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    There's a point in one game that explicitly states that at least at one point that pokemon are eaten for food and the gen 2 games establish that milk comes from miltanks, not cows.

    Not to mention the whole joke with Farfetch'd: There's a proverb "a duck carrying bunching onions" Something that is surprising, but convenient. Taken literally, it's awfully convenient for a food animal to be carrying its own seasoning even if you'd never think that to happen. Farfetch'd's Japanese name is literally a contraction that has the same literal meaning as the proverb.
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    Control, the shooter from the creators of Alan Wake which owes a lot to the SCP wiki, is about imposter syndrome in the workplace. Spoilered for anyone who still hasn't played it (it's a few years old, but it's a great experience).

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    • The gameplay is designed to make the player feel overwhelmed and on edge, but slowly increase in power and experience (like any well crafted action game), giving the feeling of just having made it through a crisis and being praised by everyone (who from your perspective doesn't realise how close you were to failure).
    • She's down to Earth and spent most of the time building up to that moment working menial jobs before suddenly finding herself where she wanted to be (effectively an analogy for someone paying their dues).
    • There was a candidate for the position (her brother Dylan) who was literally "Jesse, but a guy", who didn't want it but was basically put on the "glass elevator".
    • A nightmare near the end sees Jesse hallucinate being in a menial role in the offices; she rejects this despite several allusions to her thinking this would make more sense prior to that (including Dylan describing the scenario).
    • The entity she thought was helping her "cheat", turns out to have been a part of her all along. The game ends with her accepting the position she's a great fit for.
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    I reject your reality and substitute it with my own; this is why its a headcanon.
    I mean, when you're headcanon is explicitly contradicted by the source material...

    Anyway: We know from comments about Lt. Surge that Pokemon are used by the military in Wartime in the Pokemon world.

    I like to imagine that there are detailed treaties between regions limiting the use of Pokemon. For example, Gyarados are supposedly known for destroying entire cities in a rampage, so using them is a bit like using WMDs. Thus, treaties banning them for military use.

    Likewise, there are bans on using legendary pokemon. Even in cases where the Legendaries aren't unique beings they're still very rare, much more powerful than the average Pokemon, and often have a direct effect on the environment around them if not the whole world. Several normal Pokemon possess similar abilities, but not to the same extent.

    Naturally, some regions with shadier governments may or may not be working on ways around them. Don't you think it's odd that there are people in Alola and Galar who are actively manufacturing super-powered Hybrid Pokemon with a unique ability similar to the one possessed by Arceus? And what possible purpose could the horrible, inhumane experiments on the Kanto Mew And Mewtwo—which the two are still traumatized about, judging from what happens if they're you're follower Pokemon in the Let's Go games—in the Pokemon mansion could have been for? The anime's explanation of "create the strongest pokemon" seems to have been adopted as semi-canon.
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    I mean, when you're headcanon is explicitly contradicted by the source material...
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    Its only reason I read A Practical Guide to Evil and the only reason I even gave Worm a shot. Its one of the many reasons I can appreciate Undertale, and why Homestuck is so fascinating as its an entire work dedicated to this on meta level with how fandoms and franchises work using its own to demonstrate it as well as the various implications of its actual setting. Its why I like Hunter X Hunter, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Watchmen, Bioshock, and so on.

    But! One has to have standards. Everyone has something they can't stomach. One has to draw the line somewhere. I draw the line at pokemon being eaten. Its not rational. I don't have any clever logical reasons why. I just don't want it. and will not play in any roleplay that has pokemon being eaten. I hope to press upon you the significance of this one thing being a thing I draw the line at when I would explore so much else dark and whatnot. I know its a weird hill to die on, but its my hill and I'm proud of planting my flag on it.
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    Okay, fine.

    Sorry.

    I'll just scratch "synthetic meat" off the list of things our evil megacorp is working on above board, then.


    I think this is a common one, but Lt. Surge is probably from Ore, Unova, or Alola. He was explicitly American in the Gen 1 games, back when Regions shared their names with the places they were modeled on, and those three regions are respectively modeled on Arizona, New York, and Hawaii.

    (Ore is from Collueseam and XD)
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    Okay, fine.

    Sorry.

