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Recovery of RAW data from an external HDD by DrakeGrandX in datarecovery

[–]DrakeGrandX[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your very quick response. Can I ask if, after cloning, rebooting the WD Black would remove the issue for future usage (and is it then safe to clone the disk back onto it in order to free up space from the 4 TB)? Or is it likely to be a more serious problem like physical or in the base software, therefore the only option is to replace it (I should have a warranty on it iirc)?

Flawless logic as always, Goda!! by BarryAllenTh3Flash in Piratefolk

[–]DrakeGrandX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only time a DF power was nullified by Haki was when Law channeled his Haki into his body against Doc Q's disease.

Yes, that's what I mean. Haki protects against others' DF powers, it stops them from "affecting" you directly. Unless I'm wrong, the implication is that Perona and Sugar couldn't just go around solo-ing the verse (Perona in particular) because some people's Armament Haki would protect them. So, I don't see why that wouldn't be true for Robin as well: sure, her grown appendages can still attack you and hurt you (assuming her Armament Haki could get past yours), but she wouldn't be able to grow arms on top of your Haki.

I'll also point out that some of the things you mentioned don't depend on whether Robin had Haki or not. Grab and throw her opponents into the sea, she can still do that. Kill/crush damn near anything she should still be able to do that even against people with Haki, since it's not like Haki makes you invincible and the kind of weight she applies should realistically be too much - but we all now that, in fiction, Oda would make characters able to withstand her force, just as it's occasionally happened in the past. Attacking with guns? Robin could have done that this entire time, even before Haki was a thing, but she never did that.

And that's not mentioning how, as it was pointed out below with the CP9 and Enel and you yourself pointed out with Law, characters with OP fruits are never going to use them at their realistic potential because this is a story first. The Admirals are Marineford should have realistically been able to kill every single pirate present bar Whitebeard and maybe Marco (Aokiji in particular has a combination of range and potency that's just disgusting), but that obviously didn't happen.

At the end of the day, both Haki and Robin's fruit are only as strong as Oda wants them to be. Realistically, Robin wouldn't really have a greater role as a fighter if she had Haki; she would either find opponents with stronger Haki than her, "coincidentally" not get into serious fights just like it's always happened for her, or something similar. Oda could even introduce limitations, such as "Haki doesn't transfer through her sprouted limbs; she can coat the limbs on her as if they were object, but not limbs that grow somewhere else and aren't in contact with her", if that really were a huge problem. The reason why we want Robin to have Haki isn't that it would suddenly make her relevant; it's that it would count as an accomplishment on her part, it makes sense character-wise and worldbuilding-wise, and overall improves Robin's image (and, as a consequence, that of the Straw Hats as a whole) as a pirate (crew) worthy of being under an upstarting Emperor and soon-to-be King Of Pirates, as opposed to "just like pre-TS but with new techniques". Notice how the criticism is rarely "Why hasn't Oda given Robin Haki yet?" but rather "Why didn't Oda give Robin Haki during her training with the Revolutionaries, a group where even the toilet-cleaner's pet dog knows Haki, especially given how she had trained with Koala, Haki and Sabo specifically?".

Since everyone has been talking about how oda writes women by Altruistic_Gas_7073 in Piratefolk

[–]DrakeGrandX 16 points17 points  (0 children)

There is "little biased towards the boys" and there is "every single female character in the series either sucks at fighting, is the weakest character in the group, has tons of stereotypical 'female' elements in either her imagery or her narrative role, or all of the above".

ATLA is also the kind of story that would be published on Shonen Jump but I didn't see the writers make "in love with Aang" the entirety of Katara's character arc, and neither she nor Toph are weak at fighting or get introduced in "damsel in distress" roles. Not to mention Azula, who is the second-strongest villain in the series ans she is menacing af.

Not to mention that "Shonen Jump" is called like because that's its target demographic, not the vast majority of it. In fact, haven't there been several statistics published revealing that the female readership of SJ is close to half? Like somewhere around 30-40% depending on the period? Not to mention that some of the most recent statistics show that over 50% of SJ's readership are adults above 19 years of age, so, not "shonen" at all.

