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MechanicalTomPetty posted:Because Arlong was a shithead who had no intention of following though on his end of the bargain, as soon as it looked like she might get close he sicced his cop buddy on her so he could walk away with the loot. Yes but it looks like the units were screwed up a bit. The village pays up 25 million. 100.000 per person every month. It made me wonder if the original had them gather something like 250.000 per month or whatever but it got jumbled in the translation.
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Apr 10, 2021 22:13
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Yardbomb posted:I like One Piece, but haki stuff was a mainly lame development to me, the fruits added enough cool ways to bend people's powers without needing to go into power aura junk. Haki had some weird growing pains where for a long time it was basically just some bullshit that let you trump devil fruit powers without any real explanation. Once they explained what it was and established some hard rules for how it worked things started to improve on that front. They've done a pretty good job working it into the setting since then, where its more of a complimentary thing to existing powers or abilities instead of some "I can just do anything now" nonsense.
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Apr 10, 2021 22:15
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Luffy is so boringly overpowered the show has to make up ways to take him out of the fight for a while so other people get to fight a bit. Then the show coyly hints that Luffy might die. But he's on the cover so I think he'll be alright.
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Apr 10, 2021 22:18
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Is that better or worse than DBZ where the characters can, and frequently do, die but it's also meaningless. I mean I guess it's a good way to take a character out of a fight.
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Apr 10, 2021 22:20
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Haki is largely stupid because it's entirely pointless rules lawyering and defining of poo poo you don't need to explain at all. "Oh god his presence alone shows he's clearly so strong I can't even bring myself to attack him" vs "Well he's got the third level King Dick Hyper Haki meaning he can do these specific things but not to someone with the same King Dick Level or higher." Like a lot of One Piece's it's not really thought through and it doesn't add more than not having at all and it took years too long to actually get to it or expand on it. Also there's only been like 1 decent antagonist since the time skip and you can tell this because everyone shits their pants with excitement any time the actually fun villains pop back up for 2 chapters to talk about doing something later (4 years IRl time).
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Apr 10, 2021 22:20
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:Wasn't there a one shot not too long ago where Ryuk gives the death note to loving Donald Trump? The Shinigami King changed the rules because he was loving pissed that someone actually tried selling the Death Note to where if anyone even accepted a sold Death Note they'd die so Trump did the next thing he would have done in real life; give that poo poo back and lie to the world by saying that he totally still has it and it's bigger than you'd ever believe, don't mess with the US or else we'll use the Death Note's fury, MAGA MechaX fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Apr 10, 2021 |
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Apr 10, 2021 22:23
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Katt posted:Luffy is so boringly overpowered the show has to make up ways to take him out of the fight for a while so other people get to fight a bit. Then the show coyly hints that Luffy might die. But he's on the cover so I think he'll be alright. I mean yeah, they arent going to kill off the main protagonist of the show. That's true of the majority of fiction 
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Apr 10, 2021 22:33
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Jamie Faith posted:I mean yeah, they arent going to kill off the main protagonist of the show. That's true of the majority of fiction But they still make cliffhangers around it. Over and over again.
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Apr 10, 2021 22:37
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Also One Piece is doing the same stupid thing the other Big 3 shonen did where they're revealing Luffy's backstory and heritage sets him as actually super important to the setting and the nexus of several powerful groups. It sucked with Naruto and Bleach and it's stupid as hell with Luffy too, even if it's not as bad (yet) as where they ended.
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Apr 10, 2021 22:40
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Can I just get an underpowered protagonist that saves the day with wit, guile and luck? Instead of an indestructible protagonist that spends most of their time playing with and beating the poo poo of out weaker opponents that never stood a chance in the world.
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Apr 10, 2021 22:45
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Garrand posted:Is that better or worse than DBZ where the characters can, and frequently do, die but it's also meaningless. I mean I guess it's a good way to take a character out of a fight. There were stakes originally, with the resurrections being a one-time only get-out-of-jail card for the characters. When the Namekian dragon balls were introduced, the restrictions there seemed a bit arbitrary - you can bring back someone as many times as you want, you have to be super specific about how you want them brought back, and only one person at a time. I see it a bit as a symptom of Toriyama pretty much writing the Cell arc pretty much by the seat of his pants (#19 and #20 are the big bad guys! No wait, it's #17 and #18, and also possibly this #16 guy! No wait, it's this bug man called Cell and... uh... he has to absorb #17 and #18 to transform because that hasn't been done to death already, right?). You then end up with the supposed definitive end of Goku dying at the end and choosing to stay dead, only for the series to continue with an author who has clearly stopped giving a gently caress, and consequently, nothing means anything any more when we get to Buu (except Vegeta's death, but mostly because of character development related reasons).
