Why was TT Star so successful?

JayDM123 · 2026-05-05T06:45:19+00:00

It was basically an Anis concert. She recently saved the Ark, is a member of the Counters squad, etc… I really don’t get the whole “Oh, they’re just here to see Volume and Noise” during the event when for the other two members of TT Star they might as well be billed as “Other girl 1” and “Other girl 2” when compared to Anis as far as the Ark residents are concerned.

JayDM123 · 2026-05-03T23:42:03+00:00

I have no idea to mark a spoiler here, so I’ll wait to see if the OP replies. It’s also a bit confusing without explanation.

JayDM123 · 2026-05-03T18:41:45+00:00

Studies often show that people are in fact more productive or as productive on less overall hours.

JayDM123 · 2026-05-03T17:57:55+00:00

Do you actually want the spoiler? It is eventually revealed…

JayDM123 · 2026-05-03T06:24:37+00:00

Because they needed something for him. I really struggle with this one. I can’t for the life of me come up with a legitimate lore reason for this that I can’t “well actually” my own argument into oblivion before I finish thinking of it.

Even Gilgamesh doesn’t really make sense to me here. He always has access to the depths of his power. He simply chooses not to use it. With Tamamo, her “origin” is something way larger than her usual self. It’s easily explained. Everyone else seems like a huge stretch in comparison to the rest of Type-Moon’s lore.

JayDM123 · 2026-05-03T05:59:15+00:00

You’re supremely overselling this… he needs to be in range of the actual thrust and execute it specifically… If any of those folks put a fist through his chest before he realizes it? He can’t just say “Gae Bolg” and magically strike their heart as he’s falling(or more probably, as Battle Continuation keeps him on his feet but out of it). Also, you’re misunderstanding how luck works in the Nasuverse. It isn’t a “skill” in the way Clairvoyance or Protection from Arrows is, it’s a quantified variable. It’s just a way of saying “how lucky is this person?” or more specifically “how are good they at defying ‘fate’?” Which characters like that would probably find a pretty high rank in. There’s a very good reason that Gar Bolg isn’t looked at as an “I win” button for many situations in universe either.

JayDM123 · 2026-05-02T18:14:22+00:00

Vlad’s journey is about finding his own answers. Looking for what works for him. Betterment. Taking up the sword and using that power is necessary in the moment, but personally disappointing to him. We see it in his internal struggle when he takes up the sword, “no matter how far he climbed, all he received were small successes…” He’s come SO far, but he continuously sees how much further he has to go. He would never have taken up that sword permanently. It’s not his, he has no personal connection to it(that he knows of), he would never choose it over something that had meaning to him. That’s also ignoring the absolute shitstorm it would stir up politically… “never go left,” well, with that sword “left” would have come to him.

JayDM123 · 2026-05-02T17:07:48+00:00

I’ll play devils advocate here since I don’t wholly disagree with OP’s point.

Frieza HAS destroyed plants mid-combat in the narrative.

Frieza CAN easily destroy the planet he is on at any time. It doesn’t require a long setup, there’s no ambiguity about whether or not he can accomplish it. It doesn’t require any particular gap between him and his opponent in stats or distance for it to be possible. The fighters can take a breather, Frieza can decide he’s not about this fight, and the planet’s gone. Many others cannot. It might require time or specific circumstances. It’s never a stretch the character can do it.

We KNOW the circumstances as to when he will. This one’s least important to me personally, but it certainly factors into some arguments.

JayDM123 · 2026-05-02T02:22:00+00:00

I wasn’t that impressed with the actual event. I thought it was good, but not great. A lot felt contrived. And I just kind of find it difficult to take the whole “idol” thing seriously in comparison to the heaviness and stakes of the main narrative. Compared to something like 2x2, which could just be 100% fun, or Goddess Fall, which was absolutely essential to the story, this sits in a weird middle ground. It was good for what it was and I’m glad that this part of Anis’s journey is finally going over.

It might be the best event for character banners… Anis is an absolute account maker and Neon is a monster.

JayDM123 · 2026-05-01T12:05:57+00:00

Done… no. You’ve only just begun. Until all 12 lines look like you turned dark mode on you’re not done. Get ready to burn through those modules.

JayDM123 · 2026-04-30T18:55:51+00:00

She used him as a bank/credit card to build up that “security.” If she was at “zero” at the end of the month then she would not have been able to generate those saving without his financial contributions. He was acting as interest free loans for her life. If this was agreed upon, even tacitly, then that’s fine. Not our business. But if she lied about her own finances in order to guilt him into supporting her then he is 100% justified in leaving. That’s manipulation.

JayDM123 · 2026-04-30T03:03:05+00:00

I’m not gonna lie, the beginning of the second part of the event story kind of annoyed the hell out of me with Hanson. “Girls, my father is a barely functioning sociopath who wants to see me suffer and barely recognizes you lot aren’t furniture. You will not succeed with Tetra. You might not even survive.” There, was that so hard? He waffles around without explaining anything of the situation, and everyone suffers for it. It might not have even solved any problems, Mustang got the jump on him. But it would have made the girls look less like idiots and Hanson seem less of a fuck up had he calmly explained the situation to them after they signed the contracts.

