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Chrono / Gameplay Casual Discussion / Re: Serge VS Crono (which one do ya like^^???)

« on: April 27, 2007, 05:06:21 am »

....gtfo xD

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General Discussion / Re: Virginia Tech Massacre

« on: April 18, 2007, 09:00:42 pm »

Anyone see the videos of him yet?  Yeesh.

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General Discussion / Re: Virginia Tech Massacre

« on: April 18, 2007, 02:25:59 pm »

Prove to me that it is a "new" problem. Given the xenophobic nature of your post, I'm not interested in listening to your opinions. Give me facts, or don't expect to be taken seriously.

Sure.  Go try and find stuff about school shootings since about the 60's (only one I can think of is UT massacre in '66).  You're not going to find much.  In fact, if you want a quick way, go to the "School shooting" page on Wikipedia.  Almost every one of them is post 1960, and even more, the last 3 decades.  Still not a problem for you, genius?  As for the "xenophobe" thing, wow.  It must be great to know that you can simply block out whatever you don't want to hear, thus never being challenged in any of your assumptions.  Now THAT'S the way to finding out the truth!!!  Ok ok, I'm done.  You can return to sticking your head up your ass.  Lesson is over.

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General Discussion / Re: Virginia Tech Massacre

« on: April 18, 2007, 04:05:11 am »

No...we haven't. Society is really not so different than it ever was. Human nature remains the same. People did commit serious crimes one hundred, or one thousand years ago. Indeed, life now is better than it was then--not the other way around. Most societies and perhaps all of them--including our own--were bloodier, and less just than what Americans enjoy today. What has changed is that more people are more emancipated, more wealthy, more educated, and more powerful than ever before. That's good news, not bad.

I am talking about the question of why young people are going on murderous rampages in schools.  This is a new problem.  It's not the end of the world, but it is something that needs to be understood.  And would you like to explain to me how society doesn't change?  Because we are all living like Puritans fresh off the Mayflower, aren't we?

Xenophobia
I was very dismayed to hear today that the killer was a Korean national with U.S. residency. Anti-immigration sentiment--which is really just a euphemism for xenophobia--is already much more inflamed in this country than most people realize, and this is exactly what we didn't need. I for one am very glad that gun control has thus far dominated the news cycle, because we have here the makings for an anti-immigrant movement the likes of which would be a major United States mark of shame for the remainder of our existence as a nation. Thank goodness, at least, that the killer was a permanent resident alien and a citizen of a country with which we are strongly allied.

Any evidence to support this claim of xenophobia (oh Jesus, are we lynching immigrants yet?!?!?!?), or is this the same multiculturalist crap that any argument against mass legal and illegal immigration is a sign you are a racist, xenophobe, and must never be given any avenues at all to let one's voice be heard?  Name calling isn't an argument, buddy.  Although it is fun.  You stupid asshole.  As for him being Korean, so what?  Asians from places like China, Korea, and Japan are so statistically underrepresented in violent crime compared to other races in America that this isn't even an issue, and I can't see why you would even bring it up.  When mass anti-Korean protests start popping up, then get back to me.

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General Discussion / Re: Virginia Tech Massacre

« on: April 17, 2007, 04:01:06 am »

Why did no one commit these kind of school rampages 100 years ago?  Society has changed.  We've changed.  So yes, take away all the guns you like, write more laws regulating the use of weapons, become even more dependent on the government to save you from yourself.  But I agree with the Bard of Stratford when he said, "The fault...is not in our stars, but in ourselves" xD  Despite the pretentiousness of that quote, it's actually kinda apt.  Violence and its concomitant violent crime is a problem here in America, and it has nothing to do with the availability of weapons.

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General Discussion / Re: The Imus Nonsense

« on: April 17, 2007, 03:49:49 am »

Screw you guys, I was being serious ;p

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General Discussion / Re: The Imus Nonsense

« on: April 16, 2007, 03:07:50 pm »

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/lelong4.html

Some commentary about the whole Imus thing.  Fuck Al Sharpton and every racebaiter like him.

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General Discussion / Re: The Imus Nonsense

« on: April 16, 2007, 03:52:17 am »

No, no it wasn't. I was serious. You may have noticed the recent troop funding bills the Democrats have been attaching troop withdrawel requirements to? In essence, they are forcing Bush to make a choice: either end the Iraq war theirway, or veto the funding bill and it end due to a lack of funding. Either way he's screwed.

Ah yes, the one with benchmarks and all of that.  And they passed some nonbinding resolutions.  Sure, whatever.  How much you want to bet Bush just uses a signing statement to say which parts he is going to follow and which ones he isn't? 

There is not going to be a war with Iran, hence the lack of outcry against it...what would be the point? Diplomacy is working well. The Iranian people actually like the U.S.--though that appreciation seems to be dissolving slowly day by day with our actions--and the Iranian government is not stupid. Ahmanidejad is the only insane one, but he has the mullahs keeping a short lease on him these days...no one will really listen to him anymore.

