Nah. She's your average girl whom I happen to love.
My girlfriend isn't all that amazing come to think about it.
I think making out with someone you genuinely care about is a far richer experience than shoving your tongue in the mouth of someone you barely know or aren't romantically involved with. I don't have a problem with people snogging with their latest pick-up though. Let them do as they please.
Entertainment is the main purpose, but sometimes I find myself playing them for the purpose of...inspiration rather than entertainment. I don't know, it's hard to explain. Certainly, and I definitely believe some to be art. Final Fantasy X had a spiritual, breath-taking side to it that still stands tall even though the graphics are outdated by now. Okami is also an artful game, for a number of reaons. Not as often as I used to be. Not even Final Fantasy XIII held my attention for too long, which surprised me. The last game that compelled me was Star Ocean 4, until a disc reading error occured after I had forgotten to save. XD Only the former has occured to me. Final Fantasy VII would be a great example. It wasn't the first Final Fantasy I came in contact with, but I wanted to play it and finish it just for the story, regardless of the bad graphics. Other examples would be Jade Cocoon and Parasite Eve, which I want to replay for their story and gameplay. I don't know. I just think it's the next step in storytelling. Movies fulfilled the need for visualisation. Gaming fulfilled the need of interaction. Online gaming fulfilled the need of participation. I don't know when the next step will come (if any), but there's a good chance that that too will become a huge part of everyday life. That being said, it's not a huge part in everyone's life. Many people aren't interested at all, and the gaming phenomenon passes them by. Video games make our kids violent only in combination with bad parenting. True, some video games like Manhunt or GTA don't offer a politically correct view of right and wrong, but it's the parents' responsibility to convince their kids that there is a huge difference between the real world and the game world. That being said, I probably wouldn't give my 10-year-old son a game of the Manhunt series for Christmas... I really have no idea. I don't know. If they barely sold, would those big toy companies still bother investing in video games? If fewer good games are being made, couldn't it be that it just takes more to create a very good game? Video games have come a long way, with more options, better AI, multiplayer functions, slicker graphics and more promotion. I'm an RPG lover, so storyline and character development are quite important. Hence why I like the Final Fantasy and Xenosaga series. I like games with many options (and sidequests), though which keep a certain linearity. Pokémon and Suikoden are good examples, as well as Atelier Iris. I love the Shin Megami Tensei series too, for all of the above reasons and the certain...underground feel that it has. I don't know... Some RPGs are just so compelling that I forget any and all flaws that it has. Sorry for the half-assed explanation. XD Xenosaga did, but I forgot in what way. I'm sure there are others too. The Raving Rabbits franchise.
Would you do me a favor? Please read this thread and then, assuming you didn't suffer a heart attack, take a picture of your face. It'd be appreciated. I might watch the movie if it's on TV at some point but there's no way I'd pay to see it.
I've attended a few but I don't cosplay. It's fun just strolling around, checking out the merchandise and having a few laughs.
Shut up and join. You know you want to.
I've always found it comical that the question whether homosexuality is "natural" or not is even a factor in some people's rationale. I kinda like Umiyuri Papaeyra's contribution in this thread. Suppose homosexuality isn't natural. Is that any reason at all to oppose it? Technology, religion, art, love... All are unnatural in a way, and natural in another. Remove everything that doesn't feel quite "natural" and you'll have us walking on all fours licking ants from a stick at one point. Homosexuality is a blessing actually. Earth is already to crowded for my taste, at least homosexuality helps in preventing the world's population from growing at an even more freakish rate.
Sometimes it takes a lot of nerve to say something half-baked and completely unoriginal.
So he WILL turn into a guy eventually?
The answer was in your post.
That's (hopefully not) what she said.
Giving up is not the same as learning to deal with defeat. There will be occurences in life where you will suffer loss without you being able to counter it. The death of an acquaintance would be a fine example. What I mean to say is, learning to put loss (refusal and rejection) into perspective is a skill that you won't regret having, regardless of whether it can be used in any given situation or not. The fact that it can lessen the hindrance of being refused is only one facet of it. Yes, but it's a personal experience. It wouldn't be relevant for this discussion. That is, assuming that the self-satisfaction is the side effect, instead of the other way around. But let's try not to digress on this matter. Didn't see that coming, but very well. One utilitarian argument in favor of asking permission would be that there is a reason for being refused or turned down that you didn't think of. (I admit that this is one of the primary reasons that I ask permission in the first place.) You cannot eat the berries from the bush in the garden because they are poisonous. You will not inherit your father's corporation if you're gay because he fears that the company will not be passed down in the family after your generation. And so on. Whether those arguments always make sense is another can of worms, but I found that in most cases, they're at least worth listening to.
Yup. Given myself the chance to be what I am best: lazy.
The rest of the mall is overrun by zombies.
Then lessen the "hindrance of being refused". This is where the benefits of having learned to cope with loss and rejection come in. I tried it. I found it far more fruitful than pondering over questions like these. Then not asking permission and just assuming that you are allowed to do whatever the hell you weren't asking permission for. You're telling this to me, who made a thread and a poem about it some time ago? No, you'd be right. And there you have it. We don't think that way, or like to think that way, because it's not to our "taste", as you so charmingly put it. Overanalysis often leads to cynicism and nihilism and that's a state where you'd rather not end up, believe me. I've been there, and I've come back. I feel happier ever since I conveniently forget that we're all but a bunch of molecules floating about. Do you really need any more explanation than that? Ah yes, the guilt factor. You feel bad, so you don't do it. And when you would do it, I suppose you'd feel guilty because you did it. XD And thus, the circle is closed. Why would you feel guilt if you're the centre of your own world anyway? And more importantly, why do others apparently feel less guilt or no guilt at all when they choose the other option? Guilt isn't evenly divided amongst us, you know this as well as I do. Not asking permission might make one person feel guilty while having no effect on another. We both know this to be true, but this completely destroys the point of your "seeing other's takes on it", since they are very likely to give an answer that isn't applicable to you. Either way, if you want my "take" on it, I say learn to cope wth refusal, rejection and loss. It'll come in handy later in life, one way or another, at least more so than puzzling over the pros and cons of asking permission imo.
And yet as a staff member you will always be remembered as the Spam Zone mod who bravely started a crusade against KHI trolls: in order to make this forum a better place for all: So you'll have to excuse me if I don't take your word on that. :-P (I kinda like this new mid-sentence quoting system of mine.)
Not necessarily. In some cases, asking permission actually leaves a good impression, regardless of whether you're allowed or rejected (unless of course your request is absurd). To elaborate upon your example: If a child asks permission, he may be more likely to meet with a positive answer. Parents dig politeness. Bosses dig politeness. The fairer sex digs politeness (even if they fall for "bad boy" types, a minimum of chivalry seems to be the norm). Only if you completely ignore the fact that asking permission is also just a basic form of respect towards the person you request something from. You're not the center of the world, and one shouldn't act upon the thought that they are. Which is the first step to virtually any crime in existence. Doing what you feel like regardless of what someone else might think or feel about it leaves the door wide open towards trespassing, theft and harassment.
Sounds like one shouldn't exclude the other.
As if there aren't enough gingers already.
