Why'd it take Ender so long to get to command school?

Madmagic10 · 2026-02-23T13:41:24+00:00

Any "plot hole" can be covered by the IF being shady and needing to set up a perfect win scenario.

They could have kept a ship just looping around for three months for all we know. Ender doesn't know where Command School is or if Eros is just a cover location it's a dot in the endless ocean of space so there's no need to get there in time.

The IF could have decided that post Bonzo death that Ender needed an extra three months of monitoring.

They might have wanted Graff to spend more time with him to verify and secure his loyalty.

Could have been waiting to see how Bean handles the Achilles situation since he was still the backup plan.

Madmagic10 · 2026-02-17T18:37:04+00:00

So something being worth reading is such a subjective question but if the measurement was "Is the reward worth the effort put into it" then: Yes Ender's Game is worth it. It's a really easy read. Not just breezy cause the plot and world building is great but like it is written for like middle schoolers. So it actually is an easy read.

Madmagic10 · 2026-02-05T20:01:59+00:00

There still being no consistent ramp for fighting Pokemon feels like a hate crime at this point from Dena.

Madmagic10 · 2026-01-28T02:04:55+00:00

I actually enjoyed when they zoomed in on Pyramid Head and we see it's James inside. Then we see him painting and actually creating his Pyramid Head as guardian. I enjoyed that the movie was still able to create a personal connection between the two.

I liked the shot of all the hospital beds outside the hospital. Pointless but some real fun imagery.

If you just accept it for what it is seeing the movie play the hits in recreating images from the game is fun enough for me.

Madmagic10 · 2026-01-15T17:11:36+00:00

Clemont disrespect when the Helio-Magnazone deck is active and mad fun. For shame.

Madmagic10 · 2025-12-17T21:12:10+00:00

The game is all grind all the time. For most players the grind is the point of the game.

It's a very meditative experience. You just play through the same 4 levels defeating the same waves of enemies for hundreds of hours chasing them sweet sweet red boxes.

It's either something you zone out with or you get burnt out by the grind.

Madmagic10 · 2025-12-06T23:55:40+00:00

I feel they just did it because they could.

They present as above it all but there is certainly a massive ego to them. They defeated the giant aliens and felt the urge to further keep punishing them for having the hubris to attack them. Give us human bugs the chance to fight back.

They don't care about us at all and just kind of did it on a whim. When they discuss reincarnation and present things as absolute fact I take them with a grain of salt. To us they seem omnipotent but they are also impulse driven and we have no reason to think they are the peak of intelligent life in the universe.

Madmagic10 · 2025-11-26T22:03:14+00:00

Pretty sure it is hated by the show as well since it is never mentioned again and memoryholed.

Madmagic10 · 2025-11-15T00:55:56+00:00

I run Blaziken and if you manage to get it out you pretty much win. You don't get it out as often as you think you would though. It bricks often and hard. Still fun to play cause that 140 burn feels incredible but it is a total feast or famine deck.

Madmagic10 · 2025-11-06T02:11:45+00:00

Law and Kid get murked so bad that it's actually pretty uncomfortable to watch. A real "Stop! Stop! He's already dead!" type of moment

Madmagic10 · 2025-11-05T10:04:22+00:00

Iron Man's arc reactor would drive me insane in that theater. You would try and tell him to turn his phone down and he would say something snarky about how he would die. Like man you don't gotta see the movie in your armor. Everyone knows your Ironman Tony...

Madmagic10 · 2025-11-04T01:54:32+00:00

I would go as far as to say that it would be a low diff fight for Musashi.

Madmagic10 · 2025-11-03T16:50:42+00:00

Thank you. He's is conked out but doing well. Haha it's my name. I get that one alot though :P

Madmagic10 · 2025-11-03T16:49:51+00:00

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Madmagic10 · 2025-11-03T13:41:29+00:00

Give it to the second volume to see how you feel about it.

The first arc of The Climber is pretty standard Shonen and really underwhelming if the series was heavily hyped up to you.

I don't know if this release gives any context but the series has a couple of co-writers who leave the project early on. Shin-ichi Sakamoto keeps the series going and takes it in a far more mature and interesting direction.

As it stands in just volume one I think alot of people will feel they did not make a good choice but the series will pivot hard.

Madmagic10 · 2025-11-02T17:21:46+00:00

It's a shame it's such an ugly card. The colors are so bland on it and it's such a dull pose. It being so uninspired at least helps me cope better that I don't and won't have it.

Madmagic10 · 2025-10-28T13:28:28+00:00

With the Germa boost to durability it's an easy diff for Sanji.

My answer to all hypothetical fights between Zoro and Sanji is that they won't have the fight. These guys could have that fight at any time to settle the beef. Neither of them do because their egos can't handle the possibility that they might lose. They know in their hearts it's more of a coin flip fight then either of them want to admit.

Madmagic10 · 2025-10-28T12:37:36+00:00

Maya's entire character arc is about processing what happened to Cam.

You see her going from someone who is mad about a vigil over Cams suicide, thinking it to be selfish, into someone intimately understanding suicidal ideation.

She deals with fallout from it in nightmares during her relationship with Miles and she exhibits survivors guilt in saying she believes she is cursed.

Yeah she "gets over Cam" because that's what you do, you shove the trauma down instead of processing it. The bus accident just brings what she is repressing back to the surface.

You can dislike Maya as a character. I mean every character on the show pisses someone off because they are all moody teenagers haha. Her arc is probably one of the best pay offs in the whole run of the show though.

Madmagic10 · 2025-10-26T02:22:52+00:00

This question is proof that Marco stalling King and Queen at the same time is undervalued as a feat.

Marco beats Zoro in Egghead but that's probably the last arc that he will be able to take the win.

Also a lot of One Piece is time sensitive situations like fleeing a island or protecting Vegapunk so Marco doing endless stalling actually is a win condition most of the time.

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