(06-07-2015, 07:22 PM)Aaron Wrote: No, I understand that Captain America and Superman are differing levels of Superhuman. Your argument is that the increase of superhuman abilities isn't static.
But in FFXIV, it absolutely is static. All Hyurs have the same basic abilities just like all humans do. There is no Hyur that runs fast enough to break the sound barrier, while another runs 1 mph faster than the fastest human. That would mean one person's player character is spawned with higher or lower stats than some other dude's. Not just game stats, like strength and dexterity, but that person could run so fast they look like they're perma-sprinting, where another would look like they're performing the standard auto-run when they're using the sprint action.Â
You could even argue that race-to-race it is static (though it shouldn't be, because that's fucking stupid) There are cutscenes with Lalafell having strength comparable to Roegadyn, who also have strength comparable to Hyur.Â
Because everyone in the game is on equal physical and mental planes with one another, and we go by a system that does not exist on our Earth (ilms, fulms, malms, ponze, suns, moons, cycles, etc.) There is no real way to tell to what extent their powers exceed those of Earth humans, if they do at all.
Yeah, pretty much this. I mean, for something to be a fallacy, it has to first be false. That's what a fallacy is.
In this case, the statement isn't false. Every character in this game functions precisely the same, regardless of what you may personally want. Even from an "rp standpoint", there's a goddamned line that's quietly enforced by the community at large.
If your argument is that you have to trust the heart of the cards in order to use a scythe for warfare, in a world where everyone is superhuman in exactly the same way, regardless of physical build and stature, your argument is invalid.
Also, echoing that nobody's buying the "Detached cool guy" thing you're attempting. Nobody ever does. Anywhere. Nobody ever has, in the history of the internet. You're posting. You're invested at least as much as anyone else, and people that disagree with you, hard as it might be to accept, are by and large not frothing psychopaths.
You're wrong about scythes working in this setting. The world you're playing in doesn't support it. You can like them. You can love them! I thought they were pretty cool when I was like thirteen, so we all go through that phase, I think.
But to claim that you want them around because of some kind of function outside of harvesting plants is just absurd. They don't work that way. Also, there is no santa claus.
On topic: How about we also lift the false scarcity on housing? Is there a point to that? And to drive it into prop territory: Let's have something a little more practical, and less stylish. I don't need a mansion, or for my cottage to be someone's dreamhome. A simple wood/stone building will be just fine.
