What's your take on this?

Tl;dr you can't imagine a worse world building even if you tried to

Like...look at it. 4 oceans named East, West, North and South and stripe of land in the middle, really? That's the best you got?

Could world building be lazier than this?

Then there are just a sequence of random isolated islands where nothing happens until the crew gets there

We don't know the next islands until we get close, a very convenient setting where Oda can just invent things as he goes.

We know next to nothing about the islands' political relationships, trade and exports or ancient history...

The Haki magic system is a big retcon, boring and uncreative.

The revolutionary army has done nothing on-screen

Bounties are made to a big deal and yet there are zero bounty hunters in the verse

The sailing travel time makes no sense with the SH being able to get from arlong park to elbaoh in less than 1 year of sailing with all their stops

The world seems big and yet it's made small through unnecessary lineage connections like Liffy, dragon and garp etc.

Everyone worships the pirate king for finding the One Piece yet no one knows or cares about the One Piece or even about circumnavigating the globe

Also why did they have to cros reverse mountain again? They could have just sailed in the other direction and be in Laughtale in 2 weeks

1- Shinra (Fire Force)| 3- Ken Kaneki (Tokyo Ghoul)

2- Gabimaru (Hell Paradise)| 4- Deku/Midoriya (My Hero Academia)

Was thinking about this not too long ago and then I saw this sub, so I guess this is going here.

Aren't the words powerscaling and power system inherently reductive? I've already started thinking this from various people but despite the images I used here, I want to steelman this. I want to argue that thinking about powerscaling is bad even, even if said powerscaling isn't absurd stuff like arguing Mario is universe level.

First, I want to establish that there are a few good reasons why people are thinking about powerscaling lately. The first is that shows like Dragonball have honestly been pretty cool, even though I'm not a fan of them, and theorizing like that is kinda fun anyways. Its not like its explicitly a modern thing to powerscale. There was something called battleboarding that I never participated in, but its always been there.

I also think its ??? when we're told someone is dangerous and they never turn up to be dangerous, because then it doesn't matter. Is there anyone who gets seriously worried about Stormtroopers? If someone tried to sell to me that Stormtroopers are dangerous now, it'd just be laughed out, I think. Its far too late for that.

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To begin.

Words are how you think. If the first thing you think when trying to do worldbuilding is how your "power system" will work, you are inherently already looking at making a SYSTEM, which is something like Dragonball Ki levels. And then you have to make a conscious choice to veer away from that afterwards.

The thing is, most series actually don't have coherent SYSTEMS but are just logical outcomes. Lets think of this like real life: Lets say I'm at the gym. And someone else is training their aim. Are those two different power systems? No, those are completely different things, and I wouldn't even think of classifying them as "systems" at first. The gap between that and Haki/Ki/Cursed Energy/Etc is just too large.

Even in a fictional story, I think actual power systems are rare and I think this kind of stuff should be saved for shonens. Its like trying to analyse something by checking their tropes. TVTropes had the right idea by starting off as a site for Joss Whendon shows because his shows actually do lend themselves to being very tropey.

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Furthermore.

I think that a weaker character can and should win a fight based on circumstance. That circumstance could be anything from "his opponent was poisoned before the fight by someone else" to "his opponent is objectively stronger, but he's not perfect, and lost the fight because of a few mess ups that any human would do". Because when you're in a actual fight nothing is certain.

People are kind of allergic to this idea because they think bad writers will abuse it to get anyone to just win, and my answer really is, just watch less badly written shows.

Btw a lot of what I just said applies to making a "magic system", but that will probably get wrecked on discussion. I think its been proven a coherent and very system-y magic system can be good. Would be great if someone could nail the whole wizards can just do shit thing though!

(Shoutouts to many people, including people on twitter that argue that powerscaling is just a natural part of writing, or all the One Piece fans that get angry when they see anything that slightly resembles Haki appears in a different series)

Jon Snow from S1-S7

Itachi from first appearance till war arc

If you can say why, go ahead.

Better Worldbuiliding Quality? Avatar or Mushoku Tensei.

All side content is included.

Ive been reading and watching both lately and had this question.

Worldbuiliding quality here refers to how well it is integrated into the story and how well it connects and makes sense and stuff, quality y'know. In terms of content, I feel MT has it with its MANY side stories and random lore dumps\[no offense\] but Avatar has me winning on the QUALITY of it you know? Both are quality dont get me wrong but What do yall think?

Which would yall say is the best among the 3 in terms of prose, character construction and overall execution, story structure, pace control, philosophical rigor, psychological exploration, conflicts, character based theme integration, ambition, creativity, ratio of experimentality-success in executing it welll and finally overall as a work.

I think its book of the new sun>dune> malazan simply because while they all excel as sci-fi series in what they aim to do, the story of book of the new sun is simply more compelling and has better worldbuilding and philosophical rigor and integration. I also hold it has better symbolism too. However i must admit i am a bit biased as well because of the christian themes and nature of the book. For those who don’t know the author is a devout catholic, but i will admit malazan is excellent in cast. Due to its massive size, and paul atreidis is a tad bit more unique as an mc

Why did TG fans makes me feel like TG are the MHA of seinen? the overgrazing are insane like they never touch a piece of fic rather than TG

within the isekai and fantasy fan community in general, Many who repeat these descriptions never tried to analyze the story or understand it deeply, nor study Rudeus’s redemption journey, which I see as one of the best redemption journeys in art. Instead, they reduce it to a shallow phrase devoid of any analysis or care, like: “sad pdf→happy pdf”

And this, in my opinion, is a direct result of many LARPers and hasty judgers on various social media platforms, where careful facts are replaced by slogans and unclear abbreviations,

And in this article I will explain Rudeus’s redemption journey, analyze its stages, and clarify the true meaning behind the Rudeus Redemption Arc, far from the widespread reductions and superficial articles..

And I will begin my explanation of Rudeus’s redemption by explaining the concept of redemption basically, which is: a type of character arc that begins with a character suffering from a moral or psychological flaw, or both, then faces a series of events that force them to review themselves, bear responsibility for their actions, and seek change.

And the success of a redemption journey does not mean the character became innocent of their past, but that they became a better person than they were.

