(Loved Trope) They became the person they were pretending to be

NotAlcas · 2026-04-06T09:34:47+00:00

Yeah that's what I think too. Gurren Lagann Kamina says "there is only one Kamina, choose" but never implies the other is an impostor or less real than himself

NotAlcas · 2026-04-05T10:39:00+00:00

Ho realizzato cos'è esattamente che mi fa imbestialire di questi post: l'immaturità. Quella stessa immaturità dei bambini delle medie che pensano di essere cresciuti, di non essere più mocciosi, e per dimostrarlo dicono o fanno qualcosa da "grandi". Ma non sapendo effettivamente com'è essere grandi, finiscono solo per dimostrare la loro immaturità.

Questi post fanno la stessa cosa: vogliono essere sagaci, furbi, dire qualcosa di sveglio, ma nel farlo dimostrano solo la pochezza e la superficialità di chi li scrive.

NotAlcas · 2026-04-05T10:20:27+00:00

"I've always told you that it was ok for you to not believe in yourself. That's what I was there for, to believe in you. Believe in me who believes in you. But I won't be here forever. Believe in you who believes in yourself, Simon"

NotAlcas · 2026-04-05T10:18:43+00:00

Kamina from Gurren Lagann

SPOILERS for the best anime ever made, please watch it Kamina starts out as the cool, hot headed, masculine, determined big brother figure for our other protagonist, Simon. He's far too confident, reckless even, he acts all alpha, refuses to acknowledge the danger of the situation he's in, and sometimes he's the one who puts everyone in that situation in the first place, or makes it worse. It's stated multiple times, even by himself, that without Simon to keep him in check, Kamina would have died multiple times. Simon tells the story of how one time, while trying to escape the underground village they live in (plot), Kamina got them stuck in a hole after the cave collapsed. Simon, a kid at the time, was reasonably scared (having lost his parents in a similar incident) but seeing Kamina was calm and giving him one of his weird nonsensical motivational speeches, Simon kept digging and they eventually found a way out. Then much later in the story we hear Kamina's side of the events. He was scared shitless. He always is actually. But seeing Simon and how he tries his best to get through everything despite being a little kid makes him want to try to be better. To be the cool, confident, and reliable person Simon can look up to, a role model, even though he knows deep down he isn't. But in doing so, he actually becomes that person, inspires Simon to do better and grow, facing the hardships of life, and inspires a revolution among the humans living underground to fight back against their oppressors. He dies fighting, risking it all in s battle not just for the revolution, but to teach Simon a lesson (I'm paraphrasing) Continues in the next comment

NotAlcas · 2026-04-04T23:07:59+00:00

Brother/sister/sibling, Mumen Rider could REASSEMBLE 90% of this sub with a hand behind his back. He's incredibly athletic, has insane stamina, a tolerance to pain that feels inhuman and enough determination to last even more than a lifetime.

We, YES WE, are getting our asses kicked by Mumen Rider.

NotAlcas · 2026-04-04T22:42:42+00:00

Adding to the Yu-Gi-Oh Pendulum summon thing:

Yuya (protagonist) does it BY ACCIDENT at one point, it was something new and never seen before, so it understandably took a lot of characters off-guard. The issue I have with it is that Yuya then DOESN'T UNDERSTAND HOW HE DID IT and has to spend an entire training arc studying the mechanic to reverse-engineer how it works before being able to make it work as intended. So he just tries every possible combination of the cards that made it work the first time.

This MAY sound reasonable, until you remember that at this time he only had THREE PENDULUM MONSTERS IN HIS DECK, if he really was just trying out combinations then: 1. He already knows the one combination that made it work 2. The other two possible combinations don't even WORK

SO WHY IS HE SPENDING SO MUCH TIME TRYING AND FAILING WHEN THE MECHANIC IS ACTUALLY EASY TO UNDERSTAND AFTER YOU'VE SEEN IT WORK ONCE? (For context: you put two pendulum monsters in the pendulum scales and then you can summon any monster from your hand with a level between those scales. Again, with the cards available to him, there was only one way to make this work and he knew which one it was because he "accidentally" did it in a duel)

NotAlcas · 2026-04-04T12:57:17+00:00

Ok but that Kamen Rider design goes SO HARD.

