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That song is probably within my top 3 favorite songs from the franchise, the lyrics are absolutely amazing, the singing is phenomenal, and the music is great too. I'm so glad someone else loves this song as much as I do. The first few seconds are absolute bliss I'm not sure if I've posted this, but this is one of my favourite non-single/duo character image from Love Live

Dang I know I took too long without actually cooking anything. School got busy and the first thing to go is my time spent doing extra stuff like cooking fun food. I hope to cook something this friday, be it Krill's new recipe (that looks tasty ^^) or another one posted here. I'll update when i buy the groceries.

Yay I found something wonderful! Nozomi Toujou I appreciate this

omg I really want to do this, but I can't find a picture that fits my emotions, so I wont force it. I'm so happy that this is a thing though! (it's also hard for me to pick one because I like them all xD)

Analogue: A Hate Story (darn good/amazing, seriously) Don't take it personally, babe, it just ain't your story (same creator as the one above, more audacious and fun than Analogue, but probably appeals to a smaller audience) Those are the two that come to mind. There are a few non OELVN that felt like OELVN of sorts to me, but you can always msg me if you're interested in some more info~~ (but I'm not a real fount of knowledge, so maybe someone else would be better) If you're interested in either and want to know more, message me or something (or I'm sure anyone else can help you. I know Fiddle at least really likes Analogue, as well as a few others like Batman)

Ah maybe it's just me then. League teams swap players like addicts swap needles. Seriously, once they started switching players literally on a weekly basis I just stopped caring about all the teams. There are only a few players I care about now. The whole system is garbage from a casual watcher's perspective. No I'm not interested in checking every other day to see the every roster change.

It's more complex than just getting points by stretching the game out. You have to be in a better position and stuff and things.

Makes me want to read that vn... *dreamy face*

TMNT Turtles in Time was amazing Battletoads was also fun

I'm surprised it's so even. They're all good, but there are only two or three I thought would be popular

I still support Bambi

Classic error averted, good job. Or maybe watching the vids is the real error... Anyway I think the quality of the tournaments had gone way up, but the gameplay is getting much more boring and stale in the past year or two

sold/10

moerin, your signature is perfect for your statement xD

Now I want to dress like Cirno...

Hello hello. Have a fun time and chat and talk nicely with everyone u.u It'll be great Katawa Shoujo and Tsukihime are masterpieces

I'll make a better comment when I'm done focusing on hw, but honestly if feel like we arent even arguing anymore. You're saying I'm ignoring the bigger issue while at the same time you seem to just walk over the things I say are the bigger issue. Guess what, we both have different opinions on what we think is right so of course we are going to argue them. *grumpy comment* (and yes I know assume you'll get done reading this and think my argument is still dumb, and the plot drags on) I remember why I used to not argue with people on the internet and still dont in real life, haha. Will edit this in the future when I can read more than a sentence or two without squiggly eyes. But I'd be interested in what you think 'chance' is. Can you explain why it exists or that it even does? ------------------------------------- It's just easier to pretend they are when I talk so that I dont clutter everything with definitions. I was assuming we both knew that they werent. If my treatment of them in that regard made my statements wrong, you should tell me how. Thanks for the info, but you dont need to overstate the fact. I already granted you that I wasnt sure about it. So... I guess I'm mostly convinced of your argument, but I'm really not in the mood for this. So I'm going to stop, in the future I might find it in me to reread the argument and see what it even meant (I cant think very straight right now ~.~). What holds me back is that you say that the occurance of the mutation is just chance. But I would say that the occurrence of the (a, whatever) mutation is bound to happen, and that the environment supports certain mutations in a non-chance based manner. The only chance is whether or not the mutation occurs (which in my opinion, it will over a long period of time) and whether or not the gifted individual doesnt get gimped and die before he/she/it can pass it on. It's not that a species didnt get the beneficial trait, but that they were a victim of chance and lost the individual carrying it. So i guess it does come down to chance, but not in the way I think you're saying... my mind is a bit fried right now, so... take me as seriously as you want, whatever~ But anyway, the question of what chance truly is is more compelling to me right now, because defining these slippery terms is fun and important (yay cop-outs). Sorry if I seem like I got countered and then rage-quit. It's only kind of like that, I will say you pretty much defended your point. *is too tired to try to make any more sense or be any more diplomatic* sorry bro well played, mostly, probably I'm probs a dumdum, I hope you dont judge me too hard. Though it's good form to always give the other side a shot as well

