Poll of the Day > The world suddenly becomes very shounen, and revolves mostly around one thing.

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keyblader1985
06/21/19 4:53:21 PM
#1:


What is this, an anime - Results (1 vote)
Games (any kind, incl. video and children's card games)
0% (0 votes)
0
Sports
0% (0 votes)
0
Music (vocals, instruments, or dance)
0% (0 votes)
0
Martial Arts
0% (0 votes)
0
Cooking
0% (0 votes)
0
Rap Battles
100% (1 vote)
1
G) Other
0% (0 votes)
0
Fashion
0% (0 votes)
0
Sex
0% (0 votes)
0
Embroidery
0% (0 votes)
0
Everyone is taught from a young age to have an interest in this thing. Conflicts, both personal and professional have been known to be resolved through direct competition. Your worth in the world is largely (but not solely) determined by your skill in this field. Great skills can earn you both wealth and status, and those at the top of the field are superstars the world over, practically a household name.

Which one would you prefer?
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trodi_911
06/21/19 5:10:59 PM
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Virtual reality tabletop games. Something like Gundam Build Fighters where the figures come to life and fight but it can be any kind of game like the aforementioned Gundam, Warhammer and 40k. It could be adapted to tabletop RPGs like DnD, Shadowrun and all that. You could probably even have card games. You can even make your own games and figures and whatever and it'd be really cool.

That's my dream anime world. Either that or Pokemon.
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ForteEXE3850
06/21/19 5:13:44 PM
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Even if you like sex (as many people do), how many people are actually good enough at sex and have enough endurance to compete in a world where your performance in sex decides your social placement?

In that sense, I imagine the most even playing field for those who frequent Gamefaqs would be a game of some type.
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LinkPizza
06/21/19 5:16:21 PM
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Probably games, giving the variety.

I dont really like sports, so not that...

Music could be fun, but very noisy, as well... And some of it is bad, or not your style.

Martial Arts is great, until all your moves are known.

Cooking could be fun as great food would be everywhere. But there would be so many dishes to wash. Though, if the world was all about cooking, maybe they would have an easier way of doing them...

Rap battles... eh...

Why is other like in the middle? Though, Im not sure what else Id choose...

Fashion would get weird...

Sex sounds fun... but not if we had to use it like that. I mean, Im sure Id be fine. But still... It would probably make me like it much less...

Embroidery seems kind of boring. Even used for this...
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keyblader1985
06/21/19 5:20:11 PM
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LinkPizza posted...
Why is other like in the middle?

PotD tradition. G is always Other.
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LinkPizza
06/21/19 5:22:12 PM
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keyblader1985 posted...
LinkPizza posted...
Why is other like in the middle?

PotD tradition. G is always Other.

Ill have to remember that...
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Xfma100
06/21/19 6:16:33 PM
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Games.

Mainly because some of the other stuff on the poll are already games, or they could very easily be turned into games.
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darcandkharg31
06/21/19 6:37:28 PM
#8:


Weapon Martial arts, but with like blunt weapons so no one dies often. I'll beat you with muh stick.
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Zeus
06/21/19 8:51:27 PM
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Probably games, since I'd never be a great martial artist and... tbh, there aren't *that* many Shonen which center on martial arts to the same regard as other subjects.
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TigerTycoon
06/22/19 1:08:12 AM
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Zeus posted...
Probably games, since I'd never be a great martial artist and... tbh, there aren't *that* many Shonen which center on martial arts to the same regard as other subjects.

I can't actually think of a Shonen off the top of my head where there exists no super natural powers to go along with martial arts.
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Lokarin
06/22/19 1:13:48 AM
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It'd be nice to have a shounen about video games that ISN'T about having your soul sucked into the game
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ParanoidObsessive
06/22/19 1:17:09 AM
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ForteEXE3850 posted...
Even if you like sex (as many people do), how many people are actually good enough at sex and have enough endurance to compete in a world where your performance in sex decides your social placement?

In that sense, I imagine the most even playing field for those who frequent Gamefaqs would be a game of some type.

To be fair, in a world where sex is such a priority, most people would at least be getting some, regardless of how bad they might be at it. Even the shittiest Pokemon trainers are still having regular battles every day.


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Xialoh
06/22/19 1:21:30 AM
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The only objectively fair option is Games. All those other things would have your standing decided by subjective opinion. Even sports and martial arts can't really be fair, because then the winner would often be decided by genetics (size, strength, speed..). The rest of the options boil down to people voting on what they like more I imagine.

A world where games were the most important thing would be pretty great. Or fun. I'm not actually sure if it would be great or not.
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ParanoidObsessive
06/22/19 2:58:18 AM
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Xialoh posted...
The only objectively fair option is Games. All those other things would have your standing decided by subjective opinion.

Even games would be subjective - if I'm really good at fighting games, but you're really good at online multiplayer FPS, how do you quantify the skill difference between us? What about someone who is really good at (and really enjoys) single-player JRPGs - do you completely dismiss their skill-set out of hand because it's not competitive, or do you have to find a way to scale skill at creating optimal Diablo character builds or getting the platinum trophy in a game like Dragon Age when someone completes the hardest difficulty? Do speed runners count for more or less than people who play games as they were intended? What about people who play cooperative games that don't have direct PvP options? Puzzle games? People who just chase as many achievements as they can for max gamer score?

