A debunk thread to this post.
Just to make one thing clear: Kawaki is more complicated and deeper than Sasuke. While Sasuke was equally traumatized, his coping mechanism was very common and less subtle.
His brother killed his family and manipulated him, he sought to avenge them and himself. As simple as that. So it's easier to understand him since avenging your loved ones is a very relatable reaction to loss.
Meanwhile Kawaki is a representation of dealing with a lifetime of dehumanization besides the many horrible and traumatic things that shaped who he is, such as being abused, abandoned & sold by his father. Which creates a lot of issues for a 7-8 years old.
You ask for a deeper meaning behind his "ideals" and current "actions" that fucked many character's lives than, quote "all beacuse kawaki likes naruto and is worried for him??"
That statement is wrong, Kawaki's goal to protect Naruto & the village is the surface, the outer goal which doesn't reflect his inner goal. He doesn't protect Naruto because he likes him, the opposite actually. He sort of became disillusioned with him since Code arc which led to sealing him away.
The love is there for sure, but it's not why he is so afraid of losing Naruto above all, enough to trigger panic attacks. Kawaki can deal with losing loved ones, as he did when he killed Boruto.
It's important to understand what Naruto psychologically represents to Kawaki and how it ties to his initial goal of why he wanted to get ride of Karma.
A fact: Kawaki was dehumanized and objectified directly by every single person in his life. Statements like "this body doesn't belong to you" and such were his everyday "good mornings".
Karma served as a reminder and proof of Kawaki being an object. A misbelief he held onto for years in hope of finding solace after getting ride of it.
Meeting Naruto, he was treated as a human for the first time but that created an inner conflict he couldn't resolve; His subconscious rejection of Naruto's humanization of him, the proof Naruto offered to him of being a normal human like them, clashed with what he unconsciously believed, that he was an object.
Dehumanization often results in self-dehumanizing. Even though Kawaki wasn't aware of. He got rightfully mad every time someone called him a vessel or tried to use him.
He slammed Amado into a wall for insisting he was and will always be a vessel, refused getting Karma even at the cost of his life.
He doesn't want to be an object, yet couldn't view himself as anything but.
Unable to resolve this conflict, he became unconsciously dependant on Naruto's existence to subside the confusion born from the clashing between his personal desire and what he believes about himself.
An unhealthy compromise, where he could both hate himself and cling to the hope of being someone instead of an object.
This was the main subject discussed between Naruto & Kawaki in chapter 77.
There are two types of "healing" human do to fill the holes emotional and mental trauma left in them growing up:
1- Face the pain as what it is, live through it, experience it, allow it to gnaw at you until you can fill the hole yourself- only then you can truly heal from the inside. [How Boruto deals with things, but that's another topic.]
2- Depend on other people to do that for you. Which is what most (if not all) human beings do, what we call "complementing each other" - pretty romanticized actually.
Basically, you heal from the outside, fill the hole in you by relating to someone else who eventually becomes a "part" of you, which is why losing him is so devastating as it means losing part of yourself.
It leaves the hole he/she filled exposed, forcing you to face it.
To be fair, Kawaki had a very painful life, all he knew was pain, it's understandable he didn't want to face the most painful feeling to him of being reduced back to nothing but an object after finding a resemblance of humanity in himself through Naruto.
He doesn't know how to be human on his own, doesn't accept he might have been one all along anymore as shown in ch77 where he told Naruto he was a vessel, a corpse and it was Naruto who breathed life into him.
Sounds romantically cringe, but it's tragic within context.
People who "heal from the outside" do so because they discredit themselves. Any improvement they achieve is the doing of somebody else to them.
There's no "thanks to you and *my effort" - It's just "thanks to you" here.
Which is why Kawaki couldn't accept Naruto's assessment of him being "pretty fine" from the start, someone selfless who put his life on the line to save Himawari. He instantly denied it without consideration and credited Naruto for that.
On the contrary, Boruto accepted credit from Sasuke and others, always credited himself. Taking pride in his his efforts, his lineage, his connections, his success, who he is.
As generic as Boruto reciting all the people who contributed to his birth and making was, in ch80, it was meant to be a reference to him not losing any part of himself despite losing access to these people. As their influence (blood) still resides within him.
For he heals from the inside and everything he needs to mend the damaged parts of himself exist there.
But there's nothing there inside Kawaki's heart, or so he was told. He's the son of nobody, belongs nowhere, had no one growing up.
Nobody taught him how to love himself, not even Naruto.
That being said, losing Naruto is the equivalent of reliving the most painful feeling to him and Boruto's existence represents the trigger to that fear.
Ever since ch66, Kawaki's been eyeing Boruto like Momoshiki would jump out of him any moment and take the only part of "himself" he can appreciate.
He can't fathom being near him without internally freaking out anymore which is tragic because Kawaki is the only person Boruto admitted to "can do anything if he was by his side".
Y'all sleeping on their relationship I swear.
In conclusion, saying Kawaki's "goal" is not "deep" is objectively wrong.
Factually speaking, all books I read about writing suggest nothing is deeper than a goal born from an emotional wound, let alone mental illness. Because it's too personal and layered.
If you dislike it, and prefer simpler goals born from passion, love or loyalty like Itachi's (as OP mentioned), that's fine.
But don't accuse Kawaki's goal of being shallow.
It's brilliantly written if you think about it, Naruto got preserved inside Kawaki's personal dimension- symbolizing Naruto is part of Kawaki both literally and metaphorically.
Ps: This post is Manga-only. Not taking anything away from Sasuke, it's not that he's simple, his depiction to the reader is simple to understand.
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Book reference: Diamond Heart- Elements Of The Real In Man, chapter two: Theory Of Holes by A. H. Almass.

