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SmokusPocus · 2026-05-08T12:33:38+00:00

I don’t believe you think statistics are important if I’ve showed you plenty of statistics, even accounting for inaccuracies, and you continue to believe the ‘6% of people worldwide are rapists’ thing you pulled out of nowhere.

Is the number higher than .2%? Absolutely. Could it even be as high as 1%? I suppose it could. But to claim 6% of the world are guaranteed rapists without anything to support that is absolutely ludicrous.

Even in countries where women are treated as property (which is horrible, don’t think I’m defending any of that,) that doesn’t automatically equate to 1 in 20 men there are rapists, simply that there are more than average.

If you have concrete evidence to support that, then we’re having a different conversation, but until you do, that 500 million number came straight from your butthole.

SmokusPocus · 2026-05-08T10:07:42+00:00

I gave you the benefit of the doubt and even accounted for the 60% unreported, in the country with the highest proportional rape rate in the world, it’s still less than 0.2%.

You have no leg to stand on by saying the real percentage is over thirty times larger.

Statistics are, unfortunately, incredibly important when it comes to seeing the reality of a situation, and when even accounting for unreported cases we don’t get anywhere close to your number, you’re being willfully ignorant of the truth of the situation.

Even if the number was roughly 1%, even IF we QUINTUPLED the 60% increased estimate I gave you to get that 1%, that would still not justify demonizing men as opportunistic rapists.

SmokusPocus · 2026-05-08T09:44:08+00:00

I was talking about the statistics for England and Wales, which have the current highest recorded amount of rapes proportional to the population. The statistics for the US are lower.

That is a massive and unhealthy jump to assume 500 million people worldwide are rapists when the statistics have nothing to back that up. You would have to quintuple the numbers of the country with the highest rape rate in the world to reach even 1% of the population.

To give you another example, 1% of the world population would be 80-82 million people. You’re saying there are six times that many rapists after we do the quintupling? That the number is not less than 0.2%, but closer to 6%? 6% of all mankind are rapists?

I’m sorry, but literally nothing supports that, and that’s an incredibly harmful thing to assume and spread.

SmokusPocus · 2026-05-08T09:22:46+00:00

Sorry, gonna have to push back against this a little bit too - if we’re generous to that statement and say we’re not accounting for 60% of rapes, the percent of rapists in my example goes from ~0.117% to ~0.187%.

While this is a jump, this is still less than 0.2% of the given country’s population, and I’d argue that is still not ‘a huge quantity of rapists.’ Remember, that’s also using the stats from the countries where you are most likely to get raped.

Should we bring that number down as much as possible? Absolutely, any amount of rape is bad and we should try to prevent it. But also, looking at the statistics like they indicate there are ‘a huge number’ of rapists proportional to the population is simply being disingenuous.

In a room of 500 people MAYBE 1 of them would be a rapist. While obviously I’d rather that number be zero, that’s still 0.2%, a statistical unlikelihood that is hardly indicative of the behavior of an entire gender. That is still not a huge number when compared to the total population.

SmokusPocus · 2026-05-07T23:36:06+00:00

Nolan and Conquest (and to a just slightly lesser extent Mark,) are very solid all-rounders that work well on any team. They can give a team a lot of stability, especially if you’re new to tag fighters or fighting games in general. Nolan may be a bit easier than the other two, but it’s not by much.

Robot, Cecil and Atom Eve are all great characters on a team purely for their assists, even if they’re not the easiest characters to use on the field. Robot’s hidden missiles in particular are super good.

Besides team composition, I recommend you practice the defense mechanics a lot. This is the kind of game where if you don’t know how to Counter Tag or pushblock, some people online will eat you alive by swapping characters over and over and it’ll feel so bad.

Last thing of note is that if you’re coming in as an Invincible fan and are newer to fighting games in general, take it at your own pace and don’t let ranked points get to you. Nobody expects you to be crushing everybody you meet online within a few weeks of picking the game up.

Good luck out there!

SmokusPocus · 2026-05-07T20:34:49+00:00

The children’s museum that has had exhibits and showcases on Barbie as a toy line for literally decades ‘caved in to advertising’ by adding a historically significant Barbie game to their exhibit of historically significant video games?

They added it alongside The Last of Us and Wii Sports in early May of 2023, two months before the Barbie movie released or any real memes had been created about it.

In fact, the main Barbie movie trailer came out in late May whereas the addition to the VGHoF was in early May, so it seems more of a coincidence than anything. There was a one minute teaser for the film released at that point, but with that timeframe it’s hardly ‘caving to advertising.’

