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#25801: Sep 29th 2015 at 9:36:28 AM

  • GOKU: Fuuuuu
  • VEGETA: Potara.
  • GOKU: Potara?
  • VEGETA: I am not doing that stupid dance.
  • GOKU: Potara.
  • (A bright flash occurs, the two are fused)
  • VEGITO: I am not Goku or Vegeta, I'm...I don't feel good. Something's wrong.
  • KRILLIN: I'm sure you're just getting used to it.
  • YAMCHA: Yeah. Give it some time and you'll be fine. (slaps Vegito on the shoulder)
  • VEGITO: OW! That hurt!
  • KRILLIN: What.
  • VEGITO: Seriously, ow!
  • YAMCHA: That can't be right.
  • VEGITO: This isn't right. I can't access my power.
  • KRILLIN: Try punching something.
  • VEGITO: (punches a rock, breaks hand) AGH!
  • YAMCHA: This is weirdly sad.
  • KRILLIN: I don't understand why this is happening. What could have—
  • BULMA: It's an overflow error.
  • YAMCHA: A what?
  • BULMA: You became too powerful and broke the numeric limits of our universe. Having nowhere to grow, your power rolled over to 1 and started over again.

edited 29th Sep '15 9:37:04 AM by TobiasDrake

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#25802: Sep 29th 2015 at 9:40:20 AM

That doesn't make sense.

Still kinda funny.

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Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#25803: Sep 29th 2015 at 9:48:17 AM

It really doesn't. I mean, in every example I've seen in video games, an overflow error for a character or mon's level results in you getting a godly powerful Level 1 character.

Unless I'm not remembering correctly.

edited 29th Sep '15 9:48:54 AM by Zelenal

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#25804: Sep 29th 2015 at 10:04:03 AM

Well, remember it was written for humour.

Sometimes, that kind of thing doesn't need to make sense.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#25805: Sep 29th 2015 at 10:04:11 AM

That's video game programming logic.

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Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#25806: Sep 29th 2015 at 12:49:08 PM

I got the joke.

The maximum battle power the universe allows is 18446744073709551615, and Vegito managed to achieve 18446744073709551616, rolling back to 0. tongue

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BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#25807: Sep 29th 2015 at 1:13:44 PM

Basically, he achieved the Power Level equivalent of a Kill Screen.

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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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#25808: Sep 29th 2015 at 4:01:24 PM

You know the expression "that was so bad it wrapped around and became good again" or "that was so dumb it wrapped around and became genius"? It's kind of similar.

Videogames generally can only count certain numbers so high, and when the number exceeds their capacity to count, well, it has to start over from zero because it doesn't know what to do.

For instance, in Diablo II, if you exceed 32767 health, then your health orb would overflow and give you a second health orb that appears to be permanently empty, because even though you have 33000 health, the game read up to 32767 and freaked out because it had no idea where to put the extra 233, so it replaced the '32767' before it with the overflow of 233, so your health orb reads as if you had 233/33000.

Oddly enough, sometimes when you're damaged enough that your health drops below 32767, your health orb begins to work normally. Other times, however, when your health hits 32767, you just die immediately.

Similarly, damage is capped at, roughly, 83k for most types. Magic has an inexplicably lower cap and Poison damage is capped per frame, so it caps at something like two million damage per second.

If you were to hit an enemy and deal 90k damage on physical damage alone, the game would count up to 83k, freak out because you're not supposed to be able to go beyond that, and start counting the damage from zero again, ending up with you only dealing about 7k damage to the enemy.

Now normally those numbers are plenty generous, but I used to play Median 2008 and Median XL back when hitting those numbers was easy, and there was a time when we actually had to manage our damage boosting items because we were hitting too hard and dealing no damage because of it.

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Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#25809: Sep 29th 2015 at 7:17:13 PM

Maybe Yamcha deliberately keeps his power low because he's trying to underflow.

Devious bastard.

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#25810: Sep 29th 2015 at 8:09:54 PM

I just watched the newest episode of Super and...god, Screwattack is going to have a field day.

It also made me realise how few actual feats we saw after Freeza. I mean, I understand why. Having random exposition on how many planets are getting destroyed or whatnot makes it hard for me to take it seriously. And after seeing this episode...I think I prefer the 'power scale communicated by transformation' method. It may be lazier, but it's less ridiculous.

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#25811: Sep 29th 2015 at 8:25:04 PM

Why? What happened?

