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On April 13 2014 06:03 Shelke14 wrote:
7 and half months since this thread started and we finally got to the topic of hentai and tentacles. Congrats people. Alright moonbear close the thread, it's over. No where to go from here
Proud of being the one to sway it that way.
By the way, Req do you smoke by any chance? Or do you have the same outlook on it as drinking?
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I think smoking is even more pointless than drinking. I can understand the appeal of drinking to lower your inhibitions (even if it doesn't personally interest me), but smoking does what? Kill your lungs? I know tobacco can help destress and you can get a nicotine buzz, but considering those things are like 80% tar or some shit it's just moronic imo.
Unless you're not talking about cigarettes, in which case I view it pretty much the same as drinking. Have fun if you do it (and don't get caught in most states) but it's not for me.
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I understand why people smoke cigarettes (having had them), the nicotine buzz is wonderful. But I'm glad I'm too cheap to actually pay for them because it's not something I would ever want to make a habit out of.
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On April 13 2014 06:20 jcarlsoniv wrote:
I understand why people smoke cigarettes (having had them), the nicotine buzz is wonderful. But I'm glad I'm too cheap to actually pay for them because it's not something I would ever want to make a habit out of.
a pack a day, that's like 5 bucks a day, 1600 over a year. so much money.
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On April 13 2014 06:18 Requizen wrote:
I think smoking is even more pointless than drinking. I can understand the appeal of drinking to lower your inhibitions (even if it doesn't personally interest me), but smoking does what? Kill your lungs? I know tobacco can help destress and you can get a nicotine buzz, but considering those things are like 80% tar or some shit it's just moronic imo.
Unless you're not talking about cigarettes, in which case I view it pretty much the same as drinking. Have fun if you do it (and don't get caught in most states) but it's not for me.
Oh sorry, wasn't talking about Tobacco. Honestly, my generation is so against tobacco it's impressive. All those drug free is the way to be campaigns certainly failed but common sense prevailed when it comes to cigs.
Pretty much the only thing that's keeping some teenagers smoking cigarretes is that you can legally get it at 18 so it's a lot safer to smoke it/buy it over a class 1 drug that is Weed.
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On April 13 2014 06:47 HazMat wrote:Show nested quote +On April 13 2014 06:18 Requizen wrote:
I think smoking is even more pointless than drinking. I can understand the appeal of drinking to lower your inhibitions (even if it doesn't personally interest me), but smoking does what? Kill your lungs? I know tobacco can help destress and you can get a nicotine buzz, but considering those things are like 80% tar or some shit it's just moronic imo.
Unless you're not talking about cigarettes, in which case I view it pretty much the same as drinking. Have fun if you do it (and don't get caught in most states) but it's not for me. Oh sorry, wasn't talking about Tobacco. Honestly, my generation is so against tobacco it's impressive. All those drug free is the way to be campaigns certainly failed but common sense prevailed when it comes to cigs.
Weed doesn't appeal to me in the slightest. Only makes me slow and drowsy. I like uppers more. Molly at a festival can be fun. Only very rarely though. I still want to try out a psychedelic, but I'd have to find someone to do it with.
Just bought Rollercoaster Tycoon 1&2 on GOG, much discount.
Time to nostalgia mode hardcore.
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On April 13 2014 06:51 Doctorbeat wrote:Show nested quote +On April 13 2014 06:47 HazMat wrote:On April 13 2014 06:18 Requizen wrote:
I think smoking is even more pointless than drinking. I can understand the appeal of drinking to lower your inhibitions (even if it doesn't personally interest me), but smoking does what? Kill your lungs? I know tobacco can help destress and you can get a nicotine buzz, but considering those things are like 80% tar or some shit it's just moronic imo.
