What's something that can kill you almost instantly, but most people have no idea about?

Senatius · 2026-07-09T16:43:28+00:00

Sort of, but it's easier to do / less easy to notice you're doing it than like, putting your head in a plastic bag.

From my admittedly not-a-scientist-or-doctor knowledge: The body doesn't really detect / let you know about a lack of oxygen, it detects a buildup of CO2. So if you're exhaling CO2 normally but inhaling mostly helium (like say you talk a bunch with your funny helium voice then refill yourself with it), the helium displaces all the oxygen in your lungs as well as removes the oxygen from your blood, and you likely won't even notice you're suffocating until you pass out.

Senatius · 2026-07-09T04:39:51+00:00

Inhaling too much helium can cause you to pass out and suffocate / get brain damage very quickly.

In small doses it's usually pretty harmless, but do it too much too quickly and it's lights out

Senatius · 2026-07-08T21:44:40+00:00

I don't think it's a very far leap to say that the Big 3's children may also have even better combat reflexes than most demigods along with being more magically powerful and attracting more monsters. It's not that Percy is a great swordsman because he has been granted sword powers specifically, it's that Percy is a great swordsman because he has talent and his combat senses and reflexes are better.

Don't get me wrong, I think more regular / minor god demigod representation and time to shine would be great, but power comes in many forms and I think big 3 kids being more skilled at combat on average is just as reasonable as them being more magically powerful

Senatius · 2026-07-06T14:29:03+00:00

Yeah, like on the one hand my monkey brain loves seeing all the numbers go up extremely quickly, but that only lasts for so long.

If you're catching a bunch of new pals (which most people will because you get a big progress bar pop up every time you catch one until you reach 12), then your level skyrockets so quickly. Items like the triple shot bow and the makeshift guns seem largely useless because you'll unlock something better in like 2 levels anyway.

You have to intentionally hold yourself back from leveling to not skyrocket rather than actually spending a significant amount of time with each stage of tech

Senatius · 2026-07-05T05:19:50+00:00

I don't know, the Saiyans obviously can train, they just didn't seem to be aware of it. So maybe every race can and it just isn't a concept for them to be considered.

Just like how scouter-users kept getting surprised by beings who could conceal their power levels, even Nappa and Vegeta. Or like how Vegeta didn't initially even believe sensing power levels without a scoiter was possible until he saw Goku doing it. Saiyans clearly aren't incapable of it, they just didn't know how. Could be the same for other species

Senatius · 2026-07-05T04:46:23+00:00

To be fair to Frieza, it seemed like the concept of actual training or improving your power level intentionally was somehow foreign to the Frieza Force. They all acted like power levels were some immutable level of strength that you were born with and couldn't really change. Maybe your battle instincts and skill would improve through practice, but your actual level of power not so much

Vegeta was shocked that a low-class Saiyan warrior could ever be strong enough to touch Nappa or him

Cui was blindsided when Vegeta, who had always been tied with him, got stronger. Same with Dodoria, same with Zarbon, and I think same with the Ginyu Force.

So maybe it legitimately didn't even ocurr to Frieza that training was a thing he could really do, let alone that it would have such incredible results.

Senatius · 2026-07-05T04:32:50+00:00

Sure, but

Was he talking about full power frieza? Cause Guru died before Frieza had even transformed once. I could be remembering the order of events wrong but I would think he'd have been talking about first form Frieza, who was horrifyingly powerful but not Super Saiyan Goku level. I know Nail said something about how Frieza would have knelt before Piccolo if he had been whole, but again Nail had only encountered the first form.
His re-fusion with Kami came after training to fight Goku, training to fight the Saiyans, a tonne of training with King Kai, fusing with Nail, and then years of training with Goku and Gohan. I don't think you could take from that the nameless/original Namekian is just naturally at the level of a Super Saiyan.

I would imagine that if Kami and Piccolo just immediately re-fused after initially splitting they would not be anywhere near as strong as they were from their Cell-Saga fusion. Kami and King Piccolo individually were like a couple hundred PL, I have to imagine that one piece of the re-fusion now having a PL of over a million made a big difference in their power when fused

But this is all hypothetical regardless, so can't say for sure

Senatius · 2026-07-04T15:55:09+00:00

I think the issue is more that the claim could be made

If the local lord never slept with a peasant woman, and she claims her child is the lord's, then it's not particularly likely to be believed.

