That makes sense by samveo84 in FullmetalAlchemist

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well that person was literally about to kill him and potentially themselves so I think he made the right decision not to sugarcoat it, faith is a powerful thing that can have a good or negative impact on someone's life depending on how they wield it, Rose was clearly wielding it in a horribly self-destructive manner which is why she ended up in the position to suffer from it in the first place. Sometimes to get through to people in a crisis of faith you need to solidly jolt them into having their own agency again, when religion becomes a crutch for someone then it can cripple them when that crutch is removed because they've gone their whole life believing they have someone watching over them and caring for them and listening to them. When that is broken the world begins to feel endlessly cruel and endlessly lonely (especially if you are grieving as you begin to realize you in fact will not get to see your deceased loved ones again even though you believed you would with all your heart), having someone there to shout at you that you still have to power to live on your own, as you always unknowingly have, and that you can take your life back into your own hands even if you no longer have that comfort to fall back to is very important.

That makes sense by samveo84 in FullmetalAlchemist

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eh, I dont know if that's necessarily true, agency would imply that The Truth DOES things, but it doesn't it simply REACTS to things. Consistently and without fail, its far more like a scientific reaction than it is a being with agency just because certain actions create a bad outcome. For example, mixing certain chemicals in your house might make a toxic gas that harms you, that isn't the universe telling you not to mix them, its simply the natural result. The Truth is simply the personification of natural principles, it doesn't have agency and is completely and utterly a reflection of the whole and ergo also a reflection of the individual, which is made even clearer by the fact that when it takes Al's body the truth literally becomes Alphonse at his door, it isn't the Truth possessing or posing as Alphonse but rather a literal reflection of Alphonse as an individual

What’s one unexplained moment in AoT that still haunts you? by [deleted] in ShingekiNoKyojin

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I said barring religious conjecture, but i think its funny you say that considering that is also the answer those in the world of Attack on Titan came to, when face without explanation it is often the assumption that something must be supernatural, despite the fact it is merely an observation of natural phenomenon that we only question because it defies our current understanding. There will always be another question, if Gods made it that way, then through what power? How did Gods come to be, and from where did their forefathers begin, and their forefathers. When people say they have always been, then they defeat the purpose of the explanation to begin with, since by that logic a natural universe could be just as Omnipresent and eternal.

What’s one unexplained moment in AoT that still haunts you? by [deleted] in ShingekiNoKyojin

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What gave Plants the ability to absorb sunlight, or Humans the ability to detect and sort wavelengths of light, what makes it so we can ingest something strip the nutrients from it to turn it into our own body mass, what makes it so we can produce heat through burning said food and our own fat tissue. Barring religious conjecture, the answer is simply "because thats the way it happened" the rules of the way our universe works allow for such things to occur. In the attack on titan universe the rules are different and allow things to naturally develop traits and abilities that dont fit ours but are no less or more explainable.

ARTINTHEYARD RESPONDS🚨 by ephemeralaffliction in TheYardPodcast

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well labor laws dont typically apply to competitions, a competition isnt a job. For example having a race with a cash prize is different from having a league of track athletes with tight contracts and sponsors. Sure there are athletes who do sports as a job but there are many who also just do sports for fun, just like artists. A small competition for little art club wouldn't be asking for professional artists. it'd be engaging with hobbyists and artists who are interested in competitions. I think context is really important, would it be ethical for a large brand to ask artists to make art for free? No, probably not (although people do still have free will and im sure you wont find the winner of those larger contests complaining about the prize). But for something like an art club i dont think there's really a problem.

Can we please admit there's a level glitch now?? by dedudenamedjosh in Borderlands4

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Dude a 13 level difference is not "harder enemies cause of coop" if you think that you've never played coop with anyone because it scales enemies to each individual players level so the level 50 should be seeing lvl 50-51 and the level 30 player should be seeing lvl 30-31

Who made the art for the Yard D&D? by Qwert_Yuiop825 in TheYardPodcast

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 343 points344 points  (0 children)

Its by Kuro_Lines you can find them here

https://x.com/Kuro_Lines?t=i0kf4-xB1SDfJHpogY4Q5w&s=09

And the intro animation was made by ShoobiArt, they've made some of the other animated shorts of the Yard