First of all, I dont understand why it matters 'which individuals' get the mutation. We're approaching the issue from the perspective of an entire species. Whichever individual got it would be more likely to pass it on etc. Doesnt matter who... As for the second paragraph, I consider that to be a much more compelling argument than the general 'it's chance that we are smart' idea (because we're definitely suited for that sort of thing, as you commented earlier). Depending on how long into the past you looked, you could argue that point, though. Still, what I'd say is that the only chance that we should really be considering is the chance that our precious 'good mutation' doesnt get quashed by some random and unnatural death. I dont think every species is nearly equally equipped to survive. Species that go extinct arent necessarily 'unlucky,' they may just not be suited for the way their environment turned. You talk as if there is always some mutation that will save a species from extinction, but I doubt that's the case. Despite that, I'd settle that it is a decent portion luck as to whether the mutated individual survives, even with its advantage, to pass on its trait, but given enough time another will come with a similar mutation... Still wouldnt count it as a whole lot of luck, just the standard amount that every species carries with it's ancestors. (But again, you could call that a whole lot of luck anyway, couldnt you xD). But still, there's such a thing as being predisposed for a certain kind of adaptation, and I believe that the hominids were predisposed to the right kind of adaptation to lead them to world domination. Though by now I'm mostly just saying things that sound right, you should know. Actual knowledge barrier exceeded. And I guess we could take this back to when you begin to define a human as a human. Because if I recall, there are extinct hominid species like the Neanderthals who we dont directly descend from. So I guess in another sense you could say 'why not the neanderthals, but instead us' and maybe attribute that to luck. Maybe, but saying 'chance' would probably be just filling in the knowledge gaps with the simplest answer (is my impression). I tend to think there's a reason for most events that happen over such a large scale of time and space. an actual reason... This also kind of reminds me of the free will discussion that was had, which devolved into the quesiton of whether or not chance controlls anything in classical physics (I think the answer is no), so if you stuck to classical physics you could say nothing is truly a chance event, it's just beyond our understanding. Of course there's modern physics to consider, but it's a fun thought. And another cool comment I saw when I was looking some stuff up online was an argument over why we are the only intelligent species. The clear answer is because we'd eradicate any others (same situation with alien-human movie situations, kind of), but someone had this interesting comment where they said that intelligence had a limited effect on advantage in nature, and only niche benefits. I'm kind of half and half on that, but either way it's fun to think that we abused the heck out of the niche advantages (technology, advanced communication, etc - things not normally seen in the natural world) to take over. In sum: I'm kind of vague on what I'm saying, so I'll concede unless you want to agree with me xD

Hmmm, unless I randomly get invited to a party from one the few friends who live near me, I'll probs be chillin like a villain. Actually that's the day of my physics test, so I'll probably get home and perform the ultimate lazing. ^^ I'm so boring

My goodness, I think I forgot to note the incredible wonderfulness of Meo for making me another sig! Thank you, mister u.u

The more important part of what I was saying is that lots of mutations happen. I'm sure you'll find all sorts of flora and fauna who have individually mutated something that gives them a bigger brain or whatever, but natural selection is the process by which those come into effect (we're at least agreedon this point). You seem to think that mutations are rare or something? That it's lucky to find individuals in a species with them? They happen by chance, but they also happen all the time, so it's not 'luck' that we eventually happened by one that was predisposed to stick. It indeed happened by chance, but it was more or less bound to happen given our circumstances

Ever since I watched the Red trailer I've wanted to see it

While it's not arguable that mutation isn't a chance occurrence, my point was that the integration of mutations into the core essence of a species is not a chance situation, but rather the result of the fact that certain pressures existed, causing some mutations to allow the individual to live longer and reproduce, spreading that genotype. There have and will continue to be vast quantities of mutations occurring across a species, but the real meat of the mutation-evolution discussion is which mutations 'make the cut'. That isn't chance at all. Again, the scale is large and the probabilities are skewed to favour a certain path, so it's not so much chance as the natural progression of things, given the circumstances. It's not chance that white mice get caught more often than their black fur mutation companions on a black rock habitat, and that as a result black mice become the standard for the species.

Oh I should have read a little more. I was just so excited to nitpick! I'm sorry about that u.u But it's not actually that small of a detail. As for the question of luck in evolutionary development... I feel like I've heard somewhere that you can't call it luck because it's the result of certain environmental pressures. Even though probability plays into it on the small scale, in the long run it's not a luck thing, but the expected result of a variety of pressures. Now if this was a development based on a bottleneck/founder event/etc that would be luck