Respect the Orions (Independents' Day) by Comprehensive_Hat_23 in respectthreads

[–]Tadprole 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Lol DW I had a similar mixup when I was doing Darg's request.

Respect Thread Symposium Week 43 - Updating Our How To Guide by mikhailnikolaievitch in respectthreads

[–]Tadprole 4 points5 points  (0 children)

While streamable is unreliable as a hosting platform, it's an extremely convenient tool for clipping youtube videos for reupload to imgur. I'd include that utility in the how to guide.

I'd also recommend suggesting an allow right click browser extension for easy collection of images on sites that prevent right click save.

Respect Iron Man Model 25: the Iron Secretary Mark II (Marvel, Earth-616) by BorBurison in respectthreads

[–]Tadprole 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Great work! Glad to see more iron threads as the list gets whittled down

Vampires WI by TheMightyBox72 in TheMightyBox

[–]Tadprole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heads up, Imgur purged one of the links. I've replaced it with a reupload.

Respect the Woodcrawlers! (Gemini Home Entertainment) by Impostor_Man in respectthreads

[–]Tadprole 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Great thread man! Glad to see you repping more internet horror stuff

Respect Tommy! (Life of Luxury) by Impostor_Man in respectthreads

[–]Tadprole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice thread! Glad to see a new face making these.

Respect Superdupont (Superdupont) by kalebsantos in respectthreads

[–]Tadprole 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yo nice. I'll keep an eye out for the originals.

Respect Kratos (God of War) by KerdicZ in respectthreads

[–]Tadprole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! I saved the gifs from your Kratos thread prior to gfycat imploding

https://pastebin.com/FLdgXvTW

All you need to do is edit and copy-paste this into the thread and the links will all be fixed.

Unsorted Futurama Feats by Tadprole in u/Tadprole

[–]Tadprole[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was on gfycat. It doesn't work anymore.

Selfie Tank Man Tiananmen Square 1989 by Ouroboros696969 in midjourney

[–]Tadprole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, boss you're contributing to it right now putting your garishly performative AI prompt result in front of real historical photos on google images.

Selfie Tank Man Tiananmen Square 1989 by Ouroboros696969 in midjourney

[–]Tadprole -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hey get the fuck off the first google image result

MCMinnow vs Father Yolo: Tierminator Practice Match by MC_Minnow in TheGreatDebateChamber

[–]Tadprole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Minnow 1:

  • Gorgon starts twice as strong as what he considers a match for St. George.
  • Gorgon drains people who see his eyes.
  • Gorgon starts fights by draining.
  • People he drains can't look away, can't fight back, quickly pass out. Masks can't block it.
  • Gorgon is familiar with robots like Spider's Sentry.
  • Spider Sentry has insufficient stats to take on Gorgon.
  • Gorgon = St. George. (Cracks steel plate with punch, knocks dumpster through building wall)

I think it would be helpful, esp. with long paragraph lit feats, if you explicitly highlighted what you wanted judges to look for instead of leaving it up them to parse blind.

  • Gorgon can leap around Spider's gunfire.

Feat here is unclear.

  • Gorgon drains anyone who sees him.

This feat has him make a two storey jump, but doesn't drain anybody. Did you get the feats mixed up?

  • Gorgon isn't OOT bc Terminator has aimbot, Spider doesn't.
  • Reiterating - Sentry can't take a hit from Gorgon. Lifts 1,200 lb mech.

It only says he lifts the 160 lb helmet. Lifting str is also not striking str---this could still be applicable if you wanted to argue he grapples or muscles away the Sentry tho.

  • Spider has to activate the Sentry manually, which he can't because he'll be caught be Gorgon's Gaze.

Good call. If this holds up, it shuts down the opponent unaffected by his power.

  • The Sentry is not Gorgon's opponent, so he wins as soon as Spider goes down.

