ShaggyJebus Posts

My parents were going to get a brother a carton of cigarettes.

But they ran out of money. Instead, he got season one and two of The Boondocks.

Also, from what I've learned, the US government wanted to enter WWII before the attack on Pearl Harbor, but the citizens didn't want to. I'm not sure, but I imagine most citizens didn't think we needed to get involved because they didn't know just how bad things were. It makes sense; after all, the government would know a lot more details than the average citizen.

lol keyboard dependency over simply using the mouse

I hate Macs, and I have two very good reasons. I'm not a big computer person who can talk about how fast things are or processors or megahertz or whatever (for example, I have no idea what I just said). But my reasons for hating Macs are clear:

1) Shitty advertisements
It says a lot to me when a company can't just talk about how good their product is, when they have to badmouth the competition. It tells me that the company is run by jackasses. The mudslinging ads have not only made me despise Macs, but it's made me like Windows even more, because Windows didn't mudsling back. No, Windows took the high road and made ads that showed that the Mac ads were dumb as fuck, while not saying that Mac users were dumb as fuck. And what did Apple do in response? Say more bad things about Microsoft instead of explaining why or how Macs are better.
The latest ad really pisses me off, showing the PC guy as a man who hurts animals if they say something bad about PCs. Way to hit below the belt, Apple.

2) Overcharging for EVERYTHING
I don't hate Apple just because of laptops. A large part of why I hate Apple and Macs can be summed up very easily - the iPod.
This is old but still (kinda) relevant:

Apple has charged insane prices for everything. When the iPod came out, it was insanely priced, and though prices have gone down, it's still fucking expensive. I have a 30GB mp3 player, that plays video, for $250. Before I bought it, I did some research. A 16GB iPod with video cost almost as much as the mp3 player I got. A 30GB iPod with video would have cost me fifty dollars more. Now, my mp3 player wasn't shit. It's a Creative Zen that actually won an award the year it came out. So why the fuck is the iPod more expensive? Because Apple rips people off.

I remember when the iPhone came out. About a week later, I saw an article where some guy had figured out that it cost less than a hundred dollars to make an iPhone, and Apple was charging over $600 for one. That's gouging every consumer! In the fucking eye! Gouging them in the eye for a fucking phone that doesn't even adequately work as a phone!

Fuck Macs. I like being able to right-click.

A little something for the holiday season.



I'll change it in a couple of days, but I don't have an idea of what to change it to.

The Justine Joli thing? I'm not exactly sure how to find it. I just know it was called Justine Joli - Fucking Machines.

This might be it:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=66F7Q0WT

The whole tsundere thing comes from real life. All over the world, there exist girls who act tough but are really soft. Tsundere girls in anime and manga are usually exaggerated, but it's not just a cultural thing that exists only in Japan. I've known girls in real life, in the United States, that were brash and violent but once you got to know them and got close to them, you could see that they were kind and vulnerable.

The Chinese elements, I believe, are fire, earth, water, wood, and metal.

No lightening there either.

The implications of what you have said sicken me.

Are you really saying that because a lot of Americans like Japan, it means that they have "forgotten" about Pearl Harbor? That's all kinds of fucked up. For one thing, the Japan that exists today is nothing like the Japan that existed when Pearl Harbor was attacked. A lot of Japanese people today look back at what happened during WWII and feel shame. And Japan doesn't hold rallies where they decry the United States and call for the death of its citizens. The country isn't trying to build up an army to destroy us. There is no reason to be angry with present-day Japan.

But what's the real message you're trying to send? That we shouldn't ever forgive Muslims for doing 9/11? That is also all kinds of fucked up. And I am so disgusted by it, I can't even say anymore right now.

Ugh.

I finally got a Guitar Hero game. I'm pretty late to the party . . . It's the Aerosmith game, which isn't too great because I'm not a major Aerosmith fan or anything, but it came with two guitars and was about fifty bucks, so I'm happy with it.

Good motherfucking movie.

And the original Star Wars trilogy definitely trumps Lord of the Rings.

If aliens came here, it wouldn't automatically mean that they could destroy the human race. Just because they can build a spaceship, it doesn't mean that they can build disintegrator guns.

