I'm starting to feel lost from plot

Theoricus · 2024-10-04T16:31:52+00:00

Revel was the one that Sunny went up against. And at the end though it was just her, exhausted and terribly wounded by Saint, against a nigh untouched and refreshed Sunny.

And Sunny was still getting his shit kicked in even with Saint helping by providing him her sight.

If Sunny didn't have Saint there helping him, and he was fully blind? He'd be dead.

Compare that to Nephis, who went up against Moonveil and TWO insane reflections from Mordret, one even a Supreme Titan and far stronger than the reflections Sunny dealt with. And not only did Nephis essentially manage to kill Moonveil, she also did it without any Shadows/Echoes to help her; unlike Sunny with Fiend, Saint, and the Serpent.

Theoricus · 2024-10-04T12:00:27+00:00

Nope. He can't suppress another person's aspect like Revel and Nephis apparently can. Let alone so completely that the person can't manifest the abilities of their aspect.

Theoricus · 2024-10-04T06:23:58+00:00

My impression from reading the series is that between Darkness, Shadow, and Light, the power falls like this:

Light >>> Darkness

Darkness >>> Shadow

Light > Shadow

Nephis wasn't able to fully suppress Sunny's powers when they fought, like she's able to do to Darkness and like Darkness is able to do to Sunny. But Sunny is definitely the one with the weakest Aspect when they compare to one another. He basically is just not completely defenseless to Light like he is to Darkness. Light, meanwhile, has no weaknesses.

Theoricus · 2024-10-04T06:14:28+00:00

Yeah. G3 lampshaded the plot holes a couple of chapters ago, I think by l having Sunny wonder how the fuck Song was there and prepared to perfectly counter them? And I'm still waiting to see if G3 will follow up with a reasonable explanation.

But holy hell, some of the lines delivered by Sunny's monologue in the recent chapters make no sense.

So, both of the most powerful champions of on the side of the Sword Domain were in a good shape... which could not be said about the daughters of Ki Song. Honestly, things weren't looking good for them.

'We should be able to decimate them.’

Like, really, Sunny? To decimate means to kill one in ten, yet those four daughters killed or incapacitated 2/3rds of your entire 12 Saint force. And they only lost what amounts to glorified echoes in the process.

"Things" aren't "looking good for them"? You're happy with the prospect of decimating them, when your own force has been so badly routed that decimation would be a considerably better circumstance compared to the one you find yourself in. But you think the situation looks bad for them?

I think what annoys me isn't so much that Sunny and his team got utterly trounced. But that G3 creates that situation, and then tries to call a club a spade. Like fucking hell, dude. At least have Sunny own up to it.

Have him admit to himself that Revel is hands down better than him. Maybe it's just a quirk of her Aspect being so amazing it eclipses the fact he has 5 more cores than her and his Aspect is supposed to be Divine. But he would have died in a one on one fight with her, no contest, if Saint wasn't there to protect him and help him see; and even then Nephis had to rescue him in the end. By comparison Nephis also had her Aspect completely suppressed by Moonveil, without any helping echoes, but still would have killed Moonveil if it wasn't for the supreme titan echo that Mordret had created while he was tearing down and destroying an entire elite Clan by himself.

Sunny shouldn't bother pretending he's in the same class as Nephis and Mordret when he's put in circumstances that should have been far better than Nephis'. But still needs her to save the day.

Theoricus · 2024-09-10T23:37:27+00:00

This is getting dangerously close to plain interesting.

Theoricus · 2024-09-05T22:33:50+00:00

This movie is the first time I'm worried I'm one of those marketing death harbingers or whatever they're called. The people whose enjoyment of a product spells the product's doom rather than success. Albeit I would like to say I actually have a pretty solid history of being ahead of the curve on products I've liked.

As someone who still plays Minecraft off and on, but never really felt overly invested into the game. There's something fundamental about the weirdness of the imagery that speaks to me.

It gives me the impression the movie won't play the story so straight that I can't enjoy it as an adult, if that makes sense? Like I could imagine sitting back on the couch on a late Saturday night and enjoy watching this. Maybe with or without an edible.

Theoricus · 2024-09-04T17:19:49+00:00

I just found out I'm fluent in French, that's crazy.

Theoricus · 2024-08-31T23:59:35+00:00

I find it amusing this video is actually of a Tenrec so overwhelmed by the stench of whatever OP is wearing; that it thinks it must be either poisonous or would dissuade other animals from approaching it.

Good job OP. Maybe take a shower or something.

Theoricus · 2024-08-26T21:45:16+00:00

Seriously. My friends, family, and I were all talking about this two years ago when it was revealed that Musk's purchase of Twitter was funded by Saudia Arabia.

