Commoner's Thread: All purpose staff thread to discuss any ongoing Staff Discussions

[Iamunanimousinthat]

Since my last commoner's thread went so well. I think there should be a general thread to comment on all staff discussions by non-staff members. Instead of making one thread for each staff discussion, this thread will catch all.

I feel like it will help people get their two cents in without clutter and also allows for general comments that are still warranted to be said but have no need to be included in the staff thread.

 

[Blunt_Claw]

What do the people think of Geo and Pein's time dimension shenanigans?

Re:evulation of temporal dimension standards

Alr, here we go! I'd like to mention that I obtained permission from @Qawsedf234 🙏 This structure can then be generalized to any number of dimensions, which is why destroying a spacetime continuum is a greater feat than destroying only the contents of the physical universe (Low 2-C, rather...

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[Blunt_Claw]

I think they take "diffrent direction" too literally.

 

[Iamunanimousinthat]

What do the people think of Geo and Pein's time dimension shenanigans?

Re:evulation of temporal dimension standards

Alr, here we go! I'd like to mention that I obtained permission from @Qawsedf234 🙏 This structure can then be generalized to any number of dimensions, which is why destroying a spacetime continuum is a greater feat than destroying only the contents of the physical universe (Low 2-C, rather...

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The "prove the two axes have different directions" seems arbitrary. I haven't seen argument why it is necessary. The examples that DT has given can be done with one time direction.

 

[Flowman777]

Establishing rules for Varies ratings

I'm still of my own opinions that allowing varies for inconsistency is a dangerous road to go down

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I wanted to ask: how would using low-end, mid-end, and high-end without outlier feats/anti-feats be like? Reading some comments from people like Antvasima, Armorchompy, and Maverick, it sounds like they would be including completely inconsistent outlier feats as the low-end and high-end feats. But what if instead of that, it was like:

Low-end: This is the lowest reasonable interpretation of the character's power level barring completely outlier anti-feats like Thor getting KO'd by a mere handgun.
Mid-end: This is approximately in the middle of what a character's power level normally is.
High-end: This is the highest reasonable interpretation of the character's power level barring completely outlier feats like Marvel/DC cross-writer power-scaling (that way characters still need to rely on feats or reasonable powerscaling).

That way, characters that are too inconsistent to accurately say they are only one power level can have different tiers for how they are portrayed while still not including completely irreconcilable feats/anti-feats.

Another thought I had is that even if a verse does not directly say that a character's power level is varying, a character may still have feats/anti-feats that vary heavily. So their power level would still vary heavily even if the verse does not say that. I do agree with people like Armorchompy that we shouldn't headcanon powers that the verse does not say. Yet, if the power level of a character varies by episode/book through varying feats/anti-feats, the power level is clearly varying even if the verse does not give a reason for it. Maybe calling it something like Inconsistent rather than Varies in the tier could be a way to differentiate between "the character is inconsistent" and "the character has an in-universe reason for their inconsistencies".

 

[Iamunanimousinthat]

Tier 2 revision: Changing Space Time Continuum Standards. (Never cook again.)

since a certain someone decided to tb me from a general discussion thread, i will now spread my cancer across the site. Rejoice. So currently,spacetime continuums that are smaller than universal in size fail to meet the requirements for low-2C. However, this line of reasoning fails to grasp on...

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This was made but was quickly closed due to good reason. But I don't see why we can't talk about it here.

 

[Deidalius]

I mean, it makes sense, cutting just a segment of time or a higher dimension should be greater than normal feats but I feel like I'd be an outlier most of the time since authors don't put much thought into it.