It's possible that aliens, if they exist, could come to Earth and get their asses handed to them, thanks to our many missiles and, if it comes to it, nukes.

lol, I took Latin my freshman year of high school. I didn't really apply myself, so I didn't get an A, but I still got a C. Latin may be difficult, but it'd probably be easier for a 15-year-old kid (who speaks English) to learn Latin than Japanese, because there are a lot of similarities between English and Latin. In fact, there are a lot of similarities between Latin and a lot of languages.

As for Japanese not being "useful," I'm gonna have to disagree with you. It all depends on what you want to do with it. I imagine a lot of people here would like to learn Japanese so they can read manga and watch anime that hasn't been translated. Maybe they want to go to Japan to enjoy the culture. In those cases, learning Japanese would be useful.

Even if not an anime fan, learning Japanese can still be useful. Japan has the second largest economy in the world; knowing how to speak Japanese could come in very handy for a businessman. Also, a foreign language always looks good on a resume, but Japanese looks really good, because most people see it as being a very difficult language. It's also uncommon to meet a person who knows Japanese, so it can make a person stand out when searching for a job.

But, really, it all comes down to what the person wants to do. For example, it would be pretty useless for me to learn Arabic, because I have no plans of going anywhere it is spoken or doing anything that would require me to be able to read or speak the language. But if a person wants to travel and go to a lot of different places, learning Arabic might be good for them.

It means exactly what it says:



When there are over a thousand users online, the image section is disabled, because it's a big strain on the server. As far as I understand, at least, that's what it is.

Umm . . . what the fuck?

First, this is the Entertainment section, reserved for non-anime entertainment. The giant section title "Anime and Manga" is where threads about anime series go.

Second, there are a ton of threads about Naruto already.

Third, "what is your element"? Are we pretending we're twelve and assigning ourselves whatever element we like the most? Why not ask, "What element would you want to be?" That makes it sound a lot less like some stupid MySpace or Gaia copypasta.

I like Naruto. It's something to read/watch. I do fap to Naruto hentai, because I'm a horny bastard. The girls I like the most are Sakura and Hinata, pre-time jump and post-time jump.

That sounds awesome, but where would it be located?

Send Hinata's Pimp a PM saying that you won.

I thought about doing that. I just need to spend a little more time searching around that forum to see exactly how it works. It looks really bad, really messy, and there are about a dozen mods who could bring the banhammer down on me, so I don't want to do something that could get me banned. Even though it wouldn't be too big a deal, it still feels kind of bad to get banned.

Another thing about this convention's forum - the guy in charge of the convention, the con-chair or whatever, is of course an admin, and he makes tons of stickies where he is pretty much promoting his life outside the convention. He had one sticky where he was asking people to vote for his photographs in some contest. It seemed like an abuse of power. The pictures he took had nothing to do with anime, or the convention, so they're not related at all, and he felt the need to not only make a topic asking for votes, but to make a sticky? I mean, if Jacob entered a contest and needed votes, I'd throw some votes at him, but I think that Jacob would know not to put something on the front page that isn't related to the site at all.

Even if a person speaks well, and has a good plan for the world, it does not mean that the person can order millions dead and get off the hook.

People call Charles Manson evil, and all he did was brainwash a few people and had them kill a few people. Hitler brainwashed a whole country and had the equivalent of a whole country killed.

As I have already said, my outlook on life is that no one is truly "evil." Good and evil are human constructs and are typically universal. People are rarely universal. Even the most pious person does bad things, and even the worst person does good things, depending on who's looking at the situation. That said, if we are going to categorize people as either good or evil, then Hitler easily goes into the evil pile. There's not even any room for discussion. For every good deed he did, he did two bad things (more likely, three bad things, maybe more).

Does this mean we should never say anything nice about Hitler? No. We can still use him as a prime example of a great speaker. He may have had good strategies, and if so, we can praise him for that. (I'm not saying he did; military strategies aren't my bag, so I don't know if he had good ones or bad ones.) But we absolutely cannot talk about the good while ignoring the bad. Killing Jews wasn't a hobby of his. It wasn't something that he liked but only did on rare occasions. It was a major part of his plan.

In the first post on this thread, you call Hitler an "honorable man." To me, honor is something that a person earns, and it is also something that can be lost. Hitler forfeited all the honor he may have deserved by doing the things he did. By killing people for no reason, by creating a war that wasn't needed, Hitler said to the world, "I should not be honored." Because what is honorable about those things?

lol, twenty months late