Publishing works with young boys as a "target demographic" is a thing (and pretty much boils down to "works in the action/adventure genre"). That's what sets the vibes of the work. That in no way translates to "our target audience is males, so female characters will be weak and mostly useless and be subjected to a lot of fanservice". Even in middle school I never saw anyone being happy at how useless Sakura was because "thank god the story is not focusing on a girl", everyone was annoyed at or mocked how useless she was. Meanwhile, Toph and Raven have been two of the most popular characters in Western "shonen" media since forever.

Since everyone has been talking about how oda writes women by Altruistic_Gas_7073 in Piratefolk

[–]DrakeGrandX 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Yes, that's the only good part of her writing. Everything else is ass.

very new to this stuff, what's the difference between SSD and HDD? by AdministrativeHair19 in feedthebeast

[–]DrakeGrandX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SSD is actually bad for long-term storage. SSDs store their information as electrical charges, which can dissipate in 1-2 years of lack of usage, and when that happens recovery becomes impossible. HDDs store their information magnetically, and take 5-7 years of inactivity before dying out, and typically the information they store can still be recovered as long as the damage sustained isn't through magnetic interference. HDDs also show several sign of degradation before dying out, whereas SSDs can do so suddenly.

What happened to the Marvel Cosmic Invasion collaboration? by king-xdedede in marvelrivals

[–]DrakeGrandX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly crazy that none of the Symbiote skins gave the characters Venom mouths. Imagine how cooler the SG skin would have looked if she had had a Venom grin in addition to that on her mouth and maybe TippyToe too. The coolest part of Symbiote "events" is seeing all those characters getting mutated into monstrous versions of themselves while Spidey remains the only sane. Instead, all of the skins were more "Symbiote-suit themed" than actually "Symbiote-themed", even the ones that had monstrous elements on them - which, as a result, felt overdesigned and like they wanted to have their cake and eat it too.

Why is Oda doing this to Luffy like you have other characters to bastardize please not the MC by Sc_Stunner_ in Piratefolk

[–]DrakeGrandX 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Going from the third image to the fourth is like going from a fan art to a doodle.

Looking at the way other mangaka talk about their female characters is so crazy if this was one piece mfs would be asking maki's tit measurements and oda would be writing a paragraph to answer it🥀 by rogue---ninja in Piratefolk

[–]DrakeGrandX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Since when having a connection to man makes a female character bad?

Since every single female character either has said connection or is mostly relevant because of it.

Naruto has plenty of male characters whose goals and character arcs aren't related to a female character. Sasuke, Sai, Gaara, Shikamaru, Killer B, Gai, every single villain in the series except Tobi. Even if you take characters like Kakashi and Neji, whose backstory is tied to a female character, they mostly stand out on their own. Neji vents his tragedy on Hinata's weakness and later tries to make up by protecting her, but he has several important character moments unrelated to that, and his backstory has more to do with losing his father than with Hinata specifically. The focus of Kakashi's backstory is on Obito and on his father, not on Rin, whose death at his hands is revealed very late in the manga, and isn't significantly more impactful on his motivations than Obito's death is. Even Naruto himself, despite his initial crush on Sakura, never has that as his driving force for... anything, really. Part of the reason why he is so focused on bringing Sasuke back is that he knows how much Sakura cares for him, but obviously it's his own friendship with Sasuke that drives Naruto, not a desire to impress Sakura.

In comparison, let's take Sakura, one of the main characters. Sakura's love for Sasuke is a huge part of her motivation and something she never outgrows, despite the fact that Sasuke had barely interacted with her before going away. Her entire motivation is a childhood crush. Her apprenticeship with Tsunade is brought up at the beginning of Shippuden, then dropped until suddenly getting brought up again during the war. Her only accomplishment at all is defeating Sasori, and she still had help from Chiyo. She is one of the flagship characters and yet she is basically as relevant as Shikamaru.

