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I'm aware. But when his response is terse and sounds annoyed, I grow wary.

That's the one! Dang. What a stupid name. What the hell was I scared of? In the version I'm most familiar with, I believe that the old man heard his dogs barking and then suddenly they stopped barking. Then he heard the voice and some scratching at this door, and locked the door, blockaded it, same with all the windows etc. Then Tailypo came down the chimney and it's pretty much as described in the Wiki from there.

I'm worried I nudged my Dallas contact just a bit too much. Last email I got from him seemed a little annoyed that I asked for news again. I waited a week with no news! The news is once again, "We still don't know." This is not news I handle well. A yes would be fantastic. A no would be a definitive answer. ARGH. X: My video card is now with the carrier and has left the facility for delivery. ON THE TRUCK!

I'm about halfway through second season (not much to do at the moment!), and still very much enjoying it. Though I am starting to get why I didn't finish the series before. Although it is very funny, it's also very predictable. And the jokes are basically the same thing over and over.

I hated Goosebumps. Not 'cause it was scary, but 'cause it was so dumb. Hah. The scariest thing for me when I was a kid was this... scary story, that was orally spread around all us young'uns. About this old man who lived in a cabin, and one day he laid a trap out in the forest around him, and it caught a tail of a creature, and made a soup of the tail. But then the creature came back for its tail and started asking for it in English. It had a rhyme, I think... Anyway, when it found out the guy ate the tail, it decided to dig said tail out of his stomach. Good story! I wish I could remember better the details. Damn. As for specific books: The Goblin Castle and The Ear, The Eye, and The Arm were pretty big for me. In fact, I read the latter far before I was able to fully understand it, I'm pretty sure, so I still don't even really know what it's about. Or maybe it was just a really goddamn weird book. (Because it was, that.)

The interesting things about IVs and EVs is that they've been around literally since the beginning. I suspect the devs just wanted to add some more variety to how Pokemon were raised. But then it became a hugely competitive thing, and they forgot that what works for creating variety doesn't necessarily work for competition. I'm less annoyed by EVs (as you have a considerable amount of control over those), but IVs are goddamn atrocious. Add on top of that the different natures and abilities and HIDDEN abilities and egg moves and goddamn what is happening in this game. It's just too much. It becomes very much like a CCG, but instead of spending money to buy all the cards you want, you're spending exponentially more time.

One of the guys in there is from the Mega64 videos. Yes, it's staged.

I did read both Boxcar Children and Encyclopedia Brown, too, but not nearly as much. I had every Hard Boys book up to a certain point. Animorphs was my other big series.

Sometimes I have the urge to go back and reread books I loved as a child. Like, say, the entire Hardy Boys series.

Yes I was joking. I've called you SAM before because it's easier. Not about the rest, though!

Fine one more thing, then. The "why" was already answered, and that's where the disagreement is strongest. I will inevitably avoid saying anything involving the word "Asian" on these forums (referring to SecretAsianMan as SAM, obviously), after this conversation, because now I'm too afraid to accidentally offend again. But I think it's fucking stupid and unhealthy and I hate myself for it. But it's going to happen. Also. That's where my jokey slippery slope becomes reality, and that's not something I can stand behind, ever. There are obvious exceptions, like racial slurs, which you mentioned. But this is something entirely different from that. It's a statement that was never intended to be racially charged in the first place. Slurs have history. Often they were created with the specific INTENTION of being demeaning. Intent is very important. I've said that before on these forums, and people have disagreed with me. I will say it again, and people will disagree with me. Now I'll add something: including historical intent. Because that also encompasses innocent usage of slurs and their ilk, racial or otherwise. BOOM. Now I am winner. I am doing the winner dance. (But I really am hungry and am now going to get food. I may never return. EVER.)

Wow that's such a completely different kind of thing so I'm glad that we're comparing them. Guess this is over, isn't it? Dinner time. miffy: If you want to think less of me, that sucks. I disagree that it's a mistake to say "Asian women are cute", and so I guess you will continue to think less of me. And, yes, it is reductive. I was sort of joking and trying to add some levity. But, yes, I'm tired of this conversation now. I tried the serious conversation angle, and all I got was, "I like" versus "I think it's sexy" AND "It's creepy because it could be interpreted in a creepy way". Neither of those work for me. Dunno what to tell you other than that. EDIT: I don't mean to say that I'm unwilling to continue this conversation. Just that, right now, nothing's happening. The same things are being repeated, and neither side is making progress. So, I'm tired of it, and am taking a break!

But that's not what ANYONE means when they say that. Ever. I've never met anyone before in my life who has meant that and I've never meant anyone before in my life, until this thread, who THOUGHT it meant that. It's absurd. The statement as you've interpreted is, of course, awful. And I never once goddamn disagreed with that, and you can't find a single place in this thread or anywhere across my entire existence where I did. That's not the issue. The issue is interpreting it that way in the first place. It's a gross misinterpretation, driven by I don't know what.

