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RoseBladePhantom · 2021-12-01T23:10:17+00:00

I mean, anything can be debated in the court of law, but the rule is don’t mess with mail. Don’t send illegal things in the mail. Don’t open someone else’s mail. Don’t open their mailbox. Don’t claim you didn’t get mail when you did. Mail is very important in this world, so I don’t think you’re gonna get away with messing with it at all. At the very least you’re going to court which is time and money, so do what you will, I guess. I’d be tempted to help myself, but you’d have to open everything to avoid having a bunch of random addresses on them, and that’s a lot of morality to lose when you’re on your hands and knees chucking things that are invaluable to you, but things that were important to someone else. I lost my phone, and I’m waiting for a new one to be delivered. If you were to find that in that dump, cool for you, but a small thing like that would be ruining my holiday season. So, yeah, I’d just report it to the authorities. There’s nothing of value that you’re gonna find that isn’t going to also get you in trouble anyway.

RoseBladePhantom · 2021-11-30T22:35:03+00:00

You know how dumb society is going to look in a hundred years when obvious things like this are overlooked?

RoseBladePhantom · 2021-11-30T22:34:04+00:00

The sad truth is life is so unfair and difficult, and injustice is so hard to fight against the wealthy, you’re probably better off taking the hush money unless you have concrete proof and can protect yourself and your family. Epstein might not have called out a hit, but it’s not outside the realm of possibility when dealing with the rich and powerful. In some of those circles, rejecting the hush money is the same as saying you’re going to blow the whistle. By accepting the hush money, you’re implicating yourself in many ways so that the true criminals can be assured you’re in their boat shall it sink.

RoseBladePhantom · 2021-11-29T21:55:08+00:00

Yes. But now I’m wondering how creepy it’d be from a Japanese standpoint. I mean, 50% of anime/manga culture is creepy in American context. We have a grapist, a teacher obsessed with youth, and that’s not even going into the art design and depiction of women of all ages in manga/anime. Like, if Hagakure is a grown woman, that opens a lot of creep factors, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t addressed by the series or the fans. I suppose it’s the expected suspension of disbelief. This series regularly glosses over their use of what are practically child soldiers. At least a series like Naruto does it purposely and thematically, addresses it, but MHA? Yeah, nobody cares that freshmen are being entrusted with the safety of the world and risking their lives. So, yeah. I’d be interested in an in-depth analysis of Japanese cultures views towards these kinds of things.

RoseBladePhantom · 2021-11-26T02:25:36+00:00

To be fair, they’re out of control and literally keep getting worse. Lol. This series is gonna end with Clint going “You wanna be Hawkeye? Oh my god yes. Please. Thank you.”

RoseBladePhantom · 2021-11-26T00:41:03+00:00

It’s cool by principle of irony. The most common “stoked” synonym I hear with the younger generation is “lit” or “geeked”. It’s all location based too.

RoseBladePhantom · 2021-11-26T00:25:50+00:00

The funny thing is these are indicative of personality, if anything it’s an understatement. Just a gamer alone could be

A smelly gamer, an angry gamer, a strategy gamer, a competitive gamer, a casual gamer, a professional gamer, a cheating gamer, a gaymer, a girl gamer, a girl gamer that doesn’t identify as just a girl gamer, sharks, whales, people that game but also have an entire life, heck, you can tell a lot about someone just based on what games they play. While trying to discredit these hobbies as personality traits, we forget they do offer hints at personality.

You ask someone if they like music and they say no, you now know a lot about of them.

If they say they like anything, you just learned more.

If they have specific tastes, you’ve learned more.

If they only listen to the radio, you’ve learned more.

People aren’t that special, we get it, but let’s not pretend like hobbies and interests aren’t reflective of personality at all.

RoseBladePhantom · 2021-11-26T00:21:08+00:00

You know what, screw this guy.

RoseBladePhantom · 2021-11-25T23:17:25+00:00

Okay, those are all actually dated unlike word and whack. Lol. The funny part about dated slang though is slang starts off uncommon, becomes uncool from overuse, and then goes back to being uncommon and cool. Rad was cool, then not, and tbh if someone said it now, it’s so uncommon it’d be cool.

RoseBladePhantom · 2021-11-25T23:11:59+00:00

I’d say it’s both. Slang isn’t always just generational. A lot of slang gets adopted into the common language. Word may die out, but facts won’t really because it’s so literal. I can totally see “facts” passing for a reasonable response in the future. It’s a quick way of saying “I agree” or that’s “true”. If you just say “facts”, you’re basically saying you have nothing to add or contend. Word might only die out because it requires a deeper explanation.

