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[ SECRET POST #549 ]

⌈ Secret Post #549 ⌋

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A Mabel Normand flick: "Mabel's Blunder" was one of the first I ever saw.

I feel like there's something very human about watching these people on the screen, even when it's overblown and they act overly dramatic, even though they move their lips to speak and you can't hear them, it somehow all feels a lot more personal.

Robert Harron? I gotta check him out.

Don't feel bad. I'd be like that, too. I can't stand horror movies. I mean, Snakes on a Plane creeped me out. And just reading about Carved has me looking over my shoulder every five minutes, too.

Itsuki doesn't act effeminate, but you are right, he looks the part.
I don't mean to open a can of worms but did you deliberately post to annoy Sabordefresa? Posting anonymously kinda gives that vibe. what bothers him is that your declaration kinda gives off a "fuck all that like this shit" and "all YYH fans are retards" air. I'm a fan myself but I prefer not to argue with the anti-YYH crowd, but I don't like seeing my friends provoked.

I've NEVER liked Rollo.

Then I found out what happened in the latest episode. Now I'm just...really, really, really disgusted with him.

You were a wise one

I just can't believe that someone would act so selfishly when they were thought of as an assasin. if he loves lelouch then wtf was he thinking? stupid rollo

Nah, I just never saw anything remarkable about him.

In a way, though, Lelouch and Rollo are pretty similar. Rollo is willing to kill out of jealousy anyone who gets in his way as Lelouch's "little brother". Lelouch is willing to kill out of hatred anyone who gets in the way of what he sees as his ideal world for Nunnally--even people she cares about. Although he's grown up a lot lately.

"I only know is that I'm playing Phoenix Wright when I get a new one just to see what the big deal is."

156 OP's back. If you haven't played my canon, why are you ripping my pairings?

165. Is that the coffee prince? If so, I am in freaking love with that series. I just wish I could find the rest of the episodes. I've only seen up to the one where that chick who was dating Hanxing (in the mandarin version...i don't know the names in the Korean one) left him for New York with DK. :(

The point is NOT that there aren't strong female characters. The point is that there are no strong lead characters; it's Wall-E, not Eve, Marlon was the main character, Dory was the sidekick. I could go on, but I'm hoping you see the point there.

Females should not always be the supporting cast, no matter how awesome those supporting characters are.

It was discussed that we progressively introduce strong female characters that boys can like. They will NOT automatically accept a lead strong female if there aren't strong females on the side leading up to it. It has to be eased into. An d Pixar is planning a story with a female lead. It's called The Bear and the Bow and it comes out in a few years.

But that aside, to call it sexist is just SO ridiculous, I'm sorry. You can say you wish that Pixar would have a female lead and that is totally fine, but it is a HUGE stretch to call them sexist because they haven't especially since they continually write strong women (as noted, often stronger than the actual male leads), lead or not.

No prob! I figured it was the picture quality. Usually it's Kurama (http://www.dragonwiles.com/SevenPicts/ReikaiTantei/Kurama.gif) (or, same author but different series, Kurapika (http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/8410/kurapika1nd9.jpg)) that people get confused about. :>

I do think it's sexist. I think that having to ease males into liking strong female characters is a sad commentary in and of itself that the entire system and the society that we live in is sexist.

Yeah, I saw that there's one coming out in um, three years. That's fabulous. It really is. But I think that having a lead female character in one film out of ten is a really really pathetic track record.

I don't wish that Pixar would have a female lead. My wishes are a bit more far reaching than that. I wish that every film that Pixar produces would have a fairly equal distribution of female and male characters. For instance, I wish that Ratatouille had more female chefs, and female rats. I wish that Cars had "female" race cars, that there had been a higher percentage of "female" vehicles in general, and that some of them had been trucks or more traditionally "masculine" vehicles.

I wish that for every film Pixar produces with a male lead, they would produce one with a female lead. I wish for equal and varied representation.

I guess that makes me ridiculous in your book. I'm okay with that. I'd rather be ridiculous and calling society on the generalized and specific gender issues that I see than be anything else. There wouldn't be any strong female characters if women hadn't started drawing attention to the issue, and I genuinely don't think that we as a society are anywhere near far enough towards gender equality for us to STOP drawing attention to it.

Edited 2008-07-09 02:32 (UTC)

Eh, I know you're not addressing me, but it's not too hard to find out pretty much everything from the online fandom- I've only played the first two games, and yet I had a really, really good idea of all the characters in those two and their interactions before I played them because of the Internet, and I know pretty much everything from the latter two games already as well. Just knowing the details behind Von Karma, Gregory Edgeworth, and Miles Edgeworth (both when Edgeworth was a kid through Von Karma's eventual arrest) might well put some people off quite a bit. It's not personally one of my fave pairings, but I don't mind it myself- I just do kinda get it? XD;

I didn't really think of it that way! Battling with your partner is kinda like that, though, now that you mention it. If you can set up combos... BUT I DIGRESS. Yeah, it was really pretty different! Good luck getting that new DS soon, I liked the Phoenix Wright games myself, but more for storyline than gameplay- though the gameplay was simple enough. (:

HiruMamo is amazing and I approve it being your anti-drug on many, many principles. |D

I just have to say that you put it far better than I ever could have. Very well said.

I can write it off because it isn't a fact (http://kateharding.net/but-dont-you-realize-fat-is-unhealthy/).

You, like so many other people, are conflating weight with health and exercise. Surprise, surprise, there are fat people in the world. Not people who are lazy and don't exercise, though some of us don't, but people who are fat in the same way that some people are tall and some people are dark skinned. It's just a variety of body.

