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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8786485" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I just think removing sulfur is quite a bit more sensible than removing potassium nitrate, aka one of the most important fertilizers known to man (a fertilizer we knew about long before we knew what &quot;potassium&quot; or &quot;nitrate&quot; were.) But the digression has probably gone long enough.Agreed. It's extremely frustrating. And, worth noting, the so-called &quot;realism&quot; applied to Fighters is almost always of the &quot;expectations of a mildly-out-of-shape affluent American&quot; variety, e.g. feats that would be perfectly achievable for an Olympic athlete are frequently considered totally impossible. Or stuff like Legolas and his archery skills; he's almost always held up as a &quot;beyond-human&quot; example, but literal actual archers IRL can reproduce his rapid-fire precision if they train for it. (We just don't tend to train for that kind of archery anymore, generally favoring either bull's-eye target shooting or &quot;volley&quot; shooting, as opposed to the more Mongol-horse-archer type that does rely on rapid-fire attacks on moving targets.)-----I'm glad that all the actually bad Fighters (looking at you, Champion and Banneret) got removed, but sad that it came down to Poorly-Made Maneuver Man and Actually A Caster, Just Not Very Good At It.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8786485, member: 6790260"] I just think removing sulfur is quite a bit more sensible than removing potassium nitrate, aka one of the most important fertilizers known to man (a fertilizer we knew about [I]long[/I] before we knew what "potassium" or "nitrate" were.) But the digression has probably gone long enough. Agreed. It's extremely frustrating. And, worth noting, the so-called "realism" applied to Fighters is almost always of the "expectations of a mildly-out-of-shape affluent American" variety, e.g. feats that would be perfectly achievable for an Olympic athlete are frequently considered totally impossible. Or stuff like Legolas and his archery skills; he's almost always held up as a "beyond-human" example, but literal actual archers IRL can reproduce his rapid-fire precision if they train for it. (We just don't tend to train for that [I]kind[/I] of archery anymore, generally favoring either bull's-eye target shooting or "volley" shooting, as opposed to the more Mongol-horse-archer type that [I]does[/I] rely on rapid-fire attacks on moving targets.) ----- I'm glad that all the actually [I]bad[/I] Fighters (looking at you, Champion and Banneret) got removed, but sad that it came down to Poorly-Made Maneuver Man and Actually A Caster, Just Not Very Good At It. [/QUOTE]

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