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Some time back I advocated for the addition of Non-Standard Breathing. In doing so, it made Underwater Breathing obsolete. I think we should just remove the latter ability and replace all mentions of it with Non-Standard Breathing.
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Removing Underwater Breathing
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Seems fair enough.
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This should be a staff discussion.
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Sure, but wouldn't it actually make sense if Non-Standard Breathing has another type for physiological Underwater Breathing? As that wouldn't actually be superhuman at all to them as that's just how fishes work
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This should be fine
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Underwater Breathing is a very notable and distinct enough ability in fiction for it to stay. It having a broader power category that includes it doesn't make it automatically applicable for deletion.
It would be like deleting electricity manipulation since it's just energy manip.
Underwater Breathing is a very notable and distinct enough ability in fiction for it to stay. It having a broader power category that includes it doesn't make it automatically applicable for deletion.
It would be like deleting electricity manipulation since it's just energy manip.
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Don't tempt me with a good time
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Agreed
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Yeah, just take a look at the Non-Standard Breathing page. It covers all forms of breathing that aren't standard earth atmosphere. I separated it into two types: one for physiology or supernatural based breathing and another for breathing with an apparatus (scuba diving gear, gas mask, etc.)
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Eh, sort of this. I'd argue putting Underwater Breathing as a 'sub category' to non-standard breathing, similar to how we quantify types of causality / elemental manip etc.
Besides, chances are that profiles can just call a power 'underwater breathing', and then link to non-standard breathing. I've seen it done before with certain instances of aura/blessed/superhuman physical characteristics etc.
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Shouldn't the non-standard breathing ability have information to allow profiles to specify the type of breathing? A fish can breath under water but not in poison vapour, and gas masks or similar things might filter the gas but be unable to breathe through the water.
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Is anyone not going to address this at all?
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Isn’t that just another saying of Type 1 UB? We can just merge all of its types to the NSB page in a format similar to NEP.
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Well yeah, technically that was the point of what I was saying
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I already addressed it. The baseline is air within the Earth's atmosphere that humans can comfortably breathe in. Fish gills would fall under Non-Standard Breathing as Type 1.
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No. Electricity has special properties and act very different compared to mechanical energy.
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This site's nomenclature is objectively it's worst possible thing, I hate, hate, hate the name Non-Standard Breathing.
Your OP doesn't go over this: do you intend to go through and change all mentions of Underwater Breathing to Non-Standard Breathing, either manually or via bot, or have you secured help with this?
Your OP doesn't go over this: do you intend to go through and change all mentions of Underwater Breathing to Non-Standard Breathing, either manually or via bot, or have you secured help with this?
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I came up with the name
Well that's why I made the thread, to hopefully resolve that issue too.
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Fie, fie upon you, and hexes upon your House.I came up with the name
Alright. Well. Get on that, then. The broad concept of the thread is agreeable, but it needs proper ideas of application before... applying.
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I think we should use the bot to get rid of Underwater Breathing from our profiles and replace those instances with Non-Standard Breathing. We then go through all the pages and manually add the appropriate types to the profiles.
I'll ping Ant and see what he thinks @Antvasima
I'll ping Ant and see what he thinks @Antvasima
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Can't we just turn underwater breathing into a redirect page for non-standard breathing instead?
Given that Dread was banned, that AKM is partially inactive, that I am already very busy and do not have the necessary competence in this area, and that Elizhaa never seemed to express an interest and also seems partially inactive, Catzlaflame is our only competent and active remaining bot account user, and he is currently busy with schoolwork, and will try to handle Dread's statistics text-bolding project afterwards.
Given that Dread was banned, that AKM is partially inactive, that I am already very busy and do not have the necessary competence in this area, and that Elizhaa never seemed to express an interest and also seems partially inactive, Catzlaflame is our only competent and active remaining bot account user, and he is currently busy with schoolwork, and will try to handle Dread's statistics text-bolding project afterwards.
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Using underwater breathing as a specific sub-type, due to how common it is, seems good to me.
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It fine by me too
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Removing Underwater Breathing
Some time back I advocated for the addition of Non-Standard Breathing. In doing so, it made Underwater Breathing obsolete. I think we should just remove the latter ability and replace all mentions of it with Non-Standard Breathing.
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Should this be a staff thread?@Abstractions @Mr._Bambu @Qawsedf234 @Sir_Ovens @Celestial_Pegasus @DarkDragonMedeus @SamanPatou @Damage3245 @Elizhaa @Starter_Pack
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Removing Underwater Breathing
Some time back I advocated for the addition of Non-Standard Breathing. In doing so, it made Underwater Breathing obsolete. I think we should just remove the latter ability and replace all mentions of it with Non-Standard Breathing.
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