Magnamax

On 2/9/2024 at 5:03 PM, DSkillz said:

Huh, well what do you know?  

 

Thank you to all that participated in the Draft, made good picks, and put in good debates. It all helped to make this Draft as entertaining as always. This was probably my best Drafted and definitely my best-performing team yet (not to mention having possibly the most convoluted team name in the history of the Draft, lol), but it surely wasn't an easy road to make it this far.

I hope all of your guys and more join in on the next one. Just remember to do your best to draft well, debate for your picks, and most of all, have fun. 

 

Thanks, y'all!  

And no doubt these Death Matches were a battle. In fact, this may encapsulate them perfectly, except Culwych and I were both the older guys.  

 

 

 

 

 

Congratulations Dskillz!

When Phyllis is flashed, he is insensitive and mocks her.

Having to fire an employee leads to him agonizing for a day to the point where it’s worse.

He puts Dwight in charge of Health Insurance because he doesn’t want to make hard decisions and upset others always.

He hits Meredith with his car, then causes even more embarrassment by taking everyone to the hospital to try and force her to apologize.

Diversity Day.

He almost triggers a Union-shutdown of the branch in response to a women’s meeting.

He ruins Christmas because Phyllis is Santa.

His cold sore leads to him telling every partner he has an STD, rather than going and checking it out.

He proposes on a 4th date.

Immediately reveals Stanley’s affair, by calling his wife.

When branches merge, everyone except one quits.

The one who doesn’t quit had to go to therapy.

Scott’s Totz.

Michael Scott is bad.

On a cruise ship he announces that the ship is sinking, leading to people jumping over.

He sprints out of a burning building before his underlings.

He does not, in fact, stay calm.

In order to demonstrate the problem of depression, he almost ends himself.

He creates a Golden Ticket contest that loses the company money. 

He is stressful where his underlings have heart issues by being near him.

On 1/26/2024 at 12:05 PM, Peypeypeypey said:

If memory serves, Orks have a power where the things they believe become reality, and the more of them believe it, the most powerful this affect is. The Cybermen are robots with their human minds suppressed who usually can't think for themselves 

Uh oh

This is very true. Orks would love Larp.

Benny’s biggest strength is that he has toon invulnerability. Any wacky obstacles he should be able to overcome.

I think Marvin is much more straightforward in how he has “created a suit of armor.” AM wiped out humanity and then went into manipulating them. There’s not really evidence that he could shield everyone. Marvin has specifically accomplished the setup.

I’ll repost what I did on the other Marvin matches: Whenkidnapped by the bellicose Krikkit robots and tied to the interfaces of their intelligent war computer, Marvin simultaneously manages to plan the entire planet's military strategy, solve "all of the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophical, etymological, meteorological and psychological problems of the Universe, except his own, three times over", and compose a number of lullabies.

Marvin is strong here.

Unfortunate for Buddy. He’s good at spreading cheer, just not on that scale.

7 hours ago, Culwych1 said:

How is he a fall guy? He is literally up there as the face of Sabre, explaining what happened and helping their image. They didn't pin it on him and then fire him, which would be the role of a fall guy. 

He does make mistakes, I grant you that - but he also has some charm and has experience of the corporate world. He's the one they want up there, first as the new mascot and distraction, and then very possibly as an easy mark for a fall guy!

Kathy Bates asks him to do that “because she can’t stand to do it herself” and sets it up so that he looks at fault. He is excited about it, but he isn’t helping them rehabilitate. In the real world, Michael Scott would be fired ten times over. Any time he is asked to keep a secret, he immediately spills  it, he blunders every single task he is given and is kept afloat by a series of miracles. His solution to his branch facing downsizing is to karate fight Dwight, his reaction to sleeping with his boss is to immediately reveal it to everyone, his pitch to keep his branch afloat is a documentary style movie put together on iMovie, his reaction to a gay employee is to kiss him. All of these are PR nightmares and would cause damage in a real setting.

What Michael is apt to do is repeatedly remind everyone of the zombie problem and then cause even more issues. There is little evidence of Michael doing anything more than being a decent salesman but a truly horrific face of anything. 

On 1/14/2024 at 11:26 AM, Culwych1 said:

Michael Scott has literally done this challenge. When Sabre printers were catching fire, he was the face to make things better as requested by the CEO. He loved every second of it, and did a brilliant job.

Frog is just too apparent as a distraction- no one is going to buy it, especially in this day and age.

That was a different scenario. Sabre wanted him to be the fall guy. Far more often (the watermark episode) Michael Scott is the last guy you want trying to rehabilitate your image. He gets awarded Employee of the Year by the company to try and rally morale and then makes things worse. Michael Scott is not going to be good at covering up or distracting a long term problem. 

16 hours ago, Peypeypeypey said:

Battle Beast's only motivation is to find a worthy opponent to die in combat with. In the comic, he believes in this goal so strongly that he severely injures himself just to make the final fight a fair one. He would likely have no interest in hunting Road Runner because it wouldn't advance his goals and he would see Road Runner as a coward. And as I've always said, I think this should be read as the only way to convince the hunter is literally with words. Road Runner just isn't the kind of hunt Battle Beast is looking for, and he isn't the kind of prey he can catch, so he would go on to search for his true goal and leave Road Runner alone

This is what I was trying to articulate earlier. Battle Beast is actually fairly bad for this category. The Road Runner is going to Meep Meep and get out of there and that’s going to be all Battle Beast needs to just shake his head and go in search of worthy fighters.