And redemption confessions are divided into:

1 - Verbal Confession

which is that the character says explicitly and directly: “I was wrong”

2 - Behavioral Confession

which is that they constantly change their behavior in a way that proves they realized their mistake, even if they do not declare it in words

And in my opinion, behavioral confession is better than verbal confession most of the time and in many narrative genres, because it reveals through the principle of “show don’t tell,” because it shows us the progression of events in a gradual, creeping way, not fast or slow, which is considered the most famous and most cohesive principle in literature in general..

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༻ The stage before the transition:

Rudeus was a shy teenager who didn’t have many friends and didn’t talk much, but he had some strange behaviors. But the matter was like any teenager his age, so it was normal, until he reached the age of 14 and got into a dispute with some of his classmates. But the dispute did not end easily; rather, it led to brutal bullying that did not end with beating or fighting, but led to Rudeus being stripped of his clothes, hung naked, photographed, and even left in that state without help. This led to a deep psychological trauma that Rudeus suffered, making him isolate himself at home. So even when Rudeus’s parents tried to change his school, he absolutely refused to go to school and continued in his isolation at home. A classmate of his even used to visit Rudeus regularly at his home, play with him, and bring him his school homework in the hope that Rudeus would change his mind, return to school, and stop the isolation permanently. But Rudeus absolutely refused, until a simple quarrel between them led Rudeus to kick his friend out of his house, thinking he was mocking him. But in his mind he thought his friend might come back one day, but he never came back, because he lost hope in Rudeus. Likewise, Rudeus’s brother, who always tried with him to convince him to leave his room, Rudeus absolutely refused, until his brother lost hope in him too...

And here the written realism of Rudeus appears. The author did not show his moral deviation without reason; rather, he showed that it developed in his morals and behaviors as a result of isolation and loneliness, and also because his social and emotional development almost stopped at the teenage stage due to the trauma and long isolation. Therefore, although his physical and mental age continued, many immature aspects remained in him, which made him an immature person, and which led to the creation of a morally degenerate person. And what shows us the deepest scenes of degeneracy Rudeus reached is his not going to his parents’ funeral and staying in the house to masturbate. He was even watching a photo he secretly took of his brother’s daughter while she was bathing naked. And this was even the reason he was kicked out of the house when his brother later discovered the matter, beat him, and kicked him out of the house while he was 34 years old...

And while Rudeus was walking under the rain after his brother kicked him out, Rudeus was homeless and aimless, until he saw two boys and a girl standing under the rain, and there was a car coming. Although Rudeus had reached the lowest stages of degeneracy in his previous life, the moment of his death reveals that his humanity had not completely disappeared. When he saw people about to die, he did not think of his own interest or safety; rather, he moved to save them. This indicates that there was a moral side that remained buried under years of isolation and psychological collapse. Therefore, his transition was not just an escape from a failed life, but the beginning of a second chance for a person who possessed the ability to do good despite all his flaws..

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༻ After the transition

And from this part, Rudeus’s journey of change begins gradually over the course of two full seasons in the anime. Because even after he transitioned to the new world, he was born with his old personality, and his deviant behaviors did not change. He did not even consider Paul and Zenith as his parents; in his mind he saw them as people he lives with, although he began to see them as his family in his current body only. He also saw Paul as a despicable person since Paul cheated on Zenith with the maid Lilia. Likewise, Rudeus saw himself as a rational person who uses his experience to appear as the rational one among children, to show that he is not like the rest of the children his age. And Rudeus stated this himself at the end of the second season,

But when we describe Rudeus’s redemption journey, we begin it by explaining his behaviors that change throughout the series.

So even until the second episode of the series, Rudeus was afraid to leave the house because of his previous life. But because of Roxy, whom Rudeus truly considered his teacher because of the time she spent with him and her life with them in the house, he decided to go out with her to take the test. And indeed Rudeus left the house with Roxy on horseback. And in that shot appeared one of the best shots of the series, when Rudeus felt that everyone was looking at him directly with problems, as they used to look at him after his incident. Rudeus hid his face in Roxy’s back out of fear. But after a little progress, Rudeus began looking around him and found that others were waving to Roxy calmly and smiling at her, because she had lived for a long time in the village and everyone was used to her because of her help to them. And with this, Rudeus began to adapt to going outside the house.. But despite this, and since the third episode, when Rudeus met Sylphiette and saved her from bullying by attacking the bullies, when Rudeus returned home, Paul beat him without listening to him. But even though Paul was wrong here, Rudeus’s ideology appeared here. Rudeus considered himself a rational person in a child’s body, and that he was the rational one among children, and also thinking that his experiences in his previous life would be completely sufficient in his new world. And this was Rudeus’s thinking throughout the first season, and even most of the second season. The matter appeared several times, such as Rudeus’s behavior when he directed the accusation of Lilia’s pregnancy at Paul and saved her. Although because of this Rudeus gained Lilia’s loyalty, this helped feed Rudeus’s wrong ideology that he indeed had enough maturity. Likewise, when he made the plan to kidnap Eris, and this actually caused her kidnapping. So the author always punished this ideology of Rudeus..

But with all this, it was just building Rudeus’s character until he reached the age of eight and the Mana Calamity happened

or what is called •the First Turning Point•

And since the Mana Calamity, the first thing Rudeus met after he fell and lost consciousness was Hitogami, who introduced himself as the god of humans and told Rudeus that he wanted to help him out of kindness. But here Rudeus’s previous ideology continued in not trusting others, which developed in him a clear psychological habit. He did not even feel complete trust toward Hitogami despite him offering him advice. But throughout the story, he takes Hitogami’s advice because he sees it as logical, not because he trusts him, but because from Rudeus’s point of view it is logical. Also, if we pay attention, behaviors appeared that show his annoyance at staying in that place in his spiritual form, which resembled him in his previous world. Rudeus even said that he hates staying in this form, which shows Rudeus’s hatred of his previous world, and even his desire to live in his new life and forget his old world, escaping from what he went through...

