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Invulnerability of curses

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If you're going to keep being stubborn about something you clearly do not understand and keep talking about the perceived position of a user who isn't here (and who won't be on wiki for months) as though it were an actual argument, I am simply not going to engage with anything you say anymore.

This thread can be applied with another approval.
Being a staff longer doesn't signify more experience as they can just be idling for a very long time, while the higher staff role is more likely as they engage in the wiki more and provide better arguments.

Edit: Armour was talking about him being staff longer than Agnaa but it seems he edited it out.
 
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Shouldn't this be limited any way since they are still vunerable to cursed energy attacks (like this deadass useless to 90% of verses with a energy system)
 
Being a staff longer doesn't signify more experience as they can just be idling for a very long time, while the higher staff role is more likely as they engage in the wiki more and provide better arguments.

Edit: Armour was talking about him being staff longer than Agnaa but it seems he edited it out.
I did not edit it out, I just moved it a little bit.
 
You add it back in after I send my ss of your old message, kinda suspicious.
Anyway, I'll refrain from interacting.
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When I replied to you, you had the message removed. I edited my message right after I noticed the specific message I replied to is missing. Not sure what you are trying to achieve here by telling people to "Grow up".
 
I edit my messages several times, especially when dealing with subjects like you. Trying to make a call-out about it is childish and I responded with proof that it was incorrect. After posting I thought about editing out the "grow up" to be a bit less rude but I imagined you'd raise a fuss about it too if you saw the change (which I believ you would have), so it stayed. I would now appreciate if you could stop derailing.
 
I edit my messages several times, especially when dealing with subjects like you. Trying to make a call-out about it is childish and I responded with proof that it was incorrect. After posting I thought about editing out the "grow up" to be a bit less rude but I imagined you'd raise a fuss about it too if you saw the change (which I believ you would have), so it stayed. I would now appreciate if you could stop derailing.
I never called you out when you called me stubborn, I simply ignored it. But when you tell me to "grow up", I know you are just trying to get me agitated the entire time. I will stop here now.
 
Shouldn't this be limited any way since they are still vunerable to cursed energy attacks (like this deadass useless to 90% of verses with a energy system)
I mean that's only with verse Equalization which isn't a set in stone requirement
 
I honestly don't think the mechanic is elaborate or good enough for invulnerability.

This is just how I see it, but you need a sort of esoteric mechanic that justifies the invulnerability itself rather than simply having a "mechanic" involving an energy that simply makes things invulnerable to other stuff that cant use said energy.
 
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By what armor said, it seems this is a misconception
I forgot that JJK qualifies for three staff members. We'll there's noted mechanic behind their invulnerability and the power itself is already accepted, so I'm fine with the changes.
I will apply it once I'm home
 
The anime's canon, right? Yuji made a curse bleed with no cursed energy.


Though it regens right afterwards.
 
Anime is not canon, it contradicts tons of shit. Hell, Maho's wheel can be destroyed by generic dismantles there while in the manga it tanks Fuga and Dabura's kick
The verse page says it's secondary canon, don't know how up to date that is tho

Also wasn't there a Calc Group Thread on Sukuna's anime-only cloud split?
 
I'm not comfortable saying this qualifies, based on the OP. Feels like it's one step away, since it doesn't provide a mechanism.

It shows that something's going on, but doesn't actually tell us anything close to a mechanism. Like, take the sort of thing I mentioned as being a fine mechanism in this thread:
Various Shadow Slave characters, such as Sunless: The source of their Invulnerability is their strong wills letting them resist the pressures of the mundane world. The mechanism is through powerful characters being unaffected by lower Grades of forces, such as those carried by mundane explosions, but not those of higher Grade attacks which are infused with mystical forces.
It seems like this example is pretty similar, except it's missing anything like "resist the pressures of the mundane world". In place of a mechanism like that, it just says "you need curse energy bro".

If we allow "takes no damage from characters who should be stronger" + "statement that a MacGuffin is required" then that is letting a lot of claims through without a mechanism.

Like, if we were to hypothetically have an inverted case. A weak character uses a weapon to take out a stronger character, and we're told "Yeah, it uses cursed energy, it'll work no matter how weak you are", idk if we'd put that down as Durability Negation since it doesn't have a mechanism. I remember being told that "it can cut through anything" doesn't mean shit unless we're also told something like "because it cuts through things on an atomic level".

But it does admittedly suck that there's not another great thing to interpret/put this down as. I think our next best option is just "durability scaling above the strongest thing it tanked" + "weapons that work on these things have conditionally higher AP against things of this type".

Bink @Armorchompy
 
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I'm not comfortable saying this qualifies, based on the OP. Feels like it's one step away, since it doesn't provide a mechanism.

