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~~That's too bad for anyone actually talking about me. Today I am bad cloud. I ate good cloud >:)~~

Because ticket sales= other books optioned. She may have already been paid for this one, but I'd prefer if she didn't make money off the rest of them, and the critics mock this movie forever.

can't we all just agree that amy belongs with penny?

Oh wow, that was your first ending? (It's just called the 'coffin' ending, I think XD) Not bad. The other endings are more, uh, definite than that, but they're (mostly, I think) bad. Still, you gotta get at least one or two bad endings before you get to the real one. I think there's six endings and I got five including the true one.

The game is so very OMGWTFBBQ and I love it. I'd like to play more stuff like this/VLR. :)

Granted, people have probably already said this in spades, but I felt like spewing my two cents anyway.

Here's the breakdown of the houses as I understand them:

Gryffindor: brave
Hufflepuff: loyal
Ravenclaw: wise
Slytherin: ambitious

The problem with the books is that we get a lot of hearsay (e.g., Slytherin is rumored to be a Dark Wizard factory), and as a result (and because Rowling's characterization is spotty at times -- see every Slytherin ever in Harry's time at Hogwarts), readers equate ambition to the negative. They think it means that a Slytherin would do anything to reach their goals, including trample other people. But ambition doesn't mean that; it actually means determination. It means you won't just give up, regardless of how bad things look for you. It means you're willing to try new things in order to hang in there or get one step closer to what you want. "New things" isn't always bad either, as others have said; it all depends on your individual sense of morality. If you're a complete douche, then sure, it could mean that you'd trample all over someone if you thought it'd be the best way to get what you want. But if you consider yourself a good person, being determined and creative in that sense could mean you'd bend over backwards to find a solution that works without hurting other people.

That's the first thing to take into consideration. The other thing to take into consideration is that the other houses aren't always good, either.

Gryffindor might mean you're brave, and sure, chivalry might mean you'll do what you think is right. But on the other hand, being brave isn't always a good thing if you're impulsive, as Harry himself has demonstrated repeatedly. And sure, being chivalrous is, by definition, something that a douche can't exactly achieve, but the thing we've seen about Gryffindors (yes, yes, even considering the fact that Rowling's characterization is spotty at times) is that because their best qualities are courage and knightliness, that can open them up to the possibility of becoming self-righteous. If you're brave and if you constantly define yourself as good and right (or if you're stubborn in upholding your beliefs), what happens if your idea of what being right means hurts an entire group of people (or hurts someone who's close to you)?

Ravenclaw, meanwhile, might be creative and intelligent, but the noteworthy descriptors that's left out are the ones that Gryffindor and Slytherin embody. You can be smart, but you're not defined as good or bad with intelligence alone. So, having a lack of ambition or drive leaves you in a neutral state, meaning that, technically, you're not necessarily a good person. Meanwhile, if you have intelligence, creativity, ambition, and destructive goals, that obviously doesn't make you a good person.

Hufflepuff, weirdly enough, is the only house where it's difficult to say that the person themselves is bad because, by definition, a Hufflepuff is loyal, kind, and hard-working. The problem lies in the fact that a Hufflepuff is therefore defined by who they associate with. You can have a genuinely sweet and caring person, but if they have ass hole best friends, there's the potential that they could be inclined to do destructive things because their ass hole friends told them to do it. That's when the morality and level of naivete of the person kicks in.

So in short, no house is really good or bad (except maybe Hufflepuff if a person sorted into that house is considered by themselves). That's because each trait is out of context, and each out-of-context trait is actually quite vague. We just think each house is either good or evil because Rowling presents us with characters who embody exaggerated forms of the positive or negative connotations of the house qualities.

At the risk of stating the incredibly obvious, I think that everyone has bits of every house in them, so the whole sorting system was silly to begin with. I mean, if you think about it, if you're the ideal Gryffindor, you'd also be ambitious in upholding what you think is right, but amibition is a Slytherin characteristic supposedly. And that's not the only place where the houses cross over.

