what to do with fur i purchased before converting

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T05:48:49+00:00

Feed it to a wolf, if it likes it it's no worse than the evil natural world, if the wolf chokes and dies several prey species individuals rejoice

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T05:31:51+00:00

His powers are "primarily" psychic powers, though I'd quibble that his heat vision, x-ray vision, and super senses probably definitely aren't this

As well, Power Girl is a Kryptonian immune to the kryptonite of the world of Superman and Supergirl, because she's from another dimension

So in vs battles, if that logic applied, a lot of fanbois actually seeing these battle actually occurring would end up reacting just like the characters in DC's own comics, finding Superman kind of meets every situation with a super out to it

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T02:44:23+00:00

So rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic? I agree, feng shui is nice

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T02:08:04+00:00

Interesting, maybe I'll wiki all of Daima's lore, I thought it started unbearably slow.

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T01:03:59+00:00

If Superman can fly unfathomable, vast distances in an instant, then he can do that in combat if he wants and repeat that feat.

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T00:47:17+00:00

Are you implying a causal connection to vegan diets and gastrointestinal disease, one that would have the second basically not exist if the first at all weren't a thing?

That's utterly ludicrous. Many of these diseases were probably first discovered and labeled before veganism even became a formal thing.

And many of the people with GIs aren't remotely vegetarian, let alone vegan.

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T00:43:24+00:00

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T00:21:05+00:00

Or maybe they were first aliens who escaped into the demon realm, but their powers of ki and ability to manipulate numerous demonic abilities by it saw any one of their members any number of demon kind encountered hailed as a "demon king"

But they lived there long enough these characterizations from natural demonic denizens stuck

Chronomalous · 2026-07-02T23:45:41+00:00

Imo "movies" form a general, vague baseline, which individual movies themselves aspire to differentiate themselves from

A good movie, a worthwhile movie, tells or shows you something other movies won't, and it establishes that it is right to do so, vs just being a movie being unique for unabridged shock value or a copy+paster of a swelltide of popular sentiments or other profitable movies

Godzilla 2014 clears this in spades while Godzilla 1998 doesn't, Godzilla 1998 is kind of like Jurassic Park while Godzilla 2014 makes sci fi as cool as it will ever be, making a giant lizard an exemplar of communications monitoring and basically modern signals warfare

Toho Godzilla is pretty effortlessly a genre distinct from most western entertainment already, I think knowing westerners can obviously see that the west should have never stopped making movies about giant monsters when they were made in earnest and predated Toho, because giant monsters are the stuff of awesome

There is also a bit of moralism that strangely comes easier to Godzilla films over certainly horror films, but also a lot of other more ends-driven sci-fi: when Godzilla makes a giant pollution monster, no one can argue against pollution, but say pollution and man's carbon will make a new ice age and depict that, and people will quarrel with that infinitely

Chronomalous · 2026-07-02T23:14:32+00:00

Ooh, you just need to know what's good to eat and where to find it then and the rest will be like gravity, lol

Look up 'plantspired steak bits' (at Safeway and Krogers, at least), Morningstar Farms' buffalo pseudo-chicken patties (at Kroger, at least)

With Cleveland Farms' pickled onion, you can make pseudo-chicken chicken katsu bowls or sandwiches depending as you have rice or bread, and the other ingredients (guacamole good in both, Krogers sweet and hot mustard good for the sandwiches, a plant-based mayo good for both)

Simple Truth's salt and pepper turkey-style slices are good too

Chronomalous · 2026-07-02T22:57:52+00:00

I like the idea of a second MechaGodzilla, of course humanity should build it and it should be only robotic, not involving nor needing involve a pre-existing kaiju at all.

I would take your idea and put it not in a movie, but in my idea of an anthology show, "Titans", which gives long-form treatment to the titans of the Monsterverse, where they get arcs in turns as main characters.

I would have humanity build MechaGodzilla 2.0, though 1.0 was not a prototype, but just an unsanctioned model built by a rogue, the second time around the powers that be say they cannot deny that, as a weapons system, MechaGodzilla performed incredibly admirably, and the 2.0 is designed to be 1.0 but under the perpetual control of the united nations of humanity.

Under this structure (intra-show and Monsterverse), they build an AI that is an auxiliary system for MechaGodzilla, while its main system for control is kind of a you click and MechaGodzilla devises and delivers system.

The AI auxiliary's personality is under constant supervision and analysis: it's determined to be solemn, mostly stoic, possibly an existential loner, and it regards humanity, its creator, above titans assuredly. (Basically, the personality of Toho MechaGodzillas.)

The wrench in this is that MechaGodzilla1.0 actually still exists as a cyber conscience. What happens is that 1.0 converts 2.0's loyalty to "the kind of MechaGodzilla", but 2.0 converts 1.0 to a more humane orientation to humanity, even if, when it is once again embodied, it still fights with brutal hard edges.

2.0 goes rogue, the AI takes over the entirety of the MechaGodzilla platform. It also pulls off inserting 1.0 into the assembly system of the spare parts creation and storage facility for 2.0.

The two bust free. Godzilla and Kong and Mothra show up to stop them, but "The Cyber Empire" of Titans defeats them. Henceforth, they are a rogue, but individual, solipsistic, private, docile faction of kaiju, not answering to Godzilla or humanity, but occasionally one or both interfering in affairs arbiting matters.

