Mm-hm 😊

Thank you for asking 🙂🤝

Yeah, it's indoctrination. That lineage-based crap. Being betrayed by the person he respected the most just when he'd made the adjustment that he'd always been told was the issue should fix that.

He knows now that it was never a matter of inadequacy and that their system is just shit from the ground up. He was robbed of any chance of being his own definition of a success just because of who his parents are.

No matter how loyal he is, how hard he works, and how consistently he follows their rules, he's still gonna be looked down on. It won't take him long to see that that's essentially the same as what's being done to the other races.

If he's treated that unfairly even as a human, he's gonna know it'd be worse if he was anything else. We got us a badass rebel in the making ✊

Although the ideology "Only the strong survive. Weak individuals weaken the society as a whole." is cruel, it is at least practical. As a disabled person I hate it, it makes me wanna cry, but I'd be lying if I said it was stupid.

Now on the other hand "The circumstances of your birth (which you can't control) determines whether or not you have the right to be strong."... THAT is something I could poke a few holes in 🤔

I would be happy even with a lot less than besties. A Goku/Vegeta relationship would be plenty satisfying. Considering how bad this racism is, that might actually be better for their cause.

"He's not all that different from us. Most of them aren't. For fuck's sake maybe try actually talking to someone before you label them inferior." would be the truth, but it would get an IRL ex-racist labeled a race traitor. They wouldn't be able to help with diplomacy after that, so in a sense it's not really the right thing to say.

But "Dude, he's strong. A lot of them are strong. You can learn more about fighting if you don't kill everyone you fight. Just spar and learn. It's just a transaction. You don't have to respect them. Just keep your head on straight enough to pay attention." would basically be diplomacy masquerading as greed.

It'd get them all actually in close quarters and talking to each other with motivation to reign in their hostility, which is really all that needs to happen. They'll be able to make their judgment firsthand and see with their own eyes how wrong racism is.

It really shouldn't even take any empathy or compassion to understand this. Even if you take morality off the table entirely and don't care about anything but personal gain, racism is just plain counterproductive.

It's inefficient to enslave people and limit their contributions to only labor or sex or whatever you're making them do, when with education they could also contribute more complex stuff like ideas. They could invent things.

If someone you don't like figures out how to turn poop into pizza that doesn't mean you have to start liking them. It just means easier pizza. I'm not gonna act like I'm above any and all forms of hatred, but it never supersedes pizza.

As a wise awkward recluse's non-canon sassy emo-haired version once said,

"You can Socrates nuts 🥜"

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Fr though. Guy's so salty a cannonball could float on him.

Every competitive gamer knows a slur is more flattering than a fistbump if it comes from someone you beat.

Just pound it ya DLC tier whore 🤜🤛

Idk if he'll join the MC (hope so) but I definitely think you're right about him not dying. That backstory is way too good.

Sometimes extreme measures are taken to establish a character as a villain, but that can be done with a lot less work. It'd be more effective for him to kill someone who's weaker.

People are allowed to like things m8.

Nihilism is poison.

That would be so awesome. I hope that liddle teacup titan sticks around too.

Agreed times infinity plus one 😳

She don't have any competition that I'm aware of, never seen an attractive dwarf in my life before meow, but winning is winning 🤙🏆

To be clear just in case any IRL little people or their admirers see this, I mean the fictional Dwarven race exclusively. Y'all are cuter than a puppy and a kitten napping in the same ramen noodle bowl all coiled up lookin' like a fur yin-yang 🥰

Oh I just noticed you're the same person who made the joke. Sorry, that probably sounded more harsh than I meant it. I wasn't agreeing with them.

That person was dickhole empire nobility and your joke was poggers 🤙

Oh God, I'm so sorry I brought those fuckers to the front of your mind. Drop your cashapp and I'll buy you a beer or coffee or something.

I hate Githyankis. Like everything about them. All the way down to how their racial features are so good that I still wanted to play one, but there's no muscular build version. I would have to be like a frog skeleton.

Frogs are cute because they're chubby. If I'm gonna be a frog I wanna be chubby. I want a chubby tummy and chubby cheeks. Skellies are cool because they're spooky with the ribs and skull and all that. If I'm gonna be a skelly I wanna be spooky. Frog skelly just sucks.

