Unpopular Opinions and (Friendly) Rant thread

[Metalballrun]

That rule actually came about the last time there was a major discussion about this topic (I was there).
The problem about it is that it can be easy to obfuscate for more niche verses or novels where while not niche you have to read the entire thing to grasp the context and confirm that it breaks that rule. That and yes people ignore the rules.

 

[Randomuser3412]

The problem is - CGM's usually ignore that factor and accept those ratings regardless of the context. On top of that, not enough people are willing to make CRT's about such issue, or they take eternity to conclude

It's kinda been confusing to me on where the responsibility of a CGM accepting or declining a calc ends. Some seem to think it's purely whether or not the math and methods are correct, and some take into account the whole context. Bit odd, innit

 

[Metalballrun]

In theory, CGMs are only supposed to check whether a calc is mathematically valid, no?
That's why a CRT is still needed to get those calcs accepted for applying to a character or a verse.

I do often see approved calcs get streamlined into application to pages. Sometimes it's because there's only one CRT made for convenience and the calc in question often gets approved or rejected whilst that CRT is ongoing. Technically nothing wrong with that, but these CRTs do tend to be bloated as a dead whale and have a dozen or more pages if it's a popular verse.

 

[AppleMaker]

It's kinda been confusing to me on where the responsibility of a CGM accepting or declining a calc ends. Some seem to think it's purely whether or not the math and methods are correct, and some take into account the whole context. Bit odd, innit

Considering CGM's are often ones who decline/approve CRT's - I think it's a bit closer to the latter

 

[IDK3465]

There is this sort of problem with speed ratings where a character would be like

"Hypersonic reactions and combat speed, Supersonic+ with Super Beam" and their Hypersonic rating is because they dodged a Super Beam at point blank range, yet in canon they actually barely dodged the Super Beam, are still threatened by it or gets hit by it.
Yet the speed ratings make it seem like they would dodge Supersonic+ attacks with mid to low difficulty. That's how the character would act in Versus threads as well.

This is tied to this phenomena where action genre creators use point blank dodging often to denote how someone barely dodged an attack but is reinterpreted the complete opposite way when calculated by a powerscaler.
Of course, there are cases where it is a definite speed mogging feat. But nonetheless with the culture we have in powerscaling, the interpretation that gets higher numbers is the one looked on favorably.

I actually tried to account for this in a recent CRT I did by listing the higher combat speed as only a possible value to deal with the inconsistency.

But, in that case, the other characters were still capable of repeatedly blocking/dodging the projectile in question very casually, the point-blank feat is directly stated several times as a thing one of the characters can do, and it's done with basically zero difficulty (like, doesn't even need to be looking at the projectile to dodge, and can do it hundreds of times in a row back-to-back level of easy).
Soooo, I guess there's a lot more going towards the feat than just some one-off panel

 

[Randomuser3412]

In theory, CGMs are only supposed to check whether a calc is mathematically valid, no?
That's why a CRT is still needed to get those calcs accepted for applying to a character or a verse.

I do often see approved calcs get streamlined into application to pages. Sometimes it's because there's only one CRT made for convenience and the calc in question often gets approved or rejected whilst that CRT is ongoing. Technically nothing wrong with that, but these CRTs do tend to be bloated as a dead whale and have a dozen or more pages if it's a popular verse.

It's probably the case that CGMs who are more familiar with the verse the calc is about are more likely to look at it from a lens beyond purely math, really.

Anyway, as for my unpopular opinion: King Orange mid diffs the Dark Lord. I said it.

 

[Ebihara]

Considering CGM's are often ones who decline/approve CRT's - I think it's a bit closer to the latter

CGMS dont have voting power on CRTs

 

[Metalballrun]

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Characters who are contextually supposed to be faster than the attacks they avoid at point blank range are an exception to this rule.

What the rule is trying to prevent is the the inconsistency of a character being massively faster than an attack they barely dodged because of the artistic decision to portray close range dodges. Since in this instance the character is obviously not meant to be that fast and the dodging feat was meant to portray a close hit rather than a blitz feat.

