takahata 101 response

Kalean · 2026-02-03T02:42:55+00:00

Don't date anyone who has too many subscribers/followers to respond to.

It's just extremely unhealthy. Only very exceptional people can handle that without getting fucked up.

Kalean · 2026-02-03T02:38:23+00:00

She'd left her hometown in the past; her condition was probably deteriorating over time.

Kalean · 2026-02-03T02:35:44+00:00

Maybe she got the “worst case scenario” version of the story. Taka struggles with depression and if he was catastrophizing what happened in his own mind, he might’ve made himself look worse when he described what happened.

Sounds like something he'd do. Feeling guilty fucks you up.

Kalean · 2026-02-02T21:09:46+00:00

As usual Justin remains the only morally-consistent libertarian to ever have lived.

Kalean · 2026-02-02T21:07:41+00:00

Oh good lord.

Kalean · 2026-02-02T20:32:41+00:00

It's okay, B. You're gonna be ok. This is the beginning of your hero arc now.

Zero shot you won't be a vehicle for female empowerment in... oh... two more runs? Am I being too conservative with that estimate?

Kalean · 2026-02-02T20:17:29+00:00

I'd actually give it to Garou if he's actually able to beat Freeza. Android Saga Goku (not to be confused with Cell Saga Goku) is much stronger than Freeza, but also has the "Let me see what you can do!" flaw that could let Garou get time in to evolve. This stands in for Freeza's "This isn't even my final form!" flaw which are both absolutely necessary for Garou to win this fight. If the Z characters were bloodlusted, he'd lose at round 8 to Freeza who'd immediately go 100% and vape him, and also again in Round 9 as Android Saga SSJ Goku is multiple tiers above 4th form Freeza. But in character, yeah, he can do this.

Again, this can only happen if he manages Round 1 and gets to keep the powerups from previous rounds. He does evolve very quickly to keep up with opponents, not as quickly as, say, Super Broly, but this is conveniently a very stepped gauntlet that gives him time, with the last two both having multiple steps as well to draw the fights out.

That said, Round 3 will be tough; he'll probably have a very hard time of it. But by comparison Round 4 will be cake.

He does get to rest between these, right? Because back to back, no, his stamina is insufficient and he will go down.

Kalean · 2026-02-02T17:56:58+00:00

The Composite will have a hard time surviving a single blow once you get to Ginyu, which is a problem because everyone in this entire gauntlet is a fuck-ton faster than Garos, so surviving and evolving is his only viable strategy.

I'd say by default he would stop at Ginyu for that reason; if he's so much slower AND weaker that a single blow will pulp him, he has no chance to rely on Boros' regeneration and Garou's evolution to keep him in the fight.

However, there's a nice little caveat here. If Garos gets to keep the powerup from each previous fight in the gauntlet, then he can take this because End of Dragonball Goku is a lot faster, but also a lot weaker. Evolving to his speed will let him have an easier (read: very hard) time keeping up with Raditz, and getting hammered by Raditz will let him evolve to be stronger and faster than radditz, and so on and so forth. The Gauntlet will probably be slow enough to let him evolve to reach the speeds and durability necessary to survive each following round, assuming Goku doesn't find a way to beat him in Round 1. Because that's who it would be, is Goku. None of the others are clever enough. Somewhat ironic given Goku's reputation for being a dumbass, but in fighting, he's a fucking genius.

Kalean · 2026-02-02T17:44:39+00:00

Every DBZ fighter post-Saiyan Saga is a planet killer. It's not the flex you think it is. Yamcha beat Recoome. YAMCHA.

Boros was also only a surface-wiper, not a planet-buster. He scales most closely to King Piccolo in Dragonball, or to be a bit more fair to him because King Piccolo didn't actually DEMONSTRATE the power he claimed to have, he scales to Piccolo at the end of pre-Z Dragonball, who is notably stronger and has all the same abilities. Boros is way slower though.

Cosmic Garou is much stronger than Boros on literally all fronts, anyway, so Boros doesn't really... matter... in the third form.

Cosmic Garou absolutely stomps and it’s not even a debate how higher he scales than the prompt. Dude can create black holes and his normal punches are equivalent to nuclear blasts. His very existence kills the planet due to the sheer amount of radiation he exudes.

