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Date: August 26th, 2008 10:19 PM Author: Sick Cobalt Laser Beams Place Of Business Why is it so uncommon to find a real-life woman with the heroism, character, and dignity of a Terra, Celes, Faris, Marle, or Lucca? Such women exist so prominently in video games, but are so rare in this desert we call IRL. Instead, we have millions of Sex-and-the-City clones. Why? I'm tempted to quit this module called IRL; it's badly written, and hasn't been updated since the '70s. It's just a matter of time before the thing breaks under the weight of its spaghetti legacy code. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10099751) |
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Date: August 26th, 2008 10:54 PM Author: Twinkling mediation therapy Terra: clearly not interested in men, ahem. Celes: suicidal rich brat. Faris: uncouth and manly. Probably smart, though. Marle: seems 14, daddy issues. Lucca: coke-bottle glasses, weird relationship with a robot. |
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Date: August 26th, 2008 11:06 PM Author: Sick Cobalt Laser Beams Place Of Business Terra: I could convince her. Trust me on this one.
Celes: She spent a year on a small island with a dying man! Give her a break.
Faris: Perhaps.
Marle: This has more to do with the limited amount of time Ted Woolsey had to translate her than anything else.
Lucca: Ok. |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 7:51 AM Author: Provocative Public Bath "Terra: I could convince her. Trust me on this one."
Well, you are pretty feminine... |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 7:55 AM Author: Sick Cobalt Laser Beams Place Of Business How so? Is it my tendency to wear purple clothing, muttering about "the black wind"? Is it the fact that my cat is named Alfador? Is it my weird relationship with my magically-gifted older sister?
You should see me as an adult, after having traveled 12600 years into the future and perfected my talents. I'm pretty badass these days. I summon and slaughter world-killing alien hedgehogs for the lulz. |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 7:57 AM Author: Provocative Public Bath So then you're gay. That's cool, just come out the closet Pensive... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10100673) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 8:00 AM Author: Sick Cobalt Laser Beams Place Of Business *Casts Dark Matter, causing epic damage to Meanest Fish* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10100677) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 8:01 AM Author: Provocative Public Bath Well, I guess that's kind of like coming out of the closet... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10100678) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 8:05 AM Author: Sick Cobalt Laser Beams Place Of Business Seriously, why do you think I'm gay? I'm not offended, but I'm curious. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10100682) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 8:16 AM Author: Provocative Public Bath Combo of being feminine, liking manly traits when talking about women, and the general feeling of "doesn't compute" when the dude talks about women and sex. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10100691) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 8:18 AM Author: Sick Cobalt Laser Beams Place Of Business I'm definitely into tall, super-smart, and fairly athletic women... I guess this could seem that way. My tastes in women are definitely different from those of 98% of guys.
I don't think I'm effeminate, but I wouldn't characterize myself as unusually masculine either. |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 9:34 AM Author: Provocative Public Bath "My tastes in women are definitely different from those of 98% of guys."
'Cause you're gay. |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 9:46 AM Author: Sick Cobalt Laser Beams Place Of Business I think most men have poor taste... but I wouldn't change it for the world. More awesome heroic women for me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10100774) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 9:59 AM Author: Provocative Public Bath "I think most men have poor taste..."
'Cause you're gay. |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 10:05 AM Author: Sick Cobalt Laser Beams Place Of Business How would a normal straight guy's tastes differ from mine? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10100827) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 10:13 AM Author: Provocative Public Bath "How would a normal straight guy's tastes differ from mine?"
For one thing, he'd like chicks. |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 10:15 AM Author: Sick Cobalt Laser Beams Place Of Business I like women. I like them a lot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10100854) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 10:19 AM Author: Provocative Public Bath No pensive, we mean with your pee-pee. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10100862) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 8:15 AM Author: coiffed weed whacker dilemma This is a really mean characterization. Terra's too busy for men. Celes is awesome, but clearly has a thing for Locke.
Faris is probably flat-chested. How else is she able to fit into 22 different suits? |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 8:21 AM Author: Sick Cobalt Laser Beams Place Of Business Interesting point about Faris and the class changes. She must also be changing clothes in front of Butz and Galuf an awful lot. Somewhere out there is a terrible fanfic about this.
Why Celes/Locke? Locke has an overblown chivalrous bent and a flair for women in distress. Celes is domineering and stronger than he is. It wouldn't work, unless they could roleplay the scene where he un-handcuffs her. |
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Date: August 26th, 2008 11:48 PM Author: underhanded stead how can you fail to mention kid/schala in this context. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10100104) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 8:04 AM Author: Sick Cobalt Laser Beams Place Of Business I got around to it. http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10100671 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10100681) |
Date: August 26th, 2008 10:26 PM Author: Metal idea he suggested faggot firefighter d00d, stop idolizing terra. she's probably celibate. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10099778) |
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Date: August 26th, 2008 10:30 PM Author: Titillating haunted graveyard Let him develop this crazy. It'll be funny to see him post pictures of his adventures with cosplay girls. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10099796) |
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Date: August 26th, 2008 10:35 PM Author: Sick Cobalt Laser Beams Place Of Business Haha. 178.
I've often wondered if Terra cosplayers are Terra-like, or if that's just an image. |
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Date: August 26th, 2008 10:36 PM Author: Titillating haunted graveyard Only one way to find out. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10099820) |
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Date: August 26th, 2008 10:43 PM Author: Sick Cobalt Laser Beams Place Of Business You're right, but it's important to be cautious. There's a thing called the Halloween Theorem, which states that the nastiness of a girl is *directly* (rather than inversely, as one might assume) to the sweet/innocent properties of the costume... but I don't think that applies to cosplay. I don't know anything about cosplay. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10099850) |
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Date: August 26th, 2008 10:55 PM Author: Twinkling mediation therapy I think teh correct Halloween Theorem is that on October 31st, all women are sluts. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10099908) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 7:59 AM Author: Sick Cobalt Laser Beams Place Of Business Nice.