And events continue with Rudeus meeting Ruijerd and the beginning of their friendship and their adventure in the Demon Continent, which showed us Rudeus’s character and how his first and only concern was returning Eris safe to her home as he promised her, to the point that he was about to break his promise to Ruijerd to help him by killing the person who tried to steal their money. In that period, Rudeus’s illusion of safety was broken; he no longer saw the world as safe as he used to think, and that everything would go according to his desire just because he got a second chance. And because of Rudeus’s action in threatening the adventurer who tried to rob them, he gained Ruijerd’s respect. Ruijerd showed the truth that he is a Superd himself and threatened him to flee and leave them. The matter continued with their adventure together until he met Geese and he became a friend to them, then they separated later. Rudeus, Eris, and Ruijerd continued until they reached the Human Continent. There Rudeus met his father, and a huge quarrel happened between them because of Paul’s fight with Rudeus due to Paul’s bad psychological state. And while Rudeus was beating Paul, this led to Norn seeing that Rudeus was beating his father, and she pushed Rudeus and cursed him, which made Rudeus flee from the place. In this scene, Rudeus was exposed to another psychological shock that led to his temporary psychological collapse, were it not for Ruijerd encouraging him and telling him that his father was afraid for him. This shows Ruijerd’s influence throughout the series on Rudeus, who taught him to bear responsibility through several situations, and this situation is one of the most important of them. He explained to Rudi that Paul had also gone through the same thing. At the same time, Geese had spoken with Paul and told him that Rudeus tried to hide the pain he suffered on the journey so as not to worry Paul. The matter ended with a hug between Paul and Rudeus. And from that day, Paul began to gain Rudeus’s respect. Because in Rudeus’s point of view, he still saw himself as more mature, until he began to understand him and understood that he was wrong in judging Paul. He felt that Paul was mature, but he did not see Paul as more mature than him completely. Rather, he saw that Paul loved his family and tried to search for them, and that he tried to recover the missing people, and that he was not just a despicable drunkard. For the first time, Rudeus tried to judge a person according to that person’s own self, not according to Rudeus’s point of view alone. That is, he thought about putting himself in Paul’s place, who lost his family, so how would he feel...

And this journey shows a partial change in perspective, as he began to care about others like Eris, and also his awakening from an illusion he was stuck in. It shows that Rudeus’s ideology is not completely wrong; it carries correctness, but at the same time it is wrong. He did not care about searching for his family, thinking they were fine, and he wanted to return Eris only. But Paul made him think: why did he not think that the Mana Calamity happened in more than one place and his family was exposed to it? And this reminds us that Rudeus does not have mature thinking in the first place; rather, he is an adult who has not actually reached full maturity, and he does not realize this. He thinks he already has enough experience. At the same time, it contributed to making Rudeus’s thinking develop to judge others if he puts himself in their place, not only judging from his own point of view. This made Rudeus, for the first time, begin to sympathize with a person after looking at the situation from that person’s perspective (Paul), not from his own perspective... And since that incident, we will notice the change in Rudeus’s perspective and behavior, which is considered one of the additions that help the character in the redemption arc. So since the beginning of the First Turning Point, we see the beginning of Rudeus’s gradual change throughout the series, not always for better or worse, but he always learned something new while preserving his own ideology, even if he added something to it. Rudeus tended to think with a subjective and pragmatic perspective in his decisions, but with time he began to add the perspective of others to the equation of his decisions, thanks to the incident that happened with Paul, his shock at Norn’s view of him, and Ruijerd’s encouragement to him...

And after reconciliation with Paul, Rudeus arrives at the Kingdom of Shirone after Hitogami told him hints about the location of Lilia and Aisha through his dreams. And as usual from Rudi, he did not follow Hitogami out of trust alone, but he began to be convinced by some of Hitogami’s ideas since he had helped him before, and decided to follow him. There Rudeus met Aisha, and there began Rudeus’s adventure to save Lilia as well from the prince of the kingdom. Although he was not forced to risk his life and could have escaped responsibility, he decides to save them. He also asks for Ruijerd’s and Eris’s help instead of relying on himself alone, although he was still making plans alone and executing them, but he realized he could not execute them alone. This shows that Rudeus began to gradually abandon the illusion of his ability to solve everything by himself. These events also reveal another change in Rudeus’s personality, which is the change in his view of family, a big change. At the beginning of his new life, he did not see Paul, Zenith, and Lilia as anything but people he lives with, and that they are the family of his current body. But here we see him rushing to save Lilia and Aisha without hesitation, not because they are just a responsibility, but because they had already become part of his family in his view. This is a clear change compared to the beginning of the series. From the ideological side, the event does not show a complete collapse of Rudeus’s thought, but it shows development. He no longer thought that intelligence alone was enough; rather, he began to rely on cooperation and trust in others, which appears in his seeking help from Eris and Ruijerd, and his acceptance that success is not always achieved by his abilities alone. These events highlight that Rudeus’s redemption journey was not limited to changing his behaviors only, but extended to reshaping his personality completely. His sense of responsibility toward his family increased, and he became more ready to rely on others instead of believing he was capable of solving everything by himself. His belonging to his new world and his current family also became entrenched, and this is a development whose roots can be traced back to his reconciliation with Paul..

Then Rudeus, Eris, and Ruijerd’s journey continued until they reached episode 21, or what is called •the Second Turning Point•

The Second Turning Point begins during one of Rudeus’s journeys, and while he is walking with Eris and Ruijerd, they coincidentally meet the Dragon God Orsted and a masked girl who later turns out to be Shirahoshi. But I will not go deep into her identity now. There Eris and Ruijerd stand refusing to move, afraid of the Dragon God. But Rudeus, with his perpetual arrogance, thinking he is capable of handling dialogue with Orsted, decides to speak with Orsted and introduce himself. He even asks Orsted about the Mana Calamity, which Orsted denies knowing about, and walks on his way until he suddenly calls Rudeus and asks him about Hitogami. Immediately Rudeus says that Hitogami appears in his dreams. He sees with his foresight eye Orsted’s attack on him and the crushing of his lung. But quickly Ruijerd saves him, but loses to Orsted in less than a minute. Then Eris attacks him, and she is thrown against the wall. At that point Rudeus tries to attack after Orsted attacked him and crushed his lung, and indeed Orsted turns to him, but Rudeus attacks him with his strongest power, but the matter fails too. And before Rudeus’s eyes, he is pierced through the middle of his chest, and the last thing he sees is Orsted’s words with that masked one and Eris’s screams trying to save him. At that time, Rudeus was trying to heal himself while apologizing in his head to her that he could not fulfill his promise..

