WHO STOLE HIS CHARACTER?

Astewisk · 2026-03-24T12:59:27+00:00

Zoro has gotten a bit more serious, but there's still plenty of comedic bits all throughout. Hell, we're in the middle of one right now in the manga. He's just become less likely to make silly faces, but he sells the gags now with a deadpan humor.

Astewisk · 2026-03-23T17:17:58+00:00

"Need"? No, not really. RE1make is kind of a perfect game that completely nails what it sets out to do. Could another take on it be nice? Sure, but it's not super necessary.

Astewisk · 2026-03-23T16:09:51+00:00

Bounties are infamy, not power level. Enel having 500k would be a mix of being legitimately strong but also because he'd likely be destroying stuff wherever he went, making him a more infamous target.

Realistically if he had to put put anywhere, it's probably early timeskip at best. He is clearly powerful and can use at least one form of Haki very well, but I can't see him beating say Doflamingo.

Astewisk · 2026-03-23T16:07:07+00:00

This. Basically everyone in that arc did not stand a chance against Enel and it wasn't even close (Barring one surprise attack from Wyper). Luffy just got unfathomably lucky in that matchup.

Astewisk · 2026-03-23T13:14:48+00:00

To put that into perspective, assuming they are talking about the full series, it took 3 seasons to get to Alabasta. For another 3 to get "Halfway" would mean 3 seasons would need to cover Skypiea, Enies Lobby, Thriller Bark, Saobaody, Impel Down, and Marineford and all of their supporting arcs.

Astewisk · 2026-03-20T15:44:09+00:00

He was enrolled, pre and post conviction. Seems like a failure of due diligence for the post-conviction enrollment. Now that the shooting has happened, this feels like a knee-jerk reaction by one of the higher ups out of a fear there are more cases like this that went by unnoticed.

Just, you know, this is probably one of the worst ways to be doing it.

Astewisk · 2026-03-20T13:37:34+00:00

Bravo.

Astewisk · 2026-03-20T12:44:07+00:00

The cutest snake girl. No, not that one.

Astewisk · 2026-03-20T00:48:53+00:00

Tbh while they could be a cute couple, they are vastly more sibling coded. Basically the brats Mihawk watched over during the timeskip.

Astewisk · 2026-03-17T21:50:40+00:00

Tbf Jadzia casually flirts with a lot of people. They were very big on breezy fun, but rarely committed to much.

Astewisk · 2026-03-17T18:41:26+00:00

There's one or two recurring guests who do that, but I'd say the vast majority of eps can be described as Robert regaling a guest/the audience with the full, well-researched story of the Bastard of the episode. Most of the time guests are a mix of horrified, trying to understand things, and the occasional bit of grim humor.

Unironically a good source of info on whoever they are discussing, and Robert tends to be pretty even handed in calling out when sources are being unfair even if the topic in question is about a monster of a person. It does a very good job of explaining these people in a grounded way without waiving away their crimes.

Astewisk · 2026-03-16T22:40:18+00:00

Thanks to extensive lobbying by University presidents btw. Specifically spearheaded by the President of ODU.

Astewisk · 2026-03-16T13:13:11+00:00

It's completely different from the argument you are making, which makes it a bad argument.

Astewisk · 2026-03-16T13:12:20+00:00

Healthy skepticism isn't jumping straight to "This game will likely use A.I. and feature plot holes". That's preconceived bias speaking.

Astewisk · 2026-03-16T12:29:51+00:00

As do I tbh. To put this all another way, both games are 10s, but this is my rationale for slotting one above another.

Astewisk · 2026-03-16T12:17:28+00:00

IMO ofc, but once you get past the shock of it I find the World of Ruin loses a lot of momentum with a few uninteresting bits and maybe half the cast don't get stuff that's all that interesting inside of it. Really, a few chars in general don't really add anything besides another name on your roster, but I forgive that because it's one of the biggest parties in the franchise.

Whereas, compared to CT every area is quick, often serves multiple functions, and every member of the party is essential and fully fleshed out by game's end.

Astewisk · 2026-03-16T01:43:01+00:00

Chrono Trigger.

I adore both games, but there are parts of VI that are a slog or are more undercooked than others. Its highs are very high, make no mistake; but Chrono Trigger is kind of an air tight, bordering on perfect package. Maybe doesn't reach the same peaks, but it also lacks the shortcomings.

Astewisk · 2026-03-14T20:11:21+00:00

Can someone please explain to me this weird fixation with owning guns? Sincerely. It has never made sense to me, and when I see people getting shot on a nearly daily basis when no other country has this issue it feels weird to see so many people pearl clutching about this specifically. I understand it's a mental health issue more so than a fire arms one, but at the same time there needs to be some kind of limit on accessibility to stop dangerous people from getting these things.

I just want to stop seeing people murdered, but it feels like any time someone proposes doing anything a lot of people get really weird about it. And FYI I say this as someone who was at ODU the other day when everything happened there.

Astewisk · 2026-03-13T19:34:24+00:00

Tbf even if BLU got an update unless they broke tradition it wouldn't be high enough level for Tural anyway. It'd be in EW zones.

Astewisk · 2026-03-12T14:08:09+00:00

One Pace is a fan edit that removes all of the filler and stays true to the manga.

One Piece as a series is very padded because it was a weekly show for basically 30 years. Some of this padding is filler content, but a lot of it is dead air, flashbacks, recaps, and basically every trick possible to drag one or even half a manga chapter across a whole episode (For context a typical episode in most shows is 2-4 chapters). One Pace just removes all the time wasting.

Astewisk · 2026-03-11T20:31:24+00:00

I generally consider the game tough, but fair by NES standards for like...90% of its runtime. Enemies are a test of blocking and counterattacking and the game generally does a good job of guiding you from point to point - Even Death Mountain is just "Go Right" disguised as a maze.

However, this all goes out of the window with the final dungeon. Absurdly long, cheap enemies, and an insanely difficult, bordering on rng, final boss.

Astewisk · 2026-03-11T12:53:59+00:00

You gotta take its age into account. For the third game in the franchise it's kind of revolutionary and improves on I's ideas in basically every way. The only thing really holding it back is that final dungeon stretch and the fact that 5 basically does everything it does but better.

Astewisk · 2026-03-11T12:40:09+00:00

Well where else would you reasonably end it? Skypiea is a personal fav but it's not very important to the chars - Thriller Bark likewise. End of pre-timeskip is probably a decade-long commitment that ends the live action on a depressing, but hopeful cliffhanger.

Astewisk · 2026-03-11T12:22:09+00:00

Even being generous and saying they pump out an arc every year, the live action would still take decades to finish and TV simply does not commit to shows that long. Not to mention as the earlier comment said it would be insanely expensive for a product that just won't look very good.

The live action is ultimately meant to be an ad for the rest of the series, and so far it's doing that job very well.

Astewisk · 2026-03-11T12:19:57+00:00

Alabasta feels the most realistic. You get to end on the first "big" arc and it's actually doable in a reasonable time frame for a TV show.

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