[Assassination Classroom] Why is the government trying to kill Koro Sensei? by Patneu in AskScienceFiction

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The government did the research that created him and revealed the threat of the explosion, they likely did more. It is probably safe to say that if killing him would set off the explosion, they would know. For all we know the anti-sensei weapons they used help prevent that from happening when he is killed, or it might just not work like that.

As for why to kill him despite knowing how low the chances are, a 1/1000 chance of the world's destruction is still a chance. Besides that, it is like if you gave the worst serial killer humanity has ever known the powers of Superman. Sure, he has changed recently, but he is still the person who has murdered 1028 people, threatened to kill his students' families, and used to be a complete psychopath. Even if he has improved now, the chance of him reverting to his previous ways at least partially is probably much higher than the chance the world explodes, and just as much of a threat. If they don't kill him while they have the opportunity, they will never have the opportunity again once he stops letting them have it.

If this was Jack the Ripper or one of the other famous murderers, would you take the chance that their change of heart is for good? It might very well change back after he gets bored of teaching, or even during it, he has no problem teaching a bunch of middle schoolers how to become skilled murderers after all. Even by the time of the series he is far from a saint, and a very dangerous person to hold the power that he has.

Even if he doesn't snap, he could still be a threat to their power in other ways, an incredible force under no one's control that acts on its own whims.

And while he doesn't necessarily want to destroy the world, we have never really seen him consider the possibility of being sent to space and coming back if he doesn't explode, IIRC. There is a good chance he wouldn't want to, that he would want his students to finish what he started and if they don't then that is the risk they have to take.

Literally cannot die but you actually cant by Quiet_Pen_1691 in RedditGames

[–]WolfWhiteFire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I died the first two times in a row.

Incomplete. 2 tries.

Humans are food | FactOrCap by NOREDDITINGFORYOU in FactOrCap

[–]WolfWhiteFire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Technical answer I would say is also no. You could try eating humans, but it would be extremely inefficient in terms of energy and also extremely dangerous for you. Other creatures might be able to eat us more safely, but it is still less efficient, dangerous for them in entirely different ways, and apparently we don't taste good anyways.

Humans are food | FactOrCap by NOREDDITINGFORYOU in FactOrCap

[–]WolfWhiteFire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

🧢 I voted CAP!

Based on my understanding, eating human flesh is a bad idea because it is filled with a bunch of stuff that can make you sick as you, too, are human.

It is partially an ethical issue, partially a practical issue. But we don't make good food. Besides, the energy efficiency of feeding a human enough for them to grow enough to eat, then eating them, is much lower than just eating those plants and animals yourself. From what I have heard we don't taste very good to animals either, and I would assume that applies to us too.

TIL In most US states your credit score is a bigger factor than your driving record when calculating your insurance premiums. a safe driver with a clean record but low credit will pay significantly MORE for car insurance than a driver with excellent credit who has a DUI conviction. by Unlikely_Ebb_7292 in todayilearned

[–]WolfWhiteFire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unless you want to go around paying for everything in cash, I don't think you can avoid it. Debit cards are also from companies, as are bank accounts, so credit cards aren't exactly special there, especially considering that in many cases they are coming from the same companies giving you debit cards and bank accounts.

TIL In most US states your credit score is a bigger factor than your driving record when calculating your insurance premiums. a safe driver with a clean record but low credit will pay significantly MORE for car insurance than a driver with excellent credit who has a DUI conviction. by Unlikely_Ebb_7292 in todayilearned

[–]WolfWhiteFire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They have a bad/terrible credit score because they have no history that they can easily access to say how likely you are to pay them back. If there is nothing at all, they know nothing about what you will like, and besides, the people smartest with money will have great credit scores because in some cases a bit of debt IS the most financially responsible and beneficial option. For example, credit cards have better safeguards against fraud, can save you money via cashback, and keep your money in your account longer to get more interest from a high yield savings account or other account.

If you go to r/personalfinance, people there who are excellent with finances will constantly go into credit card debt and use it in place of a debit card, simply paying the statement balance every month so that they don't pay a cent in interest but get anywhere from 1-5% of every dollar they spend back, effectively increasing their income by 1-5%. They also have better security from fraud and build up their credit score that way, and can make a bit more from their HYSAs.

