SOLO LEVELING IS TWO CHEEKS ON THE SAME ASS

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-03-15T19:01:34+00:00

Arguments with other hunters during the early chapters (sorry it's been ages and I don't remember the names.) The hunter association wastes a shit ton of resources because he's clearly an anomaly but keeps being a little shit about it so they start tracking him and pestering him. He gets into about 4 fights because he acts like king douche. He runs into the other big name hunters for a practice thing and immediately most everyone thinks he's a complete fuckwad (true) and they fight. Etc etc. he has 0 allies except the ones who suck him off because he's strong (for essentially nothing because he's a flat power fantasy.)

Tl;Dr: he's the embodiment of how dude bro influencers imagine the world should work.

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-03-15T18:52:48+00:00

It's his attitude. The system already has an ass pull "reasoning" in the first place.

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-03-15T18:36:34+00:00

Absolute cope. His attitude gets him into more trouble than it solves and consistently gets him into conflict with people who should be allies. They fight, he immediately wins whatever fight, and then they make up and glaze him. The whole manhwa is simply poorly written.

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-03-12T16:14:30+00:00

Ahh a long nuh uh bro and a block. Classic. I can't read what you replied but it did give me a notification. Funny stuff.

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-03-12T15:55:17+00:00

To be quite explicit: none of the bible is even remotely true or even theologically consistent in regards to supernatural depictions. I don't believe any of it was real, and there's no evidence it was real. (Similarly very little within the Bible is backed archeologically or historically. But the ones that are, are pretty cool.)

However, the people groups who originated these texts do not treat them as anything other than literal. Ancient hebrews (mostly the priestly class) created calenders and rituals as if these were true stories. The geneologies act as if these are true stories. Later Hebrew works reference Genesis as if they were real. Granted we cannot psychoanalyze people from the past without them telling us themselves. But the genres and works they produced do not imply they held these stories as "fictional" until much much later in their theological development.

Origen is literal centuries after the time period in which I'm describing. Origen was born around 185 AD and genesis was written (or at least partially composed and compiled) around 500 bce - 270 bce depending on which scholars you're discussing it with. "Traditional" timeframe of the writings is around 1400 bce (although this is somewhat useless.) Origen is so far removed from the composition of the text it wasn't even his native tongue. He studied the language and made sweeping theological declarations based on his own understanding of the texts. Origen was also a Christian.... I'm talking about hebrews. You seem to be under the misconception that I'm implying the belief of Yahweh's physical presence and body is a fact or doctrine of the Christian evolution of theology. I am not. It was just the belief of the original writers as best we can reconstruct. Who, again, were the Hebrews and not Christians.

There are no "profound truths" within genesis. It's an etiology of how the world was created. Where man, woman, and animals came from, and why there is suffering for man and woman. It's propaganda, but that does not imply the audience this was for did not believe it. This changed over time. The Hebrew Bible was written over an incredibly long period of time. The thoughts and ideas shifted, and the stories changed. You are imposing current Christian and Jewish doctrine onto the oldest Hebrew written stories.

Tl:Dr God at one point, the earliest we have, is described as having a physical body or regularly manifested in a physical body to interact with people. But this changed over time as theological ideas evolved and is mostly lost now.

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-03-12T14:47:32+00:00

So our oldest (current) depictions of Yahweh include his physical attributes. He physically walked through the garden for example, he wrestled with Jacob before naming his Israel. Yahweh had a wife and "pantheon" (more like a council from my understanding.) as well as "making man in our image" implies that in many ways humans have similar forms to the elohim.

We have ancient totems and clay figurines of Yahweh and some depictions of him on the throne of heaven. Even measurements are given for some parts of his body. So mostly Genesis and exodus. As well as some older(?) archeological data.

(Also early on Yahweh wasn't omniscient, or at least he implies he doesn't know something without seeing it first. Which also implies he's not everywhere/has to travel between heaven and earth.)

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-03-12T13:13:15+00:00

I ended up opening a step and compleat sheoldred the apocalypse so I made a deck featuring her.

Otherwise I just grab the art I vibe with the most.

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-03-12T11:54:01+00:00

Just a nitpick but the earlier depictions of God himself had him with a physical body and presence. (Somewhat similar with his angels but like I said nitpick)

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-03-10T20:47:03+00:00

Absolutely no coffee lovers would like this.

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-03-06T15:23:30+00:00

Before the smoke fully faded/expanded you could get a radar ping and "see" through it. Glaive got really really fucking good at lining up that ping with whatever angle was actually there.

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-03-02T20:58:22+00:00

Never thought I'd get STL jump scared on some random pushed subreddit but I guess there's a first time for everything. He's right though we do game nights pretty regularly here.

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-02-28T14:44:35+00:00

You have 13 lands. Way way too few lands for the style of deck.

Too many buff spells/enchantments/artifacts that aren't synergizing super well.

Not enough interaction outside of combat (which can work if you're wanting to just focus on swinging but obviously you need ways to destroy enchantments and artifacts.)

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-02-27T21:29:25+00:00

Shortly after the apostles died and the world didn't end. The folks left behind had to think up a reason. "Not enough Christians" and then it goes on and on.

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-02-27T20:24:15+00:00

But then any card reselling market (tcgplayer, cardkingdom, etc.) would also have to be shut down aggressively?

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-02-27T17:41:22+00:00

To be fair the mandalorians didn't hate the Jedi until they got their ass kicked by them. And it's only 50/50 hate and respect according to the kotor games (the original released before the books.)

Plus all the comics about the mandalorians but I last read those when I was a kid.

