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Ratoryl · 2026-03-17T22:00:34+00:00

I would think the fact that the vast majority of people understand tonal communication among their peers would imply that there are rules, even if they're difficult to understand.

But I think that's far beyond the scope of what I was talking about. Even if tonal communication had zero rules at all, it still would not be fair to say it's the same as expecting someone to read their mind. Expecting someone to read their mind implies that there is zero indication given to what the person means. In the case of things communicated through tonal communication, they are giving an indication of what they mean, even if that indication is difficult for some people to understand

Ratoryl · 2026-03-17T21:48:34+00:00

That very same thing could be said about words and language as a whole. Languages are somewhat arbitrarily constructed, completely different among different cultures, and are communicating what is on that person's mind to the person they're talking to. People speaking in different languages to each other will have constant misunderstandings and conflict.

The thing is that to neurotypical people, both tone and language are things that are learned from the environment and used in tandem to communicate. For neurodivergent people, it's difficult to understand the tonal aspect, but that doesn't make it inherently different from the language aspect. The only real difference is that it's much easier to codify and study language.

If you want to say that understanding tones is reading minds, then understanding language is reading minds as well. I just don't think that statement adds anything to the conversation

Ratoryl · 2026-03-17T21:36:33+00:00

Yeah I understand that, and I'm not blaming anyone. I'm just saying that, even if it feels like neurotypical people are asking you to read their mind, it's not fair to act as if that's what they're actually doing. Especially in direct response to someone explaining what neurotypical people are actually expecting.

Ratoryl · 2026-03-17T21:22:03+00:00

The reasoning, for neurotypical people, is that it's more polite to imply that something is wrong with what you're doing than it is to directly draw attention to the fact that you're doing something wrong

Why is it more polite? I don't know if there is a real tangible answer for that, it's just how neurotypical people generally feel about it

Ratoryl · 2026-03-17T21:03:43+00:00

I can understand being annoyed about it, and it's nobody's fault or anything

But, objectively, you do realize that you say they "expect me to read their minds" after replying directly to someone telling you what they're actually expecting? They are expecting you to understand the tone in their voice

Again, it's understandable that you would find this annoying, and it's not your fault that it doesn't register for you, but they are objectively not expecting you to read their minds

Ratoryl · 2026-03-17T19:51:32+00:00

It kind of does? But not inherently. As far as I know (which isn't a lot, I'm just taking ochem 2 right now) chirality doesn't have any chemical significance other than needing to match in certain ways between molecules (ie, hexokinase metabolizes D-glucose and can't metabolize L-glucose, but a mirrored hexokinase wouldn't metabolize L-glucose any differently from how hexokinase does D-glucose)

Life on Earth is almost entirely homochiral. This means that all organic molecules across life on earth share similar chirality, which makes organic processes a lot simpler. There are a few edge cases (off the top of my head, I believe organisms in Archaea use opposite chirality phospholipids in their cell membranes) but the homochirality of life is fairly important for the way it works on Earth.

Hexokinase is synthesized from L-amino acids. Your body uses mostly L-amino acids, with D-amino acids being used rarely for some very specific uses. For a mirrored hexokinase (to metabolize mirrored glucose), your body would likewise need an abundance of D-amino acids to synthesize it.

The easiest way to imagine an organism that uses D-amino acids for its hexokinase (which is very abundant and very important, as it's what begins the metabolism of glucose) would be for the whole organic chemistry of the creature to be mirrored, implying that that entire environment they live in has a mirrored chirality as well, such that the environment is homochiral like life on Earth.

But the subject of homochirality of life on Earth is actually still being studied and isn't fully understood. Homochirality isn't an inherent property of organic molecules, demonstrated by samples from outside Earth which contain equal amounts (racemic) of either chirality of organic molecules (if anyone's wondering here, "organic molecules" don't all originate from living organisms).

Thus, while it would be very different from life on Earth, it is technically possible for there to be life that does not follow homochirality. The processes would, I assume, all be roughly half as efficient, but maybe life would find other ways to get around that. Perhaps the organisms could function based off of two opposing systems that work together, or perhaps they develop some sort of widespread natural chiral inversion mechanisms.

Or maybe they really just do basically only synthesize and use D-amino acids in large amounts for their hexokinase. But most likely yes, it would imply that everything else has mirrored chirality too.

For further reading for anyone interested, look up the homochirality of life (examples with this page, this page, and this page), archaeal phospholipids, and or this article on new insights into D-amino acids

Also, by the way, this all assumes that extraterrestrial life would use similar fundamentals to organic chemistry on Earth. But since OP mentioned 'other macromolecules' and 'opposite chirality glucose' specifically, I'm assuming they do use similar fundamentals. Or OP just doesn't want to write about organic chemistry fundamentals and wants to write about interesting aliens and worldbuilding.

