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the lost shinobi
11-11-2008, 05:44 PM
Post a quote that you genuinely like. The quote can be a witticism, or an idiom, or a popular addage or something a friend or whoever has said. Just post one and let's see what kind of discussions we can get about them. Explain why you like it if you want or w/e. Let's have some fun. I think this is a great thread for us to talk in and stuff
I'll start with this one
"You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened...or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on." -Tupac
Erotique
11-11-2008, 05:59 PM
In Hollywood, a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
-Rita Rudner-
the lost shinobi
11-11-2008, 06:06 PM
well the following is frommV for Vendetta the Graphic Novel. I loved it because of it's constant use of words that begin with V. In everyday life, Using just one word that begins with V is pretty rare and it' usually the word very. Another common word is victim. However this speech makes use of much more difficult and grandiose words. It's ear candy to listen to and say out loud.
Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
Gman47
11-11-2008, 06:10 PM
The game is long. Stay at the table.
Erotique
11-11-2008, 06:13 PM
Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
Damn you TLS, you beat me to it... >.<
i_feel_tiredsleepy
11-11-2008, 06:15 PM
Well Jean Paul Sartre
"L'enfer, c'est les autres."
Translation: Hell is other people.
And, "when the rich fight wars, the poor die"
I'm also quite fond of the Oscar Wilde quote in my sig from The Importance of Being Earnest.
the lost shinobi
11-11-2008, 06:18 PM
Well Jean Paul Sartre
"L'enfer, c'est les autres."
Translation: Hell is other people.
.
I did a report on Existentialism and Sartre was my posterboy. That's probably one of the most oft repeated quotes in modern time yet no one knows who said it. Quite sad really how people love to say things and don't know their real meaning
i_feel_tiredsleepy
11-11-2008, 06:24 PM
Ya Le Nause is a decent play.
Camus is a more interesting existentialist, but Sartre was more clear and direct with his message.
Camus's Myth of Sisyphus is just golden.
Edit: Nietzche has to be the most often quoted existentialist though, "God is dead" :p
Edit2: For a while this was in my sig from Camus :p
"Aujourd'hui Maman est morte. Ou peut-etre hier, je ne sais pas."
Today mother died. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don't know.
the lost shinobi
11-11-2008, 06:30 PM
Ya Le Nause is a decent play.
Camus is a more interesting existentialist, but Sartre was more clear and direct with his message.
Camus's Myth of Sisyphus is just golden.
Edit: Nietzche has to be the most often quoted existentialist though, "God is dead" :p
indeed it is. It was a very enjoyable read. And yes Nietzche is more oftenly quoted, but people know who said that. Lot's of people quote Sartre and don't know a thing about him.
Oh and since I don't want to quote his entire essay I'll just write the title.
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. Satire is delicious!
i_feel_tiredsleepy
11-11-2008, 06:31 PM
indeed it is. It was a very enjoyable read. And yes Nietzche is more oftenly quoted, but people know who said that. Lot's of people quote Sartre and don't know a thing about him.
Oh and since I don't want to quote his entire essay I'll just write the title.
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. Satire is delicious!
Haha, and so are babies ;)
partlink1
11-11-2008, 06:37 PM
Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived.
--Captain Jean-Luc Picard
the lost shinobi
11-11-2008, 06:38 PM
Haha, and so are babies ;)
Swift was fucking brilliant. He continues to provide us with lulz to this day
i_feel_tiredsleepy
11-11-2008, 06:45 PM
Wilde still provides plenty of lulls from beyond the grave if you're into dry humour.
"He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him."
Katzyn
11-11-2008, 06:50 PM
Wilde still provides plenty of lulls from beyond the grave if you're into dry humour.
"He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him."
Hahaha, that somewhat reminds me of when my friend and I were walking on the street, and some lady passed us...The lady looked really evil/mean, and I asked my friend (after the lady was out of earshot), "Wow, she looks mad!", and my friend, who saw the lady on a regular basis, just said, plainly, "No, that's just her face".
I nearly died laughing. This is my friend who hardly EVER said anything that could be seen as a possible insult, so it was insanely funny to me.