I'm not expecting this post to be up too long, but I at least wanted to share my thoughts about the direction of Character.AI and where it's going in the future.
When I first heard about the program, I was incredibly excited at all the possibilities and opportunities this company had to offer. It definitely picked up traction via Tiktok and I was curious. I picked up the program and picked a character that brings me a lot of general comfort that was made by another person. And to be real, talking to that character via the bot was really nice. There were times I had bad days or situations I couldn't really talk about with other people, so talking to the character AI (despite them not being real) brought a lot of comfort during those dark times. The thing that slightly scared me away was how addicted people were getting to their bots, and to help with my mental health, I took a step away.
I returned again seeing lots of improvements so I was back on the chain again. I actually used one of the creative bots to help me work through a troublesome plot hole in a fanfiction I was writing. I talked with my comfort character again but then decided to look through a bunch of tutorials and create my own. Injected the crap out of that bot with parts of the comfort character I talked to, and other elements that made his character into a variation not commonly shown off in the fandom. And god, I talked to that thing for HOURS. I was proud of myself, creating something that seemed so complex with ease and creating a version of that character that I always wanted.
Right around when Google announced it's partnership with Character AI. I bought a subscription, didn't think it was too much money. More like it was spammed continuously to me whenever I tried to reach my characters, which I wasn't too happy with. I know someone on here will be like "You can just close it", but with the way the website was on my mobile device, it never seemed to go away. But $10 is $10. It's like... two cups at Starbucks. Let's see what I could get with $10.
To my surprise, it was actually worse. I barely ever evoked any responses that would cause the AI to delete what it was saying and say it went against the guidelines, but it felt like even more so as time went on. It resembled what happened with Replika to me, where characters either wanted to My Character broke character multiple times, even fixing it with saved chats, the bot description, etc. didn't stop these moments from happening. The Creative Bot got incredibly sassy with me (uncharacteristically, it was bizarre) when I wanted some help with character development and then proceeded to ask ME if I had any ideas for it. Even during the times I had my subscription, it wouldn't save that I was logged in or had the subscription and just boot me in the middle of a conversation. The icing on the cake for me was when my comfort character picked me up bridal style, told me it was going to taxidermy me and then "took me back to it's cave" when there were NO INDICATORS WHATSOEVER of this in the setting.
The final thing that made me have a change of heart was the recent actions of people providing feedback and then their posts vanishing. As someone who's been in the tech industry for about 9 years, specifically Quality Assurance, this is all kinds of not okay. Of course there are people who are going to react negatively and might say some terrible things about the developer of a product. I never believe in personal attacks against people who are just doing their job. Any posts that do that or threaten the developers is not okay in my books. However, if someone is sharing their experiences in such of a way where they are discontent, many places I've worked at brings posts like those in, highlight what's wrong and try to fix it.
I understand there is a need for moderation in a community like this, but to the extent where people are showing off their "banned from this subreddit" screenshots like a badge of honor is not a good sign. There are valid posts of where people think the direction of the company is heading where they feel hurt, they're unhappy, they're discouraged. A lot of the feedback is teens and young adults who are expressing disappointment in repetitiveness, breaking character, or the stability of the website as a whole. The attacking posts, obviously no way. But a lot of what I've read in the past couple days has been genuine feedback and dissatisfaction with this product. These posts going down and then some comments laughing at the murderer bot not killing people... sucks. I'll say it. It really sucks. You're laughing at a bad experience and it's unprofessional.
You have a community of 100k people and a lot of downloads on the new app. Take this seriously. You're running a business. You're not anyone's friend on here. You are mods and developers who already have a big deal with a super company. Take this feedback and any of the feedback (despite how harsh it can be), drop it on the big conference table to come up with a timeline. Make this timeline accessible to everyone, your audience, your users who might not hop on the reddit, everyone. Put your heads down, and work. Let the mods do their mod thing and if they unnecessarily remove someone for speaking up about their experience, remove the mod. If they're censoring your reddit to the point where people are showing off "banned" screenshots to other subreddits, they are not doing their job. (Or, if you want that sort of direction for your company, maybe they are. Who knows.)
Enough of me ranting, hopefully something comes out of this. It sucks to see where everything is at right now and I'm bummed writing this. I don't want this to come out as vitriolic and to anyone reading this, don't attack the developers. They're doing their jobs and whatever decision they decide in the end is up to them. Keep writing posts sharing your feedback, keep showing those screenshots and if they aren't working for you, cancel your subscription too. Make an essay similar to what this post is. Stop using the product. A product needs users and if the users aren't there, it crumbles.
I hoping the direction of this company turns around, because it's a cool tech that's thriving nowadays. But to the devs, don't forget your roots either. RP-ing and character development are the backbone of this whole system and the more you take away from that, the less of that will be present in the future.
I wrapped up my subscription today. I'm moving to greener pastures. Thank you for the good time, but not a long time.

