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tbp posted:moro / dbs as a whole is kinda weird how they get it right and then go on for another handful of chapters where they get it wrong for no reason There's something charming about a series that still after 40? years refuses to budge on the feeling of hopelessness and constant failure some characters are facing. Vegeta is probably not going to win anything, no matter how much he wants to, because he just isn't good enough to do it.
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grieving for Gandalf posted:I don't like god ki or Ultra Instinct because they're so ill-defined.
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Kanos posted:Basically every Dragonball villain that says they want the ultimate challenge really just wants someone strong to kick the poo poo out of so they can feel self-superior. None of them actually want to fight someone who can plausibly kick their rear end.
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TwoPair posted:Ultra Ego is a dumb power up because "get the poo poo beat out of them yet somehow become more powerful" is like, the most basic power that all shonen protagonists have. Like I'm trying to think of a big power up in anime that doesn't come after a character gets the poo poo get kicked out of them and I'm at a loss. Like, maybe a character gets stronger training or something like Gohan unlocking Super Saiyan (although I do believe that comes via Goku beating him up a lot training) or but the real power ups when the heroes are half-dead. Like in Enies Lobby, he shows off Gear 2nd and Gear 3rd before the big fight with Lucci, and part of the tension of that fight is that you already know what his powerups are, he has no more aces up his sleeve. The fight ends with Luffy getting up again after getting KO'd for the second and just doing a plain old regular punch series on a worn out Lucci. You could argue that Luffy figures out his powerups after CP9 beats them up and grabs Robin in Water 7, but the gap between that and the later fights is so big that they are basically separate arcs, and it's more of a interpersonal story driver than an 'I need to get stronger' motivation. Crucially, there is no training arc, Luffy just passively invents some poo poo while sleeping. Same with Gear 4th, he pops it early in the fight, never really gets KO'd or properly challenged, finishes with just a big punch. Later when he faces Katakuri, that fight involves no new powerups, and also finishes with just a contest of stamina and a dual exchange leading to a double KO. The only thing I can think of is, in Alabasta he figures out how to beat Crocodile after getting nearly killed, but the solution was 'oh he's weak to water' and the 'powerup' was carrying some water in a big barrel so it doesn't fit the bill. Bisse fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Jun 15, 2022 |
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New Leaf posted:I can't get behind the art of One Piece, it just looks so dumb to me.. Same with Jojo. Maybe I'm in the minority. Bisse fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Jun 15, 2022 |
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Thats surreal and all but not as surreal as that outofcontext page of dapper moustache guy lunge-drop-punching a frog with Jotaro looking on with a shocked face.
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Last Celebration posted:It was really cool how they made it look like Ultra Ego was gonna be cool for a minute before crapping out. Is Ultra Ego gonna be the new jobber form? Is it the Yamcha of Dragonball Super?
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So all vegeta needs to do to win is find the right balance between getting hit a lot and not dying.
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I'm just casually dropping in every 3rd chap or so occasion to see punchmen punching each other, but even I can tell this seems really drab and soulless at this point. Its a shame because the tournament arc was pretty cool and UI was an at least somewhat inspired powerup. Meanwhile this is just "I stared at the clouds for 30secs so now I can have emotions during UI, therefore now my fireballs hit harder." At least UI showed some difference in fighting style, but this is just the exact same poo poo as before and the villain says ouch more now.
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The Last Call posted:Image links to the Descriptions for the characters as said by Toriyama
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projecthalaxy posted:I have never learned what rollback is and at this point I'm afraid to ask. I just know we have to threaten devs kids on twitter unless we get it. Simplest explanation I can think of is: You add a input buffer for the other player's input, of let's say 5 frames, where you just don't change the other player's inputs (say if I press LP, the game just pretends I held it down for 5 more frames). Then every time you get an update from the other player with new inputs, you re-compute the last five frames. This allows you to replace a lot of your input latency with some 'teleportation' oddities instead which occur when you re-compute frames when new inputs arrive from the other player. That's about as simple as I can describe it. Oh and it just so happens in fighting games those oddities are not too common, especially if you are comboing the other person his inputs don't matter, but your input timings are super important, this is kind of unique to 1v1 fighting games making them the type of game where this is the perfect tradeoff.
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That's uh, crazy good
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That sounds super fun, i'd love to play through a match or two like that. Depends on the ratio to standard vs excellent matches I guess.
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Black August posted:one or more of the characters going through a training routine you can follow along with to get a little workout Me: Steps into my wardrobe
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CT has a great setup, is really fun, and Lavos was scary as hell, and the story if great if you can accept that it's basically a MOTW setup. The battles are very dated and most random encounters are spam attack to win, only the boss fights are interesting, when everything comes together right fights can get really tense and exciting, Giga Gaia and the final Lavos battle being the best I think, unfortunately battles like that are kind of rare. Anyway i've replayed it 3 times so it's a flawed but great game and has some magic to it.
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Dragon Ball is big enough at this point that whatever you wish happened has happened somewhere in some offshoot or filler.
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They turned a sword into a stick?
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SeANMcBAY posted:Jiren needed more backstory but I like how he was handled in the tournament itself. Motivation: "don wanna my fren to die" That's really all that was needed, and agree he would have been better if they leaned harder into making him an overly serious emotionless concrete wall that just kinda exists. Like Goku could at some moment wonder "What challenges has this guy had to overcome to be this strong..." and we never find out because Jiren Mouth Shut, that would have been dope. There were enough other people with character and backstories and relationships throughout the tournament and that would have made this bit even better. Also RIP Toriyama you sure knew how to draw some punch mans, wish you a wonderful trip down snake road! Bisse fucked around with this message at 11:51 on Mar 12, 2024 |
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Captain Oblivious posted:Chrono Trigger is kind of boring to revisit.
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New Leaf posted:I love Cell as a villain though, he would have been a fun returning character in a different world. He could continuously get stronger thanks to the Saiyan DNA and pull some King Piccolo shenanigans and send monsters he created to terrorize the Z Fighters and now I'm just describing the plot of Power Rangers.. Hahaaa! After 10,000 years, i’m free! Time to conquer earth!
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Imagine being the person needing to map near-identical hairstyles to the correct name and if you get it wrong 10,000 fans worldwide will hunt you. Oh i'm sorry blonde with spiky upwards hair style about 40cm long should have been *checks death threat* "Gogeta" not "Vegeto", my bad.
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Majin Duumbass Majin Duuh Majin D. Uu
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broke:Siegkrow posted:The unwillingness to move on to the next generation and leave Goku and Vegeta behind is the biggest weakness of modern Dragon Ball. woke: space son goku go raaaaaaaahhh 
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