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This guy is the LA Beast (skippy62able on youtube). He does crazy stupid shit and this video which is titled "Science Experiment Involving Cinnamon And Fire Goes Terribly Wrong" is a great example. It's worth noting he's semi(?)-allergic to cinnamon and used to have horrible allergic reactions as a kid. This is sure to go well.

First, he takes a few Miracle Berries because it will "help him consume the cinnamon foods pain-free." He doesn't do this to "cure" his allergy, he wants to see if Miracle Berries can mask the burning sensation cinnamon gives him (spoilers: they can not). He foolishly believes the berries will save him.

He takes a handful of cinnamon flavored jelly beans which unsurprisingly starts to make his tongue burn. This is where the coughing begins.

He takes a handful of cinnamon Altoids (or as he calls them "mints on steroids"). The back of his mouth is burning and his face starts to flush. It just goes downhill from here.

He takes an Atomic Fireball and a handful of Hot Tamales at the same time. After a few seconds of pain he says "apparently I have a serious allergic reaction to cinnamon" and starts to question if the Miracle Berries actually make spicy things not spicy (they do not).

He pauses for a moment to say he feels like his head is being held over a burning fire but despite his body and God himself telling him to stop, he doesn't.

He takes six (6) Big Red gum strips. He mentions twice before that he had extreme allergic reactions specifically to those as a kid. Now his whole mouth feels like it's on fire. He spits out the wad of gum and sits in pain for a while.

He dumps a mouthfull of straight up cinnamon powder into his burning mouth. He lasts 19 seconds trying to keep it in but inevitably spits it out which is the moment of the gif above. Cinnamon powder fogs the room a bit, his face is flushed as fuck, and he's coughing and sputtering.

Immediately after the cinnamon storm from hell comes out of his mouth, in obvious pain, he takes two (2) gulps of Cinna Burst and promptly spits it out. Cinnamon powder and Cinna Burst stains the carpet of his apartment bedroom.

That finishes the consumables part of the challenge. He says that in conclusion Miracle Berries do jack shit if you're allergic to cinnamon. I've watched some of his videos over the years and he's a pretty smart and clever dude when he's not doing stupid shit but this must be the dumbest thing I've heard him say.

It is already very bad and concerning, but it gets worse. He makes a homemade fireball (aka a cotton ball on fire) that he is going to hold in his hand to show the audience that "things that are hot are not really hot." This man is a different breed, possibly not human.

He lights the cotton ball in his hand, confidently says "it's not so bad" before he quickly starts panicking and tossing it between his hands. He manages to get out a sarcastic, joking comment about proving to the audience that fire isn't hot, meanwhile he's in obvious pain. He drops it on the carpet, exclaims "oh shit, it's on the carpet, dude!", then throws it in a bowl of water.

He lights another one in his hand. He fucking lights another one. This time he seems more calm, or as calm as you can be while holding something on fire. "I can do this all day." He can not. He manages to hold the cotton ball between his hands for 32 seconds before dropping it again and stopping there.

I want to address the associated concerns first before tackling the main subject matter first since that one is...very complicated. The concern with 'power scaling' in RWBY is that we don't have a very clear view of the hierarchy of power within RWBY. For example, most shounen series (which RWBY takes some inspiration from), you can usually understand where characters lie in relation to each other in terms of physical strength. For example, we know that, in the OG Dragon Ball, that Krillin and Goku are roughly in the same league as each other with Master Roshi being roughly stronger than them or equal to Goku. This is why Goku defeating King Piccolo is such an iconic moment: it firmly places him above not just Piccolo but also Roshi, who couldn't beat Piccolo.

There isn't really that kind of structure to RWBY: best we know is 'Jaune sucks' and even that isn't as firm a measurement anymore. Pyrrha is strong...but is she stronger than Qrow? What about Winter? What about James? What about Watts, Tyrian, Hazel? And we can kind of guess Salem is stronger but not by much.

This also bleeds into the other associated issue of 'The heroes don't beat the villains themselves.' In a battle series, villains like these will usually be taken out by the heroes, not just because of power scaling but because they usually act as personal obstacles for the heroes. It also makes them feel more proactive, that they stop the active force trying to make the world worse. If a hero doesn't confront the villain, many people feel like they aren't the driving force behind the plot then.

Both of these bleed into the 'heroes don't feel stronger' point: that in a battle series, character development coinsides with the development of strength. That as the show progress and the hero grows as a person, this growth is manifested (literally or symbolicly) as the hero becoming stronger. Without proper powerscaling, these expectations make the heroes look flatter. And without them defeating the villains: it looks as though the heroes are just being pushed along by the narrative.

...But that's not always the case.

