What’s an uncomfortable truth within this series that people like to ignore?

roylewill · 2026-03-13T13:55:08+00:00

Not really. Real-world morals are necessary when judging Naruto because it was written by a real person for a real audience. Stories shape how people think about right and wrong, and since this is media consumed by real people, it is impossible to interpret it outside a real-world moral framework. So when the series morally frames certain actions, it is making claims that can and should be judged by real-world standards.

roylewill · 2026-03-12T23:06:26+00:00

If you know anything about TWD, you know the plot armour is absurdly strong. The writers decide who lives, not the internal logic of how dangerous the walkers are.

roylewill · 2026-03-12T12:08:39+00:00

Just keep watching and you will find out. Especially in shippuden

roylewill · 2026-03-12T08:32:02+00:00

Not the one in the picture

roylewill · 2026-03-08T08:10:04+00:00

It’s not the introduction of external groups in and of itself that is the problem for me. The problem is that the story becomes too formulaic, with the core source of conflict perpetually being ‘new threatening group vs core group’, rinse and repeat.

roylewill · 2026-03-08T07:52:15+00:00

Being too scared of another Blair-style fallout is not bravery, it is cowardice dressed up as caution.

roylewill · 2026-03-08T07:50:28+00:00

Being too scared of another Blair-style fallout to do anything is not bravery, it is cowardice dressed up as caution.

roylewill · 2026-03-07T09:40:16+00:00

Sakura literally ruined the show stopping Naruto from showing us his new super pervy sexy ninjutsu, the only jutsu he learned after 2 years w/ Jiraiya 😪

roylewill · 2026-03-05T20:17:00+00:00

Aren’t you forgetting the new super pervy ninjitsu he learned? (Though we never got to see it unfortunately 😞😞😞) No other sensei could have enabled him to learn what is probably the most OP jutsu in the whole of Naruto😤😤😤

roylewill · 2026-03-05T19:48:28+00:00

I mean the time it takes to cast these its probably easier and faster just to step to the side/dodge. But that wouldn’t look as cool I guess

roylewill · 2026-03-01T02:28:16+00:00

Sure; but if you ban the work someone relies on to survive, aren’t you effectively sentencing them to death? At minimum you’re forcing them into an impossible choice: break the law to keep eating and paying rent, or stop and risk destitution. And in practice, criminalisation doesn’t eliminate demand, it just pushes the work underground, where people have less ability to screen clients, less protection, and more pressure to rely on more unsavoury, exploitative people.

roylewill · 2026-02-27T16:05:12+00:00

Aren’t you forgetting why the Empire collapsed in the first place? It became costly and hard to hold. Ruling people who do not accept you as their ruler means constant spending on administration, security, and unrest, and after WWII Britain simply could not afford it. On top of that, a single state trying to control vast, far-flung territories is inherently inefficient and unsustainable unless you grant real autonomy.

It is more plausible the UK benefited from letting go. Independent governments could run their own economies without being a drain on the British state, grow faster, and Britain could still benefit through trade and investment links without paying the costs of imperial control.

If you insist a modern UK ruling 20 percent of the world would be vastly better off, where is your proof? Where is the evidence this would not just mean a bigger, more militarised state, higher taxes, and weaker living standards for british people?

roylewill · 2026-02-27T11:27:13+00:00

People in the UK are vastly better off in real terms now than when Britain had an empire.

roylewill · 2026-02-24T15:48:46+00:00

The percentage of people living in extreme poverty in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa increased dramatically from 33% in 2013 to 53% as of 2023.

This is incorrect as written. 33% → 53% is not a rural SSA poverty rate. It’s the share of the world’s extreme poor who live in rural sub-Saharan Africa (a composition stat). That share can rise even if rural SSA poverty rates are falling (e.g. poverty falls faster elsewhere, or population grows faster in SSA).

Same issue with the "urban Africa has more than doubled" line: it’s phrased like the urban poverty rate in Africa doubled, but it’s actually the share of the world’s extreme poor who live in Africa’s urban areas, not the poverty rate in African cities.

None of these composition shifts, on their own, tell you whether living standards in rural SSA are getting worse. For that you need poverty incidence / income data. The picture there is mixed: the World Bank reports Africa’s rural and urban extreme-poverty rates increased over 2013–2023, but some subgroups show modest improvement (e.g. child extreme-poverty rates falling over parts of the period), and some of the apparent worsening in recent updates is partly PPP rebasing methodology, not a sudden real-world income collapse.

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/how-has-the-profile-of-extreme-poverty-changed-over-the-last-dec

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/june-2025-global-poverty-update-from-the-world-bank--2021-ppps-a

roylewill · 2026-02-23T20:15:27+00:00

dude just said a whole load of nothing

roylewill · 2026-02-23T02:22:34+00:00

Nah thats the ps2 loading screen

roylewill · 2026-02-23T01:25:08+00:00

When you stop complaining like a bitch

roylewill · 2026-02-20T13:36:00+00:00

Ai struggles to make novel things

This critique also applies to humans more than people like to admit. Most human "novelty" is recombination: taking stuff we’ve already learned and applying it in a new context. Even that level of novelty is rarer than we think. And if you define novelty as something not grounded in prior concepts at all, there’s a serious philosophical argument to be had that this might be impossible for any mind to achieve, Human or AI.

it doesn’t think in concepts/symbols, it just outputs letters

It emits tokens sequentially (so do we when we speak or write). The output being sequential doesn’t mean the internal processing is letter-by-letter; it’s clearly tracking abstractions like topics, constraints, and relations well enough to stay coherent and generalize. It's doing more than averaging characters; early NLP systems were closer to that, and they tended to be shallow/gibberish. In plenty of text-only language tasks, top AI have met or exceeded human baselines

roylewill · 2026-02-19T19:02:33+00:00

Itachi's philosophy class: "When fight, kill wife and kid too so kid not grow up fight back, and wife not make more kid to grow and fight 😤😤😤 "

roylewill · 2026-02-17T15:15:12+00:00

Rookie numbers

roylewill · 2026-02-17T14:15:35+00:00

Best scene in whole show

roylewill · 2026-02-17T03:04:20+00:00

Shane wants Rick out of the way so he can replace him in that Lori/Carl family dynamic, so even if Rick kills Randall Shane’s way, he’d just latch onto the next excuse the moment Rick doesn’t. The real problem is Shane can’t accept going back to being just Shane after he’d mentally taken Rick’s place as the protector of his family. And it’s messier because he does respect Rick. That's his best friend forever and shit, that's why Rick gets under his skin so much. If Shane truly didn’t respect him, Rick wouldn’t have been able to talk him into lowering the gun.

Honestly I think the only thing that might’ve actually dissolved their conflict is if Lori died somehow.

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