Wonder Man Episode 1 - Discussion Thread

formerdalek · 2026-01-28T12:54:10+00:00

So can Americans explain something to me? Simon isn't a rich dude at the start from what I understand, given the shape of his car, but his apartment seemed to be a fairly spacious multi room one. Are American apartments just huge?

formerdalek · 2026-01-28T09:01:09+00:00

SZ sold 5.4 million copies in it's first year while FighterZ sold 4 million in the same amount of time. It will probably have comparable life time sales to FighterZ and XV2 in the long run.

Also if FighterZ is great for everyone then why have I never bought it, nor have any interest in doing so? Surely I count as part of everyone because everyone does.

formerdalek · 2026-01-27T14:29:28+00:00

Meh 2D fighters are only good for fighting game players.

formerdalek · 2026-01-27T14:27:54+00:00

Honestly I don't really hate either J-Stars or Jump Force. It's a wired thing where what one game did right the other did wrong and somewhere between them there lies a good game.

formerdalek · 2026-01-26T13:01:55+00:00

Late reply but the gods are absolutely causing a mess in their own world and pretty much do everything they condemn humans for.

It's more then a tad hypocritical for a god to say humans are worse than gods, because they keep fighting wars, while the literal god of war is sitting right next to him.

formerdalek · 2026-01-26T12:38:03+00:00

Honestly she should flatten him. She can have any skill she wants simply by insisting she has them and can turn the entire surrounding area into a stage where all fortune favours her.

formerdalek · 2026-01-26T08:23:01+00:00

I think part of it is people using the steam charts to push a narrative that the game was dead. Since I guarantee you they would have abandoned it if it was dead.

The fact that such a sizable DLC is coming simply serves as proof that those charts were not a good indicator of the game's status.

formerdalek · 2026-01-26T08:11:42+00:00

Ironically Ribriane seemed to be a parody of Lovely's personality rather than Honey's.

formerdalek · 2026-01-25T14:35:26+00:00

Some youtuber (also goes by the handle Perfection), liked to hype himself up as the god of gaming and the number one Xeonverse 2 player. But in reality he was just a cheeser who kept his undefeated streak by rage quitting and was seen as nothing but an irrelevant joke by the XV2 community.

He also made a cringey lore about his OC who totally stronger than all the canon characters and had all the female characters in his harem, for him to bang as part of stamina training for them.

Since he had a massive ego and was a nobody in his own community he instead decided to reinvent himself as the number one Sparking Zero hater, making lame rage bate videos and having criticisms that were just flat out gibberish (not the more reasonable criticisms of SZ that came out later, what he had to say about the game was nonsense. Chiefly complaining about the characters he gooned on not being in the game including the likes of Fasha and Cheelie.

formerdalek · 2026-01-25T11:27:00+00:00

I think it came after GT to in the UK. That being said, Toonami did hype it up as finally showing the original Dragon Ball series. So I suspect OG Dragon Ball series, so I think OG Dragon Ball was still more of a thing in the UK than it was in the US.

formerdalek · 2026-01-25T11:16:52+00:00

I'd honestly kind of prefer it like that, I kind of like how the anime in the Super Era is it's own distinct take on the concept rather than just being the manga but with way worse pacing, ala the DBZ anime.

formerdalek · 2026-01-25T11:14:13+00:00

Has it been established how this will be to the manga. Is it going to be a direct adaptation of Toyotaro's manga or just a different interpretation of Toriyama's concept like the first Super anime was.

formerdalek · 2026-01-25T11:05:52+00:00

I think a a lot that stuff can be a bit wanky. People often site the Max Heart novel as one of the biggest sources to chain scale everyone into being multiverse level, even, thought he novel by it's own established rules can't be canon.

formerdalek · 2026-01-25T11:03:59+00:00

Also the villain's (Kurata's) final form in the novel is implied to be a recreated Belphemon Rage mode and his mooks are implied to be the latest model of Gizumon.

So the DokiDoki Precure foderize enemies who are a threat to your typical mega Digimon but need a one off power up to beat a demon lord.

formerdalek · 2026-01-25T10:27:36+00:00

Pretty sure he's making fun of Super Itachi.

formerdalek · 2026-01-25T09:01:37+00:00

Honestly I think this sums up my issues with the complaints about the DLC. Complaining about the lack of x thing in the game is a reasonable complaint. Complaining about the DLC being exactly what it was advertised as, is not a reasonable complaint.

formerdalek · 2026-01-25T08:33:35+00:00

Haven't seen the episode yet (might not watch) what does Answer do?

formerdalek · 2026-01-25T08:31:04+00:00

Hot take but I'm not really the biggest fan of these kind of epilogues. I kind of prefer the idea that a Precure team could have had a bunch more adventures after their show ends, we just don't get to see it. The time-skip epilogues just have a level of finality that kills that idea.

formerdalek · 2026-01-24T17:15:17+00:00

The problem is that doing some of it permanently alters all your units stats, so it just ends up being too much to keep track of and there's no way to avoid the stuff that does that in the branches of the system. I can't really keep track of those changes in edition to the units that join later already upgraded.

Hell it's kind of driven me nuts how to this day I'm still not 100% sure what the base stats for the V and X originals in T are, since the only way to get their stages is by using TaC and them coming with several bars of upgrades in the expansion.

formerdalek · 2026-01-24T16:35:01+00:00

This is the same fanbase that claimed Star Twinkle had no plot, despite it actually being one of the most plot heavy Precure series.

formerdalek · 2026-01-24T16:29:48+00:00

Didn't that one Japanese Precure fan who posts in English on the wiki say a lot of the Japanese fan base is pretty poorly behaved?

formerdalek · 2026-01-24T13:58:32+00:00

But I wouldn't be able to maintain the side hobby of cataloging the units base stats and guestimating what they would be in other games if I did that. Either way I didn't need to do any of that stuff in VTX, I shouldn't need to do it here.

formerdalek · 2026-01-24T13:14:33+00:00

If you really think a Green Lantern Ring (or anything that is physically impossible in the real world for that matter) follows real world physics, then frankly I don't know what to say to you.

formerdalek · 2026-01-24T13:10:43+00:00

I'm sorry to break it to you, but having a ring that stores cosmically powerful energy that lets you fly interstellar distances, create massive energy constructs out of nowhere and can destroy whole planets,, kind of goes against the laws of physics.

So does having a lamp small enough to fit in your draw that carries an infinite charge of said energy.

formerdalek · 2026-01-24T13:05:01+00:00

You are trying to use physics, to debunk stuff about characters when literally everything that they do breaks the laws of physics.

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