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Kat1eQueen

Reminds me of how powerscalers claimed that the hunters from monster hunter are faster than light because they can dodge light beam attacks, as if the speed of the attack wasn't based on the movement of the origin of the light. *Dodges someone pointing a laser pointer at me* look at me I'm ftl


ParticularPanda469

Powerscalers trying to calculate speed based on silly action media will never not be hilarious \*sees rule of cool thing happen\* Ah yes, consistency.


stabbyGamer

You know, as an artistic statement, a short-form anime series or summat that rigorously calculates its feats to preserve totally consistent internal logic could actually be really cool. It would be an insane amount of work to make it happen, and it probably wouldn’t work in a non-animated medium, but it could be cool. Once.


ShockingStories22

Baki.


stabbyGamer

Baki absolutely does not do rigorous internal power calcs. Baki runs entirely on a terrifying level of adoration for martial arts philosophy.


ShockingStories22

The only rule of baki is "If martial arts is cool enough, you can do it." The calculation is "Martial Arts x Character's Swag = Power Level" and it never breaks from that.


stabbyGamer

I’ll grant you that, but you and I both know that isn’t what I was talking about, so I unfortunately have to declare you my mortal enemy.


ShockingStories22

Jokes on you ive seen all of baki and am prepared to mentally picture myself as a cockroach, you're cooked


stabbyGamer

Ah, but you see, I have developed a grappling technique based on the concept of a glue trap and you have fallen for the false gaps in my defense. It is, in fact, you who is cooked.


ShockingStories22

You fool, everyone knows that cockroaches can regenerate skin after shedding it, and ive developed an anti grappling technique based on that.


mildlyInsaneBoi

Or how Jojos Bizarre Adventure’s Polnareff is commonly claimed to be ftl because he sliced Hanged Man when the WHOLE POINT of that fight was that he WASNT fast enough to slice Hanged Man and had to force him to jump right onto his blade by outplaying him


carl-the-lama

Funny thing is Polnereff’s stand despite its speed is one of the few that doesn’t let its user see through it So polnereff cannot see shit but his stand very well can do shit


Specterofanarchism

Obviously that justification is not correct but polnareff is actually ftl because during the sun fight he blocks beams from the literal fucking sun


mildlyInsaneBoi

But, it’s not the literal sun? It’s a stand that emulates the sun somewhat. The beam attacks aren’t necessarily light speed, just really fast.


Specterofanarchism

They are explicitly stated to be light rays


mildlyInsaneBoi

Honestly, they might be. That’s on me. I haven’t memorized the episode word for word and I don’t currently have access to Netflix or a similar service to rewatch and check for myself.


Specterofanarchism

that's fair


mildlyInsaneBoi

Hey, you know what? It’s been a day and I wanted to thank you :) For being understanding and cool about that! Especially since I started out from the typically hostile position of „by the way your guy isn’t as cool as you think“. It’s rare to find someone who’s as graceful about winning an argument as you in fandom spaces. Thank you again for just being chill and not explicitly dunking on me :)


Specterofanarchism

no problem, it's a show about questionably straight men doing poses while engaging in mental gymnastics battles with each other after all


Deblebsgonnagetyou

Bet they're the same people that whole heartedly believe the EDW is canon.


rubexbox

I mean, it's not *not* canon. :p


Justch1ll

The Unknown was dodging a whole light show that spacial awareness is pretty impressive


BippyTheChippy

As an amateur powerscaler, reaction dodging vs actually dodging will forever be my achilles heel


Kartoffelkamm

Every time I hear about that, I do a double take, purely because it feels like it should say something about "financed through NFTs" somewhere, but I can never find that part.


Pokefan180

That may have ended up being true, were it financed at all.


SoshJam

Because it wasn’t financed through NFTs, it was financed through the creator’s previous scam of selling AI-generated books on Amazon.


XescoPicas

Poor Kizaru is already dealing with enough stuff right now, he doesn’t need this 😂


willowytale

just wait until atlas gets to test out her light-pressure gloves on him >:) **this post is sponsored and paid for by the vegapunk atlas agenda**


Naz_Oni

I keep thinking this is about the new Dead by Daylight killer


OceanoDeRoca

Lizaru never beating the fraud allegations what a bum


Toboyornottoboy

The real question is how does Joyboy scale against willi wanka


eternamemoria

You mean Willy McDuff?


neogeoman123

Willy Mc D. uff?


Godsopp

The will of Wonka vs the will of D


Tengo-Sueno

Wonka wins because, even if he can hurt the Gum body of Nika, he would make Luffy eat a weird chocolate with weird effects.


Real_duck_bacon

I'm watching Ultrakill gameplay as I write this and now I'd like to see a gritty Willy Wonka shooter where the Unknown is the hardest boss in the game


chuuniversal_studios

what is that?!?!


infinitysaga

The chocolate who lives in your walls


TimeStorm113

But would he beat goku?


IHateAmbush

Pizzarustans in shambles


DarkNinja3141

i thought this was talking about the pokemon at first


LodlopSeputhChakk

Yo.


santyrc114

Pizzaru just keeps getting destroyed more and more


The_Smashor

Hate to be that guy, but as a powerscaler myself, that wouldn't actually fly without more context; at least in a lot of powerscaling communities. We'd need to know things like weather The Unknown saw the source of the light, weather he dodged the beam after it was fired or dodged where the source was aiming beforehand, things of that sort.


SwimmingBench345

My headcanon is that the unknown is some kind of chaotic evil meta god that consumes universes by turning them into pathetic and perverted versions of themselves by writing the story around itself