tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13996404851788336402024-02-21T10:57:07.140+01:00RestlessEntity: Depths And Shallows Of A Random Mind - Tiefen Und Untiefen Eines Ziellosen Geistes Irregular Blogging Between Deep And Dumb, Awesome And Anxiety, Random And Rage,Intersting And Insane. Translated into german, when I'm not too lazy -Unregelmäßgier Bog zwsichen Tief- und Unsinn, Unglaubichem Und Unbehagen, Willkür und Weißglut, Interesse und Irrsinn. Deutsche Übersetzungen, wenn mir der Sinn danach steht.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332438227656256400noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1399640485178833640.post-49381766953355569052016-02-29T17:24:00.002+01:002017-01-24T22:13:22.334+01:00PSA: emotional issues and what to do with them<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Today,I'm interrupting my usual nonsense to talk about something serious.</span></span><br />
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">For many years,I've been dealing with some emotional issues. I'm no stranger to depression and self-loathing, and up to this day,I have no idea why my friends even like me, so I decided to just roll with it. </span></span><br />
<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">At the age of 15, I got into selfharming behavior, and I experienced many different aspects of it. I have many scars originating from selfinflicted cuts and burns, I've been overeating,I didn't eat at all,I deprived myself of sleep, I drank myself into complete disorientation.</span></span><br />
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">One of the few things I'm honestly proud of is the fact,that none of my issues ever affected my job since I began working with children about six years ago. Sure,I skipped a lot of school days in connection with those issues,but except for once during my apprenticeship when I had to switch the daycare I was getting trained in anyways due to some additional problems there, I never missed a single day of work due to my mental health.</span></span><br />
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">For years,I wasn't able to talk about these problems at all,but over the last two years I started being more open about it and it helped me quite a bit to manage everyday life, which is exactly why I decided to talk about it now.</span></span><br />
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">In today's society, mental issues and selfharm are often still treated as taboo, because it indicates you're unhealthy or 'not normal', which I think to be wrong. It's true,some things that seems normal to others are incredibly and sometimes increasingly hard for me. I don't go downtown without a certain dose of valerian in my system,because I can't stand all those people rushing around, Christmas fair's are a nightmare. I don’t really like parties, a great friday night is me sitting at home alone or with a friend and playing videogames. I rather watch a webcomic artist live-streaming his work than going out clubbing.</span></span><br />
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Last year, I willingly 'celebrated' my birthday for the first time in over a decade,which translates to 'I had English Breakfast with my best friend and her boyfriend while watching Scrubs on Netflix'.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span dir="LTR">There are many people who would consider me 'not normal' or 'anti-social' because of all those things and many more. For a long time, I would have agreed with them. But over the last few years I learned that even though I might be considered </span><span dir="LTR">'</span><span dir="LTR">broken</span><span dir="LTR">'</span><span dir="LTR"> in some ways, th</span><span dir="LTR">a</span><span dir="LTR">t doesn't make me less of a person, it's just part of</span><span dir="LTR"> </span><span dir="LTR">what makes me different. And even though it's unpleasant , it doesn't make me different in a bad way. It is just another aspect of who I am.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span dir="LTR">Over the last 12 years, I had a hard time learning to talk about those things,when they came up. Recently,I began bringing them up</span><span dir="LTR"> </span><span dir="LTR">if I feel comfortable, so the people who make me feel that way know,what they're dealing with. </span></span><br />
<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I</span></span><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">nterestingly enough,those who like having you around are okay with that.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span dir="LTR">Sure,every now and then, there are people who try to badmouth me for 'trying to become the center of attention', which is why I'm still careful about who I trust, but those usually are ju</span><span dir="LTR">s</span><span dir="LTR">t random peers accidentally overhearing the conversation. The same goes for those who say 'you just need a more positive attitude towards life,and everything will be better', apparently not realizing that they also just could have told me to simply change the gravitational constant of the universe. Shall I learn how to cure cancer by just snapping my fingers,while I'm at it? They would probably also tell someone with a broken leg to 'just walk it off'.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span dir="LTR">Now,don't get me wrong;I'm not blaming them for not being able to relate to my issues -I'm more </span><span dir="LTR">likely </span><span dir="LTR">to envy their luck-, but I'm annoyed by them talking about things they simply don't understand.More often than not, I WAS just smiling, even though I felt like hiding under a blanket and crying. It simple isn't possible to just create a positive outlook towards life, if it feels like you're fighting the world and world is winning.</span></span><br />
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Sure,if I look back at things now, I realize how incredibly lucky I actually was; but back in the days, I simply couldn't see it. I couldn't see the true amount of support I had. Today, I can and so I am able to say that I got lucky. I'm not really a family person, but if I had known how to just talk to my family, there would have been some support, even though my father or the uncle,who mostly raised me are equally incompetent as I am, when it comes to talk emotions. And while this might sound like a negative or judgmental thing to say,it isn't. If I had known how to say something, they might not have been able to react 'accordingly', but they would have listened. They might not have been able to show it, but a recent situation between them made me realize, they would have cared. </span></span><br />
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Like I said, I'm not great with family,and it's pretty obvious who caused that,but today I'm not here to play the blame-game.</span></span><br />
<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I mentioned that I was lucky, so let's take a look at that instead: I always had some amazing friends,and even though I mentioned before,that I still don't know why these people are friends with me, they had my back long before I understood it.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span dir="LTR">Back in elementary school -20 years ago-,I met this one guy. We became friends,I spent a lot of time at his place, his mother showered me with love and treated me like one of her own sons -something I never properly thanked her for, so there is an additional thing I'll have to do, when I see her again at his wedding-, but that wasn't his doing. What did he do for me,that I think so highly of him? Well, first of all, he was there. Sure,back then things were easier,kids played with each other and that was all that was needed to consider each other as friends, but looking back he did a lot more for me. If I look back, I can see now that most of my social contacts for next years somehow were connected to him,so he kinda prevented me from ending up as a loner. But he also took care of me in some other ways: he kept me out of trouble,when I couldn't shut my stupid mouth</span><span dir="LTR">;</span><span dir="LTR">he pushed me to take care of my school work.Sure,we didn't discuss any serious things -we were kids,after all-, but he took care of me.</span></span><br />
<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It was only when he had to move away,that I started spiraling down. But thanks to hanging out with some people I mostly knew through him,I got lucky again. The first memory I actually can place somewhere in our shared timeline with my other best friend, is her slapping me across the face for pretending not to know what she's talking about, when she pulled me aside and told me to stop. I'm pretty sure this incident happened before I learned her name, and it turned into a very strong bond. It also led once more to parents who were complete strangers basically adopting me.</span></span><br />
<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When this friend relocated to another town a couple of years ago, I spent quite some time visiting her on my weekends,meeting new people and finally following her example by moving there last year. </span></span><br />
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I made some additional friends of different levels of closeness, too, but these two always have been my center and simply by spending time with me, they provided me with families outside my own,something that to this day still means a lot to me. Not because I dislike my own family -despite all my complaining and my inability to show some affection towards them, I don't -, but because this combination of distance due to being strangers and taking me in as one of their own, I never came to wonder if they just accepted me because we're related. Those people had no reason at all to care for me -after all,I was just a friend of their oldest/youngest child-, but they simply did.</span></span><br />
<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">They taught me a value of family I didn't understand in the lessons of my own relatives and took an important role in forging me into a proper human being.</span></span><br />
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Over the years, my best friends' hard work started to pay off and I slowly but steadily learned to talk about things troubling me. Some other friends who could relate in way or another to my problems helped with that,too, and about two years ago, I tried for the first time to open up to someone who didn't already knew about everything. I started with a small group of Internet-friends who lived on the other side of the world, so if things went badly,it would be easy to cut ties and hide (which I never had to do). A couple of months later, I actually managed to talk openly about some fresh wounds to some of the newly aquainted people in what would be my new hometown about half a year later. </span></span><br />
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It was a very strange experience. We didn't really know each other that well,I was in a differrnt town,and we were in a gathering of people that had me coming there once per month for a while now, and I suddenly felt like opening up about a part of myself, that I usually worked hard on hiding from most people. I'm not gonna lie, I was terrified and ready to run away and never come back. But despite my fear, they didn't judge me, they didn't make any smart-ass remarks like "I'd never do that to myself", they barely commented on it at all. They just listened and let me talk,while showing silent compassion. The next few days,I was still on the edge,almost certain I never could return, but still,there was nothing. It was never mentioned again,until I recently brought it up myself towards someone of those new friends. And I still didn't get judged;instead I received encouragement for resisting the urges for almost a year at that point.</span></span><br />
<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Since that night, I carefully experimented and sometimes told new people about my story -if I felt comfortable around them-, and once more, I got lucky. I somehow managed to encounter mostly compassion and moral support,only a coworker in my temporary job at the movies played the smartass (after that, I managed to mostly avoid sharing shifts).</span></span><br />
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Now, why am I telling all this?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span dir="LTR">A while ago, I had a fall out with a close friend over a retrospectively little thing,but we recently reconnected. Since we share a similar backstory,it was good for both of us to pick up where we left off. Now said friend is thinking about being more open </span><span dir="LTR">about </span><span dir="LTR">it themself, but isn't really sure how to do it yet.</span></span><br />
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Now, if said friend is reading this, all I can say is this: I can encourage it. If you meet someone who makes you feel comfortable with their company, try to give it a shot. I'm not gonna lie to you: It's not easy. It's scary as as hell. The mere thought made me wanna jump of my chair and run like hell. But somehow I managed not to. And it was one of the smartest decisions I ever made. </span></span><br />
<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It doesn't exactly soften often up the bad things and makes them easy, but it helps enduring them.</span></span><br />
<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It helps, if you can just cancel something because you're having a bad day without getting questioned or having to make something up.</span></span><br />
<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It helps, if you have someone to talk to without feeling guilty for always 'bothering' the same person.</span></span><br />
<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It helps, if you just can be yourself around others,even if they are few and carefully chosen.</span></span><br />
<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So, if someone makes you feel comfortable and willing to be open about yourself, give it a try. And if it's getting too hard,stop. The only one conducting pressure on you,is yourself. Show your subconscious that YOU are the boss. You do what you want,tell what you want, to whoever you want. Nobody but your self has a say in that.</span></span><br />
<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Find an acceptable compromise with yourself. Don't push yourself for more than you can do, but also don't settle for less than you want.</span></span><br />
<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">If you wanna go open, find your own rhythm to do so, and if someone gives you negative backlash for it, try not to let that affect your courage (I know,easier said than done), but take that as sign to reconsider their value for yourself. You don't need people,who won't accept you,who are trying to keep you small, who drag you down.</span></span><br />
<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Going open is a hard task, but it's also a sign of great courage. Just keep in mind that nobody but ourselves can make that decision for us.</span></span><br />
<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Also keep in mind that despite how we feel, we're not weak; we're not broken. We're survivors.</span></span><br />
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The saying goes that you should walk a mile in someone's shoes before you judge them. In our case,it would mean living a day in our head, and I honestly doubt that those who try to judge would be able to handle that.</span></span><br />
<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">We are the ones dealing with that crap.</span></span><br />
<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">We are the ones who manage to find ways to cope.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Always keep in mind that there's nothing wrong with you,just because your health isn't perfect. Everyone has his baggage, ours might just be a little different, and that's totally okay. Never let anyone tell you otherwise.</span><br />
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I decided to tell this today,because this day marks an important milestone for me: due to my ongoing learning process about myself and the increasing ability to be open about my issues, today marks the first anniversary of me resisting the urges to deliberately inflict harm to myself. I have a lot of people to thank for their support,I doubt that I'd made it this far without all of you. You picked me up,when I was down,you carried me,when wasn't able to crawl. You put up with me,when I couldn't even stand myself and you slowed me down, when I tried too push myself too far. You looked out for me without any obligation to do so. You listened to me japping and whining time and time again without complaining even once about it, and you never even expected a 'thank you'.</span></span><br />
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I mentioned a few important people who carried me for years in the upper paragraphs, but even those of you,who I didn't mention explicitly ,I'm also thankful for having you. Those who sat through the drunk complaints of someone who was basically a stranger back then;those who I never met in person,yet you spend your precious free time listening to my complaints on Skype or wherever we met online; those who put up with my crap and still decided 'yup,I want to be friends with this person'. Each and everyone of you, thank you!</span></span><br />
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Bottom line: if your mind isn't your friend,it doesn't mean there's something wrong with you, it just means you're even more incredible for still being around. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span dir="LTR">If you know someone,who has to deal with such a problem and you are patient with them -even though if it might not be easy sometimes,since they tend to fight themselves and you can't actively help-, you deserve a medal</span><span dir="LTR">,too</span><span dir="LTR">. </span></span><br />
