[@Mahz]

Not particularly. Did want to address something.

[quote=@Doc Doctor]

We both have our groupies, our home teams, and I should think that between your guys and my guys, there's some kind of gap in communication, like what occured in the tournament thread resulting in the Luchalliance leaving en masse. I had a similar experence with Melon, and it took a half year, perhaps longer, for us to resolve our differences. 

Why exactly is this? Are there alternate standards, customs? I do not know, but I try to keep an open mind. Try, at least.
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This here, it hit me, as to why there has been such a problem here. There are alternate standards, set between you and everyone else here.

See, I had a character here who could match any force leveled against her, much like the Beardforce does for Gonad, but when I tried to apply with her -- as seen here [url=www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/3516502]here[/url] -- I was told that that same power was broken because she could scale without limit... And yet here you are doing far more than that, scaling your power instantly at a glance, with no one batting an eye.

DLL was told his character's ability to replicate the powers of others after thorough observation was too powerful for the TZ tournament, and yet the Beardforce is able to so thoroughly analyze the abilities of Gonad's foes to blow through any and all of their defenses, somehow with sheer power alone. Tez believes that El Rey was also on the road to rejection for a power scaling ability but never even got a response despite submitting one of the first profiles.

My initial defense was ruled untenable because I had failed to list a specific, real world martial art from which I took it (not a new, unlisted supernatural power, but an application of Tai Chi)... if that's how it works so be it, but as others have said, we use our profiles as guidelines, within common sense, where here they serve as an end-all, be-all. 

The frustration of that new limitation coupled with the double standards in acceptable abilities indeed the starting point of frustration, and the reason I also refused to budge. Never before in my roleplaying career have I encountered such an insane ability that worked without observation, with information that is either literally unavailable anywhere else but the character profile, or else ignoring that information, no matter how ridiculous the outcome. For that reason I erred on what I felt was common sense, and adjusted accordingly.

I'm in no mood to continue this battle under any circumstances, either way. My vote would be to strike the whole mess and be done with it. If that doesn't sit then do what you will with it.