I art 18, turning 19 in May. Apparently I look younger; oh well. And thanks, hikki_kairi. =)
Just got home from a very long pageant that my sister was in. Oy, I didn't even get my coffee.
Can't say I had a specific strategy when I did it, but: a) 'Guard' does wonders if you can predict his attacks b) Turn on as many MP recovery abilities as you can so you can heal accordingly and hopefully not run out of MP. Use Ethers if you need to. c) There isn't a time limit for this battle, so take your time if you need to.
Surprisingly, I've never stepped foot--or.. click O_o--into the Roleplaying Arena since I've come back. I actually did look at the codes section for a few minutes, even though I don't have AR.
IP bans are tricky. Most administration like to avoid it <.< Besides, it doesn't look like an epidemic so banning accounts looks fine to me for now. I remember the first time I saw that Naruto account, insulting a Forum Helper. lol. Then all the CFF 'messages', what a give away. Oh well, c'est la vie.
-chan is usually for females, but it can be used for any 'nicknames' or pet-names people give each other. -san is for both genders and is a honorrific extension for respect. Some translate -san as 'Mister' or 'Miss'. -kun is usually used for males, but it can also be used for females in the business setting. -- Axel: X-E-M-N-A-S. Got it memorized? Sora: Actually, no, can you repeat that?
While that definitely got a few laughs out of me, holy crap, the poor grand piano, I cringed everytime he banged it during that first 'song'. XD. Funny Korean guy, though.
I watched it today. I won't spoil anything; I liked it, though. It had a nice ending that left a warm feeling in my heart. ;p
But how do you record the fights?
Just a recent article. Point #1: Facts over the last two decades show that states with death penalties actually show increases in murder rate more so than states that don't. Point #2: It actually costs more money to house and imprison criminals serving a death sentence. There goes your tax dollars. Point #3: Evidently there is proof that *many* death-row inmates have been proven innocent in the future. What does that say about the judgment of the human race? Are we still fit to 'sentence death' on others when we are so inadequate in our judgments? If you're up to verse on your Forensic Psychology, you'd know exactly where I'm coming from. Point #4: Life without parole actually shows a better distribution of your money (500 additional police officers and 10,000 drug addicted patients). I just had to re-instate that, as it was my main point from the beginning. Our ethics as human beings are what we use to create the laws we follow today. If we begin to slowly bend our constitution little by little, and not holding firm, the infrastructure that governs us as a society will just begin to crumble. Unlike the death penalty, this is why other life issues like Abortion and Euthanasia have continually met resistence from becoming legalized in so many countries around the world.
So you're saying we should have more elaborate death penalties? Like we should chain them to a chair and slowly stab them and torture them until they bleed to death? What kind of humanity would we become if that somehow became this glorious "Justice" that everyone seems to preach when they say "[They] should die." Does that make us any better than the murderers who killed the innocent? And if your answer turns out to be "Yes, because they're murderers", then I really have nothing more to say.
XD If it's any consolation, Sora never asks Merlin. It was actually him trying to cover up his anxiety about her story (which is described in the narration that followed that scene).
You don't know that, and thinking that way may just make it much easier to say "That person deserves to die". No human being is superior over the other. Because of that, I don't think we have the right to end someone else's life. I'm also not saying leave it in God's hands--but I will say, that in a sense--*you* are the one deciding if a person should die or not. And I don't think we have any right to make that choice. It just scares me out easily you can come out and say that. Saying to just kill someone because it's more 'realistic'. Let them rot their entire life away, what's so wrong with that? Karma is supposed to be something inevitable. Killing someone is a choice. True karma would be a murderer falling down a set of stairs and breaking his/her head open; that would be karma. The fact that the death penalty happens in some states/countries and doesn't in others proves that the lives of criminals suddenly become the property of someone else (notably the judge and jury who produce the verdict), which is... sort of sad.
Yeah, long story short: JP complained about how the NA version had so much better stuff, and won their appeal and got Final Mix--exclusively theirs.