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">~Kirby out</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332438227656256400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1399640485178833640.post-81538887177608966012016-02-14T22:23:00.000+01:002016-10-02T12:51:34.400+02:00Top 8: Relationships<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">A few Months ago,my best friend got engaged. That's awesome news and I'm happy for him and his lady.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">but I'm also wondering , if I should start growing up now. Since I'm not good at that, I decided to take a look at love-stories instead.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Confession: I'm easily annoyed by romance-subplots. </span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Now, some people I know would probably say, I'm just trying to be cynical on purpose, but what actually bothers me are usually smart characters acting like idiots because of a guy/girl.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i>'But Kirby’</i>, I hear you intervening, <i>'your other best friend is a girl and every time someone even dares criticising her, you turn into a raging maniac.'</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Yes, that’s true, but it's also different due our different backstory.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Now, back to matter at hand. I dislike romance-subplots, because of the involved parties act and behave. But is that really it? Using my super-self questioning-powers, I took some time and tried to figure it out.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Answer: no, it’s not. (Otherwise, I probably wouldn't have brought it up.)</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> It just bothers me, how often romance gets thrown in the mix, just to create tension, when a friendship would work as fine as a motivator for the characters to do something. </span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Now, I value those things differently than the general public, since in my book a friendship always outweighs a romantic involvement, so could that be the reason for my stance against romance-plots?</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Well, some people might say so. Some might think, I’m afraid of romance, or I’m insecure, because I don’t know what I want, or some nonsense like that, but...</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">...again, no. Sure, that's all been part of it once, but what me bugs me the most are romance-plots, that push back the main-story... and forced romances. There are many romance-plots I simply dislike, because they just felt forced and unnatural to me. Just because we have a man and a woman hanging out a lot or working together, we shouldn't assume, they’ll fall in love.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Just look at Snake and Eva in Metal Gear Solid 3: Sure, there is some tension between them and in the outro, they spend the night together, but they are not in love. In her closing monologue, Eva drops hints, that she MIGHT have a soft spot for Snake -after all, she was supposed to kill him- but keep in mind, that she is a trained spy, strolling in Mata Hari's footsteps. Now Snake on the other hand...He's definitely not in love with Eva, he doesn't even look at her face when they're talking until the very end. Instead you can see his eyes being fixed on her cleavage, when you switch to first-person-mode during the cutscenes.Is he a misogynist, who see's women only as objects? Certainly not, keep in mind that he holds his mentor The Boss in highest regards and starts basically tearing the world apart due a misinterpretation of her will. No, Snake is -like Eva- a trained spy, who’s aware that looks can be deceiving, body-language can be controlled; so he keeps his attention on the only part of Eva, that he can trust to be honest: her heart.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The cooperation between Snake and Eva is a great example for a male/female-partnership, because nobody experiences a sudden burst of love-idiocy, yet it is clear they are concerned for each others safety, as it is shown when Snake gets tortured and loses an eye or when Eva is impaled on a tree branch.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Now, are there any actual romances in fiction I actually like? Of course there are. And since I promised you a Top 8 list, let the guy who is incredibly incompetent when it comes to relationships or dating tell you about a few good romances.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Actually, I'm feeling generous, so I'll give not one, but two Top 8-lists.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Let's start with one, where I could be accused of being biased by fictional jealously. Tim Drake, also known as the third Robin and later Red Robin, is a character, I'm not a big fan of. That's partly because he lacked -at least in my eyes- Dick Grayson's charme and Jason Todd's and Damian Wayne's edge. He isn't a bad or badly written character and it IS interesting, that he managed to figure out Batman's identity by himself before he became his sidekick, but still... not a big fan of him compared to the other Robins.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Stephanie on the other hand... ahhh, Stephanie Brown, former Spoiler, fourth Robin and the last pre-New52 Batgirl (and Kirby's big childhood-crush... sod off, we all have our guilty pleasures).I've always been a big fan of hers, and that's also a tiny part of why I'm not a fan of them being a couple. Aside from that, it always seemed to me, there were problems in their communication (I still think, Tim should have gone against Batman's policy and told her who he was himself, if he really wanted to be with her...Their initial cape and cowl-relationship seemed always a little weird to me, and Drake getting pissed, when Bats told Steph during her training with him who the guy she was dating is, was also a Dick-move... even though he was Tim.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">#8 Westley and Buttercup</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Westley is the ever polite farmboy,responding to every request with 'As you wish.' Buttercup might not be the brightest girl in the realm, but her beauty made a prince wanting to marry her, even though she was just a peasant's daugher.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">They grew up together,with Westley forking for her father,harboring a deep love for Buttercup for years. It took her a while to realize,that she felt the same for him. When her beloved Westley was thought to be dead after his ship was attacked by The Dread Pirate Roberts, she swore to never love again. For her parents sake, she accepted prince Humperdinks request to live with him in the castle and marry him one day, but her heart still belonged to Westley.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When she got kidnapped by a band of mercenaries, they got relentlessly pursued by a misterious man in black,wearing a mask over his face. After besting one of the best swordsmen in the world in a duel, defeating a giant in unarmed combat and triumphing over a cunning sicilian in a battle of wits, the man in black chastises Buttercup for hooking up with a prince, after her true love didn't return yet, to which Buttercup replies she doesn't love the prince and will never love anyone again, followed by pushing the man in black down a hill and telling him to go to hell. His trademark 'as you wish' reveals Westley's true identity. Pursued by the prince, they make a run for it through all kinds of dangers,but in the end,they get caught. Buttercup begs for Westley's life,and while the prince seems to accept her terms, he secretly orders for him to be tortured.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When the swordsman and the giant break him out,he's more dead than alive, but they still anage to break into the caslte,defeat the swordsman's nemesis, stop Buttercup from comitting suicide and Westley rolls a natural 20 on his bluff-check against the prince, convincing him to surrender, even though he himself can barely get up,not to mention fight anyone.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This is a classical fairytale lovestory with happy-end and everything, yet I love it. The characters are likeable,the stakes are high,and even though the lovestroy between Westley and Buttercup is in the focus of the story,the swordsman gets his own great storyarc,that doesn't get shoved aside for the romance.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I know, I know. I've harping on them a lot over the last decade, especially due to One More Day. But honestly, there is more to it. Let's rewind time a little, before Pete and MJ got together, so basically were going back all the way into the silver age. Peter Parker, who is protecting New York under the guise of Spider-Man, has a stunning, clever, blonde girlfriend called Gwen Stacey. They have been a couple for quite a while now, and Marvel's editors and writers are getting nervous. Some might say, it's time for their relationship to get to the next level, either via Peter proposing to Gwen or at least by him telling her his secret identity. They decide to do the sensible thing and kill her off. 'The Night Gwen Stacey Died' is a dark tale, considering Gwen's death drives Peter very close to the edge of beating the Green Goblin into a bloody paste with his bare hands in a fit of rage; but it also was a turning point for the comic book-industry as a whole. Until that day, supporting characters didn't die out of origin stories. Heroes didn't die. But with TNGSD ending the silver age, all bets were off and nobody was safe. </span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Now, while Peter was mourning Gwen, he got morale support by their friend Mary-Jane. Over the time, they became a couple, she learned his secret identity, they got married.... so basically MJ got everything Gwen was killed to avoid. Throw in a badly done deal with the devil to add insult to injury, and you know, why I don't like their relationship, even though she proved a great morale support to Spider-Man.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">#7 Buffy Summers & Angel</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">In every Generation is born a chosen one to protect the world from the forces of evil. Buffy Summers started out as your average teenage-girl, until she got awakened as the slayer, destined to battle vampires and demons to protect our world from dark forces. Shortly after she moved to Sunnydale to keep the hellmouth in check, she met the mysterious dark, brooding Angel. Angel turned out to be a vampire, who was also fighting the good fight, supporting Buffy and her scooby-gang. Normally, that wouldn't make much sense, but angel isn't a normal vampire. After the young man Liam got turned into an undead bloodsucker during the 18th century, he committed many atrocities under the name Angelus all over the world, killing for fun, slaughtering whole villages and so on. While spreading terror through Romania, he majorly pissed of a clan of gypsies, who cursed him to have a soul, which made him compassionate toward all his victims and set him on a path of atonement. Buffy fell for him pretty quickly (cut here some slack, she was a teenager back then), and Angel lowered his defences around her, allowing her to get close to him. The problem was, his curse had a catch: if he ever achieved a moment of true happiness, his soul would leave his body and he would turn into Angelus again. Hilarity ensued, Angel became evil and terrorized Sunnydale in general and Buffy and her friends in particular. When he was about to summon a demon, that would have destroyed the world, she had enough and went out to kill him, impaling him and sending him to hell mere moments after her friend Willow restored the curse. A few months later, he returned from hell, broken and a shadow of his former self (we knew at that point that time in hell is different, a few minutes in our world equalling months in hell, and we can assume he has been tortured the whole time). He gets better, but is still angsting -which originally irritated me, but after thinking about it from his point of view, I had to give him a pass on that, considering his backstory. He finally decides to leave Sunnydale, unable to stay around Buffy, and set up shop in L.A., helping the hopeless.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Now, I've mentioned something about OMD done right between those two, and it happened during the first season of Angel's spin off-show. Buffy visits him, they fight a demon and contact with it's blood turns Angel into a human. He and Buffy are happy, because now they can be together without the danger of Angel turning evil again, but when demon returns, Angel realizes the advantage his vampire powers gave him fighting demons. Buffy saves him, but he learns that there are more to come, and with the good guys missing one of their most powerful fighters, the slayer is destined to be overrun and die. He visits some higher powers to ask them to turn him back, but there is only one way to do it: they can turn back time to the first encounter with the demon, with only Angel remembering everything, so he can make sure things turn out different this time. He accepts, sacrificing his one chance at true happiness to save his love's life (and not his constantly dying, old aunt, who told him to let her go, since she lived a good a life). Now THAT'S how you use a deal with higher powers to prevent a relationship from blooming.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">#6 Harry Potter & Cho Chang</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Harry Potter, the boy who lived. Cho Chang the...girl who...dated the boy who lived for a short time...or something. Like Tim and Stephanie, this relationship sort of bugged me for years, without actually being a problem. Harry Potter managed to be world-famous and some kind of social outcast at the same time, sort of like a more likeable version of Justin Bieber. </span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">He is the hero of a generation, facing of against a sorcerer so evil and powerful, people were afraid to even mention his name again and again, while constantly failing to die. His family hated him, which was probably caused by the piece of evil sorcerer-soul stored inside him, since those things just have that effect on others, while his few friends and allies kept risking their lives for him and helped him surviving seven long years off school. Some say, he would have died, without his friends in his first year, but he wouldn't even have figured out how to get in those situations, if they hadn't helped him, so if he had stayed a loner, nobody would have been in danger in the first place. Well done, friends of Harry.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Cho Chang seems to be one of those girls, who just can't stay alone for a long while, dating one guy at Hogwarts after another ( we know of four, but she wasn't mentioned before book three, and in book seven, she wasn't around much, due to Harry and the gang not being in school). In the fourth book, her boyfriend dies at the end, with Harry being around. The next year, she and Harry are getting closer, but their relationship is troublesome and basically doomed from the very beginning: She gets into pointless arguments about sports with Harry's best friend Ron, constantly wants to talk about her ex’s death and is constantly jealous towards Harry's other best friend, Hermione. Ironically enough, Hermione actually tried to teach Harry how to treat a girl, because the poor idiot was completely clueless. Hey, Cho? Some guys are a little awkward around girls, we need some help of our female friends to understand what's okay and what's a no-go. Be thankful for those patient ladies in our lives instead of jealous. That's stupid and helps nobody.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Kylar and Elene are an interesting variation of the girl next door-scenario, especially if you consider the lack of doors in their childhood. Growing up together as street rats, Kylar -then known as Azoth-always tried to take care of the little Dollgirl. He planned to apprentice with the infamous wetboy Durzo Blint to get both of a proper life, but when he hesitated to kill Rat, Dollgirl got literally scarred for life as punishment for Azoth. When he finally fulfilled the requirements to learn how to become a killer, he arranged for Dollgirl to be taken care of by a good family, who named her Elene. Despite his master's orders, Kylar kept tabs on the girl, watched over her and secretly fell in love with his former childhood-friend. While Elene knew Kylar, she wasn't aware of him being Azoth at first and had a crush on her old friend herself. After a few complications, they got together, and took care of Durzo's little daughter, posing as a young couple who adopted a war-orphan. Elene being raised by a religious family caused some conflict with Kylar's uprising to become the perfect killer, and despite his longing to be happy with her, he couldn't help himself to roam the streets after dark as The Nightangel, bringing bad people to justice. While their communication was troubled, Kylar did his best to defy his nature, until circumstances beyond his influence caused him to leave and Elene thinking he abandoned her. When she followed him, she was forced to kill a bandit in self-defense, realizing there might something like 'necessary evil' in her god's plans. </span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When they found each other again, they actually had a level of happyness, they've never reached before, but they days as a happy couple were numbered: some of Kylar's decisions had sealed Elene's fate, so they tried to make the best of the time they had left while preparing for a war. Knowing Kylar wouldn't leave her behind, Elene snuck away with a group of supporters for their army, so Kylar was forced to follow her, since she didn't want to stop him from fulfilling what she thought to be his destiny, since he was the force that could turn the tides in the final battle. In the end Kylar was forced to kill the love of his life to stop a twisted goddess, that used her as a host. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Mario is an italian plumber from Brooklyn. Peach is the princess of the Mushroom kingdom.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">when Mario first set out heroing, he had to rescue Pauline, who got stolen by an ape. Then he saved princess Daisy from Sarassa-land. But in the end, he usually chases after constantly kidnapped Peach. Say what you want, but something's fishy about those kidnappings. I mean, wouldn’t any sane person do SOMETHING about security after being kidnapped basically five times in a month? So either Peach suffers from a serious case of stockholm-syndrome or.. uhm... look, something’s fishy. </span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Also, why is Bowser so fixated with her? </span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Also also, why does Mario get through all of this trouble, time and time again, just for the promise of a cake?</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">What also bothers me is that those two are just so bland. Peach is THE stereotypical damsel in distress with little to no personality and Mario is just the everyday man doing some heroing around. He is also basically without personality, facing giant fire breathing turtles without even really reacting to what he sees. At least his brother gets frightened by all the crazy shit going on around them. But Mario and Peach? They might fit each other, but they are about as interesting as Bella and Edward.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Jonny Sasaki is heir to a nervous stomach and not actually the best soldier around. Merryl is the daughter of one of Snake's closest allies and kicks all kinds of ass.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">when they initially met, Jonny was tasked with guarding her, while she was held hostage. Since he started out as a comic relief-character, Jonny instantly fell in love with Merryl. She thanked him by knocking him out and stealing his uniform. After Genome-project was shut down, he tracked her down and worked hard to join her unit. In a world of nanomachines, Johnny was the weakest part of the team, since his fear of needles made him avoiding the shots that would have injected the nanomachines in his bloodstream, giving the team an unnatural synchronisation on the battlefield. Who would have guessed, that this would turn into a big advantage at some point? When Liquid Ocelot disables the nanomachines, exposing the soldiers to all their suppressed emotions from the battlefield, he was the one, who stayed on his feet. When Ocelot blew up the gunboat, Merryl was on board of, Jonny was the one to pull her unconscious body out of the water and give her CPR. Screaming Mantis used the nanomachines to control her enemies bodies distracting Snake by forcing Merryl to put a gun to her head, but she couldn't control Johnny. When Merryl made her last stand to buy Snake time and hold off the incoming FROG-units, Johnny got back to his feet, shot her attackers and supplied her with new ammunition. While they keep fighting together side by side, outnumbered and outgunned, he finally finds the courage to tell her exactly how he feels and proposes to her. Of course she refuses, because she's a big girl and does things her own way, basically ordering him to marry her and asks him take her home. They get the gunfight-equivalent of a second wind and fight back the incoming attackers even fiercer than before, because now it's not about the free world anymore, now it's about them. Even though they take both multiple hits, they refuse to give up, buying Snake enough time to fulfil his mission. While their love seemed rushed, there are multiple hints that there is more to it: Johnny was secretly in love with Merryl for years, and even though she treated him badly in the first act of Guns Of The Patriots, we need to keep in mind that she is the commanding officer of Rat Pt.01 and has to take care of her whole team...and in the beginning, Johnny was a liability, being out of sync and accidentally attracting enemies to their position. But when he saves her life, he proves to be a worthy member of the team, and they apparently bonded off-screen, regarding Merryl's reaction when Johnny paid more attention to Mei-Lings behind than he did to the ongoing mission-briefing. She also was worried about his safety, when he overshot the target-location. Plus, her nanomachines were supposed to suppress emotions, to make her a more efficient soldier.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Donald Duck, the posterchild for bad luck, lazyness and a bad temper, yet he's incredibly versatile. Daisy Duck, torn between two cousins fighting for her love.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">While I've always been a great Donald-fan, this relationship especially bugged me, even though it took me years of growing up (hehe, try to picture me as a grown up. How ridiculous) to realize, what exactly made me hate this pair-up.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Hint: it's not Donald.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Now, don't get me wrong. I don't blame Daisy for being unable to sort out her feelings for those two men constantly fighting about her, I'm sure she's not poly-amorous by choice. However, I blame her for constantly playing Donald and Gladstone against each other, forcing them into competing for her attention on a regular base. She was created -and is officially listed- as Donald's girlfriend (at least in german translations of comics even as his fiancee sometimes), yet she tends to go out on dates with Gladstone to punish Donald, when she didn't approve of his behaviour.