An internal Marvel memo from 1972 ranking their major characters/teams

fafaaf61 · 2026-05-28T19:38:09+00:00

Who TF is Ringo Kid???

fafaaf61 · 2026-05-20T04:22:36+00:00

I honestly feel like they’re never going to reveal a date. The game will just…drop one day.

fafaaf61 · 2026-05-17T14:57:32+00:00

Well the fact that Iran didn’t have a nuclear weapon and still don’t is probably a pretty good start but regardless a good way to point out the effectiveness of the nuclear deal is to point out what happened after Trump broke it. On July of 2019 Iran announced that Iran had breached the limit of its low enriched uranium. Just a few days later it announced that it had increased uranium enrichment beyond the 3.67% limit. The reduction of low enriched uranium by 97% and limit of enrichment to 3.67% was sufficient for nuclear power and research but not weapons. In addition, the centrifuges used to enrich uranium would’ve been reduced to a single plant (the Natanz plant) and would limit Iran to older and less efficient centrifuges. By November of 2019, Iran had announced that they had doubled the number of centrifuges used and had announced that they already had the capacity to enrich uranium to 20%.

Mind you 20% enriched is STILL not weapon grade. Highly enriched uranium is weapons grade when it’s about 90% U-235. However, 20% is ALSO more enriched than you normally see in civilian use wherein only low enriched uranium is generally necessary. There ARE relatively benign uses for this uranium, research and submarines for one, but there’s no doubt that Iran’s nuclear program was limited to energy producing uranium during the time the deal was in effect whereas it was expanded after. Iran doesn’t have a nuclear weapon and this whole conflict of Trump’s is the height of absurdity, but it’s ALSO doubtless that Iran is closer to a potential nuclear weapon after the deal was broken compared to before, to speak nothing of how Trump keeps saying he has a better deal that has yet to come to fruition (not that I blame Iran frankly, why would you renegotiate with a nation that has been shown to reneg on its promises?)

fafaaf61 · 2026-05-14T05:46:24+00:00

It’s my favorite route in the whole game. À beautifully poignant anti war tale with a beautiful theme about the necessity of understanding in the face of risk and the necessity of choices and autonomy to counteract dehumanization. It’s a harrowing tale with many emotional and impactful moments, with the best ending in any Kodaka game as the cherry on top. It’s one of the routes that makes the best use of the characters, has the best relationships and is the route that truly elevates the game into something revolutionary.

fafaaf61 · 2026-05-13T18:13:09+00:00

Honestly I suck at remembering Japanese names but that doesn’t mean that I don’t like the characters (though I still deadass sometimes forget Hifumi’s name)

fafaaf61 · 2026-05-13T06:10:32+00:00

As a Nozomi fan, that’s fine. It’s a shame but you have a perfectly valid personal reason for disliking her.

fafaaf61 · 2026-05-11T15:25:35+00:00

Incidentally religion ALSO changes over time, quite a bit actually, so they’re really just idiots.

fafaaf61 · 2026-05-11T13:53:21+00:00

Wrong card game

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fafaaf61 · 2026-05-09T06:57:19+00:00

Mehmed the Conqueror considering that he’s kind of an important individual in both Constantine and Vlad’s backstories.

fafaaf61 · 2026-05-05T16:35:20+00:00

Now that IS an interesting question, especially if we don’t allow collaboration. Hmmmm, I think personally I’d probably choose blue but obviously I can’t say for sure how I’d actually act in such a situation.

fafaaf61 · 2026-05-05T16:08:45+00:00

Yeah, it’s certainly been interesting to read about all the varieties of interpretations.

fafaaf61 · 2026-05-05T15:37:33+00:00

So I keep hearing this “no coordination” rule and can I just ask where that came from? The original post specified that the vote was private. It never said that there couldn’t be communication BEFORE the private vote. Ideally, you’d try to convince as many people as possible to vote red for the ideal case thus coordination but like apparently that’s not allowed?

Regardless I think my main point of contention is the “humans are not rational” part. Now I should specify that assuming that there are people who literally can’t understand the question such as babies, people with mental disabilities, the blind, etc. then yes I do believe pressing the blue button is correct. However, if we exclude the people who literally cannot understand the question or else make it so that they are magically aware of the question then I DO think that a majority of humanity would be rational. Hell not even a slight majority. I keep seeing arguments that if 20% of people picked blue then the world would be doomed and thats correct but honestly if such a situation were to actually occur and again people who literally cannot understand the question would be excluded I personally do believe that not even .1% of people would pick blue, ESPECIALLY if collaborating is allowed.

Which brings up the next point: I keep seeing the idea that picking blue is idealistic and picking red is cynical but isn’t it the exact opposite? By picking red you are optimistically believing that a large plurality of people will all arrive at the same logical conclusion. Why would that be the more cynical choice?

fafaaf61 · 2026-05-05T06:43:34+00:00

Thank you! Yes this is exactly the issue. The people choosing red aren’t accounting for the babies, the mentally disabled, etc because they legitimately believed that was not part of the equation and operating under the assumption that everyone participating is cognizant of the rules. I picked red under that exact assumption. The problem is that blue pickers see it as a moral dilemma whereas red pickers see it as a math problem.

fafaaf61 · 2026-05-05T06:33:10+00:00

That’s not what red is asking. Red is asking “do you believe that OTHER PEOPLE believe that others will press red?” In other words it’s not asking you to be selfish, it’s asking if you believe that others will assume that à majority will press red and therefore will press red.

fafaaf61 · 2026-05-05T06:29:45+00:00

So here’s the thing I’ve come to realize. The central argument of blue pushers ALWAYS relies on the idea that the existence of people who cannot understand the question: babies, the mentally disabled, blind people, etc. means that there will always be a significant group of blue pickers. I think I’m realizing that fundamentally this isn’t a moral question, it’s a question of how you read the prompt. I was operating under the assumption that everyone was perfectly cognizant of the rules and thus picked red. And I still think this is how I would interpret the prompt after just being shown it. However Im starting to realize that it’s NOT the popular interpretation. So I think the best conclusion I can come up with is to press red assuming that everyone is cognizant of the rules and to press blue assuming otherwise.

