mfw capone and bonney aren't rotting in a ditch somewhere.
Posts made by Taggerung
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RE: Official picture of Supernovas after time-skip
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RE: Diablo III
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/game/
Character pages with skill calculators are up. Each class uses a different resource system and has between 21-25 skills. Each of those skills has 5 possible rune combinations which in most cases greatly change the use/versatility of the skill. Then you can select up to 3 possible passive skills out of a pool of 12-15. So…
Since you can only have access to 6 skills at a time the number of build combination's is just incredibly large and insane per class. Because Diablo is such a fast paced game there are probably thousands of viable builds per class. Can't wait for this game.
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RE: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
the first episode of the new season was great. i hope they keep it up throughout.
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RE: Torchwood
! Not really all the answers i wanted but enough. They're really setting this up for a another series and it looks like rex is going to stay, i have mixed feelings about that. Aside from the bomb thing at the end Danes really didn't have a purpose the entire time and i don't understand why the families even wanted him. They didn't even bother trying to save him from being classified category 0. Won't miss esther. I really like Jilly though even after all this, i dunno, she's got a magnetic personality. The whole season seemed alright overall. I'm not excited about whats next but i'm curious. I am going to download the earlier serious though. If only for jackXianto
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RE: Championship Match: God Enel vs Nico Robin
Vote for the Almighty Enel! We can do it if we believe! Vote for a godly champion!
i feel like this gif would look better with shades
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RE: Championship Match: God Enel vs Nico Robin
1. She's a SH
2. She's female
3. She's got a great backstory
4. She's popular in general
5. Great Powers
6. Likeable character
7. Has actually done something in the past 8 years.
8. Campaigns
9. They just generally like her more than Enel9. reasons why people may be voting Robin over Enel
you could take off the top two and she'd still have my vote.
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RE: Championship Match: God Enel vs Nico Robin
if it were any other SH but robin Enel would have my vote. It's so great to see a non-SH make it this far but alas, it is robin…so enel must lose
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RE: Deux Ex: Human Revolution
forcing my laptop to play this game against it's will so all my graphics are turned all the way down and there's some slowdown which makes any fast weapon changes or pop out aiming next to impossible. If they start throwing explosives i just pretend it's the matrix and everything is in slow-mo. I'm treating it as a fun handicap. Playing through the game mostly in stealth, i rarely use any gun though if i have to I use the pistol, and if i REALLY have to i use the crossbow. Hacking is a guilty pleasure. Before i got the right upgrades i could easily spend an embarrassing amount of time hacking a terminal until i got all the nodes and got out perfectly.
! The first boss was just brutal but i ended up throwing a concussion grenade, switching to remote mines, running up, and planting them. Then after i detonated them i just used every grenade i had and tried to aim for his face with my pistol. Killed him on like my 10th try and replayed it until i managed to do it without using my entire arsenal. Once i landed in China i did some snooping and some sidequest and accidentally picked up the card you windmill needs after you complete the first mission so when i went to talk to him as soon as it's done it get thrown into the scene with the Yong Medical raiding the place which would be fine BUT i want to save windmill BUT i only have a pistol and it's mine and it's my most upgraded weapon SO i decided to load an old save and go find a gun so i can drop my pistol and swap it out when the time comes.
So far my only gripe is that the energy recharge aug doesn't recharge the next battery. So since i rely on cloak and takedowns i often only have one battery so i can sneak or attack but it makes it hard to really sneak attack. Thats mostly a quality of life issue though and gets fixed with trial and error but still annoying. touching on that AI issue i think they're reasonably difficult compared to MGS or Splinter Cell and taking into account the change in mechanics I'd say it's on par. I've had moments where i sat in the right spot and just killed guards as they came into the room in all those games.
