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8/6/2025, 4:20:25 PM
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Powerscaling is honestly a crapshoot to begin with, because even putting aside the tribalism and the tendency to come to a conclusion first and then find facts to back up the conclusion instead of the other way around, one big reason as to why powerscaling is so frustrating, is because it directly pits "what the author intended to portray" up against "what the author ended up portraying".
For a single example, there is this Flash page where the narrator directly states he is moving at exactly the speed of light while saving a fuckton of people from a nuclear explosion. This is a CLEAR and DIRECT STATEMENT OF INTENT from the writer as to how fast he intended Flash to be.
Simple, right?
Except this has caused controversies within the powerscaling community, because the logistics of the feat basically require the Flash to have moved at trillions of times light speed. And so, people use this to claim the Flash IS trillions of times light speed in this scene through imposing real-life logic that obviously does not apply, instead of accepting that the author just fucked up the math.
The weird thing is, people just roll with it when authors provide jank height and weight stats for their characters, like Sakigake having over 40 kg on Ohma. You don't get people calculating his supposed "actual weight" by measuring the pixels and then jumping up and down that that is Sakigake Hiraku's true mass.
Yet that behaviour is simply accepted as the norm in powerscaling communities. It's quite weird. And honestly, it completely fucked over the way I digested media for an embarrassingly long time. I'm still trying to shake the mindset off.
Powerscaling is honestly a crapshoot to begin with, because even putting aside the tribalism and the tendency to come to a conclusion first and then find facts to back up the conclusion instead of the other way around, one big reason as to why powerscaling is so frustrating, is because it directly pits "what the author intended to portray" up against "what the author ended up portraying".
For a single example, there is this Flash page where the narrator directly states he is moving at exactly the speed of light while saving a fuckton of people from a nuclear explosion. This is a CLEAR and DIRECT STATEMENT OF INTENT from the writer as to how fast he intended Flash to be.
Simple, right?
Except this has caused controversies within the powerscaling community, because the logistics of the feat basically require the Flash to have moved at trillions of times light speed. And so, people use this to claim the Flash IS trillions of times light speed in this scene through imposing real-life logic that obviously does not apply, instead of accepting that the author just fucked up the math.
The weird thing is, people just roll with it when authors provide jank height and weight stats for their characters, like Sakigake having over 40 kg on Ohma. You don't get people calculating his supposed "actual weight" by measuring the pixels and then jumping up and down that that is Sakigake Hiraku's true mass.
Yet that behaviour is simply accepted as the norm in powerscaling communities. It's quite weird. And honestly, it completely fucked over the way I digested media for an embarrassingly long time. I'm still trying to shake the mindset off.
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