How am I supposed to sympathize with Ash if I don't know what level his Pokemon are?

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• Yarrun XIX

  2014-05-29 11:09:58

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  You don't know the level my pokemon are at, and you sympathize with me.

  
  

  R-right?
• Odradek

  2014-05-29 11:18:09

  My dreams exceed my real life

  I can sympathize with real people, but with characters, how am I supposed to get what they're about without stats?

  
  

  I mean, JK Rowling went through the whole of Harry Potter without telling me Harry's power level.
  
  It was TORTURE.
• Imipolex G

  2014-05-29 11:39:48

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  over 9000?
  
• criminalscum

  2014-05-29 12:19:52 edited 2014-05-29 12:20:20

  On a slightly related note:
  
  

  0 Atk Heracross Megahorn vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Darkrai: 306-362 (108.8 - 128.8%) -- guaranteed OHKO

  
  
• Miss Miko Mayonegg

  2014-05-29 12:34:58

  More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
  

  Harry Potter was level 1 at the beginning and probably level 70 by the end.
  
• Tachyon

  2014-05-29 12:39:49

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  power levels were never supposed to be a way of judging characters' relative abilities, anyway
  
  sure Goku's power level is high, but that's kind of beside the point; it's not an accurate representation of his ability
  
• Miss Miko Mayonegg

  2014-05-29 12:41:50

  More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
  

  uh oh~!
  
  
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2014-05-29 12:42:38

  i'm curious, what inspired this thread?
  
• Odradek

  2014-05-29 12:45:26

  My dreams exceed my real life

  glennmagusharvey said:

  i'm curious, what inspired this thread?
  

  http://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/79953469716/eliezer-how-am-i-supposed-to-sympathize-with-a
• glennmagusharvey

  2014-05-29 12:46:37

  OH GOSH THE COLORS
  
  they're...
  
  ...
  
  ...horribly distracting but kinda cool as long as i'm not trying to extract useful infomation from that webpage
  
• Justice4243

  2014-05-29 15:10:38

  READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!
  
  i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
  

  Tachyon said:

  power levels were never supposed to be a way of judging characters' relative abilities, anyway
  
  sure Goku's power level is high, but that's kind of beside the point; it's not an accurate representation of his ability
  

  It did make for a rather convenient method of telling the audience how screwed one character was in relation to another for a while, though.

  
  

  To your point however, the good guys would so often do things to raise their power levels unexpectedly, so it often didn't matter. Plus the numbers got so high even Akira Toriyama got sick of them by the end of the Freeza saga. 
• Bee

  2014-05-29 23:39:29

  *looks at liOH GOD MY EYES