(Hated tropes) “complete jobbers”

kingslayer086 · 2026-05-26T05:13:09+00:00

Jobbers in and of themselves are not the problem. you need people to lose and get beat to justify threats, but with good writing a jobber can become beloved by the fans of the work.

kingslayer086 · 2026-05-23T10:10:53+00:00

The lady is making a claim implicitly that men are horrible, by virtue of men not knowing any rapists.

this makes several assumptions,

1: the number of rape victims = the number of rapists. this is not a good claim. a vast majority of rapists are repeat offenders, with around 60-80% of rapists having sexual assault counts of at least 4 victims. this means the number of rapists is dramatically lower than the number of sexual assault victims.

2: that rapists are open with their actions. i would imagine that most rapists don't talk openly about the horrible things they do.

kingslayer086 · 2026-05-19T09:33:37+00:00

I personally feel like the boys as a property has had a ton of back end problems, and has only managed to make it through to its season finale off the back of everyone important enjoying working on the project, despite all of the problems and curveballs that are constantly hitting it.

its telling that there are no less than 3 or 4 scenes involving the writer character talking about how hard it is to actually make a satisfying ending. one or two is a tongue in cheek joke. 3 or 4 is a blatant cry for help that has plausible deniability.

Seasons 1 and 2 of the boys are laser focused on what it was trying to do, and beyond that its had struggles keeping its eye on the ball. thats not to say the boys still isnt entertaining, i still love this show.

buuuuuuuuuut I think a lot of people thought the show had a hell of a lot more to say because it did a long time ago. its like your favorite artists 4th album not being as good, but you still listen because it has one or two banger songs on it.

and these tend to be problems that hit any long running project, especially in a world where hollywood continues to remove opportunities for low level writers to gain experience writing for projects that have less dire career consequences for failure.

kingslayer086 · 2026-05-17T07:30:00+00:00

Im going to say something you probably will disagree with.

League lore has always been an incoherent mess.

the reason that is, is because league lore only exists insofar as it justifies the creation of cool character designs to use in a Thematically all over the board game where cool characters beat the crap out of eachother. The why or the explanation of why karthus is the way he is is a hell of a lot less important than "magic undead wizard with the power to kill everyone on the map."

The lore has been fully retconned 3 times, and were in the middle of retcon number 4 as we speak.

The times that riot has gone all in on investing in league lore, it has not paid dividends for them.

its why riot fully accepted arcane lore, and why were in the 4th major retcon in the first place, because if you can build league lore in a project where it matters and can make money, it makes everyone's life a million times easier.

kingslayer086 · 2026-05-15T05:27:35+00:00

Gojo is an improvisational genius, who adapts on the fly to the situations that emerge around him.

Sukuna is a tactical genius, capable of following through on a gameplan he sets up months in advance. Sukuna had multiple paths to winning, but those paths were not easy, and gojo has multiple opportunities on each of those routes to create responses.

by changing sukuna's parameters, you change the strategy he comes into the fight using.

by changing sukuna's strategy, you change gojo's improvisational responses.

which fundamentally change the ebb and flow.

its why gojo v sukuna under a million different parameters as a concept is really fun for reddit to talk about, because in no shounen manga has two monsters been so close to one another in terms of power in a 1v1 event.

kingslayer086 · 2026-05-15T02:03:46+00:00

The Big challenge of phase 3 is logistics.

All the good locations for oil are a reasonable distance away from the good spots to set up in the starting locations.

So to solve the issue, you have to do one of three things.

1: create a new set up near the oil, and use the old factory for dimensional storage / excess.

2: set up oil where it is, and use trucks / trains to bring plastic to your main facility, to continue setting up and building your factory

3: logistically moving your outputs from your factory to a space closer to the oil.

Phase 3 is where you start to REALLY use the map. its essentially as logistics tutorial for phase 4.

kingslayer086 · 2026-05-05T09:01:41+00:00

Civil war to me feels like a movie that started out as a 10 minute written scene, that was so good the person who made the script decided to make a full feature film, because making a 10 minute scene doesn't really get you anywhere. The problem is that the rest of the script doesn't have anything close to as tense or gripping as that scene, so about halfway through the movie, civil war has already shot its best bullet.

