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Marco is dead isn't he?
The poor guy lost all his friends and is hunted down by a Yonko and a Schibukai. No one has seen him since the war. If he still lives he's a broken man.
Marco is dead isn't he?
The poor guy lost all his friends and is hunted down by a Yonko and a Schibukai. No one has seen him since the war. If he still lives he's a broken man.
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Is Akainu a good baiter? How many (you)s would he get on Sup Forums with his conservative opinions?
Reminder this is cuser
Akainu is a goddamned goat
He is a broken man after losing his butthurt war, broken but alive. I do hope that Curiel died.
So can we now all agree that Marco was Admiral level?
just like Dofflamingo
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doffy terrified of kaidou
he should be Admiral level or close to it, only other person that can keep up is Jozu so of course they would lose against Blackbeard who can aoe everyone.
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Without a cancerous waifufagging OP.
no, all of whitebeard's crew would get stomped by a serious admiral. Maybe he can give Fujitora a decent fight, but he's the weakest admiral by far.
you just copy pasted my post, faggot. Your thread will be pruned naturally by the mods.
Maybe he can give Fujitora a decent fight, but he's the weakest admiral by far.
Based on what?
so this is the right thread right ?
This one won't be deleted if a mod intervenes, so yes.
are you asking me whether or not Marco can give Fuji a decent fight or whether or not Fujitora is the weakest admiral?
Narrative wise he has nothing really to put him on par Aokiji, let alone Akainu (who's arguably the WSM atm), Kizaru we haven't seen go all out but he prob has the most broken logia DF and he's always been lax. I just think from a narrative standpoint the first three admirals would be more powerful than Fuji and Greenbull. Aokiji and Akainu are more important to the plot at least.
can we talk about the furrybait joining the crew?
From a narrative standpoint everyone assumed the 3 admirals were on equal footing because they all had roughly the same age, the same build and were logia.
Then Oda proved us right by having the battle between two of them last 10 days and a close one.
I doubt he wants to break that with the new one. Considering he was already stronger than untrained Sabo, he can't be lagging behind the two others.
Lets not forget that once he learns how to use his logia, Sabo is the one most likely to manhandle Akainu, if it isn't Luffy doing it.
She's alright
you just killed my boner
Wake me up when there are good doujins
d-do you prefer red?
I want to make one but i can't draw.
depends what you're looking for
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doesn't even know how to use ctrl+f
doesn't even know the time is blatantly displayed next to a post
There's a thread here.
Without a cancerous waifufagging OP.
Akainu terrified of Shanks
how strong is cody right now?
CP9 level. So rear admiral.
Anyone remember this nigger? I wonder what he's up to & just how powerful he is desu. He's garp's right hand man and has been for a long time.
At the very least a vice admiral.
Chances are, even as strong as an admiral. The guy followed Garp through his legendary journeys, hes basically the rayleight of the marines.
admiral level. He's Green Bull.
that'd be the day, would love it though.
yeah honestly he can range from anywhere like Doflamingo level-admiral level.
Jozu was pretty weak in the end. It's already been established Don Krieg is physically stronger, and he got fodderized by Ao Kiji as soon as he looked away, even in diamond mode.
Oda may have forgotten about him tho. Not the first time he forgets a minor character ever existed.
Idk he was drawn in his youth as a marine with all the other marines, and he was also in the chapter 0 flashback. I don't think oda forgot about him, just more like we won't ever see him in action. Which'll be a shame.
Did we ever get SBS info on him? If not then he either forgot about him or he's saving him for a big appearance.
I wonder is shanks did anything about his missing arm. It doesn't make sense to just have a stump if other pirates like Z and Kidd did something about their missing arms.
What I got from all of this is basically this is your opinion of how you think it should be. 1) Kong, garp, and sengoku are all still marines. So I don't know if akainu is the strongest marine ATM. 2) you can't just say green bull and Fuji are the weakest just because you haven't seen them really fight and want to believe the old ones are the strongest. You don't know green bull power and Fuji was barely showing his power despite all the people he went up against and never struggled against them.
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Do you think Zoro will ever challenge Luffy? Maybe he thinks he's become stronger and doesn't want to follow orders of someone weaker than him. I think a fight between the two would be amazing but I don't see it happening because Zoro is so damn loyal.
All three are past their prime m8, maybe back in their heyday they're stronger than current akainu, most likely yes with Garp, but Akainu and Aokiji are only getting stronger.
We also haven't really seen Kizaru fight, and I admit we don't know his relevance to the plot that much. I guess, it makes sense since a lot of people believe the three original admirals were equal really close (Aokiji and Akainu were). Also even the few feats that Aokiji and Akainu had all seem more impressive than Fuji's, and all three had more of a presence to them. You really know shit is going down when those admirals were nearby, I don't get that as much with Fuji.
What kind of a question is that
They could spar sure but otherwise no
Is there still a Viz Mediafire? Can't find 818-21 anywhere.
All three are past their prime
But just two years ago garp could kill akainu. How much weaker could he have gotten? And what do most likely yes just for garp? If it's a yes for garp then it's a yes for the rest.
The only reason why you don't get that feeling is because now we're in the new world where everyone is stronger and admirals are less of a threat. Pre TS everyone would be running at the name of a admiral. Here people are willing to fight back. I don't think Fuji is anyless of a threat then the rest and his feats the bit he does have are pretty impressive
No, they'd have no reason to. Their fight in Whiskey Peak already stretched beliavability as it was. At best we can hope for a spar, plus like the other guy said Zoro is too loyal.
In an actual fight though, I do think that Luffy is stronger, if even by a marginal amount, but that Zoro's fighting style is a pain in the ass for Luffy and would possibly even it out. Could go either way, I know it'd be the hardest fight both ever had.
*if the story of One Piece would take place in the real world
Marco is dead isn't he?
It's time for the beginning of Marco Payne.
How was that established? We've never seen Krieg do anything remotely close to what Jozu did was that massive chunk of ice
Not American
German because he kinda of likes to drink
What the fuck?
kinda of
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No, Zoro is supposed to be stronger than Luffy, his only role on the ship is being a powerhouse.
No, Zoro's too loyal, and he believes Luffy is strong enough to command him, as stated on FI. Though would there be a tournament of the likes of Dressrosa's they'd both want to fight in it and compare their strength just for laughs, but it would end up in a tie where Zoro'd give in out of his respect for the captain,
and possibly a completely destroyed island.
Blackbeard stole his devil fruit. It's so obvious I cant believe I haven't seen anyone mention this
- Now Teach has a Logia, Paramecia and Zoan
- Marco got btfo so that's why he is in hiding
- More justification for the White beard pirates to despise Blackbeard
I always thought of it as Luffy being the strongest with Gears and Zoro being a bit stronger than Sanji, who are both stronger than base Luffy.
What if it turns out all D's can have more than one Devil Fruit by stealing those of other users and BB was just the first to find out?
I think that's unlikely anon. Marco, his long-time crewmate, said that Teach had an unusual body type which allowed him to do it.
Personally, I think that he ate Whitebeard's heart.
Base Luffy is still at least as strong as Sanji. As far as we know, Zolo is closer to gear Luffy than Sanji. gear luffy is 10, zolo is 8 normal Luffy and Sanji are 5, but Sanji will msot likely have a power up in this arc.
Posts like the ones from last thread is what's giving Zorofags such a bad rep. Why can't they just fucking appreciate his Best Bro status?
there are 4 more mugiwaras to join the crew. Who are them?
Jinbei and Monet already confirmed
Caesar and Carrot.
Monet already confirmed
He will make an appearance in vagabond style like Kuzan did.
Friendly reminder that Kiddfags will never recover from this.
4 more mugiwaras
Why four?
Four mugiwaras for every sea they are.
One man, followed by a woman and then two more men.
The first man appears tied to something. Look for it, zoro was, chopper was, Jinbei was (impel down).
The woman is evil at first but then it becomes good. (Nami, Robin, Monet)
Next man has a team of followers, comes with a new boat.
Next man appears on a boat in the middle of the sea, loves woman.
These are clues leaved by Oda. Jinbei and Monet has them. The next two hasn't appeared. But with this, we already know we are going to have a new boat. And I might know why.
The first man appears tied to something
Like Zoro
show me a bigger asspull
your dumb
Could Mozart still be alive?
Going with Jinbei and Pudding
Also Monet, fuck off with that meme. You are the many cancers that are killing One Piece discussions, alongside these two fags.
You are >implying that there is any discussion to be killed. We are in dead waters, there are no discussions, just shitpost. That's what you always get if you perpetuate general threads.
I found it strange that the guys at /v/ have more civil discussions about One Piece than here on Sup Forums.
Also, The One Piece is not on the sea.
The one piece is on the moon! Raftel is the gate to go to it! Thats why no one has go to it. All the yonkous and world govmt has the resources to go.
And, who is on the moon...?
That's why I was laughing
chopper and jinbei were tied too
I doubt Marco is dead but his 'dream' is likely broken and he's in that long possibly-temporary weakened state. I'm sure Luffy will break him out of it, like he did with Crocodile and others.
I know?
she will never show up again.
Still, she got a doujin with Robin which wasn't bad...
we live in a world where one of the largest entertainment monoliths, Disney, actually spent millions on a film with an internet subculture of adults who like to fuck in fursuits in mind. You best get used to furfucks popping up in other places as well son, because once the furtrain hits 88 mph you're gonna see some serious shit
link to the doujin?
Cause I found the Zoro bit too literal than the others. Why are you being autistic? Calm down, Lord Autismo.
Disney has some shit going on, though.
wait, was he actually a footfag or what? Because if this was a scheme hatched by a footfag to get all these people to give him free jerkoff material, this is the most hilarious shit
Well yeah it's abundantly obvious once you start paying attention. There are many webms featuring footfaggotry from his shows.
holy fuck. I don't watch his shit, so I had no idea. fucking footfuckers, lol
I don't either. I just do a lot of lurking.
untilour fingers get sore
not even trying to be subtle, are you?
Yup, he is legit
I'd really like him more if he didn't ruse Squardo into stabbing Whitebeard.
He should have just punched him the second he saw him. It's a black streak on absolute justice with him letting a pirate go just to trick him into killing a bigger pirate. No exceptions come on.
Don Krieg
Physically stronger
You what?
wears black
talks about fate
destroy an island for talking shit about his nakamas
Reminder that Roger was a mix of Luffy and
Yeah. That was dishonourable. The Marines should represent law and order. Akainu behaved like Teach there.
What? If anything in that fight was an asspull it wouldn't be that.
He would do anything for his justice, even if its dishonorable
That's not absolute justice.
Being dishonourable isn't a crime. Eradicate criminals by any means necessary. That is absolute justice.
Letting criminals leave isn't justice.
Absolute Justice shouldn't make compromises. I can't see him going undercover as a pirate for a year to stomp out a pirate crew anymore than I could believe him manipulating shitface.
It's not like I don't get his reasoning but out of EVERYONE in the marines angry police chief magma dog should be the only uncompromising one with his justice. It's a slippery slope.
Why was Gold Roger so strong if he wasn't a devil fruit's user? Why Shanks is too?
Yes. A master.
ask Hack D. Oda
Why's Garp? Just relax.
I can't believe its just haki.
They got strong like zoro is doing right now, training and fighting.
Roger might have had had a power with the hint about hearing the voices of all things.
luffy has it too
Maybe Roger was a Rubber-man then or maybe it is the hat
Well, he didn't wear Seastone Handcuff in his execution.
because devil fruits are for pussies
God fruits
The seas were not as dangerous and filled with people with strange powers like they are today
The others are also literal you retard
Why smoker is shit?
Smokers are jokers!
He jobbed twice in one arc post ts.
He is a pretty nice and likable character, what are you talking about? Or do you mean because of muh powers?
