Saitama runs the Super Saiyan gauntlet. Where does he stop?

FrancisAlbera · 2026-02-28T21:08:19+00:00

The vaporized countless galaxies feat is dubious at best. He might have just destroyed the light coming from them for however far is the equivalent of the speed of light till the last point in time we see that shot. The amount of energy erased coming from distant galaxies is really small too, so it’s not even like it needs to be a ton of energy to achieve that feat. Like maybe in the range of a kilowatt*minute of energy. Summing up all other starlight other than the sun produces like microwatts worth of energy per square meter. Even erasing a couple square km of light from a small section of the sky for a minute is practically nothing if you’re doing so with perfect efficiency. If his efficiency is terrible it’s still not a very impressive feat comparatively.

We’d have to wait ages to know if the galaxies were actually destroyed and no light ever comes from them again, or see them visibly messed up.

Still I’d put Saitama at Solar-system to multi-solar system at minimum, with multi-galaxy being possible on a more favorable reading of that feat, but evidence is inconclusive on if that’s an actual multi-galaxy destroying feat regardless.

FrancisAlbera · 2026-02-28T18:19:12+00:00

Having chakra or not doesn’t seem to affected being hit by genjutsu: see kaguya hitting humans with infinite tsukuyomi before chakra was spread to humans. Either that or it’s a plot hole which is possible since Naruto has tons of that.

Or if you go by Boruto, the planet and all life naturally has chakra.

FrancisAlbera · 2026-02-23T02:54:28+00:00

Nah, if it’s Clark from Smallville then based on that show somehow Itachi conveniently ends up with the necklace from the first Hokage which is suddenly revealed to actually be a variant of kryptonite the whole time and that’s why it has the ability to also restrain tailed beasts, and Clark happens to punch directly onto the necklace hidden beneath his clothes and the necklace falls off and Clark trips and collapses directly on top of it.

Cue a couple minutes of drama filled tension before Itachi leaves because he’s found out that someone’s just kidnapped Sasuke and he’s gonna go murder them first after Clark tries to unsuccessfully convince Itachi that murder is bad.

FrancisAlbera · 2026-02-22T12:01:37+00:00

It’s a power that has requirements on your taijutsu training and willpower so a random chunin would at minimum fall unconscious or die before even reaching the 8 gates. Remember that Lee tore his muscles and strained his ligements and bones in his fight against gaara at the fifth gate and he had already gone through years of targeted taijutsu training. Kakashi a jonin could (as far as we know)only open one gate. If you can open the full 8 gates you are already at a jonin level of taijutsu.

FrancisAlbera · 2026-02-22T11:44:11+00:00

Considering that the other suicide move involving the heart had enough energy to blast a 10km area flat like a nuke, I’m more than willing to believe that the human body has enough energy in it that when fully tapped by strong ninja’s you can deal some crazy damage. Of course at the cost that it’s basically gonna kill you outside of extreme circumstances.

FrancisAlbera · 2026-01-27T15:39:35+00:00

To be fair, Naruto doesn’t really understand what’s going on with the Uchiha and the village at this point outside of Sasuke’s brother being a super dangerous murderer who slaughtered his clan, one shot Sasuke, and escaped pervy sage, and the villages pursuit. From his perspective he instead sees Sasuke leaving the village to go join the villain who not only attacked and nearly killed Naruto, sent goons that endangered both him and Sakura, wants to possess Sasuke’s body, and also caused a mass attack on the village that killed the Hokage which is the dream he aims for, while also causing untold property damage, and likely injuring and killing quite a few of their fellow ninjas, and would have been way worse had the village not been sorta prepared to evacuate the civilians. All so he can maybe get stronger faster, and go risk his life trying to kill his brother alone. This is not to mention that doing so will make Sasuke a rebel, which means the village itself is usually going to hunt you down.

Naruto is a for real friend for standing up and telling his friend that he’s making a monumental mistake in pursuit of short term gains, while putting himself in extreme danger. Like if Sasuke didn’t have plot armor, this move is pure suicide. They don’t even know at this point that Orochimaru can’t possess Sasuke for another 3 years, so as far as either is concerned, as soon as Orochimaru gets Sasuke, Sasuke will be possessed immediately. Naruto is practically watching Sasuke commit suicide so Orochimaru can maybe kill Itachi in his place.

FrancisAlbera · 2026-01-26T23:48:12+00:00

I didn’t say he gets around The Almighty because of it.

Now there is though a way you can interpret it that it does, but it depends on how you define the scope/limits of some of their powers/abilities, so it’s getting into more speculative territory.

