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Topic~*Ultimaterializer's Post-Contest Analysis!! Part 2*~
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12/20/18 10:35:56 PM
#137
Well even with HP Ups Richter's still paper compared to Alucard. I don't think he can survive more than a few hits in the inverted castle even if you get every HP Up.

But I've full cleared the game as Richter without getting hit so I mean, you definitely don't have to get them. Richter has all the tools to dodge literally everything that comes at him with his dash, slide, and uppercut, while tearing through the game at breakneck speed.

But I could definitely see getting hit by like 3 attacks because you are bad at the game, dying, and blaming it on his control as something to do. You'd get hit by those 3 attacks as Alucard too mind you but you'd survive and wouldn't be as upset since Alucard has actual gear he can equip.
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Topic~*Ultimaterializer's Post-Contest Analysis!! Part 2*~
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12/20/18 10:25:46 PM
#134
Like I've put probably 5x as much time into SotN's Richter Mode as I've put into Alucard mode, just doing wacky challenges because he's so fun to control. And I've probably put more into Alucard mode than most people have put into the game. Heck I've beaten the game as Alucart. You're completely talking out of your ass there. You probably face tank a lot of shit when you play the game and get frustrated because compared to Alucard Richter's durability is paper, but who cares when you can just dodge everything anyway.
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Topic~*Ultimaterializer's Post-Contest Analysis!! Part 2*~
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12/20/18 10:22:07 PM
#132
Ulti_PCA posted...
Richter Belmont got a lot of nominations and a ton of hype to pull an upset in this match thanks to this trailer for Smash Bros Ultimate.


He... did?

http://thengamer.com/guru/stats.php?match=58

I don't think so.

Also Richter has one of the best controls in gaming in SotN. Like that is literally half the reason I like him so much. You're just bad at controlling him. I've beaten that game with no damage without using any item crashes, full clear on all bosses. He handles superbly, and he has enough moves with limited invincibility frames that zip him around the arena that if you're good you can basically dodge everything while keeping an attack going. He's fine in Rondo of Blood too.

Really the only game he doesn't control well is DRACULA X which basically makes him a watered down Simon which is not what he should be.
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TopicFire Emblem Heroes Discussion Topic Part 21: A far fetched return.
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12/20/18 10:15:19 PM
#496
I'm getting awfully close to that point with Oboro. She's at +7 right now and while she's using +Res/-Spd which is my second most wanted nature, I'd really prefer +Atk/-Spd. I'm going to have some difficult decisions to make if I draw 3 more.
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Topic^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Princess - Day 19
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12/20/18 10:09:12 PM
#38
Xena (Xena: Warrior Princess)
Yuyuko Saigyouji (Touhou)
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TopicHas there ever been a good definition for alignments in d&d
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12/20/18 10:08:07 PM
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HanOfTheNekos posted...
Here's where I break from D&D - I think balance is inherently lawful


To be fair D&D often uses desire for balance as a form of lawfulness. Like a favored monk alignment is Lawful Neutral and yeah that's basically the reason for it.

Now that being said I think the difference between balance seeking lawful and just seeking balance goes down to the belief of the character. I never get the feeling that Thanos has some sorta creedo that makes him want to achieve balance for the sake of it being balanced as much as a balance being the means to an end of causing good things. He's not killing off the world to achieve some sort of balance with the elements or the spirits or whatever.

