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…when I ordered pizza from them online. This is what I got...
Pretty damn good if I say so myself. Basically, when you order online from them, there is a field for special instruction. I told them to draw Goku, and they did a great job on it.
"You haven't figured it out yet? I'm the Saiyan who came all the way from Earth for the sole purpose of beating you. I am the warrior you've heard of in legends, pure of heart and awakened by fury. That's what I am. I AM THE SUPER SAIYAN, SON GOKU!" - Goku, Dragon Ball Z Kai, The Angry Super Saiyan! Throw Your Hat in the Ring, Son Goku!
You should have told them, "Make a pizza that isn't terrible."
Kentai wrote:Son Gokuu is a fascinating character anyway, because he is - at face value, anyway - an idiot savant. The victim of violent head trauma as an infant [...] he's a simple bumpkin with a fair share of brain damage who's natural talents to work out what's wrong compensate for his broad lack of common sense. But he's also a fighter, through and through [...] he fight until he has, in no uncertain terms, beaten his enemy on terms they can both acknowledge. He doesn't want to kill anyone, or even prove that he can win... he just wants to know he can. He's an ineffably charming bastard who's manly leanings were really incendental, and yes, the fact that he was voiced by a squeaky woman made the combination perhaps all the more charming.
ringworm128 wrote:It's been over 5 years since I had PH but I don't recall their Pizza being bad.
That guy just hates the world, don't mind him.
Except he's right. At least in my area, it's been awful for 5 years or so. I used to love Pizza Hut, but then around 5 years ago I had gotten a pizza from there, and it tasted like cardboard. Little Caesars is bottom of the barrel in terms of cheapness (you get what you pay for), but even it's better than the last Pizza Hut I had (though it's really hit or miss. Sometimes it's pretty good, and other times it's drowned by Pizza Sauce).
Thing is, my brother eats Pizza Hut now and then, and the one by where he lives is still good according to him, so it could be location dependent.
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And I haven't had Pizza Hut in a long time (there never used to be any close to where I live; one just opened up recently, but I'm too much of a hermit to go), but I've always liked it.
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That's awesome WesMan23. Maybe I'll try that next time I order from Pizza Hut.
As far as their pizza goes, while I can't say it's the best pizza I've ever eaten, I don't think it's terrible. I find it decent enough that I can eat it and enjoy it for the most part.
That's ridiculously awesome! Your local Pizza Hut guys seem really fun. Normally I put something like 'Tell a good joke' or something - and most of the time they don't bother!
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That's incredible! I can't believe they actually done it for you! By the way, was the pizza any good?
Cipher wrote:Dragon Ball is the story of a kind-hearted, excitable child who uses the power of friendship to improve those around him as he grows into a dangerous obsessive who sometimes accidentally saves the world.
I don't think my local Pizza Hut even knows how to use the internet properly enough to do something like this - regardless, that is awesome.
As far as pizza goes, my local Pizza Hut is amazingly good. It's no CiCi's or Little Caesar's (SO wish we had one of those two around, oh man), but it's better than a DiGiorno at any rate. Now Pizza Inn, that's the shitty place in town for pizza.
...And now the chicken tenders I'm eating for lunch pale in comparison to the fact that others have pizza. Curse you all! *shakes fist*
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Next time I order online from the superiorPapa Johns, I'll ask them to do the same.
Rocketman(In response to a post about Pandora's Box) wrote:
I sat here for ten damn minutes wondering what the hell God of War had to do with any of this.
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WesMan23 wrote:…when I ordered pizza from them online. This is what I got...
Pretty damn good if I say so myself. Basically, when you order online from them, there is a field for special instruction. I told them to draw Goku, and they did a great job on it.
Why can't I get that
Why Dragon Ball Consistency in something such as power levels matter!
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Doctor. wrote:I've explained before, I'll just paraphrase myself.
Power levels establish tension and drama. People who care about them (well, people who care about them in a narrative) don't care about the big numbers or the fancy explosions. If you have character A who's so much above character B, who's the main character, you're gonna be left wondering how in the hell character B, the character we're supposed to care and root for, is going to escape the situation or overcome the odds. It makes us emotionally invested.
If character B doesn't escape the situation in a believable way that's consistent with previous events, then that emotional investment is gone. It was pointless tension, pointless drama made just to suck in the viewer. It has no critical value whatsoever. The audience is left believing that the author can just create whatever scenarios he wants and what happens to the characters is decided by whatever the author wants to happen, regardless of the events that happened in the story. Which, in fairness, is what happens, but the audience wants to be fooled. The audience wants to know that the world they're following has rules. That the world they're invested in isn't going to bend to external factors that are irrelevant to them.
An author can do whatever he wants with the characters, that's not false. But the author should also have the responsibility to make sure it fits in cohesively with the other events in the narrative he has created.