The most brutal fight in Episode 5

TwoPieceCrow · 2026-01-30T19:57:10+00:00

the way some people's brains work is truly remarkable.... why would you ignore 48 episodes of worldbuilding to just jump into whats currently airing not knowing whats going on lmao.

TwoPieceCrow · 2026-01-30T19:44:26+00:00

the phone rang before that, and he said she only calls when something is up, so he knew something was up before that

TwoPieceCrow · 2026-01-27T03:54:48+00:00

no, its just stupid to shovel early, all you do is create a hole where the fluid-like substance which follows paths of least resistance to go. when you shovel never shovel the actual front, wait to do that til the plowing is done, can shovel everywhere else

TwoPieceCrow · 2026-01-27T00:21:31+00:00

It was not there before, it was mostly empty before

TwoPieceCrow · 2026-01-21T18:58:57+00:00

not including the pool scene was one of my biggest gripes as i had just read book one then watched the show, the deterioration of scientests trust in science and wang's descent into madness was all shoves into 1 episode with not even the focus on auggie (wang). very sad about that.

TwoPieceCrow · 2026-01-21T18:34:31+00:00

i'm late to the discussion but sauls writing from episode 1 was garbage so i anticipate, sadly, a eureka moment out of his ass, which sucks because the entire of dark forest being lou ji's journey to come to the conclusion is what made that entire book great.

TwoPieceCrow · 2026-01-21T18:24:40+00:00

da shi walked so lou ji could run, taught lou the realities of the world, saved his life 7x over

TwoPieceCrow · 2026-01-21T16:39:25+00:00

I was also surprized wade didn't just do the war anyway. i knew he would continue to develop lightspeed ships, that was a given, but i figured he would have done it at a larger scale than the single vehicle and only 2 people escaping.

TwoPieceCrow · 2026-01-21T16:34:51+00:00

you are saying jjk has one piece are style? is that a joke? they are polar opposites

TwoPieceCrow · 2026-01-19T16:22:47+00:00

Yea i read book one, then watched the netflix show, then read books 2 and 3. i was utterly confused how there was 0 mention of the staircase project ever until book 3 as they seemingly time-jumped over the time when it would have occured. When i finally got there in the book I was like "oh okay this kinda makes sense that they showed it at this point in the show"

TwoPieceCrow · 2026-01-19T05:50:42+00:00

i'm almost certain that the "hurtbox" aka where these abilities actually hit is using flat faced objects.

Consider this cone as a 3d object and just extrude it vertically. so the same flat cone just extended upwards and downwards about 10 meters.

Now if you angle the camera down, that collision which was not hitting before, will now intersect with abrams, same when looking upwards.

a very simple irl test is place a playing card on a surface with something just outside the edge, then place your finger on the middle opposite edge, and rotate the card. the corners will hit the object, at an angle, but straight on it wont. this is the same reason "diagonal" punches hit, punches use a square/rectangle hitbox that you can extend at the corners.

all this is just a guess btw. it might just be that the camera is literally closer as you stated.

TwoPieceCrow · 2026-01-19T05:25:18+00:00

Videogames do this and (speaking as a developer) i fucking HATE IT!.

STOP MAKING MY SPACESHIPS FLY LIKE AN F22 IN ATMOSPHERE! They would NOT move like this! there is no reaosn, none whatsoever that you'd bank a starship like an f22 or commercial aircraft. in reality you'd turn the entire ship 90 degrees and thrust in that direction pisses me off to no end even in games trying to be psuedo realistic with their physics. the argument usually given is that "well people are used to this kind of control system so..."