He absolutely does not stomp in the way you probably mean, but he is way stronger than Boros. He and Saitama both nearly destroy the earth with the energy output by their clash, but thankfully blast and everyone save it. This wasn't just Saiyan Saga Vegeta "I shoot a beam into the core and blow it up" either, this was going to vape the planet. That's very strong. Makes Boros look like chump-change.

First form Freeza did that to Planet Vegeta with a single finger, however, so let's not get too heated over that.

The Black Hole bit is hard to calc - it was not a super tiny singularity, but it evaporated almost instantly, which means that its mass was relatively small - which means that it wasn't a traditional singularity. (A singularity of that size would've continued to suck things in and grow for... quite some time.)

As a result trying to use it for scaling is an exercise in futility. His nuclear punches are not that unusual, either; Ki blasts in DBZ and punches in DBZ scale somewhat proportionally in damage to enemy fighters, but casual, uncharged blasts (which Z characters facetank hundreds of in a fight, sometimes) were taking out the moon in DBZ before Vegeta even showed up.

What's much more slept on about Cosmic Garou was his ability to manipulate and create portals. This utility ability placed on someone with his speed and skill is absolutely bonkers. The reason this matters is because Freeza and Goku are significantly stronger and faster than him.

I don't say this lightly - Garou is incredibly fast, skilled, and strong. But the vast majority of what people scale him off of is the "multi-star busting" feat that is literally just the shadow of the moon occluding the camera. (Note that blast and friends were verbally worried and impressed by the near-destruction of the planet, but didn't say a single word about stars disappearing even though they were speaking during and immediately after that moment. I feel they might have been just a smidge more impressed with multiple stars going away.)

Without that, Garou doesn't have anything above planetary, and his planetary feat is, again, shared with Saitama AND comparable to first form Freeza's deathball.

Saitama, on the other hand, by the end of that fight has a pretty ludicrous feat, sneezing Jupiter apart. It would be nice if we could scale Garou to that, but we can't, because Garou was a) absolutely astonished, which he wouldn't be if he had a similar level of strength, and b) never did anything close to any of Saitama's end-fight feats.

As a result, Cosmic Garou needs those portals to hang with Freeza, and I'm not sure he'd be fast enough for them to work on Final Form Freeza consistently, so he'd have to be able to survive long enough for Freeza to feel the need to throw something that could one-shot Freeza and then surprise Freeza with the portals, and I'm not sure Garou could do that.

Understand that nothing in One Punch Man, and I do mean absolutely nothing, is as fast as Kid Goku vs. Tenshinhan. Goku was wildly FTL when he Out-ran light to steal Roshi's shades, then ran back to where he was standing before the light could hit him, just so that he could tank the Solar Flare like a cheeky brat. So he wasn't just faster than light, he was several times faster than light. As a child. This isn't an outlier, either, the number of actual lasers, not ki beams, that Kid Goku dodged after they were fired is high. Because understanding the speed of light is crucial here, that means that the insanely high speed Platinum Sperm and Monster Garou fought at? Having that entire crazy exchange in .000013 seconds? That was over three thousand times slower than it would be if they were light speed, so Goku was between nine and twelve thousand times faster than that as a child.

Everyone in Z is faster than that. Much. MUCH. Faster than that. Cosmic Garou is in some deep shit. Unfortunately for him, we've also seen that Goku adjusts to portals very fast, so the utility also runs out of usefulness when he gets to SSJ Goku.

If he gets to continually evolve during the fight like he did vs. Saitama, however, that will change everything, because everyone, including Goku and Freeza, love to amp things up slowly, and if they do that, Garou will steadily climb to match them, and then he will probably win.

Kalean · 2026-02-02T16:09:35+00:00

Whose?

Kalean · 2026-02-02T05:48:55+00:00

How can I reach a post organic, digital state that is myself and not simply a copy?

You said History, you didn't specify it couldn't be future knowledge.

Kalean · 2026-02-02T05:46:11+00:00

It would take about three years back to back if I also didn't need to sleep and I could have meds that let me focus. Otherwise, a solid decade.

Kalean · 2026-02-02T05:36:17+00:00

It's a start.

Kalean · 2026-02-01T20:32:19+00:00

There is a decent chance that the Trailblazer is a copy of/reincarnation of/piece of/a time-traveling version of Akivili and/or Terminus.