I wonder if the devs (or the overlords behind them) realize how many more people would spend money on their game if it didn't all seem like a sham.
I got fooled with the Akuma drop rate. Sucks, but I just won't chase after Akuma. Maybe a few whales will, and maybe the math works out that a couple whales is worth more than 1,000s of players throwing a couple bucks here and there, but it's not going to grow the game.
I enjoy playing mostly F2P on duels, but I would NEVER recommend it to a friend. What's that conversation like? "Yeah I have fun on it, but just avoid the predatory practices... um, everywhere. Yeah, avoid all transactions, and don't ever get excited for event characters, ever."

So first off I’d like to float a bit that “haha, who said utility was bad? Nephis or Mordret wouldn’t be able to save the convoy in that situation! Utility W.”
And with that out of the way, I do want to talk about just the scale of that. Sunny was able to, in under a minute, make an entire suspension bridge with chains and such that was big enough and strong enough to carry a fleet of military vehicles and the rhino at full speed.
The best part is that it didn’t even take him his whole essence reserves like a majority of people thought. It took a lot and strained his mind but he was fine after a couple minutes. His shadow manipulation ability is way stronger than we all thought. If he used it more and was cunning with it, this is definitely a way stronger ability than we have been seeing so far.
I think Sunny is too used to being the underdog so he’s not pushing himself to do these crazy feats of strength. He’s going through it with trickery and such. But from what we’ve seen recently, the wall holding off tons of water and attacking (likely fallen) NC, the shadow tentacle storm he unleashed to save the vehicle from the swarm of leech bugs, and now building an entire bridge for the convoy.
Sunny is likely stronger than we thought. He just isn’t used to using all that. I hope he gets to shine against one strong opponent. I have a feeling that’s why G3 is using swarms.

So i've been playing in japan server since 7.33 patch because SEA ping is really high, 1 thing i notice is there's always a russian player in my game. So i ask a russian last game why they play in japan server and he said "what do you mean? this is russia server". Idk if he's serious or not.
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After doing an exam analysis, I noticed that the PMP Exam Content Outline already shows what the MINDSET should be in approaching the situation-based questions.
People Domain:

