DarkRose blogged

There's sometimes the claim of both Saiyan transformation multipliers lowering over time and also fused Saiyan transformations having lower multipliers by default.

Both of which are easily dismissed as neither claim is supported by anything official. Toriyama having SS being a 10x multiplier in mind when he drew SS Goku wouldn't work obviously as Goku wouldn't have been anywhere near strong enough to even take on Freeza even at 50%, much less 100%. Even supposing that the Spirit Bomb would've weakened Freeza, Goku was weakened as well, and there's nothing to suggest that attaining a new Saiyan transformation restores the Saiyan like a Senzu Bean would.

Short episode but wanted to knock out two birds with one stone, thank you for reading!
DarkRose blogged

First of several segments to come where i debunk misconceptions whether common or not using source material. The first one up is the claim that Ultimate Gohan is close to power in SSB Goku when it came to their fight pre-ToP.

First thing, you have Ultimate Gohan and SS2 Goku going punch for punch no clear advantage.



Just imagine if Goku went SS3.

Gohan begging his father to go all out brings back memories of Gohan telling him the same thing when they were in the RoSaT together training for Cell.



Very obviously if Goku was actually trying, Gohan would've been vaporized.

Now moving onto the power of SSB. It was said in the pre-ToP mini-tournament that SSB rivaled the power of the gods.



And you have the narrator saying Ultimate Gohan rivals SSB Goku, probably him using Kaioken included.



With those claims being made, let's look at SSB Goku's performance against base Toppo.



Absolutely schooled him.

Now let's look at SSB Vegeta for fun.



Took him to class as well.

Now let's take a look at Ultimate Gohan.



Well that's awkward, Ultimate Gohan got embarassed.

It just goes to show that statements saying "x rivals y" doesn't really hold much weight.

And this concludes my first episode, thank you for reading!

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This is when Goku fought Gohan before the tournament of power happened. This match was to test Gohan abilities to see whether he is good for the tournament...

Rust blogged

I wrote a book and it's getting published! Super excited about everything, and I'd love if you guys would check it out. It's coming out on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and once it's officially out (August 1st) then paperback can be ordered as well.

100th Run: A Regressor's LitRPG Adventure on Amazon

You can also find me on Royal Road, where I write Dungeon Inspector.
VampireWicked blogged

The wikipedia definition of Wokism: Beginning in the 2010s, it came to encompass a broader awareness of social inequalities, such as sexism, and has also been used as shorthand for some ideas of the American Left involving identity politics and social justice, such as white privilege and slavery reparations for African Americans.

Th Britannica Dictionary definition of politically correct: politically correct
adjective
[more politically correct; most politically correct] sometimes disapproving
: agreeing with the idea that people should be careful to not use language or behave in a way that could offend a particular group of people


Many of those using the word Wokism/Politically Correct or deemed as Anti Wokism are using it in an ironic sense of the words, knowing full well what being Woke/PoliticallyCorrect means & see the applied rhetoric in direct contrary to the meanings of the words themselves.
So people are saying with the applied notion of whomever or whatever being unaware of the chaos WokeI'm someone who questions it all & sees Woke/PoliticallyCorrect as being applied wrong on many fronts.....Or purposely wrong by Mainstream Media & The Entertainment Industry with the intention of further dividing & distracting people as both Mainstream Media & The Entertainment Industry knows exactly what really pushes our buttons when certain aspects are targeted to be remade, rebooted, removed, censored, re-written, or redone altogether. They'll shout & scream a few buzz words & many of us will fall over at their feet believing what we're told & with very rarely something is added in addition to, expanded on, newly made, or originally created. Well hardly anything original anymore but where's the attempt
yet we think we've gotten what we wanted when really we didn't ask for to be done that way.

I'm someone who questions it all & sees Woke/PoliticallyCorrect as being applied wrong on many fronts.....Or purposely wrong by Mainstream Media & The Entertainment Industry with the intention of further dividing & distracting people as both Mainstream Media & The Entertainment Industry knows exactly what really pushes our buttons when certain aspects are targeted to be remade, rebooted, removed, censored, re-written, or redone altogether.
Media Manipulation: 10 Strategies the Media Uses to Manipulate Us
They'll shout & scream a few buzz words & many of us will fall over at their feet believing what we're told & with very rarely something is added in addition to, expanded on, newly made, or originally created. Well hardly anything original anymore but where's the attempt
yet we think we've gotten what we wanted when really we didn't ask for to be done that way.

Yes the whole idea of appealing to a wider audience is understood & it's cheaper just to remake an existing work but why take a huge gamble on losing, & or alienating an already established fanbase just to seek & appeal towards a non-existing one.
See some don't think it's about that as it is about switching to a new audience that's fresh faced & gullible, eagerly waiting to shell out the cash for new & shiny cause the old audience has long gotten wise, cautious, & more demanding to please.

