Actually, my white middle-of-the-horseshoe guilt has recently led me to the realization that activism is just like driving on the freeway. You have to pick a lane and then stay in your lane until you've reached your exit. Otherwise you risk killing lots of people in other lanes. The lane I've chosen is the fight against classism. Once the net-wage gap between the rich and poor is resolved (higher classed people who work below their class DO end up with more money than lower classes for the same work due to a number of reasons) it'll be much easier to deal with similar problems in other aspects of society.
I guess I'm moving to Wichita. You belong on an island just off the coast of France?
I had a pretty well thought out post on how this could eventually turn out to be beneficial for the gay community, but then I realized that someone somewhere would be offended, deleted that, and wrote this instead: Y'all'd've'd rethought that title if you had remembered that Janime is from America's America.[DOUBLEPOST=1415831403][/DOUBLEPOST] Because that's totally the only kind of person that counts as an American.
Unless your name is Peter Parker. Then you become a photographer/superhero just to rebel against your late father's dream of having you run the family valet business.
Haven't we been over the whole "realism =/= believability" thing in another thread? It is pretty realistic that his surname could be Doom. As burnitup noted, Doom is an actual surname. However, I find it hard to believe that an ultra-dangerous supervillain rises out of a family that just so happens to have the most perfect surname for a supervillain ever AND that his parents made his forename go so well with his super evil surname that he doesn't even have to change it to strike fear into the hearts of his enemies. The probability of that happening is unbelievably low.
That's why it sounds silly to me. I find it hard to believe that some guy three or four generations ago said to himself, "Y'know, at some point a super evil guy is going to arise from this line and it would a shame if he didn't have a really kickass name to along with his kickass lair and super armor."
How the hell did I miss that thread?
Yeah, I never liked "Victor von Doom" being his real name. Domashev retains the spirit of "von Doom" and still lets his villain name makes sense. The anti-social blogger thing, though? That's flaming ******ant.
I think I speak for everyone when I say that literally nobody was wondering that.
All we need is a robot-kin to complain about Baymax and we'll have the whole tumblr menagerie.
On a less serious note, I was once friends with acquainted to in the same class as a girl who went to Africa over the summer of her Junior year and when asked about her summer she said that she was suprised at how many African Americans there were in Africa. On a more jokey note, would I be an American African if I were to move to South Africa and become a legal citizen? And if I had kids there, both white, who later in their lives moved to America and became citizens there, would they then be African Americans?[DOUBLEPOST=1415584694][/DOUBLEPOST] Hey, Oda's a great writer and an even greater guy. I'm just pointing out that Laurence_Fox's line of reasoning makes him a racist.
Aren't most of the characters supposed to belong mainly to the Asian races? And even if they're not, how is that the movie's fault? If anything, it's the original comic book's fault. In the same way that Gyakuten Saiban/Ace Attorney is pretty much Japan with a little San Franciscan flair thrown in. It's even relocated to LA to hide that in the English translation. I know it's not your job to educate us, but since you're trying it would be very helpful if you could show a picture of an actual Ainu person for comparison. Here's a good picture for comparison: Spoiler The two women might be wearing some kind of face paint that goes with the traditional clothing, but the man doesn't look much darker than Fred in your picture. The women's feet also look a little bit paler than him. The only issue that I see is his blonde hair which could easily be explained away as being dyed. If you're going to complain about eye color, keep in mind that Ainu people have a wise range of eye colors from brown and light brown/gray all the way to blue-gray. Besides all of that, isn't that just the art style of the movie? By your logic, Oda Eiichiro is guilty of white washing his characters in One Piece. Or does that not count because Oda isn't white? Or is it the fault of the anime studio for not coloring the characters right when adapting the manga? Spoiler What a suspiciously pale African person.
I don't think most DS games were shrink wrapped, but I might just have a bad memory. I'm 90% sure that they used that shiny plastic with the little triangular folds at the top and bottom. If I'm wrong, it's probably real but home-done shrink wrapping can be hard to identify if it's done right.
Yes, Hiroko does have a sex robot named Bangmax. Hipsters as in happenin' young peeps who are hip to all the latest trends or hipsters as in, "This band is obscure, you've probably never heard of it?"
Is this your way of asking me to elaborate on my pitch for a porn parody of Big Hero Six?
Does it count if I have a workable pitch for the inevitable Big Hero Sex?
Is it a ROM, a cartridge, or something else? Throw up a picture or a detailed description and I'll have a look.
In a similar vein, kin-experiences is one of my favorite blogs at the moment.
Well, there was one episode Beast Boy had some kind of curse put on him where he could only turn into inanimate objects, so as far as I'm concerned that confirms that he can normally only turn into animals. On the other hand, maybe he can become inanimates and all the curse did was force him to do so. But then again, that wouldn't be consistent with the source of his powers, a serum that had the unintended effect of turning him green and giving him the power to turn into any animal.
I'll go as soon as I get a full 80 or more hour paycheck. Lately I've been working 20-32 hour weeks and it's been killing me when I my paycheck comes every two weeks.