Jinbe was chained up. Chopper can fuck off. And so can you, Autismo.
I'd say the last one is actually
perverted in some fashion
takes the role of a person Luffy's always wanted on his boat.
Luffy's always wanted a cook, a musician, and a dancer. So there's really only one person it could be, AND it rhymes with Jimbei and Monet.
He died in Impel Down and people have taken his place , which is why we didn't see the guy's face. So when the crew goes to Davy Jones Locker they can bust him out while there. And no, this doesn't counter 'okamas never die' he was just 'mostly dead' and they brought him back.
probably, and i don't like his actual look, he was he's really weak.
Jinbei -> Carrot -> Kuma -> ???
typical underage "muh characters must be strong to be good characters"-faggot
isn't strictly necesary but if he is weak, can't go around the new world and isn't going to appear again for a long time.
He never wanted a dancer.
Fuck you, man. Just let Bon-chan join. The man deserves it.
Well they will need jinbei for submarine stuff and dealing with other Gyojin, Carrot is useful, she can Stealth and travel long distances quickly and she's pretty strong, she can protect Chopper, Nami, Usopp and Brook.
Luffy's always wanted a cook, a musician, and a dancer
a dancer
That's not how you spell bronze statue.
Fucking hell, when I first saw that bronze statue of Kyros I thought Luffy would leave Dressrosa with it.
it was not bronze though
What was it made out of then?
Hey faggots, when do we get spoilers?
Several hours before the chapter.
And when do we get the chapter? Thursday?
Chances of Luffy's mom being a special snowflake?
We have a good hunch.
It's clearly
Lady Crocodile
If she doesn't turn out to be Ryokugyu, zero
a phoenix character
doing anything other than rising from the ashes when all seems lost
Come on, dude.
a celestial dragon
whitebeard's dream was to have a family.
he achieved it, so he didn't want to be king of the pirates.
but if he want family why didn't he into sex in a women?
but if he want family why didn't he into sex in a women?
Brazilians aren't black. Neither is Usopp.
shanks probably learnt that hair moving technique used by Kumadori of CP9, and he uses his armpit hair as a hand
She's a middle-aged lady with a perm.
Do you sometimes wonder if you're just making up patterns and then forcing the series to fit into expectations it never actually promised
but if he want family why didn't he into sex in a women
Chances are we will never see his or Dragon's mothers because Oda believes you can't have a mother in your adventure.
the sunny WILL fulfill franky's dream because they will have made it to the end of the grand line, but the "new boat" will be a spaceship
like rayleigh is a mix of zoro and sanji
man with the bronze bronze fruit?
sucks theres so little content of her maybe at Elbaf
Isn't there, like, a sketch or something by Oda with Black beard with a small phoenix Marco on his shoulder like a parrot? Yeah I'd call that a broken man.
When will we see Urogue doing anything? So far he was shown as the only pirate to meet Kaidou in person and not get intimidated by him.
1 year break
Urouge is too alpha to do anything.
They find Raftel and approach the chamber of One Piece
"One Piece is taking an indefinite hiatus."
The odds of Marco being dead are less than 1%.
Find One Piece
It's a solid gold map to Two Piece
Wouldn't even be mad. It'll give Toei a fucking excuse to stop and let Oda draw a ton of shit without any pressure.
After the manga's done, One Piece really deserves to be covered by Wit Studio, Sunrise or Madhouse in a ~30 episode anime. What's happening to it now is a disgrace.
One Piece deserves that shit Now, nigga. Not when it's done. One Piece is already fucking insanely huge.
madhouse or wit studio would make excellent work of this.
honestly what the fuck is toei doing?
They can't keep getting away with this.
Actually I was probably wrong, 30 episodes is great for something like Trigun or Cowboy Bebop (both great series). But for the nation-defining epic One Piece, which surpasses The Simpsons in fame in Japan, it deserves at least a superbly animated episode for every 10 manga chapters.
The problem is, these studios put time and effort into their episodes, so they couldn't do one per week like Toei does. Toei is like the McDonalds of animation.
Is it normal that whenever I enter a One Piece thread, I immediately feel the need to shitpost about Enel being a literal god?
Don't be mistaken either, by "shitpost" I don't mean that I don't believe it.
30 episode
Are you insane?
When you samefag just right
When Toei actually had good pacing the most they would ever adapt was 4 chapters or so. 10 is too much, you'd have to cut out so much stuff. Maybe 5 would work, but in general it should be 3-5 depending on the chapter because some chapters don't really have much going on but others are huge exposition dumps.
That's mean, anon. My reason for saying 30 episodes was was this:
if an anime is too long, it'll be a struggle for future generations to watch all of it.
26 episodes was the standard format for art anime after Neon Genesis Evangelion. Gurren Lagann and Cowboy Bebop both followed this format.
Enel is awesome.
And he's the antagonist of my favourite arc
Since One Piece will probably be around 1200 chapters, that'd require a 250 episode anime which would be insanely expensive for a quality studio to adapt.
oh shit it's Zenyatta. POTG.
Wtf does this post mean?
only problem is mcdonalds actually tastes good. toei is like that shitty restaurant you find in the corner of a rundown part of town.
Bunch of ugly as fuck, evil pirates have a peach of a woman like this tied up and defenseless
They don't plow the fuck out of every single orifice she has
They didn't even force her to turn into a loli so they could deflower her ripe honeypot
Absolutely piss poor writing. Oda should have shown us the might of the Blackbeard crew right there and then. No excuse what so ever.
I know Zenyatta is an Overwatch character and POTG probably means "Play Of The Game".
Then it's impossible, even if a quality studio handled it, the butchered story would ruin the anime.
Their lust for power and adventure is stronger than sex, anon.
keep telling yourself that
Ah right, Zenyatta looks a lot like Enel. That's pretty funny.
Thanks for your translation, anon.
It'd be a spiritual adaptation, maybe even set during the final war.
Tell me that is not Luffy's face.
if they stabbed him, it wouldn't matter tho
when i googled that name it pulled up a racehorse with enel-ish markings on it's head.
then i saw the suggested box with the overwatch results
Blackbeard and his pirates are gangraping Bonney
suddenly she turns into an old as fuck wrinkly woman
protect brook
nigguh, Brook would annihilate Carrot barring any panty interference that might occur.
pure testosterone
Well anon, if that is the case then they have far greater self control than I could ever dream of having.
I can dig it
Jinbe was chained up
In other words tied
Chopper can fuck off
Actually he was tied to a sleigh
Hope you finally hang yourself
This is a comic for young boys and not a Shindol manga
It's a punished marco arc
Man, the word autism is made for you. I said Zoro was a bit too literal than the others. Yea, the others were technically tied but Zoro was literally tied up with rope. Not like a fucking harness like Chopper. Not chained up like Jinbe.
Seriously, what is your fucking problem? Why are you so fucking invested in this shit? Why can't you just accept that some people find some shit funny? Did you have a bad day? Is that it? This is ridiculous.
Probably, but brook can't defend other people besides himself.
He did a decent job protecting Nami & Co. from Sheepshead with Soul Parado and Eaisbahn.
This might be my favorite antagonist reveal in all of fiction.
You know that statistically if you look long enough and hard enough you can find bogus patterns in literally anything. You'd have to be crazy to actually think any of this means anything.
Blackbeard would eat actual sea king shit if he was hungry.
Look, i'm trying to fool myself to believe that carrot will join the crew.
He's protected other people multiple times.
just like Bear Grylls
Next time jump has a character poll some japanese anon has to let us know so we can rig it and make carrot the #1 character by a long shot so he'll be forced to keep her around in some capacity.
Theory time
Roger wasn't actually strong or any good a fighter. He didn't have any devil fruit, either.
The Pirate King was actually a weakling who achieved his title through sheer willpower and relying on his allies and friends.
Reaching One Piece will require an understanding of who Roger truly was and what made him the most dangerous man in the seas. Luffy and Teach both aspire to acquiring his title, but Teach will fail because of his belief in fate and power above all, while Luffy makes his own fate by defying odds stacked against him and throughout his journey has made friends of all kinds instead of just seeking powerful allies. Teach may or may not also leave his crew behind in the last battle, while Luffy will make sure they accompany him so they can find the One Piece together.
he looks like luffy with a bigger jaw
do you even read this manga?
So an older Luffy
Thanks for bringing hope to my heart anon.
They said Roger levelled pirate crews for talking shit about any of his friends homie
bit too literal
gomedy gold xDDD ebin
every time
Feeling the pain of Sabo and Issho victory.
just kys please
What is wrong with you?
Nami will always have her Sanji-kun looking over her. That's why he is an expert in observation haki.
How are you guys enjoying Burning Blood demo? This combat mechanic is way deeper than I'd ever expect from Bamco's 3d fighter. Though I don't really like how ultimate attack is a guaranteed hit. Also that sure is a strange selection of fighters for a demo, Luffy's an obvious, and I can understand Ace since he's one of public favorites, but why Franky and Aokiji?
psshh im just here for the shitposting
Reminder that Law is going to die and will grant "eternal youth" to Luffy in order to fight Kaido.
I would hate that. Luffy has enough special snowflake plot armor as it is.
It is almost like he is the MC of a battle shounen manga
so why give him anymore hax? youre fucking stupid
you are fucking stupid for complaining about the main character of a battle manga having plot armour
Yes, and it will turn out that One Piece is the experience of travelling the seas with your nakamas and all the SHs will be happy and love each other and the ancient weapons will be happiness guns and the poneglyphs turn out to be love letters and everyone is happy and the moral of the story is everyone is friends and let's be happy!! :DDD
It's a nice theory sure but Roger couldn't have gotten to be pirate king without being insanely strong. This may be a shounen but he wouldn't be able to fight the marines / his rivals with the power of friendship alone, it doesn't really work that way in One Piece
why give him immortality if he already has plot armor. learn to read.
seriously, furries need to get off their asses and start producing content
imagine how many more furries there'd be if there was furry hentai videos
yes, giving luffy eternal youth, what a splendid idea
Have you seen their comics? Pure shit, only regular artist can draw furry shit properly.
Lets play guys
its supposed to go to luffy
there's a mistake
it goes to brook instead
brook is now double immortal
stops jobbing and becomes a relevant character
stops jobbing
Nigger, wat
I like the game but there are some questionable choices for the roster.
stops jobbing and becomes a relevant character
can you please kill yourself?
No, in fact most are white but the "face" of Brazil is the black people cuz most of the worldwide know brazilian traditions like samba come from the niggers.
people are still thinking that one piece is adventure or friendship
So how did Jack get Raizo's vivre card? Carelessness from the ninja? A left behind fingernail perhaps?
If he had Raizou's Vivre Card, he wouldn't need to interrogate anybody.
Jinbei will find Jack.
Brazilians aren't black
Brazilians aren't black
africans and other nigger like races migrated to brazil and other places such as cuba
then they fucked what was ever there and settled for the their titles
Dragon had to save luffy from him, he's going to vegapunk for boosts now. Fuckers going to be fun in the final war.
it's amazing, I brought the deluxe edition
I hope there will be a sizable playerbase on X1
Gonna main Enel, Mr 2, Crocodile I should think although that swimsuit dlc is gonna keep me busy playing with one hand
People still think oda has a hinted meaning behind sanji calling Nami -San
did you expect better
LuNafags still alive
he is the best with
i can accept SaNa. Sanji wants to fuck every woman without caring about their personality. Nami is a money hungry bitch who would fuck anyone if the price is right. Scum goes together.
I agree.
Scum belongs together and Franky is too fucking ugly for Robin
hating on Franky's perverted style
He is great, but best boy goes with best girl. And Franky will fuck Kiwi and Mozu once he goes back to W7.
I remember back then people like Croc or Lucci were so intimidating. I was like "wow this guys is so much stronger than Luffy. I wonder how will he defeat him" the same thing cannot be said about Doffy and especially not about Caesar.
we haven't had a real villain post timeskip so far
the lord kaido sama will knock it out of the park though
It's probably Nekos or Inus Vivre card that Oden had so he could find Zou again
Raizo, probably took it when he fled Wano, got separated from the others, and Jack took the other one after Oden was killed
he is the best with Robin
you said it
