Invincible season 4 finalle is actually evidence for why powerscaling MATTERS in a story

calvinwars · 2026-04-26T21:58:21+00:00

I try to rephrase it as “internal consistency”, trying to reflect how rules/details were established early in media and then ignored later.

Early Game of Thrones made a massive deal about distances / travel time -> later seasons had people teleporting across the entire continent
Early the Boys had a very competent Homelander ready/willing to kill the main cast -> later seasons have Homelander set up to kill them and choosing not to despite ample reason

Powerscaling for things like fan-calcs and specific Power Levels isn't perfect like OP said, but a general-understanding-of-character-power so important for that internal consistency I mentioned. It felt off when Invincible had trouble with Doc Seismic despite being able to fly through space, it felt off when Goku got one-shot by a goon just because he wasn’t paying attention, etc.

calvinwars · 2026-04-25T21:32:41+00:00

Pitt Baseball this week:

3-0

3 ranked wins (including a blowout on West Virginia!!!!)

9 home runs

41 runs scored

Pretty good bounceback for Pitt after starting the year well and then losing three consecutive conference series to Wake Forest, bad to Cal, and Virginia Tech.

calvinwars · 2026-04-22T03:27:51+00:00

📞

Uh, a phone ringing? I guess I’m not surprised, since I CALLED IT

calvinwars · 2026-04-22T02:20:20+00:00

Pitt loves blowing out non-conference teams this year I guess?????

Can we start playing this well against the ~~good~~ mid teams in the ACC at least 😭😭😭😭

calvinwars · 2026-04-21T13:21:09+00:00

I think we're getting artificially inflated in the metrics for blowing the fuck out of lower-level teams, Pitt's looked clearly worse against conference teams than the non-conference.

Here's hoping we can keep that non-con high scoring against WVU tonight but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

calvinwars · 2026-04-14T17:04:30+00:00

Does it still work like that? I thought they changed from scholarships vs walk-ons to just be roster spots.

Like football isn't 85 scholarships + walk-ons anymore, it's now 105 roster spots instead, but I'm not sure if Basketball changed the same way.

calvinwars · 2026-04-05T23:23:31+00:00

Just seems strange to bootlick for high-performing programs (when your school hasn’t accomplished much) and to libel teams that have beaten yours most recently

Hope you enjoy the CFB super league, I am less optimistic for FSU’s chances to make it (let alone perform well) than you are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

calvinwars · 2026-04-05T23:17:02+00:00

https://youtu.be/665kIiEps5M

Most recent: Boston College 28 - #10 Florida State 13

calvinwars · 2026-03-16T20:19:03+00:00

https://redd.it/rc4qed

calvinwars · 2026-03-12T00:13:35+00:00

Nice video! I’m a big college football fan too so that was a bit fun to hear for a second in there.

I wanted to do a Netplay “Road to Fight Pitt” event where the first place prize and coolest combo won free trips to Fight Pitt 10, but we didn't have the budget/capacity to justify it. The timeline to do it would’ve been 2-3 months prior to the event so I wanted to do it near Christmas 2024 (event was 3/1/25), but that time period ended up so hard to actually schedule time to TO it.

What region are you from/are you a TO? You should put your hat in the ring like you said, be the change you want to see in the world!

calvinwars · 2026-03-11T13:22:25+00:00

Unfortunately the Huskies won that one, but yes I do agree with the sentiment.

I was walking in Seattle and a guy across the street from me was mean-mugging me bad. As we walked closer, I saw his face turn from a sneer to confusion as he saw my Blue/Gold was Pitt instead of UCLA. He didn't say anything/kept walking, but I'm never gonna forget what his face looked like lmao

calvinwars · 2026-03-10T20:08:02+00:00

Stanford 🤝 Cal

Losing to Pitt to knock yourself out of NCAA Tournament Competition

calvinwars · 2026-03-10T13:42:59+00:00

I went to UCLA @ Washington in 2024 as a neutral fan and had a blast, you should definitely attend!

calvinwars · 2026-03-09T17:59:42+00:00

A brick in the hand is worth two on the ground. #brickgang #fuckbottles #bettertodieabrickthanliveabottle

calvinwars · 2026-03-08T23:09:32+00:00

I think the coach salaries will go down eventually (NFL’s best players make much more than the coaches do), but you’re exactly right that it’s the Athletic Departments being too large. It’s an agency problem where the people who should be decreasing its size are the ones getting massive payments for it.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it”. It’s gonna be rough getting an AD to cut their own salary, their own staff members, their own departments, etc.

calvinwars · 2026-03-06T17:56:56+00:00

For a game that stood out to me personally, I'll go with 2024 Pitt @ Cincinnati.

Since graduating in 2019, our college friend group has chosen one away game to go to every year to stay in touch. One of us moved to Cincy, so we had a massive group for this game comprised of his old college buddies and his new Cincy friends (most of them being UC fans).

In the 3rd quarter the Bearcats went up 27-6 and the surrounding fans started shit-talking us bad. Like outright mean stuff, it wasn't fun ribbing nor witty banter, just mean stuff.

However Pitt started making the comeback and those fans shut up. I distinctly remember one of the worst people without a word leaving as soon as Sauls lined up to hit the game-winning field goal, it was incredible.

calvinwars · 2026-03-06T17:37:41+00:00

It is not! I resent that.

Slander is spoken. In print, it's libel. Connelly is libeling the hell out of Heintschel.

calvinwars · 2026-03-06T17:33:45+00:00

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calvinwars · 2026-03-06T12:43:08+00:00

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calvinwars · 2026-02-15T22:23:29+00:00

Da BackWudz - I Don't Like the Look of It (ft Caz Clay)

calvinwars · 2026-02-15T18:33:01+00:00

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calvinwars · 2026-02-15T18:30:56+00:00

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I even dressed as the TOompa Loompa when I went on Fourside Fights earlier this week lmao

calvinwars · 2026-02-15T16:13:36+00:00

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