It shall be explained in Chapter Ten. To put it lightly, I took the liberty of using the idea that 'not everything was as it seemed' with those particular Nobodies. Marluxia and Larxene were the two main Organization members that seemed to have a hidden agenda in relation to most of the other members present at Castle Oblivion, thus--and this is in relation to my story--they had some sort of 'backup plan' or 'insurance' in case something like what happened in CoM failed to be a success. Although it wasn't mentioned in plain sight, but it will, Nemas is an expert on the nature of the Nobody. As such, only because Marluxia and Larxene were 'working for Nemas' in the shadows were they able to be 'ressurected'. Chapter Five tomorrow. ^-^ Thanks for the support, as usual. -- -- Chapter Five -- Yes, Kairi is unconscious again. Thankfully this time it isn't due to her vision attacks or whatever you wanna call it. Who knows, maybe this Glenn character knocked her out. *rolls eyes* I admit it's a little excessive, but I found it necessary for Kairi to be 'knocked out' in order to get some of those 'flash backs' into the mix. In any case, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter.
I'm not saying it's going to work, but I am saying that I don't think it's a good idea to kill someone for killing another. It's kind of like a hypocrisy if you ask me, except one hides behind the law to do so. And for those who 'deserve' the death penalty, there's always the life sentence--which will never get them out. Life in dangerous prisons isn't exactly a safe haven, either. Criminals die in prison because of the violence behind those bars. Like I mentioned before, some of the more disturbed criminals won't find the death sentence more 'severe'. If someone's a cold-blooded, ruthless killer, most don't even care about what happens to them. They'll find it an easy way out. So sometimes it does matter what the criminals think. The only people this would 'send a message to' are those people who contemplate murdering someone but are constantly thinking about the consequences. In many cases, these aren't the 'scary' individuals we should be worrying about. I personally don't believe in the death penalty. I'd rather pay taxes to keep them alive than to slander the importance of human life, no matter who the individual is. Keeping them in prison for life *still* keeps the dangerous people away, just some of your tax dollars are working to remind the world that killing others is wrong. I don't know. I guess I don't get the principle. Killing people is against the law, yet we use the law to kill others . I simply don't get the lesson learned there. So it's okay to kill someone if they've killed someone you loved, as long as you don't act on your own and use the law instead to justify your anger and resentment.
That was his name. Rey Mysterio. I liked watching him. That was years ago.
I remember this song. It was so annoying.
By 2011-2013, the PS2 will be obsolete. And with FFvsXIII being a model for KH3's battle system, it'll need White Engine. The PS2 won't be able to support that. <.<
Usually if someone wins a case for 'self-defense', they never receive the death penalty. The death sentence is a very big sentence, and although the law can sometimes make mistakes, it's very rare that someone's put to death for a crime (albeit a big one) they didn't commit (except in the movies). As a Canadian, we don't have the death penalty either. I'm not too knowledged about the raw facts behind it, but if I were to justify why Canada probably doesn't have it--or any other nation for that matter--is: The most important aspect is probably that society tries to promote that human life is important. Forget religion and thou shalt not kill, it's just not right to take a human life. By saying "You shall be put to death" for the lives he/she has killed doesn't really make the situation better. Sure, many of you have stated the idea that tax dollars go to keeping them alive, but by refuting that you're saying that you're choosing money over the lives of others. "He/She's just gonna keep on raping/killing, just kill them so I don't have to pay for him/her to live." Personally, I think letting them live with the crimes they've done in an isolated prison for the rest of their natural lives is probably the worse punishment out there. Let them live their lives in solitude, so they can live with the crimes they have committed as long as humanly possible. Death for some criminals is looked upon as the easy way out; they don't have to deal with what they've done or slowly rot away in a world where their freedom is forever taken away. For the criminally insane, a death sentence is a laughable farce and many don't even feel fear or care about it. Sure, your tax dollars could be spent on other things, and you may feel 'Hey, I'm not wasting my money keeping criminals alive', but saying they should die really doesn't put you any higher than the criminals doing the killing. To me, it just looks like a bunch of citizens hiding behind the law to justify taking the life of another human being because they want revenge or 'payment' for something that was taken away from them. But in the end, just how many people are satisfied with that? Would it satisfy the father who's daughter was raped and killed, by a man who just laughs and smiles all the way through his execution? I think the death penalty does two major things: a) It condones the idea that killing others is normal if you've been wronged in an equal fashion, and if you do it through the law. b) (being a very strong advocate of the Slippery Slope Argument) This impact on society can cause a slow deterioration of society's sensitivity to human life. The more ways we find to justify killing others will eventually just make us not believe human life isn't as important to protect as we once thought it was. For me, I see the valor and courage it takes to be the bigger person and know when to end the cycle, or in some cases, to forgive. To kill because someone was killed, then getting killed for killing another, who will be the bigger person and say no? I'm not religious, but when the Pope forgave the man who shot him with the intention of killing him, that was incredible.
