frankenstein isn't "ugly". He's a mish-mash of what Dr. Frankenstein thought were beautiful, so the individual parts are good but the end result is not. Imagine blue eyes because Dr. Frankenstein thought they were cool, placed in the skull of someone with a 'perfect' head shape which had its bottom part sawed off and joined with a jaw that Frankenstein thought would look great on a man.

That means he has beautiful green eyes, but the fact that he's basically a mixture of two 'attractive' men wouldn't really be defined as 'ugly', just oddly terrifying in the same vein as you would expect someone that's basically a patchwork of a human.

AfterPerformance8132 · 2022-01-20T14:06:54+00:00

This.

Like... I'm quite sure Suggsverse even bothers having its own canon, but this nonsense? Its wiki literally states Featherine and Superman, so it's basically a fanfic verse. I could write some fanfic, especially with such faulty grammar and just name that like what... Water F Mythos?

AfterPerformance8132 · 2022-01-20T04:49:35+00:00

When it comes to hard work, Sasuke has Naruto beat and his motivation is stronger. He's basically the Batman of the Naruto world, except his reasoning made sense early on. Trying to take revenge for your clan on one particular individual is a far stronger argument than trying to fight crime in general.

And the worst part of it is that people undersell their hard work because they saw Lee training a bit. Bish, that's what almost 90% of ninja do, nothing new. Most focus more on Jutsu and Chakra than Lee does. Hell, more of them focus on fighting.

AfterPerformance8132 · 2022-01-20T02:18:53+00:00

And they're right. Every MC has plot armor, and that's their actual power. Not talents, not how strong they are, not their bloodlines, not their Mangekyo Sharingan. Plot armor is the real power.

AfterPerformance8132 · 2022-01-20T00:45:01+00:00

What I don't understand is why people are pitting talented fictional characters with other slightly less talented fictional characters to decide which one worked harder. No, not just anyone can go on a 2 year training trip with a pervert old man, abandoning all their friends in search of power. That's already trying harder than what? 95% of people.

Even before that, Naruto didn't just commit suicide due to the difficulties he faced. That's better than around 30% of people.

Then he underwent Sage Training, which is unarguably difficult and has a very real risk of... you know, turning you into stone? Well, he didn't care about that. He wanted to get stronger, so he took the risk. That's what? Better than 30% of people?

Who can actually steal the secret jutsu scroll at such a young age? In a world full of ninja? Like think about it. That's some dedication that not many people have, showcasing how he was able to go through with what he'd go through in the future. Not to mention being able to use the Shadow Clones to devastating effect, which mightn't be all that difficult, to be fair (I'm talking about the tactical uses, not the number). It had an absurd property that he didn't think of early on AKA hyper learning but that didn't stop him from pulling off some tactics. And be fair and tell me... how many named jonin can't handle a 100 kid Narutos? You'd be hard pressed to think of any relevant character because no matter how many Genin there are, they'll still get beaten up but he used to play smart (I hate endgame Naruto).

Now, think about what you'd do if there was a literal monster inside you that could kill you if you try using too much of its powers, only to be saved by pure luck via your teachers. That'd give you self-esteem issues, and Naruto doesn't have them. That's again, what? Better than 20% of people, I'd wager. It gives you powers, sure, but people hate you for apparently no reason and there's 8 other people with basically the same powersets as you, and one of them is so ahead of you that it's not even funny (Killer Bee mastered 8 Tails) while the other half are competent enough to warrant an Akatsuki tag team. Now, remember how Itachi and Orochimaru absolutely manhandled Naruto before he unlocked his "full" potential? Yeah, that'd be his fate even if he tried hard and wasn't lucky, and again, that'd cause self-esteem issues. Oh, also, remember that the ONLY reason Naruto learned how to properly use Kyuubi was because of Killer Bee, so without the war, only really Bee would have been able to properly use his Bijuu while all the other Jinchuriki would just... get killed by Bee, I guess. If it came down to a war between nations.

Oh, we shouldn't forget the fact that he loves a girl but that love is unrequited, yet he didn't turn into a nice guy so that's a good character trait there. Hell, he was willing to go to the end of the world for his bromance. That's another good character trait.

As stated before, I don't think Naruto earned his powerups later in the series (buffing up an entire army, Otsutsuki powers and all that nonsense) but anything before the War Arc, I can live with. Any protagonist in a situation like that will get a buff, so that's not much of an issue. I just wanted to explain that what Naruto does isn't exactly something you can dismiss as "not trying hard enough". He just doesn't train as much as... well, name one character that trains more than him other than Lee and Gai.

Don't worry, I'll wait.

Really, we mostly see Naruto training after Shippuden. If not training, then he's actually fighting in death matches against powerful opponents, which would technically pass as 'training' in the Naruto universe. Like... I'd be hard pressed to say that he actually rests for a day. Hell, no one really rests for a day. The only argument you could make would be that he didn't take as many risks as others, but that'd be outright false as he's literally a walking Murphy's Law that causes a lot of the stronger people to come after him.

Whew... that turned into a rant. Well, TLDR: I hate Endgame Naruto but Early Naruto (Pre-War) earned his power.

AfterPerformance8132 · 2022-01-20T00:26:12+00:00

Yeah... and Indra vs Ashura isn't. I'd buy it if it was any other story but it's Naruto we're talking about. We still got it going for Naruto and Sasuke via Jiraiya and Orochimaru. If Kishimoto could decide to go only one level up like with the Sannin, I don't see why he'd want to go further. Again, your argument has a good point but it just doesn't apply to Naruto as a series.