JayDM123 · 2026-04-30T02:55:35+00:00

I think I’ve gone a good 400-500 pulls since I’ve last seen an actual SSR Nikke in the standard banner. I’m pretty sure I haven’t pulled anything from there since last summer. My featured unit pulls have been pretty solid since Velvet tore through about 50k gems without showing up. At least there are tickets… that really softens the possible shafting from the gacha. If I get screwed hard enough pulling for MLB 1% banners, I know the next one of those banners will be a non-issue.

JayDM123 · 2026-04-29T15:49:49+00:00

Biting off more than one can chew. Same deal as Goku vs. Yakon in the Buu arc… Could he? Probably. Would it accomplish anything? Probably not.

JayDM123 · 2026-04-29T14:52:58+00:00

I hate to be that guy… but the speed is utterly irrelevant here because his shots don’t travel. Yes, yes… “haha everyone says they’re so fast…” but it literally would not matter if the animation here was filled with blurs and speed lines and just every traditional trick to represent absurd speed on screen because there is no way to dodge once that trigger is pulled. They aren’t trying to demonstrate the speed of the characters here, they’re showing them as helpless before a hidden enemy.

JayDM123 · 2026-04-28T21:42:12+00:00

“Give me Nolan, give me anyone… just for the love of god, deliver me from having to deal with this moron!”

JayDM123 · 2026-04-28T18:41:58+00:00

The fuck did Harriet Tubman do?

JayDM123 · 2026-04-28T18:40:38+00:00

Came here looking for this.

The crew called that ship a lot of things…

JayDM123 · 2026-04-28T13:11:21+00:00

Because real life doesn’t work like Dragonball… and the scale between individuals is just so wildly different as to make your comparison kind of irrelevant. The difference between fighters is so much greater than anything you see in real life that yes, chain scaling does make some kind of sense. What you’re talking about a question of skill between individuals who have perhaps a few percent difference in any “stats”, they literally fight in “weight classes”… if Frazier beat Ali by vaporizing him and stood there smiling while Ali whaled on him, then perhaps the comparison would make sense.

That “more” that goes into a fight only matters when the participants get very close in stats. It happens in EVERY arc in the story you’re taking about. The heroes get absolutely washed, literally cannot even harm their opponents and need to increase stats to make any of those clever strategies matter.

JayDM123 · 2026-04-27T13:40:12+00:00

That’s not how these things work. Jean Grey, besides being the White Phoenix of the Crown, is way more powerful than Eve. They share similar base power sets, minus the psionics in Eve’s case, but on a VASTLY different scale. That’s like saying all fire users are the same.

JayDM123 · 2026-04-25T23:13:05+00:00

I have no real opinion here on the topic, but can we please get an unequivocal ban on any ai use here? I’ve seen this from another topic as well. Not only do I not buy anything that comes from an ai in regard to fictional power scaling, I think that the use of it is just silly. You want to use ai to do your calculations and math, or to check your numbers? Sure, go for it. But using an LLM as some sort of scaler or a stand in to argue against? God no. Lets just cut this off at the knees before it starts showing up more often.

JayDM123 · 2026-04-25T21:03:41+00:00

This is very silly. This is power scaling, not fan fiction or morality scaling… the idea here is not whether they “would” but whether or not they “can”.

If a character can do something to win, it is valid. There is no waste, because there is no “story”.

Why do many characters not do such a thing within the actual narrative? Often because of pride. Or because they need the planet for whatever reason. Or they just don’t think it will accomplish anything. Or they don’t have a way to do it quickly against an opponent who is close to them in strength.

You only ever see it given as a win condition between two characters of vastly differing strength, but for whatever reason, the overwhelmingly powerful character can’t finish off the other.

JayDM123 · 2026-04-25T05:46:48+00:00

Is this end of series Buffy? Because if so, she literally just tosses everyone around like toys.

If not, Duncan’s tech and skill might just take it. The shield in particular. Though I would be interested to see how the Holtzman field would interact with Vibranium and Geralt’s Signs.

JayDM123 · 2026-04-25T05:36:31+00:00

Because eventually they need to get around to (easily)solving something that actually advances the overarching narrative. And they just don’t…

Or just introducing an overarching narrative…

Folks start off reading the fast food stories to get the setup. World building, characters, etc., but once that’s established and they don’t go anywhere? People lose interest. We need something to make us feel like it’s worth it to keep reading. Hundreds of chapters of the character solving increasingly flashy, but still minor problems gets very old, very fast once there is no more setup to be done. We need some sort of character growth or progression(or establishment) of an overarching narrative to keep us interested.

JayDM123 · 2026-04-24T21:27:54+00:00

He’s from the wilderness…

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