I think Mike deserves that honor more than anyone else.
I think Mike deserves that honor more than anyone else.
Not so Mega Sig, now properly spoilered
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Him, or Baiken.
People turning into plugsuits.
I never wtf'd harder.
[04:55] Lianru: i3uster is actuallly quite cute
I just found a new Greek author to explore. Not great as an actual writer, but incredibly useful on cultural commentary. Shall we see what he says about Alexander?
King Alexander was quite mad with love for boys. Dikaiarkhos indeed says in his 'On the Sacrifice at Troy' that he was so in love with Bagoas the eunarch that, bending back towards him, he kissed him heartily in from of the whole theatre. When they acclaimed this with applause, he obeyed them, and bent back to kiss him again.Originally Posted by Athenaeus, Δειπνοσοφισταί 603a-b
Karystios, in his 'Historical Dissertations' that Kharon the Khalkidean had a pretty boy, whom he held dear. When Alexander praised the boy during a drinking party, at Krateros', Kharon ordered the boy to kiss Alexander, but he said, "Not at all, no! For he would not please me to the same degree as he would hurt you by doing this".
Awww - these are really sweet (and you are now imagining that Waver is a eunarch).
Also ...
Many whole-heartedly prefer affairs with boys to those with females, for those cities in Greece which are the best-governed compared to the others are enthusiastic about this custom.Originally Posted by Athenaeus, Δειπνοσοφισταί 601e
This is brilliant! Far too funny.
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So reading this I just realized that contrary to my memory of the scene tainted by the UBW movie, Shirou didn't have a giant pile of swords floating behind him, and Gil saw completely through what he was doing internally with just a glance."Oh. You made a lot this time. 10, 15, 17… I see. You reproduced all the Noble Phantasms you can see."
"What?"
"Do not take me lightly. What sort of hero would I be if I could not see through a magus? I can easily tell how many spells you are working on."
""
His words are unexpected.
The king of heroes that possesses thousands of Noble Phantasms can figure out my magic just by looking at me?
Gil just got a bit more awesome in my book.
^^ Wait, Seika, you didn't know that?
Huh. History knowledge win GET!
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[11:20:46 AM] GlowStiks: lucina is supes attractive
[12:40] Lace: lucina is amazing
[12:40] Neir: lucina is pretty much flawless
You...you're kidding. That isn't even a question, it's a statement. Remember the All Seeing Star/Eye NP he apparently has. Still not a question, you know this one you heartless bastard. Somebody yell at him some more, I need to be somewhere like, right now.
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"Fate/stay night: not really an eroge, and not really a cooking sim, but actually an RPG wherein everyone’s primary stat is “self-loathing” and the goal is to level it up beyond all the other characters."
I know why he can do all that. Just saying, the real scene is so much more awesome than the movie scene, which is the version I remembered due to the overwhelming power of visual stimuli.
Makes sense for Greece, that last bit.
As I recall it was a regular law in Rome, actually, that married men couldn't have sex with anyone but their wives, unless there was an exchange of money (prostitution, in simple terms :P) or if it was with another man. Though the Romans were fascinated with male sexuality, one of the things they loved nearly as much was the female orgasm. Say what you will about them, they certainly paid attention to their women!
And I guess it's just me having done lots of research on Alex that gave me the prior knowledge of certain stories like that. He was an interesting and cool guy, until he started going crazy after Tyre and some incidents in Persia.
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[11:20:46 AM] GlowStiks: lucina is supes attractive
[12:40] Lace: lucina is amazing
[12:40] Neir: lucina is pretty much flawless
^
That Shirou then shattered with a single swing of either Kanshou or Bakuya.
Araya, what do you seek?
「アラヤ、何を求める」
------True wisdom.「――――真の叡智を」
Araya, where do you seek it?「アラヤ、何処に求める」
Only within myself.「――――ただ、己が内にのみ」
Araya, what is your favorite color?「アラヤ、好きな色は?」
Blue. No, ora-- Auuuuuuuugh!「青、いや、オレンジイイイイイアアアっ!」
What's this about an all-seeing eye?
It's something his younger counterpart has.
In a card game.
It may be there. It may not.Sha Nagba Imuru - The all-knowing, all-powerful star
Ko-gil's Noble Phantasm. In the hollow ataraxia card game though. Does it really exist? Does older Gilgamesh even have it?
Actually the name of Gilgamesh's legend (translated as: He Who Knows Everything).
A lot of people seem to be under the impression that Gilgamesh is a dope, but he's very knowledgeable and cunning, even as an adult; able to see through exactly what Shirou was trying to do prior to activating UBW (as to the number of traced weapons he was preparing; has fair enough knowledge of thaumaturgy), etc. Hence, this (card game) Noble Phantasm for taking a look at some of the cards in the opponent's hand and the stack....which is pretty useless actually, but hey.
EDIT:
Copy-pasta arai's stuff right after arai's own post, lolz-worthy.
Huh. Interesting. I always figured that Gilgamesh's body was closer to perfect, so his "vision" was superior.