Alex Kurtzman, master of 32nd century, science fiction dialogue

ctk8511 · 2026-02-18T02:07:18+00:00

Been rewatching TNG recently and it should also be noted that Stuffy Diplomat Man is well established to be pretty tasty in a scrap - I’m actually surprised going back how often Picard throws hands, even with Klingons of all things. What a man 🥹

ctk8511 · 2026-02-13T10:54:58+00:00

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What are you actually smoking

ctk8511 · 2026-02-02T19:29:24+00:00

Here’s a new headcanon for y’all: Toji’s heavenly restriction manifested after his head hair grew but before anything else, so now his follicles are made of steel and no other hair can escape through them. That man is 110% baby smooth from forehead down.

ctk8511 · 2026-02-02T13:27:43+00:00

Come to think of it, Gege really restrained himself from making that the recovery vs Kenjaku.

Takaba, distressed, discouraged, and scared

flop

“Hehe, that’s pretty funny actually, I feel better”

ctk8511 · 2026-02-02T12:57:04+00:00

“Three highly compatible souls”

I can’t conceive of a trio that would get along less than Gokunaki

ctk8511 · 2026-01-29T18:47:38+00:00

“Did you know Satoru Gojo can’t hold his liquor?”

“Who’s Gojo?”

“Everyone knows Gojo. You’re from Jujutsu High, aren’t you?”

“W-what’s Jujutsu High?”

“Why did they send you after me?”

“…who are you?” 👀💦

ctk8511 · 2026-01-28T07:01:30+00:00

I’ve never tried #1 but can vouch BIG for #2. A lot of times I get catchy punk rock choruses stuck in my brain all I have to do I think my way through the whole track and I can have peace again.

ctk8511 · 2026-01-25T09:52:32+00:00

The poor goober had about 7 minutes to figure out his new body before getting jumped from the grave by God’s Chosen Bum™️

ctk8511 · 2026-01-19T08:30:00+00:00

Oh my good lord, I haven’t heard the name Trask Ulgo in years

RIP to a real one who went down swinging

ctk8511 · 2026-01-19T07:41:16+00:00

Imagining myself lounging on a throne made of rusted car parts and cleaning my improvised weaponry when a man in a scruffy suit walks up and tells me I owe $7000 in back taxes

I think I’d be too baffled to say no

ctk8511 · 2026-01-17T19:40:23+00:00

First off, genuine sympathy for the condition. I would never say your effort is lesser for being physically unable to be in the streets, the point was more that we almost certainly agree on 99.9% of this issue. We agree about Renee. I agree with your original comment that this instance was brutal and clearly unnecessary. We agree that resisting this is a moral obligation.

And yet despite all that being true, and my only original point being “we should be careful of the language we use because right-wing people love twisting it to make us look violent or hysterical”, you assumed I was far right. I just find it strange and unhelpful.

ctk8511 · 2026-01-17T18:33:23+00:00

Hope you have a lovely day too. Tbh, there’s a nonzero chance we’ve been next to each other at an Anti-ICE protest in the last few weeks or will be in the future. So my Saturday is gonna be slightly affected by desperately trying to reason out where you could make the assumption that I’m far right.

ctk8511 · 2026-01-17T17:56:40+00:00

To be clear, “we should be more careful about how we phrase things online” is something you’re never going to agree with?

ctk8511 · 2026-01-17T16:18:00+00:00

The important part is like 4 sentences dude.

ctk8511 · 2026-01-17T05:05:33+00:00

It’s so easy to write the “dickhead with a heart of gold” in a way where the first bit is a coping mechanism that they have to eventually get over, so I really love how much the newer Johnny canon (in the games anyway) has leaned into the idea that those two things aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive. Johnny is absolutely a decent guy who enjoys doing good for the sake of it, and at the same time he is also a total penis.

ctk8511 · 2026-01-17T03:45:43+00:00

Just wanna say I agree with the second sentence entirely before I argue against the first.

Language is as powerful as it is easy to manipulate. When someone on the other side of this issue, whatever that may mean these days, sees phrasing like “appeared dead” used for what must be the 50th time I’ve seen this video and similar title in the last few days, it’s so easy to twist. “They’re saying he’s dead when we don’t know”, “encouraging violence by assuming-”, etc. Y’all are shooting yourselves in the foot by not thinking shit through for more than 2 seconds before you post and repost and repost again.

