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by Desassina
Thu Dec 08, 2022 8:48 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Non-thread-worthy discussions
Replies: 4640
Views: 603971

Re: Non-thread-worthy discussions

Emotions are the ingredients of a good story, but logic is the recipe of a good delivery, because having thoughts is not the same thing as doing something with thought. The purpose of the latter is to trigger the former on the audience.
by Desassina
Thu Dec 08, 2022 7:41 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Non-thread-worthy discussions
Replies: 4640
Views: 603971

Re: Non-thread-worthy discussions

You can still translate a few concepts into math formulas without numbers using symbols in a logical manner. We have concepts of color, time and gravity, not thanks to data analysis, but logic and reasoning driving those experiments, which helped to quantify them. How often do you see mathematicians...
by Desassina
Wed Dec 07, 2022 6:11 am
Forum: In-Universe Discussion
Topic: Is The Power Of Vegetto/Gogeta Dependent On What Transformations Goku & Vegeta Possess?
Replies: 9
Views: 939

Re: Is The Power Of Vegetto/Gogeta Dependent On What Transformations Goku & Vegeta Possess?

Are you asking if Gogeta and/or Vegetto are stronger in base than both Goku and Vegeta's top transformations combined? Why would that be the case? The story has never showed SS3 Goku and SS2 Vegeta fuse into base Gogeta, or both characters in SSB form into the same character, and their performance a...
by Desassina
Sun Dec 04, 2022 11:58 am
Forum: Dragon Ball Super
Topic: Was Dragon Ball Super a good anime?
Replies: 44
Views: 4349

Re: Was Dragon Ball Super a good anime?

In terms of plot structure and narrative, the Universe Survival arc and Tournament of Power were very dissonant with the rest of the series, being very episodic in nature with a story to tell in every focused group battle. Far too many unimportant characters were given a spotlight and most concepts ...
by Desassina
Thu Dec 01, 2022 2:22 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Puns names for your CaCs.
Replies: 7
Views: 2703

Re: Puns names for your CaCs.

Kuraio for the Freeza race character. It sounds like Cryo from cryogen.
I'm attempting Gumble to the Majin race one as the concatenation of gum and bubble.
by Desassina
Thu Dec 01, 2022 8:04 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: What's up with the hate towards Toei and their contributions to Dragon Ball in some parts of the fandom?
Replies: 28
Views: 3301

Re: What's up with the hate towards Toei and their contributions to Dragon Ball in some parts of the fandom?

Most people can't separate these products when they talk about Dragon Ball and I think that the minority who's followed the manga before the anime is a bit bitter that their world can't be shared without being tainted by another. The internet made them vocal against casuals and a shift in the entert...
by Desassina
Thu Dec 01, 2022 6:02 am
Forum: In-Universe Discussion
Topic: What is ‘Time-Skip / Time-leap’ exactly?
Replies: 11
Views: 990

Re: What is ‘Time-Skip / Time-leap’ exactly?

Ahhh I see! So Hit still stays there! Thank you for that! One more question, so if within that time frame Goku jumps up into the air, will Hit see that or will Goku still be frozen? For real life humans we obviously have to predict and make mistakes a lot, but I'm guessing Hit would have insane sup...
by Desassina
Wed Nov 30, 2022 5:42 am
Forum: In-Universe Discussion
Topic: What is ‘Time-Skip / Time-leap’ exactly?
Replies: 11
Views: 990

Re: What is ‘Time-Skip / Time-leap’ exactly?

I will try to draw it, but the idea is that the world is split between times, like an online game that is sent to a client who does some action in it, while someone else in another part of the world is doing another, and both scenes are taken in by the server which updates the game to both of them. ...
by Desassina
Tue Nov 29, 2022 10:47 am
Forum: Dragon Ball Super
Topic: Manga Readers Get the Short End of the Stick
Replies: 17
Views: 2761

Re: Manga Readers Get the Short End of the Stick

... but why do games need a voice cast? Wouldn't manga based ones benefit from speech bubbles with silent characters? Nintendo has come this way without giving Mario a voice over even in games where there is voice acting. I think that it would be comical to have greyscale and dotted characters who a...
by Desassina
Tue Nov 29, 2022 10:41 am
Forum: In-Universe Discussion
Topic: What is ‘Time-Skip / Time-leap’ exactly?
Replies: 11
Views: 990

Re: What is ‘Time-Skip / Time-leap’ exactly?

