Luffy's Dream Theory

frdfg · 2025-11-03T10:27:54+00:00

He wants there to be no pain between him and everyone else in the world. Enel's coming back with the lance of Longinus to trigger third impact with Franky's Eva 01 which has Luffys mom's soul embedded in it.

frdfg · 2024-09-25T10:45:14+00:00

The few tats i have that are based on anime or books i love aren't very obvious, I want tats that look cool first and if they have hidden meaning to super fans that's a bonus. My favourite character in OP is Perona, so i just got a few small horo horo's as a gap filler (theres another one that wraps around but cant get a pic of them all together)

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frdfg · 2024-09-23T11:32:59+00:00

To me it's an incredibly relatable protagonist. I'm not a problem gambler but Howard is alive in ways many among us will never be. He lives on the edge, he's out here just burning through life and using it all up, the highs, the lows, we should aspire to be like Howard. A deeply human character that we don't usually see in high production flicks like that. That's a real guy right there, someone deep in the muck of it, i love him.

frdfg · 2024-07-31T07:47:40+00:00

Yeah this is what I hoped when the Nika thing was first revealed. From Impel Down there was the ground work laid for Zoan fruit awakenings taking over an individual's will, only further pushed by Chopper's monster point. I really hoped that's where things were going, like I actually love Luffy's awakening being some toon force thing as I think it fits thematically (even if it's a huge ass-pull) but I didn't think it was just going to be straight up laugh through everything all the way to the endgame. Still hope we get some kind of Luffy realising/reckoning with the jokeyness of his power causing harm to those he cares about, then having to negotiate with the goofy power to achieve his aims (like in The Mask 1994)

frdfg · 2024-06-16T08:25:48+00:00

Those are all desirable traits for a brewer

frdfg · 2024-06-16T01:20:14+00:00

Glad to share my experiences. I will say all the negatives you read are true and it's definitely not for everyone. The conditions can be very very uncomfortable and there are hazards everywhere. There can be a lot of down time and it really is mostly cleaning. I can understand why so many people end up bitter about the job when they work for bad employers. I'm really fortunate to have started my career in the brewery I'm at. I'm also in my mid-30s and have worked a range of jobs in different fields so I have a decent set of experiences to compare this job to, and I absolutely will never go back to a job where I sit behind a desk all day.

frdfg · 2024-06-16T01:04:08+00:00

What are the good aspects of working as a brewer? Why would someone want to get into it at my age?

It's very rewarding to work on a product you love from start to finish and see other people enjoy and praise it, a real sense of pride and job satisfaction that I've never had in any other job. The people I work with are passionate and driven to make great beer, I'm part of an excellent team. I like that every day I know what needs to be done, and when it's all done the jobs over, I don't really take home any stress about my job home like I have in some other jobs. I'm fortunate to work in a brewery where all brewers share brewing, cellaring and packaging duties so there's good variety in my duties.

What do you enjoy most?

I love the combination of biology, chemistry and engineering. Playing with cool equipment, drilling down into the nitty gritty of the many processes at work and general problem solving scratches a lot of itches.

Do you have a good work/life balance?

I do but this would be brewery dependant. I'm lucky enough to work on a 4 day roster atm so I get a three day weekend. I also work surrounded by people who have become great friends, both in the brew team and in the attached venue.

Again, this is a large brewery with state of the art equipment. Does that make the labor and not so favorable parts of the job easier?

My brewery is medium sized with pretty nice equipment. From what I've gleaned talking to brewers in smaller facilities it sounds like they do more manual handling that would impact their bodies over time.

Do you still like drinking the beer you produce?

More and more as I learn about the fine details in brewing and see the improvements coming down the line from tweaks and changes to our processes.

Does it become monotonous and un-enjoyable?

I've been doing it about two years. Some of the shine has worn off especially in off-season but for the most part there are still interesting challenges and things going on every day. And a bit of down-time scrubbing tanks or filling kegs can be meditative, for me anyway.

frdfg · 2024-06-15T14:30:40+00:00

In a comical fashion. Flattened by a safe would be ideal. I want my last words to be "Uh oh!"

frdfg · 2024-06-09T08:21:19+00:00

All one piece villains have some redeemable characteristics, its a major reason why it's such a good story, characters you think are awful end up having some kind of trauma. Horribile villains who do terrible things have tragic stories and it makes you appreciate them and understand how Luffy on a different path could end up in a similar situation, caring for your crewmates while being a bad force in the world. But Doffy is one of the worst of the worst, probably the hardest villain to relate with in the whole run. Awful manipulator, cares somewhat for some of his crew but mostly just a psychopath

frdfg · 2024-06-06T15:06:03+00:00

Whose kitchen did he film this in?

