Originally posted by Rockydonovang
Call it what you want, acting like this is confirmation of anything when the dude himself considers his statement worth little is dumb
Author opinion are cited even in research articles as a form of evidence.
Originally posted by AncientPower
Authorial intent, dear.
It also applies to the second tweet where valk is implied to be the de palps equivalent of tor, not that valk=de sidious. And that makes sense as A. Valk is the most powerful force user of that time period like sidious B. his spirit survives physical death
It does not apply to the third tweet which he himself acknowledges holds little o no weight.
Originally posted by Rockydonovang
authorial intent applies to his first answer which unlike ant's trying to claim doesn't remotely imply valk can create wormholes. It just says that the power he used, lightning, is a less destructive and not wide scale version of force storm, not that the variations of lightning sids and valk used are the same or that valk can use the variation of lightning sids used.It also applies to the second tweet where valk is implied to be the de palps equivalent of tor, not that valk=de sidious. And that makes sense as A. Valk is the most powerful force user of that time period like sidious B. his spirit survives physical death
It does not apply to the third tweet which tom himself acknowledges holds little to no weight and was just an opinion of his.
Anyways, if I'm being honest, this proves nothing in the (should be concluded) Sidious vs Valk debate. Sidious simply has more empirical/logical evidence on his side. Not trying to make an appeal to majority here, but there's a reason Sidious has a far greater cadre of followers on the forums than Valkorion. Because people are inherently logical, and logic points towards Sidious, (not saying it's illogical for people to believe Valkorion is superior, heck I believed it at one point in time). Just food for thought.
Exposure does nothing to raise or lower Valk/Sids. If all evidence shown in Valk's illustrious career isn't above the evidence we've seen of Sidious' illustrious career, logically Sidious is superior. As of Revan and even SWTOR people were perfectly logical in believing that Vitiate was sub-Plagueis/ROTS Sidious. Because there wasn't enough evidence at the time to point to Vitiate being inarguably superior till Ziost/KOTFE. However, Valk's start to finish is inferior to Sidious' based on the evidence that we have, IMO. At their absolute peaks we saw them both operate at, Sidious was more impressive from a combative, cosmological, and manipulative standpoint.
Like I said in another thread, though, I think a lot of that can be attributed to Valkorion being poorly written. Like, he goes from Sidious-level mastermind to getting ****ed by the Outlander and a holocron he made when he was 10 in an instant. Switched from nuanced to cookie-cutter so quickly.
Originally posted by DarthAnt66
@Skillz: I think the parallels that can be drawn between them both using wormholes further establishes them as being close to each other.
I agree their are parallels, but the scale TOR operates on is entirely different from DE. Valkorion got absolutely out-willed by the Outlander, Sidious is ****ing with the Son of the Chosen One and making him his puppet until the latter received aid from the Daughter of the Chosen One. Outlander was resisting Valkorion's mental domination for years and by himself.