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RE: Torchwood
! So now we know The Blessing is a hole through the earth is somehow connected to jacks blood or it wants to judge jack or maybe it was made by jack somehow inadvertently. So since i take it the next episode is supposed to wrap everything up we've got that double agent in CIA, "torchwood" on 2 continents each heading towards something that probably none of them should look at, morphic fields, the whole immortality thing, the ovens. I have a feeling theres going to be one of scenes with a man in a room who just explains everything. Also oswald danes? dunno…
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RE: Chapter 637: "The Ancient Ark"- Discussion
has jinbe been strangling the same guy for two chapters. or is that his new signature fighting style.
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RE: Star Wars: The Old Republic
PvP looks fun. A bit like the old Jedi Knight games but with a Team Fortress Vibe.
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RE: Filler Match: BW vs CP9 vs Fake SHs
You guys, you guys!! Guess what? The Straw Hats are alive!!
http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/276/f/b/the_new_straw_hat_pirates_by_usodabada-d2zz81q.png
! http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/044/5/5/luffy_and_whitebeard_by_serumx-d39gcrs.jpg
For more, head over here - http://apforums.net/showthread.php?t=30273
Many LOLs will be had by all.yeah im voting fake strawhats. these pics are great
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RE: Random News Article Discussion
I kind of wished they highlighted all the books with gay scenes so kids would know right where to go if they were interested. I think most gay people, myself included, go through a phase where you're just grasping to find any and all sources of media that you can connect with. There's a lot of good gay literature out there that I didn't know about till college and they tend to be better than the films..
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RE: Chapter 636: "The General From The Land Of The Future"
Whats with the "Wapometal" and Vegapunk's dream. I'm assuming Wapometal is stuff that Wapal chewed on and brought to life but i can't be certain about that or how it makes Franky's new robot special. Why couldn't have he have made it out of normal metal, or does it power itself or change easily. Maybe it'll look more fluid in the anime. Also it makes me wonder whether Wapol has had anything to do wit the Pacifistas. But i could just be reading way too much into the Wap part of wapometal.
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RE: Torchwood
! Yeah there's some good ideas now and things are starting to pick up. I downloaded the the current series on a whim because the premise sounded cool and it hasn't been bad so far. Everywhere i go people keep mentioning Children of Earth so i'll probably pick that up after this series concludes.
! As far as the recent episode that mob scene was really hard to watch. I'm also surprised he didn't wish some amount of vengence on Angelo. I would've been pretty pissed if my bf got me stabbed and killed numerous times. I'm really curious as to how this is all going to fit together. We've got these shadow people who have apparently been planning this for a long time. We've got those ovens which just burn category 1s. We've got Oswald Dane who is being used as some kin of spokes person. And we've got those 3 people who tried to buy Jack. Also i think religion is involved. This is weird so far…but not weird enough. -
RE: Deux Ex: Human Revolution
I've heard really good things about it. I'm excited.
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RE: 5.9 Earthquake!!!!!
People are saying that the Washington Monument is tilting.
that's a lie. the monument is fine. We felt it here in Philadelphia but no real harm. Just a lot of ppl going wtf. ofc FB exploded with statuses too
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RE: Crocodile vs Robin
Wow i expected crocodile to be killing it btu i'm glad he's not. gogogo robin
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RE: Game of Thrones (tv show thread)
So Oona Chaplin is going to play Jane Westerling. You could've done better Rob.
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Hannah Murry will play Gilly and she's a pretty good fit for the part. I wasn't a huge fan of her character in Skins but I like her all the same, she'll do a great job.
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Robert Pugh will be playing Craster and he seems to fit the part well.
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Nonso Anozie will be playing Xaro Xhoan. He was good in RocknRolla, can't wait to see him cry.
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Gwendoline Christie will be playing Brienne. Not one of my favorite PoVs but she certainly large enough for the role.
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I think all they're missing is Mance and they've got the important characters down.
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RE: World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
He literally didn't have any idea of what he was talking about and neither do you from anything you've posted.
I don't know anything about my class because I unsubscribed?
World of Logs isn't valid representation of the community's dps?
citing your guild's shaman's performance as proof that the class is fine?