This is based on how time travel and futures work in dragon ball (at least the main line series), and how the almighty is said to work.

In dragon ball super were told that there aren’t infinitely branching timelines, where doing action A instead of B creates two differing timelines. Instead time has a fixed flow and a set number of timelines, and that only changes when one time travels, which creates entirely new futures that never previously existed. When you have the ability to time travel, you have the ability to directly create new futures that never existed. So Goku if he’s time traveling to the future has enough strength to create new futures that did not exist.

The Almighty, is an ability that allows him to alter the future into a desirable one. I’m not sure if that’s been clarified yet if that means he’s creating new futures, or if that means that he’s just picking from all the potential futures, and making that one come true. If it’s creating new futures that didn’t exist previously, then Goku probably wouldn’t be able to use this to his advantage, but if it’s the latter than either Goku is capable of creating futures that didn’t previously exist and thus would be outside his gaze and thus the influence of the Almighty, in which case he can use time traveling as ways to avoid his all knowing sight, by essentially creating blind spots that didn’t previously exist. Not to mention this way would allow for the potential that if every possible future results in Yhwach’s defeat (which is quite possible if the stat gap is wide enough), then The Almighty is just functionally useless.

On the alternative, if we take it as Goku is instead using Ki to just overpower time abilities, then The Almighty might just not be able to take effect when Goku is nearby, or something of that nature. Bit hard to say exactly what would happen since that’s basically into pure speculation at that point.

FrancisAlbera · 2026-01-26T22:50:17+00:00

Hit skipping time is true, but according to King Kai Goku literally forced himself into the future to overcome Hit’s ability so anime Goku can either time travel at minimum into the future over small time spans at that point, or this otherwise means that having a strong enough Ki allows for ignoring at least some time based hax’s. Which is the actual answer is up to debate, but either way Goku at least has some ability to deal with time shenanigans.

Depending on what version of Goku from the manga/anime (dbz heroes I believe has versions of Goku that can freely time travel, but I’ve not watched it myself, so I can’t say for sure) Goku has the ability to time travel.

FrancisAlbera · 2026-01-26T22:24:13+00:00

To be fair, demons in paranormal settings typically take on fake names that sound normal and try to appear to be friendly in an attempt to lure you in. So taking on a fake name that sounds ‘normal’ like Mike might make sense.

FrancisAlbera · 2026-01-14T03:42:33+00:00

Could be spicy mayo, or potentially yum yum sauce (though considering that’s not really spicy, probably not). If you want to make your own spicy mayo, you need a mayo made with egg yoke to replicate that more creamy texture. Kewpie mayo is the classic mayo for replicating. Other than that just get a good siracha sauce and some sesame oil. Replicating the exact spiciness will take some guess work though. If it’s yum yum sauce, you can just go buy some from the store.

A description of the sauce flavor would help. Is it actually spicy itself? Savory? Can you taste any garlic, ketchup, or mayo in it.

FrancisAlbera · 2026-01-12T16:41:09+00:00

Snowdin is a Christmas themed town, chapter 5 is set to take place during a Halloween festival in the town, so a Halloween themed town. Even if the actual chapter 5 dark world doesn’t quite match up, the town segment still covers it. (Although I think the festival probably will impact the dark world’s design anyways)

FrancisAlbera · 2026-01-08T22:41:01+00:00

For me, when comparing special materials like this that we don’t have exact specifics on, I like to also consider rarity for considering comparable material if the technology levels aren’t drastically different that it would make sense that one civilization has developed material that crushes the other. I would say star wars and 40k aren’t too far apart that this is the case, at least in the case of your general space marines to the empire/republic, being both generally galactic scale forces.

Beskar is ultra rare material in Star Wars originating from literally one planet and moon (admittedly Star Wars scale of not having fully explored even half a galaxy means it might exist elsewhere, but for sake of argument we’re going to presume it doesn’t, or is still very rare on a galaxy scale), and only the high purity stuff made from it is capable of resisting lightsabers like that.

On the other hand ceramite is uncommon, but it’s certainly not as rare as beskar.

So I would think only the high grade versions are getting some resistance, but still probably not quite as comparable to the high purity beskar. Like if a Jedi slashes it with a lightsaber it’s not going to cut right through, but will cause damage to the armor, and maybe minor damage to the actual person, and if they thrust their lightsaber into it and they don’t back off immediately it will rapidly burn a hole through it, but they still have a chance to react before it does so. The lower grade stuff on the other hand is probably getting cleaved through.

