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Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#6302: Apr 6th 2014 at 1:08:07 PM

Was Vegeta's scream a Soul Eater reference? Or does it make more sense that "GODDAMNSHIT!" was a coincidence?

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#6303: Apr 6th 2014 at 1:12:17 PM

...Also, I thought the Future!Androids were supposed to be, y'know, evil. I never would have imagined that their first action could have been something so wonderful.

Like, if Trunks still thinks the androids are so bad after finding that out, I will never forgive him. This conclusively proves that Android 18 is a fundamentally good person.

His timeline really isn't so bad.

EDIT: Also, it's not quite an "alternate universe" or "multiverse" theory, more sort of multiple timelines within the same universe. I mean, Dragon Ball Online and Jaco the Galactic Patrolman establish that time travel is a violation of the laws of the Dragon Ball Universe. Also there's a God Of Time apparently.

EDIT: Surprised they haven't put this anywhere else yet.

"HELL YEAH TO THE KRILL-MEISTER!"

edited 6th Apr '14 3:26:11 PM by unnoun

nairoxev Since: Nov, 2011
#6304: Apr 6th 2014 at 3:42:41 PM

Loved Gohan being the one to explain multiverse theory. Guess Trunks' future!Gohan focuses more on fighting.

CallCenterJockey Since: Mar, 2014
#6305: Apr 6th 2014 at 4:16:36 PM

[up][up][up][up]Scripting and editing can happen simultaneously.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#6306: Apr 6th 2014 at 4:17:53 PM

...No, they can't.

Scripting and recording can happen simultaneously, but editing is the part that has to happen at the end.

CallCenterJockey Since: Mar, 2014
#6307: Apr 6th 2014 at 4:26:15 PM

Editing one episode while scripting the next.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#6308: Apr 6th 2014 at 4:28:02 PM

...They released episode 41 already.

And the progress bar is at 42% recording.

Before you can edit, you have to have footage and sounds. They get the footage presumably from DV Ds or blurays. The sounds they have to get from music soundtracks, stock sound effects, and their own voices, which they have to record.

Before they can record, they have to have a script.

edited 6th Apr '14 4:30:49 PM by unnoun

CallCenterJockey Since: Mar, 2014
#6309: Apr 6th 2014 at 4:29:17 PM

And they were scripting episode 42 while editing episode 41. Hence why they're not completely back to 0. How is this so hard to understand?

DamascaRamza (Ancient one)
#6311: Apr 6th 2014 at 4:32:22 PM

I watched this episode a few minutes after it was up on the website since it wasn't on Youtube yet. I liked it, it had some clever jokes and moved the plot along. It's hard to tell if Tien actually likes anyone besides Chiaotzu though.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#6312: Apr 6th 2014 at 4:34:57 PM

They're not back to 0, but they aren't editing anything either, not according to the progress bar. Right now they're recording. Recording is not editing. As near as I can tell they are not editing anything at the moment. Right now they're recording. They are 42% done with recording.

Near as I can tell, the progress bar has three different modes: "recording" "editing" and "resting" each with their own percentages. When they reach 100% on one they start at 0% with the next.

Kaiser usually uploads the videos the moment he's done and they meet his satisfaction. After he's done editing them. Editing is the last stage of the process. Not counting uploading.

They aren't editing right now because they're recording. Until the recording is done there's nothing to edit.

...If they were already editing we could expect the next episode in about a few weeks, as opposed to the once-a-month schedule they usually manage.

edited 6th Apr '14 4:42:06 PM by unnoun

CallCenterJockey Since: Mar, 2014
#6313: Apr 6th 2014 at 4:44:11 PM

THE EDITING WAS ON EPISODE 41! I SAID THAT THREE TIMES! THEY ARE DONE WITH EDITING EPISODE 41, BUT WROTE THE SCRIPT FOR 42 WHILE THEY WERE NOT DONE EDITING EPISODE 41!

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#6314: Apr 6th 2014 at 4:46:43 PM

...Of course the editing is done on 41. It's been released. Kinda obvious.

They're 42% done recording 42.

I understand that they probably do some scripting in advance. Still, halfway through recording the day the previous episode is released is impressive.

EDIT: I'm confused. I think we had some manner of miscommunication here.

I'm sorry.

edited 6th Apr '14 5:00:40 PM by unnoun

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#6315: Apr 6th 2014 at 5:24:51 PM

Let no one say Trunks can't be an idiot.

stingerbrg Since: Jun, 2009
#6316: Apr 6th 2014 at 5:28:14 PM

Has anyone suggested he isn't? Even in the source he's prone to being as stupid as everyone else.

GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#6317: Apr 6th 2014 at 5:35:17 PM

Why is he an idiot? That he didn't know a dead musical genre? That he didn't know that someone would understand a complex thing like time travel and multiple universes?

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#6318: Apr 6th 2014 at 5:36:23 PM

That he tried to open a capsule Time Machine in a plane.

edited 6th Apr '14 5:36:35 PM by unnoun

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#6320: Apr 6th 2014 at 5:45:26 PM

It's actually part of his character that he's naive and inexperienced, causing him to make quite a few blunders. The most notable of which is Super Saiyan Grade III.

Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
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#6321: Apr 6th 2014 at 6:05:55 PM

Grade III?

You mean the "ascended Super Saiyan but not really" thing he and Vegeta worked on while Goku and Gohan were working on making Super Saiyan more natural, which failed because giant muscles are too slow?

Now, I'm sure it's the official name (you're really good at those), but why is it called grade III? What's grade II (I'm assuming plain Super Saiyan is Grade I)?

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#6322: Apr 6th 2014 at 6:22:25 PM

It's because there are two different versions of the muscular form. Grade II is the version Vegeta used to fight Cell, and Grade III is the version Trunks used. Grade III is just taking the power up of Grade II even further, which causes it to kill the speed of the form.

Oh, and the naming scheme comes from the guidebooks, taken from how Goku describes the difference of Grade II and Grade III: right before he transforms from Grade II to III, he says he can take things up another "grade".

edited 6th Apr '14 6:23:49 PM by Saiga

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#6323: Apr 6th 2014 at 6:51:36 PM

Wonder how TFS will handle Marron's name. Whether they'll make jokes about it.

...Also kinda wishing that they'd do a "krillin roasting on an open fire" song parody.

I'm wondering if they'll do Goten and Marron's conceptions the way they did Trunks'. And Pan and Bra's eventually.

...And if they do go back and do the original Dragon Ball maybe Gohan's?

The joke would probably get old after a while.

Wildcard Since: Jun, 2012
#6324: Apr 6th 2014 at 7:44:31 PM

I wonder how they would ever handle the Super 17 Saga if they got that far.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#6325: Apr 6th 2014 at 9:00:20 PM

I'd imagine they'd pull a Garlic Jnr arc on it, wrap the whole thing up in seven episodes. It's even shorter than the Garlic Jnr arc was and just as WTF-y.


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