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Well i dont know we can have this tier so easily this time. Still absurd in my mind honestly
I mean just some statement that say your entire nature of existence are unchanged and transcend time and space will make you 1A by default??
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The commoners thread: Discussing Ultima's "On the Many, Many Incoherences of the Tiering System"
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I mean just some statement that say your entire nature of existence are unchanged and transcend time and space will make you 1A by default??
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I thought it was an R>F themed series
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It's not exactly any more absurd than slapping Low 1-C into a character because of a statement like "There is an uncountably infinite number of universes, and I destroyed them all," or making a character High 1-A because of a statement involving inaccessible cardinals. The revisions really just made less obscure things serve as qualifiers for such tiers (And I suspect that's where the knee-jerk reactions some people display come from), but at the end of the day, things didn't change that much from then to now, in that regard.
I mean, those on its own wouldn't really be sufficient, no. "Transcends space and time" can still be nothing at all, or it could be Low 1-C. 1-A would come from being superior to space and time themselves (As in, superiority over the very differentiation between points in a space), as opposed to "Is bigger than this spacetime continuum," which a lot of statements of that nature can be interpreted as.
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I think it because we have NLF term that not take the highest possible interpretation just take the lowest one (i mean for a statement of transcend time and space)
And well about H1A by inaccesible cardinals, yeah i think it absurd as well, it just add more dimension/layer to one hierarchy not create another transcended hierarchy
Well.... i think you say transcended time and space ontologically will make you 1A by default
You mean you must be lack of time and space but the reason you lack it because you are "too great" or transcended it
I also curios about how you treat statement like "no matter how......" in this new standard. I think that statement often use in previous standard to proof something is 1A or are qualitative superior. Are we still use that or throw that away
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The whole "That's NLF" deal got thrown out with the revisions. This stuff isn't really NLF at all, and nor is there any logical interpretation of them that lands lower. The example from inaccessible cardinals is making a demonstration about the old Tiering System, not the new one.
The point is that statements being brief doesn't make them invalid; we never demanded that a verse go into an extended treatise on what "Uncountably infinite" means, or what an inaccessible cardinal is, for those things to serve as qualifiers for big tiers when mentioned in the correct context. Same thing here, roughly. It really only delves into muddy territory when the concepts mentioned are themselves muddy and not broadly well-defined, or have a bunch of differing versions.
Those just aren't necessary anymore, yeah. In the same way a character who's described as being above all finite things (Without any caveat) is just tiered as being infinite, without the need for someone to say "No matter how many finite things you stack up, you'll never reach him," and similar.
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Well the "brief" thing. Yeah doesnt make it invalid as a whole, but i just think it need more context to make it valid. Not just some name-drop
As far as i remember that logic doesnt work on anything, i mean we have a thread that discuss about infinite that bigger than regular infinite, and that infinite still a countably infinite (even if all countable infinite are same in size). Basically you will need some statement like that to have a higher form of infinite. Yeah H1B to L1A basically use infinite logic, are we still need that statement to have 1A rating
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Depends on what the thing in question is. Generally, names alone tend to refer to things that have a bunch of differing views and models, so, in that case, additional context is needed to ascertain which version is being used.
Yeah, that stuff is utter nonsense. These things are more or less precisely what the revisions did away with, for the general case.
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Honestly i dont found any "infinite that bigger than infinite" in your thread. Or are you mean something else that related??
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I mean another, related thing, yeah.
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What if a higher dimensional being exists on a lower dimensional plane? Would that disprove higher dimensional beings?
For example, there is a character who has True R>F, for some reason he goes to a Fiction he created (not using an avatar), will this disprove his True R>F?
For example, there is a character who has True R>F, for some reason he goes to a Fiction he created (not using an avatar), will this disprove his True R>F?
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Not really, I'd say. A higher being could just have the ability to shift states of reality, after all. You'd need that to be depicted in a really wacky way for it to end up as an anti-feat.
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I've been thinking about this for a while, so I may as well ask. Would it be an anti-feat for 1-A and higher if a character has a soul/energy source originating from a higher plane of existence, and they use that as a source for their abilities that can travel to/affect the higher plane?
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I'd say that depends on quite a few factors and ultimately kinda just falls into a similar area as the idea of using something from a 1-A realm to ascend past your reality.
A lot of verses have this common trope of some power source that, by nature, is just "for the taking," so to speak, in that it's just naturally self-diffusive and automatically enters whoever finds or communes with it. I wouldn't consider such cases to be anti-feats at all, since, obviously, nothing actually happens on the part of the lower character. It's just something the power source does on its own. Bonus points if it's also naturally connected to everything, too, since then the case falls under the "Metaphysical potential rooted in something from a higher reality" thing.
Then there's scenarios where the power source in question is not something to just be taken that easily, and then a character pulls up to it, and takes it by force wholly on their own initiative, and, so to speak, overwhelms the thing in order to absorb it. I'd consider that an anti-feat, yeah.
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Things only feel strange and "it shouldn't be that easy" if you assign that it should be by nature harder to get into certain levels than others, while the objective of the revision is more "none of the tiers are inherently special. If you correctly describe what is needed for that Tier, there are many ways to achieve a certain level, some more convoluted than others, but there's no need to be convoluted per se".
