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Fighteer
MOD
(Time Abyss)
2018-10-11 05:46:17
Ew. It doesn't even link to a work. I'd say cut it unless someone wants to defend it.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

I was randomly clicking through links just now and came across a rather baffling entry on the Abusing the Kardashev Scale for Fun and Profit page.
It's in the "Other: Unconventional or hard to quantify in watts." section, and if anyone wants a look a page search for "Or Something" will get you there...TBH I'm not quite sure what the entry's talking about - limited context plus questionable grammar plus semi-random italicisation make it barely comprehensible (IMHO).
I couldn't fathom its origin from the Page History, and without knowing something about what it's talking about it'd be a challenge to attempt to clean it up.
On a trope or work page I'd be inclined to delete it, but as that page is a "Just for Fun" one I wondered whether there's more tolerance of non-standard entries (a bit like YMMV).
Any views on that, or can anyone offer clues on the entry's original work so it could be tidied up a bit?
Edit: had to go back to the page to check my link to it, so while I'm at it am adding the text of the entry itself:
- The author-stated badly written character habitat Or Something Like That has at least six layers of existence (he got to stuff like Omniverse and We Gave Up So Let's Just Call It Points) and the three most powerful attacks are throwing literally EVERYTHING else at them, breaking the story, but forcing the target to take some form of major backlash from it and imposing reality (or at least a semblance of logic) on the setting. The people who use those are leaders, but it is stated that the rough estimate is that newborn babies have the ability to break the story at least a hundred times on birth and it only gets stronger from there. And that's the civilians. Military or police forces use unquantifiable amounts of energy breaking the flimsy-in-the-first-place rules of reality, omniverses (in jewels) are somewhat expensive and require much care but multiverses and universes are cheaper and easily cared for, plot devices are medium-class weapons, hybridizing of technology and magic is the equivalent of tools, and throwing existence at someone is the effective-ish method of killing supervillains, although it's not perfect.
Edited by IanK