Dirt

[QUOTE=elfpirate][b]This one's easy--no contest--it's [u]Jester on Socom[/u]. [/b] [b]That freakin' bastard is [i]always[/i] doing something retarded and screwing up the missions. [/b][b]You tell your team to stay put, and that jerk goes running out and gives away your position... or he runs right up to the C4 you've just set and blows himself to smithereens. [/b][b]It's always [i]something[/i] with that stupid clown ( *smirk*)... running into walls, firing his weapon when you're making an attempt at stealth, just generally being an idiotic bastard... and doing everything you need him NOT to do if you want to accomplish your mission.[/b] [b]Jester wins the "Most Irritating Dumbass" award in the video game characters catagory-- hands down.[/b][/QUOTE][QUOTE=Chaos] Boomer, on the other hand... God almighty what idiot did they base his AI off of? I have the entire team on standby and hold position when I'm waiting on a target to present itself, right? It's almost a habit to do so, that's how often I manage. I usually have the silenced M4A1 carbine or the M82A1, so anyone that steps out into my sights is not going to be happy. So what does this fool of a team member do? STRAFES RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME WHEN I SHOOT! "Tango spotted, twelve o'clock high." "No, j00 f00l!" "AHHH, ARGH UHHH! *gurgle*" "..." [/rant][/QUOTE][b][color=#006400][/color][/b] [b][color=#006400]Well, that's a pretty close call, if you ask me-- they are the moron bros... but, that's what you get for playing Socom.:animesigh AI means "artificial idiocy" in those games... and Boomer and Jester are by far the worst-lol. I still enjoy playing them, though.[/color][/b] [b][color=#006400][/b] [b][color=royalblue][/color][/b] [b][color=royalblue][quote name='Erika][size=1] AND I HATE TINGLE. ...a sack of lard crammed into a green body suit and a thong just isn't what should be in a [strike]Zelda game[/strike'] any game at all. [/size][/quote][/color][/b] [b][/color][/b] [b][color=#006400][/color][/b] [b][color=#006400]Wow- it's a toss-up between those two dumba**es from Socom and Tingle. [/color][/b] [b][color=#006400][/color][/b] [b][color=#006400]I think I'm going to have to go with Tingle, because at least you can murder Boomer and Jester when they piss you off enough, but Link is helpless against Tingle... he just has to stand there and take it- he can do nothing. Have you ever tried to murder Tingle? It's simply ineffective. It doesn't even phase him...:animeangr [/b] [b][b][color=#006400][/color][/b] [b][color=#006400][/color][/b] [b][color=#006400](You want your very own fairy, you say? [/color][/b] [b][color=#006400]*crams fairy where fairies [i]really[/i] don't belong*)[/color][/b] Heh heh--that would please you Navi, Tatl & other fairy-haters, wouldn't it?[/color][/b]

[b]I think that punctuation is an important part of writing, as it allows the reader to understand what has been written and gives clues as to what influction the writer intended.[/b] [b]I don't, however, agree that a writer's contractions are part of punctuation-- rather, it's (*ahem*--[i][u]it is...[/u][/i]) a style of writing-- and it adds a certain tone and a beat to the reading of the sentences which, as LA said, is lost when taken apart into the original words.[/b] [b]To change "shouldn't" to "should not" in someone's monologue is more than just editing for punctuation-- it's (excuse me... [i][u]it is[/u] [/i]) being a grammar nazi.[/b]

[quote name='Dagger']Meh. Maybe I've become desensitized to this sort of thing, but I think that sexy clothing (or character designs) is rather innocuous. What I sometimes find questionable (and much more insidious) are anime in which the female characters completely base their lives around a certain male. But if the girls in a show are portrayed in a way that kind of irks me, I just won't watch it.~Dagger~[/quote] [b][color=darkgreen]Amen to that. It's ridiculous to point out that the females on certain anime have disproportionately large breasts and call out "Sexism!" without a mention to the sexism in the actual written content.[/color][/b] [b][color=#006400][/color][/b] [b][color=#006400]I mean... do you really think that all women behave like the ones on Tenchi? Or that they should? That is a more blatant example of sexism than to have them large-breasted (or as elfpirate said- scantily clad- lol). [/color][/b] [b][color=#006400][/color][/b] [b][color=#006400]Tenchi has the females scratching at eachother and pulling hair in competition for the affections of a guy, and that, to me, is far more sexist than a chick in a bikini, no matter what size her breasts.[/color][/b] [b][color=#006400][/color][/b] [b][color=#006400]Or here's an even better example- Inuyasha. Someone on this thread mentioned that Inuyasha wasn't a sexist anime. Well, then... why is Inuyasha always showing up just in the nick of time to save Kogome from some sort of inevitable doom?[/color][/b] [b][color=#006400][/color][/b] [b][color=#006400]She is always completely helpless and just as the hammer is about to fall, there's Inuyasha- and sometimes Koga or Miroku- to be her knight in shining armor- perpetuating the stereotype that females are weak and that they are helpless without the assistance of a man.[/color][/b] [b][color=#006400][/color][/b] [b][color=#006400]A character's costume- even if it's in poor taste- does far less damage to the psyche of the public than does a blatantly stereotypical female character.[/color][/b]

[i][color=darkgreen][b]I think it's pretty easy to differentiate between the people who claim to have "become" bisexual and the people who were actually born that way[/b][/color][/i][b][i][color=#006400](in other words- the fakers from the actual bisexuals).[/color][/i][/b] [b][i][color=#006400][/color][/i][/b] [b][i][color=#006400]Typically, the ones that weren't bi last year but somehow are now--they're faking it.[/color][/i][/b] [b][i][color=#006400][/color][/i][/b] [b][i][color=#006400]And the ones that are constantly talkng about their bisexuality- they're usually faking, as well.[/color][/i][/b] [b][i][color=#006400][/color][/i][/b] [b][i][color=#006400]And then there are the fakers who claim that they desperately want someone of their own gender, gush about it for months, and then run away from any potential romantic involvement with said person... but screw several people of the opposite gender in the meantime without a second thought. Those people are usually fakers as well.[/color][/i][/b] [b][i][color=#006400][/color][/i][/b] [b][i][color=#006400]I don't understand why these people think that it's cool to be bi... cool enough to pretend that they want to be with people that they really have no desire for... I just don't understand it--but I've met a lot of people who tried to fake their sexuality, and it never really works. It's kind of sad... and, to put it bluntly-stupid.[/color][/i][/b]