The "moral" victory may be yours but that still makes you a dead idiot.
Or, in other words: Congratulations. Your stupidity killed everyone in our solar system. I hope you feel good about yourself.
edited 28th May '15 4:33:00 PM by Zelenal
Let the joy of love give you an answer! Check out my book!I think if I had majored in the social sciences I could probably write a thesis on the undercurrent of fascism present in anime fandom.
Oh who am I kidding. It's not just anime fandom.
I honestly have to say there aren't a lot of other places where I get defenses of using force to crush opposition. Where someone is in the right and shouldn't be questioned just because they can blow more things up.
Honestly, the past few pages of this thread have scared me. A lot.
edited 28th May '15 4:47:50 PM by unnoun
......
~Runs in and clubs IANCE~
This quote is mine now! nobody else said it first! And this dude on the floor is just sleeping.
~Runs off, leaving IANCE unconscious~
Sorry man, but that was a really good quote. I had to steal it.
One Strip! One Strip!~Looks and sees the quote isn't even there~
Well shit.
I just murdered someone for nothing.
Thanks a lot Mage! You could have told me that sooner.
Anyway, any thoughts on my Devilmite Beam / Time Freeze combo?
One Strip! One Strip!![]()
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you kill a joke.
Opposing death of the author or literary critics isn't anti-intellectualism. If we're going to talk about non-sequiturs that's a big one.
@Tobias I am fully aware of some how fans typically use it.
But I am also aware that is a misuse of it.
We don't know the main continuity. There's nothing official that makes it clear. The statement that F. Trunks being part of main continuity and Broli not being so is nothing but fan interpretation and it's not universally agreed on either.
Even the "easy" example is pretty divided upon fans. And it sure gets a lot murkier than that.
The fact that canon doesn't have an "official" definition that fits is extremely important, because fans don't all define it the same way. What you just defined is only what one subset of fans see it as.
We can't determine what's canon because we can't determine what it even means.
As for BOG vs GT... well, the most recent timeline places them together. We do not have official confirmation that GT is non-canon, and no fan has the right to decide what another fan should see it as.
edited 28th May '15 5:14:58 PM by Saiga
It has everything
to do with school funding.
Because everybody wants grants. And the best way to get them is to discredit everybody else.
I am frankly sick of the competition and bullshit between STEM fields and the Humanities.
So, yes, opposing one field of academic study is very much the same thing as being anti-intellectualism. Because it's saying that only certain kinds of knowledge and certain kinds of training count. Just like when Creationists think their (false
) knowledge of the bible trumps any amount of science you can throw at them. The same arguments get used no matter how you slice it.
If I don't want someone to discredit me for talking about the study of evolutionary theory, I shouldn't discredit someone talking about models of Global Climate Change, and they shouldn't discredit someone talking about the symbolic meaning of Scrooge Mc Duck comics.
It's that simple. Scholars shouldn't be dicks to other scholars. Opposing one discipline does harm to all.
It seems like, with evolution, global climate change and postmodernism, people that are too thick to understand it think that it doesn't make sense, and often blame the people that do understand it.
For some reason Quantum Physics gets to avoid that though.
edited 28th May '15 5:44:50 PM by unnoun
Going back to alternate story lines for different characters, I've heard there's a video game where Krillin and 18 asplode Frieza with The Power of Love. What game was that, because that sounds awesome.
edited 28th May '15 5:28:29 PM by HamburgerTime
Th-there is? I've never heard of this either. I must play this game, whatever it is.
Even if 18 could esplode Freeza without it.
Let the joy of love give you an answer! Check out my book!If I was going to be serious about the topic, I'd say moral high ground in the face of annihilation is not moral at all and it has nothing to do with me having a "Fascist" mindset.
You see, matter and energy cannot be destroyed, only transferred. You're not accomplishing anything of any morality by throwing your life away, just making it more likely the matter and energy that makes up your being will be recycled into something the very power structure you despise can mold to its liking. Unless your death somehow helps or inspires someone who can/will fight a powerful authority, the most moral thing you can do is stay alive until you find a way to effectively stand for your beliefs. That's especially true in Dragon Ball, where reincarnation is as real as the water cycle. Or maybe not since some people get to keep their body if they lived "righteously" enough, it's hard to relate anything to a setting with such a loose take on death, which is why I try not to apply many serious topic to it.
Pertaining to Dragon Ball, I'm more annoyed my previous post was ignored. No one thinks sea monsters, giant women and invading social insects would make good villains? Not even the garuda, drones or carnivorous trees? That's never a good sign in a fighting series fandom.
Buldogue's lawyerOutside of the Juniors, cell wasn't even close. I mean something like Termites or Ants. (Not so much a bug war but Piccolo doing pest control on pests who could cause an Earth-Shattering Kaboom if he takes too long).
Buldogue's lawyer

Not when that god could totally destroy our entire solar system on the subatomic level if you piss them off.
Let's see if you can get past my Beelzemon. Mephiles, WARP SHINKA!