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IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#36576: Mar 27th 2016 at 5:11:16 AM

[up][up]Well, there could've been worse options for a first time...

himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari
PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#36577: Mar 27th 2016 at 5:25:42 AM

So the latest episode. Magetta is awesome.

Champa's plan is to isolate Vegeta at the top of the arena and have Magetta burn all the oxygen in the place, leaving Vegeta at the top suffocating while Magetta breathes and burns fine at the bottom because of the gaps between the arena and outside. What's most impressive, though, is that GOKU FIGURED IT ALL OUT FIRST!

Gallick Gun?! Vegeta landed on a tiny pebble of the broken arena!!! Vegeta shattering the barrier by powering up was cool and then the Final Flash! Magetta fought well. Good fight.

Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#36578: Mar 27th 2016 at 6:03:53 AM

Goddamn, I can't wait to play Magetta in Xenoverse 2, I have a feeling he'd have a badass moveset.

Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#36579: Mar 27th 2016 at 6:10:10 AM

Boiling intelligence down to numbers is a gross oversimplification. And you may be intelligent yet ignorant about a certain topic. In fact, a sign of intelligence is being aware of one's limitations.

If this is going to turn into a Hit sweep, I'd say the tournament should have started with Piccolo, with him beating Botamo, and putting a decent fight with Frost, then poison happening.

PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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#36580: Mar 27th 2016 at 6:12:52 AM

[up][up]I don't know how they'd be able to reconcile his inability to fly with flight being a necessary prerequisite for all characters in a Dragon Ball game. Honestly, Vegeta vs Magetta might be my favorite fight in all of Super, so far. Only Godku vs Beerus comes close, and that fight dragged a little. Cabba and Hit would need to be something REALLY special to replace Magetta in my heart after THAT fight!

[up]@First Part: And that's something I fully acknowledge and agree with you on.

edited 27th Mar '16 6:15:18 AM by PushoverMediaCritic

Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#36581: Mar 27th 2016 at 6:28:02 AM

Go the Satan route and give Magetta a jetpack. It'll probably look cool on him. tongue

Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#36582: Mar 27th 2016 at 6:28:35 AM

Well, Tenkaichi had the non flying characters jump high and fall slowly...

Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#36584: Mar 27th 2016 at 6:48:13 AM

[up][up]They fall eventually...don't want that.

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Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#36585: Mar 27th 2016 at 6:59:38 AM

Ya think characters from DBS will be in DBF? It has characters from DB, DBZ and DBGT, but no DBS yet.

I wonder if DBO, DBH and DBXV characters will also appear.

Hobgoblin Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#36587: Mar 27th 2016 at 7:21:06 AM

Dragon Ball Fusions, the 3DS RPG where you get to fuse characters together. So far, confirmed fusions are:

  • Goten + Kid Trunks = Gotenks
  • SSJ4 GT Goku + SSJ4 GT Vegeta = SSJ4 Gogeta
  • SSJ Goku + LSSJ Broly = Whatever the hell Karoly's transformation is.
  • Krillin + Piccolo = Prilin
  • Krillin + Kid Goku = Gorilin
  • Krillin + Kid Gohan = Krigohan
  • Tien + Yamcha = Tiencha
  • Future Trunks + Scouter Vegeta = ???
  • Videl + GT Pan = ???
  • Mr. Satan + Majin Buu = ???

Chiaotzu, Lazuli, Adult Gohan, Great Saiyaman and Buu Saga Vegeta are also in the game, so I'm guessing they'll have fusions as well. Can't have a fusion game w/o Vegetto, am I right?

edited 27th Mar '16 7:25:34 AM by Rinsankajugin

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#36588: Mar 27th 2016 at 8:49:39 AM

Pretty cool fight, Magetta proved to be a much more interesting fighter than I expected. It was bit weird tho that first Vegeta wasn't even able to overpower his lava stream with a Galick Gun and then pushed it back simply by powering up.

Next episode how is Cabba able to fight evenly with Vegeta? How did that pipsqueak become so strong?

Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#36589: Mar 27th 2016 at 8:54:18 AM

Universe 7 had Frieza's family deliberately making Saiyans weak out of fear.

Universe 6 didn't have a Frieza (technically), so Saiyans could train as much as they can to help out and become crime-fighters.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#36590: Mar 27th 2016 at 8:57:44 AM

Looking forward to this ep.

No longer caring about the Humans are awful/humans aren't awful conversation, and neither should the rest of you.

If there was ever a discussion that needs to be shanked, it's this one.

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Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#36591: Mar 27th 2016 at 9:05:41 AM

I've heard people saying they want Cabba to be Vegeta's Uub. Any thoughts?

Hobgoblin Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#36593: Mar 27th 2016 at 9:24:03 AM

At this point, Goku is so powerful that I have to wonder why he'd even be excited about fighting someone on Kid Buu's level anymore.

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#36594: Mar 27th 2016 at 9:41:35 AM

[up][up][up]As in Vegeta abandons his family to train him, but nothing ever actually comes of it?

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IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
himitsu keisatsu
#36595: Mar 27th 2016 at 9:56:16 AM

[up][up]Well, if he's at that level, which Goku's base is still well below, as a base, it's not so much his power as it is, but what his power could be with training.

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Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#36596: Mar 27th 2016 at 11:15:47 AM

[up]I will say though thatVegeta being on even grounds with Goku and even becoming his training buddy does kind of diminish the point behind Uub.

edited 27th Mar '16 11:16:27 AM by Lionheart0

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#36597: Mar 27th 2016 at 11:25:38 AM

Literally everything about Super diminishes Uub, the only non-caricature person of color in Dragon Ball history.

My various fanfics.
HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#36598: Mar 27th 2016 at 3:09:31 PM

Magetta's body may be steel, but his emotions sure ain't.cool

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#36599: Mar 27th 2016 at 3:15:37 PM

I mean.

I wouldn't call it caricature.

But. The image of a starving Indian boy (from India, I mean) isn't exactly uncommon? I've seen a fair number of charity commercials about it and donating to causes to help. Africa too.

Which is fair because India's had a lot of famines over the years because of how badly they were fucked by the British. Like, helping them out is totally fair. Same with Africa. That whole continent was also fucked by imperialism. To a massive degree.

But it's not exactly a completely novel image either.

It's also. Y'know. Been done before. By Nam. Nam and Uub have basically the same backstory.

Again, not passing judgment on that. Not sure I would call Nam a "caricature" either.

But.

It's.

Like, if a "caricature" is a "stereotypical cultural image that exists fairly widely and is inaccurate, generalizing, reductive, self-reinforcing and actively harmful towards the group in question" then the thing with Nam and Uub is just "a cultural image that exists fairly widely".

edited 27th Mar '16 3:17:43 PM by unnoun

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
himitsu keisatsu
#36600: Mar 27th 2016 at 3:50:26 PM

... You're aware that he was saying that Uub isn't a caricature, right?

Though the fact that both of the indian-inspired people in the manga both came from villages in severe need does not speak well of Toriyama's opinion of India.

himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari

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