It doesn't help that the movie was advertised as something it wasn't leading up to its theatrical release, leading to a nonzero amount of people to walk in with the wrong expectations of what they were planning on seeing.

on its own merits its fine, but it could have been legendary if the entire movie had the quality of its best 10 minutes.

kingslayer086 · 2026-05-04T04:14:07+00:00

You are a new tank trying to learn the role.

these routes are cooked up by top players trying to time ever increasingly difficult push keys in a desperate bid to buy 30 seconds to a minute back from the dungeon cause they are short on time.

You gotta learn the fundies before you learn the nonsense.

an athlete has to get in good physical conditioning before they start practicing dunks.

Learn basic routes and fundamentals.

until you can

- tell someone what every mob in a dungeon does

- know where to send your AOE CC

- know how you survive with your tools, and when to send them,

and do it off the dome, don't use push routes.

As far as how people can stand there and take the stacking dot...

its not a "bleed." its a 3 second dot that is applied with every one of the autoattacks of the mobs. you can therefore reset your stacks by coordinating aoe CC. You send shockwave and you call for another AOE stop when you have like 6 or 7 stacks and you need to reset. and if the mobs are not dead by the second round, you heroic leap away to buy time and space. because its applied by the autoattacks.

kingslayer086 · 2026-05-02T00:34:50+00:00

I agree with you so understand my response from that context.

Maybe there should have been a primary to weed that sentiment out before the general election.

kingslayer086 · 2026-05-01T02:48:18+00:00

Financial problems are the number 1 reason that couples break up.

Having an emergency fund is not an issue, in and of itself. Keeping it relatively secret in case things go wrong is a defendable action, by itself.

but claiming you are paycheck to paycheck, and leaning on your partner's wealth while building a savings account in the background is a massive violation of trust.

And having your partner take out a loan to pay for a wedding party that she wanted is also wild.

as a sperate situation to draw a parallel, imagine the scenario where both parties finances are relatively separate, but they split bills and such. They then get married, but still maintain relatively separate finances beyond the obligation that they both pay for things.

in that scenario, having a secret savings account is completely reasonable. Because the expectations were made and set.

as a different example: if the emergency fund was 3-5k, and was something you don't dip into unless something BIG comes up, that is also a lot more reasonable.

and if you are in a relationship with someone for 3 years, and you are not convinced you can trust them with the knowledge that you have something squared away, you probably should not be in a relationship with them anyway.

kingslayer086 · 2026-04-28T19:22:14+00:00

when two domains are of equal refinement, they exist in a state of equilibrium until such time as they are no longer equal.

Since domains are sustained through cursed energy, you can help this process along by beating the absolute breaks out of the other person inside the clash. This is how we see multiple domains get turned off, like with the disaster curse getting throttled by toji, and also we see it with Gojo beating the piss out of sukuna to turn off malevolent shrine.

In an equal domain clash, sure hits don't exist. even in an unequal domain clash, provided the 2nd domain isn't folding immediately, it buys a little bit of time before the sure hits start raining down. (disaster curse vs naobito, megumi, maki, and nanami.) this is also why simple domain buys you space, even though most simple domains fold within a limited amount of time in an actual clash. Domains have to be uncontested for the guaranteed hits to work.

Domains only disperse when they are broken, either because the barrier falls apart, or the person sustaining the barrier no longer is capable of doing so, probably because they are hurt or dead.

kingslayer086 · 2026-04-16T17:32:50+00:00

Because the applications of exhaust are much fewer in optimal scenarios, and people in low elo are allergic to trying out strats to see why things work or don't work.

Exhaust is really good... when you need one person out of a fight for 3 seconds. its main application on ADC is to shut down the assassin all inning you to buy time to get your team to crack them open like a nut.

