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  1. Dusknight Haze
    This image is pretty good: Don't have the sauce though. Just imagine him like that but without all the crazy regalia, I suppose.
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    Hm. Well I don't claim to be familiar with your school system, but could you not get a tutor of some kind to assist you? Also, will it be all over if you fail a class? I failed over five classes in my Junior year in high school because one of my best friends committed suicide, and I am a biomedical and philosophy student at a pretty decent university in the United States. There are always multiple chances in life. Something that happens in school before you're 18 probably won't screw your entire life up. I thought the same thing about math when I was your age (I even failed my Precalculus class in high school). Over time, and especially now that I'm a college student, I see its immense value and how you can bring math into anything, especially history. My European History teacher in high school actually used a lot of math in his lectures to talk about population growth, changing economics, and the trade of commodities. It can get very difficult, and some people aren't "wired" for math but I think you should do your best to persevere. Once you get there, you'll realize that you can bring equations into anything. In fact, just yesterday, I based an entire philosophical argument off of a mathematical example of justice that I created myself. As for cars and automobiles, the engineering of cars is extremely math-heavy. You will need to know temperature physics, drag, friction forces and their equations, the differences between torque and speed in gear systems (and their mathematical ratios), and all sorts of other things. I don't mean to scare you away, but I just think that you should do all that you can to learn the most math you can. It's just so.... useful! tl;dr math is good even if it's difficult. On a topic-related note, most everyone has to take a math class in most western-world universities and colleges, so you might as well be prepared even if you don't like it, since they're way harder than high school classes.
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    If you want a better term, you could use the ever-famous TvTropes name "Epileptic Trees" for "conspiracy theories." It's a pretty humorous term and puts it in a much more fictional-sounding light than something as controversial as conspiracy theories. Some of them can get pretty ridiculous but there are a few that are interesting. I would like for Discord to be Star Swirl the Bearded but I won't bump the theory because it has many flaws.
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    There are like a billion of these. I really like the song even if it's so generic. There is also this, which is pretty damn humorous if I do say so myself. (I did actually tear up when Fluttershy cried in that episode though, so don't think I'm heartless lol): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ5ovCWlTlA
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    There are reasons for this, and ways to get around it. 1. It exists because if we had no method of objective certification, you would have surgeons performing surgery without guarantee that they had memorized the complex layouts of organs, the processes necessary to remove and transplant them, nor the experience to know how to adjust for discrepancies in body types and chemistries, which would be disastrous for obvious reasons. Certifications run the gamut from high school diploma to Ph.D and M.D. because they're the only way we can have a guarantee that they met at least some standard. In the case of your example, the genius in mathematics may not know how to apply their vast knowledge as well as the person who is only average, but has proven that he can at least perform to a minimum in every day settings. It's like saying that because I have a great and mostly complete knowledge of the human body, I should be allowed to at least some degree to walk into a hospital and start making decisions and judging in operations? No! 2. "Autodidacts" are a dangerous concept in society. I am all for the idea of "lifelong learning", as cheesy as it sounds, but to be honest, you can teach yourself all you want by reading and by experiences available to you, but you will never be worth as much to society as a whole than someone who has proven that they have at least a requisite amount of capability to do what they are trying to do. It's sad in a way, and it's annoying, but it's extremely necessary. Problems only arise when groups of people have few or no ways to access these certifications, like poor people and the American education system. Sure, it needs reform, but that is by no means a reason to abolish certifications. In your case, are you a drop out of some kind? You can always get a G.E.D. Even national-level universities will take G.E.D.s if you prove you have the capability to learn with the best, and have some sort of experiences in other settings like volunteering and leadership too. tl;dr Certifications are necessary to the fabric of society and there are ways to get back on track inside the system if needed
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    As much as I truly love Derpy's character, there will never be a valid argument for her first voice. Her eyes and klutziness, yes, but the voice was too much and definitely edging into offensive territory. The second voice was a lot better at conveying her uncoordination without being mean-spirited. I used to know quite a few people who had mental issues and while none of them I knew had watched the show, I'm 99.999999999% certain that they would not have taken kindly to her presence at a first glance.
