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Thoughts on the series finale of Korra?

Bad
5
7%
Mediocre
10
14%
Good
4
6%
Great
23
33%
Excellent
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40%
 
Total votes : 70
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Postby Mavorpen » Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:20 pm

New Emperica wrote:Unfortunately, I watched the first three episodes a while before me and my friends *cough* got together for a viewing of the first episode.

Friend 1: OMG this is gonna be awesome!
Friend 2: Yeah, I bet there's gonna be all sorts of awesome crap!
Me: Yeah. Too bad that everyone we know and love is dead, the world has discovered electricity, and half of all the buildings in the universe are now a freaking mile tall.
Friends: 0_0


The third one is online?
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Postby LiangLai » Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:21 pm

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Postby Soxastan » Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:26 pm

New Emperica wrote:Unfortunately, I watched the first three episodes a while before me and my friends *cough* got together for a viewing of the first episode.

Friend 1: OMG this is gonna be awesome!
Friend 2: Yeah, I bet there's gonna be all sorts of awesome crap!
Me: Yeah. Too bad that everyone we know and love is dead, the world has discovered electricity, and half of all the buildings in the universe are now a freaking mile tall.
Friends: 0_0

Objection!

-Katara is still alive and well and we have no idea where Sokka went.
-How is electricity bad? Also, ELECTRICITY BENDING!!!
-No building in human history has ever been over a mile tall. The Burj Khalifka is roughly over 1/2 mile.
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Postby The Pink Followers » Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:58 pm

Soxastan wrote:
New Emperica wrote:Unfortunately, I watched the first three episodes a while before me and my friends *cough* got together for a viewing of the first episode.

Friend 1: OMG this is gonna be awesome!
Friend 2: Yeah, I bet there's gonna be all sorts of awesome crap!
Me: Yeah. Too bad that everyone we know and love is dead, the world has discovered electricity, and half of all the buildings in the universe are now a freaking mile tall.
Friends: 0_0

Objection!

-Katara is still alive and well and we have no idea where Sokka went.
-How is electricity bad? Also, ELECTRICITY BENDING!!!
-No building in human history has ever been over a mile tall. The Burj Khalifka is roughly over 1/2 mile.

Sokka is dead. Katara confirmed it.
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Postby Mavorpen » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:00 pm

The Pink Followers wrote:Sokka is dead. Katara confirmed it.


How dare you pay attention to important information?
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Postby Soxastan » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:07 pm

The Pink Followers wrote:
Soxastan wrote:Objection!

-Katara is still alive and well and we have no idea where Sokka went.
-How is electricity bad? Also, ELECTRICITY BENDING!!!
-No building in human history has ever been over a mile tall. The Burj Khalifka is roughly over 1/2 mile.

Sokka is dead. Katara confirmed it.

The other two points still stand.
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Postby Mavorpen » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:09 pm

Sokka died of a STD. They tried to warn him.
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."—former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman
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Postby Soxastan » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:11 pm

Mavorpen wrote:Sokka died of a STD. They tried to warn him.

Not only that, but the name of an STD in their world is a "Sokka Transmitted Disease"
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Postby The Pink Followers » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:12 pm

Soxastan wrote:
Mavorpen wrote:Sokka died of a STD. They tried to warn him.

Not only that, but the name of an STD in their world is a "Sokka Transmitted Disease"

He will be remembered as "The Lover of Three Nations."
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Soxastan wrote:I'd sig it, but sigging my own quote would seem pretentious.
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Postby Soxastan » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:13 pm

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Soxastan wrote:Not only that, but the name of an STD in their world is a "Sokka Transmitted Disease"

He will be remembered as "The Lover of Three Nations."

Also known as "The Lover of of Two Tunnels".
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Postby Mavorpen » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:18 pm

Soxastan wrote:
The Pink Followers wrote:He will be remembered as "The Lover of Three Nations."

Also known as "The Lover of of Two Tunnels".


I would sig this but I'm too lazy.
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."—former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman
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Postby Portals (Ancient) » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:20 pm

I am going to be honest. I have no idea how this one'll turn out. I hope for the better, but some follow up shows have been garbage.
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Postby Mavorpen » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:25 pm

Portals wrote:I am going to be honest. I have no idea how this one'll turn out. I hope for the better, but some follow up shows have been garbage.


We must have hope!
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."—former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman
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Postby Soxastan » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:26 pm

Mavorpen wrote:
Soxastan wrote:Also known as "The Lover of of Two Tunnels".


I would sig this but I'm too lazy.

I'd sig it, but sigging my own quote would seem pretentious.
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Postby Constaniana » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:27 pm

Mavorpen wrote:
Portals wrote:I am going to be honest. I have no idea how this one'll turn out. I hope for the better, but some follow up shows have been garbage.


We must have hope!

Because ....hope..IS ALL WE HAVE!!!!! * Breaks out in fake tears*
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Postby Portals (Ancient) » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:27 pm

Constaniana wrote:
Mavorpen wrote:
We must have hope!

Because ....hope..IS ALL WE HAVE!!!!! * Breaks out in fake tears*

*Pinkie Pie Rimshot* Nice one! :D
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Postby Portals (Ancient) » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:28 pm

Soxastan wrote:
Mavorpen wrote:
I would sig this but I'm too lazy.

I'd sig it, but sigging my own quote would seem pretentious.

And somewhat redundant.
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Postby Mavorpen » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:29 pm

Soxastan wrote:
Mavorpen wrote:
I would sig this but I'm too lazy.

I'd sig it, but sigging my own quote would seem pretentious.


Indeed. I'll sig it in a bit after I eat.
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."—former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman
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Postby Mavorpen » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:30 pm

Constaniana wrote:
Mavorpen wrote:
We must have hope!

Because ....hope..IS ALL WE HAVE!!!!! * Breaks out in fake tears*


MANLY TEARS.
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."—former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman
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Postby The Pink Followers » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:31 pm

Soxastan wrote:
Mavorpen wrote:
I would sig this but I'm too lazy.

I'd sig it, but sigging my own quote would seem pretentious.

Pfft, says you.
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Soxastan wrote:I'd sig it, but sigging my own quote would seem pretentious.
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Postby Portals (Ancient) » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:32 pm

Funner people than on MLP boards, that's for sure.
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Postby Soxastan » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:33 pm

Portals wrote:Funner people than on MLP boards, that's for sure.

...about half of the regular posters here watch MLP and post in the threads.
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Postby Portals (Ancient) » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:34 pm

Soxastan wrote:
Portals wrote:Funner people than on MLP boards, that's for sure.

...about half of the regular posters here watch MLP and post in the threads.

I AM a brony :3 Anyways, it's nice to not discuss the worse side of the brony community.
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Postby Mavorpen » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:36 pm

Portals wrote:Funner people than on MLP boards, that's for sure.


I'm sorry, my brony side has been lacking in "funness" lately. He's out of it due to the massive amounts of excitement created by MLP anthro.
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."—former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman
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Postby Portals (Ancient) » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:37 pm

Mavorpen wrote:
Portals wrote:Funner people than on MLP boards, that's for sure.


I'm sorry, my brony side has been lacking in "funness" lately. He's out of it due to the massive amounts of excitement created by MLP anthro.

It's hard to be fun around haters : /
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