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The Bulbagarden Conversational Chat Thread Vol 4

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DerMißingno

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Hey everyone!

I'm just stopping in to say I REACHED THE POST COUNT FOR THE YEAR I WAS BORN YAY!

I can't stay long, though, I have a therapist appointment in 28 minutes. My therapist knows German, maybe he can help me study for my midterm on Thursday.

Bis später!

I feel like our Self Esteem conversation has gotten you addicted to this thread.

=)
 

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This sums up my feelings for the Harlem Shake.
 

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Of course it was, Missingo is a glitch, and thus posts glitchy posts.
 

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All in a day's work then! If you really want to break someone, make them play this:
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Spatial Awareness to the max!
 

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@TheMissingno.; Yep, you are completely and totally right.

I just got back from my therapist appointment and I'm now camping out at my favorite burrito place. So I have time to kill. Guten tag!
 

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Speaking of burritos, I think I'm going to give into temptation and go heat one up. They are just frozen burritos so they are not as good, but it's all I got right now.
 

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I love how every time I listen to Tragic Kingdom (the No Doubt album), it reminds me of when I was a little kid in the mid-90s when this album came out, and my stepsister would play it in her car, and my little sister would sing along in the lisp she had at the time.

So "I'm just a girl in the world" became "I'm just a gwo in da wode."

This anecdote probably interests no one, but I thought I would share it nevertheless.

Speaking of burritos, I think I'm going to give into temptation and go heat one up. They are just frozen burritos so they are not as good, but it's all I got right now.

Just don't burn your lip on one like I did once in high school.
 

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goodbye blue monday said:
Speaking of burritos, I think I'm going to give into temptation and go heat one up. They are just frozen burritos so they are not as good, but it's all I got right now.

Just don't burn your lip on one like I did once in high school.

Oh, the lip burning will happen. Yep, there it is. It happens every time I make frozen burritos. Mostly tongue burning actually. Every single time I try to prevent it from happening, but it is unavoidable.
 
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There was way too much hot sauce in that burrito.

So now my mouth is on fire, in a different sort of way.
 

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There was way too much hot sauce in that burrito.

So now my mouth is on fire, in a different sort of way.

Improbable. It is difficult to have too much hot sauce on a burrito.

It is if you didn't fill your cup of beverage up enough.

Ugh I really wanna go home and watch more FMA: Brotherhood. Even though, except for the "Roy gets greater character development" part, I still prefer the original anime so far. (The rushed beginning to Brotherhood is still bugging me.)

And I also really wanna watch last night's Girls. It's a Shoshanna episode! I have a weird addiction to Zosia Mamet I can't explain!
 

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There was way too much hot sauce in that burrito.

So now my mouth is on fire, in a different sort of way.

Improbable. It is difficult to have too much hot sauce on a burrito.

It is if you didn't fill your cup of beverage up enough.

Ugh I really wanna go home and watch more FMA: Brotherhood. Even though, except for the "Roy gets greater character development" part, I still prefer the original anime so far. (The rushed beginning to Brotherhood is still bugging me.)

And I also really wanna watch last night's Girls. It's a Shoshanna episode! I have a weird addiction to Zosia Mamet I can't explain!

It really started getting good for me when they headed up north and Kimbley became a character and you start learning about the bad guys' plans and stuff. To me the 2003 anime seemed incomplete. The ending wasn't very satisfying to me. With Brotherhood everything fits better in my opinion and it makes more sense and it's more epic.

I should really rewatch it actually. I think I'm going to play Minecraft later and have it on in the background.
 

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It really started getting good for me when they headed up north and Kimbley became a character and you start learning about the bad guys' plans and stuff. To me the 2003 anime seemed incomplete. The ending wasn't very satisfying to me. With Brotherhood everything fits better in my opinion and it makes more sense and it's more epic.

I should really rewatch it actually. I think I'm going to play Minecraft later and have it on in the background.