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    (spoilers ahead) The end of Children of Men, where you watch Theo's life slowly fade away while he floats in the tiniest boat, hoping that he has saved humanity from extinction after seeing men and women killing each other pointlessly, brutally, with no regard for their lives whatsoever. The end of Leon, The Professional, with the "ring trick" killing Gary Oldman. Classic, but freaking heart-wrenching. The end of Solaris, when the camera pans out and you realize that the main character never made it back to Earth; he is permanently trapped on the conscious planet, living out a fake version of his memories at his former home, and in the last few shots, he begins to realize it as well. Lastly, the end of Three Colors: White, where Karol Karol goes to see his wife in prison before leaving the country after getting his brutal revenge for her destroying all that he had left. It's even more ironic because he built his life back up a million times better and still serves his revenge. I don't know if she exactly deserved it, but it's still tear-jerking to watch for both people's experiences. There are a million more but those are the ones that got to me the most.
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    It's becoming available to everyone. We're barely in the beginning of that process. Over half of my graduating class forewent going to a real university because they were just too poor too afford it. To be honest, I'm too poor to afford it but I'm lying and scraping my way though because I really want to be the first in my family to actually do something in the world. But yes, there is an overimportance on college, but the way to fix is not to make alternatives, but rather make college cheaper and/or free in the western world, which is already true for the hyper-developed Nordic countries. The United States actually has the budget to pay for every single person's college education but we choose not to because hurr durr military. EDIT: This, this, a million times, THIS! I lived in a super jobless city in high school and was always busy doing school-related things, so when I moved to a new city to get ready for college, I had literally no job experience and no one was willing to hire me aside from restaurants. That wouldn't be a problem if I didn't have coordination problems and severe, crippling social anxiety. I went on digging around for months trying to find a job that I could actually do that was in my travel range, and never find anything because everyone refused to hire people without experience. That's why I'm still betting on my academics and my very specific field to get me a career out of college. If that fails, I'm totally fucked.
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    They're both correct. I think the opposite. Queen Celestia sounds much more BADASS than princess. Either way, I feel like princess being the ideal in Equestria is a little out of line with the rest of the ideals presented in the shows, like being compassionate, intelligent, business savvy, etc., even if the concept of princess within Equestria and outside of our context is different. Younger age groups will have trouble divorcing the real-world ideal of relatively helpless and "virtuous" princesses from the Equestrian ideal of wise and powerful leaders that are granted their title by action rather than marriage or birth.
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    I just feel like that with all the other subversions in the series, Faust really shouldn't have let up on the queen thing. It'd have been a much better example for young females to look up to a ruling, powerful, wise, and just queen than a princess since princess really has, imo, worse and more misogynistic connotations than the "evil queen" stereotype.
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    Joking. I can't believe we all glossed over this little gem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-HUgzYPm9g
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    Violence thrown in the face of innocence. Always screwed up in my humble opinion. It's a sort of comparison and contrast that really doesn't need to ever be made simply because everyone already knows it's screwed up. I can agree that PARTY.MOV is pretty bad, definitely the most distasteful and hardest-to-watch part of PONY.MOV as a whole. SHED is also up there because of the violence, but both of them are pretty nonsensical and surreal, much more so than Smile, even if that too is also ridiculous. While the way you put it makes it seem arbitrary, true, that doesn't change the effect it has on people, including myself. It's still out of place and disturbing.
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    Bunny applebloom is top 10 cutest thing ever.

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    I don't watch many of their videos because they're too damn long but the short ones are pretty cool. I think the problem is that they use the genderswap thing where the female characters are voiced by males and the male characters are voiced by females, but since most of the MLP characters are females it gets a little weird in episodes that don't have like crossovers or originals and stuff. A lot of them are also really long and aren't funny enough for the 20-minute time investment. I watch Alicorn Day daily though. Probably one of the funniest MLP videos ever. Back to the topic. For some reason, I find Cupcakes a lot more tolerable than Smile now that I think about it. Maybe because the animation isn't as up to par and thus less horrifying. I should inspect this too.
