Justin_Case001

Easy. Friesan. No contest. Arabians are pretty good, too. They'd be a distant second.

Believe it or not, I wanted to be a roller coaster designer when I was a kid. Now? Well, now... I just want to be... dead...

How about we get a chimp and barbecue some shoes? Maybe I'll be a blue piano *ominous tone*.... for Easter...

FFVI is the game that made me. It defined my life and turned me into who I am. FFVI is my origin story. Omg, I'm such a frigging clod. I didn't look at the name. I didn't even realize that you made it! I just thought you wanted to share some random cool youtube video that you found. Geeze louise, what a dope. Anyway, it's great! I'm very impressed.

This song takes me back to a better time, a simpler time, a time of hope and happiness, a time I wish I could return to. This song encapsulates my childhood, and every positive thing about my life.

Hey. Y'know what really grinds my gears? When superheroes or similar characters make outfits/costumes appear magically when that's clearly not part of their powers. The best example that every here will know is when the Equestria girls use their friendship laser powers and it gives them all magnificent superhero costumes that look like they took Rarity months to design. Why is that part of the power? Makes no sense. And how about good ol' Elsa making her dress during Let It Go? She's Iceman. She's a cryokinetic. Why can she magically make a dress appear? And where did the dress she was previously wearing go?! Another example off the top of my head is Storm in the pilot of the old '90s X-Men cartoon. At the mall when the sentinel attacked, Storm surrounded herself with electricity which magically transformed her street clothes into her super suit for no reason. I think she did the same thing when demonstrating her power to Jubilee later at the school. WHY? That has NOTHING to do with Storm's power! I mean, I can kinda let the EG and Elsa slide, but X-Men should be held to a higher standard. The mutant's powers are supposed to have more continuity than that. Why on Earth can Storm magically change outfits??!! Every time characters do this, I just hear Ryan George saying, "Wait, can their powers actually do that?" "Maybe, who's to say?" "Well okay then!"

Stipulated. I really wish you'd try. I mean, a lot depends on your compatibility and life situations/goals, etc, but if you line up well on those things, I really think it's worth the risk. When one finds the right person, the transition from friendship to romance should leave the friendship part intact and undamaged, but I completely realize that if the romance fails and a breakup occurs, the relationship can almost never be reverted back. Once merged, the friendship usually cannot be excised from the romance without damaging it. It's a one way transition. I get that. But as someone who has desperately longed for a romantic partner from when I was old enough to be self-aware, and who is now 37 and never been on so much as a first date, and who is a broken, destroyed man who will absolutely die alone and a virgin, and who struggles every minute of every day to cope with the gnawing loneliness and devastating pain of knowing that there is no hope, and that hope never even existed in the first place--as that person, I firmly believe that it's worth the risk for you to take the shot. Many of us don't even get a shot. I hate to see someone let theirs slip away. But I realize that for many people, they feel that the platonic friendship is of more value to them in its current state than a romance would be, so each person has to decide what's right for them. But I sure as hell know what I'd do.

Young? Nothing, really. Old? Everything. I'm not that old, relatively speaking, but I feel like an ancient f*cking corpse whenever an adult youtuber says that their favorite nostalgic childhood game is Halo 3. Like, god dammit, WTF?! Uh... that's so depressing. How am I so old that adults today grew up playing Halo f*cking 3??!

I am terrified of violence and flee the scene as fast as possible as soon as I hear so much as a raised voice, so that would be a negatory. Throughout most of history, the measure of a person's worth (and in this case we're basically talking about men) was their ability to face physical danger and violence without flinching. Cowardice has traditionally been the greatest sin one could commit in many cultures, even if it's just a case of wisely avoiding needless danger. I personally think that mindset is stupid. There are more important character traits, especially in today's world, than not backing down from a fight.

Is neither an option? I'm no leader at all, but I also go my own way and don't follow others. I'm not really good with authority or conforming to what others want me to do. I work best alone.

I don't always eat donuts, but when I do, I prefer Krispy Kreme chocolate.