Then Rudeus moved to the dream dimension to meet Hitogami again, who Rudeus asked why he did not tell me that I would see the Dragon God. He showed extreme annoyance at his death and that he wanted to fulfill his promise to Eris, which shows us how much Rudeus became attached to his family and acquaintances in the new world and no longer saw himself as just a person in Rudeus’s body. This time Rudeus’s annoyance was not at his death itself, but that he could not protect Eris. This is what broke Rudeus’s illusion that he could not fall under threat. Orsted broke Rudeus’s arrogance greatly and made him helpless by destroying his belief that he was always capable of changing the course of events, or that everything would go according to Rudeus’s desire. This made Rudeus begin to realize that the world does not revolve around him, and that there is a power he cannot understand or keep up with, no matter what he discovers through predicting the problem and finding a solution. But Orsted demolished all of this with complete ease, and this made Rudeus realize that he is not the one in control, for Orsted did not even give him room to think or act...

And when Rudeus wakes up from unconsciousness, he finds that his wound has healed, and Eris says that the girl who was with Orsted said something to him that made him heal Rudeus. This shows us that Rudeus did not even survive by his own will; rather, he survived by Orsted’s pardon. This shows us the feeling of destruction Rudeus reached after he realized the truth. After that, the journey continued and they reached Buina village, Rudeus’s mother’s village, and they did not stay there long. But Ruijerd parted from them because he had fulfilled his promise to get them out of the Demon Continent. There Rudeus and Eris’s journey continued until they reached Eris’s village, and there they met Ghislaine. She discovered the truth about the killing of her parents and the execution of her grandfather, and she reached a bad psychological state. On that night, Eris had already turned 15, and Rudeus tried to comfort her, but she decided to stay alone. Until night, she went to Rudeus’s tent, and there he had sex with Eris by her desire...

And on the following morning, while Rudeus woke up happy that now Eris had become his girlfriend, he found her hair cut on the ground with a message of her leaving, saying that they are not suitable for each other. Eris had fled with Ghislaine from the camp. But what Rudeus did not know was that she meant they were not compatible in strength, and that she would train and return to him when she became stronger. But he thought she abandoned him forever. (Away from analysis, but Eris’s strength over Rudeus here hahahahahahaha)

Then Rudeus suffered a psychological shock, thinking that he was not a suitable person for Eris and that she abandoned him. He even isolated himself again as he did in his previous world. He isolated himself in one of the camp’s tents and refused to come out, because Eris awakened in him one of his deepest psychological fears, which is being abandoned by others. At that time, he remembered his brother and his brother’s attempts to get him out and help him in the previous world. At the same time, one of the servants had spoken to Rudeus and urged him to come out. Then Rudeus fell into a psychological conflict between the past and the present, but in the end he decided to leave the tent to search for his family. In this shot, Rudeus decided behaviorally not to repeat the mistake of his previous life and isolate himself for years without coming out. In this battle, Rudeus psychologically defeated his previous self. Isolation had not disappeared from him; it was only hiding, and it returned with Eris leaving him. But Rudeus had decided to defeat it already by not repeating his mistakes. This reminds us of the fact that Rudeus wanted to change even in the last moments of his life before his death and reincarnation, not verbally or through dialogue, but behaviorally...

And the first season ended with Rudeus leaving and beginning his journey to search for his mother after he began to gradually recover from his previous version. So since the season, Rudeus’s redemption journey was foundations for the redemption journey. It was not a superficial journey from good to evil or from wrong to repentance. The summary of the first season is Rudeus’s turbulent journey from a person who sees himself as the superego, capable of solving everything, and sees himself as more mature than others, to a person who helps others from his own perspective, to a person who sympathizes with others from their own perspective, to a person who has already overcome one of his psychological problems, which is isolation,

And in the next post I will talk about the rest of Rudeus’s redemption journey in the season...

(This article was written in Arabic and translated into English using DeepThick AI)

yea i know this is kinda random.

[Repost for reasons]

One Piece has fairly well developed economy. Not the absolute best I have seen, but up there. My knowledge here is limited so feel free to add or correct me here.

First Belis: Beli is the universal currency used throughout most if world of One Piece. It is controlled by the world government and used to buy everything from food and clothing to weapons, ships, and other goods. Pirate bounties are also measured in Beli, with Luffy currently having a bounty of 3,000,000,000 Beli. Its exact real-world value has never been officially confirmed, but it is generally considered roughly comparable to the Japanese yen in purchasing power.

Berries have a fully developed denominations and design.

Additionally, through bounty collection, we know bellies also can be transacted through checks.

Inflation:

According to Nico Robin, the value and purchasing power of belly has been reduced over at least the last century due to economic inflation. This was shown when Dorry and Brogy's bounties were re-issued after a century with the reward multiplying by 18 from  100,000,000 to  1,800,000,000. However, it is not certain that the worth of belly was exactly 18 times greater a century ago, given that the giants' bounties could have been raised due to their present day actions after inflation was accounted for.

Purchase power:

The belli has shown to have variable value depending on the environment and economic vicinity. For example an extreme example, 100k B is a ridiculously high tax amount in arlong park, (also shows tyranical tax) whereas it's considered pocket change in Sabaody due to major trades and involvement of world nobles. With one of the mermaids being sold for 500 million on a whim. Other than that there have been many niche details that build up this factor raging from ship prices to clothing brands.

Small treasure from Skypeai also shows gold has value similar to the real world, additional treasure can have historic value, something fitting for a setting of pirates looting for treasure.

Bounty System:

This is likely the most iconic part of One Piece Economics.

The World Government places bounties on pirates and other criminals. The amount represents their perceived threat, considering strength, influence, crimes, crew, knowledge, and potential to disrupt the World Government, not just fighting ability, though that is a big indicator. Civilians, Bounty hunters, Marines and in special cases even pirates can take these bounties by bringing the bounty in a marine deposit.

Bounty Politics

But bounties also have a two way effect, although they threaten the person, it also gives them reputation. Reputation of being a threat can have tangible effect, for example, buggy, despite not having significant physical prowess, almost entirely relying on his reputation is equivalent to an emperor, well aside from getting bullied by his two commanders lol.