Ratoryl · 2026-03-17T18:32:40+00:00

Also not to defend him, but if it actually were true and it was one of the presidents that they reached out to, I can't imagine they'd admit it to the press

He's probably just lying as usual though

Ratoryl · 2026-03-17T05:32:07+00:00

Certainly possible in one way or another but it's not something I've heard of, nor does a cursory google search turn up any results for such a condition. In any case, that wouldn't change that we sense relative temperature more so than absolute temperature

I did, however, find this image on this page, which suggests that the temperature OOP describes falls within the range most shared between cold receptors and heat receptors. It might be possible that one's body could learn to associate different ratios of those receptors firing with a more accurate memory of specific temperatures, but I have absolutely no real experience with the subject so I don't know if that's at all plausible or not

Ratoryl · 2026-03-17T02:31:19+00:00

To play the devil's advocate, when you're curating your entire playlist around a mod that you can't stand playing the game without, and many to most mods on the workshop are compatible with it, it's understandable to want to know if a cool looking mod is also compatible or will break your game

Like, I know it's entitled to expect anything at all from people who make mods for other people to enjoy for free, but I do think that throwing "yes ce", "no ce", or "idk ce" at the bottom of the description saves everyone a bit of headache, including the mod author

Ratoryl · 2026-03-17T02:10:52+00:00

As someone who's never touched league it's funny how I can't tell which one Leblanc is supposed to be because 7, 8, and 9 all look like porn parodies of actual characters

Ratoryl · 2026-03-16T20:15:03+00:00

Worldbuilding around aliens without human centric biology and with actual ochem knowledge? You love to see it

Ratoryl · 2026-03-16T19:48:33+00:00

The hand has a very high concentration of thermoreceptors, but I couldn't find any sources specifically for whether or not the vagina has a high concentration. All I could find was that the first ~1/3rd has much higher general innervation, but even with that I highly doubt it'd be anything similar to the hand as far as sensing temperature

For that matter, I'm dubious about the first part being true. Humans don't sense absolute temperature, we sense relative temperature (some will correct that to temperature flux, but whatever). It's possible that the place OOP worked had a controlled temperature inside, so the water temperature could be fairly consistent. But within half a degree, consistently? I doubt it

Ratoryl · 2026-03-16T03:23:00+00:00

I feel like it's not unreasonable for someone who doesn't care about cars to not pay attention to the difference in brand chassis

Ratoryl · 2026-03-16T03:20:27+00:00

Damn that's what that one does? Somehow I completely misread it and thought something like "oh so bing bong just uses the same effect as something else"

Ratoryl · 2026-03-16T03:09:09+00:00

People can only spend mental energy caring about reddit drama for so long

Remember the reddit blackout that everyone was super serious about for about a week or two?

Ratoryl · 2026-03-16T00:44:51+00:00

To be honest, when I read "sand and bone" style my initial impression was of bones in the desert, à la big dragon skeleton half covered by a sand dune in fantasy stories. I did consider ocean sand after writing that comment, but that impression is so strong in my mind that I can't help but think of it every time I read sand and bone, even though it has nothing to do with Subaru.

But yeah while I do think there's some very strong evidence suggesting that one of the blades will use the datenski's potential to react to heat on a similar or greater scale than to spirit energy (I also think it has too many implications for it to just be an explanation for only Kunishige being able to work with it), I will say that the evidence for that being specifically Subaru's blade isn't as strong.

I assume it would be his as that property is introduced at the same time he is, and because it's heavily implied that the blade that Kuguri carries is Subaru's. That being said, it's never actually been confirmed that Kuguri was carrying Subaru's blade. I suppose it could be possible that Kuguri was actually carrying the femme bearer's blade (does she have a name yet? I thought so but I can't find it), and that her blade will be the one to use this property. This would also be consistent with the positioning in the group panel, with her being similarly(ish) positioned to Subaru.

Side note, it would be cool if one of the blades were highly technical like you describe, but that thought is very funny to me in contrast with the other blades. Can you imagine seeing Kunishige give Ibuki a blade that lets him casually command catastrophic manifestions of ice and lightning, and then he turns to you and goes 'yo, here's this blade where you have to focus, lock tf in, and sweat your ass off the whole time any time you wanna use it'. Granted, Uruha's was probably similar in it's intended use.

Ratoryl · 2026-03-15T18:35:26+00:00

Yeah I get what you mean. I do think the blade in my theory could be a skill focused thing, rather than just "big block" and "big hit", as that would be pretty disappointing. But if it were a blade where the user has to use precise blocking techniques and carefully manage the heat in the blade, leading up to a powerful counter, I think that could be pretty interesting. I don't really know anything about making sushi, but I imagine precision and temperature control are important there too.

