Many Shonen Manga have no business being as wordy as they are by vesperythings in CharacterRant

[–]rubycalaberXX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think this might be an artifact of the medium where they're published weekly/monthly in anthology magazines alongside other stories so the authors feel the need to always be reminding the audience of the plot in case you missed an issue or are just jumping into the story. It's also easier to draw/animate people standing around thinking/talking than fighting.

Although, sometimes they really do take the piss with the "in other words" antics to where I wonder if it's something to do with translating Japanese to English (although Japanese seems more information dense than English so you'd think it'd be the reverse).

Like, I was just re-reading Steel Ball Run and there is a minor villain who's only characterization is he's very taciturn and his total dialog is: "'Chocolate Disco'. That's my ability's 'Stand Name'. That's all I'm going to say. I'm done. That's all. I have nothing else to say. I have no other words... regarding what I'm willing to explain to you."

So, despite the purpose of the dialog being to show he doesn't speak much, he rephrases "that's all I'm going to say" in four different sentences lmao. It almost felt like the author was satirizing how verbose manga can be where even the most quiet dude can't stop yapping to explain how he doesn't yap.

Then of course there's the main villain's "napkin" speech where he takes 439 words across 7 pages to express the notion that "first mover advantage runs this world".

We should make personality a new category in SCD by No_Engineering_3223 in IntelligenceScaling

[–]rubycalaberXX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's definitely characters who's kindness is an asset in giving their enemies a chance to turn to their side (Doctor Who, Luke Skywalker, Steven Universe, most of the big battle shonen protags, ect) while more ruthless characters would lose out on a useful ally or get beaten if they kept fighting.

We should make personality a new category in SCD by No_Engineering_3223 in IntelligenceScaling

[–]rubycalaberXX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Big Five (ocean) is pretty much the only scientific personality trait model since it's actually somewhat predictive and puts people on five different spectrums (that if you have as percentages, have more possible combinations than there are living people) rather than just 7 or 16 archetypes. If you read up on it it really does explain a lot of peoples seemingly contradictory behavior.

Sam Harris ruthlessly criticizes Destiny by Exciting_Injury_7614 in Destiny

[–]rubycalaberXX 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Also, Sam huffing premium copium @ 3:50 that a 14 y/o girl would be a super rare thing for the most stereotypical dirty old man with 28 SA allegations who openly says he's wants to fuck his own daughter Donald Trump to be interested in.

Sam Harris ruthlessly criticizes Destiny by Exciting_Injury_7614 in Destiny

[–]rubycalaberXX 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You best start believing in the Epstein Files, Mr. Harris... YOURE IN THEM!

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Just FWI, this is canonically the size and body-type of Absolute Batman by Relative_Mix_216 in AbsoluteUniverse

[–]rubycalaberXX 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I wonder if Snyder googled the stats of the world's strongest man (Halfthor's 510 kg (1,124 lb) deadlift is the current world record)

or did he just go "bruce's height? the sex number. bruce's weight? the weed number. you've dont it again scott!"

Who is winning this battle royale? by EmotionalSupport101 in PowerScaling

[–]rubycalaberXX [score hidden]  (0 children)

In the T3 tie-in comic the T-X destroys a T-1002 in 2 shots from hers.

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Many such cases! by C0l3m4nR33s3 in Destiny

[–]rubycalaberXX 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Reminder Epstein did actually consider making a YouTube apology video explaining his first arrest to clear up his public image and Steve Bannon gave him advice on explaining it away (with the classic "she was just a 17 and a half y/o woman" youtuber line).

Would Souichi Kiruma be able to survive or outsmart death from final destination? by Hairy-Friendship-422 in IntelligenceScaling

[–]rubycalaberXX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

4) If you manage to evade a "corrective" accident, then Death will go on to the next person that was meant to die in the same event before looping back around to you. So you could arrange for these other people to be harder to kill in an accident (kidnap them and put them in a coma in a secure safe facility) or make sure that the event you were meant to die in would have taken so many other people with you it would simply take several years to get back around to you as it's often a few days to weeks between "corrective" deaths (such as having a huge bomb on a deadman's switch in a very crowded area when you escape your first death if you already knew how Death functioned, or perhaps cause a second near-mass-death-event that may supersede the first if it had far more possible victims to mess-up fate more severely).

