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    Is going to college worth it?

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    College is fine if you have a set path of any kind. However, there is a degree of flexibility with certain degrees if you do play it right. There's plenty of applications to non-STEM/Law degrees beyond teaching, but it also helps if you make up your mind. Getting a bachelor's degree can be tricky to fund, but getting the right degree does help.

     

    The Race Issue: Is it going too far? Has Disney hopped on the train now too?

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    51 minutes ago, UNLEASH IT said:

    Maybe being the default is a privilege in and of itself. Racial stereotypes can't really stick to you if you're not seen as a race to begin with.

    Nah, even mixed-race people get shit on once certain people figure out you're mixed race. It's usually the racial supremacy extremists who do this. (Black or White supremacists. Haven't seen Asian supremacists, funny enough.)

    The Race Issue: Is it going too far? Has Disney hopped on the train now too?

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    15 hours ago, Shoblongoo said:

    From what my wife has told me, racism in East Asian countries is something akin to common attitudes in the Unite States towards Mexico and Latin America.

    i.e. There's a segment of wealthy and privileged people in the lighter-skinned, more economically developed region to the North that is Japan, South Korea, Mainland China and Taiwan.

    Those people look at the poorer, darker-skinned, less educated populations in the region to the South that is the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. 

    And they basically just treat them as an exploitable source of menial labor (i.e. housekeepers and maids for rich businessmen, gardeners and landscapers, janitors and trash collectors, etc.) 

    While viewing their culture with distrust and not wanting too many of them in their countries, because they see them as sources of drugs and violent crime. 

    If we're going to continue the parallel you brought up in the first line, it kinda goes through a looooot of smaller similar parallels that I'm not sure I'd be able to give appropriate wording to given that it's squicky material and it's almost 3 in the morning.

     

    But the Philippines is the one weird place where the rest of the region isn't sure whether or not to treat solely like menial labor since everyone there learns english as a second language due to the schools. (Country has a major brain drain issue. But that's another discussion.) But additionally, said countries in first-world asia tend to send their kids to the Philippines to grow up in the english speaking private schools. There's a substantial number of south korean, mainland china, taiwanese, and japanese children being put through the private schools in the country. (There's like a dozen in each major city or thereabouts.)

    Sensitive Content. 

    Spoiler

    Anyways, race issues in Asia are odd. They kinda fetishize white people but get incredibly wary of black people. I've heard things through anecdotes and whatnot about why and it's kind of a perpetuation of a stereotype of "black people are extremely sexually active" to the extreme. (I"m putting it in the most civil terms possible.) These anecdotes come from the standard "someone who knows someone who knows someone who . . .etc." stuff and I'm not sure which part of the filipino culture started perpetuating this crap. 

    Again, this is ***all*** anecdotal in this spoiler. 

     

    The Race Issue: Is it going too far? Has Disney hopped on the train now too?

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    I'm half-filipino but I'm tan enough that random people think I'm hispanic. However, I can confirm that in South Asian cultures, lighter skin is considered a sign of beauty and that's why skin whitening creams and treatments exist there.

    Additionally, yes Asian Cultures are kinda more judgmental but that's a nuanced topic and I only really have in-depth knowledge of the Filipino culture. The gist of it in the Philippines is more to do with the country being a really mixed shebang of cultures from all over the world blended together. However, the class stratification in said country revolves around people with very strong caucasian or mainland chinese(or japanese) blood where their skin is lighter and facial features less Australasian iirc. But yeah, being lighter skinned is also kind of a weird status-symbol on some level there. 

    Black White 2 Draft: Ban Ban

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    LE MONKE

    Black 2/White 2 Draft

     

    -for fun, no competition unless you want to

    -starters are free

    -The 3 dragons are banned, but I can't seem to edit that right now.

    -State your version

    -At least 4 players. Which means around 8 mons for everyone. Postgame mons get a separate round. 

    -You have to catch everyone you’ve drafted. {i} that even means fucking Lapras has to be caught if you do choose it{/i}

    -{s} you get more street cred for doing challenge mode{/s}

    -Game ends after you beat Benga. We're going there boys.

    -In the case of trade evos, if emulating, feel free to evolve the trade evo with a randomizer.

    -ingame trades are allowed

    - If you don't pick a Pokémon within 24 hours, A Pokémon will be chosen for you at random.

    -trades are allowed if you have access to them, if playing on an emulator, you may remove trade evos, as trading is allowed anyway.

    -Mons you pick apply to all mons of that line. I.E. banning rufflet/vullaby means the in game event ones are banned too. Picking Mincinno means you get skill link mincinno too. 