 

[AyOgUyS]

I really don't like seeing "Unknown" slapped onto pages when 99.999999% of the time there are alternative scaling methods, it just feels lazy to me.

 

[Mahek_The_Assassin_Silent_Killer]

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Just wanted to mention I know where your signature came from (What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way? aka Superman vs The Elite), it's a good quote.

 

[AyOgUyS]

it's a good quote.

Agreed. If signatures were longer, I would've added some of my other favorite quotes from characters I like as well :3

 

[AyOgUyS]

Not sure if this is just me, but I find it annoying when profiles don't link the important calcs and feats. For example, let's say Character A chainscales to Feat X performed by Character Z which is 7-A. When I go on Character A's page, it says: "Attack Potency: 7-A (Beat Character B.)" but then when I go on Character B's profile, their AP justification is "(Fought Character A. Beat Character C.)" and I end up searching through a gazillion pages before finally finding Character Z's profile which has the calc of Feat X linked. Like even if the chainscale is really long surely there's a better way to do this.

 

[Minaaaa]

Not sure if this is just me, but I find it annoying when profiles don't link the important calcs and feats. For example, let's say Character A chainscales to Feat X performed by Character Z which is 7-A. When I go on Character A's page, it says: "Attack Potency: 7-A (Beat Character B.)" but then when I go on Character B's profile, their AP justification is "(Fought Character A. Beat Character C.)" and I end up searching through a gazillion pages before finally finding Character Z's profile which has the calc of Feat X linked. Like even if the chainscale is really long surely there's a better way to do this.

Make statistics values mandatory

 

[IDK3465]

Make statistics values mandatory

and have them link to the calcs/scaling chain pages

 

[AyOgUyS]

Make statistics values mandatory

and have them link to the calcs/scaling chain pages

I might actually work on a staff thread for that once I finish up my other stuff

 

[MochOath]

I might actually work on a staff thread for that once I finish up my other stuff

It would require a lot of work over a lot of pages (aka an automatic no from bureaucrats)

 

[Minaaaa]

It would require a lot of work over a lot of pages (aka an automatic no from bureaucrats)

Or just make it only for new/updated pages

 

[AyOgUyS]

It would require a lot of work over a lot of pages (aka an automatic no from bureaucrats)

I hate that you kinda have a point

 

[SatellaTheWoE]

Make reading profiles for both sides mandatory before arguing in a matchup, so many profiles (Reinhard's) that people (zab) worked hard on that nobody even bothers reading.

 

[MochOath]

We should kill the FRA by forcing voters to at least give bullet points of why theyre voting for someone

 

[Arceus0x]

We should kill the FRA by forcing voters to at least give bullet points of why theyre voting for someone

Any CRT dies because now staff can't just agree with the first staff member they see

 

[Arceus0x]

I think the Ugandan Knuckles meme was only hated because it interrupted VRChat user's furry ERP with funny memes

 

[Minaaaa]

I think the Ugandan Knuckles meme was only hated because it interrupted VRChat user's furry ERP with funny memes

Doing that in public spaces has to be studied (not the knuckles thing)

 

[Epiccheev]

Soup or Man

 

[IDK3465]

Soup or Man

Can the man make me soup?

 

[Epiccheev]

Can the man make me soup?

"Oi Omlanda, i luv killing soups."

 

[MorrisHatesYou]

0.2s as perception blitzing timeframe is peak comedy

 

[Arceus0x]

0.2s as perception blitzing timeframe is peak comedy

true, pretty much anyone can react that fast

 

[ZespeonGalaxy]

67 is hilarious. I never found it cringe i just always chuckle when i hear it, some kid said 67 in a funny manner and zoomers found a reason to turn it into a meme. Whats not to love

 

[Arceus0x]

67 is hilarious. I never found it cringe i just always chuckle when i hear it, some kid said 67 in a funny manner and zoomers found a reason to turn it into a meme.

