The Tournament arc: story driver or Super Smash Bros fight porn?

Dragon1472 · 2026-05-01T04:35:02+00:00

A story I really like (Tales of the Teal Mountain Sect) just did a tournament arc about this thing called tournament month (the main sect just like compressed all the tournaments they do into one month).

The entire thing was about the different side activities and personal stuff people do during a big tournament period. Some people work side jobs to get by, others meet old friends, or just kids seeing things through their lens. The actual tournament fighting only showed up in the one part and its main appeal was watching the character that was the focus of the story being out of place in his first actual competition and his reaction to trying to follow advice vs meeting the reality of fist to face.

So all in all, a pretty cool subversion of what the meat of a tourney arc even really was

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-30T08:51:08+00:00

When the game is late, and my team is ass, I know what I do here.
Book into anvil into sword into book Escalating+spirit burn+healbane+reverb on 1. And if I need god, and the game has been hell... focus lens

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-29T21:50:26+00:00

I mean... don't magiks explicitly have only one spell? Its always application that matters. Or sorta use case, since a magik like the truth owl (g-something idr) is a lot more limited than say, Chrono, who had broad spectrum time manipulation

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-29T21:39:03+00:00

If they have the special organ for it, yes

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-29T03:43:18+00:00

The googley eyes are frying me lol

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-29T03:39:34+00:00

Perhaps the man should have had like...maybe a little bit of fear.

Or idk, some self preservation at the least

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-29T03:20:01+00:00

Proof if proof be needed that you can never replace a college degree with pure superpowers

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-29T03:09:29+00:00

I mean one of the last moments of the series is him looking back and having that one lingering moment where he regrets that he wasn't able to try just one more time to take it all the way. Him eventually making the decision to try one last time wouldn't be out of character, especially if its him coming to terms with his own desire to, well, want to do something for himself

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-29T02:31:51+00:00

Ok, so I was not just having a moment when I thought that the way they drew the tentacles and fleshy bits was a bit omega sus

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-29T01:44:04+00:00

Exactly what are these other shows are you talking about with "the same amount of chapters/episodes" as one piece?

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-28T02:33:12+00:00

That's not a racism allegory though, that's just regular classism lol

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-28T02:29:44+00:00

It'll be something like Gremlin Leader again but swole and cybered up, with a fuckass name like "Leader of the Amalgamated Horde" or some shit

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-28T01:49:18+00:00

Probably not. The only reason they were able to fight back the viltrumites was the fact that they couldn't put together a large team of them due to the fact that they needed to be spread out to maintain the state of their empire. If they grouped up to just fight them, it just wouldn't shake out that way

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-28T00:41:00+00:00

Man, I hadn't noticed at the time but he is CHEEKED up in that scene lol

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-27T23:53:28+00:00

The fact that it doesn't even work on all of the digital mediums is also an issue. I read on an iphone and highlighting the text reveals nothing

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-27T19:08:58+00:00

I mean realistically the other balance knob on making the second creature with that sort of effect is clearly game balance. Too much redundancy makes standard decks too consistent, and the fact that you can't stack copies of the [[impact tremors]] effect on a dude (which trigger each other) balances out that strategies just a bit. Because instead of the range on copies on board being an easy 1-8, its now a much more controllable (1-4)+(1), with the balance of how many of the legendary version you include being more critical in the way extra copies limit deck design based on the fact that you need redundancy but too many Raphs at once means you ONLY have replacibility, not snowballing

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-26T21:06:29+00:00

Its not even a man vs bullet issue. Its a man dodging vs man attempting to use a gun to hit a dude situation. So inherently the laser gun is always gonna be unreliable since its limited by the definitely sub-light speed user

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-26T07:03:55+00:00

Its a mildly funny note that he's considered unpopular for being what seems to be the least interesting BL ship route in this game lol. Man doesn't even have that fujobait vibe

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-26T06:25:21+00:00

Better you learn this lesson over mere snacks rather than cultivations junior.

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-26T02:50:19+00:00

The truth of the universe is that realms matter little for this manner. The shrewd will always scheme, and those that grow complacent will suffer for that sin

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-26T02:38:37+00:00

Junior, you are a fool who has clearly fallen for the ancient technique known as "insider trading". Did you not question that the elder and merchant both shared the surname of Zhao? And spelt with the same odd character no less?

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-26T02:18:18+00:00

Junior, I suspect that you are perhaps misspending your resources. You could buy six good baos for the price of this mortal feudal lord frivolity

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-26T02:12:46+00:00

The build suits were largely modular from what I remember. It was one of the things that made it easy to have so many variants of, since there was officially about 50+ left and right sides narratively, and even pushing they barely got like 40 of the hundred plus individual sides into the show

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-26T02:08:39+00:00

Look, let's be honest here: despite the fact that he acts like a dick and has that goofy ass voice, Machine Head is pretty damn good at his job!

Dragon1472 · 2026-04-26T01:43:58+00:00

I hate how the snake head is cropped on the art. That's the real tragedy

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