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Deltarune: Removing Magic Scaling

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Except that it does, btw, as fountains give to the Dark Worlds their forms, and instantly make them disappear the moment they're sealed. That's textbook what the wiki defines as "significantly affect" given it's still making up a whole reality with abilities comparable to creation/destruction.
I meant for the Titan specifically, with the Fountain only creating the Titan and giving it its power in its case. I'm not arguing against Dark Fountains creating or stabilizing Dark Worlds in general, or trying to say the Dark Fountain the Titan was made from isn't that strong.
 
I meant for the Titan specifically, with the Fountain only creating the Titan and giving it its power in its case. I'm not arguing against Dark Fountains creating or stabilizing Dark Worlds in general, or trying to say the Dark Fountain the Titan was made from isn't that strong.
Then I do not agree with the idea with Titans =/= Fountains, as the method of creating them is the same (Berdly was about to create one in Chapter 2 in the same way Knight did in Chapter 4 with him believing he'd make a Fountain) and then both being sealed the same after that Ralsei was right about them behaving the same for this exact reason.
 
Then I do not agree with the idea with Titans =/= Fountains, as the method of creating them is the same (Berdly was about to create one in Chapter 2 in the same way Knight did in Chapter 4 with him believing he'd make a Fountain) and then both being sealed the same after that Ralsei was right about them behaving the same for this exact reason.
I was literally arguing for the Titans being 7-B. I'm not arguing "Titans =/= Fountains" exactly. You can focus on Charmander instead of me 😔
 
Given how many variables the fountains have inherently, where the size of the world is not proportional to the amount of darkness withheld, something no one ever attacked btw, I don't think it's even feasible to scale a Titan to the biggest possible Dark World anyway.

You CAN'T even use the fact it took multiple knives, because again, the amount of darkness is not proportional to the size of the world.

Even if we did grant stabilization, it shouldn't be 7-B anyway. 7-C is more appropriate, or even 8-A+.
 
This is TRUE vibescaling for the sake of making shit the lowest as possible lol. This is so disingeneous when nothing remotely points at Dark Worlds being drastically smaller than Cyber World in any capacity, if anything it should be one of the smallest ones given it's just a library compared to a kitchen + living room (TV World) or a whole CHURCH (Sanctuary), I am not dealing with this bs.
 
This is TRUE vibescaling for the sake of making shit the lowest as possible lol. This is so disingeneous when nothing remotely points at Dark Worlds being drastically smaller than Cyber World in any capacity, if anything it should be one of the smallest ones given it's just a library compared to a kitchen + living room (TV World) or a whole CHURCH (Sanctuary), I am not dealing with this bs.
I genuinely don't understand why you feel the need to try and diminish valid reasons for downgrades.

"Vibescaling"
"You use this argument to automatically assume this"

Nah. I've already proven that the amount of darkness invested are not proportional to the size of the world. It's merely thematic.

"It should be one of the smallest" my ass, it's the biggest one by far despite it's initial room being smaller. Saying the Titan, who has nothing to do with themes of city, has a city sized realm is the true vibescaling here, sorry.
 
Is the argument here that, because the fountain is "stronger" than the one in the Cyber World, it should scale to it's size?


Even though my entire line of reasoning is that the size of the worlds are not dependent on energy, power and amounts of darkness?
The argument is that it's stronger, so it should be stronger. The size isn't relevant to its energy output
 
The argument is that it's stronger, so it should be stronger. The size isn't relevant to its energy output
"The size isn't relevant to energy output, so we will scale it to this other fountain that uses size to scale it's energy output"


Brilliant argument. The Titan still isn't 7-B, though.
 
I agreed with the removal of the Zapper Feat and the lase is based on the assumption that it's a draining charged attack. But going by this post

They are unrelated to what I thought.

So my view hasn't changed. Dark World's are real, I see no good evidence for AP scaling, sound is real, lasers aren't real, electricity isn't real, and Jackstein is legit but an outlier.
Apologies I saw the conversation reduce to the AP scaling and thought we were concluding the discussion.

Hmm I think thread-wise we're in agreement (4 staff) for the Dark World being real and the Jack Stein being legitimate.