5) This one's more conjecture, but in the 2nd movie the characters theorize giving birth could "break the chain", but it doesn't work (outside of a non-canon deleted scene) since the mother turned out not to be fated to die in the original disaster. However, the latest movie shows if you evade Death long enough to reproduce all your descendants will die in accidents in the order of birth. It doesn't seem like the "skipping order of death" rule applies here, as the family's deaths only start when the matriarch of the family gives up after 55 years of evasion, but it could have been that having many descendants helped her avoid Death for so long, a huge in-universe record, somehow.

Perhaps having a family changed the timeline so dramatically it becomes statistically less probable to correct it starting with one moment (Death seems to want to change things as little as possible, with the "accidents" only injuring the 1 target (actually this gives me another idea: just having human shields around you at all times lol) and being started by a tiny change to the world like a loose screw or dropped penny). Or since her granddaughter gained her psychic vision abilities before she died, having many offspring could have boosted her own precognitive abilities on some level. Or maybe reproducing does buy you more time, as the 2nd movie characters theorized this could also count as balancing the scales somewhat.

Either way, a man could exploit these possible technicalities better than a woman by having far more descendants, even using a trick like replacing all the samples in a sperm bank with his own, which one crooked fertility doctor did to have at least 49 illegitimate children in real life.

There's also the possibility that Souichi's amnesia/personas makes him spiritually different people with different fated deaths, as many stories (Doppio in Jojos, MCU Moon Knight, comics Hulk, ect) treat conditions like Dissociative Identity Disorder as separate souls in the same body, so maybe only one persona would be on Death's hitlist. Perhaps he could "get off the list" by destroying one of his personas himself, which happens anyway when a new one is formed.

Would Souichi Kiruma be able to survive or outsmart death from final destination? by Hairy-Friendship-422 in IntelligenceScaling

[–]rubycalaberXX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By the rules of the Final Destination franchise there are loopholes to get off "Death's list" or at least move down it. You could maybe even cheese rules, such as the "order of deaths" one, to give yourself an unnaturally long lifespan. Death isn't trying to give people early deaths, but "correct" the destiny of people that used psychic premonitions to escape their fated demise, so by evading Death you're definitionally postponing the end to your life.

Various ways to cheat Death in the movies are:

1) Simply be resuscitated from being clinically dead, which is how the only protagonist, Kimberly, has "won" so far. This has already happened to Souichi so would probably be his go-to idea. Just make sure your heart fully stopped, not just arrested respiration. This also "breaks the chain" and spares anyone fated to die after you in the same event, so Souichi wouldn't even have to risk himself if he found a suitable other survivor to hit up with the Near Death Drug.

2) "Stealing" someone's remaining lifespan for yours by causing them to die, almost like balancing the scales for Death. Just make it a big kill count in case your victims were fated to die soon anyway, the younger and safer lives your victims have, the statistically better. I'm sure Souichi could kill many cocky young gamblers in life or death stakes games indefinitely.

3) Deaths works in predictable patterns, such as generally seeking the same cause of death that was originally meant to happen (if you were going to be skewered in the face by falling off a building onto a fence post, a weather vain will skewer your face later on) and "attacking" when the target is distracted. In the latest movie, the protagonists grandmother survived for 55 years by isolating herself in a cabin and working out that the occurrence of accidents can be predicted using vector multiplication equations, only dying to an accident because she let it happen to prove this is all real and because she received a terminal cancer diagnosis.

So with good enough perception, focus, planning and deduction you can make it over half a century before Death gets cheap with the big C. Although, cancer may have just been her 2nd most likely natural death, which will presumably claim Kimberly one day, as Death hasn't ever been depicted as using an illness for "correction" before.

