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Just messaged him on his wallSomeone, call Ultima
Well since Styrm has a Ruv pfp and not Sarv, I disagree.
I mean, he did confirm that he's a simp for her.simp
I trust Medeus' sense of judgement, but I will ask more knowledgeable members for input.As someone involved and while I was reluctant on certain parts here and there, I will officially approve of this. But it appears a big upgrade will need more staff input.
If i see another ******* tier 1 nintendo thread I am going to lose it
Dat already agreed as he's one of the main contributorsI trust Medeus' sense of judgement, but I will ask more knowledgeable members for input.
@ArbitraryNumbers @GreyFang82 @CrimsonStarFallen @DatOneWeeb @Migue79 @Newendigo
What do you think about this?
That would be helpful, yes. I won't be able to respond for a little while though as I have not slept yet.Should I call some staff members here?
Good rest manThat would be helpful, yes. I won't be able to respond for a little while though as I have not slept yet.
That's not how Light speed ratings work. You prove they are light speed, not the other way around. This is especially important if end game enemies are using attacks that that can tag these people semi-consistently. Also the gifs you link are actually massive counter evidence since both people are set to a guard command and they just avoid it from some nebulous distance away. You don't need to be FTL to dodge a laser and you don't need to be supersonic to dodge a bullet.As nothing contradicts these lasers behaving as real lasers, this would put the early game cast at Speed of Light and would bump up the endgame casts to FTL since lightspeed is a single value and the characters get faster as the game progresses
The only end game enemy that uses that is a Mother 3 enemy using a light beam that the cast dodges, the robots/UFOs shoot out a laser beam and are created by Giygas who makes scientific weaponry such as the nuclear robots.That's not how Light speed ratings work. You prove they are light speed, not the other way around. This is especially important if end game enemies are using attacks that that can tag these people semi-consistently.
As for the ratings the 2-A one is based on a manga that the game's maker gave free regin to. You want to make a manga profile that's fine, but it doesn apply to the games.
For the 2-B stuff it's honestly based on a series of massive assumptions in my view. The most I'd back is "Low 2-, possibly 2-B".
Being transcendent over the core characters also isn't evidence of Lpw 1-C, but just higher 2-B without direct statements of being beyond the system of the lower dimensional universe(s).
All the lower tier ratings look fine at a glance
The guard command is to make you take less damage in Earthbound, not to prepare you for an attack, you can still dodge the laser attack while bashing, guaridng doesn't even increase your chance of dodging:Also the gifs you link are actually massive counter evidence since both people are set to a guard command and they just avoid it from some nebulous distance away. You don't need to be FTL to dodge a laser and you don't need to be supersonic to dodge a bullet.
Except that the manga has the direct contribution of Itoi himself, so is canon like PokeSpe is to the main Pokémon, so moot argument.As for the ratings the 2-A one is based on a manga that the game's maker gave free regin to. You want to make a manga profile that's fine, but it doesn apply to the games.
Multiverse is already a thing in the Mother 3 events, since is stated that Porky jumped between parallel timelines.For the 2-B stuff it's honestly based on a series of massive assumptions in my view. The most I'd back is "Low 2-C, possibly 2-B".
The Real World sees 4D beings as Giygas and Ness as mere fiction since they're viewed as the same with the 3D characters in the same screen, plus what Giver said.Being transcendent over the core characters also isn't evidence of Low 1-C, but just higher 2-B without direct statements of being beyond the system of the lower dimensional universe(s).
Being transcendent over the core characters also isn't evidence of Low 1-C, but just higher 2-B without direct statements of being beyond the system of the lower dimensional universe(s).
As for the ratings the 2-A one is based on a manga that the game's maker gave free regin to. You want to make a manga profile that's fine, but it doesn apply to the games.
For the 2-B stuff it's honestly based on a series of massive assumptions in my view. The most I'd back is "Low 2-C, possibly 2-B".
I feel it's too early to bump.Bump
Even then my other point stands. You don't need to be FTL to dodge a SoL attack and the distance being nebulous means that there's no hard confirmation that they're moving at FTL speeds rather than Relativistic speeds.Dodging's also completely reliant on the speed stat, so it's not based off aim dodging like you're trying to imply, it's based off their speed.
Because as mentioned he was given free regin and the main material doesn't reference the same aspect of it.Itoi directly used the manga as a marketing point for the main game and you can see the manga writer in the statements looked through the writing team of the game with Itoi giving his approval. I don't know how the cosmology wouldn't apply to the games
A bump is like 24 hours of jo activity or more. Not one or two hoursI feel it's too early to bump.