Point is, though, that I wouldn't worry about being a Slytherin if I were you. Own your ambition! Besides, if you were sorted into another house, that still wouldn't exactly mean you were a good person, especially a good person in every situation. It really does depend on you.

But really, you should probably aim to be all four houses anyway. In good ways.

I don't think I've actually ever seen this happen in anything I've ever read/watched, but I would love, love a 'hero/POV char was really the villain all along' twist that I managed to be unspoiled on before going in.

For actual things? I just watched the first Iron Man movie recently (yes, I know, shut up), and I loved how Tony Stark admitted to being Iron Man at the end there.

(FWIW, I agree with your DR and Madoka examples too--although from Madoka I'd also add pretty much every twist, from 'you're dead really' to 'you become witches' to 'Homura's a time traveler'.)

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imho Eleven's like a mixture of One and Four wrapped around fifty metric fucktons of self-loathing. But every single one of them brings something VERY new to the table...that's something I really like about the show.

I think they're all bad except for the true ending.

My first one was the knife, and coffin was the second I think.

I'm fond of cumulonimbus. Lenticular are amazing, too, and noctilucent and nacreous are just beautiful! Cirrostratus are pretty dull, though, avoid those.

Согласна.)

For all of them? For me it depends on the abbreviation.

We could do a round robin sort of thing. We all decide on a plot premise (aliens, day in the life of a post, whatever), and then everyone writes their own reaction to it, going sequentially.

So, like, forgottenjester writes that s/he woke up one day and saw aliens out the window, and then nursejoy picks it up and leads a group out to meet the aliens, and then I write the meeting from my perspective, and a fourth person has the meeting devolve into a fight, and so on.

I don't really want to defend Cassandra Clare because I hate her as much as the next person, but that's not what happened. She got robbed and a friend of hers made a call for donations from her fans to replace her laptop, and later on it spun off into some charity wank that she was only peripherally involved in. It was still dumb as hell, but nobody pretended it was for anything other than a new computer for her.

Pretty much this. Though we have to admit that Kid Loki was much nicer that the young Loki we saw previously. Except in Thor's memories, it seems.

Isn't over half of World of Warcraft's player base supposed to be female?

I'm more pissed because she got someone fired and tried to get another person kicked out of their school.

Are you sure? It's pretty spoilery.

somehow i don't think penny would agree with this

Oh man, there was this blog a couple of months back who had the same schtick. Claimed to be a hardcore vegan and demanded that a picture of some meat of some kind had a trigger warning, then went and said that eating eggs was empowering for feminists because it was eating menstruation.

Which was like... you're not getting this whole vegan thing, are you.

They disappeared a little while ago, but I suspect this may be the same person. (Or a parody of them. That's always a possibility XD)

~~NO! I cannot believe the cloud_riven with all the holiday icons can EVER be a bad cloud! >:D~~

This is a bit of a silly suggestion, but I can't do 12 tables normally.
I tend to do 10 x N and then n x 2, so 10 x N + N x 2.
I tell myself... "what is 3 times 10 (30) and then I gotta double the original to get to 6, so 36." It takes longer, but in the end if I can't write down on paper it's usually how I get by.

(And this is why you do 0x tables, 11x, 10x, and 1xs first on a times-table test, sob.)

Good luck to you, man. Tutoring can be so tough. I hope it goes well for you and her.

The first game's cast made me think of character types you see in zombie movies (grizzled vet, plucky, but competent, token girl, lovable badasshole, and the normal guy who works at the office), plus quirks.

The second game though? They weren't bad, but they made me think of characters that would suit a tv series if that makes any sense. I totally loved the feeling of the missions/levels having a linear and cohesive story though. If only there was more dlc...

^ what john_egbert said

She also always talked about her boyfriend and her three jobs and her 4.0 GPA.

My favorite post of hers is when she said she couldn't find Homestuck on netflix and like 80 people informed her that it was a webcomic. She took a screencap and just said "Thank you."

I love cirros clouds at sunset. They're beautiful too.

+1

I haven't thought of that episode in forever, but wow, does it pack a wallop. Given where Scrubs ended up, it's sometimes tough to remember just how good it was when it started out.

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