GRAMMARLOL
Smash Rookie
- Joined
- Jun 29, 2008
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The following list of tired, rehashed arguments is a good way to know if you are reading the post made by a person with single digit IQ. Basically, if you read any of the following, look to the left and *BAM*, you are one step closer to losing all faith in mankind.
1. "Learn to adapt!!!11" Ah, an old favourite of mine. It's usually followed by some claim of the character in question not being overpowered because apparently he knows that you aren't putting in any effort to "adapt" even though he probably has never even been in the same room with you. Oh, and it completely ignores the fact that WHEN ONE PLAYER HAS TO DO ALL OF THE ADAPTING TO BEAT ANOTHER PLAYER WHO USES *insert character here* THE MATCHUP PROBABLY ISN'T ALL THAT EVEN. The worst thing about this is the retinue of fellow mouth breathers that come out in rabid butt-patting support of whoever says this like so many feminazis swaying their heads and open palms in unison shrieking "You go girl!"
Yeah, I am sure all of those Yoshi mainers will be adapting their way to the top of tournaments in no time, morons.
Note: there are many variants to this particular one, such as "Just learn to play better" and are often emphasized by stupid anecdotes of Bowser players totally pwning their group of most likely braindead friends.
2. "It's the player, not the game." Good job, *******es, you've successfully recognized the fact that skill plays a factor in the game. What next, will you be telling everyone that they do, in fact, need a Wii to play SSBB? This one always makes me laugh because the person saying it is completely disregarding any ideal of a fair argument. It's honestly amazing how so many people don't realize that when one person has to be better playing most of the cast to beat another person playing character A, character A is overpowered.
3. "It's fine that my class is just plain better than 90% of the cast because mine is way harder to play than them." This one is hilarious because you can almost feel the desperate desire the person has to feel better about himself by believing that he is dominating with such a "high-skill" requiring character. Many practically do the forum equivalent of clapping their hands over their ears and screaming LALALALA to preserve their fragile egos. It would be cute if it weren't so pathetic.
I am not even going to go into how variance in top play would be destroyed if games were balanced around this ******** maxim.
4. "B-b-b-b-but my character has WEAKNESSES!" Yet another brilliant observation by the idiot brigade here on Smashboards. HOLY ****, WEAKNESSES!??!?!? Wow, unheard of. I wonder if a dim, dirt covered light bulb would go off in the collective thick skulls of these mongoloids if I kindly reminded them of the obvious fact that if a character's strengths vastly outweigh his weaknesses, that character is probably overpowered. Then, hopefully, the light bulb would explode from having actually been turned on, hemorrhaging their brains and killing them instantly. I dunno. One can dream.
Well, there you go. For the most part, those that defend overpowered characters will use one of these arguments, for the simple reason that most people are stupid. If you have ever uttered something even remotely resembling one of the above statements, there is a more than likely chance that the part of your brain responsible for reasoning is highly impaired - Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Trisomy 21, and severe malnutrition amongst others are common causes. I highly recommend terminating your life in a timely and clean manner for the benefit of humanity.
On a more serious note, it is honestly quite astonishing for me to see how abrasive people become when suggesting that the character that they play with is above average in strength. I would guess that people dislike having their accomplishments - whether consistently beating friends or winning tournaments - marginalized. It's not so much that these people defend their characters, as it's only natural, but it's how they do it. It's simply illogical to use statements like the above. It's simply illogical to counter someone's claim that a character is overpowered by saying that their skill has to be greater than the other person's. To me, it isn't difficult to acknowledge that stacking one side with a player of greater skill defeats the whole purpose of comparing a character's relative strength to the rest of the cast's. I just can't see why it's so difficult for most of the posters here.
1. "Learn to adapt!!!11" Ah, an old favourite of mine. It's usually followed by some claim of the character in question not being overpowered because apparently he knows that you aren't putting in any effort to "adapt" even though he probably has never even been in the same room with you. Oh, and it completely ignores the fact that WHEN ONE PLAYER HAS TO DO ALL OF THE ADAPTING TO BEAT ANOTHER PLAYER WHO USES *insert character here* THE MATCHUP PROBABLY ISN'T ALL THAT EVEN. The worst thing about this is the retinue of fellow mouth breathers that come out in rabid butt-patting support of whoever says this like so many feminazis swaying their heads and open palms in unison shrieking "You go girl!"
Yeah, I am sure all of those Yoshi mainers will be adapting their way to the top of tournaments in no time, morons.
Note: there are many variants to this particular one, such as "Just learn to play better" and are often emphasized by stupid anecdotes of Bowser players totally pwning their group of most likely braindead friends.
2. "It's the player, not the game." Good job, *******es, you've successfully recognized the fact that skill plays a factor in the game. What next, will you be telling everyone that they do, in fact, need a Wii to play SSBB? This one always makes me laugh because the person saying it is completely disregarding any ideal of a fair argument. It's honestly amazing how so many people don't realize that when one person has to be better playing most of the cast to beat another person playing character A, character A is overpowered.
3. "It's fine that my class is just plain better than 90% of the cast because mine is way harder to play than them." This one is hilarious because you can almost feel the desperate desire the person has to feel better about himself by believing that he is dominating with such a "high-skill" requiring character. Many practically do the forum equivalent of clapping their hands over their ears and screaming LALALALA to preserve their fragile egos. It would be cute if it weren't so pathetic.
I am not even going to go into how variance in top play would be destroyed if games were balanced around this ******** maxim.
4. "B-b-b-b-but my character has WEAKNESSES!" Yet another brilliant observation by the idiot brigade here on Smashboards. HOLY ****, WEAKNESSES!??!?!? Wow, unheard of. I wonder if a dim, dirt covered light bulb would go off in the collective thick skulls of these mongoloids if I kindly reminded them of the obvious fact that if a character's strengths vastly outweigh his weaknesses, that character is probably overpowered. Then, hopefully, the light bulb would explode from having actually been turned on, hemorrhaging their brains and killing them instantly. I dunno. One can dream.
Well, there you go. For the most part, those that defend overpowered characters will use one of these arguments, for the simple reason that most people are stupid. If you have ever uttered something even remotely resembling one of the above statements, there is a more than likely chance that the part of your brain responsible for reasoning is highly impaired - Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Trisomy 21, and severe malnutrition amongst others are common causes. I highly recommend terminating your life in a timely and clean manner for the benefit of humanity.
On a more serious note, it is honestly quite astonishing for me to see how abrasive people become when suggesting that the character that they play with is above average in strength. I would guess that people dislike having their accomplishments - whether consistently beating friends or winning tournaments - marginalized. It's not so much that these people defend their characters, as it's only natural, but it's how they do it. It's simply illogical to use statements like the above. It's simply illogical to counter someone's claim that a character is overpowered by saying that their skill has to be greater than the other person's. To me, it isn't difficult to acknowledge that stacking one side with a player of greater skill defeats the whole purpose of comparing a character's relative strength to the rest of the cast's. I just can't see why it's so difficult for most of the posters here.
But in all fairness, if you're actually taking scrubs seriously you should consider practicing more.