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Apr 10, 2021 22:46
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Katt posted:Can I just get an underpowered protagonist that saves the day with wit, guile and luck? Sounds like more than a fair number of Joestars tbh.
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Apr 10, 2021 22:48
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:Sounds like more than a fair number of Joestars tbh. Yeah, even the strongest JoJo's often enough have to puzzle out how to beat some of the really weirdo stand users.
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Apr 10, 2021 22:53
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It takes a lot to get me to feel sorry for Don Kreig but this show managed to do it. And I'm pretty sure he's a euphemism for nazis or something.
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Apr 10, 2021 22:55
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Also One Piece is doing the same stupid thing the other Big 3 shonen did where they're revealing Luffy's backstory and heritage sets him as actually super important to the setting and the nexus of several powerful groups. I mean that was established pretty early on, considering that Luffy's father is a wanted revolutionary leader, his grandpa was a vice admiral, and the whole D middle name thing.
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Apr 10, 2021 22:56
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Yardbomb posted:Yeah, even the strongest JoJo's often enough have to puzzle out how to beat some of the really weirdo stand users. Yeah the main characters power is punching things really hard and really fast (lol Star Finger), most of the later episodes are about how to win in spite of that,
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Apr 10, 2021 22:56
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IShallRiseAgain posted:I mean that was established pretty early on, considering that Luffy's father is a wanted revolutionary leader, his grandpa was a vice admiral, and the whole D middle name thing. Yes that's what I'm referring to. Not that's not 'pretty early on'. That's hundreds of chapters deep in.
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Apr 10, 2021 22:57
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Katt posted:Can I just get an underpowered protagonist that saves the day with wit, guile and luck? Well, we could be they buffed Usopp so no.
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Apr 10, 2021 23:00
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Yes that's what I'm referring to. Not that's not 'pretty early on'. That's hundreds of chapters deep in. Luffy's dad makes an appearance in chapter 100. Granted it isn't fully explained who he is in his initial appearance. The manga does make it pretty clear he is a big deal though.
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Apr 10, 2021 23:03
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Usopp just jumped on an unconscious fishman and smashed his head in with a loving hammer until he died. Usopp is a psycho. Until this Usopp has been almost comically useless to the latest villain of the week.
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Apr 10, 2021 23:05
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Katt posted:Usopp just jumped on an unconscious fishman and smashed his head in with a loving hammer until he died. Usopp is a psycho. That part is one of the best character bits with Usopp. He finally learned to conquer his fear in order to stand up and do the right thing. It owns  Junpei Hyde posted:One Piece is good 
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Apr 10, 2021 23:25
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Goku's only actually died twice but he does a lot of things like letting people assume he died when namek exploded so he can have off screen space adventures and learn to teleport. But yeah DBZ's revolving door afterlife has led to the series resorting to the stakes being the total destruction of entire universes at this point (kinda hampered by the new planet sized balls that can wish universes back into existence though).
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Apr 10, 2021 23:30
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:On the topic of mystery plots and wrapping things up, I feel like Disco Elysium handled this pretty well. The mystery is compelling and drives the main plot along but is ultimately kind of ancillary to everything else that's going on. The real meat of the story is this absolute disaster of a human being trying and/or failing to put his life back together again, and the mystery serves as the catalyst that sets him down that path and ultimately drives him onwards. yeah i haven't gotten there yet though i know some of the broad strokes. my question is, i know a lot of the game is symbolism for his life but does the game actually happen? or is there some cycles of guilt type deal and all of it is a dream/purgatory/etc? Mr Phillby posted:Goku's only actually died twice but he does a lot of things like letting people assume he died when namek exploded so he can have off screen space adventures and learn to teleport. dbz is weird because its confirmed there is an afterlife and its not even that bad outside hell. like sure your die horribly from some monster came from space or from the future or whatever because they want to fight the really strong intellectually disabled monkey king alien manchild who is earths protector and his friends, but then you go to super heaven. Junpei Hyde posted:One Piece is good i assume you can watch the uncensored anime easy online?
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Apr 10, 2021 23:45
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Dapper_Swindler posted:yeah i haven't gotten there yet though i know some of the broad strokes. my question is, i know a lot of the game is symbolism for his life but does the game actually happen? or is there some cycles of guilt type deal and all of it is a dream/purgatory/etc?
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Apr 10, 2021 23:54
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Upcoming: Foldable Human's essay https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman/status/1381018746915942401?s=20 Side: Jenny still on has her Twitter game on https://twitter.com/JennyENicholson/status/1381019053096009732?s=20
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Apr 11, 2021 00:17
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Shyrka posted:I wish they'd remake Death Note but with Light killing billionaires instead of criminals.
