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W.T. Fits posted:Ace of Spades That's extremely good
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 01:44 |
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Very good, Mr. Fits. But I can still defeat you. https://www.nuclearblast.de/en/label/music/band/discography/details/75761.71001.shovel-headed-kill-machine.html Shovel-Headed Kill Machine just suggests possibility.
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 03:24 |
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Tevery Best posted:Lone Digger Solid choice, save for the fact it was released long after the Manga had completed which under my own personal criteria (released during actual manga release OR timeline) disqualifies it. Still, solid call! bladededge posted:Very good, Mr. Fits. But I can still defeat you. Ah, but is it album titles or band names? Not knowing what's coming we currently just have The Gold Experience which is an album title (copyright blurring aside), so does this fit within the naming conventions of this arc? Renaissance Spam fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Oct 9, 2018 |
# ? Oct 9, 2018 03:33 |
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It has SPQR on it, so Bad Romans
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 10:04 |
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Renaissance Spam posted:
Stand names can be song titles, album titles or artist's names. It just has to be related to music somehow.
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 10:14 |
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The first one we saw explicitly related to music was a band (Cream) and then the second was an instrument even.
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 11:58 |
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there is a reason araki is paid to decide what names are used and we are not
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 12:20 |
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:I have so many questions about the picture in Giorno's wallet. Mainly because it's a picture of DIO posing seductively in the darkness. at the exact second the camera flashed DIO activated The World to dim the lights and strike a sexy pose he does this every single time someone takes a picture of him
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 13:29 |
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that would imply that there are times when DIO is not already in a sexy pose.
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 13:34 |
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FirstAidKite posted:
Thats a terrible name for a shovel
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 14:53 |
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:that would imply that there are times when DIO is not already in a sexy pose. Even while dying, DIO struck one last pose as he announced to the world that he was indeed DIO.
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 15:05 |
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Tunicate posted:It has SPQR on it, so
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 16:59 |
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Expect My Mom posted:there is a reason araki is paid to decide what names are used and we are not I haven’t gotten far into part 8 and I won’t spoil the plot but “Soft and Wet” is already my favorite stand name. Previous protagonist’s stands were all named after hard, durable materials: platinum, diamond, gold, stone, and tusk. But soft and wet goes the complete opposite direction. Also it’s one of the more underrrated prince songs.
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 18:52 |
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Gold is not hard or durable. It's actually quite soft.
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 20:43 |
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I'm realizing now that in terms of what it can actually do, even just what we've already seen and ignoring any future applications that may or may not come up, Gold Experience has like, one of the broadest Stand powersets in the series.
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 20:47 |
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gold experience is one of a handful of stands where the best course of action is to not ask 'what if it did this' because you're going to quickly find out that araki has a habit of writing very open-ended things and it's best not to question it
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 20:50 |
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Trying to put physics into super power stuff couldn't be more of a tedious bore, but its doubly so in jojo where stuff just happens cause stands are such broad powerset
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 20:53 |
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Arist posted:I'm realizing now that in terms of what it can actually do, even just what we've already seen and ignoring any future applications that may or may not come up, Gold Experience has like, one of the broadest Stand powersets in the series. Gold Experience's power is the Ripple. He even introduced its power with a frog.
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 21:27 |
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Expect My Mom posted:Trying to put physics into super power stuff couldn't be more of a tedious bore, but its doubly so in jojo where stuff just happens cause stands are such broad powerset I always imagine JoJo is the transcription of Araki's homebrew TT RPG campaigns, and he's the kind of DM that lets players do whatever if they can even vaguely justify it.
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 21:29 |
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hoobajoo posted:I always imagine JoJo is the transcription of Araki's homebrew TT RPG campaigns, and he's the kind of DM that lets players do whatever if they can even vaguely justify it. This is also the perfect way to run a JoJo TTRPG, I can say from experience.
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 21:34 |
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Araki has a special chart set up where he carefully maps out the specifics and details of every stand, and then he chucks that chart out a window and draws whatever looks coolest instead. Then he throws in a fact about Mongolian Agriculture.
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 21:48 |
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Johnny Joestar posted:gold experience is one of a handful of stands where the best course of action is to not ask 'what if it did this' because you're going to quickly find out that araki has a habit of writing very open-ended things and it's best not to question it Yeah. It's a lot like Heaven's Door in that regard, although Heaven's Door is at least limited in practice by Rohan's aesthetic sensibilities.
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 21:49 |
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Honestly I think you guys are making it more confusing then it needs to be. Gold Experience has a very simple powerset. It's just the power is amazingly versatile. He can inject life into any non living object, and from it create any form of life. It also had the side ability that any life he creates reflects damage back at anyone that tries to harm it. MonsterEnvy fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Oct 9, 2018 |
# ? Oct 9, 2018 22:05 |
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we're well aware of what it does, we're just referring to how incredibly inherently open-ended what it does is
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 22:13 |
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Johnny Joestar posted:we're well aware of what it does, we're just referring to how incredibly inherently open-ended what it does is Oh yeah it's very open ended. I think about the only limit shown is that small objects don't become big animals.