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">She also constantly tried to change Donald to be more like her 'dream-guy', while she -especially in her early years- was pro e throw a tantrum at tiny things herself. While she is more controlled now, her fury still has everyone cowering in fear and she exchanged her most violent tendencies against becoming a diva.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Personally, I prefer stories, where Donald tries to charm an random lady, he’s met somewhere, instead of going out with Daisy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">A recreation of his uncle's lab-accident turned young Wally West into the sidekick of the fastest man alive.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">A girl from a family with an intense criminal background takes up bow and arrow the prove there is no such thing as 'bad blood'.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When Kid Flash, Robin, Aqualad and Speedy are told, they’ll be allowed into the Justice League's headquarters, the boys believe their biggest dream to come true. After all, that should be the first step to become actual members of the League. But when Speedy reveals the Hall of Justice just being a PR-gag, the young sidekicks feel cheated, since they aren't allowed into the watchtower yet, so they go against direct orders by their mentors, setting out on their own when they're told to stay put, which results in the rescue of Superboy and the creation of a covert black-ops-team of sidekicks. When Artemis joins under the guise of Green Arrow's niece, She and Wally are often at odds, since Wally originally felt like she's supposed to take Speedy's place on the team, while Artemis doesn't take any of Wally's nonsense, when he desperately tries to charm Miss Martian or Zatana, going even so far to claim he believes in magic whenever Zatana is around, while he usually brushes everything magical off as trickery and trying to explain it with science. Wally begins warming up to Artemis, and despite feeling deeply betrayed when Artemis sabotaged tracking Sportsmaster and Cheshire fearing they would reveal who she is, his only concern during psychological evaluation after a simulated training-mission went south, is what Artemis thinks of him.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">One could claim it to be fate, when those two finally find each other, considering how Kent Nelson -the former Doctor Fate- has told Wally to 'find his own little spitfire, who doesn't let him get away with anything', a role Artemis filled from the very beginning. Yet it took a hostile takeover of the Justice League via mind control, that put the team against their mentors, for them to finally face this fact; after they defeated their usually superior mentors and freed the League from the mind control, Wally kisses Artemis at midnight of New Year's Eve, and they become a couple.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Over the course of the next five years, they start living together and retire from heroing, leading a normal life. Wally dons his costume once more, when the Flash's grandson Impulse arrives from the future, but for him this was a onetime return to help out Flash and Impulse defeating a villain, especially since he can't keep up with either of the Allen-speedsters. Artemis clads herself in green again when Nightwing requests her help for a mission, but once more things don't work out as planned and Artemis is seemingly killed by the former Aqualad. Unknown to anyone except Wally, Artemis, Aqualad and Nightwing, this was actually a ruse to solidify Aqualads position, who is deep undercover, and allow Artemis to take on the identity of Tigress, who becomes Aqualad's trusted right hand.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Wally isn't to thrilled by the idea of his girlfriend posing as an assassin in the their enemies inner circle, and he calls his friend Nightwing out more than once for this dangerous ruse. Despite Wally's concern, she manages to avoid detection until the team makes their move and she and Aqualad prove, on who's side they really are.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When an alien race known as the reach actives multiple devices around the world to disrupt the earth's magnetic field, Wally and Artemis again fill their role as battle-couple, with Wally still finding time to flirt, inspired by them being in Paris. Right when the heroes thought,they saved everyone, they learn about another hidden device at the nortpole,where the Justice League has no Zeta-Tubes stationed, so nobody is able to teleport there. Flash and Impulse race to the location,but they are too late,the device is already activated. When Lex Luthor advises them to run circles, so their kinetic energy will syphon off the devices destructive energy, Wally joins them to add his share of kinetic energy.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But once more he is faced with the fact, that he isn't nearly as fast as the Flash or Impulse, which actually makes him a target for the released energy. Flash and Impulse slow down to match Wally's speed, but it's too late; Kid Flash is fading out of existence. His last thoughts go toward Artemis, before he's completely gone.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The Jokers origin is still a mystery, he himself even states, that 'if he has to have an origin, he prefers it to be multiple choice'. So, whoever he was before, after a chemical accident bleached his skin, turned his hair green and put a permanent grin on his face, he became the Yang to Batman’s Yin, stating every now and then, that they complete each other.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Harleen Quinzel was a young psychiatrist, working at Arkham Asylum. She wanted to get recognized, so she worked hard and finally got managed to get assigned to the patient only known as Joker. She was fascinated by his case and while trying to get to his inner, true self, hidden beneath layers of madness, she began to fall for him, until she lost herself, designed a costume and broke him out, adapting the alias Harley Quinn. Harley loved the Joker deeply and was basically obsessed with 'Mista Jay', whom she also used to call her 'Puddin' ',while the Joker normally just used her as means to an end. He had no remorse in using her as bait, leaving her behind to get caught, or just beating her up, since all he cared about was Batman. The Caped Crusader even used that once, when Harley managed to trap him, secretly informing the Joker, who again beat Harley up, since 'the bat belongs to him'. Despite often being the target of Joker's violent outbursts, she stayed true to him for many years.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">She eventually grew more independent after spending some time with Poison Ivy, who questioned Harley's love for the Joker.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Amelia Pond is the girl, who waited. Rory Williams is the last centurion, who makes every boyfriend ever look bad in comparison.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">During her childhood, little Scottish redhead Amelia had an imaginary friend, who wasn't really imaginary, he was just a time traveller, who failed to be on time. When she grew up, her obsession with The Doctor grew into silent waiting, while her best friend Melody - who is also her daughter from the future- took the part of fiercely standing up for his existence. Mel was also the one making Amelia - who went by Amy now- realize, that her friend Rory actually wasn't without a girlfriend because he's gay, but because he's in love with Amy and just didn't dare to tell her. After some time travelling shenanigans with Amy, the Doctor learns, that he picked her up the night before her wedding, and decides to make Rory join them on their travels, basically as a wedding gift.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">That puts Amy in a tough spot, torn between the man, who everybody thought to be imaginary, leading to her visiting four different psychiatrists during her childhood, and the man, who would everything for her, always ready to call the Doctor out on his bullshit, when the latter made people endanger themselves to impress him. </span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">On one of their adventures Rory died, and Amy realized how much he meant to her, just to forget him seconds later, when he was retroactively erased from reality.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Now, when she was a child, Amy's room contained a crack in reality, which exposed her to timey-wimey energies, allowing an alien alliance to recreate Rory as part of a trap for the Doctor. This version of Rory was an artificial lifeform under the influence of mind control, which made him shoot Amy. That shock allowed his consciousness to resurface, and - with some help of the Doctor- his personality got fully restored. He than spend the 2000 years waiting and guarding the box containing her during her suspended animation. </span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When she got kidnapped, Rory once more donned the armor of the Last Centurion, and went to question the Cybermen about Amy's whereabouts. While the Doctor rigged the cyber-fleet's ships to explode, Rory curb stomped his way through the command ship. The Cybermen -basically humanoid robots, who are at least equipped with mounted blasters, but also not shy to get additional weapons- couldn't even slow him down, as he cut his way through their lines faster than they could raise their defences, armed only with a sword. When he confronted the cyber-leader, he asked about the location of his wife, while the Doctor blew up half the fleet outside the window behind Rory, so they could make their point.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When Amy got stuck in a different time stream, she went close to losing her mind after 36 years without Rory.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">While initially refused to help the Doctor to save her younger self, because she didn't want to spare him the guilt of his reckless actions, she finally agreed for Rory's sake, even though this meant her older, bitter self would be erased from existence. She demanded to be taken aboard the TARDIS too, but at that point she probably the Doctor well enough to suspect him plotting against it in order to avoid a paradox and ended up sacrificing herself, so Rory and her younger self could be together.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Despite that, she still broke up with Rory a while later upon learning that she never could have children again, since Rory had always dreamt about having a family. Ironically, Rory didn't care about having children as long as he could be with Amy, which they only managed to figure out during a life-or-death situation, they got into thanks to their affiliation with the Doctor, allowing the timelord to fix their marriage, despite Amy' prior claims that this isn't something he could fix like his bow-tie.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Their story ends in New York, when Rory gets stuck in fixed events having him dying alone at old age in a hospital. To avoid that from happening, he decides to kill himself by jumping of the roof, causing a paradox, that would erase the hospital out of existence, bringing him back to life, since he can't die jumping from a building that never existed. Amy is u willing to let him take the bargain and decides to join him, so she wouldn't have to be without him, if anything goes wrong. Interestingly enough, Rory wakes a mere moments before Amy, hinting that he hit the ground first, even though they jumped arm in arm, hinting that he even in death still tried to protect her.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When he gets zapped back in the past once more, Amy follows him, so they still could grow old together.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Anakin Skywalker, the jedi who would ultimately become o e of the most menacing Villains in fictional history. Padme Amidala, a politician who had a lot of decoys.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Usually, Star Wars-fans aren't really fond of this couple and I'll tell you why: the script doesn't allow them to develope any chemistry. </span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Anakin starts out a slave-born little boy on Tatooine, when Princess Amidala's ship is forced to land there for some repair works. Jedi-Knight Qui-Gon Jinn finds the little boy in a repair shop, senses his strong affinity to the force and tricks his owner to set him free. When Qui-Gon dies a short time after, his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi graduates and takes Anakin u der his wing.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When they originally met in the repair shop, Padme was disguised as a servant and accompanying Qui-Gon, so she met Anakin there too. The only thing setting up their future relationship at that point was a little boy asking a grown woman, if she was an angel, telling the viewer he thought her to be beautiful. She offers concern about Qui-Gon's plan to let a little boy participate in a dangerous highspeed-race to win the needed spare parts for the ship and the kid's freedom, but they didn't interact much more on screen. By the time clone war is coming close to happen, Obi-Wan and Anakin are sent to protect Padme, with Anakin mentioning that he always kept thinking of her (why ever the hell he would do that, since she barely talked to him before he became a padawan).</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Someone tries to assassinate Padme, hilarity ensues, Anakin ignores Obi-Wan's orders, yet is still somehow tasked with protecting Padme, they bumble around awkwardly, which apparently means they love grows, he murders a whole village including women and children, loses an arm and they secretly marry, despite jedis being forbidden to love.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">After a rescue mission, where Anakin kills the guy who hacked off his hand, Padme tells him, she’s pregnant and they try to figure out, what to do.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">At that point, Anakin is already enthralled by the future emperor, so instead of telling his wife about his prophetic dreams of her death, he goes to his master-to-be, learns about a sith, who figured out, how to cheat death and murders all the younglings at the jedi temple, to get closer to the dark side. When the emperor sends him on another wet-job, she secretly follows him, with Obi-Wan stowing away. When Obi confronts his former apprentice, Anakin blames him for turning his wife against him and force-chokes her. Obi defeats him, cuts off his limbs and leaves hi to burn in a volcano, saving Padme instead. She gives birth to twins, names them and dies, because Anakin choked the will to live ot of her.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I dislike this 'lovestory' especially, because it's so forced. One of the few things I like about the prequels is Hayden Christensen's performance, the problem is that he has nothing to work with. When he goes down to the dark side, he is pretty menacing, but when he interacts with other others, he's written like Chris Odonell's Robin. It's like listening to Peter Parker in One More Day or dealing with Superboy-Prime.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">That's the trouble with prequels: when there is a father-son-relationship in the original story, there has to be a mother at some point. If the father is a villain, prequels tell us,how he got there, which is not a bad thing per se, but writers know, that they are expected to present us with a relationship leading to the children. So they do whatever they have to, in order to make it happen, even if they sacrifice building chemistry between the and interest for them, because we need more flashy explosions in space.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Anakin and Padme - the couple that wouldn't have felt more forced, if they were held at gunpoint the whole time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">#2 Kin & Minmax</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Minmax the fighter is exactly what it says on the can. Kin is a highly intelligent Yuan-Ti with a horrible past.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When he set out as an adventurer, Minmax was a simple character: He was named after the applied character-concept of minmaxing, with maxed out stats for combat, while his intelligence score was dumbed for extra-points; he even exchanged basic abilities like reading, whistling, rhyming at will or dressing himself for additional bonus-points and combat feats. This made him an incredible powerful fighter, who could perform in combat way beyond his actual level, while his worldview was doomed to be simple: adventurers are good, monsters are evil. After he and his friend Forgath raided a goblin camp, the surviving goblins decided to become adventurers themselves to protect their people, while Minmax and Forgath stumbled upon a prophecy, which Forgath misinterpreted, so they believed those very goblins are out to destroy the world. Since Minmax and one of the goblins became each other's nemesis during the attack on the camp anyway, Minmax was more than happy to chase the goblins to stop them. When they reached the town of Brassmoon, Minmax had to rethink his views for the first time, when he encountered his idol, the famous adventurer Dellyn Goblinslayer and had to find out, what kind of person he really was. Dellyn had turned torture into an art and kept a variety of monsters as prisoners to figure out, how he could delivered the most pain and suffering to different types of creatures. The Goblin Adventure Party recently had delivered a serious blow to Dellyn’s troops by freeing a lot of his prisoners and killing dozens of his man in the ensuing battle before escaping the city. Dellyn took out his frustration on Kin, who he had enslaved using a cursed leash and collar, which forced her to obey every order given by the wielder of the leash. He used to rape her on a regular base, bringing her to an inch of her life, just to give her healing potions and repeat his atrocious acts. When he brags about it, Minmax snaps, throwing him out of a window and starting a fight, in which he and Forgath kill the high-level adventurer and free Kin. The Yuan-Ti follows the duo, when they leave town and Minmax plans to kill her for xp, since she is a monster and therefore evil. Forgath tells him, he won't have any part in this and makes Minmax converse with Kin, who agrees to spare her life, if he finds at least one "normal thing" about her. When he fails to do so, he decides to give her a birthday, so he doesn't have to get back on his word while avoiding to kill her. He even creates a necklace with her name, and even though he misspells it as 'Ken', Kin rethinks her opinion about humans, and begins to like Minmax. The trio continues their travel and enters an interdimensional dungeon-crawl, known as The Maze Of The Many. Here, multiple version of them from different realities fight deadly traps and each other in a race to the treasure room, with the maze resetting every time someone wins it, erasing all memories of the remaining participants and bringing them back to life if they died. After 'our' adventures already failed almost two million times, they encounter a psion-Minmax, who has destroyed the counter for his tries, so he can retain his memories of previous tries and learn everything he needs about the different versions of the team and the maze itself to reach his own agenda, not the prize at the end of the dungeon, but the annihilation of all realities. He believes, that existence itself is the cause of all suffering and that oblivion holds a salvation beyond death, so he used his psionic powers to create reality-affecting gears, which he plans to use to erase the maze and everybody in it from existence by using the unique properties of the maze to prove 0=1. When begins to enact his plan, he has to realizes that his calculations are incorrect due to an unexpected variable, which he figures out being connected to 'our' reality, which leads to oblivion holes appearing throughout the maze instead of the whole place being erased. Since these are a paradox, they still carry the psion’s intended property of retroactively eradicating everything from existence, that falls into them. When the psion sets out to confront Minmax' party, he gets irritated by the fighter and tortures him, which -to his surprise- leads to Kin pleading him to stop. The psion deduces that these versions of Kin and Minmax share a bond far deeper than the soft romance most of them have, and test his theory by torturing Kin instead, which leads to Minmax get highly enraged. Convinced they are in love, the psion lets them go, since their death at this point would upset 43 variables in his calculations. After he left, Kin states that she doesn't love Minmax, since that just not how it works for Yuan-Ti. They don't experience love as we now it, but on rare occasions, two Yuan-Ti who experience a outstandingly strong connection, they enter a state called 'trueseeing', where they fully experience each others joy and pain.