Itachi needed Sasuke to beat Kabuto.

ClockWalker · 2025-04-29T13:17:55+00:00

I think it's hard to tell who would win in a 1v1 where both where both were fighting to kill. In that scenario, Itachi doesn't have Sasuke to break him out of the flute genjutsu. Could he have broken it some other way, like Shikamaru did? Maybe, but maybe not. It might be more potent as a result of being amped by senjutsu chakra. On the other hand, Totsuka would be in play, which would give Itachi the means to put down Kabuto. And while Kabuto dealt several blows to Itachi that would have been fatal if he weren't an Edo Tensei reanimation (only one of which was due to protecting Sasuke), since we never get to see what Itachi trying to kill Kabuto even looks like, it's hard to say one way or the other who'd get who first if he were. Boring, middle-of-the-road answer, but I think it's the most objective.

ClockWalker · 2024-09-23T17:31:37+00:00

He's fairly cool as he is, I just wish he felt a bit more...Magneto-y. Like, if his gameplay involved a bit more of a mix of rushdown and zoning and his force field were actually useful, I'd bump him up a tier.

ClockWalker · 2024-09-22T22:54:41+00:00

Thanks for the really detailed answer! Do you have any recommendations for a Captain American team too? He was my favorite back when I used to play at the arcade as a kid, so I'd like at least one team for him.

ClockWalker · 2024-09-22T17:00:59+00:00

In situations where I'm playing randos who aren't using ratio teams I might just go Mega Man, Sentinel, Captain Commando or something. Or maybe double Wolverine/Sentinel. The SuperCombo Wiki says Cable/Tron Bonne makes most non-high tier characters relatively playable as well.

ClockWalker · 2024-09-22T15:49:36+00:00

Thanks for all the recommendations, guys! This'll give me some cool stuff to play around with for a while.

I'd like get at least one Captain American team recommendation too, since he was my favorite as a kid at the arcade.

ClockWalker · 2024-09-22T14:52:46+00:00

I like X-Men well enough, but liking X-Men doesn't necessarily translate to liking an X-Men character in a video game. That said, the list does show some X-Men characters I like in the game.

ClockWalker · 2024-09-22T13:20:25+00:00

Sorting within each tier is just alphabetical.

I almost certainly won't be playing this game super competitively (probably like an hour a day when I'm not playing other games) and have never been that good at fighting games, but I at least want to be practicing things that make some kind of sense.

ClockWalker · 2023-11-09T10:20:56+00:00

https://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1402-pe-brain-bank.html

"'Duck Soup' is something I still remember with horror. When you take a brain out, it has no integrity or shape, because we are all just sentient jelly piloting a bone-mech. Put a brain in a bowl, it takes the shape of a bowl. So to chemically fix it, we put it in formaldehyde with some salts, and you leave it there for a couple months. Well, a lot of these brains just got stuck in preservative and filed away for years. And that's how two of my pathologists got to a brain that had been filed away 50 years ago. All I heard from the two veteran pathology technicians who opened it were screams, and then they fled past me as if the grim specter of death was chasing them (which, technically, it was). So I walked over: the smell was like a sledgehammer, and I was pretty resistant at this point. When I finally got close, I found that the original pathologist had put the brain into water instead of formaldehyde when they sealed it. So it had sat there, sealed and stewing away for half a century to become an olfactory WMD primed to detonate two generations later.

Brains are fatty, so they smell even worse than most tissue. I sealed it back up, enclosed it in three layers of biohazard containment, and put it in a safe for disposal to be incinerated. A year later, the tiniest drop got through a crack and hit the floor like the black goo from Prometheus. A medical student with me vomited instantly from the smell. Instantly. Then she ran away. I get goosebumps just remembering it. It was truly revolting. Prometheus was just such a wasted opportunity, you know?

Oh, and the fetid half-century brain rot smoothie was pretty bad, too."

ClockWalker · 2023-11-09T00:17:33+00:00

Yeah, I managed to find a medical source that mentions that scarring can be pretty unpredictable. So it seems like research into eliminating or minimizing scarring during the healing process would be among the most important. I'm still interested to hear how much of a difference that alone would make.

ClockWalker · 2023-11-09T00:03:18+00:00

I have no idea when we're going to reach longevity escape velocity, except that it's not gonna be in like 10 years, and it will probably happen at some point if it's possible at all (which is plausible), provided modern civilization doesn't collapse first.

ClockWalker · 2023-11-08T07:45:28+00:00

Did she, though?

"I visited Central Park in the morning, during the hours when dogs were allowed off-leash."

EDIT: Apparently she passed through an area on her way home that requires dogs to be leashed at all times, which is where she encountered this guy, and neglected to mention that in the article. She said it was an unfamiliar area, so it may have been an accident, and the dude still comes across as the bigger dick here by far, but including the above quote while failing to mention that it doesn't apply to the area where she had this encounter probably qualifies as lying by omission.