It shows that something's going on, but doesn't actually tell us anything close to a mechanism. Like, take the sort of thing I mentioned as being a fine mechanism in this thread:

It seems like this example is pretty similar, except it's missing anything like "resist the pressures of the mundane world". In place of a mechanism like that, it just says "you need curse energy bro".
If this is what you define as a "mechanism" then I am going to disagree with you on its necessity when we have every other step of the process. It's clearly established that AP doesn't matter and isn't enough to overcome the invulnerability even when it comes to much weaker opponents who'd otherwise be one-shot then frankly I don't see what else the ability could be.

Frankly from what you've presented I think this is a much more clear case than yours, given it doesn't establish that the attacks are ineffective regardless of AP. There's obviously the same mechanic of "mundane energy doesn't affect this supernatural phenomenon", qualifying only if this is made explicit feels arbitrary.
If we allow "takes no damage from characters who should be stronger" + "statement that a MacGuffin is required" then that is letting a lot of claims through without a mechanism.
Not really. I can't think of many showings where the ability is clearly established to work regardless of relative durability/AP, never contradicted (and I count "guy operating without an explicit way to negate it being able to punch through" Sonic-style as a contradiction) and always requires interfacing with its weakness to bypass it.
Like, if we were to hypothetically have an inverted case. A weak character uses a weapon to take out a stronger character, and we're told "Yeah, it uses cursed energy, it'll work no matter how weak you are", idk if we'd put that down as Durability Negation since it doesn't have a mechanism. I remember being told that "it can cut through anything" doesn't mean shit unless we're also told something like "because it cuts through things on an atomic level".
I think we absolutely would, lol. If they went out of their way to establish that it's not an AP thing and that it can just cut anything regardless of durability - which is the the inversion of what's going on here - that'd be downright textbook duraneg.
But it does admittedly suck that there's not another great thing to interpret/put this down as. I think our next best option is just "durability scaling above the strongest thing it tanked" + "weapons that work on these things have conditionally higher AP against things of this type".
That's dumb, this clearly isn't AP, you're essentially headcanoning your interpretation of how it functions. It's like you're afraid of giving it out when it could potentially maybe be wrong, and creating a much bigger inaccuracy in the process.
 
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If this is what you define as a "mechanism" then I am going to disagree with you on its necessity when we have every other step of the process. It's clearly established that AP doesn't matter and isn't enough to overcome the invulnerability even when it comes to much weaker opponents who'd otherwise be one-shot then frankly I don't see what else the ability could be.
Through such an ability, we're effectively granting Low 1-A durability. We may want to be careful and actually have every step of the process.
Not really. I can't think of many showings where the ability is clearly established to work regardless of relative durability/AP, never contradicted and always requires interfacing with its weakness to bypass it. It's kind of textbook invulnerability.
Sonic. At least, that's what the supporters argue, and I didn't look into it further.

This sort of thing is especially flexible, since any anti-feat can just be interpreted as another weakness.
That's dumb, this clearly isn't AP, you're essentially headcanoning your interpretation of how it functions.
Yeah, ig it is probably better to just take it as conditional durability that doesn't function on things that it's weak to. While limiting the conditional durability at its best feat, rather than at 1-A.
 
Through such an ability, we're effectively granting Low 1-A durability. We may want to be careful and actually have every step of the process.
... In the same way that Intangibility gives you Low 1-A durability, I suppose. Or that teleporting away from an attack gives you Low 1-A damage negation. You're wording it in a very sensationalized way. I think you are overly paranoid of the ability being handed out unfairly and are letting that affect your judgement, it's true that we should only grant it to legitimate cases but when it's very clearly portrayed as ignoring the very existence of AP - and that is what's going on here - it should at least qualify.
Sonic. At least, that's what the supporters argue, and I didn't look into it further.

This sort of thing is especially flexible, since any anti-feat can just be interpreted as another weakness.
Sonic's profile literally just says "he's invulnerable and doesn't take damage" over and over with no real elaboration. It wouldn't qualify according to really any real definition of the ability based on that. There's no elaboration that it's irregardless of the attack's power, no feats of a weak super form tanking much stronger attacks, no statements that you can only bypass it with specific tools...

What supporters argue is nebulous and you can't use it as an argument, especially without any evidence. It doesn't reflect what's on the profile and if there genuinely is acceptable, consistent evidence for the ability then I don't care, he can have it. Until then, I can't argue against an argument that doesn't exist.
Yeah, ig it is probably better to just take it as conditional durability that doesn't function on things that it's weak to. While limiting the conditional durability at its best feat, rather than at 1-A.
Well I don't think that's true to the text. It's pretty clear that durability isn't really what's going on here and that they just lack the means to meaningfully interface with the target.
 
