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Hello everyone,
Recently, I made this calc for a character tanking a relatively high fall and, initially, it was accepted by Flashlight237 and nobody seemed to have any issue with it. But, soon afterwards, Agnaa brought up how regular people have consistently survived falls of a similar height in real life, with Bambu agreeing.
While we still haven’t decided on wether or not that calc is acceptable yet, Agnaa’s comments have made me question where exactly we should draw the line between what regular humans can and can’t do. Like, if regular people have been shown to get lucky and survive 9-C or rarely even 9-B falls, who’s to say that any fall truely represents a character’s durability? Or what about the many times regular people have shown to survive explosives, or lightning strikes, or car crashes, or nukes, or anything for that matter?
I should probably note that I personally don’t feel like we should discredit any of these kinds of feats just because regular people sometimes survive them. Applying the same amount of scrutiny that real life gets to something entirely fictional is ridiculous. I mainly created this thread to see how others feel about this issue and how we should handle this kinda situation in the future.
Think of this less as a question thread and more so a discussion of what our standards should be for regular humans in relation to (what should be) peak or superhuman feats.
(PS, I’m currently almost on a flight as of writing, so I won’t be able to reply for like 5 hrs, sorry )
Recently, I made this calc for a character tanking a relatively high fall and, initially, it was accepted by Flashlight237 and nobody seemed to have any issue with it. But, soon afterwards, Agnaa brought up how regular people have consistently survived falls of a similar height in real life, with Bambu agreeing.
While we still haven’t decided on wether or not that calc is acceptable yet, Agnaa’s comments have made me question where exactly we should draw the line between what regular humans can and can’t do. Like, if regular people have been shown to get lucky and survive 9-C or rarely even 9-B falls, who’s to say that any fall truely represents a character’s durability? Or what about the many times regular people have shown to survive explosives, or lightning strikes, or car crashes, or nukes, or anything for that matter?
I should probably note that I personally don’t feel like we should discredit any of these kinds of feats just because regular people sometimes survive them. Applying the same amount of scrutiny that real life gets to something entirely fictional is ridiculous. I mainly created this thread to see how others feel about this issue and how we should handle this kinda situation in the future.
Think of this less as a question thread and more so a discussion of what our standards should be for regular humans in relation to (what should be) peak or superhuman feats.
(PS, I’m currently almost on a flight as of writing, so I won’t be able to reply for like 5 hrs, sorry )
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