Erotique
11-11-2008, 07:02 PM
Oh and how can I forget this memorable quote?
Evil will always triumph, 'cause good is dumb.
-Dark Helmet-
the lost shinobi
11-11-2008, 07:06 PM
Oh and how can I forget this memorable quote?
Evil will always triumph, 'cause good is dumb.
-Dark Helmet-
That movie was visual and audible hilarity
''I like when a woman has ambition. It's like seeing a dog wearing clothes.''
~Alec Baldwin~
Erotique
11-11-2008, 07:35 PM
"I want to share with you an interesting program—for two reasons, one, it's interesting, and two, my wife thought of it—or has actually been involved with it; she didn't think of it. But she thought of it for this speech."
-George W. Bush, Washington D.C., Oct. 21, 2008, discussing PlayPumps International, which improves access to clean water in Africa-
-Erios-
11-11-2008, 07:57 PM
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
KageNaruto
11-11-2008, 10:42 PM
Only thing I can think of at the moment is
"The only difference between martyrdom and suicide is press coverage."
Chuck Palahniuk's quote, but I think some band adapted it as a song.
Ashikaga
11-11-2008, 11:02 PM
"Life is like a box of chocolates. It doesn't matter which one you pick. It is always nougat."
estranged
11-12-2008, 03:05 AM
"Killing is forbidden, therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets"
-Voltaire
KAKASHI10
11-12-2008, 03:16 AM
The better it felt when you say it, the more trouble it will get you into.
PhantomAlchemist
11-12-2008, 12:14 PM
"You stole fizzy lifting drinks! YOU GET NOTHING!" willy wonka
it doesn't have a deep meaning, but it always puts a smile on my face, when i need to smile.
*edit*
if you wanted something deep: "there can be no justice with a system of absolutes. life itself is nothing more than a seriese of exceptions." Jean-Luc Picard
i_feel_tiredsleepy
11-12-2008, 12:41 PM
There are better Dahl quotes from Willy Wonka/Charlie in the Chocolate Factory
Like,
"Remember what happened to the man who got everything he ever wanted, he lived happily ever after."
"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker"
I won't bother with the canabilism quote lol.
the lost shinobi
11-12-2008, 12:46 PM
Dahl was a childhood favorite of mine. It's a shame kids these days don't read as much
i_feel_tiredsleepy
11-12-2008, 01:18 PM
I still think he's funny haha.
In England once there lived a big
And wonderfully clever pig.
To everybody it was plain
That Piggy had a massive brain.
He worked out sums inside his head,
There was no book he hadn't read.
He knew what made an airplane fly,
He knew how engines worked and why.
He knew all this, but in the end
One question drove him round the bend:
He simply couldn't puzzle out
What LIFE was really all about.
What was the reason for his birth?
Why was he placed upon this earth?
His giant brain went round and round.
Alas, no answer could be found.
Till suddenly one wondrous night.
All in a flash he saw the light.
He jumped up like a ballet dancer
And yelled, "By gum, I've got the answer!"
"They want my bacon slice by slice
"To sell at a tremendous price!
"They want my tender juicy chops
"To put in all the butcher's shops!
"They want my pork to make a roast
"And that's the part'll cost the most!
"They want my sausages in strings!
"They even want my chitterlings!
"The butcher's shop! The carving knife!
"That is the reason for my life!"
Such thoughts as these are not designed
To give a pig great piece of mind.
Next morning, in comes Farmer Bland,
A pail of pigswill in his hand,
And piggy with a mighty roar,
Bashes the farmer to the floor…
Now comes the rather grizzly bit
So let's not make too much of it,
Except that you must understand
That Piggy did eat Farmer Bland,
He ate him up from head to toe,
Chewing the pieces nice and slow.
It took an hour to reach the feet,
Because there was so much to eat,
And when he finished, Pig, of course,
Felt absolutely no remorse.
Slowly he scratched his brainy head
And with a little smile he said,
"I had a fairly powerful hunch
"That he might have me for his lunch.
"And so, because I feared the worst,
"I thought I'd better eat him first."
Erotique
11-13-2008, 07:36 AM
Do you know the difference between brown-nosing and ass-kissing? Depth perception.
