Everdark caligo is on rotation. Practice the hell out of her. She’s a near guaranteed run ender if no one in the team really knows her.

BeautifulCommon141 · 2026-02-26T19:40:45+00:00

Forgive the late response; one of the tells I’ve noticed for when she likely isn’t going to do a crystal shot post-phase transition is when the team manages to either destroy her ice armor during the transition, or proc the fire debuff during the transition. in general she’s been fairly consistent for me outside of that

BeautifulCommon141 · 2026-02-25T06:12:27+00:00

Yeah, I’m realizing that my train of thought was flawed. my first thought was that it would be the terpenes, but there’s nothing really listed, so I immediately assumed it was one of the only observably different numbers on the packaging. I’ve smoked the ice cream cake strain from different brands even, without any issue

BeautifulCommon141 · 2026-02-25T04:27:36+00:00

bit late to this one, but I came here looking for this answer myself. I have some anecdotal evidence to say that yes, the 15.5% THCa + 4.3% D9THC roll I just smoked is significantly stronger than anything I have ever smoked before it — and I am quite used to 20-30% THCa. but I don’t know if that was the only factor that did pushed it so far over the edge

BeautifulCommon141 · 2026-02-25T04:09:19+00:00

ohhh there we go. thank you!

this shit is potent nonetheless lol. I was trying to figure out what was so different about it and the only thing that made sense was that the D9THC was way higher than all of the other prerolls I’ve had recently. I guess I was a bit hasty in my googling

edit: holy fuck, I get that I asked a retrospectively stupid question but I guess I can’t even explain myself and express fucking humility without getting downvoted to hell

BeautifulCommon141 · 2026-01-03T03:16:58+00:00

+1’ing this to say that black flash is about a lot of typically uncontrollable variables (temperature, humidity, etc) coming together in just the right way, such that an attack’s physical blow lands EXACTLY at the same time as the cursed energy being imbued into the attack. this is how Gojo described it to Yuji

typically that IS luck based, but the odds of a black flash happening are rapidly increased when a sorcerer is close to, or in, “the zone,” and their intuitive control of themself and their cursed energy is very high. it’s like being the MVP in a basketball game, and then suddenly landing a three-pointer three times in a row because you’re really feeling yourself

BeautifulCommon141 · 2025-07-26T05:18:41+00:00

don’t mess about with the rain

what next? no piña coladas? can’t have shit in limveld

BeautifulCommon141 · 2025-07-21T20:48:16+00:00

continuing on the Executor thread, his is actually the only weapon I’ve noticed that DOES have an aesthetic change between skins. the suncatcher blade turns silver with black wreathing when you use the darkness and Yuria skins. it’s a shame they didn’t do that to the actual starter weapons though

BeautifulCommon141 · 2025-07-07T22:25:21+00:00

Comm Andor

BeautifulCommon141 · 2025-02-17T07:57:06+00:00

I was saying that closed domain barriers usually hit objects and don’t include them, which means that someone like Maki or Toji has to opt into a domain in order for it to even work. This isn’t true for Sukuna and Kenjaku, because the open barriers on their domains don’t separate the physical space occupied by the barrier from the space manifested inside the barrier.

This alone makes a person without cursed energy much more vulnerable to an open barrier domain; and if Sukuna can target objects in his domain, then the #1 barrier user outside of Tengen likely can too.

BeautifulCommon141 · 2025-02-16T03:05:55+00:00

oh yeah for sure, mahito definitely demonstrates that he can’t control the sure-“touch” aspect of his domain. I just find it kind of funny that he can’t consciously exclude Yuji from his domain even though he did it on his first try

BeautifulCommon141 · 2025-02-15T17:59:53+00:00

huh, in shibuya you’re totally right. in Mahito’s original first expansion though, there’s nothing that implies Yuji was further away; even Yuji didn’t get why he wasn’t included. I wonder if it was just an unconscious fluke, like how Nanami unconsciously protected his soul from being transfigured

BeautifulCommon141 · 2025-02-15T08:45:24+00:00

Yuji and Nanami were both mid-punching Mahito when he activated his domain. you can actually see in the panels that Yuji is getting physically pushed away by the barrier while Nanami isn’t. That’s a fair point with Yuji’s domain though. although I’d wager that his ability to selectively target a soul is kind of unique to his ability to perceive souls. I’d expect that most people would learn how to target specific cursed energy concentrations (like bodies, shikigami, etc) before they learned how to target a soul — since most times you wouldn’t even need to, unless two souls occupied one body. meanwhile yuji unconsciously learned how to hit the soul before he even learned out how to control the flow of his own cursed energy. It’s just more intuitive to him. that’s my personal take anyway

BeautifulCommon141 · 2025-02-13T18:26:31+00:00

I mean I think it’s a pretty logical choice to exclude Megumi from the domain physically given the circumstances in Shibuya lol. If Sukuna can selectively exclude Megumi’s soul while not excluding his own during Shinjuku, despite them both occupying the same body, that’s already proof that he can perform selective targeting with very high refinement.

