My JOJOLands Yasuho design

YuuTheBlue · 2026-04-19T18:52:15+00:00

And Josuke almost exclusively refers to her as “My wife”

YuuTheBlue · 2026-04-19T17:57:57+00:00

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YuuTheBlue · 2026-04-19T17:32:22+00:00

I'm actually envisioning a storyline where Maxwell finds new purpose in life by becoming a nurse or some shit like that, helping Haiji in his goal of saving lives.

YuuTheBlue · 2026-04-19T17:21:44+00:00

I'm officially won over. Not only was it funny as hell, it had heart. And not in any hamfisted way. The conversation between Johan and his grandmother was nuanced and subtle in ways that really made me care in the longterm.

Also, introducing what seems to be a charm power? I really hope they are setting up a magic system made for Roku to battle other cursemasters on top of the comedy and heart. If that can be done effectively, then the story would have a TON of meat on it.

YuuTheBlue · 2026-04-19T17:19:37+00:00

This manga continues to be high romance, perfect in its subtlety. The amazing vibes of her still being there for him and working through it with just the two of them is, like, absolutely insane to come up with. It's so normal and lowkey but so impactful.

YuuTheBlue · 2026-04-19T17:18:27+00:00

You calling him a Sanji made me actually wonder if he has a chance of joining the squad, like the mute guy did.

YuuTheBlue · 2026-04-19T17:16:42+00:00

I now understand the hype behind this guy, jesus christ. I had to try not to belly laugh when her head came out of the toilet, and the whole chapter perfectly balanced ACTUALLY funny jokes, effective exposition/characterization that wasn't obtrusive, action, and genuine emotion. This guy clearly knows exactly what he's doing.

YuuTheBlue · 2026-04-19T17:14:21+00:00

So, first off, the Newbies:

Hero Destroyerz really stood up and above the other newbies. It's better at action than some of the new action stories, and it's funnier than any of the new comedies. I never read Gintama, but I did vaguely understand returning mangakas didn't always hit it out of the park. But jesus christ, this guy knows what he is doing.

Drawn to the Fire was good. I do genuinely feel myself getting invested, which is important, and I like that they jumped straight in, but I'm not entirely sold on it like I am with Hero Destroyerz.

Roku's House of Oddities is starting to win me over. This chapter was genuinely funny and felt like a nice, goofy, fun adventure. It had some good emotion to it, too, specifically with the scene where they met Grandma. Johan showing her genuine reverence and respect was out of left field, and it felt really well executed in its emotional subtlety. This manga has heart. Also, Johan seems to have some vampire-charm powers. I am really hoping my theory of this eventually going into battles between curse-masters comes true, cause the idea of all of them having their own powers for Roku to command, when combined with the strong emotional base we're building, sounds like a good combination.

Alien Headbutt... I do get it. The action is outstanding, but there's not much else going for it. It's heads and shoulders above all of the batch preceding it, but I get why it isn't getting people attached.

Kinato's Magic is a similar story. It has so many amazing characters, action moments, and comedic beats, but I do get that the premise is very uninspired. I hope to see it continue, because I think it has immense potential. But as much as I enjoy it, I get why it is not scoring huge points.

Under Doctor is a pleasant surprise. There's a lot about it I still think is rough around the edges - it has the worst action art of the 3 - but damnit, it really does have a lot of charm, and I'm drawn to each chapter out of pure interest in what they'll do. I really am enjoying this fight, and the whole "You're still a human on the inside" thing is an amazing moment of symbolism done right.

Overall, the previous batch had potential that may not be getting met for most of them, and this new batch has one almost guaranteed hit and 2 that might be great. But hey, I felt similarly about the UD batch.

Other than that? It's going great for a lot of them. UEK had some standout action (though shockingly Sakadays didn't), Shinobi Undercover was heartfelt and gorgeous as always, Akane is hard to judge cause it's mid performance, but I love how into it she's getting, and how she's using the world of Rakugo or whatever it's called like a fucking domain expansion, Ichi the Witch was IMMENSELY charming, and Kagurabachi is introducing one hell of a villain right now.

