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<blockquote data-quote="Not a Decepticon" data-source="post: 9775115" data-attributes="member: 7020527"><p>"I am not yet tired and thus trying to rest will be wasted" is sufficient. And there is a sea and a mountain of difference between "chilling and waiting a bit" and "waiting 24 HOURS to take an 8 HOURS rest for total 32 HOURS of doing nothing". This is ridiciluous and if you cannot find me an explanation that exist in unvierse, does NOT rely on knowing a rules exploit of the game mechanics like if you can break the fourt wall, or requires you to manipulatively minimize the magnitute of time spent <em>doing nothing</em>, I refuse to acknowledge this as valid thing a character could do.</p><p></p><p>Also, who said the characters are aware these are powers they use? I do not thin ka Fighter is conciously aware that he is capable of making exactly 4 times or twice a day 8 times, I think when he uses action surge, he just thinks "I pshed myself even beyond my limits, my blade moving faster than before". And that's enough.</p><p></p><p>And this is still ridiculous, demandign the characters think in game terms. Are you telling me you also expect Ruy from Street Fighter to not think of in-universe ways to perform Hadouken, but instead be aware of exact combination of buttons he has to press to use it? Because that's what this feels like to me, this whole line of argument. It reminds me of these godawful "rational" fanfics spawned by (equally godawful) Harry Potter and Methods of Rationality, where characters are supposed to act "rational" but in reality the writer just beamed into their head foreknowledge of setting rules and exact event that will happen, so they always act "optimally". It's ignorign that people don't really act rational nor do they think entierly in terms of what is the most optimal couse of action. It's like saying massacre of Finn's village in the Force Awakens was stupid because "rational" villagers would all rush the stormtroopers shooting them with lasers and flamethrowers, overwhelm them with pure numbers (despite them being actively dwindled by said lasers and flame throwers), take over their lasers, flamethrowers and ships, fly to the main ship and take it over too. It strips any resemblance to thinking beings from the characters and turns it into number crunching.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Not a Decepticon, post: 9775115, member: 7020527"] "I am not yet tired and thus trying to rest will be wasted" is sufficient. And there is a sea and a mountain of difference between "chilling and waiting a bit" and "waiting 24 HOURS to take an 8 HOURS rest for total 32 HOURS of doing nothing". This is ridiciluous and if you cannot find me an explanation that exist in unvierse, does NOT rely on knowing a rules exploit of the game mechanics like if you can break the fourt wall, or requires you to manipulatively minimize the magnitute of time spent [I]doing nothing[/I], I refuse to acknowledge this as valid thing a character could do. Also, who said the characters are aware these are powers they use? I do not thin ka Fighter is conciously aware that he is capable of making exactly 4 times or twice a day 8 times, I think when he uses action surge, he just thinks "I pshed myself even beyond my limits, my blade moving faster than before". And that's enough. And this is still ridiculous, demandign the characters think in game terms. Are you telling me you also expect Ruy from Street Fighter to not think of in-universe ways to perform Hadouken, but instead be aware of exact combination of buttons he has to press to use it? Because that's what this feels like to me, this whole line of argument. It reminds me of these godawful "rational" fanfics spawned by (equally godawful) Harry Potter and Methods of Rationality, where characters are supposed to act "rational" but in reality the writer just beamed into their head foreknowledge of setting rules and exact event that will happen, so they always act "optimally". It's ignorign that people don't really act rational nor do they think entierly in terms of what is the most optimal couse of action. It's like saying massacre of Finn's village in the Force Awakens was stupid because "rational" villagers would all rush the stormtroopers shooting them with lasers and flamethrowers, overwhelm them with pure numbers (despite them being actively dwindled by said lasers and flame throwers), take over their lasers, flamethrowers and ships, fly to the main ship and take it over too. It strips any resemblance to thinking beings from the characters and turns it into number crunching. [/QUOTE]
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