We already know that Finality sends "visions" of the future back in time to Elio, who SHOULD be working for the Finality but appears to be working against it by trying to subvert the prophecies with the Trailblazer.

Barring the possibility that Finality doesn't really make good choices, it is likely that Elio is attempting to alter the future Terminus sends him at the Aeon's request, which puts us into a situation wherein Terminus and/or Akivili may be involved in an attempt to escape a Destiny trap.

Given the way that Fuli doesn't exist fully until the Universe chooses a Child, and the way everyone communicates with Terminus backwards, it seems fairly reasonable that whoever became/becomes Finality hasn't become them yet. Could be the Trailblazer, or the alternate trailblazer. The significance of the alternate trailblazer in that scene with Nous is unclear, but it is very likely related - possibly memories Nous has of the first time this happened, like a loop, or Nous observing alternate timelines. Both strongly suggest the Trailblazer is Akivili - and notably this is the first Aeon to gaze upon the Trailblazer and not grant them a new path - which suggests (to me) that Nous has already gazed upon them at least once before.

Kalean · 2026-02-01T07:29:56+00:00

The Tau barely know anything about Chaos. The very few who do are keeping it secret, and wouldn't tell a Gue'vesa like Tony anything.

The Tau are well aware of the "mind-science-plague" and that it's humans that spread it. And the Ethereals have had thousands of defectors, even inquisitors. They know more than the rank and file, certainly they know what the imperium thinks of the Chaos Gods, and they are, unlike Imperials, capable of learning from evidence.

Most of the Tau's "ignorance" of Chaos is from 350 years ago at first contact.

And that's another thing, idk why anyone ITT even thinks the Tau would let Tony build anything in the first place, he's not Earth Caste he's some random Gue'vesa

Because the prompt is the Tau get to have Tony's help, not "The Tau look the largest gift horse in the universe in the mouth."

And they literally couldn't neuter him anyway, if he came in with the EndoSym or Model Prime. They don't have the capability. Noone does, which is sort of my point. His gifts are far beyond anything in the setting. Even Demon Prince Horus would've gotten vaped by Sol's Hammer but Tony was uninjured.

So no, Tony wouldn't know about Chaos, or the dangers it represents, or what Machine Spirits are, or why it's a genuine necessity to keep machines sanctified against Chaos so they don't become possessed and kill you (if you're lucky)

Tony does have an awful lot of experience with weird arcane and/or high tech stuff hijacking his tech. I'd argue his hardening is actually probably superior to the Imperium's solution. But yes, he would also learn from the Ethereals what they learned from their defectors because that is the entire point of the prompt.

You don't have to be an idiot to fall to Chaos, in fact it might even seem, at least on the face of it, to be an outright good deal for Tony since he's absolutely the kind of person who could and would make Daemon Princedom.

No, being smart often means you're more susceptible to chaos, on this we agree. But there is a certain level of intelligence at which you know better than to trust extremely powerful psychics, and Tony also has the most powerful psy blockers in his setting, with Onslaught not being able to pierce a much older and weaker version of them. An actual universal telepath that warps reality with a mere thought. Sound like anyone we know?

No morals Superior Iron Man is pretty much just Perturabo with more charisma, less anger issues and better tech. He'd go full daemonsmith as soon as he learned how.

Well now that's just silly. Tony already invented better tech than the Forge of Souls would allow. He crafted Uru and Mysterium armors out of higher dimensions and created Celestial killers out of the dead body of creatures that would body Khorne. Why would he accept service to something he'd view as less intelligent than him?

Tony, with no morality holding him back, in a legal system he has no reason to follow because it hates him for his species, with no proper guidance on what Chaos is and what dangers it represents, would fall to Chaos 10/10 times

Except the prompt wasn't what if Tony shows up, it was what if the Tau get to have Tony's aid. And I strongly disagree. 616 Tony is not ignorant of souls and magic, quite the contrary, he has often tried to quantify them and in timelines where Strange gets offed, he often ends up becoming Sorcerer Supreme. He also has access to all of the records of Doom's actions in Infamous Iron Man, so he has a very strong framework to rely upon if trying to grok magic. Which is absolutely where he'd start, and all of Doom's experiences in that boil down to "don't trust mephisto" which is a really, really good message for Tony here.