Now that being said while murder is bad the purpose of the murder does matter quite a bit. Having a good intention isn't auto good but murdering things doesn't make you auto bad either. Like as I said earlier, I'm pretty sure everyone would call The Incredible Hulk pretty much the definition of Chaotic Neutral, but like, he kills stuff all the time. That's just what he is, a force of nature that kills things that get in his way. Beasts in general don't have morals to measure and so mostly fall into neutral. Thanos is most similar to a beast in his mindset-- he's not murdering strictly to further himself, it's more like just disposing of obstacles-- right and wrong don't really enter the equation for him so much and his goal is (in theory) a noble one. The fact that he kills Gamora to get the Soul Stone and legit seems to not want to do it and has grief about it, yet does it anyway because the goal is that important, shows that it's more complicated than he just kills things indiscriminately because he has no value for life

Like I said I respect calling him Neutral Evil but I do think just calling him straight True Neutral is about equally as valid.
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TopicFinal Fantasy Record Keeper Topic 42.b: The Haunted Seven's curse was the purge.
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12/20/18 9:42:31 PM
#369
Got Galuf's Enearth LMR. Would be decent if I had anything for Galuf since his LD sucks but as is no dice.
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TopicHas there ever been a good definition for alignments in d&d
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12/20/18 6:39:30 PM
#61
I'm not sure I agree with that. Plenty of villains openly don't care about the universe, society, or anything else, and are just out to get theirs.

But I also agree that being delusional shouldn't just make you good for free either. Plenty characters that are evil think they're serving the greater good or a higher cause or whatever.

Thanos's idea makes just enough sense that I can't write it off as inherently evil though. A truly neutral mind could come up with that plot I think.
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TopicName a character and I will rate them
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12/20/18 6:25:39 PM
#131
To hell with Jerry. 25/100 too high.
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TopicHas there ever been a good definition for alignments in d&d
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12/20/18 6:24:42 PM
#59
I mean Thanos can be right and his necessary methods can be abhorrent enough to still make him "wrong" morally. Sometimes the ends don't justify the means!
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TopicOne removed from The Last Jedi-- The movie is still fucking awesome (spoilers)
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12/20/18 6:23:01 PM
#119
I don't think it's pedantic to question the merit of a scene that renders around half of your battle scenes in the series pointless. Let's ignore episode 1-6 and just apply that for the most recent trilogy in case that hyperspace jump technology thing getting better is intended and not a handwave-- you could've saved a ton of casualties in space attacks in just TLJ and TFA alone by employing tactical kamikaze hyperspace jumps
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TopicHas there ever been a good definition for alignments in d&d
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12/20/18 6:09:51 PM
#56
Yeah like I said I think there are ways to reach that I just think we need more evidence to support it. I don't think it's the implication given at all. I also don't think that's the likely approach a lawful person is taking with it either. If he said outright that's why he did it that way and had to do it way I wouldn't call the character poorly written or anything-- I'd say "that makes sense" but in the absence of a motivationdump from Thanos neutral fits best to me and it's by a pretty sizable margin. Evil vs Neutral on the G/E spectrum I think there's a bit more wiggle room.

I agree you can go with any of the three though and it's just how big of a leap you gotta make to get there. It's also possible that one of the three makes the most sense looking from the lens of comic Thanos, but I don't know comic Thanos well enough to make that distinction.
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Topicyour guys thoughts on Smash Ultimate
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12/20/18 5:35:35 PM
#40
Slow mo kill shots don't bug me but I do think you should be able to turn them off just in case they do
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TopicGauntlet Crew Ranks Planet of the Apes movies
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12/20/18 5:33:00 PM
#91
Yeah a distracting viewing environment can really color you on a movie

Like I actually disliked The Matrix the first time I saw it because I had a drunken rambler doing running commentary and I couldn't focus on the movie. Watched it again eventually and it was quite good. Sure there have been plenty of less jarring experiences too

Not that I'm saying you should remove your kid from the premises or anything! Just sayin it happens.
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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1323
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12/20/18 5:27:04 PM
#254
Keep in mind the major non nintendo franchise Square has a habit of Zeromusing or Necroning the villains as well, which isn't going to help their contest strength. Guys like Kuja or Seymour Guado or Vayne or Barthandalus or Ansem could be stronger than they are if they were featured through the entire game as the main villain. Not that most of these have made contests but they'd all be fodder if they had.