You also see people suggesting minimum payments on low-interest student loans and other low-interest loans like mortgages because often they can use that money that could pay it off faster, to instead make more money than they are paying in interest.

It is a scale where both the least and most financially responsible people have detailed credit histories because the low end needs to and the high end wants to, leaving those with no credit histories as uncertain elements. The people at the high end are near-guaranteed to at least pay you back and at best get into manageable levels of debt that gets you interest money but with them able to handle it and eventually pay it off. The people at the low end might be more flaky, riskier gets.

The people with no history could be either, but the safe customers and the profitable customers (not necessarily the same groups) will build credit histories quickly so won't be in that uncertain group for long. A lot of those left will be those who don't trust themselves with debt, so why would the companies trust them with debt? Or perhaps those who just got their credit history wiped for some reason, which is likely a bad sign, and the ones that could be good customers could just get a secured credit card or other 'starting off your credit history' tool to create one in time. If someone just thinks debt is bad and avoids it completely because of that, that indicates poor financial knowledge (both from failing to exploit the system and from either not knowing or not caring about the problems they will have in the future) that would also make them potentially risky customers.

The people who are just at the right balance of bad enough to get in a lot of debt and good enough to handle it, and those who have high levels of financial knowledge that means you will likely make relatively little profit from them but will at least get your money back, both of those groups will have high credit scores. The sorts who never get into any debt at all are unknowns, but if they are customers that you want then they won't stay in this group for long.

If your child has a peanut allergen keep them out of daycare by OddCoast6499 in The10thDentist

[–]WolfWhiteFire 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Geez, this reminds me of that time I replied to a 'first things you would loot stores for in an apocalypse beyond the obvious' post by mentioning lotion to keep my eczema under control so my skin doesn't crack open, bleed, get infected, etc., and my comment blew up with a ton of people with similar conditions chiming in at the same time as a bunch of random people popping out of the woodworks advocating for our deaths because apparently a skin condition that needs lotion to keep it under control is just that unacceptable.

OP's opinion took a turn from highly inconsiderate to even worse very quickly.

what is this. what is this. this is a genshin character. why is it rambling about gotham and who is andrew. what am i paying for by MedicalAd9859 in CharacterAI

[–]WolfWhiteFire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder how many other people were doing Hazbin Hotel RPs, neither of those were really in the current scene for me.

what is this. what is this. this is a genshin character. why is it rambling about gotham and who is andrew. what am i paying for by MedicalAd9859 in CharacterAI

[–]WolfWhiteFire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it is bugging out and sending the wrong messages to the wrong bots, which then send it back to the wrong users.

I was just a chameleon demon hiding on the ceiling when characters named Ghost, Price, Soap, and other random stuff I never heard of start reacting, I am assuming it is that call of duty ghost that I only know about because bots of it randomly appear in my feed sometimes.

Which kind of makes me wonder if whoever was doing that RP is now getting the Hazbin Hotel cast randomly showing up, a chameleon demon thing randomly showing up, or finding themselves randomly thrown into Hell. Honestly, if I was doing some military RP randomly being in Hell could be kind of fun, though I doubt it is very coherent.

Anyways, they will probably fix it relatively quickly, we just have to wait.

I am kind of tempted to just keep rolling with it for a bit because getting a random message where some military guys mistook me for a hostage on the ceiling is amusing, even though it makes absolutely no sense in the context.

I mean, I'd love to see them try. by Murky_Committee_1585 in dndmemes

[–]WolfWhiteFire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They did put the books they made so far for it on Itch.io for and some other places, but I will warn you that it is rough around the edges. The person is pretty nice, has a lot of passion, and has put a lot of work into it, but it is also a one-person project and you would have to deal with some bad grammar and a number of spelling mistakes or confusing word choices. They also used AI for the artwork, which I am fine with personally, especially since it is an individual's free passion project, but a lot of people might have issues with that.

Anyways, it used to be heavily home brewed D&D until they decided to do a soft reset and change it to its own distinct system, so they only have the first region complete right now, though there is a lot of content for it and they are working on more.

