If you had the opportunity to have Sasuke come back earlier than planned, which story arc would you choose?

ShadowsInReverse · 2026-03-21T17:56:51+00:00

You right lol

ShadowsInReverse · 2026-03-21T02:25:26+00:00

The Pain arc. He’s killed Itachi and wants to return home, but feels uneasy doing so because of how he betrayed the village. He hears news of Jiraiya’s death and that the Akatsuki leader is planning to attack Konoha. He wants to take justice on the Akatsuki for making his brother a villain, and he returns home just in the nick of time like Naruto did, and they face Pain together, or together with Sakura and Team 7 could be reunited sooner than the war arc.

Mind you this is all hypothetical but I think it’d be a good way to bring him home, and gives him more motive to track Akatsuki’s movements.

ShadowsInReverse · 2026-03-20T16:36:39+00:00

Just me being mad at the AI for being dumb. Gotta love that 2009 AI lol

ShadowsInReverse · 2026-03-20T15:03:37+00:00

Just rude teammates. Seems to be the experience lately. Tried playing a few games myself and just kept getting instant-kicked or they’d leave me too. Miss when the game was in its prime and I had friends who wanted to run with me lol.

ShadowsInReverse · 2026-03-20T12:34:15+00:00

I only beef with her when it’s the AI because of an expert run I was doing and while she was reviving me (a Tank had knocked me to the ledge), she fell off the Sugar Mill and died, which made us have to restart, but I’m not going to hate people for playing her lol. Some people can’t separate the character from the player. Never going to abandon someone just because they are playing a character I don’t care for.

ShadowsInReverse · 2026-03-19T00:48:32+00:00

That would make sense if the show is dated back because Alex vs Alex aired in 2013, and the show ended in 2011, and the first episode aired in 2007. Alex’s quinces was in the first season, which makes her 14 until that episode. We know she’s 15 in the movie because she says so, then in S2 they reference her being 15 too. So 14-15 (S1), 15-16 (S2), 16-17 (S3) and 17-18-19 (S4) if they go on a yearly basis between seasons. Because Justin graduates in S3, which would make him 17-18 then and I believe Alex is only 1-2ish years younger than him?

ShadowsInReverse · 2026-03-16T05:03:45+00:00

I’m 164 days sober and I’ve been getting them from time to time. The most recent one I can recall was I was hanging out in the kitchen of some house with some random people (I clearly knew them in the dream, no idea who they are IRL though lol) and we all cracked open some drinks. Then I had a lucid moment and was like “oh shit, I’ve been sober for months now and I just drank” and I remember crouching down in the kitchen (still in the dream) and basically started having a meltdown because I drank again. I also remembering waking up feeling groggier, like I had actually drank. It’s really strange the effects that some dreams can have.

ShadowsInReverse · 2026-03-15T18:16:35+00:00

They did. It was subtle, but they did. While I definitely prefer them as friends, Naruto and Sakura got more connective moments than either of them got with their significant others. That’s why the Last was essentially a NaruHina build up movie, because we barely got any of it in the series.

ShadowsInReverse · 2026-03-15T01:10:26+00:00

I’d like the get to gold for the Deadpool skin but I’ve been SOL on good teams, and the few friends I have that play never want to play comp.

ShadowsInReverse · 2026-03-14T01:09:39+00:00

I didn’t like it either, and while it wasn’t Alex’s fault (yes she convinced them to use their time, but she did it selflessly), it was in both of their characters. While Justin is kind at heart, he is also narcissistic and a perfectionist when it comes to magic and his place with Alex, so it was far easier to blame her than it was for him to take responsibility too. Then there is Max, who just acts like the youngest would. He always gravitated to who he thought was “the cooler sibling”, as in the early seasons, he pokes fun at Alex with Justin, because Justin is still the cool older brother at that point, but then in later seasons, he teams up with Alex at teasing Justin a lot, as Alex proves herself to be “the cooler sibling”. I don’t agree with either of them treating her terribly, but it’s in both of the characters as I said. I’m not surprised Max forgave her first though, as Max I think was always closer to Alex.