Luffy doesn't understand love.
So how did Jack get Raizo's vivre card?
Jack would've been able to go straight to his hiding spot in the whale tree
Fun fact: aside from Japan itself, Brazil has the highest population of Japanese.
So fuck off with your BS SJW "muh" diversity
also: Usopp is mixed, as his Dad is (kind of) black, and his mom is clearly white.
Reminder that this shit isn't canon, it was just a fun SBS by Oda.
no woman can contain his ultra large dick.
Nope, Oda said it was based on their appearance.
He chose a nigger continent and a spic color country
Zoro is loyal because of a reason, and that reason is sheer battle power, also yes, I do believe base fruitless Luffy is about as strong as base Zoro without swords, G4 would wreak Zoro's shit unless anyone seriously think Zoro is that much ahead of Sanji (which he's not)
[clearly lying]
[citation needed]
nigger continent
the americans are here
will this going down to naruto x sasuke tier...
it's a seawood.
Read the SBS faggot. He said it was based on their appearance
who would be top in a Luffy x Blackbeard?
I didn't want to feed but oh god stop speedreading
No need to rig it. Next time we get a popularity poll I wouldn't be surprised if carrot or even nekomamushi were more popular than Brook. Hell maybe even someone we meet in WCI arc. Brook sucks. It is known.
Found the Orojackson fag
although a small part of me would love to see the shitstorm if you're right
If Monet joins i'm going to stop reading.
Just stop reading now. Youre annoying with that talk.
No. Monet hasn't joined yet. Luckily she never will because she's a dead bird.
Im gonna need a source because theres no way usopp has a bigger dick than me.
she was never going to
One Anon kept making theories and managed to create a following
Yeah I know, I just wanted to bump the thread since it was on page 10 and I hoped posting something like that would provoke discussion.
We've had one chapter in the 3 weeks so the threads are going to be quiet since there isn't much content to discuss, they'll be back to page one in a few days
no way he's bigger then me
No shit Sherlock he's a fucking cartoon.
Why is Doflamingo so ridiculously tanky? I honestly expected him to be some kind of glass cannon puppet master type with his fruit. Between invisible strings that cut anything, parasite, Doffy is an offensive powerhouse as well as a great support type. With stuff like birdcage and string clones he should have no trouble avoiding blows and generally not being in the way of danger.
Instead he just fucking tanks everything. Just, why? Even against Gear 4 he shrugs off almost everything Luffy throws at him until he suddenly can't anymore.
Mostly though I'm just salty that the Law/Luffy Red Hawk, the most clever move in the entire fight (which was not even that clever in the first place), got shrugged off and amounted to nothing. Luffy and Law actually working together and combining their powers with a tricky surprise attack should have had more impact than that.
I am unreasonably mad at this.
Yeah, hopefully we won't get another hiatus for a while.
As if. x(
oh you're not a SANAfag like me then you must be my archenemy the LUNAfag
Try again anon
never read the SBS where Oda admits to never putting any real thought behind the San thing
Yet you fags continue to use headcanon and overlook the mangaka own words.
accepting SANA
No sanji doesn't even deserve that type of punishment. She's the Sakura of the story just to a lesser extent. sanji is the Brock of the series, he just can't catch a break. He obviously had chose viola over nami and Robin but oda done away with that idea for pudding I'm sure of it
Id say youre reasonably mad at this. I read somewhere that Oda wrote Dressrosa as a big fuck you to his editors. It would explain the tedious duration, splitting up the crew, odd castle/pica reset halfway through the arc, being littered with backstory, less than satisfactory fights, and uncharacteristic doffy behavior.
you think he's gonna go for the pudding ?
Maybe his gag used to be nosebleeds and now it will be viable romance. Just a crutch Oda uses to drive the story forward and tie different plot lines together. He wont end up with Pudding and next arc he will meet another baeu-of-interest.
Make Doffy a glass cannon and get rid of the sugar bullshit and youve got yourself a decent arc.
Makes you wonder how much of a tank Jack and Kaido are.
An Anon here, once described it really well
Before Dressrosa Doffy was shown to be a Joker/Jester type character, standing off to the side of major conflicts - literally pulling the strings- always either slouching or crouching, watching the chaotic events of the world while laughing at it all the time
Then as Luffys opponent he was standing up straight with an 8 pack, was shown to have goals instead of wanting to watch the world burn, he stood in the middle of events, tanking everything that came his way instead of stepping to the side or deflecting it and was shown to be furious over what happened to his plans
He went from a Chaotic Neutral Joker watching everyone kill each other with a smile to a Lawful evil King making deals and alliances with Kaido, the WG , Celestial Dragons and everyone in the underworld
I read somewhere that Oda wrote Dressrosa as a big fuck you to his editors
source? It sounds believable
do you think he will end up with pudding
Well it will really depend on her personality. If she's tsundere or dereDere then most likely. and I don't mean like I think they will become a real thing like sai and 5 but they will have more of a usopp and Kaya relationship where it's pretty much guaranteed if oda ever actually did decide to ship them off. Luffy and Hancock too
Friendly reminder she's (pic related) a bigger failure then smoker.
Neither of them are strong enough to be Vice admirals
Hina was just smarter/ less obsessed with a pirate
Isn't Smoker VA already?
Yeah but he's saying smoker shouldn't be one.
yes and he's clearly struggling with his job
Here's hoping that Sanji gets a DF power up this arc.
I cant wait to see blackbeard transform into a phoenix
Obese Phoenix
I cant wait to see a crippled marco.
Personally, I think that he ate Whitebeard's heart.
That'd be pretty hardcore anon
Yeah it would be. It's possibly not true though, Blackbeard doesn't seem to have a bloody enough mouth for it.
What is robin here, middle eastern? Indian?
he's the crew's current best swimmer, why the fuck would he eat a devil fruit?
Roger killed all of squardos crew and 1 v 1 whitebeard
not liking pineapple-kun
according to oda, she's a russian, and there is a flag flying around in that picture, but she's dressed and posing as a shitskin.
probably because russian women become fucking ugly after they hit 30
Luffy is Japan here
somehow much darker than Franky's China
What's the point of using that picture but basing skin tones on the SBS answer? Literally any other colour spread would have been a better choice.
does the stance come with the fruit?
or is it just blackbeard imitating what whitebeard was doing?
It's his darkness fruit, when people die he grabs them and permanently takes their powers before they get reincarnate to another fruit. The gravity of darkness holds his body together and stops him from exploding after having more than two fruits. Since his fruit absorbs even attacks.
WB used the power without that stance all the time. It's not necessary, he just wanted to try it and
have it actually work this time. I bet he'd imitated the old man all the time as a young recruit.
so if you knock him out, the darkness fruit would stop it's effect and he would explode?
maybe this is how luffy would beat him.
he wouldn't "kill" him, just knock him out, and the fruit would do the rest.
good theory anon
Is Luffy an autist?
Luffy and Law actually working together and combining their powers with a tricky surprise attack should have had more impact than that.
What is Gamma Knife?
I read somewhere that you are pulling shit out of your ass
a fatal finishing move that doffy shrugged off
shrugged off
Something that doesn't really makes sense. Luffy was jumping at Doflamingo, so Doffy was prepared to guard or evade an attack, but somehow when Luffy got switched by Law Doflamingo got so surprised he didn't do anything at all and just received an attack.
Why are there still people who actually seem to believe that Gamma Knife had no impact or influence on Doffys condition? It was stated 2 times in the manga and even Doffy himself said that he "did not heal himself" from it.
Doffy thought that Law was dead and was shocked to see him alive all of a sudden. Also the attack happened in extremely fast. Makes perfect sense that he was caught off guard at this moment.
Because they're Doffyfags and don't want to believe their god isn't the strongest and coolest character in the series.
Admits Doffy was weakened to be on Luffys level
People who claim he's strong are still delusional fanboys
If that's the case then why can his subordinates do it as well?
But Marco revealed that Teach had a strange body from the beginning and that it should have been apparent to all the crewmates. Teach possibly got the fruit by using his Yami Yami but that's not the reason he can eat two fruits.
They can't
He's so fat he can take two fruits
Is it just a coincidence that he is the most suitable for Yami Yami no Mi? Because there is no sense to absorb DF if you haven't body like Teach has.
Not really. It might not even be the Yami Yami cause Burgess was about to do some shit in Dressrosa too. I think Teach just figured out which fruit the Gura Gura went to and brought it with him. Jesus mosg likely had a bunch of different fruits on his backpack and that's why he was co fident about getting either the Flame or Rubber fruit.
And it's not like Teach has to eat whatever ability he pulls. He could just liberate it into another fruit or person. That would be fucking cool. Kinda like All for One from BnHA.
The anon is talking about Xasasu trying to farm fruits in Dressrosa, I believe.
They're fruits for bleakbird
Maybe but he's saying that Teach didn't get the Quake fruit because ofhis ability because others can do it too.
I don't know why I'm speaking for someone else. I'll stop.
Yes but why else would teach want the yami fruit, its powers are shit the only good thing it can do is stop people from using their powers and haki can do that now. It has to have some hidden power.
Haki doesn't nullify fruits, ya dingus. Teach's fruit literally makes them human upon touch. Like, Akainu would still be a magma cunt if you use Haki against him. But with Teach's fruit, Akainu would just be an angry tanky cunt. Their offensive capabilities have been greatly reduced.
But then against anyone who doesn't rely on his fruit it would be completely useless. What the hell could Teach do to characters like Garp or Mihawk with his fruit?
So Sora existed, right? Or is it going to be a parallelism used with a current character?
That's where the Gura Gura comes in. Getting the Yami Yami was only the beginning of his plans, anon. He wanted it to easily wreck some rookie who relies on their fruit all the time. Honestly, Ace kinda fit the bill. The next plan was to get another ridiculously strong fruit and crewmates. Magellan's poison would have just done more damage to him and be a pain in the dick for his friends. And he pretty much wanted to open a seat for the Yonkou position.
Vice admirals aren't that strong. The most of them are fodder tier. Garp and Tsuru are rare exceptions.
I wonder if the pre-TS VAs only seemed so strong because the Strawhats were relatively weak. Doffy was making fools of them before the Timeskip and killing little Seakings aren't that impressive.
fodder tier
what the fuck does this even mean
anything below admiral level?
Nah, anything below Shichibukai level.
It goes like this.
Fodder level
Strong fodder level
Shichibukai level
Admiral level
Yonko level
Roger level
Learn your powerlevels.
I see, so 90% of the characters then
Is it possible for One Piece to end coherently?
Is Anon an autist?
It's almost like the Marines are bad and the pirates are (generally) good.
There were still unparalleled danger and powerful beings within the Grand Line.
Is Big Mom an Island?
Nothing is impossible
all VA are fodder tier
sanji lost to a VA making him fodder tier
Stop using a word you don't know the meaning too. Just because someone can't defeat someone like luffy and people on his level doesn't mean they're fodder. I'm willing to beat outside of the monster trio and maybe franky depending on who it is all the rest of the strawhats would lose to a VA
No I'm willing to bet she isn't isn't bigger then kaido
what he said.
franky is underrated as fuck. his only "good" fight was against senor pink, but even that oda had to give him the "manly" handicap. stopping him from using his cannons, radical beam, machine guns or that vent thing.
besides momonga and a few other VAs, franky could take 'em.
monster trio are quite a bit above VA, but far from admiral level.
admiral<<<<<monster trio<<VA=Franky<Brook<Chopper=Usopp<Robin<<<<Nami
fixed for you anon
Ugh why am i attracted to that perona.
i have bad news for you anon
He looks like a girl, that's why. Your penis is confused.
Only men who are attracted to men with male features are seriously mentally ill.
*Lor D. Kaido
Probably the reason Oda takes all those breaks apart from his editors forcing him for the sake of not overworking himself was to set up future events and plan ahead with every piece (pun not intended) fit into place.
That statement was only made aftet Teach ate the yami yami so its inconclusive as to why Marco said that.
*Lord THE Kai. D. O.
It seems that youve got a mild case of 'the gays'. I recommend an optical dose of yuri twice daily until symptoms subside.
