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Kyle Varu retweeted
“He wanted to succeed where his idol had made history.”
The beginning of Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece:
“One Piece was rejected for serialization three times, but Oda refused to take it to a competing magazine.
He was asked why he hadn't tried other major manga magazines.
His answer was that he wanted to publish in Weekly Shonen Jump because that's where his hero, Akira Toriyama, had worked.
So at the age of 17, Oda submitted his work, which is called Wanted, and won several awards.
That got him a job at Weekly Shonen Jump magazine.
Just a few years later in 1997, One Piece began serialization in that magazine.
He wanted to succeed where his idol had made history.”
@RaymondIbrahim5
If you were given the technology to be able to filter every single Muslim that was in these destroyed western nations, would you opt for that instead of mass deportations to prevent uproar or civil war?
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Maajid is rationally aware of the dangers of Hegelian dialectic, problem solution strategies.
There is an agenda to bomb and displace Muslim nations to create sleeper cells and the debate is how we handle that problem, not whether the religion is compatible with the west.
The question for the debate is inherently a false dichotomy, that only makes sense within a vacuum.
There are exceptions to these rules that you don’t know how to address and so far from this debate it is shown that you don’t know what to do with a @MaajidNawaz type figure.
Maajid is not a hypocrite speaking to one side of the choir, you are. That puts the ball in your court as you inadvertently represent and stand for a (western) civilisation that is incompatible with itself.
This is 5th generational warfare and history and context should be separated from the messenger. We can talk about the mess but don’t shoot the messenger.
There is a third option for civilisation but it’s a much bigger paradigm shift that goes beyond religion but that means you have to address the real issue: the mission creep of a digital ID and CBDC society.
One that can easily co-opt a perspective hell bent on mass deportations. You have to know which hill you’re fighting on and if it’s worth dying for
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Kyle Varu retweeted
The Character Goku is based on Sun Wukong which is based on the Lord Hanuman who is a hindu god, your Christ lost the battle 😭
Enel larped as a God, accidentally created a Frankenstein of all of them.
Has the drums of liberation built into his spine (Joy Boy), the tomoe on the drums itself represent the “eyes” Imu has and his devil fruit allows him to sense everything like a God of all forms of haki itself.
He even has a staff like the journey to the west, stretchy ears too? Lol
Luffy, the true God, then dethrones the false God.
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The entire UK collective culture is being positioned to focus on mainstream celebrity profiles being a secret breeding ground for abuse of minors.
The same establishment that have ignored grooming gangs and let other celebrities like Huw Edward’s (literally caught with his pants down) and Philip Schofield who groomed a young boy as a married man with kids, are now saying justice is being served as Russell Brand is convicted on rape from over 20 years ago.
The double standard is absolute insane.
I have read the grooming gangs files with more disgust than the Epstein Files. And it took a decades for them to convict people with evidence, DNA and motives.
I hate it here.
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Kyle Varu retweeted
ok I’m going to be insufferable about this one.
I’ve been texting David “make a founders about Eiichiro Oda” for ~700 days. He finally did it and it’s the best thing you’ll listen to all week, even if you’re not a fan yet.
If you’ve never read it: Oda started One Piece at 22. He’s 51 now. Almost every week for 29 years he’s put out a new chapter of the same story. He’s sold 600M+ copies, more than any comic ever made by a single author (it’s a Guinness record). For 15 years he slept 3 hours a night (maybe don’t do this). He said he would’ve missed his parents’ funeral for a deadline! He tells new editors they have to be willing to die for One Piece. To learn how to draw emotion, he hand-copied entire Disney movies, frame by frame. And he’s so private he wears a giant fish over his face on camera.
The man is a maniac. I love him.
What gets me: he’s spent his whole life writing about freedom. Luffy says the Pirate King is just the person with the most freedom on the sea. Meanwhile Oda has lived about the least free life you can imagine. He basically locked himself in a room for three decades so a rubber kid (and all of us reading) could sail anywhere.