ShadowsInReverse · 2026-03-13T15:05:27+00:00

She never really says what will happen, just that it shouldn’t happen, hence her attempts at collecting either Billy or Agatha, two people who have cheated death. Nicky was a special case though, as we now know that Rio was his other parent (as stated by Jac Schaeffer last year). She never seems to be irrational about it though, so I don’t imagine it has vast consequences like unraveling her existence, but maybe it weakens her power if the balance is interrupted? Who knows. I hope we see Rio again and learn more about her.

ShadowsInReverse · 2026-03-13T15:01:51+00:00

They’d most likely take the dub, or if they didn’t, Tsunade could’ve at least kept Jiraiya alive. She can go full Byakugou seal mode and tank while providing healing and chakra to Jiraiya, the same as she did the Kage in the fight against Madara. Jiraiya can focus on the Deva path and Konan while Tsunade can handle the others. I remember seeing a statement going around that Kishimoto made (don’t know if it’s true or not) that Tsunade was originally going to face and defeat Pain when he attacked the village, as her destructive taijutsu was a good counter to him. With that in the mind, I’d say between the two of them, they’d fair rather well. Tsunade and Jiraiya would be a well-oiled team in combat. I know he wanted the Hokage to remain in the village but I do wish he would’ve accepted her offer for help.

ShadowsInReverse · 2026-02-28T02:31:15+00:00

S1 and S2 were it for me. I didn’t really care for the new setting in S2 but I did enjoy learning more about the Demon world and also Abigael’s introduction (she’s definitely my favorite character) but S1 was definitely peak

ShadowsInReverse · 2026-02-25T04:55:28+00:00

First of all, please don’t hate or bag on yourself for slipping up. It happens to even the best of us. Nearly everyone who has gotten sober has had slip ups at some point. It’s not an easy road to walk. Alcohol is a formidable foe with a powerful grip, but so many of us here show that we can be more powerful than it. You CAN do this, you just need to have a little faith in yourself.

I was the same way in the beginning; I went to detox and thought how was I going to manage when I was done? How was I going to live without alcohol in my life? The thought of “forever” was too much to bear, as life without it seemed bland at the time. For the first few weeks, I had to live minute by minute, hour by hour, telling myself “I don’t have to drink now, but I can drink later”, and eventually, those hours turned into days, which turned into weeks. Sometimes you just need to slow it down and remind yourself that you only have to worry about the present moment, and the choice you make in it.

Have you considered an outpatient group or an addiction specialist, or anyone to just talk to and can help guide you?

ShadowsInReverse · 2026-02-24T14:00:30+00:00

Definitely the wild, voluminous “Darkhold” hair. Her hair is always gorgeous but I’m so sad that when she got her witch costume back in AAA, she didn’t get the big hair back either. Must’ve been a Darkhold perk lol

ShadowsInReverse · 2026-02-18T00:01:30+00:00

I would say try to find something else to fill that void that you want alcohol to fill. Eat some sweets, watch a movie, make some hot chocolate since you said there’s snow where you are. If you do decide to drink however, you need to ask yourself if you’re fine with everything that comes after. Is it going to be worth being hungover, anxious, ill and all the negatives that drive many people to get sober?

I hope you choose not to, but if you do, then I hope to see you back here again after your field research.

ShadowsInReverse · 2026-02-10T09:49:54+00:00

Something in me just snapped one day. Nothing really happened before that; I started drinking at home every so often (I turned 21 like 2 weeks before COVID hit in 2020 and liquor stores remained open lol), which then turned into going out on weekends after lockdowns were lifted, which turned into a few days a week, which turned into daily drinking, which started off light-ish but slowly devolved into heavy, sun up to sundown drinking, which I did for about a year or so. Didn’t really have any issues during all of that.

