KMC Forums - star wars vs. debating is like theology

Writers, the good ones at least, try to keep their consistency and set some specific area of abilities for characters. Good authors purposefully keep consistent gaps between characters of various levels, they really give a thought about how character X is slightly faster than character Y, etc. Really, most good writers do that and keep in mind to have characters fully established in those norms.

What they don't do, like, never do, unless they suck, is to consider fighting like a math scenario. Any half-brained writer will tell you it's an utter retardation to believe a character being 1/20 better means anything in the slightest. They know fighting is random, they know it's all about the move nr. 323 being just off, but more than that, they want to keep the tension. They don't want to write a story where Dooku wins over Maul because he's 5% better as a duelist. They want tension, good, interesting fights.

The Drew quote about how anybody can win any fight under specific circumstances is something 99% of writers follow, lol. Unless we're talking about some obvious gaps like Yoda vs. Mundi, where everyone knows Yoda is supposed to be beyond the others, they will easily have Mundi beating Opress because of luck, good terrain, one bad movement, one good tactics, etc. This is how it would realistically work either way, and this is how writing is more interesting. Nobody wants fights to work the way VS debates work, it would be the shittiest reading ever.

Not to even mention the insane scaling across various eras, or some insane details, lol. Writer won't go outside his era of choosing when writing, because he would be ****ing retarded if he did, he would spend more time making insane diagrams trying to put up with it despite no reason to. Ask any good writer and, agreed, he'll just take a normie stance and do some loose comparison based on the "vibe" of the character. They won't be giving a shit about how movement X is 20m/s faster than movement Y, lmfao, despite being a VS debater and a storywriter at the same time, I would never do that writing a story because it would be tedious insanity. You can't be looking at those small details when writing, unless you want to go insane. Good writer puts effort on small details about mimics, words chosen by characters, but not the shit we talk about on here. They can make sure to go by the idea Fisto exhibits greater speed than Koon, but that's it, they won't be counting the number of ****ing blaster bolts deflected lmao.

If we were to consider the reality of how random fighting is and how a large percent of it is just a cointoss, most fights would be "either way", unless it's Dooku vs. Kenobi at least.

So yeah, VS debating has totally nothing to do with actual real writing.