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So, I have finally watched Spider-Man: Brand New Day. It's a pretty okay movie, with one thing that I just can't ignore.

It's very clear that the writers of BND wanted to take Jean in a more morally grey direction. But I think they failed miserably.

There's nothing really morally grey about how they wrote her. Jean just acts like a sadistic villain throughout the whole movie, then in the second part, they throw in the "she's doing it to find her sister" excuse.

Let's start with the flashback of Jean and her sister, Sara, going to a public park, where Sara teaches her how to use their powers to mentally assault people and take over their bodies just for fun. Then Damage Control agents show up and take Sara in. And the writers, for some reason, thought that I should feel sorry for her after what horrible thing she chose to do to a group of random people?

The writers chose to show us this instead of any other option, when they had every opportunity to make it work with the girls doing morally grey but still understandable things:

• They could've made it so that the girls had just awakened their powers and couldn't control them, causing them to first take over people accidentally.
• They could've shown us that they're doing it out of necessity or as a last resort to survive, like using their powers to get food because they were starving on the street after their mother kicked them out.
• Or they could've been using their powers to avoid and escape from secret agents who were already chasing them, or anything else, really.

There's also Peter's "you're not a killer, Jean" line, which is pure BS. Even if we assume that no one died during her rampage through New York, it's still not an excuse. It was thanks to Spider-Man saving people and sheer dumb luck, not because Jean wasn't literally trying to kill innocent people. She had no problem with that throughout the whole movie.

• We literally start with Jean stealing an armored military vehicle and firing at everything in her way through the streets. She blows up multiple police cars, nearly crushing a kid with one, while crashing into other cars and almost ramming a bus full of people. She can thank Spider-Man for saving them.
• Then, after breaking into a prison and getting what she wanted, Jean still blew up the entire facility, despite knowing there could still be people inside. Thankfully, Spider-Man had told them to evacuate the area.
• It's clear that Jean has no problem putting her victims in harm's way or trying to kill them herself. She forces a granny to drive a vehicle rigged with explosives, makes a prison guard jump off a building, walks some random old guy into traffic to be run over, makes MJ jump off a building, and controls a Hand ninja to stab himself through the stomach.

Almost none of this was necessary for her plan, and she involved random people who had nothing to do with her suffering.

Then there's both Sara and Jean endlessly harping on their "they hate us because we're different" mantra, which just infuriated me to no end. No, you fucking psycho monsters, people fear and hate you because of the horrible things you do to others.

• Again, these two used their creepy powers to literally mentally violate people and take away their free will just for funsies. Later, Jean tortures and even forces random people to commit terrorist acts for her.
• Instead of using an agent who could drive, Jean chose an old janitor lady to steal an armed vehicle. Or how she just made that poor old guy get hit by a car for no reason at all. And then there are the countless innocent people she put in danger while possessing them. No one forced her to involve or hurt them.
• And the way she cruelly and sadistically treats Spider-Man goes well beyond what was necessary. She gleefully taunts Peter and threatens him with MJ's life. Jean takes over MJ's body while pretending that she remembers her past with Peter and sexually assaults both of them by forcing MJ to kiss Peter. Then she tries to kill MJ by making her jump off a building.

And after all of this, the writers expect me to think or believe that Jean was a "morally grey" victim? No, she was the villain through and through.

In some ways, the writing of the questionable character and the message of the story are even worse than WandaVision's. At least Wanda felt bad for what she did to her victims and apologized to them in the end. But Jean and Sara can't even do that. At no point do they admit to themselves that what they did was wrong, nor does anyone in the movie call them out on it.

In the end, the movie gives Jean a pass because she was "sad" or "desperate" and other exsuses, despite all the victims she left behind. Jean just got away scot-free, never taking responsiblity for the consequences of her actions.

I'm so hyped for this game! It seems to take place after the Thousand-Year Blood War arc.

Cour 4 Spoilers!!! I think this is a very good according to what we will see in the anime.

Baryon Mode

Naruto’s Baryon Mode has a lifespan draining ability that works through physical contact with his opponent. I’ve sometimes seen people claim this is an absolute wincon against anyone. The question is whether this ability would work the same way against opponents who aren’t in the same niche, time-limited scenario as Isshiki, and how its effectiveness could be calculated.

At the start of his fight with Naruto, Isshiki stated that he should have at least 20 hours of lifespan remaining. Naruto’s Baryon Mode first shortened it to less than 30 minutes, then again to less than 10 minutes, and in the end to just 5 minutes.

So, let’s do a little math and explore the potential scaling and potency of Baryon Mode’s life drain hax.

Imagine Naruto facing an opponent around his level with an average life expectancy of 60–70 years. Since he isn’t fighting a newborn, Naruto would need to drain roughly 40 years worth of life energy from that adult.

Option 1: Percentage Based Scaling

Although it was never explicitly stated, some believe the lifespan draining hax is percentage based or scales with the enemy’s total lifespan.

Looking at what happened in their fight, Naruto first slashed Isshiki’s life by a factor of 40, then by a factor of 3, and finally by a factor of 2. It seems that as the fight went on and Naruto got weaker, the hax’s rate also decreased.