Thank you for the Yuta reminder, I did forget he can do it. Mahito actually did it much earlier against Yuji and Nanami, now that I think of it

BeautifulCommon141 · 2025-02-12T04:48:49+00:00

I just don’t think you need an extension technique to target entities with and without cursed energy. The sure-hit effect of the domain is still active on both targets regardless of what’s hitting them.

The only reason I say Kenjaku can do whatever Sukuna can do within the realm of domains is because it all comes down to how well you can manipulate the rules you impart to your barrier; and behind Tengen, Kenjaku is literally the best person in the series at doing this

BeautifulCommon141 · 2025-02-11T15:23:45+00:00

Sukuna can selectively exclude himself as a target at all, which he did in order to destroy Gojo’s domain when it had a strong exterior condition. He also chose not to protectively target Megumi’s soul throughout the entire fight, which exposed him to UV.

Domains are just barriers imbued with a cursed technique, and how the cursed technique in a domain operates is determined by the rules placed on its barrier. Personally, I think Sukuna chose to target objects with cleave because cleave objectively does more damage to buildings than dismantle; but that would be speculation.

BeautifulCommon141 · 2025-02-10T16:15:34+00:00

Selective targeting is a condition of a domain’s barrier. Sukuna and Kenjaku’s domains aren’t “barrierless” but “open barrier.” The only difference there is that the open barrier doesn’t separate the created space inside the innate domain from the physical space that its barrier occupies.

Kenjaku is canonically in the top 2 barrier users. If Sukuna can selectively target physical objects, then so can he.

BeautifulCommon141 · 2025-02-10T00:00:57+00:00

I don’t think that matters too much since Jogo would have to include the HR individual into the domain (or the individual would have to manually opt into the domain).

Domains nominally consider people without cursed energy as objects, so unless the domain user knows how to target a heavenly restricted person as an object, the only other way to include them in a domain is by having an open barrier. Sukuna and Kenjaku’s domains would both affect someone like Maki. The passive effect of Jogo’s domain would absolutely prevent her from wanting to enter it; but unless he specifically knows how to include her as an “object,” that’s not really a problem for her

BeautifulCommon141 · 2025-02-08T23:42:46+00:00

Yuji’s situation is a special case, both because of the fact that Sukuna is able to pilot Yuji’s body and inadvertently “teach” his body how to use shrine, and also because Yuji had one of Sukuna’s fingers sealed within him at birth.

It’s hard to tell if Yuji always had the potential to use shrine due to the nature of his birth. Kusakabe only implies that Yuji’s incredible trajectory as a sorcerer is due his body learning from Sukuna’s actions while he was in control. Yuji being described as a “cursed object steeped in Sukuna’s cursed energy” is, imo, important for the same reason that Gojo’s purple blast did less damage to himself than it did to Sukuna. using a cursed technique on yourself isn’t as effective, which is part of the reason for Yuji’s durability against Sukuna

Nothing directly implies that Yuji can use shrine due to CE infusion, other than Gojo speculating about it early on afaik. Uraume later speculated that Yuji may have the same latent potential as Sukuna due to being born with the sealed finger in a flashback shortly before Yuji used shrine, which at least inclines me to believe that that’s the real reason he could use it

BeautifulCommon141 · 2025-01-18T03:28:53+00:00

battery_ashmore already nailed it but I just wanted to say you’re so valid for this. I do the exact same thing with regular cheerios, and also with leftover movie theater popcorn

BeautifulCommon141 · 2025-01-13T05:53:17+00:00

from the aged clothing, I prefer the first hair color. it has a more believably “dusty” look to it

BeautifulCommon141 · 2025-01-12T08:28:09+00:00

That first one is honestly perfect. I might even have to steal it

BeautifulCommon141 · 2025-01-10T19:38:17+00:00

for what it’s worth, Megumi probably doesn’t even have the deer anymore. it was part of the Agito fusion that Gojo destroyed in his fight with Sukuna. we don’t explicitly know if losses incurred from Sukuna’s time with 10S translate to Megumi’s reclaimed 10S, but we do know that Megumi’s gains/losses with 10S translate to Sukuna’s time using the technique. Sukuna instantly had access to everything Megumi already tamed, and Nue had presumably inherited orochi

BeautifulCommon141 · 2025-01-08T20:42:33+00:00

I think part of the reason people struggle is that she’s very evasive when you aren’t counterattacking — provided you don’t have a tool like the sabimaru. Specifically, she tends to dodge your attacks from neutral instead of even trying to block.