I mean at that point you're not ridiculing you're just trolling. Why even respond with words, you might as well have just spammed LOLOLUSTUPID and it would've had the same impact as any of those statements. If you disagreed that much with anything I was saying while still knowing that people have a right to their opinions why not just ignore me because nothing I've said classwise or contentwise is wrong. The argument stems from people's perceptions of the impact of those changes on the game but I didn't pull these changes out of my ass.
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RE: World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
I said I played for 5 years before i decided to let it go so obviously i'm not over it especially if i'm still keeping up with all the current information. I didn't come here trolling to say how bad wow is. I love WoW. I was looking forward to enjoying the rest of Cata before they decided to end it. I came here to comment on that issue and to see if anyone else felt the same way. Saying Blizzard delivered on their planned content when they admitted they didn't and saying it's cool for Agi classes to use spellcaster axes warrants a response imo. I'm sure you get ruffled if you see someone arguing in favor of a blatantly wrong or misunderstood translation of something.
Telling me the shamans in your raid are doing fine is about as useful as people saying Paragon never brought a shaman to any world first kills so the class is garbage. There's a median which is why I brought up the logs because it shows a large amount of complied information so you're not just looking at the best or the worst you're looking at a good mix of the whole group, it's not about being top DPS on logs but I don't think it's pretentious of me to say it is about competitive DPS which shaman DPS has not been the entire expansion. In 4.1 there was about a 30% damage difference between the top performing Melee and the top performing Enh Shamans. That's part of the reason why they buffed stormstrike. I know the other part too because just because you stop playing doesn't mean suddenly everything you know about the game is void. I got to baelroc on normal before i quit which probably isn't very far now but it was far back then so I know how the class plays. I don't think anything I said initially was hostile but it got very hostile reactions. My bad for having an opinion?
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RE: World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
! World of Logs and raidbots beg to differ if you want solid numbers. They've been poor the entire expansion. Enh went through all of 4.0 without a viable AoE and the AoE we got in 4.1 was so clunky and poorly designed they had to fix it in 4.2. None of our physical attacks scale well which is why when you've got the best gear you're better off using a spellpower axe and in any gear lower you're damage will never be as high as the classes whose damage has been properly tuned to their weapons. Then there's the outdated WF model which put an emphasis on sustained damage which is next to impossible in a world of movements and adds. MW not proc problems on absorb shields in PvP. The aforementioned scaling offering no burst and extremely weak sustained (in PvP). And a host of other issues.
! Resto has suffered the same PvE-wise (it's OPness in PvP is to blame in some cases) and is entirely dependent on raid positioning. Something anyone who raids HMs or even normal modes knows is more of a hamper than a benefit. In 25m it's not so bad because you can HR and CH and you'll probably hit enough targets to make the mana cost worth it. In 10m getting everyone in the right spots to use your most efficient heals is less possible so you're forced to rely on GHW and RT an with the constant nerfs to mana tide totem you're more pressed than any other healing class to be the most efficient with your heals. The spec is far from unplayable and i still found it fun for a very long time in Cata but the farther you progress the more glaring it becomes that most fights you're healing in would be better off replacing you with a priest or a druid which is a tough position to be in especially if you're healing and the raid leader like i was.
! Resto Healing in PvP has been the only good mark of the class this entire exp and i think that's a shame. I don't want any part of the class to be overpowered i just want it to be on par with everyone else and Enh and Resto have not been. I can't really speak for Ele, i never touched it but have EQ as a 31 point talent has always put a sour taste in my mouth.
! A lot of the things i've said are obviously subjective but Blizzard has commented on the state of Enh several times throughout the exp saying it needed a DPS boost, it needed actual AoE, it needed a fix to it's scaling, and then they failed to deliver an actual solution so i find it really hard to sit here and have you say Enh rapes meters and bringing up Resto PvP like it that just solves the dispute. They've made the same comments about resto and likewise failed to deliver actual solutions. I know my class. I've lived and breathed it for 5 years and i haven't come to these conclusions lightly and i'm sorry if now i'm coming off as a jerk but i really don't like comments that attempt to brush aside a wealth of issues with no evidence or theory-crafting or knowledge of the class at all.tl:dr you have no idea what you're talking about
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RE: World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
Not really sure what this means. And I play a shaman.
