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Power level bullshit discussions: is it only a male nerd thing?

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PSqueak said:
I have so many questions about all these statements, i don't even know where to start.

Maybe..."stand still at the speed of light"? wouldn' that just being standing still while thinking at the speed of light?
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THis was back when DBZ was still on Toonami, you couldn't tell them shit.
Pau said:
I hope he at least had a disclaimer saying it was something she would never do because she doesn't kill.
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Cain hardcore fans were weird, well the ones i talked to. They wanted her to be a stone cold killer, but her arc was suppose to be the exactly the opposite of that.
 
SixMachine said:
Sounds like they've been trying to do math on the series where the mangaka pulls numbers out of his butt. Though I do find it funny when people do that. Like the fact that the likes of Majin Buu fly around to the end of the universe, or that Beerus can sneeze and ping pong against a bunch of planets would put that at ridiculous speeds that would basically destroy the everything. And strength wise punching all the way through King Kai's planet is ridiculous because it's many times more dense than a white dwarf star based on its size and gravity. People didn't understand that Toriyama didn't give a crap. "Look at my weighted clothing that weighs 100kg, even though I could blow up the moon and smash mountains with my skull when I was 15!"
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Star Wars nerds wanted you to show your math and your work. But when you question the force they got mad. Got a dude banned over Spiderman and Scarlet Spider vs Obi Wan and Mace couldn't accept the amazing one is that good.
 
Slayven said:
THis was back when DBZ was still on Toonami, you couldn't tell them shit.


Cain hardcore fans were weird, well the ones i talked to. They wanted her to be a stone cold killer, but her arc was suppose to be the exactly the opposite of that.
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I'm sure it didn't help that they were going by the English dub.

I mean it's 2015 now and people still think Radditz was moving at light-speed and Vegeta was only a bad person because Freeza made him that way.
 
No idea if it's a gender thing, but I'm a male nerd who enjoys "power level" discussion. For me it's simply fun speculation.
 
PSqueak said:
To be fair, the whole point of sports is one team beating the other.

While there is no reason why Goku would fight Superman to death.

I mean, Goku would totally be bros with Superman
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This isn't true, Goku would absolutely love to fight Superman.
He wouldn't necessarily want to kill him, but Superman is someone he would want to fight at any given chance.
Superman wouldn't want to fight though.
 
Yeah you have to have a penis to discuss these things. So if you're female and think The Powerpuff Girls could beat the shit out of The Crystal Gems you might want to double check and make sure there's not a secret wang hanging off somewhere.
 
PSqueak said:
To be fair, the whole point of sports is one team beating the other.

While there is no reason why Goku would fight Superman to death.

I mean, Goku would totally be bros with Superman
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Probably, I can see Superman seeing Goku as a dangerous person that puts innocent people in harms way like isn't Goku not supposed to be a typical good guy or a complete good guy to begin with? Tbh, I sometimes think "lets be friends" is a copout .


Any who power levels are bullshit and usually a dick swinging contest that dives into feat list wars, but a lot people do it for fun. Realistically, it would be possible for many characters to kill other characters in very specific ways.
 
For real though, Broly vs The Sailor Scouts vs Nine Tails.
TheSpoiler said:
You know what, shipping might be a female-dominated thing, maybe. I don't want to draw generalizations here, but shipping enters the conversation for animefans quite a bit more with females than males.

Now that's looking for small ass details out of nothing too.
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Does waifu shipping count?
 
jaxapollo said:
Yeah you have to have a penis to discuss these things. So if you're female and think The Powerpuff Girls could beat the shit out of The Crystal Gems you might want to double check and make sure there's not a secret wang hanging off somewhere.
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It's not a question about if they can discuse this things, it's about if they care about it.
I thought this was clear.
 
Slayven said:
Cain hardcore fans were weird, well the ones i talked to. They wanted her to be a stone cold killer, but her arc was suppose to be the exactly the opposite of that.
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Clearly they weren't real hardcore Cass fans
like me
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ElBoxyBrown said:
I love the hatred reactions to Deathstroke beating the entire Justice League, or basically any superpowered being.
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Goddamn it man you know that shit made no fucking sense, goddamn lazy writing at its finest, anyone of those characters in that situation absolutely wrecks Slade.

