I don't know exactly when or how this happened but I noticed that my 330W PSU got busted (see pictures).

It still works and charges my Blade 18 (2023 - RZ09-0484x) but I am wondering if it is still save to use it?

Any advice?

If it is not safe, can someone point me to a third party replacement?

I looked on Razer but I don't think they are selling a 2023 compatabile model now.

EDIT:

I'm an idiot, I focused on the Warranty and forgot I purchased RazerCare for my laptop (which this came with).

The RazerCare expires in November this year, so does anyone know if that would cover the Charger as well?

The Naruto fandom seem to have this idea that Naruto was a hidden genius who was held back due to poor teachers or the village or Jiraiya or Kakashi etc....

Kishi meanwhile seems to continuously espouse the opposite.

I am honestly wondering about the disconnect.

Let's review some of the common claims about Naruto being talented:-

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1. Naruto learnt Tajuu Kage Bunshin in a few hours:

Databook explains that Naruto was able to learn KB specifically due to his stamina/chakra quantity (which was being topped up by the Kyuubi seal.)

>Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu

>Black: That shadow...becomes a thousand warriors to dispose of the enemy!!

>Picture: Since his first time using it to defeat Mizuki, this has become one of the ninjutsu that Naruto specializes in most.

>This is a development of "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu", which creates a physical clone. Countless Kage Bunshins...this amount requires a huge amount of chakra to use it, but in any case as it consumes an excessive amount, besides the Hokage and a select group of ninja, just using this jutsu can be lethal. Therefore, Shodai Hokage sealed this jutsu in the Seals Scroll to forbid its use. Naruto's ability to use this jutsu is due to his outstanding stamina.

2) Naruto learnt Rasengan in a week :

This is a common statement and yet so wrong.

Naruto took approx a MONTH ( 4.5 Weeks) to learn the Rasengan.

Naruto took a week on the LAST step of the Rasengan.

Event then Naruto did not actually complete the Last Step as intended. Naruto instead came up with a hack way using KB to lower the difficulty level.

I do give him props for coming up with an un-orthodox method but on a strict view? Naruto never mastered Rasengan (1-Handed) till mid part 2.

3. Naruto is the son of the Fourth Hokage and an Uzumaki therefore He Must have loads of talent:

Kishi deep-sixed this view MANY times.

The So6P (Kishi) made a point of saying Naruto did not inherit the talent of his parents..

Jiraiya stated multiple times that Naruto did not have talent:-

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Naruto even himself basically admitted hand-seals were not his thing.

Orochimaru even said Naruto is not talented.

Kakashi found himself wondering how Jiraiya managed to teach Naruto the Rasengan.

3) Naruto has an enormous chakra quantity. That's talent he inherited from the Uzumaki:

Half-Right or Maybe?

Thing is while the manga states you need a certain level of chakra quality to handle the Nine-Tails, it then says a few other things regarding Naruto's chakra quality.

First as I already mentioned, the So6P said that Naruto did not inherit much from his parents (that includes the Uzumaki).

Second Naruto got 50% Kyuubi. Not 100% Kyuubi. How that changes the level of chakra quality/amount to handle being it's Jinchuuriki is upto anyone's guess.

Third and finally Kishi clearly states that Naruto's chakra quantity is due to the Yondaime's seal adding the Kyuubi's chakra to Naruto's BASE chakra little by little.

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So going by the above? Even Naruto admits that he has so much chakra because the Kyuubi was adding to his own day by day.

Naruto's base level of chakra would be much less without the Kyuubi.

4) Naruto learn Wind-Element in a Few Days/Hours :

This is not that much of an indicator of Naruto's talent as people claim.

If you consider things carefully you will realize that Naruto took much longer to learn Wind Release then the average ninja.

For example let's say Naruto spent 5 hours on the Leaf-Cutting exercise and used a 1000 KB (A quick google says average tree has two hundred thousand leaves but since we don't know what species of tree, let's settle for a thousand leaves).

That's 5,000 hours which is around a 1.7 years of training (Eight Hour Work Days.).

A normal ninja (who has to work to pay bills, cook, clean, paperwork, sleep, train other areas like taijutsu etc) can devote 5 hours per day to wind training learns the leaf-cutting exercise in 6 Months.

So Naruto spent about then four times the total amount of time required by a normal ninja just to get to leaf-cutting.

That's not even counting how much time he spent on Waterfall and FRS itself.

Or the fact that an average tree has 100,000+ leaves which means Naruto would need 100K+ clones and would have spent far more time average ninja would take to learn leaf-cutting.

5) Naruto learnt Sage Mode very fast:

This is actually correct. (You can pick your jaws off the floor)

I fully agree this was one area where the Manga basically shouted that Naruto was very talented at this art/ability.

However that was really the only real ninjutsu aspect that Naruto was deemed talented in.

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Just to be clear Naruto does have talents but they do not lie within the traditional arts of gen/tai/nin-jutsu (apart from Sage Mode).