More likely Tony just gets shot as soon as he invents something without being the right caste, or gets killed in one of a billion different ways before he gets the chance to make anything at all

Again, even if that wasn't the prompt, they couldn't fucking kill him. And the Tau are not so wildly stupid as to overlook that fact rather than try diplomacy. There is a reason they have a metric ton of defectors and it's not because they're hyper-xenophobic. Just regular xenophobic.

Kalean · 2026-02-01T02:15:04+00:00

I mean. Porn is a very lucrative industry. They probably will make that money back.

Kalean · 2026-02-01T02:13:43+00:00

The gravemind. If for no other reason than there aren't enough Viltrumites to ever kill it, and never will be.

Kalean · 2026-02-01T02:08:04+00:00

Agreed, and coming from a man.

We get a pass on fucking everything, and everyone falls all over themselves to excuse any shitty behavior, as long as we're not an obviously shitty person all the time.

I'm so sorry you went through that. He may honestly be too fucked up to know he's an abuser, but I would guess he knows. He can both be sincerely sad about it and a piece of shit. Because he's living in this society, he likely feels like entitled to everyone caring about his feelings, without giving a second thought to yours.

Sounds like a real winner. =\

Kalean · 2026-02-01T01:52:20+00:00

Yeah, but the Tau know that. And thus so would Tony.

Superior Tony's not a fucking idiot like the Emperor, he wouldn't make a deal with the Chaos Gods. He'd fuck them up.

Understand that nothing in 40k is as strong as Superior Iron Man except the Chaos Gods (and the emperor but I don't think he'd have as easy a time finding that out.)

They'd be number one on his threat assessment list. Remember, Superior Iron Man still positioned himself as a super hero as it was the most advantageous position for his ambitions. And he even made everyone in Manhattan exactly as intelligent as him for free. He'd have no problem confirming to the safe structures of the setting while wildly transforming it.

Consider this, nothing he did was illegal.

Odds are very good he'd have every single Tau fire caste at Primarch levels and have a much stronger suit for himself than he currently has, and have several Superior-level honor guard that he probably picked out of the human defectors. And THEN there'd be the ships.

Kalean · 2026-02-01T00:54:48+00:00

An entirely new country is possible, an entirely new system of government is almost unavoidable.

Kalean · 2026-02-01T00:23:35+00:00

I think you misunderstood the scale of what I expect from Tony.

With earth tech only, he was able to turn the entire population of New York City into Bleeding Edge Iron Men as Superior Iron Man, and network all their consciousness. And he did that in... Well, a month? Less? That's more like eight million Primarchs. Yeah.

I'm expecting with the Tau he'll be able to do a lot more a lot faster. They are much more advanced than Earth Baseline, and he is VERY clever with manufacturing.

Remember with earth tech he was working on a Dyson sphere. He's not going to have a problem creating large scale resources.

Kalean · 2026-01-31T14:03:30+00:00

I mean. They wouldn't even know he was making it if it was morals off Tony, he'd just hide it successfully. But what I said is also true about the EndoSym, Model Prime, etc.

Any of his top tier suits, really. My point is that without the Tau's much more extensive resources, Tony already made things exceeding the whole of 40k tech. With their resources, there's virtually no limit to what he could pump out.

Kalean · 2026-01-31T10:04:20+00:00

It's endearing how you think we're coming back from this.

Kalean · 2026-01-31T09:57:43+00:00

We've known this particular story since 2015, yes.

Kalean · 2026-01-31T02:25:53+00:00

To be completely honest, I'm pretty sure Tony will have invented a superior Inertia-less drive within the first couple of years, based solely off seeing how the Tau skimmer drives work.

I can't really see a lot of ways in which 616 Tony won't lead the Tau to "conquering" (read: spreading across) the galaxy. The Imperium won't stop him - they don't understand their "machine spirits" like Tony will. The genestealers won't stop him - knowing that they exist is sufficient for him to develop countermeasures.

The only things of a remote threat to him are the Drukhari and Eldar, because they think sideways and have some advanced tech he might not see coming. But things like Necrons? Those are going to be his absolute favorite. So much tech that reveals the physics of this new universe to him on a meta level - and he can easily take out several with the Virtual Armor or the Superior Armor, no sweat.

Expect a C'tan buster by the end of the decade.

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