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PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 5:36 pm
by Nightkill the Emperor
Nationstatelandsville wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:My own entertainment list right now includes many things, but two of them are House of Cards, Supernatural, House (I need to wrap up some episodes I have not seen), Cowboy Bebop and Attack on Titan.

That's the English-language stuff and the anime. The rest is a bunch of Indian things.

Can't you just get an iPod, go into the streets, and drop some LSD to get the Indian stuff?

It wouldn't be crazy enough.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 5:37 pm
by Nationstatelandsville
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:
Nationstatelandsville wrote:Can't you just get an iPod, go into the streets, and drop some LSD to get the Indian stuff?

It wouldn't be crazy enough.

The streets of Mumbai, mind you.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 5:37 pm
by Nightkill the Emperor
Nude East Ireland wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:Though there is one FMA thing I wanted to ask NEI.

NEI, what's your favourite of the FMA theme songs?

The first one.

Good man.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 5:37 pm
by Nude East Ireland
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:Cowboy Bebop and Attack on Titan.

Good boy.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 5:38 pm
by Nightkill the Emperor
Nationstatelandsville wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:It wouldn't be crazy enough.

The streets of Mumbai, mind you.

I might be fairly familiar with the streets of my home, yes.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 5:38 pm
by Nightkill the Emperor
Nude East Ireland wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:Cowboy Bebop and Attack on Titan.

Good boy.

I acknowledge that I have absolutely no idea what either of these things are about, but I'll trust your judgement here.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 5:39 pm
by Nationstatelandsville
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:
Nude East Ireland wrote:Good boy.

I acknowledge that I have absolutely no idea what either of these things are about, but I'll trust your judgement here.

Cowboy Bebop is a space Western.

See? I know things.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 5:42 pm
by Nude East Ireland
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:
Nude East Ireland wrote:Good boy.

I acknowledge that I have absolutely no idea what either of these things are about, but I'll trust your judgement here.

Cowboy Bebop is about bounty hunters in space, some number of years after Earth became subject to frequent bombardment from remnants of the exploded Moon.

Attack on Titan is set 100 years after Titans - massive super-predators that vaguely resemble humans - appeared and began devouring humans. The majority of the population is dead; the survivors live within a series of three 50-meter walls, under a single monarchy.

Both deal with different elements of human emotions and philosophies.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:03 pm
by Nightkill the Emperor
Nude East Ireland wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:I acknowledge that I have absolutely no idea what either of these things are about, but I'll trust your judgement here.

Cowboy Bebop is about bounty hunters in space, some number of years after Earth became subject to frequent bombardment from remnants of the exploded Moon.

Attack on Titan is set 100 years after Titans - massive super-predators that vaguely resemble humans - appeared and began devouring humans. The majority of the population is dead; the survivors live within a series of three 50-meter walls, under a single monarchy.

Both deal with different elements of human emotions and philosophies.

I'll give them a watch after the other items on my list wrap up.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:05 pm
by Nightkill the Emperor
There's a certain type of liberal Westerner (the atheist, condescending, holier than thou, white man's burden sort- basically most of NSG), who are absolutely amazed that India's first PM was an atheist.

I find it somewhat interesting how they've already formulated this image of India in their minds as a backwards, religiously trapped place and some get downright aggressive when it's questioned.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:08 pm
by Nationstatelandsville
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:There's a certain type of liberal Westerner (the atheist, condescending, holier than thou, white man's burden sort- basically most of NSG), who are absolutely amazed that India's first PM was an atheist.

I find it somewhat interesting how they've already formulated this image of India in their minds as a backwards, religiously trapped place and some get downright aggressive when it's questioned.

I read "white man" as "whiteman", which is a much cooler racial epithet.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:11 pm
by Nightkill the Emperor
Nationstatelandsville wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:There's a certain type of liberal Westerner (the atheist, condescending, holier than thou, white man's burden sort- basically most of NSG), who are absolutely amazed that India's first PM was an atheist.

I find it somewhat interesting how they've already formulated this image of India in their minds as a backwards, religiously trapped place and some get downright aggressive when it's questioned.

I read "white man" as "whiteman", which is a much cooler racial epithet.

Indeed.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:14 pm
by Tiltjuice
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:
Nationstatelandsville wrote:I read "white man" as "whiteman", which is a much cooler racial epithet.

Indeed.


Pink man is cooler.

Unfortunately there's only one of him (as far as I know), and Santa Cruz owns him.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:36 pm
by Nationstatelandsville
As I am a man with strange ambitions, I want to write a textbook.

There's a lot of potential comedic material there.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:38 pm
by Nightkill the Emperor
Nationstatelandsville wrote:As I am a man with strange ambitions, I want to write a textbook.