So the convictions are questioned, especially when Woke/PoliticallyCorrect content is removed across seas. Or when the majority of Mainstream Media, The Entertainment Industry are owned by many of the same conglomerates, & politicians running things.
That's why I don't think many believe it's about Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, etc as much as it is about money. Getting as many distracted as possible, targeting each new generation, so they'll believe they're gaining something & won't notice what they're losing or even ask if anything was lost to begin with.

I think we really need to remember it's all a business & who really benefits from anything here.

At the end of the day it's not about diversity as whether or not you're left with either good or bad writing.



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Skittles blogged

So I did visit the eye doctor! They got me in pretty quick - literally a few hours after I called them. This was yesterday, I think? The doctor said my eye looked all good! He said he believed I just had a floater in it, and it should go away? Buuuut... I'm not completely out of the woods, yet. As he said there have been cases where the eye looks fine, but then a couple weeks later, the patient calls back and their eye has gotten worse. Therefore, there's still a chance some of my retina could tear. I'm just going to hope it'll be okay after a couple weeks.

I also have 20/20 vision! So I don't need no glasses! Wooo!!!
Skittles blogged

For the last three days, I've been seeing a constant floater in my right eye. It just won't go away. Come to think of it, I've been seeing floaters more often than I should for the past few months maybe? But now there's one constantly in vision. Luckily, it's only my right eye. But upon looking up causes, I am very scared I may have a retinal tear in it. I really don't want to lose my eye, but I also don't have that money to spend thousands on a surgery for it. I'll visit the doctor soon, and hope it's nothing too big like that.
Skittles blogged

I got sick! Given how me and my older brother got sick long after my two other sibs, and how our sickness didn't last as long, I'm unsure if we had what they had or something else lol. But I'm feeling better now. :) I'm also feeling quuiiiite good, because I've been drinking less and eating less, and because of that, I've lost nearly 10 pounds! I can tell, because my stomach doesn't look nearly as big anymore. (Which is where most my fat was. As where everywhere else on my body is skinny, my tummy and thighs are the biggest :( ) Even last week when I drank, because I had gone so long without drinking, I didn't have as much as I usually do. So, that helps with not gaining weight! Anyway, I'm feelin' pretty good now. I hope the mood keeps lastin'! :D

And I don't get sick for a while LOL!
Cap blogged

Some thoughts because I can and I'm like one of the few people who use this function. Kind of keeping it Neoseeker related but not really. Eh, who cares? People only read this when I tag em so that's all good.


Anyway, I want to like take this time to appreciate some of you. I know the past several posts have been anything but, but call this my rising phase since I'm coming out of a hole.

I frequent a certain forum here because the interaction between the people is interesting. I don't really get the subject, but the chatter is fun. I don't know if they are all friends or not, but it seems like it mostly.

Anyway, it reminds me of the past too. In school, there was another group who I was sort of fringe friends with but never really part of their circle. Used to watch them play card games and stuff. Reminds me of the crew on Neoseeker.

In any case, I find myself in a similar position. Fringe friends.


But back to the appreciation part. I appreciate their interaction and stuff. Maybe they don't really expect people to read all their games and stuff, but I check in and I enjoy the interaction. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm glad you guys are friends or at least friendly.

Is it odd? Probably. Some dude just looking in and being like "Hey that's cool. People are friends."

Why did I write this? I don't know. I'm supposed to be writing things on my mind instead of letting it sit I've been told so I'm doing it here.

For those who did give me a shot, I appreciate you too. I'm a bit of an odd one. Thanks for checking into Cap's Game Corner sword_of_omens Allingo Misato Bri Chad

Now go back to your posting. See you next time.
Skittles blogged

So my sore throat was almost certainly me being sick and NOT from alcohol or flavor water damage! So, I drank last night as I told y'all! Unfortunately, it's been WEEKS since I last drank, so I had forgotten that I've built an intolerance to it... so, I threw up LOL! But luckily, NO bad hangovers!!!! So I'm guessin' I was def sick last time and that's why the hangover was unbearable. Hangover + sickness = NEVER GOOD. Does this mean I'm gonna drink a lot NOW? No. Not at all! I'm gonna keep it as a strictly WEEKLY thing - if not more than a weekly thing! But next time, I'm NOT drinking wine. Wine is always high in alcohol content and I easily overdo it with wine! I knew that but I only drank wine 'cos I had nothing left. XD
MrGrimm blogged


This is an old movie theater in Henderson NV, I remember our father bringing us here to watch lotsa movies in the early 2000's. Place still looks the same.

