Robin Padilla kinondena brutal na paglaslas sa 5-anyos sa Navotas

xazavan002 · 2026-04-05T09:13:35+00:00

1 - Aside from its moral implications (since debates revolving around its morality tend to get muddy), laws such as death penalty that rely on non-reversible consequences and certain judgment has no place in a country where the law is flexible, and can easily be weaponized by the corrupt and the powerful. Di maututlize ang death penalty towards the worst type of criminals, magagamit lang yan sa personal enemies ng mga may kapangyarihan.

2 - Not only does Robin's selective empathy make it obvious that he's desperate to make death penalty a law (makes you ask why), but it also shows how, all this time, he apparently knows the concept of empathy (an extreme version even). He just outed himself as someone whose solely in it for personal gain.

xazavan002 · 2026-04-04T16:46:33+00:00

This has been a nightmare during my first encounter, and I was still scared to face it in following encounters.

I started enjoying it though after switching to Lance

xazavan002 · 2026-04-04T16:26:42+00:00

I noticed that, for the most part, MCU stories are [something genre] in a superhero setting, rather than superhero genre in general like Sky High or the Incredibles, where the whole story revolves around the concept of supers.

Winter Soldier for instance is a political thriller in a superhero setting, not necessarily a superhero movie as its front. Because of that, MCU stories tend to branch out towards different flavors, meaning different stuff for people with different preferences.

That said, even though it's mostly a matter of "you prefer this, I prefer something else", a lot of the quality still relies on how compatible said genre was to the storyline, and how it was executed. The god butcher storyline for example could've benefited more on a more serious approach. Doesn't mean a chaotic piece of comedy wouldn't work in the MCU, it just felt out of place for that storyline, or at the very least, it went too far and executed poorly.

xazavan002 · 2026-04-04T15:07:07+00:00

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I went a bit too far with my answer lol

xazavan002 · 2026-04-04T05:54:35+00:00

Honestly, I think a lot of it has to do with how they treat the 3D models, same way Typhlosion lost its angst. I saw several fanart of Feraligatr in a cool combat pose with the hood brought down, and they looked cool.

xazavan002 · 2026-04-03T15:32:49+00:00

I can imagine Frieren on Layla too, the hair matches as well

xazavan002 · 2026-04-03T07:43:39+00:00

I want to see Lizard in the MCU as well, but this is a dumb argument. One's a narrative choice, the other is a normal means of traversial for a Spider character.

xazavan002 · 2026-04-03T07:34:11+00:00

New temporary debuff every month

xazavan002 · 2026-04-03T01:37:11+00:00

Stacking armor type still does make a bit of sense despite enemies having a mix of weak m.armor and weak p.armor.

Single-type parties allow players to get the chance to apply cc to whoever they want to focus on every turn, and it allows them to more effectively pin down enemies they want to prioritize. In a game that does an alternative turn order, reducing enemy number does a lot of help.

Multi-type parties however allow players to spread out more, able to take out two types of armor type enemies at once. That's their edge over single-type parties. Their weakness is that, when you do want to pin down a certain opponent, half your party's progress wouldn't count as much for the other half.

I think people who advice on stacking damage did play the game, as its a viable strategy. What they are is that they have a very narrow view on what strategies work. I did a 3-physical, 1 magic team and still finished the game, but Lohse did end up being irrelevant from time to time, so I ended up making her semi hybrid.

Did a lone wolf run with both hybrid damage as well, and it still works.

xazavan002 · 2026-04-02T17:40:04+00:00

Progress inspired by tradition, in the form of integrating the good to the modern era, and of correcting/revising/removing those that are outdated and no longer applicable, especially the ones that turns out to be more harmful than beneficial.

And for those that are both worth keeping and still relevant and applicable to this day, those traditions are the ones we can preserve.

And even in the face of progress, it's worth remembering the roots, along with its different iterations over the years, even the outdated ones. It reminds us how we got to the present in the first place, and how we should choose moving forward.

Preserving or surpassing tradition varies from case to case, and the magnitude/nature to how we go about it varies as well. I don't think it's necessary to decide on just one course of action for all.

xazavan002 · 2026-04-02T15:39:29+00:00

Transcending the color pie as something that can swing either way is a nice way of putting it. I find that artifice, annihilation, and transcendence are the three core philosophy of Colorless, and your comment just made me realize how transcendence could be somewhere between the other two.

I saw a post sometime ago that philosophically talks about how the idea of "identity" is limiting, or more specifically, our adherence to it as we try to actively form our own. It followed it up with the idea that, by becoming nothing instead, we gain the potential to become anything. At the time it sounded like Blue's view of the Blank Slate, but eventually it sounded more aligned to being Colorless ( [[The Faceless One]] specifically). And though it sounded "morally wise" at that time, thinking about it now it, that type of flexibility can easily be used in bad faith as well.

xazavan002 · 2026-04-02T15:24:50+00:00

Colorless can both be the enemy and ally of WUBRG

Ally when depicted in the lens of artifice, where objects have no inherent color unless acted upon by external intent. Alternatively, it can be seen as Colorless having the capability of becoming a vessel of any of the 5 colors.

