Ashen-Star-Mage's Starlog

I've actually told someone that I'd gotten a hysterectomy when the topic of me not having periods came up. I think the person was complaining about periods and asked if I could relate. Either that or she was talking about the prospect of having kids and pregnancy. The reason I said this was because I didn't feel like coming out to the person for one reason or another. Funny thing is the person totally bought my hysterectomy story. Go figure.

There’s a reason there are always wars in Wars World (the setting of Advance Wars, Advance Wars Black Hole Rising, and Advance Wars Dual Strike). It’s not because there are megalomaniacs like Sturm and Von Bolt on the loose. It’s far more sinister. Caulder doesn’t count because he appears in an alternate world and continuity. 

The goddess who rules over Wars World realized that entropy generation was necessary to sustain the planet’s life force. However, peace does not create enough entropy to keep the planet going. War does though. In the sense that the large number of deaths and by extension reincarnations create a tremendous amount of entropy for the planet. Therefore, the goddess intends to keep Wars World constantly at war. It’s really an ends-justify-the-means approach. Sure many people will die from war, but in the end, what matters most to her is preserving the life of the planet. She does this by manipulating the country leaders into fighting each other, and by manipulating entities like Sturm and Von Bolt into masterminding their own global wars. 

She could be the true final boss of Advance Wars as a series. She is deliberately overpowered. As in stronger than Black Hole Rising Sturm. 

???: Goddess of War

Hit: Chaos

Miss: Order

A mysterious goddess and mastermind behind all the wars in Wars World.

All units have superior firepower (+20%) and defense (+20%). Units have +2 vision in fog of war and may randomly deal up to +1 extra damage to enemy units.

Power Gauge xxxxxXXXXX

CO Power: Chaos Storm - Inflicts 2 damage on all enemy units. 

Not-so-fun fact: Certain aspects of Pokemon gender mechanics are inherently sexist. See in generation 2 (Gold/Silver/Crystal) gender was determined by a Pokemon's attack IV (basically Pokemon genetic potential for each stat). IVs ranged from 0-15, and the higher the IV the higher the attack stat it has based on genetic potential. For most species, roughly 50% are male and 50% are female. In this generation, for a roughly 1/1 gender ratio (difference species have a different ratio of genders occurring), attack IVs of 0-7 result in a female Pokemon, and 8-15 result in a male Pokemon. It's worse for Pokemon that have 12.5% female and 87.5% male offspring. In this case, only IVs 0-1 result in a female Pokemon. Since the attack stat determines the power of physical attacks (since generation 4), it's kind of like the strength stat in other games (DnD, Fire Emblem, etc). So by this logic, is Pokemon implying that in generation 2 male Pokemon are always stronger than female Pokemon with regards to physical strength? True, on average, the average man has greater strength than the average woman, but there are cases where this isn't so. But in Pokemon, male Pokemon are always stronger than female Pokemon with regards to physical strength.

I’m going to make the argument that Star Wars’s Imperial stormtroopers, who most regard as notorious for their poor accuracy are actually reasonably good at shooting. The problem lies not in the accuracy of the stormtroopers rather in that the people they usually are seen shooting at are main characters who by the laws of fiction and cinema are not allowed to get hit. 

Ever heard of the concept of plot armor? It’s a term used to describe the phenomenon of a character who is relevant to the main plot (for example, a protagonist or important supporting character) being able to dodge or shrug off any attack thrown at them. There are cases of characters being hit or injured even with plot armor, but in these cases it’s usually not fatal. For example, in Star Wars, Luke Skywalker gets shot in his prosthetic hand in Return of the Jedi and keeps going, and Princess Leia gets shot in the arm in the same movie and is hardly worse off for it. There are also cases of characters with plot armor losing said plot armor when the plot deems them no longer necessary. In Star Wars, this is apparent when a character who has fought legions of enemy droids or stormtroopers suddenly gets impaled or shot dead. It does happen. 

Now, back to the stormtroopers. Think about this for a moment. How many times does a stormtrooper shoot at a main character versus a plot-irrelevant character like a generic rebel soldier? Notice any difference? To break it down, whenever the stormtroopers shoot at a main character (like Luke, Han and Leia) they almost always miss. However, when they’re shooting at rebel soldiers or other generic characters, they are frighteningly accurate. More accurate than real-life modern soldiers perhaps. Rogue One is a prime example. Apart from the main characters who usually dodge everything, everyone else takes plenty of shots from the stormtroopers and most don’t even survive to tell the tale. The same thing with the stormtroopers raiding the Tantive IV in A New Hope. The stormtroopers take down rebel after rebel with ease.