Building a better Strength Checker: help needed!

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Re: Building a better Strength Checker: help needed!

Post by Zemoco » Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:26 pm

I have experience with Japanese, and I am willing to help.

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Re: Building a better Strength Checker: help needed!

Post by Duo » Fri Jan 17, 2014 12:19 am

Most of my research materials aren't with me, otherwise I would help. I'll just donate to the site instead. If you need anybody to look into the Japanese version of the full color manga (who doesn't know japanese) or anything related to the first five DBZ films, let me know. I'm not expecting to be of much use.

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Re: Building a better Strength Checker: help needed!

Post by Herms » Fri Jan 17, 2014 2:26 am

As you might expect, the immediate priority starting off is the original DB anime series. I've already got Kaboom doing at least the first 13 episodes, but who else is interested in doing the pre-Z stuff?
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Re: Building a better Strength Checker: help needed!

Post by Hugo Boss » Fri Jan 17, 2014 2:07 pm

Herms wrote:As you might expect, the immediate priority starting off is the original DB anime series. I've already got Kaboom doing at least the first 13 episodes, but who else is interested in doing the pre-Z stuff?
I can do it. And sorry, I asked before about "time frame". I wanted to say the time I would have to finish the checkings and write about them. For example, will Kaboom do 13 episodes a week?

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Re: Building a better Strength Checker: help needed!

Post by Nazi Cola » Fri Jan 17, 2014 7:42 pm

Herms wrote:As you might expect, the immediate priority starting off is the original DB anime series. I've already got Kaboom doing at least the first 13 episodes, but who else is interested in doing the pre-Z stuff?
I've got the third DB box set (or basically the 23rd TB training and the TB itself) that I can use when you guys get to that point, otherwise I'm pretty useless for DB.
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Re: Building a better Strength Checker: help needed!

Post by deadguy366 » Sat Jan 18, 2014 4:32 am

I can most likely help with this. I just finished db and am only on episode 56 of dbz so I'd be happy to start noting power levels and such when they are mentioned. I've noticed power levels don't even get mentioned until dbz, and besides isn't it fairly obvious who's stronger than who at any given time in db?

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Re: Building a better Strength Checker: help needed!

Post by RandomGuy96 » Wed Feb 12, 2014 8:38 pm

DBZGTKOSDH wrote:I'm not sure if I will be able to help due to studies, at least until June. But someone else has already done a GT Strength Checker (it's not finished yet, it goes up until episode 59), if that helps.
Hmmm. It would appear that, as of January 24th, 2014, Pyrus for whatever reason deleted the whole GT Strength Checker. What's going on?
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He's probably referring to the Bardock special. Zarbon was the one who first recommended destroying Planet Vegeta because the saiyans were rapidly growing in strength.
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Herms wrote:The fact that the ridiculous power inflation is presented so earnestly makes me just roll my eyes and snicker. Like with Freeza, where he starts off over 10 times stronger than all his henchmen except Ginyu (because...well, just because), then we find out he can transform and get even more powerful, and then he reveals he can transform two more times, before finally coming out with the fact that he hasn't even been using anywhere near 50% of his power. Oh, and he can survive in the vacuum of space. All this stuff is just presented as the way Freeza is, without even an attempt at rationalizing it, yet the tone dictates we're supposed to take all this silly grasping at straws as thrilling danger. So I guess I don't really take the power inflation in the Boo arc seriously, but I don't take the power inflation in earlier arcs seriously either, so there's no net loss of seriousness. I think a silly story presented as serious is harder to accept than a silly story presented as silly.

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Re: Building a better Strength Checker: help needed!

Post by SuperSaiyan2 » Mon Feb 17, 2014 7:58 pm

There is an archive of it ^

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Re: Building a better Strength Checker: help needed!

Post by Duo » Tue Feb 18, 2014 2:13 am

I picked up the blue bricks 4 + 5 recently, so I'll try to factor in when the project reaches that point!

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Re: Building a better Strength Checker: help needed!

Post by RandomGuy96 » Tue Feb 18, 2014 2:15 am

SuperSaiyan2 wrote:There is an archive of it ^
Oh really? Where?
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dbgtFO wrote: Please elaborate as I do not know what you mean by "pushing Vegeta's destruction"
He's probably referring to the Bardock special. Zarbon was the one who first recommended destroying Planet Vegeta because the saiyans were rapidly growing in strength.
It was actually Beerus disguised as Zarbon #StayWoke
Herms wrote:The fact that the ridiculous power inflation is presented so earnestly makes me just roll my eyes and snicker. Like with Freeza, where he starts off over 10 times stronger than all his henchmen except Ginyu (because...well, just because), then we find out he can transform and get even more powerful, and then he reveals he can transform two more times, before finally coming out with the fact that he hasn't even been using anywhere near 50% of his power. Oh, and he can survive in the vacuum of space. All this stuff is just presented as the way Freeza is, without even an attempt at rationalizing it, yet the tone dictates we're supposed to take all this silly grasping at straws as thrilling danger. So I guess I don't really take the power inflation in the Boo arc seriously, but I don't take the power inflation in earlier arcs seriously either, so there's no net loss of seriousness. I think a silly story presented as serious is harder to accept than a silly story presented as silly.

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Re: Building a better Strength Checker: help needed!

Post by Nazi Cola » Thu Feb 20, 2014 6:46 am

RandomGuy96 wrote:
DBZGTKOSDH wrote:I'm not sure if I will be able to help due to studies, at least until June. But someone else has already done a GT Strength Checker (it's not finished yet, it goes up until episode 59), if that helps.
Hmmm. It would appear that, as of January 24th, 2014, Pyrus for whatever reason deleted the whole GT Strength Checker. What's going on?
No worries. It hasn't been annihilated. It's here: w11.zetaboards.com/The_Infinity_Forum/topic/10048799/1/?x=30
CatouttaHell wrote:I guess he's just impossibly powerful and he now gets thrills from letting things go as much to hell as possible before busting out his ultimate power and ending the villain or some shit.

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