Thread 283224263

To gain something you need to sacrifice something of equal value

>>283224263 (OP)
We call this putting time and effort into something...

>>283224263 (OP)
>I sacrifice my virginity
Sounds like a win-win scenario

>>283224405
Did you read OP?
>Equivalent exchange
So then I need to ask you if you are male or female? Because male virginity is a meme.
You would probably get it taken by the ugliest whore in your town and get a piece of chewing gum in exchange

>>283224263 (OP)
>I sacrifice
my mom

>I get
your mom

Next, I think I'll plap Lust I fucking hope that's the right name for the black haired woman, I always get so confused with the different FMA versions, I find these threads impossible to follow sometimes

Isn't the world fucked once somebody discovers nuclear fission(the movie doesn't count)?

>>283224999
No

how can I arbitrage this exchange rate?

>>283224263 (OP)
But there's no universal measure of value.
Who decides how valuable something is?
Is it the market value at the moment of transmutation? Or just the alchemists personal feelings?

>>283226296
If it's matter, then there is actually universal measures of value when it comes to mass and energy. That's why alchemy works based off of the energy of tectonic plates (or if you're western, unknowingly, the hellbeast sprawled over said source of kinetic energy).

>>283226371
That was just a limiting layer, not a source of power. Eastern alchemy also doesn't draw power from the ground at all.

>>283224263 (OP)
was it only his arm he got back? i thought he got his leg back too.

>>283226707
He traded his arm for Alphonse's soul, so that's what he got back when Alphonse reversed the trade.

>>283224263 (OP)
to gaine you're mother :-DD I musd sagrifize the endire wordl :DDD

Best girl

>>283226868
Nobody come close, yeah

>>283224999
only if you assume the 4 fundamental forces in the setting exist and work the same way they do IRL

20 years gone by and still I don't understand why Ed only lost half a leg while Al had his entire body and soul snatched

>>283224263 (OP)
Remember when the official Manga translated Equivalent Exchange as "exact change"?

>>283228047
The thing that's being exchanged for is "Truth". The farther you are away from it, the bigger the price you have to pay. Ed was wiser than Alphonse, and both were much more foolish than Izumi. There's also an element of subjective self-imposed punishment, since what Ed lost isn't objectively greater than what Izumi lost.