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    For those who have seen it, the ending of Mawaru Penguindrum is pretty damn emotionally devastating. Although I watched it recently, the stuff that happened in last last week's episode of Attack on Titan was pretty crazy and I can't get Eren's BSOD out of my head, along with Levi's utterly insane moves. The one that sticks with me the most is definitely Fruits Basket though, like the whole damn series. If you don't cry any time Tohru talks about her momma you're cold af. After that comes the end of Bakemonogatari, where Araragi just utterly destroys Black Hanegawa in conversation. Probably one of my favorite conversations in anime ever, truly straightforward and downright brutal in some ways.
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    Rainbow Fun Factory by FiMFlamFilosophy is much better. Really catchy song, and the video isn't violent at all, although the lyrics reference the original.
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    Hypnosis again, then sleep. Seeya round, peeps.

  18. Dusknight Haze
    It's not even just the pure violence that disturbs me the most. It's the way it's so unrelenting in such a cutesy and peaceful setting. It's like, who cares if you get Bloody Mess in Fallout 3 and gib enemies constantly. The setting is already so bleak and the media, with or without the perk, is already endlessly violent and full of black comedy, so it's not even disturbing to me, especially considering how uncanny valley the characters appear. There's a big difference when the source media is a kid's show with cute and interesting characters we all know and love, that has no real violence whatsoever, and has a very lighthearted and lovely tone. I've watched the video multiple times to really try and understand what I feel about it and it actually comes down to the first impression I had, which is; it's animated stupidly well and the song is freaking great (of course, it was made separately, so I at least get to enjoy it without the accursed video) but that doesn't change that the acts and theme are disgusting and worthy of a trash-bin. Just a waste of space on a youtube server hard drive somewhere, to be honest, even if that sounds rude, and it's also a waste of the creator's talent that he could spend making actual art or at the very least things that are humorous without such gross violence. (I tried re-watching PONY.MOV today to get a feel as for why I don't hate it like I hate Smile HD, and it really boils down to that PONY.MOV has a disparate animation style, absolutely over-the-top voice-acting, and actual humor aside from violence, along with somewhat literary references, so the violence really isn't as disturbing as Smile HD, which has only Pinkie's in-show singing, the same animation style, and the only references being to DBZ which really wasn't anywhere near as violent as Smile.) Smile HD compared to PONY.MOV is rubbish. It's just shock value at its worst, not even interesting in the juxtaposition it could present between the way we react to violence around things we would normally find endearing.
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    That's so tame. There are Pixies songs that are harder in some ways. Joking. ngl, listened to over 5 hours of this during my lifetime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baUY9LFlYh0
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    APPLEJACK IS BEST HORSE.
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    Joking. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP3aj_f2djE
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    That counts as an "A".
  23. Dusknight Haze
    To be honest, imo the MMO genre as a subset of gaming is pretty dead. It's nigh impossible to develop an MMO that truly has innovative and engaging gamepley without glaring flaws, nonetheleast of which is the paradigmatic reliance on grinding. I HATE grinding. That's why MOBA games are so much better. You get the feeling of playing with thousands of players, you unlock things without endless grinding in most of them, the gameplay is extremely deep, complicated, and rewarding, and they have the highest level of teamwork available in modern gaming. There's nothing like getting a group of buddies and face-rolling unprepared and uncoordinated noobs. Back to the topic. I never personally played SWTOR but I had a few very close friends who did and they universally said it pulls you in in the beginning but then it becomes boring, and even terrible at times, pretty quickly, so I never bothered to try it myself. Not a huge fan of MMOs to begin with. Star Wars games that weren't lone RPGs were never great either.
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    It sucks, it goes against the premise and principles of the show, Twilight is probably the second worst character to have a semi-canon ship behind Pinkie PIe, and it needs to keep its ridiculously clichéd existence out of our otherwise perfect MLP.
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    Needles. The only waking hallucination I've ever (i.e. not induced by being dead-tired) had was when I received a meningitis shot in order to register for dual enrollment; when the nurse finally gave the shot to me, once she was about to remove it, it was like as if I had watched her literally break the needle off in my arm. I almost panicked for a second until I realized it was nowhere to be found, and upon later inspection, the used needle was intact. Probably the closest I've ever come to a full on freak out. I still remember the sensation clearly Secondarily, I'm mildly afraid of death, although more of whether or not a consciousness continues on afterwards- the act of death itself, nor losing access to things in life that I have not completed, is less fear-inducing to me than it is to others, I suppose.
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