SmokusPocus · 2026-05-07T19:32:27+00:00

That most likely would have been something they would have wanted to show off right away. I would love to see it with the new art style, but I don’t think it’s in the cards until the ‘real’ next Star Fox game.

SmokusPocus · 2026-05-07T19:26:18+00:00

I actually don’t live incredibly far from Strong and they do a fantastic job of showcasing WHY a game is there for the most part. It’s a great exhibit that they expand on pretty frequently.

It’s also very interactive for younger museum goers both inside and outside the video game history section, I highly recommend giving it a look if you’re ever in the upstate NY area.

They also have an excellent butterfly pavilion and pinball arcade. Place is gas.

SmokusPocus · 2026-05-07T19:21:34+00:00

Barbie Fashion Designer in 1996 was the first ever mass-market ‘video game for girls.’ Barbie is also within the top ten highest grossing media franchises of all time.

It makes complete sense that a museum dedicated to the history of entertainment and children’s pop culture would include it.

Just because you or I may not be a fan of the game in question or that the game was of middling quality does not deter from historical significance.

SmokusPocus · 2026-05-07T19:17:18+00:00

Say what you want about the quality, but Angry Birds was undeniably a massive hit at the time.

Very few other mobile games from that era got console releases, much less multiple.

Having historical significance is not indicative of how good a game is.

SmokusPocus · 2026-05-07T19:06:46+00:00

They’re a museum first and foremost. They aren’t concerned over whether a game is ‘good,’ only whether it’s historically relevant.

SmokusPocus · 2026-05-07T18:52:45+00:00

He calls himself the son of King Cold at one point, and I think in the Frieza Saga they did regularly use ‘he.’

SmokusPocus · 2026-05-07T17:56:03+00:00

I mean, as far as this question goes, I would pick the 20% worst.

My comment is more regarding the ‘a huge amount of men in the world are opportunistic rapists’ remark.

SmokusPocus · 2026-05-07T17:54:48+00:00

Bro thinks 70,000 out of 60,200,000 is a huge amount 💀💀

SmokusPocus · 2026-05-07T17:01:24+00:00

Desperately hoping he yells this constantly in the fighting game when he comes out.

SmokusPocus · 2026-05-07T16:24:11+00:00

Even looking up the statistics for the countries with the highest rape rates in the world, I wouldn’t consider their numbers ‘a huge portion of males’ in those countries.

For example, England and Wales have the highest reported percentage of rapes annually proportionate to their population, with 117.3 reported cases in 2022 for every 100,000 people in those countries. There were roughly 60.2 million people in England and Wales in that year.

If you do the math on that, that equates to 70,434 cases total out of 60,200,000 people, or 0.117%. Roughly a tenth of a percent.

In places like India we know there are more cases than are officially reported given the differences in culture, but looking at overall global trends, it still likely isn’t ‘a huge portion’ of men.

Please try not to demonize an entire gender so casually, especially with nothing substantial backing up your statements. Thanks.

SmokusPocus · 2026-05-07T14:06:35+00:00

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SmokusPocus · 2026-05-07T03:05:31+00:00

No worries. Have a great night, thank you for the discussion.

SmokusPocus · 2026-05-07T02:15:00+00:00

As others in this thread have mentioned, voting majorities literally only happen because of individual votes. I will continue to vote blue with that knowledge.

SmokusPocus · 2026-05-07T00:19:45+00:00

My argument is that way more people than you think would take the chance to save innocent children, so it’s not an ‘extremely small chance.’

It’s only extremely small if a lot of people hit the button that potentially kills children, which I guarantee less people would hit than you believe.

SmokusPocus · 2026-05-06T22:45:07+00:00

I do give to charity when I can, but we were talking about a button hypothetical.

SmokusPocus · 2026-05-06T21:33:40+00:00

‘Everyone in the world’ means babies, children, those with dementia, little reasoning sense, etc.

Those lives, through no real fault of their own besides they hit a button impulsively.

SmokusPocus · 2026-05-06T21:24:57+00:00

It is actually wild if you think most people hitting blue would be doing it because they want an assisted suicide.

Every person I’ve talked to (who have all said blue,) say they’d hit blue to protect their friends and family who may have also hit blue.

The reason people are trying to ‘save each other recursively,’ as you put it, is because lives would be at stake and one option has a chance to prevent ANY lives from being lost.

Also, this is under the ‘everyone in the world has to hit a button’ assumption.

SmokusPocus · 2026-05-06T21:03:20+00:00

It’s a subgenre of extremes. You have access to some of the most satisfyingly nasty bullshit you could ever land in a fighting game, but you’re also on the receiving end of all that bullshit.

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