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SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#28326: Nov 14th 2015 at 11:16:19 PM

@Zel It's Australia. The entire continent is a prison.

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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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#28327: Nov 14th 2015 at 11:59:24 PM

To a heart seeking freedom, that island is a prison surrounded by water.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#28328: Nov 15th 2015 at 12:01:57 AM

also the water is full of sharks and jellyfish

and the island is full of spiders and snakes

i find it funny we have a spider that can kill you not from its venom, but simply by biting large enough chunks out of you that you bleed to death

well actually its venom will also kill you if you manage not to bleed to death

TheMageofFire Since: May, 2012
#28329: Nov 15th 2015 at 12:03:16 AM

Geez guys why did you allow yourself to be born in Australia, god.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
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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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#28332: Nov 15th 2015 at 12:26:14 AM

No wonder this thread is so awesome.

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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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#28333: Nov 15th 2015 at 12:54:59 AM

So here's a question: What would happen if Goku entered the HTC with Gohan or anyone with a full year again? Would the door disappear a month early or would Goku's time be extended by another month?

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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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#28334: Nov 15th 2015 at 1:00:01 AM

It would probably allow the other person to leave but would disappear if Goku tried. The real question is: would they be allowed out if they fused?

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#28335: Nov 15th 2015 at 4:03:06 AM

I'm with John Oliver on this. It took two hundred years for you guys to produce something worthwhile. Granted it was worth it, but still, it was a long time. We're keeping Hugh Jackman, but you can take back Mel Gibson.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#28336: Nov 15th 2015 at 4:09:25 AM

We were really only ever borrowing Mel Gibson from America in the first place. We don't need him anymore.

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
himitsu keisatsu
#28337: Nov 15th 2015 at 5:39:55 AM

Oh no, it's your mess, you clean it up. 'sides, it's not like you hadn't had way worse, dood.

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BaffleBlend Hey there! Having fun? from Somewhere Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: LET'S HAVE A ZILLION BABIES
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#28338: Nov 15th 2015 at 5:44:12 AM

Space Australia.

...Sorry, SOMEONE had to say it while we were on the topic. I got dibs.

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Shlugo_the_great King of Burgers from Far Far Away (On A Trope Odyssey) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
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#28339: Nov 15th 2015 at 7:46:30 AM

So, they changed the opening to show Super Sayian Blue.

This was pretty much scene for scene retread of the movie, but it seems the next episode will have some changes as it won't pretend Goten and Trunks don't exist.

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#28340: Nov 15th 2015 at 7:52:18 AM

You're wrong about time travel. The galactic patrol was dedicated to stopping people from creating time machines. What the lord king of time says in Dragon Ball Online was that Bulma's machine created a split in the timeline, that was the thought impossibility Trunks was told to never do again.

And Earth's genius of the universe status is disputed. Towa has technology that can turn common dinosaurs and octopi into threats to the average power level 100,000 time patrol, Bardock from to weak for Freeza's first form to a threat to post Android saga Trunks, change the nature of the time travel to effect timelines without splitting them, effectively mind control saiyans and majins where Babadi's magic could not(though one does still does overcome it), an evil android capable of using the spirit bomb genki dama, she's easily in the Briefs and Jello's league.

Which brings me to another point. It annoys me when fanon turns Bulma into an Omni Disciplinary Scientist. She's an engineer, something of a radiologist, maybe electrician, maybe a mathematician and becomes a physicist in the future, but that's about as far as it goes. Fan fic depicts her as an anthropologist, psychologist, biologist, physiologist, chemist, astronomer, philosopher, pretty much everything but an archaeologist without explanation of why she's even interested, much less adept in all areas already. She's supposed to be a gadgetry genius, not the goddess of knowledge.

edited 15th Nov '15 8:03:55 AM by IndirectActiveTransport

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BaffleBlend Hey there! Having fun? from Somewhere Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: LET'S HAVE A ZILLION BABIES
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#28341: Nov 15th 2015 at 8:12:04 AM

Obviously, energy lets her use the needed techniques for those fields.

Jokes aside, most fans of DB's typical don't fully realize that "science" isn't just "science" and that different branches require specialization.

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Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#28342: Nov 15th 2015 at 9:24:47 AM

I was watching the new episode and...

When did Frieza have wide hips?

edited 15th Nov '15 9:25:16 AM by Rinsankajugin

DoctorDiabolical So pure. Since: Mar, 2010
So pure.
#28343: Nov 15th 2015 at 10:01:12 AM

[up] He was being forced to absorb estrogen through his hell-cocoon.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#28344: Nov 15th 2015 at 12:27:13 PM

Jokes aside, most fans of DB's typical don't fully realize that "science" isn't just "science" and that different branches require specialization.

In fairness, the series itself doesn't realize it either.

Like, Bulma fixed a spaceship at the age of 3.

Her dad invented interdimensional capsules and also makes cars, houses, refrigerators, weapons, and planes. Among other things. He also helped fix a spaceship.

Bulma made a radar to detect magic balls somehow. And a shrink ray.

The galactic patrol was dedicated to stopping people from creating time machines.

That just means it was considered a legally punishable law in addition to a physical one.

While redundant, it sorta makes sense given everything else we see about the galactic patrol. They aren't what I would normally consider "competent". Not if Jaco is considered one of their Super Elites. Which, admittedly, he might not be, and the title is a self-assumed one. Either way, I'm not sure we can expect a lot of an organization with Jaco as a senior operative who receives direct orders from the Galactic King.

edited 15th Nov '15 12:27:24 PM by unnoun

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#28345: Nov 15th 2015 at 12:56:53 PM

If they were even remotely relevant at all, Freeza would've reduced their organization to space dust the moment he heard of its existence.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#28346: Nov 15th 2015 at 12:57:54 PM

So funny thing.

I just looked up one of those old interviews that sometimes get posted here from Kanzenshuu, where Toriyama states that he only married Goku to Chi-chi because he disliked her character and wanted to force himself to draw her more.

That's.....a really dumb reason for something like that. I mean, when did this come up, why did he dislike her, and since he made her, why not just develop her character a bit more?

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Shlugo_the_great King of Burgers from Far Far Away (On A Trope Odyssey) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
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#28347: Nov 15th 2015 at 1:00:34 PM

Does he know that he's the one who decides how characters act? Couldn't he just make her more likable?

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#28348: Nov 15th 2015 at 1:02:30 PM

[up]

I know right?

It also occurs to me that if he doesn't really plan things out much, it would explain why he forgets things so often (or at least, why people believe he forgets things so much).

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BaffleBlend Hey there! Having fun? from Somewhere Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: LET'S HAVE A ZILLION BABIES
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#28349: Nov 15th 2015 at 1:12:11 PM

Well, as a (wannabe) writer, I kinda sympathize with Toriyama there. As you make more and more of your own characters and they each begin to take on lives of their own — and become more difficult to change without consequences as a direct result — some of them just begin to rub you the wrong way.

But like that one annoying coworker you can't stand, you can't just not work with them as if they didn't exist. That would be kinda petty. It's easy to just abandon a character you stop liking, so it looks to me like he cared enough about this issue to take steps to avert it.

edited 15th Nov '15 1:16:28 PM by BaffleBlend

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Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#28350: Nov 15th 2015 at 1:20:07 PM

So I guess Goten and Trunks will be taking part in Super's rendition of Resurrection F.


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