Exercise? I get plenty of exercise every day because I walk everywhere. I've never owned a car and I never have. I used to walk five miles to work, to the bewilderment of a skinny coworker who was amazed because she barely had the energy to get off the couch. I can point you to a blog of a triathlete (biking, swimming, and running) who's fatter than I am... and probably fitter than you are, by any metric that's not "LOL FAT."

Adjusting diet or exercise to make a wholesale change in your body size doesn't work for most people over the long term. It's not just "calories in vs. calories used." Your body knows what size it's supposed to be, and while you can control what you eat and how you exercise, it controls all the other dials and if you're using more calories than you need to maintain what it (not society) thinks is your ideal weight, it goes into starvation mode. Hence why 95% of people who try to lose weight gain it back after seeing that they have to exercise/diet more and more just to maintain, and most of them gain back even more.

And no, I'm not saying I have "a glandular disorder." It's not a disorder. It's simply part of natural human biodiversity. And a helpful trait to be in the gene pool. Who dies first in famine? The people whose bodies are optimized for burning energy rather than keeping it... i.e, the skinny people.

Fat helps protect your body from infection and shock. Fat people are more likely to survive a cardiac event. Fat people can hang on longer in a condition where the body is forced to rely on its natural stores. If a person's body is most comfortable in the "fat" range, how can you say they're not taking care of it?

If you give your body the food that it needs and the exercise it needs, it will stay within the range that you're predisposed towards. Some people might be able to skooch the number up by seriously mistreating themselves. Some people might be able to skooch the number down... also by seriously mistreating themselves. But because we've arbitrarily decided that thin == healthy, we ignore all the damage the latter group is doing and blame the problems they have late in life on the fact that they're overweight, not the fact that they're yo-yoing between states.

And before you say "diabetes" or "blood pressure" or "cholesterol"... what's going on inside your blood's a separate matter entirely from the composition of your body mass outside of them. Those things correlate to diet and exercise problems, which people automatically assume you can gauge by looking at body weight.

Not true. Not true at all.

Edited 2008-07-09 03:17 (UTC)

At its very extreme (i.e. a BMI of 35 MINIMUM), yes, being overweight can, alone, negatively affect your health.

But guess what? It's many times more statistically dangerous to have a BMI below 20. You know how you've always been told that a healthy BMI range starts at 18.5? Yeah, it's bullshit - and if you pay attention, you'll notice an increasing number of medical sources quietly changing that number to 20 as this information filters into the public consciousness.

(And no, I'm not fat. I say this as someone with a BMI of 17. Statistically, I'm death walking.)

Even Scientific American Reports has printed an article supporting this (and the long, LONG history the weight loss industry has of publishing misinformation and burying the facts). You could probably find that back copy at your library. This isn't "fringe" science. It's out there, mainstream, available for anyone who cares to take a look. People just aren't because they are too invested in the lies they've been told.

Stop believing the DAMN LIES you're being fed. They exist to make other people's WALLETS fat while the public SUFFERS. You don't have to go along with it.

LOL WUT. Please say you're not serious. The idea that no one could find any reason to dislike S2!Rose other than jealousy that she gets to...what? Hold DT's hand?!...is so hilariously out of touch with reality. And I say that as someone who liked S2!Rose perfectly fine.

I really hope this is a joke.

Really? Because here's the thing. Looking at the current WSJ line-up:

-Name the ones who everybody hates unconditionally for really bad reasons.

Still a few to compare against Naruto, true.

-Of those, let's take a look at the ones that are also orphans.

I think of one or two, but not many.

-And of those, the ones that really suck at what they're trying to excel in, and have to work for years to even get anywhere to begin with.

I'm... starting not to think of anyone except Naruto.

-AND OF THOSE, who lets everyone down and doesn't save the day, but is strong enough to keep going anyway?

I don't care if they have better powers, better storylines, cooler hair, or save more friends. He only had one person he considered family, he couldn't save him, and he kept going.

I never physically PLAYED the canon, but I basically know everything there is to know about the story and the characters and stuff. O_o So in that respect, I'm knowledgable enough to know what I (don't) like.

LOLZ, it's pretty obvious that Phoenix Wright is pretty much a completely story-oriented game, more of a visual novel if you ask me...in fact, I think somebody did call it a visual novel in a review once upon a time.

HiruMamo's right up there with JuuSuzu. (don't ask. o_o)

I love the Keystone movies and The Bangville Police is one of my favorites. Mabel parodies the "Griffith damsel in distress" perfectly!

And silent movies are fun to watch if you are a bit adept at reading lips. Sometimes what they say is completely NOT what the intertitles say, like "What Price Glory?" Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen's lips are saying, "You goddamn sonofabitch!" and the title card says, "You stink worse than a skunk" or something like that. XD

If you can sit through all of "Intolerance," Harron plays the hero in the modern story. Both he and Mae Marsh are brilliant. Poor Bobby - he had a tragic end and it's still unclear if it was an accident or suicide. :(

Anonymous poster wants to stay anonymous, but thank you for the support ^_^

I'm having a hard time picturing a situation like that. Still, without knowing the details of mine, it's fair of you not to judge. No worries.

(And I love your response to #150.)

In one case, they're mostly arrogant about their status. As in throwing it around and expecting people to respond to them as an internet celebrity, but at the same time every tiny bit of concrit sends them into spirals of "omg it sucks! Must fix!" and might result in a total overhaul of whatever got nit-picked. It could be playing it up, but they seem honestly certain their stories are bad. (Of course, it could be that they're desperate to protect their status... which still doesn't excuse the "I'm the BNF here" attitude.)

o.O It's confusing, to say the least.

And gender-neutral pronouns for the lose. *sigh* It sounds like I'm talking about Siamese Twin BNFs, rather than a single specific one. Joined at the ego from birth!

(Thank you. Its maddening that so many people seem to agree with the poster. *sigh* Can't we all just have fun, or did I miss the memo?)

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