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RPGC #2 Conversation Thread

@mdk@RomanAria

Any ETA on RPGC #3? Just wondering (since the 2nd challenge in the 12 Labors have just finished today...I think).

@Dedonus

tonight, after I clean up the formatting one last time. I'm slightly busy at the moment but it'll be live shortly.

game of thrones spoilery thread

the undisputed winner of season five

What Stops You from Killing Yourself

Depression isn't my style. I get it -- it's not as easy as 'look at the bright side.' But me? I've been through some pretty major shit. My conclusion is 'what doesn't kill you shows you who you are.' I look back at things I've overcome and I'm convinced there's nothing in the world that can stop me, except me. And I don't want to stop.

Love life and love yourself, and if you can help it, love other people too. Love God if you haven't tried that. Problems don't happen to me -- I happen to problems, and I'm racking up a really impressive killcount on those.

drink drank drunk

English: He drank a drink and now he's drunk.

Ebonics: Dat drunk drink dranks.

Who here can speak another language

Learning Japanese is fun. Here's what you do. Start by taking real actual classes, because they'll teach you how sentence structure works, how to do formal/casual forms of speech, what the heck is up with articles, etc. Important groundwork type stuff. Then, when you've got a grasp on the basics and you start moving into like advanced stuff -- find yourself a sushi place with real actual japanese people in it, and go there. I don't know what it is -- Japanese people, by and large, love you when you try to learn their language. Like I mean..... speak German to a German, they'll be happy I guess, speak French to a French, you're wasting your time, speak Spanish to a native speaker of choice, anything can happen, Chinese, whatever.... but JAPANESE fucking LOVE YOU. They'll help you out. So go out for Sushi like once a week (or every other, or whatever) and practice having regular conversations. You can get good pretty quick.

You'll hear people say anime doesn't help. Not true. You'll learn from context when it's appropriate to say "Yokai" vs. "Hai" vs. "Wakatta" vs. "Yosh" vs. whatever. You'll pick up some cool phrases. And of course varying levels of cultural exposure (Samurai stuff is pointlessly irrelevant, but did you know female storekeepers shriek at you when you come in? That's something you might've learned from television)

Anyway the important thing is always exposure. Depending on where you live, exposure to Japanese can be pretty hard to come by, but find some and practice. You'll catch on. Steep learning curve but it's fun.

The Twelve Labours: General Discussion

Reading through everything now. Particularly loved @Flagg's "Forbidden Knowledge Grace." Nice freakin' job!

Spam, how many fingers do you use to snap? And which ones?

Middle finger. Don't understand how or why anyone else uses any other method, none of them seem nearly as effective to me.

@Halo

also this. I can do it with my index finger too but more importantly why? It sucks. Middle finger is louder and allows you to casually flip people off.

Well said. You're a very eloquent man.

@mdkA friend of mine puts Stannis at #2 on her "please die" list all because of that scene, just below Ramsay.

@The Nexerus

in case someone's still spoilable

Not me. Stannis is still the Mannis. It's not like waiting for her to freeze to death or get cannibalized by hungry soldiers would've been kinder. Or throwing in the towel and waiting for the whitewalkers to shatter the wall and enslave the divided kingdoms. Only thing he could've done differently was leave her at Castle Black (which he did in the books), among, you know, rapists and thieves and wildlings and other cannibals. Show Stannis did the only thing he could do. He won't be forgiven -- least of all by himself -- but he must take the throne, and he must take Winterfell, and there was only one way.

Besides, all they need to do is get Thoros of Myr up there. Problem solved.

Well said. You're a very eloquent man.

<Snipped quote by Awson>

Don't underestimate the power of twenty good men.

@Vilageidiotx

It's the law of inverse ninja, also known as Conservation of Ninjutsu. Ramsay knows how to manipulate these principles to his advantage.

also

The Twelve Labours: General Discussion

Go around! Go around!

I miss Majora's Mask. Should've done "Looking at the moon is a good thing."