Originally posted by -Pr-I only do it when people want to engage in a "serious debate". No poster on this forum, in it's busiest heyday was probably lauded as "da best debater" more than me outside of tourneys which I have never engaged in. Not that I have a problem with people being engaged in Tourneys, as you said you get what you put in and take out of any hobby? Was I the best debater? Hell no! I was just a guy who spent too much time on a forum (I probably still do) arguing about the unquantifiable. I learnt from my point of view no one can convince everyone of anything in comics and view points never or rarely change. Now and again a poster comes a long at a time in their lives where they need to be engaged in "serious debates" about characters who don't know underwear goes on first and you get a board impressed by Phoenix, or the Surfer to a ridiculous level and board bias becomes a thing. Boards have to be busy for that mind, and battle boards are no longer busy.
I don't disagree.I just think that coming in here and saying that is like going in to a pub and telling people how great sobriety is. I mean, it's not wrong, it just seems... pointless, to me. Debating which character can beat which (and i use the word debate loosely) doesn't work without creating standards and frameworks.
Though it would be easier if writers weren't so damn lazy a lot of the time.