The problem with that is I don't consider this offensive in the slightest, and I completely disagree with anyone who does. And nothing I've read here has changed my mind at all. So, no, it's not that simple. It's like I have to walk on eggshells because even the most innocent thing can be found offensive by somebody. It's not about "thinking about what I say". It's about saying something that ISN'T offensive, and yet offending someone, because they're overly sensitive about it. Which is what I think is happening here. Like if I seriously went by what anyone had found offensive throughout the world, I could almost say nothing at all other than pure observational facts.

Explain to me the logical difference between those two statements. Because I'm pretty sure the meaning behind them is identical. Like, what the hell does "fetishizing" mean? That you associate sex with it? Are you saying that you don't care what the person you're having sex with looks like, but you prefer to look at women who embrace the punk aesthetic? There's no "line", from where I'm standing. It's all the same thing. You just seem to have an issue with how people phrase it. (Which is ironic because all that was originally said was "their girls are cute", which could mean any number of things, sexual or otherwise, on the surface, despite everyone knowing that it really meant he finds them physically attractive. Which is generally sexual in nature, because that's what that MEANS.) to sum: this is fucking dumb and we should all just never talk again because anything we say could be misconstrued as racist, misogynistic, or any other form of bigotry No, I'm saying very specifically that I like the way Asian women look. (This includes Asian American, which I thought all of us knew.) to sum: this is fucking dumb and we should all just never talk again because anything we say could be misconstrued as racist, misogynistic, or any other form of bigotry

I disagree.

I have horrible thoughts all the time that I recognize as horrible, and as a result, over time, the number of times those thoughts occur diminish. U: And then other times I have horrible thoughts intentionally out of spite because someone makes me angry, and I'm perfectly okay with that, because I never act upon those thoughts. U: And then yet other times I do act upon those thoughts and regret it immediately, although this almost never happens anymore. (Acting upon horrible thoughts, I mean. Regretting actions happens all the time.) U:

That's not a thing you can avoid. The second you start comparing them at any level, you're comparing them. Also, more on the point, we're talking about physical attraction, and he's bringing up general hate. Attraction is a whole hell of a lot more than just physical attraction. Physical attraction is simply "do you like the way he or she looks". And I'm not saying there can't be some underlying reason why physical attraction for certain characteristics exists, but it's absurd to pretend that we have control over it, and it's even more absurd to pretend that, because assholes exist, we shouldn't acknowledge it on any level.

The problem is equating those two things in the first place.

Which one's the one with the huge nose, ears that stick out like Dumbo, and blue eyes?

Yeah I watched all those when I finished up SG1. They were okay. Nothing outstanding, but nothing underwhelming, either. Hah. Sorry, it's been a few months now and I don't really recall my exact feelings. U:

After taking a break from my Stargate marathoning, I finally finished Stargate Universe. So, yeah, first time I watched it: first season was okay, second season was great. This time: first season was great, second season was okay. I wonder what changed? The biggest difference between the two seasons is that the second season is a lot more similar to the classic Stargate formula: crazy shit, usually relegated to single episode. The first season is much more unique in that regard. It's all about these people trying to survive from day to day. Maybe I liked the second season more the first time around because I was still hurting from Atlantis' cancellation. I don't know. Either way, it's still good. Just in a different way. And also now I'm sad because Stargate is still dead. Someone make them bring it back, thanks. In other news, I've been watching Scrubs, which is something I used to catch on TV. It's quite good. Simple, funny, fun. Cool!

That's reductive and skirts the entire argument. BUT MAYBE THAT WAS YOUR GOAL. U: Listen, I'm not saying there aren't assholes, but I think it's dumb to act like everyone who says "I like Asians" is automatically a goddamned racist, intentional or not. I'm physically attracted to Asian women (more than most women, outside of red hair!) because I like the way they look, and it has nothing to do with their personalities (some perceived submissiveness or whatever). It's purely on a physical level. They* have a lot of physical traits that are appealing to me, and fuck if I even know what specifically, or, hell, WHY... That's just how my brain reacts. I'm okay with that. It's not creepy or gross to admit to being physically attracted to Asian women. In fact, it's gross to THINK it's creepy or gross. Yucky. *And I'll admit to not being very good at telling the difference between Chinese, Korean, Japanese, whatever. Just like I'm terrible at telling the difference between German, Irish, English, whatever. I'm no expert on the differences between various peoples of similar color.

That kind of thing is only a problem if the person's already an asshole, though. You can't control your physical attractions (though you can ignore them, to an extent, and they can of course be overridden by mental and emotional attractions). That's just what it IS. I like redheads. Am I wrong for liking redheads? (The only answer is no.)

What's wrong with being more physically attracted to one look over another? This is the first I've ever heard of that being construed as "creepy", and, to be honest, I find it kind of ridiculous. Someone considering Asian women submissive is an entirely separate thing from someone considering Asian women physically attractive. Obviously some people will make that weird connection, but those people are fucked up, anyway. Also this whole exchange just goes to show that everything has the potential to make someone uncomfortable, so we should just stop making jokes altogether. Fuck. It was a dumb exchange and I laughed and moved on but I guess I shouldn't have laughed.