I think racism IRL is like one of the most toxic counterproductive cancerous ways anyone can think, but the Githyankis forced me say to myself "I get it now... I don't agree with it, but I can't say it doesn't make sense 😞"

Gish is a blanket term for anyone that uses a combination of magic and physical attacks in combat. Like Negi Springfield. He's a little kid but he seems like he's strong and sturdy because his magic adds force to his martial arts strikes, and cushions impact when he gets hit by stuff. He also has ranged magic like projectile things. Negi's the GOAT.

Another example would be someone who uses ranged weapons like bows or guns, but the bullets/arrows/bolts or whatever they're using as ammo has magical properties. Don't quote me on this but I think by definition it has to be their own magic they're using to power their stuff. Like if they're infusing their own mana into their shots, or if their ammo is made of pure magic.

Like in a lot of fiction, magic bullets/arrows/weapons are standalone things and if you have them you can use them. You don't gotta know anything about magic. I'm not sure if someone is still a Gish if they just have magic gear. Of course this isn't gatekeeping, it's just word definitions.

Sorry again for making you think someone who shares your taste in manga likes Githyankis. If you ever need to talk I'm here. And if you'd rather just punch someone, I'm pretty tough and I also kinda deserve it.

And if it makes you feel any better, I just finished up the creche a few hours ago. There were only four people in the whole place I knocked out instead of killing because they were the only ones who didn't insult me.

I thought of that immediately when they mentioned that downward slash thing in his back story. I was like a thousand percent sure a reference to it was coming before the end of the chapter. I'm astounded that it stil hasn't.

I can never remember Bruce Lee's nationality though. He might not be Korean like the author but c'mon errybody knows Bruce Lee!! He taught us all what to drink during exercise! It's WAH-TAHHHH!!!

I only remember most famous people because I know which martial art comes from which country, but the martial art I associate with Bruce Lee is um.... Idk how to spell it. Sounds like "Jeet Koon Doh" and I know he invented it, so it doesn't make me think of any country.

Exactly! It was priceless! I imagined little kids doing pretend fighting 🤣😂🤣😂

"Hey that knocks you down! It's a bazooka!"
"Nuh-uh! I got a psychic forcefield!"
"F-... No you don't!"
"Yeah-huh! It comes from my ghost energy!"
"What the f-... We're playin' army guys!"
"I'm a psychic ghost army guy!"
"Motherfuc-... I ain't playin' no more!"
"You said a bad word! I'm tellin'!"
"Nuh-uh!"

Or in this case

"C'mon you gotta at least make up new stuff!"
"Nuh-uh! This works on everything!"
"Motherf-... How!?"
"Because shut up, that's how!"
"Ok new rule. You can't block 6 sentences with 2 words!"
"I use Spiral Guard to block the new rule!"
Then the kid gets so mad he starts using racial slurs even though both kids are the same race 🤣

Ehh, idk, I think it's kinda funny when people do over-the-top dramatic reactions to puns and dad jokes.

And it really makes me giggle when people type the way they'd speak if they were holding someone over the edge of a cliff by their throat with one hand.

Like "You stfu and listen to me right now, you piece of human garbage!" kinda stuff 🤣

Though, it's been a month and they haven't replied, so I guess you're probably right and they were serious.

If it was a newer comment I'd be sure the intensity was part of their bit and they actually liked the pun.

That's why I love Dead or Alive so much. Spamming is more punishable than any game I've ever played. If you can't read and don't have mix-ups, you're toast. Warm buttery toast 🔪🍞🧈 Nummers 😋

No matter what you wanna do, if they know what to do about it and they know it's coming and when it's coming, it won't work 🤷 Nothing will 🤣 It's freakin' cray-cray how old of a game it is too. Sucks I only recently found it.

Granted, it's got the most wonky hurtboxes I've ever seen. They're an atrocity. You can get hit by chest-height strikes when you're down almost flat on your back on the ground, but I'll get used to it. The spam punishing is worth a lot to me.

I know it's not an mmo, but spamming is a scourge in a lot of fighting games too.

Idk, I don't take him as the type who could be psyched out like that. There's also something I've noticed that seems consistent enough that there is probably a proper term for it in psychology but idk it.

I've seen quite a few fights where it was a lot of people against only 1, and the whole group seemed to think that just because there was a lot of them, that they personally were not gonna have to do anything.

