Mob Psycho 100 Episode 3 Discussion

juicykitten95 said:

y we are pretty much done with school shit starting next ep

Sapewloth said:

Survival isn't a matter of emotion or fear of death or whatever, it's a matter of instinct. Your need to eat, sleep, drink, have sex or breathe aren't controlled by your mental state neither are they taught to you: those are inborn drives that you inherit as a living being that is geared towards survival. Sure, you can choose to do neither of those things, but it says much more about humanity's capacity for self-consciouness (which basically allows us to take decisions that go directly against our base instincts) than it does about emotion (or lack thereof). Matter of fact, I find your conflation of survival and emotion particularly weird, as people let themselves die or commit suicide for variety of reasons which, more often than not, are related to a troubled mind i.e. emotions, feelings and all that jizz.

If you honestly believe or try to imply that someone who completely repressed or cannot display emotions should by definition be suicidal,

Then you might want to check yourself google the word "apathy", or for an alternate and much more extreme version, "psychopathy". There are people everywhere around us that live bottling up their emotions and/or without a sense or purpose: I seriously fail to see what would lead you to believe these people don't exist.

If applied to measuring the severity of apathy these definitions mean that patients
show apathy to the extent that they show diminished activity due to lack of motivation
(relative to the norms for their age and culture) (8). This distinguishes apathy from other causes
of diminished activity, such as mood disturbance (depression or anxiety), intellectual capacity
(dementia), or attention (delirium).

Also, you seem to have missed the whole narrated sequence that spells out exactly what's up with Mob's mental state; it has nothing to do with being emotionless per se, regardless of Dimple's claims (which were barely anything more than cutting remarks meant to mess him up and force him to give in). It's just that Mob's insecurity and aversion towards his own abilities coupled with the isolation he experienced due to his complete absence of social awareness caused him to subconsciously put a semi-permanent lock on his emotions, which have now a direct influence on his psychic powers and send them into overdrive whenever he allows said emotions to leak out.
Mob was mad at Dimple, because his words were a harsh reminder of Mob's own perceived failure as a proper member of society to conform and fit in, words that he had already heard and was already hurt by in the past. That's why he was glad that Dimple turned out to be an evil spirit rather than a human; he now had an excuse to let out some of his pent-up anger. Sure, the face he made before finishing off Dimple was a sorrowful one indeed (and it was most certainly due to some deep seated self-loathing), but that in itself doesn't negate what he felt before.

I'd agree that despite going over 100% because of his "rage", Mob still felt pretty restrained in his display of it. However, I believe that was very much intentional. From what I understood, a certain emotion becoming strong enough to go past the limit doesn't necessarily mean that Mob himself has to be completely overwhelmed by it. He was angry alright, but he was still in control. So I guess we can expect somewhere down the road to see what happens when he does actually lose complete control of those emotions.

sadpwner said:
Btw, is this sarcastic? Half it tells me it isn't but the other half tells me it is.

sadpwner said:
Suicidal suggests an inclination towards voluntary suicide, which isn't what I said.

"before leaking out and going wild. And now, an emotion was swirling about like a torrent, trying to go pass the limit."

The "explosion" also implies an exponential release.

It seems you misunderstood me. I asked because I was curious. There was no attempt to sway his opinion. It's pretty apparent that his post could have been confused for sarcasm.

I recall you writing a passage on my criticism towards the action scenes but it seems to be gone.

Sapewloth said:
To me the first sentence only implies that the emotion which provokes the "explosion" has to be strong enough to go over the limit he subconsciously imposed on himself. It doesn't say anything about said emotion taking over and completely dictating his actions and thought processes. Again, just because Mob was able to fully experience anger doesn't mean he somehow had to go on a rampage: until proven otherwise his mind doesn't straight up snap when he reaches 100%.

In this regard, I think "explosion" is more likely to refer to the power outburst Mob goes through at that moment than anything else.