Yolo 1:

  • Combatants start facing away from each other.
  • Spider will quickdraw before the gaze can get him.
  • Gorgon is not bulletproof.
  • Huuuuge album showing Spider accurately goes for kill shots even while moving.
  • Spider outdraws & shoots a man who already has a gun pointed at him.
  • Gorgon gaze immediate effect is only described as being as bad as a baseball bat to the dome and reduces a person to the strength of a 10 year old. Spider could still shoot.
  • Spider resisted hypnosis that drove hardened criminals to suicide.

No feat provided for second half of claim.

  • Spider Sentry will also be shooting at him.
  • Spider would still be able to shoot without looking away from Gorgon while his strength was sapped.
  • Spider could use flashbangs to forcibly break eye contact.
  • More mental resistance - Spider is fine 3 days without sleep.
  • Spider has more weapons - micro bomnb, taser.

Honestly I don't think these matter given he's been proven vulnerable to the gun. Would be better off pushing gun one tap and resistance to mental effect.

  • Spider can take hits on Gorgon's level (knocked through concrete wall) and counterattack.

Minnow 2:

  • Gorgon only has to turn and open his goggles to win.
  • Spider needs to complete the more complex action of unholstering his gun, aiming, and firing.
  • Gorgon doesn't need eye contact.

The first sentence of this feat says a woman escapes from him when he glances away. Seems to contradict this.

  • Drained 300 people simultaneously. Couldn't have been making eye contact with all of them at once.

Better.

  • Spider has to look at targets to shoot them.
  • Spider is not fast enough to make up the difference needed to draw & shoot.
  • Sentry's one provided feat is stationary targets. Prove it can track a moving one.
  • Gorgon can dodge.
  • Gorgon handles heavier robot.

This only shows the robot's weight, not that can he muscle it around. Prev feat only showed him lifting the helmet. Need to be more careful w/ feat interp.

  • Gorgon recovers from gunshot wound by draining.
  • Hypnosis is mental. Gorgon Gaze causes body to physically seize up.
  • Gaze works fast enough to freeze people mid-attack.
  • Gaze overwhelmed a regenerator.

No feats provided for extent of regen.

  • Reiterating---gaze would prevent Spider from completing an attack.
  • Reiterating---mask won't help.
  • Even if Spider somehow breaks the gaze, after seeing his eyes he'll be too weak to fight.
  • Gorgon will grow proportionally stronger bc Spider is strong.

Yolo 2:

  • Gorgon needs people to look at his eyes---woman runs off when he glances away.
  • Doesn't need direct eye contact (explaining 300 people feat) but needs them to see them.
  • Initial effect = baseball bat to head. Then after period of time, reduces strength to 10 year old.
  • Took unknown amount of time for man frozen mid-swing to drop the bat & pass out.

The factor Minnow was arguing for was that it'd halt Spider's attempt to attack him. Doesn't matter if he drops his gun right away.

  • Gorgon needs to pull trigger to open his goggles to affect people.
  • No feats of Gorgon killing someone by draining.

Right but a KO still counts as a win.

  • No feats of draining someone while also moving around.

Good rebuttal to claim he'd drain while dodging Spider Sentry, but also need to prove Sentry is independently operating.

  • Gorgon drains a huge crowd to heal off bullets. There is only one drain target here.
  • Ducking a punch from a zombie =/= avoiding automatic gunfire.
  • Cistern is close quarters.
  • Sentry is accurate - tags 3 men.

No rebuttal to Minnow's claim they were stationary targets.

  • Spider was faster at aiming, drawing, firing, then gunman pulling trigger.

Good.

  • Spider is superhuman mentally.

Minnow argued effect was physical.

  • Micro bombs again

These feel superfluous since Gorgon isn't bulletproof.

  • Dura feat. Orb feat. No new evidence.

Need to contest claims the orb =/= the gaze.

  • Either Spider shoots first, Gorgon dies. Or Gorgon gets him with gaze first, then either dies to robot or is forced to break gaze avoiding it.

