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Actually...? > >; Deity's gonna beat it, too....see you guys another time. Bye bye... ninja ::lepoof::

A question for Sean, whenever he gets back on.


Didn't I ask you that IC once? I mean, like, told you that there would always be people better than you, and that if you were fighting to be the best that you'd never achieve that goal. Then, like, trounced you and asked you it again.

"Why do you fight?"
"To be strong."
"There will always be those stronger than you."
"Then I will become stronger than them."
"Why?"
"To protect the people important to me."
"And when you're the best, then what will you do?"
"..."
"What will happen when, one day, some snot-nosed youth comes to try and beat you to prove that he is the best?"
"..."


...mmm... moderation. Have a purpose other than simply being on top, otherwise your life is meaningless.






I 'member Jans was the 'villain' of the first real RP thread I went into. I only saw him post there once or twice in a few hundred pages, but the other people talked about him, so I guess he must have done something just before I joined it. xd

Sort of a person I've heard spoken of since I started on this site, but never really got to speak to until he IMed me a week or two ago asking why I hadn't joined this tournament.

I wonder if I'll run into him IC.



I know. xd I noticed the changed name when I went back to look at the thread, and it made me wonder if I've ever seen you around before, because I would have made sure to talk to you if I'd have seen 'Jonathan Faulkner' around. xd

I'm not a big reader, even though I love to write, so when every single one of my english professors mentioned 'Faulkner' in a single day last semester, it got me thinking about how worthwhile it was to have a go with you. 3nodding


Think nothing of it, seriously. Life takes priority over silly diversions like this. ::nod:: Though if you're in this, I wonder if we'll end up doing that again. whee

The "I'm just some random person" Jello that I was using-
((explaination to everyone: the character that I was using around Leviathan at the time was more or less a 'random person', who didn't have any powers, training, or background... he just sort of gave helpful advice to people on RP fighting... the name Jello was really because it's a n00b tendancy to address people's characters as their username if you don't (and even sometimes if you do) specify their name))
- sort of evolved into Tiem Jay (read: TMJ), who is in the Barton bracket. :laugh: Mmm... stickfights.

My other entries are slightly less 'jokes' than that one, though. xp


Well, thank you very much. whee Now that's the type of compliment that can really make a man's day. 3nodding Don't belittle yourself, though, you did pretty well, and the potential was obvious. No doubt you've grown much since then. domokun

Heh, yeah, it is true that I 'retired' from fighting shortly after that... or was it shortly before that? Either way, I don't really fight as a career, and in RP I've been making characters that sort of shy away from direct combat if they can. When asked to spar, I like to play the underdog, because it keeps things interesting. 3nodding heart

Though don't take that as an "I don't do it anymore", more or less as a "I don't do it very much". If you want to spar I usually ask what you want to fight against, since I have characters that cater to most fighting styles, with most every kind of weapon... only thing I'm not big on are mages, though I've been sort of segueing into that by using characters with weaker, but creatively used, abilities.

...also, I've begun to ramble 'in my old age'. biggrin


xd Basic concept, for the win! blaugh

...honestly, RP rewards that above many things. If you have a basic understanding of how something works, you can hammer out the finer details through practice and just simply thinking about it for a while. 3nodding Heck, most of what I draw from comes from being a generally energetic and bouncy individual, and a basic understanding of vector force.

As I'm sure I've said at some point, somewhere: "Do NOT ******** with a physicist." In the time I've been RPing I've reverse-engineered enough martial arts and melee combat styles through basic physics that I'm not going to even attempt to count them. o___o;;;


FTW! scream *Nazi salute!*

... ... ... ...what are you all looking at? sweatdrop


Mmm... ego masturbation. rofl

There's waaaaay too much of that in some places. crying



And then one in passing:

I have one character that I'd like to describe as the most physically strong 'person' in existence. Though even to that I'd have to throw in clauses and whatnot... not like he's the strongest thing ever, since things much bigger than him could very likely lift more, and people who are powered by 'ki' or 'magic' to give themselves super-strength might be stronger. However, in a purely physical sense (meaning, having no abilities/superpowers to enhance things), I'd consider that character the epitome of physical strength.

Though the middle of that paragraph is really what this is all about... Beyond a certain point, the physical aspect of characters is no longer really physical, but metaphysical. They use powers to enhance the physical aspects of their characters... speed, strength, jumping ability, and how much they can withstand.

As you describe, Deity has insurmountable physical ability and magical ability, fueled by ki (a metaphysical energy). You could drop a building on him and he'd shrug it off. However, you throw in an anti-magic field around him which negates all those bonuses, and a bodybuilder from South Beach will punch his lights out.

...just thought I'd bring that point up. There's the real physical limit of things (the point at which the output of the muscles reaches the limit, or surpasses the limit of the body and the stress of trying to perform certain actions damages the muscle and bone structures), there's the exagerated limit of monsters and other such creatures (who we can assume have much more durable bones, skin, and such, as well as a higher mass/strength output for muscles), and then there is the point where it's simply... unnatural.

Oh man Ertai... your posts are filled with so much crap.

"I punch you with my right hand"

turns into

"With the hand that is on the right of my celestial being in the conventional sense of the word right in the context of directional action as opposed to the left side which would be the area in which my left arm rests in the context that it is almost stationary but ready for any movement should I see fit to act in a manner that would involve movement of the arm that resides in the left area of my celestial body, I curl my index finger into my palm in the sense that I use the natural fold points that are in my finger that we have as a result of natural selection where certain mutations were found to be beneficial and thus the beings with those mutations had a higher chance of survival which they then did as opposed to the un-mutated animals which would consequently die out as a result of lacking this mutation which was beneficial, this pattern would recur until we got to our current state where we developed tools which made evolution unnecessary and thus we have remained mostly the same for over a long period of time... etc"

0MGZ1337!!1

So.....

>_>

Why is it all quiet all of a sudden?

<_<

No one here to talk on....stuff?

o_O?

Yay! A survivor in the horror of silence! So, um--

>.>;

Do we just post and fight everyone we see, or do we have to pm Kiddik just in order to fight at all in anything?

O.o;

....!!
Ah!! You're the master guru from Leviathan, aren't you?! eek