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Appreciation post: That fact about Goku's power level in early Dragon Ball Z blew my mind
I was rewatching DBZ on Crunchyroll last night and checked the wiki on my phone. Turns out Goku's power level was only around 8,000 when he fought Vegeta, but by the Namek arc it jumped to 90,000 after training. I never realized the gap was that huge in just a few episodes. Did any other fact from an old anime catch you off guard like this?
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samjohnson17d ago
Jump right in and think about it - that jump from 8,000 to 90,000 mirrors how most skills work in real life. I used to watch my buddy learn guitar, he was terrible for months then suddenly he could play a whole song. Same with learning to code, you hit walls where you feel stuck then something clicks and you're way ahead. Power levels in anime are just an exaggerated version of how people actually grow when they push themselves hard. The early grind feels slow but once you break through, the gains come faster than you expect.
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felix_lane9917d ago
Totally random but this reminded me of when I tried to learn skateboarding last summer. I fell on my face for weeks, then one day I just rolled down the street without eating pavement and felt like a superhero. Those sudden jumps feel like cheating but they're really just your brain finally catching up to what your body's been trying to do the whole time.
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john_cooper9d ago
Nah, that's just survivorship bias lol.
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