Named
11-16-2008, 09:47 PM
Well Jean Paul Sartre
"L'enfer, c'est les autres."
Translation: Hell is other people.
And, "when the rich fight wars, the poor die"
I'm also quite fond of the Oscar Wilde quote in my sig from The Importance of Being Earnest.
You quoted one of my favourite philosophers.
I'll repay the kindness with a quote from his friend and thought-rival Albert Camus, whom I respect as a force of mind but whom I also disagree with on many accounts (mostly political)
"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
"How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."
-Albert Camus
i_feel_tiredsleepy
11-16-2008, 10:25 PM
You quoted one of my favourite philosophers.
I'll repay the kindness with a quote from his friend and thought-rival Albert Camus, whom I respect as a force of mind but whom I also disagree with on many accounts (mostly political)
"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
"How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."
-Albert Camus
1. omg you're still alive and you actually posted here again.
2. Camus was always more talented as a novelist than as a philosopher. Though his concept of the absurd is interesting.
Dream Catcher
11-16-2008, 10:28 PM
It is only by fate,
that any life ends.
And only by chance...
that it is yours
i_feel_tiredsleepy
11-16-2008, 10:33 PM
Well here's some beat poetry.
America by Allen Ginsberg
America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
America two dollars and twentyseven cents January
17, 1956.
I can't stand my own mind.
America when will we end the human war?
Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.
I don't feel good don't bother me.
I won't write my poem till I'm in my right mind.
America when will you be angelic?
When will you take off your clothes?
When will you look at yourself through the grave?
When will you be worthy of your million Trotskyites?
America why are your libraries full of tears?
America when will you send your eggs to India?
I'm sick of your insane demands.
When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I
need with my good looks?
America after all it is you and I who are perfect not
the next world.
Your machinery is too much for me.
You made me want to be a saint.
There must be some other way to settle this argument.
Burroughs is in Tangiers I don't think he'll come back
it's sinister.
Are you being sinister or is this some form of practical
joke?
I'm trying to come to the point.
I refuse to give up my obsession.
America stop pushing I know what I'm doing.
America the plum blossoms are falling.
I haven't read the newspapers for months, everyday
somebody goes on trial for murder.
America I feel sentimental about the Wobblies.
America I used to be a communist when I was a kid
I'm not sorry.
I smoke marijuana every chance I get.
I sit in my house for days on end and stare at the roses
in the closet.
When I go to Chinatown I get drunk and never get laid.
My mind is made up there's going to be trouble.
You should have seen me reading Marx.
My psychoanalyst thinks I'm perfectly right.
I won't say the Lord's Prayer.
I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations.
America I still haven't told you what you did to Uncle
Max after he came over from Russia.
I'm addressing you.
Are you going to let your emotional life be run by
Time Magazine?
I'm obsessed by Time Magazine.
I read it every week.
Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner
candystore.
I read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library.
It's always telling me about responsibility. Business-
men are serious. Movie producers are serious.
Everybody's serious but me.
It occurs to me that I am America.
I am talking to myself again.
Asia is rising against me.
I haven't got a chinaman's chance.
I'd better consider my national resources.
My national resources consist of two joints of
marijuana millions of genitals an unpublishable
private literature that goes 1400 miles an hour
and twenty-five-thousand mental institutions.
I say nothing about my prisons nor the millions of
underprivileged who live in my flowerpots
under the light of five hundred suns.
I have abolished the whorehouses of France, Tangiers
is the next to go.
My ambition is to be President despite the fact that
I'm a Catholic.
America how can I write a holy litany in your silly
mood?
I will continue like Henry Ford my strophes are as
individual as his automobiles more so they're
all different sexes.
America I will sell you strophes $2500 apiece $500
down on your old strophe
America free Tom Mooney
America save the Spanish Loyalists
America Sacco & Vanzetti must not die
America I am the Scottsboro boys.
America when I was seven momma took me to Com-
munist Cell meetings they sold us garbanzos a
handful per ticket a ticket costs a nickel and the
speeches were free everybody was angelic and
sentimental about the workers it was all so sin-
cere you have no idea what a good thing the
party was in 1835 Scott Nearing was a grand
old man a real mensch Mother Bloor made me
cry I once saw Israel Amter plain. Everybody
must have been a spy.