Unless you're not talking about cigarettes, in which case I view it pretty much the same as drinking. Have fun if you do it (and don't get caught in most states) but it's not for me. Oh sorry, wasn't talking about Tobacco. Honestly, my generation is so against tobacco it's impressive. All those drug free is the way to be campaigns certainly failed but common sense prevailed when it comes to cigs. Weed doesn't appeal to me in the slightest. Only makes me slow and drowsy. I like uppers more. Molly at a festival can be fun. Only very rarely though. I still want to try out a psychedelic, but I'd have to find someone to do it with. Just bought Rollercoaster Tycoon 1&2 on GOG, much discount. Time to nostalgia mode hardcore.
I think I'ma install Company of Heroes. That game was so good.
edit: ACTUALLY, I LOOKED AT STEAM AND I HAVE MACHINARIUM. That game was so fun but I never finished it. The art style and the music was so beautiful.
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On April 13 2014 04:14 MoonBear wrote:Well shit Alpha Centauri Civilisation: Beyond Earth just got announced. Looks sweet.
Just watched the trailer.
This is gonna be a good year for games.
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Oh boy, a drug talk on an internet forum. This will end well. So who's going to be called closed minded first? *grabs some popcorn*
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On April 13 2014 07:13 BlackPaladin wrote:
Oh boy, a drug talk on an internet forum. This will end well. So who's going to be called closed minded first? *grabs some popcorn*
Weed fucking stinks. Hate it when people smoke pot at parties. It fucking reeks.
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On April 13 2014 07:13 jcarlsoniv wrote:Just watched the trailer. This is gonna be a good year for games.
Hope they manage to keep all the fun features of Alpha Centauri and you know don't split it up into 10+ dlc packs.
DS9, Farscape or Babylon 5? I need a series to watch to kill time.
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I am giving up on G&W its tech is to slow while having to weak of a combo game.
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On April 13 2014 07:18 wei2coolman wrote:Show nested quote +On April 13 2014 07:13 BlackPaladin wrote:
Oh boy, a drug talk on an internet forum. This will end well. So who's going to be called closed minded first? *grabs some popcorn* Weed fucking stinks. Hate it when people smoke pot at parties. It fucking reeks.
last year my roommate in college would smoke multiple times a day, and holy fuck it was annoying.
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On April 13 2014 04:18 Requizen wrote:+ Show Spoiler +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: - Trigun is about fortitude and personal morals, sticking to your ideals no matter what. Even in the face of hatred and despair, doing the right thing and being an example of goodness is always worthwhile.
- FMA is about our limitations as people, the moral implications of using power to reach what you want, and how the lines get blurred when doing the objectively thing and doing the subjectively right thing aren't the same.
- FLCL is a coming of age story, watching as a young man deals with becoming an adult. Wanting to be treated like a grown up, while simultaneously acting like a kid and not knowing what either means. It's about dealing with emotions and relationships in a very turbulent time in a young person's life.
- Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer is really about very cynical people, or at least how any person can get that way. It's about people facing losses and how they all find a reason to live afterwards, reasons to love and go on despite how the world and people have treated them up until this point.
- TTGL is about facing impossible tasks and having the determination to throw aside all reason and logic to do what's necessary. Kick reason to the curb and make the impossible possible, no matter the adversity.
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.
KLK was clearly about not trying to tell your children what to wear, dur.
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BTW Req.
I would argue that if you're looking for character development, Ryuko is not the main character of the show. Satsuki is.
The story is just told from Ryuko's perspective.
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On April 13 2014 04:38 HazMat wrote:
Imagine being stuck with Req for a weekend.
Dude you should bump your stream in here so people actually watch. 
Also somebody mentioned earlier...wasn't there something spr scrt you were working on a while ago?
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On April 13 2014 02:04 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:This might be the stupidest fucking argument I've ever seen. + Show Spoiler +
Oh, yeah... why do I always forget LoGH when people ask about anime? Maybe because it'd bore them. They'd be wrong though, it was really good, despite some stupid things toward the end (mostly in terms of narration and hammering your themes too hard).
On April 13 2014 04:44 Parnage wrote:
Also Alaric was that you in HS o.O? Doubtful but just wondering.
