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How did he do it? If he believes his sword can’t chop down a tree that’s already almost down, then how could he even hope to damage a snake that is bigger, heavier, and more durable than that tree by a significant amount, let alone cause it major injury? The thing is even heavy enough to cause a noticeable rumble in the ground from its fall, which that tree would not, nor would any animal walking today, and more importantly it was durable to withstand the weight of its fall. Which is insane for an animal that large; square-cube law establishes that the bigger the animal is, the less able it is to support and move around its own weight. It’s why an ant can fall from basically any height with no injury and carry hundreds of times its weight yet an elephant can be fatally injured from a fall from even a few feet off the ground and can’t carry anymore than a quarter of its weight.
And that’s only the 2nd ever of the game, would you mind explaining HOW, they beat a much later disc 1 boss like Jiango?
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^Whole thing. Jiango is heavy enough to crush a boulder when he falls on it after the fight. That’s a lot heavier than a friggin tree.They beat the thing in only a few minutes too, as they got up to Fruegal right after it, and just before the rising sun could be seen.
With these two examples out of the way, it would seem your example would require you to adhere to logic resembling something like that Dart can just cause damage by staring at bosses or something? Maybe it slowly dies by itself while the party just strikes a pose the whole time, maybe they are allergic to action poses?? Just maybe? Since surely his sword should shatter in trying to damage things like that right? Lol. You’re an idiot.
Again, what the hell do you think you’re saying with this ‘outside of gameplay’ shit? THINK, you moron. There aren’t two different forms of characters and canon within the game, there is only one plot to progress and one set of character abilities, and the things that do so are the boss fights. Not one-shot ‘puzzles’ like getting that axe and chopping down a tree with it. How you can suggest one thing can exist unchanged/unchallenged while it would inhibit everything else from realistically happening is mindboggling.
You want me to explain how the tree thing can exist within the game and not cause any problems? Oh, its very simple and the choices themselves are simple;
1.Dart was simply wrong about the statement that he proposed about his sword not being durable enough to chop down a near fallen tree, I mean, did he even try? Nope. These things happen, unless there is an explanation, one defers to the visuals when there is a contradiction between sayings vs showings.
2. Dart found a higher quality, more durable sword along the way. We know the party upgrades their weapons because weapon shops are mentioned at least twice in the game; once by Lavitz when suggesting preparations to go to Hoax, and secondly in the 4th disc, Albert and Kongol can be found in a Wingly weapon shop in Ulara perusing the selections before they leave. In fact there is a higher quality sword you can pick up in the cave where the snake is, so its possible that Dart acquired it in the story.
See? That was easy.
And about the axe thing? Lol its just more lame, desperate, inaccurate and/or subjective retelling. He did not struggle to lift the thing at all and he carried it casually on his shoulder afterward, nor did he struggle to swing it, he did not groan or grunt while swinging. It’s a tree that’s like half fallen and its on a frigging CLIFF, why, would he swing the axe as hard as he can? That would be stupid. Either way he put it down in 3 hits.
I’ll even post the event for you since you think its so influential.
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^5:25-6:30
Now to get back to some cutscene/story examples of strength.
-Dart knocked the mangled Virage into a pool of lava, where it drowned. We already know Virage are heavy as hell so even this legless thing would be heavy. And again, its durable enough to splash around in lava and withstand the heat—and not like creatures that are simply elementally immune to it like the firebird--the virage is simply durable enough to withstand it. Screw trees.
-And this:
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^:00-:29 intro & 5:04-end. An end of disc 1 feat. Rose shatters Kongol’s Giganto armor into pieces in a single thrust. One, this armor is huge. It fits on a very bulky 8’3” humanoid. Two, its so heavy that Kongol’s steps are shaking the thick stone bridge that they are all standing on. This is a massively superhuman feat. She didn’t just pierce it, no, with one thrust she shattered it. This is 1st disc Rose, and by the 4th disc when Rose will have gotten stronger herself, Dart is able to physically match or surpass her in a show of strength in this scene;
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^:22-1:37. Flashback sequence in the first disc of Dart and Rose clashing swords. Dart ‘shoves’ her back during this clash…His sword that supposedly can’t cut through a tree doesn’t break either. : )
Anyway, compare Rose’s feat to this video, where a lance strike is mechanized to be coming at the speed of horseback against some armor.