If the neoconservatives (and the liberal interventionists too) get their way, there will be.  Did you read how during the British sailor hostage crisis the US offered to conduct air raids and such against Iran, but the British told them to stay out of it?  Yeah.  The neocons will use ANY excuse to expand the war to Iran.  After all, it's part of their grand plan to democratize the Middle East.

Classic liberals are libertarians--in the American sense of the word--these days. I disagree with your philosophy, but it does help me determine where you stand. After all, you and I share similiar disagreements with both the Democrats and the Republicans, but we're on opposite sides of the political spectrum.

No, actually I consider myself a philosophical radical.  It's just so much more romantic and noble that way, with visions of dudes like William Godwin running through my head xDDDDDD

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General Discussion / Re: The Imus Nonsense

« on: April 16, 2007, 03:10:12 am »

Apart from doing everything they can to end the Iraq War

I really hope that was sarcasm.  And more importantly, what is their position on the next war (Iran)?  I've said it before; it's easy to be against the Iraq War, but where are the people coming out and saying "No war with Iran?"  Remember that provision that got stripped out of a bill that said the President had to get congressional authority before attacking Iran (not that this should take a provision, but whatever)?  Yeah.  Or go read Obama's speech to AIPAC.  Oh yes, the Democrats are slobbering for the next preventive war.  No mainstream Democratic candidate has called for the immediate withdrawal of troops, except perhaps Kucinich, but I'm not sure and I don't know if you would call him mainstream.  The Democratic codeword for retaining the troops in Iraq is "redeployment".

But to answer your previous question, I consider myself a liberal in the grand tradition of liberalism ;p  Like John Stuart Mill's essay On Liberty.  That's my favorite work of political philosophy.  Kinda short though, he wasn't trying to articulate a fully realized and developed philosophical framework.  So I guess you'd say I was a libertarian.  But I like classic liberal xD

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Chrono / Gameplay Casual Discussion / Re: CHRONO COMIX

« on: April 16, 2007, 03:04:02 am »

ZealitY, you got my hopes up for nothing.  You bastard.

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Characters, Plot, and Themes / Re: Why would Serge and Kid get married?

« on: April 15, 2007, 03:04:04 am »

Why would Serge and Kid get married?  Why wouldn't they?  It's clear from the game they are in love with each other.  To me, that's what Chrono Cross is: a love story.  The thing is, once everything is said and done, we only get to see the beginning of their relationship, because by destroying the Time Devourer it was as if everything that happened throughout CC never actually occured.  So, we see Kid/Schala standing there on what I assume to be Opassa Beach in a white dress (when I watched this again, it just all the sudden clicked to me that this was Kid/Schala, and not one or the other.  The clue to me was the hair.  Her hair is down like Schala, and yet she has a long ponytail like Kid.  That sealed the deal for me), staring out into the ocean.  So at the end of the game, we are at the beginning of Serge and Kid/Schala's relationship, despite everything they've gone through.  It kinda works out funny that way, but I think it's great ;p  Kato said something similar in an interview I read on this site, that Kid and Serge at the end of the game begin their "true journey" and that CC is an old fashioned "boy meets girl" story.  So I don't think I'm far off when I say CC is a love story.

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Characters, Plot, and Themes / Re: Harle

« on: April 14, 2007, 04:43:42 am »

Though Harle kind of had a foreshadowing to her end, when she cried on the boat. Yes, it is tragic, but then again, talking about it is even more tragic because we see just how much of a martyr Harle was.

That is true, but I still wish Harle's end came differently.  Like maybe a final declaration of undying love for Serge before she becomes absorbed by the Dragon Gods xDDD  Of course, you would really want to see Serge's reaction, and since the dumb bastard doesn't talk.... Ugh.  Silent protagonist is the dumbest idea EVAR.

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General Discussion / Re: The Imus Nonsense

« on: April 14, 2007, 04:39:18 am »

Funny how this starts out as a thread about Imus and turns into a political thread.  I hate the Republitards and Democraps (durrr I'm funny ain't I? ;p ) with a fiery passion.  However, Ron Paul is running under the Republican ticket, so I may just have to register as a Republican so I can vote for him in the primary.

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Characters, Plot, and Themes / Re: Saving Kid at the orphanage

« on: April 14, 2007, 04:33:14 am »

I agree, it is such a great scene.  Of course, the music as Serge and Kid are outside the orphanage, "Star Stealing Girl", is what really makes it go.  Beautiful song.

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Characters, Plot, and Themes / Re: Saving Kid at the orphanage

« on: April 12, 2007, 04:01:35 am »

That's from Serge's (and the player's) point of view; you see how it came about that Kid was saved from the orphange burning.  But from Kid's point of view, that's how the event happened.  It couldn't have happened any other way because Serge went back and changed the timeline.  Unless you are saying that change in the timeline made another possible world come into existence, so now there is a timeline where Kid gets out of the orphanage of her own accord, and one where Serge saves her.