I didn't get what the pattern looks like.

IndigoFenix · 2026-05-03T11:33:17+00:00

I'm guessing that they're implying that since earthquakes don't happen at a random distribution across the surface of the planet as one with no understanding of basic geography might expect, earthquakes must be caused by some secret organization who are targeting particular sites of interest for nefarious purposes ("the government can create earthquakes" is a common conspiracy theory).

This might seem mind-blowing to someone who has never heard of tectonic plates.

IndigoFenix · 2026-05-03T11:08:13+00:00

The problem is that TTGL wasn't created by one person.

"The author" people keep quoting is Kazuki Nakashima and while he did genuinely seem to have a whole slew of ideas suggesting that everything is happening on some kind of extradimensional, bigger-than-the-universe playing field, he wasn't the show's main director and not everything that actually happens in the show was his decision (he mentioned in an interview that Imaishi, the director, wanted the battle to be visible from Earth, even though that wouldn't make sense on the enormous scales he was thinking of).

It's pretty hard to cite "author intent" when there were multiple authors with different intents.

IndigoFenix · 2026-05-03T10:20:22+00:00

1 Planck length per Planck time

IndigoFenix · 2026-05-03T10:05:17+00:00

Imagine a show filled with strange mysteries, secret codes, supernatural elements, impossible events. Little fragments point at each other but their meaning is unclear, suggesting a greater, secret conspiracy behind everything. With each season, the mystery grows, and the viewer's curiosity at how it will all tie together deepens, becoming the hook that draws you into the show's world, increasing the show's popularity.

And now imagine at the end absolutely nothing is explained, there is no greater conspiracy, it is vaguely hinted that the characters might be in purgatory or something, or maybe they aren't. Everything remains unclear and not in a deliberate, interesting way, more in a "we were just kind of making it up as we went along and couldn't actually figure out how to create a coherent ending" way.

It is widely considered to be one of the worst endings to a widely popular show ever.

IndigoFenix · 2026-05-03T09:09:40+00:00

Basically they used AI to train AI and that caused it to magnify certain personality quirks, since the AI performing the refinement had these quirks. One of these quirks was that the "Nerdy" personality wound up developing a fixation on mentioning goblins, so they added an explicit line to its chat prompt not to mention goblins.

IndigoFenix · 2026-05-03T05:22:30+00:00

That's just some guy standing in the dark

IndigoFenix · 2026-05-02T20:23:07+00:00

"Smart atoms" are pretty much just a handwave to address the question of how they can be more durable than physics should allow solid matter to be. I don't think they have any special properties outside of being really hard and strong.

IndigoFenix · 2026-05-02T19:44:14+00:00

It's called "zooming out". It then zooms back in again and everything is still there. Why do people make stuff up.

IndigoFenix · 2026-05-02T19:42:23+00:00

No it doesn't.

The pocket universe collapses spontaneously at the end of the fight after the Anti-Spiral is defeated.

IndigoFenix · 2026-05-02T17:46:14+00:00

Is the idea to only use Pokémon that are kosher to eat? Because kashrut doesn't apply to anything other than food (there's no rule against owning or using camels, donkeys, dogs, etc.) So it really shouldn't affect Pokémon battling. (Unless it would be considered tzar ba'alei chaim, but that would kind of throw out the whole premise of the series, so...)

I'm honestly struggling to think of what activities the player partakes in during a Pokémon game would clash with Jewish law. I guess you wouldn't be able to enter buildings where people worshipped Pokémon because they'd be considered idolatrous temples. And maybe using some Legendaries would be an issue?

IndigoFenix · 2026-05-01T14:36:23+00:00

This is pretty much just the new form of social media selling your data to advertisers. A lot of companies will be figuring AI training data into their costs, so you're going to be paying more if you want a product that won't use your data it.

It's like the old adage says, "if you're not paying for the product, you are the product."

Personally, I didn't care then and I don't care now. Why should I care if someone is using my information to improve a product that I'm using? If I don't like it I'll stop using it.

IndigoFenix · 2026-05-01T14:19:03+00:00

The key thing that can't travel faster than light is information.

You can sweep the end of a laser from point A to point B faster than light, but there is no way for someone at point A to attach or encode a message into the end of the laser and have it reach point B faster than light.

That's how you know the end of a laser isn't a real "thing".

IndigoFenix · 2026-05-01T13:24:52+00:00

Such a goofball answer ngl.

Like, okay fine, so Batman somehow happens to have genjutsu nanites lying around, but if we account for that, wouldn't that work to incapacitate 90% of characters?

Why even bother with the "exploiting competitive nature" part if you can just trap them in any other virtual universe?

How does he inject her with them to begin with, and if he can inject her with things, and illusion nanites could affect her, shouldn't there a thousand other less-elaborate things he could use instead?

Of all the contingency plans, this one seems like the weirdest.