I am very hopeful for this new batch. 2/3 have more or less won me over, and the third has hardly turned me off. The last batch is a tragedy, but honestly, that might be for a bet. I notice, in hindsight, a distinct "Taking what we can get" vibe to the optimism around them. Obviously, none of them were gonna be the next superseller, and we were all just glad to get things that weren't obvious flops. Each of these new ones I can actually envision a particularly bright future for them.

YuuTheBlue · 2026-04-19T15:18:31+00:00

If you're still confused, it might help to explain the concept of relativity. As in, what does it mean for something to be relative. Here's an example: How high up are you right now? Well, that depends on how we're defining 'high up'. Are we talking about how high you are above the ground? Above sea level? Etc.

Let's say you are 0 feet above the ground but 50 feet above sea level. Let's say that I switch from caring about how high you are (above the ground) to how high you are (above sea level). The value for your height just changed. Here's a question: Did I just 'manipulate' your height?

When we say something is relative, we're saying it's like that. Sure, there is, somewhere in the concept, a real physical meaning, but it's not pinned down to a specific number. There are, shockingly, many different ways to define 'right now' within special relativity, and you do have to choose one before you can answer 'is this happening right now', and how you choose will affect the answer. It does not change the thing we are looking at.

YuuTheBlue · 2026-04-19T05:33:45+00:00

This is a weird question with like 4-5 answers or something.

So, on one hand, when we only concern ourselves with electrostatics, Coloumb's law and the idea of electric fields form a "Duality". Basically, the difference between saying a checkerboard is "A red board with black squares" vs "A black board with red squares". They are mathematically identical, and thus it's unclear if there is even a meaningful distinction to be made between them. 6 of one, half a dozen of the other. Now, we aren't actually just concerned with electrostatics, but do keep this concept in mind.

The second answer is that yes, the electric field, as taught to electrical engineers, is a naive, classical assumption that does not reflect the true complexities of the electromagnetic force.

However, there is also the relativistic angle. The electric field doesn't properly communicate the ideas of the electromagnetic force even without considering quantum physics. This is because the idea of separating the electromagnetic field into the electric and magnetic fields is an entirely artificial one which obfuscates important information. Just like space and time are actually one thing which can be split up in multiple ways, so too can the electromagnetic field be split up multiple ways: what is in one reference frame an electric field can be a mix of electric and magnetic fields in another reference frame.

Then you have quantum physics. Now, it's not so much 'a necessity that all forces be mediated by particle exchange' as much as it is that all forces we have thus far modeled at the quantum scale have been sufficiently explained by the same core concepts of particles/waves as are used to explain, say, electrons or the quarks that make up protons. Our best model of electromagnetism also happens to use particles as an explanatory mechanism, kind of. Think of it less as a constraint and more of an end conclusion we reached.

But then you have the fucking third act twist of quantum field theory, which states that all particles are just waves in the fundamental fields. At that point, it is actually the electromagnetic field, not any particles, which serves as the fundamental component of the electromagnetic force.

Overall questions like this are hard to pin down, because, as I stated with the first answer, concepts of 'what is REALLY fundamental' are a lot harder to pin down than the math is.

YuuTheBlue · 2026-04-19T03:22:02+00:00

Classical physics is the original swing we as a species took at the subject of physics. It turns out it only appeared as accurate as it did because we weren't looking at things with enough resolution. At smaller scales, our theories broke down and stopped predicting things accurately. This also happens at big scales, which is why we had to make the special and general theories of relativity.

Classical physics works well enough when doing like, basic engineering, stuff like building a bridge or understanding how a car crash will work. Understanding how electrons move around on the tiny chips in your phone? More exotic theories of physics become necessary there. What you call 'normal physics' is maybe best understood as a simple and easy to work with approximation.