They do disappear. I'm talking about lag in terms of latency or high ping and not game performance. When you're the one who lags in an online game, you see the world and can interact with it much like Hit does in his pocket dimension, but the others see you stuck in place or by skipping between posi...
by Desassina
Mon Nov 28, 2022 11:13 am
Forum: In-Universe Discussion
Topic: What is ‘Time-Skip / Time-leap’ exactly?
Replies: 11
Views: 990

Re: What is ‘Time-Skip / Time-leap’ exactly?

It's like an online game's lag. Fighters see Hit skip through time, while everyone else appears frozen to him, as if they had done something before game time updated.
by Desassina
Thu Nov 24, 2022 9:50 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Times that the series did genuine foreshadowing?
Replies: 26
Views: 2342

Re: Times that the series did genuine foreshadowing?

How about Dende becoming the Guardian of Earth in Dragon Ball Z Movie 6 before the manga event was published and/or conceived?
by Desassina
Sun Nov 20, 2022 6:36 pm
Forum: Website & Community Discussion
Topic: How did you decide/get your avatar?
Replies: 1829
Views: 334601

Re: How did you decide/get your avatar?

I drew this one myself. It's a small frame of a complete drawing that represents night and day in curved perspective. It uses Zeno's colors and was inspired by Toriyama's depiction of the universe in spherical form. Here's the complete drawing:
by Desassina
Sun Nov 20, 2022 11:36 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Has Dragon Ball Aged Well?
Replies: 13
Views: 895

Re: Has Dragon Ball Aged Well?

Dragon Ball is very visual and iconic and dare I say detached from local identity. Themes were rooted in popular culture without reference which helped them become a story of its own. Character designs were inspired and materialized into a unique style that lent itself well to animation. The power c...
by Desassina
Sun May 22, 2022 6:25 pm
Forum: Fan-Created Works
Topic: Avatars galore, DragonBall and more!
Replies: 3806
Views: 639755

Re: Avatars galore, DragonBall and more!

This is the framing that I prefer, to see his hand holding the disk against his face.

Image

But damn, it doesn't look like he's enjoying it nearly as much.
by Desassina
Sun May 22, 2022 5:21 am
Forum: Fan-Created Works
Topic: Avatars galore, DragonBall and more!
Replies: 3806
Views: 639755

Re: Avatars galore, DragonBall and more!

I tried to frame 18's face so that you could tell its outline and gave it a slight color boost to bring out her green eyes. The image went through noise reduction and a sharpening filter too. I hope that it serves its purpose. Please download the image and upload it yourself in case mine expires. ht...
by Desassina
Wed May 18, 2022 1:11 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Would you have preferred Resurrection F if.....
Replies: 37
Views: 2406

Re: Would you have preferred Resurrection F if.....

I feel like I'm always on the minority side of the fence for these sorts to things. I actually had a good time with this movie and didn't really like Battle of Gods lol Upon reflection, I think it's because of my high expectations for Battle of Gods and my insanely low standards for this movie. Hav...
by Desassina
Tue May 17, 2022 3:53 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Would you have preferred Resurrection F if.....
Replies: 37
Views: 2406

Re: Would you have preferred Resurrection F if.....

The connection between Goku and Freeza needed to exist and be reinforced for the tyrant's arc in the Tournament of Power to make sense. Goku never got to kill him and he was sent to Hell by Trunks, but the former is the one whom Freeza resents the most, so Vegeta was spared of a meaningless kill, be...
by Desassina
Mon May 16, 2022 9:41 am
Forum: Dragon Ball Super
Topic: Potential fanon explanation for Blue Haired Trunks and why Bulma remembers his hair that way.
Replies: 34
Views: 6532

Re: Potential fanon explanation for Blue Haired Trunks and why Bulma remembers his hair that way.

Honestly, Toriyama's choice of colors are not always spot on, but they could be limited by the printing technology, because blue coming out violet in print graphics is a common concern, given that it's processed by a color space whose blue hue is not linear (CIELAB). I don't know whether it applies ...
by Desassina
Sun May 15, 2022 12:03 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Does character power ups no longer shake the world?
Replies: 12
Views: 1295

Re: Does character power ups no longer shake the world?

Maybe planets have a life of their own which allows them to grow stronger:

It could have happened after that.