If you're not having fun playing a game, don't play. It's that simple. No need to explain your actions, neither the WoW player base nor Blizzard is going to call and harass you about it.
I'm a bad case example to talk about money, I have played wow 100% free for years thanks to employee friends.
what spec?
You're right if you're not having fun with a game then you should stop playing which is what i did. I don't think i'm out of line for expressing the reasons why and my current dissatisfaction with the game. I put a lot of time into it which makes no longer enjoying to play it hurt even more.
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RE: World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
I don't find anything wrong with the spellcaster axe. There are other options out there that are just as good. It's cool that there is a weapon that a shaman can use in all three specs. The only other person who'd want it at all is a holy paladin. It's also a rare, sort of random drop that can drop off any mob in Firelands, not an average loot table item.
There's nothing really cool about a spec not scaling properly and anyone who plays a shaman has low expectations.
Path of the Titans understandably became the revamped glyph system but i don't see how you can say they delivered when they even admitted to changing their model, forgoing their previous statements, about raid content. To me PvE his a huge part of the game. Before I stopped playing i went through a lot to get my Defender title and score enough HMs under my belt to be proud of before the 4.1 nerfs. I know a lot of people on my server who think like that so again i'm going to disagree and say that new content is one of the main driving forces that make people come back to WoW. I'm not one for rose tinted glasses but each Exp has brought less and less raid content and still cost $50 +$15 a month. I like that they don't plan on having 4.3 last a year like they did with ICC but knowing that in about 3-6 months i'm going to be expected to drop another $50 for the new exp and this one had less content than the last, it doesn't inspire confidence that the next exp will bring any progressive changes.
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RE: World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
Why would they think not delivering on the promised content would bring people back? They've dominated the MMO market for some time with a game is out of date in many ways so it was inevitable that they'd lose subscribers to some of the newer MMOs coming out. They should be catering to the players who stuck around by giving them the content they said they would, multiple raids per tier and faster patches. If they're speeding up Cata to switch to a new model faster in Mist of Pandaria it might bring people back for a couple a months but they'll probably alienate the fans who they were jerking around through Cata. I was planning on coming back after 4.2 but the way things are looking i don't see a reason to and with D3 and the SC expansion coming i don't see the point of shelving out $50 + $15 a month so Blizzard can not do half the things they said they would do PvEwise and still haven't fixed problems mentioned with a class in beta after more than half the expansion. Something is wrong when the BiS Enh weapon is still a spell caster weapon.
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RE: Random News Article Discussion
Really Rush really!?!?! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/17/rush-limbaugh-oreo-biracial-cookie_n_929672.html
nothing he says or does should surprise you at this point.
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RE: World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
Is anyone else disappointed at how fast Cata went by? They dropped their model of multiple raids per tier right after launch. They dropped the War of the Ancients raid. They dropped the Abysal Maw raid. They dropped the other legendary they were planning since they defintely wouldn't release two legendaries back to back. I play a shaman so this whole exp was supposed to be a huge loregasm for me but between the cuts and the state of the class throughout the exp i'm kinda disappointed. We spent a lot of time complaining about things in Beta that they didn't fix until 4.1 for all 3 specs and none have performed as well as other classes in their roles all exp. Just feels like not a lot of progress happened PvEwise or class wise.
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RE: Bon Kurei vs. Nami
can' believe bon is losing to nami of all people. The Okama-way ppl!
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RE: Naruto and Bleach: Let's put this thread to bed I
Did Kishi just admit how awful Part Two was while announcing a Part Three? It's hard to read this thread and avoid all the Bleach talk so forgive me if this has been discussed, and it probably has.
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RE: Zoro vs Rayleigh
This is so tragic, first mates shouldn't fight! They're both great, we all want Zoro to grow up to be old and awesome like Rayleigh and we all know Rayleigh was once a guy like Zoro T_T
I'll flip a coin…
my vote goes to Rayleigh. Make it a Tie so they both move on guys!