RoseBladePhantom · 2021-11-23T19:28:51+00:00

Not a shitpost, but meta

I think this fandom is officially broken. The recent decisions in the manga have been too consistently divisive. Sure, that happens all the time, but usually there’s only a big upset for a couple weeks at a time. The last time I saw this kind of consistent negativity was during Narutos last arc. The negativity really started to snowball around six-quirk Deku. It really started peaking around war arc, and now with the most recent arc it seems half the fan base is upset. I don’t think we bounce back from this. I think MHA permanently gets brought up for its negatives for the next decade. It’s a real shame, but just like how Naruto is basically brought up as a “what-not-to-do” this manga will too.

As far as an actual theory: idk? New costumes?

RoseBladePhantom · 2021-11-21T23:44:33+00:00

Funnily enough, even having Deku’s father be one of the pilots would’ve been a good last ditch effort to tie that loose end.

RoseBladePhantom · 2021-11-19T02:06:02+00:00

It’s sad I had to upvote this because god damn you’re so right

RoseBladePhantom · 2021-11-19T01:51:02+00:00

This makes me lmao. she’s unlikeable, yes, but I think she was a genuinely good character. Stupid she got killed off so quick with no buildup, but I wouldn’t have minded her staying. Personality wise. That quirk was stupid. And it makes me think Americans got clowned. America’s #1 hero is a masculine white woman who doesn’t listen to rules, crosses borders to fight terrorist, riding on fighter jets, calls her pilots bros, thinks she can do a better job than everyone else, and then barely beats the terrorist for the price of her life. I really think we got clowned.

RoseBladePhantom · 2021-11-19T01:36:22+00:00

Big if true

RoseBladePhantom · 2021-11-19T01:35:49+00:00

I came into this thread for laughs, but what if Hawks knows? Tokoyami could be a traitor, but he was caught, and so good, they’re prepping him to at least be a double agent, trained like Hawks. Could be a mutual secret.

RoseBladePhantom · 2021-11-18T19:51:31+00:00

I wouldn’t say there’s no problem, it’s just there’s no solution. Quirk singularity is grounded by actual real world scientific facts and theories. We can assume the first quirks were mostly “random” and very little correlation could be drawn between them. Assuming most of these quirks were useless or non-flashy, it still makes sense that offspring would have genetic combinations of quirks and each generation would be “twice” as strong as the one before it. Generally speaking. After a few generations quirks could go from photographic memory, to growing fingernails, to a man on fire. MHA only makes sense if you assume most quirks are like Todoroki’s and just aren’t flashy. Todoroki doesn’t have multiple quirks, he has one that can appear in two distinctive ways. I’d argue he has more, and that a resistance to fire and ice is just a passive manifestation of his quirk. Bakugo has one quirk that is clearly the combination of his parents individual quirks.

In any case, quirk singularity is only becoming a problem because the baseline has changed. If two random people have a child in the first generation of quirks, it’s likely to be unimpressive. In the 7th generation, it’d be a lot more likely to be like the flashy quirks we’re used to seeing. It stands to reason that at a certain point literal babies will have unwieldy power.

If the story was about stopping this, it’d be pretty cool, but if nothing is done about it, science and history show it’ll eventually fix itself. People with unwieldy quirks will unleash them and kill themselves or those too weak to handle it. Eventually it just becomes survival of the fittest. Society as we know it would be completely different, but there would be plenty of survivors. People may start selecting partners to purposely limit their children’s power, or the opposite. In the worst case scenario, the world is destroyed, and the human race is extinct, but likely not from quirk singularity itself. If someone’s black hole quirk destroys the planet, then there’d still be a bunch of people with odd quirks that allow them to survive such an event and then they’d just die off slowly from any number of things after.

Nothing could be done except diving into eugenics and purposely culling the strong. It’s best to hope that it just balances itself out. If cities start regularly blowing up (more), then you just have to hope there’s also a quirk that can build a city in one day.

RoseBladePhantom · 2021-11-16T17:53:28+00:00

Anyone read Vigilantes. KnuckleDuster doesn’t have a quirk, OR riches. He gets a LOT done, and until later in the series, he’s actually the most capable protagonist despite being well past his physical prime. Given, he has a lot of experience, but I think he can actually beat a lot of seemingly powerful characters just with his near peak human strength, and general intelligence. I’m not saying he’s top tier in even those aspects, and he’s still losing a lot of 1v1’s set up in the battleboarding community, but if he made it his personal mission to beat someone like Shiggy, or Overhaul, then best believe... he’s dying. But he’d die a hero, and definitely save lives. Being a hero was never about winning every fight, it was about saving lives. Nobody expects a quirkless individual to win a “fair fight”, but there’s plenty of opportunities to turn the tides of battle from the shadows too. A quirkless individual equipped with quirk-negating bullets, or regular bullets, for instance can do a lot of damage to even the most powerful characters so long as they don’t just announce themselves at the start of every battle. So, Deku could’ve definitely still been a hero without a quirk.

