#exponential power

[ben-10-setting-omnicrom]

This is kinda what the main character of Exponential Power has to deal with but significantly less worrying considering his mind control became memetic basically immediately lol.

If you're curious about Exponential Power here's the link and summary. It delves into lots of philosophy that's pretty interesting and is flat out my favorite setting ever. It starts off with everyone literally being the best at everything due to knowledge/skill sharing that's ubiquitous in setting and goes crazier after impossible powers start manifesting. It's an incredibly realistic setting.

My Earth was just like yours prior to 2007. After? After that 80% of the population on every planet in the universe suddenly got a 4 way split between 4 superpowers. Super speed, strength, flight, and intelligence.

The universe didn't know what was happening or why. Until the first batch of people "leveled up" and saw for a brief infinitesimal point in time their skill tree. Infinitely branching and big, with their base super power made from a few of those branches spelling it out.

With the level up grew more power and versatility, growing exponentially at a liner rate.

Fast-forward 10 years and you had large parts of each planet able to obliterate mountain ranges in a single punch or circle the planet in seconds.

The changes brought on by the first showing of powers was massive. After 10 years of getting used to the new normal, everything changed again. The 20% of the population sans any of the Big Four started getting esoteric powers. Like my best friend Caleb, he turned into a 3D living shadow.

Me? I have mind control.

Yeah. Definitely not something you want to advertise, especially when you've always wanted to form a superhero team.

You wake up in the morning, and notice that anyone who looks at you, stares at you for a while, and immediately obeys your every command. Curious, you look into the mirror, and what you see shocks you…

[reasonsforhope]

100% have been perusing your climate change masterpost, and understand you're probably swamped so feel free to delete of course. But if you can find the time, is there any kind of hope to give in fighting climate change now? Can we save ourselves against the oncoming steamroll?

You hang in there too. Thanks for finding the hope among everything else. It feels so bad rn but I have to believe it can change. I hope it can.

Yeah actually I do think there is hope.

Things are going to get rough. Things are going to get worse before they get better, both for the climate and for people living in the US (and for people living in lots and lots of other countries that will be affected by the US election results/the ways the climate will worsen as aa result).

I haven't posted about this yet because I didn't want it to come to this, but now that it has, here's something that people have been quietly saying/research has been showing for months:

-via Reuters, November 6, 2024

Renewables, especially solar, are just too powerful to be stopped. They just too much cheaper and too much better, and that's only going to become more true, not less.

Also, I think (and hope) it's actually inevitable that at some point, we'll get to net negative carbon emissions. I think it's like solar: the technology, cost, and planet all make it feel like an inevitable technological trajectory, the same way solar tech is on an exponential trajectory. (IF WE WORK FOR IT, OBVIOUSLY, but also so, so many people ARE working for it, have dedicated their lives to working for it)

I sure fucking hope that's the case, anyway.

(You can find my masterpost on going net negative on what that actually means here)

It is gonna happen more slowly and shittily than I hoped, but I do think it's going to happen.

And if we can get to net negative emissions in time to save ourselves (which I think we will, the rates of advancement in many of these areas are very impressive), then we'll be able to slowly start to undo and heal lot of the damage.

[okiroash]

Sunny uploaded their art of No Deal Yoms AU !! so I'd like to share a few doodles I did of him before,, it's a very fun AU to think about 💥

[tvckerwash]

someone on the toaru subreddit was asking about potential power ups for mikoto, and ngl I think I cooked with this response (utc because it's kind of long lol)

mikoto doesn't necessarily need a power up imo as her issue in index is that she's trying to be something she isn't. mikoto wants to be by kamijou's side, and she thinks that the best way to achieve that is by being strong enough to fight his battles for him. mikoto is not an A team combatant though, and her best fights in index are when she's taking on the B team such as her fight with thor against sylvia and bruinhild in nt6, or when she takes on opponents that are problematic for kamijou, such as hound dog in ot13.

mikoto acquired the AAA after she had been put into a situation where she was completely helpless despite trying her hardest to succeed, and to add fuel to the fire she was told outright that she was holding back the person she was trying to help.

for mikoto the AAA was meant to function as an opposing parallel to accelerator's black wings, though while the wings, and the pain accelerator was forced to go through by aleister in order to receive them, was a necessary step for his growth and development, mikoto was never meant to get the AAA, and it was only ever going to be a temporary fix to the pain she is unnecessarily forcing herself to go through by chasing after kamijou's back.

