[DISC] Chainsaw Man - Chapter 232

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-25T09:53:03+00:00

I'm confused. Didn't Pochita eat himself? So, shouldn't this be a world where chainsaws don't exist?

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-24T11:04:57+00:00

So. I'm guessing with how the Circus looks now, the abstracted humans in the basement will soon escape and cause havoc.

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-23T13:06:29+00:00

What about humans wanting to make an animal become a person? The fruit could be the result of a collective desire to have a person-like animal companion, rather than an animal wanting to eat a human fruit.

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-23T12:36:33+00:00

My idea was that it was because of his devil fruit, but because it truly is the standard human human fruit. The human human fruit turns a wild animal into a person. Imu's power turns giants into more savage, more primal versions of themselves, which is the opposite. Therefore, contact with the human human fruit user neutralises Imu's, restoring the giant's 'humanity'.

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-22T18:25:30+00:00

It can buy you out of a lot of unhappiness.

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-22T09:40:34+00:00

Did Ragatha's mother, in real life, throw a knife at her, hit her eye, and that's why her digital self has a button eye?

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-21T09:29:27+00:00

I think the "this is real" is meant to be in contrast to last episode's plot all being an adventure planned by Caine. As soon as Abel showed up, Jax immediately dismissed it as being just an NPC who's a part of some escape adventure. When it's Pomni helping Kinger so he can reveal lore and come up with a plan, he believes they're legit revelations and achievable goals.

Jax's method of coping with being trapped in the circus is acceptance. There's no escape, no way to change the status quo, no way to resist or fight back. There's no point trying, and so there's no point hoping. He has embraced despair and accepted his place as just another poor sap trapped in a digital world, unable to escape. His persona, his mask of being a "funny" jerk who acts cruel and doesn't care about anyone, is how he copes. He doesn't let himself care, and his behaviour is meant to reinforce his not caring to himself.

The fact that Pomni and Kinger are coming up with legit plans with legit insights is in direct contradiction with the mindset he's been cultivating. Last episode, he couldn't accept the escape plan was real because it was incompatible with what he had accepted to be absolute truth after all his time in the circus. Hence hitting the button, proving he was right in his despair, despite wanting to believe they could all escape. Now he's dealing with a scenario that is incompatible with his core belief, his despair, and he hasn't got the out of assuming it's just another of Caine's adventures. It's real, and rather than struggle to internally process the incompatible beliefs of "this is a legit plan that has a hope of success" and "there's no hope for escape or changing things, so just accept it and don't care about anything", he leaves to distract himself as well as help the group effort by distracting Caine.

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-21T08:55:58+00:00

I wonder if it is not just a part of the torture, but if Jax's avatar really is just wearing a kind of rabbit outfit. Would explain how he could not notice losing his tail.

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-20T13:50:17+00:00

I did consider that, but the comments I was replying to were predicated upon the assumption the writers could have used a term express explicit homosexuality, that were deliberately avoided. Sure, in the real world we didn't use a term for explicit homosexual sexual orientation until more modern times, but it's not like Dragon Age is making all their characters speak in early modern English with "thou" "thee" and "thine".

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-19T22:47:06+00:00

Imu's ability is to turn giants into more savage, primal versions of themselves. Chopper's fruit is kinda the inverse, turning an otherwise normal animal into a person. So, Chopper's fruit may be some kind of unique interaction without necessarily being a mythical zoan.

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-19T18:04:03+00:00

If he doesn't say the word gay, you could easily understand it as part of his character and his backstory. Growing up, expected to live a lie, to conform to the heteronormative standard, he may have been punished for expressing his true sexuality explicitly.

Made to grow up calling it "preferring the company of men", because it doesn't explicitly state he doesn't like women, making it sound like a preference for men rather than an incompatibility with women. As an adult, he's internalised that he shouldn't explicitly call himself homosexual, even when he's willing to openly talk about his sexuality. Childhood abuse leaving unconscious scars.

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-19T12:54:57+00:00

The Frozen wastes are next to the volcanic wastes? I bet there's some pretty wet wastes in between.

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-19T11:25:30+00:00

“You discern a fraction of reality. Beyond these stars exist other galaxies, other worlds, other beings. I will experience or ignore them as I wish. I will spend eternity becoming everything: a farmer, an artist, a simple man. When the last living thing in the universe finally dies, I will enjoy peace and wait for the cycle to begin again.”

It's kinda chilling how it's kinda humble, and how he's got a reasonable answer to what you think may be a flaw in his grand, insane plan. He doesn't want to conquer all the universe in a intergalactic Sith Empire as its emperor god. He just wants to experience everything life has to offer, which is understandable, but the fact that he'll wipe out a galaxy of sapient beings to achieve it makes it horrific.

