@1010_dinosaur@StormDaddy7@Trooper9851 Nope, that's not the definition of world-building. Someone's house is set-dressing, someone's life is character-building
@Badgerr138 See, that's not the definition of powerscaling, that's the definition of having internal consistency, I.e a gun can kill a person.
You're not getting that you're conflating separate concepts.
Here's what a professional writer thinks about power scaling:
@Badgerr138 World-building has a set definition. Shipping has a set definition.
A few years ago when powerscaling was only popular on VsBattles and SpaceBattles, It also had a set definition.
If powerscaling means everything then it means nothing.
@Badgerr138@greedyfuck@gojichronic That doesn't refute my point.
If you wanna make the internet slang term "powerscaling" so broad that it encompasses irl terms that have long existed before it, then it's a meaningless term with no real definition
@Badgerr138@greedyfuck@gojichronic - because it really isn't that important to have a lot of detail in a setting if the story is good enough on it's own.
In the same way, you don't need powerscaling to say a gun will kill someone
@Badgerr138@greedyfuck@gojichronic You're stretching definitions.
World-building refers to fictional settings and the amount of detail in them, not every story has a fictional setting and so not every story needs world-building.
A lot of fictional settings have bare bones world-building-
@time_slayr@makapatag This point can be refuted by remembering powerscaling is a made up term made by nerds on the internet and has no weight or value to anybody who isn't terminally online
@vittori89672950@makapatag They're made with an effort to maintain internal consistency, not power scaling.
Power scaling is an online term the average person has never heard
@Badgerr138@greedyfuck@gojichronic And why are pro-powerscaling ppl trying to stay it's a fundamental part of story writing?
World-building isn't even a fundamental part of story writing so why would powerscaling be?