Random Thoughts Thread

[SpoonyViking]

So I got accepted into graduate school and I am now Covid-19 free after testing positive a couple of weeks ago.

Awesome! :-)

[Pendant]

Thank you for the kind words, minna.

[Wallacia]

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[Mattias]

I was wondering why I'd never heard of that company before. Turns out it's 90% porn.

[Spartacus]

So I got accepted into graduate school and I am now Covid-19 free after testing positive a couple of weeks ago.

Grats!

[Mattias]

I caught sight of my reflection in a store window today and I look like a rejected design for a Mortal Kombat ninja, one who choose denim as his colour.

[Deathhappens]

I am officially ready for this covid business to end already. Bring on the meteor storm or whatever the next catastrophe is.

[LegalLoliLover]

Imagine an Asian voting on this poll. No, you don't have to. I just did. Fuck. I'm feeling like Rusty the Dalek again.

[Mattias]

Seriously, What the fuck of Poggers?

Are Pogs making a comeback?

Are people misspelling PAWG, which itself has a misspelling in it?

[Draconic]

I’m confused.

So I got accepted into graduate school and I am now Covid-19 free after testing positive a couple of weeks ago.

Oh! That’s great to hear!

[LegalLoliLover]

I find it hilarious when people say that if you idolize [insert "scoundrel" character here], you aren't watching or reading the material "right". Media is all about interpretation. While many consider Stephen King stories to be horror, I see them as fetish buffets.

[Mattias]

While many consider Stephen King stories to be horror, I see them as fetish buffets.

Of course you would, IT has a loli gangbang scene.

But to most people saying that you idolize, let's say Griffith from Berserk, just tells them to stay the fuck away from you.

[LegalLoliLover]

I was actually thinking of the bloodbath from Carrie (suffice it to say, I love Mary Skelter for that very reason), but yes, that, too. Of course, I guess that's what a buffet is. Everything. Actually, the person in question was Kazuma from Konosuba.

[Deathhappens]

Of course you would, IT has a loli gangbang scene.

But to most people saying that you idolize, let's say Griffith from Berserk, just tells them to stay the fuck away from you.

Wait, wasn't the sex scene at the end of IT consensual?

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Anyway, I'm going to make a rare gesture and indicate that I agree with LLL on this one, primarily because anyone who thinks there's a "right" and "wrong" interpretation of fiction is a pretentious dumbarse.

[Mattias]

When you get down to subtexts you're right. But you can't really argue that Lord Voldemort is a misunderstood hero. You can argue for how he represents all different sorts of violent and systemic oppression, but not that what he's doing is in any way justified.


I know that argument is jumping right to Wizard Hitler, but I've seen way too many fanfictions which try to paint the Death Eaters as noble crusaders protecting their traditions. Better written characters get much more leeway, especially when the character is at least trying trying to be a hero.

[LegalLoliLover]

Well, now you're jumping into individual characters. However, in terms of Harry Potter's story as a whole, the story tries to portray Muggles as the "weak" to be "protected" from the "scary wizard supremacists". However, as Fate fans, we see that the most effective way to deal with wizards is using non-mage methods... Or at the very least, "hybrid build" methods. For example, Kiritsugu has enchanted weapons, but those are far and few in between. Most of his gear is non-enchanted, and all of his gear, enchanted or not, are Muggle weapons (guns and bombs vs. the mage weapons of wands and staves). Also, if you like interpretations of movies and the like that turn the "conventional" view on its fucking head, at least for Star Wars, I suggest watching Generation Tech's videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/GenerationTechOfficial/videos

Furthermore, I disagree with Mages bending over backwards to make Muggles feel safe. The Mages Guild of the Elder Scrolls series decided to ban the "problematic" practice of necromancy because it triggered the stupid Muggles. 200 years later, the Mages Guild ended up essentially disbanded. Sure, a bunch of Guild Mages died in the process, but if they were pro-ban, they got what was coming to them, like people who want to ban things IRL that they find "problematic". So while Voldemort sucks, Mannimarco is fucking awesome.

[Deathhappens]

When you get down to subtexts you're right. But you can't really argue that Lord Voldemort is a misunderstood hero. You can argue for how he represents all different sorts of violent and systemic oppression, but not that what he's doing is in any way justified.


I know that argument is jumping right to Wizard Hitler, but I've seen way too many fanfictions which try to paint the Death Eaters as noble crusaders protecting their traditions. Better written characters get much more leeway, especially when the character is at least trying trying to be a hero.

Ι mean yeah, that is clearly one interpretation of the work. At the end of the day it's literally ALL subjective, it's just a matter how far you're willing to entertain your conversation partner's point of view.

[Mattias]

I was watching Jujistsu Kaisen this week and got to thinking, do Tokyo and Kyoto use the same Kanji in their names just reversed order?

[Spartacus]

So recently I lost my high school diploma, and to make a replacement for it, I need to contact my old friends that I have never met for 3 years at the minimum as testifiers of my credibility as the real person/owner of the lost diploma. It's involved lots of complicated steps, not to mention a photocopy of their own diploma and their signature of it, and I am currently living overseas from them, and covid. Both of them decided to send those documents and their signature right away and I just got both of them today and clear the things I needed from it.

I have very great friends... I don't know how to repay them. I sent them some food and chocolates and souvenirs but I feel like it is not enough.

[Walnut Sparks]

I was watching Jujistsu Kaisen this week and got to thinking, do Tokyo and Kyoto use the same Kanji in their names just reversed order?

According to Wikipedia, FWIW:
Kyōto = 京都 ("capital city")
Tōkyō = 東京 ("eastern capital")
Tokyo's official name is Tōkyō-to (東京都, "eastern capital city").