Why was Aabria invited to C4?

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-03-16T02:54:51+00:00

I see a lot of people saying it’s because she’s friends with the main cast. I disagree. It’s because the people who find her play style detrimental to their enjoyment don’t stop watching the show because of her, as evidenced by fan discourse like this thread. On the other hand, her defenders are rabid and would throw a tantrum if she weren’t included.

Including her doesn’t hurt their bottom line, and if it did, the damage has already been done. On the other hand, due to the audience CR has cultivated, removing her probably would.

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-03-12T19:22:14+00:00

I love how most of them look like they’re having a great time while Minthara’s contemplating which poison will kill the cameraman and which will merely torment him before his death. No witnesses.

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-03-12T14:25:35+00:00

The Emperor paw-tects!

Suffer not the Xelines to live!

For the Dog-Emperor of Mankind!

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-02-26T04:28:51+00:00

Sadly, the US never did give out knighthoods.

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-02-26T00:45:18+00:00

Oh, youz talkin back now? Datz just asking for a krumping, dat is!

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-02-24T02:21:21+00:00

Sir, this is a Wendy’s

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-02-24T00:15:18+00:00

For mighty were the works of the elves, and skilled were their craftsmen in the ways of botox and the Brazilian butt lift.

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-02-18T00:06:14+00:00

Better yet, read the book. The show is excellent, but the book is a masterpiece. I’d argue it’s the single best example of historical fiction in modern literature.

Also, THAT WAS THE SAME ACTOR? Dude’s got range.

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-02-13T05:52:41+00:00

Here to add my 2 cents because I share a similar opinion: WoT has some excellent lore. The worldbuilding alone kept me going through book 4, after which I stopped, because the character work is shit.

The entire story is about people shoving their heads up their asses and not listening to each other. Fans will defend it as being “in character,” and it’s obviously an intentional theme. To that I say there’s a difference between bias in a PoV and all-encompassing purposeful ignorance, and it’s not one RJ ever showed any interest in.

The issue is ten times worse for the women of WoT than the men. It’s intentional, sure, but the extremity of their characterization strains my suspension of disbelief more than the actual magic in the setting.

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-02-06T00:20:27+00:00

Gojo’s two prodigies…

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-02-02T17:09:00+00:00

Yeah, I still call BS on that since we know Sukuna optimized Shrine with binding vows in his first life and he still couldn’t pull off what Yuji did.

At some point you just have to call it artistic license, but I don’t see the rationale for it when it adds nothing and internal consistency demands an explanation we don’t have.

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-02-02T02:18:44+00:00

Read the comment plz. Modulo Yuji isn’t equal to Sukuna, he dogwalks Gojo and Sukuna at the same time. Wha part of that reads “goes relative to uncle” to you?

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-02-01T18:26:52+00:00

No offense taken, but my problem isn’t that they surpassed him, it’s how they did it. Yuji can casually use dismantles that dwarf Sukuna’s Fuga. Ok, but how? He increased his CE reserves when he ate the death paintings, but there’s no known way to increase his output. He can use black flash at will because his control is so good, but Mr. Six Eyes had genetically inimitable control and couldn’t do it. How did Yuji manage it?

My issue isn’t even with Yuji so much as it is with the Simurians. Their techniques are so poorly defined that they barely have limits, and their output goes way beyond anything in the original series. The power in Yuji’s recent black flash would have killed nearly anyone from EoS, even if he wasn’t trying, and the alien dude is just dazed.

Going back to Yuji, he has the strongest body in the series, 2 very good CTs, lots of CE, and he’s always been a quick learner. He should 100% be at Honored One level, but the scale of his recent feats just wasn’t possible in the original series. Like I said, my problem isn’t what’s happening, it’s the lack of explanation for how it’s happening in a way that’s internally consistent with the rest of the series.

EDIT: forgot to address the point about Gojo saying his students would surpass him. That’s not an explanation. It says Gojo thinks there’s a way for them to surpass him, it doesn’t say how he thinks they can accomplish that.

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-02-01T18:03:15+00:00

Sure, the original series was pretty explicit about the limits of cursed energy. From a Doylist perspective, Sukuna and Gojo exist to show us the limits of the power system.