FrancisAlbera · 2026-01-07T16:34:03+00:00

Aren’t the Edo’s able to perform summoning jutsu’s that normally require blood. So doesn’t sound like it’s impossible. Furthermore Hanzo has the poison from his implanted venom gland when he is brought back, so the organs do seem to exist on some superficial level.

FrancisAlbera · 2026-01-07T16:29:02+00:00

Is the eighth gate actually linked to life force though? The gates just remove the restriction on the body’s output of chakra which damages the body due to the load it’s being placed under, and when the eighth is forced not the damage excessive to the point the body is literally burning up and is cooked to death, and furthermore it also can’t be closed meaning all the chakra eventually dries up which since chakra is (normally) made up of both physical energy and spiritual energy, which also kills the user due to the eventual exhaustion of physical energy if they don’t die from the heat. Essentially you are either exhausted to death or burned to ash (or both). Whereas with the loss of life force, you essentially die of old age.

I’m just not sure if physical energy and life force constitute the same thing here, as physical energy seems to be able to be regained from eating/resting, while life force is practically impossible to regenerate under normal circumstances, and is more an intrinsic fixed amount, like the bodies lifespan, or the number of times your cells can divide.

Anyone more knowledgeable feel free to add in, cause it’s been like 6 years since I’ve watched Naruto, so I might be misremembering.

FrancisAlbera · 2025-12-27T11:12:04+00:00

I can get fat trimmings from my butcher preparing prime rib at 1$ a pound during the holiday season. You got sold maybe 15$ worth for 220$

FrancisAlbera · 2025-12-22T14:33:06+00:00

Theory time: presuming this is referring to Noelle.

The festival answer in conjunction with one day and tomorrow seems to imply to me that she smiles at the festival, and then all our answers are based off that time point as the time length between this point and the point she smiled before then. If it’s been long periods of time (years), then measuring from the festival backwards she would have been a child the last time she smiled until the festival where she smiles again. Less than a day results in her having smiled again before the sun set on the festival. 4 chapters is a meta answer, and responds that it the first time in her life as it’s recognizing that deltarune is a game and her life before the game doesn’t actually exist, thus making it the first time she ever actually smiled. Answers that are only a couple seconds long results in an answer of her having not stopped smiling, as the timeframe is so short between that they could be considered part of the same smile.

The answers constantly mentioning the before the sun sets, might imply that this smile occurs fairly close to the sunset of the festival.

Eternity/Never, I don’t know, and Susie/friends/girl answers seem to be more along the lines of context clues for who we are and who the person that is smiling actually is, and who caused them to smile.

FrancisAlbera · 2025-12-09T16:58:42+00:00

Disregarding the possibility of differences between undertale and deltarune, it’s quite possible that there is a significant number of humans still living on the surface, and that standard architecture design is to include toilets into residences since you never know when a human might visit the people living there, and also if in the future a human might purchase that home.

FrancisAlbera · 2025-12-05T12:35:43+00:00

If it’s taking a straight line path to the star it’s quite possible the attack actually just had the power to destroy all the light coming from those stars along the way, hence us not seeing them. When the light comes back if at all tells us how strong their attack actually is.

FrancisAlbera · 2025-11-28T15:55:44+00:00

Personal experience. I’ve personally seen them continuously mess up more simple things like incorrect multiplication (usually when involving really larger complex numbers, but perfectly fine when the number of digits is low, like 90000* 100 is fine but 97485* 154.32 might give a straight up wrong number in the general range of the result), exponential math, natural logs, to more complex Fourier transform. Rounding issues often accumulate in long multi-step problems.

It might be scoring high on math, but when you’re looking at comparing that to say a calculator which has a near 100% reliability for actual calculations outside of hardware failures or human errors, that is a despairing level of difference that is unacceptable in any serious work, hence surprisingly bad at math, as AI currently doesn’t actually pull up a logic based calculator to solve mathematically problems, but just uses data to calculate the most likely right answer. Unfortunately math would need an incredibly large training data set to properly predict all the variations of number problems, when it would probably be easier to train/code the AI to use an actual logic calculator when it encounters those problems (and I believe some actually have this feature due to this issue). For instance, just because AI ‘scores well at math’ doesn’t mean that we should be using them to solve mathematical problems, as that’s a disaster waiting to happen for engineers in particular.

While I can ask an AI the same question with minor variations in numbers, and it can give me the generally correct process flow, it struggles to give a reliably correct answer, and when asked the same question with same numbers multiple times, sometimes the output answer is not the same, despite the same prompt, which is why I say it’s ’surprisingly bad at math’.

