Elmo 3000

World-renowned sushi chef. He/him. I like to make enchiladas and talk too much about RollerCoaster Tycoon. Rarely write anything.

[Elmo 3000 @g1Elmo3000]

Remember when some hack at The Sun tried to write something dunking on 'snowflake millenials' but accidentally revealed that they had either never read or completely misunderstood the point of Frankenstein?

[Elmo 3000 @g1Elmo3000]

@Deionlojhed89 @JackTDG2 Worth noting that the only source for "the exact same strength as Chaos 0" is that Shadow, who has never met Chaos, said "Watch out! These copies are just as tough as the real thing!"
And Knuckles beat Chaos 2 and Chaos 6 with no trouble.

[Elmo 3000 @g1Elmo3000]

@JackTDG2 The fact that base Sonic beats Perfect Chaos in Generations indicates that no matter the chain-scaling, Chaos does not scale to any of the more modern, impressive Super Form feats.
Also Sonic Adventure is just him getting stomped over and over and over.

[Elmo 3000 @g1Elmo3000]

@lioliosidise @Circusbirdboy @tiiffycatAlt @roronoaariaa Oh God.

[Elmo 3000 @g1Elmo3000]

@JackTDG2 I think it's less 'unable to distinguish' and moreso just rejecting the premise that travel, combat and reaction speeds can be THAT different.
If someone can punch and react at FTL speeds but they can't run more than 50mph then I naturally assume some light wankery is afoot.

[Elmo 3000 @g1Elmo3000]

The example that brought this on was on the page for Six: The Musical pointing out that the line 'a pair doesn't beat a royal flush' is actually a very clever and subtle reference - that you might have missed - to Poker hands.

[Elmo 3000 @g1Elmo3000]

TVTropes, I love you, but every time I'm scrolling a YMMV page and see 'Genius Bonus', it's almost the most redundant, kindergarten "In Chapter Five, Jim refers to himself and Sonia as 'Romeo and Juliet', which is actually a reference to characters in a William Shakespeare play."

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

I'm sorry, I didn't realize Israel had now escalated to the "quadruple tap" where they just keep killing and killing as people try desperately to help the wounded

[Elmo 3000 @g1Elmo3000]

@lioliosidise Batman demolishes both TV Black Noirs at least.
And he wins with prep time. Stomps with Hellbat.
And he wins if HL doesn't immediately go all out.
And he can evade if HL ever loses track of him.
And he wins if he gets five seconds to go first.
And he's better and I like him more.

[Elmo 3000 @g1Elmo3000]

@lioliosidise Eh, I'll be the one to say it.
Batman smirks, knowing he has a massive edge in Skill, Intelligence, Experience, Gadgets, and thinks "Time to enact Bat-Plan 1 of 364!"
Homelander flew to space and back in 3 seconds, he tackles Batman, 1 second and 100 miles later, Bruce is liquid.

[Elmo 3000 @g1Elmo3000]

Made myself laugh at my own dumb Simpsons reference; I was looking through RollerCoaster Tycoon maps for screenshots and apparently I built a Monorail five years ago and named it 'The Pride of Ogdenville'.

[Elmo 3000 @g1Elmo3000]

@RobBurl @JohnCleese Talking about the BBC's (apparently previously unblemished) 'defining commitment to impartiality' when you took over a position held by ROBBIE GIBB is a staggering level of self-serving delusion.

[Elmo 3000 @g1Elmo3000]

@itslaylatime Reminds me of the brief moment in the HBomb Plagiarism video when he points out how much extremely overt misogyny Jimmy Somerton got away with, just because he always specified that it was aimed towards 'white women'.

[Elmo 3000 @g1Elmo3000]

Best joke I ever made was finding out the only two video games to sell 100 million copies without a publisher were Minecraft (still Notch at the time) and Tetris, and said "It's nice that 80 years after the war ended, the Nazis and the Russians are still fighting over something."

[Elmo 3000 @g1Elmo3000]

Twitter is at its best whenever a big show has just finished because everyone is super emotionally-charged and you can't say "Personally, I didn't like that the CEO of Child Torture Inc. got away mostly unscathed," without someone saying "So you sympathised with the Nazi?" 10/10

[Elmo 3000 @g1Elmo3000]

Final season of The Boys doesn't come close to Game of Thrones in terms of disappointment - probably because GoT was better at its best - but imagine if they only introduced Dragonglass literally one single episode before someone used it to kill the Night King in the finale.

[Elmo 3000 @g1Elmo3000]

The Boys (who are back in town): Oi cunt could we get that chest-blast thingy power nullifier too? We haven't thought of this for three seasons but it'd be mad cunting useful. Cuntybollocks. Posh Spice.
Sage: I dunno probably idk
Soldier Boy: (crying) Clara would have loved this.

[Elmo 3000 @g1Elmo3000]

In retrospect, spending all season looking for V1, only for someone to say right before 'Omelanduh took V1 "By the way, my chest-blast thingy that removes people's powers? It also works on V1. Works 100% on V1." was not a good sign that this finale was going to have any tension.

[Elmo 3000 @g1Elmo3000]

@PurpleMrPopo Because their definition of powerscaling includes any demonstration that implies the existence of physics, which makes their hobby incredibly important, which gives them free reign to look down on people not into powerscaling as "fucking idiots who are just too stupid to get it."

[Elmo 3000 @g1Elmo3000]

I feel like there's a purposeful obtuseness to this, to interpret "I don't like/care about powerscaling," as "I reject the mere presence or implied existence of maths and/or physics in any form in any fictional scenario!" rather than "I don't give a shit if Goku beats Ben 10."

[Sheev Talks 🟢 || The Andor video arc @SheevTalks]

The more I think about power-scaling as a concept, the more absurd I find it that anyone acts like it doesn’t matter when discussing media

[Elmo 3000 @g1Elmo3000]

@C4tLucky Go to literally any powerscaling subreddit and tell me what you see more of, "Wow, I really appreciate the consistent relative strength of the characters in this series and wanted to talk about it!" or "How far does Ben 10 get on this Marvel gauntlet?"

[Elmo 3000 @g1Elmo3000]

@SchizoidAsshole @ReflexiveYawn This is not always wrong but it's also a thin line between this and "It's only thanks to the wonders of powerscaling that there are stakes in Moby Dick! How else would we know that Ahab was weaker than the whale?"