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#29426: Nov 25th 2015 at 8:15:22 AM

Some of that filler makes the show.

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#29427: Nov 25th 2015 at 8:39:40 AM

Yeah, I like the filler. It's just the padding I want to minimize. There's a difference.

edited 25th Nov '15 8:39:54 AM by BaffleBlend

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#29428: Nov 25th 2015 at 9:02:18 AM

Look, I don't believe in souls, or karma, heaven, hell, enlightenment, those kind of things. But as far as we can best tell, never created, never destroyed, the conservation of matter and energy, no credible arguments against it.

It doesn't matter if you think about life's value, you've got a life. It's going to end because a perpetual motion machine of any kind is impossible, far as we know, but the sum of the parts continue on forever. They change, the blood in your veins was likely the fluid of some protozoa or algae at one point, likely to again become the fluid of protozoa or algae but the universe won't stop existing just because you're not in a state to perceive it as such anymore, and chances are you will once again come into this state we call life.

Might as well find some value in it. You already value it so much as to wish to live forever, so you're at least close to a healthy path already. Realize though, that it is most likely you will die, and maybe try to set things in motion to ensure the lives to come still have a world that holds value to you, because some of them just might be you.

And though the states of matter are constantly changing, information as we understand it is eternal. Not our ability to recall it, obviously, but nothing can actually change the fact you were here. Your presence, to whatever ends it comes, will leave a mark that will last forever.

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#29429: Nov 25th 2015 at 9:11:15 AM

Seriously, if you're a nihilist with a sense of self-preservation, that makes you a hypocrite.

I'm not sure that actually follows.

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#29430: Nov 25th 2015 at 9:58:25 AM

OK, I'm thinking we're going too far on this talk of philosophy.

Let's talk about how power levels are bullshit. So, Shadow Dragons, am I right?

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#29431: Nov 25th 2015 at 10:07:26 AM

I like philosophy and all but I don't think this is the place for it.

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#29432: Nov 25th 2015 at 10:11:30 AM

Especially when it reeks of teen edgelord.

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#29433: Nov 25th 2015 at 10:14:26 AM

I thought this thread reeked of 90s, but alright.

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#29434: Nov 25th 2015 at 10:17:12 AM

This thread reeks of Dragon Ball.

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#29435: Nov 25th 2015 at 10:33:50 AM

Freeza chokes Haze to death with his tail. He pokes rage full of holes and forces his own electric goo into the wounds. He empties the ocean, letting ocean shenron flop around till she dies of dehydration. He liquefies earthquake shenron in the planet's outer core. He uses telekinesis to crush ice shenron under a polar cap and plays kickball with fire shenron until he inevitably misses and fire shenron explodes. Then he just tortures Syn until he can come up with a new way to kill him.

edit:what's edgelord?

edited 25th Nov '15 10:34:34 AM by IndirectActiveTransport

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#29436: Nov 25th 2015 at 10:46:35 AM

  • Yamcha is a career loser.
  • Goku's ill-equipped to be a husband and father.
  • Gohan's ill-equipped to be the main character
  • I didn't like the Cell Saga
  • Frieza was the best villain
  • The resolution to the Buu Saa was Awesome, but Impractical compared to other existing options
  • Tien never caught up to Krillin
  • Nappa and Raditz got screwed by the narrative
  • Dr. Gero's motives makes no sense
  • The movies don't fit into the timeline
  • Power level are not bullshit, their means of increasing are.
  • Namekian Fusion is more broken than Super Saiyans.
  • Mr. Satan is awesome and hilarious.
  • Cerebus Syndrome set in at Piccolo Daimao, NOT at Raditz as is often assumed.
  • Gohan was not the main character in the Saiyan and Namek arcs or for more of the Android arc.
  • Chi-Chi is underrated.
  • Bulma and Vegeta's romance is awesome.

There. Surely something in there will spark a conversation.

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#29437: Nov 25th 2015 at 10:57:48 AM

If Chichi had entered the World Tournament, could she have beaten Mr. Satan?

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#29438: Nov 25th 2015 at 11:01:36 AM

Yes.

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#29439: Nov 25th 2015 at 11:07:21 AM

Could Cyborg Tao have survived King Piccolo's genocide of martial artists?

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#29440: Nov 25th 2015 at 11:10:42 AM

Yes. Because he's Cyborg Tao.

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#29441: Nov 25th 2015 at 11:10:55 AM

I mean... I dunno?

Whatever shit you say about Mr. Satan, he is an actual Martial Artist and the strongest fighter on Earth who doesn't know what the fuck "ki" is except something you use to unlock a door.

By comparison, while she's very strong, Chi-Chi's also been out of practice for....

four years between Dragon Ball and Z for Gohan

One year for the Saiyans

round it up to another year between Namek and Freeza showing up on Earth

Three years for the androids

...I don't know how long she was training Goten for but it couldn't have been that long if Gohan didn't notice...

Anyhow, Chi-Chi's almost twenty years out of practice, maybe more.

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#29442: Nov 25th 2015 at 11:11:39 AM

motives makes

Your subject verb agreement is off. Happy?

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#29443: Nov 25th 2015 at 11:11:46 AM

Could Boss Rabbit solo everyone with prep time?

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#29444: Nov 25th 2015 at 11:13:53 AM

I mean he doesn't even need prep time. You just touch him and he wins.

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#29445: Nov 25th 2015 at 11:13:59 AM

Chi-Chi wasn't relaxing for all those years. She was cooking food for two Saiyans. That's a full-time job. She had to be on her feet constantly.

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#29446: Nov 25th 2015 at 11:15:20 AM

I mean, she was able to train Goten, that should mean something. She's not completely out of practice, but she's not a spring chicken.

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#29447: Nov 25th 2015 at 11:15:42 AM

Yes but she was out of fighting practice.

And she never liked fighting to begin with so it's hard to say how much fighting she did before showing up in the 23rd Budoukai Tenkaichi. Maybe not even three years.

So out of a thirty-something year existence, at best a tenth of that time was spent learning the martial arts and then abandoning it completely

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#29448: Nov 25th 2015 at 11:17:06 AM

Didn't she only even train because she wanted to fight Goku or something? My knowledge of Dragon Ball is a bit rusty compared to my knowledge of Z.

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#29449: Nov 25th 2015 at 11:19:19 AM

Basically yes.

She trained for the sole purpose of getting the D. Once the D was acquired her sum total reaction was "Welp, enough of that shit" and then she spent the rest of her life trying to stop Goku from doing a thing she saw as trivial and barbaric and almost never understood it was as necessary to Goku as breathing.

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#29450: Nov 25th 2015 at 11:19:31 AM

Basically, but she did behead a dinosaur with her hat so she couldn't have been completely weak before that.


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