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On a similar note, I'm in a bit of a rut at the moment.
A friend of mine suggested homeless drifting while living out of a car.
This friend happens to be significantly wealthier than I have any hope of being, as well as being a person with a lot of interesting experiences under their belt. On one hand, I trust their general sanity and sensibility. On the other, that is absolutely insane.
It... really isn't the best of lives anyway. Especially in the dead of winter, and especially especially with fuel prices as high as they are and still rising.
Depends on what you're looking to get out of it, I'd guess. A humbler life, challenging yourself, seeking meaning, meeting interesting people: all valid goals, but you must first guess if such an experience would work for you as a person, and make adequate preparations so you don't end up in the urban equivalent of Into The Wild.
I was homeless once. It was alright. Of course, that time I was homeless by choice and it wasn't quite as scary as when I was homeless for reals...
Also: Congrats Australia on the whole R18+ thing.
Back from a full time shift at my job. Tired as fuck but can't sleep because of course I can't.
have you considered seeing a doctor about it you non-image of health you
I have a friend who comes from a pretty wealthy family, and when in college, decided on a whim to spend a night as a bum sleeping in a city square or something.
So I just came back from a Pokemon vs Digimon argument with my friend.
It struck us both towards the end that arguing about which series is objectively better when "objectively better" isn't really a thing in this case is rather silly. But damn if I didn't enjoy talking about how Darkrai would kick Beelzemon's ass.
Digimon has a cooler premise. Best mid-90s monster-based franchise is Monster Rancher, because Monster Rancher 2 is best Playstation game (and the other Monster Rancher games were... less good, but... well... yeah).
What is Monster Rancher, and for that matter, what is Monster Hunter?
@Eelektross: Pokémon vs. Digimon arguments still happen?
I was about to argue with you, then I realized Megaten was from the 80s, so I can't.
Uh...yeah.
cannot disagree more
-cocks head-
>:?
Monster Rancher is a series of sim games (along the lines of Princess Maker and such) about training a monster (or in Monster Rancher 4 and possibly others, multiple monsters at once) over the span of its life so it can fight in tournaments and whatnot.
Monster Hunter is a game about using giant swords to fight magic dinosaurs. It's extremely fun.
Man, I've had this argument so many times here that it'll probably annoy everyone if I start it again.
but then again, i was never against annoying people.
but basically, there are objective qualities by which you can measure a work's quality, such as characterization, consistent and logical plot and whether it attains the implicit objectives it tries to work under, as well as the connection of all elements in the story to create a whole.
Does that mean that taste is not subjective, though? No, not really. You can easily like things that really do not possess any actual quality simply because it appeals to your own preferences. But learning to differ between your preferences and actual quality is kind of a Big Deal when discussing media.
Plus it was obvious near the end that we were basing our arguments around pure subjectivity, such as me saying that "Pokemon look way cooler" and him saying the opposite thing.
Bottom line is that I don't like Digimon, he doesn't like Pokemon, and we had a swell time.
Meh, I never found that too much of an argument to not make a comparison. It's just that you can't really do it from a "Who does it best" perspective so much "What does X do and does it do well in comparison to how well does Y do its thing" perspective.
You know, juan, not everything is an exercise in debate. Sometimes we just wanna fuck around.
Saying that either Pokemon or Digimon is a work and not a huge franchise composed of many completely different works is... wrong, to say the least.
JINKI EXTEND IS BEST SERIES EVER RITE?
^^ Nope.
^^Pretty much.
I got an idea.
I can try sketching everyone's avatars crudely and do, like, bad imitation week.
Good idea or bad idea or really bad idea?
Best idea.
Ah! I should change my avatar for this then! To make it harder for GMH!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand, I did.
I will change back once I realize that I didn't actually like this show as much as I think I did.