I respectfully and vehemently disagree. I believe that if your spouse/significant other isn't your best friend, then you're not doing it right and/or you found the wrong person. I have always rejected this cynical, sitcom bs that friendship and romantic love are somehow inherently separated, and that romantic entanglement necessarily and by definition kills certain freedoms that you have with friends and whatnot, etc. The quintessential illustration of this idea is the classic Relationship George vs. Independent George bit on Seinfeld. Absolutely no offense or disrespect intended to anyone, but I believe that if one views relationships that way (The George Costanza mindset), then your views are profoundly flawed and utterly tragic. Your lover and your best friend are supposed to be one and the same.

Sure, but only if I get to sit on top of it when it goes off. That'd sure solve some problems.

I have an incredibly good memory, but it's not particularly visually oriented, so I don't think it would quality as eidetic. It comes in pretty handy, I guess. I like being able to remember stuff quite well, but I guess it comes with the dark side of obsessing over things and thinking myself to death like a rampant AI.

Against elites? Rifle. Against grunts and jackals? Handgun. Against flood? Shotgun.

Jet black and hot pink. I painted the inside of my closet in those colors.

Playing Super Mario Bros on NES. I was probably 3 or so.

Um... happiness? Self-esteem? Hope?

EVERYTHING. I have pantophobia.

I find this little guy cute, which absolutely shocks me, cuz I don't like bugs.

Been born. Does that count? Is that a valid answer?

There is definitely no hope for me. I'll be single forever. I used to have hope, then for many years I clung to the hope that there was still hope, and eventually that drained away. I've stopped trying and stopped hoping. Now I just try to enjoy the little distractions as best I can, but I often have a lot of trouble coping with the knowledge that I'll never have what I really want. It's devastating sometimes.

I have broken every bone in the human body... but none of them were my own... I'm just kidding. I just think it's funny that you can take the question two ways.

Hey. Y'know what really grind my gears? When products advertise having some sort of "technology" when it's completely unwarranted just as a gimmick to make it sound cool. Like, for instance, the ziplock bags we have in our cupboard boast having "power shield technology". It's a plastic bag, you dipwads. And my hand lotion claims to have "MVE delivery technology". Or, say, a mop might claim to have "dirt locking technology", or perhaps a t-shirt will have "lint repelling technology", or a towel will have "rapid absorption technology", or a bottle of water will have "ultra-hydration, hyper-thirst-quenching technology". Get off your f*ckin' high horse. It's so stupid. Yeah, I know that technically speaking, literally anything that humans make is some sort of technology. Like, tying a rock to the end of a stick and using it to hit things is technology, but gimmie a frigging break. Those technology claims on products just sound asinine.

I wouldn't choose to never feel sad. I would choose to rarely feel sad, and to not have any avoidable tragedies happen. No, of course I don't need to cut off my right hand to better appreciate my left. In fact, (and I have a feeling this might get me into trouble with some folks) it's a big pet peeve of mine when victims of horrible tragedy say that they are immensely grateful for the tragedy because it taught them something about appreciating life, etc, etc. Like, a person loses a limb, or their eyesight, and then they gain all this perspective about appreciating life to the point where they actually say that if they had it to do over again, then would wish for the tragedy to happen again. This irritates me to no end. I think it's bullshit. Now, if one does indeed experience those positives after a tragedy, that's fine. That's great, in fact. I'm all for making lemonade from lemons, but here's the thing--every positive lesson that people learn from tragedy?--all of those lessons are there to be learned without experiencing the tragedy. All one needs to do is pay attention. I could write a whole essay just on this. The point is, I do not believe that we need tragedy and unnecessary suffering in order to fully appreciate the good, and moreover, you can find silver linings in a tragedy without being downright glad that it happened. However, I don't think that that's what I was advocating for in this blog. And moreover, I certainly don't think we need an equal amount of pain and pleasure, or good and bad, to balance each other out. That's grade A bullshit. Occasional sadness can have a strange beauty to it, but a little goes a long way. I don't want it that often. And I was speaking strictly of natural death--when people and pets reach the end of a good, long life and die when it's "their time". That's what can be beautiful in a strange way, if we let it. I think a life without sickness, physical pain, and needless misery and tragedy would be great, and I hope we invent Star Trek tech to get us there some day. I don't think you need to be sick to appreciate being well, and I don't think you need to be miserable to appreciate being happy. You can learn to better appreciate the good without having to experience the bad firsthand by learning how to pay attention. But what I'm saying is that I wouldn't want to block out or recoil from the natural process of death--the circle of life. Hope that kinda clears it up.