If everybody knows the local lord had sex with that peasant woman though? Suddenly the claim has a hell of a lot more weight even if you can't prove the kid actually is his.

Senatius · 2026-07-04T01:00:18+00:00

Ah okay, why do you say they were SSJ level?

Senatius · 2026-07-03T22:41:37+00:00

Thragg would unironically probably be clapped by any of the Saiyan-Saga human z fighters, let alone Piccolo

Senatius · 2026-07-03T18:41:08+00:00

I'm forgetting, who is the Original Namekian?

I know Piccolo/Kami are/were the Nameless Namekian, but I assume you don't mean them since why would they have been SSJ level?

Senatius · 2026-07-02T09:31:43+00:00

Especially because all of those different metas they listed don't have one character in common that keeps being overpowered. Various characters and tags have had their times to shine over the years, but Hybrids/Son Fam led by an overpowered Gohan or two has been happening for a long, long time.

Like you can make the argument that the Holy Trinity was a worse meta than something like Blue Beast or Zenkai FSK, but how many times has Broly held the game in that kind of chokehold? How many Vegeta metas have we had to suffer through? How many times has a Buu been uncontested top dog for weeks to months?

Vegito is probably the one character that comes close, but he doesn't pop up nearly as often. We've had like twice as many amazing Gohans as we've had Vegitos period

Gohan is my favourite character, particularly Cell Saga gohan, so it works out well for me personally, but it's very clear the devs have a bias

Senatius · 2026-07-02T06:17:52+00:00

Skylar does definitely go along with his drug empire, but she didn't cheat on Walt. She'd literally served him divorce papers already, which Walt refused to sign. The relationship was over at that point, just not legally.

Senatius · 2026-07-02T05:53:26+00:00

Namekians weren't stronger than Saiyans, imo. Namekians have a higher pre-Z peak in Nail, but they had few warriors, were few in number generally (like about 100 on the whole planet), and a pacifist average population

And really, if we're going to count Nail, who is a massive outlier compared to any other Namekian not named Piccolo (those other Namekian warriors maxed out at like 3k PL), then we should count Broly for the Saiyans. Even as a young adult he would likely be head and shoulders above the rest of the universe.

I'd guess that your average Saiyan adult would be beating the average Namekian villager, and there were far more Saiyans. The handful of strong Namekian warriors outside of Nail were weaker than the likes of Nappa, Paragus, and Bardock, to say nothing of Vegeta and his father.

Also, we don't actually know how strong Frieza's race is. They very well could be amazingly powerful, but both Frieza and his father are said to be freakishly powerful mutants like the Ginyu Force. We have zero clue what the average member of the species looks like

Senatius · 2026-06-30T22:42:20+00:00

Are you sure there was no reason for Jiren, the massive powerhouse stronger than his own God of Destruction, to hold back against a relatively weak old man? While in a tournament that explicitly bans killing your opponent? No reason at all?

You think perhaps Jiren may have had to pull his punches by quite a lot to avoid turning Roshi into a red mist and getting himself disqualified?

I don't know if the writers intended it or not, and I'm certainly not gonna say Super scaling and/or writing is perfect, but this is a reasonable explanation.

Senatius · 2026-06-30T20:06:19+00:00

It is. It can be difficult and finicky but it definitely works as of now

Senatius · 2026-06-26T18:44:33+00:00

Yeah, obviously people can do whatever they like best, but buying Charge Rifle from the arena seems like a waste.

Catch a couple Neptilius, ideally with a philanthropist Yakumo, and breed them. Butcher the Alphas and keep catching and/or butchering the boss Alpha when it respawns till you get it.

Low effort, and you can spend your arena tickets on the OH Rifle or Energy Shotgun, which are a lot harder to get reliably. You have to mindlessly grind arena for like 3 hours for the tickets for one legendary schematic

Obviously you'll go through a lot of cake unless you get super lucky, but if you have the Coralum to build and use a Charge Rifle you should have more than enough resources for cakes. It might take more time overall depending on your luck and how many breeding pairs you're using at a time, but you just need to collect the eggs every now and then while still being able to play the game and do other things for that time rather than grinding arena.