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Apr 11, 2021 00:23
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Inspector Gesicht posted:
I saw this Tweet show up on my Twitter and had to comment on how two of these three look like huge weirdos, and if someone showed me those three people and asked me which one should be producer on my huge important project, I wouldn't choose the two guys obviously trying too hard to impress me with how much nerd poo poo they own And I say this with zero knowledge about who these three are and 100% certainty. 
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Apr 11, 2021 00:27
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Dapper_Swindler posted:
Like I'm pretty sure theres an afterlife for each universe right, Goku got bored of fighting the strongest dead people in our universe before getting into universal tournaments iirc?
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Apr 11, 2021 00:28
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Upcoming: Foldable Human's essay i am always amused by the hate of kennedy. its like yeah i think they made a bunch of mistakes but nerds have to blame the evil women for it or some poo poo. also i like her desk and decorations. having some nerd poo poo and books and poo poo is fine but doing to much makes it cluttered and gross. plus she probably isnt a sex monster. Terrible Opinions posted:The game definitely all happened. The only exceptions are dreams and some skill check visions, and even those are usually flashbacks through your amnesia or your character having a sense of what does regularly happen in different parts of the city even if the specific example isn't happening right now. ok thanks. because i always get weirdly annoyed with "but actually none of it happened because it was all symbolism or some poo poo". i mean i love eraserhead and weird poo poo but no.
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Apr 11, 2021 00:46
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Katt posted:Can I just get an underpowered protagonist that saves the day with wit, guile and luck? Good loving luck finding a Captain Olimar or Shadow of the Colossus protagonist in an anime these days. Gone are the days where you watch a teenager get bounced around a room and his arms broken trying to fight a grown man. Now everyone's gotta be at least as durable as Casshern.
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Apr 11, 2021 01:26
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DoctorWhat posted:the reason light kills criminals is because his dad is a cop him being a piece of poo poo is supposed to be revealing.
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Apr 11, 2021 01:48
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Upcoming: Foldable Human's essay Kennedy is the only one that has a professional looking office, of the 3, knowing nothing else, I'd go with her over the two overgrown manchildren.
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Apr 11, 2021 01:50
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Dapper_Swindler posted:yeah i haven't gotten there yet though i know some of the broad strokes. my question is, i know a lot of the game is symbolism for his life but does the game actually happen? or is there some cycles of guilt type deal and all of it is a dream/purgatory/etc? Yeah it's on crunchyroll/Funimation. But also holy poo poo the anime pacing gets so bad so I would rec the manga instead
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Apr 11, 2021 01:55
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Yardbomb posted:Yeah, even the strongest JoJo's often enough have to puzzle out how to beat some of the really weirdo stand users. Unless you're Giorno
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Apr 11, 2021 01:56
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Junpei Hyde posted:Unless you're Giorno Yeah it owns. The villain's like 'This is the day you die, Jojo! My Stand cannot be stopped once it dives into a mirro-' And then Giorno reaches into the mirror and snaps their neck and tells everyone else that the problem's solved and let's keep moving before we get attacked again.
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Apr 11, 2021 02:21
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Left field question probably more for CD. Since Disney bought out FOX, is there anything made by FOX that was once easy to find now suddenly vanished since the buyout? I remember reading about how for theatres that did screenings of Die Hard for Christmas for example, They suddenly could not do those screenings since Disney shut down the department that set those up. CONTENT: May talks about Terry Gillium's Tideland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy6TK3njrRU
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Apr 11, 2021 02:28
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RareAcumen posted:Yeah it owns. The villain's like 'This is the day you die, Jojo! My Stand cannot be stopped once it dives into a mirro-' And then Giorno reaches into the mirror and snaps their neck and tells everyone else that the problem's solved and let's keep moving before we get attacked again. It kinda sucks and the part 5 ending made me super mad lmao
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Apr 11, 2021 02:31
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Junpei Hyde posted:Unless you're Giorno There's definitely a reason I specified Joestars there  (the actual reason is because i kinda fell off past part 3 and my faves are still 1 and 2 but i'm not gonna let that stop me in this instance)
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Apr 11, 2021 02:32
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:There's definitely a reason I specified Joestars there He's technically a joestar
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Apr 11, 2021 02:33
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BigRed0427 posted:Left field question probably more for CD. Since Disney bought out FOX, is there anything made by FOX that was once easy to find now suddenly vanished since the buyout? HBO had a deal with Fox before the merger and it won't expire until 2022, so it will probably be a bit before films start disappearing (assuming that happens).
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Apr 11, 2021 02:34
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