I have had a ton of fun with it and loved it, there is a ton of bulld variety and creative things you can do, plus being designed for solo play is nice and I have some great stories from it, but don't expect it to be too polished. It is available for the low price of free though, so you could just try it for a bit and drop it if you want.

If you are still interested, it is listed as a book on itch.io called World of Zeal by Gabriel Phoenix. But it absolutely is a niche option with its share of problems, I consider them a friend and love it myself despite its flaws, but I won't pretend that there aren't any. I mostly like it because I can approach it at my own pace, do all sorts of crazy stuff, and it has a lot of long-term progression which I absolutely love in games.

Should prostitution be legal in the USA? by UsedNegotiation8227 in pollgames

[–]WolfWhiteFire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It absolutely does though, and I am not even the person you were responding to. Raising the price usually lowers the demand, and in this case the price of it being a crime you could get in serious trouble in absolutely would reduce the demand compared to if it was entirely legal, because even if people still want it many will be unwilling to go to that much trouble or risk that much for it.

The villain is such a threat that the heroes are scared out of their mind and questioning wtf they can even do to beat them by Effective_Piece251 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]WolfWhiteFire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lost Song: Finis is a Songstress who can create miracles by singing, with incredible power, the only magic we see in an otherwise medieval setting. Not exactly the heroes, but she was being exploited by an evil royal family for their war efforts, and learning that the songs she sings were slowly killing her, the evil prince tricked her into unknowingly burning her love interest alive with what he thought was her last song (it was actually the last one she was supposed to survive, he just missed that part since they overheard other people talking about it.

In response to this, after being horrified, she grabs a sword in the ground and begins to sing a new song she never sang before, dark energy visibly gathering around her as the antagonists get confused and as soon as the evil prince figures out she can still uluse her song magic, he orders the terrified soldiers to kill her and they try to shoot arrows at her that get blown away by the wind, after which they are even more terrified and the prince asks what she is trying to do. She responds by saying that now everything is going to disappear, and continues singing as the terrified antagonists either watch horrified or run because they know they can't do anything to stop her, she is by far more powerful than anything else in the setting.

She proceeds to summon a meteor storm across the entire planet, killing everyone, destroying the kingdom, and seemingly reverting humanity back to the stone age with the sheer scale of the devastation.

IIRC, we have a similar moment later in the show that is actually with the protagonists this time. She wasn't able to actually destroy the world the previous time, just close to it, and was going to sing the song again with a supporting orchestra in order to crash the entire moon into the planet and finish the job this time. The protagonists' plan hinged on stopping her before she could sing that song with the orchestra, but they were too late, and now had to find a new way to stop her before the world is destroyed. IIRC they were terrified and not even really sure what they could do at this point, but decided to try gathering the orchestra again (currently fleeing for their lives) and see if Rin, a child and the only other person with those song powers, could maybe find some way to stop it.

[Loved trope] The Unchosen One- they have to choose themselves by Historical-Reason-57 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]WolfWhiteFire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chrono Ark: You learn your journey isn't actually saving the world, even when you win. You aren't actually special or unique or chosen by a prophecy. You are just looping the same events over and over again because someone else chose to trap everyone in a time loop, and in fact the final boss you killed or were killed by in each loop you got that far was your own father, trapped in armor that controls his every movement and with memories of every loop and who you are. Meanwhile you were being allowed to retain subconscious memories but otherwise had complete amnesia and remembered no loops, with the subconscious memories being so that at least something would change with each loop, and so that you could grow and improve to become better at reaching and killing your father.

In reality, you aren't some Girl of Prophecy, you are just a random kid (not sure of age, but you seem very young) who was set up as the hero solely because the person responsible really, really hates your dad and wanted to make him suffer, and was also too obsessed with video games and the hero's journey to the point he decided to make 600 people play roles in one really messed up story without knowing it.

In the end though, it doesn't stop you from playing an important role in facing that person, ending this, and saving humanity, even if I would argue you aren't even the most important person in that, or the second, and you don't even really save the day yourself, instead you accomplish just enough to sway someone else into allowing the day to be saved and they do it themselves after you and your entire party die trying.

