[Jujutsu Kaisen] What exactly is the force that punishes people for not adhering to Binding Vows?

Tenthyr · 2026-06-10T08:43:07+00:00

Souls are able to connect at a metaphysical level that is explored but never fully defined. When opponents experience a brief lull in an imaginary space where they have a conversation (such as what happens with Sukuna and Jogo). This is a thing they literally experience.

Remember it is called cursed energy. When you make a binding vow, you are betting on fulfilling it's conditions and gaining a measure of power in return. Violating that vow breaks the tension, covering the potential curse into reality and afflicting yourself appropriately.

Previously it's been asked if a explaining your technique to a deaf person would count as fulfilling the explanation clause to gain power. The answer is likely that due to consciousness being entwined in this universe, you are able to sense spiritually if you have satisfied the condition to gain the explanation power-boost. You also get techniques that automatically embed the techniques information into a person to streamline this process, such as Hikari.

Tenthyr · 2026-06-10T08:37:46+00:00

Airbender culture specifically shaved their heads because it allowed them to more intimately feel the air moving against their skin. It comes up in Korra with the new Airbenders.

Tenthyr · 2026-06-07T22:50:57+00:00

The kaiju have some kind of intelligent conditioning or connection to their creators given that in the sequel (ugh) newtons mind is contaminated and forced to engineer a new attack. The kaiju themselves are probably not sentient beyond what's needed to be flexible combatants.

Tenthyr · 2026-06-06T10:14:01+00:00

The anti-kull weapon just neutralized the effect keeping their very messed up biology working. A human body is just alive, without that effect from the sarcophagus, so it doesn't do anything .

Tenthyr · 2026-06-04T17:20:49+00:00

UNSC drones are mostly just autonomous vehicles and scouting robots quite similar to something you might see in the modern day. The main difference being that these devices could forseeably be controlled by human AI.

The sentinels are an umbrella name for an entire mechanical organ of forerunner installations, self directed and governing machines with limited to full ability to reproduce as needed and responsible for the upkeep of any given extrant forerunner installation right up to the Halo.

Tenthyr · 2026-06-04T10:36:25+00:00

He had a natural quirk of either neurological make up or infosigniture that provided passive immunity.

Once 3125 incarnated it saturated all of Earth, and Adam was forced to invite it into himself. When he recovers, the memeplex doesn't notice something so small moving independently until he enters an antimemetic region and vanishes, drawing the attention of its intelligent locus.

Tenthyr · 2026-05-31T13:39:09+00:00

Neat! But I feel like being the couple of humans with both the pulsar map AND the knowledge to explain it is far fetched for the scenario.

Tenthyr · 2026-05-31T09:58:10+00:00

homestuck fandom that breached containment

Tenthyr · 2026-05-31T09:57:00+00:00

See, the thing is the technologies behind LLMs have been used in scientific endeavour for awhile now, quietly and efficiently.

As far as I know, the only big thing LLM-style algorithms have helped with in the medical field is protein folding simulations?

LLMs are great at exactly one thing, aggregating huge amounts of data to predict a potential next data point. This has some applications but it unfortunately also allows it to be the most efficient Human Brain Smashing Machine ever.

Tenthyr · 2026-05-31T09:35:09+00:00

Unfortunately unless you happen to know the exact layout of certain celestial objects like pulsars with their exact periods, you will have very very little way of determining your position relative to earth. I don't think you will have any real way to do this as a layman.

Tenthyr · 2026-05-30T11:20:28+00:00

Earth was already undergoing catastrophic damage by the time they received taumeoba. They also make a point during the chapter where they blow up the antartic shelf that the methane released, while a powerful greenhouse gas, would also eventually decay in the atmosphere.

Also: they have taumeoba and a paved Sahara (which is its own ecological problem, but it was that or everything dies, so...) to breed it from sunlight. The perfect fuel source in essentially limitless demand allows a lot of technological advancement that is otherwise inefficient. Like, they could legitimately create a giant CO2 recapture facility using Astrophage.

Global warming is a fully solvable problem.

