Return of the Naruto Community Derail Thread: Part Two!

Remember to never carry her picture with you!

Or you could trip as many death flags as possible. Carry her picture, constantly remind her how close to retirement you are, get her pregnant then go on tour, promise to marry her when you get back.

Then the universe will be too confused and you'll be immortal for a while.

True story:

There was an airbone trooper called Henry F. Welsh during World War II. He had a girl back home and would always show her picture to his comrades. At one point, he even said that after he is done with an extremely decisive mission, he would go home and marry his girl, making the wedding dress out of his parachute.

The best part: he DID survive and got his wishes. Apparently if you are sufficiently badass enough you can tell death flags to go fuck themselves.

Are you a bad enough dude to get the girl?

Considering my job as a desk worker...that needs some work.

Think about it positively. Desks are seldom found on the front lines.

In another topic, I am very interested in learning Spanish these days. It started with me changing my phone's language into Spanish.

Holy shit, that language can make so many words sound fucking cool. For instance, simple "download music" is apparently "descargar musica" in Spanish.

I mean, Spanish is one of the most spoken languages on Earth (second or third most spoken, I believe), and I already have a pretty damn good grasp on English so why not.

D Roy is Kubo

How do you feel about not following threads through? And breasts?

Breasts. I'd like to feel them.

I'm more of an ass man honestly.

I am an ass man in the sense that I both a man, and a complete ass

Breasts. Buttocks. I'd like to have both.

I'm a breast man, but I couldn't resist the chance to link this:

Professional wrestling theme songs can be ridiculous. Also, I kinda needed to change the subject before we get shut down again.

"In the end, boobs are nothing more than fake asses."◊

Shiro would say there ain't no law that says the imitations cannoy surpass the originals.

Sexy Boy is sexier than the Ass Man theme, which is something alright.

I have no preference, either is fine as long as the person owning them is pretty and nice. I'm Sweden on this one.

I've been following Jump manga with a subscription to the Viz service, and it's made things weird for me in ways I didn't expect. I'm a chapter behind on Hero Academia, because Viz does their translations a few days after Mangastream does it, but am way ahead on We Can't Study, because the scan team is two chapters behind on Viz. Also, no one's talking about Robot X Laserbeam, the greatest manga of all time, so I can't strike discourse when the iron's hot.

edited 18th Sep '17 6:00:25 AM by mrsunshinesprinkles

Speaking of manga, I started reading Pokémon Adventures.

Man, the pokemon battles have a very strong Jojo vibes. I love it.

There's a discussion going on in the Berserk thread right now about the comparative darkness for various different series, with some people saying that certain things are darker than others, and others saying that different series are dark in different ways and it's not a question of magnitude.

But mostly it's just making me cringe to hell because they're all trying to emphasize just how dark their favoured series is, because apparently to them that's an inherently good thing.

Pfft, if your series can be seen at all, it's not dark enough for me.

Posers.

It's pretty rare for me to actually like 'dark' stories. Usually it's just too over the top and I find it difficult to actually like the characters. I think Tanaka Romeo is one of the few that has managed to tell stories about failure, death and so on that actually got me to feel anything apart from annoyance. Even then, I end up more depressed than anything when I read his stuff.

Yeah, I'm with you there. The thread gets like that.

I don't know how I feel about most dark stuff. Stuff that seems 'forced' to be light really bugs me but a lot of dark stuff is a huge turn off.

I get it matters more on how a writer can sell me on their tone being appropriate to the story.

@Shlugo - Okay, that's actually really damn good. I'm giving you a MOFW.

Pokemon Adventures is the manga to be when you want to see a grown man and a child punch each other in the face.

I like my dark stories quite a bit. You can't subsist on nothing but since that'll send you bad places, mentally, but sometimes I like something that sticks onto the back of my mind. I usually tend to gravitate towards more lighthearted affairs, though.

Measuring darkness like measuring dicksize is a load of horseshit, though, since that's such a broad blanket. You can technically describe Attack on Titan, Goodnight Punpun, and the Twilight Zone as "dark", but they cover different theme, settings and set different moods.

edited 21st Sep '17 12:48:04 AM by mrsunshinesprinkles

Attack on Titan doesn't even have the balls to kill anyone that matters the vast majority of the time. I'd complain about it being overrated but honestly, it feels like it's not nearly as hyped as it once was.