Battle Beast seems likely to ignore Road runner. Not really an opponent who will give satisfying combat.

I think Jigsaw has more possibilities. I’m not sure the recognizable  aspects of Kevin M.

I think Michael Scott is a PR problem and will almost certainly do something to goozle Umbrella Pharmaceuticals. 

Dig Em is fun and will help be a distraction.

22 hours ago, RiotGear said:

I don't know that we ever see Balrog specifically swim, but most humans are capable of some locomotion in the water and Balrog, unlikely Jordan, doesn't have a noted fear, phobia, or inability to do so.

I'm not sure the scenario provides for time to train. It asks who would win as we know them, not who could be the best after training. It's seems like time to train has to many what if in it and asks not who the character is, but who they might be under the right circumstances.

You don't become a dominant heavyweight champ without a fair amount of endurance and stamina.

Fair enough on the training for the scenario. I was thinking to account for which one would train more effectively. It is true it doesn’t account for that in the scenario. I still think Jordan has the ability to get through this victorious.

16 hours ago, RiotGear said:

I assumed the idea was throwing top tier athletes into sports/scenarios that aren't their own game. 

If we assume training. These scenarios lose that edge, but also we are stuck, discussing not what these characters can do, but what they may be able to do with the right training.

It's also a weird angle because it hasn't come up before. Nobody suggested, we give Jordan time to train to fight Black Widow, nor did anybody, yourself included, seemingly give Bruce Lee time to train for this very same problem.

I mean, regardless, Balrog is at a disadvantage. Yes, you have to train for endurance in boxing, but a pretty specific kind of endurance. Boxers run 3-5 miles a day, but there’s a difference between doing that for building stamina and being able to do it quickly. Jordan is almost certainly faster than Balrog. I imagine the first two legs will go to Jordan.

I think young Jordan’s competitiveness would get him through the swim. He can probably tread through the mile and a half as well as someone who we have no idea if they swim.

I think Ray is just one his own level in terms of depth of innovation. Being able to work with dwarf star tech makes something like battle bots pretty elementary.Unless Bulma has a lot of specifically innovative skills, she may be in trouble. He’s my guy, but I think Ray has an edge in terms of scientific skill. Getting to be a scientific liaison for the justice league to the un puts you with some heavy hitters. Not to mention the tech he would be utilizing. The battle bot itself would be equipped with all kinds of stuff. Therefore, I think Ray has a good chance.

On 1/6/2024 at 2:46 PM, RiotGear said:

This is Bruce Lee all over again Jordan doesn't swim

https://www.sportskeeda.com/basketball/news-four-time-nba-champ-says-michael-jordan-never-learned-swim-due-traumatic-incident-that-s-thing-do

https://www.wenatcheeworld.com/arena/basketball_network/i-cannot-swim-michael-jordan-was-ready-to-play-golf-with-michael-phelps-but-was/article_9705b004-5fd7-5086-9cb8-bc7ca95ac4d7.html

 

Can Balrog swim? I mean, if Jordan is needing to win a triathlon then he will train enough to compete.

EDIT ✍️:

I should also say that I think Jordan has him beat badly in running and biking. I don’t think Balrog will have the same kind of endurance and stamina of Jordan.

43 minutes ago, Mercenaryblade said:

Except you can't really call off Pumpkinhead once he's been evoked. You can either let him complete the deed (and become Pumpkinhead yourself-which most don't known when they send him out) or unalive yourself. He works fast too. 

Given someone really wants a nice guy like Fizziwig bumped off to begin with they're probably too far gone to try and rehabilitate.  

The scenario isn’t that Pumpkinhead is trying to hunt Fezziwig, it’s that Fezziwig is trying to rehabilitate him. So if Fezziwig can get the summoner to chill, then that would work.

So, after scanning the Wikipedia, my understanding is that Pumpkinhead is an avatar for someone else’s revenge. Fezziwig would, presumably, only need the person channeling Pumpkinhead to rehabilitate which seems easier by far.

I really wish this were the “slay in Santa’s workshop” scenario. That would be fitting for the two of them battling.

Benny The Cab actually has a huge advantage here. Don’t think anything in TM will destroy him.

Maybe Fezziwig throws a rager, Pumpkinhead forgets about his revenge dependent afterlife. Drinking ale has to beat chasing people.

1 hour ago, IKA said:

You are Mistaken, he was not out run by the fun runner, there were multiple killers there and the fun runner wasn't one of them. 

I thought this was Timothy Dalton running away. It could be someone else altogether.

1 hour ago, Macklemore said:

Depends on how you play him in the games, I was pretty easily convinced to not kill supernatural creatures when given the chance I guess.

Fair enough. Based off the books I think Geralt is fairly unwavering but I could be mistake based on later books.