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Minmax gets a new sword, which is able to copy the properties of whatever it touches, unless he breaks it by sticking it into an oblivion-hole, which leads to the sword only existing for him and being unable to be affected by anything else. When the group enters another trapped room with trees growing down on them -with the growth-process being sped up by the trees being damaged- they encounter an alternate Minmax who has enslaved a demon, which they manage to banish, but not without a fire starting. When the trees burn, they grow even faster, which allows the fire to spread further, speeding up the growing process again, and Kin gets trapped. Being pinned down by moving wood leads her having a traumatic flashback, since Dellyn was partly human, partly animated wood. Unable to move, she completely breaks down, until Minmax crashes through the branches holding her down, doing his best to free her, but his efforts only make things worse. When it looks like they're about to get crushed, Minmax levels up again and -instead of following his completely laid out path to become a high-level fighter with incredible bonuses from staying strictly on with his favorite class, he multiclasses and takes a level in barbarian to use the strengh-bonus from the barbarian rage to break Kin free and bring her to safety.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Now, people who don't play RPGs might wonder, why this is such a big deal; as stated in the character introduction, Minmax is not only the name, but also the concept for the character. Minmax-chars are usually created toward a specific playstyle and get planned ahead all the way to the level-cap, before the charsheet even get picked up once. With taking a level in barbarian instead of fighter, we can assume Minmax screwed of the whole concept for his existence. Despite having a policy against tactile interaction, Kin hugs Minmax after he apologizes for going against her 'no touching'-rule.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When the group starts taking a shortcut by taking advantage of the oblivion holes breaking parts out of the mazes walls, they reach the treasure chamber way earlier than other teams, but can't enter it, because they skipped the necessary keys.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Minmax goes back to get the keys and starts fighting alternate versions of them, when the psion returns and attacks Forgath and Kin for messing with his plans. Kin's snake tail gets liquefied by psion-Minmax' powers, leaving her bleeding out and dying. The psion thinks, he needs Minmax' oblivion-sword to fulfil his task, so he leaves to face him, when a team of alternate Kins shows up and saves our Kin with a healing potion. While the potion is able to close her wounds and save her live, it can't restore her tail, leaving her crippled. The Kins tamper with the psion's gears, allowing Minmax to defeat him. Minmax is returned to Kin and is devastated, when he sees what his evil doppelganger did to her. She embraces him in close hug, assuring him that she's fine, which confuses her alternate versions, who never shared such a close bond with Minmax or any human at all. The group manages to restore Forgath's beard- erased by an oblivion hole-, Minmax' eye -damaged in the raid at the goblin camp- and even Kin's tail, which fills Minmax with joy. Right when he and Kin are about to share a kiss, an alternate Kin, who dubbed herself Ruby, interrupts and pulls Kin away. Ruby reminds her, how they suffered due to a human, demands to know how Kin can trust Minmax and questions her about her plans. When Kin admits, that she's thinking about scrapping the original plan to part ways with the adventurers shortly after the dungeon crawl, Ruby calls her out on it, compares Minmax' necklace to the cursed leash and offers her to stay with the other Kins instead. She asks Kin to at least think about it and hugs her, stealing the necklace unnoticed by Kin. When Kin talks to Minmax about her plans and her trust in him, Ruby drops the necklace into an oblivion-hole, leaving Kin questioning WHY she trusts Minmax and deciding it would be better to leave them. Desperately trying to get her attention and explaining, that he truesees her, Minmax attempts to hold her back from leaving, but accidentally grabs the leash when yelling 'stop and listen to me', activating the cursed magic that compels her to do what she is told. Horrified, he realizes what he just did, offers her the leash and tries to apologize, but she just knocks him down and leaves. Minmax is heartbroken over what just happened, so Forgath attempts to talk to her, but when tells Minmax about the conversation, his friend is unable to process anything the dwarf tells him and just keeps asking if Forgath told her, that he's sorry, while breaking down. In his desperation, he punches a wall, hurting his hand, while in the other room Kin gets bitten by a spider, leaving her with the exact same wound, proving that Minmax was right about trueseeing Kin. When Kin returns with the magic tea, that will transport Forgath and Minmax to the Goblins, Minmax tells her again, he’s sorry and offers to do anything she wants, to prove it and convince her to stay with them. Kin says, to prove it, he has to drink the tea. The second Minmax disappears, Kin realizes the wound on his hand being the same as hers, but it is too late, Minmax is gone.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Tidus about whom I've tried to write something not insulting for 15 minutes, yet I failed.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Yuna is a pristress and summoner, who happily plays the doormat for her incompetent bodyguards.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Originally a famous Blitzball-player, Tidus one day gets send into the far future, when his hometown Zanarkand gets attacked and destroyed by SIN. There he proceeds to think high of himself, believing the events turning around him, while he defiles other people's religions, ignores advice not to tell where he comes from, because it's considered a sacred place now and having flashbacks concerning his daddy-issues. He joins the ranks of Yuna's protectors, who is on a spiritual voyage to acquire the necessary summons to seal SIN away, which is apparently not important enough to not make stops for playing blitzball. Every now and then, Tidus makes awkward attempts to get closer to Yuna, walking into places where he's not allowed and still insisting about this whole thing being 'his story'. Yuna gets kidnapped more often than princess Peach, yet she feels the need to apologize to her bodyguards instead of, I don't know, asking them WHAT THE FUCK THEY WERE DOING instead of hanging around protecting her. The ridiculous bad guy Seymore decides, it is time for a lovetriangle, asking Yuna to marry him, because of some ritual or whatever. When the party finally realizes Seymore to be the bad guy, they kill him, but instead of doing, what a summoner is supposed to do -sending the dead to the afterlife- they just leave, so he can return from the dead, causing the party more trouble. When Yuna gets captured by his cronies, she agrees to marry him,if her friends are allowed to live. Her friends decide to crash the ceremony, while Yuna already had planned how to flee from a wedding ceremony, that was guarded by robots and people with firearms, which all are actually considered taboo by religious decree, some can actually assume nobody would have accepted that anyways. The gang gets on the run, and despite sharing less romantic scenes than Padme and Anakin, Tidus and Yuna make out in a lake, when he finally understands what everybody else already knew: the summoner is supposed to sacrifice themself in order to complete the final summoning to stop SIN for a while.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">He decides not to accept that -since it is his story- learns that SIN's essence is his dad's spirit, they defeat SIN as a metaphor of Tidus overcoming his daddy-issues and he fades away,since he never was real to begin with.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Tidus and Yuna- the couple that makes me simply ask "why?".</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Anju, a young woman, who run’s the Stock Pott Inn with her mother.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Kafei, the son of Clock-Town’s mayor. </span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Basically, this is another ‘ Girl next door’-Story; they grew up together, fell in love, got engaged. Pretty standard, right? Well, no.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">A few days before their planned wedding, Kafei disappeared without a trace. Anju had no idea where he went to, but she had faith in his timely return. The problem is, that his attempt to fix the original problem -he got transformed into a child by Majora and went to see the great fairy, to as for help-, created another problem -he had a run-in with a thief, who stole his wedding mask, a symbol of his love for Anju, which actually left him so ashamed, he didn’t dare to see her before reclaiming the mask (masks are an important part of Termina’s culture, and one ritual of the wedding ceremony is exchanging self-made masks ).</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">His mother hires a stranger as detective, who than basically controls the entire fate of the relationship. Will he talk to Anju after she received Kafei’s letter? Will he agree to meet her at midnight in the kitchen, so she can explain the situation and deliver her letter in time to the mailbox? Will he meet with Kafei, after Anju’s letter was delivered? Will he deliver Kafei’s pendant to her, so she’ll refuse to flee the town with her family in the final night? Will he find Kafei near the thief’s hideout and wait with him patiently for a chance to break in? Will they together manage to reclaim the stolen mask before it’s lost?</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">There is just so much that can go wrong in bringing those two happily back together, from missing an appointment, to taking too long to solve a puzzle... even saving the old lady from the thief during the first night will prevent him from returning to town later, which in case takes away Kafei’s last chance to get back the mask.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Forget to hand over the pendant, and Kafei will race back to the Inn with his reclaimed mask, just to find it empty. Fail the get the mask back,and he won’t dare to return to Anju.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But if you do everything right, they will in the end be reunited in a heart-warming moment, thanking you for your help and not caring on bit about the moon being only about two hours from smashing down on them, since all they need is each other. This moment really makes you hate yourself for having to choose between either let them die alongside everyone else in Termina, or just erase everything you just did for them from the time stream.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Also, chances that you’ll attempt to do their quest way before you can finish it on your first time around Termina, so you may or may not have to actually redo parts of it multiple times. It is completely possible to spend more time with them than with one of the main-dungeons. Not that’s what I call involvement, when you’re actually busy saving the world.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> Anju & Kafei – The couple,that raised the bar for lovers in video games higher than anyone else.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Well, so much for my top 8 most adored and most despised romances in fiction (though I admit, Anakin&Padme could basically be exchanged with Neo&Trinity, both couples contain as much chemistry as a vacuum).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Happy Single Awareness-Day/Throw Things At Couples-Day/Fat Babies Shooting People With Arrows-Day/or whatever you have dubbed February, 14th for yourself.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i>~Kirby out</i></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332438227656256400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1399640485178833640.post-91505231716805934862016-01-22T15:59:00.000+01:002016-10-02T13:28:10.213+02:00A terrible Recolletion<div style="line-height: 115%;">
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The Recollection-Series contains seasons 6-8 of Red vs Blue,taking place chronologically after the Blood Gulch Chronicles.</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The Reds and Blues got reassigned to new platoons and mostly left Blood Gulch, and we get introduced to a couple of new characters. </span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Former freelancer Agent Washington works now as recovery soldier,since somebody systematically hunts down freelancers. The problem is that most freelancers had an AI -GAMMA and OMEGA weren't the only ones- and some experimental special equipment,two things that better don't fall into enemy hands. Since it's more cost efficient to get them back and put them in a warehouse than it is to destroy them, Washington is now Recovery One.</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">During the Mini-series Recovery One,which precedes the Recollection-Series, we already saw him recovering the AI DELTA from Agent York,who was killed assisting Tex in a firefight with Wyoming. DELTA is different from the AI we've met so far,always calm and calculating. However,he instantly receives another recovery beacon, since his former comrade Agent North Dakota was killed. When he arrives the scene, he finds Norths body,but his</span></span><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; line-height: 115%;"> AI and equipment are gone. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; line-height: 115%;">Instead, Washington find Norths twin sister South Dakota,who teams up with him to find the entity known as the Meta,who killed North.</span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">However,once they encounter it, South betrays Washington,shoots him in the back,steals DELTA and flees the scene. Since Washington neither has an AI nor any equipment, the Meta just leaves him.</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Washington recovers,but due to the betrayal by his former teammate, he has deep trust-issues, and the fact that he and Recovery Command can assume that South also sacrificed her twin brother to safe her own hide, doesn't make it any better.</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But Washington isn't the only one having a hard time; Church and Sarge are bound to question their whole existence before this story-arc is over.</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">At one point,Washington gathers the Reds and Blues to break into a Freelancer-outpost in order to do take the necessary steps to get ALPHA.</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Earlier he saw Church in his disembodied form and learned that DELTA, whom they recovered from South,after she attempted to leave him behind,so the Meta would leave her alone, left a message for him in Caboose's mind while the latter was unconscious , so basically only Church could find it. The message said ' Memory is the key', so Washington managed to figure out,they had to unlock the ALPHA and what they needed to do for it. In the Base,they discover a storage-unit, which sends imayes flashing through Church's mind,when he gets close to it. Contrary to Church's initial assumption, this isn't ALPHA, but EPSILON.</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">EPSILON was Washington's former AI and the source from where Wash learned,how Project Freelancer got all their AI. During Reconstruction (season 6), we already learned that something wasn't right about this whole freelancer AI-business,but until this moment we were left in the dark about it. During the whole season,we gain a little insight via brief transmission from a correspondence between Malcom Hargrove, Chairman of the UNSC and the director of Project Freelancer, in which Hargrove questions the mission data recorded by the Freelancers, because it shows multiple agents using AI at the same time,while the UNSC granted only access to a single AI, aquestion the Director constantly dodges.</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The Reds and Blues asking themselves the same question,when Simmons quickly dismisses the idea they may have copied it,since 'you can't copy an AI'. In a conversation with Church, Wash states that the director tried the next best thing, splitting it. </span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">What's the big deal about splitting an artifical intelligence imto multiple pieces,you ask?</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Remember what I mentioned when we looked at the Blood Gulch Chronicles about how AI are made? In a way,they are patterned like a human mind,so The Director was basically aiming to create a split personality. While some things happening at Project Freelancer might have able to be considered a moral grey area,we now reached the point of purposely damaging a psyche enough to create a personality disorder. (If you think we hit rock-bottom, wait till we get to Project Freelancer and take a look at the methods to achieve that goal).ALPHA was tortured mentally time and time again to the point where he shut off and ejected parts of his mind to protect his own sanity. He discarded his logic,creating DELTA while losing the part of his mind able to analyze and understand what's happening to him. When his rage grew bigger and bigger until it threatend to take him over, he split that off too,creating OMEGA in the process. He gave up his trust, which turned into THETA, his deceit became GAMMA and his ambition teamed up with manipulation to form SIGMA. When he let go of his memories,unable to cope with them, EPSILON was created.</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Now Wash wants use EPSILON to unlock ALPHA, who is also wanted by the Meta. But where is the misterious ALPHA-AI? Apparently, it's been Church all along. Naturally, the self-proclaimed leader of blue team dismisses the idea as a steaming pile of crap,because he's a ghost, but Wash insists on it and makes a pretty good case by pointing out,that nobody who died besides Tex and Church became a ghost. Also,Church and DELTA semed to always agree quickly on anything, which wouldn't be a surprise if Church was the ALPHA, considering how DELTA was originally a part of him, same goes for not feeling any difference when OMEGA got into him, or how Church could possess people just like OMEGA. Church still considers himself being a ghost to make much more sense and claims this to be a fact up until the end when he he joins the Meta to stop him and buy Washinton enough time to activate an EMP to destroy all the AI the Meta had collected, including Alpha/Church. We never actually learn if Church was in denial or if he actually got enough memory-flashes from EPSILON to accept it and decided to commit suicide via the EMP,because he found his newly regained memories unbearable.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span dir="LTR">During the final entries of RvB Recreation, we also see the correspondence between the UNSC-chairman and the Freelancer-director getting more and more heated, with the Chairman dissatisfied with the dodgy replies he keeps recieving,while the Director grows annoyed by the continued inquiries towards his work. When the Chairman threatens with severe consequences for the Director, he also seems to have figured out what happened to ALPHA, since he mockingly congratulates the Director that in the Next UNSC-charta for dealing with AI a whole chapter of the ethics-section might be named after him. The Director, who originally refered to the war with the aliens and to importance of his work for ensuring the survival of the human race, points oit that all A.I. come from somewhere and that ALPHA was no exception before finishing his statement by mentioning</span><span dir="LTR" style="font-style: italic;"><i>'while the law has many penalties for the atrocities we inflict on others, there are no punishments for the terrors that we inflict on ourselves.</i></span><span dir="LTR">'.... and -after a few more words of resignation- signing out with 'The former director of Project Freelancer, Dr. Leonard Church'.