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Star. Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Ugh when plans change at an inconvenient time such as when you're already at the destination. Happen to me this morning when I went to Oxfam. I showered for this :c ☢ CAUTION ☢ CAUTION ☢ CAUTION ☢ CAUTION ☢ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Crocefisso Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 I remember a while ago I was on a boat trip down the Nile. The scenery was incredible and yet people only stopped dozing under their sun hats or gossiping about people they knew back home when hippos were spotted. There's nothing wrong with hippos, but if they can't appreciate anything else they might as well just go to the zoo. "Imagine yourself surrounded by the most horrible cripples and maniacs it is possible to conceive, and you may understand a little of my feelings with these grotesque caricatures of humanity about me." - H.G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nine naked men Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Sounds like they just couldn't face how beautiful nature is. get it 1 sleep like dead men wake up like dead men Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toki_Hakurei Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 >mann vs machine "HURR HURR HURR I'LL BE WHATEVER CLASS I WANT AND BE USELESS TO THE TEAM BECAUSE I THINK I KNOW WHAT THE [bleep] I'M DOING!!!1!111" Click the "Signed in as..." go to Manage ignored users, copy paste Toki_Hakurei.I'm pretty sure having boobs is the most broken super power anyone can ever have. 0_0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTanT Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 ^Every class can be useful in MvM, although you definitely don't want multiples of any of them. Although sniper and spy require a lot more skill to do well than, say, heavy. The only difference between Hitler and the man next door who comes home and beats his kids every day is circumstance. The intent is the same-- to harm others.[hide=Tifers say the darndest things]I told her there was a secret method to doing it - and there is - but my once nimble and agile fingers were unable to perform because I was under the influence.I would laugh, not hate. I'm a male. :(Since when was Ireland an island...? :wall:I actually have a hobby of licking public toilet seats.[/hide] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vezon Dash Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 MvM spy is amazing if they know what they are doing, but most people don't..... MvM period kind of annoys me because last time I played, it took over an hour for me to get into a game... on the last wave of the mission. >.< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toki_Hakurei Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 ^Every class can be useful in MvM, although you definitely don't want multiples of any of them. Although sniper and spy require a lot more skill to do well than, say, heavy.That's the thing. People think we can pull a win out of our asses when I'm the only engineer and there are two scouts or two spies. Click the "Signed in as..." go to Manage ignored users, copy paste Toki_Hakurei.I'm pretty sure having boobs is the most broken super power anyone can ever have. 0_0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obfuscator Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 I've seen every class played effectively, but some classes are a lot harder to play effectively in mvm. "It's not a rest for me, it's a rest for the weights." - Dom Mazzetti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginger_Warrior Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 This scene from the Disney/Pixar film Up:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh7kVYYBNyk I watched it for the first time over New Year. I started getting tearful at the bit with the baby and it all went downhill from there. :sad: | Favourite Game Music | Last.fm | HYT Friend Chat Rules | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaida23 Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Yeah, UP had the most depressing opening to a kid's movie ever. Although, it was very effective at explaining his motivations. Check out my blog to read the Adventures of a Big Damn (F2P) Hero. THE place for all free players to connect, hang out and talk about how awesome it is to be F2P. So, Kaida is the real version of every fictional science-badass? That explains a lot, actually... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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obfuscator Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 I fail to understand how that's depressing. Moving, certainly...but it's just depicting a life - indeed one that's mostly happy. "It's not a rest for me, it's a rest for the weights." - Dom Mazzetti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginger_Warrior Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 She discovers she can't conceive and dies at the end, just as he's about to fulfill her lifelong ambition, but you don't see how that's depressing? :? 4 | Favourite Game Music | Last.fm | HYT Friend Chat Rules | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riku3220 Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 She discovers she can't conceive and dies at the end, just as he's about to fulfill her lifelong ambition, but you don't see how that's depressing? :?She still lived a long, mostly happy life with her husband. That's better than what a lot people get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obfuscator Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 She discovers she can't conceive and dies at the end, just as he's about to fulfill her lifelong ambition, but you don't see how that's depressing? :?She still lived a long, mostly happy life with her husband. That's better than what a lot people get. Exactly. I never said it wasn't sad, in a way...but depressing? Give me a break. 1 "It's not a rest for me, it's a rest for the weights." - Dom Mazzetti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muggiwhplar Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 I think the whole "sad" vs "depressing" thing is just semantics. Regardless, you can't fault Ginger for thinking it's sad/depressing, considering that scene was intended to make you feel that way. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Getting involved in a manga, hitting the end of it all and realizing there's 1 or 2 more chapters left in the series, and they haven't been released yet. :< or worse still, same thing but the author just decides "ah [bleep] it, can't be arsed with this manga anymore. I'll make a new one" Popoto.~<3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obfuscator Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 I think that you can choose to see happiness or sadness in that scene and your choice says a lot about you as a person. "It's not a rest for me, it's a rest for the weights." - Dom Mazzetti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distracted Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 We have some of the weirdest arguments here. Sure, Ellie and Carl had a nice life together, but the movie isn't focussing on their life, it's focussing on what happens after that whole story. It's meant to build up all the happiness in their life, so you can see what a devastating loss it was for Carl when his wife died. After establishing that, the movie starts (at least I assume, I've yet to see it). Also, movie is wrong according to Firefox spellchecker. So is Firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginger_Warrior Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 That's exactly how it works, actually. He initially becomes quiet, lonely and reclusive afterwards (much like he had been during his childhood before meeting Ellie), obstinately refusing to sell his increasingly-neglected home to property developers, or accept a place offered to him at a retirement home. To be fair to Y Guy, professional counseling services which focus on CBT, which me and my siblings received after our mother died during our childhood, encourage people to firstly accept that death is an inevitable, natural occurrence and not one that's necessarily in our control, and secondly to focus on the happy life the person lived rather than the life they no longer will. We were encouraged to write, draw and talk about fond memories and to literally store them in a box, the psychological metaphor obviously being to 'store it in the back of your mind' as you slowly come to terms with grief. So the emphasis is, over a long-term basis, starting to see something like that scene as a "good life lived", as Y said, but the initial reaction to seeing that for most people would be one of overwhelming sadness and helplessness. I won't ruin the film for those who haven't seen it but it could be said the rest of the movie is Carl basically going through that grieving process. It's quite impressive how they manage to discuss a plot which requires that level of maturity to understand fully, but they do it in a cartoon-ish way that children can still find funny and connect with. That was my lasting impression anyway. | Favourite Game Music | Last.fm | HYT Friend Chat Rules | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obfuscator Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 ^ Basically what I'm getting at. Society tends to see death as a terrible thing for obvious reasons, but I don't think that's something we have to accept as inevitable (death as tragedy). "It's not a rest for me, it's a rest for the weights." - Dom Mazzetti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crocefisso Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 ^ Basically what I'm getting at. Society tends to see death as a terrible thing for obvious reasons, but I don't think that's something we have to accept as inevitable (death as tragedy).I think it was Taleb who pointed out that the ancients feared inglorious death while modern man fears merely death. You only have to look at the difference between Greek heroes and Ray Kurzweil, who lives off pills and wine in the vainglorious belief that he can and should live forever, to see that he was right. "Imagine yourself surrounded by the most horrible cripples and maniacs it is possible to conceive, and you may understand a little of my feelings with these grotesque caricatures of humanity about me." - H.G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alg Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 I wonder how much that has to do with changing attitudes regarding death. Compare the knowledge, medicines, and beliefs (or lack of belief, if you want to be pedantic) of then to those of today. I painted some stuff and put it on tumblr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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