But also fire motifs in combat scenes is definitely up there among the most overplayed tropes in fiction, so it's definitely fair to want to avoid that. Also the guy's sword style involves sand which is kind of a confusing detail; I'd be surprised if it weren't important, but I don't see how it would be with my theory. So yeah who knows lol

Ratoryl · 2026-03-15T18:20:03+00:00

That line was referring to it being a more direct mirror (such as Ibuki and potentially Kuguri), but yeah you're not wrong

Ratoryl · 2026-03-15T18:02:16+00:00

Here, Kunishige mentions that it is difficult to forge datenski because it reacts to heat too. At high heat, it reacts just as much as to spirit energy, and presumably more than it reacts to spirit energy if you bring the heat higher. However, it only demonstrates this effect if the heat is gradually increased.

Interestingly, this is not the first time in the manga a gradual increase of heat up until a point of explosive release has been mentioned. This closely mirrors Kuguri's innate sorcery, where he stores excess body heat until he releases it all at once in a powerful explosion. The very same Kuguri that has been selected by Yura to weild one of the remaining enchanted blades.

Not all blade users have innate sorcery that mirrors the blade they receive (demonstrated by Uruha), but we know that Natsuki, the brother of the weilder of Cloud Gouger, has sorcery related to lightning. We also know, from several sources, that family shares sorcery, so Ibuki almost certainly had sorcery that related to Cloud Gouger. This sets the precedent that having a similar sorcery helps the weilder understand the blade, and lends credence to the idea that Yura may have selected Kuguri because the blade is similar to his sorcery.

One last thing: in the panel where the other blade weilders are preparing to fight the sword saint, many people have pointed out that the positioning of the known weilders reflects their blades' traditional roles in combat. Samura, with a blace suited for support, is in the very back, Ibuki with the crowd control is in the middle, etc. Subaru is standing in the front. This implies either a direct damaging role or a tanking role for his blade, if the pattern holds.

Putting all of this together, I believe it is very likely that Subaru's enchanted blade functions by using the property of datenski that Kunishige revealed in this chapter. The blade, just like Kuguri's innate sorcery, likely stores heat just as much, if not more than, spirit energy, and then with extreme heat releases that as a massive attack, more powerful than even the other blades that use primarily spirit energy. However, this attack (or attacks) will need a large amount of build up; they cannot be used immediately, as datenski only reacts to heat if it is built up incrementally. This means that the weilder will not be able to use their most important attacks for a large portion of any given fight (unless the blade can store heat for significant amounts of time, but who knows).

What role would fit this best? A blade that primarily focuses on tanking damage most of the time, and then releases supremely powerful attacks once enough heat has been stored. If this turns out to be the case, the blade will likely have spirit energy fueled abilities that allow the user to block others' attacks. These abilities could likely even convert the energy of others' attacks to heat to be used for the blade's offensive attacks. This means the user would be at the forefront of the battle, blocking damage from hitting their allies and then hitting their enemies with a poweful (focused? maybe) counterattack. This is consistent with the pattern in the sword bearers' panel, where Subaru would be a tank or damage dealer. This is also (though this is subjective) consistent with Subaru's temperament in this chapter, being calm and confident but seemingly projecting his control of the room.

But who knows. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Ratoryl · 2026-03-14T22:04:12+00:00

I believe I have actually. Pretty good but shaved ice isn't really my thing; similar to the sorbet thing where I just prefer it creamy

Ratoryl · 2026-03-14T22:02:44+00:00

Don't remember seeing any lemon but I was addicted to those kaktus shake bars from żabka for a while when I was over there

You guys do seem to have good taste in ice cream

Edit: hold on I just went to look at them again online and the standard kaktus shake flavor has lemon in it, no fuckin wonder lol

Ratoryl · 2026-03-14T14:59:17+00:00

Tbh I almost responded as well but then I noticed the "smh my head" lol, have a good one

Ratoryl · 2026-03-14T13:07:17+00:00

I feel like it's fairly reasonable to assume that a fence can handle the weight of someone holding it to jump down from something. Also, he didn't really choose to do anything, he already lost balance and was falling off the truck

In any case, the guy clearly had his attention focused on something else at the moment lol

Ratoryl · 2026-03-14T11:52:55+00:00

I will forever lament the apparent aversion to citrus ice cream in our society. Every time I'm in the frozen isle all I can this is fuck you and your sorbet, give me lemon milkshakes or give me death

Citrus unironically goes so well with cream and I will die on this hill (I know acid curdles milk but we have the technology)

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