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Rebel Dynasty

Rebel Dynasty

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Lain said:
Aye, I feel that too. People often also complain about Gil's sexist attitude. I'm like dude, he was summoned from 3000 years ago, I don't think he'll be the shining example of progressive thinking. :bored:
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Exactly! I guess it's easy to fault him, when you have guys like Diarmuid who are so endearing when they do it (no mistake, though, I love him, too.)

I just find it baffling that they'll give some characters a free pass in their deceptiveness and assholery, but as soon as one crosses their moral line, it's all over. Meanwhile, the entire Holy Grail War was immorality at its finest. Silly people.
 
Lain

Lain

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I guess my own frustrations boil down to people seeing characters having flaws and attributing that to bad character design.

It's like when I say I like "Kira Yoshikage" from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. Someone was so incredulous shouting "how can you like him, he's a serial killer who gets off killing women!"
And I'm like, yes he's a bad person and I wouldn't like him in real life, but in the story itself he's a deep and complex character who subverts the typical tropes associated with serial killers and is a wonderful foil to the similarly complex and imperfect hero who hunts him down.
 
Dark Drakan

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That moment when your wife allows her neat freak side to take over and in her haste to clear up the backend of her site she accidentally cancels her primary web domain name. 5 hours later and think I have finally restored things and now having to renew leases on my DHCP to allow all devices on my network to be able to reconnect to it as for some reason I can access it via a VPN but not usual IP addresses. :banghead:
 
V's patron

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I punched the wall in my bathroom for the second time in a few weeks. It created a larger dent than last time but now I'm realizing that I do use my dad as a crutch. He felt like the villain in my life because he was always difficult to deal with. Last year was pretty tough was because he ruined a romantic opportunity for me and that started my bout in depression.

Cut to more than a year later, a couple different temp jobs, 8 months of therapy, 2/3 weddings, 3 different freakouts and I've made progress. It doesn't feel like its enough and it may never will but it is something to take note off.

My therapist wanted to talk about the possibility of another attempt at love but I've been scared of losing out again. Its an irrational fear born out of a rational concern. A part of depression is getting angry quicker and i tried being angry and i wanted to be cruel and it didn't really work.

I'm afraid of hoping again but maybe thats what i need to do again.
 
Shadow

Shadow

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"All you ignorant f***s should be ashamed of yourself for celebrating such a s***** holiday when native people are still having to fight for their rights." Like...yeah, okay, I see what you mean. As someone who's part native American, thinking about what's happened to my past relatives ticks me off, too, but...seriously? Thanksgiving is no longer about giving thanks or any of the bs people originally claimed it was about. It's commercialism plain and simple--a ploy by companies to boost their sales by encouraging people to try and live up to the shiny fake world in the commercials. (And that's even without going into the bs that's Black Friday.) And f***ing sue me if I want to take advantage of a readymade excuse to enjoy one of the few times my family gets together, where everyone's happy, and eating some godforsaken pie with them. Jesus f***ing Christ, is no one allowed to enjoy anything any more without a million f***ing guilt trips about why the history of the thing is bad? Yeah! History is bad! The world is bad! Everything is bad! I have earned this pie and a day to enjoy it with my family! F*** off.

(...sorry this is so grumpy. I'm just sick of struggling through my depression only to come out of it and be told "you can't enjoy anything because here's 10 million way's it's problematic". S***, why do y'all (not you, but the complainers) want people to feel bad all the time? There's very little keeping me out of a hospital right now; I need to enjoy something without listening to people b****. Please.)
 
Lain

Lain

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I think there should be limits to getting offended.

So a few days ago I was in a Skype chat with some peeps and one of them went off about a recent episode of an anime which he found offensive. And he said he had emailed the company asking them to ban the episode from being aired anymore. Now I want to raise this point, he had not even seen the episode he was objecting to (nor any of the show for that matter) nor was he himself part of the minority that he was offended on the behalf of. As I and other people who had watched the episode of said show tried to explain to him that it really was wasn't at all like he was imagining and that calling for the episode to be banned was too much, but he just wasn't having any of it - claiming that we were the cause of homophobia, racism and misogyny to still be existing in society.

I was just done. :mad:
 
Rebel Dynasty

Rebel Dynasty

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Oh, so that's why no backlash has come as of yet--because you bullshitted and told everyone (save for one person) that it was only him I'm not talking to.

Welp, guess I'll just have to correct that bit of misinformation now, won't I? And if backlash follows as a result, guess what else will come to light?

Really, when it's all said and done, you have no one else to blame but the pair of you. You should've just owned up when you had the chance.
 
Foxtrot94

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Hearing news of elder people getting beaten up in those "retirement homes" ****es me the **** off. Like seriously, I wanna grab and punch the mofos. It's funny, I'm not a violent person, but that **** makes me lose control.
 
Goldsickle

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People can't admit that their personal preference is a personal preference.

They have to present their dislikes as part of a law, majority or the only correct path.

For example, imagine someone suggesting co-op in Devil May Cry.
Some would like it but some wouldn't.

And those who don't like it can't simply say "I don't like the sound of that" or "not my cup of tea".

Instead, they have to write sentences like:

"It wouldn't work with Devil May Cry".

"It goes against the core elements of the series".

"This is wrong because it is absolutely not the series' intended design".


And then other people would confront these statements, asking about why wouldn't it work with the series? Who decided what are the "core elements" of DMC? How do you know if this goes against what the developers intended?

A little strawman here and a little goalpost-pushing there, the discussion degenerates into an uncivil exchange of insults as the ones making the claim can't explain themselves but expect others to accept their logic.

This is really the root of many, many unnecessary arguments in gaming forums.
If you dislike something because of your own personal preference, then present it as such and not some sort of "franchise law" you made up in your head.
 
Goldsickle

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Shadow said:
So...the FCC has flat out said they don't care about the public opinion on net neutrality. :| That's friendly. F***ing b@stards.
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Wasn't it because they received mighty f***loads of anti-net neutrality spams from bots?

Supposedly 40% of the "public opinion" they got were duplicate posts against net-neutrality and these were the ones being rejected.
 
Shadow

Shadow

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Goldsickle said:
Wasn't it because they received mighty f***loads of anti-net neutrality spams from bots?

Supposedly 40% of the "public opinion" they got were duplicate posts against net-neutrality and these were the ones being rejected.
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My understanding is that it was emails in support of keeping net neutrality? But, in the panic, I think a lot of things have gotten mixed up. If it was because of a bunch of people saying to get rid of it, then...I don't know what to tell you. If it was in support of keeping it, then it's probably because people have been using form emails (because of social anxiety, not knowing how to write to officials, not knowing where to contact, etc.) and they can easily sweep that aside as "spam". Perhaps there were legitimate bots, but, to my understanding, when it comes to them shooting down claims of support for keeping net neutrality, it's mainly been excuses. Pai has also gone on to say that they won't be considering any feedback that isn't in legal terms, meaning that, unless you're a lawyer who specializes in this field, the average person's opinion does not count. Either way, the thought of having to pay an additional $40 - $100 a month just to post my writing and go onto the three other sites I visit really is ticking me off.
 
Exejpgwmv

Exejpgwmv

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Just got kicked out of my BUS 101 class for asking my professor simple questions.
Apparently: Asking him to explain business concepts/definitions and answering his questions about my personal feelings about certain political topics is "manipulative" and "humiliating" enough to warrant being repeatedly yelled and swore at.

His parting comment as I left? : "If you make me angry my IQ just gets higher!" Don't know why he needed to comment about how smart he is or gets, but apparently he thought it was worth telling the class.
 
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