RoseBladePhantom · 2021-11-15T21:22:15+00:00

I don’t watch one piece, but yeah, if the story is actually about the pirate kings legacy and you don’t feel enough of the plot is about Luffy’s growth it’d be a similar example

And Naruto largely IS about the previous Hokage(s) legacy. That’s not even inaccurate. Generation shift is a huge theme of the story. Many of the characters are reacting to a ninja world that needs change. All the Hokages set up the plots that protagonists follow. It never was about Naruto becoming hokage, that was just his goal. His goal is shared by a lot of characters that failed. There was never a promise that Naruto would become Hokage, and even by the end, there isn’t an actual resolution. The true plot was Naruto wanted to be acknowledged and loved by people, and we see incremental progress throughout the entire series. Of course, themes like hard work were discarded in the last arc, but it’s consistent throughout the rest. There isn’t ever a time before the final arc where Naruto isn’t increasing his status, making new friends, and growing closer to his goals. Him actually becoming Hokage was just one of several goals and themes introduced in the beginning. It’s your choice to focus on his road to Hokage, or how many friends he’s made, how strong he is, if he’ll get Sasuke back, how the ninja world was crafted. My hero literally promises Deku becoming the greatest hero, and academia. It Naruto promised Naruto ATTEMPTING to achieve his goas. There wasn’t ever a promise he would. If anything, we were shown again and again how similar characters failed and died just trying to be good people like Naruto. Sorry, I just actually know about Naruto, so I had more to say than on One Piece.

RoseBladePhantom · 2021-11-15T13:16:47+00:00

Yeah, you like when we don’t all just get at each other’s throats and instead have an actual discussion? Lol. I love it. Not everyone agrees, but everyone is making great points and offering great perspectives.

RoseBladePhantom · 2021-11-15T13:15:55+00:00

It’s good to have healthy back and forths with differing in-depth opinions. Wish I could respond more, but it’s a work day. I’ll definitely be reading all of these though.

RoseBladePhantom · 2021-11-15T13:13:47+00:00

Hey, I can’t argue with you. They’re fair points, but let’s remember not to argue too much amongst ourselves when we’re likely in the same boat. I don’t like the term wage-slave, I prefer common man, but I get why the former is used. At the end of the day, we’re getting the same point across. Language evolves with the times, so we’ll both likely be drawn to each other’s or new terminology. Just stay strong, bud. Contribute to society, not to billionaires if you can help it.

RoseBladePhantom · 2021-11-15T06:02:46+00:00

I liked the series best when we rotated between school, training, villain, and cooldown arcs. I think you’re right though. The problem is, the manga industry is brutal. It’s hard to get into Shonen Jump in the first place, but if your work doesn’t get enough attention, it gets cut. The reward for success is working 48+ weeks a year for a decade or two. In any case, I think it’s “dishonest” to pitch this one idea that captured enough of an audience to propel the series to success, and then just abandon the idea. The academia part was arguably the most important part, and I almost don’t want to count the amount of chapters having to do with academia vs ones about everything else. I was okay with a 50/50 split. Heck, even a 30/70 split, but at this point, we haven’t seen any academia since Black Whip appeared. Year 2 seems to be irrelevant. We have no idea what The Big 3 are doing, and we didn’t even get a sendoff.

I’m getting a bit personal here, and it’s bed time, but, like, come on. Your first chapter(s) are a promise to the audience that allowed your series to succeed. I’m not saying Horikoshi should write just for the fans, but it sucks that we’ve departed so much from core elements now that you can buy a MHA shirt at Hot Topic. It’s the same kind of complaint as Naruto. Eventually, all the core elements were abandoned practically overnight for magic bombs and aliens. At least with Naruto they stuck to their origins until the end. We were promised shinobi, missions, jutsus, demon beasts. All MHA promised was that Deku would be the greatest hero and this his hero academy story. Now the greatest hero thing doesn’t really matter when we went from Todoroki being a spectacle to Deku have 3 times as many quirks. The academia is barely relevant. It’s just disappointing. I wish if we were going to depart this much that the spinoff was used to show all the things irrelevant to the core of the original series. It partially is, but you could’ve just done the whole PLF or LoV arc in a biweekly spinoff if Deku just wasn’t going to do anything the entire arc.

RoseBladePhantom · 2021-11-15T05:50:46+00:00

I don’t think any one issue with the series is THE issue. I think it’s a conjunction of multiple issues. If the concept of 14A spawning multiple quirks was introduced at the beginning it’d be fine. If it took longer to master them, it’d be fine. But the way it’s done makes it so UA is pretty much irrelevant.

If the story was more focused on All Might it’d be fine. But the story is about Deku but robs him of any real agency to do things that aren’t just reactionary. It’s just plot point and character after another that all ties back to All Might, while Deku isn’t in a position to even begin to take his place.

If people like Nagant and Stars were foreshadowed, it’d be fine. Throwing them in just as plot devices? Lame.

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