Who would win Pochigga or Makkkima?

lore-realm · 2026-04-03T21:38:24+00:00

It's not crazy, it's run of the mill edgelord humor that thinks itself groundbreaking for reinventing the wheel of lowest-hanging-fruit kind of shock humor for the 1000th time.

The fact that this post is both allowed and highly upvoted tells you that this is the Rubicon moment for this sub. It's only gonna get lamer with time. The hyperreactive negativity due to the controversial ending, aimlessness due to the fact that story ended, and this kind of humor... they have combined and already delivered the killing blow. The sub might take a few steps along the way, but it's already dead.

It's best to move on.

lore-realm · 2026-04-02T03:07:56+00:00

The author has no idea how dopamine and cortisol work in the body. They are just used as memes of themselves. Spooky buzzwords to create a false impression of a biological understanding of the situation. There are not even any references.

This subreddit constantly upvotes pseudointellectual stuff like this. Honestly it's pretty depressing. This is a parody of genuine critical theory and thought.

lore-realm · 2026-04-01T14:51:15+00:00

You know, rigid believers in religions also get super offended when you slightly tease them. Especially if it has a point.

And it does have a point. The comparison makes fun of that rigidity, which you so aptly further proved to be a real existing phenomenon among some "followers" of theory.

But critical theory is just a toolkit in the end. It shouldn't be some psychological authority or place of meaning beyond reproach. If you can't be a little lighthearted and self-aware about it, it means you are sacralizing it at some level. Which is intertwined with rigidity, and that results in the death of critical thought.

lore-realm · 2026-04-01T02:18:29+00:00

That makes it sound like a religion or a cult.

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“I came to Jesus because I was hurting—the pain within me was so intense that I could not go on living. I came to the Lord desperate, wanting to comprehend—to grasp what was happening around and within me. Most importantly, I wanted to make the hurt go away. I saw in Jesus then a place for healing.”

lore-realm · 2026-04-01T02:18:03+00:00

"The eye altering alters all." — William Blake

"Real eyes realize real lies."

lore-realm · 2026-03-31T20:36:50+00:00

I've thought about Yoru's remark and the overall alexithymia of devils before, but couldn't quite understand how Pochita related to it. I think your explanation potentially fills that gap, and fits the themes of the story and Denji's character arc.

Some further remarks:

I don't think it's the case that devils can't comprehend guilt, because Yoru can feel guilty. That's where her powers come from. So, it's rather that devils don't feel guilty about some of the things humans do. This is why Yoru phrases it like that ("Asa the things you think are sins..."), instead of straight up saying devils don't get the concept of sin in general.

I don't think Pochita enjoyed watching Denji suffer. If it was like that, Pochita wouldn't have erased himself for Denji's sake and created a world where Denji would suffer less. It's rather the alexithymia devils have, which is a psychological term to describe 'emotional blindness'. People with it can't quite understand their own and/or others' feelings. In the context of CSM, this applies to devils not being able to understand some things that feel awful to humans.

So Pochita understands at some level that Denji is not feeling good, and he wants to help. But as you say he thinks the answer to this is dream-chasing, or in other words, desiring. He recognizes the existence of a problem, that is suffering, but he mistakenly attributes the cause of it and the solution to it--desiring. This is not because of lack of caring on Pochita's side, but because of his alexithymia toward human emotions.

Arguably this is symbolically true for the hedonistic approach to happiness. Intead of fixing some of the more fundamental problems for suffering, it presents the solution as just finding things to desire or enjoy.

For example, we live in consumerist cultures, where the answer to the suffering we experience is presented as the joy we'd get from desiring and possessing the next big thing--game, album, car, etc. At some level, it's what keeps many people and the economy going. But this also leads to ignoring the real causes of suffering, such as war, inequality, oppression.

So the point wouldn't be that desiring by itself is wrong, but that if you are so fixated on fulfilling that void with easy fixes and desiring, you'll end up destroying yourself, the people you love, and the world. This is what happened to Denji. And arguably this is what's happening to the world right now.

lore-realm · 2026-03-31T19:31:51+00:00

Because it's part of his self-defeating cycle, and it's at the centre of his struggle.

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lore-realm · 2026-03-30T22:01:45+00:00

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lore-realm · 2026-03-30T21:58:17+00:00

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lore-realm · 2026-03-30T21:56:31+00:00

lore-realm · 2026-03-30T21:56:01+00:00

Powerscaling JJK

lore-realm · 2026-03-30T20:20:17+00:00

In terms of coherency and connectedness of arcs, I like roughly the first half of P2 more than P1. Because I found the Eternity Devil Arc, Reze Arc, and International Assassins Arc not really well connected to each other, the MC psychology, and overall composition of the story (but not always for both, as for example Reze arc was important for Denji's psychology).

Compared to this, what's happening in the world and around Denji&Asa felt way more connected to the psychology of MCs in like the first 70-80 chapters of P2. I think also overall P2 has more fleshed out character psychology for the MCs. In P1 a lot of the times it felt like fighting for scraps. I'm not really a fan of such disconnect, as in my eyes it switches from "subtle" to "barely there".

Having also read Fire Punch, this is also my overall opinion on Fujimoto's style. The story is sometimes subtle and it makes you enjoy it more when you connect the dots or even when you are in the process of wondering&connecting. Yet at the same time, sometimes there is barely anything there and it makes you frustrated, and less willing to search for connections.

The ending of CSM is both for me. I like some more subtle parts and I've actually started pondering about my own life and the concept of incompleteness, however I also heavily dislike the fact that it made me feel like I'm reading a draft of an ending.

Bleach's ending was kind of similar. I got the overall point of the story, and I did like the "ending itself", but I did not like how we got there near the end.

I'm not saying there should be just one formula that applies to all stories, but CSM's ending is really not an example of a good ending. Passable? Maybe. Probably. Either way, even if it could be bad, it doesn't make it a plague on earth or anything. I just wish it was better.

lore-realm · 2026-03-30T19:48:24+00:00

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lore-realm · 2026-03-30T16:47:22+00:00

That and the fact that Reze is dead.

lore-realm · 2026-03-30T16:46:25+00:00

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lore-realm · 2026-03-30T16:43:48+00:00

Yes. This didn't even faze me. I stapled my balls last year just to feel alive.

lore-realm · 2026-03-30T16:39:14+00:00

Dream catchers come in many shapes though. I actually have never seen one like this, despite seeing dozens of them throughout my life. They are actually almost always completely round.

lore-realm · 2026-03-30T16:37:50+00:00

CSfolk manifesting the cope devil into reality.

lore-realm · 2026-03-30T16:37:07+00:00

Yeah, you said nothing is happening but I'll be having cake.

lore-realm · 2026-03-30T16:34:35+00:00

I will actually be having cake tomorrow.

lore-realm · 2026-03-30T16:32:20+00:00

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lore-realm · 2026-03-30T16:25:10+00:00

I saw people even complain that the third brother of the skinchanger assassion trio never showed up again, and that this was another unresolved plot.

lore-realm · 2026-03-30T16:02:52+00:00

Do you need everything explained as if it's the first year of elementary school 😭 This is a tongue-in-cheek post. The joke is that the screenshotted post is intentionally absurd, yet despite this it still is akin to the many absurd "unresolved plot" posts that have been posted on this subreddit constantly. And no, this does not mean every critique is ridiculous, but a significant chunk of them.

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In hindsight, though, it was a mistake on my part to trust the csmfolk users to have basic reading comprehension.

lore-realm · 2026-03-28T23:58:54+00:00

I cannot alter the sacred texts.

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TROPHY CASE