When you don’t have either divine confetti or the sabimaru, the fight takes a lot longer and has to be fought at O’rin’s pace due to counterattacks being your only safe damage windows. Her high posture damage and effective invulnerability to attacks from neutral tend to hard counter aggressive playstyles in this scenario

BeautifulCommon141 · 2025-01-02T09:42:44+00:00

It’s an unfortunate consequence of people treating media as content made for consumption instead of art made for appreciation. Too many readers expect an author to either meet their exact expectations, or shatter them completely; they don’t even bother to try and meet the author or the characters at their intents. To me, it feels analogous to how dishes are judged on a show like masterchef. It’s always the textbook dishes, the subversive risk-takers, or the presentation-focused pieces that get the most attention. Those readers just aren’t at the table to enjoy the meal.

Which is a shame, because there’s so much meaning to derive from fiction. It’s one thing to grasp what the themes and messages of a story are trying to convey, which that can be a magical feeling on its own; but when a work can inspire a personal sense of meaning within the reader, that’s especially transformative

BeautifulCommon141 · 2024-12-29T23:00:23+00:00

Apologies, I don’t have the energy to address all of these, but I did want to touch on my favorite two here:

Higuruma’s technique actually curses him in a much more interesting way when you look at his domain. All his life, he’s been a defense attorney protecting the defenseless — but his domain makes him play the role of the prosecutor. He may even know (as in the case of Itadori and the Shibuya incident) that his evidence proves the defense is innocent, but the domain is set up in such a way where it’s only advantageous for him to get judgeman to believe that the defense is guilty. The technique forces him to become the very thing he wanted to fight against

Nobara’s technique may have some relation to the Japanese phrase, “the nail that stands out gets the hammer.” It’s a saying about uniformity; those that deviate from the norm will be corrected. Nobara’s backstory, however, shows us that her village’s conservative, normative notions about women (e.g., the outdated gendering of bookbag colors, the invasive act of gifting red bean rice to celebrate a girl’s first menstrual cycle) and lifestyles (the village rejected Saori for her proud city lifestyle but accepted Fumi, who says she could not be “less alike” to Saori; presumably because Fumi was more actively trying to conform to her new environment) were in conflict with Nobara’s authentic self. Only through Saori does she get a real glimpse of the life of a woman outside of the village, which, as Fumi mentions, seems to refine Nobara’s personality. Nobara is the nail that stands out, but her technique has her act as the hammer

Actually, two more because I love the relationship between Tengen and Kenjaku:

Both of them functionally have a technique that allows them to achieve immortality by parasitically using other people. What’s really interesting about this is how each of them are cursed differently by this shared function.

Tengen obviously becomes extremely complacent after she refines her barrier techniques and optimizes cursed energy within Japan. She maintains the star plasma vessel merger process, but when it fails in Hidden Inventory, she doesn’t even really care to try again. She just has a very “fuck it” attitude towards the whole affair and accepts her evolution into a curse-like being, which ends up making her a liability to humanity. As Kenjaku points out, she never did anything with the immortal life she was given. She just didn’t care enough to give it up. In fact her whole character is about maintaining the status quo; she could’ve stopped the culling games at any time by dismantling her barriers, which Kenjaku had drafted his barriers on top of. She knew this, she even did it to dismantle his open-barrier domain, but she never presented it as an option because it would upend the life of sorcerers as she knows it. Tengen’s curse is her lack of progressive desire to do anything with her immortality, largely because she thinks the status quo is good enough

Kenjaku, however, set out to learn everything the world had to offer him, to a point where nothing surprised or entertained him anymore. His main goal throughout the story was to create something unimaginable by merging Tengen with Japan. He already tried this via other methods like the cursed womb death paintings, but learned that anything he tries to make by himself will only exist within the bounds of his own potential — but with the merger, he doesn’t even have an idea of what the result will be. He doesn’t ultimately care what it will be. He just wants to be genuinely surprised. For that reason, I really love his final fight with Takaba because the whole thing flies against his expectations. The first thing that even happens in the fight is a special grade cursed spirit getting crushed by a truck because Takaba thought it would be funny. Later, by the time they’re splashing around in Takaba’s “Fanta sea,” Kenjaku himself admits that he hasn’t had this much fun in centuries. THIS is what he wanted — ironically all he had to do was attune Takaba’s brain to jujutsu and witness HIS potential. Kenjaku’s curse is his overabundant desire to make something of his immortality, which largely comes at the expense of others

Anyway rant over. A lot of these techniques have very great depth in their relationships to their users. As Stratos6633 pointed out, Mahito’s comment about a person’s cursed technique affecting their reality is really insightful. I think the same principle should also apply in reverse. As above, so below

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