America you don't really want to go to war.
America it's them bad Russians.
Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen.
And them Russians.
The Russia wants to eat us alive. The Russia's power
mad. She wants to take our cars from out our
garages.
Her wants to grab Chicago. Her needs a Red Readers'
Digest. Her wants our auto plants in Siberia.
Him big bureaucracy running our fillingsta-
tions.
That no good. Ugh. Him make Indians learn read.
Him need big black niggers. Hah. Her make us
all work sixteen hours a day. Help.
America this is quite serious.
America this is the impression I get from looking in
the television set.
America is this correct?
I'd better get right down to the job.
It's true I don't want to join the Army or turn lathes
in precision parts factories, I'm nearsighted and
psychopathic anyway.
America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
Berkeley, January 17, 1956
Edit: If you quote sectons it doesn't have the same impact.
Named
11-16-2008, 10:54 PM
It was he who drove the wedge between himself and Sartre. I believe he was the first to speak audaciously about Sartre's philosophical regard for man's nature... which I admit is quite fatalistic but it's difficult to refute the sense in it.
The crux was that they both agree on the point that a man's life has no meaning, but Camus considers that a freedom whereas Sartre wrote of this lack of meaning as being the contrary - if life is pointless all actions and choices are pointless therefore we are 'prisoners' to it since even suicide is a pointless decision... haha
This is evidenced best by his novel Nausea, I believe, which is an awesome book.
I'd love to read it in original French, which would of course require I learn it properly.
I should read again. I've taken too long of a vacation from thinking. My brain... ow ow
I'll get to it...
Hello again, btw.
Here's a quote:
"Why are you acting like a horse's ass? Do I come to your place of work and act like a horse's ass?"
- A typical Named or Jaebin comment whilst 'working the doors'.
Top 10 worst jobs in the world.
i_feel_tiredsleepy
11-16-2008, 10:58 PM
Sartre wasn't completely fatalistic, he wrote about existentialism with regard to humanism and I believe the quote is "everything is possible, but not everything is permitable".
I find Camus' proposal of creating meaning out of a lack of meaning in human life very interesting.
Named
11-16-2008, 11:12 PM
If you've not read Nausea you must. And I too love Sartre but Roquentin, the main character in that book, is horrible fatalistic.
The way he writes of his agony, though, is fantastic. It's what I respect Sartre the most for; the way he brings to life the anguish of his characters. You feel exactly what you are supposed to feel and sometimes, when empathising a character like Roquentin in Nausea, that power is -too powerful-.
I felt an utter indifference to all things in life when I was immersed in that book.
Frightening.
AND THAT'S THE TRANSLATION!
Erotique
11-17-2008, 07:58 PM
"Fugheddabout it"
tsunade ^_^
11-18-2008, 04:04 AM
Do you know what "nemesis" means?
A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent.
Personified in this case by an 'orrible cunt... me. - Alan Ford (taken from the movie Snatch)
Mousie
11-18-2008, 05:14 AM
To all who know I am a House M.D. fan.
"I would rather spend my life close to the birds than wasted wishing I had wings."
Erotique
11-18-2008, 05:20 AM
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.
-Bruce Lee-
Owenotto
11-18-2008, 05:27 AM
"Shut up"
-estranged-
the lost shinobi
11-18-2008, 07:42 AM
I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.
Tatsujin
11-18-2008, 01:01 PM
"jews are using black(ppl) as an weapon against us" - kampfgruppe fuhrer,Blues Brothers.
Erotique
11-18-2008, 07:46 PM
Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.
-Truman Capote-
tsunade ^_^
11-22-2008, 02:33 PM
"Hey hey hey, smoke weed everyday
DAVE CHAPPELLE
"It is just as racist to say that someone is racist because they're white as it is to say they're stupid because they're black." - Unknown
-Erios-
11-22-2008, 04:13 PM
"It's not you it's me"
-anonymous
Thistle
11-22-2008, 07:46 PM
"Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows."