    -Game exclusive pokemon are counted as two of one slot. I.E. Elekid/Magby are one slot and can be drafted as picks twice, for example.

    -undrafted pokemon may be caught, traded, taught hms only if necessary to advance and no available drafted poke can learn them

    -undrafted pokemon may not be used in battle. if only an undrafted poke remains un-fainted, must allow pokemon to faint and lose the battle, cannot use items while an undrafted mon is out

    -There will be two ban rounds. One at the start, and the other after the third pick. 
    -8 rounds means you *can* also grab postgame mons.

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    Darumaka

    Drilbur

    Heracross

    Magnemite

    Scraggy

    Axew

    Azurill

    Braviary

    Joltik

    Minccino

    Oshawott

    Petilil

    Pinsir

    Riolu

    Roselia

    Sandile

    Staryu

    Zorua

    Absol

    Aron

    Cobalion

    Deerling

    Ducklett

    Dwebble

    Eevee (Espeon)

    Eevee (Jolteon)

    Eevee (Vaporeon)

    Elekid

    Gligar

    Growlithe

    Lillipup

    Litwick

    Mareep

    Metang

    Mienfoo

    Pilowswine

    Sandshrew

    Sewaddle

    Sigilyph

    Snivy

    Tangela

    Tepig

    Terrakion

    Timburr

    Virizion

    Volcarona

    Zangoose

    Zubat

    Banette

    Buizel

    Cottonee

    Cubchoo

    Drifblim

    Dunsparce

    Frillish

    Koffing

    Magby

    Mandibuzz

    Nosepass

    Numel

    Psyduck

    Roggenrola

    Skorupi

    Sneasel

    Trapinch

    Vanillish

    Venipede

    Zebstrika

    Alomomola

    Audino

    Baltoy

    Basculin

    Bronzor

    Buneary

    Castform

    Clefairy

    Eevee (Flareon)

    Eevee (Umbreon)

    Elgyem

    Emolga

    Ferroseed

    Foongus

    Golurk

    Gothita

    Grimer

    Klink

    Lunatone

    Mantyke

    Maractus

    Onix

    Panpour

    Pansage

    Pansear

    Patrat

    Pawniard

    Pelipper

    Pidove

    Rattata

    Remoraid

    Sawk

    Seel

    Skarmory

    Solosis

    Solrock

    Spheal

    Spoink

    Swablu

    Throh

    Trubbish

    Tynamo

    Wailmer

    Woobat

    Vulpix

    Yamask

    Bottom

    Bouffalant

    Combee

    Corsola

    Delibird

    Ditto

    Druddigon

    Karrablast

    Purrloin

    Seviper

    Shelmet

    Shuckle

    Skitty

    Sunkern

    Zweilous

    POSTGAME ONLY
    Archen

    Carnivine

    Corphish

    Croagunk

    Cryogonal

    Durant

    Eevee (Glaceon)

    Eevee (Leafeon)

    Genesect

    Heatmor

    Jigglypuff

    Keldeo

    Kyurem

    Landorus

    Lickitung

    Meloetta

    Munna

    Palpitoad

    Pupitar

    Stunfisk

    Thundurus

    Tirtouga

    Tornadus

    Tropius

    Vigoroth

    Yanma

     

    @Hylian Air Force   @Ironthunder  @saucegoblin  @Hiddency  @Ether I'll get to randomizing the order for this later. 

    Banlist: Pidove, Lillipup, Zorua, Ferroseed, Braviary/Mandibuzz, Magnemite
    Onix, Leavanny, Tynamo, Axew, Mincinno, Darumaka
    1. Iron
    Zubat, Drilbur, Ducklet, Skorupi, Metang, Bronzong, Pawniard, Cottonee/Petilil
    2. Sharpy
    Sigilyph, Azurill, Deerling, Dwebble, Joleteon, Simipour, Yamask, MATPATRAT
    3. Sauce-LE MONKE
    Mareep, Litwick, Sandile, Frillish, SKarmory, Simisage, Mamoswine, Simisear
    4. Hylian
    OPPAN GANGNAM STYLE DUCK, Sandshrew, Growlithe, Joltik, Swablue, Aron, Mienfoo, eSPEON
    5. Hiddency
    Scrafty, Venipede, Buneary, Volcarona, Vaporeon, Gligar, Driftblim, sPHEAL
    6. Ether
    Magby/Elekid, Trapinch, Heracross/Pinsir, Roselia, Staryu, Riolu, Sneasel, Roggenrola

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