Nintendo just reuses their villains and after that no one on the site cares
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TopicHas there ever been a good definition for alignments in d&d
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12/20/18 5:01:43 PM
#54
HeroDelTiempo17 posted...
Well then I guess that's where we disagree. Becase I don't think Thanos wants it to thrive using whatever method is best. I think he wants it to thrive in a way that is exactly in line with the standard he has already decided - the arbritary standard of "half the people are fucking dead." Thanos would consider the method AND result equally important. This deliberate process of following a specific ideal and wanting to make the entire universe follow for its own good is what I view as lawful.


My big hangup is I don't feel like Thanos's plan doesn't really makes sense to come from the mind of a lawful person. From a neutral mind makes sense as you could buy that as a path of least resistance. From a chaotic mind it could actually make sense too if the idea of randomness is inherent to the plan being the ideal on enforcing it-- that's why I initially said I could even see an argument for Chaotic Neutral more than lawful.

While it is an ideal that could technically be lawful if you're thinking it absolutely has to be done that way and you're forcing that on the populace, if nothing else I feel like a lawful mind would be more calculated in how they make the distinction in their mass genocide rather than just randomly doing it. This feels more like a process generated by the conclusion of a mind who doesn't care how, just wants half of the things removed ASAP.
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TopicHas there ever been a good definition for alignments in d&d
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12/20/18 4:50:30 PM
#53
Good vs Evil on some act of questionable morality, let's narrow it down to killing here, is basically

Good = does it for the sake of helping others as priority one

Neutral = does it for the sake of some outside influence, an ideal, or whatever, guiding the decision that is neither rooted entirely on helping yourself or others. The Hulk as probably the best MCU example of neutrality just indiscriminately kills things that are in his way like a force of nature-- it's not explicitly evil because he's not really doing it in a way to better himself-- like he can usually just ignore these things he kills and probably would be no worse for it.

Evil = does it for the sake of furthering themselves as priority one

Respecting the will of the victim or the ones you're helping is also part of the equation, generally respecting their will leaning you towards good. And obviously you avoid killing whenever possible as someone of good alignment but when killing becomes the unavoidable solution to a problem that's when it gets sketchy.

Overall I would say Thanos as presented is closest to neutral due to a mix of everything involved, but yeah, there is a lot that's open to interpretation there.
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TopicCharacter Battle X Contest Analysis Crew - Part 10
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12/20/18 4:27:44 PM
#476
transience posted...
http://thecrew.speedrunwiki.com/

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TopicHas there ever been a good definition for alignments in d&d
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12/20/18 4:16:17 PM
#48
I don't think there's anything that says that Thanos wants "order." I'm pretty sure he just wants the universe to thrive by whatever means is most effective, not by limiting chaos or whatever.

I also think Thanos would not be against using non-violent methods to achieve his goals if it was possible, and that he honestly believes there will be a net positive to quality of living and whatever by doing what he's doing. So it's a shades of grey kinda thing as far as morality goes, closest to neutral though. Killing things doesn't make you evil by default it's about what you're killing them for. Self interest would make it evil, but trying to achieve some positive goal would make it good. Why there's no argument for good is because he's doing it against the will of the ones being "helped" and with so much bloodshed that it taints the whole thing as is.

That being said I can definitely see the argument for neutral evil. Also can see lawful evil if I've misunderstood the character and it is his belief it absolutely must be done by arbitrarily removing half rather than that just being the most efficient way to achieve what he wants
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TopicHas there ever been a good definition for alignments in d&d
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12/20/18 4:00:53 PM
#45
I think the discussion with Thanos is Neutral Evil vs Neutral Neutral if you don't believe he's being honest. Really not getting where you or Han are getting Lawful from him at all as he seems to be going path of least resistance the entire way-- is it just because he has henchmen or rules... whatever he rules? Neutral people can do these things. So can chaotic people.