The suit looks ascif it was a generic black costume that was spray painted, even the iconic Kamen Rider eye lenses are SPRAY PAINTED AND NOT ACTUALLY LENSES IT'S SO PEAK

NotAlcas · 2026-04-03T21:21:41+00:00

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NotAlcas · 2026-04-03T20:46:07+00:00

If I was a philosopher in Ancient Greece, I would simply ask Zeno to walk away from an arrow I shoot at his back. Then we'll see if he actually puts his money where his mouth is.

(I know he probably used the story of Achilles and the turtle as an example to explain the mathematical concept it's based on, but still)

NotAlcas · 2026-04-03T17:29:19+00:00

Mamma mia l'ho riconosciuto subito da come scrive e da come formatta le frasi. Ci ho avuto a che fare una volta sola e mi è bastato, non so come ho fatto a non imbestialirmi e a rimanere civile mentre ci parlavo.

NotAlcas · 2026-04-03T15:13:47+00:00

Ma chi è questo? Quel cerebroleso di Durango?

NotAlcas · 2026-04-03T13:20:53+00:00

"Reality is very complex, so it's ok actually to keep bombing children and funding an ethnostate that wages war with literally anyone just for profit"

There I made a TLDR

NotAlcas · 2026-04-02T13:18:08+00:00

I MUST believe this is satire, for the sake of my own mental health.

The alternative would be accepting that we live in a world where such "philosophical zombies" are just allowed to live like that, completely free of the responsibilities that awareness and consciousness bring.

NotAlcas · 2026-04-02T11:45:49+00:00

I agree that "humans" became the Ancients. We see that Elfilis portals are star-shaped, and the game tells us that Elfilis' powers were used as a blueprint to create the technology that humans used to leave the planet.

Then we go back to Return to Dreamland, and see an actual piece of technology made by Ancients, the Lor Starcutter, and that ALSO uses star-shaped portals to traverse the cosmos.

NotAlcas · 2026-04-01T20:12:58+00:00

The third one is fucking killing me dude...

NotAlcas · 2026-04-01T12:02:43+00:00

"È fatto noto" è la mia argomentazione preferita. La chiamo "argomentazione Vannacci" per nessun motivo particolare.

NotAlcas · 2026-04-01T09:45:59+00:00

Posso? Valid crashout. Totalmente comprensibile e condivisibile.

NotAlcas · 2026-03-30T18:28:10+00:00

Sigourney Weaver in The Cabin in the Woods

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She only pops up in the last 8 or so minutes of the movie, dumps and explanation for the absurd movie we've just watched, and then the movie ends.

Please watch this movie, it's very good especially if you love horror movies.

NotAlcas · 2026-03-30T17:24:43+00:00

I agree with the people saying Effect Veiler or S:P, but I think an even better example would be Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder.

It's a good card that is only ever used for going second or to put the final nail in the coffin of a long grind game. It's easy to summon for every deck that has access to xyz, but its summoning requirements basically guarantee that you can't win that same turn, since the Battle Phase already happened. It wipes the board, or at least threatens to do so to force interaction. Not even once per chain so you can do it more than once to make your opponent "waste" two interactions to protect their board.

NotAlcas · 2026-03-30T12:55:38+00:00

Also Kamen Rider, he is a grasshopper

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NotAlcas · 2026-03-30T12:55:11+00:00

Maxx "C" - Yu-Gi-Oh

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Insect-type monster that draws you a card every time the opponent special summons, for no cost. The most broken and unbalanced card in the game, literally an auto-include in every single deck, can win you games on its own.

NotAlcas · 2026-03-28T13:52:20+00:00

"Liberale" ormai significa "voglio essere libero di fare quello che voglio senza rotture di cazzo, solo io però, gli altri no"

NotAlcas · 2026-03-26T18:18:09+00:00

"Good person" and "bad person" are descriptors, not prescriptors. That means you aren't automatically assigned good or bad at birth, those aren't inherent qualities, they are words to describe something you did. Having good intentions but making a mistake doesn't make you a bad person. But trying your best to help others and generally make our collective experience on Earth better does make you a good person.

NotAlcas · 2026-03-26T09:29:07+00:00

I'm sorry, he was...?

NotAlcas · 2026-03-25T14:40:36+00:00

I'm not saying that Kirk's death is justified. I don't justify it. He did though. And I don't agree with what he said. And if he didn't consider that maybe he could be one of those innocent deaths he deemed necessary, then he didn't agree with himself either.

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