If Naruto could perform the same way against this opponent as he did against Isshiki, he would first reduce the opponent's 40 years to 1 year, then that to 4 months, and finally cut it in half to just 2 months.

So, by the end of the fight, Naruto completely exhausts himself and loses Baryon Mode, while the opponent still has 2 months worth of life energy remaining.

Option 2: Fixed Rate Scaling

Another approach is to treat the life drain as removing a fixed amount of lifespan over time and use the duration of their fight to calculate an average rate. From that average rate, we can estimate how long it would take for the Baryon Mode to drain another person’s life force.

During their roughly 5 minute fight, Naruto nearly drained Isshiki’s entire 20 hour lifespan. This gives a drain rate of about 4 hours per minute, which appears to be the upper limit of its demonstrated capability.

Applying this rate to an opponent with 40 years of life energy:

• 40 years = 14 600 days = 350 400 hours
• 350 400 hours / 4 hours per minute = 87 600 minutes
• 87 600 minutes = 1 240 hours = 60.8 days

At this rate, Naruto would need more than 60 days to completely drain an opponent with an average lifespan. Which he can't do because the Baryon mode can't last that long.

But let's be generous and say that Naruto, just by standing there, can passively drain a day's worth of life energy every second. It still wouldn't be enough to kill the enemy in time.

14 600 second = 243,33 minutes = 4,05 hours

So Naruto would still need more than 4 hours to kill the opponent with an average lifespan using his draining hax.

There is another complications with these methods:

Someone might also point out that the life draining effect only works through physical contact, not as a consistent percentage value or per-minute rate. But we can’t just count Naruto’s punches and use that to estimate how much time each hit removes, since the two spend a lot of time grabbing, holding, and being on top of each other.

Even so, with a fixed value, there’s still the limitation that Naruto needed many punches to drain Isshiki's 20 hours of life.

Even if we assume that every punch Naruto lands can drain a day’s worth of life energy:

40 × 365 = 14,600 days.

So Naruto would need to hit an opponent with an average life expectancy of around 14,600 times for his lifespan draining ability to take full effect and kill them.

But what do you think about how Naruto’s Baryon Mode is supposed to work? And anyone has any better calculation of its lifespan draining hax?

I think we all know what fanservice or gooner bait means. I feel like those terms get overused when some people accuse everything of being that, even in cases where it doesn’t really apply.

So, around the weekend, GLITCH's new cartoon show Gameoverse aired. And oh boy, within a day, Twitter already found a problem with it and started some forced drama.

The main claim of these loud minority complainers is that the characters are oversexualized and that the pilot is just "gooner bait", which I think is heavily exaggerated and just twists mundane things into a problem. No, being attractive or good-looking isn't the same as being oversexualized if it's not framed that way. Characters not being ugly or just wearing pretty clothes doesn't make them fanservice or goonbait.

Their first argument is that both Kit, the protagonist, and Miss Information, one of the villains, being in bikinis in the first episode makes the series a "goonslop". But the context is that they’re on an infiltration mission and dive into a beach-themed game, so they change into swimwear to not stand out. However, for some people, adult women wearing basic bikinis on a beach, not even particularly revealing ones, is a problem. And why did the writers start with a "beach episode"? Because the good guys need to recruit Flappers, the super dolphin, who was and still is a main character from the original pilot more than 10 years ago.

Their second complaint is that Kit has a bunch of outfits for different themed games, and for these people, all of them are "so revealing". But when you actually look at them, they’re not overly sexualized or anything. Kit’s cowboy gear just shows her stomach, her fighter gear leaves a bit of her upper thighs exposed, her desert gear has a skirt, and her soldier gear has short pants. As you can see, nothing extreme. None of them really show more skin than any regular girl's summer wear. But in these people's eyes, if a woman isn’t covered from head to toe, she’s automatically sexualized.

Their third claim is that the pilot supports sexual fetishes and directly references "tied up kinks", because during a fight Miss Information gets tied up by a rope for less than five seconds. But the scene doesn’t frame that in any sexual way. Miss Information doesn’t end up in a sexualized pose. She doesn’t get humiliated or become submissive. The camera doesn’t focus on her from inappropriate angles. No one takes a prolonged look at her body. There aren’t any fanservice-like jokes or awkwardness. And there’s nothing suggesting sex or that anyone lusts after her. None of that happens. She just gets caught by the rope and falls on her side, and the next second she’s free and starts fist fighting.

Their last problem is that Kit has an anime-style transformation, and they say it highlights too much of her breasts and butt. Actually, Kit’s robot backpack friend turns into armor, giving her a metal vest that spreads around her body and ends in full-body armor. I’d even call it more tame than the original Sailor Moon transformation, because she doesn’t actually lose her clothes to do that whole "naked silhouette" thing.

Gameoverse's pilot simply isn’t full of disgusting fanservice, goon bait, or kinks like some people claim. These forced accusations are misleading and just take attention away from how good the characters and the series actually are.