Regarding the rest:
* AP scaling: I will note the notion of only being to charge up three of the laser attacks before resting does seem to indicate the attacks are exhausting, even if not as draining as previously understood.

* Sound is real:
Agree, albeit I don't really see them as anti-feats. From what I gathered, most occured early into the game and even then, the cast had already moved supersonic speeds + the characters were stated to have grown faster since so I'm not too concerned about them.

* Lasers aren't real:
For me, it's the statement of being an infrared laser + coming from a TV remote-based entity + the minor evidence and lack of contradictory characteristics as listed in the https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Laser/Light_Beam_Dodging_Feats light standards] that push me towards accepting the lasers as real.

* Electricity isn't real:
Agreed that the electricity isn't necessarily the speeds claimed, although admittedly this is probably the least focused aspect of the debate so I can't say either way.

* Jackstein being an outlier:
Not really an issue if the FTL portion of the calc is accepted too.
 
I will note the notion of only being to charge up three of the laser attacks before resting does seem to indicate the attacks are exhausting, even if not as draining as previously understood.
I'll chip in to mention the Titan is only capable of using the laser attack once, then it uses the same attack (this one, but with 3 orbs instead of 2) and can't bring its shield up until it gets the chance to heal for 2 turns.
 
I'll chip in to mention the Titan is only capable of using the laser attack once, then it uses the same attack (this one, but with 3 orbs instead of 2) and can't bring its shield up until it gets the chance to heal for 2 turns.

Ah I stand corrected, though arguably better serving the point, thank you
 
Why is it an issue? The laser standard page does not mention this
Light does not change color by bouncing off walls, but by refraction of certain spectrums.

Elaborate here, I see them being in a straight line and bouncing off stuff like normal lasers do.
This is not about them bouncing, but how they're both short and the end lf the beam narrows down in what amounts to be an unrealistic tail.

Zapper is actually a "steroid" version of a TV remote.
Thar doesn't make it's beams SoL. Considering they're visible in the first place means they're not operating like a standard TV remote.

that it uses infrared rays in the fight.
The first link is six hours and the second says it blushes in infrared. Neither support that it's using a speed of ligh energy ray.

Uh, wdym? Nobody is claiming that any electric attacks ingame is lightning.
This calc is saying the electric bolts are moving at 556 m/s, as the OP alluded to. Which was what I was talking about.

think this can help with the idea of "attacks > existing" scaling, as you indeed do still exist while being forced to regenerate and heal, but are still too weak to properly attack during said state. Ralsei even says that "as long as the insides are intact, the battle will still be going" to say that Titan's regeneration pretty much replents its stamina too, can't really do that if the regeneration does not restore that too.
I mean it's not super good in my view, but at least it implies some superiority.
 
This calc is saying the electric bolts are moving at 556 m/s, as the OP alluded to. Which was what I was talking about.
So you are against assuming that electric attacks ingame move at speed of 556 m/s? Ok then(thought we don't require for electric attacks to have lightning properties for using this speed value)

Since you are now convinced of scaling Titans to 7-B physically(I assume), we have this situation:
1. Most of CRT points is rejected by 4 staff members, with only 1 staff agreeing to it (@ActuallySpaceMan42).
2. Zapper feat is considered invalid by you and Spaceman42. I assume that they agree with you that electric bolts shouldn't be assumed to have speed of 556 m/s. These two points have 3 staff votes disagreeing with it, so further discussion on then is warranted
 
It's not crazy. I just don't believe in the entire OP. Some things make sense and some don't. The Titans and Dark Worlds are just examples of that in my view.
I must clarify that my CRT is not trying to establish the Dark World as a fake, 11-C/R>F realm. It's just using its fantasy nature as a reason to disregard assumptions that the magic is realistic by default.

The two conclusions are just: 7-B is not valid (fantasy, made by willpower, darkness doesn't have to sustain energy via size), and that FTL is invalid (fantasy, inconsistent, lack of evidence)

On these two fronts, can I get a clear opinion on the conclusions? Downgrading 7-B and FTL.
 
I'll try to search better the actual one later.
The first link is six hours
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Light does not change color by bouncing off walls, but by refraction of certain spectrums.


This is not about them bouncing, but how they're both short and the end lf the beam narrows down in what amounts to be an unrealistic tail.


