General Chat Thread

[GrizzlyB]

I personally found it so, or at least it was consistent since it's not trying to fit every girl in like part 1 did.

Yeah, a few episodes in and I can see that the arc transitions are a lot smoother. But it's been replaced with Kyou, Ryou, and Kotomi showing up randomly and commenting on whatever stupid crap is going on and then running off again. Still, probably 95% of what I'm hating about it stems from Nagisa. They did the impossible and made her worse, changing her personality from awful to non-existent (unless Mary-Sue-following-the-main-character-around-everywhere is a personality, but I don't think so). And they gutted the characters of Tomoya and Kyou, cut Tomoyo's story and development in half, did God-knows-what with Kotomi's personality, and gave Ryou a smaller dose of the Nagisa treatment. It's really annoying just because it would probably be a really great show (and better game) if Nagisa wasn't in it at all. And also I don't understand all the reviews I read saying that it's a great romance story, but I guess that's exactly why Twilight is a bestseller. That's probably why they had to deliberately make all the characters worse, too: it wouldn't even be conceivable that Nagisa could be anybody's choice if all the other options weren't reduced to shells of what they should be (or just removed from the picture entirely, as they were in the game).

I should really find a better place to ***** about being angry at animes, but eh, effort. And I don't want to risk getting involved with real weeaboos.

I should also start that eventually. My backlog and procrastination is preventing this though. I should be doing homework and studying, not playing animu.

I don't mean to judge, but the sooner you get on that, the sooner your life improves. And studying's overrated anyway.

WOW THIS CHAPSTICK IS HORRIBLE IT'S MAKING MY LIPS BURN MORE.
caps

mmmmmmmmmmentholated?

And that's a problem, too; apparently everything below 3/5 is a gilded turd, depending on who you're asking, where 3/5 is somehow still the baseline for "good" things. At 2.5 it has redeeming qualities but they still don't make it worth even borrowing from a friend, apparently -- at least, that's how I understand it. I may be looking too much at allmusic, which employs several "critics" who like everything and give half-opinions and four-line reviews when a "line" is about 400 pixels wide.

Music critics are in a league of their own at sucking. But yeah, I can never tell what ratings really mean, either. They should be curved or whatever, so that there's about as many 1s as 5s, 2s as 4s, and so on, because how often do you actually see a really low score as opposed to a really high one? It's madness.

That's one thing I don't like about ratings systems, especially ones on a 10 scale. Video games are probably the worst, as a 10 means a great game, a 9 is a good game, and 8 an ok game, and anything below is an awful game.

Going off what I just wrote, this kinda makes me want to hunt down a 1/10 game, just to see what's up. I don't know that I've ever seen one, though.

Those are pretty okay in their own right -- generally, combine them with more general information about how the game plays, and you have something that could serve as a good indicator as to how well those whose scores are aggregated enjoy those features.

Well, hopefully.

Well, we pretty much all play video games on this site, it's somewhat to be expected, I guess?

Let the record state that the GCT aggregate has decided that aggregators are the way to go with reviews.

Also video games are for nerds what's wrong with you guys.

[moot]

ugh my nose is literally dripping
hay fever is the worst

[Kreis]

That sounds pretty gross.

[Zorocario]

ugh my nose is literally dripping
hay fever is the worst

Yes, yes it is.

[dinosaurus]

mmmmmmmmmmentholated?

Unfortunately it was some berry crap that tasted good when I put it on, but then was like "lolno" and decided to burn instead. It wasn't even the Chapstick brand. It was deceiving.

[Spookz]

As far as chapstick is concerned, Burt's is the bee's knees.

Haha, see what I did there?

[Kreis]

I do not see what you did there.
:(

[Zorocario]

Unfortunately it was some berry crap that tasted good when I put it on, but then was like "lolno" and decided to burn instead. It wasn't even the Chapstick brand. It was deceiving.

This made me lol. You made my day, thank you.

[Spookz]

I do not see what you did there.
:(

I want to be upset with you, but I can't because of that adorable puppy.




...I was talking about Burt's Bees.

[moot]

bees?

[Kirby]

I love Burt's Bees <3 I have a ton of their chapstick around my house because I go through it so fast.

[moot]

I love Burt's Bees <3 I have a ton of their chapstick around my house because I go through it so fast.

does it taste good

[Kirby]

does it taste good

Like peppermint lol

But that reminds me of this awful story. I used to have a ton of chapstick in all different flavors (strawberry, bubblegum, blue raspberry, etc), and my old next door neighbor growing up asked if she could eat it (I had a group of friends over at my house). I figured she was joking and said no and thought nothing else of it. Anyways I stepped out of the room for something, came back and we all left to go outside or something.

When I went back hours later to get some chapstick every damn stick was eaten. There was like 8 of them !

I can't even imagine how someone would enjoy that lol.

[moot]

hahaha oh gosh. surely you'd try one and be like "ok this texture is godawful" and realise that you are, in fact, not supposed to eat them

[Kreis]

Is anyone here still watching The Office?

[SpeedDeoxys]

Is anyone here still watching The Office?

What's "The Office"?

[Magicmonkey]

What's "The Office"?

Its a show, quite funny. Haven't watched it in a while though.

[Phoopes]

Oh goodness gracious I miss stuff when I'm busy. 'Grats moot and sogeking!

[Shinytaifood]

Like peppermint lol

But that reminds me of this awful story. I used to have a ton of chapstick in all different flavors (strawberry, bubblegum, blue raspberry, etc), and my old next door neighbor growing up asked if she could eat it (I had a group of friends over at my house). I figured she was joking and said no and thought nothing else of it. Anyways I stepped out of the room for something, came back and we all left to go outside or something.

When I went back hours later to get some chapstick every damn stick was eaten. There was like 8 of them !

I can't even imagine how someone would enjoy that lol.

You think that's weird.....oh man I've got a story for you.
So I went to Disney World for my senior trip at the end of november last year, and I was casually minding my own business walking through some stores in the Magic Kingdom. A child no taller than maybe five feet, runs up to me and jabs my groin. Then darts away. I didn't see a face, or anything. Just BOOM and gone. I was literally sexually assaulted by a child in Disney World. My friends were dying with laughter as I was groveling on the floor in pain. I made at least 100 people's day.

[pokemonsquared]

You think that's weird.....oh man I've got a story for you.
So I went to Disney World for my senior trip at the end of november last year, and I was casually minding my own business walking through some stores in the Magic Kingdom. A child no taller than maybe five feet, runs up to me and jabs my groin. Then darts away. I didn't see a face, or anything. Just BOOM and gone. I was literally sexually assaulted by a child in Disney World. My friends were dying with laughter as I was groveling on the floor in pain. I made at least 100 people's day.

I bet that was a dare.