u/OrangeIslandKing

So I am done with the Greed Island Arc in Hunter Hunter and watched a few episodes of the chimera ant arc, and two things I noticed so far that I liked.

1. For a Shonen, the arcs rarely focus on heroics. So let me explain. In other Shonen, like DBZ, MHA, Naruto, etc. Arcs tend to focus on "stop evil guy, save people" even early on, and there's a general sense that the main characters are heroes.

Now, don't get me wrong, so far the main characters in Hunter Hunter are far from evil, but most arcs aren't inherently "heroic"

Sure, they sometimes do heroic things, but that's far from the focus. Let me elaborate

Hunter License arc: Focused on getting a license, Gon even lets an old dude get killed by Hisoka and he doesn't even bat an eye.

Zoldick Forest arc: Now this one is heroic in a way, since they try to save killua, but in the end, Killua is let go by his father, so not really necessary for Gon and Co to save him.

Heaven's Arena: Purely a training arc, I don't even remember a single heroic thing Gon and Killua did

YorkNew: Now, while stopping the Phantom troop could be considered heroic, I feel like the characters care more about their own reasons as opposed to "stop the phantom troop from killing innocents"

Heck, you could argue they aren't even saving innocents, since the only victims are the mafia... not exactly an innocent group.

Greed Island: Similar to heaven's arena.

The second thing I liked is the powerscaling. More spec, how Gon and Killua are STILL well below all the previous antagonists when Greed island ends.

Hisoka is well stronger than them,

The Zoldicks are well stronger

Chrollo is well stronger (he only lost because Kurapika is basically his Kryptonite)

The closest character to their level is the bomber, and even then it's beat into our head he's still stronger than Gon and Killua.

And yet, neither Gon or Killua feel weak. Their power is steadily increasing.

I'm seriously enjoying how this series is structured so far.

I feel like people are desperate to get relationships nowadays. Like it's the end of the world if you're not finding a partner.

But honestly, when it comes to it, it's ok to be single. I have my friends, I have my family, I have my dog. I'm actually pretty happy with my life right now.

If I wasn't happy, or at least content, a gf wouldn't magically fix it. If anything I might make things worse for the girl.

And this lack of fear makes me feel pretty confident about going on dates. I don't fear "not being good enough" for my date.

My point is that being single is nothing to he afraid of, nobody is born with instructions of finding the perfect relationship.

It's funny really. I brought home a date the other day to meet my dog. And something that always cracks me up is the fact that my dog is a jealous little menace.

I have a little beagle, and she is very jealous. She will insist in sitting between us and demands my attention way more. She will bark at me when I'm talking to my date, and paw at me.

She is absolutely harmless by the way. I've had her for 5 years and she has never even so much as growled at anyone. She's extremely sweet, but also extremely jealous

So I met this woman, we both said we wanted something serious.

She did say she takes things very slow, i asked how slow.

She say she won't commit to anyone for at least (at LEAST) six whole months. And that she is completely single.

So after the date, I said goodbye and I am not planning to see her again.

While I didn't say this to her, I straight up thought "Six months? She's crazy"

Like... is this a regular thing now? I get wanting to take things slow, but HALF A YEAR?

Alright folks, Korra slander is at an all time high thanks to the preview to Seven Havens.

I'm just planting my flag here as a Korra Defender and saying that Korra DID NOT cause the end of the world without reason.

It's a red herring.

My theories are either

1. Korra is being framed

2. Korra had to make an impossible choice where she choose the lesser of two bad options.

Either way, it's not gonna be something like

"Haha, Korra was so bad she actually caused all this shit, haha"

Heck, even Kyoshi was said to be evil by that one town.

If I'm wrong, I'll gladly admit it, but I just wanted to make a record of this so I can officially be like "told you so" to the haters.

Basically the title, this hasn't happened yet, but to be fair I never had a long term relationship after adopting my dog.

But I was talking to a friend about this, and apparently she was upset with a guy she dated because he never mentioned he was planning to keep his dog when they moved. The guy was living at home, so idk if that changes things.

I was like "well yeah, of course he's gonna keep his dog with him" she didn't see it that way.

But yeah, I have a dog, something I talk about on the first date on is on my profile.

Do i need to spell out that my dog and I are a package deal?

I have two exes in my past that I was 100% were gonna be my future wife and I was grow old with them. Things were great with both of them. Broke up with both of them, not due to lack of love or anything like that, just different goals.

One changed her mind on children, even though we were both upfront since the very beginning.

The other one changed her mind and wanted to move back to her home country. Something I did not want to do whatsoever.

So I am back dating around and I hate it. Oh well c'est la vie

So I try to ask women I'm dating if they are seeing anyone else relatively early on (and thank god I have, some had had weird shit going on in their dating life i did not want to be a part of) and it feels like I have to go out of my way to specify if they have fwb's or something.

Last time I did NOT specify fwb's, she kept him for months, and even though I asked if she was dating anyone else, she didn't mention this because she wasn't "dating" her fwb.

And some people here and there have taken her side.

So I ask, do I really have to specify fwb?

First invincible and now the boys.

One of the biggest complaints and videos I have seen about the Boys is why is Homelander so weak now.

Seriously, just look up some videos and you will see people complaining about several things that relate to powerscaling

1. Homelander not being able to cut Kimiko in half despite that fact that he did it in the first episode of the final season

2. Homelander somehow being so slow, despite the fact he kept up with A Train in the first episode and literally flew to space in 2 seconds in the same episode

3. Homelander escaping Soldier Boy and Butcher and Hughie (on temp V) but somehow not being to escape Butcher and Ryan

Oh yeah, and the show heavily implied that V1 made Homelander stronger. You know, cuz he shot up his most powerful laser right after he took it.

Now, mind you, powerscaling is far from the only problem with the Boys final season, don't get me wrong, but you will legit see so many people dislike in part because of bad powerscaling.

I have harped about my negative experiences here for a bit much tbh, so let me tell you about something I did with my two exes.

When we started having sex regularly, I decided to open the the conversation of what happens if I get them pregnant. (To be clear, this were two separate relationships at different times of my life)

They were both pleasantly surprised that I asked this, and we talked about it.

One said she wasn't actually sure, the other one said she would likely get an abortion. (This is actually a good Segway to talk about your opinions on that btw)

I told them I would respect their decision and if they end up wanting to keep the child, I'd like to be involved.

Nothing ever happened, but I think this was a nice way for us to plan for the future and I do think we got closer as a result.

So I believe talking about this is very important, and makes things much easier down the road if there's a disagreement about how to handle pregnancy.

I mentioned a few times women that I said I was "dating" and said i went on three or so dates.

There's always someone saying "You weren't dating, it was just three dates"

Look, I get that people have different definitions of it. For me, if I am going on dates with someone and we both understand these are dates, then we are dating.

If you disagree with my word choice, fine whatever, but that's rarely the point.

Use the word "seeing" "talking" or whatever, but me using a specific word is not the end of the world.