Return of the Naruto Community Derail Thread: Part Two!

Arha Tv-tropeon has the one true opinion.

All those who deny her are my foes!

(You should thank me, Arha. I just related you to the best character of A Song of Ice and Fire)

edited 19th Oct '16 3:06:40 PM by MadSkillz

i sure am glad to be compared to a character in a series ill never read

yay

Right, you read V Ns.

Hmmm.....then you're the.....uh......what's that one boring guy's name who loves Rider? That's you.

(I've only read FSN)

edited 19th Oct '16 9:35:58 PM by MadSkillz

Who?

I dont think that fits anyone in FSN

edited 19th Oct '16 9:36:47 PM by Saiga

No wait I mean he loves Caster. Or at least she loves him.

The teacher guy.

He almost lacks a personality.

edited 19th Oct '16 9:38:45 PM by MadSkillz

Oh the guy who likes Caster

Bleh. Caster should ditch him, for me

Does this mean I get to rip Saber's throat out?

@Arha I thought you liked Saber.

I can't like Saber because TH White's The Once and Future King has imprinted its King Arthur (Wart) in my mind and Saber is trying to corrupt my version.

@Saiga Caster sucks

edited 19th Oct '16 9:42:10 PM by MadSkillz

She bores me. Mordred is more fun.

I've only read FSN and watched FZ

I enjoyed their the thematic points of what it means to be a hero and how fucked it really is to be one. My favorite works grapple with topics like that and issues of identity.

So Kiritsugu was a great character but that might be because he was also reminding of a different character I liked from somewhere else at the same time.

UBW Shirou was decent, Fate Shirou was annoying and HF Shirou is cool when he decides to kill Sakura(too bad the scenario ends after that) but he sucks before and after that

Kotomine- great. He basically makes the VN

Rin-okay

Saber- bad everywhere else but good in Fate(actually she helped saved that scenario from being awful) except when she's being romantic with Shirou

Sakura- grimdark and wasted potential

Lancer and Archer- good

Shinji and Gilgamesh-annoying

Everyone else-pretty forgettable

So I ended up liking FZ more than FSN.

edited 19th Oct '16 11:20:20 PM by MadSkillz

Oh my fucking god I just found out Manny Pacquiao, Philippine Hometown-God, successful boxer and (fuck life) senator has a fight scheduled next month.

We don't only have a man who concussed and gets concussed for a living in-office; He's still boxing

edited 20th Oct '16 8:31:50 AM by mrsunshinesprinkles

Sometimes I wonder if being a celebrity rather than lawyer makes it easier to be a politician

It's not. Not even close.

I mean sure, there're Reagan and Trump (as in, a presidential candidate, not a president thank God), but those are exceptions rather than rule.

Yes, I know you are not being serious. I just don't have any good jokes to reply that with at the moment.

Been on Gravity Falls bingie for last two days. What an awesome series. First season done, second season ready to go!

I watched Over The Garden Wall the other day, it was alright. Except the four year old brother, he needed to have less of a speaking role. Bird best girl.

-sighs-

Watching anime is not what it used to be. Maybe my preference have changed and it just doesn't interest me anymore. It has been almost a year that I checked out any anime for more than one episode.

Still, it was great stumbling across Gundam Build Fighters and Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun. I absolutely loved those two.

You've become old and cynical Roy.

Pausing to interject something: What do people define as "politician"? Because it's honestly quite irrespective of your standard title or day job. If you've run for office, you're a politician. If you are a part of certain families, you're a politician by nurture. If you use your celebrity voice, regardless of origin of fame, for political gain, you are a politician. The requirements to run for political office are actually quite loose. Most lawyers who aren't politicians, and plenty of politicians aren't lawyers.

Remember, Reagan was a governor before he became president. The Bushes are a political dynasty dating back to at the very least Prescott Bush (banker, businessman, then senator). HW Bush was a veteran, oil millionaire, congressman, ambassador, then director of the CIA before becoming VP and then President. W Bush was similarly a businessman (though less self-made) and then governor before becoming president. And that's just the last 3 Republican presidents.

Then you've got people like Jesse Ventura and now Rhyno (wrestling to politics), Al Franken (Saturday Night Live to politics), Jerry Springer (high ranking law school, then mayor of Cincinnati, THEN tv show host), the Koch, Walton, and Gates families, (business people, but you're kidding yourself if you don't call them politicians).

Yes, being a lawyer means you need to meet bare minimum standards of knowing the law and legal ethics in your home country, whether or not you apply it well or logically in what you do professionally. But to actually write (legislative branch, all levels), interpret (judicial branch, specifically for states that elect judges, and politically appointed judges) or enforce (executive branch, from the President down to street cops) laws, you need to know little to nothing about the law. Across all of those positions, the only real job requirement is age.

Or, in short: one of my undergrad majors was political science, and I just finished law school. I need precisely zero of that to be a cop, ambassador, or elected to an office.

If you work somewhere where you can influence how the government, on whatever level, changes it's policy in regards to the citizens, I guess.

Yeah, I barely watch it anymore either. The only show I watch with any sort of regularity is JJBA.

Someday I'll catch up with all you guys, and your jaded weariness with current anime and manga, but I'm sort of in a mood right now.

edited 22nd Oct '16 4:04:41 PM by mrsunshinesprinkles

Yes join me, guys.

Abandon your stupidly big breasted 2 d cartoons, rote characters and implausibly aged M Cs.

Stop watching bad shows and start reading good books.

Note: Leave the fan fics behind too.

yes

As I desperately search for work to fill my dire need of money (sadly, cash rules everything around me), I'm catching up on, or finishing, various series that have been on my to do list, in order to stay in a good mood. I've watched a couple more episodes of Breaking Bad (now mid-final season), and read 17 chapters of Attack On Titan (just finished the Clash of Titans arc).

Fortunately, there have only been a couple of spoilers in each series, instead of everything.

Has anyone read the new gritty Flintstones comics? It's surprisingly good and hilarious.

Read.

Read these◊two together◊

This one too◊

And this◊

I'm fucking cracking up, guys.

edited 25th Oct '16 2:18:13 AM by MadSkillz

They're kinda on the nose about them social issues.