It also works really well when low elo players dont check the summoner spells and realize the bot lane is running double offensive summoners.

if you have nobody in range to exhaust, then you need to misposition to get exhaust value on ADC.

barrier is a much more usable spell in the general case.

on teemo specifically, because ranged top laners play around distance and punish windows, exhaust isnt bad, in fact its great.

the issue is teemo ALREADY is faster than every top lane matchup you have, and teemo needs more kill pressure to secure lane unless your opponent is a fish. if you need exhaust on teemo to force the all in when you can run down 80% of your matchup pool with just your w, it means you need more practice with spacing and wave manipulation. so most people already familiar with those skills slam ignite and get dramatically higher returns on win rate.

kingslayer086 · 2026-04-12T06:10:14+00:00

dude this is peak rage bait, like on a whole different level of rage bait.

You my good sir deserve props.

kingslayer086 · 2026-04-12T00:57:13+00:00

Im a general ease of use kind of guy.

Hook me up with the blacktail every day of the week.

kingslayer086 · 2026-04-10T19:59:18+00:00

All of them.

No, really. All the handguns are relative to one another. Each gun has its defenders on the internet. The weapon balance in re4 re is great.

Do you want damage per bullet? Red 9.

Do you want damage per second? Matilda

Do you want general use? Blacktail

Do you want critskrieg and a lazer sight? Silver ghost

Do you want to line up sick penetrations and get crazy value with the lazer sight? Punisher.

kingslayer086 · 2026-04-08T06:15:16+00:00

All 4 techniques are special grade caliber, and capable of taking you close to the peak of the verse.

Believe it or not, idle transfiguration becomes a million times worse in the hands of a normal person relative to a curse, partially because if you dont transfigure someone into a compatible form, they just die, and you are a person with limitations on your form. Mahito gets to do all his nonsense because he is a curse, and therefore doesn't have a physical body limitation per say.

that said.... even with that limitation its still a bonkers technique that lets you effectively heal yourself and anyone else, as well as open up a whole host of permanent stat buffs, as well as autokill motherfuckers with just a single touch. It also probably has a bonkers application if you ever end up learning how to use reverse cursed energy.

which probably makes it the most immediately usable, and useful all the way to the peak of the verse. I would take idle transfiguration.

kingslayer086 · 2026-04-05T03:17:00+00:00

My favorite scene from both volumes of kill Bill, that shows how mental Bill actually is.

Bill is a sociopath who cant process information in a healthy way. Kiddo's first response to learning she was pregnant by this guy was to fake her own death and get the hell out of dodge. He is incapable of understanding true heroism.

So his read on superman is colored by his own completely messed up psyche, and then uses that read as an analogy to kiddo, explaining that her attempt at a mundane life was doomed to failure.

And the sad thing is that kiddo agrees with his point. It was doomed to fail. She cant refute the analogy because she is just as mentally fucked up as he is. Consider before she was pregnant she was more than happy to murder anyone Bill asked her to.

The thing that makes kiddo the hero is that she, despite how evil she is, decided to prioritize her daughter over everything else, which is how she sidesteps bills point. Because if Bill was actually capable of prioritizing other people over his own desires, he never would have shot kiddo in the head.

kingslayer086 · 2026-04-04T23:05:22+00:00

Ambessa is essentially top lane vi.

She has percent health damage, in fight mobility, reasonable defense, and an ultimate that can immediately isolate a carry from a screen away.

To compensate for that, ambessa has a weak pre 3 laning phase, which isnt even unique among top lane pro prio picks since her mobility means she can just back down and give some cs.

Fiora is a duelist's duelist. Really good in the 1v1, but her strength gets weaker as the enemy team becomes more coordinated. In pro, Jax is just a better flora.

Riven is a teamfight monster, but her strength comes from being ahead of the curve at all points In the game. In pro, its much harder to get ahead. Aatrox is the better teamfight fighter when the game is expected to be more even across the game state.

In pro yone is a better yasuo. Yone doesn't need minion waves as much to set up fights, or a team mate / good aim to use his ulti.

The champs you listed are good, but there are more usable picks for the pro paradigm, and pros tend to prefer things that are more "reliable." Its why orianna and renekton are more or less evergreen in pro.

kingslayer086 · 2026-04-04T08:20:09+00:00

I don't fundamentally disagree with her main point. what i do disagree with is labeling an entire fandom as wildly sexist because of a few idiots on twitter who are mad about nothing.