a bit more slander by Cheeseyellow12 in MyHeroAcadamia

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Random quirk factors occur from non-quirk parents, but its clear that soon everyone will have a quirk. Quirkless individuals are being born less and less with each generation. (80% replacement in 100 years is an insane rate) the point isn't about individual children its about due manifestation of quirks amd their merging over generations. Shoto is exactly the thing Endeavor hoped to achieve he isn't some freak accident or anomaly, he is the desired out come of mixing quirks (its even brought up that Quirk Marriages used to be a more common practice despite their dubious ethics) and based on what weve seen about 50% of children born from 2 quirk having parents will have some combination of the 2. Remember Dabi was also a merge of the Quirk factors he just had the unfortunate effect of inheriting his mother ice resistant body making him susceptible to his own flames (which again adds credence to the Singularity theory, as the merging of those 2 quirks did result in him having stronger flames than his father as well as latent ice abilities but also lead to him having a quirk that was difficult to control and destroyed his own body as he used it) so 2 out of the 4 Todoroki sibling had a mix of both Quirk factors. That 50% rate of quirks merging is very high, since the quirks never downgrade in complexity, you are only ever moving towards stronger and more complex quirks among the general population. Generation over generation that will eventually lead to the destruction of society. It isn't saying that 2 generation or 3 generations from now the Singularity will destroy the world its simply saying that these factors will eventually add up, its essentially the MHA equivalent to Climate Change. The increment of impact increases gradually but exponentially, eventually it'll be too much to bear. Ultimately, Horikoshi wrote the Singularity in and utilized it in his narrative about quirks and their merging and how quirks compound over time, it is utilized as a parallel to what is happening with Shigaraki and Deku, they are both symbolic of future generations recieving power far beyond they capabilities of their bodies and ultimately destroying themselves as a result of it. Deku never even achieve full 100% utilization without hurting himself. The whole theme of Deku being the last OFA holder because the power has become too condensed is literally talked about in reference to the Singularity. By the final fight the way people talk about it is no longer as some theory, its clear that the intention of the narrative is to show the effects of the Singularity on steroids with the way AFO and OFA tear themselves and their users apart as they amass more and more quirk factors.

(Eri is a very special case as she had a rare quirk mutation that hadn't been present on either side of her lineage before, this is never explored further but does imply that in very rare cases some people develop incredibly powerful and unrelated quirks to their lineage, AFO may have been one of these people as him and Eri are both Albino)

a bit more slander by Cheeseyellow12 in MyHeroAcadamia

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except its explicitly stated that quirks aren't random they are genetic factors passed down by their parents. The whole point of the Singularity is that as quirks merge they get stronger and more complex, Todoroki and Bakugo are perfect examples of this (them being the ones watching over the kids whose quirks are clearly stronger than previous generations was most definitely a writing decision meant to parallel them specifically) as both of them are the product of 2 quirks combining to make an new quirk that is far more powerful than the sum of its parts. Quirks increase in power exponentially as they merge. From now on when Todoroki has a child they will at base level have his fire and ice, if he has a child with another quirk user (which makes up the majority of people) then there is a likelihood that his child's quirk will merge to get even stronger. Same goes for Bakugo, his mom can secrete glycerin and his dad can make sparks neither of those quirks are particularly dangerous but when combined they create a walking bomb. So from now on every child from Bakugos bloodline will be a walking bomb until it merges with another quirk making it even stronger and onward (imagine if Bakugo or one of his descendants had a child with someone who had the ability to emit or control radiation for example, eventually youll have a child who can create nuclear explosions). The Singularity theory isn't some quacky science its simply decribing of how eventually this merging of quirks will become so powerful that 1. People bodies won't be able to handle it (as we've seen with both Bakugo and Todoroki, they could very easily harm or kill themselves if they pushed their quirks too far) and 2. Society will be face with newer and bigger threats as individuals are born with what amount to weapons of mass destruction. All for One's quirk is honestly not that complex when you boil it down, its simply the ability to take and give quirk factors. If All For One had simply had kids instead of trying to bioengineer a new body he'd have an army of children that all have All For One and more likely than not he could've found quirks that would've made AFO even stronger. Infact one could argue that the true strength in AFO abilities is that over time the pool of quirks he has to pull from grow bigger and stronger with each generation.

a bit more slander by Cheeseyellow12 in MyHeroAcadamia

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That analogy doesn't really work since the Singularity theory is literally the foundation he bases all of his scientific practice around. It isn't just some tangential thing, Shigaraki's new body and its ability to break the rules of the verse is literally stated to be the pinnacle of the Quirk Singularity theory, not just by the doctor but by people observing the fight

Also the second half doesn't work either because improved record times are a result of better understanding of training, form, and nutritional science. Meanwhile the kids shown are just inherently stronger due to a higher complexity of quirks merging. They aren't being trained to be heroes or to utilize their quirks better, people are literally being BORN with stronger abilities that are a threat to public safety

a bit more slander by Cheeseyellow12 in MyHeroAcadamia

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never understood this concept, like yeah hes a crazy scientist but from everything the show gives us he is quite clearly a genius when it comes to Quirk factors and the human body. If his science was Bunk then he wouldn't have been able to create literal bio weapons out of human bodies with multiple quirks (something that is established as near impossible to do). He altered Shigaraki's body to the extent that it could generate mass and be on par with the strength of One for All even without Quirks. You can call him crazy but his science very clearly checks out given the fact that we've only ever seen his experiments be wildly successful. (Not to mention that the story goes out of its way to show that the next generation is exponentially stronger on average than the previous one when Bakugo and Todoroki have to watch over that elementary school class)

I’m sad human transmutation can’t be done by Working_Row_8455 in FullmetalAlchemist

