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Nice! A new adventure time!
The hero's party quit and now everybody expects me to kill the demon King.
Sounds good but can we set it in a world that inexplicably has explicit game mechanics? And can the protagonist be absurdly strong because of some technicality that somehow nobody else has run into? I feel that would really set it apart from the competition.
The universes where each and every would-be hero is terminally stomped for merely thinking about going on a quest are uncountable.
There are countable subsets where something other than that happens, and one of those subsets is where the universe rules provide enough wiggle room for a hero to win.
It is all but certain we live in one of the former. Stories about the latter give us hope that we might not be.
Compare: Why do the Power Rangers not simply create the Megazord in the first place and stomp the bad guy before its inevitable enlargement?
Thank you for... wait, where am I?
Funhole leak alert!
I think it happens to everyone as they get older.
this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2025
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