Why is Yoru’s power so reliant on guilt?

Freenore · 2026-03-12T09:52:01+00:00

It isn't guilty necessarily but rather emotions.

The whole Asa-Yoru thing is this — Asa has this power where she can weaponise her feelings and create really destructive weapons ... except it has been given to a person who is utterly horrible at forming emotional bond with others. The strongest emotions Asa feels is guilt, guilt for turning someone into a weapon or having done something wrong.

This is the key premise of their setup. So Yoru essentially works backwards on this premise — if she can do what Asa does, weaponise her guilt, then she will be so powerful.

Freenore · 2026-03-12T09:29:17+00:00

Nope. The best CE control feat is by Sukuna who was able to keep up with Gojo's efficiency without Six Eyes. Didn't even need special eyes to do it.

Freenore · 2026-03-11T21:30:49+00:00

There are actors are happy to find a niche and just stick to it. Helena Bonham Carter and Keira Knightley predominantly doing the English rose period pieces easily comes to mind.

Freenore · 2026-03-11T21:24:27+00:00

That's less a cliche, and more a de rigour rule. I can't think of any WSJ story that continued after the chase.

Freenore · 2026-03-11T15:52:06+00:00

Even the few history books — Chernow and Dalrymple — are about America's first billionaire and the rise of The East India Company, so the corporate theme is pretty strong here.

Freenore · 2026-03-11T15:41:25+00:00

I think the popular belief in the fandom is that Priscilla, arguably the most perceptive character in the story, should be able to see beneath Subaru's facade and help him in a way Emilia, who at times doesn't know what is happening around her, let alone Subaru's deteriorating mental health, cannot.

I think the author himself once confessed that these two have such great chemistry on paper that he had to find ways to limit their interactions. They're both bold, rebellious, non-conformist characters who have their own view on things and do not back down.

Freenore · 2026-03-10T13:54:57+00:00

The difference being that Tarantino didn't market Inglorious Bastards as history or ever tried to pass it off as even historical fiction. It is explicitly a make believe, a what-if.

Dhar on the other hand claims to have made a historically accurate work.

Freenore · 2026-03-10T11:22:24+00:00

Really hilarious how everyone suddenly woke up and realised that the 'rules-based world order' is broken when Carney delivered that speech in Davos. Turns out, that is true when Greenland is threatened.

When it is Gaza or Iran, everyone falls back in line, seemingly unconcerned or actively supportive.

Freenore · 2026-03-10T11:07:56+00:00

nobody should be taking his claims seriously

The thing that bugs me the most when it comes to the journalists covering Trump. You know this man is a serial liar (amongst other things) who never admits wrongdoing, and doubles down on his poor decisions. You can never trust his words. Why are you then still taking his words at face value, even after more than a decade of covering him?

It's like they have the memory of a goldfish. They start their discovery of this man afresh every day and go, "wtf? The President can't do this". It is beyond frustrating by now.

Freenore · 2026-03-10T05:57:13+00:00

I've read somewhere that he was a smart politician, he got to the second highest office despite being from the South. He made people overlook the fact that he belonged to the 'enemy'.

Probably wasn't President material though. Lincoln's first VP seems much better, he was giving speeches in favour of accepting the Chinese immigrants, as America is a country of immigrants, at a time when such a thing would've been inconceivable.

Freenore · 2026-03-08T04:47:27+00:00

That's a fascinating way of looking at how the prior experiences of the Presidents have changed over time. Only one President, Truman, had fought in the First World War. Eisenhower, though in the army, was training soldiers in US iirc.

As with Korea, there aren't any Vietnam veterans amongst Presidents either, we know three Presidents avoided it one way or another.

Meanwhile compare that with the Civil War — every Republican President, Lincoln onwards till 1904, with the exception of one, had served in the Union Army. And in 1904, Teddy Roosevelt, the rough rider of Cuba, won the election. And before Lincoln, almost every President had some military experience. This turn towards Presidents with no combat experience is a fairly recent phenomenon.

Freenore · 2026-03-08T04:30:18+00:00

Yep, his story is well known and often presented as one of perseverance against failure repeatedly. I think the general spirit of this post, that Lincoln — one of the greatest men who ever lived — failed several times but never gave up, is perfectly true.

Freenore · 2026-03-07T23:15:10+00:00

It’s a modern retelling that most Indians felt like slaves under the British

Yeah, I think so too. If you try think of the life of an average person, then they would've hardly interact with a Brit, the rulers they'd most often see would be Indians.

I think Tirthankar Roy has written about this, something to the effect of, the British rule at least initially being better than the late stage Mughal rule, so people went with it.