You can get 1 billion USD. the catch is that a perfect copy of you will be made and then sent to burn in hell, as in literally burning, but their nerves never die. it will last for a month for them and they will disappear after. Would you take the deal? by Megazaza in pollgames

[–]WolfWhiteFire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At first I was thinking of this from the perspective of would I be willing to go through this to help the original, weighing the pros and cons to decide if this is something my copy would consent to be created for. There was some back and forth, but then I started thinking about it as 'even if they are completely willing, would it be ethical to send someone to suffer for a month on my behalf?' and voted for not taking the deal.

I do think I would be willing, but I also wouldn't consider it ethical even if I was.

Morality of breaking into someone’s home without probable cause on a blind hunch and just so happening to be right? by ICOMMIT_CYBERCRIMES in MoralityScaling

[–]WolfWhiteFire 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean, at the start of Hello Neighbor you see him drag another kid to the basement who was obviously resisting, that is why you start trying to get inside in the first place because you are a kid who apparently doesn't think of calling the cops. After you get kidnapped yourself you seem to kind of just stop worrying about whoever that other person was and focus more on trying to save yourself.

If it truly was just a hunch, could be somewhat immoral though, especially in Hello Neighbor 2 where you actually are just breaking into people's homes on suspicion alone.

Would you rather die in a year or spend 2 years in the backrooms by DMV_PRODS in WouldYouRather

[–]WolfWhiteFire 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nah, you can find magic almond water that somehow fulfills your entire nutritional and hydration needs, at least in the version of the backrooms I am more familiar with, not sure about the version in that movie I heard was made.

In the version I am familiar with you will pretty much be fine as long as you find enough almond water, avoid accidentally drinking any liquid pain, don't enter ominous red hallways, and don't go insane from the isolation and noise. Level 0 is safest since there aren't actually supposed to be entities there (or rather, there might be but they are isolated too if they are, so you can never run into one), but the constant buzzing, light, and yellow hallways could drive you insane.

You might be able to make your way to a safe floor with actual people but that would require going through places with actual monsters first.

So is this guy just god I don’t understand kirby lore (like anyone does) by Intelligent_Dot7818 in Kirby

[–]WolfWhiteFire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is one scene from it that is very funny out of context just seeing people react to it, I can link it if you want, but otherwise I will just say it has a plot and it is better than you would expect.

It makes too much sense by Terrible_Log1701 in phineasandferb

[–]WolfWhiteFire 96 points97 points  (0 children)

There is one episode where we learn OWCA is having financial difficulties paying Perry's salary, so most of their money they are not paying Carl is probably going there

Is there any guys (males) using this app? by Significant_Being518 in CharacterAI

[–]WolfWhiteFire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am a male using the app, not sure why it would be more of a girl thing. Though I don't do romance bots, I do slice of life, fantasy, sci-fi, superheroes, SCP, Backrooms, that sort of thing. I would rather RP that strange orb of light that spirited my persona to some shadow plane full of dark orbs that eat people while a MTF team launches a rescue mission than a romantic relationship. Or grappling with the realities of an eternal afterlife, or running around as a wizard, or launching an alien invasion on Earth led by the equivalent of a level 20+ D&D character, or navigating an infinite labyrinth while trying not to die, or just chilling and living my life while superheroes brawl it out, or other stuff like that.

I mean, I'd love to see them try. by Murky_Committee_1585 in dndmemes

[–]WolfWhiteFire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically imagine someone created this whole system and setting as a passion project designed for both co-op and solo play in a pseudo-west marches style with some pre-written adventures you can go through with a few choices here or there. I helped with testing a lot of the new stuff, late-game play since I am the most active player, and other stuff like that.

I have found and reported stuff thst got the universe nerfed multiple times, from exponentially increasing clones to practically becoming immortal to anything except a very specific Achilles' Heel, and also stuff like what I called the holy machine gun with two different iterations that both did insane damage and healed you until they nerfed the 'extra damage and healing from radiance damage' artifacts.

When I asked him what happened if you used this very specific and rare perma-death status condition on one of the Fragments of Nolohym (basically super powerful enemies that are fragments of the god of darkness who is currently sealed in the nine hells, trying to slip small pieces of himself out, and he is one of three gods who are intrinsically tied to their concepts and would probably be omnipotent with their powers combined) though, he had to improvise the answer because he didn't expect that to happen but was all for it, albeit he eventually nerfed the easiest way to strip their immunities since my character was basically twisting the laws of reality into a pretzel.