How the hell does Cassandra Cain warrant her own wikia?
 
Slayven said:
what did you think of her five minutes as Kasumi on Justice League Hardcore or whatever they called it?
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A prelude of the dumb things to come. I don't know exactly when the idea to make her an actual assassin came about, but anything skirting that line is eh in hindsight.

Also rolled my eyes at the name because I'm pretty sure Cassandra isn't Japanese but then I'm reminded that her ethnicity seems to just be "half white/half generic Asian" because superhero comics.
 
Pau said:
A prelude of the dumb things to come. I don't know exactly when the idea to make her an actual assassin came about, but anything skirting that line is eh in hindsight.

Also rolled my eyes at the name because I'm pretty sure Cassandra isn't Japanese but then I'm reminded that her ethnicity seems to just be "half white/half generic Asian" because superhero comics.
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They needed her to be Xtreme damn the details, even though it was in the 2003. At least it wasn't as bad as Cry For Justice.
 
Most of the action media we consume kind of revolves around characters beating the donkey shit out of each other.

"Who would win" discussions are an inevitability. I bet the Greeks and such would do it with their mythological heroes.
 
Walpurgis said:
oh noes
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I should have clarified, by women care products, I meant the kind that they use on where their babies come from, not the women care products that make their hair look nice. And when I mean leave it around, I mean stuff a bloody used tampon within any nook and cranny such as the TP dispenser.
 
Johndoey said:
How the hell does Cassandra Cain warrant her own wikia?
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We need a shrine where we can mourn.

Slayven said:
At least it wasn't as bad as Cry For Justice.
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Yeah, but at least Roy still exists. (Not that I know what they're doing with him so maybe no Cass is a blessing in disguise.) Also, I think this is my new rating system for superhero stories:

No need to mention Cry For Justice
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It's not as bad as Cry For Justice
Cry for Justice
 
Pau said:
We need a shrine where we can mourn.


Yeah, but at least Roy still exists. (Not that I know what they're doing with him so maybe no Cass is a blessing in disguise.) Also, I think this is my new rating system for superhero stories:

No need to mention Cry For Justice
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It's not as bad as Cry For Justice
Cry for Justice
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Drinking game, read the series and take a shot every time someone says "Justice"
 
MrHoot said:
I like the opposite argument of "who could beat my favourite character". It's why I get kinda miffed at people putting batman on a pedestal saying he can never be beat because he "always has a plan" as I always thought him being vulnerable was always the most interesting character trait
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Batman is good, but he can't out-plan Reed Richards.
 
Batman is hard to gauge because his super power is that hes vastly smarter than everyone else. Thats why he can stand shoulder to shoukder with aliens, gods and robots. Hes a squishy human with no defense against stuff that would intimidate his super friends.
 
FStubbs said:
Batman is good, but he can't out-plan Reed Richards.
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Folks skip over how often his preptime ends up fucking up.

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Slayven said:
Drinking game, read the series and take a shot every time someone says "Justice"
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Times like these I'm glad I don't drink. Sorry I'm a bit of a loser.

I also appear to have lucked out and never been in a woman's restroom with walls and floors from a butcher shop. Never seen anything worse than a drop of blood on a toilet.
 
Escape Goat said:
Batman is hard to gauge because his super power is that hes vastly smarter than everyone else. Thats why he can stand shoulder to shoukder with aliens, gods and robots. Hes a squishy human with no defense against stuff that would intimidate his super friends.
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The issue is he isn't actually smarter than everyone else, tons of people are smarter then him. Batman strength is he's well rounded, he can't take Richard Dragon one on one or beat Luthor at chess,but he doesn't have to dudes power should be adaptability.
 
Maybe Slayven can explain it to me, but I never understood power levels nonsense, either.

I mean, does any of that crap really matter when the author is just gonna pull the strings on the characters to do whatever in order to progress the story? Especially in comics?
 
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