Thar doesn't make it's beams SoL. Considering they're visible in the first place means they're not operating like a standard TV remote.


The first link is six hours and the second says it blushes in infrared. Neither support that it's using a speed of ligh energy ray.
Ok so I'll try to reply to the best of my abilities on phone given that the site crashes every 3 minutes if not on my PC so I apologize if this doesn't look pretty.

Given that the last thing in contention seems to be the FTL scaling as the rest looks like generally rejected, I'll focus on this.

My issue is that you're basically expecting what's otherwise a pretty normal laser beam that is shot from what's meant to be a TV remote to behave completely 1:1 with what would be an actual infrared in the most literal sense of the word, when gameplay wise it wouldn't even be visible if it'd be the case, thus making the enemy way too broken to be fought against. As I've mentioned above, Darkners are meant to be mostly 1:1 with the properties of what they're based on (Spamton, a spam mail, can upload himself as data in discs and other devices, and Jackenstein, a Halloween decoration, is made of wax and has even a candle with a flame as his real head behind the pumpkin-mask).

We definitely need to get some more leniency going on here, given that the theme of the Dark World here is a TV-focused realm, and the character does stuff like having buttons to press or even literally turning them OFF. I don't think that the beams can be literally anything else besides "infrared rays" on steroids given the entire gimmick of the character and the infrared statements. What you mention are literally non issues that are common in fiction, multiple light beams are shown to be multi colored or to not be a continuous ray, but that's simply how the work shows its portrayal of a light beam, and it doesn't even behave in a non realistic way like bending or stop to change trajectory. If we're strict like this I personally wouldn't know more than 5 verses that'd qualify, and the SoL page doesn't even mention what you said as negative evidence either.
 
My issue is that you're basically expecting what's otherwise a pretty normal laser beam that is shot from what's meant to be a TV remote to behave completely 1:1 with what would be an actual infrared in the most literal sense of the word
Yea, because for it to be considered a viable source for SoL speed, it must meet our criteria for it. It behaving under goofy cartoon physics goes against our criteria.

As I've mentioned above, Darkners are meant to be mostly 1:1 with the properties of what they're based on
Are they 1:1 or magical corrupted versions of those real life objects? Because they're not a Jack-O-Lantern given form. They're a corrupted Jaco-O-Lantern that shares physical traits with one and just happens to have overlapping characteristics.

What you mention are literally non issues that are common in fiction,
They're not non-issues, they show the beams behave in non-normal ways. Pushing against the idea that they're comparable to a IRL infrared ray.

If we're strict like this I personally wouldn't know more than 5 verses that'd qualify, and the SoL page doesn't even mention what you said as negative evidence either
I mean, yeah then. If most franchises don't qualify they don't qualify. Most franchises don't qualify for two temporal dimensions, that doesn't mean we should start be relaxed with our standards.

Additionally my issue is with Zapper itself. It's why I think Jackenstein is a perfectly valid SoL/FTL scene since the light there has no contradictions or issues with it. It may be an outlier, but the properties of the scene itself are valid.
 
Yea, because for it to be considered a viable source for SoL speed, it must meet our criteria for it. It behaving under goofy cartoon physics goes against our criteria.


Are they 1:1 or magical corrupted versions of those real life objects? Because they're not a Jack-O-Lantern given form. They're a corrupted Jaco-O-Lantern that shares physical traits with one and just happens to have overlapping characteristics.


They're not non-issues, they show the beams behave in non-normal ways. Pushing against the idea that they're comparable to a IRL infrared ray.


I mean, yeah then. If most franchises don't qualify they don't qualify. Most franchises don't qualify for two temporal dimensions, that doesn't mean we should start be relaxed with our standards.

Additionally my issue is with Zapper itself. It's why I think Jackenstein is a perfectly valid SoL/FTL scene since the light there has no contradictions or issues with it. It may be an outlier, but the properties of the scene itself are valid.

I must clarify that my CRT is not trying to establish the Dark World as a fake, 11-C/R>F realm. It's just using its fantasy nature as a reason to disregard assumptions that the magic is realistic by default.

