Hero
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It's been a while since I last came here, but this post drew me back.
Anarchy, at the level of the individual, is impossible now. There are just too many people for them not too be ruled by someone. Think of the popular what-if scenario, what if the government were totally destroyed in a nuclear strike? Think about it: If contact outside your city was cut, and the legal structure of governance was crippled, who is being pressed down the most in the current power structure and stands to gain the most in the coming vacuum? The biggest ones are the big ethnic-regional gangs, and after them other big centralized organizations that command lots of local loyalty. And there's the foundation from which a new governing authority will arise.
Because there are too many people nowadays, that kind of depopulation scenario is the closest we could ever get to anarchy.
I don't believe anarchy could really ever sustain itself, either, although I admit I'm not an expert on every political philosophy and I'm sure your particular brand of anarchy is very sustainable/the best possible thing for all the people of the world.
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Is Swim (who goes by Robo in the picture) an asshole for saying this?
Personally I think Swim is pretty cool and has a sharp wit, but I see how it could be interpreted either way jajaj.
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In life we get a lot of mixed signals.
One of the biggest goals, for almost everybody, is self-improvement. And even among those who see no flaws in themselves, who doesn't wish to go back and redo some earlier stage of life with a more current value-set?
We all look for improvement and see it in ourselves, but at moments this all breaks down. Ideas and emotions from a long time ago make themselves heard again, and we realize we've been the same person at the core of it since early childhood.
For a lot of people, these moments make them give up their goals, at least momentarily. If nothing ever changes, what can be accomplished?
I say those people are full of shit. Things do change. You just have to think about it for a moment, and you'll know it's true.
I'll even give you an example from my own life.
Yesterday, my favorite Pokemon was Marshtomp. This had been my favorite Pokemon for years, and it seemed like things would never change. At that time, Marshtomp to me embodied all that a Pokemon should be right down to the single fin on its head, and no other Pokemon could fill that space more completely.
But today, everything changed. That place where Marshtomp was before, that crazy pants-lizard from Pokemon Black and White is now.
Who else thinks pants-lizard is pretty cool?
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I don't recall having much in the way of seating assignments since I was in middle school, I guess there must be cultural differences about this.
I remember I was never really a fan of them, since teachers would always put me in the front. An alphabetical ordering was preferable, since I'd always be under R or S, but a rare reprieve. I really disliked having to line up or do anything in turns by alphabetical order, though, especially if everyone ahead of me was going to take more than a few seconds.
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Greetings, comrade, and welcome to the forest!
So which crashed and burned forum are you from? I've done my time on a few Fire Emblem forums that fit that description, and it might be we know each other.
Speaking of your real-life friends, I'm not a big sportsman or much of a competitive spirit either, but you should get some weed off of them and smoke it as you're playing video games. It makes you suck but it's a good time. I just spent a few hours last week repeatedly failing the fifth mission or so in San Andreas.
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Haha, how's it going guys.
For some reason I subscribed to this topic sometime back.
This Pitbuller26 seems like a swell guy, anybody know what the fuck happened with him?
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When most of you looked at your calendars this morning, your first thought was probably that today should be a day of celebration; after all, is this not the day the South Ossetians declared their independence from the Georgian oppressors?
This is the last thought that should be going through your heads. Today, the 20th of September, is in fact the day 632 years ago that the Butcher of Cesena was elected by sycophants and traitors in cardinals' robes as Antipope, the day that the Western Schism began. This schism was the worst of them all, it is directly at the root of a lot of spilled blood, and caused unimaginably more damage as it sowed the seeds of apostasy that later grew into Calvin's Heresies, which continue to poison minds even today. This day should be devoted to seeking out and hunting down our modern-day Cardinal Roberts.
Even more significantly, today is the 1549th anniversary of the great victory over the Hun in Chalons. This was a monumental victory, glorious beyond measure, but a very costly one by any man's standard. We should temper our celebration with remembrance for the fallen, both the brave servants of Rome who gave their lives for the victory but also all the good-hearted people who were forced to hold Attila's line by whip and chain and were struck down for their misfortune.
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If it's on fire, why don't you use it to lit your cigar?
It would ruin the taste.
Any real aficionado will tell you, only light your cigars with matches manufactured from oak, cypress or a similar wood. Lighting a cigar the wrong way is even worse than cutting it badly, because the taste of the flame will stick with it for the whole smoke. Once I saw somebody light a 1993 Saint Luis Rey Churchill with a butane lighter...sixty dollars down the drain, and the hostess fainted!
Personally I'm a fan of the Cypress Stick item from the original Dragon Warrior. It's only 10G, and after you convert it into a Torch, the thing will stay lit for fifty steps before burning lower, and will last for a total of a hundred-fifty steps before it's extinguished! A real bargain, and useful if you happen on a dark cave or dungeon and don't have the Radiant spell.
You can also save a bit of money by buying a preprepared Torch at 8G, but I've heard horror stories about people getting sappy pine torches. Not optimal for any kind of cigar (except a few manufacturers in Costa Rica, but you probably don't have any of those if you were thinking about lighting up with a Fire Emblem!)
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I'm a bare 5'8", and luckily for all the metric users on here I was measured by your standard just six months ago, so I know it comes out to 172.5cm.
It's a drag being a below-average height man, but I don't complain too much. I can usually find one or two people shorter than I am to stand next to, and I'm just about the same height as my father, and seven inches taller than my mother. My sister has the worst deal of all at 4'11" while wearing shoes, and she's not expected to grow any more (going on 15 years old).
Small nutritious meals are much better than coffee for anything the caffeine would do.
In other words. Just eat a damn apple.