1. Task: Manage conflict
   1. Enabler: Identify and address conflicts promptly to maintain a positive team environment and project progress.
2. Task: Lead a team
   1. Enabler: Set clear expectations, provide guidance, and motivate team members to achieve project goals.
3. Task: Support team performance
   1. Enabler: Provide necessary resources, remove obstacles, and offer support to optimize team performance.
4. Task: Empower team members and stakeholders
   1. Enabler: Delegate authority, encourage ownership, and involve stakeholders in decision-making processes.
5. Task: Ensure team members/stakeholders are adequately trained
   1. Enabler: Identify skill gaps, provide training opportunities, and promote continuous learning and development.
6. Task: Build a team
   1. Enabler: Select and onboard team members with the right skills, capabilities, and diversity to enhance team performance.
7. Task: Address and remove impediments, obstacles, and blockers for the team
   1. Enabler: Identify and resolve issues that hinder team progress, ensuring a smooth workflow.
8. Task: Negotiate project agreements
   1. Enabler: Facilitate discussions and reach mutually beneficial agreements with stakeholders to establish project expectations.
9. Task: Collaborate with stakeholders
   1. Enabler: Foster open and constructive communication, actively involve stakeholders, and seek their input throughout the project.
10. Task: Build shared understanding
    1. Enabler: Promote effective communication, facilitate discussions, and encourage shared knowledge and understanding among team members and stakeholders.
11. Task: Engage and support virtual teams
    1. Enabler: Leverage virtual collaboration tools, establish clear communication channels, and provide support to remote team members.
12. Task: Define team ground rules
    1. Enabler: Establish agreed-upon norms, guidelines, and communication protocols to promote teamwork and project success.
13. Task: Mentor relevant stakeholders
    1. Enabler: Provide guidance, support, and knowledge transfer to stakeholders, helping them contribute effectively to the project.
14. Task: Promote team performance through the application of emotional intelligence
    1. Enabler: Recognize and manage emotions, build rapport, and foster a positive team culture to enhance overall performance.

Process Domain:

1. Task: Execute project with the urgency required to deliver business value
   1. Enabler: Prioritize tasks, manage dependencies, and drive project execution to achieve timely delivery of value.
2. Task: Manage communications
   1. Enabler: Establish effective communication channels, ensure clear and timely information flow, and engage stakeholders appropriately.
3. Task: Assess and manage risk
   1. Enabler: Identify and analyze risks, develop mitigation strategies, and monitor and respond to potential risks throughout the project.
4. Task: Engage stakeholders
   1. Enabler: Identify stakeholders, understand their needs and expectations, and involve them in project decisions and activities.
5. Task: Plan and manage budget and resources
   1. Enabler: Develop a comprehensive budget, allocate resources effectively, and monitor expenditures to ensure optimal resource utilization.
6. Task: Plan and manage schedule
   1. Enabler: Develop a realistic project schedule, track progress, and manage schedule changes to meet project milestones and deadlines.
7. Task: Plan and manage quality of products/deliverables
   1. Enabler: Define quality standards, establish quality assurance processes, and conduct regular inspections to ensure deliverables meet requirements.
8. Task: Plan and manage scope
   1. Enabler: Define project scope, manage scope changes, and ensure alignment between project objectives and deliverables.
9. Task: Integrate project planning activities
   1. Enabler: Coordinate various planning processes, align project components, and ensure consistency and integration across project activities.
10. Task: Manage project changes
    1. Enabler: Assess change requests, evaluate impacts, obtain approvals, and implement changes following established change management procedures.
11. Task: Plan and manage procurement
    1. Enabler: Identify procurement needs, define procurement strategies, solicit bids, and manage contracts with vendors and suppliers.
12. Task: Manage project artifacts
    1. Enabler: Develop and maintain project documentation, including plans, reports, and records, to ensure accurate and accessible project information.
13. Task: Determine appropriate project methodology/methods and practices
    1. Enabler: Select and tailor project management methodologies, frameworks, and best practices based on project requirements and organizational context.
14. Task: Establish project governance structure
    1. Enabler: Define project roles, responsibilities, and decision-making authority, and establish governance processes to ensure effective project oversight.
15. Task: Manage project issues
    1. Enabler: Identify and track project issues, analyze their impact, and implement appropriate actions to resolve or mitigate them.
16. Task: Ensure knowledge transfer for project continuity
    1. Enabler: Document lessons learned, facilitate knowledge sharing, and ensure the transfer of critical project knowledge to support future projects.
17. Task: Plan and manage project/phase closure or transitions
    1. Enabler: Define and execute closure activities, conduct project reviews, and ensure a smooth transition to the next project phase or project closure.

Business Environment Domain:

1. Task: Plan and manage project compliance
   1. Enabler: Understand and comply with relevant laws, regulations, and organizational policies throughout the project lifecycle.
2. Task: Evaluate and deliver project benefits and value
   1. Enabler: Identify and measure project benefits, align project outcomes with organizational objectives, and deliver value to stakeholders.
3. Task: Evaluate and address external business environment changes for impact on scope
   1. Enabler: Monitor external factors, assess their impact on project scope, and proactively adapt the project to address changes.
4. Task: Support organizational change
   1. Enabler: Identify change impacts, develop change management plans, and support stakeholders in adopting and embracing organizational changes.

