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Problem 3: Watsonian Argument

 Alright, alright. Maybe I shouldn't give a Doylist argument against a Watsonian hobby.  I'll just make a Watsonian argument instead. Tiering System The most popular battleboarding site, VSBW, uses a tiering system based on the modern mechanistic framework of the world. The Attack Potency page explicitly refers to joules. So what's the problem with this? Not all fiction operates under that framework. To understand why this is such a big deal: 1. Frameworks cannot account for things outside them. This sounds obvious. It is obvious. 2. A more detailed example: Let's talk about rocks. More specifically, what a rock is under three frameworks of reality. A rock in the Chinese view of reality, a rock in the modern view of reality, and a rock in the newtonian field of reality. 'They're the same thing'. You say. But that's wrong! Each of the framework's definitions of something as simple as 'a rock' are totally different from each other. The first su
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Problem No. 2: The Writer Determines Who Wins, End Of

Doylist. 'Out of Universe' Watsonian. 'In Universe' Two perspectives of media analysis.  Problem is, one isn't real. And that's the Watsonian position. Objectively speaking, there's no 'universe' where fictional events happen. The Doylist position is the only thing that happens. This means that there can only be one answer to the question 'Who Would Win'.  'The author decides who wins' 'But we use reasoning!' shrieks the powerscaler.  My answer is 'You are still authors of a fictional scenario deciding who wins and who loses.' You're playing a game that actual writers have no reason to respect. This game does not in any way make that fundamental truth any less true. 
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Problem No. 1: The Problems with Storytelling

I'll be using this for reference. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Tiering_System So, in the site proper, thousands upon thousands of characters are listed as 8-C, 8-B, 8-A, etc. Let's go over the definition of the two lowest tiers above what Versus Battle Wiki calls 'normal human to wall level'. Let's take one level as an example.  7-B: City level Characters or objects that can destroy a city, or those who can easily harm characters with city level durability. Characters in these tiers are called 'weak' by the community, and by the greater battle boarding community at large. To that I ask- do you know how big a 'city' is? The world's biggest city, Tokyo, is 542,000 acres in size. It takes 22 hours and 46 minutes to walk from one end of Tokyo to the other. One acre is big enough to make a human look like a speck. Let's show an example of a character that is apparently 'city-level' according to versus battle wiki. https://vsbattles.fa
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