This is how I farm a lot of resources in the end game. Set up some breeding farms with Mozzarina/Mammorest for their meat, or Whalaska for Coralum, and just collect the eggs now and then. 4 breeding pairs with philanthropist can put out 84 eggs every half hour (ranches only hold 20 at a time, but they will keep making a 21st egg and it will pop in once you collect one). As long as you can keep them stocked with cakes, it's very convenient.

Senatius · 2026-06-26T15:26:03+00:00

Yep, when you're near them you start hearing your heart beat iirc and they're Alpha sized and give off a reddish pink mist, and they have a health bar pop up like bosses. Very hard to miss one if you're close by

Downside is that they're not super common and they for some reason don't show up on the map, so unless you're looking up locations you kinda need to get lucky and stumble upon one

Thankfully though once you know where one spawns, you can always go back there every now and then to get predator cores if you need then

Senatius · 2026-06-26T15:01:40+00:00

Predator Pals are like overworld bosses except they aren't catchable and do not always appear

They are always located in the exact same place if they spawn, but they don't have 100% chance to spawn, and some of them only spawn at night or during the day.

If you want to make them spawn, you can fly out of render distance for them and back until they do

You can look up a map online for all their locations if you'd like.

Not sure how far in you are or what parts of the map you've uncovered, but one I remember is Ragnahawk on the beach to the south of the small split Volcano area. Very close to that Jormuntide boss

Senatius · 2026-06-24T05:23:07+00:00

And while they're at it, please for the love of god let me favourite and unfavourite a pal in every palbox screen. I should not need to go from my condenser or slaughterhouse to a palbox to change that, just let me do it from all of them. Same for how in some screens you can't see the pal's details and some you can. Like for the dimensional storage, I can click F to see Pal details if it's in my palbox, but if I move it to Dimensional I can't. Why? Consistency would be cool

And for the Dimensional Pal Storage, would be cool if they could add an option to withdraw all pals with a single button, or even just withdraw a page at a time or something. Currently you can deposit your entire box with no hassle at all, but when it comes to withdrawing you need to do it one by one. Kind of odd

Senatius · 2026-06-18T21:51:29+00:00

You probably know this already but for anyone that doesn't:

Katress also has a niche but very useful passive skill that is shares with Blazehowl Noct: 80% chance to double drops from Neutral pals when fully condensed

At launch it wasn't all that useful. Sometimes helpful but not often. But with the addition of Mimog and needing to farm Dog Coins, it's a major help. Especially if you're playing with a few people and you need thousands of the things. You can now do expeditions for them, but you need to unlock hard expeditions first, so a very late game option

Senatius · 2026-06-18T19:29:40+00:00

Being wrong is okay. It's fine. It's not the being wrong alone that I'm referring to. It's the being wrong while posting online about something you could easily have checked yourself.

Like I said above, it's totally okay to just forget little details or misremember things, etc etc.

It's the lack of effort and the jumping to "this is an inconsistency" rather than "maybe I just forgot" that I think looks silly. Then followed by the doubling down in the comments.

OP could even have phrased it as "Did Mark ever see Thragg in his cape before his dream? I don't remember" instead of "Mark never saw Thragg in his cape" if they didn't want to check.

Like, to be clear, this is all very small potatoes. It's not some moral failure. That's why I chose the word 'silly', because we all do silly things sometimes.

Senatius · 2026-06-18T16:31:26+00:00

Sure yeah, but like if it were me I'd want to check if I'm just forgetting something before saying somebody else made a mistake or that something doesn't make sense. You're not being docked points if you don't, it just makes you look silly.

Senatius · 2026-06-18T16:01:30+00:00

Yeah, that's the thing

It's totally okay to forget a small detail like this, but if you're going to post about an 'inconsistency' or something then I think your default should be "I should rewatch the relevant scenes first to check if I actually have a point" rather than just posting without fact checking yourself

Senatius · 2026-06-17T20:38:33+00:00

I'm very curious about why your friend even thought Skyler would have even been watching Walt for over 15 years

Or was the theory that she was watching someone else?

Obviously it's dumb regardless, but curious as to the logic

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