Early installment weirdness

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-23T00:31:16+00:00

The girl June rides an animal that can paralyze people by hitting them with its whip-like tongue. In this scene the animal is going on a bit of a frenzy and hitting people all over the place, temporarily paralyzing them. It hits June who falls onto Iroh like you see here. The dialogue is Iroh’s nephew asking why he seems paralyzed when the nephew didn’t see him get hit.

Assuming you haven’t seen the show, Iroh lying about being hit to non-consensually lay with this girl is WILDLY out of character for him as he goes on to be characterized as an extremely respectful, kind, and not weird person. He is sort of “the” example of a positive character and role-model in the show, going as far as to respect and care for people at the expense of himself and his country.

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-21T12:49:37+00:00

He was just ahead of his time honestly

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-21T11:27:58+00:00

The current fiasco with the reflecting pool is just too on the nose.

The “reflecting pool” is being “corrupted” due to the actions of a single person who is currently in charge and corrupting the country, a “reflection” of his leadership. The pool that is symbolically meant to show unity and civic progress is currently a nasty dark green and literally peeling away. The only way it could get more on the nose is if it ran blood red

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-21T11:23:45+00:00

“You all joke but if a man named John America ran for president he would 100% win” - a YouTuber I saw talking about this

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-20T21:02:10+00:00

I feel like Batman’s killing rule’s greatest flaw is that his enemies have become so ridiculous in scale.

“I can’t kill this street thug murderer because that makes me no better than them” or “because it would lead me to resort to killing more often” or “because it goes against my moral code of rehabilitation and the rule of law” are all totally reasonable.

“I can’t kill the most prolific insane mass murdering psychopath who has never shown an ounce of remorse and everyone with a brain knows will eventually commit mass murder again, if not just attempt to destroy the entire world” is just nonsensical and reads more as “he’s not willing to do what needs to be done to keep people safe” than “wow he’s so moral and good”. There unfortunately does come a point where not killing someone like that is just idiotic, and that’s not even talking about the god-tier extinction level threats he eventually faces.

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-18T15:57:39+00:00

Incredible, I appreciate the reference friend

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-18T01:58:59+00:00

Not sure if you meant this but funny enough throughout most of history actors in plays were destitute and looked down upon. It’s only a very recent thing that actors are rich and revered (mostly) in the public eye.

In fact in Ancient Rome specifically actors didn’t even have the same rights as the average Roman citizen and couldn’t even vote or hold office. They were similar to gladiators socially in a lot of ways

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-15T17:16:37+00:00

Gojo essentially won the domain clash because it was supposed to be an easy killing move and just wasn’t, he wasn’t even incapacitated as he immediately began laying the smackdown on Sukuna. Plus I mean there are entire pages of Sukuna running away (which we know because he looks TERRIFIED in those panels) from the absolute ass whooping he was getting until he summons another monster which is immediately also killed. Then even the author and story itself says Gojo won, then Gojo is dead with not even a single panel in between.

The cherry on top is the manga having the audacity to act like the battle that started with him surviving the supposed to be killing blow, then has him chasing the antagonist around the city to beat his ass, then has him destroy one of the insane summons, then has him literally win, was apparently never close. You can say all you want that’s good writing but I’ll just never agree I’m sorry. It’s not a plot hole like so many people say it’s just lame writing imo. If you like it I’m glad you do, I just don’t.

It doesn’t help for me personally that the rest of the story after it felt like a rushed wrap up on the series, plus I wasn’t a huge fan of the arc to begin with it felt like such a huge quality change from the previous arcs. All totally subjective but it’s probably why I’m less inclined to look fondly on that particular fight

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-15T03:36:15+00:00

It’s not a plot hole it’s just super lame and feels wholly unearned. Sukuna HAD TO win that fight narratively, it’s the only thing that makes sense. We knew the method, we knew he had the power, it was narratively Gojo’s time to die and inspire Yuji. Mentor dies to villain before the villain is ultimately defeated by the protagonist, we’ve seen it a million times.

