and how many people in Night City have no chrome in their body?

Thanks to Tengen's barriers, the majority of sorcerers and curses are concentrated in Japan. Individual sorcerers can be extraordinarily powerful; the Special Grade classification is explicitly based on whether the sorcerer or cursed spirit could single-handedly topple a nation. How could essentially the only nation on earth with access to sorcery lose WWII? Were the curses created by the war just so much of a problem that Jujutsu society had its hands full?

Intelligent aliens or even something simple as alien insect doesn't exist in Dune. All animals were brought from Earth and re-engineered to become new species from the original. But what about habital worlds where there is oxygen? Surely plants native to the planet must exist?

Why does Bruce Wayne never think to give himself superpowers using some sort of experiment or gene editing or implants in the body/nervous system? We've seen all three of these happen multiple times throughout the DC Universe, the Flash was created through an accident depending on continuity and Bruce Wayne's WayneTech/Wayne corporation is consistently one of the top 5 richest companies in DC, along with LexCorp. We've seen Luthor do things such as create flawed versions of Superman and other superhumans, obviously Wayne Enterprises could afford something similar. Why does Bruce never think to go through some sort of process to give himself superpowers to become a better protector of Gotham City and a more efficient Justice League member? In fact some of the Dark Nights: Metal versions of Batman did exactly this, so why doesn't the mainline one do it? (Besides the obvious meta reasons that it would take away Batman's gimmick and sell less comics)

Say I were to create construct A as a hollow sphere. It is built gradually, from bottom to top, so that it traps air inside.

Now, inside sphere A, I create construct B as a solid sphere.

If I where to gradually increase construct B, would the air pressure inside construct A increase?

If I were to create a hole in construct A, then grow construct B to completely fill the space inside construct A and push all air outside. If I seal the hole in construct A then undo construct B, would it instantly "create" vacuum?

Just saw this scenario in a video. Diavolo is walking down a path and uses epitaph to see he is fated to go left. Could he now choose to walk down the right path or would King Crimson be the only thing that would allow him to alter this fate

IIRC, it was stated that the reason Larry has so many jobs(leading to him singlehandedly upholding the entire economic structure of Elmore) to pay for all the damages and chaos caused by the Watterson family, but why? They never asked him to do it, and he can't stand them anyway, so why take on such a massive workload to clean up their messes?

For example, being imagined from the mind of a mentally unwell child, imagined as the child suffers under any form of abuse, or in another case I can't specifically think of which fits. If such baggage is hooked into an imaginary friend, would they be less adoptable because their personality, appearance, and/or perceived purpose was formed under such stress on an impressionable mind?

Imagination is the limit for making a friend, so what would the imaginations of the least stable children naturally mean for an imaginary friend's chance at down the road being adopted by well adjusted children from relatively normal families?

Since God would have been aware of this, he would have appointed someone else to the position. But I don’t think the series ever said who.

The intro of FEAR 1 establishes that the group was established in 2002 - but the game itself apparently takes place 2025. However, I don't remember any previous cases FEAR has worked on ever being mentioned (although it has been ages).

Do we ever get any info on that? Are there even other major threats they faced?

This occurred to me while watching the mynocks chewing on the Millennium Falcon.

The Star Wars galaxy has had routine interplanetary travel for thousands of years. Freighters constantly move between planets with completely different ecosystems, carrying food, livestock, machinery, passengers and whatever happens to be hiding in the cargo hold.

We know mynocks can survive in space and attach themselves to ships. We also know people transport genuinely dangerous live creatures between worlds. Han Solo was hauling three rathtars, for crying out loud.

So how is every major spaceport not an ecological disaster?

Imagine some trader accidentally bringing a handful of tiny creatures from Dagobah to Naboo. They escape into the local environment, have no natural predators, and start reproducing. Or a cargo ship arrives carrying parasites that nobody even knew were on board.

Multiply that by millions of ships and thousands of years.

Do planets actually have strict biological screening and quarantine procedures that we just don't see much of? Is there something about the biology of different worlds that prevents most organisms from surviving outside their native environment?

Or are places like Coruscant already full of invasive alien wildlife, and the inhabitants have simply learned to live with it?

I'm especially curious whether this is addressed anywhere in the novels, games or other lore, because it seems like it would be one of the biggest practical problems of running a galactic civilization.

Like suppose there’s a school shooting and it results in him having PTSD Stephen Holstrom never did?

The ploy to make Fiona believe Charming was actually Shrek was made on the spot after Shrek escaped her factory with the potion.

If Puss had succeeded in taking care of Shrek as planned, then what?

A heartbroken Fiona wouldn't exactly be open for a new suitor, especially one she openly despises.

Also, I don't suppose Fairy Godmother or Charming would be interested in marrying ogre form Fiona anyway, even though Charming never really cared about her in the end. He just wanted to be king.

If Fairy Godmother had the power to reverse Fionas curse, why didn't she do it ages ago?

She apparently helped out King Harold, who was in a similar situation.

Fairy Godmother knew Charming was going to Fionas castle, so how the hell was the arrival of Shrek and Fiona in Far Far Away news to her?

The entire kingdom was there to see them return home.

She only catches on when Fiona introduces Shrek as her new husband, even though her ogre form should be a dead giveaway that Charming wasn't the one to save her.

Also, the Love Potion would never work anyway since 1) Charming didn't love Fiona back and 2) does a love potion really count as "true love"? Just doesn't seem right.

I'm just adding more questions while writing this, but I suppose the plan was to simply force Fiona into marriage and then send her back to the tower afterwards?

Curious if Homer got to retain his ownership of the team, considering who purchased it for him. Or if he sold it or something.

Krillin got his potential unlocked by Guru on Namek, and Daizenshuu says that his power was at 75,000 by the end of it. People will speculate that his and the other human power levels kept increasing, but is there any real evidence for that?

If we take the claim of "potential unlocked" at face value, then 75,000 PL is as high as Krillin could and ever would be. Yes, he trained in preparation for the Androids, but did it actually raise his power level? Maybe like how Goku and Gohan trained in the Time Chamber, he had to focus on efficiency and technique since his power was hard capped. Krillin always was more of a smart fighter than a powerhouse.

Goku and Gohan both have had their potential unlocked multiple times and risen far above it, but I could excuse that as Saiyan fuckery (and protagonist fuckery, if we think of it out of universe). The Saiyans are able to unlock new forms, which humans cannot do.

I have more to say (especially about Tien and Yamcha) that I could post in the main body here but I'm curious what you all have to say.

Spoilers for events of the game: the game features a cult that worships the Cenobites and wants to ascend to Cenobite status, but the Cenobites are unimpressed by the cult's efforts and even voice their rejection of the cult's leader. Funnily enough, the cult has used the Genesis Configuration (a similar device to the Lament Configuration of the movies, but with extra abilities) several times to summon the Cenobites and one high-ranking member has survived multiple trips to the Labyrinth.

Considering how dismissive they were, could the Cenobites just ignore any further summons from people who annoyed them?

"A summoning at 6 pm? It's those annoying cultists again, let's not even bother showing up."

I’m thinking of the Peter Jackson version but you can talk about the book/cartoon versions as well. Would they see him as a deformed ape, a deformed human, or neither? Would they accept him and/or tolerate him? What would individual apes like Koba, Rocket, or Maurice think