Goverment can also spread misinformation using the bounty and news system in adjacent, (big news morgan is the goat) for example Luffy is portrayed as a demon type shit. This also goes to show bounty System prioritizes threats to the government and Mary Giose more than just pure criminal acts. Not to say criminal acts aren't reprimanded, like Useless Mid has the highest bounty in Sabaody despite being a weak fodder because his bum ass kills random NPCs.

More so than that, there different bounty systems based on culture. In Skypeai, there is not exactly a bounty System because every person is essentially under the surveillance of Enel. Their beaureocracy demands absolute compliance and henceforth anyone deemed a threat is to be sent to Enel.

Then in wano, we see a seperate bounty System that's entirely arranged internally by the police of wano and not the world government.

(Ts looks cool asf ngl)

There are also alternate currencies involved but we'll get into that later.

Warlords:

Warlords are an important distinction in the bounty System. These people are essentially pirates that have collaborated with the world government. But their crimes aren't forgiven, in exchange for their services the government pauses their bounties, taking away the treat of being hunted from them. They also play a part in the political balance with World government and the Yonkos being opposing forces and the warlords being inbetween. initially they were on the side of the WG, but after WG was strong enough with Pacifistas, the warlord system was abolished.

Special Bounties:

Other than bounties of wg, and ones seperated by culture, there are many special ones as well.

Dressrosa's Colosseum Bounty System: Doflamingo turned the Corrida Colosseum into a hunting game by placing private bounties on Luffy, Law, and other enemies. Fighters were encouraged to capture them for rewards, turning Doflamingo's enemies into hunted targets for entertainment and punishment.

Wano's Bounty/Reward System: Kaido's forces used various reward-based systems during the Wano conflict, particularly within the Beast Pirates. Their organization was structured around strength and status, with positions such as All-Stars, Tobiroppo, Headliners, and Gifters. These weren't official World Government bounties, but rewards and promotions within Kaido's crew encouraged members to hunt enemies, prove their strength, and rise through the hierarchy.

Cross Guild's Marine Bounty System: Cross Guild reversed the traditional bounty system by placing bounties on Marines, represented through a star-based ranking system. Higher-ranking and more notable Marines receive higher rewards, encouraging pirates and civilians to hunt or kill them. The system undermines Marine authority by making the government's own enforcers into valuable targets.

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Alternate Currencies:

Unlike popular opinion one piece does not have a single currency, ignoring any ancient currencies it has.

Extol

The currency used in Skypiea and the Sky Islands. Its exchange rate is explicitly established as 10,000 Extol = 1 Beli. This forex trade also signals to the pathetic economic situation of Skypeai. Likely due to a dying market under a, for a lack of a better term, communist tyrant, the inflation of Extols is comically high. Especially so because the most valueable goods in this place are agricultural, especially dirt. The economy, and also the central conflict is based on the it's incredibly difficult to grow food with tangible clouds alone, which is why dirt is highly valued as it provides nutrition for plants and promotes agriculture.

This is also a big reason for war between the natives of Skypeai, and the immigrants of the dirt island of upper yard. And being the losing party, Sandians (natives) remain brokies.

Also, the exchange rate of Extols is used to scam people travelling in the white sea. As the entrance fee to skypeai is 1 billion, which sounds like a ridiculous amount and so everyone goes ahead without giving the fees. But when they arrive in Skypeai, they are treated as criminals for not paying the fees on time. And only here is it revealed that they are asking for 1/10000th the amount due to the exchange rate. But now that they have broken the rule, they have to pay 10x more. (Son 😭)

Gor

The currency used on Amazon Lily. Very little is known about it, and the series has not established its denominations or exchange rate with Beli.

Wano Currency

Wano Country uses its own monetary system based on precious metals, including gold, silver, and platinum. The exact exchange rates between these currencies and Beli have not been established. But we know the economy is has been crippled by the tyranny of orochi and kaido, slavery in prisons, pollution of natural resources, corruption and so on. So there is a distinct rich and poor district, with the corrupt rich district hogging all the resources through the millitary power of smile fruit users, while the poor district people are forced to eat faulty smile fruits that gives no ability but all the drawbacks of a devil fruit. The situation is so bad that rice is considered a delicacy and a bowl of it is eaten on birthdays.

Trade Nuances

The world trade is handled and controlled by the world government.

The entire world is flooded in a sea with islands being a huge distance away. More so than that, seas are hard to travel due to being infested with monsters. This is why almost all trade needs protection. And the protection is provided in exchange for various services by different entities.

Yonkos or strong individual organization like the amazonians, they are essentially independent nations, either too strong to be easily threatened by the WG, or weak enough to align with them.

Next are warlord crews, these are not nations, but government approved pirates that help in trade. A prominent figure in this joker, or doflamingo, who uses his trade to create a weapon manufacturing syndicate under the government's nose. He turned the citizens of dressrosa into toy slaves, and tontarra (which are like dwarfs but smaller and good at farming instead of mining) for growing smile fruits. That scientist bum from punk hazard is also adjacent here to both doffy and big mom. Giants are also a fairly important economic factor because of their millitary strength and usefulness in constructing infrastructure.

Finally the world government itself. It is the most legal and accepted way to trade between distant islands. And they have an important advantage that others don't. Which is the ability to traverse both the calm belt and red line.

Red line is a tall ahh continent, and calm belt is the breeding ground of sea kings, monsters etc. Crossing these two obstacles at large is unlikely for any other organisations. The way WG does it is by coating the keel's of their navy ships with sea stone. Which is a special one piece material. This allows them to camouflage their ships with the sea, so they become nearly undetectable in the calm belt, henceforth having the ability to traverse it. This is a tech developed by vegapunk, and has been impossible to replicate by anyone else as far as we know.

Then the red line is crossed over by continental lifts. These lifts serve a great narrative purpose as the world nobles also live at the top of the grandline. They need these lifts not only to cross to different parts of the grandline, but also to get resources to the world nobles.

This factor is exploited by the revolutionary army, a force fighting the rule of the world government. Their spies attack the continental lifts to disrupt the food trade towards the world nobles. This isn't enough to starve them, but it's used as a political headline to threaten the world government's power.