Fruit's great and all, but it doesn't give a clearheaded rush to compare like what drinking a lot of coffee quickly can give.
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I wouldn't have minded being there, in the Death Star bridge, seeing everything as it happened.
Talk about the greatest fireworks show in the galaxy! And I'd probably get a major spiritual experience out of it too, what with those millions of souls crying out in pain together and then suddenly silencing.
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Your name is Amine? That sounds like the same name as makes up half of Idi Amin's name. Now there was a true leader, a real hero for all Africa.
You'll always be welcome here, sir.
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I've never been able to think of a symbol I think I'd most likely still appreciate getting tattooed on myself five years later. I feel tight even thinking about the removal process.
I'm not usually the type to be overly cautious about anything, but I would want to get a tattoo even less than I do now if I had to have somebody else pick what it would be.
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I once got warned for harassing a child on this forum and encouraging others to join in with me. I felt it had been worth it, but back then I was a virile speck of a lad at 18.
These days I've matured, you could say, seen the benefits of gradualism and come to terms with its drawbacks. Leave rule-breaking to the red-faced revolutionaries, it's almost impossible to enjoy the finer things in life when the authority is always cracking down on you. I hear good cigars aren't to be found in prison for any price, and most of the detained will never get to taste a wine that was not fermented in a toilet or a trash bag.
No sir, that stuff's not for me. Have I been rehabilitated? Absolutely. I learned my lesson. I can honestly say I'm a changed man. No longer a danger to cyber-society, and that's the Lord's honest truth. No two ways about it.
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I'd like to take this moment to make it clear that this Masked Hero character is not my alt, no matter what the name sounds like.
I have enough of those already and don't want to cause any more confusion or trouble.
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There's nothing like procrastination to make you feel like shit about yourself. But I doubt you're going to find too many in internet communities like these who don't engage in that practice, at least to some degree.
One of my fondest memories of high school is my second to last day. I got to school early, on the tail of a couple all-nighters, and planted myself on one of the school computers to work as all the people celebrated around me. Four hours before the final, and four hours after. I was BSing a project on which I'd been expected to focus exclusively in its class for half the semester. Since I didn't have the time or facilities to do the project traditionally, I decided I'd pretend to have done it. I did my exhaustive research for the long accompanying paper entirely on Google and used an unrelated by convenient photo I'd found and decided on the night before as the evidence I'd done the project physically. My diagrams, copied from Wikipedia with just enough tweaking, were done in two different colors since my pen died halfway through and I couldn't quickly locate another in the same color. In the end I got the eleven-page report to the relevant teacher just as he was putting his things in a big suitcase and locking the door for the summer. He gave me an 82, it would have been higher but I'd technically missed the due-date.
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It took me half an hour but I was away for 10 minutes
Beating a difficulty in over 999 seconds isn't really beating it, it doesn't even show up on your records. Keep at it until you have something real to show.
And what's with that strange client in the first post? Does it have features the preinstalled Windows version lacks? I've never heard of serious traditional Minesweeper on any software but that.
Here's my record by the way. Really nothing special compared with some of the masters in this thread, but then I've never been more than a weekend Mineswarrior.
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BUTBUTBUT...XELDIE!! ;~;
WHAT ABOUT OUR TRIP TO JAPAN? ;~;
Japanese cops are real nosy oinkers, there are just too many for the population over there. And Japanese courts are liable to hand out twenty year sentences for simple possession of stimulants.
How are we supposed to have a big, public crack party there?
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That's not a bad plan man.
I don't understand the people who hate the ones who try to go out in flames. Let's throw out our delusions about internet communities. If you're going to leave for good, you might as well make as much drama as you can and break as many rules as you can. Chances are that, even if by some strange twist of fate you do see another person who visits this site and that person just happens to have camwhored in the picture thread enough to be recognized, nobody's going to hold something you did online against you.
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So, I just checked out the website of this school to find out what and where it is.
Apparently the cost is $43,500. That's about four times as much as the private high school I spent a couple years at cost, and more expensive than nine in ten universities! And on top of that, they brag that only 37% of students pay financial aid!
Get ready to meet some of the richest, most spoiled kids you'll ever see Roxas.
By the way, I just read this site some more while I waited for something else to load, a "no-chance" alcohol and drugs policy sounds extremely lame while you're sharing your dorm floor with staff. And then you don't even have the internet to torrent movies? You probably won't have too many fun times on-campus.
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Real men also don't need coffee after they wake up.
You got that right. A double shot of espresso will help anyone to move in the mornings, but I usually don't take anything.
Caffeine's not something you want to put much of in your body if you want to be healthy, and the inevitable caffeine tolerance robs it of any benefit it might have given while forcing a new addiction on the body. Not at all the sort of drug a Real Man would involve himself with.
I wake up to three lines of meth, just to get me through the day.
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I can't even remember the last time I went to sleep before 2 AM, no matter how early I had to get up the next morning.
Only pussies sleep for eight hours a night. Real men get by on four or less, sometimes with an hour or two's nap in the afternoon to help and sometimes just with guts.
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Moderator! Moderator!
General Spoon specifically referenced the Amazon Kindle as having this capability while in fact any number of handheld devices do as well. Seems like advertising to me.
I believe that's breaking a Rule!
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Hah, I don't need a test to tell me I'm not evil. I follow the law to the letter, just the way God tells us to do, and will happily grass you out if you don't. In fact, I think I'll give the cops a heads-up about all of you who've been failing this test. You never know what somebody without morals to hold him back is going to do next!
Unexpected fortune!
in Far from the Forest...
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Hahaha, it's amazing how much time you can end up wasting, just because of a couple unlucky choices by the RNG. The perfect speedrun is all but impossible.