Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26458478-20170223132243/@comment-4450205-20170324141527

Clockworx wrote: Timefreezer4 wrote: Ooh, here's a fun one.

"Downplaying" and "wanking" aren't real. Episodes of VS Debating cannot be right or wrong. How strong a character is really depends on a person's interpretation of information and biases. As such, they are opinions. It is impossible to prove a fight is truly right or wrong due to the fictional nature of characters, and thus statements of who would win are, at their cores, persuasive arguments that cannot be proven true or false and are based on a person's interpretations of character feats. In other words, who wins a fight and how powerful a character is are opinions, not fact. Not sure what opinions have to do with wanking. If you say that Peter Griffin is strong enough to split Jupiter with a single punch, you're wanking. Well, that's not that good. A better example would be to say Chara can react to lightning. Same goes for downplaying. Because no character's maximum strength is absolute, and feats can be interpreted in different ways. We're dealing with fictional characters here, so you can't really prove how strong someone is as fact, and there can always be doubt or different interpretation.