Seeing it brings back tons of memories that wouldn't be particularly interesting to anyone else. But I do remember leaning back in my chair once, looking up at the ceiling, and seeing the shadow of a big rat running around.
Skittles blogged

So, my brother DOESN'T have a sore throat like I did. He is straight up sick. Which means I'll be going back to sore throat city, and it'll be even more annoying because I'll have a stuffy nose and other symptoms along with it. Because in this house we're like dominoes, if one falls, the rest falls. It's impossible to NOT get sick if somebody gets sick.

This has been the most rotten two weeks, I swear.
Skittles blogged

Now my brother says his throat is hurting! Before I drank, I DID went to the doctor's. I wore a mask and kept my hands to myself. But maybe it's possible I did get a throat bug. My dad brought that up - but I rejected it. Although alcohol has never made my throat burn before. However, other than Covid, I never caught a sickness so quickly - and I would think my brother and my other fam members would've caught it just as quickly if I did. But maybe it depends on the person.

It may sound bad, but I'm hoping he just caught my throat pain. Just because 1) if he hasn't, then that means he's probably getting a regular sick, and I do NOT want my throat to go back to hurting, and then having to be sick with a stuffy nose. 2) It would mean the alcohol DIDN'T negatively affect me that way. However, that doesn't mean I'm gonna run back to the booze. Nah, I'm still gonna stay away it for a lil while.
Skittles blogged

OKAAAY. So I haven't been on as much as usual and that's because I haven't been very well. After I drank a couple days ago, I woke up. Downed a Yoohoo (chocolate drink) and was completely fine. I took a Propel water (flavored water by Gatorade) and SUDDENLY my mouth started BURNING. Like badly burning to the point where I didn't want to swallow. Ever since then, my mouth and throat's been hurting bad. I'm talking about I can't even eat ice cream without it being so excruciatingly painful, it'll literally make me cry. Because of this, I went practically 2 days without eating. (As on my drinking days, I don't like to eat as food makes me sicker while drinking. And then the next day, I had the mouth pain - thus couldn't eat)

Good news is, my mouth is recovering each day. I went from being able to eat Go-Gurt, but it still hurting. And today, I was able to eat some mini microwaveable tacos. Had to eat them very slowly, and could only eat five at a time. But I still managed to do it with only irritation and without the excruciating pain. I still feel a bit physically weak, though.

And so... what happened? I don't know. As I was fine when I drank the YooHoo, but the sudden pain came when I had the Propel. So, I have a few theories. Either all the alcohol burned my mouth/throat, and the Yoohoo and Propel was the straws that broke the camel's back. Or I had an allergic reaction to the Propel (since I was fine before it, but I'm also unaware of being allergic to anything.) Ooooor one of the drinks (beer, Yoohoo, or Propel) had something harmful in it. Regardless, I think I'm gonna cut down on drinking alcohol. By that, I mean completely - at least for a long time. (And I mean longer than a week, or a month) Just because even if it's fun, it's been giving me issues, anyway. And even IF there's a possibility it didn't cause the mouth pain; it's better to be safe than sorry.

I just hope tomorrow I can eat normally again! Very bad weekend. Currently nervous about potential thunderstorms, too.
Skittles blogged

I'm pretty sure Christopher Nolan once said he refused to use Riddler in the third movie because he's "unrealistic." Yet then proceeds to use Bane and Talia (I'll get to that soon) and I often see this take that MANY people have. That Riddler is "unrealistic" and "wacky". Yet Bane is somebody who uses a fictional super steroid that INSTANTLY expands his muscles - and he's taken seriously. Catwoman is somebody who literally dresses in a leather cat suit (BDSM/petplay much?) but is taken seriously. Rai's Al Ghul is a man who's a THOUSAND YEARS OLD and keeps on living thanks to Magic Soup Lake, and he's taken seriously. Scarecrow manages to make Super Drugs that somehow causes people to see their worst fear - and that's taken seriously. Poison Ivy can LITERALLY CONTROL PLANTS and she's taken seriously. Mr. Freeze! He HAS to live in sub zero or else he'll die... once again! He's taken seriously! But Riddler isn't? Just because he gives clues to the authority? Even though there exists a REAL LIFE CRIMINAL who did that and was never caught? (See Zodiac Killer) or death traps? Which may be a little unrealistic - but not any more than the villains who have LITERAL SUPERPOWERS?? (See Rai's, Manbat, or Clayface) and also SAW is a super popular franchise based on death traps. Like Riddler is actually one of the MOST realistic Batman villains if you think about it. But people just see him as unrealistic or wacky because they either don't like him, or they just remember him from the '66 series. Which is so stupid given that every villain and CHARACTER from that show was wacky.

Riddler needs more respect.
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