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The Bulbagarden Conversational Chat Thread Vol 4

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Mijzelffan

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I swear everytime I look at this thread lately the topic is either alcohol, drugs or sex/masturbation.
 

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I mean, part of the reason that I wrote the article I did about bronies is I was getting sick of reading articles about the brony fandom that just assumed it MUST be a "sex thing" that some teenaged and adult guys are into a little girls' show, and jumped to conclusions with no research. I don't like every part of the brony fandom - in fact, as it is now, I can't stand most of it - but I thought they deserved a fair shake.

And, look what happened! I got a huge chunk of new readers to my website because I managed to be fair, well-researched and positive and put those things above sensationalism. Why is it that I, an unpaid 22-year-old writer without a journalism degree, can figure this out and professional journalists can't?
 

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Surprisingly that's all a Pokemon forum has to talk about. But seriously, is it really that bothersome? Talking about Pokemon is fun and all, but this is an off topic, general chat thing that warrants whatever discussion people want to have. For example, people, who else is waiting for the new news feed on Facebook? It looks awesome, and I hope to god it adds some life to my pretty dull use of it.
 

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Surprisingly that's all a Pokemon forum has to talk about. But seriously, is it really that bothersome? Talking about Pokemon is fun and all, but this is an off topic, general chat thing that warrants whatever discussion people want to have. For example, people, who else is waiting for the new news feed on Facebook? It looks awesome, and I hope to god it adds some life to my pretty dull use of it.

Please keep Facebook discussion to the alcohol thread. Cuz ud have to be drunk to like Facebook doohohoh
 

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Yeah, I'm definitely all for changing the topic.

I just get annoyed at the "omg my fandom is RUINED!!!!11 because there are some creeps in it!" thing. There are creeps in every subculture ever.

@Chespin; Where can we see what the new newsfeed looks like? Because I wanna know, too.

There was some girl bitching on my Facebook that the new layout eliminated her About Me quotes that she "spent YEARS building up." Meanwhile, I breathed a sigh of relief because what she had was actually ONE long really obnoxious quote about how she was destined to be a Broadway star. (She's basically like a more-chill Rachel Berry.)
 

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but this is an off topic, general chat thing that warrants whatever discussion people want to have.

I have over 10k posts in all of the four bcct threads combined, I don't need you to tell me what's the point of them.
 

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Surprisingly that's all a Pokemon forum has to talk about. But seriously, is it really that bothersome? Talking about Pokemon is fun and all, but this is an off topic, general chat thing that warrants whatever discussion people want to have. For example, people, who else is waiting for the new news feed on Facebook? It looks awesome, and I hope to god it adds some life to my pretty dull use of it.

Please keep Facebook discussion to the alcohol thread. Cuz ud have to be drunk to like Facebook doohohoh
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Yeah, I'm definitely all for changing the topic.

I just get annoyed at the "omg my fandom is RUINED!!!!11 because there are some creeps in it!" There are creeps in every subculture ever.

@Chespin; Where can we see what the new newsfeed looks like? Because I wanna know, too.

There was some girl bitching on my Facebook that the new layout eliminated her About Me quotes that she "spent YEARS building up." Meanwhile, I breathed a sigh of relief because what she had was actually ONE long really obnoxious quote about how she was destined to be a Broadway star. (She's basically like a more chill Rachel Berry.)
https://www.facebook.com/about/newsfeed

Here you go! Its super minimal, and I just love what it means for the future. I hate the current one.


but this is an off topic, general chat thing that warrants whatever discussion people want to have.

I have over 10k posts in all of the four bcct threads combined, I don't need you to tell me what's the point of them.
I know, but still your complaining doesn't indicate otherwise.
 

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@Chespin; It is much nicer! More minimal, and it also looks a lot more mobile-friendly.