Let me do my usual thing and filter this through Gurren Lagann: I could not tell you for the life of me what the specifics of Gurren Lagann's powerscaling is. Anti-Spiral>Lordgenome>Four Generals and that's kind of it. Where does Viral, the main recurring rival, fit into all this? Beyond 'weaker than Lordgenome', couldn't tell you. He could be weaker than the Four Generals, he could be as strong. He could be even stronger given his upgrade before getting stomped by Simon in the mid-series finale. How do the Four Generals stack up against each other? I dunno. We never get any info in the show to say. To say nothing of how I don't know the members of Team Gurren stand up against each other, other than 'Simon strongest'. The powerscaling in Gurren Lagann isn't very good.

Because that's not the point. Gurren Lagann is a battle series but it's focus isn't on the fights but rather what the fights represent. We don't know the whole powerscaling deal because the villain's power isn't the point. It's the fact that they create stagnation and force people to conform to their world whereas the heroes fight for freedom and the ability to shape the world as they please. Stagnation and stasis are major themes among the villains: they can't grow or change unlike the heroes. By overcoming them, it shows that the heroes are overcoming the challenges in gaining freedom.

As for 'not defeating the villains'...well, we have Lord of the Rings. Where yes, members of the fellowship do defeat Sauron's forces but the main heroes, Samwise and Frodo, don't really engage in the major conflicts. They don't kill any generals, nor do they strike a blow against Sauron's forces. At best, Samwise defeats a giant spider and that's it. They do kill Sauron in the end but not in a climactic battle but by sneaking into the forges of Mount Doom and destroying the ring. Because the battles aren't the point: the journey itself is. The battles are simply the most common form of resistance, but the heroes also have to overcome harsh climates, rough terrain and the mental weight of the One Ring's evil. The point is how hard the journey is but they must see this duty to the end.

This all culminates in the fact that the strength of the heroes in these stories are either secondary or just not relevant. Because strength isn't a theme in these stories.

The point is that these issues aren't necessarily problems. They only become problems when strength is a major theme in the story. And RWBY's relationship with 'strength' isn't exactly the same as most shounen series. Early on, battles are won through feats of great strength and/or skill but things start to take a turn around the end of V3. There, Cinder wins over Pyrrha in a contest of battle prowess, meaning that the villain should just win here. Except Ruby awakens to a new power that changes the context of the scene from a villainous victory to a pyrrhic one. Cinder won...but was deeply scarred in an act that sends her spiraling down from her lofty position that she only barely recovered from. Her strength's meaning was damaged.

From here, battles start changing from just contests of prowess to just being another storybeat. Sure, Raven also wins against Cinder and gets the Lamp...but she doesn't truly win because her cowardice made her short-sighted and she was forced to flee because she refused the other option. Cinder and Neo clash but who is stronger wasn't the point: it was setting up Neo antagonism that undoes her later. The heroes won against Cordovon...but that win doesn't really matter when they have to go off and save the city from a Kaiju sized Grimm since they can't leave just yet. This isn't to say that the normal way of fights is gone. Yang and Blake triumphing over Adam is still a classic example. But not every fight is about these climatic showdowns. They're just another story beat. Because RWBY is about the innate heroism of people vs. choosing to hurt and become villains. Sometimes it's appropriate to have a villain die in battle against the heroes. It's also appropriate to have a villain die because his endless cynicism got him killed. Or that a woman's refusal to let go of her pain makes her repeat the same mistakes over and over again. Or that a smug jackass dies alone and in an offhand because his ego pissed someone off for the last time.

Dear Headless Horsepowered,

there’s…so much to unpack here, it’s atrocious.

sorry to break it to them, but Nasrallah was a butcher and a terrorist in the most obvious definition of the word, and Hezbollah is a terrorist organization by every definition of that term, and that would remain true even if they had never fired a single rocket at Israel, because of all the other lives they’ve destroyed and helped to kill. I know these people are so lost in the Jew hatred that up is down and left is right, but I continue to be astounded at how little the other innocent lives of the region - across ethnicities, religions, and nationalities - mean to any of them. the betrayal of Syrians and Iranians is particularly galling here.

“I stand with the axis of resistance.” lady are you for real right now? you stand with the Islamic Republic and its proxies? is this idiocy, extreme white saviorism and Western privilege, what is going on

the Nazi flag on the TOTE BAG, that’s not even a SIGN, it’s a bag that had to be painted (printed? can’t tell) to include that.

the Marilyn Monroe sign is vile in so many ways, and I don’t know if they used her on purpose to take a jab at her conversion, or if they just thought they were being clever juxtaposing her with a serial abuser who grossly stole her name, idolizes and is obsessed with Nazi symbols and propaganda and associates with Neo-Nazis, but whatever the case, it’s repulsive. keep her name out of your mouths and her face off of your hate signs.

the rat is just unambiguous antisemitic imagery

the flag where the Magen David is a swastika but is also crossed out?

always incredible to see ancient medieval blood libel and Protocols of the Elders of Zion propaganda coexisting in the exact same rally. really proves the dedication to the cause to invoke the exact same worn out tropes that got Jews persecuted and slaughtered for centuries.

the inverted triangle is a Hamas signal to designate targets they seek to kill, this is openly celebrating October 7th.