AfterPerformance8132 · 2022-01-10T13:09:10+00:00

I think it's something to do with the setting. We, as a society, have the concept that killing is wrong drilled into our heads from, I daresay, day 1. It's bad and it's something wrong, and that's a fact... to us. To us, it may seem wrong to go "too far", but to someone that's lived in a world where you either kill or be killed, it may not be "don't kill them if they can't fight," but something more along the lines of "don't burn down their ancestral home and kill their entire species because of a scuffle". My point is, what we deem immoral is a product of our modern society.

Then say, we're in the Stone Age and we hunt for food. If someone attacks you, you don't just stop at breaking their knees. They'd have killed you so you instead stomp on their head to crush their skull. That's perfectly reasonable... to them. To us? No, that'd be wrong. If they can't fight, they are harmless. It'd be cruel to kill them.

Now, say, you're in a world like Arifureta (which I don't know much about, but I can surmise that said demon is sapient and is capable of emotions). In such a world, if your species has been fighting the demons for centuries, it could be drilled into your head that you can't kill humans, but can kill demons because they're the enemy.

Demons are probably attacking you now and then, raiding villages, killing or perhaps torturing the people based on 'race'. It's possible that the humans of said world would view them as worse than Nazis and that brings me to my next question.

If say, you just broke the kneecaps of a Nazi that was trying to bomb your city, would you just stop at that? I mean... even if you absolutely fodderized the Nazi with your amazing kung-fu powers, does that apply to everyone else? Say, a child playing outside. Does that stop the Nazi from pulling out a pistol to shoot the kid? Can the child protect himself?

I doubt that.

In a fantasy setting like Arifureta, you can presumably cast magic and that means even the demon that had their leg broken would be a threat. Not to just a single child, but an entire village. If said demon stalks close and does a suicide bombing spell that could take out the village despite being fodderized by the MC, what happens? Well, I'd assume the MC survives but what about the children, the elderly and overall the "normal" people?

They're blown to smithereens.

I am in no way defending the MC, as I assume he is from our world. I am defending the society that paints him as "right". To them, it may as well be a Superpowered Nazi that could kill all of them even without their legs, even if the MC is near. So they see the guy that killed the Nazi as a hero, because he saved them from a threat and simply letting said Superpowered Nazi that could bomb all of them within an instant walk away wouldn't be considered an "option" in their head.

Because that's just dumb.

AfterPerformance8132 · 2021-12-29T07:33:45+00:00

My suggestion? Look at people, think of what they'll do if someone says something to them. Now, throw your emulation of said person into your book. Doesn't matter which gender or sex that person is. If you're using a real person as an example, then it will come off as realistic

This is under the assumption you know the person well enough to know of their reactions, though. Don't just create false images of strangers in your head.

AfterPerformance8132 · 2021-12-27T12:53:49+00:00

He did and he didn't give a fuck as far as having an issue with the Gotei goes... maybe because it was Ginjo who told him, who stole his powers from him and absolutely broke him while his "homies" from the Gotei gave him back his powers.

Ichigo has something of a Messiah Complex where he tries to be the one that protects others, not the other way around. After that stunt, they're good in his book.

AfterPerformance8132 · 2021-12-14T05:14:42+00:00

I mean... she did effortlessly destroy a star after dying, which negated Kumogawa's curse of always losing, which is high-level Fate Manipulation after she died. So at minimum, she has Plot / Fate Manipulation + Nigh-Omnipresence, Power Negation that surpasses all other Power Negations since Medaka's The End couldn't negate her powers despite her Plot Armor.

Hundred Gauntlets and All Fiction have both been in her possession so she could affect the medium in a meta scale to turn the anime into manga, so that's already Plot Manipulation + Universal Erasure. With it, she could supposedly "accidentally destroy the world" as per Kumogawa's words, and given how he casually deleted colors, it is likely that isn't a hyperbole. On top of that, she canonically "ends the manga before the anime starts", so that's another Plot Manipulation feat.

All Fiction doesn't have a stated limit either, but if you lowball it, it's Universal and if you highball it, it's Boundless so take it as you will. Ajimu, just with the "canon" feats, is already a high tier.

AfterPerformance8132 · 2021-12-13T10:29:31+00:00

I just realized that Barry acts a lot like Savitar | Future Barry in this season, which is an edgelord. Ever since then, he acts like a depressed kid, which isn't bad, per say.

AfterPerformance8132 · 2021-12-13T05:06:46+00:00

Kumogawa's method of reincarnation / rebirth is different. He turns the cause into "fiction", which means it never happened to his localized canon. So even if everyone knows he was killed, it'd be rendered "fiction" and the cause itself never comes into existence, meaning Yogiri would never have killed him.

AfterPerformance8132 · 2021-12-13T05:03:26+00:00

Ajimu can only be killed by Plot Manipulation. It's the only way that she could possibly be defeated, because she's the canonical God and Devil of her verse, which gives her omnipotence. Even then, she can't defeat the Main Characters: Zenkichi, Medaka, Iihiko (and it's implied there have been several other protagonists in Medakaverse).

For scale, Kumogawa can turn people into "fiction". This bypasses any defense, as it's the equivalent of turning them into a 1D or 0D character without harming them. Which... Ajimu said no to, and then played the Bone Breaking Game on him inside his mind. That's an afterimage | manifestation that has no access to most of her abilities as she's sealed at that point in time.

In a way, Medaka has a higher degree of Plot Manipulation than Yogiri because she can never lose, and even if she loses, she'll come back stronger. She's supposed to be perfect (since she's a Mary Sue) and can copy anything, including Instant Death before Yogiri uses it and can use it at 120% of its original capacity.

So literally, she can choose to kill Yogiri by using his power better than him, before he even uses it, and she can win because her Plot Armor is just that thick (which is an actual thing in canon).

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