Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1739368-20121205124732/@comment-32973614-20190412214114

Suppose that you are playing  Pacman, then suppose that you can slow down the game speed (everything) so all the events that would happen in a second happen in 10 (Pacman is immune), then you keep slowing down the game speed 'till basically 0, then, well, "time" is stopped, the ghosts don't move etc, right? But if the orbs of invulnerability or wathever were active at the beginning, they will not run out, everything except pacman cannot change, because it is a time STOP, so the status of Pacman and the Ghosts does not change.

Dio can basically do that for ten seconds, you can describe it in wathever words you want, but basically time from the game's perspective is stopped and from Pacman's perspective is still flowing for ten seconds, there is no case of "time not existing", the time gets, well, stopped, and stopping means stopping.

KC doesn't alter time flow, it's an effect like the orb in pacman, so let's say that the battlefield is the Pacman game, Dio's a ghost and Diavolo is Pacman, if Pacman takes the orb, he's immune to damage, period. If a ghost stops time it can do wathever it wants, but Pacman is still invulnerable, the ghost cannot kill Pacman, all it can do is return the game speed to normal and wait for the orb to run out, in the same way, if Dio stops time in a status of "erased time", that status is still active because there is no reason to think that a ball would stop falling but an ability would randomly deactivate.

If you stop time in a game or not, wathever invulnerability active stays active before, after and during the timestop (so stuff like "they would be unaffected because time is stopped and ..." is simply nonsense). In Diavolo's case it's not invulnerability, but his targets can't be aware of Diavolo's real position and punch the air, so if time gets stopped, time gets stopped in a status where the one who did it could not be aware of Diavolo's real position before, so that condition is "prolonged" or, better, "paused" for the whole duration of time stop. Time stop means pausing, it's not too hard to understand.