The two conclusions are just: 7-B is not valid (fantasy, made by willpower, darkness doesn't have to sustain energy via size), and that FTL is invalid (fantasy, inconsistent, lack of evidence)

On these two fronts, can I get a clear opinion on the conclusions? Downgrading 7-B and FTL.
 
Yea, because for it to be considered a viable source for SoL speed, it must meet our criteria for it. It behaving under goofy cartoon physics goes against our criteria.
It literally does not what? The only thing that could be considered as too far off is it bouncing on the battle box, but it has no properties due to it being a pure gameplay element, so you cannot use it as evidence against or for it being SoL.
Are they 1:1 or magical corrupted versions of those real life objects? Because they're not a Jack-O-Lantern given form. They're a corrupted Jaco-O-Lantern that shares physical traits with one and just happens to have overlapping characteristics.
It's really funny that you said that because it's literally the case. Dark Worlds are literally rooms and the Darkners are objects, as not only explained by Ralsei in Chapter 3 but also visually shown in Chapter 2, and multiple characters say explicitly that Dark Fountains are what gives a form to both the Dark Worlds and all of their contents.
They're not non-issues, they show the beams behave in non-normal ways. Pushing against the idea that they're comparable to a IRL infrared ray.
Why are they contradictory to it being SoL? You never bothered to mention why, just that they do not, which is what irks me here.
I mean, yeah then. If most franchises don't qualify they don't qualify. Most franchises don't qualify for two temporal dimensions, that doesn't mean we should start be relaxed with our standards.
This is not the same and you know that. What you said is a whole cosmological setting that requires attentive evaluation to be precise, this instead is just the interpretation of a rather simple attack with not much context needed to understand it.
 
must clarify that my CRT is not trying to establish the Dark World as a fake, 11-C/R>F realm. It's just using its fantasy nature as a reason to disregard assumptions that the magic is realistic by default.

The two conclusions are just: 7-B is not valid (fantasy, made by willpower, darkness doesn't have to sustain energy via size), and that FTL is invalid (fantasy, inconsistent, lack of evidence)

On these two fronts, can I get a clear opinion on the conclusions? Downgrading 7-B and FTL.
At the moment:
  • Dark Realms: Disagree with the OP
  • Titans: While not very robust, enough circumstantial evidence exist that leads me to accept that if nothing else, charged attacks would scale to stabilization
  • FTL: I agree with Zapper, disagree with Jackenstein. I feel like Jackestein is an outlier based on their other showings

It literally does not what? The only thing that could be considered as too far off is it bouncing on the battle box, but it has no properties due to it being a pure gameplay element, so you cannot use it as evidence against or for it being SoL.
I can, because that element is what's being used for the calc. If it's not usable then the calc isn't usable either. The properties do not meet enough criteria for it to be considered actual light in my view.

Why are they contradictory to it being SoL? You never bothered to mention why, just that they do not, which is what irks me here.
I mentioned them in my opening post. But to restate again:
  • They bounce off walls and change color
  • They narrow down unrealistically
  • The source projecting them is a magical TV remote
  • The OP gave examples that increasing volume limits increases projectile sizes
  • Zapper fires other attacks from the same source that behave nothing like light
The sole thing going for Zapper is that it's a TV remote but that's also not enough for a rating.

This is not the same and you know that.
Its comparing two set standards and how we have to be strict with them. One being easier to achieve doesn't negate the comparison. Zapper doesn't meet the qualifications for SoL in my view. Jackenstein does because it acts as a legitimate omnidirectional light source.
 
They bounce off walls and change color
Gameplay element and not a real contradiction, why are you keeping to ignore this.
The source projecting them is a magical TV remote
I LITERALLY said gave evidence of them being a literal TV remote given form like you asked.
The OP gave examples that increasing volume limits increases projectile sizes
...because of it being a pun involving the meaning of volume, not that it has sound manipulation literally involved.
Zapper fires other attacks from the same source that behave nothing like light
And why is that a disqualifier??? A dude has only to fire light beams for these to be SOL, what?
I feel like Jackestein is an outlier based on their other showings
On this, is it really an outlier anyways? I mean we do not see them struggling with less. Anti-Feats are just feats that are against higher stuff (ie a character struggling to lift a car is an anti feat against them lifting continents), but I do not see a case of that in DR.
 
