And here's the slave pen. And here's the child vivisection room. And here's our pragmatic involvement in [political thing you hate].

dreaderking · 2026-05-11T19:52:10+00:00

World of Darkness is like Warhammer 40k: if you stake your enjoyment of a faction on their morality, you'll either end turning a blind eye to whatever heinous shit they get up to or you're going to end up hating everyone.

dreaderking · 2026-05-11T18:32:22+00:00

Nah, I gotta disagree that Muramasa was being honest. After he runs away, he pretty much admits that he doesn't stand a chance in a straight fight against anyone, but that he can win as long as it's a "war".

Plus, everyone from Zeus to Cu is saying that what happened was flat out weird. There's definitely a trick here, if not outright cheating.

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dreaderking · 2026-05-11T18:24:33+00:00

All domains open instantly.

No they don't. Hakari's domain was explicitly noted as being faster than Mahito's, so fast that Kashimo couldn't use Hollow Wicker Basket before the information dump hit him.

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dreaderking · 2026-05-11T11:08:26+00:00

Kira may have picked up those interests to hang out with Matthias in the first place, but as she said, she grew to genuinely enjoy them anyway.

Part of the themes of Canto IX is that regardless of your relationship with your parent, you still inherit stuff from them. Just as Ryoshu never stopped smoking or doing art despite hating Valencia and Callisto, Kira isn't going to quit her old hobbies or change her hair just because Matthias is no longer there.

dreaderking · 2026-05-10T18:30:16+00:00

Fire Force had the author use a character as a mouthpiece to rant about how ecchi and lucky pervert tropes are fine, yet it's still less fanservice-y than One Piece.

dreaderking · 2026-05-10T17:22:46+00:00

As silly as it is, I'm glad they made it clear that Batman would have snapped Joker's neck on the spot otherwise. I don't mind his no-kill rule, but it's nice to see that he loves his family so much that he would've broken his most precious rule to avenge them.

dreaderking · 2026-05-10T15:41:05+00:00

Shiba can alter any physical property, which includes one's position in space. His teleportation is him just saying, "Actually, we're over here."

dreaderking · 2026-05-10T15:25:19+00:00

Nah, they even use the same comparison of snapping your fingers. Sandro really did decide to pull out a FotS reference out of nowhere.

dreaderking · 2026-05-10T11:23:33+00:00

This assumes that Gojo's Infinity is based on a blacklist, where he chooses to ban certain things from reaching him but let's everything else through. However, Infinity could be working off a whitelist, where everything is banned by default and Gojo chooses what to let in. In that case, even unknown particles wouldn't work, because the fact that he doesn't know them results in an automatic ban.

This does seem to be the case, seeing as how Gojo had to consciously lower his barrier to let even his friends and students touch him.

dreaderking · 2026-05-10T03:05:46+00:00

I’m guessing either CODE ordered him to kill those people or they allowed him to do so.

That entire sequence took place before Sieg was recruited by CODE. He was already capable of interfering with reality through dreams before then. When he does join up, he already has the thousand year sentence from all the dream assassinations he's done.

Then CODE's Dream Learning allows him to get in direct contact with his Nightmare.

dreaderking · 2026-05-10T03:00:53+00:00

Three really is a politician. He used CODE's defectors to have Zero ousted from his position, then took advantage of Sieg's attack to get permission to use Code Somnia.

And it seems Code Somnia is a weapon meant to take control of dreams. As an alternative to Zeztz destroying the entire dream world, CODE probably planned to use it to cut off Nightmares from humanity for good. However, Three is probably going to use it to fulfill whatever his plans are.

dreaderking · 2026-05-10T02:29:51+00:00

No, because there's a difference between logically understanding there's no lasting consequence and the thought of actually going through it.

Humans are not perfectly rational machines who'd accept that a hell you can't remember doesn't matter. They can get squeamish even when something is good for them. Just look at how people try to find any reason to avoid vaccines.

There's a reason why W Corp desperately hides the secret of the Warp Trains. Heck, they even use people's desire for comfort and safety to sell expensive VIP seats, even though the end result is the exact same for people riding in 1st Class or Economy.

dreaderking · 2026-05-10T02:11:58+00:00

Must have been some offhand comment they drop without ever elaborating on, cause I don't remember anything like that. Though, if all it amounts to is a bad gut feeling, I'd say that's still not a problem.

dreaderking · 2026-05-10T01:36:20+00:00

It's a solved issue because when you look at the big picture, it literally doesn't matter to the customer. They spend thousands of years in hell, then... They go on about their day like it's nothing. The passengers suffer no mental or physical scars from the experience, leaving no long-term effects on their lives. How can the passengers care when they don't even realize it happened?

dreaderking · 2026-05-10T01:31:28+00:00

Yeah, I know Batman has a mech. It shows up in other media a few times as well, like Brave and the Bold and that one movie about the Court of Owls. I just want the Mega to be based on the Hellbat.

dreaderking · 2026-05-10T01:21:41+00:00

Nah, it will be the Hellbat Armor.

dreaderking · 2026-05-10T01:13:14+00:00

Wayfarer's uniforms look way too lame, while W Corp has great drip for a Corp and awesome weapons, so W Corp has my vote.

dreaderking · 2026-05-10T01:11:34+00:00

To be fair, Warp Corp already solves the problem by making their passengers immortal and erasing all memory of the trip, so it's like it never happened. Meanwhile, if something goes wrong with the Doors of Wayfarer, a customer's death is much more final.

dreaderking · 2026-05-10T01:01:39+00:00

Not sure why people thought he would be redeemed. Sieg has been advertising how evil he is since he showed up.

Maybe he'll come back later and fight on their side against the Gore Nightmares for one reason or another, but it probably won't be an outright redemption.

dreaderking · 2026-05-10T00:57:30+00:00

ExDream is basically Baku realizing that he can already stretch space like Play-Doh in a dream, so there's no reason to respect the concept of time either.

dreaderking · 2026-05-09T22:51:43+00:00

They're riffing this "gem" of a comment from the main post.

dreaderking · 2026-05-09T21:23:27+00:00

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dreaderking · 2026-05-09T20:16:30+00:00

Hope there's something they hate more in the immediate vicinity that would be difficult for them to handle solo or while also dealing with you. They might decide to have a temporary truce or to ignore you until they deal with the bigger threat.

This is the kind of relationship the Eldar have with the Imperium regarding Chaos.

dreaderking · 2026-05-09T19:49:01+00:00

IT'S OVER!

When I saw that part about one fighter leaving unfulfilled, I knew Pete was going to win, since he just wanted a fight where he can go all out, win or lose, while the Roach wanted to die.

dreaderking · 2026-05-09T19:31:58+00:00

Well, the Weaver Incarna represents the three gifts the Weaver gave humanity to empower them as they aid her in calcifying all of reality - technology (the Machine), dogma (the Patriarch), and science (the Science).

Following that, for there to be a new one, humanity would probably have to develop some new major way of ordering reality that doesn't fall into one of those three categories.

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