For years one of the biggest fears among fans was whether one human life was even enough to finish the story. He’s in the final saga now. I'm still a bit nervous.
Coming out of the episode, there are a few things I can’t quite stop thinking about:
1. David nails how much Oda sounds like history’s great founders: Jobs, Land, Bezos. He wants criticism, not ideas. He’ll redo something until it’s right. He makes it for an audience of one (he imagines himself as a 15 year old). And after 29 years and 600M copies he still doesn’t feel successful.
2. That “fewest people possible should touch the work” rule has cost him almost everything: sleep, family, his 20s, 30s and 40s. I'm intrigued with the idea that AI doesn’t break the rule, but might lower the price of following it (or perhaps just raise the ceiling). I think we get a few more Odas out of that: one obsessed person building a whole world with little to truly no studio behind them. Then again, why read anyone else when the story is this good.
Thank you @davidsenra -- this episode is a masterpiece.
A few surprising things I learned from reading about Eiichrio Oda, the creator of One Piece:
1. He slept 3 hours a night for 15 years.
2. He created the most successful manga of all time with more than 600 million copies in circulation.
3. He said he would have missed his parent’s funeral because it conflicted with his work.
4. He is extremely private. He does not allow his face to be photographed and when he appears on video he has a giant fish avatar placed on his head.
5. When he hires a new editor the first thing he says to them is you need to be willing to die for One Piece.
6. His editor said he might someday encounter a writer more talented than Oda but he would never meet anyone who worked harder.
7. He doesn’t want ideas, he wants criticism.
8. He would hand draw entire Disney animated movies to learn how to give his characters emotion.
9. He said he only saw his family once a week because family time was too relaxing.
10. He holds the Guinness World Record for the most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author.
11. He is often described as a maniac due to his unbelievable work ethic and inhuman daily habits.
12. He believes in having the least number of people possible touching the work.
13. He says he gets his best ideas by not sleeping or eating. He says humans can only come up with truly new ideas when they reach their limit.
14. He started working on One Piece when he was 22. He is still working on it at 51.
15. He once spent 12 consecutive hours on the telephone discussing a single story with his editor.
16. He has an extreme tolerance for repetition.
17. Imagination is the organizing force of his entire life.
18. He's a perfectionist who has repeatedly admitted that he cannot make himself work in a more efficient way, even when he desperately wants to.
19. He never finishes before a deadline. He equates using every available minute with giving his maximum effort.
20. He believes it’s impossible to create something great unless you do everything yourself, attend to every detail, and test it exhaustively.
21. He believes the more experience he has the harder it is to create.
22. He was 4 when he decided to be a manga artist. He said he wanted to avoid ever having to get a real job.
23. He creates his work for an audience of exactly one person: himself at 15 years old.
25. He has dedicated his entire adult life to writing a story about freedom and adventure, while accepting an extraordinarily restrictive life in order to create it.
26. To this day he does not feel successful.
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Eiichiro Oda is a relentlessly obsessive creative genius who has devoted nearly every waking hour of his adult life to building one of the most extraordinary fictional universes ever imagined. You don't want to miss this episode:
Kyle Varu retweeted
Addiction is proof that you are capable of intense devotion, you're just serving a false god.
Kyle Varu retweeted
In hindsight it was pretty obvious, we just missed it. His Bahjrang gun is named after Hanuman, the monkey sun God that shapeshifts. Titled Bahjrang. Hanuman tried to eat the sun he thought was a fruit. Wukong was based on Hanuman and has cloud powers. Luffy is named Monkey.
Kyle Varu retweeted
I’m speechless… Breathless… One of Oda’s best panels.
My immediate thought was the Archangel Michael fighting Satan, especially depicted in the “War in Heaven” in Paradise Lost. “It’s the end of the damn world” indeed!
#ONEPIECE1198
Kyle Varu retweeted
When Russell Brand is sentenced today, remember Michele Mone is still sleeping in furs, Huw Edwards remains free to bum any child he wishes, the Epstein list are untouchable & the political, financial & media elite are snorting coke at some pheasant shoot in the Cotswolds.