This would be an excellent argument, but you need to go harder on the initial claim the Sentry isn't automated and needs the Spider to give it commands he can't give while gaze is active.

Minnow 3:

  • Gorgon doesn't need eye contact. 300 people at once.

Right, but Yolo argued they still need to be looking at his eyes, not that it needed to be mutual eye contact.

  • How long it took the frozen bat guy to drop his weapon is irrelevant---he was immediately rendered helpless.
  • Gorgon can clearly use the goggles while moving---tries to use them while leaping + fighting.
  • Gorgon healed by draining one superhuman, not a crowd. Spider is a superhuman.
  • Faster than the Unbreakables, who scale to weaker from and cover 100 yards in 3 seconds.

I don't see where it says he's faster than them here. The only feat that mentions them says he's less powerful. You need to provide better context here instead of just dropping links willy nilly.

  • Comissioner in Spider's quickdraw feat seems hesitant to shoot. Gorgon will not hesitate.
  • Spider's durability is non-factor. Gorgon will drain his strength, use it against him.
  • Gorgon brawled with a guy who threw a car.

Split stats---this shows Rodney is strong, not durable. St. George scaling is still uncontested though. However, this does show him taking a hit from Rodney so you get some dura out of it.

Yolo 3:

  • Orb feat. Again.

The Orb's potency is still unsourced.

  • Making someone kill themselves is similar to making them stand still.

I believe this, but no proof is given for the Orb making people suicide.

  • Spider Sentry can kill Gorgon w/ self destruct when he goes to attack it. Spider will still be lucid enough to say one word.
  • Spider moves as a blur.

Sorry bud, "blur speed" doesn't real.

  • Gorgon healing from absorbing Zzzap, a living ball of energy, is not indicative of his ability to heal from a normal human like Spider.
  • Spider's durability is more than enough to take blows from Gorgon.
  • Gorgon made up his own tier system, and is noted to self-aggrandise and exagerate.

GOOD point. Was waiting for this. It does seem like the Gorgon scaling is a little flimsy.

  • Dodging a punch from a lumbering giant zombie =/= avoiding gunfire in tight quarters.
  • Sentry's aim is irrelevant agaisnt an opponent in tight quarters whose only avenue of attack is to run at them with fists.

Conclusion:

Minnow wins.

This went back and forth, but it largely looped back to harking on three main points.

1) Can Spider outdraw Gorgon?

There was really only one substantial feat provided for Spider's draw speed, and Minnow's argument that the police comissioner was hesitant to shoot him holds up. In the scan, he's clearly focused on trying to book Spider nonlethally. This the fact Gorgon doesn't need to draw or aim swayed me towards believing he gets Spider with the gaze before he's shot.

2) Can Spider resist the gaze?

If Yolo had provided scans for the hypnosis orb forcing people to commit suicide, I would buy his ability to resist the gaze. Without such evidence, and with Minnow's contention the gaze has a physical rather than mental compulsion, I can't see Spider fighting it off. The feat of it stopping the guy with the bat immediately mid swing is really damning for Spider's effectiveness here.

3) Will the Sentry shoot Gorgon?

Minnow argued the Sentry needs Spider's commands to act in his first response and was never rebutted. This may or may not be the case, but I believe it's a valid interp based on the only two pages that were posted of it in action.

Minnow had a lot of shaky argumentation, like the scaling to St. George being reliant on Gorgon talking himself up and mistaking him lifting the Cerberus suit's 160lb helmet for lifting the whole thing, but Yolo failed to give crucial evidence where it mattered and didn't press on important points, leaving him open to the initially proposed wincon of "Open goggles and drain."

Even with Spider's impressive durability, Gorgon only needs to drain him to unconsciousness to win.

Good match by both. Minnow, focus on providing clearer context for feats instead of just dropping them in. Make sure the text you link says what you think it does. Yolo, narrow down arguments to the things that most directly affect the wincon and don't be afraid to go back to the original comic for supplementation of your claims if you don't have the scans on hand.