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... In the same way that Intangibility gives you Low 1-A durability, I suppose. Or that teleporting away from an attack gives you Low 1-A damage negation. You're wording it in such a sensationalized way to make it sound like a massive earth-shaking deal but it's really not that crazy. I think you are overly paranoid of the ability being handed out unfairly and are letting that affect your judgement.
c'mon

I think there's a reasonable substantive difference between "Maybe a High 7-C not being able to deal any damage doesn't mean a Low 1-A couldn't deal any damage" and, what, trying to argue that a character wouldn't be able to dodge an ordinarily slow attack because it comes from a Low 1-A character?
no feats of a weak super form tanking much stronger attacks
I've been told stuff along these lines.
Well I don't think that's true to the text. It's pretty clear that durability isn't really what's going on here and that they just lack the means to meaningfully interface with the target.
I thought it was argued to not be intangibility? "They can't properly interact with it" is a mechanism (albeit one that would just fall under intangibility).

idk how it could both not have a mechanism, and not be interpretable as just conditional durability. If we're only told that punching it hard doesn't work, but a certain kind of magic does, that could be explained by durability that doesn't work against magic.
 
I don't really care about a post with no scans dropped three pages into an unconcluded thread, I'm sorry.
I thought it was argued to not be intangibility? "They can't properly interact with it" is a mechanism (albeit one that would just fall under intangibility).
From my understanding it's something along those lines, my suggestion was to list it as "Invulnerability and unconventional Intangibility", since they can still touch them, they just can't hurt them, so it doesn't work the way the ability normally does, but it's still predicated upon that kind of logic (and bypassed if the opponent has NPI). Admittedly I am not fully sure so I'll tag OP @LIFE_OF_KING for confirmation.
 
Put my agreeal in.

The rule of jujutsu in the verse is that a curse can only be exorcised by another curse. This is a verse law. People are incapable of hurting them no matter how strong they are. It doesn't need a deeply fleshed out mechanic, we know what it is, curses exorcise curses and traditional weapons can't. Not because of a power difference, but because of their physiology and a verse rule.
 
Please make a staff thread saying that you can get invulnerability for verses saying "they can't be hurt" despite lacking a fleshed out mechanic, and get that accepted, before FRAing a thread for that reason.

Because we already had a thread redefining Invulnerability to needing a mechanism.

That wasn't ultimately implemented in a sufficiently clear way, but it was still accepted, which should take priority over staff members arbitrarily deciding to ignore that.
 
Please make a staff thread saying that you can get invulnerability for verses saying "they can't be hurt" despite lacking a fleshed out mechanic, and get that accepted, before FRAing a thread for that reason.

Because we already had a thread redefining Invulnerability to needing a mechanism.
I would point out here that Wok is saying that evidence of sidestepping AP is enough. My argument is that's what's going on here. I'd wait for clarification from supporters though
 
Please make a staff thread saying that you can get invulnerability for verses saying "they can't be hurt" despite lacking a fleshed out mechanic, and get that accepted, before FRAing a thread for that reason.

Because we already had a thread redefining Invulnerability to needing a mechanism.

That wasn't ultimately implemented in a sufficiently clear way, but it was still accepted, which should take priority over staff members arbitrarily deciding to ignore that.
All of those examples were just people randomly being stated to be invulnerable with literally no context except "this makes me invulnerable". It's like superman sunbathing and randomly saying "nobody can hurt me" and that was the defining factor. Flimsy baseless justifications. Like sonic ingame invulnerability is literally just "he takes no in-game damage".

This has justification it's just not fleshed out to the extents where we can piece it apart in our sleep. Only a curse can exorcise a curse. Curses are meant to be exorcised via curses. It's shown when top tier physical characters can't harm bottom tier characters unless they utilize a drop of cursed energy. It's stated in the first chapter. They are physically comprised from negative energy and can only be harmed through said negative energy that forms them.
 
Welp, engaging here is making me too miserable to justify that as being worthwhile.

Do what you wish, in my absence.
 
I would point out here that Wok is saying that evidence of sidestepping AP is enough. My argument is that's what's going on here. I'd wait for clarification from supporters though
Don't know if CE lets Sorcerers interact with the abstract nature of Curses tho, even after being exorcised, it doesn't stop them from reincarnating again.
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Don't know if CE lets Sorcerers interact with the abstract nature of Curses tho, even after being exorcised, it doesn't stop them from reincarnating again.
I don't think this makes Cursed Spirits abstract, or even matter for the nature of Cursed Spirits. It's not implied that reincarnation is unique to them, and being exorcized wouldn't typically affect their soul anyway. It just sounds like Jogo believes in typical reincarnation.
 
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