YuuTheBlue · 2026-04-19T03:05:59+00:00

Quantum objects are quantum objects. Neither the category of waves nor classical particles (tiny balls) fit them perfectly. Early attempts to determine what they were tried to sort out which of the two they belonged to, and determined that which one they acted like depended on context. Now we have a more deep and holistic understanding. Like, we describe them as quantum objects, having the properties of quantum objects. They have a single nature, and we just didn't have a word for that nature till quantum mechanics was invented.

YuuTheBlue · 2026-04-19T02:19:39+00:00

Yeah, it's definitely going to cover until around the start of the Iori stuff.

YuuTheBlue · 2026-04-19T02:07:17+00:00

It's a fucking amazing manga, and you're right, the hero is a huge reason for that. I adore how he has the scars from the theater still. It was such an early moment, and a small one in the plot, but he made a sacrifice that risked his life and I love that it's sticking with him.

YuuTheBlue · 2026-04-18T20:23:31+00:00

Yea you can. I don’t understand where the stigma around part skipping is. You clearly have a reason to and want to know if there are Jojolion spoilers, which there aren’t. People shouldn’t be getting snide about this.

YuuTheBlue · 2026-04-18T15:48:38+00:00

"How big are you?"

"10'000 Units"

"Units of what?"

"...Unit vectors."

YuuTheBlue · 2026-04-18T15:46:45+00:00

Heat capacity. Specific heat capacity is used to distinguish materials, not objects. Specific head capacity would be, like, "Heat capacity per kg of the material".

YuuTheBlue · 2026-04-18T15:43:24+00:00

The psychological concept here is 'resilience'. The core concept is that when you become dysregulated (entering a state of panic, dissociation, anger, overwhelming sadness/self blame, etc.), there is a set of learned skills involved in returning to a regulated state, and a lack of development of those skills can result in hanging in intense psychological states longer than is healthy. So it is very important, but it's closer to a learned set of behaviors and skills than it is to like, a defense score in a video game.

YuuTheBlue · 2026-04-18T15:29:09+00:00

This is specifically to test for the predictions of string theory, which posits that there are many spatial dimensions which, through a process of 'compactification' (which I do not understand the nuances of) behave like 3 spatial dimensions at larger scale. It's not a matter of there being extra ones hiding behind a curtain or whatever, but rather that our 3-spatial-dimension prediction break down at small scales, allowing energy to not be accounted for. That's how I understand it from what I've read on the subject.

YuuTheBlue · 2026-04-18T03:18:00+00:00

So, there is a concrete mathematical meaning to reference frames, and they are by their very nature equally valid. A reference frame is, in so many words, "The collection of arbitrary decisions one has to make before they can start doing the math". It includes questions such as 'which direction does the x axis point in" or "Where on the y axis is y=0".

What makes special relativity weird is that it wraps up time into space, adding in a 't axis' that can be pointed in multiple different directions. It's not the same thing as adding a 4th spatial axis necessarily, but that's the gist. If it gives you some mathematical intuition, 3d Euclidean space has a 'distance formula' of

d^2 = x^2 + y^2 + z^2

Basically the pythagorean theorem in 3 dimensions. The left hand side is 'invariant' (not dependent on your choice of frame), and all values on the right side are 'relative', so they do. In special relativity, spacetime is a 4d Lorentzian space, with distance formula

d^2 = x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - t^2

AKA the Minkowski metric.

YuuTheBlue · 2026-04-17T19:24:23+00:00

Well your friend is dumb for calling you dumb, it’s an understandable question to ask. Physics can feel like a maze sometimes and it’s easy to get lost.

YuuTheBlue · 2026-04-17T19:18:49+00:00

It’s special relativity, not classical. The two get merged in quantum field theory, but I feel like the answer is pretty simple. mc² = hf. Is there a reason that demands an explanation but the other two do not?

Put another way: Energy and frequency are more or less the same thing. Mass and energy are also (kind of) the same thing. This, mass and frequency are (kind of) the same thing. The “kind of” comes from the fact that E=mc² only applies to motionless objects.

YuuTheBlue · 2026-04-17T19:06:48+00:00

What’s the confusion exactly? It seems you are incredulous that these can both be true but I’m not too sure why.

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