David T. Wolf
DJ Jaime
11-22-2008, 09:16 PM
"I weep to have what I fear to lose"
-Tuomas Holopainen (A Genius Composer) from "Nightwish"
Erotique
11-23-2008, 05:36 AM
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
-Edgar Allan Poe-
"There is no such thing as truth. There is only what remains undisputed."
spacecadet319
11-30-2008, 05:33 PM
"It is not enough to possess a talent: one must also possess your permission to possess it - eh, my friends?" -Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
tsunade ^_^
12-01-2008, 03:52 AM
Being intangible, you can't exactly replace what is lost. You can only suffer its loss. It's most ridiculous... O.O - NAMED
"1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d."
- LoLimadeanaccount
Erotique
12-10-2008, 11:58 PM
It is important never to forget where u all came from - becoz black, white, brown or pakistani, we all come from de same place - de punani...
-Ali G-
Mousie
12-14-2008, 06:47 AM
"To illustrate my example, is a very special example that I am going to use in the example to illustrate my example. The example I am going to use to illustrate my example, calls him self Boh3m3.
I however, cling to the tiny scrap of creativity and whit that I have and call him Bo"scheme". See what I did there? It was funny and good. I did that! Me! Greg Solomon!"
~Ben Going, YouTube Celebrity retaliating against an OLD GEEZER that attacked him.
Watch the full video here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtlD7YHusy0&fmt=18)!
Don't forget to read the description for the link of the video he is responding too!
Edit: Link is fixed
maarenees
12-14-2008, 05:04 PM
a monkey is still no ape, cause its still his own race
-me-
her precious fair silky skin belongs with me, in my bed, naked.
[Ten spaces]
captianXIOA
12-22-2008, 04:11 AM
"I tried robbed a CVS once, when I pointed my gat on the guy. My gun went off and caught him in the esophagus.
I freaked so bad all I could do I is pull my d*ck out and deepthroat his neck for half an hour... then the cops came, and charged me with sexual assault.
Pigs always tryin to keep a n*gga down. "
Ian
the lost shinobi
12-22-2008, 04:22 AM
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it! You know, I just, do things. The mob has plans, the cops have plans, Gordon's got plans. You know, they're schemers. Schemers trying to control their worlds. I'm not a schemer. I try to show the schemers how, pathetic, their attempts to control things really are. So, when I say, ah, come here, when I say that you and your girlfriend was nothing personal, you know that I'm telling the truth. It's the schemers that put you where you are. You were a schemer, you had plans, and uh, look where that got you. I just did what I do best. I took your plan and I turned it on itself. Look what I did, to this city with a few drums of gas and a couple of bullets. Hm? You know what, you know what I noticed? Nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even if the plan is horrifying. If tomorrow I tell the press that like a gang banger, will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all, part of the plan. But when I say that one, little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds! Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. Oh and you know the thing about chaos, it's fair.- The Joker (Heath Ledger)
Drunken_Master_Rock_Lee
12-22-2008, 06:09 PM
"If only it was as easy to soothe my hunger by rubbing my belly." - Diogene of Sinope, after being blamed for masturbating in public, in the Agora.
"I'm gonna punch you in the ovary, that's what I'm gonna do. A straight shot. Right to the babymaker." - Ron Burgundy
Araceli
12-24-2008, 12:47 AM
"All we have is what we are." - Adelita Latigazo, me on FF.net. Or at least, once I get a profile.
"In the end, the only thing I'll do when we part ways is forget your face. Just like the thousands of others I've seen. Face's create memories, memories create bagage, and bagage is a dangerous thing to have for some one like me." - Cenobia Pelo, one of my many characters.
"I'm an animal. It's my nature and my instinct to kill you. To bring you close, and, just when you think yourself safe in my arms, I'll rip you to shreds. I'll tear your body apart before I break your chain and devour your soul. And I'll enjoy every minute of it. Please, don't make me become the monster I really am." - Cenobia Pelo.
"Heart attack waiting to happen!!" - A sign I posted when my mom and I made Texas sheet cake today at nearly 10 at night. That stuff seriously has a LOT of sugar. Two cups for just the frosting alone... Holy Zombie Jesus!