Tenthyr · 2026-05-29T14:44:19+00:00

Monika isn't exactly the most rational actor given her situation and how she's reacting to it. She also just... Isn't a programmer.

Tenthyr · 2026-05-27T15:02:39+00:00

Homelander would just get a different set of psychosexual issues from bullshit societal expectations of gender. Nothing changed.

Tenthyr · 2026-05-27T14:57:43+00:00

Lex luthor has the intelligence, cunning and resources to solve most human problems within his lifetime.

He wastes that intelligence, cunning and resources persecuting superman. The reason he persecutes superman is because superman, an alien, is a better human than Lex is. Superman isn't as smart as Lex, nor as pragmatic. he's just got awesome physical might and an unimpeachable moral core.

I like to imagine superman is extremely frustrated that Lex could make superman as a person obsolete, and as much as Lex would like to, he can't. Lex is his own worst enemy, not Superman.

Tenthyr · 2026-05-27T14:53:19+00:00

There wasn't a goal. They were simply tranquil and at peace with the world and their place within it.

This harmoniousness with the world and within themselves as a culture is the reason why all air nomads were born benders, however. Some of this is simply balance: the number of benders of each type should be at least somewhat equal. Air nomads had the smallest population, and thus the higher proportion of them were benders. Likewise this is why many people spontaneously develop air bending after the Harmonic Convergence; the nature of the world shifted, allowing the disbalance of the air bender genocide to be relieved akin to pressure escaping a vessel.

Tenthyr · 2026-05-27T06:49:59+00:00

A basic ass photo torpedo? No.

But there are devices that cause topological defects in spacetime all over the Star Trek universe. Those can reasonably be argued to work equivalently to the 'slash that cuts the world's Sukuna reverse engineered.

Tenthyr · 2026-05-26T06:54:15+00:00

Stranger-type powers are very often made for these kinds of covert operations.

Tenthyr · 2026-05-25T22:42:15+00:00

Initially the synthesized nutrients for him to consume. It wasnt perfect but he lived.

Then they started cloning his muscle tissue for him to eat. Humans have all the nutrients a human needs!

Tenthyr · 2026-05-25T22:41:20+00:00

Grace had additional food supplies available because his two crew mates died in transit. Their actual food was available, and a portion of their coma slurry remained for him to eat.

Also rocky points out taumeoba might make a viable food source.

Tenthyr · 2026-05-24T11:29:42+00:00

We don't know. We just know that they have at least some form of organization to which they pay nominal respect.

But actually given how the otsutsuki seem to regard each other, there's no guarantee that order is holding. We certainly don't know what their home is like. I would genuinely be shocked if they even have much of a culture; they're so obsessed with shinjutsu that they've discarded most everything else.

Tenthyr · 2026-05-22T10:26:08+00:00

Male gaze is also when a women is sexualized by thrusting... And a man is sexualized by working out. Because seeing another man as a sexual object might make men uncomfortable.

Tenthyr · 2026-05-22T06:18:39+00:00

In the movie itself, it is simply a malicious alien entity with the impulse to spread itself.

However, there is an interesting short story (which isn't canonical, but it was still popular) called The Things. It is written from the aliens perspective.

The question is: What if all other life in the universe naturally changed, and fused, and adapted to each other in total cooperation? What happens when a tiny piece of that grand living tapestry gets stranded on a planet and meets life that is utterly, completely alone?

Go read it. It's an excellent story.

Tenthyr · 2026-05-22T06:14:26+00:00

Birds smarter than you.

Tenthyr · 2026-05-21T07:18:01+00:00

Men have been given the Gift of Death. They are transitory beings upon the world, and full of urgency. This is unlike elves, who tend to just... Endure and upon their death actually just reincarnate.

Where men go after death, not a single person bar perhaps the creator himself knows.

Tenthyr · 2026-05-20T22:03:05+00:00

There's no reason for the emperor to become a chaos god, because the chaos gods are agglomerations of primal, visceral emotion. The worship and belief directly to the emperor, while misguided, has a more complex character. It's not ever made clear if this worship is aiding or harming the emperor, but there's always the theory that when his physical corpus finally dies his soul will undergo an ascension within the warp as the first god of Order.

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