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Random Messages Thread: Episode XII riPepperonis

Who is to blame for new RM?


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Jyo

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Re: Random Messages Thread: Chapter Twelf - Starring Shia LaBeouf

I also said Hai to my Vaporeon plush (it was my sleeping companion)
 

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Hai
 

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Re: Random Messages Thread: Chapter Twelf - Starring Shia LaBeouf

I was laughing too hard, before I forget - Hai @Archmage Dragelsnart;

Later! back to more comedy for me
(watching my 2nd favorite show)
 

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Re: Random Messages Thread: Chapter Twelf - Starring Shia LaBeouf

Hai everybody!

And practicing saying hai in front of a mirror isn't the worst thing that could happen. Nobody around here's going to think any less of you for it, so don't worry. :p
 

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I practice bullying people in the mirror.
 

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Re: Random Messages Thread: Chapter Twelf - Starring Shia LaBeouf

I practice cannibalism. Working towards my doctorate.
 

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Re: Random Messages Thread: Chapter Twelf - Starring Shia LaBeouf

Hai everybody!

And practicing saying hai in front of a mirror isn't the worst thing that could happen. Nobody around here's going to think any less of you for it, so don't worry. :p

Oh, ok. It was just so embarrasing. But that's great! So hai!
 

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Re: Random Messages Thread: Chapter Twelf - Starring Shia LaBeouf

I practice bullying people in the mirror.

That's also cool, too.
Personally, I prefer giving them the cold shoulder.

Also, Cartoon Network is showing a Scooby Doo movie right now. I'm not opposed to Scooby, but I am opposed to them changing the schedule on us.



@progressforth; Peridot strikes me as a scientist, a researcher. I'd guess she wasn't interested in destroying the Earth, really, humans just stood in the way of her research project (the cluster). Sure, it wasn't particularly ethical how e treated life on Earth, or the gems she was experimenting on, which leads me to think she cares almost solely about data rather than ethics.

This may or may not apply to gem psychology, but if you've ever heard of the Milgram Experiment, it shows that perceived authority can be a stronger force than one's own sense of ethics for many people. The subjects generally told the researcher they wanted to stop the experiment because they thought they were hurting people by continuing, but even as uncomfortable as the subjects were with making people suffer, they continued pushing the button because they were told to. If told by Yellow Diamond that humans and broken gems weren't actually suffering, or to keep going on with the experiment no matter how gems and humans seemed to be suffering because of it, maybe Peridot doesn't really want to cause suffering, but she does it anyway because someone in power (Yellow Diamond) is ordering her to.

As for the Milgram Experiment, though, no one was actually being shocked and made to suffer. It was all just an act put on by a second researcher.
 

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Re: Random Messages Thread: Chapter Twelf - Starring Shia LaBeouf

This is exactly how I've always imagined Peridot. I've always thought she'd prefer to explore and study the Earth over destroying it. I think she may become a bit of an ally to the Crystal Gems, but not one of them. Also, what do you think about what she said in Friendship saying Earth had an 'Expiration Date?'
 

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I'd just assumed that the "expiration date" she was talking about just referred to the time when the Sun swells up and consumes Earth, which, while we as individuals will be long gone by then, it might come within a gem's lifetime.
 

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Re: Random Messages Thread: Chapter Twelf - Starring Shia LaBeouf

Good evening, Flop, even though it's only 1:16 PM here.
 

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Re: Random Messages Thread: Chapter Twelf - Starring Shia LaBeouf

Good evening, Flop, even though it's only 1:16 PM here.
Well, it's actually more like night here, being 9:30 PM, but "good night RM" sounds like I'm going to sleep, which I wasn't.
I will now though, so good night RM!
 

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I'd just assumed that the "expiration date" she was talking about just referred to the time when the Sun swells up and consumes Earth, which, while we as individuals will be long gone by then, it might come within a gem's lifetime.
I was thinking there would be something different, something surprising, something worthy of a season, or even series finale.
 

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I was thinking there would be something different, something surprising, something worthy of a season, or even series finale.

Maybe, but it seems to me like while we've but effort into finding out how far along in its lifespan our own sun is, maybe Diamond Authority hasn't. Sure, I think gems would know that stars age, and they would've put effort into finding out how far along their own star is, but just as I couldn't tell you how far along other stars are, maybe gems don't know how far along ours is. Yeah, you could be right and it could be some as-yet-uknown plot point, but I think given what we know so far, this is just the simplest interpretation.
 

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I was thinking there would be something different, something surprising, something worthy of a season, or even series finale.

Maybe, but it seems to me like while we've but effort into finding out how far along in its lifespan our own sun is, maybe Diamond Authority hasn't. Sure, I think gems would know that stars age, and they would've put effort into finding out how far along their own star is, but just as I couldn't tell you how far along other stars are, maybe gems don't know how far along ours is. Yeah, you could be right and it could be some as-yet-uknown plot point, but I think given what we know so far, this is just the simplest interpretation.
I didn't think the writers would make a line like that without something important behind it...
 
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