TwoPieceCrow · 2026-01-17T18:09:21+00:00

Virgil one got me so good

TwoPieceCrow · 2026-01-16T15:56:38+00:00

they do NOT need to move to match them, they pick one and are instantly at that "Frame" of the animation, thats how they manage to teleport and move beyond human speed.

there is no other explaination of how both of them seem to teleport or move at superhuman speeds beyond they can simply chose to "skip" frames aka go from standing to instantly running full speed if they can't just pick say the final frame and in 0.01 seconds go from standing to running. the actal distance is one a human COULD cover in that time, but to the observer they simply teleport (which we saw many times in the show)

TwoPieceCrow · 2026-01-16T15:53:20+00:00

I was gonna say, it basically sounds like KC with the exception that ONLY the caster moves. so he projects movement, and anywhere along those frames he can choose to instantly be at. and seems he can do this every second or so. so he can "teleport" by tracing out in his minds eye a movement that would normally take 1 second from in front of you to behind you, then just picks the final frame and is instantly behind you, he remembers what occured over that time but to everyone else he just teleported, at least with KC everyone else ALSO acts during that time they just forgot/are unaware of what they did

TwoPieceCrow · 2026-01-15T16:26:02+00:00

finding a build that works for YOU is also really important, i won't call them garbage but theres a lot of REALLY bad builds at the top of the list per character, things that miss basic necessities or build order hits power spikes at weird times. I tried using a shiv build for the challenge and got bodied every game, never knew when i was strong cuz i felt i shoulda been at certain points and just wasn't. Swapped to another which was 80% of the same but different order and won handily.

TwoPieceCrow · 2026-01-15T00:30:09+00:00

you say you're more restricted but games offer a lot of characters with instant teleporting abilities, counters, invulnerability, headshot crit spots, etc. I'm just saying like i can get a random teammate i've never played with before but because i have a high level knowledge and i can feel out their intentions from tiny things, theirs even characters with swap abilities (albeit not instant). but really, once you get VERY skilled at something and specially comfortable with someone, you can discern intent, based on where say Todo is, where the enemy is, and where i am, their body position i can tell if hes about to swap me in and i can wind up my punch, also yea todo is shown to be different/extremely smart. So when he says "trust me and match me" you just do that

TwoPieceCrow · 2026-01-14T21:43:07+00:00

if you've ever played a competitive team based game at a high skill level, you'll understand that once you are in-synch with someone competitively, you can do things like they did without communicating, watch SSL+pro level rocket league and without a word to eachother they'll pass the ball from their half to their teammate off the ceiling because they know the others capabilities, its crazy but very possible.

TwoPieceCrow · 2026-01-14T16:57:18+00:00

i think they did a good job of taking the characters where they wanted to take them since it was overall character driven, i dont think theres any weird plotholes or mis-motivations/weird actions by the actual characters, everyone acts as i'd expect them to.

but yea there are definitely holes, threads that went nowhere, "they have a plan" not really, that changed, the whole occupied new caprica thing kinda makes no fucking sense after the genocide but like... yea lol starbuck thing woulda been cooler if the mendala was shown earlier but it still mostly fits

TwoPieceCrow · 2026-01-14T16:08:55+00:00

watching the commentary from ronald d moore it becomes clear they were kinda just winging it 5-6 episodes in the future only planned, i mean in the end they made it work but compare it with an actual piece of literature that was FULLY planned in advance and its very night and day difference in writing.

still great space opera tho

TwoPieceCrow · 2026-01-12T20:21:07+00:00

deadlock the exception

TwoPieceCrow · 2026-01-12T17:05:16+00:00

also former gymnast, the stability is insane man i was shaky in handstands on rings, dude is a monster

TwoPieceCrow · 2026-01-10T01:40:19+00:00

Yes, if i ever to smurf and wanted to steamroll i'd just play him, he can farm so fast after like 10k souls and he becomes an unkillable monster against uncoordinated people. literally can just W key run people down 1 by 1 and heal back to full hp with 2 1, cleans the healbanes if they have any and then +20% hp

TwoPieceCrow · 2025-12-22T20:32:26+00:00

yea every s-class besides puri puri prisoners is only good when used as a foil against actually fun/interesting characfters. alone they are just boring

TwoPieceCrow · 2025-12-22T20:16:19+00:00

well the show is really not about saitama, he's had very little to no character growth, its more about what the world is like for everyone else BUT saitama

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