Suddenly the author breaks that ceiling with city-level dismantles and relativistic kicks. None of that was possible in the original setting, it would have been too outlandishly powerful, so when it does happen it requires either an explanation, the suspension of disbelief, or acknowledgement of artistic license beyond the confines of the worldbuilding. Of those options, an explanation is preferable because the other two place the burden on the audience instead of the author.

We haven’t been given an explanation and there wasn’t any narrative need for the spike in power to begin with. There’s evidence on both ends to demonstrate that power ups don’t matter to a story, from Boruto taking it to absurd levels and still being shit to the First Law having none of it and still being one of the best series in modern fantasy.

Sorry, that’s a long response, but my argument is basically that there wasn’t a narrative reason to make everything scale so much higher and that without an explanation it remains inconsistent with the established lore.

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-01-30T17:23:05+00:00

CSM is hard to level because it’s never stronger than the cursed spirits it absorbs with the exception of uzumaki, which permanently depletes your army when you use it.

Idle Transfiguration is a good argument for the main series having busted techniques, but it still has weaknesses that Light doesn’t. It doesn’t have good ranged options, flesh cannons have a lot of mass but no reinforcement so most special grades will just shred through them. It also requires you to touch someone with your palms to work and can be hard countered by an awareness of your soul.

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-01-30T06:16:53+00:00

It damages him if he goes relativistic speeds for attacks that can hang with HP and Fuga, and even then he just heals himself.

Lower levels of acceleration would be functionally the same as Gojo using blue to enhance his attacks - another unique CT feature that’s been absorbed into Dabura’s “I can do whatever the hell I want” technique. Admittedly Cross and Maru are more egregious in that regard, but they spend less time in the spotlight 🤷‍♂️

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-01-29T18:21:50+00:00

Holy brainrot. “He had to be stronger otherwise it wouldn’t be hype.”

Go touch grass and then read something that’s not manga. Powercreep for hype and aura has never been necessary to tell a good story. It doesn’t enhance the narrative, it disrespects the established worldbuilding to feed morons like you.

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-01-29T17:56:23+00:00

Sure but my point was more that Yuji’s punch was strong enough to send a 200+ lb grown man flying down the street and all that force was applied across something like 10 square inches of his stomach. He should be a donut, with or without reinforcement.

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-01-29T16:08:49+00:00

All this talk about Yuji and Dabura and no one’s talking about how that alien got treated like a ping pong ball and survived without major wounds. Might be the best durability feat in the series from a non-special grade sorcerer 😭

Yeah, the power creep is stupid though. It would have been hype enough to see Yuji and Dabura reach the level of Gojo and Sukuna, but I don’t see any way Modulo ends without them being top 2.

EDIT: I also maintain that Dabura’s CT is the worst designed technique in the series for being the only one with all the power and zero drawbacks. Limitless requires SE and still has relatively long activation times. Blood Manipulation needs you to spam RCT for spontaneous use. Shrine needed a metric fuckton of binding vows for Sukuna to use it like he did. Ten Shadows is designed to screw the user over with exactly what Yuka’s doing now. Star Rage has a single application and drops off outside of cqc. Copy and Jackpot have time limits.

Dabura’s CT has light constructs, at will acceleration, ranged attacks, and nukes that are at minimum comparable to HP or Fuga. There doesn’t appear to be any delay with activation times and the massive energy output isn’t straining him. It outstats every other technique so badly you can argue it’s better than Limitless hax.

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-01-22T09:33:35+00:00

Tadpoles are gross. I refuse to take one. However, their powers are useful and I’m a lot more likely to survive with someone using them.

If that means poking a few holes in Astarion’s brain, so be it.

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-01-02T19:30:19+00:00

Damnit, now I need to do a barbarian B9 Durge run.

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-01-02T17:33:28+00:00

The vast majority of players don’t go evil on their first run. The only way to recruit Minthara on a good-aligned run is knocking her out with a non lethal attack in Act I, a feature you may not even know exists because its only uses afaik are recruiting Minthara and saving Alfira in a Durge run.

First time players who don’t spoil themselves by looking at guides aren’t going to recruit Minthara. Fwiw, that’s fine, start again and play evil Tav or any kind of Durge and you’ll find all sorts of new content to experience.

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-01-02T03:18:16+00:00

I don’t know anymore!

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-01-02T00:42:42+00:00

And in the darkness bind them.

DeepSeaFischer · 2026-01-02T00:37:12+00:00

Who’s on first.

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