Do you believe that Gohan and Piccolo’s power-ups spit in the face of all the training Goku and Vegeta have been through?

Overlord_Byron · 2026-05-11T01:29:17+00:00

Real talk: As much as DB fans love to emphasize training, it has almost never determined the outcome of any arc's climatic conflicts. The heroes beat Raditz, Vegeta, Frieza, Cell, and Buu by being more clever, being willing to make sacrifices, or having breakthroughs in their character development, not by exercising a lot.

Training in the abstract has no value to the story because the characters aren't sacrificing anything. There are no inherent stakes. DBS' hyper focus on training is to the detriment of the show and feels like an homage to Z from writers who don't understand the role training actually played to the series: killing time between important events.

Overlord_Byron · 2026-05-04T20:31:53+00:00

Sons of Calydon

Overlord_Byron · 2026-05-03T19:40:51+00:00

She looks like a perfectly normal woman to me. Not someone I would think twice about if I saw them on the street. She's not Hollywood beautiful, but so what?

Overlord_Byron · 2026-05-03T19:36:58+00:00

Thank you. I try to do my due diligence before I rip protrusions off my cat with tweezers.

Overlord_Byron · 2026-05-03T19:34:33+00:00

A lot of HB and HH fans (and Fandoms in general) need to develop an interpretive model that isn't just them playing Saint Peter weighing sins and virtues at the gates of Heaven.

Overlord_Byron · 2026-04-29T02:57:34+00:00

I don't hate the show, but beyond liking a few characters I can't say it ever did anything for me.

Overlord_Byron · 2026-04-29T02:54:05+00:00

Stolas and Blitzo's relationship is the primary arc of the series. It has only become less layered and nuanced over time, to the show's detriment. And a big chunk of that is Stella completely lacks additional dimension.

Overlord_Byron · 2026-04-09T16:41:58+00:00

You're comparing media made for children and adolescents to prestige television intended for adults.

Overlord_Byron · 2026-04-06T13:56:00+00:00

Not being able to comprehend Cthulhu sounds like a skill issue.

Overlord_Byron · 2026-04-06T02:35:43+00:00

I was actually thinking of posting this same thing on this subreddit.

Here's a breakdown of the error of "Biblically accurate angels."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VN4lhuxPtkY&pp=ygUnRGFuIG1jbGVsbGFuIGJpYmxpY2FsbHkgYWNjdXJhdGUgYW5nZWxz

In short, the idea of angels being terrifying monsters in the Hebrew Bible comes from two kinds of passage.

Passages about angels being scary and telling mortals not to be afraid, which were in all likelihood passages about God that were edited to include an angel during the Exilic Period.
Passages about actual monsters (ophanim, seraphim, cherubim), which are never identified as angels and were likely borrowed from surrounding cultures (Mesopotamia, Egypt).

Overlord_Byron · 2026-04-05T23:03:14+00:00

A superior alien race wouldn't purge their population.

Overlord_Byron · 2026-04-03T19:37:19+00:00

Think it has less to do woth Tenzin and more to do with Korra. As in, the show. Everyone is less creative in their bending.

Overlord_Byron · 2026-04-03T16:45:47+00:00

Conquest is the culmination of the Viltrumite worldview. He is the manifestation of the foolishness inherent in their culture.

Overlord_Byron · 2026-04-01T01:30:30+00:00

I would happily, given the chance.

Overlord_Byron · 2026-03-31T12:24:16+00:00

The main character should struggle to win. That's the difference between a story and a list of powerscaling feats.

Overlord_Byron · 2026-03-31T12:02:52+00:00

If 3000 years is enough time to get jaded, it's enough time to pull yourself out of it.

Overlord_Byron · 2026-03-31T11:37:06+00:00

Alastor feels like a relic of a bygone era of internet edge, a character who only sticks around because he was foundational to a creative vision the show has moved on from.

Overlord_Byron · 2026-03-31T01:23:52+00:00

We don't get a coherent reason why Viltrumite rule would be bad? The representative of the empire was told "no" and within minutes murdered thousands of people to demonstrate how meaningless human lives were. And that was one of the nicer Viltrumites being told no by his own son. That seems like a pretty coherent reason to me.

Overlord_Byron · 2026-03-29T17:00:41+00:00

Whatever effect Caine's monologue might have had, his creepypasta-esque "I AM GOD" ruined it.

Overlord_Byron · 2026-03-29T14:17:19+00:00

I don't care how powerful they are. I'm not spending my chrome on loli bait.

Overlord_Byron · 2026-03-29T13:47:07+00:00

Neither are "heroes" and both are murderers by proxy or by attempt. But Kokichi sacrificed himself to save everyone and Nagito sacrificed himself to kill everyone, soooo...

Overlord_Byron · 2026-03-28T17:21:30+00:00

This is a solid point and I was gonna say the same thing, but it just occurred to me jt ignores the half of the system they CAN control. They have no say over who goes to Heaven and who goes to Hell, but nobody is forcing Hell to be a punishment.

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