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Question Mark Mound posted:For the things that work, at what point are they no longer "alternative medicine" and become, simply, "medicine"? Once they are scientifically proven to work, they are usually adopted into conventional medicine. You know, like how aspirin is prescribed by regular doctors even though its working ingredient is extracted from willow bark? So basically, saying "alternative medicine" is like being a "cryptozoologist."
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Ograbme posted:Why is so much of this poo poo anime related? where are all they guys boasting that they ghostraped Wonder Woman or girls giving birth to Bruce Wayne's phantom-zone babies? I've wondered that for a long, long time. I think it's partially the "JAPAN!!!" thing and that anime characters and interactions between them tends to break down really formulaicly, and having social skills break down to interpreting archetypes is probably really appealing. E: to clarify, I'm not saying formulaic writing is anime/JRPG only, but that they have specific names for all these personalities/relationships and they are less keen on subversion or deconstruction. Defiance Industries fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Nov 14, 2011 |
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Nov 14, 2011 07:44
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I'm kind of freaked out by the fact you said she had a babysitting job. Someone left her in charge of a child's well-being? Holy gently caress.
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Dec 9, 2011 10:24
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"The Boy Who Would be Goku" sounds like it should be the title of the next great novel.
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Jan 17, 2012 23:59
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I don't think "most visual media" objectifies little girls. For most audiences it's creepy and off-pitting when it happens.
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Feb 16, 2012 20:16
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Colon V posted:It's amazing how many of these stories can really be summed up by This thread is ruining daddy issues for me. They used to be hot.
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Mar 17, 2012 09:38
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Daddy issues.
Daddy issues?
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That doesn't fit the rest of the thread. Way too awesome.
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Mar 20, 2012 06:14
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Pork Lift posted:I always thought the girl equivalent of the fedora or the wolf shirt was cat ears... There was a girl in my Speech class last term who wore ears and a wolf shirt together. Unsurprisingly she only gave speeches on different anime shows.
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Mar 22, 2012 04:17
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I don't even read the words but I love how almost all the avatars are anime as gently caress and the users themselves think they are the coolest poo poo ever. One of them says "we are your customers. Respect us." I think that went out the door you started worrying about how much real life money it would cost to get dress up wings for your cartoon avatar.
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Apr 11, 2012 03:17
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The Bible posted:Dragons writing 100,000 word stories can't really hurt anyone with those stories. What they collect is weird, but generally harmless. Someone who feels the need to hoard multiple firearms is inherently more capable of serious harm. It's not so much the firearms themselves that make it creepy, but the desire to hoard so many. I think that depends a lot on the composition of your collection. I own quite a few, but they're all different; some are antique, some are new, one was something my grandfather bought my dad, and so on. Someone who feels the need to amass a bunch of identical guns, like you're starting an armory, is a little different I think.
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Apr 12, 2012 02:27
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The Bible posted:I can see how that would make sense if you're collecting a lot of different ones for mostly historical interests, or just an interest in the craft. That is a valid point. It's pretty weird for anybody who is THAT into something to start uncontrollably start vomiting details of their thing onto someone who hasn't given any indication, too. I guess I just took umbrage as someone who owns some guns and has discussed some of them at length to the idea that it was somehow less weird than believing you were a dragon and generalized the statement.
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Apr 12, 2012 05:22
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Colon V posted:I know that something like that was how we got If its the thread I'm thinking of, he was soul-bonded to an ancient Egyptian demon named Lucifer Gucifer. It was extremely powerful! Enough to make him say "human being."
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Jun 21, 2012 07:04
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. And fairly recently, someone tried to make a thread about being one of the "reasonable" people who believe in fictives, or some other such thing.
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Antivehicular posted:Henriette is great, but my favorite is probably "Jake Long, American Dragon" from the same story, just for the raw unbridled amazement of his renaming his porn folder NOT PORN, DO NOT DELETE on the laptop he shared with someone else. There's crazy, and then there's just old-fashioned dumb. That's what my porn folder is named. It's also right in the middle of my desktop. Nobody else uses my computer regularly, so it's just so that guests know that my porn is right in front of them.
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Dec 31, 2012 07:17
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In one of my classes that started this week we were supposed to introduce ourselves. Pretty standard stuff: your name, where you're from, what you are studying and something you are proud of. Someone announced "I named BOTH my children after Final Fantasy 7 characters!"
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Jan 9, 2013 23:17
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Lowly posted:Eh, I say just name your kid whatever you want and they can decide how to deal with it. So many people these days don't actually go by their given name anyway. Neither my brother nor I go by our official birth names, and it's not even because we have a problem with our names; we just got used to using the nicknames we got when we were kids. On the other hand, if you give your kid a normal name that's just spelled really weird, you and/or your kid is guaranteed a trip to being a dipshit.
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Jan 11, 2013 05:57
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BLOODGOKU666 seems reminscent of Chris-chan with the excessive capitalization of any word that is even somewhat important, the incoherent rage and being a furry. Was he also rampantly homophobic?
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Feb 6, 2013 10:27
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Balqis posted:Wow - is there a term for this? Internet Munchhausen's Syndrome by Proxy? I think the term is sock puppeting.
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Feb 8, 2013 10:22
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JohnOfOrdo3 posted:Well I never, I knew they weren't well respected but I had no idea it was that bad. Poor dumb anime loving nerds, they just can't catch a break. I guess we can only hope they grow out of it and become more productive members of society, at least for their own sakes. Well, I don't think "a good chunk of my identity is tied up in something I am completely passive in regards to" scores you many points no matter what it is. It's the difference between a guy who enjoys watching sports and someone who can't hold a conversation without trying to bring John Elway into it.
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Jul 11, 2013 10:40
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Is that made of construction paper?
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Feb 19, 2014 08:54
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I lived in one of those towns. More dwarfism in my middle school than everywhere else I've ever been in my life combined. Lots of more ordinary congenital problems sprinkled around, too, diabetes and anemia and such.
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Mar 30, 2015 16:43
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Mind Loving Owl posted:
No, they're required to donate 10% of everything they earn to the church. Might be what you're thinking of.
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Apr 1, 2015 16:25
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Communist Zombie posted:What? I thought Mormons believed Native Americans were the lost tribes of Isreal. The mysterious white Indians that Joseph Smith found out about with his magic glasses were. Anyone who's not white is a different color because god hates them.
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Apr 2, 2015 03:22
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Meyers was some of the best stuff. Did Fascinator's 70s historian friend ever interview the guy?
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Oct 1, 2015 22:03
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Dick Burglar posted:My girlfriend's (male) cousin dated a girl a handful of years ago who decided to name herself Kali, after the goddess of destruction or whatever. The girl also renamed said cousin to Dante because special snowflake or whatever. The cousin is back to dating this girl, and she still goes by Kali when she's pushing 30. I feel embarrassed for her. Not sure if he's gone back to being ~Dante~ or not, because he doesn't speak to either me or my girlfriend. I went to high school with a guy who would say "I go by Dante because blahblahblah I'm an anime" He was probably 25 or so.
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Sep 27, 2016 02:05
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I went to high school with him. When he was doing this poo poo, he was like 25. He was still hanging out with high schoolers though.
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Sep 27, 2016 02:19
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Sometimes a little mockery is necessary to pop the bubble. Otherwise people convince themselves that Final Fantasy 7 is real and they have the souls of Sephiroth and Cloud.
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Nov 10, 2016 08:07
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froglet posted:Game of Thrones - almost noone in those books has anything approximating a normal relationship with their friends, family or spouses. I mean, if you want to get all analytical about it, there's only one we see much of (the Starks) and the Lannisters are always trying to destroy it.
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