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Martial Arts Energy Breakdown

Every living being has two types of energy within them. The first is what is known as Ki. The physical energy. Ki is the remnants of the energy created in the Big Bang, and with special training, Ki can be burned to create micro scale big bangs, which vastly increases the power one is able to exert. Ki is primarily used for physical enhancement and direct energy attacks, though certain techniques can grant ki specialized properties, such as Ripple breathing granting one’s Ki the properties of sunlight. Ki can be shared with others.

The second form of energy is known as Reiryoku, the Energy of the Soul. Reiryoku is a reflection of one’s inner self, which on the one hand gives it a much wider variety of potential powers, but once an ability is developed, tends to be limited to that ability. A Martial Art known as Nen allows one to control the development of their spiritual abilities along certain lines, whereas less controlled methods can lead to the spontaneous manifestation of fully formed abilities, such as Stands. 

Beings who have eaten of a special fruit, as well as their descendants, have the ability to combine Ki and Reiryoku into a new form of Energy called Chakra, which combines the properties of both together.

Primus, Unicron, and the Origin of the Gods

Billions of years ago, there was a technologically advanced civilization known as the Mathusians. The brightest of the Mathusians was Krona, and his wisdom drove him to pursue what he viewed as the ultimate, most tantalizing form of Knowledge: The sight of creation itself, the Big Bang. However, in his arrogance he reached too far. In physics, it is known that some particles exist at multiple points simultaneously, only becoming certain their position when viewed.  At the beginning of creation, all things were in this state.

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Superpowers

In the distant past, when humanity was first evolving, an advanced race of aliens visited Earth and studied humanity. This race discovered something fascinating within a fraction of humanity’s genetic code: The Metagene. The Metagene allowed humanity, when under great stress, to develop superhuman abilities to survive. It was rare, but those with it could do great things. The aliens took some of them, and launched a breeding program to refine this gene. Over successive generations, the Inhumans were created, whose Metagene could be consistently triggered with the Terrigen mists, and only the Terrigen Mists.

As Human civilization progress, the Metagene experienced a mutation. This mutation lowered the threshold of trauma needed for the Metagene to trigger until the point that mundane puberty was sufficient to activate it. This mutated gene was dubbed the X-Gene. The mutants who possessed the X-Gene suffered under severe discrimination for many years, but as time passed, they grew to be the majority of the population. Over the years, there have been many names for these powers and their users. Mutants, Evos. Nexts, etc. By the era of All Might, the popular vernacular was “Quirk”.

Some attempted to manually trigger the Metagene. During World War II, a scientist by name of Abraham Erskine developed a serum that, alongside a specific radiological treatment, could transform even a sickly man into a man at the peak of human ability, in all fields the best a human could be without being outright Superhuman. Notably, the process performed by Project Rebirth worked on people who lacked a Metagene. This Project Rebirth produced Captain America, but shortly after his creation, Erskine was assassinated by a nazi scientist, and his notes were stolen. However, while his notes contained the formula for the Super Soldier Serum, it did not contain anything about the radiological treatment, and thus it was impossible to replicate Captain America. They didn’t stop trying however. With their continued research, they uncovered the Metagene, and switched focus from replicating the Super Soldier serum, to improving it. Making a serum capable of triggering the Metagene. They did not succeed at this during the war, however after it ended, the scientists in charge of the project were given pardons as part of project paper clip. This allowed Compound V to be developed, a substance that could grant Superpowers. The catch was that it had to be administered during Childhood, as adults would be driven mad by it.

Additionally, a number of humans were secretly given something called a Corona Pollentia by a predatory interstellar entity, which connects them to continent sized shards. Whose with Corona Pollentia are capable of undergoing trigger events, and developing Superpowers. These trigger events are often Traumatic, and afterwards the Shards subtly poke their bears into conflict, in order to gather data for the Entities. Those with activated Corona Pollentia are known as Parahumans. And due to human ignorance of their origin, they severely complicate research into superpowers. And most in the Public aren’t really aware of the difference between Metahumans and Parahumans

Cyberspace

During his time working at the Science Patrol, Dr. Michiyuki Ashihara discovered an ancient Super computer on the moon, known as the Moon Cell. Thanks to his prior research, he was able to reactivate it. Thanks to the special properties of the Archetype molecule it was able to perform computing power far beyond the level of any human made computer. It achieved this by using the Archetype to receive Data from the Future. However, when using this computer, Ashihara began receiving errors, which indicated that at some point in the future a cataclysm would occur, potentially as a result of the Ashihara’s own research. Not wanting his research to be stopped, but knowing that the Science Patrol would do so when they discovered the situation, Ashihara began taking steps to ensure that it would continue after he had to abandon the Science Patrol.