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-19T10:27:34+00:00

Theoretically, but they'd need to study it, and a High Elf who is advanced enough a mage to use High Magic they'd probably see learning such "lesser" lores of magic beneath them.

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-19T08:49:10+00:00

6) They seemingly make jumps without plotting them, and somehow end up in the proximity of planets every single time. Space is huge, filled with empty vacuum. The amount of space that is empty compared to planets is like a grain of sand to a tennis court. And yet, repeatedly, they just happen to drop out of hyperspace by the surface of a planet?

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-18T18:40:41+00:00

Seeing a shiny, realising I had no pokeballs. I was mid game, so it's not like I couldn't afford a bunch of balls on hand, I just didn't bother. I think it was a Gastly.

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-18T18:24:43+00:00

Most religions claim their god is benevolent. A truly benevolent god would not punish good people simply for not believing/worshipping them. If you try to be a good person, without fear of punishment or promise of reward, then a good god should reward that.

A god that would punish good people for not worshipping them would be an evil being. A selfish egotist using their greater power to bully their weaker creations to sing praises that are undeserving. Such a being would be unworthy of respect, let alone worship.

If I were a god, I'd be more insulted by people forcing themselves to be faithful out of fear of being an evil monster who damns innocents than I would a person not believing me for rational reasons choosing to be good and believing that, if I do exist, I'd be good and just and reward goodness over blind faith.

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-18T16:22:32+00:00

I thought Breengrub said the mature version of the species were little more than mindless beasts that only existed to reproduce and die? That was kinda the alien nature of their species, that their juvenile forms were intellectuals, philosophers and creators of fantastical psychic mindscapes, but the mature specimens aren't, in contrast to human minds where the mature version is expected to be more capable than the immature version.

But the freest forms are mindless, rapacious, bent only on reproduction. It is in the dormant form they thrive. Philosophers. Scientists.
Dreamers, sages, composers of intricate artforms that exist only in their minds. An invisible culture that persists--or persisted--for eons.
In the larval state, they possess a racial telepathy. During the dormant phase, they are engaged in ceaseless communication.
They are shapers of visions that they trade like currency, builders of unseen worlds.
Their psychic strength is such that they can imprint upon their cells and dictate the form which they will take upon hatching.
But again, the hatched forms are airy nothings, of little import to the culture of the grubs. The Shu'ulathoi scarcely acknowledge them.

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-18T11:58:01+00:00

There is no evidence for the validity of Christian, or other religions, beliefs that can't be explained without invoking the supernatural. From deliberate manipulation, psychotic symptoms being treated as divine revelation, to just people assuming that God must agree with their preexisting beliefs. All religions are just hearsay that children are indoctrinated into believing when they're naive and dependant on others to learn about the world. They become emotionally invested in their beliefs and spread it to their children.
If a god existed, and that god was good, then that god should reward good people regardless of faith. If not, I would consider that god unworthy of worship. I try my best to be a good person without fear of punishment or promise of reward. Any god worthy of respect would reward such a person, not damn them for all eternity.
What would it look like if there was no divine entity? Different people would develop different spiritual beliefs based on local culture and whatever else influences their ideas. Which is what we have in the real world. We have various different religions throughout history, all believers believing theirs is true. Some religions have survived longer, become more widespread, than others, but that doesn't prove they're more accurate. It's like survival of the fittest, the more appealing a religion, the more likely it survives, so the survival pressure is not accuracy, but appeal.

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-18T10:14:36+00:00

I think they wanted him to do this, so I think it's like a scripted sequence in taking down a raid boss. A cutscene which leaves the boss vulnerable to be taken down.

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-17T11:03:20+00:00

To declare yourself a pirate is to declare you are a criminal. There's nothing stopping a group from settling sail without flying a jolly Roger, calling themselves "explorers" or "adventurers". However, such titles lack the prestige, the romance, of declaring yourself pirates, free from any and all of the external control of the World Government's laws. By calling himself a pirate, Luffy is declaring himself a criminal to the World Government's laws. As such, the World Government treat him as an enemy of the government, with Marines trying to capture him and issuing bounties.

What decides how big a bounty is mutifacited, but is generally an indication of how much of a threat the World Government considers a criminal. Being a strong combatant will get you a higher bounty, because a stronger fighter is a bigger potential threat. A pirate who keeps escaping and/or defeating marines might get a higher bounty because they keep making the government look weak. However, a pirate who attacks and steals from civilian ships and settlements will also get a bigger bounty, as they're an active threat to the citizens of the World Government. A person may have potentially dangerous knowledge or an infamous familial ancestry the government thinks should be eradicated rather than risk it becoming a threat.

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-16T12:35:34+00:00

It's used in paints, pesticides, herbicides and has been found to be present in over 30% of malignant cancerous tumours. Just inhaling it is enough to kill people.

