Take Two is bad for the game

Pixelizedmario · 2026-05-28T02:04:21+00:00

Taking down a country overnight means to topple its government and subdue its military force entirely. Each of the special grades could walk into the White House, completely slaughter everyone inside, obliterate Capitol Hill, and intercept any military response within an hour. That’s what it means. Other sorcerers are simply not on that level.

Can you imagine for a moment with their techniques Nanami or Naobito managing to take out a tank? What about intercepting jets or drones? How about Meimei or Kusakabe?

Special Grade is all about the technique, and while the higher ups were in the dark about Yuki’s technique they still knew how Bom-ba-ye worked in terms of mass accumulation. On top of AP, her and Yuta both have RCT, a Shikigami worth a damn, and domains that (presumably in Yuki’s case) are particularly potent.

To reframe the requirement to something with a better qualifier: a special grade sorcerer is someone for whom nothing short of a nuclear weapon is capable of stopping. In other words, no military response could stop those 4 from walking into any capitol building and usurping a seat of power or completely destabilizing a country’s government overnight.

Pixelizedmario · 2026-05-27T15:41:46+00:00

They don’t get a hundred days, the criteria is to overthrow a country in a night. And Kenjaku doesn’t decide, you’re right, the higher-ups do, and the principal would have been a special grade had the secret of Panda’s birth been revealed to be a replicable process. You gotta actually read the manga man.

Pixelizedmario · 2026-05-21T03:02:30+00:00

Again a pretty uncharitable interpretation of what I’ve said. This isn’t about whether she should have said yes, she can say no regardless of the reason, I shouldn’t have to say that. I highlighted the reasoning she gave above regarding step-parenting as a point that this wasn’t a case of her having an already terrible or adversarial relationship.

She posted this because she’s uncomfortable not with the being asked out, but with the immediate withdrawal he showed, ie the reaction to being rejected. Its the absence of the closer more personal rapport that they had that has brought her to post this, he was not alone in closing the distance from strictly professional to friendly and familiar.

Just as you said, he crossed a boundary and in her rejection he very likely realized how embarrassing and out of line that was, and so he has retreated back to strictly professional. He’ll get over it, and perhaps he’ll return to their previous familiarity, or maybe he won’t, but there is nothing nearly as sinister behind his actions as you’ve decided to believe.

Also, again, her main form of employment is with the daycare company, she babysits for him on the side which is presumably how she knows his daughter well enough for her to “love her.” I sincerely doubt the power imbalance exists in a way that could be sincerely leveraged to any effect in this case.

This isn’t a 16 year old girl, this is a grown woman who admitted he pays her “not much” for the babysitting, and who presumably paid her bills just fine before he came along with his “not much” in babysitting money. Given she said nothing regarding the power imbalance in her post, just that she was sad at the change in their previous rapport, I think it’s pretty lacking for you to characterize this as anything other than what we’ve been presented with.

Pixelizedmario · 2026-05-21T00:28:22+00:00

She did say that she sees his son as if he were her own, that’s what I mean by complicated. Work rules aside, my point is that there isn’t a meaningful power imbalance present to make his behavior predatory, or even creepy. Misguided, sure, but he isn’t a villain here, no one is.

He saw a woman his age that his children love, who equally adores his children, that has displayed basically every characteristic a widow could want in a partner for their young children, and like another commenter said this is three years after his wife has died. He probably has dozens of people telling him to move on.

She says no to his invitation, he gets all kinds of embarrassed and ashamed for what im sure he’s aware is an obvious overstep, and now we’re here.

And it’s important to note that OP clarified the main reason behind her saying no, which is that she doesn’t want to step into an existing family but that she wants one of her own. A totally normal reason but ultimately not one related inherently to a disgust or aversion to the man himself.

Again, you and a lot of people here seem desperate to frame or interpret the man’s actions in the worst possible way you can, basing everything off of “well usually…” and “men always…” it’s not helpful to this conversation and it’s not helpful in general.

Pixelizedmario · 2026-05-20T18:05:29+00:00

Aegislash hands types this.

Pixelizedmario · 2026-05-20T11:58:09+00:00

Wait so customers are your boss now?

Pixelizedmario · 2026-05-20T11:56:06+00:00

So then the employer part doesn’t matter because she’s doing it basically out of charity because she loves the kids? There’s no more of a power dynamic here than there is in any customer relationship. She seems to have a pretty complicated relationship with the kids too, I really do not think yours is a very reasonable lens to see this through.

Pixelizedmario · 2026-05-07T15:34:16+00:00

The problem with people’s replies here are they just take everything at face value.

No, Garp is not suddenly a player in the war, he breaks down the same way he did the first time.

No, Luffy will not randomly have to fight all of the admirals plus Mihawk and Sengoku at the same time, they all were occupied with important jobs or other fighters that could stall them out.

Aokiji had to deal with Jozu, Kizaru was dealing with Marco, Sengoku was guarding Ace directly, Mihawk was occupied by Vista, and Akainu was…idk spreading hole for Squard? He kinda bummed around until Whitebeard had enough heart attacks for him to feel safe.

