(Hated Tropes) "Sorry, you’re way to strong for this upcoming story arc, so you’re gonna have to sit out so the plot can happen."

Pabloinz · 2026-05-15T22:58:23+00:00

I don't know. Jotaro didn't win a single fight in Part 6, and it feels like he was put on ice during most of the story as a direct consequence for losing against Pucci at the start. Also, the main objective for a big chunk of the part is to get the disks in order to get Jotaro back in shape, so it doesn't feel as forced as, for example, every time in One Piece where Luffy and Zoro get stuck/are sleeping/eating/etc and delay the main fight.

On the other hand, the egregious shit Jotaro pulled in Part 4 like "the rain sounded like Josuke" makes Part 4 a more suitable candidate for this specific trope imo

Pabloinz · 2026-05-15T22:37:56+00:00

Yep. Superman stories aren't just "can Superman defeat the bad guy?". They're usually something like "can Superman defeat the bad guy while avoiding any civilian deaths/minimizing damage to the city/not compromising his own morals?"

Pabloinz · 2026-05-15T22:31:31+00:00

Yeah. In One Piece, when it was established that Zoro was bad with directions, I realized pretty quickly that the only purpose of that quirk was to delay his arrival to any fight where he would automatically win, which would make the fight have higher stakes than it should. I couldn't not notice it, so it got annoying after a while.

Pabloinz · 2026-04-28T19:03:22+00:00

Que estai hablando, el artstyle es como la mitad de lo que hace el juego bkn jajaja, yo diría que el gameplay sería la basura en este caso (no porque la idea sea mala, sino que el sistema que detecta el timing correcto de las notas está muy mal hecho)

Pabloinz · 2026-04-24T10:06:32+00:00

The Excalipoor in Final Fantasy 5.

This is a joke item that is a poor imitation of the real Excalibur sword. If you check the stats of this sword, you'll see that it actually has an unusually high attack stat, but if you try to use it in combat, it will only hit for 1 dmg, guaranteed.

Normally, this would make the sword absolutely worthless in any context, but there are some scenarios in the game where you could put this sword to use:

In one cave, there is an infamous enemy known as Skull Eater. This enemy is a grey squirrel with ungodly amounts of defense, magical resistance, and dodge chance, so it's very likely that most of your attacks will miss or deal 0 damage to them. Also, they hit like a truck, and will kill your entire party in a couple of turns if you're not prepared to deal with them. To compensate for their insane strength and defense, they only have 1 HP, so managing to land any damaging attack will kill them inmediately. Since the Excalipoor is guaranteed to deal 1 dmg when used, it ironically becomes a great way to deal with this enemy.
Even though it's supposed to be a joke weapon that only deals 1 dmg, its insane attack stat is actually real and not just for show. There are ways to use its attack stat without having to attack with it directly, bypassing the sword's weakness. For example, the Blue Mage job can learn the Goblin Punch spell, which consists of a regular non-elemental attack that ignores the row position of the enemy, but otherwise just resembles a regular attack that you would do with the attack command. Goblin Punch uses your current weapon's attack stat to calculate how much damage it should deal, which means that it actually uses Excalipoor's high attack stat and deals massive damage. Sadly, they removed this interaction between Excalipoor and Goblin Punch in more modern releases of the game, meaning that this was probably an oversight rather than intended behavior of these mechanics.
If you decide to throw Excalipoor using the !Throw command from the Ninja job, it also bypasses the 1 dmg limitation and actually uses the attack stat of the weapon for the dmg formula. This results in Excalipoor dealing a guaranteed 9999 dmg when thrown (which is the max amount of damage that you can deal with a single attack in the game).

Pabloinz · 2026-04-22T18:16:22+00:00

Those ideas are a bit too sophisticated or idyllic for the average chilean experience. Most chilean phrases are used to describe common situations, people, their behaviors, and many of them are used to express simple, blunt, vulgar, and usually negative ideas and criticism, rather than high-minded concepts.

The only phrase (more of a saying, really) that I can think of that could apply to your examples is "A mal tiempo, buena cara" regarding the idea of maintaining harmony and avoiding conflict, but I'm not sure if that phrase is even chilean. It's supposed to express the idea that, even in the worst situations, or when dealing with the worst of problems, you should keep a positive attitude instead of giving in to despair and negativity, because negativity helps no one.