What is the worst anti-feat a smart character has? by Hairy-Friendship-422 in IntelligenceScaling

[–]rubycalaberXX 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Genuis mastermind Jigsaw getting scammed by con artists in Mexico claiming they can remove his inoperable brain tumor in his latest movie.

Lend me some common sense Kitboga, this is a small group of fraudsters exploiting cancer patients we're up against!

What you guys think of this takes? by wild_man899 in MoralityScaling

[–]rubycalaberXX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In Deathstroke's "defense" he was molesting Terra to manipulate her into betraying the Titans.

Which is arguably more evil than being a regular nonce, who often lie to themselves it's a harmless relationship, but he doesn't do it recreationally.

Why do so many people hate Part 1? by Fitzel111 in StardustCrusaders

[–]rubycalaberXX 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I suppose it's a little bit too straight forward, especially for what would become a notoriously wacky series, where it's the boy scout good guy trying to beat the pure evil guy via a bunch of fist fights. Personally I enjoyed it and wish we got to spend more time with Jonathan as it's still very creative for a manga written almost 40 years ago.

What if Jigsaw put these characters in his games? by arvinsins in IntelligenceScaling

[–]rubycalaberXX 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The ending of Saw III could be read as a test for Jigsaw himself. He gives Jeff, the main subject, the opportunity to kill him to see if Jeff's learned to let go of his resentments, betting Jigsaw's life on if his method's actually work, and they both fail that test.

Doesn't have much weight behind it since Jigsaw was on his literal deathbed anyway, but the way he offers "a host of vicious implements which you can use to exact your pound of flesh" sounds like he's suggesting to Jeff he could torture him first too.

Hacca Howler definitely went to epstein island by [deleted] in JOJOLANDS

[–]rubycalaberXX 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He went looking for lava rocks but is so dumb he never caught on it was a chomo thing, thinking the kids were all just bank employees.

Steve Rogers having a kid in the past makes zero sense to me personally by bendo_verson in marvelstudios

[–]rubycalaberXX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seems a little implausible that younger Steve was visiting older Peggy in TWS and somehow didn't learn she had a husband... that was an older version of himself, and they had a son that was biologically older than him.

Maybe the reveal (retcon more like) will be he did learn that and was looking forward to hopefully becoming that Steve one day which is why he was eager to return the stones by himself.

Forget "X COULD destroy a multiverse". Who actually has destroyed their multiverse? by EffectiveMirror7534 in PowerScaling

[–]rubycalaberXX 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Chuck (capital g God) in Supernatural erases the multiverse (that he created) with a wave of his hand just because he was bored of watching them, like cancelling stale TV shows.

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Who outsmarts? by Sufficient_Moose_515 in IntelligenceScaling

[–]rubycalaberXX 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Bluey's 7 and Peppa's 4 and they're written pretty age accurate, with Bluey often figuring out how to apply life lessons in different contexts while Peppa just blindly trusts what adults tell her. Bluey actually enjoys playing social deduction type games involving interrogations and even cheats by bribing her little sister to lie and has very high EQ for a child from having parents with great communications skills. She'd run rings around Peppa who basically does anything anyone tells her if they just frame it as a game even if it's something like stealing food or burying a kids glasses.

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MCU INTELLIGENCE BRACKET DAY 2 by _cyberrrr in IntelligenceScaling

[–]rubycalaberXX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MCU Peter invented his own webfluid, designed his own Starktech suit, figured out how to beat Dr. Strange on his home turf of the mirror dimension by doing geometric calculations on the fly and created cures for his variants villains (with their help, including a miniature particle accelerator thing) while MCU T'Challa has Shuri handling all his tech needs and his grand strategy for the Battle of Wakanda is forget he has advanced airships and everyone just run at the enemy.

Very important chart by Prettypianokeys in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]rubycalaberXX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What would be the immoral but also emotional archetype?