    I'll just scratch "synthetic meat" off the list of things our evil megacorp is working on above board, then.
    Why use synthetic meat? Slowpoke tails grow back...
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    Why use synthetic meat? Slowpoke tails grow back...
    1: We don't know how long that takes.

    2: They're referred to as a delicacy, which usually refers to something that both tastes good and isn't commonplace. They're also presented as being sweet and sometimes spicy.

    I doubt that they'd be a sustainable source of meat and they're probably high in simple sugars which aren't exactly good for you.

    Now, a megacorp specializing in biotech derived from studying Pokemon might have studied the mechanics of slowpoke tail regeneration for the creation of vat-grown or synthetic meat, but...
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    2: They're referred to as a delicacy, which usually refers to something that both tastes good and isn't commonplace.
    Theoretically. In practice it usually refers to something offputtingly unpalatable that people nonetheless eat and pretend to like because it has a reputation for being either trendy, foreign, and/or blingy/extravagant. A little bit like the story of the emperor's new clothes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bohandas View Post
    Theoretically. In practice it usually refers to something offputtingly unpalatable that people nonetheless eat and pretend to like because it has a reputation for being either trendy, foreign, and/or blingy/extravagant. A little bit like the story of the emperor's new clothes.
    I have to agree. The status of something as a delicacy is something outsiders typically decide. The way I've seen it, 'delicacy' can refer to something people from the outside think is weird or cool to eat. Fried tarantula isn't uncommon and is supposed to be about as good as other invertebrates, but that's called a 'delicacy'. I have never heard of a single thing from my own culinary culture called a 'delicacy' by anyone I know, so I don't think we get to decide what our 'delicacies' are.

    Also in theory, anything you find at a delicatessen is a delicacy.
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    The average human lifespan in the Dragonball world is shorter than in real life.

    This is becuase of comments made by Doctor Gero: That he stopped actively monitoring Goku after they went into space becuase he figured that Goku would have hit his peak during the Saiyan attacks and any meaningful increases in strength and skill he could gain would be countered by Goku's age.

    Goku would have been 30 at the oldest when the android first made themselves known. Not even middle-aged by human standards.

    So, Gero's reasoning only makes sense if one assumes both that Saiyans age at the same rate that humans do(and, to b fair, the fact that Goku looked like a child pretty much until he shot up at 18ish could be handwaved as him being a late bloomer) and that the average human peaks a full decade earlier than in real life.
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    The average human lifespan in the Dragonball world is shorter than in real life.

    This is becuase of comments made by Doctor Gero: That he stopped actively monitoring Goku after they went into space becuase he figured that Goku would have hit his peak during the Saiyan attacks and any meaningful increases in strength and skill he could gain would be countered by Goku's age.

    Goku would have been 30 at the oldest when the android first made themselves known. Not even middle-aged by human standards.

    So, Gero's reasoning only makes sense if one assumes both that Saiyans age at the same rate that humans do(and, to b fair, the fact that Goku looked like a child pretty much until he shot up at 18ish could be handwaved as him being a late bloomer) and that the average human peaks a full decade earlier than in real life.
    ...No? Human athletes typically "peak" at well before 30, particularly when it comes to combat sports. People like Floyd Mayweather (and to a lesser extent George Foreman, who did make a comeback in his 40's) are outliers. Accumulated damage is some real ****.

    I see no reason this would be different for the Dragon world, especially since it's not just a sport, it's real combat.

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    ...No? Human athletes typically "peak" at well before 30, particularly when it comes to combat sports. People like Floyd Mayweather (and to a lesser extent George Foreman, who did make a comeback in his 40's) are outliers. Accumulated damage is some real ****.

    I see no reason this would be different for the Dragon world, especially since it's not just a sport, it's real combat.
    1: Goku has a means of instantaneous perfect healing, so accumulated damage is not an issue and Gero knows about this because he was monitoring Goku since prior to goku gaining these resources.

    2: Gero specifically cites old age as a reason why Goku wouldn't get much stronger. Not accumulated damage, just... Getting old. At 30.
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    1: Goku has a means of instantaneous perfect healing, so accumulated damage is not an issue and Gero knows about this because he was monitoring Goku since prior to goku gaining these resources.

