Manga/Dragon Ball

I noticed that Bulma and Beerus's friendship parallels Goku and Piccolo's. Both Beerus and Piccolo started out as villains, both started to hurt the protagonist (Piccolo fights Goku, Beerus smacks Bulma), becoming good friends after a good epic battle, and the protagonists even left their kids for them to babysit (Gohan to Piccolo, Bulla to Beerus). Am I wrong?

Edited by VulgarBee on Mar 22nd 2019 at 10:24:09 AM

I don't know of any sexual harassment lawsuits being put against him.

It comes from so many different sources, many of which have not directly identified themselves or directly spoken out against him, that that would be impractical. And also would not actually solve any of his problems.

Edited by Saiga on Mar 23rd 2019 at 12:23:43 AM

That'd be true if people like Monica Rial or Jamie Marchi hadn't come out with their own word, so that's probably where it comes from.

It was never proven to be true, that's the thing. As far as we know, nothing has been actually confirmed aside from Vic losing his roles from the companies that supported him, which isn't necessarily a confirmation itself.

Edited by BlackYakuzu94 on Mar 22nd 2019 at 10:26:20 AM

Can't blame the women, frankly, most probably just want to leave that behind them and attracting the attention of a horde of rabid fans is hardly the best way to do that.

Hmm, I think I get the full picture, in which case Saban is right, you can't sue a company for not giving anymore contracts to ya.

Thanks for taking the time to clarify everything, everyone, I appreciate it.

Edited by HailMuffins on Mar 22nd 2019 at 11:29:32 AM

I'm still kind of shocked he'd actually get reinvited; it hasn't even been six months since all of this happened

At most maybe he can get something for Jaimi Marchi publically going “I want to rip off his balls”.

Good God imagine how mad with power his defenders will get.

The twitter thread responses are already pretty gross.

Thank God I had the good sense of never getting a Twitter account.

I expected nothing less from Twitter. That whole site is just disgusting in general.

Who knew complete anonymity & facing no form of repercussions would horrendously backfire?

Isn't that just the internet? Most places aren't as relatively well monitored as this site is.

Huh, wonder why they started harassing you in particular.

Afro tried engaging with me, too, but after I tried and failed to explain how reality works to them, I just started ignoring them since the PM Block system wasn't working right.

In general; his defenders (mostly Alt Righters) have been working behind the scenes to "prove his innocence". It only looks like things were done from our perspective, but these guys don't fucking quit.

Twitter in particular I think is worse because its easier for your word to travel faster.

And its funny you say this site is well modded, cuz outsiders I've spoken to hate this site and think its just as trash.

Edited by BlackYakuzu94 on Mar 22nd 2019 at 10:37:57 AM

Probably for loosely similar reasons...

Or something.

So I read that "I Got Reincarnated as Yamcha" thing - it actually wasn't half bad.

I dunno, most of the detractors of the tvtropes forums I found claims the mods are nazis that bans you for looking funny at them. Which mostly looks to me as asshoels that didn't took well to get the boot when they didn't got the memo of "don't be a dick" as the first directive. Mostly seem to checks out to me.

That's because those people are used to websites with less active and less punishing moderation. The folks here have lives too, but when they're needed they respond and get to business. On other places you'll be lucky if a troll is caught trolling a thread.

I wouldn't say TV Tropes is a well moderated site at all. Part of it is due to having many perpetual threads which means mods are intervening on the situations where they don't know the history and have admitted to thumping posts without checking the context.

That and our rules really encourage sniping and passive aggressiveness.

It's a more actively moderated site, which puts it above the sites that have little to no moderation.

Edited by Saiga on Mar 23rd 2019 at 11:18:53 PM

yeah, that sounds like a pretty fair assessment of things to me.

I mean, I'm of the opinion that the internet just brings out the worst people in general.

And the worst is that anonymity is getting phased out of the equation more and more.

People nowadays don't even care anymore if folks IRL will know they do horrible shit in the Internet.

Regarding Vic lawyering up, he might not necessarily have a specific plan in mind. He might have gotten a lawyer just so that he could get a professional opinion on whether he has any options here.

Consulting a lawyer is the first step of any legal retaliation. And often enough, the last.

I've been following a lot of that stuff from behind the scenes. Sounds like there's a lot of stuff suggesting that there was a conspiracy at Funimation to get Vic kicked out and a lot of evidence towards his ill-doings was falsified.

Personally I just really want this whole mess to end sometime soon. If Vic's guilty fuck him, if Vic's not guilty, fuck the others.

This shit's just dumb in general.

I really don’t like there being a conspiracy because the idea of their being one against one man sounds ridiculous.

Either Vic did something to earn it or somehow an entire company of people despise him for some reason.

And the latter just sounds bizarre.

Edited by slimcoder on Mar 23rd 2019 at 12:25:58 PM

I can't imagine an entire company would put so much effort towards ruining one man if he didn't do SOMETHING to earn it.