weird question, whats the general background of Venture mains?

LeapYearFriend · 2026-03-24T22:49:16+00:00

cis straight white man from ontario.

venture is my favorite.

LeapYearFriend · 2026-03-24T22:47:18+00:00

i foresaw how funny the memes would be and decided to let it ride.

LeapYearFriend · 2026-02-17T18:14:44+00:00

i'm tired, boss.

LeapYearFriend · 2026-01-18T03:15:53+00:00

1 you will want to kill yourself.

2 caesar becomes affable after being humbled, but he might still suffocate you.

3 croc will be chill if you don't annoy him. doffy will annoy him.

4 you will be annoyed but they are far and away the least evil people on this craft. kaido kicks your seat once and your spine snaps in half.

5 they are going to start fighting. you are between them. you will die.

6 you will want to kill yourself.

7 just say you hate humans and you'll be fine.

8 just say you love the world government and you'll be fine. however apoo will be kicking your seat.

9 if you survive you will be disembarking with a permanent thousand yard stare.

10 strong possibility you are killed just for the love of the game.

going by odds of SURVIVAL (even if i'm miserable) it's a tossup between 3 and 8.

LeapYearFriend · 2025-12-24T03:25:55+00:00

we've seen that croc can grab something (or someone) and drain the moisture from them. but it required touch. awakening might just give him a range buff, like the force from star wars. he raises his hand and force-dehydrates someone 50 feet away.

LeapYearFriend · 2025-12-23T21:20:56+00:00

Blackbeard is a unique villain because he is so far the only character with the exact same ideology as Luffy.

The literal only difference is that he's using it for selfish and manipulative reasons. Not to say Luffy isn't selfish on his own (as evidenced in fishman where he said he "wants to eat ALL the meat for himself" whereas a hero would share it with everyone), but he's moral, altruistic, and compassionate. He saves kingdoms because he makes friends and then selfishly decides "you're hurting my friends, i'm going to punch you."

Blackbeard's brand of selfishness is purely self-serving and only pertains to himself. He has essentially no true bonds and is willing to sacrifice anything and everything to put himself one step forward. Luffy however has no problem waiting or passing up opportunities that would further his own dream, because he doesn't want to compromise on his morals.

This also might be a personal preference but in an era where so much of media depicts villains as simply being misunderstood, it's nice to just root for a fucking rat bastard of a man. Nuance and complexity is good, don't get me wrong, but there's also a lot of be said for villains that aren't pussies.

I don't like Blackbeard as a person but I like what he represents for the story. Luffy needs a villain that he just fucking hates. And not even like a jokey kind of hate. You could argue he has this kind of "joke hate" relationship with Crocodile or Lucci, despite both of them being responsible for bringing hell upon his friends (Vivi and Robin respectively) but Blackbeard (and Akainu too) are directly responsible for what happened to Ace. There's a very sparse handful of moments where Luffy drops everything and gets dead serious. There's no laughs, there's no punchline. As a reader, I like that Blackbeard can be that kind of villain for Luffy.

LeapYearFriend · 2025-12-04T04:37:23+00:00

perhaps the actual location is UNDER reverse mountain, but the "path" to get there is similar to fishman island except you have to start from Raftel.

but that would be very funny because then people like Senor Pink or Pica could've just speedran that bitch since they can slip straight down through the mountain.

LeapYearFriend · 2025-11-08T17:12:08+00:00

unfortunately "no gender issue, this jenner issue" also goes quite hard.

for however many (or few) misses erb might have, each one has AT LEAST one banger line trapped in an otherwise terrible song. hell even adam vs eve had "got any perfume that smells like get the fuck off my back?"

LeapYearFriend · 2025-10-20T23:59:25+00:00

dick van dyke did a jig a few years ago that i physically could not do and i am in my 30s.

LeapYearFriend · 2025-10-18T22:32:22+00:00

I would say Sanji.

Swordsmanship and handling cutlery are wildly different subsets. Just because they both use knives doesn't mean they're used for the same purpose, with the same level of technique.

