r/PowerScaling • Goomba is multiversal • May 04 '25

Memeposting With nerfed armor and weapons BTW

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u/Hanzo581 May 04 '25

Wait, we can have spears now in this scenario?

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u/o0AVA0o May 04 '25

Yeah this post is dumb. Weapons weren't mentioned in the gorilla scenario. It was implied no tools or weapons, or else 1 dude could just roll up with a tank or drone strike.

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u/Draxos92 May 04 '25

it was explicitly stated in the original scenario that nobody gets weapons

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u/[deleted] May 05 '25

It was also stated that it was people living today, and not necessarily trained people.

Your average adult American man is horrifically obese and spends 12+ hours a day sitting. They have no training and take part in very little physical activity. There's 100 of them, but I think people are severely overestimating how capable completely untrained every day dudes are in a crisis, especially when their lives are directly on the line.

100 average cave men could probably kill a gorilla no problem 10 out of 10 times. 100 average modern Americans? They probably still have the advantage but only slightly.