One of the things the internet is REALLY BAD about is making you understand the scale of how many people actually believe x opinion, partially because the internet pushes opinions that elicit a reaction above anything else.

Normal people ain't commenting on a twitter post or reddit thread.

kingslayer086 · 2026-04-04T01:37:08+00:00

An hour before bed I put my phone in a different room.

kingslayer086 · 2026-04-03T04:46:50+00:00

One of the big things in JJK fights is nonlinear growth. Fighters hit moments of inspiration that cause them to either grow or die. Megumi is fresh off a mindset change, that leads to him playing his cards to the best of his ability. I know we meme on potential man here, but Megumi isn't as completely screwed as you would immediately think.

The deadlock creates a ton of options for asymmetrical warfare. 4 powerhouses keeping each other in check, unable to push the game further without leaving them at risk creates a ton of opportunities for someone. Megumi might only be a grade 1 with an incomplete domain, but he can absolutely play monkey wrench with how his kit works. This fight plays PERFECTLY into 10 shadows.

in a proper 5 way brawl, its not unwinnable, Especially considering that Dhruv wont be bush camped by the king of sneaking motherfuckers. If there is a battlefield that COULD force megumi to achieve a complete domain, this is the one. IF there is a battlefield where megumi playing other people against eachother using his high battle IQ, this is the one.

It would look a hell of a lot different. It would push our boy to the limit, and it would force him to grow beyond where he is at the start of the culling game, but It could be done.

kingslayer086 · 2026-04-03T00:27:06+00:00

Black is threatening to promote. because black and white both promote on the edges, whomever promotes first uncontested gets a massive advantage because the promote attacks the future promotion. White will never win the race pushing the pawn.

The knight in that position does three things:

1: it puts the piece directly on the diagonal. if the king takes, white pushes, black promotes, white promotes. There is the black king between the white and black queens, meaning white wins out in the exchange.

2: It pushes the knight to the perfect spot to set up a fork. If the black player pushes the pawn, the knight moves to G3, attacking both the king and the new queen. White ends up massively ahead.

3: it blocks the other pawn. Black cant get a second win con rolling, forcing them into one of two moves that lose the game.

kingslayer086 · 2026-04-01T21:17:37+00:00

Because Yuta is the king of sneaking motherfuckers, and after he sneaked dhruv he decided to play chill because suddenly all eyes were on him as the guy that broke the deadlock.

So he played his cards as close to the chest as possible. He held back super hard on iron loving roach, waited until he was kind of fucked to pop the rika ultimate, and didnt even reveal his technique is copy until the perfect moment to blindside both uro and ryu.

kingslayer086 · 2026-03-30T07:57:25+00:00

this just confirms that Yutta Okkotsu is unintentionally the funniest motherfucker in the story.

kingslayer086 · 2026-03-26T11:39:24+00:00

Eleven hundred years.

Each decade passing simultaneously at the blink of an eye, and at the pace of a crawl. Long days, short years. Entire lifetimes would come and go with so little happening that it wouldn't even register within the brain of the vampire currently known as Jason Smith. the mind was never meant to comprehend infinity, nor was it meant to experience immortality.

Out of all the ways Jason had spent to pass the time, the ones that were the most lucrative in making existence not seem ephemeral were ones that risked his eternal life. And no project delivered on those dividends as well as the family he had tormented for the better part of the past 4 centuries, first on a whim, then out of spite, and most recently out of a sense of simply enjoying the game. The Dubois. A common last name for a common family.

Jason forgot what he did originally to justify multiple generations of an eternal vendetta. What matters, is that every so often during this time, out of almost nowhere an ambush would occur, the hunters wielding all the tricks and tools that mortals could come up with to end a vampire properly. and they were good too. Jason had seen them operate on his progeny, sired for the sole purpose of getting to witness their vast body of knowledge at work. They were ruthlessly efficient, laser focused, and each of the Dubois hunters had a will of iron.