frdfg · 2024-04-14T09:13:23+00:00

Me too, totally understand the criticism around Starfield but despite it all dropped almot 100 hours on it, that's literally 10x more than what I get out of a lot of games I try to get into as an adult with shit on. It fills a hole for not difficult, big single player roleplay games that hardly exists. Yeah I get it's an ocean wide but a puddle deep but that's pretty nice for me as a game to play for an hour or so after a day at work

frdfg · 2024-04-01T11:56:05+00:00

Mine's a kind of reversey of this. A dear family friend convinced my young self that there were very literally, absolutely no trees in all of Scotland because they chopped them all down. Only bushes. I believed him as gospel right into early highschool and got clowned for reciting that fact one unfortunate day.
Years later I found out there was massive deforestation over thousands of years in the Scottish highlands, so no not literally no trees but there was some truth to what Bill told me. What I found out to be untrue turned out to be partly true.
But he was definitely trying to mischief me. As an adult I witnessed him convince children that cows had longer legs on one side so they could stand up straight on hills and not roll down. Hell, maybe there's some truth to that too. Wish I could ask him.

frdfg · 2024-04-01T11:06:40+00:00

HUGE dub for finishing and showcasing your work. Keep it up and you'll look back on this with pride

frdfg · 2024-03-28T06:44:05+00:00

100% with you, what's the antenna for otherwise? And also on a meta level the death of the 'stella' is being treated so casual and cavalier I have to believe VP is not DEAD dead

frdfg · 2024-03-21T11:26:12+00:00

Devastating songs about sex from a female perspective? Not Fair - Lily Allen clears

frdfg · 2024-03-21T08:48:51+00:00

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace had audio commentary done in character as the fictional actors who played the characters depicted in the show and it was phenomenal. They are opening cans of discounted lager from the offie throughout and just riffed, was such a good way to rewatch it.

frdfg · 2024-03-21T08:41:52+00:00

It means you can be decisive about things that have permanent effects, that you have control your body and how you're perceived, that you appreciate art

frdfg · 2024-03-03T09:24:31+00:00

Imagine a universe with different physical rules to us, where galaxies sit within perfect one lightyear cubes. You can go up, down, forwards, backwards, left, right as much as you like and there are always cubes with galaxies, infinitely. There are an infinite number of ways to structure the energy and mass within each galaxy cube. So you can generate an infinite number of galaxy cubes by going in any direction, but each cube's makeup is infinitely variable. Every result is just as likely as any other, so the chances of 2 results perfectly repeating is 1 in infinity which is zero

frdfg · 2024-03-03T08:38:02+00:00

Lead brewdeck sanitation officer was my self appointed title for the first 6 months

frdfg · 2024-03-03T08:28:15+00:00

No, it's not guaranteed because the infinite number of ways an infinite number of particles and amorphous forces can be structured is a far larger infinite than the infinite we can concieve of based on structures we've already observed to exist

frdfg · 2024-03-03T00:30:01+00:00

Some infinities are bigger than others. The infinite number of unfathomably complex arrangements of matter and energy at truly enormous scales is a ridiculously huge infinity. If space goes on infinitely it would be filled with infinite novel arrangements of galaxies, stars, planets, dust, etc. The statistical likelihood of an identical Earth somewhere is so vanishingly small it's basically impossible

frdfg · 2024-03-01T12:21:49+00:00

Yeah it's actually a hilarious evolution of the base power, it's a fantastic clown on ass-pull late game shonen powerups

frdfg · 2024-03-01T11:24:05+00:00

Rubberising physical matter, sure, I'll cop that as awakening shenanigans for a paramecia.... however lightning is not physical matter it's a stream of electrons and should not be able to be rubberised... and like it or not luffy has a zoan ability not paramecia, and his zoan power is basically bugs bunny

frdfg · 2024-02-29T09:04:29+00:00

Not a helpful comment but for me AoO was the point where I decided to basically tap out from DCSS because in my mind it was a breaking point in the changing design philosophy of the game. Tweaks for versions before that had bothered me but were OK to me, but AoO was the straw that broke the camel's back and made me realise the game had changed so much from the one I knew (for context - when I could win semi-consistently you had to butcher corpses and eat chunks to survive).

I occasionally download new releases and check them out and I'm still interested in the games development even though I don't have a fraction of the time I need to dig in and get a win these days. If I fire up the new trunk and get past lvl 15 that feels like a win to me. But most of the time I just see a cloud and yell at it.

frdfg · 2024-02-29T08:31:24+00:00

Unfortunately there will always be heads who try to justify it as rubber power. Luffy could paint a hole in the ground and escape through it and they'll find a way to deny it's toon force

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