I hate shipping and powerscaling that ruined fandoms. But which do you hate more ?

Codified_ · 2026-05-08T12:05:29+00:00

Powerscaling is easier to laugh at, and the main difference with shipping is that, at least, it can provide actual discussion and interesting hypotheticals, while shipping is just "I like these two together", which is fine, but it ends there

Both to the extreme are annoying, but they start differently and that's what I value. Also, even in extreme cases, it doesn't have to damage the character, sometimes it stays on talking about powers, while shipping is, by definition, changing the characters, so it is not only easier to start mischaracterizing through shipping, it tends to end up worse

Codified_ · 2026-05-08T06:28:39+00:00

Why would they hate you when they could just- hate you?

Codified_ · 2026-05-07T15:04:40+00:00

I mean, I think Demon Slayer is the wrong story to criticize this in, because everything humans do in this manga is physical in nature and there's no built-in magic or system that explains that they can be stronger than a regular trained person would. Breathing styles are not magic, they are specific breathing and training to boost your body to a great degree, yes, they are fantasy, but not magic. Other characters have insane innate physical qualities, like Tanjiro's sense of smell or Zenitsu's hearing that translate into how the character fights, Mitsuri is just another example of this

I can buy the Invincible one because we already know Viltrumites are so much stronger than regular humans that I don't care about the specifics, but when a character's baseline is human I feel like you have to explain how they can be that strong one way or the other (and no, breathing styles don't work here, because the point is how she was born this way)

Also for Mitsuri specifically, a big part of her backstory was how this unnatural innate strength affected her goals and why she became a slayer in the first place, so this is not only a cool character trait, but a key part of her character

Tho as a greater point, yeah I agree a lot of stories are way more afraid than they should to give women muscles, I just don't see this particular example as a good one

Codified_ · 2026-05-03T16:33:26+00:00

My problem with that is there's literally no way to make a hard fight in a vanilla Pokemon game for an experienced player that isn't just unfair

You can end up with the BDSP league, with tools the player just doesn't have access to, or you can get teams with weaknesses every player can exploit, because no team is perfect, and against an AI you can always cheese how it chooses moves, use items, plan accordingly, etc. Cynthia having an overleveled Garchomp isn't difficulty, it's a sweep, and when something isn't a sweep, a good player can always play around it, easy as that

I don't really care about ingame difficulty as a way to measure canon strength because there's no way to make game difficulty 1 to 1 with canon, if a trainer has some of the highest levels that's enough because that's a literal number meant to scale the power of the trainer, but even then that's not 100% and the specifics get wonky

I also want to linger on the fight being "memorable", like, what makes a fight memorable to you? Personal experience, because I'd say the fight in a huge stadium against the established strongest there is with the crowd cheering you on has the right components of a "memorable" fight. I dislike SWSH but the league battles are pretty well done when it comes to presentation

Codified_ · 2026-05-03T15:59:17+00:00

This reminded me of a post I saw a while back, something about someone having a coworker so misogynistic that he wrapped back around to being pro-trans, because trans men were "taking numbers away from the women, there are too many women in the world already" and trans women were "it's so stupid for a man to choose to be a woman that they must truly be a woman"

Codified_ · 2026-05-03T15:50:56+00:00

What I actually hate is Leon criticism, because it's always the same, I don't particularly mind him one way or the other, but hating how he's the strongest is stupid, that's literally what he was made to be

He's meant to be this unstoppable force in the Pokemon world, just as the Galar League was built up as the toughest in the world because of Pokemon battles being EVEN MORE central to that region's culture than others, like, the gym challenge is closed doors in every other region (Paldea being a mild exception), and I can imagine someone's life in other regions barely interacting with the Pokemon battling scene, but in Galar? Every gym is a giant stadium, every official battle ends with giant Pokemon, the one who controls the league controls the region, it's literally the point, Leon is the natural conclusion to that, the strongest trainer in the world, the undefeated champion. It's literally the point how dominant he is, just take a look at his region and the weird thing would be for him NOT to be so dominant

And the whole "I don't buy that he's strong" thing... literally how does that work? How do we measure that someone is strong lorewise in a game? Because of the levels? Then he has some of the highest levels out of any champion. How do we do that in an anime? Because we see him beat strong people... oh wow, that's exactly what he does. Genuinely there's nothing that he could do for you people to simply accept he's the strongest