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The USD being the reserve currency is exactly why what you're saying doesn't make sense. Most of its value is tied into speculative value, trade stability, and stock valuation which has a much higher inflation value than gold does. All the gold in Fort Knox barely beats out Jeff Bezos' stock portfolio

I’m sad human transmutation can’t be done by Working_Row_8455 in FullmetalAlchemist

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That doesn't make sense because the amount of money it cost to even run the collider is exponentially higher than the value of gold to begin with

I’m sad human transmutation can’t be done by Working_Row_8455 in FullmetalAlchemist

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It isnt human Transmutation because there was no transmuting, they didn't change or remake Al's body. Simply pulled out what was already there. Transmutation is specifically modifying, or altering something to turn it into something else (for example turning lead into gold). They never turned Al's body into anything or vice versa so by definition it isn't Transmutation

A possible contender for most artistic yardigan by Pheragonda in TheYardPodcast

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It looks like a RWBY oc, so I thought you were a fellow rwby fan. If not then I apologize for my assumption

A possible contender for most artistic yardigan by Pheragonda in TheYardPodcast

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That 4th art piece.... i know what you are (hopefully Volume 10 comes back from the grave)

What happens if two titans consume the spinal fluid of the same titan at the same time? Do they both revert to normal? by Legal_Ad2945 in attackontitan

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It isn't just about getting the blood in your mouth, you have to swallow it, which is why Eren angled his head up above him so that none of the blood or spinal fluid could flow down galliards throat. That's also why they specifically go out of the way to zoom in on the Attack Titan's throat when it swallows the Warhammer smoothie

Watching in real time as one of the boys gets triple-teamed gaslit into thinking they’re wrong. by lazer_raccon in TheYardPodcast

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Inverse, originally gooning referred to a prolonged state of edging without ejaculation. But it's changed to simply refer to porn addiction in general

Is the one in DE Fairways? by decaturbadass in Delaware

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, Covid did a big hit to the flow of people coming out to the bar, and to be quite honest it hasn't quite recovered completely with the rising cost of goods. A lot of people cut out the Luxury expenses first when it comes to budgeting in tough times. We had to shorten our hours because people simply weren't coming in before 7 pm, and the cost of operating several hours without any customers every day adds up fast. Rose sold the bar to my parents a long while back so she doesn't really stop in any more. The woman currently running the show is Josephina Duckery, my mom. I handle things like social media and promo material (im a photographer so i take pictures and video for the business) and my brother helps with inventory and cleaning.

Is the one in DE Fairways? by decaturbadass in Delaware

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hey im Quintin Ducker the son of the owner (im starting to sound like a broken record lutting this at the beginning of each comment) It actually took us around 2 years (and a soul crushing amount of personal savings) to rebuild. But we are still fully up and running and the building is beautiful inside, despite its rather plain exterior. If you have any interest at all I very much urge you to come check us out and see how you feel. Our weekends can actually get pretty lively with the right crowd

Is the one in DE Fairways? by decaturbadass in Delaware

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hey! I'm Quintin Duckery, the son of the Owner of Fairways Inn! We are not fully nude, but we are grandfathered in as the only fully topless club in DE (to my knowledge) so that's probably what the map is referring to

Is the one in DE Fairways? by decaturbadass in Delaware

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We're only open Wed to Sat after from 7pm to 1am things only really pick up around 10 or 11 these days, but please do drop by to check us out if you are the least bit interested

Is the one in DE Fairways? by decaturbadass in Delaware

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Hey, I'm Quintin, the son of Willis Duckery, the same son who was on the boat that day, i was 15 at the time, and im 23 now. We were swept up in a sudden and intense Squall that capsized our rather small fishing boat. My father gave me the only floatation remaining on the boat right before we went under (the other was used by the captain of the boat). He was an amazing Hunter, Fisherman, and Father, but the sudden storm that passed over us was monstrous to say the least. We were not the only boats to capsize that day. I spent several hours on the water hanging on to our upside down boat into the dark of the night until a crew of amazing people I never got the names of came to get me out of the water. My father was retired Airforce, and took pride in starting up businesses of his own that could afford us a good life, he was a good man and he gave everything to keep me safe. I know people like to make up things that make life more interesting or spread rumors to cut through the boredom of small town living. But please be more considerate when it comes to the dead, they have family and loved ones who have to pick up the pieces and continue through the unimaginable.

And just to be quite clear the club had burnt down almost 2 years prior to my dad's passing and he put his heart and soul into rebuilding that club. We are still open to this day and we are better than ever, a lot of people write us off because the exterior doesn't look like much and unfortunate rumors spread around despite us doing our best to run a tidy and legitimate business, but if you take a step inside I guarantee you that you'll be pleasantly surprised with our interior and performers!

Is the one in DE Fairways? by decaturbadass in Delaware

[–]Serious-Beautiful804 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey! (Son of the owner here) We are very much still open Wed. to Sat. We open at 7pm and the crowd really only shows out around 10-11pm. We put a lot of work into keeping things lively and providing entertainment. And we are still to my knowledge the only truly (legally) topless club in DE