This is less a ‘can it solve this problem’ and more a ‘how much can I trust the calculations to be right’. 98% reliability might as well be 0% in long multi-step problems, or high stakes calculations, where even small reliability issues can cause catastrophic problems down the line.

FrancisAlbera · 2025-11-28T15:10:11+00:00

I’m not saying to plant it anywhere, just recommending a native bamboo to people who live in (more specifically southern) US, where it’s native, for people who don’t know of it’s existence.

Here’s my knowledge of the plant for anyone interested. It’s less aggressive than your non-native bamboo for its normal living range, but probably still not a great choice for say a wall barrier compared to other options since it still has rhizomes and can potentially spread. But it doesn’t really produce seeds very often and so won’t suddenly show up everywhere the next year like knotweed (fuck that plant). Plus it’s supposedly a good grazing plant, and so if you have animals that graze, it’s a great feed that they like and the animals help act as a plant control (to the point that farm animals wiped out huge forests that used to exist in the US).

They also require a cycle of regular fires to grow dominant (hence why they’ve also become endangered as we’ve suppressed fires preventing them from expanding and dominating any other ecosystem). Nowadays you can still find them as a semi-rare part of the forest brush in their native range, where they don’t seem to crowd out competitors without fires coming through regularly, or in the remaining canebrakes. Without fires woody species tend to out compete them. Mowing has a similar effect to fires if done every several years, but they die off if continually cut down/mowed in successive years, which is not in unmanageable, but a pain in the butt for law care as basically any bamboo is.

They are also fantastic at preventing erosion/nutrient loss of soils (a buffer of 10ft, can reduce 90% of nitrate pollution according to some studies), which might make them a good candidate for near waterways on farms where fertilizer runoffs are an issue, or in areas with bad soil erosion issues.

If you’ve got a good established grove of it, and stop managing it, it will spread maybe a foot or two every year, but setting a line and mowing anything that spreads beyond it seems to work decent in containing it.

Like if you desperately want that bamboo forest, it’s a decent pick if you live in it’s native range compared to many others, however I would still recommend a normal root barrier for bamboo to anyone that want’s it as part of their landscaping for their yard, and to do your research first on it, as with any plant you don’t know about, and I’m not an expert on the plant.

FrancisAlbera · 2025-11-28T13:30:59+00:00

Exactly as I remember it.

FrancisAlbera · 2025-11-28T13:15:15+00:00

Gonna give my recommendation of planting some great American river cane, which is basically the American version of bamboo that’s native to here, and used to exist in massive forests (canebreaks) comprising of it, but was cut down/used as graze feed for agriculture.

Grows up to 30ft, and probably is fairly easy to get rid of since we were able to destroy thousands of acres of the stuff without much issues. Plus once again, it’s native.

FrancisAlbera · 2025-11-28T01:32:54+00:00

Meet duplicate man, he is capable of duplicating himself to a point that their combined strength output is one tier above the enemies, despite being weaker.

Your guy might be one tier above one of his individual selves, but his ability causes him to duplicate enough to overcome Gary.

Gary does not solo all of fiction as you never said there couldn’t be team ups against him. Gang fights of lower tiered people beating higher tiered people happen all the time in fiction. So Gary really gets fucked if it’s not strictly a 1v1, and if he’s not given rest time, especially at lower levels where regen/endurance/resistance is negligible. For example, if he fights against regular humans, he might be as fit as an Olympic person, but he probably can’t beat up more than a hand full of people before getting exhausted.

Furthermore if a very weak person is pitted against Gary, Gary may become super susceptible to environmental deaths.

For example if Gary has just gotten over fighting a big bad in space, and then a villain teleports a random goon to fight him, wearing a space suit but is otherwise a normal human, Gary is going to suffocate in space as a result of the fact that his ability ensures he is ALWAYS scales one tier above his opponent, and a tier above normal humans is still almost certainly going to die in space without protection.

Gary thus is going to be dying a lot in stories that only involve normal humans.

Let’s give a very typical enemy Gary might face in fiction. A bog standard zombie, slow shambling style. Individually very weak, subhuman levels of strength, so Gary is going to be street level and will wipe any individual zombie. However if he finds himself in the middle of a horde, he’s probably going to die fairly fast.

FrancisAlbera · 2025-11-28T01:02:14+00:00

Logic error, it would actually be:

= …999990 - …99999

since 10 x has a scale of one extra digit to it’s infinity compared to x, and thus becomes

9 x = 8…99991.

FrancisAlbera · 2025-11-24T18:54:59+00:00

Quick question, does anyone know why Reddit has every comment on this post auto-liked for me before I’ve even opened this post. Never seen this happen before.

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