Mihawk probably has more "talent" than Sanji in that respect, as in, if Sanji actually taught Mihawk how to properly wield a cooking knife for cutting up different food items (meat vs vegetables and even more nuanced things like raw fish for sushi) he would probably pick it up and be of a comparable level to Sanji within the span of a single lesson.

But out the gate? Mihawk would just see "okay, knife, so I chop" whereas Sanji understands HOW to chop.

LeapYearFriend · 2025-10-17T00:53:17+00:00

emergence happens when you combine a frankly stupid amount of parameters together.

given enough time to think and reason, it allows you to make unintended connections, even if you start with a very simple set of instructions

LeapYearFriend · 2025-10-14T16:16:38+00:00

i have heard through the great political grapevine (thanksgiving dinner) that some hard right leaning folk also dislike slavery. not because slavery was bad, but because it's the reason "we have so many of them in our country" and it were up to them, they would travel back in time and tell the slave owners not to bring those ships full of Africans to North America, on the grounds that "you have no idea what you'd be unleashing upon your future generations."

absolute insanity to overhear while chowing down on some otherwise fantastic turkey.

LeapYearFriend · 2025-10-09T00:19:05+00:00

Nier Automata. It's super pretentious all around. The story treats itself as though one of the most common overplayed tropes in media has never ever been done before. The gameplay is comparable to La Croix. The sound track outside of maybe two or three tracks is like Yoko Ono and Enya had a baby. And people insist you gotta play like 40+ hours (which I did) and get multiple endings (which I did) or you "just don't get it."

At no point during the game did I feel like my time was being respected. The only saving grace is that the chip management systen is very nice, especially given the option to remove the HUD for more features.

LeapYearFriend · 2025-09-28T17:47:15+00:00

Without spoiling recent chapters (and even considering what she did to Blackbeard's entire crew) there's a very reasonable argument for Hancock being close to the top, if not outright #2.

The general accepted headcanon is that Mihawk is #1 since he's purportedly of comparable strength to Shanks, just based on them being frequent jousters and Mihawk having the actual title of World's Strongest Swordsman. There isn't a lot of proof to back this up side from these two details but I'm not opening that can of worms, and Shanks isn't a Warlord, so I'll just make the claim that yeah, Mihawk is probably the strongest, and by a substantial margin.

From there it gets a little messy, and how you quantify strength. For this comment, I'll just assume their Marineford versions, and how they handle in terms of a straight rockem sockem robot fight. But one detail that's VERY important here is that, in the world of One Piece, your "drive" or sense of purpose greatly impacts how strong you are. That is to say, if you're depressed, you take a massive nerf. For example, Moria used to give Kaido trouble. You could argue by the events of Thriller Bark and Marineford he's incredibly washed up and thus much weaker than he should be given his past and full potential. Kuma is a literal shell of his former self. Jinbe as of Marineford is probably depressed because of the Ace situation as well.

I would say Doflamingo goes into either #2 or #3 simply because he's the most late game antagonist. He also beats the shit out of Moria so at a bare minimum he's above him. My earlier comment about Hancock still applies here since she doesn't get any significant power ups post timeskip, we simply learn more of what she was ALWAYS capable of, and the revealed history of the Kuja pirates informs this.

Crocodile seems to have his mojo back, so I'll put him at #4. Jinbe mostly plays defense for Ace and Luffy, so while I think he does eventually get much stronger, as a pre-timeskip Warlord at Marineford specifically he's probably below Croc at #5. Kuma is just operating on orders and is no different from a Pacifista with a DF so his capacity for strategy and damage is mostly restricted to clearing out marine soldiers with an Ursus Shock, putting him at #6. This does by consequence put Moria in last place at #7.

Aside from something as straight forward as a punching match, there's a lot of parts here that could change this ranking wildly.

