Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6493589-20150619172544/@comment-25555436-20150626184355

Mercen-X wrote:

Obviously, discrimination is still a bigger issue than it would appear. Really? Because as far as we've seen, it hasn't even appeared. We hear all this talk about the great, painful discrimination the Faunus suffer, BUT WE HAVEN'T BEEN SHOWN ANY. Heck, Chishio even made a thread about it.

No human or Faunus in the show has shown even the slightest hint of racism. Monty and co. wanted us to believe there was some, but we have never been shown evidence, and as such it may as well not exist.

The only humans we've seen being racist are Cardin (an equal-oportunity asshole) and Roman (a wanted snarky criminal). They are expected to at least say some racist comment once or twice, it surprises no one. What we need to see is normal citizens being racist, the police being racist and discriminatory like in RL. Not see the bad guys do that (they are the bad guys for a reason).

@Wheatley: I'm 200% sure that Zolnir's point was that the older a Grimm, the bigger, and as such the stronger. But age only affects directly their power. When it comes to inteligence, they stay the same. However, they gain EXPERIENCE over the years. As they live and fight, they learn about their oponents and other stuff. Like animals do in RL (Like dogs and elephants).

This means, that if a Grimm is 100 years old, it could have (but not necesarily has) seen a good deal of combat. This means, the Grimm has learned, has gotten combat experience and as such will  be a better fighter as it will have a better idea of what their oponents can do and can't do against it. They basically don't become smarter, they become Veterans.

Child Grimm don't know what their enemies can do and will get themselves killed by Leeroy Jenking. But Old Grimm have seen over the years what they can do, and as such know better than to just throw themselves at them.

In MMORPG terms: Childs are noobs that can only Zerg Rush and know nothing about the game. Adults and older are End-Game Players that have reached a high level after many fights both alone and in parties, have more knowledge of the game and it's mechanics, and as such know better than just rush at the oponent, better to find alternative ways to kill it. Got it memorized?