But then half the people in this topic are just rewriting intent to something that isn't even a character traith because they don't understand the original intent when it comes to Lawful vs Chaotic anyway so who knows.
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Topicmaking a garbage topic every day just to get an achievement: day 2
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12/20/18 3:49:17 PM
#22
Well maybe if you kick me out and then let me back in I actually will feel obligated to update my tew topic because I don't think the current method is working.
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TopicHas there ever been a good definition for alignments in d&d
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12/20/18 3:36:23 PM
#41
pjbasis posted...
Power is no one saying "stop that" or "see here"


True.

I guess you could argue Simba as a child shares some evil traits. Really though his alignment is just Kid Kid at that point. All kids are brats.

And then again while he's with Timon and Pumbaa he's got some chaotic traits while observing Hakuna Matata which is totally a chaotic phrase, but I'm thinking getting bored of it means he's lost that edge to him and he ends up more of a Neutral Good. But who knows, he could be a Chaotic Good king too we'll never know.

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. LION KING VERY DEEP.
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TopicHas there ever been a good definition for alignments in d&d
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12/20/18 3:32:26 PM
#40
Like to elaborate a bit (Marvel 4 spoilers I guess)

Thanos's goal is to grab the infinity stones to snap and systematically remove half the life in the universe with it. It doesn't really have anything to do with gaining power or benefiting himself in particular. It's about making the universe as a whole in a better spot. At the same time he has no qualms with killing a bunch of people to do it because it's for a good cause, so he's clearly not good because he's doing "bad" things to get it done.

He achieves that manner in the most efficient way possible, which is generally the way a neutral person acts. He would be Lawful if for some reason it had to be arbitrarily chosen ala the way of the infinity gauntlet and it had nothing to do with the end he's trying to achieve, but as I understand it he's only choosing that method because it's the most effective way to do it. He would be evil if he wanted to use the gauntlet to rule the universe or had some sort of benefit to reap personally due to snapping (for example, if he wanted resources to boom so he could then plunder those resources, or if he needed to take half the population to rule the universe more efficiently for some reason-- but the dude honestly just seems to want the universe as a whole to boom).

Now, granted, Neutral Evil makes the most sense if you take Thanos's character as a whole because you have to wonder how he got in his position to even make a play at the infinity stones and the company he keeps and the flashbacks, and I doubt he had this goal in mind his entire life, but in the vacuum of the MCU he comes off pretty True Neutral to me.

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TopicHas there ever been a good definition for alignments in d&d
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12/20/18 3:10:24 PM
#38
Well we don't know Simba just can't wait to be king for power. Given the rest of his character it's more likely he just wants to help his kingdom thrive and is excited to do so. There are a lot of reasons to want to be a King.

Also while I can't speak for him in comics, in the vacuum of the MCU Thanos is pretty much the definition of True Neutral imo. I could honestly see an argument for Chaotic Neutral even. Definitely not Lawful.
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Topicyour guys thoughts on Smash Ultimate
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12/20/18 3:04:20 PM
#27
I was on the 64 being king train till Ultimate. 64 still has my favorite feeling gameplay in the series. Smash 4 is "close enough" but has no single player to speak of really. 4 vs 64 is definitely close though.

But Ultimate's abundance of characters and content combined with the second best feeling mechanics in the series pushes it over the top. I'll accept slightly less satisfying gameplay for 6x the characters and a ton more content to explore.
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Topicmaking a garbage topic every day just to get an achievement: day 2
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12/20/18 2:48:26 PM
#19
You're a figurehead. Only Dante has the power to kick me out.
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Topicyour guys thoughts on Smash Ultimate
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12/20/18 2:47:07 PM
#23
Well it is much like Smash 4 but that's okay because Smash 4 with a single player mode that exists and more characters and slightly better balance is the best Smash game.
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Topicmaking a garbage topic every day just to get an achievement: day 2
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12/20/18 2:46:03 PM
#16
Reads like one of greengravy's drunken rants so I'm not sure I'd call it a brag or humble
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TopicHas there ever been a good definition for alignments in d&d
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12/20/18 2:37:06 PM
#35
Scar's 'result' is gaining power for himself which is on the evil axis

Scar's 'process' is exploiting the existing power structure and lines of succession to do that.