Gameplay element and not a real contradiction, why are you keeping to ignore this.
Because the calc uses those gameplay elements. You both ignore gameplay and then use gameplay like that.
LITERALLY said gave evidence of them being a literal TV remote given form like you asked.
I asked if they were 1:1 or magically corrupted. All you showed was that they were magically corrupted. Zapper can turn into a cannon.

And why is that a disqualifier???
It shows that Zapper can fire attacks from itself that don't have any characteristics resembling actual SoL properties, meaning the beam that also shows no SoL properties probably isn't SoL either.

On this, is it really an outlier anyways?
Yes. Without Zapper it is 17,730x to 62,000x their next best showing. The OP also shows them getting tagged or matching demonstrably slower projectiles. Jackenstein would be an outlier for those reasons.
 
  • Titans: While not very robust, enough circumstantial evidence exist that leads me to accept that if nothing else, charged attacks would scale to stabilization
7-B stays, then. Okay. I believe the evidence that showed that, at the very least, that Dark Worlds vary greatly based on arbitrary means, would at least put the stabilization into question as whether or not the dark world inside the Titan is necessarily 7-B, or it required that much energy to sustain that much darkness (as darkness, quite literally, scale to any size based on themes)

If you don't find the evidence particularly compelling, then there's nothing I can do.
  • FTL: I agree with Zapper, disagree with Jackenstein. I feel like Jackestein is an outlier based on their other showings
Counted.

That makes a 2 vs 3 vote regarding FTL ratings, requiring further votes, or a change in opinion to be passed and/or rejected.
 
Because the calc uses those gameplay elements. You both ignore gameplay and then use gameplay like that.
Now you're just strawmanning my point. I said that given that it's a gameplay element, you cannot say that they're things like "walls" because they have no estabilished properties like a "real" wall would have.
I asked if they were 1:1 or magically corrupted. All you showed was that they were magically corrupted. Zapper can turn into a cannon.
You said that "they're not X things given form" and I refuted that given that it's textually the case in-verse, but if you don't wanna make it over semantics that's fine.

My main point is that you cannot say that they're a "fake infrared" or "just coincidental overlaps" when the entire point of the Darkners is to be these objects given a form, I cannot see the beam being anything else ngl.
It shows that Zapper can fire attacks from itself that don't have any characteristics resembling actual SoL properties, meaning the beam that also shows no SoL properties probably isn't SoL either.
I mean, what do you want more for it being SoL than its user having statements of infrared and also a TV remote? Ok that (for some reason) going straight is not a qualifier, but there's no real contradiction either.
 
You literally disregard the contradictions pointed by both me and Qawsed several times in this debate, the fact they curve and change colors.
Why are y'all so obsessed with distorting evidence?

They do not curve, they bounce lmfao.

And changing colors is not a contradiction, it's something that y'all made up that is not even mentioned in the page as a contradiction.
 
Why are y'all so obsessed with distorting evidence?

They do not curve, they bounce lmfao.

Why are you actually distorting evidence and pretending we're not talking about the fact the laser has a tail, which, AGAIN, is what me and Qawsed brought up? That's a curvature.

And changing colors is not a contradiction, it's something that y'all made up that is not even mentioned in the page as a contradiction.
It is evidence of unrealistic behavior. Stop pretending we're standing in a place where the assumption that it is realistic is already a reality.
 
Why are you actually distorting evidence and pretending we're not talking about the fact the laser has a tail, which, AGAIN, is what me and Qawsed brought up? That's a curvature.
Curvature in the trajectory I mean... It having a tail means nothing, is artstyle a disqualifier now lmao.
It is evidence of unrealistic behavior.
Is it really? Do we have to downgrade all the beams that dare being multi color for a simple design choice from being SoL?
 
Curvature in the trajectory I mean... It having a tail means nothing, is artstyle a disqualifier now lmao.
Having a tail is a disqualifier, and you can't chalk up contradictions to artstyle when it's convenient to you. The laser curves, end of discussion.

Is it really? Do we have to downgrade all the beams that dare being multi color for a simple design choice from being SoL?

Again with the infinite qualifier shit, no, Strym, if they have their own circumstantial evidence, we won't remove them for a color change.
 
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