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Vampires

At various points throughout humanity’s history, they had been preyed on by a species known to in modern times as the Pillar Men, a race who fed on human blood. One of these Piller Men, Kars, created a device known as the Stone Mask. His goal was to evolve himself further, into an ultimate life form, but his device lacked the final piece it needed. However, when used on a human being, the Stone Mask awakened their potential, evolving them into a state that could be considered a lesser version of a Pillar Man. This new state would be known as a Vampire. Ultimately, Kars and his companion Eisidisi would slaughter every other pillar man save for two children in their quest to obtain ultimate status, and would plague humanity until the day they sealed themselves beneath the roman coliseum, in order to await the day when they could obtain perfection. In order to feed themselves while resting, a trap was set up to ensnare humans and drain them of blood. In the Fifth century, a man named Marcus Corvinus would encounter this trap, and escape with his life. Corvinus was descended from one of the vampires Kars had created thousands of years previously, and when he escaped the trap, he was infected by a virus that had been breeding within it. This Virus activated a recessive gene within Corvinus, and transformed him into a vampire. He would then go onto found the Corvinus Clan.

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Introduction to the Project

I’m currently running a group project via Discord known as “Grand Crossover Worldbuilding”. In this project, we take various series and attempt to combine them together into a cohesive whole. 

The project is democratically run. The series included are determined via vote. Using the series that have been voted in as building blocks, participants write up pitches which describe the world and how it is set up. These pitches are then put up for a vote, and if they pass they are added to our canon document. I will be posting the contents of that document on the blog gradually.

The project is open to new members at any date via the link below:

https://discord.gg/a8dS2ratmU

Introduction to the Project

I’m currently running a group project via Discord known as “Grand Crossover Worldbuilding”. In this project, we take various series and attempt to combine them together into a cohesive whole. 

The project is democratically run. The series included are determined via vote. Using the series that have been voted in as building blocks, participants write up pitches which describe the world and how it is set up. These pitches are then put up for a vote, and if they pass they are added to our canon document. I will be posting the contents of that document on the blog gradually.

The project is open to new members at any date via the link below:

https://discord.gg/a8dS2ratmU

so the academy is reviewing whether or not to remove Will Smith’s award and here are some interesting tweets about that :)

A Prime example…

Can you share that interns tweet?

1. Sam Maggs claims credit for naming Rivet

2. Intern at the time (now programmer) calls her on her bullshit and brings up how much of a toxic element she was (in a polite tone).

3. Maggs has to backpedal about being the one who named Rivet and pivots to "I'm angry because it was a team effort" when, in reality, she was clout chasing.

4. What Maggs hasn't done is address is she's been lying and trying to steal credit from the person who actually came up with the name for at least a 5 months.

November 2021. She was called out on March 2022. She's a shitheel who is purely out for herself. And remember, she left the project (possibly fired because she's toxic) 1.5 years before the game was finished, with other writers taking over for her.

Which means that anything she said about Rivet as a character is null and void. Her claims about both named Rivet and that Rivet is actually gay are both attempts at grabbing attention.

Why, you ask? Because the game she just finished working on, Tiny Tina's Wonderland, was just released and nobody is talking about it. She's desperately trying to farm clout and look progressive to get invited to some other project because that's how she operates.

She jumps from project to project, acts like a toxic bitch, leaves halfway through and then tries to act like she was a bigger influence on the game than she actually was. She's a leech.

Nobody should hire her, period.

Edit: She was stealing credit for at least 5 months, not 16. I have no idea why I put 16 down.

Can I just say, your beliefs on neopagans are a breath of fresh air compared to what one of my friends believe, namely that all Neopagans are white supremacists or some other such nonsense. I don’t personally believe in Neopaganism but my brother-in-law is one and is one of the friendliest guys around, so it always frustrates me when my friend says shit like that.

Unfortunately, Nazis have co-opted Norse myth since their inception. The "Black Sun" icon is composed of a wheel of SS marks. But they're not actually S.

It's actually the rune called Sowilo. It's where the "Sig" rune comes from and Sig eventually became Sieg, which is the first half of the Nazi chant. Translated it means "hail victory".

Unfortunately this has tainted a lot of Norse myths and concepts.

I don't think neopagans are bad people inherently. There is, unfortunately, a small percentage of neopagans (particularly Odinists) that are white supremacists explicitly because of the Nazi's appropriation of Norse myth.

But, on the whole, the entire religion should be separated from the Nazi stigma. The Hindus, Buddhists, etc, aren't demonized (or shouldn't be) for their use of the swastika and Norse neopagans shouldn't be demonized for using icons like Mjolnir or the Valknut.

What's your opinion on putin sympathizers?

I think sympathizing with Putin/Russia in this scenario is stupid and wrong.

It's like sympathizing with China over Hong Kong.

All kinds of fun for zucc lately

ok so

everyone knows about this meme, right?

but does anyone else know the woman who made the food? no? time to educate!

This is “Mother Mary”, the owner of Blackberry’s mother.

She made all the cakes for the restaurant while it was open. Chef Gordon Ramsay tried her red velvet cake, and spoke this meme-able line:

He then called Mary over, complimented her food, and gave her a peck on the cheek.

Look how happy she was to hear that!!!

anyways, I hope she has been able to continue her love for baking since the restaurant closed down.