I actually think Scar is neutral evil though. I think you were implying he's Lawful Evil because he wants to rule the power structure but I would disagree with that. He's not really using said establishment to achieve anything nor following any of its rules (he brings Hyenas in after all). He just wants to be the man.

Oh NFUN said it in the 7 minutes I had the post message open while I was handling a call. Well I agree with NFUN!
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TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic 464: Keep Her Name Out Your Mouth
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12/20/18 2:24:49 PM
#425
Yeah we need more women callups in general. There just aren't enough bodies on that division's roster if you want it to be anything more than a sideshow.
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TopicHas there ever been a good definition for alignments in d&d
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12/20/18 2:09:23 PM
#32
Chaotic vs Lawful is about the process

Good vs Evil is about the result
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TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic 464: Keep Her Name Out Your Mouth
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12/20/18 1:34:22 PM
#418
Braun Strowman I think is the example of a guy who would suck if he was left on NXT, yet still had fundamental issues to work on when he was called up. He wouldn't have developed his character in a good way down there. If you've got good raw potential you should develop it on the main roster imo.
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TopicHas there ever been a good definition for alignments in d&d
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12/20/18 1:26:47 PM
#30
This is true yeah. I guess "is opposed to the idea of having a code" vs "doesn't have a code" would be the easiest distinction to make there. In the end their actions are going to align pretty often though. More often than lawful + neutral imo. But maybe as a fellow chaosmonger that's just the way I feel due to thinking lawful mindset is inherently a burden so neutral of course will end up veering towards chaos more often.
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TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic 464: Keep Her Name Out Your Mouth
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12/20/18 1:24:53 PM
#415
NXT does more harm than good I think. If you see someone you're pretty sure can be a star you should just toss them into Raw in a midcard role immediately.

The biggest stars of recent time skipped it or all but skipped it outright. AJ Styles and Braun Strowman come to mind. Obviously AJ didn't need NXT at all but I mean neither did Joe or Nakamura and I feel like they got "tainted" by being down there too long too.

Guys who linger down there too long get set in bad habits that stunts their growth potential on the main roster.
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TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic 464: Keep Her Name Out Your Mouth
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12/20/18 1:18:52 PM
#413
Like I guess my point is

For me, and I'm new to this star rating thing so I mean obviously my standards don't apply to everyone, a **** match is like... a match that when you'd rewatch a PPV or show, would be one you'd look forward to. You might even rewatch a show just for that match, or at minimum rewatch the match standalone on Youtube.

*** is just a match you enjoyed in the moment but wouldn't necessarily make a point to watch again.

** range and less is basically passable time filler or worse. Almost no Raw or SD matches get above this these days.

I feel like long ago Dave's ratings were closer to this but at some point he just started rating things comparatively in excess and as a result you get stuff at *** that's like, not really very good just above varying tiers of garbage you see weekly, and **** starts to be where the legit good matches start as a symptom of overthinking whether this garbage Raw match was better or worse than this garbage SD match.

I mean that's not necessarily wrong or anything but it kinda compresses the usable segment of the rating system a lot and makes it more about ranking than rating.
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TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic 464: Keep Her Name Out Your Mouth
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12/20/18 12:59:46 PM
#408
Steiner posted...
I came away from it thinking it was easily the WWE MotY but it was because it was such a different style. It's for sure a match that might not resonate as much with some people.


I mean it probably was for Dave too, which is fine, but I'm just saying I feel like the way Dave rates things WWE MotY can't possibly get below ****3/4 by default because he's inflated enough other WWE matches over the course of the year.