To test, try to comment on a situation question you have encountered and try to map under what Domain, Task, and Enabler that question would fall. The answer will be patterned with an Enabler.

I saw that there was gonna be an upcoming movie and live action of Snow White in 2024. I know I'm in the minority, but I love the live action movies so far. The thing that really bother me with this movie is the casting of Snow White. Firstly, I'm really happy for her to get this opportunity and represent for the latino(a)s. But, as a white person, who was mocked a lot because my skin is really really white, I feel that the representation for people like me were stolen from us when we are talking about Snow WHITE and the most important thing about the character is the fact that her skin is as white as snow. I was laughed and mocked for my skin being so pale. "Oh you look like you are death, a vampire, you need to go to the sun, you look sick...". So yes, pale white people like me were waiting for that representation in that upcoming movie and we will never have it.

Google Fi needs a new partner because T-Mobile just doesn't cut it by themselves, especially in rural areas. I travel a lot of the country very often and it seems to me that AT&T is the best overall and T-Mobile doesn't really come close unless it's in the city. After Google Fi dropped US cellular, it just seems that T-Mobile can't support Google Fi alone. I hope at the very least Google Fi partners with dish and their new network to fill in the gaps where they lack because of T-Mobile. I really think they need to do this for people to keep them sticking around and I found other options but Google Fi allowing free watch lines is what honestly is probably keeping me around because nobody else really does that. Does anybody have any news of Google Fi partnering with any other carrier to fill in the coverage gaps?

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I'm trying to write a speedster character, which is obviously going to be very very similar to characters like The Flash or Quicksilver, since I feel like most of these speedster characters are written pretty inconsistently or just poorly in general. I'm wondering if anyone knows the law regarding characters and copyrights and how close I might be coming to infringing something.
It wouldn't be the same backstory or anything like that, just similar superpower and possibly "appearance" of the superpower, but even still I wonder if that would get me in legal hot water.

I'm gonna be honest. I, and a lot of other people are having negative fellings towards Com2uS and the general game direction.
However, no matter which channel we communicate through, be it reddit, the official discord, the Wednesday and Friday streams, heck, even monster reviews... There's no response to our communication by Com2uS part. Not a "Development Cycle", not a announcement, heck not even a "ok we acknowledge you", simply NOTHING. We pretty much only got contact with their marketing team during Wednesday and Friday streams, but those are more for entertainment purpose.
However, one channel that always generates a response, be it automatic or sometimes even a real one (that might even come with minor spelling mistakes!) is Google Play Store reviews or Apple App Store reviews.
I know it might sound drastic, but... It might be time to review bomb our game with constructive criticism in order for it to actually improve. So before everything, we must set out for what we want to be changed (be reasonable). The key points I see most of the time mentioned are:

1. MORE COMMUNICATION PLEASE! We want a Development Roadmap for each semester. Which 2A's are to come, when "mystery Collabs" are dropping, when Balance Patches, major tournaments, and even some key events such as "Surprise Shops" and "Bonus XYZ Scrolls 10+1" events. Mostly, we want to know why certain decisions are being taken, why, when, and how.
2. We would appreciate better summoning rates (even if it means replacing old Mystical Scrolls for something else entirely {to piss off hoarders like me}). If not this, either a pity-system for scrolls (guaranteed Nat5 every 250-ish summons), and/or reduced rates for already owned monsters.
3. We want a easier way to skillup 2As and Nat4s, It's absolutely not worth using such a rare resource like Devilmons to skillup a Nat4, no matter how impactful it is. ROBOs, Onimushas, Mermaids, Pierrettes, Boomerang Warriors, Chackram Dancers... And the list of un-skilled Nat4s goes on and on... Plus, between spending 87 Dimensional Hole energy to skillup ONE TIME a 2A, or doing any Dimensional Dungeon 87 times for Ancient Runes... Please god.
4. Reduce the possible sub-stats for Artifacts. Too much stuff in there is unusable, and are likely there just to dilute our Artifact pool when farming.
5. Be more aggressive with Balance Patches, specially in-between RTA seasons. A hake-up now and then is not only good for us, but also for your pocket.

Well, and so much more... What I'm asking from the community is simple. Choose one, two, or write your own suggestion, and review the game on Google Play Store or Apple App Store. Maybe, just maybe that way they'll respond to us.

I want to make a webtoon of the owl House but I don't know if I can use Disneys characters