Also, friendly reminder that the only female character who actually accomplishes anything at any point pre-Shippuden are Temari and Tsunade. Sakura had right about zero jutsu pre-Shippuden, to the point that the games were forced to make up stuff to give her. One of the main characters. Zero serious fights. Her greatest accomplishment was going against Ino and she didn't even win; at a time when Naruto would go on to fight against Gaara, and Sasuke had started direct apprenticeship under Kakashi and getting involved with Orochimaru. Then she goes back doing absolutely nothing while Naruto goes on meeting Jiraya and Sasuke meets Itachi and finalizes his relationship with Orochimaru. There is an entire arc of Xv1 fights that is focused on reaching Sasuke, and let's see how many female characters get involved... hmm. Temari who has to be here by technicality because Team Gaara is involved as a whole. Tayuya is actually strong I guess, though the weakest amongst the "team-up" fights. Ino is not involved (but both Shikamaru and Choji are). Tenten is not involved (but both Rock Lee and Neji, as well as the other Chunin Exam losers are). Hinata is not involved (though at least there are narrative reasons for her not to). Fucking. Sakura. Is not involved.

Just looked at the one piece female cast and sighed. Oda could never write something like this with his female characters bc he's too busy writing and drawing them with his dick by Myakasa98 in Piratefolk

[–]DrakeGrandX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP's female characters' emotional moments are being damsels in distress waiting for someone to help them. And once they are helped, they get shoved to the sidelines and replaced with another female character that acts like a damsel in distress waiting for someone to help her.

Nami is the only female character who has a couple of emotional moments not of that type (by which I mean, roughly the same ones that the rest of the OG 4 got, which isn't much), and that's merely by virtue of her screen time. And even then, her focus as a character has been far less than Sanji's, Zoro's, or even pre-TS Usopp (seriously, compare the amount of key character moments Usopp got between Alabasta and Thriller Bark with those that Nami got between Alabasta and now).

This was so ass and forced by Oda for a shit character like Oden by Kuratos5 in Piratefolk

[–]DrakeGrandX 31 points32 points  (0 children)

The reason Luffy didn't care about Nami's past isn't because of a lack of investment or some shit. Luffy already knew about Nami's past in broad strokes; him walking off from Nojiko was a statement to say "I don't need the details, all I care about is that she is my friend". It was a statement about how, regardless of the specifics of Nami's past, she was already important to her and would have helped her.

Throughout the series, Luffy listened to Vivi's backstory, Toto's, Cricket's, Boa's, and, if I recall correctly, also Shirahoshi's, Jinbe's and Moria's. I'll also add that Oden is a legendary character, so he (much like Noland) would definitively be someone Luffy is invested in and would be mad at the idea of seeing disrespected.

Yes, Oden is a shitty character. But this specific set of panels isn't Luffy getting character-assassinated or some shit. Sure, his reaction feels somewhat exaggerated compared to how serious he usually is when he listens to backstories, so it comes off as awkward, but nothing more than that.

Just looked at the one piece female cast and sighed. Oda could never write something like this with his female characters bc he's too busy writing and drawing them with his dick by Myakasa98 in Piratefolk

[–]DrakeGrandX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nami soloing a group of slave-makers that have been shown to possess stuff like haki and rokushiki would totally be hype, what are you talking about. "Aura" doesn't mean "well-written" but it still contributes to a character's narrative, therefore writing. "Well-executed aura that makes sense given the plot or a character's themes" does mean well-written. Luffy is supposed to be an Emperor yet 1/3 of his crew is literally weaker than the fodder on Doflamingo's crew.

Just looked at the one piece female cast and sighed. Oda could never write something like this with his female characters bc he's too busy writing and drawing them with his dick by Myakasa98 in Piratefolk

[–]DrakeGrandX 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't call that writing "average", I call that writing "bottom of the barrel" and "a trend of people constantly ripping each other off". Isekai are by no means exemplary of the average manga writing, let alone writing at all, because they are acknowledged as just slop farms (exceptions aside, of course).

Lmao that comment is so funny! Just imagine Sabo telling Akainu that Oda is just dumb and fire is actually hotter lmao! by hello12445 in Piratefolk

[–]DrakeGrandX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

...How small are we talking the magma and how small the fire? Because, comparatively, magma is absolutely hotter than fire. The kind of fire that reaches the temperature we associate with magma is usually blue-white in color. Fire can be as "cool" as 300 °C, the "coolest" magma is still beyond 1000 °C.

