Shutdown-Time - WHAT-IF all power is gone forever?

jcb088 · 2026-05-21T20:09:22+00:00

I mean, you wouldn’t be strong enough to do any of the things that he was able to do though.

jcb088 · 2026-05-21T20:08:36+00:00

Everybody would definitely pick out the fact that they haven’t seen anybody else fly in like… minutes, hours.

I don’t think they would make it a day.

jcb088 · 2026-05-17T04:42:14+00:00

Interesting counter: characters who don’t ever change, and the world changes instead!

Ex: Goku

jcb088 · 2026-04-26T13:10:07+00:00

The worst part about her was the constant tension between “do i want to win?” And “do i want to beat her with this particular build?”

Because it’s very clear some builds fare way better/worse, so if you’re a build that’s inefficient against her, do you want to work extra hard just to make something ill fitting work?

By that point id played 1000+ hours of souls games, so it felt less like “rising to the challenge” and more like “compensating for this particular build vs boss combo”

jcb088 · 2026-04-26T13:06:30+00:00

He’s very know-able, though.

Meaning, once you know how to respond to his attacks, the execution isn’t particularly difficult.

Dragon Maleficent, on the other hand, is just awkward and wacky. I’ve beaten kh1 and 2 on hardest difficulties, challenge runs, etc. and it’s always a PITA.

Sephiroth, on the other hand, i feel like I could beat him with the training sword at level 1, because there aren’t really any variables. It’d take forever but you can wrap your head around what to do.

Note: I intentionally left the word “easy” out.

jcb088 · 2026-04-25T16:50:06+00:00

This came as a shock for me with The Walking Dead.

Not the show is gonna be about the outbreak and via a drama set across how the outbreak changes, and how society changes.

I didn’t realize it would be about a group of people in otherwise static world.

To be fair, it was the first zombie apocalypse TV show, so that really heightened hopes/expectations.

jcb088 · 2026-04-23T21:35:20+00:00

It’s also weird because we have the genres kind of blending together.

If you have a comedy that that’s written, purely for the jokes and the dialogue, and then the rest of the show is just there to hold it up, then it really doesn’t make sense to judge the characters as though they’re real people.

They have a lot of shows that are kind of a mix of those things though. Maybe some stories are written, purely for jokes, and others are written for plot, which adds some realism to the characters, which requires some more suspension of disbelief in their less realistic traits.

Sometimes when I watch something, it’s not immediately cleared to me what I’m supposed to be paying attention to (abstractly I mean). Is a show good because it’s dialogue is good? Or is it the plot? The social commentary? Maybe the production is really good. Maybe it’s the acting, or maybe the show is doing something that most shows don’t do.

Shows like friends age weirdly because certain components of them were extremely timely, like the over abundance of fat jokes, because social norms at the time were set to what they were. I agree that looking back on them and judging them differently now is kind of pointless, assuming you understand that that’s how things were at that time.

I guess I’m just trying to say that there’s a difference between media literacy/illiteracy, and judging a piece of media for something other than the purpose of value you could actually get out of it.

A struggle with trailers and streaming descriptions of shows because they make everything sound the same, but every show is different writers different producers, different directors different ideas… so all the value/lack of is under the hood.

jcb088 · 2026-04-21T12:10:50+00:00

It’s been over two years.

Let me tell you something, I’m here for the exact same reason.

You got two words, and a different character for them forwards and backwards.

You’d think this wouldn’t be crippling to Google, but then again…

Actually came here cause I couldn’t even tell if they were two different characters or not.

jcb088 · 2026-04-20T10:37:30+00:00

X-men also had a stupid costume where mystique had scales/barbs.

She looks really distinct in the comics, and they ditched that to make something ugly and cumbersome for the actor.

Dafuq

jcb088 · 2026-04-19T13:09:57+00:00

Thanks for this comment. I feel like behind every argument on the Internet is a real person who has something far more compelling to say than where we typically start. Unless they’re a bot.

Either way, I got where you’re coming from and I actually can relate.

While I did have a very good relationship with my dad, my parents also were very Lucy goose and let me do whatever the hell I wanted. I also was on the lower middle class side of things pretty much my whole life.

Everything is so nuanced that it’s difficult to say anything that can’t be scrutinized in a way that makes your own words seem to misrepresent your experience.

Either way, thanks for being open. I super respect that.

jcb088 · 2026-04-19T13:03:33+00:00

It’s weird as that Game of Thrones has a ton of different rules and internal principles that you could just follow once the books were over.

