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Medigo03 Since: Sep, 2013
#5351: Dec 23rd 2013 at 10:27:58 AM

pfft thats not even an official food in my catalogue

IMBoring Since: Nov, 2010
#5352: Dec 23rd 2013 at 10:53:43 AM

I don't see anything terrifying about Abridged 17. Awesome and funny yes, but terrifying? No.

Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#5353: Dec 23rd 2013 at 12:33:34 PM

"Oh wow, I almost thought I was a wish there."

I love how they sneak little gems in like that in the dialogue. evil grin

ShirowShirow Dinosaur Hunter from Land of Maple Syrup (Old as dirt)
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#5354: Dec 23rd 2013 at 3:13:51 PM

I love how dragon ball is basically forced to take things to its logical conclusion like that.

With the ridiculous power scaling, it wouldn't make sense for the Dragon Balls to be anything more than a useful tool instead of a mcguffin that drives the quest considering how easy they would be to gather... So that's exactly what happens.

With the ridiculous power scaling, every new threat would end up being inconceivably more powerful and leaving the last villain little more than Mook level... So that's exactly what happens.

With the ridiculous power scaling, a fight on the earth would eventually and inevitably cause the death of all those poor humans who are normal... So that's exactly what happens.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#5355: Dec 23rd 2013 at 3:34:35 PM

Of course, the main reason they're so easy to find is Bulma's damned radar. Also the fact that eventually everyone can fly. And fly faster than the eye can see at that.

edited 23rd Dec '13 3:35:02 PM by unnoun

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#5356: Dec 23rd 2013 at 4:30:39 PM

And that flying and travel speed is because of their insane level of power scaling.

"oh they can totally fly now" is something you really can't take back once you throw out there. And it cuts off a lot of possibly interesting situations.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#5357: Dec 23rd 2013 at 4:33:15 PM

If they just got rid of the radar that would help. It's a big planet, and the balls are small. And they might be underwater.

edited 23rd Dec '13 4:33:27 PM by unnoun

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#5358: Dec 23rd 2013 at 4:41:53 PM

And then Goku gets Instant Transmission and turns finding the Dragon Balls into a 5 minute affair.

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#5359: Dec 23rd 2013 at 4:45:09 PM

Instant Transmission requires a person he knows to be at the location he's trying to reach.

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biznizz Since: Jan, 2001
#5361: Dec 23rd 2013 at 5:25:19 PM

He can sense someone's ki and be able to teleport there, but it's not necessary for someone to be at the place he wants to go to.

I think it works like Nightcrawler form X-Men does, it's more that he has to have a general idea where he's teleporting to, and hope he doesn't get stuck in something like a rock, or a plane that happens to be flying by.

Sometimes life just sucks. You have to learn to take the good with the bad. Why should you expect anything different in the mediums?
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#5362: Dec 24th 2013 at 11:06:18 AM

This is gonna be good.

Yes, I'm going to surprise you guys with what it is by making you follow the link.

edited 24th Dec '13 11:08:40 AM by wanderlustwarrior

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#5363: Dec 24th 2013 at 1:56:42 PM

Oh wow.

... Huh. I still haven't seen that movie.

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#5364: Dec 24th 2013 at 2:12:39 PM

Consider yourself lucky.

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#5365: Dec 24th 2013 at 3:20:02 PM

I don't know. I feel like it's some sort of sacred duty for me to witness something that terrible just to truly understand how bad it is.

After all, I don't know for absolute sure it is bad... Maybe... MAYBE IT'S SECRETLY GOOD ON ITS OWN MERITS. -dramatic thunder followed by gales of laughter-

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Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
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#5366: Dec 24th 2013 at 3:37:29 PM

I saw it in what is perhaps the best context for it: an MST 3 K-style roast headed by Kyle Hebert.

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#5367: Dec 24th 2013 at 6:53:34 PM

"Also, I don't... think you're white?"
"I'm a saiya-genie!"

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Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#5368: Dec 24th 2013 at 8:02:32 PM

Didn't realize the fridge logic until seeing this over why Goku never wished for his Grandpa to come back to life.

zeromaeus Since: May, 2010
#5369: Dec 24th 2013 at 8:09:23 PM

The person coming back has to want to return. Gohan passed peacefully during Dragon Ball.

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#5371: Dec 24th 2013 at 9:12:45 PM

[up][up]

If you call a rampaging Oozaru a peaceful death.

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KBSL Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
#5372: Dec 24th 2013 at 10:22:50 PM

Though that movie was terrible, I never understood the problem with Goku being white. Again, Goku isn't human, so technically an Asian actor would not have actually been better. And that's assume the world of Dragon Ball has the exact same concept of race as we do.

edited 25th Dec '13 5:42:23 PM by KBSL

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#5373: Dec 24th 2013 at 10:54:49 PM

The worst thing about Evolution IMO was how it botched the King Piccolo saga, and completely wasted James Marsters as Demon King Piccolo. They put him in a lot of makeup to resemble Piccolo, but the problem was with how the character was written.

The movie tried to combine the first saga of DB with one of its best, later sagas, but satisfied no one with its approach. Like a lot of movies adapting games, anime, or whatever, it had no idea how to pick its battles. I also suspect that a lot of it had to do with a small budget. Maybe DB in live action would be better off if it was turned into a TV series than a movie. I like this idea better! tongue

At least, like Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, it had the decency to go along at a quick clip, so if you hated it, at least it wouldn't last too long.

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ShirowShirow Dinosaur Hunter from Land of Maple Syrup (Old as dirt)
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#5374: Dec 25th 2013 at 4:44:27 AM

[up][up] It's about hollywood's rampant internalized racism more than it is about accuracy to the source material.

The whole "Goku is an alien!" thing really rings hollow for me, because I'd love to see the reactions of most of the apologists if Superman came down in Man Of Steel and was an Arab.

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BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#5375: Dec 25th 2013 at 12:45:32 PM

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else

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