User blog comment:Mr. Bambu/The Overpowered Crisis/@comment-26362471-20161104233456/@comment-28876888-20161105052536

Albane used a pretty damn good metaphor there- inflation. Saying your character can tear apart the universe now is the OC equivalent to saying they can drive a car. It's gotten... sad. My favorite characters are generally the 9-8 tiers, the ones who are badass without the overplayed "i broke a planet with mah punch" thing. Doomguy? My hero. Guts? Fucking amazing. Both of them are low tiered and are held to be badasses of their time- not affected by the inflation mentioned before.

I'm babbling, but I hope you can see what I mean. I... I don't like being surrounded by people who assume "strong" is the same as "good". That seems to be the impression now (once again I blame anime, too many people scale to crazy things like DBZ, RWBY, Bleach, etc to the point where... it just doesn't matter what the quality is). RWBY to a lesser degree coz she's like barely nuclear but... you get the gist of what I mean. I think.

For some reason, tearing apart a car or punching through steel just doesn't impress people like it used to.