No one is fucking talking about it but another black man was killed by the same police department that killed George Floyd they killed him 9 seconds after entering his apartment. No knock warrants are fucking bullshit. He was wrapped in his blanket he was innocent they had the wrong address there is body can cottage you cannot fucking deny this bullshit.

This is being hushed up and covered up and I cannot believe it took me until TODAY, SIX DAYS AFTER IT HAPPENED to find out about it.

Everyone should be talking about this shit.

All the BLM protests and here we are again. We cannot let a single one of these slide because that's how nothing changes and that's how innocent people are being killed at the hands of assholes who are happy to pull the trigger without hesitation. I'm so fucking upset right now and so should you be.

EDIT: THE ORIGINAL POST SAID NINE MINUTES I MEANT TO SAY NINE SECONDS

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His name was Amir Locke

mel blanc fuckign yelling

Tom Holland does Rihanna’s “Umbrella” on Lip Sync Battle

What is something objectively good that you don't like or hate?

My issue is that if I hate something, even if it's good up until that point, I don't continue engaging in it. If I dislike a game, I don't typically continue playing it.

If I dislike something, I typically do not dwell on it either, so I don't remember it.

Do you like anything that's objectively bad? Like, a guilty pleasure kind of thing?

I tend not to have guilty pleasures because I’m able to accept that I enjoy things that are badly crafted.

I’ve already said that Pacific Rim is largely nonsense but I love it anyway.

I adore Legend of Korra and Avatar the Last Airbender despite them having major flaws.

I enjoyed Horizon: Zero Dawn, despite me trashing the game’s story and characterization of Aloy.

Bad: Aliens who are bewildered by basic aspects of human society like cooking food and wearing clothes, implying that no similar practices exist anywhere else in the universe.

Good: Aliens who regard human society as largely unremarkable, but if questioned it rapidly becomes apparent that their understanding of the motive and purpose of various human cultural practices is subtly yet bizarrely askew.

There are a lot of little lines in TFA that sort of tip you off that something isnt quite right with the "heroic autobots" and it just gets more pronounced once you've noticed it. Like everything about Optimus's speech in the first episode. "We're all cogs in the great big autobot machine." Emphasizing the needs of the collective over everything else (and notice that this is apparently something he says a lot. Something he's internalized). "Don't try to be a hero, it's not in your programming." Idk bro sounds like functionism to me. But probably the most unsettling line is Ratchet's implication that they can just.. delete emotions. Just run a program and bam! That feeling of dissatisfaction with your lot in life? Gone. Thats a big old red flag if Ive ever seen one.

honor the request

my submission for the @jojofanzine !!!!

im very glad the editors of the zine were ok with me doing a 2 page comic about the passione gang being illiterate because i was deeply invested in that idea.

Rusell Dauterman’s X-Men Costume Variants

Do people forget what TERF stands for?  Do people forget what the R and F mean?

You don’t need to say “Radfems and terfs’.  That’s like saying "I hate flowers and roses”

you talk about communism but what do you think of freemarket capitalism?

I don't like pure, unfettered capitalism any more than I do absolute socalism. I prefer capitalism or more capitalist systems than more socialist systems but that doesn't mean I'm for 100% free market capitalism.

I believe regulation is needed at times. "The market" reacts, it doesn't preemptively stop things. If a kind of candy has crack in it, addicting the consumer, the market hasn't stopped a portion of people from getting addicted, it only serves to stop it AFTER the fact and by then it is too late.

It also can have an issue with monopolies. If any one company manages to get a stranglehold on any one market, be it due to expensive start up, the collapse of their major competitor or merging with their competitor, then the lack of regulation can keep that company at the top.

New start ups would be faced with near impossible odds as there'd be no protection for their product, so PepsiCoke Inc could buy out somebody trying to compete with them. Or get their recipe and sell their own 100% same product at a loss until it drives the competition out of business, since it's expensive to produce soda on a large scale.

It has issues with location. If a company is dumping waste into a river that causes a town to get sick, there's zero explicit pressure to stop that if they sell their product outside that area. If some Illinois podunk town gets wrecked will the New Yorkers consuming that product care? Isn't that exactly the issue with China now, where people are happy to buy iPhones made from (essentially) slave labor?

And then there's the issue with cartels, which capitalism encourages because non-competition and price fixing at a bottleneck overly rewards the companies engaging in that practice. Sure, it means everyone gets a slice of the pie, but they all get to get more pie than if they fought one another for customers.

A lot of libertarians believe that capitalism, unfettered and free market, could solve a lot of issues. But they operate on a similar line of thinking as communists; they assume everyone will play fair, which by human nature there will be people who don't. There are people who are going to violate the NAP (as much of a meme as it is) and put their finger on the scale.

Both extremes of capitalism/communism are utopian ideals. As always, there's a balance to be had. And that's why I don't consider myself a capital L Libertarian, I just have some libertarian ideas.

I prefer a mix. I like my country's universal healthcare, I don't mind taxes but I wish they were lower and, overall, I want to see a scaling back of government control. But I still want there to be some government presence for things like industry regulation, various protections and laws, like copyright/patent laws.