By the way, that girl's quote is still showing up for me, so here's what it is. I feel like it needs to be presented for you guys to understand how obnoxious it is:

girl from high school I'm facebook friends with said:
♥ My director says:
Go onstage and sing your song "tonight" and let the music come from you let your characters be true. I am Maria young and in starcrossed love with Tony, we can endure death...together. "Tonight, tonight it all began tonight I saw you and the world went away" I face Tony "Te adoro Anton" I speak tenderly as he descends the fire escape with a tender kiss "goodnight goodnight....dream of me tonight" At twenty-two, my age, I know this is what I was meant to do "when love comes so strong there is no right or wrong your love is your life" (Theatre is life.) Broadway? Don't mind if I do. It makes me feel pretty "see that pretty girl in the mirror there?" Being me and OCD, I know I'll make it to my dreams, but only because you tell me that I rock, that I can sing, dance, act, when I'm up there on that balcony, in love with a boy I barely know..."a boy like that" That's acting. And I can act. When I wake up from my dream, I am not Maria, but [her name]- still a leading lady in MY West Side Story. ♥
 

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People like that should not be associated with Broadway let alone West Side Story.

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God damn Maria, you made me spit out my drink. Why do you have to be so awesome?
 

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I dunno if that's a reference to How I met your Mother or a very vague statement I shouldn't be getting.
 

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People like that should not be associated with Broadway let alone West Side Story.

The thing is, she is a good actress and singer. It's just like...no one gives a shit about your bad West Side Story fanfiction.

Also, I'd maybe believe that her ultimate dream was to go to Broadway and she's so so driven toward and "OCD" about it, it if she majored in theatre rather than the computer science stuff she studied instead. Or, at least, made some effort to have a professional acting and/or music career rather than just doing the same community theatre productions over and over again. It's not like she doesn't have the talent.

(I also just feel like people who are that into musical theatre are some of the most annoying fangirls/boys ever. Like, I always say that people who think yaoi fangirls are annoying, should deal with those people. Unfortunately, at my high school, they were a lot of the same people - hence why I didn't do theatre or anime club, despite interests in both.)
 
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She doesn't even follow her heart, but writes fanfictions? She deserves all the ugh's in the world then.
 

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She doesn't even follow her heart, but writes fanfictions? She deserves all the ugh's in the world then.

No, she doesn't write fanfiction; I just mean, that quote reads like bad WSS fanfiction.

Also, I could be inaccurate about just how much she's doing with auditions, because I haven't talked to this girl in years. It just seemed like, for someone who claims to want to be a big Broadway star, the stuff she always talked about (and eventually did end up) majoring in, and her career plans, never seemed to match up with that. She was always one of those people who seemed to think she needed a back-up, in something completely unrelated.

And that's fine. But like...it doesn't really match the kind of insane drive she's talking about in that quote.

(Also, I hate people who call themselves "so OCD" who don't actually have OCD. Same with Aspergers, ADHD and every other psychological disorder that gets thrown around in that way.)
 

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Gotcha, makes perfect sense. Now, how do you make an image in your profile go to the right? Apollo is covering up the damn text...
 

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Actually, I kind of wonder how much my distaste for yaoi fangirls as a teenager was wrapped in my own denial of my bisexuality. Even though I'm a girl. I just noticed I wasn't really able to acknowledge that I was turned-on by stuff involving gay men until after I accepted my own attractions toward other women...

Like these days, while I still can't stand the ones who treat actual gay people like a part of their fetish, I feel like I do more arguing in favor of slash and its fans than against it. Because I get so irritated at people who act like it "ruins" a fandom as though there is something innately "ruining" about gay themes.

(Probably part of it was that my parents would always suspect my sister "might be gay" because "she watches all that gay anime." I had to explain to them many times that the only "gay anime" she liked was yaoi, that she has no interest in yuri. And if anything, that was proof that she definitely wasn't gay. Lol.)
 

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I'm surprised your parents even know what Anime is, my parents see anything with animation a cartoon.
 
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