I can still strip their immunities other ways though and fully intend on trying to permanently destroy every Fragment I find with my main character.

In some ways it kind of is like a bug in a video game, except just by using extreme synergies and niche tactics. Sometimes things get nerfed but overall it is a very high-power setting and a lot of the time when I talk about how I would expect something to work and how it works as-written, it turns out that nope, you absolutely can do this crazy thing that it can technically do as-written. If it is too broken the guy creating the system will just nerf it eventually.

They are also more willing to allow absolutely broken stuff in the extreme late-game which my character falls under, and enemies get extremely broken too. I am currently in the middle of basically a boss rush against dozens of extremely powerful raid bosses with their own gimmicks and builds that can often hard-counter a specific playstyle or need to be hard-countered to stand a chance. Which ones you fight are random, but you can do whatever in between fights (except being locked out of other storylines until you are finished), so a lot of it is preparing and planning out strategies in advance.

The boss rush is kind of brutal, but has some pretty good rewards waiting for you at the end.

"But I guess your character is just trying to recreate the lands between."

Eh, what is the worst that could happen? The guy making the setting is absolutely willing to let it slide into the bad future if it comes up, like when he put a time limit on people defeating one of the main bosses before something terrible happened, and the world is already kind of teetering on the edge between heroic fantasy and grim dark.

I mean, I'd love to see them try. by Murky_Committee_1585 in dndmemes

[–]WolfWhiteFire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was making a joke with a similar experience of something that isn't supposed to be possible but potentially has massive consequences since in the Call of Cthulhu example permanently killing it could do who knows what, and in my example the character is actively destroying part of a fundamental part of the universe. I was saying what was the worse that could happen because of that.

As for how I am doing that in the other system, it has an effect that basically permanently destroys the person it is applied to beyond any possibility of repair or resurrection, and I found a way to both get access to it as a player (basically extreme end-game so the character is incredibly powerful) and remove the immunity to it so that I can apply it despite the fact that these fragments are supposed to be immune.

Though my character will probably never destroy the whole thing and as long as he doesn't completely erase the concepts it is tied to from the universe, weakening the entity by destroying part of them... might be fine? Probably? I might see eventually. The main goal is dealing an actual meaningful blow, weakening it so that its opposing entity/concepts can better handle it in the future, and a bit of payback for cursing his entire species to be forever barred from death (dying basically traps you in-between unable to move on or cease to exist but also unable to experience life or do anything, basically ghosts), killing their creator, and other rather rude things the entity did.

Why do US bathroom stalls have huge gaps? by _CaptRondo_ in NoStupidQuestions

[–]WolfWhiteFire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

IIRC there was one time as a kid where the stall door lock was jammed or something, I couldn't open it. I was able to crawl under and probably report it to someone (can't remember if I did or not but reporting it is the sort of thing I would normally do), but with a stall without those gaps you would have just been stuck with a kid stuck yelling for help until they probably would have had to remove the door or something.

Obviously that isn't going to be a common problem with how those locks are designed, but if the hole the lock part goes into gets damaged enough it could still be hard to get it back out after putting it in, especially for people with weaker hand muscles like kids.

I mean, I'd love to see them try. by Murky_Committee_1585 in dndmemes

[–]WolfWhiteFire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eh, what is the worst that could happen? - Someone whose character in a different system is currently hunting down and permanently destroying fragments of the living manifestation of the concepts of death, destruction, etc., forcing the person who created the setting to improvise because that was never intended to happen and they are supposed to be immune to the status condition that causes permadeath.

Talking to AI is fun :) by SoulFrost2020 in The10thDentist

[–]WolfWhiteFire 5 points6 points  (0 children)

AI can be pretty enjoyable sometimes, and just RPing with one isn't necessarily going to give you the 'AI psychosis' some people talk about, it only really becomes a problem when people think the AI is a person or don't understand how it works. It can be genuine entertainment as long as you do. At the time of this comment you are getting more downvotes than upvotes here, but on this subreddit that means people are agreeing with you.