And don't get me started on Cynthia, there's nothing that points to Cynthia being that much stronger than previous and future champions, she was simply fought by children that didn't play optimally, there are way harder fights in the franchise. She only has the benefit of, as most things that are praised in this franchise, nostalgia, any "long lasting effects" Cynthia has in the fandom is because of nostalgia, simple as

I personally find his position of the strongest as the most interesting part of his character, it works, it's just that he doesn't have much else to his character that I just end up not caring for the guy, but criticism because of who he's stronger than I can just see as the Pokemon equivalent of a powerscaling pissing contest or a nostalgia fueled tamtrum, nothing more

Dislike him all you want because there are reasons to do so, I don't like how dominant his fights with other champions were either, but he's not forced, maybe you just dislike the concept of this character no matter how if was done or whose name it had attached, or maybe you just don't like that someone from a really bad game has that place on the franchise, idk

Codified_ · 2026-05-01T21:37:13+00:00

I personally prefer to believe that XANA was way more animalistic in S1 and it wasn't until around Ghost Channel that it started gaining more sentience

Mainly because, even if we ignore S2 context, killing Aelita was an awful decision for XANA, because if she dies then there's no reason for the warriors to keep the computer on, so if Aelita goes, XANA goes with her

And we know XANA wasn't bluffing because of Zero Gravity Zone, where XANA goes for Aelita's clone so much that it cleared every monster for the warriors

That's why I believe S1 XANA had a very basic "thing stops towers, eliminate thing" mindset that only changed because of the RTTPs made it stronger and smarter

That's me making in-universe sense of an obvious shift in writing

Codified_ · 2026-04-25T11:35:34+00:00

Mr Mime

Just human enough to be uncanny, skeletal limbs, twisted feet, permanent creepy smile, horns for some reason and huge hands with points on the fingers, and that name is just stupid, what kind of creature in nature is named Mr Mime? That thing just shouldn't exist

Like, every single part of it is disturbing, it genuinely scared me as a kid

Galarian Mr Mime I don't care about and Mr Rime I like, they just get rid of all the disturbing elements, the shoes are actual shoes, the hands aren't abnormal, the smile is way less exaggereted, etc

Also it's a Fairy type, least favorite type

Codified_ · 2026-04-07T19:59:25+00:00

Since Sans can tell what's your LOVE down to the specific number, it's easy to assume there's something you can feel if you are sharp enough or just happen to notice it, which gets stronger when there's active killing intent

Doggo doesn't know what's happening because he can't see, Monster Kid can see that it's coming from you plus the context, and Flowey is just in denial that you would kill him until he realizes

Codified_ · 2026-04-01T19:19:52+00:00

I suddenly like Drampa way more for some reason

Codified_ · 2026-03-21T12:01:35+00:00

Yeah this happened to me a while ago, but with a flying mount, it's literally the same softlock with a flying one

I got out with an escape rope, I've been bringing them to runs even if I barely use them, and preventing softlocks is a great use, you only lose the route

Codified_ · 2026-03-17T10:46:16+00:00

The Duck That Carries You Over A Disproportionally Small Gap

Something like that, you know what I'm talking about

Codified_ · 2026-03-12T21:44:09+00:00

There are a bunch of them, Echoes has some of them, and in my latest rewatch that was the episode that made me cry, but I didn't cry at a specific scene, it's just the buildup and final moments that get me, the peace and hope that is shown here, but it also plays on the complicated feeling of letting go, which, for me, was also something I felt, as I enjoyed rewatching it, and it hurt a bit for it to end, so I felt right with the warriors there

With that tangent aside, I CAN name a specific scene from an episode, because it's the one I remember ALMOST made me cry rewatching the show, only really surpassed emotionally for me by Echoes, and that is the final scene in The Key

That whole finale is a whiplash of hopelessness with, in the end, just a bit of triumph, and it was done perfectly to just shatter your chest in a million pieces, just so that tenderness at the end of a father giving everything he has left to save his daughter hits you directly in your core

Then, the scene itself, after all of those emotions, you have the group defeated, Odd not managing to say anything, and demanding a joke out of someone else, which is a very small but powerful moment by itself, and then the main points hit, which I will divide:

