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You must be blind, or a masochist.

" His Psionic links of influence and manipulation were that of an ever changing sequence, shifting and never the same twice, each one branching off into their own form of manipulation and mindset to grasp the most control that they could grasp. With this form of shifting manipulation and control, it would make it impossible to influence from the outside because not one link is ever the same and if any outside influence would dare try to effect it, it would break even more and splice into the form of manipulation of the outside source and thus leading to the outside influences ending."

Tell me what he's even saying here. It SOUNDS like he's trying to explain why he can change anything he wants, but nobody can stop him.

That's only if there's skills to keep. If the abilities are simple, there's no practice necessary; if you fight once every few years, that's enough to remember the basics. And some things are like riding a bike, they can't be easily forgotten. My characters often have just a few basic and broad base abilities, and they improvise with them as the situation requires. There are times when practice and training can actually be DETRIMENTAL to your abilities.

Nightsnow, you're confused. Age and power don't have any DIRECT relationship. However, if someone's playing an immortal demigod which is eight thousand years old, odds are they're probably not going to be pulling any punches. Normalistic characters tend to have shorter lifespans, while godlike beings are usually ancient by the time they've developed their egos enough to meet the ego quota for showing up on Gaia and playing with the other godlike beings. Likewise, everyone puts limits on their character. It's just that everyone puts the limits in a different place. For me, it's boring RPing a human. It's difficult to set traps when all you've got is your fists and whatever weapons you can carry, there isn't much strategy to it and hand-to-hand isn't my style anyway.

gonk It's like those old superman comics where he could do anything my mumbling words and shouting science at the end.

"Murmur blahblah mur... FRICTION will blah molecule mumble REVERSAL GRAVITY!"

Mreeh, I prefer logic and tact to brute strength, so none of my characters are arrogant OR ignorant. Actually, most of my experiences of people who were arrogant and/or ignorant ended up wrecking a whole storyline. That had been in creation for about two years. Picture this:

One of Superman's new friends Nukes Luthor's layer, killing him and all his lackies. Story over, let's go on to the next bad guy!

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What's more, the people who did said wrecking had RP'd for years before this, and grow increasingly more powerful/arrogant. Once in the same RP, a Demon almost wtfpwned us all, yet was cut down by his former master, who then gave an ominous warning about stuff.. Then, they basically glossed over it in a roundabout manner, so I had my character tell them off for being so arrogant... Know what they said in response?

"It's not that we're too arrogant, it's just too early for us to care."

And if I remember correctly, it took place in the afternoon.

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough, because you seem to be missing the whole point of... Well...

Their characters' powers are bullshit. Quite frankly.