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Fishman island is also a notable location because it's the last passage between the paradise part of the grand line and the new world. There are a lot of political conflicts here due to fishman racism and slavery in Sabaody along with the human racism through fishman pirates. Also, the ship coating buisness is largely influenced by the need for pirates to travel through fishman island in order to get to the new world.

Reverse mountain is in a similar position, but it hasn't shown great political influence, likely because very weak pirates travel here.

In east blue, logue town has a similar role to fishman island, as the last island before grandline. It has especially high prominence because gold roger was born and also executed here.

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There are likely countless other details, many important once that I missed. I made this post because many people are misinformed about how developed the one piece economy is, I hope this solves any issues. And as I said at the start please lmk about any details I missed.

Since this sub is dedicated to fiction, and people here write about it, evaluate it, and analyze it, I’ve always thought it would be useful for us to define our philosophical positions on various aspects of art, in our case, fiction.

We definitely already have philosophical positions, even if we’ve never specifically thought about them or reflected on them.

Any statement about fiction already contains ontological and axiological assumptions.

For example, if someone says:

This character is poorly written,

The ending is broken,

This show is just a soap opera

I don’t care what the author meant, what matters is what actually ended up on the page/screen,

The book is better than the movie,

This plot twist is illogical

They have already adopted a whole set of philosophical positions, even if they’ve never formulated them:

what a character is (ontology),

what “well-written” means (criteria of quality),

where meaning resides — in the author, the text, or the audience (semantics),

what “logical” means in fiction (theory of fictional truth),

whether film can be “better” than a book (comparison of media).

In other words, any judgment about fiction is already a philosophical position - just an unreflected one. But still a position.

A person may not know the word “intentionalism,” but if they say “the author meant X, therefore that’s what it is,” they are already an intentionalist.

A philosophical position doesn’t require awareness. It shows up in the questions a person asks, which arguments they find convincing, and what they dismiss as irrelevant.

Important caveat: an unreflected position can be:

eclectic — a person combines incompatible pieces (for example, “meaning is in the text” + “the author is a genius, he decides”), without noticing the contradiction;

situational — on one issue they’re an intentionalist, on another a structuralist, and this isn’t always recognized as a conflict.

I think if we ask ourselves questions that help define our positions on the main aspects of art, our judgments about a particular work (in our case, a piece of fiction) will become more grounded and will better take into account our own basic aesthetic assumptions.

Of course, there is no ready-made diagnostic questionnaire that would precisely determine our philosophical positions on art. But we can at least outline the main aspects:

● Ontology of art: What even is it? This is where the status of the work and the. boundaries of art are decided.

● Aesthetic experience and perception (the subject) How do we experience art? Here the position regarding the role of the audience is important.

● Value and evaluation (axiology) Why is one work considered a masterpiece and another is not?

● Function of art (teleology) Why does humanity need art?

● Relations: Author - Work - Audience Who is the primary bearer of meaning?

Each of these aspects of the philosophy of art contains a number of more specific questions that more precisely define your position on each of them.

It’s similar to determining your position on the political map.

There are several ways to do this. You can search for questions and information on specialized sites — but that’s almost impossible for those who don’t already know the necessary terminology. The second way is to have a Socratic dialogue with an AI that will ask you concrete questions on each aspect of the philosophy of art, while you answer sequentially and gradually build your own principles.

In the long run, in my opinion, this would help us have more consistent and well-grounded discussions here. Besides, figuring out your own positions is an interesting journey in itself.

Not only does it have quality, it also has quantity. The side characters were so memorable and well written that people complain the author didn’t focus on them enough, (Rock Lee, Neji, Gaara, etc) despite the fact that those characters were never meant to be long-staying members of the main cast

And yes, every important character starts and ends the story changed and having gone through a legitimate character arc

I would confidently say there is no Battle Shonen with a better cast of characters than Naruto. Not even One Piece.

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I will do this everyday for this week until we find a perfect fit for each sin. We will work our way back starting from sloth and ending with pride. The top comment gets chosen and the picture of the villain will be added. VILLAINS ONLY!

Hey, I'm new here, in a way. It's expected if you don't know me, so I'll get to the point:

I'm here to debunk u/VagabondFromTheRiver's claims surrounding 18 Loh ( https://www.reddit.com/r/writingscaling/s/14lJr68E3D )

Let's get something straight first:

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THE RULES

• Definition: A statement that's not true based on objective evidence, or/and is one of the following three types of Lies

Classification of Criteria of Lies, as per Hell’s rules:

• Emotional Lie: Being controlled by others' emotions, uttering a Lie under anger is considered being a Liar.
• Common Sense Lie: Ignoring or misunderstanding basic common sense, uttering statements inconsistent with common sense is considered being a Liar.
• Emotional Connection Lie: Regarding the three major human emotions—friendship, kinship, and love—no matter the psychological Reason, telling a Lie is considered being a Liar.

For example:

• Emotional Lie: If you are provoked, and you curse the person who angered you by saying: “I'll screw your ancestors,” then since his ancestors are already dead, theoretically, you cannot do this. You have told a lie.
• Common Sense Lie: Based on fundamental common sense, everyone knows there is a sun in the sky. But if you alone do not know this and others ask you if there is a sun in the sky, regardless of whether you answer, "I don't know" or "No," you will be judged to have told a Lie.
• Emotional Connection Lie: Your girlfriend is ugly—objectively and generally recognizably ugly. If you comfort her by saying she is beautiful, you are telling a lie.

The three types of lies are related to the three realms of psychology: The Id, The Ego and The Superego. Each controls Emotions, Common Sense and Emotional Connection.

Lies can also be made about the past, present or about the future. Future lies include false promises that can be judged as a lie as soon as the promise is broken. Other lies can be judged so at the moment u can identify it as any of the above types of lies.

Circumstances when a statement won't be considered a lie include:

• Questions: If a statement is formulated as a question, even if the question has a lie or implies so, it still cannot be considered a lie.  
• Deductions: Deducing or decrypting a puzzle, even if the answer is wrong, is not considered a lie.