    2: Gero specifically cites old age as a reason why Goku wouldn't get much stronger. Not accumulated damage, just... Getting old. At 30.
    Yes, "getting old" at 30. Which is not exactly what he said. He said that his peak strength was going to be at around 30, because that's around the time your body stops developing and starts deteriorating. Not all at once, but gradually you're going to have to work harder and harder to achieve the same results. Reflexes slow, muscles aren't as easy to build, metabolism slows, etc. There are physical limits to how strong a person can get from just training...or so Gero thinks. And he's sort of right about that; it seems to be heavily implied that the power gap between, say, Krillin and Goku in his base form isn't actually that immense.

    Like...we SEE how fast normal people age in the Dragon world. It's normal. Hercule wins the World Martial Arts Tournament at 31; he's 42 by the time of Battle of Gods and still looks in decent shape, but he's not exactly in his prime anymore. Same with Krillin (who's the exact same age).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rater202 View Post
    The average human lifespan in the Dragonball world is shorter than in real life.

    This is becuase of comments made by Doctor Gero: That he stopped actively monitoring Goku after they went into space becuase he figured that Goku would have hit his peak during the Saiyan attacks and any meaningful increases in strength and skill he could gain would be countered by Goku's age.

    Goku would have been 30 at the oldest when the android first made themselves known. Not even middle-aged by human standards.

    So, Gero's reasoning only makes sense if one assumes both that Saiyans age at the same rate that humans do(and, to b fair, the fact that Goku looked like a child pretty much until he shot up at 18ish could be handwaved as him being a late bloomer) and that the average human peaks a full decade earlier than in real life.
    Since Saiyans were a race of super soldiers, it's possible that they start suffering due to age/peak earlier than humans (since they normally die in battle anyway, perhaps they burn the candle at both ends in their youth).

    It's also possible that Gero's data was off because the majority of Saiyans spend their lives in harsher total war conditions growing up (whereas Goku grew up on Earth, and had the advantage of such things as a happy childhood with the odd adventure, and vegetables that were something other than a naming convention).
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    Since Saiyans were a race of super soldiers, it's possible that they start suffering due to age/peak earlier than humans (since they normally die in battle anyway, perhaps they burn the candle at both ends in their youth).
    This is explicitly the opposite of how Saiyans work. They stay in the prime of their life much longer, well into their 80's, but then their bodies begin to rapidly age/deteriorate, leaving their lifespan at roughly the human norm of less than 100.

    Fun fact I picked up while looking to see if any of this had been further touched on in the Super manga (which it had; I'm pretty sure the previous figure for Saiyans starting to get old was 60 rather than 80) is that Nappa was 50 when he invaded Earth with Vegeta.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BisectedBrioche View Post
    Since Saiyans were a race of super soldiers, it's possible that they start suffering due to age/peak earlier than humans (since they normally die in battle anyway, perhaps they burn the candle at both ends in their youth).

    It's also possible that Gero's data was off because the majority of Saiyans spend their lives in harsher total war conditions growing up (whereas Goku grew up on Earth, and had the advantage of such things as a happy childhood with the odd adventure, and vegetables that were something other than a naming convention).
    1: As Ryujin said, it's the other way around. Saiyans, while having the same average and maximum lifespans as humans, spend proportionally more of their lifespan in their youth. a Saiyan is considered "young" until they hit 80 and then rapidly go downhill.

    2: Goku was thought to be a human with a quirk until Raditz arrived on Earth, and Saiyan's aging and maturing at a different rate from baseline humans wasn't established until... Honestly, I don't think it was established until the End of Z when Goku still looked to be in his 20s when he was a grandfather.

    Gero's data would have been written on the assumption that Goku was human unless otherwise stated.

    I mean, it's a moot point. Gero's androids were all several orders of magnitude higher than what he suspected Goku would be at, but still.

    I find it odd that, in a world where being in good shape and meditating can let you fly and shoot moon-destroying lasers from your hands, Gero just assumed that there was no conceivable way that Goku could be meaningfully more powerful at 30 than he was at 25. Especially when he had literally just got evidence that Goku was nowhere near the (at the time assumed)full potential of his species.