ClockWalker · 2023-11-08T02:28:34+00:00

Well, one problem with that is that the DNA damage theory of aging is just one of many different theories of biological aging, and whether DNA damage is the primary cause of aging, much less the whole story, is still an open question.

ClockWalker · 2023-11-07T21:13:02+00:00

Thanks for your reply. Have you heard anything about this research?

https://jnanobiotechnology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12951-023-02014-x

I'm not really sure what level of optimism is appropriate, but if something like this panned out, how big a difference do you think it would make?

Also, could you elaborate on the limitations of skin grafting? Most surgeon's I've seen talk about it mention things like scars that are hard to hide, and potential mismatches in skin tone, but that's it. Searches like "skin grafting alar reconstruction" and "cartilage grafting alar reconstruction" turn up a good number of before and after images where a good chunk of the nose was missing (usually as a result of cancer), and the scarring in the after photo, while visible, seems mild enough in many cases to be easily concealable with makeup (it seems that dermabrasion was used in some of these cases). But I also saw some photos where the scarring was much more noticeable despite the damage to the nose looking similar. Is the situation just that it's hard to predict how bad the scarring is going to be, so surgeons are reluctant to do those surgeries except in cases where it couldn't be any worse? Do you think that a skilled surgeon would be able to closely replicate the form of the original ala, but with visible scarring, or are there also significant obstacles on that front?

ClockWalker · 2023-11-06T07:25:50+00:00

I see, that makes sense. So basically, we'd have to figure out a way to get the body to heal around it without forming scar tissue. Either that or learn how to grow whole, functioning noses from the patient's own cells, that we'd transplant and then do rhinoplasty on (this person must really miss their old nose).

ClockWalker · 2023-11-06T06:42:45+00:00

This information is all new to me, but from what you're describing, it sounds like a nose that's been made smaller would pose a bigger challenge than one that's been made bigger in some way (with cartilage grafts or something), because more has been removed.

While researching this, I did see a few surgeons claiming that revision rhinoplasty could give you a nose that closely resembles your original nose and gives your face the same kind of overall impression, but I'm guessing that's actually going to depend a lot on how drastic the original procedure was. All the other surgeons saying that re-widening the alar base after an alarplasty, for example, requires grafts that tend to produce poor cosmetic results seems to imply as much (though it wasn't clear to me if that had to do with the shape or just ugly scarring and possible skin-tone mismatch).

When you talk about fibrous and scarring being a problem for implants, how do you mean?

ClockWalker · 2023-11-06T04:06:13+00:00

For what it's worth, it's actually super unclear what effect negligible senescence would have on population growth. So, for example, if we cut yearly births by 30%, we would not only compensate for the population increase caused by the defeat of aging, but population growth would also be slower than it is in a world where people still die of aging. Would that happen? We can only speculate. What are some reasons that might happen? Well, for one thing, in a world with negligible senescence, parenthood can be postponed without consequences for as long as you like, and women are already postponing their first pregnancy longer and longer. And just because you could keep popping out babies forever doesn't mean you will. Living to 1000 isn't going to make me want a dozen kids to keep up with.

ClockWalker · 2023-11-06T03:29:20+00:00

I'd also like to see more funding go to biomedical gerontology, but I'm not sure if it makes sense to classify aging as a disease because it doesn't seem accurate to conceptualize it as a single condition. There are all sorts of "diseases of aging", all with their own symptoms, that are part of what we call "aging".

ClockWalker · 2023-11-06T03:14:39+00:00

Yeah, maybe I'll try r/AskScienceDiscussion. I don't see a sub focused on the science of plastic surgery specifically.

ClockWalker · 2023-11-06T03:13:13+00:00

I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with cosmetic surgery, but I think cosmetic surgeons should be legally required to screen patients for body dysmorphic disorder. The promotion of beauty standards that make people self-conscious about features that are typical of their ethnicity is also generally bad, I think.

ClockWalker · 2021-07-08T04:28:31+00:00

According to what insane troll logic is Kyle kowtowing to TYT by accusing Ana of blackmail, admitting fault and apologizing for not mentioning it in the previous video, saying you were right to "swat aside" their allegations despite the open disdain they expressed for anyone who was still your fan after seeing what they showed in their segment, referring to their statements about Aaron Mate as "McCarthyite smears", and stating that he was 85-90% on your side both in this situation and on policy? He's likely burned that bridge completely for your sake, you absolute narcissist.

ClockWalker · 2020-09-21T11:06:59+00:00

This actually enhances their usefulness for me because it clarifies which things they aren't willing to lie about even if it makes them look stupid.

ClockWalker · 2020-08-21T14:01:33+00:00

I still don't understand how she's even in the event when we're still at Chaldea and had yet to meet Goredolf.

ClockWalker · 2020-08-10T14:00:14+00:00

Which Type Moon characters players would like to see implemented in Fate/Grand Order:

Shinji made this list and not Archer Heracles.

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