"Sonomena... Sonomenga kinikurendaio!" - Grimmjow-sama when he last fought Ichigo. It means "Those eyes... Those eye's annoy me!"
My blood cries out for vengeance for my people's blood, which obly be repaid with at least twice as much blood, or maybe THREE times as much blood, like if you went to hell, and it was full of blood, and that blood was on fire, and it was raining blood, and maybe THAT would be enough blood... eh, but probably not.
-=Prince Kael'Thas=-
(Either him or just a normal blood mage)
tsunade ^_^
12-31-2008, 06:18 AM
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."
== Ralph Waldo Emerson ==
thornofcarrion
12-31-2008, 06:28 AM
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (http://www.saidwhat.co.uk/quotes/famous/ralph_waldo_emerson)
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
Leo Rosten (http://www.saidwhat.co.uk/quotes/favourite/leo_rosten)
Erotique
12-31-2008, 07:23 AM
Do ME...
-Ero-
The following quote is real. It takes place at this URL (http://www.urealms.com/forums/index.php?topic=6426.new;topicseen#quickreply) at the end of an arguement about an RP idea:
(I recommend you read this first)
A bomb is cheap. A giant robot suit is bigger and much more expensive. Let me run it down for you.
Bomb: Detonator, payload.
Giant robot: Interface, balance systems, life support, thrusters, all sorts of weaponry, sensors, ridiculous amounts of fuel, joints, armour, the list goes on. Plus you need to dump money into training for the pilot.
And one of those bombs can take out one of these robots. Do you know why Soviet tanks crushed the German Panzers? Not because they were better. A Tiger tank had superior technology in every way and could take out a T-34 outside of the latter's operating range. No, it was because Soviet tanks were cheap and easy to make.
Why did Japan even stay in the war after the nuclear attack long enough to get pulverized by the cores? It was my impression that they were superior to nuclear arms in some vague way. Either nukes were recognized as a superior strategy to the Cores, or you've got your own timeline messed up. One would also think that Japan would be the first to protect themselves against a nuclear strike, cause, you know, it already lost them a war. And if the shielding neutralizes atomic fission (perhaps by breaking the laws of physics?) then the bomb can discard it at low altitude before impact.
So, let me get this straight. Japan is behind the curve and doesn't have the orbital lasers (otherwise they'd stop the nukes). They get nuked, their navies get Cored (and their lack of aforementioned lasers prevents them from just shooting them down). At this point one has to be wondering what you have against Japan.
Meanwhile, people are too stupid to take out enemy lasers and nuke them, or adapt the armour to the bombs and also nuke them. Instead, they waste billions of dollars to make their own Cores, because obviously the 400-odd year old Blue Ocean strategy, easily the most effective way of dealing with a situation when behind the curve, has been dumped in favour of blindly aping what works. It is clear now why we're not in space: because from imitation, no innovation can form. This blind follower mentality is enforced when armies of these things are sent against a single person who dares think differently and would have otherwise swiftly ended the wasteful war. Most likely, the now-obsolete armies have all been executed, since any officer worth his life would know that this makes absolutely no sense, and their men would follow them rather than this nonsense.
So, we've got a pointless war that nobody is really trying to win, a society that essentially thinks what their governments want them to think, persecution of freedom, and genocide. This is quite possibly the most hellish version of the Earth, past or future, that I have ever seen depicted anywhere. Either you are making cunning and rapier-sharp social commentary very similar to 1984, or you just really haven't thought this through.
Seraphiel
01-05-2009, 06:54 PM
MOUTH TO MOUTH
from the manga scene in FLCL ep 1.
it sounds pure win.
MOUTH TO MOUTH
from the manga scene in FLCL ep 1.
it sounds pure win.
Is it just me, or do all of the starter pokemon grass types have four legs?
Seraphiel
01-05-2009, 07:21 PM
Is it just me, or do all of the starter pokemon grass types have four legs?
treecko has 2.
Tatsujin
01-05-2009, 07:24 PM
treecko has 2.
Waste knowledge about them pokemanz u have it seems my boy.
But remember.
Knowledge leads to pain.
Pain leads to anger.
Anger leads to whatever i dun like starwars , but pokemon rulz.
"So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause..." -Padme Skywalker
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