There's a lot of potential comedic material there.

I once started a sarcastic version of my own after seeing the history textbooks of some of my taekwondo students in America and seeing how biased those things were (I flipped to the India section as well and realised how it did the Indian Independence movement incorrectly and never mentioned India again).

It'd be interesting to start it up again.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:39 pm
by Nationstatelandsville
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:
Nationstatelandsville wrote:As I am a man with strange ambitions, I want to write a textbook.

There's a lot of potential comedic material there.

I once started a sarcastic version of my own after seeing the history textbooks of some of my taekwondo students in America and seeing how biased those things were (I flipped to the India section as well and realised how it did the Indian Independence movement incorrectly and never mentioned India again).

It'd be interesting to start it up again.

My friends in AP US History showed me some stuff from The American Pageant, a textbook written by a single man in his basement.

It is the single most glorious thing I have ever seen.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:40 pm
by Nightkill the Emperor
Nationstatelandsville wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:I once started a sarcastic version of my own after seeing the history textbooks of some of my taekwondo students in America and seeing how biased those things were (I flipped to the India section as well and realised how it did the Indian Independence movement incorrectly and never mentioned India again).

It'd be interesting to start it up again.

My friends in AP US History showed me some stuff from The American Pageant, a textbook written by a single man in his basement.

It is the single most glorious thing I have ever seen.

Explain.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:42 pm
by Nationstatelandsville
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:
Nationstatelandsville wrote:My friends in AP US History showed me some stuff from The American Pageant, a textbook written by a single man in his basement.

It is the single most glorious thing I have ever seen.

Explain.

It's like Douglas Adams wrote a history book.

It is so entirely laden with innuendo, wordplay, and general idiosyncrasies that one friend of mine collected his favorite material from the first three chapters on a Word doc, and he came up with 20 pages.

I'll ask him to send me a copy so I can show some of it to you. (And for my own personal amusement, admittedly.)

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:46 pm
by Nightkill the Emperor
Nationstatelandsville wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:Explain.

It's like Douglas Adams wrote a history book.

It is so entirely laden with innuendo, wordplay, and general idiosyncrasies that one friend of mine collected his favorite material from the first three chapters on a Word doc, and he came up with 20 pages.

I'll ask him to send me a copy so I can show some of it to you. (And for my own personal amusement, admittedly.)

Now that looks like a good book to learn from.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:47 pm
by Nationstatelandsville
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:
Nationstatelandsville wrote:It's like Douglas Adams wrote a history book.

It is so entirely laden with innuendo, wordplay, and general idiosyncrasies that one friend of mine collected his favorite material from the first three chapters on a Word doc, and he came up with 20 pages.

I'll ask him to send me a copy so I can show some of it to you. (And for my own personal amusement, admittedly.)

Now that looks like a good book to learn from.

It generally lambasts the idea of history as stalwart stoics standing before dramatic backdrops while an eagle cries.

In fact, it generally lambasts everything.

Of course, I'm not actually in AP, so I don't own a copy myself.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:48 pm
by Nightkill the Emperor
Nationstatelandsville wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:Now that looks like a good book to learn from.

It generally lambasts the idea of history as stalwart stoics standing before dramatic backdrops while an eagle cries.

In fact, it generally lambasts everything.

Of course, I'm not actually in AP, so I don't own a copy myself.

It sounds like Colbert wrote a textbook.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:54 pm
by Liriena
Alright, now that I'm giving increasingly less fucks about the semiology workshop and psychology is too much of a hazzle, I suppose it's only fitting I come back here and ask... what sort of delightful insanity have I missed, and what new stuff can any of my characters (provided you wouldn't rather I killed them all off and started from scratch) take part in?

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:56 pm
by Constaniana
Tiltjuice wrote:I'm apparently supposed to be Pennsylvanian.

I'm not sure if I've mentioned this before, but I almost ended up living in Pennsylvania.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:58 pm
by Liriena
Constaniana wrote:
Tiltjuice wrote:I'm apparently supposed to be Pennsylvanian.

I'm not sure if I've mentioned this before, but I almost ended up living in Pennsylvania.

Oh?

PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 7:00 pm
by Nightkill the Emperor
Liriena wrote:Alright, now that I'm giving increasingly less fucks about the semiology workshop and psychology is too much of a hazzle, I suppose it's only fitting I come back here and ask... what sort of delightful insanity have I missed, and what new stuff can any of my characters (provided you wouldn't rather I killed them all off and started from scratch) take part in?

Might be good to kill them all off and create a character who is not even remotely a hash of your normal, transgender/genderqueer/whatever they are character. Hell, just make a very ordinary character, if you can.

Largely because your usual type gets very tiring.