One thing I absolutely hate is rap music, especially the slow kind. Its literally all just about drugs and fucking a hoe on some really dull, annoying beat if you can even call it that. Add bad autotuning and some stupid ass moans and groans and some how you have something that people enjoy and chant in the halls. In my ears, its so musically incompetent and idiotic that it makes Justin Bieber sound good.
I would go on, but I feel like its not even worth wasting energy and time on writing out a complete rant.
@ClocktowerEchos I will say, as someone who felt the same years back, they're actually is some good stuff if you know where to look. I'd gladly give you some, so you might one day won't hate the genre as a whole like I used to. :3
@ClocktowerEchos I will say, as someone who felt the same years back, they're actually is some good stuff if you know where to look. I'd gladly give you some, so you might one day won't hate the genre as a whole like I used to. :3
Nah, I'm good with my j-pop and animu stuff. #WaifuIsLaifu :3
@ClocktowerEchos Hehe, I don't listen to too much J-Pop. But J-rock is quite wonderful. I've been listening to a lot of english covers of animu songs recently for some reason. :P
@SleepingSilenceYou should go look up the opening of One Punch Man, The Hero; both the original by Project JAM and Jonathan Young are great but since someass hat flagged Young's video, you'll probably have to look for the one hour version of it :T
@ClocktowerEchos I'm definitely am aware of one punch man. :3 I found it, it's nice. Yeah youtube, has gotten a little sad with its copyright stuff recently.
This one friend of mine is talented at video games. Especially fighters. I say this because his execution is like 96% on point, with or without lab time (training mode/practice), and he always excels. Mine? Maybe 70%, mostly because I don't practice. However, over the years of playing fighters, especially with the likes of Tekken, Guilty Gear, and the most recent Street Fighter V, I'm able to read my opponent quicker and throw in mind games to compensate for my rather shitty execution.
Now, this is usual thing with my friend: if I'm winning matches against him, it's because my "shit's too cheap" or "it's a brain-dead character", or "I can get away with too much stuff." He gets salty, not like mad salty, but clearly frustrated that he can't trump my mind games. Eventually, it gets to the point where I'm feeling like I'm only winning because, yeah, my character is just ridiculous, rather than the fact that hey--I KNEW you were gonna dragon punch on wake up, so I BLOCKED and baited to throw you, or I shimmied back and forth to outpoke your damn crouching medium kick. Yeah, my execution's shit, and dropping combos often cost me the match and practically give him winning streaks. But damn, dude, you fucking LOST because you decided to throw out a normal when I had you on block string. You didn't get beat because of "shennanigans" or "cheap character with command grab," you got beat a few matches because you made mistakes. Seriously, I don't have time to practice at home, so the best I can do is YouTube some matches and get ideas of what to do. I'm free, no doubt about it. But don't let it get to your fucking head that you cannot possibly lose to a casual like me.
Nah, just kidding. You know I prefer the warships anyways.
Since this segues neatly into some shit I'd like to screech about for a bit, I'll take this time to say:
Holy fuck, anime is oversexualized.
Like, do the studios not realize that there are, in fact, other ways to sell a series? I watched Strike Witches because I'm a history buff to the point that I got the Hitler's hat joke, but guess who I can't share that experience with? Literally any other self-respecting human being, because the ass-to-not-ass ratio in that is more than a bit skewed. Lucky me gets to barely realize all this shit because I'm asexual, but it gets reeeeeeally awkward to talk about it. Mainly because fucking nobody believes that asexuality is actually something physically possible for a human male, but that's another grating and annoying rant.
But, like, seriously guys? I mean, yeah, I get that human beings that aren't broken like it, but it's just completely ubiquitous now. It doesn't matter how out of place it is or how completely irrelevant to anything else that has occurred it is, there WILL be a panty shot. There WILL be a hot spring. There WILL be a beach episode. It doesn't matter if it's a comedy about X number of girls doing Y or space opera about humans beating the shit out of alien space Romans, it'll happen. Just calm. The fuck. Down. We'll still watch your show even if the female lead doesn't get her skirt ripped apart by the monster of the week. Or maybe we won't, because if you have to resort to that, then your show is either meant to be focused around the fanservice or is just that shitty.
So let's just take the fanservice, shove it into the shit that needs to be 90% ass and titties, and keep all this stuff that doesn't need to be 90% ass and titties ass and titties free for the most part (because I understand that the majority of humans came with all the right parts). 'Kay? 'Kay.