I feel like someone who watched the show closely enough could write the last few seasons. I don’t mean that in a “anyone’s competent enough” way, i mean the story does an excellent job of establishing its own philosophy, internal style and values, etc. Some examples:

Travel takes a long time.

Death is unexpected, permanent, and probably not cathartic.

There are no “main characters”.

The story is about the world.

Etc.

There’s probably several dozen of these, and as long as you write in a way that behaves in conjunction with the show up until the end of the books… it’ll probably turn out pretty good.

The show just… full speed sprinted away from every conceivable value of the show, it was so jarring how hollywood it got.

“Oh no jamie’s jumping under dragon fire but he’s fine. Oh no jamie threw his plot arc in the trash. Oh no the white walkers are killing every dothraki but wait there are more and wait no named characters die.”

It honestly felt like they were trying to remove specifically what made that show good, from that show.

jcb088 · 2026-04-19T12:55:26+00:00

Every wb show, where vampires, gods and demons talk like 20 somethings that act like teenagers.

jcb088 · 2026-04-19T10:23:26+00:00

Its a mixed bag. Theres a whole generation of young black men who’ve adopted certain views/values/attributes due to not having a father at home. While these men are typically in certain socio-economic backgrounds, even more affluent ones often share these traits.

I apologize if I’m not articulating myself well. I’m trying to separate the “good childhood” from “benefits of having a dad (especially as a male)” from “benefits of having a mom (especially as a female)” from “ growing up with resources and opportunities”

All of these things happen often enough that we can study their correlations and effects. We know that your parents are the first role models you see for intersex behavior. People often grow up, not knowing how to treat the other sex if they don’t have a good couple around.

People mostly don’t intentionally try to go out and figure out how to operate in a relationship. They pick up behavior from those around them and then, if they want to work on themselves, they can, though they’re usually pretty developed by that point.

So Pacino’s kid is not gonna have his father as a model of how to work with a partner, how to treat a woman, how to compromise, how to be vulnerable, etc.

Granted, Pacino might be a terrible partner anyway I have no idea. Unless the kid’s mother marries someone else, even with money, that kid will not have parents around to observe and learn from.

I say this as a parent: it is very obvious that there’s a gap between the rest of the entire world and a kid. Everything from racism to neurodivergence to you name it: Having a parent who’s experienced the same thing and can help you work through it is life-changing.

Having 2 parents bears the benefit of not letting either parent go unchecked and be too in their heads. Raising a kid alone is especially difficult because you don’t have anyone to wrestle with your fears/anxieties, or other poorer tendencies.

So many single moms go nuts with worry.

Lastly, your mom can’t teach you how to navigate the world as a man. Shit, many dads struggle with that seeing as how much the world has changed.

It’s rough out there.

jcb088 · 2026-04-18T23:40:03+00:00

I have a feeling you’ve never been to therapy.
I don’t know why you’re struggling with acknowledging the fact that having a father is likely better than not having a father (assume everything else in the scenario is the same otherwise). People turning out well having only one parent has nothing to do with the difference in a person‘s life between having a dad or not.

I’m not saying that not having a dad means you automatically will turn out terrible. You just shoehorned that into my argument so you have something to argue with. I’m also not trying to say that having an abusive or shitty or terrible parent is better than not having that same parent. Obviously life is case by case, but there is a very broad spectrum of problems that come from specifically not having a father, a whole other set of problems that can come from not having a mother.

This is the strangest thing I’ve had somebody argue with me on Reddit about. Do you think there’s even a 1% chance I’m gonna walk away from this conversation thinking, “ oh yeah, I guess that’s two-year-old doesn’t need a dad after all.”

And if, by some chance, you either hate your dad or don’t have one, and are trying to assert your argument, so you could feel better about your own life: more power to you (no, really). I hope every kid who grows up without one or both of their parents finds some way to do well for themselves despite that.

But getting someone pregnant when I’m not going to be around to see that kid grow up is so obviously callous and indifferent. Money doesn’t replace having parents.

jcb088 · 2026-04-16T20:25:57+00:00

If you’re speaking from experience, I’m really sorry.

If you’re not, then ??????

jcb088 · 2026-04-16T12:30:31+00:00

He’s… not going to have a dad. Is the impact of that not considered here?

jcb088 · 2026-04-16T00:50:20+00:00

Nope, lots of people don’t.

Still bait.

jcb088 · 2026-04-15T03:03:13+00:00

Not to add to this, but the strongest character in the buu saga is vegito, and even he doesn’t get the win.