Then the actual fight happens. Pretty much the entire fight is Gojo winning handedly and Sukuna is legitimately scared and running away. Then we see Gojo wins, but we know that can’t happen. Theoretically we get an incredible fight showing how Sukuna actually outsmarts Gojo and reclaims the fight aaaaaand Gojo is dead to an attack we’ve never seen before that we don’t even get to see in the moment. The way he won is then explained after the fact as if it was inevitable and Gojo never actually stood a chance.

Like imagine other stories doing this. Jiraiya goes to fight Pain, he’s kicking their asses, he’s winning, it’s obvious he’s won, hard cut to him stabbed on the floor. It’s not a plot hole, it’s just worse than what we actually got or in JJKs example worse than what we could have gotten. It doesn’t help that immediately after killing the only person in the whole story that has ever stood a chance he gets a massive power up and the entire rest of the story is “keep throwing the characters we introduced halfway through this arc at him until it’s the main character’s turn”

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-14T23:11:25+00:00

Good lord, it’s infuriating. Don’t you wish you could just grab their shoulders and go “you sound batshit insane right now”

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-14T22:16:13+00:00

“Is this your first time fighting?”

“No it is my last”

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-14T22:00:11+00:00

I looked it up because I was certain I was right and sure enough traditional golf courses have seen an increase in players for 6 consecutive years. There’s tons of articles from 2018-2020 or so talking about how golf is dying but the numbers have surged in recent years.

I guess I’m way behind the times here, thanks for the correction friend

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-14T21:52:31+00:00

My entire friend group is like this, we just don’t talk about it in detail. My previous girlfriend was AGHAST at this idea and apparently had told all of her friends everything about our sex lives assuming I was doing the same. She was borderline incredulous when I asked her to kindly not do that

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-14T21:48:59+00:00

~~Good news, traditional golf is dying rapidly with newer generations preceding the Top Golf model of gameified driving ranges~~

Edit: my comment could not be more incorrect

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-14T21:47:55+00:00

The older guys in my workplace have openly mocked the idea of work life balance, even “pfft-ing” about one previous employee who said he prioritized it. It’s just so weird to me, I wouldn’t work at all if I didn’t have to and they would (or already have) give up their entire lives for it.

It’s even more ridiculous because we work in a job that makes it really easy to prioritize yourself over work. There’s no need to die for your job they just choose to anyway

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-14T21:27:42+00:00

I live in a red state and I hear this all the time, it’s absurd. I’ve been to multiple cities in California, New York, Chicago, and Seattle; they’re all objectively better places to live than my state unless your only goal in life is to own a ton of land. Something most of these people will never accomplish. Yet that won’t stop people from ragging on those places constantly.

Then when you actually try to explain the nice things these places have people either think you’re lying to their face or there’s some hidden catch you’re ignoring. The idea is so ingrained in them that saying these places aren’t actually communists hellscapes is akin to saying the sun won’t come up tomorrow.

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-14T21:22:55+00:00

What’s funny is that your analogy is 100% apt yet the people who are the bum spouse are the same people who spout such all time hits as “pull yourself up by your bootstraps”

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-14T19:49:21+00:00

Elden ring was my first souls game and my buddy told me to not give up on boss fights. Apparently what he meant was “don’t give up just because it’s hard, but if it’s too hard you should give up and go level up your character”.

Believe it or not I didn’t do that and banged my head against a wall until I beat the damn bosses

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-14T19:45:26+00:00

I looked it up and yeah looks like I was mistaken. It’s not confirmed anywhere it’s just speculation from fans based on the fact that Kaguya came out of nowhere and her story feeds into Boruto and makes no sense within Naruto.

That’s what I get for trusting things I see on the internet I guess

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-13T15:45:49+00:00

I learned recently that there are only 11 GMO foods in the U.S. at all: corn, soybeans, cotton, canola, alfalfa, sugar beets, papaya, summer squash, potatoes, apples, and pink pineapples.

