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Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#8202: Oct 28th 2014 at 12:55:14 PM

I always wondered, do they stay in character while playing the game or do they do the commentary afterwards because I have to imagine staying in character the entire time has to be hard.

GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#8203: Oct 28th 2014 at 1:05:09 PM

I assumed they go over once they have the footage.

edited 28th Oct '14 1:05:25 PM by GethKnight

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#8205: Oct 28th 2014 at 9:31:14 PM

Has anyone seen the Avengers Age Of Ultron trailer?

Because I commented on something reminding me of Guru in the MCU thread, and I got this response.

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#8206: Oct 28th 2014 at 9:36:22 PM

Oh, stop it, you. <3

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#8207: Oct 29th 2014 at 1:10:05 AM

Goku still needed a pretty huge zenkai to get up to the Ginyus. His Gravity Training and Senzu Bean spamming lets him take it in multiple bursts, but still, he had to grow from 8, 000 to 90, 000, then use the Kaioken to bring him to 180, 000, in order to surpass Captain Ginyu's 120, 000.

It's overshadowed by Goku's much more extreme jump to 3, 000, 000 in order to compete with Frieza, but it's still pretty ridiculous.

Yeah, but it's not as extreme as his jump from 416 to 8,000 on Kaio's planet. That was 158 days in 10x gravity. If you just lengthen the duration of his space flight the jump wouldn't be so bad.

Otherwise, I agree that having Piccolo and/or Nail fight the Ginyus would make better use of both their characters and Goku's. I add Nail into that because I feel he didn't really get to do much at all before being slaughtered by Frieza, and it would be difficult to put his curbstomp and subsequent fusion with Piccolo prior to the Ginyu battle, while still accounting for the Namekian wish to bring back Piccolo.

Yeah, that's what I meant about rearranging things. If the gang got to make their wish before the Ginyus arrive (they had all the Dragon Balls until Ginyu ran off with them) and Nail came with them, then Piccolo would arrive and fuse with Nail, win, etc. To tie up Freeza and Captain Ginyu, the Ginyu Force could arrive just after the second wish is made, and the team would give up the Dragon Balls with the third wish remaining because they know Ginyu lacks the password. Ginyu takes them back as normal, Freeza gets pissed and goes after Guru, Nail's not around to protect him so he just tortures/kills Guru and that fucks up the Dragon Balls.

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#8208: Oct 29th 2014 at 7:33:56 AM

That sounds like a pretty good order of events.

Two characters benefitted the most from the fact that "power levels are bullshit". One said the line.

GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#8209: Oct 29th 2014 at 8:24:10 AM

Why would they move the Dragon Balls after the Dragon's been summoned? Wouldn't Ginyu try to make the wish on Freeza's behalf?

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#8210: Oct 29th 2014 at 10:59:43 AM

Ginyu can't make the wish. He doesn't speak Namekian.

He's welcome to try, though I think this sequence of events would necessitate Ginyu taking them all into custody - the Balls and the protagonists - or just ordering them killed. Piccolo would be rescuing everybody in Goku's place, as Saiga noted.

edited 29th Oct '14 11:01:04 AM by TobiasDrake

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GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#8211: Oct 29th 2014 at 11:24:38 AM

No one knew about having to know Namekian till after nearly all of them were killed. What would be the point of moving the balls when two of three wishes were granted?

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#8212: Oct 29th 2014 at 6:28:21 PM

Yeah, I'm gonna have to agree that Frieza was the big bad to the whole "Saiyan" thing. Saiyan Arc to Frieza Arc felt like Goku meeting his heritage and then rectifying a wrong done to his people. Even if he doesn't give a shit about them, it doesn't diminish the fact that it was a Saiyan that crushed Frieza.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#8213: Oct 29th 2014 at 7:00:14 PM

Vegeta is basically just General Zod.

God_of_Awesome Since: Jan, 2001
#8214: Oct 29th 2014 at 7:09:38 PM

Holy shit, Frieza is Brainiac.

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#8216: Oct 29th 2014 at 7:34:42 PM

But for a few short decades, it would've been an unstoppable force of nature that crushed Frieza.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#8217: Oct 29th 2014 at 7:35:15 PM

I meant that Porunga would be returned to the Dragon Balls so that the wish can be saved for Freeza. Shenron was able to do that in the Boo arc, although he didn't recharge right away.

GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#8218: Oct 29th 2014 at 8:58:59 PM

The Dragon can do that? I want to comment on that, but I can't find the right word to convey it. It's not really disgust or despising it. I just don't like this.

stingerbrg Since: Jun, 2009
#8219: Oct 29th 2014 at 9:04:58 PM

If Porunga does it the same way as Shenron, the balls still turn to stone then shoot all over the world when he goes away. It just doesn't take the full year before you can track/use them again.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#8220: Oct 30th 2014 at 1:09:22 AM

Well, Porunga's stones don't scatter since that was a feature God deliberately added to facilitate the journey.

But yeah, for my idea for the Namek arc to work Porunga would need to not turn to stone while it still had the wish remaining. I'm not really sure what the problem with dragons being able to preserve wishes is, I always thought it was a neat and practical idea once multiple wishes were brought in.

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#8221: Oct 30th 2014 at 7:51:26 AM

I always saw the Dragon's time in stone as a dormant state necessary to restore the energy it used to create the wish, which it enters into automatically once that energy is consumed.

So if a Dragon grants 2/3 of its available wishes, it still needs to go into that dormant state in order to restore 2/3 of its wish-granting power.

That's pure fan-wank, though, so take it as you will.

edited 30th Oct '14 7:51:43 AM by TobiasDrake

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#8222: Oct 31st 2014 at 6:04:27 AM

[1] Celloween.

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#8223: Oct 31st 2014 at 6:11:02 AM

I blinked

Oh really when?
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#8224: Oct 31st 2014 at 6:47:37 AM

I wonder how many movie titles were referenced in that newscast.

Solar Flare image was two figures from something that I can't place looking longingly into each other's eyes.

Well, now we know what they did with that footage.

DevilPsyco from The Underworld (pretty deep down in the ground) Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
#8225: Oct 31st 2014 at 7:19:00 AM

But is it canon though? I mean, wasn't Goku supposed to wake up before the Cyborgs arrived?

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