u/yoghurken

I’ve always thought the life orb and sheer force interaction had to have been a bug initially. I can’t imagine why someone would make it that way intentionally. You don’t take recoil if you have sheer force, but only if you use a move that triggers the sheer force.

I think the dragon darts and redirection interaction was probably also a bug? If a redirecter dies to the first dart, the second doesn’t smart target. The lore logic is they’re little dreepies that smart target. Why wouldn’t the second dreepy go to the other mon?

These eject button and pivot interaction is another one.

Any other mechanics you think were bugs they just decided to leave alone, once it already worked that way?

Most of what the characters do once they start time travelling doesn’t really make sense from their perspective. The best you get is that they’ve seen it happen that way (or been told it happens that way) and they want to make the future happen.

But this is a fully general excuse. You can use it to justify literally anything. Want a character to kidnap some kids, kill their sibling, kill their parent, whatever else? Well you write down that they did it and then their motivation becomes “because they did it”.

An example of characters doing things that make sense to them is Ulrich when he attacks young Helge, or Katerina trying to steal the key card. Contrast that with all the shit Noah does. He’s just following this book. He has no actual reason, he’s literally doing whatever it is he has to do to make the plot happen.

It doesn’t even make sense that you could tell someone “you have to do all this to make the past happen”. The past did happen! You can’t change it if you tried! Okay according to the events of the show the characters _do_ get convinced of this, but I find that impossible to empathise with.

The events of the show are a causal loop. Fine. But the show basically gave up trying to write a loop that has any sort of internal logic. It’s just a bunch of stuff that happens because it happens, done by people who do it because they did it.