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I really liked the setting and visuals. I had read some complaints about the story, and while it wasn't exactly ground-breaking it didn't diminish the enjoyment.

That's how it should be, but I seriously doubt that that's really how it goes.
Wouldn't many homeowners just buy the thing for the detering effect and think nothing more of it, I wonder? Like you said, the difficulty of wielding a gun is so often underestimated that I wouldn't be surprised if a great deal of people just assume that they have all the necessary skills to kill the bad guys.

Mandatory lessons could solve this particular problem and also discourage people to buy them as a form of insurance (yes, I have seen them being refered to as such).

I agree. If you'd be allowed to carry them in public you might as well take one with you to a bar, get drunk, and be involved a very lethal bar brawl. I'd pass on that.

Hold on a sec. Isn't this really an argument against entrusting Average Joe with a firearm (blindingly so)?
As in: "Joe buys gun for self-defense, thief robs Joe, Joe shoots thief, hits expensive Ming vase instead, thief draws own gun, kills Joe and his family because thief's life would be in danger if he didn't".
As far as sayings go, isn't there one that says "Cornered prey struggles the most viciously" or something like that?

Just to drag the Arizona shooting incident into this... A recurring argument I read on another site was this:

Should we instead establish that, if an armed citizen actually did open fire, he'd have as much chance to hit an innocent bystander as he would have of actually disposing of Loughner?

Even so, I can see why people see it as hypocritical. You are still choosing a certain option above a healthier alternative that can have the same effect.
To those who are suicidal, death is not a goal but a means: a manner to leave one's problems behind. Granted, it's not an unwanted side effect. A suicidal person would not commit the act if it didn't rid him of his misery (through death). However, he would not commit it if he saw any other alternative.

I would frown if a smoker chastised a suicidal person when I was nearby.
The factors suicide is often resented for are:
1) The lack of respect for one's own life
2) The esteemed availability of alternatives
3) The irreversibility
4) The grief one causes to their friends and family
Correct me if I've forgotten any, but I think I covered most of them.
Well now...
Suicide is a drastic, irreversible decision that spits on life to which there may be better alternatives. It causes a lot of grief towards the people you love.
Smoking is a less drastic yet equally irreversible decision that spits on life to which there are many alternatives. You might not cause as much grief (unless you die prematurely from your self-induced lung cancer), but you do annoy AND harm the ones close to you.

While I don't want to generalise all smokers nor all suicidals, I can see a certain degree of hypocrisy if a smoker bashes someone with suicidal thoughts.
Yes, the two are different. But what matters is how they are different. In this case, they show enough similarities for the hypocrisy argument to be valid.

Same here and while we're at it I believe all other stages are a function of stage two, either directly or indirectly.
You can't do anything that isn't in your own best interest. Everyone's Holy Grail is satisfaction no matter how you twist or turn it. However, we differ greatly in how this satisfaction is achieved in us.

It doesn't matter whether their quality of life actually improves upon death (which indeed it doesn't). What matters is how they perceive it. A person with suicidal thoughts sees their quality of life as "below zero" and would prefer death (the "zero" value) over continuing anywhere below it. My point still stands. The term "quality of life" was an unfortunate choice of expression, but it ought to have been clear what I meant by it.

The problem with that logic is that nobody ends his life the sake of ending it.
Contemplating to kill yourself to evade the misery in your life isn't quite so different from exchanging life for pleasure. In the end, those who commit suicide also exchange their life for "pleasure" (or rather, the termination of suffering, but the difference is irrelevant). Although the two are indeed quite different, the hypocrisy remains. It's both a manner of exchanging quantity of life for quality. Suicide is merely a more drastic transaction.
One could argue that there are plenty of better options than killing yourself, but one could counter that argument by saying that there plenty of ways to achieve peace of mind other than smoking too.

If I recall correctly, 1Q84 is a book written by Haruki Murakami. While I haven't read the book itself, I have read other work of his. Rest assured, he's as capable a writer as you're ever going to find. Murakami isn't your everyday debut novelist: he's a big name in international literature and just about everything he writes gets translated in English.

nokia

The name of your favourite pet?

Same here. Which is somewhat rare.

Six: both high tide and low tide occur twice a day.

Monopolise the supply of Zombrex.

This thread should be locked. http://www.kh-vids.net/showthread.php?82516-ITT-Fun-facts-about-Styx&p=3307920#post3307920 I forgot that I'd...

I was actually looking for another thread of mine, but I stumbled on this one. It was embarassing so I deleted it. I forgot it'd end up on the front page because it was the first post that was edited...
It should be locked now.

Customs --- Shut Up, Narcissus

You ought to know that I'm not the kind of person to forfeit until the last card is played. I thought you'd at least take care of my last face-down card. It would cost you another card but you could still beat me in the same turn, most likely.
I thought you were being careless by not doing so, hence why I responded.

I doubt I'd squander my last face-down card that easily. Knowing myself I'd have waited until you've used up some more cards in your hand before intervening.
But if you used MST or something like it to destroy it, I wouldn't have stood a chance.

Same here. This was without a doubt the most educational Duel I ever had.

I had no Graveyard defense, ever since I used the effects of Royal Firestorm Guards.
I did, however, have 1 face-down card left. Remember how I didn't chain?
I activate Magic Cylinder.

And that is indeed game.

I'd like to duel this Crowler character someday. I remember how I used Ancient Gears in my very first Duel.

You had 7 to begin with. So far you've played:
- Heavy Storm
- Giant Trunade
- Spiritualism
So you have 4 left.

No, I won't. Go ahead and finish me off. You deserve the victory.