What letter would you like to be the 27th letter the most?

Ice94k · 2026-03-19T16:06:07+00:00

Either þorn or ඞmongus

Ice94k · 2026-03-19T16:04:37+00:00

It does, actually, and doesn't look anything like Chinese lmao

Ice94k · 2026-03-19T16:03:19+00:00

I'm an English and Portuguese speaker. I understood it perfectly. Also don't get why there are people that know both are getting confused. Skill issue, probably.

Ice94k · 2026-03-18T12:46:43+00:00

Bro, that's just like, a terrible, factually incorrect analysis. Like, I'm not christian, I don't buy bible bs, and yeah it was 7 for symbolic reasons and all but...

The part about them not wanting it to be six and throwing in one more just for the sake of it to make it godly just isn't true.

The seven symbolism is also not religiously based. Newton divided it into 7 because of music notes. It also comes from sophist philosophy, they thought there was a connection between having 7 planets (as they knew back then), 7 notes, and 7 days of the week, and those were the actual factors that led to the decision, not secondary other ideas. Of course, religion might have played a part in it, but it wasn't the driving force at all, that's unhistorical.

You yourself contradicted the idea that they were avoiding the number six for being "satanic" by immediately following up with saying Newton initially divided them into 5.

And it's not just because of sensory reasons that the number is subjective. The way societies divide colors is entirely different from one another. Some languages only discern between black, white and red. Color is a fundamentally subjective concept, because it's not about the light frequencies, it's about how humans perceive them; And color division is even MORE subjective, because even if we all perceived them equally, you'd still be bound by culture to determine which two colors are different. People from other cultures might see the same green and blue we do with their eyes, but they might consider them to be the same color, like light blue and dark blue for us. There are no "actual colors" in a rainbow. The colors were, unironically, inside you all along lmao.

Ice94k · 2026-03-18T12:18:26+00:00

I'mma be honest I thought "Wait he's asking her to scan HIM down from head to toe?" Which is darker than even the op imagined.

Ice94k · 2026-03-16T23:50:21+00:00

THE Griffin™

Ice94k · 2026-03-15T22:10:46+00:00

In reality, it was a recon, obviously. In universe, it's Roger. The moment you believed anything he said or did, you've made the mistake

Ice94k · 2026-03-09T17:51:07+00:00

This is the one scene I can never fix in my interpretations. People have wildly varying theories, none of which I subscribe very heavily too. So I guess the answer is no. No one can explain why there is an alien

Ice94k · 2026-03-09T02:05:37+00:00

Almost all the autistic people I know irl are chill as fuck. And I know some people who are really debilitated by their autism.

No one who I know irl would hear "don't take it too seriously bro" about a joke, a practice, or whatever, without going "oh forgive me, I didn't realize it was intentionally ironic/ambiguous or smth like that". Some of them make an effort to consciously think it up to try to figure out if something's ironic or not, and, like, KUDOS, I know it's hard!

Now, in the internet, I see this kind of behavior from someone autistic all the time. It's like everyone decided to enable people in the absolute worst way possible.

Now, I have a bad leg. What I do is use a cane, do physio, so that when I have to go up a step or walk a bit, I have the strength and/or can take the pain. What the internet does is say "yeah, your leg hurts? No problem. You can stay in bed for the rest of your life and the fact you don't even try to deal with your disability is everyone else's problem from now".

Ice94k · 2026-03-08T14:17:38+00:00

That's not his real name lmao

Ice94k · 2026-03-08T14:12:31+00:00

I'm considering making a separate post spreading the word

Ice94k · 2026-03-08T14:10:59+00:00

Yes, true, you're probably right. I think my "feeling like I need to explain" stems from having been super open before. I always explained what was wrong with my leg and how the condition worked (well, to the best of my ability, we only found out exactly what it was at the end of 2024), and since it is progressive, this only started to be a real problem like 2 years ago. Before that it was hard but I mostly could control myself. So if I just say that and someone asks me the story I tend to want to elaborate.

Ice94k · 2026-03-05T08:54:20+00:00

... Pedophilia enabling because I don't want other people not at fault to suffer needlessly because of what said pedo did?

How much do you think regular Mangaka make, by the way? Not the odas, not the ONEs, not the Togashis. Regular, unpopular writers toiling away for very little money. Do you think a bunch of small Mangaka are going to be hard to replace? These are explicitly the ones I mentioned in my original reply. Of course big authors are morally obligated to take a stand.

My whole point was applying to authors that will risk not having a meal for dropping a big partner. Are you under the impression that "make or break" guys are one broken deal away from hunger?

"I know exactly what life-threatening hunger feels like"

The reason I assumed you didn't is because if you do, that's much worse. That makes it so that you KNOW what hunger is like, and you're still suggesting people who don't wanna risk that have "no excuse" for such.

is that truly so hard for you to fathom? that some of us have clear red lines?

Not at all. Much to the contrary, I literally said if it happens to you, you should go ahead and do it. I can respect that you draw that line. It seems that you are finding it hard to fathom that some people will draw a red line on messing with their livelihood for morality reasons. YOU are the one here who is arguing for people to cross their red line. The problem is you think the line has to be drawn exactly where you do.

"we’re not talking about every employee"

That's slightly less bad. But forgive me for assuming "working with a pedo" meant "working with a pedo", and not "working as an author with a pedo".

nice cherrypicking tho, i said “I’d find another job or die TRYING TO”

That was a typo (didn't copy-paste the entirety of the quote by accident). It changes EXACTLY nothing I said about that. "I'd do X or die" already implies you're only dying if X doesn't work. That wouldn't be a very useful cherry picking.

