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Zou Kraze

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 7:17 pm


Slash Zinrai


Lord Haelstrom


Also still waiting on you two to give me some feedback.
PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 7:25 pm


Colonel Iyam A Heita
Same thing can be said for people wanting to be technical. Or trying to out-optimize. It's just engrained into the competitive nature of this sport.

What I am striving for is overtness. I want things to be blatant.

Like for my tournament. I set up the rules in such a way so that subjectivity is blatant. Tres gave me the idea when he made the statement of " If you tell people what you want...they can atleast choose to play into it. By being vague, you leave people stumbling amongst themselves trying to please you."

It makes sense to me. I want what I want to see to be apparent.


Hah, maybe. The difference is always in intent however. Nothing's overt blatant or obvious. There's always underlying motivations and interests and factors.

I suppose I too want what I want to see to be apparent - and part of that is that people need to hold victory and going about achieving that victory properly as weighing the same, having the same priorities for both.

As for feedback, I'm white. Later I'll write it up.


Haelikor


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 7:27 pm


Colonel Iyam A Heita


I was actually reading over your rules the other day, and I've got some stuff I'll likely write down and put in the Suggestions thread. There were some ideas that I -REALLY- liked, and some that leave me puzzled...

But it will be a completely different tournament from anything I've seen on Gaia.
PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 7:31 pm


Slash Zinrai


But it will be a completely different tournament from anything I've seen on Gaia.


Innovation.


@ White Hael- I agree but as I said before Gaia gives too much precedence. I'm not saying eradicate it, but it should not be the forefront stipulation as to why someone is good and the other is a baddie.

Zou Kraze

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 7:35 pm


Colonel Iyam A Heita
Innovation.


I can certainly get behind innovation!

Fortune favors the bold, haus.
PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 7:36 pm


Tournaments need to do one thing, display the fighters and find the best among them.

That is it.

No bullshit bias. The best fighter should win the tournament and prove it with each battle. The criteria changes as the fights change and that is something people forget to accommodate. Fight one is not the same as fight five. People focus on the "fun for all" aspect which is utter bullshit---someone loses. Unless the tournament is 'rigged' than any point about fun for everyone is bullshit. The fun comes from the chance to win, the proving of one to another. That is where the fun is.

The tournament doesn't matter for the context of keeping people around. The fights are the most important aspect of the entire event, so RP post eviction is pointless. Go home-

What do losing fighters do? Loom around to see who wins? No- they leave and regroup for the next.

Go back to your RP's and have your character pick up where they left off, as a winner or loser.

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Zou Kraze

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 7:37 pm


Like I have had in-depth conversations about this with Lucid, Crawley and a few others.

The debate as we see it is Fiction vs Fantasy. By definition, yes it's the same but we defined them differently for the purposes of our conversation.

Fiction being something semi-realistic like fireballs following real-world logic and Fantasy being more akin to Fasumbra infamous sig " I don't have to explain s**t, b***h it's magic."
PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 7:55 pm


[sips Dr. Pepper] Stupidity. Behavior that shows a lack of good sense or judgment.

A good grading rubric gives the judges power to properly articulate how they feel the winner won and the loser lost. Period. However, roleplayed fights are first and foremost steeped in the act of roleplaying. Roleplaying by its core elements is steeped in the cooperation between two or more persons to create a story or a journey.

If it is not satisfying, if it is not entertaining, if it is not sating for everyone present - that is if there isn't incentive to justify the time spent - then it is pointless. That someone won, a hollow, pointless victory with symbols declaring to one person "you won!" the only lasting ramification of the entire event. At best justifying weak egos who need to know they've "won" something to have any self-worth to justify their own investments. We don't need this. We already have this binary competition aspect ingrained in us, focusing on such petty conflict merely starves us of any meaningful advancement and feeds us more of the same.

Anyone who wholly, absolutely prioritizes which person beat up which other person in text, without factoring in the whole picture doesn't understand the point of these events. They are not fit to head them. They will fall into obscurity. They will be forgotten. Worse they will be ridiculed, mocked, and ignored on the fall downward!

I've still not had my lunch/dinner!

Because I've been doing all the kitchen chores because there are mountains of dishes, and I can't go out to eat because I need to collect money I'm owed before I do!

It's trash! Trash like these poisoned notions of trite we don't need!

Trash! Trash! TRASH!








I'm so hungry. And my roommates are assholes and got Chinese food. It smells so succulent. I'm gonna punch them in the throats.