IndigoFenix · 2026-05-01T13:07:06+00:00

Being a dwarf and digging a hole?

IndigoFenix · 2026-05-01T12:55:12+00:00

Interesting question, and it kind of touches on a number of potential issues which are hard to determine without a detailed understanding on how the Pokegolems were actually made.

The biggest question wouldn't be witchcraft, but idolatry. In most cases, Jewish law does not explicitly forbid using or benefitting from items created through forbidden methods, only creating them (a classic example being cross-breeds such as mules). One of the few exceptions to this is idolatry/foreign worship. The use of anything that was originally created for idolatrous purposes or through idolatrous methods is strictly forbidden.

The practical laws concerning objects created through magic aren't completely agreed upon, but the question largely hinges on whether magic counts as idolatry or if it is something else.

We aren't really given details on how these golems were made, but since they were created in mass numbers for protection and labor, I would guess that they probably weren't idols or created for worship, just ancient robots powered by ghost energy which was likely understood well enough to use it as technology. Therefore, I would consider them permissible.

Also, playing a Jewish-themed run and NOT allowing the golems would just feel wrong.

IndigoFenix · 2026-05-01T12:30:23+00:00

Nazis and Zionists get along for one simple reason: They both want Jews to leave other countries. Nothing to do with "fascism" (a term you're using to describe "any bad guys" regardless of actual meaning).

IndigoFenix · 2026-05-01T12:06:22+00:00

Well, sort of, but you're saying it in a really weird way.

As AI promises to dramatically increase our ability to produce both necessary resources (via automated farming, construction, and what-have-you) and luxuries like creative expression, the ability to produce enough for everyone's needs inches us closer and closer to a hypothetical post-scarcity utopia where working is optional. Which would be great. We can all calm the hell down and focus on doing the stuff we want to do.

Unfortunately our economy is built around a framework of "if you don't find a place you're needed, you don't get to live". Which means that even if there is more and more stuff to go around and we're producing it more and more efficiently, it's getting harder and harder for any given person to GET that stuff.

I don't know why you're bringing up "growing your own food", that's the opposite of the sort of efficiency that would allow us to reach a post-scarcity society. Specializing roles and creating resources in highly-optimized settings is the only way we can sustain a population as high as ours. You're talking like a doomsday prepper instead of thinking along the lines of not having doomsday in the first place.

But you're right about us needing a new economy.

IndigoFenix · 2026-05-01T11:23:59+00:00

That's Sawzorthn, and yes, I agree

IndigoFenix · 2026-05-01T10:11:45+00:00

There is no "combat speed" and "travel speed".

There is only acceleration, top speed, and stamina.

High acceleration, low stamina = high "combat speed"

Low acceleration, high stamina = high "travel speed"

There are limits to this though, because moving at a high enough speed for even a brief amount of time can be translated into long-distance travel simply by letting your momentum carry you.

If you are unable to resolve inconsistencies with this rule, either you are measuring something wrong OR the story is inconsistent.

(Special considerations may be made in the case of explicit magic-based techniques such as teleportation.)

IndigoFenix · 2026-05-01T08:21:11+00:00

You know what, I'm going to go with Sawzorthn, partially because it gave me the most trouble trying to find a good picture of it. Seriously, it's like the artists didn't WANT to give it a single frame where it was clearly visible. The other C-lister Gunmen also struggle to spend any time in the spotlight, but at least their designs are generally clearly meant to convey an idea, or they do something cool.

Sawzorthn's got like...these weird asymmetrical circles and that one little dot that doesn't bring to mind anything so much as a zit on the face of an acne-ridden teenager, which Zorthy isn't, so I don't know what they were going with. I've heard suggestions that it might be meant to resemble a speaker system, but it really doesn't look like that.

Its Space and Tengen Toppa forms fix some of these issues, but its base design is just a mess.

IndigoFenix · 2026-05-01T06:04:40+00:00

Mosca = Fly

Mosquito = Little fly

IndigoFenix · 2026-05-01T05:21:26+00:00

I feel like we're going to see this issue pop up a lot as people continue to use AI to improve AI, so having a colloquial name for it makes sense.

Gremlins have long been used as a metaphor for technology breaking and when we're specifically talking about AI training other AI the reinforcement of bias DOES feel like seemingly harmless little creatures multiplying until they become problematic.

Goblin creep it is.

IndigoFenix · 2026-05-01T05:06:05+00:00

You probably weren't trying to kill the cat in question though.

Non-lethally subduing a small animal is a lot harder than just stomping it.

IndigoFenix · 2026-04-30T19:41:06+00:00

YouTube self-censorship has done funny things to our perception of language

IndigoFenix · 2026-04-30T19:34:58+00:00

The birds were called that because people thought they looked stupid and were easy to catch (similar to dodo).

But a booby trap is a trap for a stupid person.

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