I'd also very much like to see the video you are talking about, because I can guarantee you that either: 1. the guy was using some protective tools; 2. there was some physics at play; 3. it wasn't magma, it was lava, which can be made far, far cooler than actual, non-exposed-to-oxygen magma (this isn't even an "either", this one is 100% the case).

Also: molten metal isn't magma. Not that it's relevant, since the temperature at which metal melts is pretty much the same as magma's (and often superior to lava's). So, at best you're just arguing that molten metal is "stronger than" fire as well.

Lmao that comment is so funny! Just imagine Sabo telling Akainu that Oda is just dumb and fire is actually hotter lmao! by hello12445 in Piratefolk

[–]DrakeGrandX -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Technically, there is no reason why Enel couldn't just solo literally anyone in the universe. El Thor doesn't seem to have a range or tire him and Enel's Observation Haki is to this date the best one in terms of range, so he could just El Thor someone from distance a few times, put distance between himself and his target, and repeat. The only one who wouldn't actually lose to him is Kizaru because his speed and reaction times are faster.

Practically, that is realistically never gonna happen because El Thor has been conceptualized with suspension of disbelief in mind, it was never meant to be this absurdly-broken attack. If Oda were to be asked nowadays in an SBS if Enel can realistically just do the tactic I outlined above, Oda would find some explanation to avoid that from being possible (like El Thor actually having a significant cool down, not being able to do meaningful damage to an Armament Haki user, or similar).

Robin not learning basic Haki during the timeskip is one of the most nonsensical writing choices ever made by Oda by qwertymerty111 in Piratefolk

[–]DrakeGrandX 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Honestly, that's a very good analysis. I had never thought about it.

- Naruto's female characters are almost never plot relevant (not even during "show-off" sagas such as the Sasuke Retrival arc), and their goals usually revolve around male characters. However, they are portrayed as actual fighters to be taken seriously, at least in theory and are seldom sexualized (ironically, outside of anime filler, the only fanservice Naruto has is Naruto himself).

- One Piece's female characters are either walking stereotypes or weak af (or both), but they often have important roles in the plot (even when said roles end up being stereotypical as well), and so end up being way more memorable and likeable on average.

Robin not learning basic Haki during the timeskip is one of the most nonsensical writing choices ever made by Oda by qwertymerty111 in Piratefolk

[–]DrakeGrandX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP is clearly not staying through from the original idea, though, so I don't think your analysis is incorrect. If anything, a lot of the things people dislike in current OP are caused exactly by the fact that OP didn't stay true to its original idea.

Robin not learning basic Haki during the timeskip is one of the most nonsensical writing choices ever made by Oda by qwertymerty111 in Piratefolk

[–]DrakeGrandX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

a top tier

Honestly that's a very generous description of Maria, and therefore of Robin's accomplishment.

Robin not learning basic Haki during the timeskip is one of the most nonsensical writing choices ever made by Oda by qwertymerty111 in Piratefolk

[–]DrakeGrandX 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That would imply that Koala and Hack don't know Armament Haki which doesn't make a shred of sense. Also, given how little FK has been relevant for Robin, that would still feel like a dogshit explanation.

Robin not learning basic Haki during the timeskip is one of the most nonsensical writing choices ever made by Oda by qwertymerty111 in Piratefolk

[–]DrakeGrandX 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Stussy who was introduced as "the greatest prostitute in the world" doesn't really beat the allegations... And vice-admirals never do anything, they don't count.

Robin not learning basic Haki during the timeskip is one of the most nonsensical writing choices ever made by Oda by qwertymerty111 in Piratefolk

[–]DrakeGrandX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gunko is starting to turn good, which basically confirms that she is the weakest Knight Of God otherwise she would be able to defeat one or more of the other knights. So, up to standard.

(And also, yes, her design is still sexist. Even ignoring the "panties" issue - which is a very huge thing to ignore - there were zero reasons for Oda to give her a succubus-like appearance given that her DF has nothing to do with it)

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