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    The thought just occurred to me that SCP and WH40K could be the same universe at different times. The Foundation reeks of the Emperor's early attempts to suppress knowledge of the existence of Chaos.
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    The thought just occurred to me that SCP and WH40K could be the same universe at different times. The Foundation reeks of the Emperor's early attempts to suppress knowledge of the existence of Chaos.
    I really don't think so. The Foundation tries to preserve the status quo, but they aren't out to destroy the anomalous. In fact they work hard to preserve it in most cases (even if it's in a containment chamber) as well as study it. The Imperium and the Emperor are much more like the Global Occult Coalition. They suppress and eliminate knowledge as well as destroy anything and anyone that gets in their way. Or they think they will get in their way in the future. Or could get in their way. Or just exists and is different. There is a reason the GOC are called "Book Burners".
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    Peach Beach is a race track that appears in Mario Kart Doble Dash and Maria Kart Wii. It is referred to as Princess Peach's private racetrack...

    But based on the architecture, spectators, and the wildlife you see around it, it's obviously somewhere in Isle Delfino, which is seemingly not part of the Mushroom Kingdom based on how Super Mario Sunshine presents it.

    My headcanon is that, following what was supposed to be a relaxing vacation being ruined not only by Bowser's scheme but by the corruption and incompetence of Isle Delfino's justice system—Mario being arrested, tried, and convicted for crimes that happened before he got there, with eye witness to the fact that he'd only gotten to the island within less than an hour of being arrested, not being allowed to defend himself at trial, and his name never being clear despite proving the existence of the real culprit... Not to mention Peach being kidnapped, the kidnapper running past two cops who just stood there doing nothing, and in general the unpleasantness of those people... That Peach invaded and annexed Isle Delfino and converted the capital city of Delfino Plaza into her personal private racecourse.
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    Eh, only the first Mario game actually happened.

    All the others, not just Mario 3 where this is explicitly true (it's a play), have been dramatic reconstructions of the original events with ever increasing special effects budgets.

    That's why they all happily play tennis and golf and kart racing together.

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    Heh, just found this thread, and I don't know if anyone has brought this up previously, but my favorite piece of recent headcanon is from Game of Thrones: People follow Jon Snow not because he's a great warrior or inspiring leader, but because after so many instances of him doing something foolish or reckless-- including getting himself killed at one point-- the gods always seem to bail him out, so he must obviously be their chosen one.

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    Heh, just found this thread, and I don't know if anyone has brought this up previously, but my favorite piece of recent headcanon is from Game of Thrones: People follow Jon Snow not because he's a great warrior or inspiring leader, but because after so many instances of him doing something foolish or reckless-- including getting himself killed at one point-- the gods always seem to bail him out, so he must obviously be their chosen one.
    I mean.....that would make sense with the rest of the GRRM/A Song of Ice and Fire's take on the fantasy genre if it wasn't denying the existence of one: if the chosen one DOES exist, its proven by the universe making sure they live to be able to succeed despite their numerous failures and stupid decisions, because you can't fight fate, so no matter how incompetent a "chosen one" actually is, they succeed anyways.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Raziere View Post
    I mean.....that would make sense with the rest of the GRRM/A Song of Ice and Fire's take on the fantasy genre if it wasn't denying the existence of one: if the chosen one DOES exist, its proven by the universe making sure they live to be able to succeed despite their numerous failures and stupid decisions, because you can't fight fate, so no matter how incompetent a "chosen one" actually is, they succeed anyways.
    I don't remember if Jon was intentionally portrayed that way in the books (in part because, as a POV character, I definitely don't remember getting any "Wow, I'm really stupid and reckless" thoughts from him), but I don't think it was intentional on the show-- merely a very plausible conclusion to draw from how often he screwed up or made bad decisions and it worked out for him anyway.

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    Dr. Erksine dabbled in Alchemy and elements of alchemy are present in the Supr Soldier Serum, which is one of the reasons why it's so difficult to replicate the formula.

    Now, for those of you who are primarily familiar with the MCU or other adaptions, to recap how the serum works in the main comics.

    The super-soldier serum is not one serum, but a combination of several drugs, viruses, dietary supplements, and energies, administered in three distinct stages, that administered successfully will combine within the body to create a miracle substance that transmutes the subject's body into a perfect specimen of a human being.

