Aurora

ARGH SO COOL I HAVE TO PEE MY PANTS BRB

HOORAY! Only the best damn adventure game ever!

Oh man. Nazis? Atlantis? C'mon, someone here gets it, I know it.

Ridiculous! Plenty of Nazis would be interested in it!

Wow, I didn't have to waste time reading the wretchedly dull Deus Irae, I could've just come here to see a picture of God.

Urgh. Yeah, Revan should be male and named Abdel Adrian until he discovers his true identity. Then he can fight against his dark nature and act like an idiot and seduce the simpering, wuss-like Bastila and finally get REAL ULTIMATE POWAR in the end.

I plan to see Princess Mononoke soon, as I have heard reports of non-suckage. Cowboy Bebop was fairly enjoyable, but not what I consider great - the characters (except for Ed & Ein) and a few other things really put me off. Utena's characterization isn't brilliant, either, but I don't mind that because I see it as mostly symbolic. Also, crackheaded.

Anime is indeed atrocious. Revolutionary Girl Utena and Spirited Away stand as exceptions.* Feel free to worship them. *list may be updated at some point in the future, but I'm not hopeful

Huh. Why don't ya'll just go to school here?

ALL RIGHT! ZOMBIE SITH.! Anyway.

I WILL KILL YOUR QA WORKERS AND STEAL THEIR JOBS.

Goodness no. Just the music of *my* youth.

I turn on the radio these days and I hear very little new music that I like. How depressing - proof that I'm old before my time. Back in *my* day, music was real music, yeah!

Improvement right there!

It does depend on the situation and crime.

I think people do that already. Definitely not enough in some cases, but quite often, yeah.

I hope you're all happy that I'm doomed and summer-job-less and surely going to fail at life BECAUSE OF YOU. Thanks, that's all.

Run an internet search on "Holly Jones" and see what pops up as well. God, how awful. I don't agree with some of the articles saying he was pushed into a frenzy and "couldn't control himself" because of the porn. Good thing he still got life.

I'm very sorry that all of that happened to you. Nobody should have to go through that. I'm also sorry that you have no understanding about how anyone could possibly be weaker than you in lesser, greater, or equal situations. People are all different. I am *not* suggesting and I *never* suggested that those who commit crimes aren't responsible for them and are just brainwashed little victims. They should very much be held accountable for their actions. However, I do believe people are influenced greatly by the media, and that it can often lead to, among other things, severe lack of empathy. I find things like this very disturbing. (Or, you know, things like 11 out of 12 jurors deciding that a group of boys who gang-raped (orally, vaginally, with objects, etc) a *clearly* unconscious girl, with a video-tape as *proof,* are "not guilty" because the girl was a **** and all women really want to be ****ed.) The studies that I linked to, in particular, were not about "porn causing child molestation." They were about violent media de-sensitizing children to violence, and violent pornography seriously de-sensitizing men (and some women) to rape. That's quite different from the Twinkie-link you're suggesting it is. And just because degrading porn is quite popular doesn't mean that it's okay or everyone who just watches it is quite okay. But I understand that this argument is pointless as anythng, so I'm pretty much done.

You know, I'll cheerily agree there are plenty of people blame external sources for their behavior or that of others when they shouldn't. I think it's ridiculous, however, to argue that the media and such have little to no influence on anyone's behavior. There have been plenty of studies from all over the political spectrum to show that violent video games and movies and pornography really screw with people's brains. Just at a brief search: http://www.corrections.com/njaca/LatestQua...s_adolescen.htm http://www.dianarussell.com/pornsrole.html http://www.dianarussell.com/pornsrole2.html http://www.dianarussell.com/furtherfindings.html http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/yout...ndix4bsec2.html http://www.mercola.com/2000/jun/3/children_tv.htm http://www.troubledwith.com/stellent/group...ckground%20Info http://www.clarkson.edu/class/tc310/groupd/Mass_Media1.htm I don't think that watching a few violent tv shows turns "normal" people into serial killers, but I think it's a mistake to consider tv and movies and pornography harmless visual images with absolutely no affect on anyone who's not already crazy anyway. When you're soaking in the media (especially porn - orgasm is a powerful conditioner), it's not just bouncing harmlessly away from you.

Funny, then, that I'm a liberal and have problems with most porn.

luv, luv, luv

I don't know, but I'm all gosh-durn hopeful now. If it's anything less than a pretzel with sour cream 'n onion powder, I'll be disappointed! Or not. I'm easy to please, really.

I believe that pink lightsabers would greatly improve my roleplaying experience.

Maybe the twist will be that there's no twist, so that everyone who's all freaked out expecting something shocking instead gets shocked and cranky when nothing ever really happens.