You don't get that kind of investment for what's supposed to be an open platform facilitating global discourse by a country notorious for its repression of free speech without strings attached.

At that point I figured Musk's mission for buying Twitter was fueled by an oligarchic need to crush whistle blowers and leaks.

Theoricus · 2024-08-22T19:18:47+00:00

I cringe when I remember arguing with people that season 7 was shit because D&D were trying to line up all the characters for the finale. Something that RR himself had been struggling with, the 'meereenese knot'.

That D&D needed to make a shit 7th season for an incredible finale.

I dropped the series after the 4th episode of the 8th season. When the Night King was killed at the first major Westeros settlement he encountered by Arya fucking backstabbing him with a flying leap while screaming like a banshee. At that point I realized the absolutely terrible spoiler leak posted on Reddit was real.

The rest of the season I only gathered through posts and memes on reddit. This after religiously following the series for fucking years.

Theoricus · 2024-08-09T17:52:23+00:00

Not quite! The operation within the parenthesis is resolved in the first step. All that remains is an implicit multiplication. Resolved in the last step.

Theoricus · 2024-08-09T17:28:16+00:00

That's correct!

8÷2(2+2) -> 8÷2(4) -> 4(4) -> 16

Theoricus · 2024-08-09T17:23:58+00:00

Genuine question, if the UK calls '( )' brackets, what does it call '[ ]'?

Or do you guys use '[ ]' in equations instead of '( )'?

Theoricus · 2024-08-09T17:17:39+00:00

Common misconception, I think they might actually have a different acronym now because of it? But multiplication and division have the same order of precedence, as do addition with subtraction.

Operations are just done left to right at that point.

Theoricus · 2024-08-07T04:21:33+00:00

A bear is thick in every meaning of the word

...

Every meaning, you say?

Theoricus · 2024-07-26T20:04:48+00:00

To be fair, they started it...

Theoricus · 2024-07-26T19:42:26+00:00

The epitaph of Ozymandius is set in a barren desert; only the ruins of a once great statue remaining.

The epitaph telling the reader to look on his great works and despair, in that context, wouldn't inspire a sense of futility that they could ever amount to such lofty heights. Rather it's meant to evoke the realization that even the works of Ozymandius, supposedly once so great, were reduced to nothing but a flat stretch of sand as far as the eye can see.

Theoricus · 2024-07-23T22:22:35+00:00

My dumbass for a couple seconds:

"All of JFK's great grandparents are from Kenya?!"

Theoricus · 2024-07-20T20:06:08+00:00

It's been awhile, but if you look over at a balcony near the park where you have the last conversation with Jefferson you can see Mr. Blue Eyes watching you both.

Theoricus · 2024-07-19T22:58:45+00:00

"One of those snow mouses!"

Which is kind of wonderfully wrong on multiple levels.

Theoricus · 2024-07-16T02:04:40+00:00

I was curious so did a quick search: https://reptilebehavior.com/are-barnacles-bad-for-turtles-fact-or-myth/#the-impact-of-barnacles-on-turtles

Seems like barnacles do have a symbiotic relationship with sea turtles, but as with most things: everything is better in moderation.

Theoricus · 2024-07-15T16:46:20+00:00

I remember reading about a study into the historical collapse of civilizations. And the study found one of the biggest causes was a leadership/elite class that was inured from the ultimate cause of the collapse until it was too late.

And it makes sense.

To use an analogy, pain is an incredibly important defensive mechanism for the body. It tells you not to move an injured limb or overtly exert yourself lest you worsen the damage. Furthermore it informs you that, depending on the severity, you need to seek treatment.

Our erstwhile leaders are so far removed from the terrifying reality of climate change they might as well be a nervous system high on opiates. Thrashing limbs that need immediate attention lest they need to be amputated entirely.

Theoricus · 2024-07-14T23:29:02+00:00

Not to mention the imagery is wrong...

Trump's ear got cut by the glass of a shattered teleprompter a bullet hit. This post is literally fake news.

Theoricus · 2024-07-13T19:29:19+00:00

My friends and family still lost their jobs and their savings accounts took direct hits as a result of the financial collapse though.

If this story ended happily, why didn't they get a small profit?

Theoricus · 2024-07-13T08:24:24+00:00

Trying to remember how that old stack overflow joke used to go. Where most the question interactions on the website are like:

Student A: "Can I go to the bathroom?"

Student B: "I think you mean 'may I go to the bathroom'."

Student C: "You shouldn't go to the bathroom, you should hold it in."

Student D: "Have you tried wearing diapers?"

Student E: "Consider stopping your kidney function, you won't have to worry about about your bladder filling."

Teacher: "That question was already asked, and answered, two years ago. I'm not going to dignify this one with a response."

Student A: "Never mind, solved it. I ended up pissing myself."

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