Posts made by Medical Orbit

@Robby said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:

I think what they keep forgetting is that people vote on feeling, not policy. People aren’t smart.

You tell them 30,000 times that their kids are going to get their genders changed in school and they “believe” it in the sense that it tracks with something they already feel, that trans people are bad and they’re going to hurt you in some way. You can’t answer that claim by snickering and saying “come on! No one is changing your kids genders in school.” You have to play an ad about how trans people are people and you love them 30,000 times. Because you have to change their hearts about trans people so that ad is defanged.

We hear “they’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats” and we say “what is the matter with you!” But the people who believe it believe it in their bones. And if they can vote in secret to not be seen as dumb or racist or transphobic or misogynist? Or if they guy in charge gives them permission to be terrible? Well, here we are.

This is interesting and explains a sort of shift I've seen in how issues are discussed over the years. I used to see people discuss the logical arguments for or against a position more often.

You used an example of trans people, I saw that topic brought up less back then but to use gay people as a similar topic, I used to see people going back and forth on whether or not being gay is a choice; about how that Bible passage might've been about prostitutes, adultery, pedophilia, or any other number of things; whether marriage is inherently a religious ceremony; the broader topic of separation of church and state, etc. Somewhere in the 2010s I mostly stopped seeing that. The arguments became simpler like "love is love" or "it's a sin". It's the same with a lot of other topics.

I always wondered why that was, because I figured that the emotional arguments wouldn't work until you got through to someone logically. Ex: Being gay isn't a choice, and being trans isn't a mental illness, but even if they were, that doesn't change anything because they still deserve respect and human rights regardless. But my mindset was that someone who's against the LGBTQIA+ community wouldn't support them as long as they had those false beliefs. Afterwards if they changed their mind you could be like "Even if what you believed was true, wouldn't it still be bad to treat them like garbage, take away their rights, or commit violence against them?" And then they could have a moment of self-reflection and be like "Yeah you're right, that was pretty horrible to think that way " But I didn't think that would work often until you got through to them with the logic first. Seeing the political climate of recent years and with the points you made in your posts, I think I had it backwards. Now I'm considering that maybe you have to connect the emotional points first and then later they can look at the logic and be able to see how it makes sense.

When I google "Arlong Park Forums", the results are usually people talking about it on other sites instead of the site itself. Once in a while it shows up if I go to the "Forums" google tab, but not always.

It's really interesting how Oda has such a great memory for random background details from hundreds of chapters ago, but doesn't realize when he hasn't named fruits before. This is at least the third time he responded in an SBS that he was surprised he hadn't named a fruit in the manga, I also remember it with Kid and Akainu.

I wonder if the reason Garling isn't wearing one of the bubbles on his head is because it doesn't fit around his hair.

I love how Akainu completely ignored everything the Celestial Dragons were saying to him.

They'll show someone why you shouldn't Cross the Guild.

On a serious note, I think it'd be cool if by the time Buggy is actually put in a situation where he needs to fight, he has the ability to do so by that point. With him defying Mihawk and Crocodile to make the announcement that they're going for One Piece, he's probably more motivated to make moves and become stronger. And if he trains with those two powerhouses behind closed doors, he'll probably level up fast.

What does the phrase "checkered fate" used by one of the Elders in this chapter mean? I googled it and all the results were One Piece theories.

I've seen some people speculate about being able to get the D. from someone else instead of it being just hereditary based on the flashback in this chapter where Ace says it to Sabo, and maybe I'm reading it wrong but it seems to me like Ace was just joking?

@pariston_hill said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:

I can see now from quoting this post that there's a twitter link in it, but for some reason, the post itself just shows as a small gray line.

@Trueblade74 said in Chapter 1079: The Emperor's Crew, the Red-Haired Pirates:

Anyone know how Death Note is so high despite the show being over for more than a decade?

Death Note had more than the original anime/manga. There have been a few stories after, though I don't remember if they're anime, manga, movie, or something else. Some details of the newer ones I remember include Near being grown up, a Death Note being sold, the Shinigami sort of making up rules on the fly about Death Note usage that they didn't like, and someone using the Death Note to help terminally ill patients die.

Based on the information in the posts here, it's extremely weird how I would've gone my entire life so far without hearing anything about Don Quixote if it weren't for One Piece. I genuinely have no idea how I'd gone for so long without hearing of it considering how famous it is.

Donquixote Doflamingo is named after Don Quixote, which is a novel with a main character of the same name.

I've never met a One Piece consumer aside from myself who had no idea what Don Quixote was. The first time I saw Doflamingo's name, I thought it was something really random Oda made up. I didn't pronounce it right either. I pronounced it "don quicks oat". But everyone I've heard pronounce it has done so correctly.

Is Don Quixote really that known, and if so, how did I go so long without knowing about it? Is this one of those stereotypical assigned high school books that we never read in my classes, like The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Catcher in the Rye? Or is it more of a pop culture thing like Star Wars? And does anyone else here only know about Don Quixote because of One Piece?