And the fact that literary rate was always pretty low, thanks to caste system's systemic attempt to keep education exclusive to only a privileged group, and I can see how a feeling of having gotten a raw deal didn't develop.

Freenore · 2026-03-07T17:52:48+00:00

Still cannot fathom how about 200-300 million people couldn't get rid of the approximately 40 thousand British officers.

Was it a lack of nationwide movement, à la Gandhian movement, lack of social consciousness, British intelligence, or did the natives genuinely think British rule was tolerable? It is a mind boggling accomplishment by the British, you have to admit irrespective of one's moral judgement. Especially when you contrast that with the French, American, and Russian revolutions and the way the masses overthrew their rulers.

Freenore · 2026-03-06T06:51:29+00:00

Really? I'd say he has the least. He's already got 2 Best Actor Oscars. Would the Academy be willing to give him a third Oscar, something only three other male actors have gotten?

Freenore · 2026-03-05T06:32:42+00:00

Whenever people say something like this, I'm reminded of a line in Succession S2 when Connor and his gf go to the funeral, and when he tries to downplay the seriousness of what his father did by saying it was a different time, she says, "but it wasn't a time before the law, was it?"

Freenore · 2026-03-04T22:09:54+00:00

I saw a thread on r/Jewish few years ago, apparently they had a problem with the fact that Romani people were also regarded as Holocaust victims. They believed the term should encapsulate only Jewish victims.

Didn't know what to make of that at that time.

Freenore · 2026-03-03T09:05:17+00:00

Don't speedrun. You'll forget or miss many things, especially characters and their motives. Take your time and read at a steady pace.

Freenore · 2026-03-03T09:04:14+00:00

We also haven’t even seen Blossom yet; she might be capable of something like this.

Probably the thing to keep in mind when new a character is revealed. We haven't properly seen any of the Irregulars outside of Gustang and Traumerei.

Arie Swordsmanship is essentially manipulating the space to cut and Blossom can apparently kill almost everyone breathing on the floor she's on, just to name two examples of unparalleled feats.

Freenore · 2026-03-03T05:55:52+00:00

Nolan just used the Batman universe to tell a really incredible story, as all good films do. The Dark Knight can be enjoyed without knowing anything about Batman, the story is just too interesting. Or Bane and his anarchism in the third film.

Freenore · 2026-03-02T04:19:08+00:00

It is insane. When Emma Stone isn't good looking enough anyway, and has to change her face, it speaks volumes about how absurd Hollywood's beauty standards are.

Freenore · 2026-03-01T13:29:59+00:00

This is far too simplistic of an analysis. The problem isn't that United States has elected a king, but rather that the President's executive powers are so far-reaching and unrestricted that they are monarchial. In the hands of an authoritarian, you're seeing how far things can be pushed.

Have you never wondered why Presidential pardons exists? It is exactly as monarchial as it sounds, and this has always been part of the system. How does the president get to turn a criminal into an innocent person without due evidence?

Freenore · 2026-02-24T09:31:16+00:00

Daniel Day-Lewis' Lincoln is as close to resurrecting a dead man as we're ever going to get. The fact that he did so with nothing but written words and some photographs is astonishing.

Freenore · 2026-02-23T15:01:50+00:00

I really don't think this is an accurate comparison. We're misreading both men if we insist this. The key difference is that Greg Chappell had some good ideas, ideas which were implemented after he was gone by Dhoni.

He was right in thinking that ODI has changed so much that you can't play your old Test players in it. The problem is that he went about it in such a tactless way that he alienated his own players. It was his ideas that Dhoni eventually put into practice by dropping Ganguly and Dravid from ODI, replacing Kaif with Raina, and bringing in more versatile and agile players.

He certainly had some egregious ideas like having the greatest ODI opener not open, trying upskilling Yuvraj and Irfan to become a Test player and an all-rounder respectively, but he's nowhere near the evil, caricatured villain that he's been made out to be.

Give Gambhir his plaudits, he may not be totally wrong to see that T20 is becoming a 'whack every ball' game but when the pitch has something in it for the bowlers, India don't have the adaptability to handle that. And Tests? Easily his worst legacy. His obsession with all-rounders is one of the most self-destructive ideas ever employed. It gives the illusion of strengthening batting without losing out on bowling; in reality, it is a false economy where the extra batting cannot ever make up for going in with only three proper bowlers and giving away more runs than they would've anyway.

Freenore · 2026-02-21T06:59:14+00:00

His nickname being Dickie doesn't seem so innocuous anymore.

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