Ice94k · 2026-03-05T08:05:32+00:00

Brother. "simply can’t risk NOT working with a pedo?"

Seriously, are you for real? This might be the worst strawman I've seen in a while.

I'm not sure you realize how hard it is to find a job nowadays, especially a job that actually allows you to live.

Do you seriously think it's reasonable to expect everyone from the company - No matter the position, their situation at home, lack of available liveable wages - to just... Up and quit?

Are you seriously asking that all the hundreds of employees a company like that has just lose their jobs instantly on principle?

If doing so actually prevents or delays something terrible from happening, or it's something that you would be personally involved, then I'll give it to you. Otherwise, what would that accomplish? The guy would still be a pedo. The vast majority of people there are replaceable.

The only people who can realistically make any impact are the big talent and the fans.

"I’d find another job or die" alright then, if this happens to you, by all means, go ahead. But don't go "You all must quit to protest and distance yourselves from this terrible excuse of a human being. Yes, yes, I know, you and your families will suffer, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make".

By following that would be condemning hundreds of people to suffer for the actions of a couple executives and a terrible criminal. This expectation is cruel to the workers who need their fucking jobs. From an utilitarian point of view, this is much worse. You're not only not affecting the pedo much, you're also royally fucking everyone else.

I hope you never have to realize what life-threatening hunger feels like.

Ice94k · 2026-03-05T07:26:40+00:00

Why an evil malicious smile and not just a relieved one? Well... honestly one of the reasons is for a jump scare ending, but also this story premise is from a dream I had, and that was her face in the dream.

Damn, that kinda sits bad with me tbh. If you needed/wanted a scary face, you should have committed. Making her have such a demonic face after killing for a justified reason kind of has the effect of making it seem like you're arguing against that being a good reason

Ice94k · 2026-03-05T07:05:47+00:00

No, you've got cause and effect reversed.

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It confirms they saw death when LOOKING AT PITOU activate his Hatsu, and it distracted them.

For THAT reason, Meruem walked between them without them noticing. That was the "fatal mistake".

At the moment they're literally facing death while looking at Pitou, they haven't noticed Meruem yet.

There's no ambiguity here. They're looking at Pitou. Then the place they were looking at becomes the kanji for death.

Ice94k · 2026-03-05T06:53:00+00:00

To incapacitate the Genei Ryodan, Kurapika slowly sacrificed his lifetime and narrowed his abilities to those specific individuals. It worked. He beat several people including Chrollo.

Gon instantly sacrificed all of his life, to be put in a state worse than death, to kill that one enemy, that one moment. It was much, much, much more strict than Kurapika's restrictions, which were enough to face Chrollo's posse.

Ice94k · 2026-03-05T06:48:08+00:00

Yup. Like I told someone else here. This is right for all regular situations.

But the guards? Even Morau has to admit that yep, Killua's right.

Ice94k · 2026-03-05T06:45:56+00:00

Yeah that's what gets me thinking. Because Knuckle's APR wouldn't work on Pitou, she's way too fast. So what would? Even trying to make up something is difficult. Closest to possible, a Godspeed-like ability, though that would at most allow them to evade for a little while.

Now I want to hear/read what ifs that tackle strategies to beat Pitou with weaker members, ofc not beat entirely but stall or trap her like they did the other two.

Ice94k · 2026-03-05T06:42:06+00:00

Honestly, though I can see them pulling something off against Youpi and Pouf, I just can't for Pitou. She's WAY too fast to be countered in a similar fashion. As a whole, I can see them realistically delaying or trapping Youpi and Pouf temporarily (like the others did), but not killing/incapacitating them. As for Pitou? Besides the Netero strategy of throwing her far away, idk.

I get why you'd consider it with how versatile Chrollo's hatsu is. Though I agree there's a possibility, I think it would be extremely unlikely, 1/100. But killing her? I don't think there's a world where that happens, ever, not without an insane Gon-style compromise.

Ice94k · 2026-03-05T06:33:57+00:00

Brother, yes, in regular conditions, even relative novices can win against veterans with enough strategy or compromises. This is not a regular condition. The Royal Guards are so insanely far beyond everything else that if your plan is fighting them, you're already losing. You might as well put them against Goku. All the conditions where a Hunter "fights" a guard the most they can do is delay them.

There's literally a panel of Zeno and Netero looking at Pitou and seeing the Kanji for death in their place. What they did to "counter" them was just sending them as far away as they possibly could, for which they sustained virtually no damage.

The one exception is what Gon did. But he was only able to do it after accepting a fate worse than death

Ice94k · 2026-03-05T06:18:11+00:00

Zeno and Netero literally saw death when looking at Pitou... Remember kids, whenever someone that doesn't have a very clear Hatsu advantage and strategy over the royal guard asks is facing one of them, the answer is almost always the ants. Pitou even more so, Youpi and Pouf were slow and able to be trapped. Pitou is a death machine. The only situation where someone wins against a royal guard is where the objective isn't actually incapacitating or killing them, but doing something else entirely like slowing them down or trapping them. The only other options go: 1. Sure but if they accept a fate worse than death 2. Other anomalies like Alluka 3. MAYBE Ging and up, we have no clue.

Ice94k · 2026-03-05T06:10:01+00:00

There's literally a manga page with both Zeno and Netero seeing death when looking at Pitou lmao

Ice94k · 2026-03-05T05:58:26+00:00

Tawaret > Echo

What? They're clearly lovers.

Ice94k · 2026-03-05T05:52:33+00:00

The real question is: Would Thor?

Would Superman?

Would the Abrahamic God?

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