Yeah, the ending in the 2003 anime was weak, but I really liked Dante as a main villain and I preferred the homunculi's origin story in that one. It also kind of bothers me that Brotherhood isn't really something you can show to FMA newbies, the way the original anime is, because they rush so many of the significant expositional events to avoid boring old fans. But those are small things, and I know this takes the storyline in a new, interesting place, so I'm going to withhold judgment until I've seen all of it.

(Another weird FMA feeling I have that is sort of, but not really, related to this: while Ed and Winry together are adorable, I'm really not a fan of Roy and Riza together, even though I love both characters. I can't quite put my finger on it, but I think it's because I'm sick of storylines where men fall in love with their female subordinates. For example, one of my favorite things about Mad Men is that they don't go there with Don and Peggy, who are each other's most significant professional relationship. It's weird, though, because those are both shows that, with the exception of enjoying some fanfiction, I don't really give one shit about shipping for the most part.)
 
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It really started getting good for me when they headed up north and Kimbley became a character and you start learning about the bad guys' plans and stuff. To me the 2003 anime seemed incomplete. The ending wasn't very satisfying to me. With Brotherhood everything fits better in my opinion and it makes more sense and it's more epic.

I should really rewatch it actually. I think I'm going to play Minecraft later and have it on in the background.

Yeah, the ending in the 2003 anime was weak, but I really liked Dante as a main villain and I preferred the homunculi's origin story in that one. It also kind of bothers me that Brotherhood isn't really something you can show to FMA newbies, the way the original anime is, because they rush so many of the significant expositional events to avoid boring old fans. But those are small things, and I know this takes the storyline in a new, interesting place, so I'm going to withhold judgment until I've seen all of it.

(Another weird FMA feeling I have that is sort of, but not really, related to this: while Ed and Winry together are adorable, I'm really not a fan of Roy and Riza together, even though I love both characters. I can't quite put my finger on it, but I think it's because I'm sick of storylines where men fall in love with their female subordinates. For example, one of my favorite things about Mad Men is that they don't go there with Don and Peggy, who are each other's most significant professional relationship.)

I'd still recommend it to someone who doesn't know anything about FMA. My view on the beginning is that they had to get through all of the back story in order to have time for the really interesting stuff later on. In fact I think the 2003 series prolonged the back story part more than they should have because the manga wasn't done being made and they didn't know how to end it.

I will agree with you about the homunculus origins and the parallel universe from the real life 1930s. I thought those were cool details that they added. However I think a lot of the stuff that they do in Brotherhood more than makes up for those two things.

It is true that Ed x Winry and Roy x Hawkeye are more canon in Brotherhood. That might bother or delight some people, but I'm pretty indifferent to that sort of thing so take from that what you will.
 

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See, the "parallel world" thing (and it's actually the 1910s in the last two episodes of the series, 1920s in the movie) was a big part of the appeal of the original to me when I first saw it, because I was in the midst of an obsession with that time period (and it's still a strong part of, like, my academic interests and shit. Ich liebe die Weimarer Republik!) So I'm really really attached to that aspect of it, even though from both a storyline standpoint and a historical accuracy standpoint, what they did with it in the movie was pretty meh.

I wouldn't have minded if they merely condensed the backstory a bit, because yeah, if you've seen the original it's a bit of a slog. But there are some events in there (mainly, the two big deaths early in the series) that just don't have as much impact as when you've had a few more episodes to get to know those characters. And that bothers me, and that's why I think for FMA newbies I'd still recommend that they'd see the 2003 anime first.

ETA: I think it's time for me to leave the cafe and go home, but I'll be on later.
 
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One thing about the homunculus thing from 2003 was that it just seems really implausible. Surely more people would have attempted human transmutation than that since the temptation is so high and it seems relatively easy (easy enough for two little kids to do anyway). Also did they just decide to start naming themselves after the seven deadly sins even though there weren't even seven of them to start with? Did the first one just decide to name him/herself after one of the sins, then they got lucky enough that someone attempted to transmute a fat slob of a human that eats everything and were like "oh cool, there's gluttony" or something? I dunno, it doesn't make much sense to me.
 
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