Hey
@PoptartProdigy , do the bonuses Gore won still apply in a future conversation?
Or in this conversation with Valentine?
They applied to convincing Dandeer specifically. In this case, they will apply to mitigating the fallout from so blatantly circumventing Dandeer.
@PoptartProdigy, what was your initial reaction to the Valentine vote when it appeared? Did you expect it or were you surprised by it? Also, will the bonuses generated by this thread's diligent omake writers apply to the Valentine vote or are they completely worthless?
My reaction was, "this should be interesting to write."
Your second question has some seriously loaded phrasing, to the point where I wouldn't be comfortable answering it, had Mikeline not asked more neutrally.
While I feel salty about this turn out, it seems to me that PoptartProdigy WANTED this outcome. And, fuck it, if he wanted to write this then I want to see it.
I must ask: what on earth made you conclude this?
Also, please stop gendering me. I'm not in the mood today.
Does that mean that they can make robots as powerful as Android 17 and 18? They were more powerful than a basic Super Saiyan.
In theory, yes, although they don't really go in for
cybernetics per se as they do robotics as a standalone.
Poptart said the technology wasn't militarized, and it bears remembering that Dr. Gero spent
at least something like twenty or thirty years working on robotics technology, first for the Red Ribbon Army, then for himself. He didn't unleash the androids capable of performing at a super-saiyan level until the end of that period, and there was probably a reason for that.
On the other hand, this
DOES seem like something the Exile community would try to keep track of on some level because they do have cultural memory of androids as terrifyingly dangerous creations (let alone Cell).
@PoptartProdigy , if it's true that Garenhuld technology has fundamental robotics technology that is broadly comparable to that of Dr. Gero, or even superior, do the Exiles realize this, and how much do they know or think they know about the possibility of androids like Androids 16-20 being created? Is there a consensus on how long it would take to develop this technology given an opportunity? If so, why is this not a field of greater research? Even androids many orders of magnitude less powerful and sophisticated than the high-end androids of Dragonball Z would make armies of conventional soldiers like the ones we saw during the Tastreyan invasion of Aramaia practically obsolete.
As you said, it is very much not militarized. While robotics as a field is extremely advanced, the practical implementation lags significantly. That said, the Exiles do indeed keep track. Cyborgs like 17, 18, and 20 are, as mentioned above, not a serious field of study. True androids like 8, 16, and 19 actually don't exist -- while
robotics is extremely advanced, A.I. studies are primitive by comparison. Remember, IRL Earth unless specified otherwise. It'd take decades to develop AI to that level, and further decades to successfully get the surgeries required for cyborgs to the point of being able to make androids
en masse.
I suspect
@PoptartProdigy will rule that light in DBZ just moves faster than light
, but otherwise we might be able to take advantage of this. If we achieved Ki Stealth, perhaps enemies would be forced to instead track the null area where they don't detect anything at all? In which case instead of being completely broken, your opponent would just take a penalty based on exactly how competent they are at sensing Ki.
My ruling is that I am not paid enough (at all) to care.
Is that actually a technique? I thought that was just a thing that happened when they moved really fast, that the wiki called a technique because the wiki has to call everything a technique.
That is in fact the case. It is technically distinct, but not really distinct enough in execution for me to classify it as a skill.
I'm not sure why some of the players are so intent on getting it classified as a skill, given that right now I have Kakara be as proficient in its use as she needs to be, and if I was convinced to make it a skill, she'd start at Poor. Seems slightly against your own interests. Still, though, some people
have been pushing pretty hard, so I
suppose...