One Piece chapters were in the 1050s. There was a spoiler thread for chapter 1058 and I was thinking "Aren't we on 1054"? I didn't see the spoilers themselves, but people were arguing in the replies. Miss Buckingham Stussy (the old one) had the power to erase people from existence, with some people thinking it was a Devil Fruit ability and some thinking she could just naturally do it. Other recent events in the manga included: Senor Pink had become an independent pirate after Doflamingo's defeat and was going after Law, and Hina joined Whitebeard's (who'd been revived from the dead) crew.

@access-timeco said in Chapter 1073: Miss Buckingham Stussy:

I would find easier to believe the Warlord clones are just the tip of the iceberg and SURPRISE "meet S-White, S-Pink, S-Azure and S-Gold".

S-White: Whitebeard
S-Pink: Senor Pink
S-Azure: ?
S-Gold: Gol D. Roger?

Bat? Vampire? Vampire bat?

When Nemona says "Those punks are a serious hazard", do you think this was an intentional One Piece reference or a coincidence?

@Satsuki said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:

@sgamer82 said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:

Very least it's easy to understand why the DoJ is involved. To borrow an analog found on Reddit:

The analogy I came up with:

Biden: Checks out a library book. Forgets to return it. Upon finding he still had it he returned it right away without being asked to do so.

Trump: Walks into a library right before his library card expires, grabs a shelf full of books, ignores the checkout lanes so he basically steals them as he packs them into his car, and when the library discovers what he's done repeatedly asks him to return the books. Trump lies and claims he doesn't have them, then refuses to return them, then the cops come calling and then grouses about how unfair it is and how he's been personally violated when they retrieve the books he stole.

Hah. Good analogy. Except poor librarians aren't allowed to call the cops on people who don't return their books.

What are the consequences for not returning library books? I never knew they couldn't do that.

This chapter sets a lot of interesting things up, but they all go by so fast. Each event feels around 2-3 pages and makes the chapter feel kind of unfocused to me. It's like if you find a playlist of songs you really like and you think you're going to really get into it, but it only has 30 seconds of each song.

@RomanceDawn said in Chapter 1065: Six Vegapunks:

I doubt Oda would ever go down this route because it rarely happens but what if Senior Pink died in the custody of the Marines due to his battle with Franky? The only comparable moment we have of someone's confirmed death after the fact would be Izo, Asura and C90 dude.

It could be a Kizaru situation where they can incorporate the fruit power but the user of the fruit still exists. Or at least I hope so. Senor Pink is adorable so I'd prefer if he's not dead.

@RomanceDawn said in Blackbeard and Kuma are the Same Race:

Puma's

Neko Neko no Mi Model Puma confirmed?

Do we know whose face is on the Den Den Mushi that calls Akainu?

@zorosempai said in Chapter 1063: My Only Family:

Did sabo fuck up burgess's face or why he wears that mask on half of his face.

Hasn't Burgess always worn a mask? He's based on a luchador wrestler and they wear those kind of masks.

The anime is on episode 1036 and the manga is on chapter 1063.

I just noticed that Lucci's goatee kind of looks like a scorpion.

"miracle fruit, (Synsepalum dulcificum), also called miracle berry, evergreen shrub of the family Sapotaceae, grown for its mild fruits that make subsequently eaten sour foods taste sweet. The miracle fruit plant is native to tropical West Africa, where it is used locally to sweeten palm wine and other beverages."

That's interesting, I didn't know there were foods that could completely change the flavor of other food and beverages!

@Marcotty said in Chapter 1060: Luffy's Dream:

I've seen some people have issue with why the government/Im would keep such a powerful weapon secret or what the downsides to this must be. Personally, I'm already good with what we see here and basic assumptions. Using such a powerful weapon publicly and regularly would drastically change the world order into something completely different and filled with fear and stagnation. Obviously if Im wasn't using it regularly, that means that type of world isn't what they want. They want the world as it already has been, thus this weapon is absolutely reserved for only the most drastic situations (to hide their own identity in this case) and in ways that can still keep it a secret (so the world can actually function outside of being terrified of this threat). But that's just my personal rationalization, will have to wait and see if Oda elaborates.

Something I considered when thinking about this is that the WG needs there to be people, so they can't just use this weapon to obliterate everywhere that opposition forms. The Celestial Dragons are pampered brats that don't have any life skills of their own. They rely on slaves and money to get what they want or need. Less civilians means less people who can cook, build, pay tribute to the CDs, etc. Similar to the concern Jack had about Kaido drunkenly destroying Kuri.

The spoiler summary said that Kaido fell to the Flower Capital, the wiki page said he fell into the water, and most readers think he's underground. so I'm not sure which one it is.

@MetaMario:

I think I have a better chance of getting hit by lightning 9 times in a row.

There was a park ranger named Roy Sullivan who was struck by lightning seven times, though it wasn't all in a row, it was spread out through decades.

The first time I heard the phrase "Black Air Force energy" I thought it meant black people in the Air Force. I didn't know it was a shoe.