VA Maynard actually Jobbed
lost to a new character to show that they're strong offscreen to Barto before the tournament, then there's Vergo and smoker who could were on Laws level and Garp who is the exception
If it wasn't for Buggy the Vice Admirals would have a wider range of strength than the Sichibukai
was it Raftel?
Back when one piece was good
seriously, prof clover's speech with the gorosei is my favourite part of the manga
It was good because there was no romance back then.
Now Oda feeds the shipperfags
wouldn't a smarter move be to constantly remind the world how the world was saved from a horrible enemy? one that probably abused the use of Pluton, Uranus and Posiedon, turning the whole world against them
20 separate kingdoms all reached the conclusion that they needed to be removed from the world, and the Nefetari family at least didn't do it just to rule the world in their place
you already got your (you) so stop it now
I'm being serious anon.
then you got serious brain damage, I'm sorry
How long till we see her fight, do you think? We've recently heard about her base being attacked and she's a playable character in Burning Blood. I feel like it's imminent.
Sorry, but the next female character that gets a brawl fight will be Carrot
Why are you being fucking blind? Nami and Luffy has being all touchy this arc. Are you going to say I'm lying? And then there's the Sanji bullshit
I know what your plan is SaNafaggot, just stop
Describe One Piece in three words.
you must be under the age of 5 if you actually think this is even remotely close to what you call romance but I doubt you are serious, nobody can be this autistic
Best Manga Ever
No that's just feeding the shipperfags
New chapter when
"It's One Piece"
tfw doujins of carrot raping luffy.
tb perfectly h
It does exist.
Huge massive tits.
Savior of shonen
Maynard job
Never said he didn't, but he isn't fodder.
VA has a wide range of power levels
Ok I never denied this either. Of course they have wide change but it doesn't make them fodder.
An Entetaining Manga.
Gomu Gomu no...
Great advice, doc.
CoA Haki, son.
yonkos>=Admirals>=yonkos first mates>> monster trio=jinbe=supernovas>VA>= franky>Robin>Chopper>=brook>usopp>nami
There I fix it for the both you
SaNami is cuser
Hugh massive
That's redundant
Smoker BTFO
oda feeds the shippingfags
as if anything could be different
You don't get it anon no matter which way oda would have went there will always be shippingfags. Even before the feeding when he said there would be no romance they all still refused to believe it. So when in Roman
That's true. But do you think he won't put pairings at the very end when their adventure is done?
Why should he? I doubt Oda will go for something so cliche like Kishimoto did
do I think he won't do pairing
I'm going to be honest, I'm a shipperfag myself and want luffy to end up with Hancock. Same goes for usopp and Kaya , But do I think he will do pairing? Honestly no. He has hint at thing but what I'm guessing will happen at the end is once they find OP luffy will say "lets go back out to sea "and it ends with the riding out in the ocean. Or something to that nature. And I'm fine with that too because I rather have it end like that then how naruto did
spelt "never fuck" wrong
That would be a perfect ending
Idk I think he probably would after they finish their adventure.. Like Usopp will go back to Kaya
she went from fucking creepy to sex machine real quick
When the hell was she creepy?
I dunno, after such huge adventure with world-shattering events the status quo ending would be kind of a letdown. And it is kind of a standard among shonen series to have an epilogue with the characters much older having families.
why should he
Well usopp has to go back to Kaya eventually, so them ending up together isn't that far fetched.
I do too think if Luffy should end up with someone it should be Hancock, the wackiness of that relationship would suit their characters best, like Goku and Chichi. But the idea of Luffy ending up with a woman at all still feels a bit weird to me. And honestly I can't really see the series ending on anything but Luffy's death, his character and deeds are just so grand, him continuing living into new age of true justice and peace on the seas look wrong, he'd have no place in it.
as an 11 year old, even the fishmen were freaked out. rewatch that bit.
inb4 hurr durr anime watcher
i've watched the entire anime and read all the manga
implying roger didn't have a kid
implying oda wouldn't show us how all the characters went back to their homes as heroes who had achieved their dreams
but yes, chances of luffy dying are pretty high, but only after all that shit happens. he might even turn himself in like roger did
I wouldn't say she was creepy. Unsettling maybe, but her smiley soulless demeanor didn't provoke fear, just pity. And nobody said anything about anime, I watch it too, it's alright if you are heavy on the slider and cut away all the dragged out parts.
I dunno after a world shattering event
And that's why that ending would be so fit. Luffy only goal this whole time was to be free out at sea. So it only makes sense that him and his crew would just ride around after finally getting freedom and peace.
Now I wouldn't be surprised if oda drop a movie epilogue. Thing with that is 1) he might not want to show them in older age definitely since Robin is already 30 2) if he paired luffy with anyone it's clearly Hancock and the bitch would be to old to have kids (I'm guessing) 3) unlike naruto they all wouldn't live in the same area so if trouble arises what would they do? You see it's just to much trouble to handle in their later years. I'm not saying oda can't do it but I'm sure he want to leave it they're young and anything is still possible (well then again he could have a scene showing luffy passing down the strawhat) see I can just keep theorizing
luffy would marry someone like vivi i guess.
(his age)
btfo LuNa fags, Nami's married to the money.
this, but unlike roger's execution, the marines would cry too. because despite fucking up their shit, Luffy didn't really kill people.
(roger killed entire crews for talking shit)
too old
Anon, people live up to 140 in that world. Shanks is old and looks like 28. Shakki is 50+ and looks 30
luffy dying
I don't know about that but I can see him having a scene where he passes down his hat.
I feel it would be exactly like that only difference being is Hancock would never bother luffy about petty shit like money or tell her kid education is the key. But yeah with her he could have a kid and be as free as he want. He could do almost anything he actually wants and she will take most of it (she might die if he cheats). Plus another reason I see them together is she wouldn't accept anyone else having him but her and she won't get win any other man but him.
Yeah I'm not saying she would be to old for him. I mean I love the age gap thing here since shonens rarely haves (if they have any) gaps this big between the MC and a love interest. But come on I doubt even oda would give a bitch a baby at 40+. Well now that I'm saying it it doesn't sound that bad
Eh, even IRL women can give birth until menopause, and OPverse people both live longer (100 years is the official average human life span given in SBS) and can do crazy shit like carry the child in a womb for twenty months through sheer willpower. I honestly don't see a problem here at all. Also Makino had a kid recently and she's around 30 I think.
She could have him in her mid 30s. Luffy would be 23 that's a good age just like naruto
married to vivi
Yeah but there problems with that 1) she has her childhood friend already 2) she's a princess who will take over once her dad dies, she can't just abandoned her country like that 3) she doesn't seem like the type who would want luffy just running around while they have kids 4) luffy will be a wanted man by the end so she can't just get married to the world most wanted man and have his kids. Yeah the government will be different but Coby already promised to be a admiral meaning that the marines will still be there and him and luffy will fight a lot.
There won't be kingdoms at the end anon. Everyone will be free. After the war Luffy won't be wanted anymore
There will be kingdoms, there just won't be WG driven by corrupt and insane tenryuubito. Otherwise what's the purpose of reinstating so many royal families all over the world to then just dethrone them.
why do the marines punish the family members of a criminal insttead of just the criminal?
i remember sengoku saying that if garp wasn't a hero of the navy, he would be held responsible for his grandson's actions
Hancock was literally introduced so Luffy could have a designated wife for the ending, how can people be so dense?
But will the Marines stay? Like some moralfag protectors of justice without sakazuking islands or shooting anyone down who flies a jolly roger?
Yes, Coby will be fleet admiral
Yeah nvm I was think luffy wouldn't have a kid til he was about 30 and she would be in her 50. But yeah so it does all work out
that will be Smoka or Fuji.
Yeah, after meat and adventure thats the most likely Luffy ship by far.
i still want him to end up with Robin but that won't happen for sure
smoker as fleet admiral
King of the Jobbers
It's a Japanese thing, everyone related by blood share your responsibilities, especially children and parents. Oda being a westaboo shows how retarded and unfair it is.
Smoker will be free from jobberdom yet, mark my words.
So if I lived in Japan and robbed a bank and had a senile-ass grandpa in a retirement home who couldn't even remember my name, my grandpa would be held responsible on the same level as me?
For raising you badly...
is this some actual law or just some tradition?
I'm with you on Doffy being super tanky bullshit, the whole fight was shit thanks to that. Luffy neither was really hurt, his most critical moment was just because of Gear4, remember how Luffy ended against Croc or Lucci, i was expecting something like that on this battle, but meh, glad the arc is fucking over.
Hiatus next week
this is hack
Hack is the best self-insert in history.
memetastic meme manga
Naruto but worse
LuNafags EPIC BTFO
go back to your moethread, pillow hugger
Here's basically what the ending will be (in my opinion)
luffy and crew finds OP and set off for another adventure in the sun set
Oda announces a new movie
time skip happens
Fuji probably the FA while Coby, helmeppo, and tashigi are admirals
smokers will try to be garp despite being a jobber and stay at VA to try and caught luffy for no reason
the WG is gone
Hancock has a kid with luffy
Kaya has a kid with usopp
( I don't care about the rest of the pairing but sanji won't end up with nami)
some shit happens they need to come together to stop someone trying to make a new. WG or some BS
The movie is really just going to be a fill in of where's everybody and what they're doing
Problem was that Moriah would have made the schtick redundant.
Also the problem is that in the new world no one seems to be relying on their fruits at all more so than their haki and punch strenght. One piece is turning into DBZ.
Also the problem is that in the new world no one seems to be relying on their fruits at all more so than their haki and punch strenght. One piece is turning into DBZ.
that is bullshit and you know it
Are you freaking joking? Luffy alone being able to punch harder is due to his devil fruit abilities so that makes your statement already complete bollocks. But show me a single fruit user in the New World who did not rely on his powers. Caesar did, Doffy did as well. So what the fuck are you talking about?
All the admirals are physical power houses, every vice admiral knows haki, every Yonko is strong as fuck physically, not a single high ranking Yonko member was shown to be physically weak. Even Law with his broken fruit knew Haki and fought with a mix of DF powers and physical attacks
Provide a single example of a big player being weak without his devil fruit.
A single fucking example.
Nigga, get the fuck outta here. Caesar and Doffy used their fruits extensively. So did their suboridinates. So did fucking Barto. And Robin. And Fujitora. And Mansherry. And Leo. Pica went full nigga when all else failed. When his powers were shat on by Zoro. The only fucking people who rely on Haki more than anything are the people who don't have fruits. "no one seems to be relying on their fruits at all". What a load of bullshit.
Because having Haki is insanely useful. If no one fucking used Haki then there would be no difference between Paradise and the New World.
Are you retarded? What does this have to do with your statement that no one is relying on his fruit?
Luffy alone being able to punch harder is due to his devil fruit abilities
Does that mean he didn't get immensely stronger outside his fruit abilities? Speedreader please.
But show me a single fruit user in the New World who did not rely on his powers
Speedreading a conversation on 4chan
Being this much of a cancerous retard
You're a fucking retard and not even following the conversation from the start. Kys.
accuses me of being a speedreader
writes like a retard and expresses himself so wrong that nobody understands him
See this? This is where (you) dropped out of school.
that picture
oh look, it is this cancerous retard again
just stop posting please
the problem is that in the new world no one seems to be relying on their fruits at all more so than their haki
That is your direct quote. Maybe the problem isn't us speedreading but you speedwriting and not knowing what the fuck you wrote.
Does that mean he didn't get immensely stronger outside his fruit abilities?