Na, I play on EU and as for most online things my nick is Armoric. TL's one of two exceptions (the other was an online kinda-RPG; reused that name on TL since Armoric was taken).
On April 13 2014 01:06 Shelke14 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 13 2014 01:04 jcarlsoniv wrote:On April 13 2014 01:01 Requizen wrote:
None of this sounds fun. How can you think any of that sounds fun? The stories man. The stories are the best part! Yes, the fucking stories. At random times it's just funny to bring up stupid stories that occurred while drinking with your friends because you can all laugh and enjoy them.
My memory is weird, it decides by itself what to keep and what not to. I usually shrug. When three people drank themselves to a haze and you went with them and made sure they didn't go too overboard (no you won't jump on the roof of that car), talked a bit with the least inebriated one once he started getting clearer, helped put the worst one to bed.
Following day we join about ~6 more people, they talk about their evening, joke a bit about the worst one because he doesn't remember... and I start jokingly recounting in the detail what they all did and they themselves forgot. They agreed not to ask myself what people did anymore.  I find it funny in general but it helps that it's with people who understand I'm doing it jokingly and not to mock them or make them look bad.
As for drinking... I don't get drunk. I drink.
I'd have to force myself to get drunk, because even if I start drinking a bunch without paying attention I'll notice pretty quickly once I start being inebriated, because there'll be the phase where I drank too much not to act/talk without thinking, but not enough not to be lucid from time to time, and hear me talk.
I don't hold it against my father, but his humour is lame, and he has random, unfunny comments for everything and he'll keep trying to say them until you pay attention; when he's drunk (easier as he gets older) it gets even worse, and it also gets on my nerves. Unsurprisingly, when I find myself sounding exactly the same, I sober up real quick.
I'm not a funny person, but I usually hold most stuff back so as not to annoy people and I still pissed several off. I enjoy singing but I'm awful at it (my voice doesn't help) so I don't do it around others. If I get intoxicated I'll stop refraining and I'll just annoy them (and make a fool of myself), which makes me stop drinking (and shut up entirely) once I get reminded by hearing myself spouting shit, so I couldn't get fully drunk without forcing myself.
I've had anxiety issues and other stuff, and my mind's kinda screwed to the point that it/I almost (try to) force me/myself to feel faint in situations where I'm feeling fine but it'd be expected to happen according to past troubles; it made me overly wary of the unknown in general because I don't want to have to deal with that shit anymore. Losing the ability of applying the "boot to the head" strategy to my mind as the drunkennes makes me relinquish control isn't something I'm willing to try, because I have no idea if I'd be able to handle it if a dizzy spell happened.
Most good experiences I've had while drinking were in situations where we happened to drink while doing something else. We didn't drink and have fun, both just happened together.
On the other hand I've had a handful of bad experiences with drunk people (including seriously suicidal ones) or drinking parties; most involved people I already disliked, but I don't necessarily need to be reminded of all the ugliness in them with a neon sign, even if they themselves don't remember it later.
TL;DR: I dislike getting drunk because of (separated) anxiety issues and insecurities. I dislike being around excessively drunk people because it magnifies the bad while I almost never experienced positive things we wouldn't have had w/o the alcohol.
I still enjoy some alcohols (mainly vodka and rum, stomach says no to beers) and I've got nothing against adding drinks to a gathering, but I don't see the point of drinking with the intent of getting drunk, or "drinking to do stuff" over "drinking while doing stuff".
I'm under the impression that you (plural, undefined) here confuse "eh, I don't enjoy smashing myself" with "alcohol is the Devil, everyone enjoying its consumption should be branded". Saying "I don't see the need to drink to have fun" isn't "I'd never ever drink".
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Well it's nice to see Alaric letting loose. His posts have been far too brief lately.
Honestly, I'm pretty ambivalent on pot. I've seen it really mess up a couple people, but it was more them than the pot. I'll probably try it once or twice in my life, but I really don't care about it. Either way, it should be legal (and it is in my state).
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