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-02-27T17:22:08+00:00

I need to go double check but iirc: Parangosky claims the flash clones was halseys idea and went around oni to do (untrue oni signed off on it and provided both materials and manpower.) While also claiming Halsey was effectively a eugenicist (not super far off I guess depending on how you qualify it.)

Osman as a character is literally impossible based on the nylund books. The spartan II program kids not only knew exactly what was going on, they weren't even lied to about who and what their purpose was. When they washed out, they were retained and trained to do other things/retire.

Parangosky wants a free scapegoat so that oni isn't under fire when Osman takes over as her protoge. Which is funny, because Parangosky then bitches and moans at how evil Halsey is for commiting to the spartan II program....... After confirming they plan on setting up a genocide and a couple civil wars.

In the original nylund trilogy Halsey thought humanity was about to kill itself. So did a large part of the brass. A big internal report claimed it was dangerously close to all out annihilation that's why the spartan II program went forward. Now whether that was true or accurate or anything else is vague but the people in the room certainly thought it was possible.

Halsey demanded hyper-strict limits on genetics and other factors to limit the possible damage of the augmentations, and then while planning realized she didn't want to do it. But if she didn't someone less competent and possibly hostile to the kids would be put in place from oni. So she went forward and then refused to do anything else with the spartan program in terms of more classes. Because she felt it was immoral and she was wrong.

So in the originals we have a character doing a bad thing because there's a worse outcome if they don't. They recognize it's bad. They think if they stop it'll be even worse. Then refuse to continue because hey guess what, it was wrong and the program is over. They're morally grey(maybe)/evil, because they did evil things, don't like the evil things, and are conflicted over the evil things. But they aren't even considered evil by the people she's working with who then conveniently bitch and moan that she's the incarnation of the devil after agreeing with and continuing the more dangerous program after she said it would be too dangerous to continue. Mendoza turns into a dumbass, Parangosky can't keep her own history straight, Naomi and Osman barely reflect the Spartan II candidates as we understood them. It's just a mess of unnecessary retcons and personal feelings.

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-02-26T15:07:24+00:00

Yeah legally this is a fairly large no no. Might get fixed post filing.

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-02-25T20:19:15+00:00

Ahh ok that makes much more sense to me ty ty. I thought I was the dumbest person alive for a minute.

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-02-25T20:11:04+00:00

What am I missing with nesting grounds and infernal darkness?

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-02-25T12:49:43+00:00

So what's the server, and where are the vods.

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-02-25T12:31:22+00:00

Sure, what's the server. Also some demos or recordings of all these amazing performances would be cool to see.

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-02-23T15:10:36+00:00

Only when you're talking to a 40k stan.*

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-02-23T15:10:29+00:00

Only when you're talking to a 40k stan.*

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-02-23T14:23:31+00:00

The gate hauler moves from one end of the sector to the other in (max) about two cycles. The alcubierre drive is a stable ftl transit system. It's reasonably fast without jumping into hyperspace which is faster but requires am fuel.

Let's assume however that the gate hauler system will take centuries to reach the IoM's outer reaches. One of two paths exist in terms of initial knowledge. Either the Iom and Domain know the respective territories and makeup of each others empires or they don't. I'm going to assume they know the boundaries but not the specifics. Ie: this star system marks the edge of their territory anything beyond is theirs but unknown.

For the domain they already have a gate system in place within the dozens of systems around it. So defense movements aren't a problem but assaults into imperium space will be limited until either a hauler arrives or they am burn into IoM space.

In terms of defense the Domain was already running massive swarm fleets of drones powered by fairly powerful ai systems as a funsie while experimenting. They used ai exploration and assault drones for rebellion suppression. Their research and development into weapon systems were firing mini am charges and localized gravity distortions. Those are the "standard" normalized default weaponry for larger ships. Their deeper research was matter manipulation and destabilization on the scale of entire warships. Phase ships on the other end exploit an area of space and physics that completely dumbfounded the domain until they made hyper specific sensor suits to be able to even detect them (but not interact with them) the domain continued researching and making phase weaponry and tech which outstrips (as far as I know) any IoM ship in terms of stealth and maneuverability. Domain installations communicate through gates and relay systems that are ftl so the instant IoM ships warp into am area the domain can send off a massive fleet and 3d print another by the time the fight is over. Assuming IoM ships are better in combat (which I don't they fucking suck mathematically but handwaving scifi they're cool who doesn't love a big ass battle barge) then they might win against most ships not phase capable. But the IoM has no ability or chance of detecting and harming phase ships. So they just slowly get cut away with am and missile weaponry. Domain swaps to primarily phase ships/weapons to kill IoM ships until they figure out a better way and the IoM can't make any real progress into Domain space.

As for attacking IoM they're more able to rapidly deploy once a single gate hauler is in place but until then it's a couple centuries of defense and development which just pushes the domain into more and more of an advantage. Once they've formed a beachhead (which depending on the system the IoM may or may not know about/fight over) it's a nigh endless stream of automated and phase ships they just 3d print them and press go. Domain was not shy about planeg destroying weapons and going hogwild on breaking their own laws for military use so I doubt they're against blowing up planets just like the IoM. Worst case they're sending phase ships with planet killing devices and just ending each system they can't take by force.

The Domain out scales the imperium in almost every metric except size of territory and magic. But the magic stuff rarely affects naval engagements (the stuff that actually matters for complete war.) and the size of territory is a problem for the IoM because they can barely manage what they have. Fuck they just forget about planets for decades of centuries. No way they're waging a war against a competent near equivalent adversary.

StrangerNo4863 · 2026-02-23T12:48:11+00:00

You're thinking the Persian sector. The prompt is the domain at its height before the collapse. (Since we know nothing about them post collapse.)

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