Think I smell Mongolian beef. "Mongolian" beef but I don't give a s**t if it's authentic. It smells so good.


Haelikor


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 8:05 pm


Let's remove the Role-Play from Role-Play combat...

In fact, everyone write down your physical addresses and we'll just set up an RL bracket...I'll fly out to Heit's house first, and then Hael's...

Once I've killed them with my bare fists, and have thus established that I am SUPERIOR FIGHTER...

I'll go challenge Lord Ertai.
PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 8:10 pm


I'd win hard.

Open the door, throw my cat as a makeshift shield to block the first hit, jab my fist into your throat and cave it in under his belly.

p***y whipped. Winner: Haelstrom.


Haelikor


Prophet


Savoki Sanoci

PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 8:17 pm


BRING IT emotion_dowant
PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 8:22 pm


Lord Haelstrom
p***y whipped. Winner: Haelstrom.

I don't know, man...I'm GAIA CHAMP.

This s**t validates me so hard that the p***y's been flying my way for years...I'm drowning in it!

I've gotten used to dodging the excess, so your entry attack...Not very effective!

I'd come out of that s**t from down low, on the swivel, spraying you right in the face with TOP COP brand Oleoresin Capsicum Inflammatory Agent delivered via aerosol component within a trigger-burst mechanism.

It's an asthma attack in a pressurized can, paired with a heaping dose of blindness, and localized inflammation of the skin. You'd be orange, burning, and unable to breath...

Then I'd drop you just like Silver's panties when the HEIT turns up.

Winner: Slash. cool

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Haelikor


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 9:50 pm


Slash Zinrai
I don't know, man...I'm GAIA CHAMP.

This s**t validates me so hard that the p***y's been flying my way for years...I'm drowning in it!

I've gotten used to dodging the excess, so your entry attack...Not very effective!

I'd come out of that s**t from down low, on the swivel, spraying you right in the face with TOP COP brand Oleoresin Capsicum Inflammatory Agent delivered via aerosol component within a trigger-burst mechanism.

It's an asthma attack in a pressurized can, paired with a heaping dose of blindness, and localized inflammation of the skin. You'd be orange, burning, and unable to breath...

Then I'd drop you just like Silver's panties when the HEIT turns up.

Winner: Slash. cool


Heh, not bad for an amateur. Self-trained. And pretty good at that. However.. I'm a hair better.

What you didn't realize is that "I" was actually my roommate's brother I dressed up as me. The real me, me, descends from the heavens, dousing your body in baking powder and baking soda. I used both because I always forget which one is which and that'd be embarrassing if I ******** that up. Anyway, so then as I land, I yell "NOW!"

A river of Mountain Dew, the poor man's Dr. Pepper (and poor man's Dr. K and Dr. Pibb and etc) rushes through the area, engulfing you. The baking soda powder explodes, causing your body to emit a violent energy that rips it apart like Mike Tyson in his prime boxing a newborn baby.

But I don't believe in settling. No sir. I go all the way.

So then I enter in my French mercenary group because you can book those for like $20 on Craigslist, and I go "OUIOUI!" before they open fire. Then I start dodging the bullets to run in straight towards your mangled corpse.

This s**t starts playing while I beat the s**t out of you, before I yell out "Hah! Not bad. But did you really think I'd fall prey to my own strategy?.... SLASH!?!" before turning around and decking the s**t out of you because you'd obviously have sent a doppelganger to do this yourself. I preempted this however, thus leading to our current fiasco.

Shocked at how badass I am, I'd undo my belt and let my [MIASMA ROD] fire out, blasting you into orbit. At this point, I'd use the black materia to summon [METEOR], blowing up some shitty planets and annihilating you in space while dogs in astronaut suits piss on you.

Then Silver would be like "Oh~ Hael-senpai..!"

And I'd punch her square in the face, knocking her into the sky like a bad Pokemon episode, before grunting coolly: "Once you go black.. I don't want you back."

At this point, Gatorade would offer me a contract. But of course it's really just your android clone you created on the off-chance you'd lose our decisive match, so I go "Taste my electrolytes, b***h." before karate chopping your head off and shoving it into your capacitors and CPU. A photographer nearby witnesses this and, jaw agape, snaps a photograph because of how cool it was.

The End.
PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 10:34 pm


I'd probably read all of that if I wasn't so lazy tonight.

Red the Ambivalent

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Darkest Silver

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 10:41 pm


Slash Zinrai


I'll post for you tomorrow if I can. I have had some s**t come up and am not able to focus on this. Sorry hun.
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