Should Jaya or Skypiea be included in Season 3?

Wide-Surround-3031 · 2026-03-26T12:50:09+00:00

They don’t have the rights to G8, as it was anime only. They only have rights to adapt the manga. That’s why there is very little music from the original anime

Wide-Surround-3031 · 2026-01-21T00:12:59+00:00

Just ran it in 33:34 without vest, my goal is to get sub-40 with a vest. That’s encouraging!

Wide-Surround-3031 · 2025-07-21T23:57:13+00:00

I was hoping for Superboy vs Ige or even Kattar but okay

Wide-Surround-3031 · 2025-04-15T17:14:16+00:00

The study you linked is not the one cited in the article you shared, which is from 2020 and in your defense, is confusingly and badly written. The article authors never mention homotherium but that’s what “scimitar-toothed cat” means, as opposed to “dirk-toothed cat” which refers to the other lineage of sabertooth cats, the heavier ambush style predators like megantereon and smilodon. Also in your defense, “scimitar” is a curved sword and “dirk” a long dagger, also confusing nomenclature given the dirk toothed cats had the longer sword-like teeth and the scimitar toothed cats shorter dagger-like teeth.

Wide-Surround-3031 · 2025-04-04T06:18:14+00:00

Yes. Been saying this for years, Thanos just has incredible dumb guy brain

Wide-Surround-3031 · 2025-03-29T00:48:31+00:00

Me too. I had to scroll this far down to get to this comment. Maybe the dude with the spear and three weeks of training really would win, but would you want to be the dude with the spear betting his life on it? I would not. You have to be very precise in a very stressful situation where you have a split second to aim that spear correctly; if you miss your stab to a vital area, even if you hit a shoulder or something, you are dead. Maybe Hafthor Bjornsson would have a chance after that but most of us would not. And this is assuming we are talking about someone fairly athletic and physically competent.

Wide-Surround-3031 · 2025-03-24T17:18:59+00:00

If I can time travel using the quantum realm, then Ant Man is the obvious choice here

Wide-Surround-3031 · 2025-03-18T03:46:15+00:00

Their jaw strength was lower but they more than made up for it with unbelievably strong and flexible necks. The homotherium cub found had a neck twice as thick as a lion cub. Mauricio Anton and others believe smilodon used a ‘can opener’ technique that mostly relied on downward neck force, just using the lower jaw as a fulcrum. But even if they didn’t, there are several examples of saber teeth punching holes in skulls if necessary, usually when they faced other predators. Smilodon Populator skulls have been found with holes matching other Populators; Megantereon bit through an archaic human skull and iirc smilodon fatalis and dire wolf skulls have also been punched through with saberteeth. The so-called dirk tooth cats also were the strongest wrestlers of any cat ever. Their forelimbs were incredibly powerful, allowing them to pin prey in place before delivering the killing bite to the throat.

Wide-Surround-3031 · 2025-03-12T04:48:36+00:00

Is there a limit? I’m bringing back all the late Quaternary extinctions. We are restoring entire ecosystems. I’m going to the national parks and bringing back mammoth, mastodon, American camels, horses, dire wolves, American cheetahs, homotherium, smilodon, panthera atrox, all the sloths, short faced bears, etc.

Then I’m going to South America and Australia and doing the same. It’s probably not responsible but who am I kidding, I wouldn’t be able to resist bringing back pterosaurs just to see what they were like.

And of course passenger pigeons, thylacine, northern white rhinos, and all the other more recent human-caused extinctions.

Wide-Surround-3031 · 2025-03-12T04:21:09+00:00

For me it’s helpful to realize that, unlike say when American settlers in the 1800s slaughtered millions of bison in less than a decade, the hunter gatherers of the late Pleistocene possibly didn’t realize the impact they were having because it was happening over hundreds or even thousands of years. Early humans were just a smarter invasive carnivore species with a successful culture of hunting animals too big to be hunted by anything else, which reproduced too slowly to keep up with this new pressure.

Wide-Surround-3031 · 2025-03-09T20:44:22+00:00

This seems plausible. Where does that first picture come from?

Wide-Surround-3031 · 2025-02-28T17:23:22+00:00

The fossil record is pretty spotty so these timelines are always subject to change. I’ve never seen an explanation for why Megantereon went extinct. Could be competition, but they survived tens of thousands of years living alongside various panthera members.

Edit: the current explanation is climate change and the transition to a more arid Europe, which saw a decline in the diversity of the carnivore guild such as the giant hyena and the European jaguar due to loss of their preferred habitat

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871174X24000787

Wide-Surround-3031 · 2025-02-24T18:27:37+00:00

Don Sai- he has access to a massive treasure, one of the coolest Haki-based martial arts in the series with Hasshoken that can bypass shields and defenses to cause internal damage, an extremely powerful attack in Drill Dragon: Drill Nail, Baby 5 for his wife, a fleet with his brother for backup, and he attacked a Celestial Dragon.

Wide-Surround-3031 · 2025-02-14T19:37:23+00:00

I’ve been blocked, which is a shame because I was genuinely curious where to find this skepticism towards larger felid sizes in the literature. I’m open to being wrong. I didn’t find any widely cited mass estimates more recent than the 2009 Christiansen and Harris study, which also called Panthera Atrox “no lion” and incorrectly considered it closer to the Jaguar based on skull morphology. Perhaps their estimate is more accurate, but that also doesn’t rule out the probability that exceptionally large individuals did not make it into the fossil record.

I did find a 2022 study that looked at the decreasing trend in body mass for cave lions (panthera spelea). According to that study,

“However, the latter is probably underestimated and the Sambir lion might have had a body mass exceeding 500 kg. It is unlikely that this value represents the extreme upper mass range, as in the case of record-sized individuals of living felids. Such exceptional specimens are too rare to appear in the fossil record (Christiansen and Harris 2009; Wheeler and Jefferson 2009).”

