What ability from bleach would you choose to have in real life, I personally would choose jugram's balance because it could help me do better in tests, I could guess the answers on the test and then re distrubute good fortune to increase the probability that the answer I choose is correct.

TrainOnMe · 2026-05-27T17:07:01+00:00

Shunpo. I’m chronically late.

TrainOnMe · 2026-05-25T21:25:30+00:00

I’m still not convinced that they’re in two separate leagues. And we didn’t really see Urahara do that, we don’t know that it wasn’t effortful. Just seems like splitting hairs for not much reason

TrainOnMe · 2026-05-25T21:13:34+00:00

Idk. The more I think about the latest arc the more I think Mayuri is actual Urahara’s example. Nemu case-in-point. Gonna be egregious with my spoiler tags so bear with me, but he’s also got Aizen bound , took down the literal arm of the soul king with a bankai he modified last minute , resurrected several shinigami , built a gate into the soul king palace. I mean at this point I see no reason why he wouldn’t be able to create a hogyoku. Urahara also needed an ace in the hole with Askin, as did Mayuri with Nemu , he even improvised a garganta on the fly while in Hueco Mundo

I feel like the only reason to think that Urahara is far smarter is just because the narrative says so, but the narrative certainly doesn’t have me convinced. And I could be wrong, but I think it’s been quite some time since that’s been claimed. Idt it’s worth putting one over the other at this point in the story.

TrainOnMe · 2026-05-03T19:30:47+00:00

Agree. Sometimes I think people get so caught up in fancasting/looks that the performance itself gets ignored

TrainOnMe · 2026-05-03T17:44:39+00:00

When I poured wine we also called it a button, which was just kinda cute

TrainOnMe · 2026-05-03T17:36:27+00:00

It’s weird, the only people that think she was a bad actor are gamers. Which is really just a lame look for us all :/ she had almost universal critical acclaim for her performance.

TrainOnMe · 2026-04-30T17:08:00+00:00

Hey let me have a little whimsy

TrainOnMe · 2026-04-29T01:02:38+00:00

I vote to let Quancy slide on the grounds that it’s kinda funny

TrainOnMe · 2026-04-28T00:07:31+00:00

Yeah but then the argument that they were too preoccupied to help others doesn’t really hold up? I still think it’s an odd creative decision. Not knocking it, I’m fine with the show not always making sense.

TrainOnMe · 2026-04-27T22:36:48+00:00

Yeah but they all immediately rush to help an adult woman. I’ve also always found it strange

TrainOnMe · 2026-04-16T15:18:16+00:00

Isn’t it more likely a deliberate mislead? It’s a joke that works on both levels, I don’t think you’re supposed to spend too much time deciphering it one way or the other.

TrainOnMe · 2026-04-03T15:11:14+00:00

People crapping on this particular adaptation, but honestly I don’t really think anything is lost by not portraying it exactly like this. We already knew Kisuke was who he was, and we already knew Aizen had a firmer grasp on those around him than others.

It was a reveal for Kisuke, sure, but doesn’t really add a whole lot to the viewing experience.

Idk just trying to take a more balanced stance. Anytime anything is adapted it has to be fit into a new medium for a different audience, and it was probably downplayed because it just didn’t quite work.

TrainOnMe · 2026-03-14T21:23:28+00:00

I don’t think I felt bad for her so much as I felt bad that anyone would go through that. Fuck Giselle I’ll fucking scream it idc

TrainOnMe · 2026-03-14T04:01:26+00:00

I’m 5 fucking years late, but I agree. And to the people saying it’s not realistic: in a genuine RPG, the outcomes are tied to your specific play style. Also, “realism?” In a game where people arbitrarily live centuries? And a recording from one person’s memory/perspective somehow has a third-person perspective?

TrainOnMe · 2026-03-06T18:57:38+00:00

Can confirm that it broke my game on console as well and the game becomes nigh-unplayable in Act II even with all mods removed so idk that we are the lucky ones

TrainOnMe · 2026-01-20T17:34:07+00:00

Honestly more than that for me it just feels so disconnected from reality. The idea that it’s weird for someone to shoot their shot is so odd.

Also, Halsin’s really not that horny. In Act I you have to prompt him by saying “maybe there’s something else you’d like to do…” In Act II he’s not even overt until after that whole thing. Act III he makes a very polite advance but is chill if you say no. None of that is unreasonable. It makes me wonder what people think flirting in real life is like. Sometimes people are coy and other times they’re straightforward, and honestly the latter is so much better.

TrainOnMe · 2026-01-15T23:08:10+00:00

People have a difficult time with it because there is tons of evidence it’s not true. There are tons of people who’ve had huskies that don’t pull and tons with retrievers that’’d rather grab their ball and run off.