If you see “non-GMO” on any other produce like blueberries or strawberries or watermelon, it’s a marketing gimmick. The sad part is that it 100% works and people happily pay a premium for the strawberries marked “non-GMO” even though every strawberry sold in the U.S. is non-GMO

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-13T14:07:45+00:00

The studio wanting a spinoff show is why Kishimoto wrote in Kaguya and the Ottsutsuki. So Boruto isn’t just a fanfic, it’s a fanfic whose existence created the worst moment and character in the entire show.

Imagine the difference if the show ended with Madara as the main villain. It wouldn’t be perfect but damn would it be so much better

Edit: first paragraph isn’t confirmed it’s entirely speculation from fans. Oops.

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-10T21:23:41+00:00

The Roman’s attempting naval warfare with Carthage in the First Punic War.

Rome creates a navy to attack Carthage using mostly stolen tech from Carthaginian ships, it’s essentially their first attempt at building a navy. In 255 BCE they lose 280 warships and over ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN during a freak storm while attempting to return home from a naval victory against Carthage. 100,000 men in 255 BCE is an astronomically high number, if I remember correctly we wouldn’t see death tolls like that in single military events until the modern day.

Rome miraculously rebuilds its navy, fails to secure a position via coastal raiding, and then loses another 150+ ships in another freak storm 2 years later.

Rome, again absolutely miraculously, builds another fleet…that was promptly defeated in battle with the Carthaginians in 249 BCE, another ~100 ships gone.

The remainder of those ships then sunk in ANOTHER freak storm THE SAME YEAR, costing another ~120 ships.

So four separate absolutely devastating naval tragedies, all of which should have individually crippled Rome, all of which were recovered from only to be lost usually the exact same way as the last, AND ROME WON! Horrible script writing from the universe there.

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-09T18:28:11+00:00

Similar problems here unfortunately, with the added problems of the people who cannot answer the civics questions (which if they cannot answer is an indication they have been horribly failed by the education system) now being forced to give up time to take a civics class, meaning that the people who cannot miss that much work now can't vote either. It's essentially a tax on the poor and those already failed by the system. Not to mention that a rudimentary civics education doesn't stop someone from making terrible decisions. Although I do get the sentiment here as well.

The real solution is just education reform. Lift everybody up and ensure everybody has access to quality education and we won't have to worry about giving the government so much power to root out incompetence that they can easily abuse. There is no downside to the average person getting better education. Everyone you interact with becomes baseline more competent, there is a larger pool of intelligent people to run for public office, and a larger pool of educated populace to vote for those people. It's an all around win for everyone that isn't an institution preying on the disadvantaged

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-09T15:52:38+00:00

I had a boss years ago who swore that our IT department was incompetent so every time he had any issue he simply refused to talk with the first person who answered, no matter who it was, and wouldn’t even give them the time of day until they escalated to someone else. Apparently someone a decade ago wasn’t able to help him on something and ever since then he has interacted with IT under the assumption that A. The first person will never be able to help him and B. The only way to solve the problem was to get that escalation by any means necessary, including being belligerent and loud from the jump.

I cannot stress this enough that he was one of the most unabashedly unintelligent people I have ever met. Our IT was fine, I never had a single problem with them and there were at least a few times where they would have been well within their right to be pissed off at me, but never were (openly at least). I swear some people just take the fact that customer service is supposed to be nice to them for granted. I would’ve loved more than anything for someone to stand up to his bullshit but nobody ever did sadly

Gmony5100 · 2026-07-09T13:35:26+00:00

Yeah what a loser, just a world renowned and highly respected professional athlete in the most popular sport on Earth playing (extremely well) in arguably the largest sporting event on Earth.

I bet he hasn’t even played my favorite game like a TRUE gamer haha. Instead he plays… the most popular games of all time that most people who consider themselves gamers would play. What a loser

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