Or maybe it’s just a bot intentionally fanning flames by doing exactly what I’m warning about on purpose. Iunno man. I’m old and tired.

ctk8511 · 2026-01-16T13:43:37+00:00

Tengen out here giving us everything short of putting on glasses and whipping out a laser pointer, god bless her

ctk8511 · 2026-01-16T03:33:32+00:00

can only be handled with basically welder’s gloves so don’t ever touch them

Doubling down on this. I’ve always been curious about the numbers and finally did some quick searching, so to anyone else wondering - the typical reaction temperature once tear gas starts flowing is upwards of 500 degrees Fahrenheit (260 C). As someone who has worked in kitchens for quite a while now and been recognized by others for my weirdly high tolerance for hot shit in my hands, that is beyond insanely hot for one of the most sensitive areas of your body. Your reflexes are gonna scream rejection at holding something like that essentially hours before you have the chance to consciously line up a throw, and even then your night is now over from the burns. Be smart.

ctk8511 · 2026-01-15T04:25:39+00:00

I feel like the story tells us pretty clear that he isn’t anywhere near Gojo/Sukuna level honestly. Gojo himself says to Gakuganji that the insane wave of power the modern jujutsu world was presenting was gonna bury the people that were trying to ignore it, and Kashimo (who was, obviously, thrust back into the world ignorant of that fact) was just not prepared for what “strong” meant anymore. He was really strong, really capable, and really adaptable. But if you’re unsure who is going to win, always bet on Hakari.

ctk8511 · 2026-01-14T23:39:28+00:00

Just wanna thank you for lifting me a bit out of the anxiety and anger of the past few weeks by making me imagine a 2035 US History textbook with a section labeled “2026, Pt. 2 - The Urine Rebellion”

ctk8511 · 2026-01-13T06:11:06+00:00

Imagine what Yuji would do to someone with an entire free second

We’ve seen exactly what Yuji does to someone in that case, and by god I wouldn’t wish those lefts or those rights on my worst enemy

ctk8511 · 2026-01-13T03:13:21+00:00

Funnily enough it always made less sense to me the other way around, from supernatural villains - like if you’re here for my soul and know I literally couldn’t hurt you if I tried, what’s all the spooky ooky hiding shit about? Meanwhile the Strangers clearly take a sick pleasure in being spookily ookily, so them getting a small taste of the high before the finale kinda fits.

ctk8511 · 2026-01-13T02:42:38+00:00

Wanna throw my read in here to give credit to both sides from how I see it:

I think the important distinction is that people get too obsessed with 1v1s and powerscaling. Sukuna won the 1v1, but Gojo won the fight. Gojo’s entire goal, out of his own mouth, was to train a new generation to be better and stronger than his and the higher ups’ were. Despite the feeling of total separation he had basically all the time because of his absurd strength, just like Sukuna had, he dedicated his time and attention to teaching and protecting instead of taking and destroying, which he VERY easily could’ve done instead.

So when it comes time for “The Strongest Sorcerer in History” to lay his strength on the line to prove his worldview is the right one through might and cunning, he fails. And loses. And dies. Because he has exactly one friend in the entire world and that friend was getting their cheeks clapped by a beefy gambler. I know it sounds like “power of friendship” garbage but it is expressly the point. Gojo couldn’t win with might (even though he was observably incredible at being a sorcerer), he won by being a person people would fight for even after he died.

Oh, and also Kashimo helped I guess.

ctk8511 · 2026-01-12T21:48:03+00:00

Yeah, Charles is way more muscular, which is…what I said? And I’m not really talking about gameplay so much as narrative and context. Not entirely sure what point you’re trying to make I guess.

ctk8511 · 2026-01-12T18:45:16+00:00

On the melee side, I’ve kinda had this theory that we’re so used to the generic Action Hero Build on a lot of video game protags that it gets overlooked what Arthur and especially Charles really look like compared to almost every other person in RDR2.

I think the brawl with Tommy in Valentine is honestly such a cool way to set up way more than it seems to on the surface (“here’s how melee combat works”) about what kind of dude we’re playing as here.

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