Post by berserkchip on Jun 18, 2009 18:28:49 GMT -5
´ell, BC. Let's see. We keep disagreeing, we keep misunderstanding, the tension keeps escalating. We'd better close this once and for all given half a chance, and here are my final thoughts on the matter. After this, truce, amnesty, and deletion.
What I keep disagreeing with, what keeps me returning to the same unhappy tone, is that you keep misunderstanding me, or I keep expressing myself the wrong way! So for the sake of closure I'll be blunt. You keep saying my logic is that a character's power is set in stone. What I'm trying to say is that if you had used HALF an eye to look at the people around you you'd have realized NO ONE's power had ever been set on stone! YOU are the one acting like characters' powers were set on stone, or else you wouldn't be retconning someone for the sake of their abilities! I'm only saying it's unnecessary and annoying, that you keep treating it like it were serious business, and every time I tell you that it actually does nothing, that the only thing that matters is what you make of it, you don't give a satisfactory answer! You just elude the point. This is not an exact science, how am I to put it when I've already tried all other ways!? There's no objective way to retcon Belle into being able to challenge X except if you list her abilities as "enough to challenge X.
As for... Mr. Magical vampire ninja cyborg, I doubt a character that's been going strong since 1998 will ever be retired. The reason why I keep mentioning the UUT was because you said T, so I thought "Tournament? What tournament? The only tournament BC's ever worked on was... hmm, oh, he said it was the one that got me cranky? There was only one... why is that?". I was just as surprised when you mentioned the tournament as you were when I mentioned the tournament. Next time, when you try to say "brawl", DO say "brawl". Or make another tournament in the middle, will ya?
But I apologize for the way I've been treating you. I was unaware of that one detail, that everyone had had fun. No one ever told me that part. Had they, three years ago, I'd have never mentioned it again. It left me prejudiced, but that dropped off over time. Then it grew just like something of a running joke for me to have disliked it, BC, because I wasn't aware that everyone agreed they had had fun!
The other one never got me any cranky. They gangbanged Soto, yes, but he was just about to make a comeback. If only the game hadn't died off... but it did. Guess I didn't do as good a villain as I should've been.
That's another point I wanted to address, CC. A nanosecond is a lot of time for some people... and maybe, if I hadn't been so adamant on Soto being the same speed as the four people attacking him (or, actually, slower), if I hadn't had him compensating it all with mere cleverness but instead with something a bit... cooler, if I had him able to take more hits rather than break down after the first arrow, maybe I'd have contributed to a more engaging fight. What would it have costed me? Nothing! I'd just have had to remove "Soto spasmed as he took the arrow, dropping to his knees and breathing in painful grunts as his lower back failed to support his weight, hitting his head on the ground as he dropped, gasping for air as the arrow drove through his armpit, pierced his lung, and nicked his pericardium", and write "the arrow lodged itself in the armor of his armpit. He grimaced for a moment, and then completed the deadly spell". For god's sake, even BC had to make his character stretch conclussions and responsibilities a bit to make Soto so much as seem moderately dangerous!
So, CC, I know you don't like throwing planets at people, but I've been meaning to say that in my experience, sometimes, it's the right thing to do. Just ask Nanoha from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Vegeta from DBZ, and Simon from Tengen Toppa Gurrenn Lagann (hell, if you think DBZ was over the top, Simon even threw galaxies at people!). Hell, even Donald Duck did it once, and it DIDN'T happen when Square-Enix put him in their mushroom samba trip with Mr. Key-Copyright-Blade. Just curious... Were there a way to keep planetary scale destruction running smooth and fun despite we're not made (or trained, even the best of us) to intuitively model matters of that scale as well as we model, for example, fistfights, wouldn't you participate in such a game?
1:I may consider that if it comes to it. (locking, I mean)
2:It's vague statements like "...that the only thing that matters is what you make of it..." that get me confused, but I think what you're trying to say is that changing Belle for the sake of being on par with a character is pointless. For one thing, Belle's reploid form, originally, was specifically designed so that if she was too weak for one thing, she could become stronger if it was necessary. That was kind of the entire purpose of the BerserkChip in the first place. And why is it pointless, exactly? How is developing a character's abilities to be on par with their RP rival so they can keep the fight going longer "pointless?" That's where I just don't have an answer for you. I don't understand the question.
3:There's only one person who can answer that. And as for the mix-up, focus your attention on the topic title, please.
4:It's nothing really. And like I said before, It's not like I can speak for WP and CB, but RC and I had fun, and after the whole fortune thing, there weren't any complaints. Trust me UUT wasn't nearly as bad as the Gundam one, where I tried to force the plot unto everyone, and they ended up beating a boss they weren't supposed to. I learned my lesson after that.
5:The RP didn't die, the site did. XD
6:I avoid nanoseconds, and if it gets to that point, I usually say something like "Split-second." Nanosecond seems too scientific for my anime fantasy style characters.
Lastly, as bad or as powerful as it got, I don't think we ever threw planets or galaxies at each other. The close it ever got to that was Deep Arc Belle VS Silver Harlequin's Final Justice attack VS Multi-Ragnarok Giant Side-scraper sword fight. (I was young, okay!?)