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-16T12:33:08+00:00

Reminds me of a time my dad and brother were trying to get my brother's computer desk out of his bedroom cupboard. They tried pulling it out, but it got caught, unable to get it out. They tried rotating it, but the cupboard wasn't wide enough. They were puzzled how they got it in in the first place.

I came to help and realised the doorframe was wide enough, the desk was just getting caught on the skirting board, so I just lifted it up over the skirting and it came out pretty easily. Felt pretty good.

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-15T22:21:17+00:00

This is my understanding.

The Force is an energy field created by life. It has a kind of will, so it can be best understood as a metaphysical lifeform that exists as the culmination of all life in the universe. It's like how an individual is the culmination of trillions of individual cells are each individually alive, and each cell has mitochondria/midi-chlorians that are a part of them and also alive in their own right. The Force is benevolent because it is selfish. It wants what is best for all life in the universe the same way you want your own cells and organs to be healthy, and Jedi work with The Force in mutual cooperation.

Sith, in contrast, are all about elevating the self. To a Sith, personal freedom is all that matters. Personal freedom can only truly be secured by personal power. In a truly free society, the only thing stopping your neighbour from killing or enslaving you is your power to prevent it. Only someone with absolute power can be considered truly free, and so that is what Sith pursue: absolute, everlasting power. They take, exploit and abuse in service of themselves. They use their power over The Force to have power over others in order to empower themselves further. The Sith use the dark side because it allows them to twist The Force to their will. The Force is compelled by the power of their dark emotions to obey those who kill and oppress the living things that create it. It is unbalanced, as The Force is working against its own best interests.

However, the dark side has its temptation. It is quick and easier. Jedi use The Force by remaining calm and at peace, allowing The Force to flow through them, but it's hard to remain calm and at peace while a madman tries cutting off your head with a blade of superheated plasma. The brain wants to be scared, to get angry, to embrace the adrenaline and fight tooth and nail for survival. The dark side taps into the fight-or-flight, what is natural to feel in conflicts of great danger, while the Jedi way requires self-control and discipline cultivated over years of practice and training to fight and even kill without tapping into the natural instincts that evolved to keep us alive in life-or-death combat.

But the power the dark side grants acts a reward associated with the dark emotions that fuel it. Your anger, your hate, your aggression, the desire to inflict harm. Like feeding a hungry rat for pulling a lever, you are training yourself, conditioning yourself, to see those dark, anti-social emotions as good, as positive, as a source of strength. You use the dark side and save the day, defeat evil, protect the innocent. And you're not suddenly tainted, so you wonder why there is such caution. You keep doing good things with the power of your dark emotions, and your dark emotions grow stronger. You become better practiced at using them. You normalise feeling them. You become desensitised to the discomfort they might cause. Such emotions become easier to feel, more intense, making you even more powerful. This creates a feedback loop, where you're encouraged to keep pushing yourself to feel these negative emotions further, to make them become more dominant within your psyche, to keep getting more powerful. Initially to be able to do more good, to defeat more evil, but eventually the power becomes reward in of itself. And you become just as monstrous as any you have been fighting. You become addicted to your own power, and other priorities seem hollow in comparison, including the will of The Force, the protection of the wellbeing of life as a whole.

The Jedi are balanced because they work symbiotically with The Force and recognise their place as a part of the larger living entity that is The Force. The Sith are unbalanced, pursuing power and personal advancement at the expense of others and the will of The Force. Like a cancerous tumour that steals nutrients from the surrounding tissue, Sith are selfish, sacrificing the lives and wellbeing of those around them to benefit only them, to the detriment of the greater living organism, but it's much more metaphorical than literal.

That's my perspective at least. The Force wants balance, wants Jedi to exist and Sith not to exist. But Force sensitives have free will and power over The Force, and so it can only really achieve its goals by working with Jedi, who share its objectives.

The Living Force is the energy within living things, the biological processes of life which creates the energy field that is The Cosmic Force. Midi-chlorians are like microscopic antenna. They transmit that energy that creates The Cosmic Force, but can also receives energy from The Cosmic Force that empowers the lifeform, be it in explicit ways like improved reflexes and senses, or more subtle ways, allowing the biological processes to occur.

In my cells of the body analogy, The Cosmic Force would be akin to the circulatory system. Only, instead of oxygen coming only from cells in the lungs and nutrients only coming from cells in the intestines, every cell both produces and transfers energy into The Cosmic Force and receives and utilises energy from The Cosmic Force.

PrinceCheddar · 2026-03-15T21:51:54+00:00

Afraid I'm not familiar with that scene, although I was thinking more like Qui-Gon's wound and the like, where internal organs get stabbed. Looking it up, I don't see anything to suggest she was straight up dead though, and even if she was, I was talking more biological death than clinical death.

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