If you mean his haki, then sure. But he would not be able to be this strong without his devil fruit abilities which allow him to combine his haki with his tensile attributes to punch even harder. And this is what makes your statement bullshit that fruit users do not rely on their powers much in the New World or that OP is turning into DBZ. There still has not been a single fight where someone with a fruit and who knows haki did not use both. You can come back with this when devil fruits powers seem to be useless and every battle is only consisting of 2 people pushing their haki power and then pummel each other until one gets ko'ed.
In the New World, physical strength supersedes DF fruits because there's not a single strong player without physical strength while there's plenty of strong players without devil fruits running around.
The initial post was that Dofflamingo could have worked as a physically weak villain but who uses his Devil Fruit like a puppet master and as such stays out of harms way instead of being a tank. I replied that it was now impossible in the New World to be a strong guy without physical strength and haki mastery.
Of course we wouldn't have to go over it if you knew how to read.
Why were Doffy's strings made from clouds?
Because you were reading this manga on god level speed
I think understand what you're getting at but you worded it incorrectly
People make good use of their fruits, the issue being that every notable fighter and their grandma has absurd strength and haki to boot and the last big fights just generally boiled down at the end to that instead (Pica just charges Zoro at the end with full body haki and Zoro cuts him down with in one blow with his own, Diamante just pulls out a sword and tries to clash with Kyros and immediately loses, Doflamingo's awakened haki strings and the entire finale where Luffy has to regain his haki and Doflamingo just butts heads with him in a single direct clash with Luffy winning with a haki fist though it did involve his devil fruit)
I'm more so just not interested in haki growing beyond being a tool to hit the "true form" of devil fruit users and predict movements to now being this vague tie-in to strength so almost everything has to involve shiny black limbs and bodies clashing.
doing something on god level
No, you replied that no one used their DFs more than their Haki. Which is complete bullshit. The fact is, everyone with DFs uses their abilities along with haki. It's not just two normal guys duking it out. It's a fucking string web in the sky with tons of piercing strings from the ground vs a giant rubber fist. Yes, they've been coated with Haki but is that the fucking key point in that scene? Fuck no. Like everyone who has replied to you has said.
That's what I meant yeah.
And since it's a slope you can assume the end game will just be full black clad fighter punching each other's fists until one of them disappears in a torrent of power waves.
I replied that it was now impossible in the New World to be a strong guy without physical strength and haki mastery.
This is far from having the same meaning as this
the problem is that in the new world no one seems to be relying on their fruits at all more so than their haki
Speed is speed, anon. Doing something shitty in a godly manner doesn't make it any less of a shitty thing.
And since it's a slope you can assume the end game will just be full black clad fighter punching each other's fists until one of them disappears in a torrent of power waves.
I love it when people complain about things that have not even happened
neither Kyros nor Diamante had Haki
But you said
in the new world no one relying on their DF but haki and punching strength
Which is a false statement no matter how you look at it . Then you went on to cry about how
admirals are powerhouses
Which they've always been if you haven't been speed reading to notice
all VA has haki
Which oda stated in part one p but it's not like you've seen enough VA in action just to claim they all rely on it.
all yonkos are strong physically
Their yonko, if you haven't noticed oda really has been preaching about not relying on one DF to much so it only makes sense that the strongest pirates wouldn't need them. Plus like with VA you haven't seen them enough in action just to claim they would rely on haki and strength more then DF.
even law fought with a mixture of DF and physical strength
youre talking about because he can sword fight . you were just being autistic right here,
I love it when people complain about things that have not even happened
Despite One Piece's scope it's world is pretty neatly tied together and the endgame goal hasn't changed since day one. The scale of the final war is getting bigger and bigger but it's not like he's introducing a million hanging subplots that'll never get resolved.
the end game will just be full black clad fighter punching each other's fists until one of them disappears in a torrent of power waves.
That's basically how every single one of Zoro'e fight has ended. The CoA makes no difference.
Zoro is full of ass pulls
not noticing everyone in black clad is one shotted
Like anon said you're complaining about something that hasn't happened. And seeing as BB is more then likely the last pirate luffy will fight I'm highly doubt that it will be a black clad haki fist fight. I'm damn near 100% sure DF will play the biggest role in the fight
You mean Buggy
oda admitting nami-San has no real meaning behind it
Sure anon. That's why she is the only one. Sure it had no meaning anon.
I don't get the complaints of some people when it comes to haki. Luffy vs Lucci (the best fight of the series for a large majority of the OP readers) was practically a haki fight without haki, it was a full out brawl and in the end the one who punched harder won. You could clad Luffys and Luccis fists in armament haki and nothing would change at all.
reminder to not reply to the SaNa autist
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Yeah he's gonna punch him through all his DFs.
made a thread before this one hit bump limit
Someone make another thread.
There's already a thread faggot. I know you're OP crying because you couldn't make one again
Diamante and Pica
Still bitter because you lost the last thread war?
Nice of you to rear out your dumb mug again so I can laugh at you
Not big players.
he's one of the strongest characters even without his fruit.
Even Law with his broken fruit knew Haki and fought with a mix of DF powers and physical attacks
That's not true at all though. Law is rather weak physically and used his fruit powers pretty much all the time except for a very short period against Doffy when he had to defend with armament haki.
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Most racing games have a simple premise: keep going fast and don't stop. Arctic Thunder is based on a more Mario Kart type theme, however. Through the game's snow blinding courses, you'll come across items scattered in the level's guts. From each collective weapon, and each AI you'll go up against, you've got to be the best. There's just no question about it. Obtain weapons, disperse the tracks of competition, and win... That's all there is to it.
Getting further into the gameplay is kind of hard to say. There really isn't much to the controls since it's very easy to get into the game from the start. In other words, there's no depth really when playing Arctic Thunder. Although, Thunder's easy controls are not a bad thing per se. In Thunder's racing modes, mostly you'll be picking up icons -- both offensive and defensive -- amongst other types. More so, moving through the irritating commotion on screen, you'll find that the most challenging part about playing the game is that if you're not in front, you've already lost the race.
Keeping your character afloat through Arctic Thunder is the most important part, as the Power-ups found not only get rid of those menacing opponents, but also, protect your character from harm. On the offensive side, you'll find highly useful weaponry like atomic snowballs; powerful missiles that swat the riders ahead, snowbombs; tails behind you in a path of well hidden mines, and the greatest one of all, the super attack; drives an explosive force so powerful, that it knocks riders off of their vehicles within the user's proximity. If no Power-ups are available in your menu, you have the option of using fists and feet to bash enemies out of the way. With this method, it's hard determine whether you're doing it right or not, because you can never be too sure as what goes on in the screen is a little too chaotic a lot of the time.
Opposite of the Power-ups used for attacking, there are ones used in a defensive state as well. And, they are...rooster tails; a Power-up that leaves a blinding path of snow behind the individual who uses one, shields; for a limited time, reduces the damage of attacks impairing your racer, and invisibility; for a limited time, you're prone to any attacks or visible to anyone who would attack you. Lastly, there are items that fall in the line neither in defense or offense, but just to help you out in general. The super boost item, for instance, makes your snowmobile go faster for a certain time. Collecting three boosts in a row creates an awesome effect, setting the snow in back of you on fire. Trick icons are found at the top of slopes, which, when you collect these, make your character perform a stunt with their snowmobile and further, allowing hidden Power-ups to appear. Health Power-ups are placed on the tracks in order to keep your life meter stable, or else it'll be easier to knock you off the top of your vehicle from enemy fire. With enough skill, players will find that collecting an assortment of each of the Power-ups aids the ride through each level better, overall.
In terms of how the graphics compare to the many other PlayStation 2 titles, Arctic Thunder isn't that close to being great. But, it does share a quality that's good enough for surpassing much worse titles. The rough character models and levels are rather sketchy to call anything in the game mesmerizing. However, there are peaks of interests. Such as, the massive raceways that do have nice areas of development in how sometimes there are lighting effects inside cavernous walls, or how many dots of snowflakes scatter from the open air. Little things, like when looking behind a racer's vehicle, show the snow will actually dig up and spout from the back. It's really a matter of how you're actually noticing how the levels can be fun to explore, through and through.
With 12 different tracks to race through, there's a lot of lively interactivity to also nose around in. Each track is based on a real life locale. For instance, you'll get to drive right through the White House itself in the Blizzard in D.C. level. Other area such as the Chernobyl track is not only based on a worldly area, but also, has the same theme to it. In the racing level, you'll actually get to pass by waves of green radiation, as the true Chernobyl disaster really did have. But, not every area is realistic, as the Haunted Forest track is just a fantasized, but fun, location. Something most notable about each of the tracks is that they're so big, that you'll find a variety of secret paths in which to collect more Power-ups. These secret pathways can also be put to use as a shortcut for winning the race, if it were to come to that. The better you are in exploring each level, the easier it will be in the end to win.
The first time playing the game, there are 6 tracks open, and 6 locked. As for characters, there's 6 playable, and 13 to unlock. Ultimately, your task is to unlock each of the levels by becoming the best there is in the game. The modes of play are Race; select a player to win the 12 gold medals for unlocking the ultimate character in the game, Points; finishing through the selectable tracks, lets you gain points by collecting Power-ups and defeating enemies, Battle Arena; with a family member or a friend, challenge them to a massive duel of time or kills in order to merge the victor, Arcade; like as if you were in an arcade yourself, race alone or with a friend in simulation style, Training; practice your skills looking for each of the hidden paths inside the levels, and lastly, the Upgrade Shop; spend your earned points from Points mode in order to unlock secret characters, levels, or stats to build up your characters to their maximum levels.
As for Arctic Thunder's sound capabilities, they're not too great. The music within the game is rather upbeat, and up-tempo like. Much of the time it sinks repetitively through the game's areas, and may even annoy the heck out of certain people. Even though it's not too bad, it's just not too great either. Also, the game's characters themselves each have voices. Still, the voice acting doesn't help make things better. From the list of already unlocked characters -- Wille Q., Ponzo, Agent 5, Candy, etc. -- they'll each have a set of preprogrammed voices that have a certain personality trait to each of their own. Agent 5, for example, is a young, daring type. His voice is more outrageous, when compared to the gorilla man, Ponzo, who will make grunts and the like. Really, when listening to the sounds in Arctic Thunder, it's a hit or a miss for individuals.
Maintaining your characters is a goal you may have to come in terms with, when challenging yourself to the game of Arctic Thunder. Each character has a certain set of abilities they can maintain. One may go faster than the other, or, another may have better defense. Whichever character you're choosing, you should always note that one is better than the other in individual aspects. By trying out the game's Points mode, you'll be able to better suit your favorite characters, by making them stronger in status. In total, Thunder will keep any player of the game hooked with hours of replay value.