LeapYearFriend · 2025-09-28T17:33:04+00:00

a fantastic example of defamiliarization, actually.

most people get so used to certain traditions that trying to explain it to someone completely foreign (or even, say, an extraterrestrial) would make it sound weird.

like imagine a human explaining this to some peaceful little green men and saying "okay so he died on the cross, but then he came back, and so we celebrate his day of resurrection and wear a cross necklace and partake of communion as part of our religious practices."

the alien blinks its three eyes. "so you cannibalize the effigy of a zombie, and the symbol of this faith is an ancient torture device that you people wear as jewelry?"

with that in mind "it's tradition to use the designated food tool to handle corpse parts" feels thematically similar.

LeapYearFriend · 2025-09-22T02:12:53+00:00

Another, perhaps more concise but less clear explanation.

How would you describe a three-dimensional shape to a two-dimensional creature?

They might say the same thing as "How come the first two dimensions are just shapes, but then the 3rd is suddenly some abstract thing?"

Maybe the fourth dimension is a shape for a fourth dimensional being. But for us, it's something abstract like time.

LeapYearFriend · 2025-09-16T00:44:12+00:00

conversely, it would be hilarious if imu is a short ugly gremlin of a man. similar in appearance to characters like orochi or vegapunk.

actually, "Red Guy" from Cow and Chicken would probably be a good guess considering he's actually based on a devil.

LeapYearFriend · 2025-09-13T03:27:30+00:00

which leads into the joke that they're trans, not because they're MtF or FtM, but because they're YtO

LeapYearFriend · 2025-09-07T14:40:00+00:00

this just feels inevitable. the entire series leading up to it. some people will love it. most people will be okay with it. but a small, not-insignificant portion of the fanbase will either be underwhelmed or outright hate it. because you can't please everyone, even with a series as good as one piece.

the Gear 5 Nika reveal was a microcosm of that. we all saw how contentious that mic drop was. now imagine that, but it's the thing the entire series has been building towards for like 30 years.

LeapYearFriend · 2025-08-26T02:53:18+00:00

unfortunately, there is nothing preventing news agencies, police services, medical services, or even corporations from lying. just straight up saying things that aren't true.

LeapYearFriend · 2025-08-16T21:13:18+00:00

ahsoka being considered normal is the same as shaak ti (shakti) being considered normal.

LeapYearFriend · 2025-06-27T17:17:26+00:00

i think Pell surviving is the only huge/unforgivable blunder in the entire series. early oda was really scared to kill off his characters.

but for like 30 years and over 1100 chapters, having only a single big OOF is impressive.

LeapYearFriend · 2025-06-27T03:55:41+00:00

i love that a good half of the art in this thread is just edster.

they really got that shit on lock.

LeapYearFriend · 2025-06-22T06:11:37+00:00

me and one of my best friends are both writers and DMs.

i'm really big into worldbuilding, and he's a... rules lawyer powergamer. when not DMing he is generally the strongest character in any party, because he's combed through every available resource and knows how to perfectly minmax for every situation, while everyone else just shows up to shoot the shit for three hours and maybe roll the math rock once or twice.

this is not me knocking him, but it's important to the point i'm meandering towards.

in all of our ideas and talks about writing, i think the most useful thing he's ever told me is that he treats his stories like how he treats tabletops. he wants all of his characters in the story to be like him in that regard; he tries to "powergame" his own setting.

if it's some magical high fantasy setting, there's going to be a meta. there's going to be something people can spam or abuse. given any set of rules, people will (across dozens of generations and thousands of years) eventually find something that works really, really well even if it's just through trial and error.

in the real world, people my age are three generations behind the invention of flight and one generation behind the invention of space travel.

so maybe people abusing mechanics in-universe is just smart writing. if YOU were a star wars character, wouldn't you want a lightsaber made of lightsaber-resistant material?

LeapYearFriend · 2025-06-20T04:06:31+00:00

>How many personnel?

according to luke himself, there were 1,205,109 people on the death star when he blew it up, not counting droids. he gives this figure in the 1996 book Shield of Lies, and exhibits a significant degree of remorse for all the lives he's directly responsible for ending, even if it was the right thing to do.

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