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Bleh, I just take pride in that I know all the workings of all my technology. It's all mapped out, so I know what it's capable of.

I'm not a fan of directed energy weapons. Since most of them rely on lasers in some form or another.

Balistics is where it's at.

You know, I thought Ertai's Planar attacks were rather unique, he described them so well. But this does not put aside the fact that he's an a** bag.

You'll just have to pay attention to what he writes that's all, and know basic physics to understand what he is talking about. And I think Astrophysics, and one of these astronomy; astrology, things.

They're not unique at all, it's just that while most people just perform the attack and post the beginning and results, he writes five paragraphs of half-understood theoretical physics then devotes four or five words to the results.

That's not it at all. I post only things directly affecting an opponent, things likely to directly affect an opponent, and anything else I feel my opponent should know. I don't trouble people with deep mechanics unless it's necessary, it kills the mood on both sides and takes all the fun out of it, as well as cluttering posts with useless fluff and killing the style and the flow alike. Additionally, the larger someone's average post, the greater the chance of them making spelling and grammar mistakes. I recall once seeing someone who described his character right down to little pieces of metal on the belt - only he consistently spelled "millimeters" wrong while doing so.

The problem with Ertai's post is that the vast majority of opponents don't care which scientific theorem he's pumping his energy through nor do they care which alternate plane he's doing it on. And then they have a hard time finding the parts of Ertai's post that actually affect them. When I use Gel's pocket dimension, I only describe it enough to make clear that it's not a standard voidal dimension and people can't pull that void magic s**t on it, as well as stating what the enemy character would see and feel - I don't describe all the stuff in it or the behind-the-scenes s**t.

And, no, shoving the spent casings of pure energy into a pocket dimension to recycle them into infinite energy which he then pulls through three universes for the purpose of lighting a candle doesn't usually contribute to making a post believable.

I love wholesale entertainment in the form of exchanging lengthy arguments.

John isn't minor, ha. Just let him get started.

Now to check if Tacitus has posted yet. Again. I want to see how he reacts to big ol' tornado descending from the heavens.