Yea, your quote there is pretty funny. If you quit last year, you might have missed some pretty drastic changes: The wilderness is no longer...
Well, it's good that you know that. :D
Life is too short to spend obsessing over what might upset this friend or that, or what your umpteenth girlfriend will think if you are hanging out with your first one, or any of the other teen drama crap. Live the way you want, but don't let other's opinions unduly influence your decisions. I would recommend finding one person who you can be honest with and forgetting everyone else. It works for me.
I really don't see a purpose to making the staff - that know their sections and duties very well - step down in favor of more inexperienced members who might make more mistakes. There may be advantages (more members getting the chance to be mods), but they don't seem to outweigh the disadvantages of losing staff members.
There's nothing wrong with negativity, as long as it doesn't lead to depression. A better thing, though, might be realism, as it will allow you to strip away moral conventions from the world and see it as it is.
High school politics and high school social lives are the most convoluted things on the planet, even more so than real politics or religion. I personally tried to stay the f*** out of it, and mostly succeeded. I had one friend, basically, through all of high school, and I only found him in Senior year. I think I'm in better shape academically than the people who spend hours obsessing about who likes who and who is "cool" (no offense). Just lay back and ignore all the uber-drama that high school generates. Focus on your academics, get into a decent college in a degree you enjoy, and live your life.
All true, except that you do want to housetrain dogs and cats, seeing as it'll be messy if you don't. And dogs/cats are many times safer to kep as pets than any other animal, because, as I said, we have been breeding them and training them for millenia. Wolves or wolf-bred dogs, or any of the big cats (lions, cheetahs, etc) do not have this history and must be treated with extreme caution, even after training.
I was (and still am, to an extent) the exact same way. I have had maybe 3 people in my entire life that I could honestly call "true friends" (to use another thread's idea), and I am in touch with only one of them anymore (the cost of moving so often). I have an almost non-existant social life, because I find that most of the people who actually have them are either vapid attention seekers or so concerned about not offending this or that friend that they end up focusing on it to the exclusion of all else. Find someone, just one person, who you can be totally honest with in any aspect of life, and that should be the person you hang out with, call, PM online, whatever. Other than that, I would ignore everybody.
Wasn't there something about making CO their new HQ? I think that was said in New Scene 5 on the KH2FM+ section of this site (I only downloaded the unsubbed version, so I can't be sure, but I think that's what happened - they mentioned it right around when one of the Org members told Zexion he found "Mar- something" in the scene.) So maybe Marluxia was put there to sort of "test the waters", and hopefully get wiped out (hence the 2 layers of danger for him - Axel and Sora)
They do have pretty good food, but now, a craze is sweeping through China, where they import animals (anything from rats to elephants, and anything in between) and eat them. It's pretty freaky. I swear, China Syndrome (book) really opened my eyes.
It's not the hanna thing that annoys me. Don't get me wrong: I hate the girl like a sickness, but that's not the important thing here. The important thing, IMO, is getting China to shape up or boycotting their imports, cause they will kill people to keep their prices down.
I bet you every cent I make for the rest of my life that all those toys were made in China. China has serious problems regulating their industries, despite the fact that they are all nominally state-owned. This statement from "China Syndrome" explains why: "The party [the government], provided that a capitalist pays off the right local officials and pays his taxes, will even turn a blind eye as that same capitalist despoils the environment, gouges the competition, and, most apostate in a nominally Communist state, exploits the proletariat." This means that, as long as the proper bribes are paid, a Chinese businessman can do whatever he wants - including use lead paint (presumably because it's cheaper) and other toxic materials to cut prices.
If he is harassing them every time they try to go anywhere, it clearly IS stalking, regardless of where he lives.
It depends on the person in question. If the guy whose house was in question was a wife-beater or something similar, then yes. Not in a heartbeat, but yes, under dire circumstances. Other than social deviants, no, I would not. I would probably find whatever work I could, go on welfare (if it is still around in this hypothetical depression) and wait it out. Depressions don't last that long usually. Besides, depressions affect the credit-mad (people who regularly max ut credit cards and can't pay them off) or stock-market players most, and I am neither. I have one credit card with a $1200 limit and I have never maxed it out. I don't plan on ever being married or having kids, so that's not an issue for me.
One thing I've learned in all my years that has helped me out a lot is a simple phrase: "People are stupid". What I mean is that, regarding everyday life, the opinion of the ordinary person is worth next to nothing. I prefer to listen to the smart and well-informed - they seem to have the most to say and they say it the best. Just ignore the idiots and surround yourself with the smart people and don't worry about your "social life" - it will develop on it's own. And your self-esteem can only come from YOU. No one else can affect it if YOU don't want them to. If YOU know you're a good person, no one can convince you otherwise, and if they try, stop listening. Totally agree. My first therapist (Christian woman - darn my parents for sending me to her) told me to keep all my feelings bottled up inside and never let them out. Eventually I tried to flip a table onto someone for insulting me in middle school because if all the repressed anger and hate. psychology is only good for diagnosis of serious mental disorders - for instance, I have ADD and Asperger's Syndrome, but I never would hae known it except for my shrink. Other than that diagnosis, he has done nothing for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFa1WqsZw_A<-Very nice use of effects! Was this one in WMM or Vegas? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaH6qW_SPF0<-not bad, nice effects. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omTuzkES_Oo<-the intro was EPIC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAexf0wC4ms<-this one kinda freaked me out, with the weird voices and the Org. Kinda cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV4B5bm9128<-I hate Michael Jackson like a sickness, so I didn't watch this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4My66vvEF0<-not a big fan of lip-syncing videos, but not bad. So, all in all, an overall grade would be around 4/5. Not bad, but WMM can handle (with difficulty, lol) a bit more effects. Trust me, it won't crash with many more effects. Just as an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIRi1om193k ^My most extreme WMM video.
Ah. Pro is pretty fun (masking FTW), but it's also more complex. I am still learning all the intricacies (sp?) of Vegas 6 (it does have masking, but it's not called Pro), even after watching about 8 hours of tutorials and months of experience.
It was the same with me. I was lucky, and had practice in cutting people off for a while (it's part of my ADD/Aspergers Syndrome disability - a lack of social skills), so I could ignore them easier and take it out on inanimate objects at home. I took up sword fighting (with sticks, until I got a wooden one at the Renaissance Fair) - taught myself my own style. It helps relieve the stress.
NOTE:Comment only on the first video - don't have time to watch both. Your video was pretty sweet! You're better than I am at flow, lol. The one thing I noticed was, with the KH-Vids version, it's really squished, but I guess that's what the fullscreen on Youtube does (curse you, Youtube, for ruining a good thing!). Other than that, it looked pretty good, and the textures were pretty awesome. Do you use Vegas Pro or Movie Studio?
Well, yes, Terra is pretty much the hardest single fight in the KH series, but the way you put it in the poll, I would say that all the OrgXIII fights, taken as a whole, are probably harder. I don't know, I've never played the game, but that's just how it seems to me.