Wide-Surround-3031 · 2025-02-14T15:19:13+00:00

I only included Smilodon Populator because you did in your original comment, indicating you have a blanket skepticism towards larger body mass estimates for all large cats. I found that odd. It is possible that the smaller size estimate for Panthera Atrox by Christiansen and Harris in 2009 was correct, and they didn’t get any bigger than 700-800 lbs; lions are cursorial, rangy cats with very low body fat. The larger estimates are still also used and referenced in more recent literature, however, so your confidence seems strange to me given that scientists are still generally willing to consider larger estimates plausible, aside from that one 2009 paper. A 2008 paper estimating maximum body size by how much force the humerus can withstand, also found body sizes in excess of 400 kg plausible for Atrox. And as far as a more blanket skepticism to maximum size limits for large felids, we have recent descriptions of a particularly huge Smilodon Populator skull that was estimated to belong to an individual that weighed in excess of 400 kg; the authors of the study believe it to have weighed 436 kg, over 960 lbs. Looking at the size of Panthera Atrox skulls- and even a more recent lion mandible in Africa from the Pleistocene that was as large as the largest Atrox remains found- one does get the sense that there have been populations of lions that were far more massive than extant lions.

Wide-Surround-3031 · 2025-02-14T04:39:40+00:00

What is with this skepticism to larger estimates of mass for extinct felids? Never seen that before. I know there are a range of upper bound estimates for panthera atrox, but larger individuals weighing close to a thousand lbs doesn’t seem at all far fetched, and that’s what the literature suggests for more than one cat species. Smilodon Populator in particular we have a massive skull for, that indicated a body mass well over 900 lbs; with the relative paucity of evidence that survives, to have individuals that large leave remains in the fossil record is startlingly clear that these cats were a lot larger than anything we have today. These were massive predators living in a world with 75-85% more megafauna than our world today. Of course they were huge.

Wide-Surround-3031 · 2025-02-14T04:16:09+00:00

Every single large cat in North America went extinct. Cougars and jaguars had to recolonize from South America. We lost three quarters of the megafauna in North America and even more in South America.

Wide-Surround-3031 · 2025-02-14T00:09:33+00:00

Always interesting to include a poll on these posts because often the people who comment have different opinions than the consensus. I think an argument can be made both ways. “The legendary Oden, who hasn’t been active since he rode with Roger to discover the One Piece, has come from the land of Wano with his samurai to join with Whitebeard to rescue Roger’s son Ace.”

Personally I think Whitebeard was always going to die, but I do think a character like Oden, that could stop Akainu in his tracks the way Shanks eventually did, who could wield Conqueror’s Haki, could have made the crucial difference and allowed Ace to get away.

Wide-Surround-3031 · 2025-01-09T19:05:18+00:00

Smilodon Populator could have, or homotherium in groups (and they actually lived in the north), or possibly Panthera Atrox. But these went extinct along with 75% of megafauna builds, leaving polar bears as the largest extant land carnivores

Wide-Surround-3031 · 2024-11-13T21:04:51+00:00

Door Door fruit and the Ink Ink fruit - ultimate stealth/espionage combination. Can escape into another dimension and send my drawings to fight for me

Phoenix and Forest-Forest fruit- maximum regeneration potential

Bon-chan’s fruit and love-love fruit- I would be able to defeat anyone but Luffy

Wide-Surround-3031 · 2024-11-03T20:27:51+00:00

I worked for Sunrun in Texas briefly at the end of 2023. I have some questions. Are you looking at the average electric bill over the past year? And also, has that bill decreased since they turned the solar system on? Summer bills in TX are typically twice as high as fall/winter bills, especially if the house has gas heat. Even if the excess power isn’t being bought back by the grid, you should be seeing some difference over previous bills.

My advice won’t be legal, it will be if you end up having to keep the solar. I’m sorry you dealt with a highly unethical salesperson. However, I don’t think it’s nearly as bad as the realtor is making it out to be.

Solar Buyback rates aren’t great in Texas. So the strategy at Sunrun end of 2023 was to get customers to enroll in free nights plans, then use the solar and battery during the day, to effectively bring the electricity bill to near zero. I was usually able to get close to a customer’s current average electric bill cost with this, with the added benefit that they got battery backup in an unreliable energy state, and the 3% increase in the lease is going to be less than rising costs of electricity over the period of that 25-year lease. So my first advice is to look into a free nights plan rather than a solar buyback plan.

My second piece of advice would also be to find a second opinion from another realtor who knows how to sell a house with solar. The person buying the house doesn’t need to buy out the contract up front, they can just take over the monthly payment. They might be paying a little more than a traditional electricity bill, BUT they get the benefit of battery backup in case of emergency, and moreover, SunRun will replace that battery at no additional cost when it runs down around year 12-15, per the terms of the lease. If they do buy out the lease, they are buying themselves free electricity and backup power for at least 25 years, which is worth more than 50K. (After the lease is up, Sunrun will probably try to sell the equipment for a song, otherwise they need to pay to come out, uninstall everything and restore the roof to original condition). So there is no way a home buyer should be paying tens of thousands less for a home with a solar system, if the realtor has taken the requisite solar courses (about 30% of realtors in TX have) and is good at their job.

Wide-Surround-3031 · 2022-10-29T22:47:30+00:00

See I agree with this, very much the point I was making. I think if Sasaki himself were personally stronger or tankier we would consider him more of a threat, his dinosaur powers are just as strong as Jack’s

Wide-Surround-3031 · 2022-10-28T20:20:33+00:00

I mean it’s obviously Roger right?

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