Camacan
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Since: Jan, 2001
Jun 20th 2011 at 6:08:58 AM
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This example was in Real Life when it belongs in a Role Playing Game folder. On closer inspection it appears to be a non-example: no fun is had as the world ends.
- Vampire The Requiem: Interestingly, Requiem in Rome discards the idea of Nero fiddling while Rome burns in its "history of Rome" section, which openly and admittedly embraces most of the myths of Roman history.
Some says he plays the lyre while the city burns. Some says he performs a tragic soliloquy on the destruction of Troy, using the burning city as a backdrop to his private stage.
—> In truth, he watches, aghast.
This one happens in Haruhi Suzumiya no Yuuutsu, when the president of the Computer Club goes to the SOS Brigade to challenge them to a duel. Haruhi is not present by then, but when she arrives and finds out they were challenged, she assaults their president with a flying kick. Things get agitated, but despite the screams and strikes, the screen is fixed on Yuki, who's calmly reading her book, passing the pages as if nothing was happening.