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Discussion in 'Other Sports' started by Alex1939, Sep 2, 2012.
Tell us how over-rated they are Dunce.
Dee-Dub was last seen entering his hotel room in Dallas. There were reports of a single gunshot from that area a few minutes later, but no one has cared enough to check it out.
... because a team beat a team they were supposed to handily with 2 of it's best players out on a neutral field?
thanks for yet another thread dedicated to me, though.
*Big TT bangs on the door*
"ARE YOU IN THERE YOU FKIN COWARDLY ZERO? Stop wasting bullets, SAVE THEM FOR THE RACE WAR!"
As much as I've been called a "celebrity" lately, this kind of thing is humbling. Thanks, stranger on the internet that can't even make your presence known here.
The only thing left for Michigan was for a Bama player to shove the football up Denard's bunghole.
I was laughing so hard when he got trucked on that interception.
Bama player jukes three guys, sees Denard, and drops the boom.
Just typing it on here makes me start laughing.
What? Did it take you five hours to finish reading my post?
Drops the boom? Haha He's the one that got hit... just stayed on his feet after getting rocked by a 5ft tall 100lb QB.
Ok... He stayed on his feet, and Denard stayed on the ground holding his shoulder.
How is that not dropping the boom?
Because he was the one that got hit?


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A device driver is a small piece of software that tells the operating system and other software how to communicate with a piece of hardware.

