#PowerLevel

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"COZY INSTINCT" socks

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$24.00

Once fueled by the rage, inner peace now serves as the vehicle for the mighty warrior most powerful form!

[kradogsrats]

I have unlocked my beautiful daughter who has never done anything wrong ever in her life, and also her sack of sad wet cats father

[kraniumet]

I don't think the shounen genre is a good fit for tite kubo. I think he's good at drawing manga on a craft & cadence level. he should be given the opportunity to do something else

[tosahobi-if]

Will the mc be strong??

not off the bat! the best way to describe the mc’s strength at the start is this meme

[microsoftoutlook]

matt talking about drinking fucking olive oil in an effort to gain weight #skinnylegend #againstallodds #fuckbluelives

[aethermimic]

New job, new fit!

[gawrkin]

Awhile back, I posted about "The Superhuman Feats of King Arthur and his Knights", showing how unbelievably powerful Arthur and his warriors are actually depicted in the Pre-Modern/Medieval stories.

When reviewing Didot Perceval's Mort Artu section for my "King Lot in the Chronicle Tradition" series, I came to the startling realization that I undersold how fucking strong Sir Gawain actually is:

The only thing that can measure up to this kill-count is Arthur's original Badon Hill kill-count from Nennius, at "960 Saxons in a single charge". (It's implied that's not even Arthur's total kill-count from Badon)

This tidbit massively highlights how hard the Romances had to nerf Gawain so that Lancelot and Tristan can be seen as the greatest knights. According the Romances, there are six people Gawain couldn't beat: Lancelot, Hector, Bors, Tristan, Gaheriet and Morholt. Malory, for his part, says its Lancelot, Tristan, Bors, Percival, Pelleas, Marhaus (Morholt).

But for all the hype Lancelot, Tristan and these later characters receive from the French storytellers, their prowess never quite matches the over-the-top extremes of the OG characters - Arthur, Kay, Bedivere and, of course, Gawain.

Arthur in particular (if you've read my aforementioned post) had to be nerfed multiple times so he wouldn't upstage the new characters; from the original 960 kills in Nennius to 470 kills in Geoffrey, and later, by the time of Malory, to just 20 kills with 40 wounded in a random battle. And this is still more impressive (in my POV) than the victories of Lancelot, Tristan and Lamorak in the Tournament at the end of Book 7 (Lancelot defeated 50 knights at once, Tristan 40, and Lamorak 30).

Maybe because of how the French, and later English, Medieval audiences could only suspend their disbelief so far, Lancelot and Tristan mostly just kill scores of men occasionally, rarely killing up to a hundred+ knights. Meanwhile, the OG trio of Arthur, Kay and Bedivere - because they came from Celtic Myth - have triple digit kill-counts all the time (in Arthur's case, upper triple digit).

And here, in Didot, Gawain just makes Lamorak and his dad look really unimpressive by comparison. They're not even in the same league as the older versions of Gawain.

[metanarrates]

orv scratches that good gamer itch in my brain because i learned about the term "ludonarrative resonance" once in class and now every time i see a mechanic that serves as storytelling fuel i start screeching with delight

[tigirl-and-co]

The hardcore sci-fi+ xenofiction parts of my brain are always on the lookout for literally anything I can use to extrapolate the culture of saiyans

I just hate how unreliable Vegeta technically is as anecdotal evidence bc he was only like 6 when his species disappeared so there's lots of stuff he wouldn't know bc it wasn't important either at his age or to someone in his position

What would a six year old prince need to know about child rearing. Nothing. Or the gathering of non-meat foods. He would have had people to do that (probably, but actually WE DON'T KNOW)

Ough. I would gladly write a saiyan culture textbook if I thought anybody would read it

Bring Nappa back so I can ask him about Saiyan courtship.

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"COZY INSTINCT" socks

2 Store Reviews

$24.00

Once fueled by the rage, inner peace now serves as the vehicle for the mighty warrior most powerful form!

[freshthoughts2020]

3 MAN: gettothecorner.com

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

I just realized something for jadite. Zhongli is going to have to deal with incredibly confusing modern slang isnt he?

most likely, yes

[quietwingsinthesky]

i'm going to kill todd howard with my bare hands

[narwhalandchill]

the fact that of the high cloud quintet jing yuan is literally the only one that walked out the shitstorm that was their downfall in-lore impressively drama-free and with his professional and personal reputation intact is very funny to me when juxtaposed with the current state of what one could maybe very charitably call... volatile discussions relating to his kit in the more "meta" circles (in quotations bc the credibility of ppl spewing this stuff as fact is. Well)

since his release this man hasnt escaped the doomposting and being powercrept allegations and solo calcs taken out of context by random people and content creators flaming it further getting from the usual mid allegations straight up to a reputation of being spoken of in a manner youd think hes literally unplayable so fast its like hes literally rent free in these peoples heads 💀 physically cant keep his name out of their mouths and i guarantee 99% of these ppl never even considered pulling him

like i dont even have jing yuan and ik hes perfectly fine lmao. he has some issues with LC options and certain scenarios can hurt his performance more than most characters (+ lack of content favoring true AoE in general) which can feel bad to play but ppl are being absolutely ridiculous about him its hilarious

[sonodaten]

think it’s gonna be really funny when the big bad is ragebait and nobody figured it out bc we all got ragebaited by the levelgrinders so early on