</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It's time to move on, since we only talked about the first season of the Recollection-Series, there are two more.</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">While the Red soldiers are trying to figure out,if they should attack and kill him to win or if they should try to fix their tampering with the Command-files where they erased thee blue army - and defeating a non-existing enemy wouldn't be a victory - Caboose is busy trying to fix Tex' old body for EPSILON, which he kept despite the agreement to hand everything over to the UNSC in exchange for the new bases, probably due to his very rudimentary understanding of the relation between ALPHA and EPSILON (he seems to understand,that EPSILON sort of is his big idol Church but not really, so he spends much time narrating his recollection their adventures to the storage unit while working). In order to deal with some other problems, he calls Washington for advice,who has been taken in custody by the UNSC and in turn offers the authorities a deal: EPSILON for his freedom. He is then tasked to teammup with the Meta and recover EPSILON in exchange for a full pardon.</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The former allies reunite once more,track down the left behind Reds and shot Donut, while Caboose is on a mission with the other half of Red Ream to find Tucker. There, Caboose manages to transfer EPSILON into a monitor (a floating robot device) and tell him further about the teams, leading to EPSILON-Church sort of recognizing them. When he tries to reactivate his long term memory,he has some flashbacks leading him to an abandoned Freelancer facility, where F.I.L.L.S mistakes EPSILON for the director and shows him and Caboose around. When they discover a spare Body for EPSILON, he also finds something else and sends Caboose out to wait,while he works on something. When the Reds appear -after a run-in with Wash and Meta- ,they find Caboose guarding a sealed steel door,which is under heavy attack from the other side and begins to crumble,so Caboose walks away. While the Reds argue,if they still can prepare an ambush,the door gets smashed out of its hinges and the terrified Reds face once more an opponent they thought to be dead:Tex.</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">After Tex gives the Reds and Tucker a severe beating, we actually learn form EPSILON that this isn't the original Tex, but a copy he managed to create from his memories of her.</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Simmons gains accesses to some records stored in the facility's computer system and finds out that the Red vs. Blue-civil war is a complete hoax: all battlefields are just training simulations for Freelancer agents, the stationed Red and Blue soldiers are just the worst of the worst, and by that expendable. </span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When Sarge learns his whole military career was nothing but a lie,he has a minor breakdown and builds bases out of trash in the facility's </span></span><span style="color: rgb(191 , 144 , 0); font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; line-height: 115%;">hangar.</span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">After reviewing some files, EPSILON-Tex is obsessed with hunting down the Director, and she believes Wash to be the key.</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">She tricks EPSILON into leaving with her, then shoots him,so his recovery beacon gets activated. Wash,Meta and Doc (who they took hostage) turn up and run into Tex's ambush;she has actually turned the whole glacier into a trap,planting lots of explosives and hidden weapons to give her an advantage against the two former Freelancers. Despite her being able to hold her own pretty well, she ultimate gets hit by Washington's assault rifle while running to escape the floor collapsing beneath them.This in return gives the Meta an advantage and allows him,to capture her with a rigged storage unit,trapping her. The Meta instantly turns on Washington,using EPSILON-Tex to run his equipment, but Wash gets saved by the arrival of the Reds and Blues. In the ensuing fight,Tucker manages to stab the Meta with his sword,puncturing his armor and disrupting it's integrity,so the Meta ultimately drowns,after Grif and Simmons manage to drop him of a cliff,following Sarge's plan.</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The Recollection-Series was a huge step up on The Blood Gulch-Chronicles. The plot thickened, the themes got more serious -yet the humor didn't get lost-, the official description for the show added 'Drama' to the genre-column and we met new characters like Meta and Wash. While Freelancers were originally were portrayed as mere mercenaries, by now we learned that there was a whole special program sanctioned by the UNSC to train them.</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But we also got a few more darker aspects. Agent Washington for example is a very interesting and apparently troubled character. He changes his affiliation multiple times, starting out as a former Freelancer and Recovery Soldier, he teams up with the Reds and Blues to break into a Freelancer facility, then we see him again as antagonist working with the Meta,then he goes back to allying with the Red and Blues,before 'officially' joining Blue Team. But what makes him so opportunistic and willing to switch back and forth between working with someone and shooting them?</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">We find an answer to that,when we look at the end of Season 7,where we get a flashback of the UNSC chairman questioning,what makes Wash believe the Blue's will hand over the Epsilon-Unit when he asks them for it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span dir="LTR">Here is Washington's reply:"</span><span dir="LTR" style="font-style: italic;"><i>For as long as I can remember, I've been lied to, taken advantage of, shot in the back, and left for dead. And now, I have a way out of all of this. What in the hell makes you think that I'm going to ask for it?"</i></span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">While this might not actually justify his behavior, it at least explains it. He and his former team have been lied to and taken advantage of all the time during Project Freelancer -we'll get to that next time-, and when he was working with South Dakota as Recovery One and Two,she shot him in the back and left him for dead in order to escape the Meta. While being active as Recovery One, he also was running around,recovering the dead,salvaged bodies of his former friends,which can't be too healthy,either. When he was working with the Reds and Blues,he even had to fight against one of his former friends in form of the Meta, and later was working with the Meta again,against the Reds and Blues,who he was previously working with and finally fighting EPSILON-Tex; he basically ended up in a situation,where -in a certain light- a former friend was trying to kill him and his only support was another former friend,of whom's inevitable betrayal he already knew at that point. Wash might have his flaws,but as someone with a Kakashi-mentality (Those who leave their friends behind are worse than trash!),I can't help it but pitying the poor lad.</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">We don't know much about the Meta yet,except he's a scary brute,who doesn't talk and apparently had more AI than his mind could handle,which basically tells us,that the voices in his head turned him insane.</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The Director comes off a bit mysterious,too,considering how we never meet him in person.We only hear his correspondence with the Chairman and a he has a short conversation with Wash and ALPHA-Church,without actually appearing in Person.</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But with his last transmission to the chairman he tells us two things: </span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">1.we learn that the ALPHA-AI was based on the Director himself,showing that either in RvB the regulations for AI-creation are less strict than in Halo (where it is forbidden to base an AI on a living person) or the Director just didn't care for regulations.</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">2. Director Church is perfectly fine with torturing and breaking the mind of a sentient being and using the fact that it's based on him as an excuse for why it's not supposed to be a crime. We can only imagine how he would have dealt with a clone of himself. Also, strictly speaking children are on a genetic level based on their parents and greatly influenced by them,so while they are not their parents, they can be pretty similar,and I'd rather not put too much thought into what his twisted sense of morale would make of that (well speak about that,when we check out Carolina in Project Freelancer).</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Church had not only to deal with the discovery, that he never was an actual person,all his memories from his life before Bloodgulch Outpost Alpha were purely residual memories he got by accident, the very man who had created him repeatedly tortured him in order to break him into bits, the woman he loves is about as real as himself -and also dead-, and when he gets in contact with the EPSILON-Unit, he finally gets back his memory, which leads to him either being delusional or suicidal(we never really learn,if he really believed until the very end that he was a ghost,who wouldn't be affected by the EMP).</span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But since he entered the rigged memory-unit himself, who knows if he might find Tex in there? Okay, I do. I saw the show,so I know it. But -and I'm saying this for the final time- that's events to explore during Project Freelancer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i>-Do you ever wonder why we're here?<br />-It seems to be one of life's great mysteries.</i></span></div>
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However,today we are here to talk about Blood Gulch.<br />
Those of you,who are familiar with the Halo-games probably know,that it's the ideal location for a game of Capture The Flag;two bases in a boxed canyon in the middle of nowhere.<br />
But we're not here for a multiplayer-match,instead we'll take a closer look at the dark events of The Blood Gulch Chronicles in Red vs Blue.<br />
For those of you wondering if I just decided to let my crayons fight, Red vs. Blue is a Machinima-webseries,that started in 2003. <br />
The events of season 1-5 took place mostly in Blood Gulch,so this story-arc is known as the aforementioned Blood Gulch Chronicles.<br />
Even though this era of the show was mostly centered on humor,some of the events bring up some real nightmare fuel,when you examine them closer and take into account some information aquired in later seasons.<br />
The first one is the whole premise itself: Two opposing armies fight in a galactic civil war. We first learn that all of this is bogus during the Blood Gulch Chronicles,when the Blood Gulch Crew learns,that red command and blue command are the same. Since the events shift our attention towards different matters by introducing new threads for them,we know there's something wrong, but have no idea,what's really going on. When the Recollection-Saga swings by later, we learn via Agent Washington that the Reds and Blues throughout the galaxy are actually a bunch of soldiers considered to be the worst of the worst,unfit for actual military service due to different reasons, so they got put into different scenarios that may or may not be encountered by the elite Freelancers (the scenarios are stated to be possible in-universe, but some of them are highly unlikely -time travel is concidered 'scenario three'-) for training purposes;basically they are all just cannon fodder.<br />
Then we have the matter of the AI known as OMEGA, or O'Malley,as it calls itself.<br />
In the Halo-verse,AI's are based on actual people, created by cloning their brains and then killing them off,until their brain patterns manifest as an AI. While in Halo the process is only allowed to be done with the brains of dead people, we never hear about such restrictions in Red vs Blue. <br />
When Curch gets team-killed by Caboose in the beginning of the show, he soon returns as a ghost,shortly after the Blues radioed command,requesting a new team-member to even out the numbers. Due to no ble soldier being available on a short notice, command 'hires' a Freelancer named Tex. We soon learn that Tex is Church's girlfriend and that Freelancers have an AI,to help them in the field. Tex arrives in Blood Gulch and dishes out some damage toward the Reds,but quickly gets killed by a grenade. She also returns as a ghost,while her AI OMEGA possesses Caboose,making him more violent. Church and Tex now also have the ability to enter people's minds or to possess them,so they get O'Malley out of Caboose's head. The rogue AI jumps into the medic Doc,turning the pacifist into the main-villain for most of the Blood Gulch Chronicles.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The most horrible thing about this is that we on multiple occasions see Doc swap between himself and the O'Malley-persona instantly,so that actually three people are having a conversation,when there is only one other person around. During those moments, we also learn that Doc is still sentient the whole time,like sitting in the backseat of a car,which means the pacifistic medic has to watch his own hands trying to murder his own associates. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The Reds and Blues on the other hand can't just decide to make their lifes easier by knocking Doc out and putting him into a cell,since O'Malley -as mentioned before,can easily switch his host.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Let me whip out my imaginary brush and paint you a picture: Just imagine you're having a fun night at a bar with a few friends. Suddenly, your old buddy Steve starts laughing like a maniac and declares he's going to kill you all and drink wine from your skull while conquering the world. You lean in to ask if he's allright, when he suddenly grabs the back of your head and smashes your face into the table. Your friend Diane helps you up,while five other people manage to subdue Steve and tie hhim up. Suddenly,Diane begins to laugh....</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I don't know about you,but I would be more than horrified...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Of course,OMEGA isn't the only artifical intelligence we meet, there are also F.I.L.S.S., the Blues' smart-tank -who gets renamed Sheila- and Lopez, the Reds' robot soldier,who's voice module is broken and only allows him to speak spanish,Andy the bomb... and Gary,a computer who sends Church back in time in an attempt to fix things. Or at least that's what Church is made to believe. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> The problem is,whatever Church tries,he actually ends up causing every problem that happened at Blood Gulch, from the death of the Blue Commander,to his own death and many mory things that went wrong,all seems to be his fault.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When another freelancer by the name Wyoming enters the scene, Church finally recognizes,that something's wrong about Gary and figures out his real identity: GAMMA, Wyoming's AI partner.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Gamma cooked up a bunch of simulated scenarios for Church to make him feel like everything that went wrong was his fault -in the Recollection-Saga and Project Freelancer we'll come back that,when we learn why GAMMA did that. But until he learns figures out the connection between Gary and Wyoming, Church is let to believe, everything that happened to him or his friends was the result of his own actions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Wyoming himself has another role in this whole mess: he teams up with GAMMA and OMEGA to kidnap an alien baby and use it to enslave a whole alien-species.once he is finally defeated he reveals this plan to the Blues and Tex, stating that -opposite to Church's assumption of the plan being foiled- Tex will happily let OMEGA rejoin her and finish the job,now that she knows about it . Much to Church's horror, he's right and Tex begins broadcasting to lead OMEGA back to her,despite her her earlier eagerness to kill the AI once and for all.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Church's plan to confuse OMEGA by having the whole Blood Gulch-Crew broadcasting on an open channel gets foiled by Tex,who knocks out every single one of them,once OMEGA posses them and have each and every single soldier in Bood Gulch -except for Church,who doesn't really feel any difference- declare an urge for power and conquest. It's mostly played for humor,since every character keeps traces od his original personality, but again, if you think about it,it's incredibly frightening. Church is once more the interesting case, stating he still feels the same, but for the time being,it was just assumed tha t he's such a mean asshole,that OMEGA didn't make a difference -again,we'll return to this,once we learn more during the Recollection-Saga.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Church tasks the Reds to disable Tex' ship,so she can't get away,in case he fails to stop her, but he quickly regrets the decision to put Sarge on the job, when Andy the </span><span style="text-align: center;">bomb blows up aboard the leaving shuttle,leaving Church behind in the knowledge that -since didn't specify his order or find someone more competent for the job, he basically gave the order to kill the woman he loves.</span><span style="text-align: center;">This mistake seems to break his spirit for the moment,so when Tucker asks him,what they're going to do now, he replies that he doesn't care and leaves,stating that he's going home.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; text-align: center;">While he's actually just returning to the blue base,this shock to him end the Blood Gulch-Chronicles after five years of humor disguising some pretty horrible themes.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332438227656256400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1399640485178833640.post-71737756264504847072015-10-23T13:03:00.001+02:002015-10-23T13:03:22.933+02:00Anouncement: Upcoming theme-month<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Since I feel like being less lazy and turn more active instead,I decided to turn November into a theme-month.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And since Red vs Blue recently finished it's 13th seaon, I hereby declare November 2015 to be RvB-Month.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332438227656256400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1399640485178833640.post-53692090444903032312015-06-30T21:41:00.000+02:002016-10-02T12:57:05.977+02:00No More Unnecessary Deaths,Please <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">A recent Facebook-post by my pal The Amazing Abdi got me thinking.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Sometimes, people die. It's not nice,it's not pleasing,but it's a fact.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And sometimes, our favourite fictional characters die,too. But do they have to?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Yes,sometimes they do. We may not like it, ut a constant plot-armor for everyone would make their story unsatisfying.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Hold on,I'm not trying to say,I enjoy to see the hero failing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But why do characters in escapist fiction have flaws? It's so we can relate to them. Could you relate to an immortal, unfailing demi-god? Well,maybe if you're an incredibly arrogant prick,but then you wouldn't need escapist fiction begin with, now would you? After all,YOU DA MAN,right? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Why do need (or prefer ) heroes or characters,we can relate to? Because they still save worlds,defeat villains,find love or whatever the story is about - or if it's supporting character, they can help the hero in their chrisis to overcome a big obstacle preventing them from reaching their goal. Even if they don't save the world themselves, they are an important part of it and it wouldn't have been possible without them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But they still are far from perfect, sometimes they lose and sometimes they die.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I'm a fan of superhero-stories,so I'll mostly look at them for now. There was a time,when superheroes didn't die and normally didn't fail to save their loved ones. After all,they were the hero.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But in 70's Marvel-Comics did the unthinkable: Spider-Man's longtime girlfriend Gwen Stacey died. The villain Green Goblin threw her of a bridge,Spider-Man used his web to catch her,whiplash broke her neck. She was dead.