    It doesn't, technically, make you superhuman in terms of ability. Rather, it makes you the best a human can possibly be, on every conceivable level. Captain America is as strong, as fast, and hearty, as healthy, as agile, as coordinated, and as durable as a human being can possibly be. He has the optimal ratio of muscle to the skin to body fat, all of his body systems are perfectly coordinated, the structures of his body, his major systems, his individual organs and tissues, every single cell, the individual organelles in his cells are all structurally perfect. Even his DNA is altered, removing any damaged genetic sequences or harmful mutations and replacing them with the best possible version of that gene.

    Every single aspect of his metabolism, including cellular division, functions at the peak of efficiency.

    Due to his nervous system being enhanced, Captain America is as intelligent as it is possible for someone to be without it being considered superhuman intelligence. He is able to master complex skills in a fraction of the time that it takes an average person, instantly memorize information, has an infinite capacity for conscious and subconscious memory, and retrieves memories with perfect clarity and detail.: In short, nothing short of active brain damage or supernatural influence can make him forget. As a side effect, his skills do not degrade from lack of use.

    Combined with his peak human reflexes, Captain America was able to master every bit of training available to the United States army in 1940as well as some extensive personal training in hand-to-hand combat and military tactics in just a few months. In the modern-day, between this training and independent training on his own time means that he is a master of virtually every martial art known to man.

    The body is also altered to actively produce more of the serum, which regularly applies itself as it builds up in his body. Between this happening, which essentially brings him to the peak of human perfection all over again, and the fact that his cells function and divide with perfect efficiency, Steve Roger's body does not age or degrade.

    Steve could spend a year sitting on his ass eating his weight in junk food, and not only would he still be in perfect shape, his physical skills like say, his martial arts training, would also still be at the same level they were on when he took his week off. Steve cannot physically improve from exercise, nor does he need to do so to maintain his condition. He works out in part because he likes it and in part because he can still improve the skills by which he, say, runs. Or punches people.

    As an aside, considering that he was sickly to the point of being borderline disabled prior to getting the serum, I don't fault him for enjoying physical activity for its own sake. If I could do the entire source of events of a biathlon, a triathlon, and a decathlon in a single day with no breaks and suffer no consequences you'd better believe I'd be physically active just for the sake of it.

    So, Steve is a physically and mentally perfect human being who cannot be degraded and will never naturally age or die.

    He is exactly what the western alchemists who actively pursued things like the Philosopher's stone and the elixir of Life(as opposed to taking them as metaphors) were hoping to create.

    More importantly, improperly creating the serum so that there are impurities in it, or leaving out important steps, can drive you insane and or kill you. This happened to William Burnside, who found a Nazi-Made attempt to recreate the serum but went insane in part due to his poor craftsmanship when making the formula himself and in part because it lacked a vital stabilizing ingredient and Clinton McIntyre who the united states army gave the Third stage of treatments to behind Erksine's back without any of the treatments from the first and second stages.

    Clinton not only went insane, but he also dropped dead... Though it is noted that while he was clinically dead, no pulse, no breathing, no brain activity, his body did not decay at all for decades.

    And, finally... Several alchemical drugs called the Exliric of Life exist in the Marvel Universe. The recurring theme among them is that they restore you to the prime of your youth and bring you to permanent physical health and condition, but do not enhance your mind. Depending on which version you get, it may also be temporary or at least require decades of regular use before it'll stick.

    In otherwords, the Super Soldier Serum is, arguably, the best possible version of the Elixir of Life.
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    In the books, there also seemed to be often considerably more going on behind the scenes when Jon won things.

    For example, the favourite fan theory on how Jon actually won the election to Lord Commander was that it was Bloodraven's doing. He's been warging Mormont's Raven for a while, who just conveniently came out of the bag with the election tokens.
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    In the Star Wars sequel trilogy, some of the power boosts we see on people may be explainable by a sort of home field advantage, because they were doing these things in places that had a strong connection to the force. Specifically, Luke Skywalker did his astral projection thing outside the ruins of a jedi temple and when Palpatine zapped the resistance fleet he was in a sith temple on a planet that had served as a base of sith operations for countless years.
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    Being Dragonborn and thus, having a Dragon's soul and dragon's blood, makes you immune to skooma.

    In Skyrim, skooma has drastically reduced effect and is completely nonaddictive... For the PC. But NPCs are still as affected as ever, and in previous games it was stronger and addictive as hell.
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