Okay, now I'm done with that. Sorry about all the cursing, my excuse is that I want to join the Navy.
Now I'm going to bitch about the ways in which I bitch.
1: I use a whole goddamned lot of fucking profanities, like, hot damn, I'm surprised I don't have detention every fucking week. 2: I self-depreciate a whole lot. And I use that as a defense mechanism somehow. To make things worse, I blow insults way out of proportion. Whenever someone insults me in an argument, I'll usually ramp up the insult then use it on myself again and act like that somehow works in my favor. I assume that I just have a massive victim complex and refuse to be anything but the poor little bullied kid since I'm a little bitch, but I'm honestly not 100% sure why I do this. 3: Like, seriously though, holy fuck the self-deprecation. I refer to myself as a failed human and broken piece of machinery on a daily basis in casual, non-hostile conversation. I think I actually did that a few times in the whole sexualization argument. 4: In real life, I'm even more of an asshole than I am on the internet. Which is bad, because I don't actually mean like 90% of it. I just throw insults as part of my socialization. If you didn't know me beforehand, you'd assume I'm an absolute piece of shit who likes to beat up kids for their lunch money. 5: Holy FUCK do I blow insults out of proportion. It's annoying as shit. I can find some way to twist the slightest constructive criticism into "Stop wasting oxygen that could be used on someone useful". It makes me say people said things they didn't say or even intend to imply, which just heats up the argument more and leads to it happening again and again. 6: I'll laugh at/agree with anything if it means I get to avoid an actual argument. Only if I'm alone. With someone else, I'll debate for days. Alone? Haha, why yes, I SHOULD hang myself for being a worthless piece of shit! Hilarious! Haha! Yes, we should exterminate the inferior races! Haha, how ironic! 7: I'm REALLY narcissistic despite the self-deprecation. If I didn't limit myself with that, I'd ACTUALLY just be a massive dickhead who acts like he's better than anyone and everyone. 8: I go on tangents a lot, I mean, for example, this is supposed to be me bitch about how I bitch. Now it's just me bitching about myself. Have fun with that shit. 9: I'm a teenager, so I get mood swings. Fuck mood swings. Mood swings are annoying and meanies. 10: I get overly attached to a few specific people, and will totally lose the whole "Nothing matters to me unless I say it does and that's awesome" groove if I end up forcibly separated from them. 11: I'm one of those fuckers that says "Sorry" like a hundred damn times after spilling a bit of water.
That last one is probably the worst of all of these, because people like that are apparently annoying as shit. Sorry about that.
But hey, at least I don't look like the purple-hair-over-eye and obscure band logo mental image you currently have of me. Nerdy t-shirts and sweatpants all day, everyday, because I didn't want dignity anyways.
Excuse for the cursing is still that I'll most likely end up as a sailor.
Do not ever claim that Chivalry is something that will get you the ladies, and don't say that we live in an age where Chivalry is dead. The guys who swore actual oaths to actual chivalry (which included religious vows, ye "chivalrous" atheists of Fedoria!) hacked kids apart in the crusades, peppered the land with their mistresses and bastard children, and more than one of them probably considered Jew-killing a state sport.
Chivalry is a concept that was upheld by very few people, it never had its own age, and most of it was just the King's way of saying "Let's give each other some good PR. Just promise not to pull a Macbeth, keep the laborers happy, and don't be an asshole at parties. Get it? Got it? Good. Here's some land, go kill those goddamn Frenchies".
We live in an age that's just about as polite as the last ones, but this time around (and many other times around since) we call people who pretend to be polite in public and gut their enemies over old feuds sociopaths. You should be a nice guy, yeah, but the nobles who were doing their business in more intimate juices than George R.R. Martin could portray without his eyes watering were drowning in pussy not because they were chivalrous, but because they were rich, famous, drunk, and knew all the cool poems and war stories. Basically, they were rock stars, but they could also murder you in the streets on the off chance that their interest wasn't reciprocated.
If you're upset that no one opened the door for you, then be honest about it and actually say that you're an egomaniac who can't possibly open the goddamn door for themselves. If you're upset that no one's going out with you, be honest and say that it's because you don't have the courage to talk to people. After all, honesty and courage are two of the chivalric virtues!... Also being ready to violently defend the honor of your homeboys.