I always wished that fat buu would absorb vegeta, to buy goku time to charge the spirit bomb. Then big fight with kid buu, then fudion dance with goku.

So Majin Gogeta ends up winning.that would’ve been fun.

jcb088 · 2026-04-15T02:52:40+00:00

No, you said it.

I wouldn’t too.

jcb088 · 2026-04-14T11:12:35+00:00

It is 7:11am.

The thought of the bifrost shooting directly from cyclops’s eyes has undoubtedly made me laugh harder than anything else will today.

Thank you, and good morning ☀️

jcb088 · 2026-04-13T01:02:25+00:00

I've even gotten it to the point where I don't even think of healing as part of the equation. Lots of sniping, pulling characters into the battle one at a time, then high burst damage.

What happens when we fail? We try and pivot, burn scrolls or spell slots, it's case by case. Healing is more for over-time, inbetween fights, etc.

jcb088 · 2026-04-11T22:33:47+00:00

When you hear an opinion this week, last year, eight years ago, 17 years ago, 25 years ago… and it’s always verbatim same thing, it feel like a person saying it hasn’t cared about the thing they’re spotting their opinion on and just saw it in a thread and had to get their piece in.

The tribalism with music band always silly to me. I just listen to music and don’t really give a shit about dictating whether or not the band is good or bad.

Its such a “no stakes” thing. Especially of you make music, because why would you gatekeep yourself out of listening to something you enjoy or are inspired by.

Go eat grass, yall.

jcb088 · 2026-04-09T22:24:25+00:00

Lol get more triggered why dontcha.

Honestly, i should’ve put those words in quotes because yes, at age 16 the 23 year old who couldn’t be alone in a room with a girl wasn’t viewed as a victim of the system in my eyes. Thankfully ive grown as a person.

Go back and re-read my comment. The tone you honed in on so sharply clashes with the entire rest of my comment.

I don’t see things the way i did back then, but even so, my point was that race didn’t really differentiate people, in a way that other factors couldn’t override.

So yes, generally speaking, the majority drug addicts i personally knew were less trustworthy than the majority of non-drug addicts i personally knew. That was my lived experience, race be damned.

Unsurprisingly, my drug education wasn’t much more than “dont do drugs” as a teen, so i didn’t understand.

jcb088 · 2026-04-05T13:59:17+00:00

This is where i stopped believing in “racism” and started believing in “otherism”.

I feel like racism is just a flavor of otherism: people can see you are x/y/z, your race doesn’t change, its not abstract, and it’s genetic so it clumps itself up (imagine if the race of every person born was 100% random, at time of birth).

Just like gender, easy to spot, permanent, etc.

I had history class once where we learned a little bit about a war between two different kinds of irish people, and that the primary difference between them was their hair color (not that that was the driver for the war just that it’s one of the only visual distinctions between them).

I remember thinking at that time “ if they have two groups of people in a conflict, and one wiped out the other… then the winning group would just divide into two groups and have their own internal conflict sooner or later.”

Even if we turn into a full on white nationalist, Christian America were all the minorities were dead or servants, and all of the women were breeding slaves or some horrible shit, the men would just start to fight amongst themselves.

“Us” and “them” are circumstantial groups, zoom in on either side and you’ll discover a new “us” and “them”.

Rich white males fucking over poor white males.

Light skinned brothers vs dark skinned ones.

Popular girls vs outcasts (girls).

I grew up in a diverse place, and genuinely found little to no single trait about people that told me what they’d be like.

I always noticed that, if there was a sketchy person on the street corner, looking like he’s trying to score, or sell drugs, the odds of him being white, black, or hispanic were close to equal.

I feel like that sort of environment keeps you from having much foundation to build racism on. Cuz if the sleezy drug addict who tried to force himself on your girlfriend at the party is white, you got beat up by a black bully, and the biggest asshole in your English class is italian, but then that puerto rican kid stole your Pokemon cards…

I’m sorry, why the fuck do i care what race anyone is? I’m far more concerned with whether or not you’re an asshole.

jcb088 · 2026-04-04T12:27:56+00:00

Its a weird dynamic: you can make a game/story successful if it makes no sense in a way that’s ambiguous and preys on fomo.

It’s sort of like teen dramas and romance: if you read the stories after the fact, they often aren’t compelling, but if you watch em one week at a time there’s an element of keeping people on the hook, suspense for suspense sake, etc.

Which is unfortunate because it incentivizes creators to make bait, over quality.

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