But I mean, if you're talking raw enjoyment gained from a match the best WWE match of the year might not deserve more than a flat **** really. It's just not been a very strong year for them.
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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1323
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12/20/18 12:52:51 PM
#244
I think Wario would wreck Waluigi. Wario SFFs all of the votes Waluigi is getting but the joke ones, and I guarantee you his Nintendo affiliation is helping more than his joke appeal.

It's basically the villain equivalent of trying to say Luigi would beat Mario. Luigi has some special appeal that should give him a chance there, but he has no chance at all.
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TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic 464: Keep Her Name Out Your Mouth
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12/20/18 12:38:38 PM
#403
Yeah, probably. I mean I haven't seen that PPV so I can't comment on that or AJ/Bryan but to me that's a natural progression when you're watching filth from Raw/SD every week and it's probably better than the meat of the chaff you're rating there just by merit of being given time. But realistically, very few matches on Raw or SD deserve more than * these days otherwise they'd be enjoyable shows.

But if you go overboard with comparative rating, you're putting the bad RAW matches at *, then *1/4 for ones slightly better, *1/2 for slightly better than that, and suddenly you have a bog standard SD ME level match getting *** when really, it probably doesn't deserve one since you don't really enjoy it as much as a *** implies.
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TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic 464: Keep Her Name Out Your Mouth
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12/20/18 12:17:01 PM
#398
Well on stuff I agree with he was mostly just pointing out things Dave does. Like, there was a good Daniel Bryan vs AJ Styles match on SD recently and Dave's comments on the match were like "it was good, but it wasn't as good as __ ___ __ from NJPW this week" and it's like "who cares what the star rating was?" He seems to have difficulty just taking a match for what it is these days.

And like, on my end, I'm seeing that kinda mindset where you need to be comparing matches to other matches incessantly rather than just... enjoying the match in the moment, is going to make you view a match differently than you maybe you should. Like is Dave's ***** match really giving him the feeling he had after watching a ***** match in the 80s or 90s, or is he just mathing it out and saying "well this match was better at this than this other one so it needs another 1/4*" and eventually just putting a bunch of matches on a pedestal that maybe don't necessarily deserve to be there because you're just ticking boxes in your head instead of watching the match. Lance didn't really go into that part with a lot of depth-- that's mostly me and I don't want to put words in his mouth, but yeah.

Ultimately Lance was just saying it's subjective and he felt that if you valued things in wrestling outside of the performance like coherent storytelling and builds, good promos, etc it was one of the worst times to be a wrestling fan, but there was some Dave stuff as an aside that I found myself agreeing with.
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TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic 464: Keep Her Name Out Your Mouth
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12/20/18 11:55:07 AM
#396
I think Meltzer has kinda like, lost his way with the star ratings over the years. Like I imagine him watching a match with a notepad and a pen and assigning bonuses based on cool spots and execution rather than just taking it in as a whole, which is why we get so many high star rating matches out of the guy because there are a lot of matches that are technically check all the boxes these days, but fail to really get that amount of hype and excitement because of something missing in the build or just an intangible "feel" to the match.

Lance Storm had a Figure Four Daily with Bryan Alvarez recently and I feel like he hit the nail on the head with how I see Meltzer lately. He basically had a rant on the guy saying that this is "the best time ever to be a wrestling fan" or whatever and touched on that.
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TopicHas there ever been a good definition for alignments in d&d
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12/20/18 11:37:19 AM
#28
Lawful is basically an extreme version of judging on the J/P distinction yeah.

Outside influences can guide how a lawful character will act, but the specifics of it will ultimately be based on how that influence interacts with the flowchart in their head or organization which determines whether it's suitable to act.