Gen alpha, maybe a few of the youngest zoomers did it

Whats not to love

the thing that makes me dislike it to an extent is the brainrot content surrounding it. Another thing used to be that it is completely meaningless. Like there's no background to it, some guy said 6 7 and suddenly everyone is doing it. Usually there is at least something you can dig up on a meme but this one never had any rhyme or reason to it, it was spontaneous. 69 - sex position, joke older than your mum, 420 - weed number, apparently some students met up at 4:20 to smoke joints in some college, 67 - no info available. Otherwise it ain't the first time a meaningless meme appeared, the issue is more so that I don't like meaningless memes in general. Something like "Me and the boys at 2AM looking for beans" with a picture of photoshopped spirits could still be dissected in many ways. 67 is just a number and a gesture. That is all.

 

[AppleMaker]

67 is hilarious. I never found it cringe i just always chuckle when i hear it, some kid said 67 in a funny manner and zoomers found a reason to turn it into a meme. Whats not to love

I don't really like that meme because it became way too overdone, even more than low taper fade I'd say. Other than that I think this meme is kind of meh, old memes also could be meaningless from time to time, they aren't automatically better than this

 

[Mahek_The_Assassin_Silent_Killer]

(If Arceus didn't have a phobia of me talking with him I'd have replied to his message too.)

67 is hilarious. I never found it cringe i just always chuckle when i hear it, some kid said 67 in a funny manner and zoomers found a reason to turn it into a meme. Whats not to love

I don't really like that meme because it became way too overdone, even more than low taper fade I'd say. Other than that I think this meme is kind of meh, old memes also could be meaningless from time to time, they aren't automatically better than this

Memes can be funny when meaningless for sure but honestly seems like wider audiences/more people find them more funny when there's relevance and thus significance to said audiences/people, even more so when there's also a nostalgia factor to them, though I do hope there's better/more relevant/significant and more funny memes in future.
(Yeah I'm also not fond of the current generation of memes, but I guess it's still worth knowing about them just to be aware of what people are referencing of... that being said, I hope the current and future generations of peeps are also aware of and appreciate the past generation memes as well.)

 

[AppleMaker]

(If Arceus didn't have a phobia of me talking with him I'd have replied to his message too.)


Memes can be funny when meaningless for sure but honestly seems like wider audiences/more people find them more funny when there's relevance and thus significance to said audiences/people, even more so when there's also a nostalgia factor to them, though I do hope there's better/more relevant/significant and more funny memes in future.
(Yeah I'm also not fond of the current generation of memes, but I guess it's still worth knowing about them just to be aware of what people are referencing of... that being said, I hope the current and future generations of peeps are also aware of and appreciate the past generation memes as well.)

I mostly enjoy memes that are part of some fandom, since they are quite niche and make fun of fandom's/media's problems/tropes/cliches or might be used to troll/confuse someone who's not knowledgeable enough (like those memes where Sukuna is called "king of kindness" or smth like that)

 

[AppleMaker]

Meaningless memes also could be funny, but they heavily rely on how they sound, look and executed, which is extremely easy to fail

 

[Mahek_The_Assassin_Silent_Killer]

I'm wondering if AI should be treated as a living being or as non-living matter...
Hope it can be used to benefit all living beings, but technically AI has the capacity to blend properties of living beings and non-living stuff, which makes me think it should, if it ends up acting as a living being, be treated as such as well.

 

[Mahek_The_Assassin_Silent_Killer]

I'm wondering if AI should be treated as a living being or as non-living matter...
Hope it can be used to benefit all living beings, but technically AI has the capacity to blend properties of living beings and non-living stuff, which makes me think it should, if it ends up acting as a living being, be treated as such as well.

If it was possible to preserve/conserve and "benefit" the world/universe as a whole/make a utopia for all that exists, that would be ideal, but sadly the preservation and conservation of certain types/forms of matter require the destruction and conversion of other types of matter merely to exist, so honestly it'd only be possible to logically be able to try to do so for living beings.

 

[SatellaTheWoE]

what are some faster ways to get calc members to look at your calc? send help its been 2.5 yrs

 

[MochOath]

know them personally

 

[Metalballrun]

PM them or post on their wall, and make sure your calc blog is at the very least readable.

 

[Imaginym]

AAA

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