I think Halloween was invented to give men a nice start to November. The few men who failed it would spend the dawn hours of Nov. 1 carrying around paraffin lights and playing "peeping Tom", leading to the turn of phrase "jack-off lantern", an ancestor of the modern "jack-o-lantern". |
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Date: August 26th, 2008 10:34 PM Author: Sick Cobalt Laser Beams Place Of Business Terra is just an example. Women should aspire to be more like her or Celes than Sex and the City bitches. This is why American guys prefer foreign women; there is something heroic about them that is very rare in American girls.
I met a girl who reminded me of Terra, in Hungary. She didn't have green curly hair (dirty-blond, straight) but she did have the pony tail. She was awesome. |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 7:58 AM Author: Provocative Public Bath "This is why American guys prefer foreign women; there is something heroic about them that is very rare in American girls."
??? |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 8:02 AM Author: Sick Cobalt Laser Beams Place Of Business Don't you agree? You've been abroad more than I have.
I first noticed it in Budapest. There was something different, and semi-magical, about young women there. |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 8:15 AM Author: Provocative Public Bath You are one weird dude. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10100689) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 8:17 AM Author: Sick Cobalt Laser Beams Place Of Business Why? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10100692) |
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Date: August 26th, 2008 10:45 PM Author: Buck-toothed Slate Toaster Yarmulke This thread really deserves to break 100 overnight. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10099858) |
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Date: August 26th, 2008 10:49 PM Author: Adulterous 180 Step-uncle's House Doctorate I am all for a world with heroic women in it.
Let's rewrite this IRL module. We can do it tonight, Pensive. |
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Date: August 26th, 2008 10:52 PM Author: Twinkling mediation therapy Gay. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10099893) |
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Date: August 26th, 2008 11:04 PM Author: Fiercely-loyal Ocher National I'm going to take an unpopular position and agree with Pensive on this one.
Check out the ponytail at 0:48. |
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Date: August 26th, 2008 11:07 PM Author: Sick Cobalt Laser Beams Place Of Business 0:48 of what?
A ponytail and exposed shoulders are key to the heroic look... though character and personality are more important than the look. |
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Date: August 26th, 2008 11:09 PM Author: Fiercely-loyal Ocher National http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAFgh2iPl_A (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10099977) |
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Date: August 26th, 2008 11:13 PM Author: green cracking hominid Weird. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10099988) |
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Date: August 26th, 2008 11:40 PM Author: appetizing gay wizard Irony: those that are best skilled to rewrite the IRL code are those that lack the skills to live IRL. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10100069) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 7:50 AM Author: Sick Cobalt Laser Beams Place Of Business This is funny.
It reminds me of high school, when the smart unpopular kids had the most mature understanding of social dynamics, but were completely incapable of putting their knowledge to practical use and, say, bringing down girlfriends. |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 8:58 AM Author: Charcoal Death Wish House you've really outdone yourself here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10100724) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 9:01 AM Author: Sick Cobalt Laser Beams Place Of Business *Hacks IRL module*
*Confiscates your internets* |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 8:13 AM Author: coiffed weed whacker dilemma Damn you, pensive. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10100685) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 8:28 AM Author: unhinged heady state Terra could fry 50 heavily armed Sex and the City bitches in under 3 minutes! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10100704) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 9:05 AM Author: Sick Cobalt Laser Beams Place Of Business Haha. Nice image.
What do people do with teh Sex-and-the-City bitches? Store vegetables in them if they're too stingy to buy pickles at the store? |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 8:55 AM Author: Passionate shrine Girls on the Internet is TCR. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10100719) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 9:35 AM Author: bat shit crazy carmine space Is this person really pensive? Has he actually started to troll for fictional female characters? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10100759) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 10:01 AM Author: Sick Cobalt Laser Beams Place Of Business I troll not for Terra, but for the platonic ideal she represents, and for the women who aspire to this ideal. I couldn't care less about details like the green hair, though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10100815) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 6:01 PM Author: Khaki misanthropic reading party I was wondering the same thing...it almost seems like some one pretending to be pensive to mock what a gigantic nerd he is. Then again, pensive is no stranger with coming up with idiotic, epic fail schticks (see his Ambition trolling, his "I'm CRAAAAAZY" trolling, his "Stupid women ilke stupid alpha males" crap, etc). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10102169) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 6:08 PM Author: Razzmatazz Violent Base On a side note, do you know any good Terra cosplayers you could introduce me to? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10102193) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 6:09 PM Author: pale meetinghouse Those were also pretend; the real pensive left years ago. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10102195) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 6:12 PM Author: Khaki misanthropic reading party I don't think the Ambition schtick or the Crazy schtick were "pretend"....those happened years ago. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10102202) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 8:38 PM Author: Buck-toothed Slate Toaster Yarmulke Do you think the game of Ambition is elaborate flame, then? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10102536) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 9:31 PM Author: Emerald harsh temple windowlicker I know for a fact that it is the real pensive. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=848883&forum_id=2#10102707) |
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Date: August 27th, 2008 9:33 PM Author: Sick Cobalt Laser Beams Place Of Business Are you the poster who used to play in Magic tournaments?
If so, how've you been? Do you want to Google chat? |