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GhandiEAGLE
United States20754 Posts
On April 13 2014 04:05 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: Big surprise: wei2cancerman and reqpussy don't like drinking. Gives real credence to the Asian belief that alcohol is the truest indicator of a man's character. I read that in Roffles' voice. I'm sorry. | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21245 Posts
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gtrsrs
United States9109 Posts
it sucks if people are sober/judgemental around you likewise, if you're sober, being around drunk people sucks but there's no need to pressure anyone who doesn't want to drink into drinking. that won't make them like it more  | ||
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21245 Posts
On April 13 2014 04:10 gtrsrs wrote: but there's no need to pressure anyone who doesn't want to drink into drinking. that won't make them like it more ???? This is the kind of attitude that started WW2. | ||
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gtrsrs
United States9109 Posts
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21245 Posts
On April 13 2014 04:13 gtrsrs wrote: i'm not sure i understand Neither did Chamberlain. | ||
MoonBear
Straight outta Johto18973 Posts
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Scip
Czech Republic11293 Posts
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
On April 13 2014 04:05 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: Big surprise: wei2cancerman and reqpussy don't like drinking. Gives real credence to the Asian belief that alcohol is the truest indicator of a man's character. i don't like drinking cuz the amount of fun of being drunk doesn't out weigh the negatives. | ||
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
On April 13 2014 03:52 Ketara wrote: This argument is dumb and it should feel dumb. We should talk about something else that Req hates. Like this maybe: I've actually been musing on this recently. I think the reason I didn't enjoy KLK as much was that it doesn't have as much heart as other animes I've watched. As I've said before, it got there near the end, but for the most part it just didn't feel like it to me. What was everyone fighting for? What was supposed to be the message of the story? What were the characters trying to prove with their actions? I didn't really feel anything for them until the end, and in a (non-episodic) series (of any genre, anime or books or movies), I think that's important for a good experience. For example, Ryuko basically just shows up in the first episode and says "someone killed my dad tell me who". Why should I care about this character? Loss (even of the familial variety) is a good setup, but needs to be built to get any emotion out of it. If FMA was just "our mom died and now we feel bad about it", it would have been much less impactful. Instead, they use it as a launching point to explore things like the limits of right and wrong, how to control power instead of using it for selfish means, accepting loss, and how to use your pain to give you strength in the future. Ryuko's hardship could have been replaced with any other number of mcguffins and the revenge story would have ended up very similarly. I had a hard time caring about her character at all until the big reveal in the second half. There also didn't seem to be any sort of overall theme to the story. Near the end it was all about "clothes are clothes and people are people". I guess that could be a way of saying "don't let your status wear you, be yourself and act/dress the way you want", but really that wasn't expounded on in any way. For example, in other anime/manga:
KLK is a fantastic action show. The animation is brilliant, soundtrack is top notch (Blumenkranz has been on repeat for a while now), the powers are cool and the comedy beats are well timed. But it ended up feeling hollow to me. Near the end, it started to have this vibe of trusting your friends and accepting your weaknesses, but it was pretty late into the show and those are pretty over-done themes that I've seen better executed in a lot of places. It doesn't make it a bad show, it just makes it one that I don't care overly much about. | ||
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red_
United States8474 Posts
On April 13 2014 04:10 gtrsrs wrote: drinking is good if the people around you are drinking as well it sucks if people are sober/judgemental around you likewise, if you're sober, being around drunk people sucks but there's no need to pressure anyone who doesn't want to drink into drinking. that won't make them like it more I think the judgmental part is more important than the sober part. I've had great experiences on both sides of that fence because I myself or whoever the sober person(people) was had no illusion of self-righteousness about their sobriety(in most cases because they do drink, just not on that occasion for whatever reason). | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
On April 13 2014 03:58 ketchup wrote: How do you travel so much? Are you a professional photographer or some such(like meeting the Pope sounds like it wouldn't just be a simple thing)? Also pretty cool that you do. If you're at the vatican on Easter and get there reeeeeeeeeeeally early (the service started at like 10 AM and I got in line around midnight) you get to sit right at the front and he comes up and meets everybody in the first couple rows. I actually do have a few pictures published in travel guides, but I just travel as a hobby. Not buying LoL skins pays for it. | ||
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
On April 13 2014 03:55 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: The understanding in many Asian cultures is that alcohol = friendship. If you don't drink a lot with someone, you are basically saying you don't consider them a friend/equal/etc. You'd think resident weeaboo Req would know this. On April 13 2014 04:05 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: Big surprise: wei2cancerman and reqpussy don't like drinking. Gives real credence to the Asian belief that alcohol is the truest indicator of a man's character. Good thing I hold cheep's opinions in high regard. Oh wait, that's not right. On April 13 2014 04:00 jcarlsoniv wrote: The people I got sick of after a while are the ones who don't understand how to just be drunk as opposed to always getting slammed @req - we're not saying you should start drinking or make bad decisions. But it's unreasonable for you to criticize getting drunk as an activity when you've never really seen the other side of the fence. I'm not criticizing it. I have said multiple times that I think it's fine if people want to do it and have fun with it. I just don't think it would improve my life or fun in any way. I know people who go skydive. This is not an activity I need in my life but I understand why people do it. I'm not saying drinking = jumping out of a plane, but the point is that I can understand something that people enjoy doing but have no desire to do it myself and think it's overall a pointless/bad idea. | ||
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WaveofShadow
Canada31495 Posts
On April 13 2014 04:05 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: Big surprise: wei2cancerman and reqpussy don't like drinking. Gives real credence to the Asian belief that alcohol is the truest indicator of a man's character. Cheeffles? And re: skydiving---I dunno I understand the point of why people do it. Doesn't mean I ever will. It's different than me calling it stupid. | ||
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Fildun
Netherlands4124 Posts
On April 13 2014 04:10 gtrsrs wrote: drinking is good if the people around you are drinking as well it sucks if people are sober/judgemental around you likewise, if you're sober, being around drunk people sucks but there's no need to pressure anyone who doesn't want to drink into drinking. that won't make them like it more Most times it is. But sometimes it's really, really, really, really, really funny. | ||
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Tooplark
United States3977 Posts
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
On April 13 2014 04:29 WaveofShadow wrote: Cheeffles? And re: skydiving---I dunno I understand the point of why people do it. Doesn't mean I ever will. It's different than me calling it stupid. I think any time someone jumps out of a perfectly good airplane with nothing but a piece of cloth to keep them from suffering an untimely end is pretty stupid. Very few people die from skydiving, or even get hurt in any way doing it. It's overwhelmingly a very safe activity. It's still, at it's core, a very stupid idea | ||
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HazMat
United States17077 Posts
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
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GhandiEAGLE
United States20754 Posts
On April 13 2014 04:38 HazMat wrote: Imagine being stuck with Req for a weekend. Pls I don't drink either so we'd have the best time On April 13 2014 04:41 Requizen wrote: Imagine having to hang out with any of you guys for a weekend. /shudder PLS | ||
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