Well that what I was meant basically.A bump is like 24 hours of jo activity or more. Not one or two hours
The first part misunderstands why they're FTL, they're not FTL for dodging the laser, the laser dodge nets them speed of light, the FTL reasoning is because they canonically get stronger and faster as they go along their journey and since speed of light is a single value they get FTL via that since any increase in speed from SoL would net FTL. Also from what I remember on how the site handles light dodging feats that you don't visually see you assume SoL.Even then my other point stands. You don't need to be FTL to dodge a SoL attack and the distance being nebulous means that there's no hard confirmation that they're moving at FTL speeds rather than Relativistic speeds.
Because as mentioned he was given free regin and the main material doesn't reference the same aspect of it.
But it being 2-B as a possibly rating is fine as I said previously.
I'm honestly still not sold on Low 1-C but, if I'm outvoted its whatever.
There's a lot of assumptions being made here with no scans to back it up. There's only 4 scans provided in this whole paragraph, and 2 of them have nothing to do with alternate universes.Level 1 - Alternate Universes
This is the most conservative estimate of the verse’s cosmology and it deals with the number of universes that exist. On the surface, it appears that the series only takes place in a single timeline, with Mother 3 being assumed to take place far in the future. This viewpoint is somewhat supported by the fact that Porky only ever mentions traveling to “different eras” and never directly saying he had gone to other universes, though it is actually easier to infer that parallel universes exist despite this. The main reason this is the case is the existence of Ness. As has already been established, Ness’s consciousness overlapped with the universe itself, and as such he should have the supernatural abilities of everything within the universe as they are all a part of himself. This however is contradicted by the fact that he completely lacks the abilities of the Dark Dragon, a being that is capable of erasing the concept of evil from the world and would easily be able to erase Giygas. If he had these abilities, he would effortlessly wipe out Giygas without the assistance of prayers, though he very obviously can’t as he is hopelessly outclassed and can barely do anything to him. This would seem to infer that the Dark Dragon does not exist in this universe, but rather a separate universe where Mother 3 takes place. Another point to further justify the separation of the Mother 1+2 universe and the Mother 3 universe is the total absence of Ness in Mother 3. Ness is the conscious mind of the universe who manifests a physical avatar of himself to save the world, yet he never reappears in Mother 3 even though the world would’ve desperately needed his help during the events of the game. You could say that Ness’s physical avatar is not immortal and that he died of old age long before the events of Mother 3, though there is no reason that the system of fate protecting the universe wouldn’t allow Ness to be born again in this scenario, especially since Ness with his true powers awakened would effortlessly destroy Porky’s army and stop him for good. The separation of these games into two different universes is supported by the fact that Leder tells Lucas that Porky was “shut out from all other times and spaces”, which in this context would seem to imply that Porky was hopping from world to world and had eventually messed with time so much that he had somehow been banished to one last universe, which makes a bit more sense than him being dumped at a random time in the universe’s history that happens to be long after the events of Mother 2. So with this out of the way, there are two parallel universes that are confirmed to exist, being the Mother 1+2 universe and the Mother 3 universe. While these are the only two universes that have been confirmed, there are more that have been implied to exist due to Porky’s meddling with time travel. As stated earlier, Leder tells Lucas that Porky was shut out from all times and spaces, which would imply he had been hopping between worlds quite a lot. While we can’t pin an exact number on the total, we can at least make some reasonable guesses given a few factors. To start, Porky had become immortal sometime after he had left the world of Mother 1+2, giving him plenty of time to travel to different worlds as well as mess with them. Porky never gives us an exact age for himself, claiming that he doesn’t even know how old he is and that he may 1,000 years old or even be 10,000 years old. If we assume this figure to be a reliable estimate, that would mean Porky had been messing with time for about 1,000 to 10,000 years. As for how this correlates to the number of universes, we must consider that Porky is mentally still a child and would get bored of messing with any individual universe rather quickly, so even assuming that he would spend as much time as 1 year in one is unlikely, meaning there are at least thousands of universes that exist that he has traveled to, if not more. Given these estimations, the appropriate tier to assign to a cosmology of this size would be “At least 2-C, likely 2-B”.