For example, printer drivers tell the operating system, and by extension whatever program you have the thing you want to print open in, exactly how to print information on the page

Sound card drivers are necessary so your operating system knows exactly how to translate the 1's and 0's that comprise that MP3 file into audio signals that the sound card can output to your headphones or speakers.

The same general idea applies to video cards, keyboards, monitors, etc.

Keep reading for more on why drivers are important, including some more examples, as well as information on how to keep your drivers updated and what to do if they're not working properly.

How Exactly Do Device Drivers Work?

Think of device drivers like translators between a program you're using and a device that that program wants to utilize somehow. The software and the hardware were created by different people or companies and speak two completely different languages, so a translator (the driver) allows them to communicate.

In other words, a software program can provide information to a driver to explain what it wants a piece of hardware to do, information the device driver understands and then can fulfill with the hardware.

Thanks to device drivers, most software programs don't need to know how to work directly with hardware, and a driver doesn't need to include a full application experience for users to interact with. Instead, the program and driver simply need to know how to interface with each other.

This is a pretty good deal for everyone involved, considering that there is a nearly endless supply of software and hardware out there. If everyone had to know how to communicate with everyone else, the process of making software and hardware would be near impossible.

How to Manage Device Drivers

Most of the time, drivers install automatically and never need more attention, aside from the occasional updating to fix bugs or add a cool new feature. This is true for some drivers in Windows that are downloaded via Windows Update.

The drivers for each piece of hardware in your Windows computer are centrally managed from Device Manager, available in all versions of Microsoft Windows.

Here are some common tasks in Windows involving drivers:

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Many problems that can be isolated to a particular piece of hardware aren't problems with the actual hardware itself, but issues with the device drivers that are installed for that hardware. Some of the resources linked above should help you figure all that out.

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Beyond the basic software-driver-hardware relationship, there are some other situations that involve drivers (and that don't) that are kind of interesting.

While this is less common these days, some software is able to communicate directly with some types of hardware - no drivers necessary! This is usually only possible when the software is sending very simple commands to the hardware, or when both were developed by the same company, but this can also be thought of as a kind of built-in driver situation.

Some device drivers communicate directly with a device, but others are layered together. In these situations, a program will communicate with one driver before that driver communicates with yet another one, and so on until the last driver actually performs the direct communication with the hardware.

These "middle" drivers often don't perform any function at all other than verifying that the other drivers are working properly. Regardless, whether there is one driver or multiples working in a "stack," all of it is done in the background without you having to know, or do, anything.

Windows uses .SYS files as loadable device drivers, meaning they can be loaded on an as-needed basis so that they're not always taking up memory. The same is true for Linux .KO modules.

WHQL is a testing process by Microsoft that helps prove that a particular device driver will work with a specific version of Windows. You might see that a driver you're downloading is or isn't WHQL certified. You can read more about Windows Hardware Quality Labs here.

Another form of the driver is the virtual device driver, used with virtualization software. They work similar to regular drivers but in order to prevent the guest operating system from accessing hardware directly, the virtual drivers masquerade as real hardware so that the guest OS and its own drivers can access hardware much like non-virtual operating systems.

In other words, while a host operating system and its drivers interface with actual hardware components, virtual guest operating systems and their drivers interface with virtual hardware through virtual device drivers, which are then relayed to the real, physical hardware by the host operating system.


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Bharatiya Janatha Party has released the first list of Lok Sabha candidates for the coming Lok Sabha General Elections 2014. The list includes candidates for Maharashtra Lok Sabha seats along with several other states. Here is the list of Lok Sabha candidates of BJP for Parliament elections 2014.
Former President of BJP, Nitin Gadkari will contest from Nagpur constituency. Hansraj Ahir, sitting MP from Chandrapur has been fielded from the same constituency. Gopinath Munde will contest from Beed Lok Sabha Constituency. The BJP has announced the list balancing sitting MPs and other leaders. Following is the list:
1) Beed - Shri Gopinath Munde, Dy. Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha
2) Nagpur - Shri Nitin Gadkari, Ex-National President
3) Mumbai North East - Dr. Kirit Somaiya, Ex-MP
4) Jalgaon - Shri Ashok Tapiram Patil, (A.T. Nana Patil), Sitting MP
5) Raver - Shri Haribhau Javle, Sitting MP
6) Sangli - Shri Sanjaykaka Patil, Ex-MLA
7) Dhule - Dr. Subhash Bhamre, Famous Cancer Surgeon
8) Bhandara - Gondiya Shri Nana Patole, Sitting MLA
9) Gadchiroli-Chimur (ST) - Shri Ashok Nete, State President, ST Morcha
10) Akola - Shri Sanjya Dhotre, Sitting MP
11) Nanded - Shri D.B. Patil, Ex-MP
12) Dindori (ST) - Shri Harishchandra Chowhan, Sitting MP
13) Chandrapur - Shri Hansraj Ahir, Sitting MP
14) Palghar (ST) - Ad. Chintaman Vanga, Sitting MLA & Ex-MP
15) Jalna - Shri Ravsaheb Danve Patil, Sitting MP
16) Ahmadnagar - Shri Dilip Gandhi, Sitting MP
17) Mumbai North - Shri Gopal Shetti, Sitting MLA


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Did You Know?
Although Drytown is home to fewer than 200 people today, at its peak as a mining town it boasted a population of 10,000. The fire of 1857 was the end of Drytown as a mining town. The gold was already showing signs of being played out and when the fire destroyed most of the town, it never recovered. The buildings were not rebuilt as most packed up their belongings and headed for richer diggings.


