Things that grind your gears

[Dbzfan94]

1) People who ignore others just out of lapse.

2) Having family who treat you like a stranger.

3) Since the day I was born as an accident, waking up everyday to the shenanigans of people who act like if they were the children of Frieza and Beerus...

What?

[ryou766]

1) People who ignore others just out of lapse.

2) Having family who treat you like a stranger.

3) Since the day I was born as an accident, waking up everyday to the shenanigans of people who act like if they were the children of Frieza and Beerus...

What?

I thought the first one was poking fun at the scene where Zamasu and Black were being ignored by Goku and Vegeta in the recent ep.

[Bansho64]

1) People who ignore others just out of lapse.

2) Having family who treat you like a stranger.

3) Since the day I was born as an accident, waking up everyday to the shenanigans of people who act like if they were the children of Frieza and Beerus...

What? What do you mean?

[Gaffer Tape]

I just realized something that grinds my gears. And I will preface this by saying we all have our own style inconsistencies. We try to follow the same rules, back everything up with logical reasons, and basically just use our brains to come up with appropriate translations, etc. So I'm certainly not saying I'm perfectly consistent in everything I do. Glass houses and all that. But since I'm getting back into Super after a couple of months' absence, and I'm reading the discussion threads on each episode, I've noticed an odd trend. I see some people use the odd combination of Kai and Kaioshin. As in, they'll keep the higher god totally untranslated, and yet they'll use the dub half term for the lower god, oftentimes in the same sentence. And for some reason, that just drives me crazy! I mean, why? How? How do you even get there? Presumably someone who uses the term "Kai" is a dub fan, so why wouldn't they use "Supreme Kai" alongside it? And from the other direction, I mean, they're already saying the "o" part in Kaioshin, so why not use it in Kaio? It's just really, really weird to me.

(And this is not to call anyone specifically out; I honestly don't remember who, and it doesn't matter. Whoever all of you are, you do you. I just find it weird.)

[Anime Kitten]

*snip*

I'm not sure if I'm in there, but I am guilty of that. I use Kai as a Race name and Kaiōshin as a position (and character), excluding the Supreme Kai of Time, which sounds better to me. So, yes, I'm inconsistent.

[ABED]

*snip*

This is a small thing, but I see no good reason for why some people do this with posts. It's more work.

[Bansho64]

*snip*

This is a small thing, but I see no good reason for why some people do this with posts. It's more work.

Are you talking about putting the "snip" in there or just cutting out the post in general? Because most of us either cut em down a bit or completely, so that it's easier to get to the main response.

[Anime Kitten]

This is a small thing, but I see no good reason for why some people do this with posts. It's more work.

Would you rather the quote take up the bulk of the post? It's better than quoting the entire post (including the many quotes that may be within it) and just bolding a certain part.

[8000 Saiyan]

Funimation working with Saban and not treating Dragon Ball properly during the 90's.

[Nejishiki]

I'm not sure if I'm in there, but I am guilty of that. I use Kai as a Race name and Kaiōshin as a position (and character), excluding the Supreme Kai of Time, which sounds better to me. So, yes, I'm inconsistent.

Both Kaio and Kaioshin belong to the "Core People" race. They're both positions you're born into, not races. Zamasu appears to be the exception to that rule. He was promoted as an apprentice Kaioshin, instead of being born into it. Perhaps, for an alternate explanation, Universe 3 & 10 handle their hierarchies differently. Time Kaioshin, going by one of the Dragon Ball Heroes and Dragon Ball Xenoverse continuities, was promoted into her position, as well, by Toki-Toki.

[Anime Kitten]

Both Kaio and Kaioshin belong to the "Core People" race. They're both positions you're born into, not races.

Interesting. Of course, that doesn't affect me intentionally messing all that up in my fic. Also, odd that the link says the average lifespan of Core People is 75,000 years, whereas Chronoa has lived for at least a bit over 75 million.

[Nejishiki]

Yeah, it's a bit conflicting because there's three separate accounts for Core People, if I recall correctly. You'll just have to take the biggest number, unless Time Kaioshin is intended to be an exception again.

[ABED]

This is a small thing, but I see no good reason for why some people do this with posts. It's more work.

Would you rather the quote take up the bulk of the post? It's better than quoting the entire post (including the many quotes that may be within it) and just bolding a certain part.

Or just respond to it. It seems utterly pointless to quote but not quote it. Maybe just write. "[Enter name], ..." without quoting them. It's not like the example you gave was that long.

[Anime Kitten]

Or just respond to it. It seems utterly pointless to quote but not quote it.

Do you want people quoting Kunzait_83's posts in their entirety and responding with a one or two-liner statement? I prefer my posts to carry more weight than quotes or signatures on this site. All quoting like that does is stretch out the page with long posts or huge images we've already read/seen.

[Bansho64]

Or just respond to it. It seems utterly pointless to quote but not quote it.

I don't see how. You're letting the person know that you're talking to them, while not taking up space with a long quote of their post. I can't even see how this would anger or "grind someone's gears" so to speak.

[ABED]

Or just respond to it. It seems utterly pointless to quote but not quote it.

Do you want people quoting Kunzait_83's posts in their entirety and responding with a one or two-liner statement? I prefer my posts to carry more weight than quotes or signatures on this site. All quoting like that does is stretch out the page with long posts or huge images we've already read/seen.

Then either quote specific lines or write, "Kunzait, I agree/disagree and here's why..." What point is there in using the quote function but not actually quoting? What purpose does it serve? In the example I used, the paragraph was not that big.

I don't see how. You're letting the person know that you're talking to them, while not taking up space with a long quote of their post. I can't even see how this would anger or "grind someone's gears" so to speak.

Writing their name should suffice. The thing that grinds my gears is that it is both pointless, and it could seem like you're speaking down to someone as though their post was too long or droned on or something.

[dbgtFO]

One can also put big ass quotes inside spoiler tags. I have done that on occasion ever since we got that function and that leads me to another thing that grinds my gears; people not putting stuff in spoiler tags like images, when they are quoting people. On that DBNA thread for example, the artist posted the opening pages of a side story, but then the next poster, quotes his entire post without spoiler tags, just to say well done or whatever. I could understand it, if it was because it was the first post on a new page, but it wasn't, so that was kinda annoying.

[Trunksuu]

" so let's just bring back a female character in the most bullshit way possible, by making her younger and in the future timeline" )

Not seeing the bullshit there, the pilaf gang wished for youth before Piccolo died, where's the bullshit?

Yeah, once I think about it, you might be right. I just think her placement in the story is really dumb.

[Kanassa]

" so let's just bring back a female character in the most bullshit way possible, by making her younger and in the future timeline" )

Not seeing the bullshit there, the pilaf gang wished for youth before Piccolo died, where's the bullshit?

Yeah, once I think about it, you might be right. I just think her placement in the story is really dumb.

I think back in the Battle of Gods movie the reason for their placement was due to their previous status as Dragonball Characters, bringing back more of the nostalgia-factor. Then Toriyama decided to make comedy villains main characters... While I do like them, I don't think their placement in the story was dumb, though I will say their placement was much more dumb back in the BoG arc.

[DBZAOTA482]

Super apologists... especially ones who give it praise where it doesn't deserve it (I.E. things DB had always been doing).