in a similar vein, mikoto teaming up with misaki in an effort to get stronger by gaining more power has, and will likely continue to be, a temporary solution to her dilemma. in her mind if she could not achieve her goal even with something like the AAA, the obvious solution to tackle her problem is to have someone else help her, doubling her firepower. this resulted in her being able to break into the windowless building with the liquid proof railgun, which was again an unnecessary development, hence why she was “betrayed” by misaki in nt22r, and why the AAA was destroyed in gt2—there's no point in her having access to those abilities, as they were not helping her grow as a person.

where exactly mikoto is going to go from here is unknown, though considering kamachi has said mikoto is never going to stop chasing after kamijou, and if the blurb from item volume 2 below is anything to go by, I unfortunately don't think we'll be seeing a solution anytime soon.

There are reports of the Railgun using EM waves to produce a macro reflected wave radar, but there are no examples of her using electrons themselves to cut anything. She has a tendency to avoid that and instead uses magnetism to vibrate iron sand. It is unknown if this is because she was only recently recognized as a Level 5, or if it is a permanent problem.

—Item #2, Pg179-180.

I do know that I for one would kill for mikoto to have some sort of corruption arc where she gets a temporary demon form, resulting in a scenario where she'd clash with kamijou and he'd finally fight her seriously like she's always wanted him to. it would be very fitting thematically for her to find herself in the same situation accelerator was once in, where she's so deluded that a wake up call via a fist to the face is just what she needs to get her head on straight and kick-start her character development, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see 🤷.

[ben-10-setting-omnicrom]

LMAOOOOOOO

What the FUCK is this.

I want to punt anyone who agrees with this into the sun.

I swear Ben 10 is one of the only superheroes where people seem to get their rocks off showing how shit of a media literacy ability they have.

The show is BLATANT about showing why he acts the way he does.

Like even if the first few minutes of the FIRST FUCKING EPISODE he shows stupidly good moral judgement, especially for a 10 year old. The fact he immediately thought to use the Omnitrix to "actually help people instead of making things worse" is fucking insane.

People give Ben unnecessary amounts of shit for supposedly acting like a 10 year old when even as a 10 year old he shows more maturity and moral fiber than most adults.

Ben being the future Hero of Heroes is well deserved. He's easily one of the most effective superheroes in fiction and easily one of the most dedicated.

Literally the only superhero I know of that is even more insane about their dedication (and actually has Ben as a role model, the series was fictional in his reality before the embodiment of the Multiverse made every possible fiction real, it makes sense in context) is Blake Morgan from Exponential Power and he has so much of a workaholic tendency that the various ultra powerful gods and stuff in setting have literally mandated to have him have mandatory vacations since he's literally (and continues to do so) done an infinite amount of work in a finite amount of time to help people in need all across the Omniverse.

Literally all of this post holy fuck. Ben never had an open relationship. Literally the only person to ACTUALLY cheat on their relationship is Julie because Ben thought they were still together when Julie got Harvey behind his back and started to date him.

If you're curious about Exponential Power here's the link and summary. It delves into lots of philosophy that's pretty interesting.

My Earth was just like yours prior to 2007. After? After that 80% of the population on every planet in the universe suddenly got a 4 way split between 4 superpowers. Super speed, strength, flight, and intelligence.

The universe didn't know what was happening or why. Until the first batch of people "leveled up" and saw for a brief infinitesimal point in time their skill tree. Infinitely branching and big, with their base super power made from a few of those branches spelling it out.

With the level up grew more power and versatility, growing exponentially at a liner rate.

Fast-forward 10 years and you had large parts of each planet able to obliterate mountain ranges in a single punch or circle the planet in seconds.

The changes brought on by the first showing of powers was massive. After 10 years of getting used to the new normal, everything changed again. The 20% of the population sans any of the Big Four started getting esoteric powers. Like my best friend Caleb, he turned into a 3D living shadow.

Me? I have mind control.

Yeah. Definitely not something you want to advertise, especially when you've always wanted to form a superhero team.

and Ben 10 hate comment of the year award goes to this fuckhead

[mikumoroll]

in which three mages debate the best way to handle an abomination spite. [pt. 1]

[mwolf0epsilon]

Hey @enigmatist17 your clone tier list is great!