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Craig Thompson, writer/artist
Pantheon, September 2011
672 pages, hardcover
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Fifteen observations about Craig Thompson's Habibi:
1. This is not a book about Islam. It's not about any varieties of Islam — contemporary, ancient, fundamentalist, militant, or otherwise. It's a book infused with Islamic art, culture, thought, and religious beliefs, certainly, but it's not about Islam. This is another way of saying it's not about 9/11, al Qaeda, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Iran, any specific Muslim countries, Muslims in America, uniquely Muslim varieties of misogyny, the Arab Spring, or any other contemporary news-story topic. I first talked to Thompson about his plans for Habibi in the summer of 2003, and in that context and over the course of many of the years to follow it was tough to think about the book without thinking of it one or more of these ways, but no, that's not what it's about.
2. This is a book that uses Islam to do other things. On a visual level, it gives Thompson a set of design elements, from calligraphy to ornamentation to architecture to dress to geometrical art, from which he can build a coherent visual world for his vaguely fantastical/post-apocalyptic/dystopian story. Not coincidentally these elements dovetail with his preexisting preoccupations as an artist, from swooping fabrics to obsessive-compulsive design filigrees to religious iconography.
3. It follows that the book is consciously, knowingly Orientalist, as you'd expect and hope of a book that's using actual Islamic art as bricks in a fantasy world-building project. It's got an Arabian Nights vibe. Thompson's invoked Edward Said on this score and everything. To the extent that potentially problematic caricatures of Arab and African race are involved, and they are, they are at least consciously evoked.
4. Islam also provides Thompson with a back door into talking about religion and God — even recognizably Christian elements thereof, thanks to the presence in Islam of Jesus, Solomon, Abraham et al — without needing to rely on the brand of American evangelical Christianity in which he was immersed growing up and which he's already explored in Blankets. At times the commonality between the issues he discusses in the two books is quite striking. For example, there's a plotline here about how the bifurcation of Islam and Judaism/Christianity can be traced back to which son you believe Abraham was supposed to sacrifice, Isaac or Ishmael, that's basically just Blankets' bit on scriptural malleability ("The Kingdom of God is within or around you") blown up to world-historical scale. The impact of religious belief on the development of adolescent sexuality is a centerpiece of both books as well.
5. This is a book about sex. Even if there's nothing in it that would earn the book anything more than an 'R' rating, it works through some violently ambiguous and conflicted feelings about sex in relatively explicit fashion. It took my wife reminding me that Craig first described the book as starring "a eunuch and a prostitute" to help me crystallize that, but there it is. And it makes sense, given the play-it-to-the-balcony tone of Thompson's previous book, Blankets, and its autobiographical protagonist's all-or-nothing approach to falling in love and making art, that this book would coalesce around those two poles as well. It is very frankly about the liberating and destructive power of both desire and the denial of desire. (To hearken back to the Arabian Nights element, here's a tell: Instead of delighting the king with her stories for night after night under penalty of death, the central female character must delight him with sex.)
6. This is a book about many other issues that overlap with or orbit around sex in the popular imagination. They're not sex, but they're talked about in the same breath more often than not. They include rape, molestation, prostitution, pregnancy and childbirth, gender, misogyny, a panoply of queer identities, self-injury, puberty, motherhood, male-female friendships, sex and race, sex and organized religion, sex and spirituality, sacrifying sex/orientation/gender, masculinity and femininity…
7. The emotional and physical stakes for the characters are much higher than they are in any of Thompson's previous works. This is established within the first few pages, in which a child is raped. A bloody sheet is held up to the child and the audience, the blood of her vagina on the blank white fabric equated with the letter-writing in Chunky Rice; the footprints on snow and drawings on paper of Blankets; the act of Creation itself — "From the Divine Pen fell the first drop of ink." Violence and abuse are the lifeblood of the story.
8. Thompson's art is much, much denser here than I've ever seen it before. It's still lush and lovely on a surface level, his line still swoops and curves in a fashion he's explicitly compared to handwriting, but there are more panels on the page, more black in the panels, few of the vast fields of white Blankets was known for, and few of its splash pages too. Decorative patterns of intricate detail are copied from Islamic texts by hand, and drawn repeatedly until they cover almost all the available space on a given page, also by hand. It's a much tougher book for your eyes to breeze through.
9. Maybe the best way to symbolize that is in the new panorama Thompson has added to his repertoire. He's said, and promotional art for the book has made use of the fact, that Good-Bye, Chunky Rice had the ocean, Blankets had the snow, and Habibi has the desert. That's true, but Habibi heavily features vistas of another sprawling, enveloping sea: a man-made sea of garbage. It's as dense and detailed and chaotic as the water, snow, and sand are unified and simplified.
10. The book is designed. Designed in the Watchmen symmetrical-issue sense. Each of its nine chapters corresponds to a box in the Islamic religious/mathematical talisman known as a magic square — a sort of spiritual sudoku — and its corresponding letter of the alphabet. Each corresponds to a specific topic, and a specific prophet of Islam used to illuminate that topic. But unlike Alan Moore, Thompson doesn't foreground his machinations. This stuff is present, but in its way it's beside the point. I didn't even notice.
11. In much the same way that light, electricity, and information functioned as the stuff of life in Grant Morrison's Final Crisis, fluid is the stuff of life here. Water is crucial to the various societal strata's survival within the drought-stricken world of the story. Blood is crucial to nearly all of the book's depictions of both sex and violence, the fuel of human physicality. Ink is crucial to the characters' understanding of the nature of God and the world via holy texts and art, and to the author's understanding of what the hell he's been doing for the past eight years. There's less semen or vaginal secretion than you'd think, but otherwise it's a book about fluids, and fluidity. The greatest sin is staunching the flow, which is done in various ways — a metaphor that extends from environmentalism to art to, of course, spirituality and sexuality.
12. The relative lack of emphasis on sexual fluids is a leading indicator of where the book ultimately pulls an important punch. There's a revelation, an exposure, toward the end of the book that we readers do not get to see. Since the book confronted virtually everything else it tackled so head-on, since it was so in-your-face about violence and sexuality, you really feel this revelation's visual absence. Which is maybe appropriate, given what's being revealed, I dunno. But it left me wondering "Why didn't he show that?", in a way that suggests it's a misstep.
13. The book contains two of the toughest depictions of mental illness I've come across in comics. One in particular involved postpartum depression and was deeply sad to me. The other comes hot on the heels of the book's single most unpleasant depiction of the cruel fate of children in this world. Actually, nearly everything involving children is rough stuff here. There's not a lot of time for innocence.
14. The book contains two pretty rollicking action sequences. If you've read as many lousy action comics as I have, it ought to be a pretty great pleasure for you to watch an artist with Thompson's attention to environment, layout, movement, and pacing choreograph chase scenes and fight scenes. It definitely was for me. And these sequences had the secondary function of release valve for the dense and emotionally oppressive material they helped break up.
15. Actually, the more I think about it, the more I think Habibi is a book of sequences. Maybe this is reinforced by Thompson's non-linear storytelling, with his male and female leads' stories shifting backward and forward in time independent of one another, a technique that emphasizes discreet sequences over the overall flow of the larger narrative. But the bathtub sequence (very successful), the dam sequence (this is perhaps the book's climax, and I'm not sure it's successful), the garbage man sequence, the childbirth sequence, the eunuchs sequence, the conflicting stories of Abraham's aborted sacrifice — these are what stick out to me, embedded in the bigger picture. They're what will draw me back into the book, moving backward and forward through the work of a cartoonist working out his personal obsessions on the grandest canvas imaginable.
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(AP) Vincenzo Nibali, a 29-year-old Sicilian who calls himself "a flag-bearer of anti-doping," won the Tour de France on Sunday, the first Italian to do so in 16 years.
Nibali won four stages – a feat not equaled by a Tour winner since Lance Armstrong won five a decade ago.
The Italian wore the yellow jersey for all but two stages since Stage 1. His 7 minute, 37 second margin over runner-up Jean-Christophe Peraud equals that of Armstrong over Swiss rider Alex Zulle in 1999 – a result nullified for doping.
The last Italian to win the Tour was Marco Pantani in 1998.


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Grammy Showdown 2013
Do the Black Keys have a shot at beating Jack White? Could Frank Ocean take it all? Our panel weighs in
Album of the Year
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The Experts Say:
Nate Ruess: When I saw this category, it was like, "Holy shit, I can't believe we've been invited!" I'm going with Jack White.
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Gotye: Frank Ocean's album has a lot of depth you can dig into on multiple listens.
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60s • ad • audi • car • poster • typography • vintage
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Design or Death is a gallery of interesting and inspiring graphic design pieces found from all over the web. Designs are chosen at the whim of our curators, but will usually contain inspiring typography, colors, or unique style. Would you like to contribute? Submit an image.
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