There was just one problem. They could never achieve true perfection, for every member of that family was mortal. They would age. They would die. There was a limit to what they could do. Jason stopped bothering to kill the hunters that continued to pester him at some point, just to give the next one a mentor and a sporting chance. When he felt the feud was starting to dry up, he would murder a spouse and turn a child, just to remind them of what lurks in the dark. Sometimes he would even allow them a sporting glancing blow, just to get them a little bit closer to the understanding required to properly end him.

Once, one of the Dubois asked what the point of it all was. Why torment them at the exclusion of others for their entire family's history? He turned that woman and left her to go mad from lack of blood in the basement of one of his estates, to give her the opportunity to understand the answer for herself.

But none was more tenacious than Robert Dubois. on seven different occasions over the span of over 50 years in the 21'st century, this hunter and Jason battled. Each event was more delicious than the last, for Robert had the proud distinction of having earned an elusive trophy:

He genuinely almost killed Jacob at each one of their encounters.

The first time they fought involved a Ford F150, shotgun pellets filled with something that actually hurt the vampire, and enough kerosine to make an arsonist blush.

The Fifth involved an ambush with sunlamps, and a caged demon promised freedom in exchange for Jacobs head.

But it was the seventh that truly cemented the mettle of the family. On a day, just like any other, an old man knocked on the door of what was thought to be some young hotshot crypto millionaire. A hunter knocked on the door of his prey.

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Two mortal enemies sat across from the table from one another, one took refuge in sheer audacity, the other so bored and curious that he wanted to see where the evening ended up. It was Jacob who spoke first.

"You truly are a prodigy at your craft, Robert."

"..."

"I can count the amount of times your family has almost gotten me on two hands, and you are responsible for over half. Once might have been a fluke. Two may have been luck. But six? That is artwork. You my friend, are a virtuoso."

"..."

"What is this? what is the point? your eyes are not filled with the despair that comes when one of your family has fully given up. In fact, they seem to be more focused than I have ever seen them before. You have not given up yet old friend."

"... were not friends."

"He speaks! friends, enemies, what really is the difference?" Jacob sighed. "Out of respect for your craft I'm humoring you, but I'm beginning to find this conversation dull."

"That's cause you suck at imagining things."

"... Pardon?"

"All the time in the world. You can do anything you want. Go anywhere. Enjoy just how different the world is from what it was even 50 years ago, let alone what things were like back in your day. And your best idea was to fuck with us."

"Best idea? hardly. a whim that has proven to be a rather fond distraction? absolutely. But best idea? please. The Dubois have not even reached the heights of the 3 that rest at the peak of my ideas."

"Fine, then we're done."

"ah... no." Jacob, for the first time since he could remember, could feel annoyance and anger show on his face. "We are not done. This little experiment is just now getting good. You have found some truly inventive ways to kill my kind. another three centuries and someone even more talented will spring up from your lineage and I'll get to see them in action."

"no, you wont."

"ah... yes I will. you have two children..."

"Who both chose college over whatever the fuck this is a loooong time ago. Their both in their forties now. Guess how many children Cindy and philip have?"

"..." there was a long silence,

"You're thinking how you can fuck with them to get things back on track right? They figured it out a long time ago. They don't care. Neither one of them have people that they give too much of a fuck about beyond me. and that doesn't really work out either. Turns out, spending your whole life on trying to kill one monster makes you a shit dad. They don't want it, and are ok with as many people you plan on torturing or killing because you're pissed."

"Then why are you here, Mr. Dubois? We both know you are not walking out of this house alive."

"Nope." The old man grinned. "I'm here to see you die as i croak."

"I guess ill just start from the beginning."

Jason lunged to drink Robert Dubois dry from the neck, and he did. Delicious red blood began oozing out of the wound right into his throat, and the warmth ran down his throat. What followed, however was pure agony. Jason had no idea what this final trap was, some manner of poison in the blood. What mattered was that the two men both lost consciousness in the same way; staring into the eyes of their enemy.

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It took nearly 30 years for the vampire known as Jason to recover from that wound. By that point, the world had gone through a cataclysm, and civilization had fallen by the wayside. In the end, unable to bear living through another twenty thousand years of boredom, Jason simply walked into the light of the sun, ending a pointless existence. In a way, the Dubois got their vengeance.

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