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This was a game changer,suddenly no one was save anymore. It marked the end of the silver age and made even important characters mortal ,even out of origin stories. Editorial motives aside (rumors are,part of the reason for killing Gwen off was to prevent the relationship to go to the next level, namely marriage or at least Spider-Man revealing his identity to her), this was a big shock,since it just hadn't happened before but now since the plot-armor was off,super-villains got more menacing,more deadly,more dangerous. Other characters followed,but over the years,stories kept getting darker and sometimes characters got wasted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">During DC's Infinite Chrisis,Superboy-Prime alone kills a whole bunch of Titans,just to establish him as a villain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Countdown killed a complete universe by a misterous plague,that mostly occured to have reason to bring Ray Palmer back (who vanished after another story gone wrong,but I'm not gonna talk about Identity Crisis today, though it will eventually get it's time).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Over the years,characters died,but every now and then,they were brought back to life by one way or another. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And as much as I love some of them,that kind of bugs me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Remember how I mentioned the importance of relatability in the beginning? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">How many people do you know,who came back from the dead (I'm nottalking about CPR after a short moment,but actual return long after their burial)?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Sure,I can believe,that in a world filled with super-human beings there might a magical way to raise someone from death (Like the Lazarus-Pit brought back Jason Todd), but if every other dead person is brought back,it starts feeling cheap and death start becoming just an inconvenience;sacrifices become meaningless. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So dear writers,please think if you really told all stories you wanted to tell with a character before you let him die.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Also:please no more needless killing jusst for shock-moments. If a character dies,it should be a huge impact on everybody involved.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Spider-Man almost broke is code and came dangerously close to pounding Green Goblin to death after he lost Gwen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">All of New York mourned Peter Parker's death in the Ultimate Universe (which -even though Miles Morales became his successor also got undone recently,in my opinion demeaning his sacrifice).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Another important point: if it's a hero who dies,make it important,let them go out swinging.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When The Flash perished in Crisis on Infinite Earths, he gave his life to destroy the Anti-Monitors weapon threatening all of reality.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When Supergirl died (also in Crisis On Infinite Earths) she probably did more damage to the Anti-Monitor than the whole Justice League combined up to this point,pounding him into the ground and just got taken out by one lucky antimatter blast.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">In the animated show Young Justice Flash (Barry Allen) and Impulse (Bart Allen) are circling a device to syphon off it's energy,so it won't reach critical mass and destroy the earth's magnetic field. When they are not generating enough kinetic energy to do the job,Kid Flash (Wally West) teleports in to add his share of kinetic energy,even though his top speed is way slower than Flash's and Impulse's.This in turn makes him a catalyst for the energy,leading to him get hit by it multiple times,causing him to vanish.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Damian Wayne ignored his father's orders to stay in the Batcave,when his mother attacked Gotham City and rushed into action to help the Bat-Family and Batman Inc.,saved many lives, and finally fought a fully grown, genetically enhanced clone of himself,while his mother's troops kept shooting Arrow's at him,before he got impaled on a sword.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When Ultimate Peter Parker died, he had been previously shot when he pushed Captain America out of the way of a bullet (who then left the unconscious, bleeding teenager behind, because he's a jerk like that), and still took on the remaining five of the Sinister Six (Goblin had recently murdered Octavius,because he wanted out and just return to being a scientist),taken down Vulture,Electro,Kraven and Sandman and finally faced off against a Green Goblin,who had just absorbed The Human Torch's powers in addition to his own,was barely able to stand,but got a second wind,when Goblin threatened to kill everyone he knew and loved and beat Goblin up with a truck,before he finally succumbed to his injuries,dying peacefully with the knowledge that he saved his aunt.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">THAT is how you let a hero die.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But does a death really count,if whoever died just comes back?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I'm fine with DC's Brightest Day,since there was a complete storyline dealing with a dozen heroes and villains returning from the grave after the Blackest Night,so there was actually some thought put into it -plus,not everyone stayed revived,be it due to failing their mission or by their own choice-;Barry Allen literally outrunning death to the end of time and back seems somewhat acceptable,especially since it took about two decades till us readers got reunited with him;but Ultimate Peter Parker being declared immortal due to the OZ seems cheap to me,it reduces his heroic death to a shock moment with little more consequences than a couple of broken bones -aside from traumatizing those close to him.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And here we are at the final issue:DON'T KILL JUST FOR SHOCK!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The probably biggest offender of this is -once more - DC Comics.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">In their incredibly bad miniseries Cry For Justice (which also will get it's own criticism sooner or later), some JLA-members decide to get proactive due to some of them having been killed lately. Without telling much more now,I jump directly to one of the worst moments of comicbook-history (aside from Peter Parker selling his marriage to the devil...NO,I will never let that one go): A couple of bombs need to be defused,the JLA does their best to stop them,but one of the devices goes off,causing an earthquake. One of the destroyed buildings was home to Red Arrow Roy Harper. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Like him or not,you can't deny,that Green Arrow's former sidekick had a pretty unique status in the superhero-community. Not only was he a former drug addict,who overcame his addiction with the help of his mentor (even though this fact gives a bitter irony to his original alias 'Speedy'), he also fathered a child with the assassin Cheshire, and raised the little Lee-Ann Harper as a single dad (you probably see where this is going).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When DC misinterpreted the meaning of 'character development ', they decided to turn Roy's life into a misery,not only having him lose an arm during Cry For Justice, but also his daughter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">To make it clear:in order to have Roy Harper become an addict again and give him a 'reason' to irrationally leash out at his friends,who tried to support him -and he wasn't acting like a mourning father,but like an irrational asshole-,DC decided to kill of the innocent, walking,talking ball of adorable that was Lee-Ann; just so they could throw Roy into Rise Of Arsenal,where he would get high and talk to a zombie-ghost hallucination of her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I might sound biased,praising mortality as part of what makes characters relatable,but condemning the death of a child, since they sadly happen,too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But this different. This is wrong. This is killing of a unique supporting character, just for shock. This is the equivalent of me pushing someone in front of a train,just to remind people to be careful at the station.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Even to someone with my lax morals,that's just wrong.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So,dear publishers,PLEASE give the idea some thought,before you kill off a character. If you do,let them go out swinging. If they do,honour their legacy,don't bring them back about a year later.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">~Kirby Out</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332438227656256400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1399640485178833640.post-26565862503310494902014-08-17T12:22:00.000+02:002014-10-02T11:46:56.525+02:00New Stuff Is New<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There have been some changes lately. </span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">1. I got two new jobs -one with kids (they are ok, and so are most of the parents this time), one in a cinema (which reinforced my theory,that the only way to work with people and not starting to hate them is hating already to begin with).</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">2. I've got a new place. Now living in a shared flat, I finally moved away from this smalltown hell tainted by memories, that kept eating away my sanity. In the near future, another room-mate will move in - my ex's boyfriend (yeah, I know... a kinda weird combo^^).</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">3.I've slightly redesigned the blog (too lazy for bigger changes, I know, nobody's surprised by this.) I also brought up a new category called 'Kirby sees the world', where I will keep track about ... well, me seing the world. I'm not going to travel a lot all of a sudden, but since I used to hole up a lot in my room of the last years, going out equals seeing the world,too ;-)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">Kirby out.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332438227656256400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1399640485178833640.post-37051936060699148722014-04-23T15:18:00.000+02:002014-04-23T15:18:38.772+02:00The Retcon, Continuity's biggest enemy<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Do you remember the Internet in the late 90's? Beeping Modems,slow connections, family members forcing you to get offline so they could use the phone,AOL-CDs...
And how is it today? About one third of the worlds population uses it, porn everywhere, we're connected all time,new social networks popping up all the time,porn, MMOs are feasting on people's souls, there are thousands of blogs where people nobody knows talk about stuff nobody cares fo...wait,never mind...Did I mention there's a lot of porn?
But I'm not here to discuss the high amount of porn on the Internet...
In fact, I just wanted to use the Internet-part as a small Introduction to reach the social networks. There are a lot of them and -luke may others- I use some of them to inform my -probably not caring - followers about the absurd things that may occure,when a social Network tries lead your attention toward something particular.
Facebook,for example recently checked the stuff I like and follow,discovered some Marvel- and Spiderman-Stuff and decided to suggest me to like Joe Quesada.
NO. JUST NO.
I wont like Joe Quesada. I'm not saying everything he did is bad or stupid.
BUT he also made One More Day. And to make things worse,he also made One Moment In Time.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And that finally leads to today's topic: Retcons.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">You see, ongoing series tend to develop a continuity - some more then others, but still.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Continuity is an important part of ongoin story-telling. It puts events in order and establishes them as part of the overall background-story. When you have long-running stories like Batman, Spider-Man, Grenn Lantern, Flash, Doctor Eho or many many more, which are around for for decades, it can get confusing for new people joining the story, which is why sometimes reboots are happening. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Reboots can be okay, since they are meant to make things more comprehensible for newcomers by ignoring establising a new Origin or a sometimes a new status quo.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Some people like it,some people don't. I think, it depends on the matter at hand: rebooting the Spider? Man movies seemed good; DC's New52...not so much.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A problem with reboots is, that they sometimes really just want to establish a new Status Quo, but they apparently didn't really think through what to change and what to keep. Look at the New 52, for instance: some characters were completely reinvented, others -like the Bat-Family- just had a few changes. Nothing wrong with that so far. But why on earth give Nightwing a new costume without telling why?(plus I think the blue was more his style. .. black and red looks so dark and gritty, that's not really Grayson's thing.)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Aaaanyway, time to get back to the real problem at hand: Retcons.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">What is a retcon?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Sometimes, writers decide that they can't work with the conclusion of old events anymore and decide those events need to be changed. Often this is achieved by time travel, magic or some other super-natural way. Sometimes, things are retold out of another perspective, which reveals things that were unknown up to this point, which causes things to change.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The latter can be an acceptable way to change established facts (I said CAN), the first... not so much.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My favorite (read: most despised) example for a bad retcon would the aaforementioned One More Day.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">In One More Day, Marvel Chief-Editor Joe Quesada decided to retcon Peter Parker's marriage to Mary-Jane Watson out of existence. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Quesada however decided to flush the promise, he gave Spidey-fans that 'there would be no magical retcon to fix the marriage' doen the toilet when brought Mephisto into this. Yup, THAT Mephisto.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">At the time, Marvel was just dealing it's civil war and Peter decided to give away his secret identity and get registered. Since we all know that superheroes not only have fans, but also one or two enemies, nobody should be surprised to learn, that this was a bad idea.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">When Spidey held a speech about this whole registration-act business, an assassin hired by the Kingpin tried to deliver a 50.kal-present right into Pete's skull. Naturally, his spider-sense allowed him to dodge the bullet, but since dodging things doesn't just make them go away, Aunt May took the bullet. Hey, no big deal. We're in a comic-universe and it's a simple bullet wound,right? WRONG! We have lots and lots of doctors, geniuses like Tony Stark or Reed Richards, former surgeon and sorcerer surpreme Dr. Strange, who's magical power is pretty close to bending reality at his will... and nobody can do anything. And no, it wasn't an instant death for aunt May. She was brought in a hospital,where she even told Pete to let her go, since she had a good life. Naturally, Peter Parker ignored that whish and decided to go and find a cure, so he doesn't have to face the consequences of his actions. Good thing that Spider-Man was never about responsibility. ..oh, wait.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Anyway, Mephisto pops up and offers to save her life, of course for a price. Since souls get boring, he wanted something different: Pete's marriage. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">He wanted to retro-actively undo the wedding while leaving both Parker and Watson with the feeling that there is something missing in their lives.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">So much for 'no magical retcon.'</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Eventually, the writers realised how stupid that was and it was retconned in One Moment In Time in a way that was even more stupid. (Please, don't ask)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Long story short: I hate retcons, no matter if they were done good or bad. When something was established, deal with it. If you can't, find a way to change things WITHOUT pissing on the past. Yes, I'm also looking at you, Day Of The Doctor. I mostly liked you, but bringing back the Timelords was bull-crap. Yes, it was necessary, due to the regeneration-limit, but I'm pretty sure there would have been other ways around.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">No matter who you are, no matter what you do: if it haplened, don't change it. Continuity is there for a reason.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Kirby out (oh by the by, I changed my alias -it's shorter... and easier to make people call me 'Kirby' than 'RestlessEntity' :3)</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332438227656256400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1399640485178833640.post-53506571398545729382013-10-14T00:14:00.000+02:002013-10-14T00:18:28.885+02:00Stuff I need to say<br>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Courier New;">Awesome Weekends are
awesome.</span></div>
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I'm pretty sure, nobody's
surprised by that statement, but I felt like pointing it out.
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A little background:
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Courier New;">Some time ago, me and my
best friend slightly drifted away from each other, caused by some
stupid stuff, that didn't even concern any of us directly.
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Courier New;">Sad, but it happens.
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Courier New;">So when I visited her over
the weekend, we talked everything through (plus everything else that
felt wrong or might could have caused this) and not even worked it
out, but also realized again, that every fear of loosing the other,
getting less important or replaced is complete and utter bullshit.
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It may sound weird, but
I'm feeling whole again. Whatever was missing, it's back where it
belongs.
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We've been taking care of
each other for years, loosing that would be devastating.
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Then I received a call
last night. My wonderful soon-to-be room-mate and my amazing
ex-girlfriend were having some fun, but realized they were missing me
and felt the urge to tell me about it.
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This made me pretty happy, but it also made me think:<br>
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Since my best friend moved
to another town, I was restless and uneasy. I kept getting into
trouble because I had nobody to calm me down. Then I was introduced
to my now soon-to-be room-mate, who took it upon her to look out for
me and keep me steady. I've been told multiple times now, that I made
some remarkable, positive developments over the course of the last
year, which is basically thanks to her.</div>
My ex was the first
person who actually was able to give me the feeling of being loved.
She also forgave me for not being able to treat her the way she'd
deserved it and is still working on making me stop tormenting myself
out of guilt and shame. She not only forgave me my mistakes, but is
still convinced that I'm a far better person then I'd ever imagine.
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I thought about those
three wonderful women and how much they're having a positive impact
on my life.<br>
I thought about their
significant others and how cool they are with the fact how much space
I take in the lives of the women they love (and with the fact that I threatend to skin them with a rusty blade,if they ever
hurt those women).