Same like the previous one, just a whole lot of assumptions and no evidence to back them up. There's only one scan provided here and it just says "like a grain and like a wave". And because it mentions the word "wave" it's for some reason is automatically linked the quantum physics and that proves a 2-B multiverse? Yeah... that's not going to fly.Level 2 - Quantum States
This interpretation of the verse’s cosmology is a bit more expansive and deals with a very specific idea brought up in Mother 2. As I’m sure most people are aware, the supreme being of the Mother series is the Truth of the Universe, a being embodying knowledge and fate that governs reality with its universal system. The important factor to consider here is the very nature of its being. In the original Japanese script of Mother 2, Talah Rama describes the Truth of the Universe as something that travels through time and space “like a grain and like a wave”. This is a direct and obvious reference to a phenomenon in quantum physics known as “wave-particle duality”, in which quantum entities exist as waves of possibility encompassing every state they could be in simultaneously before collapsing down to just one of their single states, in which they become a particle. This mention implies that wave-particle duality is not only a property of physics that applies to the verse, but is integral to its cosmology due to its relation to the Truth of the Universe. As the Truth of the Universe itself is described in part as a wave, this would imply that it simultaneously exists in every possible macrostate that the universe could be in at any given point in time. Regardless of whether these alternate quantum macrostates are physically real or not, they are still being encompassed by the Truth of the Universe and would contribute to its size; if we consider a single macrostate to be analogous to its own timeline, the Truth of the Universe exists across a countless number of possible universes. Because of this, the appropriate tier to assign to the cosmology in this interpretation would be countlessly into 2-B.
Well here is a pretty blatant statement of 2-A. Seems fine if this is canon. But it looks like that's debated.Level 3 - Many Worlds Multiverse
This interpretation is very similar to the last one, only instead of the size coming from the possible universal macrostates that the Truth of the Universe encompasses, these possible universes are physically real and exist parallel to one another as alternate timelines. Before Mother 2 was released, a manga was written to serve as promotional material for the game. While its canonicity is never specified, Itoi gave its writer complete freedom in interpreting Mother 2 the way he wanted. The reason why the manga is relevant at all to the cosmology of the verse is the fact that it confirms the existence of the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics, in which every single possibility exists as its own universe. It is directly stated by Jeff that different possible universes exist parallel to each other infinitely, with new worlds constantly being born from every possible different action. The main point of contention with this interpretation of the cosmology is the manga’s canonical status relative to the games, though here we will be assuming that the manga is one of the infinite parallel timelines that exist alongside the games. As such, this would simply warrant a 2-A rating for the cosmology.
There's a lot of assumptions being made here too, but this one shows a lot of promise because it outright says "player that holds the controller". As long as it's literal and not just a meta joke or something, I might be fine with Low 1-C.The Real World
This is the final step in tiering the verse’s cosmology and will undoubtedly come across as the most controversial one. The Player is an important character within the narrative of the Mother series, playing a major direct role in the story of both Mother 2 and Mother 3. They are the being that controls the protagonists and guides them along their journeys, essentially acting as the catalyst for the system of fate. Their very existence implies that the entire multiverse is simply part of a game due to the Player viewing it as such and seeing the characters and settings as no more than mere pieces of fiction. The player comes from their own world, which we have dubbed the “real world” due to its relationship with the game world, the existence of which is confirmed by the ending of Mother 3 since both the Mother 3 universe and the real world were reset by the Dark Dragon, the Player themself even appearing physically to interact with the characters using an avatar. Itoi further elaborates on this idea in an interview, even stating that the Dark Dragon would have destroyed all of reality, including itself, had it been awakened by Claus, and that because of this there is no way he would be able to write this as a conclusion since it would mean that he too would be destroyed. This interpretation simply runs with the idea that the level of transcendence the real world has over the game world is enough to warrant the equivalent of a dimensional gap, which would land the totality of the cosmology at Low 1-C regardless of what the size of the game world is accepted to be. Of course, this idea will not go uncontested as fiction to reality barriers are quite common in fiction, though it is worth noting that the elements of the real world go beyond simple fourth wall breaking, as the real world itself is a location that has been confirmed to exist within the cosmology and the Player is directly responsible for the defeat of Giygas, something that would’ve been impossible without their intervention.
I don't see why only 4 scans suddenly devaules the conclusion? The 4 scans point out how Porky is axed out from all times and spaces and he's left here. There's no direct scan of the games being different universes but there's clear plot holes and continuity errors not only if they're the same universe but also the statmeent of all times and spaces seems to imply a lot more. Also your time and spaces point has one major issue, why would it be referring to time periods when if he's shut off from all other time and spaces then the minute a second pasts he should still be in the past of that conversation between Lucas and Leder? It seems that with the plot inconcisties and my major issue I brought up with using the time and spaces thing as different times, can you see the reason we lead to alt universes rather then different time periods?Don't know the verse so I'm going in blind just from what's in the OP.
There's a lot of assumptions being made here with no scans to back it up. There's only 4 scans provided in this whole paragraph, and 2 of them have nothing to do with alternate universes.
A scan that confirms the games are different universes would be nice.
Not much to say otherwise, the only thing of substance here is that one quote about being "shut out from all other times and spaces", but considering the plot is about a far future as said in the beginning of this paragraph this quote at face value just means different times in the current timeline on its own.
