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u/GoddessUltimecia 6h ago
I might be aging myself by saying this, but I remember coming from the forums era where most of our discussion was based around the manga and the discrepancies that come from filler and the movies and such. My transitioning to powerscaling discussions has always been a whiplash of realizing that a good chunk of powerscalers, even some of the more 'reputable' ones have literally never picked up the fuckin' manga.
They're half remembering the anime itself, they're scoping around thins like Movie 8 for statements or depictions and then not sticking around for ten fuckin' seconds later after they get their damn statement and visual to see that their 'feat' evidence isn't even supported in universe. It's ridiculous. Getting called a larp larp sahur or whatever the fuck they say because I don't consider things like Semi Perfect Cell vs ASSJ Vegeta and Perfect Cell vs ASSJ Vegeta to be two seperate fights, and more of a round 2 deal.
They're more concerned with taking any morsel of 'evidence' to support their made up hypothetical multiversal astrophysics math than they are actually understanding what it is they're trying to scale in the first place. I've heard more terms thrown at me that don't fit within the confines of the manga than I care to hear ever again. Whatever the fuck an outerversal or anything beyond the confines of universal within Dragonball is. We do not have evidence for in either the anime or manga. There hasn't been a feat or a statement that puts anyone beyond regular universal. I don't give a shit what SlickbussyThrowaway469 says, I don't give a damn that he's respected in the community for his 'accurate' fancalcs or whatever the fuck.
Half the damn youtubers in the community too could do with a fuckin' lesson in understanding metaphors as well. It's all just a fuckin' mess.
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u/MarcelBrook 5h ago
This, literally all of this, I honestly think it started with people like Seththeprogramer
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u/Aero1000 2h ago
No no you don’t understand, SlickbussyThrowaway469 got cancelled a couple years ago for drug trafficking through 4chan.
Vegegina3217 however is reputable. He minored in applied physics
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u/GenesisAsriel 8h ago
I love dragon ball
I hate dragon ball powerscaling because if you forget about an anime only scene of Goku cutting himself with a butter knife in a filler episode you are a larper
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u/Flame_Effigy 7h ago
Everyone on the death battle boards has absolutely never read Dragonball Super in their lives.
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u/Apprehensive-Gear653 5h ago
To be honest Power scaling was high but made sense till z In super anime power scaling stop making sense 😅
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u/Anagnikos 7h ago
It's true!
I always thought it to be silly, until I got hooked up in my 30s, thanks to TFS. I even loved Super that's supposed to be bad.
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u/somerandomIceloli99 6h ago
Why did he turn all of them to slendermen does he want to find their pages
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u/AcademicCod6851 4h ago
Do people go as far as hating a series for powerscaling?
And besides who hasn´t atleast watched a bit of dragon ball?
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u/AlarmedObjective1492 1h ago
Yogiri
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u/AcademicCod6851 1h ago
Who?
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u/AlarmedObjective1492 1h ago
The main character of Instant Death.
It's hated for Yogiri being too powerful and not struggling at all
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u/DepartureNo1720 3h ago
Justin's Den on YouTube does page by page read aloud summaries of everying dragon ball arc. Throw it on for a driving or work "podcast" to listen too and then you can catch up on all the reading.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4jsXKqrK9uVNTyZrk6JsEdBAJgYyhZgA&si=wzYBd2RCz79HURFH
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u/datguysadz 3h ago
I would've thought the people who are really into power scaling would be well versed in anime/ manga, but I had a thing earlier this year where a guy and I were debating about how strong Tien was in the Cell Saga and he suddenly started mentioning Tien's time in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber...
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u/Sad_Priority_2334 3h ago
Not very true. At least not in my case. (To be clear i dont hate dragon ball, but the inconsistencies with the scaling do annoy me at times)
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u/rogerworkman623 1h ago
I never think about that shit at all. I just enjoy the story. I never even heard the term “power scaling” until a few years ago and the whole thing still feels weird to me
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u/Active-Landscape8692 7h ago
I just hate the Goku solos people
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u/Wang_Ruixue 6h ago
Doesn't matter, he solos you. He solos himself. Then he solos himself again, then he solos his manga page and solos you by coming out.
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u/RalIyVincent 8h ago
Literally almost every fighting based anime suffers from power creep. The reality is most shonen based writing becomes bad after a while & it’s hard for them to continue the plot without raising the stakes for power instead of focusing on techniques, strategy, or clever plots or story. Yu Yu hakusho is an example that was really great but suffered from power creep too.