@NuFiasco:

You just said it's getting harder to control, so it being an easy scapecoat like you said is contradicting your original opinion. With this post, You're living by "what ifs" which isn't really…I dunno...Fair?

I don't know, when a manga character tells you how dangerous it is to use some power, do you take their word for it, or do you actually wanna see it happen. Did you believe the Kaio-ken could kill Goku? Do you think the gears will ever cripple Luffy?
Expected negative consequences should occasionally arise. Otherwise, what was the point of worrying about them in the first place? If Guts uses the armour a dozen times and both he and everyone else always come out of it alive and relatively uninjured, then it obviously isn't as dangerous as we were led to believe.

@Thousand:

Your problem is you're way too fixated on the worst-case scenario being the only way to justify the armor. I didn't like it much my first either. I would have liked somehow Guts to be able to beat the Godhand with pure muscle and strategy. But that's not only wholly unrealistic but completely dumb given these guys can manipulate dimensional rifts with their finger-tips! With that said, Miura has been handling the power-up pretty well. Every time Guts puts on the thing, it's always a big deal wrought with tension and dismay. Everytime he puts it on, he comes out worse physically, mentally and spiritually. The beast inside him grows stronger and hungers inside him even more. And now we find out that it's getting even harder to control. It's extremely apparent, the curse of the armor is a real and legitimate threat. Every time Guts uses it, while he isn't outright massacring allies he is drawing closer and closer to the edge of doing that. It's intentional by Miura and has been hinted at for quite a bit. If it were not for a clever trump card that he set up way in advance, Miura would have written himself into a corner with it because the situation keeps deteriorating to the next level. You can not like it but the way the author has been executing it makes it anything but a cheap power up.

Yes, yes, its getting harder to control, Guts is getting weaker both physically and mentally, he's getting closer and closer to turning his companions into shark bait, fair enough.
But think about it this way, what if he keeps using the armour every time a big eldritch abomination tries to eat them, and every time that happens he "almost" kills somebody or he "almost" bleeds out or Schierke "almost" can't bring him back. Wouldn't that be cheap?
I'm willing to admit that we aren't there yet and that things might change, using the armour might cost him dearly or he might give it up to prevent worse from happening. But the use of the armour already happened too often for my taste.

@Thousand:

No consequences? Didn't you see how 3 chapters ago, the power of the armor was getting stronger to the point where Shierke can no longer call Guts back and if it hadn't been a full moon, he would have killed Caska?

Sigh…but he didn't kill her.
A writer can tell me how a characters big power abuse could have had a negative consequence if the sun had been blue and pink frogs boogeyed through the forest while chipmunks smoked weed all he wants. Until the armor either kills someone Guts cares about or rips his brain apart it will keep being a cheap power-up.

The problem with the armor is that it has become a "get out of trouble free card". Yes, we are told that it takes a giant toll on Guts body and that Guts could unwillingly kill a companion while using it. But he hasn't been shown to be any less effective than before, so the damage the armor does obviously isn't crippling his fighting ability yet, and he hasn't killed anyone he didn't want dead yet.
We are told that this could happen, but if he keeps using the armor on a regular basis without any tangible consequences it will start to seem cheap. And I'm talking about consequences that are more than "losing taste and certain colours"

@Malintex_Terek:

I'm still waiting for that "online equivalent" of a thermonuclear holocaust.

Its probably just a bluff.

He voiced a reasonable personal opinion about the artwork and explained why he dislikes an aspect of it. People need to stop jumping up screaming "OMG, he insulted something I like, how dare he!" everytime someone criticizes something.

On the topic of songs that would fit One Piece, I always thought someone needs to make an Alabasta amv to this Modern Lovers song:
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@JERK:

As we've discovered in this thread this isn't actually the case!

Also I made the point that liking music doesn't make that music fit One Piece. I listen to largely hip-hop, very very few of which would fit One Piece.

They're still using music they like, excuses about tempo and fitting lyrics be damned. And in their ignorance they also have a limited supply of songs and genre to choose from. Or did I miss someone using a song they dislike just because it fits in with scenes?
And while you like hip-hop, you probably don't dislike the genres that you think fit One Piece and do consider them good music?

@JERK:

Do you seriously think I would be greatly challenged in arguing why buttrock sucks lol.

No, I actually agree that it sucks, and you'd probably do a good job arguing it. But saying "stop enjoying this, enjoy this instead" is still a dogmatic attitude. I get it, you don't want to crawl through mountain of shit just to find something worth seeing, but thats how entertainment is, internet user generated entertainment even more so.

@JERK:

The last people to see the revolution are the lazy.
We will bury you.

I think I'll shoot myself if AMV ever get considered to be artistically significant, so you can bury my corpse.

EDIT: Actually, I don't have a problem with your proposition in general, trying to raise the lowest common denominator of a culture is a fairly good idea. I just think AMV's don't deserve that kind of attention. They're cheap fun, some of them are better cheap fun than others, thats it.

It makes sense that people who make AMV's usually prefer to use music they listen to and like. And yes, most of it sucks, but most of anything on the internet sucks. If you try to create a dogma of what music is good and should or shouldn't be used, you open up a completly different can of worms, mostly because music in general has alot to do with personal taste.
Besides, I don't believe AMV culture in general is salvageable, its not really art, and it won't be run through a quality filter by time like books, music, movies…which means it will always remain a mirror of the present AMV crowd and their taste, so its pretty pointless to argue with them about it.

@GEPPETTOSMONSTER:

You got a point there, I would agree with Isidro but Farnese? When the hell has she done anything? My memory on this series is bad but I don't recall her doing anything major besides helping casca out.

That is about to change dramatically, as you can see in the latest chapter. But thats really beside the point. My point was that compared to those two in Guts' group, Caska would be a major help. Hell, she'd probably be on par with Serpico as far as battle prowess goes, minus the strategic genius thing. Though it may take some time for her to regain some muscle mass.