KKK hood with a Star of David on it is going to make the KKK mad tbh. they reassembled themselves as a group after lynching a Jewish man. they want us exterminated too. “zio” is the slur the KKK popularized.

“antisemitism card” ironic given the blatant hate going on here and the (((agenda))) referenced is ZOG conspiracies.

“intern all Zionists” ah yes, let’s start rounding suspected (((Zionists))) up and put them in camps, surely that will go well.

Like, my good bitch, you abandoned Palestine the second you praised terrorists who treat Palestinians like disposable fodder as a noble resistance force. And you did so AGAIN when you praised Hezbollah.

Right, cuz everyone knows the ones holding hostages get to make the demands for the ceasefire. That's totally how the law works.

Y'all are fucking clowns. XD Even Palestinians do not want Hamas ruling Gaza, they literally have said the worst outcome for them will be this ending with Hamas still in charge.

And every time Hamas ends one of these conflicts still in charge, they end up killing more Israeli's, why would Israel accept that kind of deal? Especially when the prisoners Hamas wants released are violent criminals who committed terror attacks on Israel.

Hamas uses schools and hospitals to house weapons and soldiers, making them military targets by the laws of war. Even so, Israel has never directly targeted either.

They've never murdered journalists in cold blood. The journalists killed were in a bombing zone (which are targeting Hamas members and bases) and besides, more often than not they were working with Hamas to commit terrorism. They were hardly innocent victims.

"forcibly sterilize Ethiopian women." That claim was proven false, Israel did no such thing.

Show me where Israel said Israel's biggest problem was black people. Then please go on to explain how this has fuck all to do with the Israeli Palestine conflict.

"white people invading and slaughtering POC" way to prove your racism. The Jewish are not white, and Hamas invaded and slaughtered the Jewish to start this conflict, not the other way around. Trying to paint this as a "white vs PoC" conflict just demonstrates how much you do not have a fucking clue what you're talking about and are quite possibly the most ignorant, biased source on what's happening possible.

Ah yes, cuz everyone knows the Nazis believed in Jewish Self-determination. They're famous for it, in fact.

Oh ho ho ho yes they fucking have, they aren't even targeting the schools with missiles, but rather storming them with landmines & then immediately detonating them.

Oh I'm sorry, how could I forget that simply criticizing the actions of a nation automatically makes you a tewwowist, so it's a-okay to bomb them 🙃

We never trusted police departments when the undergo internal investigation, are we really gonnaput our trust in governments when they do the same?

If anything that comes out of Judith Varnai Shorer's mouth really.

If that were the case then how do ethiopian jews exist? Or Indian Jews, or the Mizrahi jews, or the Sephardi Jews, and so on and so forth. White Jews do exist, fuck man, you can convert to Judaism. My guy it's no fucking secret how much Ashkenazic Jews are discriminatory towards other Jewish diaspora, ESPECIALLY ethiopian jews. Also, if Hamas truely was only targeting jews, then why do they never target Palestinian Jews? Oh but you know who does kill Palestinian Jews? The Israeli Occupational Force, just as they've mercilessly & indiscriminately killed Palestinian Arabs & Christians. It's always been about white supremacy just as it's always been about colonization & imperialism. Israel is an apartheid, America's puppet in order to conquer the Middle East. You think they're gonna stop at Palestine? Egypt's already next on the chopping block. Fuck it wouldn't even be the first time they've attacked Egypt either, they are an extension of America's evil. Full stop.

And for fucks sake

Never

And I repeat

NEVER

Insinuate Judaism & Zionism are one in the same thing. How fucking dare you. Zionism is a nationalist movement that has only existed for a little over a century. Hundreds of Thousands of Jewish people over the globe have been against the zionists movement since it's inception. Hasidic Jews especially are critical of Zionism, which of course the Israeli government is all to gleeful to commit police brutality against, can't let them break the illusion of judaism=zionism 🫠. I mean for fucks sake, Theodor Herzl, you know, the dude how invented zionism, didn't even practice Judaism, even Israeli ministers don't consider him a jew, the movement itself was founded by non-believers. And yet Zionists today still claim it's their "religious right" to colonize Palestine & relocate thousands upon thousands of Palestinians from their homes. The fact that you'd so quickly equate a religion that teaches peace and brotherly love to a nationalist colonialist movement that exercise it's might through wanton death and destruction, shows just how much you've lot the fucking plot, bud

No they haven't, and feel free to prove the "landmines blowing up schools" claim. Anything but Palestinian sources will at least make your claim somewhat possible at least.