Like they all seemed to think everyone else was gonna dive right in and they were just gonna hang back and the chaos was gonna prevent everyone from noticing they weren't actually helping.

I can see that working, definitely. If they were the only one in the group who was planning on doing it it'd probably work consistently, but in these videos it seemed like the whole group was thinking the same thing.

Even a mouse will bite a snake if it's cornered, and mice share most of our DNA, so of course the 1 person is terrified and going all out. The group all backs off because none of them really want it enough to try that hard. They just thought it would be easy.

Don't get me wrong, that's not what's gonna happen here. These guys seem to all have personal vendettas and they all know it's not gonna be easy. I was just saying that to show people get really emboldened when they think they're not alone.

Not only a kick instead of a punch, but it might be even more fucked up than that 😡😡😡😡😡

I'm not sure, and even if I'm right, I think he missed the spot, but it looked like he was aiming for his liver. I haven't been hit in mine yet (thank fuck) so idk firsthand but I don't need to. That hurts like hell 😡😡😡

I hit someone else's one time when I was a teenager and this was before I knew any of this, so I wasn't even aiming for it. He had the most wildly over-the-top reaction to it that I thought he was being dramatic on purpose. He reacted like I kicked his nuts. Didn't understand it until later.

It's at the bottom of the rib cage on the right hand side and for some stupid reason (that makes me wanna kick evolution's ass) the rib cage doesn't quite cover up the whole thing.

Even on very muscular people, thats a spot where there's just not much muscle there, so if they've got a lean body composition there's still very little difference between that and someone as skinny as Saotome when it comes to liver shots.

Bodyfat is the only thing that can naturally protect it even a little bit, and fat is squishy, so that's still not much. It's a bad place to get hit no matter who you are.

There are easier ways to hit it, like a shovel punch or kicking with the toe or the pointy part of the heel. It barely takes any force to fucking floor anyone with a liver shot, so you would have to really be going overboard to use the bottom of your heel like that 😭

Although it's vulnerable, the liver is the only organ that can regenerate, so if I'm right then that was pretty much the most cruel thing he could've possibly done without causing a long-lasting injury. It has been mentioned that Kuzuhana aims for vital spots, so she would definitely know all of this and would have recognized it for exactly what it was.

Like I said, when I did it it was an accident, so it wouldn't be a fair presumption in all cases, but in this one I think it's safe to assume he knows what he's doing. This a VERY "Frieza on planet Namek"-esque situation. We might be about to witness the birth of a Super Sand Lesbian.

That's the name the author uses??? Cheese and rice, that pisses me off more than them ending this manga 💢😤💢

Did nobody tell them a pen name can be anything??? How you gonna get famous and use a 3-digit number as a pen name? It better at least be some kinda reference to something.

Dude I could crap ten better pen names outta my ass in 10 minutes.

Ehh, actually I better not. With my luck one of them will probably be a real person and it'll look like I'm them pulling some petty proxy dickotry.

What. I thought there was only like two of those. You fuckin' with me?? Don't get me wrong, I deserve it, but I'm a whiny bitch. I am always the victim 👍

Remember in most franchises magic isn't just for fighting. It has a lot of utility too. If I had to choose one or the other just for combat I'd rather have the strength/coordination/sturdiness just because it's simpler.

My main reference would be Dungeons and Dragons. Combat is way harder for magic classes at least at low level, but if you pick one of those you get utility spells that help the whole group. And not just obvious stuff.

Like you can make food and water out of nothing, so if you're out in the middle of nowhere people won't have to spend time hunting animals. And you can alter matter, like if you need to get through a wall you can create a door.

Of course a strong character could just smash through the wall, and everyone else could walk through it, but that would be noisy and leaves evidence. If you do the door thing you can turn it back into a normal wall after everyone's through it.

I play wizard and my wife plays rogue, so with the right DM crime can be pretty fun. And like if you need to get across some kinda chasm, a strong character can just jump across it, but not the other ones.

The magic user can make a bridge for everyone. You can also use tools like ropes, like the strong person can jump over first and rig up something everyone else can use, but it takes longer.

You'll also sometimes find magic gear that has a curse on it. Like if it's heavy armor or a huge weapon a wizard can't use it, but if the strong person just picks it up the curse will get them. So wizard removes the curse and the other person can use it safely