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RE: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
This was alright. As far as reboots go it was pretty good.
Pros
- Andy Serkis's portrayal of Caesar
- The special effects with the apes
- paced very well
- the foreshadowing of the caste system with the orangutan and the gorilla
- Killing two birds with the virus plot
Cons
- Weak script for the humans
- I get it, corporations are evil, i lost track of how many times franco's boss said his only concern was money. Like not implied but literally stated.
- That chick who was franco's girlfriend or wife or something. Her only purpose was to say incredibly deep lines. Was really annoying.
Basically any scene with monkeys in this movie is top notch. Once the people come back on screen though you just kind of want them to go away so you can get back to the apes. I really liked the original movies and the backstory that was developed over the course of all 5 even if some of them weren't that good. I'm curious to see what the sequel will be like. Will they go linear and progress with a Battle for the Planet of the Apes type of movie or just jump forward and redo the classic first movie. Looking forward to it either way.
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RE: Random News Article Discussion
nah china is a bit different, they could stop funding u.s. debt without going to wwIII what would happen is that they would stop artificially keeping the value of their currency low, so that it would rise to what its acutally worth (china produces a LOT) buy gold mines, and cut off the gold supply to all other countries, back their currency with gold(gold standard) and let the chinese people thmselves consume their own products, instead of sending them to the u.s. (since the dollar wouldn't be able to afford it) thing is. . .that the transition period of letting their currency rise would. . .HURT for a short period, meaning that lots of chinese people would lose "jobs" and blame the govt. . .the chinese are good at money but they don't want to be run out of control hence all the restrictions on . . .everytyhing
There is not enough accessible gold in the world to make any of that a feasible option. Not to mention that your short transition period would take a decade or more at the very least and if the US suddenly couldn't pay it's debt China would lose a huge amount of money. The only reason China is able to keep it's currency so low and pull in so much revenue is that they basically fund the debt of the world, specifically the US. It's a big circle of money. This relationship is beneficial for everyone who is just trying to make a profit, especially a US gov't that loves to spend, so there's no real reason for them to stop. Then there's the issue of resources which China is quickly running out of and the whole problem with a high currency value nation producing and consuming it's own products. In order for this to work at all China would basically have to become a stand alone economy which is not possible. There's the issue of retraining and educating a substantial part of the population to go from blue collar to white collar. Cleaning up the large amounts of land they would need to provide food for this isolationist mecca. The social problems it would cause. And basically the amount of people and businesses it would piss off world wide.
I could propose a similar situation to fix the US economic problems but that idea would exist in a vacuum that would similarly collapse the moment you let in an outside idea.
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RE: Random News Article Discussion
I think you missed a lot of what really caused this and got the ball rolling in the first place.
First off the reason there was issues in Tottenham was due to the Police constantly facing off against the majority of the black population there. From that spawned a hatred between both sides which was made a hundred times worse by the fact that we've been flooding the country with immigrants so fast that it didn't allow any kind of integration into the main society of London, only building up the scale and tension without any release.
And this is the social problem i was talking about. Minus the immigrant part, if they had a presence in the riots at all it was extremely minor ( I really hope that doesn't become a platform). But Cameron didn't address any of that and there's been no inclination that he or his administration intend to.
Obviously the scope of the riots and people involved moved way past the point of origination and became something else entirely and while his new measures may work they do so at a great invasion of privacy and grant the gov't and the police and host of new powers in response to what was essentially mass activity of the delinquent subculture of Britian so it's not like no one knows where these people came from, how they got there, and why they're not leaving anytime soon. It seems like an overreaction. They didn't need these powers before and they don't really need them now but they're probably going to get them because like you said 99% of the country is hollering for justice.
All while the source of the actual problem is overlooked. I feel like i've lived this before and without Hugo Weaving it's not as entertaining, trust me.