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 22:38 |
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The more extraneous bits of Gold Experience do get trimmed down, at least. I think we've actually seen the last of the damage reflection, for example.
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 23:07 |
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I think the #1 rule for stands is that when you first get one there's a grace period where you're virtually omnipotent, before you settle down on what your gimmick actually is.
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 23:18 |
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Tunicate posted:I think the #1 rule for stands is that when you first get one there's a grace period where you're virtually omnipotent, before you settle down on what your gimmick actually is. Koichi had the opposite trajectory, but point taken nonetheless. Every rule about Stands is contradicted at least once anyway.
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 23:21 |
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The Lord of Hats posted:The more extraneous bits of Gold Experience do get trimmed down, at least. I think we've actually seen the last of the damage reflection, for example. There's actually a possible explanation for this hinted at in the episode. Giorno makes it sound like the damage redirection is an uncontrollable side effect of the animals' independence from him; perhaps it will stop happening as he improves his control over the animals' actions. Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Oct 9, 2018 |
# ? Oct 9, 2018 23:21 |
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There are a couple of things in the first couple of episodes that Giorno does with his Stand that he never does again. It's one of those Araki things where he gives someone a power, realizes he doesn't like writing around it that way, and changes it with no explanation.
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 23:33 |
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Tunicate posted:I think the #1 rule for stands is that when you first get one there's a grace period where you're virtually omnipotent, before you settle down on what your gimmick actually is. Oh yeah. Star Platinum getting the treadmill into the cell makes no sense for such a short-range Stand and implies a make-objects-phase-through-other-objects power that never comes up again. Not to mention Star Finger! And then there's Dio's copy of Hermit Purple, although the artbooks do say it's Jonathan's Stand, so maybe he lost it as he assimilated Jonathan's body.
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 23:34 |
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Giorno saying the animals are independent from him kinda contradicts both times we see them, the (admittedly) anime only butterflies and frog both come right to him in ways normal animals wouldn't. I assume he means he doesn't have direct exact control but idk you're doing something there buddy
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 23:38 |
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They just like him.
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 23:45 |
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Silver2195 posted:And then there's Dio's copy of Hermit Purple, although the artbooks do say it's Jonathan's Stand, so maybe he lost it as he assimilated Jonathan's body. that's pretty much exactly it. as dio asserts more control his own stand comes forth. also yeah gold experience is a classic jojo example of araki kind of going with something and then not revisiting it later for whatever reason. kind of like how there was such a big deal paid to josuke getting mad about his hair and there being ample opportunities for it to happen yet early on that all goes away immediately after the explanation behind why it happens occurs. which makes sense if araki doesn't want to constantly keep harping on a thing but it makes it a bit weird in the beginning when people expect something and then don't get it anymore after a specific point. it's not really a spoiler to say that the damage reflection thing never really sticks around and it's probably for the best because 'infusing life' is already a really loving wild ability as all you anime-only people will get to see
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 23:49 |
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Silver2195 posted:Oh yeah. Star Platinum getting the treadmill into the cell makes no sense for such a short-range Stand and implies a make-objects-phase-through-other-objects power that never comes up again. Not to mention Star Finger! And then there's Dio's copy of Hermit Purple, although the artbooks do say it's Jonathan's Stand, so maybe he lost it as he assimilated Jonathan's body. Clearly Dio's real power is stealing from the Joestar bloodline
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 23:49 |
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Expect My Mom posted:Giorno saying the animals are independent from him kinda contradicts both times we see them, the (admittedly) anime only butterflies and frog both come right to him in ways normal animals wouldn't. Maybe they just really like him or Gold Experience? He did seem a little surprised that the frog came back. Now that I'm thinking about it, it comes across like he's been experimenting with whether or not transformed stuff finds him again, but who knows. Waffleman_ posted:They just like him. See, he gets it.
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 23:56 |
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Tunicate posted:Clearly Dio's real power is stealing from the Joestar bloodline This is actually a fairly popular fan theory (similar to a Soviet Stand user killing Stroheim, Josuke going back in time to save himself, etc.). Said artbook seems to contradict it, though.
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 23:57 |
Don't listen to these fools, as a genuine manga reader, I can tell you that all of Gold Experience's powers you saw today and in the coming weeks stick through the entire part, get an in-depth explanation and are used at the most convenient moments.
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# ? Oct 9, 2018 23:58 |
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Yeah, I'm imagining Giorno's a bit similar to Vanilla Ice or Okuyasu where even they don't know exactly how their Stand works, the two of them not knowing where stuff their Stand obliterates ends up, just that it does things. Giorno can't control the animals, but yeah, has experimented enough to roughly get them to do what he wants and honestly I kinda like that loosey-goosey nature of Stands, a power you don't get to pick, as opposed to Nen in Hunter x Hunter, where every person has prepared their senior thesis on what their power is and how it would work if B happened instead A don't think, feel
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# ? Oct 10, 2018 00:02 |
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Johnny Joestar posted:that's pretty much exactly it. as dio asserts more control his own stand comes forth. Or how about Josuke fixing things incorrectly when he's mad?
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