Kaboom wrote:Aw damn, I can't tell if you're still waiting for my assigned portions or not, since I totally forgot about it again. I feel like crap now.
I got the Freeza stuff done on my own. Don't feel too bad, I'd much rather you spend your time modding than working like a slave for me. And you did do those chapters you sent me as a test (every bit helps!)
Frankly, I'm surprised all the people I asked to work on this were so willing to help out. Even the people who said they didn't have time were polite and said they liked the idea of this project. I was worried that I'd make some people mad, since I was basically asking them to do lots of work for me for no compensation.
So again, I’d like to thank lash, Bussani, Super Saiyan Turlast x4, Savage68, Cold Skin, Cableguy, jackjack, Kaboom, and anyone else I might be forgetting. Without their help, this project wouldn’t have been even remotely possible. I appreciate everyone's thanks, but I don't want to be taking all the credit here.
JulieYBM wrote:Bardo117 wrote:How does anyone even have time to type all that?
They do it over several months with help from others.
Specifically, going through my old PMs it looked like I got this project under way in early August. So it took almost half a year! Of course, it was worked on off and on, and bit by bit, rather than as a continuous effort.
lash wrote:Can't believe I actually sat down and read all that, that was insanely long. But it was entertaining.
Potential grammar mistakes I saw:
Thanks, I'll get those fixed.
p123 wrote:I think the only statements that were missed in that entire post were
1) Trunks on SSJ Vegeta against Initial Semi Cell
Trunks says something like He's going to change already? Which would imply SSJ Vegeta is at least on par with Initial Semi Cell
2) Kuririn on Base Gotenks Pre Rosat
Who's knows, he might have a chance. Followed up by Yamcha's He is awfully confident kind of thing going on there
Thanks, I'll put those in. With the Gotenks one, I had somewhat of an inconsistent approach towards "disproved" statements, like here where Kuririn and Yamcha think Gotenks might win but turn out completely wrong. I didn't include that, but I did include similar ones, including Satan's various statements about Cell or Goku being weaklings. I guess it depended on whether my helpers included them or not, or how motivated to include every little thing I felt at the time.
But in general I did try to include stuff like that, for a few reasons. First, I think they're funny. Second, even if these characters' statements turn out to be wrong, they're not necessarily completely useless. So for instance, Gotenks couldn't beat Boo, but the fact that he, Kuririn, and Yamcha thought he could at least potentially says something about his strength (ie that he's good enough for it to at least seem a possibility to some people). Third, if I excluded things that were blatantly wrong like that, it could lead to lots of gray areas where some people might consider a quote blatantly wrong and in need of removal, while others might not. So by including even the patently ridiculous stuff, like Satan saying he could beat Goku in 2 seconds, it enforces the notion that what characters say shouldn't necessarily by taken as gospel. Hopefully by including everything said about a character, a complete picture will be provided, allowing people to decide on their own what they consider valid or not. Or something like that, anyway.
dbgtFO wrote:Like p123, I'm also gonna post some suggestions.
6. Nappa [#SA2#NAP]
Chapter: 228 (DBZ 34), P8.1
Context: Vegeta is unimpressed by Goku's performance.
Vegeta: "You couldn't even beat Nappa like this!" (or something like that)
http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/9905/055vc.jpg
The original line goes more like "When you defeated Nappa, you weren't like this". So the idea is just that Goku isn't currently using the power he had when he defeated Nappa (ie the Kaio-ken), and not necessarily that he couldn't have defeated Nappa without the Kaio-ken. So I don't know if that would really belong under Nappa's section. Maybe Goku's?
dbgtFO wrote:Herms wrote:Chapter: 460 (DBZ 266), P4.1-5
Context: before Gohan fires the Kamehameha at Boo’s ball
Gohan: “An-anyhow, I’ve gone and reached my full power, so…At the very least…Uaaaah! I’ll offer this much resistance!”
Wasn't it Boo, who had reached his full power?
Looking at it again, I think you're right. There's no pronoun to clarify exactly who has reached full power, but in context it probably makes more sense to assume Gohan's talking about Boo. For one thing, he uses the English phrase 'full power', which is how Babidi was describing Boo, but not how Goku, Gohan, or Kaioshin described Gohan's full power (they used Japanese terms like
zenryoku or
jitsuryoku). Anyone know what Simmons' subs say here?
p123 wrote:Buuhan says he is the strongest Majin. Is that supposed to be Djinn?
You could translate the Japanese word
majin as "djinn" (or genie, demon, asura, magical/demonic person, etc), but personally I prefer to leave it untranslated, as least as far as DB goes.
dbgtFO wrote:Also one or two about Pui Pui
[#BO2#PUI]
Chapter: 449 (DBZ 255), P4.6
Context: talking about facing Vegeta alone.
Viz version.
Pui Pui: “Ha! Master Bobbidi told me to be careful... But they're fools!”
Pui Pui/Pocus was told to be careful about the Saiyans, implying, that what Dabra and Babidi felt from them would be enough to make it a difficult fight for Pui Pui, if he wasn't careful.
Thanks, I'll include that.
[#BO2#PUI]
Chapter: 449 (DBZ 255), P9.5
Context: Being surprised at Pui Pui getting beat up so easily.
Viz version.
Babidi: “Hey. Wasn't Pocus the champion of some world?”
Dabra: "The Planet Zoon!!"
So on Planet Zoon, Pui Pui/Pocus was the strongest.
This one's a Vizism though. The original line:
Babidi: “Hey, where’s a place that Pui-Pui would specialize in?”
Dabra: “The high-gravity Planet Zun!”
OK, I could probably think of a less awkward way of phrasing Babidi’s line, but the point is that Zun is somewhere that Pui-Pui would (supposedly) have the upper hand. There’s nothing about him being the strongest guy on that planet. I might throw the original line in there and include a note about how Viz changed the line though.
Amazing work, Herms. I guess this is that work you PMed me about a few months ago, right?
