To me it's less weird when I think on what like, the Nerd World was like in 1998-2000 and how "Gusns should just win" stuff kind of was the vein. Note that the Japanese/anime "Guns are justs words with a fancy look" mindset didn't take hold for I think a lot of folks until the mid-00s, which is pretty much well past Exalted having decided guns were cool, but not "guns are the end of sword romance" is wanted.
The logic I kind of go with is "Fighting game guns" of late. Where for a lot of characters, a gun or fire arm or flamethrower or whatever, is just a particular way to make a zoning attack or even just a fancy way to punch folks in the case of characters like Noel Vermillion or Elphelt Valentine in GG Strive.
Glories to the Most High, Sol if I recall
If you imply/state you regularly get attacked, "that wasn't an attack, what actually happened was X which is pretty normal for what was going on" is a valid response. That wasn't a lecture about poor character, it was an explanation about a think they'd been doing for a long time. Gaz didn't bring that up out of nowhere, it was a pretty normal response given the context.
Chejop Kejak has a much clearer position relative to player characters than to the Bull of the North, who could be considered either a contemporary of theirs or functionally an elder, depending on how significant you consider his head start to be.
I'm curious, was this like a versus debate where it's assumed that the conflict would take the form of a straight fight, or was it more generally "America is in Creation, what now?" Because I feel like in a world of supernatural diplomats, spies, and agents provocateurs, America is just a mass of pain points that its people and leaders wouldn't even be aware they should be defending to the degree they'd need to be until Creation's faction have well and truly sunk their claws in.
We can assume, I think, that mortals matter in Creation to some degree or there'd be no point in having them fielded in armies with Deebs as commanders. The question is whether the American mortals matter enough to make up for the fact that America would have no Exalts of its own in this conflict (at least at first; depends on how Exaltations identify humans).
Pretty much.
Furries start providing the Lunars with the equivalent of the Cult merit.i contend that, in any realm-vs-america scenario, the real winner would be the silver pact, who would undoubtedly subvert most of the united states' it infrastructure through all the furries that work in it
It's not like the USA doesn't have a mountain of ways to do that sort of thing right back, for example, do you know how expensive clothes were before the Industrial Revolution? An industrialized society with trade all over the world is going to be richer than the realm by a massive amount and the realm also has a whole lot of internal divisions to pull on.
I'm on America's side here but I think you're overselling how hard it's going to be for deebs to get into American society. Remember that Exalted can learn how to do new things in their area of specialization in a matter of days. Weeks, if they're working in completely unfamiliar territory.
Maybe. Depends on what info they learn about America at first contact. No exalts but massive resources might be worth the risk of pissing off. Lack of magical materials, otoh, might turn them off completely and decide it ain't worth the trouble.
Or that the physics of Creation vs Earth are relatively comparable. Or alternatively that the Realm is fine suddenly dropping into the Pacific Ocean.
