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UltimatelySubjective Since: Jun, 2011
#8001: Oct 13th 2014 at 7:28:23 PM

Still, a good diagram might be even better.

How about this one? Nice and simple in design.

edited 13th Oct '14 7:32:27 PM by UltimatelySubjective

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#8002: Oct 13th 2014 at 8:07:08 PM

Ultimately Subjective! What does the scouter say about the thread's post numbers?

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#8003: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:09:19 PM

Its over 7!

That's what everyone expected.

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#8004: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:10:38 PM

Oh really when?
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#8005: Oct 14th 2014 at 5:29:31 AM

"It must be broken or something!"

What gave you that impression, Nappa? The crunched pieces of scrap metal in Vegeta's hand?

edited 14th Oct '14 5:29:58 AM by Enlong

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#8007: Oct 14th 2014 at 6:13:58 AM

[up][up] I was thinking the same thing.

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#8008: Oct 14th 2014 at 7:20:02 AM

"It must be broken," is a line that comes up so ridiculously often throughout the series that by the end of it, I'm left with the impression that the Scouters malfunction all the time. Everyone who uses a Scouter is incredibly willing to believe that it's showing a high power level because it's fritzing up.

I wonder how often this actually happens, where they're reading a sheep or something and it shows "18,000" and they have a moment of panic before thwacking the Scouter and it drops to 2.

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FOFD Since: Apr, 2013
#8009: Oct 14th 2014 at 9:15:23 AM

Saiyans have been waging/fighting countless wars on alien worlds and they've apparently never come across a species that was stronger than them, bar Frieza and his cronies.

When they see a power level that shoots over the norm, their only rationale is that the device must be broken. And as far as they've seen, Zarbon and Frieza are the only people who conceal their power levels via hidden forms. Cue Vegeta's WTF when Goku started to power up.

It's still hubris, attacking said person blindly when your scouter's telling you that they're 10 times your size. I mean at least exercise some caution, or nuke the planet rather than dilly-dally.

edited 14th Oct '14 9:17:45 AM by FOFD

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#8010: Oct 14th 2014 at 10:54:16 AM

[up][up][up][up][up][awesome]

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#8011: Oct 14th 2014 at 7:28:03 PM

[up][up][up]It's either that, or accept that you are boned.

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#8012: Oct 14th 2014 at 9:16:01 PM

Well, even if you accept it, the guy is stronger than you, so you're really still boned.

You're just aware that you're boned.

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#8013: Oct 15th 2014 at 9:11:08 AM

Yeah. Characters in Dragon Ball would rather assume, "Stupid thing is fritzing up again," than "Maybe I should come up with a different plan than rushing mindlessly into this fight."

While combat tactics more complex than "be stronger" seem to be exclusive to Earth-raised characters and the aliens who were humiliated by them, it still doesn't speak well of the Scouter's reliability that so many experienced professionals can so easily go, "It's clearly broken," at the drop of a hat and then keep on doing what they were going to do anyway.

The complete lack of confidence in Scouter readings that every character who uses one displays, suggests they're really just checking them out of habit and don't have even the slightest faith in the device's accuracy.

EDIT: As an aside, I'm not suggesting that the readings we get in the show aren't accurate. I just find the implication that apparently these devices malfunction all the time to be hilarious.

edited 15th Oct '14 9:15:24 AM by TobiasDrake

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#8014: Oct 15th 2014 at 1:37:44 PM

Saiyans have been waging/fighting countless wars on alien worlds and they've apparently never come across a species that was stronger than them, bar Frieza and his cronies.

This was always the weirdest thing to me. Frieza and his family are, for millenia, the most powerful beings in the known universe. Then, some wackjob scientist makes 9 separate beings that would slap him around like a bitch, in about a year. Then, some ancient prophecy reveals a being that would slap those 9 around like a bitch. Then we turn around and apparently there's an entire universe of pathetic creatures that are somehow stronger than a Super Saiyan. How did they never encounter any of this?

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#8015: Oct 15th 2014 at 1:57:46 PM

Always Someone Better and the universe is a big place. That, and Toriyama wanting bigger, badder antagonists.

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#8016: Oct 15th 2014 at 2:05:11 PM

Well, the only beings more powerful than Frieza besides Gero's creations were Buu, who's been sealed for millions of years, the Supreme Kais, who don't seem to like interfering, and Dabura, who is from another realm entirely. Unless Pui Pui and Yakon are stronger than Frisbee, but that seems unlikely.

If you include movies and GT it starts to get a bit more dubious, yeah, with folks like Lord Slug and Broly cavorting about, and most absurdly, General "Even Stronger than Majin Buu" Rilldo.

edited 15th Oct '14 2:09:06 PM by Anomalocaris20

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#8018: Oct 15th 2014 at 5:10:52 PM

Being an ancient god-killing abomination sealed in a can, Buu makes perfect sense for his position on the Sorting Algorithm of Evil.

The androids are utter nonsense.

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stingerbrg Since: Jun, 2009
#8019: Oct 15th 2014 at 7:06:05 PM

The Earth in Dragonball has pocket dimension technology as a common place thing people use. They're about a decade off from a time/interdimensional travel machine. Dr. Briefs was able to use a alien spaceship to make a larger and better ship within a year. In this context Gero making infinite energy cyborgs isn't that farfetched.

KarlGrouchoMarx Since: Oct, 2014
#8020: Oct 15th 2014 at 7:37:57 PM

So the earths Planet of Hats trait is being geniuses?

You'd think they could have come up with weapons to kill Nappa.

See what I mean? 3 year gap between "7000? Nothing on earth could stop him" to "175 million? Just gonna break your arm", the latter done by a single man, in a cave, with a box of scraps.

edited 15th Oct '14 7:48:55 PM by KarlGrouchoMarx

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#8021: Oct 15th 2014 at 7:50:02 PM

No, that's a trait exclusive to the geniuses. Bulma and Brief were likewise far above the rest of the Earth.

KarlGrouchoMarx Since: Oct, 2014
#8022: Oct 15th 2014 at 7:51:00 PM

Then why hadn't THEY come up with something to kill the Saiyans?

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#8023: Oct 15th 2014 at 7:51:36 PM

[up][up] So are you saying that Bulma could have created androids as powerful as Gero's if she put her mind to it.

...That sounds awesome.

edited 15th Oct '14 7:51:47 PM by KarkatTheDalek

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#8024: Oct 15th 2014 at 7:54:10 PM

No, I'm not. They were in completely different fields and Bulma had difficulty understanding Gero's work. After actually studying his blueprints she might be able to since she made the remote and repaired 16.

[up][up] because they work on completely different things. It's like Goku assuming Brief could make him a spaceship.

"I'm not even going to begin to go into what's wrong with that".

Granted Brief could do that but it's wrong to assume they can do things they've never even dabbled in.

edited 15th Oct '14 7:56:37 PM by Saiga

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#8025: Oct 15th 2014 at 7:55:33 PM

I'm now imagining a time travel experiment gone wrong giving Bulma superpowers and turning her into some kind of temporal superhero.

edited 15th Oct '14 7:56:11 PM by KnownUnknown


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