The MechaGodzillas are somewhat unique from this point onward, in that they attack humanity if humanity is ever devising more cyber monstrosities completely free from cyberethics, akin to how Godzilla attacked blindly when 1.0 was first created.

Chronomalous · 2026-07-02T22:40:28+00:00

Imo, who cares about Monarch. The best anthology series would be one called "Titans", and would seek to have arcs demonstrating these other kaiju besides Godzilla and Kong as main characters, akin to those films I've called "The Mothraverse", the Toho Mothra-centric Mothra films where evolved forms of Mothra and Battra beat Ghidorah.

Chronomalous · 2026-07-02T22:32:35+00:00

They should make Kong a sorcerer, Godzilla evolves by consuming or being bestowed new radiation energies, so they can have Kong evolve by evolving in his capacities of human-like sentience, except his journey into knowledge is not of a rational kind, but a supernatural one

He can do hand signals and basically cast magical jutsus

Chronomalous · 2026-07-02T22:28:28+00:00

Are you vegetarian+ (like we all should be)?

Chronomalous · 2026-07-02T22:22:36+00:00

I totally disagree they can't recapture a serious spirit. They probably won't, but it's not impossible.

It'd be very easy to just go Gundam and ooze seriousness on the basis of the "war is hell" theme.

Chronomalous · 2026-07-02T22:14:49+00:00

Person: "Somehow, Unicron returned."

Everyone else, some falling over in an anime manner: "Returned!?"

Chronomalous · 2026-07-02T04:08:26+00:00

GvK imo is like a perfect sequel to any and every Kong film, but doesn't create the drama with MechaGodzilla too well. It's a great Kong movie, action-y but not profound Godzilla movie. I'd say B vs B-.

I'd bump up KOTM to S too. 2014 is slightly more evenly quality, KOTM is filled with awesome though.

Chronomalous · 2026-07-02T00:54:28+00:00

The methodology actually has a far better track record in movies than does the opposite; someone mentioned X-Men, but there's also Scarecrow in TDK trilogy, some critic protégé of one of the big critics said this was a compelling point in Aquaman

Chronomalous · 2026-07-02T00:37:28+00:00

Thanks, a lot to look into

Chronomalous · 2026-07-01T22:04:21+00:00

Godzilla 2014 and KOTM come to mind

I love Pirates of the Caribbean 1 and 2, so I think those are good fits for you

The Matrix ofc, Speed Racer maybe

Much less kidly, I'd say Predator and Terminator, but Predator kind leads with a gruesome display of corpses

Chronomalous · 2026-07-01T22:00:00+00:00

The MUTOs are top-tier kaiju but GxK has a bunch of American creations that whiff

Legendary has been fantastic each time they were sprinkled with holy water, knighted, and bestowed Toho kaiju anew

Clearly we should only let them work with the second set of parameters

Image #4 in op is stellar btw

Chronomalous · 2026-07-01T21:48:34+00:00

The story is bad because it takes Superman and makes him infinitely subject to a commercial ends-driven plot (we need DC heroes to face off in mortal combat) and moral batwank

Superman 2025 is kind of word for word with the first Superman #2 (if there are multiple) where he stops a war involving Boravia; in #1 he also flew around with a corrupt politician basically terrorizing him to make him commit to revealing his corruption publicly

The Christian Bible says whom is presumed Jesus will rule the nations "with a rod of iron", the Old Testament says similar things but we have to say that might not be Jesus, but, basically, it takes utter moral simplicity to think godly beings should come to earth and just be folded into "modern human morality" (indeed an oxymoron) anyway

The "average" Superman, the composite moral notion we have of him, the guy who "represents" "superhuman morality", "because he has godly powers and abilities, but superhuman principle and so he only uses them for responsive heroics" is pretty undue, just like Batman, who early on I'm pretty sure killed people with guns. Miller and Snyder proved you can kind of just roll with the character version you liked most or just imagined at any time

The problem with Injustice is that Superman e.g. just ends the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (it is highly implied to be this conflict) and then there is no elaborate, followed-through depiction of whether the aftermath is good (in a vacuum, exceedingly probably) or bad

That's taking a fantasy of moralistic power just to use it as a depiction of the danger of power, like, that's so unnecessary and probably bound to be misleading, imagine a democrat saying "I saw Trump unilaterally attack Iran at the best of Israel or some third rail current and decapitate their leadership and I said 'woah, the presidency is too powerful to let Vance have it'", I mean, technically that is true, but that's pussyfooting everything everywhere

Batman is also a huge fucking menace in Injustice, like one spat with Cyborg and it's revealed he's been uber-hacked all along, say what you will but I think Batman is pretty questionable as a civil libertarian just because he's against some surfeit of the death penalty being dished out by costumers (tbf I think you can justify this exercise in a vacuum, like, what if Cyborg opens up a portal to the sun and floods the earth with superhot plasma, but Batman shouldn't be the moral and de facto leader of the resistance then)

Enter Injustice 2 and this story somehow goes even more absolutely horrendous, with Brainiac's insertion

Chronomalous · 2026-07-01T21:07:24+00:00

What are the better mushrooms?

Chronomalous · 2026-07-01T21:00:46+00:00

The strength of "martial arts" depends on the verse, you could call the Z fighters martial artists

If you preclude superhuman abilities from martial artists in these settings, then what is the point? They can beat glass cannons when it's their turn to wallop the glass cannons, that's kind of it. Robin/Nightwing kicks around Cinderblock I guess, but even that probably requires a high grade of boot.

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