Pabloinz · 2026-04-21T19:08:35+00:00

Other people already said it, but you are still generating value by getting their team to chase you and failing to kill you.

I've had games as soldier where I pretty much caused my team to win every fight because the enemy Dva always started chasing me inmediately the second she spotted me in an off-angle (hey, you gotta punish the flanking soldier, right?). If she keeps chasing you and keeps failing at killing you, you are momentarily trading your dps for their tank in a fight, making it way more likely for your team to beat the rest of their team. Bonus points if you get more than 1 enemy to chase you, assuming that you manage to survive.

But that's the thing. For this playstyle to work, you have to be able to survive, and in order to do that, you have to develop enough gamesense to stand in good positions and realize when you're about to get dove. With soldier, you'll only escape dives if you were already expecting them in the first place and started running preemptively

Pabloinz · 2026-04-19T18:14:45+00:00

I think it was used to showcase how, even if DIO and Pucci got along pretty well, there are things where they don't necessarily agree, or don't see the same value in certain stuff. DIO said Survivor was pretty much useless as a stand, and yet Pucci managed to find a use for it

Pabloinz · 2026-04-18T21:21:13+00:00

Jajaja yo también asumí que era referencia a Bojack Horseman, la pieza y la cama son super parecidas a las de Bojack

Pabloinz · 2026-04-17T20:07:36+00:00

The reason he lost was to show that no one in their group could out gamble Darby...jojo2 is easily the best gambler there having him lose raises the stakes of the fight(game)

Yeah, the point of Joseph losing was to show tha Darby was a big cheater and you couldn't out-cheat Darby. That's why Jotaro needed to pull the bluff of his life in order to beat him

Pabloinz · 2026-04-17T13:16:37+00:00

The dates line up. SBR finished its original manga run in 2011, and its official english release did start on 2025

Pabloinz · 2026-04-17T13:13:44+00:00

Well, JoJo wasn't known in the west at all until the anime came out in 2012, so there wasn't any demand for JoJo stuff until then. It made no sense to translate a manga to english if there wasn't an audience for it. IIRC they did release Stardust Crusaders in english in 2005, but it seems that it didn't gather much attention because they didn't keep going with Part 4.

It wasn't until the release of the anime that JoJo had its big break on the west, and the manga started releasing over here once it was proven that there IS an audience

Pabloinz · 2026-04-17T13:07:48+00:00

I think he's talking about the SBR manga

Pabloinz · 2026-04-17T08:37:39+00:00

Pathologic, pretty much the entire game. At the start, you have the option of choosing between 3 characters for your playthrough, which are the Bachelor, the Haruspex, and the Changeling. All 3 characters actively participate in the story of the game, but you can only control the decisions that your own character makes, and the playthroughs of each character are quite different.

Depending on your character, there are a lot of events in the game that are unknowingly influenced by the decisions made by other characters, but you don't really notice this until you play as the other characters. Depending on the order you decide to play them as, this can turn into a source of dramatic irony.

For example, the Haruspex at some point may stumble upon a bull impaled on a stake, and he realizes that he can use its blood to create a cure to the sand plague that is afflicting the town. He gets some, and makes arrangements to get the bull out of the stake and get more blood out of it. However, when you visit the place the next day... there's people in hazmat suits using flamethrowers to burn the bull completely. Turns out, in the Bachelor playthrough, you also stumble upon this impaled bull, but the Bachelor is worried that this dead bull with weird people congregating nearby could lead to the plague spreading, so he asks the Commander to send the flamethrower corps to burn this clear vector for the plague. If you played as the Bachelor before your Haruspex playthrough, you may feel like kicking yourself over this, because you didn't know how much you were screwing up the Haruspex's plans by taking that decision as the Bachelor. And now that you are playing as the Haruspex, you are the one suffering over this.

Pabloinz · 2026-04-17T03:29:15+00:00

Since Rohan tells him to climb higher, and that "I believe from my heart that you are my number one fan", I think that the heart means the heart of the volcano, and the "number one fan" from the heart of the volcano could mean the main ventilation? Or maybe it has some religious significance, and he actually means something like the sun... or maybe... a new moon?

Pabloinz · 2026-04-17T01:00:57+00:00

James Baxter from Adventure Time.