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What does it do? Nothing more than make a pinhole in that coat of plates. And that armor is for a normal sized person, and is not as dense as Kongol’s armor either, as even if it was scaled up to fit an 8’3” person, it still wouldn’t cause their steps to quake the ground or anything. So basically, screw your shitty tree. Dart is strong as hell. And guess what? This happens ‘outside of gameplay’ too. 😉 And since this is a clear superhuman strength feat from Rose in disc 1 alone, it further validates Dart’s superhuman strength feat of slashing through the Divine Dragon later in disc 3 when we know he would have gotten a lot stronger then, (along with the rest of the party).
The cutest part of this attempt at a counter point was how sure you sounded. : ) Lol. But on the real though; that was dumb of you. Very, very dumb. Both with the implications of what your shitty logic would present and thinking that there wouldn’t be an easy address for it. It’s dumb enough to make me realize that I have no further need of wasting time on you, the first to occupy my ignore list now, there you go.
Thanks for making this so easy.
(btw, every mention of strength feat for Dart here is being generically used to refer to striking force)
Nice way of debating. That's called Appeal To Motive. You "refute" my stance by bringing up a possible motive for my argumentation or irrelevant points such as claiming 'I like Squall', therefore I "downplay feats".
Lol. Not at all, it was simply a quaint observation I've come to make and mentioned as an aside to goad this exact, predicted response. It was successful, and amusing. However…
Were you not the same wide eyed hopeful who asked me randomly in a conversation, who I supported
between Cloud and Squall in a fight? To which I responded; before Advent Children I would have said a tie? And then you went on some longwinded spiel to convince me that Cloud and co are not superhuman (bullet timing etc.) because some developer quote said they wanted to take some 'artistic license' or some such with the movie to embellish things? And were you not the same person who could not understand how useless that quote was when they continued to use that 'artistic license' to further establish
in the canon how superhuman the crew was with a few other games (Crisis-Core, Dirge of Cerberus, maybe Before-Crisis) and even an OVA (Last Order) on top of AC? Were you not the same guy who could not wrap your head around the concept of retcons and that those subsequent canon entries
were instruments that retconned the whole game of FF7 into a superhuman bullet-timey fest?
It might have been you with all that desperate pro-squall denial/sour grapes that I was talking to, but then again I might have been imagining it. Who knows? 😉
Don't be so emotionally attached to videogame characters.
Oh I’m not, this has simply been my debate style since forever. I do enjoy throwing barbs. Very fun.
Why don't you focus on backing up your claims instead of accusing me?
Oh but I have been, and have never done anything but that. I can also take jabs at you for a percent or two of my posts and then swing back in to the actual debate portion in-which you come up short. Its not a problem for me and easy for me to separate the two. Why don’t you become passable at analyzing and comprehending quantifiable feats? 
Squall has nothing to do with anything and I love The Legend Of Dragoon.
K. You can love it all you want—(and then idiotically attempt low ball Dart into a guy who can’t even chop down a tree). Doesn't change that you demonstrate a lack of ability to piece together scenario details, and to demonstrate subsequent knowledge of real life phenomena and analogues that goes into establishing quantifiable feats. (But hey, I don't blame you. You're not used to dealing with feats, you like Squall afterall. 😉 )
So stop being childish and stop taking scenes out of context, because you see a guy dodging some swords slashes then you jump to 'he has super-speed'.
Except I’m not taking anything out of context. All of the feats happened ‘as is’. The only attempt you’ve made at even justifying this supposed issue that I’m ‘taking things out of context’ is on the issue of Dart’s friends being present during the second Lloyd fight. Which I didn’t even say they were not.