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Special Kudos to my Ex's
man for that, from what I've been told, most guys would turn into stupid, jealous idiots, if their woman would still hang out with her ex on a regular base.</div>
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I thought about my
internet-friends,who take their time to cheer up a guy on the other
end of the world, even though they never met him (or only once). A
bunch of amazing people who were either originally crusading...
wait... that's not how it's called anymore,is it?
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Anyway, that's when we met
and I've grown very fond of her and she's always able to cheer me up,
even if I sometimes think, she's trying to sneak-preach to me. And I
love even that.
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For the others... Well, I
guess it started with me being a random guy who kept randomly
commenting on thoughts they shared on Twitter. But again, These guys
and gals turned into what I'd actually consider pretty good friends,
even though I normally discuss less serious business with the guys.
That's something that was always easier with women (and even then
it's hard enough).</span><div><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Courier New;">I'm thankful to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(191, 144, 0); font-family: 'Courier New'; "> my US-ladiesfor constantly cheering me up, no matter what's bothering them or how much they're fighting their own downs.</span></div><div><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Courier New;">
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And..<br>
I also thought about my
best and oldest friend, who's been keeping m in line for 18 years
now, even when he could't be physically present, because he moved to
France.
<br>
See, I met this guy back
in second grade and we got along pretty well (Back then, I wasn't
that hard to be around). He always had to talent to act as calm
anchor to troublesome old me. It was only when he left, that I
realized how important this friendship was to me. Long story short:
My grades dropped in an alarming rate and I alienated myself moreand
more from other and basically became an asshole.Luckily, I soon met
my female best friend, who managed to regulate the process very well,
together with the previously mentioned ex.
<br>
But whenever I reflect my
life, I have to realize that everything good that happened, everybody
wonderful person I met or was introduced to, all that was made
possible by him. I pick anything that makes me happy and look back on
the chain of events that led me there -things I've done, that caught
my interest in something or that made people introduce me to somebody
who later took an important role in my life- and it is always somehow
linked to him. I wonder if he is actually aware of that.
I also wonder, if he even has the slightest idea what it meant to me, when he said he wants me to be his best man in a few years. <br>
Eh, he probably does. After all, he knows me like nobody else does.<br>
<br></div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Anyway, right now, I have
no idea how I sometimes feel lonely. I have such amazing friends to
back me up.
</div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
And god help everyone who
dares hurting them. It's true, I tend to be a little overprotective
when it comes to my lady-friends, but I don't care. Hurting those who
a close to me is a berserk-button, that should actually be listed on
TV-Tropes, because the level of blind rage that gets triggered by
doing so, even scares those who are listed above.</div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br>
Another sad part about
friendship is how fragile they can be sometimes. Looking back, I
realize that there are a lot of people, who I just don't talk to
anymore. Some left, sometimes we just got different interests over
the years and some - not many, but a few- just didn't fit in my life
anymore.<br>
Speaking honestly, I have
to say that sometimes I miss them, but most of the time I don't
really think of them anymore. <br>
<br>
So, what is the message I'm trying to
carry out here?
<br>
I think it is, that good
friends, who are always there for you, no matter what's going on or
what you did, should be treasured. When I look at those I listed,
they seem to be many. But when I compare them to those, I've lost
over the years or to the sheer mass of people, I couldn't get along
to begin with, I realize how lucky I actually am to have that many
amazing friends.</div>
<br><br>
If you got people like
that, keep them close, cherish them and do whatever it takes to
protect them.
<br>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br></div>
<br>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
RestlessEntity Out.</div>
</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332438227656256400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1399640485178833640.post-3531532601476944732013-10-13T23:00:00.001+02:002013-10-13T23:00:05.639+02:00What's a Geek?<br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Courier New;">Yup, I<span lang="en-US">'m still
alive. I know, I became pretty lazy when it comes to writing, but in
my defense: I had to fight off an evil writer's blockade. Now it's
gone , but I stumbled upon a new problem: I don't like my writing
style anymore.</span><br />
<br />
</span><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Courier New;">And that was when I
decided to revive the blog. After all, if I keep working, I should be
able to regain my drive, right?</span></div>
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Courier New;">
<div>
</div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Anyway, I'll try to get on
a regular schedule (bwahahaha),at least until I'm ready to get back
some other projects which might steal some more time so that I'll
have change my schedule here again and... well, at least I'll make
sue not to make one-year-break or some crap like that again.</div>
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Anyway, today's topic are
some thoughts on geekery.</div>
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See, there was this little
discussion in a facebook-group if geek-culture should stay exclusive
or if it should be more included in the mainstream-community.</div>
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Even though generally
think classification to be stupid, I actually got curious: what
exactly defines a geek?</div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
If somebody would ask me
if I'm a geek, I'd probably say yes, but if I”m completely honest,
I never though about what actually makes me a geek. My love for
comics or games? Some would say that makes me a nerd. Hell, I'm sure
there are people who thinks, geeks and nerds are the same.</div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Let's face it, terms like
'Geek', 'Nerd' or 'Dork' got pretty mixed up during the last years.
That means research-time (and maybe two future topics). </div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
'Dear Internet, would you
please tell me what exactly defines a geek?'</div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Ok,opening Google, insert
'geek', hit search aaand... well, fuck me sideways, that's a lot of
hits.</div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
New search, this time
adding 'definition' to the search-parameter. </div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Ah, that's better. A
definition right on the head of the page, then some dictionaries. So
let's check out the first five hits: The Google-definition,
Wikipedia,Urban Dictionary, The Merriam-Webster Dictionary and the
Thesaurus.</div>
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<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Since I love my
definitions plain and simple, let's start with Google's page-header.
By the look of it, I'd say it's also taken from a dictionary, but I
don't know which one.</div>
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Huh. I have to say, I'm
not happy about this.</div>
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“unfaishonable or
socially inept”. Does that mean, if you feel confident around other
people, you'e not a geek? That sounds stupid. And don't make me even
start about 'unfashionable'. What does even make someone fashionable
(And here's another possible future topic)?</div>
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“eccentric devotion to a
particular interest” seems like something I can accept, but the
example computer-geek seems to narrowing it down to a fringe group,
which make it dissatisfying. But then again, a proper research never
contains only one source, so let's check out what Wikipedia has to
say about it.</div>
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<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Of course I'm aware that
Wikipedia isn't the most credible source since basically everyone can
fool around with it. But let's give it a chance.
</div>
<div>
Oh that's nice, the page
informs me,that the entry has some issues.</div>
<div>
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<div>
Anyway, according to
Wikipedia, geek is “a slang term originally used to describe odd or
non-mainstream-people”, ranging from “expert or enthusiast” to
someone “heavily interested in a hobby” but is mostly used
pejorative for a “peculiar or otherwise dislikable person,
especially one who is perceived to be overly intelectual.”</div>
<div>
So.. it's basically
description for someone with special interests and a great knowledge
about it, but it gets also disgraced as an insult for people who are
jealous about others being more
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being more intelligent?
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Wait,the article goes on. Let's see.</div>
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<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
The Term is also used in a
proud way as a self-reference, so it gained the additional meaning of
“someone who is interested in a subject for its own sake.”</div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
What else do we have?</div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
The definition-section
basically tells us that there is no clear defintion and that there
are many categories of geeks, poviding us with the most commonly know
categories: science, math, history, computer, gaming.</div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
The Impact of geeks on
society isn't exactly what I'm looking for, and I'm not interested in
fashion,so the “geek-chic'-section isn't that helpful either
(except if you want to know more about geek-glasses and
hipster-glasses and that proud self-proclaimed geeks dislike
geek-chic fashion.) NEXT.</div>
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<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
The Urban Dictionary says
...A LOT. Like always, there are a lot of definitions, so I just take
a look at the first page and sum it up.</div>
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One of the entries notes
that Geek should not be confused with Nerd. And points out that only
a geek would waste on the internet, defining geek on
urbandictionary.com.</div>
<div>
Another one goes back to
the historical meaning of circus freaks and states that it know
describes someone getting paid to do work that's 'consodered odd or
bizarre by mainstream society'.
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<div>
There's also a note that
-unlike 'nerd' which is always used devaluating – it often carries
a positive connotation when it's used by someone who's part of the
group and is only used in an insulting manner by outsiders (uhm...
isn't that almost everytime how it works?)</div>
<div>
Another Entry tries to
compare normies,geeks,nerds and dorks. Interestingly, this is the
first time that it's actually stated that geeks are what's considered
'socially normal' and just are experts on certain topics.
</div>
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</div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
I really like the next
entry: It clearifies, that geeks aren't computer people, but simply
posses a very dep understanding about of certain topics, because they
are basically obsessed with it. It also points out, that beeing a
geek isn't restricted to certain topics, but open for everything (and
lists music and cars to make this point). I like that.</div>
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<div>
Then we go back to the
usual judgemental crap like lack of participation in sports, interest
in computers, crude sense of humor and negative attitude toward
common society. BLAH.</div>
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Time for a cross-reference
with some more serious dicitionaries.
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<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Merriam-Webster gives us
the usual historical definition with the carnival performers, follows
up with 'a person often of an intellectual bent who is disliked and
finishes with an enthusiast or expert, but takes again the the
clichee-route, using computers as example.</div>
<div>
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<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Thesaurus actually
dissappoints me by simply saying 'odd person' and 'computer expert'
and adding some judging synonyms.</div>
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<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Since the definitions are
not really clear, I decided to ask someone for help, who gets often
connected with the term geek and actually owns his fame to that
connection. So I wrote an email to the Internet-celibrity
Brentalfloss to ask him for his definition of a geek.
</div>
<div>
</div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
A few hours later, I got
an email with the following definition:</div>
<div>
</div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<em>“Geek= someone who's
enthusiastic and analytical about a certain topic. You can be a
sci-fi geek or a flamingo geek or a muscle car geek (as opposed to a
nerd, who is called a nerd because he or she is into something
nerdy).”</em></div>
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</div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
There are a two things I
really like about this definition:
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<li><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
it's plain and
simple.</div>
<li><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
It offers examples,
that prove the general clichees to be narrow-minded.</div>
</li>
</li>
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<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Of course, If we think of the apparently brain-damaged sportsfanatics who kept picking on us -well, on some of us- back in school, calling us geeks in the process, I doubt they would have been happy, if we'd told them, that they are too geeks in their own way. </div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
So maybe not everyone who
qualifies for being a geek wants to bee a geek.</div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
But I suppose that's the
same for every subculture: In order to be part of it, you have to
match certain criteria and one of them is feeling like you're part of
it.</div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
In Order to be a geek, you
need to be passionate about whatever you like, but also need to
admit, that you're a geek.</div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
And why not? Being a geek
is a fantastical thing: It's your permission to be utterly obssessed
with something, know everything regarding it, freak out at the most
trivial news about it -and enjoy all this. And do you know, what's
even better? You don't even need the permission – you're a
geek,that's what you do.<div>
</div>
<div>
So, back to the original
question: Should geekdom be included in mainstream-society or should
it be an exclusive thing: I don't really think that we can influence
that directly. As long, as society keeps it judgemental ways, we'll
always be exclusive. As long as an adult getting excited about a
kids-show gets looked down on, we're something special. As long as
people even care about a difference between a comic-book and a
graphic novel, as long as people think, there is something wrong
about obsessing about a topic, 'outing' yourself as a geek will make
you different.</div>
<div>
And You know what? That's
perfectly fine. I don't care what others think about it, I love being
a geek.
</div>
<div>
Sure, I'm not that good at
science and anything technically more advanced then a
string telephone might
confuse me just by doing what it does, but there are topics I know a
lot about, actually enough to annoy everyone around me without
repeating myself. And I'm proud of it. I like it. And I love meeting
people who are as obsessed about it as I am.
</div>
<div>
What some people consider
geekdom getting assimilated by mainstream-culture is the so called
'geek-chic' I tried ignoring earlier. People try to pose as geeks by
wearing certain clothes or accesoires. Does wearing a Metal
Gear-Shirt or using a TARDIS-bag to carry my things make me a geek?
Does Having A Sonic-Screwdriver, A Pipboy-Bobblehead or an Assassins
Creed-Statue make me a geek? No, it just shows that I'm a fan.