Lawful is honestly the easiest one to distinguish. Neutral vs Chaotic is where it gets trickier to me. Best I can determine is neutral is primarily driven by self interest or by an active desire to achieve neutrality and will act lawfully or chaotically from situation to situation depending on its interaction with the world as a whole. Chaotic is actively whimsical and will do whatever catches their fancy at the time. I feel like those two tend to have the most overlap, though I would say chaotic good is more likely to do "stupid heroic things" than neutral good.
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TopicHas there ever been a good definition for alignments in d&d
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12/20/18 11:21:04 AM
#26
Paratroopa1 posted...
I think pretty much everyone has personal standards that they uphold without really thinking about it and they don't always necessarily exactly line up with society's standards, although frequently they do (but that's true of people who really specifically uphold a code too)


I think you'd be wrong. I think people like to think they have personal standards, but they're guided by other things like self-preservation, and can almost always be broken in the right situations. And breaking them doesn't make that person a hypocrite because context is king. It just means they don't have a code to begin with.

For instance, most people would say they're morally against killing. But if you need to kill an intruder who is about to kill your family, and have the immediate means to, most of those people would kill the intruder instead of trying to talk them down. You can say "well, the code wasn't actually to never kill it was to never kill someone who didn't threaten you first" but that fits more into self preservation at that point.

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I think the best way to divide lawful and chaotic is people who uphold and reinforce existing power structures vs people who subvert existing power structures, but this isn't really an inherent quality to a person, it's dependent on outside influences


That's your definition and why it's not D&D's. Your definition is bad because it's not really a character trait. Your character will flip from lawful to chaotic based on what plane they're on, and in a world setting where dimensional travel is a thing, well yeah, that's going to come up.
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TopicHas there ever been a good definition for alignments in d&d
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12/20/18 11:03:14 AM
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If you don't think you have a code you don't have one. You may have a standard of conduct resembling a code forced upon you by societal norms and self interest but a code by definition needs to be something you're mindful of
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TopicHas there ever been a good definition for alignments in d&d
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12/20/18 11:00:46 AM
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It's not even about not being a hypocrite, though yeah there are a lot of those too, as much as like, defining how you get around in the world by said code. It needs to dictate how you interact with everything. Most people I would say aren't lawful aren't necessarily hypocrites as much as they just haven't really thought it out much.

Like if your code almost never inconveniences you it's probably not one. It's just something you will tend to do because it suits your purposes and discard under extenuating circumstances.
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TopicHas there ever been a good definition for alignments in d&d
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12/20/18 10:54:15 AM
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I think that's a narrow minded view of the world or an extremely broad view of what defines "a code." I certainly wouldn't say I have any sort of code. There are some limited things I would tend to do most of the time but nothing I'd stick to no matter the situation.
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TopicHas there ever been a good definition for alignments in d&d
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12/20/18 10:29:53 AM
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Lawful is about having a personal code and adhering to it more than "obeying the laws of society"

For example an assassin can be lawful evil if they're very strict about how they kill targets

Just as a lawful good Paladin can disobey the laws if they're unjust and harm the innocent or whatever

It's not really complicated people just think "the law" when they see lawful which isn't correct
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TopicI'm... not sure what to make of Will Smith's Genie.
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12/19/18 11:40:44 PM
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I guess I'm not seeing a problem because I was never in love with Robin Williams's genie to begin with
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TopicFinal Fantasy Record Keeper Topic 42.b: The Haunted Seven's curse was the purge.
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12/19/18 8:26:00 PM
#365
I got Gau's BSB

Very whatever but not a dupe I guess
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TopicMaria ranks all 141 League champs blind part 2
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12/19/18 9:57:02 AM
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Singed is a guy who I feel like you'd probably have given some points for gameplay if you were familiar with the game

His entire gameplay is based around running around people with a poison cloud trail passively going that does damage over time and being hard to kill. It's delightfully obnoxious. Agree his design generally leaves something to be desired but it fits the character so I can't really hate it.
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TopicFire Emblem Heroes Discussion Topic Part 21: A far fetched return.
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12/19/18 1:37:55 AM
#491
Innes can do pretty good chip against dragons at no risk and he actually does fear them if they hit back because his defense is garbage. It's a pretty okay refine I think.
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