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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#35376: Jul 30th 2019 at 3:10:42 PM

That nuzlocke incident sounds really funny and in a pathetic kind of way.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#35377: Jul 30th 2019 at 3:11:58 PM

I honestly didn't care much, but the reactions on all sides were funny.

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#35378: Jul 30th 2019 at 3:12:15 PM

Basically, people noticed that their Dragonite had a different Nature and origin after a certain point.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#35379: Jul 30th 2019 at 3:31:50 PM

[up] Oh really? So they tried to pull a sneaky rather than wiping on screen and then declaring it's not a nuzlocke?

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#35380: Jul 30th 2019 at 3:36:22 PM

Yeah, they pulled a sneaky. They recorded a batch of episodes that ended where they all died, then they reset and re-recorded an episode in place of that episode, but they had to hack the system to get everything they lost because they don't save often enough. They messed up on a couple things, like the aforementioned Dragonite.

I think, it's been a while, I might have gotten some details wrong.

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#35381: Jul 30th 2019 at 3:56:16 PM

Probably would have been able to continue without problems if they had just been upfront about it and just declared it a new timeline for the Nuzlocke since it is the kind of thing you can make any kind of adjustments.

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#35382: Jul 30th 2019 at 4:27:03 PM

I haven't seen many of their Let's Plays either. The only reason I watch an LP is to re-experience a game I've completed vicariously through another person.

YOU can only find out that Luke is Darth Vader's father once. But you can always enjoy the experience of watching someone else find out for the first time.

With that in mind, I tend to favor games with a lot of those interesting narrative twists and turns for Let's Plays, like Alan Wake, Life is Strange, or Outer Wilds. There's not a lot about Pokemon or the Dragon Ball fighting games to re-experience vicariously, y'know? Everything I like about Pokemon, I can get from turning on a Pokemon game and playing it.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Jul 30th 2019 at 5:28:10 AM

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#35383: Jul 30th 2019 at 4:36:35 PM

[up][up]That, and this. Basically, if you're gonna call it a Nuzlocke, it's supposed to have challenge and consequence. It's okay to lose, just start another playthrough or do a challenge in something else for a bit.

HailMuffins Since: May, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#35384: Jul 30th 2019 at 4:57:10 PM

[up][up]I tend to feel the same, but the caveat in my case is that if the game has dialogue choices of any sort, I find the experience insufferable.

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#35385: Jul 30th 2019 at 5:23:15 PM

Because "different choices"...?

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NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#35386: Jul 31st 2019 at 6:24:06 PM

If it was me, I would've gone Refuge in Audacity;

"Babidi changed the Nature and Origin. Babidi did it."

NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#35387: Aug 1st 2019 at 11:34:41 AM

But then, sarcastic A Wizard Did It probably would've made it worse...

So maybe that wouldn't be good.

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#35388: Aug 3rd 2019 at 3:15:27 PM

What would have happened if Alucard had dropped by while the Cell Vs videos were still going on?

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#35389: Aug 3rd 2019 at 4:54:18 PM

A funny gag video.

...

Oh! Do you mean, "Can Alucard actually take Cell?" Probably not. Alucard's got some impressive feats of destruction and horror under his belt, but there's never really any indication that he could destroy the entire planet. At this point in the series, Alucard's offensive abilities would have a hard time making Krillin bat an eye.

That being said, short of a Frieza Ragequit, Cell doesn't really have anything that would stop Alucard from just leaving via his plentiful mobility options - especially if Schrodinger is taken into account. So if it actually did come to blows between the two, I think the most likely outcome would be an anticlimactic fizzle-out. Alucard can't kill Cell, and Cell would not manage to kill Alucard.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Aug 3rd 2019 at 5:54:52 AM

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#35390: Aug 3rd 2019 at 5:14:31 PM

Also TFS wouldn't want Alucard being schooled by Cell (ruins his appeal) and can't have Cell schooled by Alucard, so basically, the exact same thing would happen.

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#35391: Aug 3rd 2019 at 6:25:20 PM

I mean, don't think Alucard would survive the entire planet being exploded, but that's not a thing Cell would've done under those particular circumstances.

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#35392: Aug 3rd 2019 at 11:08:10 PM

Alucard can't really work in any kind of versus scenario because he so covered in Plot Armor that he's invincible. Not just extremely powerful, because there were some times in Ultimate when he should've lost but apparently it didn't count. Also, I've found that debating with Hellsing fanboys always comes to Schrodinger powers anyway. Hooray for double invincibility.

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#35393: Aug 4th 2019 at 12:13:13 AM

I'm pretty sure Cell has enough power to kill a regular squishy person thirty million times.

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Adannor (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#35394: Aug 4th 2019 at 12:32:29 AM

Yeah the only thing Alucard can do in Dragonball is use Schroedinger to go home. Even a theoretical idea of power-scaling himself up by eating slightly stronger fighters doesn't work due to how insane power gaps are [lol]

alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#35395: Aug 4th 2019 at 1:14:24 AM

You could argue he's technically not using holy items so he can't kill him off for good. Do Alucard's extras share the Vampire weaknesses and strengths?

Unless being technically part Satan helps break him.

HailMuffins Since: May, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#35396: Aug 4th 2019 at 7:32:25 AM

[up]I think the part Satan thing is unique to his Abridged incarnation, but it has been years since I read the manga.

Anyway, Shrodinger doesn't give any power ups to Alucard other than making him double immortal because any soul he absorbs will make him dissapear once again.

He's forever an unkillable weakling now.

Edited by HailMuffins on Aug 4th 2019 at 11:34:07 AM

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#35397: Aug 4th 2019 at 9:04:29 AM

So the #LifeHack is supposed to be gone forever now? I thought once he was back to his original one life he could continue as normal going forward.

Adannor (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#35398: Aug 4th 2019 at 9:07:27 AM

Whether he can get other souls is pure theorizing, I think, so whatever headcanon floats your boat.

HailMuffins Since: May, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#35399: Aug 4th 2019 at 9:11:53 AM

[up][up]Well, if I remember the magic-babble right, Schrodinger (and that's hard to spell right, so from now on I'll call him Shota Vamp) is immortal and can appear anywhere he wants as long as he can keep his "sense of self".

That's why absorbing him alongside all of the souls in London made Alucard dissapear: Shota Vamp's psyche was muddled and diluted from being mixed with all those others, so Alucard got rid of every other souls inside him except Shota Vamp's.

Therefore, he can never absorb another soul ever again, and now Sera's the Hellsing's walking nuke.

Edited by HailMuffins on Aug 4th 2019 at 1:13:28 PM

Adannor (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#35400: Aug 4th 2019 at 9:42:53 AM

Well, he still has baseline ancient vampire stuff, can get himself some very sweet guns again, and probably can figure out Teleport Spam with the quantum-cat powers. Within the Hellsing universe, he is, strategically, even more useful than he was before. It's just a sneeze in front of raw powerlevels of DBZ.

Edited by Adannor on Aug 4th 2019 at 7:44:09 PM


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