</div>
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</div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
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</div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Bottom-line: Geekdom
should stay exclusive, because that's not actually a proof of
torlerance within society. But geek-purists can relax, because it's
all about the attitude.</div>
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<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
RestlessEntity out.</div>
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<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Thanks to BrentalFloss for
providing me with a proper, acceptable definition.</div>
<div>
Follow him on Youtube (
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/brentalfloss">www.youtube.com/user/brentalfloss</a>
) and on Twitter ( @brentalfloss ).</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332438227656256400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1399640485178833640.post-38002260418402082202012-05-17T23:16:00.001+02:002013-10-13T22:39:34.662+02:00People, And Why They Suck - Leute, Und Warum Sie Ätzend Sind<br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Meh.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Just meh.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I don't know why, but I feel pretty annoyed these days.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Well, that doesn't mean,I don't know what's annoying me, hell no.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I just can't decide what's the worst of it.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">People, for starters. People are pretty annoying and they are everywhere. Why are are there so many people, no matter where I go? Is there a conspiracy? Who need so much people? And why are they all talking? Can't they just shut up? And maybe stop being so many? All those people everywhere... It's dusgusting.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Oh,and you know what's worse?</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The People you know. Normally,there is a reason you know them and that makes it worse, because some of them, you see on a regular base. And regarding the fact,that most people are idiots, this could be a pain in the ass. Who wants to hear the stupidity of some really dumb people over and over again?</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And even that can be cranked up to eleven: Enter People you actually like.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I've been busy keeping those few in numbers.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">But still some of them manage to annoy the hell out of me.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">As soon as I start to act -what they think to be- out of character,they keep annoying me.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Seriously, just because I try to hold back most of the time,that doesn't mean I'm not going to tell people they're stupid, right in their faces.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It also doesn't mean, I won't let go off a slightly part of my inner rage, when I feel like doing it.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And it defenetly doesn't mean, I'm completely heartbroken or anything stupid like that, just because a relationship just ended.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Sure, I won't do a happy dance about it, but stop blaming my - in your opinion irrational- behavior on this little event, for fuck's sake.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Maybe you just don't know me as much as you thought?</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">After all,I'm still just a sociopath who keeps lying about himself.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The best thing about these last few days?</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The even lesser amount of people, about who's opinion I care (You didn't really think, just because I like someone,I automatically care about what he's thinking about me,did you?)proved me again, that at least they are reliable and didn't annoy me about this stuff. They accepted it,when i said "I'm fine", because they know I'll talk about stuff,when and if I feel like doing it, instead pissing me off by not accepting "I don't want to talk about it"...</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Seriously, People have a strong tendency to suck.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Basically, it's like Mycroft Holmes said in "Scandal in Belgravia": "All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Bah.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Einfach bah.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Ich weiß nicht wieso, aber ich bin in letzter Zeit ziemlich genervt.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Naja, das heißt nicht,dass ich nicht weiß, was mich nervt, Himmel bewahre.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Ich kann mich einfach nur nicht entscheiden,was am schlimmsten ist.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Leute zum Beispiel. Leute sind ziemlich nervig und sie sind überall. Warum sind überall so viele Leute, egal wohin ich gehe? Ist das eine Verschwörung? Wer braucht so viele Leute? Und warum müssen sie alle reden? Warum können sie nicht einfach die Klappe halten? Und vielleicht damit aufhören, so viele zu sein? All diese Leute überall... das ist ja widerlich.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Und wisst ihr,was noch schlimmer ist?</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Die Leute die man kennt. Normalerweise gibt es einen Grund, warum man sie kennt und das macht es noch schlimmer, denn einige von ihnen sieht man regelmäßig. Und wenn man bedenkt,dass die meisten Leute Idioten sind, kann das echt ätzend sein. Wer will die Dummheit einiger wirklich dämlicher Leute immer und immer wieder hören?</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Und selbst das lässt sich noch steigern: Auftritt der Leute,die man mag.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Ich bin stehts bemüht, ihre Anzahl möglichst gering zu halten.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Und trotzdem schaffen es einige von ihnen, mich zu Tode zu nerven.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Kaum fange ich an,mich - ihrer Meinung nach - ungewöhnlich zu verhalten, hören sie nicht auf,mich zu nerven.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Ernsthaft,nur weil ich mich meistens zurückhalte - primär,da ich sonst nur noch mehr genervt würde- , heisst das nicht,dass ich ich Leuten nicht direkt ins Gesicht sage,dass sie dumm sind.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Es heisst auch nicht, dass ich nicht in geringen Maßen Dampf ablasse, wenn mir danach ist.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Und es heisst verdammt nochmal auch nicht, dass ich komplett von einem gebrochenen Herzen verzehrt werde, nur weil gerade eine Beziehung endete.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Klar, ich werde darüber nicht gerade einen Freudentanz veranstalten, aber hört auf mein -eurer Meinung nach irrationales - Verhalten auf diesen kleinen Vorfall abzuwälzen, verdammt nochmal.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Vielleicht kennt ihr mich einfach doch nur nicht so gut,wie ihr dachtet?</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Schliesslich bin ich trotz allem nur ein Soziopath ,der über sich selbst unehrlich ist.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Der noch weitaus geringere Anteil an Leuten, deren Meinung mich tatsächlich interessiert 8Ihr dachtet doch nicht ernsthaft, nur weil ich Jemanden leiden kann, interessiert es mich automatisch,was er von mir denkt,oder?) hat mal wieder bewiesen,dass ich mich auf sie verlassen kann, und sie mich nicht wegen irgendwelchem Quatsch nerven. Sie akzeptieren es,wenn ich sage "mir geht es gut", denn sie wissen dass ich , sollte ich Bedarf haben, über irgendwas zu reden, es auch tun werde, anstatt mich mich zu nerven und es nicht zu akzeptieren,wenn ich sage "Ich habe keine lust drüber zu reden".</i></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332438227656256400noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1399640485178833640.post-26484931373105690482012-05-03T20:10:00.001+02:002012-05-03T20:14:30.981+02:00Distractions and Stuff - Ablenkungen und Krams<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It's been a long time. Why has it been such a long time since my last post? Well,there are actually two reasons:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">2. I'ma lazy fuck.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Yes, I know. Everybody,who ever knew me, might be totally surprised by this,but I'm really able to be busy.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Seriously, I tried to get some motivation to learn for my practical exam (which I passed,by the way), I'm writing on three different projects -four, if you count that thing for school and even five, if you count this blog-, and there is a lot of roleplaying going on these days.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Well, of course I'm still abandoning my writing projects,when I'm stuck, but I intend to finish them one day. ALL OF THEM.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">seriously, the statistic is a real downer...</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The Fanfiction? Stuck on chapter 2.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The Novel? Stuck on chapter 4.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The Screenplay? Way to slow progress in Scene 2.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The Poem/Children's book? Need to be finished in five days.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The Blog? Oh hey,there's a squirrel...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">But the roleplaying keeps me up. I still make some mistakes as a DM, but I don't think I suck as hard as I did when I started.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And now that I've got a second group for Shadowrun, I'll be playing on more regular base.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Yes,I know. In fact, we all know... </span><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">More roleplaying means, I'll be distracted even more.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Oh,now that I mention distractions, I finally started watching Doctor Who.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I know, it's a shame I'm not already watching the Show for years,but...</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I've been distracted, I'm sure you got it by now.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">But what shall I say? That's the way my mind works and I'm pretty sure, everything else is boring. Just like breathing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Lange ist's her. Warum ist's so lang her,seit ich zuletzt einen Post verfasste? Tja, hierfür gibt es 2 Gründe:</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>1. Ich war beschäftigt.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>2. Ich bin eine faule Sau.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Ja, ich weiss. Jeder,der mich jemals kannte wird komplett überrascht von dieser Neuigkeit sein,aber ich bin tatsächlich in der Lage, beschäftigt zu sein.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Ernsthaft, ich habe versucht,ein wenig Motivation zu finden,um für die praktische Prüfung zu lernen (die ich übrigens bestanden habe), Ich schreibe an drei verschiedenen Projekten -vier,wenn man das Ding für die Schule mitzählt und fünf,wenn man auch noch diesen Blog einrechnet- und dann ist da momentan noch einiges an Rollenspiel im Gange.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Natürlich breche ich meine Schreibprojekte nach wie vor ab,wenn ich festhänge,aber ich plane, sie eines Tage zu vollenden. ALLE.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Ernsthaft,die Statistik ist irgendwie deprimierend:</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Die Fanfiction? Hängt in Kapitel 2.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Der Roman? Hängt in Kapitel 4.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Das Stück? Kommt viel zu langsam in Szene 2 voran.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Das Gedicht/Kinderbuch? Muss in 5 Tagen fertig sein.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Der Blog? Oh,hey ein Eichhörnchen...</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Aber die Rollenspiele muntern auf. Ich mache zwar als Spielleiter immer noch einige Fehler, aber ich bin nicht mehr ganz so mies wie am Anfang.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Und jetzt, wo ich noch eine zweite Gruppe für Shadowrun habe, werde ich auch regelmäßiger spielen.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Ja,ich weiß. Wir alle wissen es.... Mehr Rollenspiele bedeutet, dass ich noch mehr abgelenkt sein werde.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Oh,wo ich gerade von Ablenkungen rede, ich habe endlich angefangen, Doctor Who zu schauen.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Ich weiss, es ist eine Schande, dass ich die Serie nicht schon seit Jahren schaue, aber...</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Ich war abgelenkt,ich denke mal, das hat jetzt jeder verstanden.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Aber was soll ich sagen? So arbeitet mein Verstand nunmal und ich bin mir ziemlich sicher, dass alles andere auch langweilig ist. Ungefähr so wie atmen.</i></span><br />
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public transit <span lang="en-US">to</span> be at least in <span lang="en-AU">parts</span>
an <span lang="en-CA">asylum</span>? <span lang="en-CA">Seriously, at
first glance </span><span lang="de-DE"> you may find many different
types of insanity.</span> School kids with monkey-like behavior,
People who keep staring in a way, you'd think theyr minds are as
empty as a bottle of water in the desert, people who are talking to
themselves all the time (no headset, I checked) from time t time a
woman who's laughinh like a subtile version of the Joker (keep in
mind,that it's the subtile part, that's really freaking me out) and
finally those weirdos who still have the balls to take a nap between
all those strange behaving people (guilty as charged).But what's
bothering me the most,is the fact, that social manners seems to be
disabled the second people are getting on the bus and „Every man
for himself“ kicks in again (respectively the hypocrisy gets
disabled and the typical egomania gets fully in charge...I'm a
dreamer,not an idiot. Of course I don't think,people are good [please
don't kill me for genralization]). Seriously, why do the kiddos need
an extra-seat for their bags while old granny with an ill foot need
to fight for their balance? And why am I the bad guy, if throw said
bag out of the bus, the next time the door opens or alternatively
drag the kid from the seat? Sure it might be a bit harsh, but when
the bus keeps on moving,the old lady is thankful... at least one
person in this roadster of madness.</span></div>
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eigentlich gleichzusetzen mit Irrenhäusern?Es scheint,als würde man
dort diverse Variationen des Irrsinns finden,zumindest auf den ersten
Blick:Schulkinder,die sich wie Affen benehmen,Leute,die leer vor sich
hin starren, Leute die energische Selbstgespräche führen (Ich hab
drauf geachtet,da war kein Headset) ab und zu mal eine Frau,deren
lachen wie eine subtile Joker-Variante klingt wobei gerade das
subtile dran beängstigend ist - und schließlich diejenigen,die
tatsächlich den Schneid haben,in dieser Konstellation auch noch
gelegentlich zu schlafen (ja,ich weiß,dass letzteres ich selbst
bin).Doch vor allem ist es entnervend,dass scheinbar sämtliche
sozialen Strukturen und Verhaltensweisen beim einsteigen abgegeben
werden und sich plötzlich wieder jeder selbst der nächste ist (bzw.
die Heuchelei abgegeben wird und die Egomanie noch deutlicher zutage
tritt.... ich bin ein Träumer,kein Idiot,natürlich weiß ich,dass
jeder zuerst an sich denkt [für diese Verallgemeinerung bitte nicht
lynchen]) Ernsthaft,warum brauchen die Kiddies heutzutage einen
Extraplatz für ihre Tasche,während die Oma mit ihrem kaputten Bein
stehen muss? Und warum ist man plötzlich selbst der böse,wenn man
nach mehreren erfolglosen bitten besagte Tasche schließlich
kurzerhand an der nächsten halte stelle aus dem Bus wirft oder
wahlweise besagtes Kind vom Sitz reißt? Zugegeben, das mag zuerst
etwas drastisch sein,aber spätestens beim Ruck des nächsten
Anfahrens ist die alte Dame dankbar.... wenigstens eine in diesem
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332438227656256400noreply@blogger.com0Im Hohen Felde 40, 30853 Langenhagen, Deutschland52.441741526225449 9.733318090438842852.441439026225453 9.7327010904388427 52.442044026225446 9.7339350904388429tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1399640485178833640.post-31889116929994114752012-01-13T16:47:00.000+01:002012-01-13T17:53:29.508+01:00Now He Even Started Blogging - Jetzt Bloggt Er Auch Noch<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">That's it: Besides my regular spam in social networks, I finally started blogging. Some people may have their doubts about this, but instead of complaining they may just stop reading,if they don't like it.<br /><br />So, a blog...Why? Easy counter-question: Why not?<br />Honestly, isn't the meaning of thougts to be shared?<br />I think so, so what's the big deal?<br />Before my head decides to explode, give my thoughts a nice place to live and follow the examples of TheSpoonyOne ( <a href="http://spoonyexperiment.com/">http://spoonyexperiment.com/</a> ),Yahtzee( <a href="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation?page=1">http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation?page=1</a> ) or Pentharis/Dark Steam (<a href="http://darksteamscogsoftheearth.blogspot.com/">http://darksteamscogsoftheearth.blogspot.com</a>)and many others and start rambling and ranting and babbling about a lot of stuff.<br /><br />What will I be talking about?<br />Well, as the title "RestlessEntity - Depths And Shallows Of A Random Mind" implies, I'll talk about everything that crosses my mind which includes movies, games,books,music, stuff out of the daily life...well, you'll see(read: WE will see, I never planned ahead what I'll write about before I started working on it,and I won't start doing it now).<br />A Short note about the blog itself:I took the alias "RestlessEntity" because it's nearly impossible for me to just sit still (In the 10 minutes since I started typing, I wnadered the flat twice) and if manage not to move, my mind is on the run (Oh, hi insomnia).<br />"Depths And Shallows Of A Random Mind",well...<br />This part is self-expaining,I guess...<br />I'm pretty sure, nobody's Mind keeps a regular static level...<br />And if I'm wrong,then I don't care.<br /><br />Some people may question the biligual part, I could just decide if I want to write in german OR in english...<br />well, I want to improve my english skills further (I'm still a grammar rapist), but I don't want my german to degenerate ( A tween,who can use proper language? HOLY COW!)<br />Besides:Of course I could choose one, but I could also run repeatedly in a wall,laughing manically but I don't do it. Why? Because I don't want to. Seems legit to me.</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #666666;">Jetzt ist's passiert: Neben meinem Gespamme in Social Networks fang' ich noch noch das bloggen an. Mancheiner mag an der Sinnigkeit dieser Aktion zweifeln,doch der möge statt zu nörgeln an dieser Stelle einfach das Lesen einstellen.<br /><br />Ein Blog also... Warum? Ganz einfache Gegenfrage: Warum nicht?<br />Ernsthaft,sind Gedanken nicht dazu da,um geäußert zu werden?<br />Ich denke schon, also wo ist das Problem?<br />Und bevor mein Kopf platzt, biete ich den Gedanken hier lieber ein nettes Plätzchen.<br />Daher werden hier künftig dem Beispiel von TheSpoonyOne ( <a href="http://spoonyexperiment.com/">http://spoonyexperiment.com</a>),Yahtzee( <a href="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation?page=1">http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation?page=1</a> ) oder Pentharis/Dark Steam (<a href="http://darksteamscogsoftheearth.blogspot.com/">http://darksteamscogsoftheearth.blogspot.com</a>) und vielen Anderen folgen,und Mich hier über Dieses und Jenes auslassen.<br /><br />Worüber gedenke ich mich zu äußern?<br />Nun ja,wie der Name "RestlessEntity - Depths And Shallows Of A Random Mind" andeutet, über alles Mögliche,was mir so durch den Kopf geht, das wird variieren von Filmen und Games,über Bücher und Musik bis zu aktuellem Geschehen und... ach,ihr werdet es ja sehen.(sprich,wir werden es sehen, denn das ich plane,worüber ich schreibe wäre ja mal ganz was Neues.)<br />Vielleicht ein kurzes Wort zum Titel des Blogs an sich:<br />Auf das Alias "RestlessEntity" kam ich irgendwann, weil es mir einfach nicht möglich ist,mal still zu sitzen (in den 10 Minuten,die ich hier am tippen bin,bin ich auch schon wieder zweimal aufgestanden und durch die Wohnung gelatscht...) und wenn ich das doch mal schaffe,dann gibt der Geist keine Ruhe(Hallo Schlaflosigkeit). <br />"Depths And Shallows Of A Random Mind", nunja...<br />Ich denke,dieser Teil ist selbst erklärend,immer hat jeder Verstand Tiefen und Untiefen,denke ich mal...<br />und wenn nicht,so sei mir das an dieser Stelle einfach mal egal.<br /><br />Manch Einer mag sich fragen,was der Part mit dem bilingual soll, schliesslich könnte ich mich ja auch einfach für deutsch oder englisch entscheiden...<br />Nunja zum einen,will ich mein Englisch verbessern(Die Grammatik ist noch unter aller Sau) und zum anderen auch in der Deutsch-Nutzung nicht völlig einrosten (ein Anfang-Zwanziger,der sich noch vernünftig artikulieren kann? Oh mein Gott!!!)<br />Abgesehen davon: Natürlich könnte ich das,aber ich könnte auch lachend gegen eine Wand rennen und tue es nicht.Warum nicht? Weil ich keine Lust dazu habe. In meinen Augen eine legitime Begründung.</span></i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332438227656256400noreply@blogger.com0