A side of the fandom that clings to obscure and outdated sources ? Who would dare ?
Why, such ruffians would not be above distortions and outright fabrications, wot wot.
It helps if you can find someone with a touch of bile fascination to go with their Intellectual curiosity.
The punchline being that it's me who's examining the metaphorical poop.
The fact that it's expected only makes it more madness inducing, imo.
On the one hand, I'm used to it from YECs and Flat Earthers, on the other, the petty level to which this amount of willful ignorance has been applied is amazing.
If it comes to that we have good referees.
We do. And I'm not one of them any more so I don't have to restrain myself nearly as much.
It's so not fun that it sometimes feels like a flex to say I'm not dead yet
At least you have a nifty song about it.
Manner Co Engie should be fun.
I think the joke here is that it's just regular Engie with his pinky out.
Pauling can't get in as 10th class, cause then the war might end.
She'd have a hell of time fighting herself, though.
Oh yeah, that's another repeating scenario in Pete's life. The one I remember was Mattie Franklin.
I think that's the guy's name, yeah.
Harry Dresden already processed to follow the Tao of Peter Parker, so he definitely had the dialogue down pat. It's Rhino who might take you by surprise, his subplot is great.
Doing something interesting with Rhino? I shall have to see.
Yep. I think she was one of the people who inspired my "an excuse should actually excuse you" rant with that business.
It was especially notable as it wasn't a matter of length or of time, it was specifically me that was being avoided, despite very clearly responding to IIRC literally every point she raised. it was especially notable when Tres I think quoted me and she responded to his entire post except the quoted part.
It is a mystery that will surely never be solved.
Surely, the mystery of why the grand luminary of Clerith in their darkest hour should fear a single man armed with citations and the ability to spot fallacious thinking shall remain unanswered for eternity.
Also, BTW, to whoever it was that asked if Anastar was 70? Probably. The WHOis response for her website showed it was registered to a woman in her 50s and this was many many years ago. So it's either her or her mother.
We tried to teach them Occam's Razor. They willfully misunderstood it.
I'll be charitable in a way and assume that was incompetence, not malice.
And hope it's enough.
[quote[Sounds familiar. Not that we judge them for this of course, but it did defy my understanding. T'was a good lesson for me, that if it does no harm people don't have to make sense to me.[/quote]
Yeah, no skin off my nose, it was just odd to see women who professed to be not into men in the slightest -IIRC one was even self labeled gold star they absolutely adored Hardcore Yaoi.
Something something not actually men, I guess?
I understand why FE gets so much representation, and I agree that Byleth does an amazing job representing their franchise. Actually featuring the weapon triangle in their set was good and proper. It's not so much how many fighters they get that bugs me as how few other franchises get.
3rd party titles are a mixed bag. Especially as there does seem to be a sort of roster limit per company for them. Konami got 3 (Snake, SImon, RIchter), Sega got 3 (Sonic, Bayonetta, Joker), Capcom got 3 (Ryu, Ken, Megaman), Square Enix got 3 (CLoud, Sephiroth, Hero) with Sora counting as a Disney rep more than anything.
I'd have loved Mai Shiranui for more SNK rep, ah well.
And yes, when so many people were clamoring to put Shadow in I argued that Metal Sonic or Eggman made more sense. Seriously, just echo-fighter Bowser Jr. in the Koopa Clown car, reskin it's attacks appropriately, and you could reference the Eggmobile and one of uts variants from like every 2d Sonic game with a couple of 3d references on top. Make the old Death Egg Robot his final smash and boom, we got another iconic villain and i could be teaming up Eggman with Sephiroth.
I am all for him and Wily getting playable slots at some point.
Oh what does the head writer know? Wanna see my Clerith conspiracy board?
All the strings go from "Aerith loves Cloud" to "Therefore Cloud loves Aerith" and "Tifa loses, neener neener"
We'd need to fire up the popcorn machine.
We're gonna need several machines.
Hey, an actual flex. But if they were willing to contrast these things, they wouldn't be CAltists in the first place.
True enough there. I mean we've spoken at length over many years about the effort involved in ignoring the evidence before them in favor of a fantasy.
Taking that first step is hard. Much easier to back up until you can pretend there is no line to step over.
Adjust your view so the mountain of evidence just sort of... disappears.
And we were all unafraid to use sweet punnage and winning diction while saying shit like it is. They couldn't keep up with the wit.
Nevermind the wit, they couldn't keep up with "Cloud's happiness caused him Guilt. He asked for forgiveness for his guilt. What was he feeling when he asked for forgiveness?"
This is not to denigrate the wit, just it was wasted on the Pinkers. Audience enjoyed it, though.
Let's be honest though, Google Translate will get you further than listening to a CAltist. Actually learning genuine translation skills is even more impressive when you think of it that way.
I'm still only sort of not shit at it. My wife is basically fluent and it's fucking amazing.
I both love it and hate it when I'm right.
The high of being vindicated, the high of being right about something shitty.
We go way back after all.
Eternities in internet time.
Context is like kryptonite to CAltists.
That does explain why everything has to be examined in complete isolation from surrounding context.
She is sustained by spite and bad takes.
I have to wonder how many Alts she's managed to make on Twitter.
Dang it, I came here for a break from following politics and it's just more of the same projection and confession
Yeah. At least the rank hypocrisy is about minor shit and not human rights violations and shit.
I thought this take was interesting...
As others have said, this both requires the assumption of the consequent and still doesn't explain why a Jealous Cloud would decide to kiss and thus lead on a woman they think he has no interest in. That's not a Loyal or Lovable move at all.
Also "Zack Boy?"
We've seen how Cloud reacts when he's jealous. We saw him in Sector 7. We saw him with Johnny. We've seen him every time Tifa mentions Emilio.
He's pissed. He doesn't care. He doesn't want to talk about them.
Zack? He asks about him, tries to understand, and when he starts to remember, he's horrified at the thought of forgetting HIS BEST FRIEND.
He's not jealous of Zack.
He's worried because he just shittalked his best friend and now he wants to make things right and put Aerith's mind at ease. He wants to comfort her. Cloud is a good kid when you get right down to it. A little confused, but his heart is in the right place.
As an aside, I had a thought about "I didn't do anything." after the Aerith Gondola. What if that wasn't self effacing, what if Cloud didn't actually do anything. What if that was not Cloud controlling that hand but say the Zack in him, with Cloud being entirely unaware it was happening. I have nothing to base this on apart from all of the rest of him being out of frame at that point.