Deep down, a lot of the requirements for something to be used could often be seen by writers as unnecessary and that it goes against what's studied about making good work. I can't help but think of all the times it's required for cosmology to be stated again and again in different works just to be sure "it really is that cosmology," while most writers would think, "Why should I repeat myself or what others said again and again instead of using that time to make something new and develop the characters?" In this case, the need to prove that the cosmologies are the same is something assumed to be inherently needed in the Wiki. In the same way, working out big explanations for getting Tier 1 or above was just something that was accepted to be inherently needed.
From what I got, one of the objectives of the revision is to move on from this view that some tiers are "inherently more special that need tons of objectively complicated explanations" and just "This is X tier, Y is what is needed to get there, and there are A to W ways of depicting it, some more complicated than others, but they all represent more or less the same thing."
Deep down, a lot of the requirements for something to be used could often be seen by writers as unnecessary and that it goes against what's studied about making good work. I can't help but think of all the times it's required for cosmology to be stated again and again in different works just to be sure "it really is that cosmology," while most writers would think, "Why should I repeat myself or what others said again and again instead of using that time to make something new and develop the characters?" In this case, the need to prove that the cosmologies are the same is something assumed to be inherently needed in the Wiki. In the same way, working out big explanations for getting Tier 1 or above was just something that was accepted to be inherently needed.
From what I got, one of the objectives of the revision is to move on from this view that some tiers are "inherently more special that need tons of objectively complicated explanations" and just "This is X tier, Y is what is needed to get there, and there are A to W ways of depicting it, some more complicated than others, but they all represent more or less the same thing."
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The Force is probably 0.
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Finally got around the bothering to reread Last Boss and found these quotes explaining how absorbing the goddess's mana worked:
So it seems it wasn't doing forcefully but was part of a plan to exploit the Goddess's shortsightedness to claim possession of her power through means she created. So 1-A might be back on the menu.
So it seems it wasn't doing forcefully but was part of a plan to exploit the Goddess's shortsightedness to claim possession of her power through means she created. So 1-A might be back on the menu.
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Now it's only up to us to see will that be enought to beat Yogiri
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Though the whole ascending higher thing of Alovenus vs Ruphas would absolutely not be able to reach higher layers of transcendence within 1-A, it still would give them much higher potency, hax, resistance, and other layers in baseline 1-A. So if they do get to be 1-A then they would probably be the most powerful non-smurf baseline 1-A's, which includes Yogiri. They were even throwing instant death and erasure and just uno reversing it constantly in that fight of theirs.
If we manage to get through the possible anti-feat, then stuff like in my signature, should be enough for 1-A.
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Your counter-example isn't actually that related to what we were talking about. We're talking about the invocation of the term "platonic concept" (or more likely, "platonic form"). I understand the point with "mathematical platonism", but I don't think it's relevant.
It means about as much as "Sometimes 'uncountable' just means a number too big for the speaker to count" does to invocations of uncountable infinity.
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All that, and still get jobbed by a random Chinamen.
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bro the chinaman jokes are getting out of hand
this was my reaction to this information
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Chinamen persistbro the chinaman jokes are getting out of hand
this was my reaction to this information
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Chinamen > Ultima's new tiering system frfr
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Nice Goku and Flandre pfp
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Thanks.
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So any random statement about "beyond time and space" can vary from nothing to Low 1-C to 1-A?
What's the difference between L1C and 1A in that case?
What's the difference between L1C and 1A in that case?
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Low 1-C would be "beyond time and space" in the sense that they're beyond conventional 3+1D space-time due to being 4+1D or 3+2D.
1-A would be "beyond time and space" in the sense that they're beyond the very notions of physical composition or the distinctions between points in mathematical space.
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In regards to TES tiers I’m assuming they will go like this
Nirn: 2B (really should be 2-A tbh but whatever)
Mundus: High 1-B
Oblivion: 1-A
Aetherius: 1-A
Aurbis: High 1A
Anu/Anuiel and Padhome/Sithis : High 1-A+
Amaranth: 0
I’m also guessing that Ruling Kings will be High 1-A+ and likely the Numidium?
Nirn: 2B (really should be 2-A tbh but whatever)
Mundus: High 1-B
Oblivion: 1-A
Aetherius: 1-A
Aurbis: High 1A
Anu/Anuiel and Padhome/Sithis : High 1-A+
Amaranth: 0
I’m also guessing that Ruling Kings will be High 1-A+ and likely the Numidium?
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It wouldn't get Low 1-C.
Lowballing it like that is one of the things Ultima explicitly took issue with during these revisions. All qualifying examples of BDE Type 2 would be Low 1-A at minimum.
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I'm not fully sure now that multiple characters can qualify for a tier. I suspected they'd be treated as having equal AP (although potentially unique hax), but idk what would happen if a series showed a High 1-A+ having higher AP than another one.
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Well in ultima thread. I think he say there are no different between transcend time and space and transcend concept/notion of time and space
And he absolutely reject the idea of beyond time and space just will get +1 dimension. I think he say something like "if he above dimension than he above it" also "we cannot put something that literally stated to be above dimension inside a dimension"
Soo if your all nature of existence already transcend time and space, by his logic we cannot put you in time and space anymore therefore you are 1A
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I have another question regarding the new system. I understand that to have Acausality 5 you must be someone impossible to interact with. My question is: if, for example, there is a 2-C being with Acausality 5 in a verse, and then a 1-A character is presented who sees that same character as fiction, will this 1-A character automatically be granted Aca 5? Or should this 1-A guy prove having Aca 5 in the respective meta-qualitative layer in which he is located?
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prove they have aca type 5
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