Date: August 26th, 2008 10:19 PM Author: laughsome transparent dysfunction
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.
Date: August 27th, 2008 7:55 AM Author: laughsome transparent dysfunction
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.
Date: August 27th, 2008 8:16 AM Author: passionate house
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.
Date: August 27th, 2008 8:18 AM Author: laughsome transparent dysfunction
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.
Date: August 27th, 2008 8:21 AM Author: laughsome transparent dysfunction
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.
Date: August 26th, 2008 10:43 PM Author: laughsome transparent dysfunction
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.
Date: August 27th, 2008 7:59 AM Author: laughsome transparent dysfunction
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".
Date: August 26th, 2008 10:34 PM Author: laughsome transparent dysfunction
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.
Date: August 27th, 2008 7:50 AM Author: laughsome transparent dysfunction
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.
Date: August 27th, 2008 10:01 AM Author: laughsome transparent dysfunction
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.
Date: August 27th, 2008 6:01 PM Author: Dark principal's office
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).