Same like the previous one, just a whole lot of assumptions and no evidence to back them up. There's only one scan provided here and it just says "like a grain and like a wave". And because it mentions the word "wave" it's for some reason is automatically linked the quantum physics and that proves a 2-B multiverse? Yeah... that's not going to fly.
Well here is a pretty blatant statement of 2-A. Seems fine if this is canon. But it looks like that's debated.
There's a lot of assumptions being made here too, but this one shows a lot of promise because it outright says "player that holds the controller". As long as it's literal and not just a meta joke or something, I might be fine with Low 1-C.
Is there more context on the real world?
They devalue the conclusion because it was a huge paragraph stating a lot of things but nothing to back it up. And out of the only pieces of evidence that were provided, 50% of them had nothing to do with the point being made.I don't see why only 4 scans suddenly devaules the conclusion? The 4 scans point out how Porky is axed out from all times and spaces and he's left here.
This is again the same problem, speculation but not a lot of stuff is provided to back it up.There's no direct scan of the games being different universes but there's clear plot holes and continuity errors not only if they're the same universe but also the statmeent of all times and spaces seems to imply a lot more.
Or it could just mean different eras from a time travel perspective, as it has already been established. That's just taking it super literally, when we already have precedent being set on how we could interpret this statement from time travel being involved in the game. Introducing stuff like "this is alternate universes" is, again, just pure assumption.Also your time and spaces point has one major issue, why would it be referring to time periods when if he's shut off from all other time and spaces then the minute a second pasts he should still be in the past of that conversation between Lucas and Leder?
Where exactly is the player character mentioned here? I watched the segment up to where they were teleported to the rocks or something and defeated the boss I didn't see mention of the player. Not sure what I'm supposed to be watching.the player is a blatantly canon character that's the very reason for the defeat of Giygas in Mother 2
the segment is 32:10 and the player is named All of Us cause that is what the youtuber put as the player's nameWhere exactly is the player character mentioned here? I watched the segment up to where they were teleported to the rocks or something and defeated the boss I didn't see mention of the player. Not sure what I'm supposed to be watching.
They were all there to explain the very concept around why Porky's time traveling happened in the first place and to establish context to the conclusion of whether Porky went through different time periods or universes.They devalue the conclusion because it was a huge paragraph stating a lot of things but nothing to back it up. And out of the only pieces of evidence that were provided, 50% of them had nothing to do with the point being made.
This is again the same problem, speculation but not a lot of stuff is provided to back it up.
Or it could just mean different eras from a time travel perspective, as it has already been established. That's just taking it super literally, when we already have precedent being set on how we could interpret this statement from time travel being involved in the game. Introducing stuff like "this is alternate universes" is, again, just pure assumption.
Where exactly is the player character mentioned here? I watched the segment up to where they were teleported to the rocks or something and defeated the boss I didn't see mention of the player. Not sure what I'm supposed to be watching.
Oh I see.the segment is 32:10 and the player is named All of Us cause that is what the youtuber put as the player's name
dont remove it. Let more mods give inputAlright, I'm awake now. I've been reading through and GiverOfThePeace pretty much said what was needed. Although, it seems as if the level 2 version of the cosmology is too much of a stretch to be accepted, so I will go ahead and remove it from the CRT.
To be honest, I doubt any of them will agree or even entertain the idea, so I'm leaving it crossed out so that we can focus discussion on the other interpretations of the cosmology.dont remove it. Let more mods give input
Hmm. In the case of EarthBound, these people that reside in the real world have already displayed creation abilities as they literally write and code the verse into existence. This can be seen in the interview with Itoi where he specifically mentions that Claus pulling the final needle was something he couldn’t write in as it would mean the end of all of existence, including himself. There’s also the fact that they have already been shown to use avatars to interact with the EarthBound reality, similarly to Ness, an entire universe that they of course view as pieces of fiction. Giygas as well, an entire dimension who already exist beyond the universes space-time and detached from reality is seen as nothing but a game in the eyes of The Player. Once again repeating what’s on the CRT, The player is described as an entity that are “behind the background that is pulling the strings”, which I would think would further strengthen this argument
How much more mods do we need?Qawsedf234 and Ogbunabali:
Thank you for helping out.
We haven't discussed the cosmology thoroughly enough to reach a concrete conclusion, unfortunately. The most I can say is that level 2 is not happening because the assumptions are not grounded solidly enough. However, it does seem that people are open to the idea of accepting 2-A alongside "possibly Low 1-C". More mod input might be necessary if possible.These two are probably enough.
Have they reached any conclusions yet?