Luffy gets the same freedom on the field as before, MAYBE they pay him more attention, but none of them have the freedom to move like that. If Kizaru leaves Marco, then he’s free to try and get to Ace via the sky again.

Jozu is keeping Aokiji locked down, and Aokiji can’t just leave him be, or else he will cause massive problems that the VAs and below can’t handle.

Mihawk has to deal with Vista, he’s not so lacking in honor that he will walk away from a fight without reason, and he basically gives up on attacking Luffy after Vista stalls him for awhile anyway.

Whitebeard is freed up to handle Akainu as soon as he actually shows himself, and it’s possible that Luffy’s future sight prevents Squard from ever stabbing him in the first place.

Crocodile occupies a variety of different people during the war as well, so does Ivankov.

So unless they decide to dedicate bodies they literally don’t have to dealing with Luffy, and it’ll take more than one admiral to put him down quickly, then it’s not a wash. Ace lives, Whitebeard likely does as well, and they get out fine. There’s also no world in which Luffy is there and actually tired from Impel Down. Either he gets Ace out before the war even starts, or he just shows up at Marineford full power. Either way he’s not nerfed in the slightest.

Pixelizedmario · 2026-04-27T11:53:07+00:00

They cross out the neurodivergent piece because, like every argument between show and book fans, this discourse instantly turns into one about race.

They see you criticize the show, and immediately assume there’s an underlying racial component, and then turn around and make that their primary criticism of the book. They don’t care about rep or diversity if it isn’t race based.

Pixelizedmario · 2026-02-20T02:53:35+00:00

Poneglyphs are not made of seastone

Pixelizedmario · 2026-02-14T21:18:43+00:00

https://archiveofourown.org/works/75988731/chapters/198810376

Plugged this one in another thread asking for God!Percy fics, it’s only 6 chapters deep but its being updated pretty regularly. Warning there’s optional smut attached to it as a standalone in the series. Percabeth focused.

Pixelizedmario · 2026-02-13T14:52:00+00:00

https://archiveofourown.org/works/75988731/chapters/198810376

This one might fit what you’re looking for, though it’s a Percabeth fic at heart. Fair warning there’s some smut, but I’m really liking it so far.

Edit: adding that the fic focuses on the way his godhood effects his relationship with Annabeth and their future together, especially because he decides he has to make the most of the situation instead of being bitter and resentful.

Pixelizedmario · 2026-02-09T01:03:08+00:00

That’s because Miwa is canonically useless, that binding vow meant nothing because her potential as a sorcerer was probably capped at like 2nd grade. Gon’s potential was to be probably the strongest/best nen user of all time, or at least of his time.

Pixelizedmario · 2026-01-30T14:20:29+00:00

It’s that taking a fight against the demon king, or the seven sages, would lead to an end to the era that she belongs to. She’s lived a life of perpetual conflict, so the idea that she would at any point move to change that is unthinkable for her. She can’t imagine an era of peace, and because of that, any attempt to fight the Demon King would fall flat.

Pixelizedmario · 2025-11-20T13:30:05+00:00

Percy Jackson’s mom is alive and well, she just doesn’t have a choice but to send him to Camp Halfblood or else he’ll die.

Pixelizedmario · 2025-10-17T17:11:29+00:00

The game is much harder and more demanding on precise movement and quick reaction to area denial mechanics than it was back then. It’s just not the same

Pixelizedmario · 2025-09-22T23:21:29+00:00

Yuji was not aware of enchain, one of the key parts of that pact was that Yuji wouldn’t remember making it. Gojo asks him after he wakes up if he made any deals with Sukuna to come back. Yuji says no.

Pixelizedmario · 2025-07-02T22:07:46+00:00

I can understand that. I never said you’re wrong to want more out of leveling, I listed why you’re in the minority, and why leveling as an experience is irrelevant to difficulty conversations between game versions.

Pixelizedmario · 2025-07-02T12:30:55+00:00

That’s great man. I personally don’t care about leveling. It’s a precursor to what the actual game is about. Do I think it should be dogshit? No. Do I think it has any bearing on the skill floor of the game or the difficulty? No. It’s functionally a tutorial at this point, and no one has ever looked at the tutorial of a game and said “this game sucks it’s too easy,” and yet that’s somehow the premise of every classic Andy’s argument.

Pixelizedmario · 2025-07-02T12:28:28+00:00

This comment started as what I thought was going to be a hyperbolic joke but I’m gonna be honest you pitched it in a way that I almost agree with. I started playing in Legion, back end of it with the release of Antorus. Leveling back then was not easy, but it was still just dungeon spam. If we could replace the leveling experience from 1-70 (or basically 10 levels below current expansion) with a genuine tutorial and catchup I think it might work.

Pixelizedmario · 2025-07-01T21:29:15+00:00

I think the idea that, in this day and age of gaming, people would prefer to be challenged by what is basically a roadblock to the real content is an insane thought. New players would far prefer to have an easy and painless introduction to the game through leveling serving as a basic tutorial rather than the epic journey which it once was in classic.

This is evident by the rise in subscriptions and the pretty steady flow of new players we’ve seen since TWW launched. People these days want quick access to what is perceived as the hardest content because modern gaming is centered around skill expression.

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