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#199194
Topic
How to be Emo
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199194/action/topic#199194
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You're only a couple of hundred posts farther behind me than I am behind YIYF. But, yeah, now that I think about it, I have seen you verbally spar (^_~) a bit with jag over in his omniscient or whatever it is thread.

EDIT: And don't forget that I haven't been posting nearly as much in the last months as I usually do either, due to my wonky computer acting periodically... wonky.
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#199192
Topic
Violence VS. Non-Violence ~~~ Debate
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199192/action/topic#199192
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Welll, I suppose it depends on your definition of violence. I wouldn't call two puppies playfully wrestling on the ground to be violence, even if they get mildly hurt in the process. To put a Hitler in a full-nelson would, most likely, not injure him at all, but just keep him from moving. But if one Hitler's staring down even 100 Gandhis, it would be very easy to be able to incapacitate him, even if he was carrying a gun.

Hehe, I must admit this hypothetical situation is starting to sound rather silly, like one of those geek conversations about pitting two unrelated superheroes or supervillains together to see who'd win in a fight.

But to get it a bit more serious, how about the Civil Rights movement? Sure, there was a lot of violence involved on both sides, but some of the most famous examples and imagery in the movement were peaceful protests and marches led by people like Martin Luther King against violent police forces, yet the Civil Rights Movement was regarded as successfuly eventually. Their peaceful methods overcame the violence of their opposition.
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#199184
Topic
Violence VS. Non-Violence ~~~ Debate
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199184/action/topic#199184
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To answer your response to ric, Hitler killed the Jews because he blamed them for Germany's horrible economic conditions. He first saw an orthodox Jew and concluded that someone that looked like that could not possibly be a German. And his nationalism took over.

But if there were 4 billion Ghandis and 1 Hitler, they could easily win out, peaceful or not. There are non-violent ways of dealing with psychopathic criminals, and I doubt Ghandi would be against incarcerating Hitler. And since Ghandi was originally a lawyer, all the easier it would be to prosecute him. Okay, that last sentence was a joke, but I think you get the point. Pacifism isn't the same thing as apathy. Just because someone's a pacifist doesn't mean they're just going to sit idly by while one violent maniac picks them all off, one by one. But it doesn't mean they have to resort to violence, either. Or at least extreme violence, i.e. murder. Just have to have one of them get behind him and put him in a full nelson, as an example. And then lock him up and attempt to rehabilitate him. But it seems very unlikely that Hitler that could have killed every other person in the world by himself.
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#199175
Topic
How to be Emo
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199175/action/topic#199175
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Hey, I'm not here to judge! My only complaint is that it always seems to be 300 pound males who want to dress up as Sailor soldiers! And any gendered person of that size would most likely not belong in skimpy outfits like that. But I definitely wouldn't mind being randomly tossed into a gaggle of female Sailor soldiers!
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#199157
Topic
The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199157/action/topic#199157
Time
Originally posted by: Nanner Split
Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
But you should be careful to be sure that there are no snakes on the plane!

I hate that that was a really stupid joke...


Damn! You beat me to it!!!


By the way: Warbler! Hurry the hell up and knock You-Know-Who off the Top 10 already!!


Heh, maybe it wasn't as stupid as I thought.

OR...

I know great minds think alike, but do bad joke-induced minds think the same too?
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#199144
Topic
I actually prefer the DVDs and can't wait for more edits, seriously.
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199144/action/topic#199144
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You took the words right out of my mouth. It was done solely to put some of the "new school" PT influence into the original movies. I wonder how many older fans who'd really been into the original trilogy when they were younger but had not been interested in the PT got the DVDs without knowing what they were getting into and wondering who the hell that ghost was?
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#199128
Topic
A New Hope Script Game
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199128/action/topic#199128
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Yeah, I just checked my soundtrack.

Vader: And now, your highness, we will discuss the location of your hidden Rebel base.

Only missed one line! ^_^

And then...

Ben: There's nothing you could have done, Luke, had you been there. You'd have been killed too. And the droids would now be in the hands of the Empire.
Luke: I want to come with you to Alderaan. There's nothing for me here now. I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like my father.
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#199125
Topic
Stewie Griffin-Discuss
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199125/action/topic#199125
Time
A thread for the insanely popular Napoleonic baby of Family Guy. What made me start this thread was reading Wikipedia's article on the character, with a section on his sexuality. In the season before the show was cancelled, it seemed to be leaning toward the possibility that Stewie was gay, making many veiled references. In fact, had the show not been cancelled, there would have been a coming-out episode for him. But when it was cancelled and then revived, that idea was canned, on the basis that it would be easier to write for him if it was ambiguous. I, for one, am glad they did so. Ambiguity is oftentimes funnier, and, without it, we probably wouldn't have Stewie's sexy parties! So, what do you think? Is he or isn't he?
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#199122
Topic
A New Hope Script Game
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199122/action/topic#199122
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Ben: There's nothing you could have done, Luke, had you been there. You'd have been killed too. And the droids would now be in the hands of the Empire.
Luke: I want to come with you to Alderaan. There's nothing for me here now. I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like my father.

(hehe, I keep on managing to transcribe some of the most memorable bits of dialogue so far, this and the Force choking)