Vordak

ImportantNobody Vs Vordak [Practice Match]

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Yes, that makes sense. Parallel I considered not in terms of his whole body, having to go straight towards his back or front, but instead based on how it impacts the skin rather than, say, glancing off the skin at an angle.

@ImportantNobody

Perhaps you wanted Hikaru to step towards Vos' right, so that she would be directly in front of him?

ImportantNobody Vs Vordak [Practice Match]

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Perhaps perpendicular is a bad term when I should say straight at him.

@ImportantNobody

Well, yes. As i said, stepping to the side would bring her blade parallel to his chest. When she steps, to her right, she goes towards Vos' back, not his front.

ImportantNobody Vs Vordak [Practice Match]

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I was thinking his knife was held mostly vertical with a slight inward angle due to you saying he'd move on her inward side should something happen, so that's the most convenient, I think, rather than blocking with te blade horizontally and the handle on his left side. Therefore, I planned on her stepping to the side to slide it past, moving her hand about even with her shoulder and the back of her hand facing upwards so that the blade is angled down as to the left, angled perpendicular to him.

@ImportantNobody

You've probably messed up the stances, as there is no way it could result in a perpendicular strike. They aren't in mirror stances, here both have the left or right foot leading - Hikaru has the right leading and Vos has the left.

ImportantNobody Vs Vordak [Practice Match]

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I don't see why she'd force her right arm across her body to angle the sword like that instead of angling her right arm away from her body to make the point aim to the left around his knife as it slides along the inside. Perhaps the way you tapped your knife against it is what I'm improperly envisioning.

@ImportantNobody

Well, i don't think either of us even mentioned Hikaru angling the blade with her hands. Just to clear this up - at what angle do you want her to strike? At a steep angle, or perpendicular to his chest?

ImportantNobody Vs Vordak [Practice Match]

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ImportantNobody Vs Vordak [Practice Match]

I don't see how her sidestepping around to the right, his left, would angle her blade away from him unless he does something else with his knife. It sounds like he's tapping it on her inside so he could try to push it away but is just tapping it right now so her blade would definitely get a chance to at least start sliding directly his way as stated.

@ImportantNobody

Let me explain: Vos has his left foot leading, meaning that his torso would be angled diagonally from his front-left to back-right, and if she steps to his left, the dagger being the pivot point, then her hilt moves to his left and point to the right, bringing the blade parallel to his torso.

Let me know if i misunderstood something.

ImportantNobody Vs Vordak [Practice Match]

@ImportantNobody

RPguild Ranked Tournement (Altered Tundra vs Vordak)

@Vordak I probably should have asked this before, but at its strongest, what's the damage Pulse can do at its maximum? I know you implied that it can knock Alexis out cold at that close range, but it seemed you also implied something akin to nerve damage, possible beheading if aimed correctly.

@Altered Tundra

It can it can blow a wooden plank apart, if we go by the description in Vos'stoorge's CS, and Wikipedia implies planks to be a minimum of 1.5 inches thick. Admittedly, that is much more powerful than what i initially had in mind for his ability - i was aiming for something a good whack with a baseball bat could achieve; a little over half an inch.

ImportantNobody Vs Vordak [Practice Match]

I don't think you've described the exact attack you wanted to. Hikaru has her right foot leading and Vos has his left foot leading, meaning that they would be standing toe-to-toe in front of eachother. Stepping to her right from this position would actually turn her blade away from any of Vos' bodyparts, the chest included.

The Topic of Homosexuality, Gender Identity, and So forth

5. In this specific case, does it make sense? I mean..... we're talking about a gene that would prevent reproduction, up until the late 90s. how many billions of years of evolution does it theoretically take for that to select itself right out of the pool? If that's truly the only factor, then gay people only exist because for literally billions of years, social pressures have bullied them into screwing the opposite sex. I don't buy that.

@mdk

If Homosexuality was a gene, I don't think I would exist at all. It would be a gene which, in the eyes of natural selection, is completely useless. A man and a woman can have a child but a man and a man can't unless it is adopted. For natural selection, the idea of keeping a gene like homosexuality simply would have been worthless.

@Rae Zer

If we assume that genetics have something to do with homosexuality, i say we must get rid of the notion of there being genes that make you attracted to the opposite or to the same sex. Rather, in my opinion, it would be much more likely for there to be genes causing attraction to women, which are prevalent in men, and genes that cause an attraction to men, which are prevalent in women.

In other words, rather than having "if you are X, then you are attracted to Y" genes, which would be attraction to the opposite sex, it is simply "you are attracted to Y", or "you are attracted to X", regardless of the host's gender. Then it all makes sense, as the genes causing homosexuality will be in abundance within the opposite sex.