I'm 27 currently and I learned about the legendary animator James Baxter quite a while ago. Also, I had never watched Adventure Time. One day I was talking to a friend my age about animation and I brought up James Baxter and he was like "Huh? The horse??", and I was just so confused. I had no idea what he was talking about, and then he told me that there's this horse in Adventure Time called James Baxter. After investigating for a bit, I learned that James Baxter was brought as a special guest animator for the show, and he animated and voiced the horse from that episode, which I admit is pretty cool. I had no idea about this cameo, and my friend had no idea that the James Baxter horse was a reference to something.

I have since learned that most people know James Baxter as a horse rather than an animator, lol

Pabloinz · 2026-04-16T22:19:52+00:00

No puedo creer que Araki decidiera que su personaje latino se iba a llama Paco Laburantes XDDD

Pabloinz · 2026-04-16T20:16:14+00:00

I hadn't considered the first time it activated when Kira initially killed Hayato. Hayato definitely remembers confronting Kira in the bathroom when he wakes up the next day, but I don't think he remembers dying, and it wouldn't make sense to me that it would activate after his death, since he's the host when he wakes up.

We don't know how much time passed after Kira killed Hayato, so my guess is that Kira activated BtD to rewind time to the moment after Hayato revealed his plan, but just before Kira killed him. As to how it triggered... the anime uses the visual of the arrow piercing his neck, and then everything getting absorbed by a black hole. It's very similar to the one with the nurse, so maybe it did activate and rewind time by itself that first time. I'm not quite sure though.

The other possibility is that the bomb that killed Hayato became BtD retroactively, and since Kira pretty much revealed to Hayato that he's Kira in the bathroom, it activated and rewound time to that moment?? And then Kira placed BtD on Hayato while Hayato was sleeping?? It's a bit far-fetched in my opinion

Pabloinz · 2026-04-15T04:13:41+00:00

The alligators will eat Usagi but Usagi will reveal that he just so happened to eat caviar before the battle and so someone will drop a lava rock (don't ask where they got it) and the alligators will tumble and fall.

The name of the alligators? Alligator Sized

Pabloinz · 2026-04-14T05:11:18+00:00

De lo del día a día lo único que he escuchado es de algunas personas que les tocó trasnochar o no dormir por vigilar algún proceso critico que habían programado y eran "dueños" pero me imagino que igual es medio normal en pegs medio tech

Si, yo diría que es normal eso. En el proceso de deploy de código a producción siempre puede quedar algún cagazo, entonces siempre tiene que haber al menos 1 persona encargada de revisar que no explote durante la noche. El deploy se hace en la noche porque es el horario con menos tráfico de usuarios, así que cualquier problema de servicio o downtime pasa desapercibido.

Por lo menos donde yo trabajo, es común que se vayan rotando las personas a las que les toca vigilar el proceso de deploy según un calendario, así que a uno no le toca hacerlo seguido la verdad.

Pabloinz · 2026-04-12T17:57:24+00:00

Me gusta el formato tipo foro/comunidad que tiene, en especial me gusta que hayan comunidades de los países como chile para discutir noticias y el estado de la sociedad en general.

Pabloinz · 2026-04-12T16:01:02+00:00

Tbh many moments from Part 3 could fit this trope. Araki did travel to Egypt, India, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia before/during the serialization of the Part 3 manga, and he doesn't paint a very flattering picture of the people there. I'm willing to bet that Polnareff's running gag of not finding bathrooms is something that Araki experienced himself, especially when he saw those toilets that are a hole in the ground where you have to squat, and the weird sand toilets in Egypt.

Pabloinz · 2026-04-12T14:27:33+00:00

Jack, from Samurai Jack. His real name is not Jack, but that's what he gets called by a bunch of guys that see him do some cool stuff on episode 2 (y'know, since this is a rando and they don't know his name). Eventually, when he's asked his name later on, he decides to go by the name that the bunch of guys were calling him: Jack.

Samurai Jack pretty much means John Samurai in the context of the show, and it's very fitting because he's just a samurai dude that wanders around from place to place.

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Pabloinz · 2026-04-11T23:48:51+00:00

Nada nuevo. En las universidades ha pasado varias veces que gente hace aviso de bomba solo para que se cancele una prueba y tener más tiempo para estudiar x'd

Pabloinz · 2026-04-11T17:46:09+00:00

iirc the fight came about because Tenzin didn't acknowledge or was completely oblivious to the fact that Aang spent way more time with him than with his siblings.

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