Chivalry was never really a thing. It was born out of the oaths that were given to knights, but with the medieval ages being a time when oaths were a common practice all over the place, there wasn't anything unique about them. Where our idea of chivalry actually comes from isn't the practices of medieval knights, but rather a popular form of literature in the late medieval ages and early renaissance. In the 15th and 16th century, it was in vogue among the newly educated and cosmopolitan nobility to write and read romance stories about heroic knights, and the writers peppered these stories with all their ideas of what a virtuous hero should be like (and they filled them with harrowing fights and romantic relationships with princesses because these were novels read for entertainment). The most famous works to come out of this is Le Morte d'Arthur, where we get most of the modern King Arthur story, and Don Quixote, which is a parody of the entire chivalry romance genre. What we call chivalry when talking about dating is more like the echo of in-fashion manners from back when women were called the "Fairer sex" because they were seen as fragile and delicate, and in need of the protective care of men, rather than the modern reading of the term that women are super hot and you gotta be nice to get with'em.
More than anyone probably wanted to know. I'll leave it there, since 15th century literature is by leaps and bounds more interesting than dating advice.
More than anyone probably wanted to know. I'll leave it there, since 15th century literature is by leaps and bounds more interesting than dating advice.
Of hem that writen ous tofore The bokes duelle, and we therfore Ben tawht of that was write tho: Forthi good is that we also In oure tyme among ous hiere Do wryte of newe som matiere, Essampled of these olde wyse So that it myhte in such a wyse, Whan we ben dede and elleswhere, Beleve to the worldes eere In tyme comende after this. Bot for men sein, and soth it is, That who that al of wisdom writ It dulleth ofte a mannes wit To him that schal it aldai rede, For thilke cause, if that ye rede, I wolde go the middel weie And wryte a bok betwen the tweie, Somwhat of lust, somewhat of lore, That of the lasse or of the more Som man mai lyke of that I wryte:
Of hem that writen ous tofore The bokes duelle, and we therfore Ben tawht of that was write tho: Forthi good is that we also In oure tyme among ous hiere Do wryte of newe som matiere, Essampled of these olde wyse So that it myhte in such a wyse, Whan we ben dede and elleswhere, Beleve to the worldes eere In tyme comende after this. Bot for men sein, and soth it is, That who that al of wisdom writ It dulleth ofte a mannes wit To him that schal it aldai rede, For thilke cause, if that ye rede, I wolde go the middel weie And wryte a bok betwen the tweie, Somwhat of lust, somewhat of lore, That of the lasse or of the more Som man mai lyke of that I wryte:
See, that shit's way better, even if I can't read it. Better than "Put a feather in your asscrack because that shit mean confidence and girls will straddle your face more often."
Y'know... I know Godwin's Law is a thing and all, but there really should be an ammendment to it that states that it doesn't count if the comparison is apt. >.> <.<
WE NEED TO STOP TREATING HOLDING OPEN A DOOR FOR SOMEONE LIKE THE ULTIMATE FAVOR. I DIDN'T GIVE YOU A LIFE-SAVING PANCREAS TRANSPLANT, I HELD A DOOR OPEN.
WE NEED TO STOP TREATING HOLDING OPEN A DOOR FOR SOMEONE LIKE THE ULTIMATE FAVOR. I DIDN'T GIVE YOU A LIFE-SAVING PANCREAS TRANSPLANT, I HELD A DOOR OPEN.
That sounds context worthy. Is there a specific incident that occurred you would like to tell the group about?
@Mardox Well, every time I open up the door for someone they like tear up and talk about how I saved their faith in humanity. That isn't so bad, but people expect you to do the same and get offended if you don't like write a poem about how thankful you are.
@Nevix XD, I just get a "thank you" and I never get called out for singing the praises of someone who held the door open for me. But really? You saved their faith in humanity?
@Nevix XD, I just get a "thank you" and I never get called out for singing the praises of someone who held the door open for me. But really? You saved their faith in humanity?
You get a thank you? I thought we were supposed to be MORE polite down here in NC.
To be fair though, it's always in the morning and nobody is awake.
So lemme just say: It's really fucking annoying when someone holds the door open for you but you're too far away to make it within what you think is a reasonable time and it's all awkward and shit. Especially when you're a heaping mass of blubber like me, because I end up running and I'm really ducking self conscious about my body. I can just sort of feel everyone in the vicinity thinking "Hey, look at lardasse's belly jiggling". So basically, don't hold a door open for someone far away. Have fun trying to judge that, and forever thinking that everyone you hold a door open for hates you on the inside.