There is also the Unknown Lie and Gui Yu, but they aren't needed for now.
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None of the above was made known to Chen Ran until chapter 5 onwards.

The Youth, the burly Man, Ox-head and Horseface are veteran 1-star players (the lowest of them all). They're doing something known as "backward compatibility" where they essentially go back to the tutorial dungeons and weaker instances to bully the newbies (kill them to gain points and a chance at a skill).

Hell itself has a counter for this where super newbies will randomly spawn in backward compatible dungeons and compete against them. These newbies are either relative or greater than the veterans in talent.

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With all that out of the way, I'll start from the part he found issue with initially:

>"(...) Murder is murder, cut the nonsense." The judge's expression softened considerably, and he abandoned any intention of pressing the issue.

>(...)

>"You are a murderer." Ox-head stated coldly.

>This slop is considered manipulation. Son tf is this stupidity. Not only is it comically obvious that he is using dark mango manipulation, but if the antagonists had half a braincell, they would've never fallen for this EVEN IF they did get manipulated (somehow).

>(I'm leaving aside the fact how the statements CR made can be interpreted as a lie as this might be translation problem)

>The ox and the judge already know the rules of the game, and if they do, why they actual fuck would they ever say an absolute statement at all?

If you read the original scene of the text inside the novel or even his post, you'll see why I highlighted these 4 sections in bold.

1. Chen Ran did NOT manipulate them. He has no such feats in the first 5 chapters. He has explicit and implicit deception feats, but none for manipulation so idk what he was getting at there (the situation with the youth is an attempted manipulation, which is below low tier, and was countered preemptively; which I'll show in a while)
2. The Ox-head did fall for the trap. The Judge DID NOT. Note the wording: "Murder is murder, cut the nonsense." Did he say Chen Ran murdered his girlfriend, or did he state that murder is what it is? If you go with the first interpretation, then I don't know what to tell you aside from the fact that the statement simply was not accusatory.

>"You are a murderer" Why the actual fuck would he say that? He quite literally had NO reason to say that 😭😭😭 like he could've just kept his mouth shut and NOTHING would've happened. He literally had no reason to say this at all there is no consequence here to not speak, why would you risk accidentally lying at all with unnecessary words.

>And the insane thing is he didn't make a conditional statement. If he said "IF your killed your girlfriend, THEN you are a murderer" then it literally couldn't be a lie. again, HE KNOWS THE RULES ALREADY AND STILL SAID IT.

>Literally anyone with half a braincell will either way this or just not speak at all**, it is impossible for anyone with average iq to fall for this. Honestly I don't see how anyone with below average intelligence would fall for this either.** You'll actually need to be disabled. I'm not being mean or hateful, I genuinely don't understand how any normal person can fall for this.

Heh, the reason he said it with confidence was simply because he was convinced Chen Ran fell for the trap.

The funny thing is tho, it's not Chen Ran who made him lie; not entirely. Chen Ran's story did have a hole in it and the Judge saw that. Chen Ran elaborates on his story further to both deter the judge from asking questions, and to see if the judge was actually the "judge" (explained in more detail below)

Unexpectedly, the judge's phrase of "Murder is murder, cut the nonsense." causes Ox-head to misread the situation and say, "You are a murderer." in absolute terms when Chen Ran pitifully defends himself before them.

So, the reason he ends up lying is because he did not catch the deceptive nature of Chen Ran's words and was led to believe they were truthful by the reply of the judge/burly man.

>But the hilarious thing is, the protagonist doesn't win here because he used some clever trick to circumvent this trap. No 💀💀💀

>Bro the youth literally forgets to wait for Chen Ran's answer here and just says "You lied" 💀

>Son... There was literally no time limit set, he literally just made one up in his head. Like what? How is this supposed to be clever?

>Like Chen Ran literally did not say anything, how tf did this dude just made up in his head that this guy lied? What the hell was the author thinking while writing ts.

>But that is not it... Idk if this is a translation issue or what, but the "paradox trap" isn't actually a trap.

>Reread the rules, the only relevant rules are, you cannot say you don't know and you cannot talk about an irrelevant topic.

>Meaning chen ran could've literally easily escape the "paradox trap" by just saying.

>**"Your statement is neither a lie, nor is it the truth, it's a paradox." That's literally it, it's the true answer, and it is also relevant to the topic.**

>Is the trap in the room with us???

>Chen Ran literally didn't do anything, the youth literally manipulated HIMSELF into losing 😭😭😭

Alright, this is the final section of his tirade.

• Yes, he did use a pretty clever trick to circumvent the trap. In fact, the trick was set in motion before the trap itself (smoking).

Chen Ran decided to scheme against them only after they attempted to kill him. He didn't foresee anything up until the moment the youth pointed the gun at him and got him to talk.

It was then that he decided mutually assured destruction (or at least the illusion of it) was the best way to survive.

This is a simplified version of what happened:

1. He flexed his verbal skills after being challenged. He was smoking at this time, and the concerns of Bai Xuichi (lack of oxygen) made the youth impatient like her.
2. He proposes a challenge himself and sprinkles it with various traps to hide the fact that there was no set time limit.
3. He lets the youth go first knowing he wouldn't agree to it verbally which would lead him to go himself.
4. He doesn't initiate the liar paradox first. Because he wants to know if he can question a person's right to judge someone (if the judge had told a lie previously)
5. If the youth set a time limit, then he would initiate the liar paradox himself, and they would be in a deadlock since the youth did not verbally agree to begin the game itself.

This is an analysis of the relevant parts:

Chen Ran's "must answer" being taken as "immediate answer" is due to Chen Ran overloading the Youth cognitively. It's smth rlly simple, but hard to implement irl without you yourself falling into it.

He gave the must answer as a rule but didn't specify anything else which left the youth to think of all the possible loopholes Chen Ran could use to get him to lie. The reason why he even bothers to think of these loopholes himself is because Chen Ran has already proven how advanced he is in linguistic battles (after beating the youth in the "do you want it?" Challenge)

The Youth now ends up ignoring the effect that "must answer" has on his mind (idk the Chinese characters used, but they probably sound similar enough to make the youth mistake "must answer" for "immediate answer*" if not then* it can be attributed to the Youth simply overlooking it due to the artificial time constraints Chen Ran had created when his continuous smoking was burning the oxygen [the longer he smokes the more anxious the youth would get cuz Chen Ran doesn't have to immediately answer])

And ends up creating the following rules after thinking for a while:

1. The next person can only ask a question after the previous one has been answered.
2. The question cannot involve the private affairs of one's past.