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RE: Game of Thrones (tv show thread)
@Cuddles:
! Yeah, except he's gone bonkers compared to how he previously was. This was the man who cried while he beat his own wife to death due to customs and it was obvious that even though he was extremely prejudiced he always at least some empathy or mercy to his enemies, as shown by his disgust at that party where he saw that lord's family humiliated. Now he's killing effeminate boys for being 'unnatural' despite it being no fault as his own, killing sailors who would dare 'lie about Dany being dead' even though they could've been mistaken and that burning the girls thing still seemed completely cruel and not something he would do before. He's like Melisandre except in this case he has a penis and two gods to worship. He's nuts, and I'd personally want to know what Maqorro did to him behind those doors to make him so batshit insane.
! I think it's really interesting that you can think he's gone so far out of character whereas I think he's just basically grown some kracken balls. I can see where you're coming from but I just don't see it like that. Firstly I don't believe it was stated anywhere that it was custom to beat your wife to death with your bare hands if you catch her cheating in the Iron Islands. I read that as how very serious Victarion is about everything and how personal he's willing to get. Balon was mad, Aeron was madder, and Euron is the maddest of them all. And while i'm sure the others have done some pretty awful things we've never heard of any of them doing something that brutal yet. So to me Victarion has always come off as someone who will leave a trail of bodies rather than prisoners and be proud to say he's done it. Not a guy you want to mess with. BUT he has always been in the shadows of his other brothers up till he's sent across the Narrow Sea. Now he's got some breathing room. He's stepping out from being a follower to being The Leader. He's going to get a dragon and a huge fleet and be the greatest king the Iron Islands ever made. At least thats what i think his mentality is.
! As for the boys. The ironborn don't seem the type to tolerate homosexuality and i read that as an Ironborn thing rather than a Victarion thing. Dorne seems like the only place in Westeros where homosexuality is tolerated. He could've put them to work but they weren't really made for oars work i'm sure and the Ironborn aren't slaver. So throw em overboard.
! Killing that guy who lied? I barely noticed that? We've seen people killed over less by men who think themselves better. It wasn't nice but hardly psychotic behavior in ASOIAF.
! He's always been a very religious man though. Even when he was on the Iron Islands he showed great respect for the Drowned God and practices of that religion. Even after all Moqorro did for him he still shows extreme loyalty to the Drowned God and warns him not to insult him the way he did. Now you're right, he's got two gods. And R'hollar is a very hungry, demanding god as we know. His sacrificing those girls shouldn't really come as a surprise. At least not in a way that would be read as out of character. -
RE: Random News Article Discussion
It would take a drastic change in the way the world works for China to stop buying up US debt. It's basically all they can do until they can't do it anymore. After that the guns will probably come out but by then that will be the least of our worries. At that point all the gold in the world won't really matter because there's about four things it's actually useful for and it's not in enough abundance for it to be efficient. We need to make spending cuts in defense and part of that means reigning in our world police.
UK is looking a bit v for vendetta-esque right now. Cameron completely missed the point of what just happened. Instead of talking about the social problems that caused it he's just going on about punishment and control which are ironically part of the social problem that lead to this. I guess the UK is just going to bury their heads in the sand and look just as surprised when this happens again.
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RE: Robin vs Mihawk
that was more zoro's moment of badassery than mihawks
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RE: Naruto and Bleach: Let's put this thread to bed I
What about those of us who are still struggling through Naruto but wisely abandoned Bleach after that whole Aizen thing died down and then refused to hear anymore about the "manga".
seriously i don't even let my friends even say the name ichigo around me. =/
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RE: Game of Thrones (tv show thread)
@Cuddles:
! Making sacrifices for ANY god is pretty much zealotry. Not only that, but he justified burning little girls as an offering because they'd be happier that way while killing innocent boys because they were 'unnatural' was completely assholish because it wasn't even their fault. The guys' nuts!