@Satsuki:

Dear little Ukraine, only you could troll Russia on twitter with a meme:
https://www.comicsands.com/ukraine-russia-twitter-meme-invasion-2655980093.html?fbclid=IwAR1UPaHMjlRq7uYi6VtSp4wmhIc6tUuE9X8WDikK_X7ENPXJ8iBsqPWP-oQ

Taiwan's Twitter also made a joke like this, replacing living next to Russia with living next to China.

Bege's pornstar name would be Capone Gangbang Bege, or maybe just Capone Gang Bang.

@sgamer82:

Given how Attack on Titan ended, Eren as a right-winger isn't all that far fetched…

I don't know much about Attack on Titan, but I have heard the phrase "Eren Jaeger did nothing wrong" used by right-wingers.

It's also possible Hawkins just didn't know or think to account for it because he's never been in a situation before where his straws are connected to someone that's missing a body part.

@theackwardstation:

The official translation is Ogre. It's still referring to the same race regardless of the choice of name.

Oh, okay. I remembered wrong. I thought the official translation didn't use the word oni and also didn't replace with any other word.

Now I'm imagining Kaido meeting Shrek.

Was the word oni only mentioned in the Friday scan of that chapter? My memory is of it being mentioned in the Friday scans but not the Sunday official chapter, but I could be remembering wrong.

Is it weird I had a daydream about King swallowing a newborn baby whole in his pteranodon form?

Ulti's hair looks like a lighter version of Twilight Sparkle's hair from MLP.

Definitely interested in seeing what Shanks crew can do like a few other people said. As far as we've seen, they seem to just use normal weapons. They also don't strike me as the type to have Devil Fruits. But they have the highest average bounty of the Yonko crews, so there's definitely more to them than we've seen.

@FolhaS:

Sanji is also getting to fight a Calamity after all so he'll get a bigger bounty than I thought.
His first bounty was 77 million, so how about a 1,4 14 billion? Bigger than Queen but lower than King.

1.4 billion is above King, King is 1.39 billion.

@pariston_hill:

Vaguely points at Shakky.

I keep forgetting Shakky exists.

Age 40 and age 60 Robin don't look any older than current Robin at all.

@Moriah:

Scratchmen Apoo

• Devil Fruit: Oto Oto no Mi

notices ur devil fruit owo owo no mi whats this

Why does the thread title have a sad emoji next to it?

@Md-Martin:

He really fucking harmed business' like my fathers with his ridiculous Covid executive orders. My Dad owns a Brewery. Cuomo threw all these restrictions for bars, which fucked over every alcohol server that was not specifically a bar. To try and limit people from gathering at bars, he idiotically required that every drink must be served with food. You needed to buy food to buy a drink. When places like my Dad's that did not have a kitchen in it started selling things like a bag of chips to get around it, Cuomo changed it to "prepared" food. So places started making sandwiches before they eventually

This paragraph ends in what seems to be the middle of a sentence, was there meant to be more for this paragraph?

I like the puns with Black Maria's attack names in the official translation.

@starlalilymoon:

Why him? Name sounds familiar but not sure who he was.

Jimmy Hendrix was a legendary guitarist. If I remember right there were some really sketchy circumstances around his death. It was claimed he died of a drug overdose, but his family said he never did drugs and didn't like to be around people who did drugs.

I read about a couple things Nixon did that I liked, and I feel weird about it. I read that Nixon was the one who established the Environmental Protection Agency and also ended the draft.

That isn't to defend him. He was absolutely corrupt and messed up. Watergate, the Southern Strategy, the Kent State shootings, starting the war on drugs, racism (see also: Southern Strategy and war on drugs) and homophobia, and I also heard he tried to get somebody assassinated but I don't know if that last one is true.

It just feels weird, knowing all the bad stuff Nixon did, then you have those other two things. I've heard the phrase "a black mark on their career" to describe when a world-renowned figure in their field either did something really unethical or just had one time where a project absolutely bombed, and this feels like the inverse of that, where Nixon's entire career was a black mark except for those odd instances.

The meaning behind the Will of D. will never be stated in the manga. Some time after the series ends, someone will ask Oda what the Will of D. is and he'll reply "Will of DEEZ NUTS! Ha, gottem!"

@Sengokusgoat:

What, was Ivankov's devil fruit also in possession of the Kurozomi clan back in the day like Mr.2's and Bartolomeo's?

At the time of writing that post, I genuinely didn't know that Kaido and Orochi would be physically incapable of giving birth. I always just assumed any adult could give birth unless they had a medical condition that made them unable to or a procedure was done on them (sterilization or -sectomy). My idea didn't involve Ivankov's fruit, I just didn't learn until very recently that it wouldn't have been possible.

I had an idea about the Toki Toki no Mi just now.

Toki used the fruit to travel forwards in time, but what if that's not the main or only use it has? Maybe forwards time travel is something you can do if you're really experienced with it, or it could be the fruit's Awakening. Maybe some more basic things you can do are stopping and slowing the flow of time for a certain period, like seconds or minutes.