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I don't mean verses by name. But like you go "Oh, I liked this verse. I'd like to work on their pages." Then you see what you have to work with and then you go "Nope, someone else deal with this."
I'll go first
Verses that have huge inconsistencies between their lore and the medium that you experience. I mostly deal with video games so I'm talking about when you see God, creator of the infinite multiverse and his children who can travel across the infinite multiverse, and they get taken out by a farmboy with a rusty sword.
I mean by scaling the farm boy should get both infinite speed and, what, multiversal AP. So he better never have needed to take a carriage anywhere. Or missed the train. Or been unable to escape human jail cells. Here lies the rub. Fiction makes up whatever rules it wants especially with godly beings. I've seen God and his children nearly get gunned down by the LAPD and that is not an exaggeration. If an author so chooses, he can make god have an allergic reaction to an apple. I can understand the idea of nerfing something to make a game playable. But at some point of time it just becomes too messy.
So if you're a warrior of infinite speed and you took an entire day to stop a finite army of demons of finite speed? Or the game lets me kill god or demi god with a garden shovel? Yeah, I ain't dealin with dat shit.
Verses that are too large/convoluted.
Needs no explanation. DC/Marvel have entire pages talking about how things scale. And the description about everything scaling to Aunt May sums it up.
Not dealin with that. If you have a ninja who can block bullets with ease and you have a normal guy who has to take cover from arrows. Then those two face off in an even fight? Yeah, I'm not dealing with discussions that the guy who can't handle arrows will speed scale to the guy who can handle bullets.
Shit that deals with light and lightning.
Ok, I guess I shouldn't put it like that. Some of the pages I work on deal with those.
But let me put it this way. Lightning and light rarely move at the right speeds in fiction. They might or they might not. But as you might notice from the speed ratings lighting is several orders of magnitudes faster than modern ballistics So if you can casually dodge lighting, if I jump on a minigun and start shooting at you, your first instinct better not be to run and find cover. And if you're faster than light, if I take a laser pointer and start clicking it very fast, you better never get touched.
Here's the thing. Is the killer glow stick thrown at you actually moving at the speed of light then slowed down for a better viewing experience? Or is it really just a killer glowstick even if it does bounce of mirrors?
So if there's somebody with light speed or, hell, lightning speed ratings, that person better be able go zip zip zipping around Vergil-style and singing Bury the Light else I ain't touchin that. Somebody else can work out the logistics of their speed.
Anyways, that's my three.
What type of verses will you never touch?
I'll go first
Verses that have huge inconsistencies between their lore and the medium that you experience. I mostly deal with video games so I'm talking about when you see God, creator of the infinite multiverse and his children who can travel across the infinite multiverse, and they get taken out by a farmboy with a rusty sword.
I mean by scaling the farm boy should get both infinite speed and, what, multiversal AP. So he better never have needed to take a carriage anywhere. Or missed the train. Or been unable to escape human jail cells. Here lies the rub. Fiction makes up whatever rules it wants especially with godly beings. I've seen God and his children nearly get gunned down by the LAPD and that is not an exaggeration. If an author so chooses, he can make god have an allergic reaction to an apple. I can understand the idea of nerfing something to make a game playable. But at some point of time it just becomes too messy.
So if you're a warrior of infinite speed and you took an entire day to stop a finite army of demons of finite speed? Or the game lets me kill god or demi god with a garden shovel? Yeah, I ain't dealin with dat shit.
Verses that are too large/convoluted.
Needs no explanation. DC/Marvel have entire pages talking about how things scale. And the description about everything scaling to Aunt May sums it up.
Not dealin with that. If you have a ninja who can block bullets with ease and you have a normal guy who has to take cover from arrows. Then those two face off in an even fight? Yeah, I'm not dealing with discussions that the guy who can't handle arrows will speed scale to the guy who can handle bullets.
Shit that deals with light and lightning.
Ok, I guess I shouldn't put it like that. Some of the pages I work on deal with those.
But let me put it this way. Lightning and light rarely move at the right speeds in fiction. They might or they might not. But as you might notice from the speed ratings lighting is several orders of magnitudes faster than modern ballistics So if you can casually dodge lighting, if I jump on a minigun and start shooting at you, your first instinct better not be to run and find cover. And if you're faster than light, if I take a laser pointer and start clicking it very fast, you better never get touched.
Here's the thing. Is the killer glow stick thrown at you actually moving at the speed of light then slowed down for a better viewing experience? Or is it really just a killer glowstick even if it does bounce of mirrors?
So if there's somebody with light speed or, hell, lightning speed ratings, that person better be able go zip zip zipping around Vergil-style and singing Bury the Light else I ain't touchin that. Somebody else can work out the logistics of their speed.
Anyways, that's my three.
What type of verses will you never touch?
. actual goonery.