Rank Tier Reasoning:

S+ - Impactful (These characters' appearances/story arc live rent free in my brain and I cannot get enough of them)

S - Underutilized Potential (These characters could have their own show and rise to S+ specifically on their own strengths if people actually gave them the chance)

A - Interesting Concept (There's something to these characters that could be further explored in many interesting ways)

B - Could Be Built Upon/Needed More Screen-time (I don't feel a particular connection to these characters due to how quickly they came and went but there's potential there too)

C - There's Something There/Needs More Work (These characters mean very little to me but I acknowledge they can either grow or have grown writing-wise)

D - Unchanging Characterization/Poorly Written 'Cool Guy' (Has literally experienced no character growth and runs on one singular trait that is better written in other characters, and has remained detestable in my books even if they are a fandom favourite)

[unidentifiedfuckingthing]

heres your random frustrating fact of the day

[ben-10-setting-omnicrom]

I mean it's not like Celestialsapiens would be incapable of finding out people voted fraudulently. Lying really wouldn't do anything seeing as it was real time universal voting on if he was guilty or not while said court case was literally being Livestreamed to everyone in the universe simultaneously (individually might I add which is fucking INSANE on both counts and would literally take the cake in terms of information sharing and streaming basically fiction wide since every universe in Ben 10 is infinitely big and thus would likewise have an infinite number of people in it an infinite distance away from each other all being shared instantly. The data processing and speed of that would laugh at basically any other instances of such things in fiction)

so I don't think lying would have done basically anything tbh even if they tried. Celestialsapiens are Omniscient enough to accurately remake the entire universe and it's history after its spacetime was deleted after all.

Literally the only setting I can think of off hand that has even more ridiculous information sharing is Exponential Power and that basically cheats because while an infinitely infinite amount of information is shared between the Omniverse via the Extranet instantly the information isn't technically actually moving any since the servers that do it all are in a impossible space and thus exist and don't exist at any given point in spacetime and thus omnipresent due to it's nature.

If you're curious about Exponential Power here's the link and summary. It delves into lots of philosophy that's pretty interesting.

My Earth was just like yours prior to 2007. After? After that 80% of the population on every planet in the universe suddenly got a 4 way split between 4 superpowers. Super speed, strength, flight, and intelligence.

The universe didn't know what was happening or why. Until the first batch of people "leveled up" and saw for a brief infinitesimal point in time their skill tree. Infinitely branching and big, with their base super power made from a few of those branches spelling it out.

With the level up grew more power and versatility, growing exponentially at a liner rate.

Fast-forward 10 years and you had large parts of each planet able to obliterate mountain ranges in a single punch or circle the planet in seconds.

The changes brought on by the first showing of powers was massive. After 10 years of getting used to the new normal, everything changed again. The 20% of the population sans any of the Big Four started getting esoteric powers. Like my best friend Caleb, he turned into a 3D living shadow.

Me? I have mind control.

Yeah. Definitely not something you want to advertise, especially when you've always wanted to form a superhero team.

Everytime I rewatch Ben 10 I realise just HOW MANY lives Ben really saved... and it makes the trial scen so much more agitating- like after ALL Ben did???? He was willing to DIE at age 15 or 16 just to let free the ultimate forms of his aliens???? He recreated the universe for THEM which mind you is WHY he was even on trial in the first place???? The diamondhead planet owe him their lives???? Im so-

Hoes ain't loyal man

[unlikelytrashcreation]

Look at my support kitty this is pinch she is my emotional support criminal!!! She’s made not jumping off the roof of my apartment much easier!!

[eddiegettingshot]

You should make an EGS newsletter. Best of asks and rant posts. I’d subscribe to it. I read this blog every day like it’s the news

omg the egs daily digest!

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Jade: i hate when it rains and all the worms come out of the mud because it takes FOREVER for me to put them all back!! :(

[shanedoesdoodles]

Trying very very very very hard not to go all doomer over the election results

[antirepurp]

in my perfect little world digivolution mechanics are slightly tweaked so that ultimate and mega digimon are harder to evolve into, rookies and champions are viable for a longer time when repeated digivolutions make them strong enough to face even higher digivolution stages without being at a significant disadvantage, ultimates feel like the natural peak of a digimon's lifespan and seeing them in fights is a sign that shit is REALLY going down, and megas are showcased sparingly due to extremely difficult requirements for evolution that only rise in the direst of situations that might only happen a few times over the course of the story. alas -

[abetterscarletletter]

taylor’s private jet usage bothers me too. a lot. i’m not bothered by people criticising her for it. i am bothered by the fact that she seems to be the only public figure who is deemed a Bad Person because of it.

[neproxrezi]

how is the minecraft java launcher so fucking bad it is 2022