Worse, how do you rank someone who spent 200 hours building an intricate and beautiful palace in Minecraft, or someone who built an operational clockwork computer in Little Big Planet? Like it or not, those are also games - and saying "this measure of skill counts but this other one doesn't" is itself an incredibly subjective decision.


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Xialoh
06/22/19 3:44:12 AM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
Even games would be subjective - if I'm really good at fighting games, but you're really good at online multiplayer FPS, how do you quantify the skill difference between us? What about someone who is really good at (and really enjoys) single-player JRPGs - do you completely dismiss their skill-set out of hand because it's not competitive, or do you have to find a way to scale skill at creating optimal Diablo character builds or getting the platinum trophy in a game like Dragon Age when someone completes the hardest difficulty? Do speed runners count for more or less than people who play games as they were intended? What about people who play cooperative games that don't have direct PvP options? Puzzle games? People who just chase as many achievements as they can for max gamer score?

Worse, how do you rank someone who spent 200 hours building an intricate and beautiful palace in Minecraft, or someone who built an operational clockwork computer in Little Big Planet? Like it or not, those are also games - and saying "this measure of skill counts but this other one doesn't" is itself an incredibly subjective decision.


You could look at it that way I suppose. When I imagine this world run by the merit of gaming skill though, I first assume that any direct competition would require competing within the same game. So if you're an FPS gamer and someone else is an RTS gamer, the two of you would be in different circles and probably wouldn't compete. Like working at different companies. Maybe this society would have some baseline game(s) that everyone is obligated to learn as a basic means of settling disputes (like chess or...monopoly or whatever).

Co-op games you just have to have group competitions for. Base it on efficiency and completion time if it's not a PVP game. Rate speed runners on speed.

Of course, if you're maybe evaluating a resume or portfolio and judging someone's skill based on all the games they're proficient in, then I guess it does have to be somewhat subjective. But for this, I would suggest there just be a number of official groups that determine skill required for a given game based on standardized factors, and assign values to them. I would of course assume that in a world this focused on games, these official groups would be people that actually know something about games and the games they're rating. So you'd have the International (or national..) Association of games, with dedicated groups for gaming categories like RPG, FPS, and so on..if you're playing a new emerging genre, it's just like trying to sell yourself on a skill for a new market. Start it yourself, or learn something that exists to get work. If your genre is unpopular, good luck breaking in.

That said, you'd be right that some things would be fully subjective, such as rating the design of someone's creation in a game like minecraft. For that though...if it were up to me, I'd simply say that such games lack a non-subjective angle for competition, and thus aren't used in this societal hierarchy. Builds in RPGs can be objectively more effective across the board than another, so that can work. You can't be objective about someone's world design though, unless it's just...blatantly leaps and bounds better. Like someone who designed a very ordinary looking village vs an entire functioning city or something.

But yeah, we'd just have to discriminate against anything that's too subjective. Looks like even a gaming world fails to escape this. Or really, I guess those builders would just be the "artists" in that world...very difficult skill to sell because you need a lot of people to like what you do, regardless of anything objectively good or bad about it. You end up either a nobody, a tiny barely known artist, or you hit the big time.
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keyblader1985
06/22/19 9:42:31 AM
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Competitions would not necessarily have to be determined by a game of your genre. It could be any genre, or chess, or some real-world challenge that involves planning and/or outwitting the opponent.

Those who specialize in a specific genre probably would not be directly compared to a pro in a different genre. Kind of like pros of different sports. If anything, the genre itself is what would be what would be subject to scrutiny, like how America doesn't care for soccer.
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keyblader1985
06/22/19 10:01:05 PM
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I feel like dance is shoehorned into music, but I really wanted include it and didn't want to lose any other options.
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Zeus
06/22/19 10:02:37 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
Xialoh posted...
The only objectively fair option is Games. All those other things would have your standing decided by subjective opinion.

Even games would be subjective - if I'm really good at fighting games, but you're really good at online multiplayer FPS, how do you quantify the skill difference between us? What about someone who is really good at (and really enjoys) single-player JRPGs - do you completely dismiss their skill-set out of hand because it's not competitive, or do you have to find a way to scale skill at creating optimal Diablo character builds or getting the platinum trophy in a game like Dragon Age when someone completes the hardest difficulty? Do speed runners count for more or less than people who play games as they were intended? What about people who play cooperative games that don't have direct PvP options? Puzzle games? People who just chase as many achievements as they can for max gamer score?

Worse, how do you rank someone who spent 200 hours building an intricate and beautiful palace in Minecraft, or someone who built an operational clockwork computer in Little Big Planet? Like it or not, those are also games - and saying "this measure of skill counts but this other one doesn't" is itself an incredibly subjective decision.



Usually games-related animanga refers to one specific game, maybe with a few offshoots for filler arcs and specials or when they're trying to tie in a new product.
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ParanoidObsessive
06/23/19 12:56:10 AM
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Zeus posted...
Usually games-related animanga refers to one specific game, maybe with a few offshoots for filler arcs and specials or when they're trying to tie in a new product.

So Prince of Pong?


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