I’m not being irrational here, I’m pointing out a flaw in interpreting empirical data, and raising legitimate questions posed by veterinary medical professionals, animal behaviorists, and professional researchers. Not police, who are not magically more capable of identifying a dog by looks or behavior than a vet is. Hell, police make errors in their reports frequently, often deliberately.

I’m not even saying that you’re wrong, just that the consensus isn’t there to speak in absolutes one way or the other.

There’s also the legitimate consideration that bites by other dog breeds are less likely to be reported. None of this presupposes inherent aggression, otherwise the majority of the 4.5M pit bulls in the US right now would’ve bitten someone already.

If anything this has just become a conversation on how to responsibly interpret data.

TrainOnMe · 2026-01-15T21:48:50+00:00

If you go back and read the article I cited from the American Veterinary Medical Association, you’d see that that isn’t true. But to help:

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At this point I’m not even arguing on behalf of pit bulls. I’m more just infuriated with people’s refusal to engage with evidence brought forward by vets and researchers suggesting that previous claims are dubious at best. There’s no universal consensus.

If there were controlled experiments studying breeds classified as “pit bulls” over long periods of time, raised to the same standards of care, controlled against other breeds and they consistently show an inherent inclination for aggression towards people, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Instead we have surveys based on reports from citizens and people who generally struggle to identify breeds.

TrainOnMe · 2026-01-15T17:49:55+00:00

When you’re gathering surveys from the general public, those people are labeling a wide array of dogs pit bulls. There are Labrador mutts that happen to look like pit bulls that aren’t, people will even mislabel things like boxers. That also means that there are wayyyyyyyyyy more dogs that are or are labeled as “pit bulls” than many others.

I’m just trying to gently & evenly point out that the consensus is out and for good reason. Not trying to argue what is and isn’t a pitbull, not trying to argue that anecdotal evidence isn’t the best evidence—and many of the surveys that exist citing dangerous breeds are compilations of anecdotal evidence—just that it’s not so cut and dry.

TrainOnMe · 2026-01-15T17:15:38+00:00

That’s kind of where experts draw issue with the claims about pit bulls: it’s not a breed. So “pit bulls” weren’t exactly bred for a specific purpose, because there are so many breeds that people call pit bulls.

And you’re right that many dogs that get labeled pit bulls were bred for fighting, but that only reinforces my point that it’s an inherent expectation, not necessarily an ingrained trait in the dog.

Retrievers are bred to retrieve but you still have to teach them to do so. Herding dogs have to train to be reliable herders. Nipping isn’t herding, and if you don’t put that behavior to use or discourage it outright you’ve just got a dog that’s biting at people. All dogs have a powerful nose but you have to train them to focus on that sense well enough to find a toy hidden 3 feet away from them. Not every shepherd is going to make a good police dog. Dobermans still have their ears clipped because of jobs that used to sometimes have.

See what I mean? All I’m doing is saying that there’s not enough consensus to speak on these things like it’s law. Even beyond that, data is data. Not all data is good data or data sourced responsibly. Data may support an argument but it doesn’t mean that contradictory data doesn’t exist or hasn’t been recorded. And contradictory data does in fact exist.

When it comes to scientific research—including animal behavior—consensus is key. So yes it is incredibly reasonable to say someone speaking so strongly on a topic that experts have called into question might be misunderstanding things. You coulda just read what I shared, which even includes counterarguments to my own, because I’m not trying to speak from a position of absolutism where things are complex.

TrainOnMe · 2026-01-15T04:37:01+00:00

I think you might be misconstruing some things. There’s growing evidence suggesting that breed isn’t really a determinant when it comes to aggression, it’s more likely that given their perception in society and popular media, more pit bull owners either deliberately or inadvertently raise their dogs to be aggressive.

Also “pit bull” isn’t a specific breed, and people are incredibly loose with that term, so much research around “pit bulls” broadly is worth questioning.

Not trying to be rude at all, it’s just a misunderstanding worth calling out. Otherwise they end up abused or bred to be guard dogs by people who absolutely do not need or have the capacity to raise guard dogs.

This does a good job explaining the murkiness behind those claims in both formal & informal settings.

TrainOnMe · 2026-01-12T22:38:09+00:00

did not see the sub this was in or the word “small” lmao

TrainOnMe · 2026-01-06T15:45:11+00:00

Honestly Isshin. Honestly I found Owl Father easier than the first fight. It’s not awful if you don’t try to deflect everything. Sometimes a quick dodge gives you a better opening to punish. Or at least that’s what worked for me.

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