"simply criticizing the actions of a nation." Recording yourselves with hand grenades during the October 7th massacre and posing with the leader of Hamas is not "simply criticizing the actions of a Nation." And again, as I said, Israel has not deliberately targeted any journalists.

HA! that's HILARIOUS given you trust Hamas and Hamas-controlled sources. You can't claim to distrust government's and then turn around and trust every source controlled by a government that would butcher them all if they didn't say what they wanted them to say.

"Hamas doesn't target Palestinian Jews." Palestine is 98% Arab, most Palestinian Jews were purged long ago ya fucking clown. XD that or they came from Israel. And there being "white" Jews does not make the people of Israel white, something you only want to be true so you can paint this as "white colonizers vs poor helpless natives." The claim literally only exists to delegitimize Jewish nativity to the region and YOU FUCKING KNOW IT.

"Egypt's next on the chopping block." PUH-LEASE, pull your head from your ass. You are full of shit and spreading blatant lies. You claiming they're "an extension of America's evil" makes that DOUBLY clear. You have literally nothing of value to say about this conflict given your very clear stupidity and bias.

First, where did I equate Judaism and Zionism?

Second, Zionism is, point blank period, the belief in Jewish self-determination. That is the definition of Zionism. And as Jewish people have been telling idiots like you, very few Jews are not Zionists.

They did it again.

THIS IS WHAT HINDUS ARE DEALING WITH IN INDIA!!!!

Open your eyes!!

Not one hindu celebration can go peacefully without this community flipping out and attacking our rallies!!!

Hindus have had enough!

We are tired of this shit.

AGAIN NO ONE WILL CONDEMN THIS AND IF HINDUS SPEAK ABOUT THIS WE WILL BE LABELLED AS ISLAMOPHOBIC!

Literally every hindu festival is marked by stone pelting by Islamists in some area of India or another.

And they did this before 22nd jan.

i have about 10 generations back of family buried in PALESTINE, who’s graves i can’t even visit thanks to like likes of israelis. ur on the wrong side of history.

Oh, My great grandmother was banished and had most of her family killed in Yemen!

Tiberias: where Jews existed for so long, their bones are embedded in the stones. As it existed as a small community since before 20AD, and was built as a city in name of a Roman emperor during Roman rule, and took in banished Jews from Jerusalem.

"We have lived under unjust rule for more than 16 years. Hamas imposed heavy taxes on us and now they have dragged us into a devastating war in which we lost our property, money and homes," he told the BBC.

"I used to live in a good house and work in trade. Now what will we do? The crossings are closed, the company has been destroyed, and the house is not fit for habitation due to the destruction.

"The worst thing that could happen to us is that we return under Hamas rule when the war ends".

That's their main objective.

Leo Kearse had a field day with that.

2:02 "Woke Progressives helped the first-ever Muslim [city] council get elected in the United States in Hamtrack, Michigan. The Muslim Council immediately turned around and banned Pride flags."

"So the Muslim politicians allied with the progressives to get into power, but then once they were in power, they passed laws according to their own homophobic ideology. If only there'd been some evidence of homophobic laws in the Muslim world to tip off the progressives!"

The fired at a US military helicopter and went straight to the fuck around and find out section of the rules of engagement.

They took 25 innocent hostages.

We still don't know where they are.

Fuck Houthi Terrorists

You can't nonviolently target civilian ships with ballistic missiles.

Arabs attack people, take hostages and they make excuses, sometimes even borderline acting as tho they can't help but be violent. Non-arabs (be them Jewish or American or what-have-you) retaliate, trying to do what people have always done in response: reduce their ability to keep attacking, and they cry out in outrage acting like it's some horrific act of aggression and colonization and blah blah blah.

And btw, the ONLY reason the Houthis killed no one is because American soldiers shot their missiles out of the sky before they hit the ships they were launched at. The Houthis 100% intended to butcher entire ships of people.

Normal people suggest that it is possible to enjoy a game where the main character isn’t actually supposed to represent who you are in real life.

They cannot see themselves in the characters they see, thus they must force characters to represent them individually, which spirals and begins branching further and further into less relatable behavioral patterns and identifying traits.

The cycle continues, until we arrive here, where Carol Danvers is an absolute fucking monster who lies constantly, breaks promises, disregards everyone around here as lesser, and shows not a drop of remorse as she causes world destroying humanitarian crises, all while immune to accountability.