! He didn't say the girls would be happier, he said what he was doing to them was a great honor. I think you're applying too many modern standards to his actions but i also think you're right in a way. I don't think he's a religious zealot, he's just a very god fearing type of person. I mean you have a man who turns your arm into a smoking hunk of awesome and can predict where and when ships will show up. He's also promising you great victory with the capture/favor of the Queen of Dragons. This is after having his fleet worn down, being lost halfway across the world, trying to get a position that his wife bedding brother undeservedly has, all while having a dying arm. Victarion has always been a very serious man in everything he does. He's almost like Stannis in that regard. I just think now the way things have been going for him he feels like the Gods, both red and drowned, are aligning to grant him some great favor. He believes in himself now more than anything but still takes religion seriously. It's like how Davos thinks his fingers were his luck even though he didn't seem any luckier when he had them versus when he didn't, he still believed they brought him luck so he kept them around. Knock on wood. But really they were more a confidence booster than anything. Victarion is knocking on wood by sacrificing those girls and for a man who has probably killed hundreds of men, burned tens of ships and sailors alive, this act probably doesn't phase him in the slightest.
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RE: Buggy vs Otohime vs Brook! TRIPLE-MANIA!
wow front page gif was hilarious, kudos
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RE: Random News Article Discussion
The U.S. being downgraded does more psychological damage than it does economic damage. Countries have been downgraded before with little impact on their economy and have managed to be upgraded again. I think the economic impact on the country will be lessened even more due to the fact that this was expected and we were warned months in advance that this could happen, so it doesn't come as a surprise. Now believe me, I'm not saying this is no big deal. I'm saying this is not something to freak out over as I'm sure many people will do as they treat this like the apocalypse. You know, America is #1 we're the best how could this happen to us oh nooooo… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/05/downgrade-us-standard-and-poors_n_919867.html
Yeah but the stock market is basically based on psychology and the US is extremely invested in the markets which means the world is extremely invested in the markets. So when Wall Street starts panicking and stock prices dive the rest of the world dives with it regardless of true nature of the situation. Because we're so heavily invested in the markets and because every brooker will be trying to get as much short term money out as possible the market will continue to suffer as they sell and exchange to better currency which will, ironically, and depressingly, only make things worse. It's like a self-fulfilling prophecy and they know it and they really couldn't give a fuck.
This whole Presidency has really opened my eyes to flaws of our government. Obama has made concession after concession in the name of crisis while continuing to bleat that Dems and Reps can work together to solve problems. He's basically continued all of Bush's wars, tax policies, foreign policies, education policies. The Democrats only saving grace right now is that they are not the Republicans and thats counting for less and less as this goes on. When the Dems ha control of congress they failed to do anything. Now the Reps are in charge an they're basically doing whatever they want. The gov't gives away billions of dollars a year to "job creators" or their friends or their wives but i doubt any of that's getting cut. The "stimulus package" and all the legislation associated with it is just blatant robbery of the American public. Completely serving the 1% that control 40% of the wealth while unemployment remains basically unchanged and in some demographics worse.
I really don't want Obama in office come 2012 but i want even less to see Bachmann, Romney, or Paul. Hopefully they don't gut FAFSA too soon so i can get my degree and get the hell out. I do speak a little deutsch….
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RE: Aokiji vs Sabo
damn i voted for sabo by accident =/
how did he even make it this far. GO AOKIJI!
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RE: Sanji vs Usopp
VOTE FOR SANJI!
http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/303/6/f/naruto_notequals_sanji_by_pingteo-d31t66k.png
was about to vote for usopp until i saw who posted this…
very clever
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RE: Random News Article Discussion
Don't act like you don't punch babies after that 40th wipe caused by that one guy who still hasn't learned not to stand in fire.
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RE: The ’90s Are All That – Classic Shows Return To Nickelodeon
I think Rocko is the only classic nicktoon that still makes me laugh. Probably Angry beavers would too but thats less classic. Invader Zim is still hilarious but that def doesn't count as classic lol.
None of the live action shows are that good. They remind of the kind of shows disney makes now and i just get sad that i spent so much time watching them. Clarissa was always the worst, next to Hey Dude. I remember groaning everytime clarissa being on and it felt like an eternity till it was over.