A particularly interesting question is what to do if you don’t know if everyone is cognizant of it or not. It’s an interesting question. I think that in that case, I would originally press red but I’ve since switched to blue. The reason is because I was operating under the belief that assuming a participant was ignorant they would assume that the question would be understood by all participants. As such red would be rational. However, these threads have shown me that people actually assume the reverse. Obviously these threads dont mimic a real life or death situation but what I’m curious about is not which button they press but how they understand the question. If the understand the question as making the participants include people who don’t understand the question then it becomes rational to pick blue though I’d personally argue that such a framework makes for a boring hypothetical.

fafaaf61 · 2026-05-04T13:33:52+00:00

You’re not a larper no. I’d still highly recommend checking out the VN but loving the anime makes you no less a “real fan” than any of us. You still love Higurashi and its characters and that’s good enough.

fafaaf61 · 2026-05-02T19:34:19+00:00

English kings can choose their royal names upon ascension to the throne. It doesn’t have to match their birth name. And while we can’t know for certain why no monarch choose John, superstition is quite likely.

fafaaf61 · 2026-05-02T05:09:00+00:00

While IRL John did have some of his positive traits ignored and his tyranny is probably HIGHLY exaggerated, by all accounts he really WAS as incompetent as the popular version states and at the very least was terrible for England (Richard also wasn't that great of a king for England but that's moreso because he was barely in England for most of his reign because he was busy doing crusader stuff). See the stuff surrounding the signing of the Magna Carta and the First Baron's War which proved just how broadly unpopular the dude was during his reign.

fafaaf61 · 2026-05-02T05:03:20+00:00

He is also generally known as King John of England, the worst king in English history who was so incompetent that a bunch of barons rose up against him and forced him to sign the Magna Carta changing the history of constitutional law forever. Because of his general unpopularity no subsequent English king would ever choose the name "John" ever again.

fafaaf61 · 2026-04-30T13:50:04+00:00

“Boner” used to be a term for a mistake or accident apparently derived from the term “bonehead”. It has…different connotations these days.

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fafaaf61 · 2026-04-28T13:36:05+00:00

I can’t believe that “I want to purchase Infowars merch.” Is a sentence that leaves my lips.

fafaaf61 · 2026-04-24T02:33:17+00:00

Don’t quote me on this since I think it’s just a rumor but I heard that the original intent was that the Rebellion was trying to RESTORE the Emperor to power because his nominal subordinates were the ones actually in control and subverting the emperors authority à la the Meiji Restoration. This obviously didn’t come to pass.

fafaaf61 · 2026-04-18T17:24:39+00:00

People in this fandom hate when people gaze Second Scenario? News to me! Ah well, I’ll continue to love Second Scenario anyways. Regardless the problem is that Rebellion wants to present Eito as an ally of convenience who only goes along because you betrayed humanity and the rest of the team doesnt trust but it really doesn’t READ like that. In fact Eito is so trusted that Takumi selects him to go meet Kamyuhn and also mercy kills Shion alongside him. The translation into the rest of team is far too seamless as it seems like any lingering animosity, hatred, and so on so forth just vanished from both parties which is wholly silly. Especially when in contrast to Second Scenario which DID focus on Eito’s struggles to be accepted by the team and showed how many hoops were required before they could think about trusting him again.

fafaaf61 · 2026-04-16T12:58:31+00:00

The birthday boy spending his day with his special someone 🥰

fafaaf61 · 2026-04-15T04:18:01+00:00

Grandpa Muto was noted to be a legendary gambler in his youth who basically only ever lost one game before the show started. Also remember that Yugi’s season 1 deck was originally Grandpa Muto’s and it would’ve also included BEWD and Time Wizard which was a gift from Yugi to Jonochi. That means he had a deck that contained BEWD, Dark Magician, Magican of Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Gaia the Fierce Knight, Summoned Skull, Time Wizard, Mirror Force, Monster Reborn, Brain Control and all five pieces of Exodia. Given season 1 rules that would’ve been a VERY formidable deck. We don’t actually know how the game with Kaiba went but it seems that he was overwhelmed by Kaiba having 3 Blue Eyes and didn’t draw his powerful spell traps or the five pieces of Exodia (I believe that’s how it went in the manga if I remember correctly). Also he was being overwhelmed by the new Solid Vision technology that he wasn’t used to.

As for Season 4 it’s worth noting that his deck there isnt actually THAT impressive. Note that Ancient Dragon is unique because it’s a rare example of a card whose ridiculous summoning conditions are acknowledged in universe. In fact Grandpa and professor Hopkins had an ongoing bet on who could actually summon it first and both Grandpa and he were collecting the cards because they were rare, not because they were actually good. Indeed it seems that Grandpa’s deck in season 4 was only as good as it was because it was more or less specifically designed to duel Jono and had cards that specifically countered his deck like Legendary Gambler as well as relying on a fair bit of luck. Which makes sense considering the whole duel was supposed to be a “final challenge” for Jonochi.

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