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#25812: Sep 29th 2015 at 8:31:57 PM

Goku and Beerus' punches clashing released ripples across the fabric of reality, destroying the universe.

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#25813: Sep 29th 2015 at 8:32:39 PM

Goku and Beerus punched each other, and the resulting shockwaves made planets explode.

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#25814: Sep 29th 2015 at 8:33:08 PM

Goku's and Beerus's clashes are causing reverberations that cause entire planets to simply dissolve.

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#25815: Sep 29th 2015 at 8:34:36 PM

Don't forget that Elder Kaioshin said that if they clashed 2-3 more times the entire universe would be destroyed.

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#25816: Sep 29th 2015 at 8:42:51 PM

Which in itself seems really strange. Why would the universe let things that can destroy itself even exist?

Unless they're saying Beerus is a mutant, as well. But that seems unlikely.

Just saying. Having a God of Destruction that can destroy the universe seems like a very poor design choice.

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#25817: Sep 29th 2015 at 8:42:55 PM

Changing the Super Saiyan God vs Beerus battle from Goku doesn't like, it. Beerus says he should, while beating him up to Goku is having a blast as a god, seems to be fighting evenly with Beerus, completely misses the point!

That point, or rather points being that a) Whis was right and Beerus's prophetic visions tend to be inaccurate, b) Beerus is way out of Goku's league, Whis is way out of Beerus's and there is someone else out there, beyond the universe as established, that Beerus thinks might be even stronger c) Beerus still thinks Goku did something genius despite Super Saiyan God being Overrated and Underleveled, prompting him to spare Earth.

The point where Goku briefly starts to do better in the fight is when god's time limit runs out but by some subconscious action manages to retain the godly power anyway, allowing him to get few hits in because Beerus Didn't See That Coming. That was the climactic moment of their rematch, what set up the death ball absorption scene. Why change that?

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#25818: Sep 29th 2015 at 8:44:56 PM

Because

um

reasons.

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TheMageofFire Since: May, 2012
#25819: Sep 29th 2015 at 8:55:51 PM

Just a quick reminder that the Dragon Ball universe is really, really small. It means nothing that Beerus and Goku can break it down by throwing punches.

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#25820: Sep 29th 2015 at 8:56:55 PM

It's basically a giant glass ball, right? Sounds relatively easy to break.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#25821: Sep 29th 2015 at 8:59:12 PM

[up][up]I'm not sure why you keep saying that. It being much smaller than our universe doesn't mean it isn't still unbelievably enormous.

And also, why are you taking that diagram to mean that it has limits. Just because it shows the basic set up doesn't mean there's an actual edge at which point you can leave the universe. for all we know it might well not be smaller than our universe.

edited 29th Sep '15 9:01:20 PM by LSBK

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#25822: Sep 29th 2015 at 10:06:28 PM

It has a bare minimum of 32 galaxies plus heaven, hell, the realm of the kaioshin, the realm of destruction and a few other oddities. Assuming Elder Kai was only talking about half of that bare minimum of galaxies and his own realm, that's still more than nothing.

All the same, it's an odd place to jump to. Yeah, Buuhan was technically a threat to the universe and King Kai told Vegeta that when using the spirit bomb they wouldn't just be talking to Earth but all of space, it's not without precedent, but when talking about the 'mundane' cosmology, Dragon Ball went from planet, to stars, to galaxies to universes? Why not planet, to planet systems, to stars, to star clusters, to galaxies, to galaxy clusters, to super clusters to universes? Hell, the second to the last even has "super" in its name.

And that's another thing. Even with such a small amount of galaxies, even if Cell was strong enough to destroy the sun, it would still take him a ridiculous amount of time to destroy the universe. And on a universal scale blowing away the sun really isn't that impressive, it's just a medium sized star. What's Cell gonna do when he teleports to a planet orbiting the Dragon Ball equivalent of VY Canis Majoris or something?

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#25823: Sep 29th 2015 at 10:08:23 PM

Blow himself up, regenerate as Ultra Perfect Cell, then destroy it.

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#25824: Sep 29th 2015 at 11:21:35 PM

Heh heh heh.

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#25825: Sep 29th 2015 at 11:44:42 PM

So Krill-fish dies from casual banter from a future child.

Also Vegeta is very insecure.

edited 29th Sep '15 11:45:15 PM by randomness4

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