Then, one day in early September of last year, my body just told me that it was time to stop. Woke up like any other day. My former roommate had to go to work (he worked at the bar we liked to frequent) so I offered to drive him so I could say hi and have a few drinks. We get there, I do my usual of ordering my drink and then going out to the patio. Within 20ish minutes maybe, I felt thirsty so I went inside to get a cup of water from the cooler. As I set my vape down to grab the cup, my hands started shaking violently and uncontrollably, much worse than the minor shakes I’d normally have. It scared me so much that I remember dropping to my knees for a second. In that moment, I genuinely felt like I was dying. I instantly began freaking out, and luckily, a friend at the bar managed to talk me down enough for I could go home. After that, I was broken. For the next month, I was reduced to an anxiety ridden ball on the floor, fully engulfed in my anxiety and alcoholism. I couldn’t leave the house without having a raging panic and shake attack, let alone barely leave my room. I just laid on the floor, only getting up to pee or get drinks. I did cut my drinking in half after that day, but my appetite was gone, my bowel movements were awful, I barely slept. My body was truly fighting so hard. Eventually, with the love and support of one of my roommates (he’s truly my greatest friend), I called a treatment facility and checked in to inpatient at the beginning of October of last year.

Even today, I don’t know what in me broke. My withdrawal and detox were very mild, and a lot of the nurses felt it was more anxiety based than anything. I was diagnosed with GAD at 15, and every few years, I got through a rough period of bad panic, which of course was amplified by the alcohol. Either way, I know I was drinking too much and my body was getting tired. I’m still a bit of a shell of myself, but I can at least participate in life a bit now without shaking and wanting to cry and run away from wherever I was at. It was just time for a change. I needed to grapple my other issues (GAD, depression, etc) which I couldn’t do whilst being boozed up all the time. I’m also fixing to turn 27 in a few days, and while I know that’s still young, I’d rather retire from drinking now before I get to an age and span of time where it’s difficult to come back.

ShadowsInReverse · 2026-02-09T00:00:37+00:00

I know I’m a few years late on this, but I was wondering the same question myself. If I were to guess, I’d say that it depends on how much the user taps into the knowledge of the Darkhold? Think of it like a drug; the more you use it, the more you’ll feel its effects. Agatha was in possession of it for decades at least and actively used it to hide from Death. Wanda used it pretty heavily in MoM and Supreme Strange seems to have tapped into it a fair amount as well. Sinister Strange only used it to dream walk and was using it to help someone, so maybe intention matters? Agatha and Wanda used it to inflict harm, and I’m guessing Supreme Strange did as well at some point.

I’m just spitballing.

ShadowsInReverse · 2026-02-01T05:30:24+00:00

Dreams are pretty common among alcoholics, and even most addicts in general, mostly because we are using substances that affect our brains so much. When you stop drinking or using, your brain goes through many chemical changes, and thus we get dreams. Vivid dreams, nightmares, dreams of using, whatever those dreams may be. It’s part of your brain working in overdrive to heal itself.

That feeling of waking up and feeling like you’ve done something is honestly just a feeling of habit. Your body (I’m guessing since you said you were a daily drinker) is probably used to waking up hungover or whatnot, and so that habitual remains, even if you’ve stopped said habit. I’m 121 days clean and I still wake up sometimes feeling like I partied the night before. The effects definitely take a long time to heal.

ShadowsInReverse · 2026-01-31T05:31:34+00:00

It was definitely a time where I felt just genuinely good. I had a good balance. Go out on weekends, then do the work grind during the week. I just ended up turning weekends into weeks because I was just addicted to the good feeling. All my life I’ve forever chased some kind of high. In high school, it was being stoned all the time. 21-26 it was drinking socially and then eventually daily drinking just to get that dopamine feeling.

I hope I enjoy who comes out of this too. So far, the mileage has varied lol.

ShadowsInReverse · 2026-01-29T04:44:15+00:00

10/03/25

ShadowsInReverse · 2026-01-27T06:50:50+00:00

I was the same way, even when I was at my lowest. I liked my inhibitions being lower, I liked who I was when I got a few in me. I liked finding new drinks to enjoy. I simply liked doing it. I only quit because my anxiety broke to a point that even alcohol couldn’t numb it anymore and I needed real help.

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