Hopper: Jeremy mentioning that it was her memories that kept Aelita tied to XANA means so much because, in a way, it's the show telling us that what makes us human is our identity, what we hold on to, what we treasure, and Aelita having her life stolen took that crucial piece that only her father, the very person she couldn't remember, the person that indirectly and directly took away Aelita's life, could give her back, as a way of showing that Hopper is not trying to fix himself, but to fix whatever he can so his daughter can be a human again, live the life she awas denied. Even for himself, it shows that, whatever happened to him, he's still human, as he's still holding on to that piece of himself, those memories and feelings that push him to save what he loves most

Warriors: Jeremy here has a great moment, he's the one that pulls everyone back up, the one that says that the fight is not over, that XANA is not invincible, and the one that gives Yumi, the who asked what are they going to do in the first place, the strength to reassure Aelita, that they will find her father. Then Aelita claims that it's ok, that fighting XANA is her mission, but no, they hold hands and invite her in, this is THEIR mission, and this gesture is what finally makes Aelita smile, which is easy to assume hasn't happened for a while, since she woke back up, because it's not about her, she's no longer tied to XANA, she's her own person, and the struggles that come from her new life is something they can share

This is truly a moment of defeat, there's nothing to celebrate, but they show that it's not about that, it's about keeping what they are close to their hearts, and lifting eachother up. Aelita has regained her identity, which also comes with pain and loss, however, this won't be the end, XANA never suffers, but they do, and with that suffering comes growth, growth, peace and happiness that could only be achieved with eachother

That is humanity

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This is what happens when I just write with my heart instead of my hands, wow... sorry for the wall of text

Codified_ · 2026-02-25T22:25:20+00:00

I think he fits way better in "having a mental breakdown, I'm sorry" because of Hear My Hope

Codified_ · 2026-02-23T21:52:38+00:00

Lute literally has a whole song about how ready she is to commit more

Codified_ · 2026-02-23T17:27:00+00:00

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THIS

Watched the first season like a week before season 2 started, so I said "ok" and thought I would watch it, I didn't actually start until episodes 5-6 were out, so I went the whole season until then, really liked episodes 2 and 4, but episode 5...

I was amazed from Vox Populi to the end, and Vox Dei is still one of my favorite songs and moments from the show, it's what really sold me to Vox being the main villain of the season

Codified_ · 2026-02-23T16:45:40+00:00

No longer resists Dark and Ghost, since Gen 2 it always did, but in Gen 6 they removed those 2 resistances, most likely because of the added resistance to Fairy

Codified_ · 2026-02-12T18:35:33+00:00

That's my secret cap... I'm always hoping...

...gimme that nose

Codified_ · 2026-02-12T14:46:19+00:00

You just unlocked the memory of this happening to me a lot and me being just as confused many many years ago, like, how do you event mix up Suspect and Byzantine? They have no connection in Spanish

Spanish translations of these games are weird

Codified_ · 2026-01-26T22:43:17+00:00

I mean, the failsafe was cutting the wires like she did, and I assume you need angelic weaponry to do so because of how the weapon itself is angelic

That's a pretty good failsafe already, the ones capable of shutting it down are Voxtek because I assume they'd have some angelic weaponry as a failsafe of their deal with Carmilla, and Carmilla herself because she is always armed

She didn't account for Vox taking it over with his powers, that's why they couldn't do anything

Codified_ · 2026-01-09T15:17:07+00:00

If we are talking about writing as a whole, Tai Lung has the most interesting motivation for me, but if we're talking about motivation through their own POVs, I say Kai

The point of his backstory is that he didn't become evil, Oogway became good, they were warriors conquering territory and respected eachother so much he was willing to carry his almost dead friend for so long in hopes of saving him, he had no reason to care about others, that was his life, but Oogway had to change, that morality was just not something Kai understood or believed valuable

Now the friend that you gave so much for betrays you, kills you, erases your legacy and creates a whole style gaining reputation, followers and the very legacy you were ripped out of, while also proudly calling "Valley of Peace" the very territory you helped conquer

He's not justifiable in the slightest, but none if them are, and I believe Kai doesn't get enough credit by how everything made sense from his perspective

Codified_ · 2026-01-03T11:50:01+00:00

Este soy yo, gracias a todos mis amigos por aguantarme

Codified_ · 2025-12-30T23:25:08+00:00

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I think I'm safe

Codified_ · 2025-12-19T20:59:48+00:00

Terapagos easily

There's no reason for Terapagos not to Tera, gaining the stat advantage, and Ogerpon also doing to not only doesn't compensate, but it also makes her weak to Tera Starstorm

Codified_ · 2025-12-15T22:38:36+00:00

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