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Yeah, I never watched the final season so I only know about it secondhand, but the idea that Pinkie Pie ended up marrying Celebrity Cameo Weird Al Yankovic does hit weird.

I'm not, like, super up in arms about it like the personal enmity I have for Sunburst. But it's definitely weird.

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I also have complicated feelings about the canonization of the AJ/Rainbow Dash ship.

Like. I'm glad that two of the Mane Six get canonized as a same-sex couple. That's an LGBT win no matter who it is. But it's also kinda weird because that's not the ship they were tripping over themselves to tease.

I was never an AJ/Rarity shipper. I actually shipped AJ with Twilight because I loved their dynamic in the early seasons. But AJ/Rarity was the popular ship, and as the series got more brony-focused, they started throwing more and more red meat to the AJ/Rarity shippers.

You know that one Taylor Swift song that's like "She's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers?" That's kinda how it felt. Rarity's cheer captain and Twilight's on the bleachers.

But then prom came and neither of them was prom queen and instead the spotlight was shone on some random stoner girl getting high over by the wall, who looked as shocked and confused to get crowned as everyone else was. XD

I mean, that's not entirely fair. AJ/Rainbow Dash certainly had its share of shippers. But still.

So part of me is just all spiteful like "Yeah, we didn't win it but she didn't either so EAT IT, RARITY." Even though I like Rarity and she's actually my second-favorite character in the show.

But then the more critical part of me is like, "Okay, but why isn't it Rarity? They teased the shit out of AJ/Rarity. What possible reason could there be for it not to be Rarity when they were doing things like this throughout the rest of the show?"

The cynical part of me thinks they picked Rainbow Dash just because AJ and RD are the "butch" characters. Same reason they were given male predecessors in the Pillars of Equestria stuff while Fluttershy, Rarity, and PInkie Pie (the more traditionally feminine ponies) had female predecessors.

I was surprised too when I saw that it has a 90% Freshness at Rotten Tomatoes and has already made almost a billion dollars. Critics love the movie and it's selling like hotcakes.

Which means this is basically No Way Home all over again. Everyone loves it except me sitting over here not really understanding what all the hype's about.

I mean, with NWH, I did understand what the hype was about. The hype was about getting to see Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, Alfred Molina, Willem Dafoe, etc. all sharing screentime in a single movie. I did not like that movie but I wasn't surprise that the general reception among critics and audiences alike was "OH MY GOOOOOOD"

Not really sure what the hype for BND is about.

Though I will say that between the two, I did like BND more than No Way Home, but that's not a high bar to clear. At least BND had an attempt at a message that could resonate with modern audiences.

In a sense, Peter's arc is about work/life balance in the age of the gig economy, though it still doesn't have much of value to say there. "You shouldn't spend all day driving Uber for people and should focus on your friends and family too" is a message that kinda misses the point of why people have to spend all day driving Uber. It's presented strictly as a personal choice Peter makes for himself.

By contrast, the central message of No Way Home was "The Sony Corporation has created an exciting library of amazing Spider-Man products for you to buy and enjoy. Check your streaming service for availability!"

So that's a point in BND's favor, meager though it is.

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Some of these numbers are really interesting to me. It seems like Godly Ki interacts with the Devilmite Beam in weird ways. Shin, Whis, Beerus, and Champa are completely immune.

SSG and SSB Goku take slightly less damage than SS1 Goku (every version of base Goku is immune, but almost every Super Saiyan character takes slightly more damage than their base form).

Vegeta, who normally takes a ton more damage from the Devilmite Beam than Goku, takes the exact same amount of damage as Goku in SSG and SSB. UIS and UI Goku are immune.

And God Top takes much LESS damage than regular Top, I think God Top actually takes the least damage of any character who isn't immune.

Funnily enough, Goten is immune but Trunks takes a little damage, so Mighty Mask takes the same damage as Trunks.

Gohan is never immune to the Devilmite Beam. He actually takes more damage as he gets older (though he takes less damage when dressed up as the Great Saiyaman). Future Gohan takes quite a bit of damage.

For some reason, the Ginyu Force are all less evil than Raditz, but of them, Recoome is the least evil and Burter is the most evil.

Nam and Uub are immune, even Teen GT Uub is immune. Though Majuub isn't.

Tenshinhan being less evil than Yamcha is hilarious evidence supporting a post you made about how Yamcha probably has a higher body count considering he was an active bandit while Tenshinhan was just in-training to be an assassin. Tenshinhan being less evil than Krillin and Chiaotzu is some bullshit, though.

Here's a miss: DBS Broly takes the same amount of damage as DBZ Broly.

Heh. That's a really fun detail to add. I wonder how they calculated who's more evil than who?

I think he'd stay on the Light but probably would not be a very high-ranking Jedi. Or, that is to say, he'd have been taken in as a Padawan and would learn the technique of lightsaber forms and Force manipulation at an accelerated rate, but would struggle with their philosophies.

Goku would probably be something of a maverick Jedi, not so different from Anakin; Quick to throw himself into action without fully considering the situation. This would chafe against the sensibilities of his masters and limit his upward mobility despite putting in the work to be one of the most technically skilled Jedi in the Order.

Electric eels are biologically very different from a regular eel. They're not technically eels at all, in fact! They're South American knifefish.

This makes them incredibly difficult to make food out of. First because the overwhelming majority of their body is made up of an inedible organ that essentially acts like an organic battery. What little edible muscle they have is a mushy mess littered with tiny pin bones that are intensely difficult to separate from the tiny percentage of edible material.

All this is to say that trying to make any sort of edible food out of an electric eel is a nightmare of a process that is generally unsafe and not worth the effort. One cannot simply fillet and grill an electric eel the way they would a freshwater eel to make unajyu.