Naruto's talents in my view are:-

Innovative/Out of the Box Thinking : Naruto is extremely adept at coming up with un-orthodox solutions to the problems he faces. For example I said Naruto used a Hack to use the Rasengan.

Yet the hack using KB was very innovative. He applies the same thinking to his battles.

Charisma : Naruto is very charismatic and able to get people to believe in him.

And finally his most important talent was described by Jiriaya to Orochimaru and even us fans:-

"I'll Teach you one thing. The most important ninja talent is not in the number of techniques one acquires...The important thing is a spirit which never gives up."

Now with a statement like that why the heck people expected Naruto master a boat load of jutsu just boggles my mind.

Yet despite Kishimoto going out of his way to say Naruto would not learn multiple jutsu and is not conventionally talented at Ninja arts, fans still say Naruto was a held back genius and his teachers were the ones to blame.....

I have always felt that Sasuke's change to targeting the whole village was Kishimoto realising that without that, too many people/fans would side with Sasuke and Sasuke would not be a true villain for Naruto to defeat and people might even wonder why Naruto was protecting the Elders etc..

A recent thread reminded me that most fans believe Sasuke was wrong for targeting the village and I thought it would be nice to discuss:-

So here is the scenario:

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Sasuke keeps his original motivation as shown in the image.

Sasuke wants Danzo dead, the Elders dead and if Hiruzen was alive, he would want him dead.

Sasuke does NOT want the Village dead.

However Sasuke is willing to cut through any who might protect them.

If Root moves to protect Danzo? Sasuke will kill them. This includes the Aburame, Yamanaka guards and Sai etc etc...

If Shizune and Tsunade tries to protect the elders, Sasuke will kill them too.

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In a way you can say Sasuke does not go completely off the deep end.

So now, how do you all think:

1. Naruto's and the other K11's reaction would be after they found out Sasuke's goals and the reason behind them.

2. Fan's reaction to Sasuke mainly targeting the Elders/Danzo/etc

3. Fan's reaction to Naruto & Co trying to stop Sasuke.

Was going through some threads I missed recently and I found this one:

If itachi or shisui decides to stay away from the Uchiha coup detat and The fight ensue between konoha vs Uchiha ,would the combine strength of the various clan,jaraiya ,random chunin and jonins and hiruzen overwhelmed the Uchiha

People were fairly unanimous that the Uchiha would get massacred if they fought Konoha as in curbstomped.

This thread is not to argue against that (heck the manga basically makes it clear) but I am really wondering if people have considered what this means for Itachi's stated motivation.

Itachi's described motivation was to Prevent A World War that would be the result of a Pro-Longed Civil War between the Uchiha Clan and Konoha. ( Link 1 & Link 2)

Yet we have Danzo stating that:

- Hiruzen, Danzo and some ANBU can take care of the Uchiha Clan themselves.

- Itachi and Obito DID take care of the whole clan in one night.

- Fans also agree that the Uchiha Clan would get STOMPED by Konoha.

So if the consensus is that that the Uchiha could NOT wage a prolonged civil war against Konoha, then by logic that means there would not be a World War.

And that means Itachi's motivation for the massacre was nonsense.

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Note: Itachi did not commit the massacre to spare Sasuke either:-

Itachi was already leaning to the massacre anyway.

Danzo's threatening of Sasuke was really just icing on the cake.

Itachi Shiden Vol 2:

>Danzo readied himself to scatter the bait. “Including your little brother, who knows nothing of all this. But if it’s before the coup, there is a way to save your brother, at least.”
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>Itachi might have done it even without the bait. That was how strong the faith of the boy in front of him appeared. He had tried so very seriously to realize his outrageous dream of eliminating war from this world. That sentimentalism was the Uchiha clan. Given that he held this anti-war conviction so firmly, perhaps Itachi would have accepted Danzo’s proposal even without the bait of his younger brother’s life. But Danzo was the sort of man who took every precaution. And Itachi’s brother’s life, in compensation for the extermination of the Uchiha, was too good of a deal.

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>Fighting was foolish. War must never happen. No matter how the darkness of people tried to darken him, this thinking had turned into light to illuminate the path he was to go down. It was why Itachi had made it this far.
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>Even after the blow to his heart after learning of his father’s plot, and the clan’s desire for battle. Even when his best friend had faced his own untimely death, torn between the village and the clan. Even if he ended up bringing about the demise of the clan with his own hands …

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>Right … Itachi had already made up his mind. He had had a feeling, somehow, that this time would come, from the moment his friend died a year earlier, and he lost hope in the clan—from the instant those evil feelings sprang up in his heart.

So going by the above, Itachi was basically threatened into doing something he would already have done.

In other words: Itachi fully agreed with the massacre, keeping Sasuke safe? Was not really a motivation for the act that he committed.

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As per thread title.

Read over this chapter recently and I was intrigued by these panels.

To me it basically implies that a healthy Kimimaro was basically Kage Level if he was going to make a difference around Hiruzen and the other Edo-Kage's.

But I am honestly wondering what difference Kimimaro would have made if Hiruzne had busted out the Death-God's Seal?

Any way how do you all think this would have gone down?