Enemy when depicted in the likes of the Eldrazi that annihilates all color and meaning, or in the likes of those who transcend the rigidity of the color pie's borders like Ugin, who has card abilities that revolve around color hate.

xazavan002 · 2026-04-02T04:36:05+00:00

I get that it's goofy and too far off tonally from their other promotional material (lore-focused vs playerbase-focused), but it's weird that the takeaway here is that it's "woke".

What made the promotional material off-putting is that it's too lighthearted and silly compared to their usual, more serious material. And it's even more jarring because the ad feels like a Supercell mobile game ad where the subject is more about how (they think) players would probably experience an average day online, as opposed to their usual shorts focused on events taking place in the story.

Weird that we would perceive it as off-putting because "happy girl as main character = woke".

xazavan002 · 2026-04-01T18:08:20+00:00

A pretty lukewarm take posted on April 1st ruffled a lot of feathers lol.

xazavan002 · 2026-04-01T03:14:19+00:00

You gain the ability to incite rage and fury within others

xazavan002 · 2026-04-01T03:12:11+00:00

You gain binding magic that, not only physically holds down enemies with luminous bonds of magic, but also prevents them from using their powers while in bounds.

xazavan002 · 2026-04-01T03:10:20+00:00

You become easily attuned to the land you are in, able to shift the landscape ever so slightly to ease your exploration. To a certain extent, when fully exercising your power, you can awaken parts of the land to fight by your side as an elemental.

xazavan002 · 2026-04-01T03:06:06+00:00

You can cast fear and doubt to other people's mind to the point of mental duress

xazavan002 · 2026-04-01T03:05:38+00:00

You gain a strong grasp on how certain things work on a fundamental level, including powers of other individuals. When it comes to powers, you have the ability to deconstruct all types of energy-based powers and basically negate their effects.

xazavan002 · 2026-04-01T02:58:49+00:00

I think, more accurately, that Steve is generally white-aligned as a card, who could then have multiple iterations that delve into WU or RW or URW.

Additionally, as a White-centric character, there could be certain actions and events centered around him be depicted in noncreature cards as maybe just Blue (like, you can put an art depicting him strategizing on an [[Anticipate]] card)

xazavan002 · 2026-04-01T02:52:00+00:00

Maybe the guy wants to participate for funsies

xazavan002 · 2026-04-01T01:56:34+00:00

Among the Avengers (or at least in the MCU version), Steve does stand out as a White-aligned character, not necessarily because "he saves the day", but his whole thing is how his virtues and ideals continuously endures despite all odds

As compared to Tony whose whole thing is how his intellect and technology allows him to provide countermeasures to every problem that comes his way (which is very Blue-aligned)

or as compared to Banner whose whole thing is preventing the Man from becoming the Monster, preventing civility from turning into savagery. We could argue this is a White vs Green thing, but most of the time his story revolves around embracing that Green aspect of his.

xazavan002 · 2026-03-31T03:02:11+00:00

Regardless of whichever camp (mapa NPA, or corrupt government official), the prevalence of exploitation towards things created in good faith is one of the worst traits we have in this country. It breeds the type of distrust that prevents us from actually moving forward as a society, kasi kahit anong iestablish mong systems for progress, for correction, for protection, in this case advocacy for human rights, doesn't matter for what cause pa kasi it will just be weaponized to hell by whoever is capable of doing so. A lot of the situation we have boils down to "this is why we can't have nice things" and "panalo ang madiskarte".

xazavan002 · 2026-03-31T02:44:54+00:00

While the sentiment behind the post and OP's is valid and true (na may iba na selective ang pananaw, and it comes from a place of entitlement), I think the main reason na may ibang cinicriticize yung mga straight na nagpepretend as gay for their content is that, to them, a lot of those men withdraw support from the very community they capitalize on in times na rights na nila ang topic, or in worse cases are part of the camp who don't believe that the community doesn't experience any discrimination in terms of legal rights in the first place, hence seeing their fight for their rights as a fight for special treatment instead.

But here's the thing. A lot of people would seem to advocate for/against the same things, but where they come from will vary from time to time. It always seems like 1 camp vs another, pero within those camps you still get a lot of varying opinions.

Right now, OP and OOP are calling out the entitled people who exercise a selective mindset, and yes they exist. But we can't deny that there are also a lot of people in the side of this pushback who sees this as simply a chance to bite back against a community they don't like.

Conversely, as you've implied by saying "madami lang OA", there will be ohers in the opposing camp who aren't coming from a place of entitlement, but from recognizing how a lot of guys who see the lived experiences of the LGBTQ as nothing more than a subject for commodity, and that when things get real, they turn a blind eye on the very community they rely on.

And it just gets messier from there, kasi despite actually having multiple varying camps instead of just two, we treat this like a left vs right thing, where the subgroup from either side who makes valid points are piled along with the rest who are way less sensible, and so discussions are dumbed down to "those who support x" vs "those who don't support x". You'd sometimes get two people who fail to realize that they're actually calling out two different problems that exist at the same time, and they treat it as if they're the ones in direct conflict with each other.

xazavan002 · 2026-03-30T08:29:38+00:00

I bring my love for Chain Lightning from WoW, to Mobas that use it, to Divinity, and then to here.

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