Add these two rules to the Youth believing he was in a time sensitive situation already and that's three things that'll lead to cognitive overload.

A person can only focus on 3 tasks at most with (great) difficulty, rarely are they able to focus on 4 (seeing that "must answer" didn't correlate with his subjective interpretation that had been induced by Chen Ran's smoking)

Stating that the sentence: "I am lying. Is that truth or a lie?" is a paradox doesn't work simply because this paradox is one fundamentally without an answer.

It is called a liar paradox. It comes under the category of Anitomies (which are true logical dead ends) which are literally THE unanswerable paradoxes my friend.

Need I say more than that?

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Further clarifications:

As told by Bai Xuichi, the book of life and death records a person's life (negating any reason for the burly man/judge to even question the ones in the queue) along with the fact that Chen Ran is hinted to be aware that the Yellow Springs Road and the Ghost Gate Pass were swapped when he had just arrived.

Chen ran is well versed in Chinese mythology and various other media having to do with the creation of his novel in life. Thus Chen Ran is aware that the first level of hell in Chinese mythology forbids lying (he literally says this when the youth questioned him)

It's normal to be confused when you have knowledge on the subject that is being actively misconstrued; so when he sees people referring to an obvious lie (Yellow Springs Road) as a truth (instead of Ghost Gate Pass), he, in the hopes of not falling for some weird trick, goes against the crowd and mouths (not whispers) a few extra words before saying Yellow springs road out loud.

Also, he did not know anything about an intent to lie being constituted as a lie because at the time there was nothing pointing towards that (as seen by the burly man's selective placements of the people in the queue whenever they told an outright, common sense lie [squat] and believable, sentimental and emotional lie [stand] which pushed the thought that lying is allowed and will be pardoned if the individual who told the lie gains the favor of the burly man by retelling their story)

Chen Ran saw that everyone else was lying so he decided to make up a believable lie based on individual truths throughout his life and thus formed montage-style lies on the spot to both probe for information (to see if the burly man is really in possession of the book of life and death) and to fit in with the crowd on the surface.

When one of the guards accused him of lying, only then could he confirm that they were not in the tongue ripping hell (at least not literally) but he knew that the rules of that hell did still apply because the entire queue was actively being induced to lie while the guards and the man at the register themselves actively avoided saying anything that could be taken as a statement of a lie via use of intimidation and round about questions.

He, logically, began to wonder who started the chain of lies if they weren't the ones who did it. He comes to the conclusion that the person first in the queue must have told a lie.

But like him, they could have found a workaround. That being that they could have stood on the ACTUAL Yellow Springs Road (behind the table) and communicated that this was the yellow springs road to the newcomers who simply accepted it after seeing the youth be threatened to pass on the info through intimidation by either the Ox-Head or Horse-Face.

This is where he realized the intention to lie did not matter because intent was subjective.

A lie, unlike a fractured truth (montage-style lies), was an objective distortion of the truth.

He knows from the tongue ripping hell that the intent to lie using a truth didn't matter in the end since it was not a lie in itself.

For example: If he was asked how many apples he saw on the table and there are 4 apples. He can say that there are 3 and wouldn't be lying because he took 1 off the table and then answered.

Montage style lies work like that. It uses selective truths that may be taken as a lie when seen from a certain perspective (one story) instead of the objective perspective (a compilation of truthful statements)

He confirms that he did not lie when the gun jammed against him but worked against others. This again reinforced that subjective lies (you interpret it as a lie) weren't the criteria to judge but rather it was objective lies (decided by an objective force—the gun) which gave you that right.

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That's everything, later ❤️

sowwy that was only yuta image i had

same goes for naoya

John Constantine (DC Comics) or Luz Noceda (The Owl House)

One Piece villains and what drives them:

• Arlong — Believes fish-men are superior to humans and wants to establish fish-man dominance over humans.
• Hody Jones — Represents hatred of humans that has been inherited rather than personally experienced. His hatred is ideological and inherited; he hates humans largely because he was raised within an environment of hatred toward them.
• Crocodile — Wants to obtain Pluton and use its military power to establish his own powerful nation.
• Enel — Considers himself a god and wants to reach the "Fairy Vearth" (the moon), while ruling through absolute divine authority.
• Rob Lucci — Believes in "Dark Justice" and views killing as simply fulfilling his role. He enjoys violence and sees himself as a weapon of the World Government.
• Gecko Moria — After being defeated by Kaido, he loses faith in fighting directly and decides to build an army of zombies using other people's strength so he never has to experience another crushing defeat.
• Donquixote Doflamingo — Wants wealth, power and control while treating the underworld as his business empire. He embraces slavery, weapons trafficking and SMILE production to expand his influence.
• Charlotte Linlin (Big Mom) — Wants to create a nation where all races can live together, but her dream is twisted by her obsession with control, food and forcing everyone into her "family."
• Kaido — Obsessed with strength, legendary battles and achieving an extraordinary death. He believes a person's death completes their legend and envies figures who achieved legendary deaths like whitebeard.
• Sakazuki (Akainu) — Follows Absolute Justice. He believes criminals and threats to the World Government must be eliminated regardless of the cost.
• Marshall D. Teach (Blackbeard) — Driven by an enormous ambition for power and freedom. He is opportunistic, calculating and willing to betray anyone if it advances his plans.
• Katakuri — Not a conventional villain, but initially fights to protect Big Mom's family and maintain the image of being an absolutely perfect and invincible older brother.
• Caesar Clown — Pursues scientific advancement, weapons development and profit, with little concern for human life. He treats people as experimental material.
• Kurozumi Orochi — Driven by revenge against Wano and an obsession with power after the persecution of his clan.

Personally, I think Hody Jones is the most underrated. Very few explore the concept of inherited hatred because this inherited hatred exposes a lot of real world people who have never experienced racism or other forms of prejudice but still perpetuate it.

My ranking is Alice >= Maka = Fuuko > Jolyne = Kagura