>>269296023I have made another post in regards to this debate in another thread, but like this one, it is a failure of a response. Mainly because neither demonstrate an understanding of what exactly went wrong here, nor does it directly admit where the fuck-ups were or that there were multiple on my end, and on top of that, the people I apologized to might not even have been the same people I was even talking to originally.
For the first half of the conversation, I've reread Kengan Asura Zero and the chapters about Erioh and Metsudo. Sure enough, Erioh was able to dodge shots from Metsudo in close range while explicitly stating he was doing it without being straight up being faster than the bullets. The original anon was completely correct and I was in the wrong. Assassins like Inaba CAN indeed deal with bullets without needing Foresight, instead of being completely powerless against them like I ended up insinuating.
For the second half of the discussion, I genuinely wasn't expecting there to be a continuation. First thing I saw when I got up from a nap, someone replied to several of my posts insinuating I was a powerscaler, when that wasn't the main point of my posts, and so I panicked and rushed to defend myself without really understanding what's going on, instead of slowing down and actually taking my time to understand.
When I made my point about how Inaba shouldn't be able to deal with the machine gun as well as he did, I was not doing it from a powerscaling standpoint, but from the standpoint of artistic storytelling in Kengan. I had in mind Waka coming across as much stronger than he did because of how Daro framed his feats, or how Kiryu's Blink functioned more like a speed feat when it was really a feat of skill. My point was that Inaba's machine gun feat was similar to Kiryu's feat of teleporting behind people in the span of time they could blink, so to speak. It's a poor demonstration of skill. It comes across more like a demonstration of physical prowess, which is a problem endemic to Kengan. That was why I brought up Shen partway through the second half, because his fight against Mukaku is a notable and recent demonstration of this.
In hindsight I should have realized something was off from the start. But I didn't. And so I used bad rhetoric and bad arguments, not intentionally, but because I genuinely didn't know how to start off clearing the misunderstanding. I ended up making things messier.
Will I end up making the same mistake in the future? I don't know. I'm a slow learner, so I'll have to just check myself in the meantime.
