Kenzi

personally, i feel like the fact that we've found no signs of life at all to be a bit of an anomaly to begin with - i believe that we should have seen some sign of extraterrestrial life at some point. true, I won't deny that, but think about this: how much of space have we really explored? haha, it's kinda funny since the reason I believe we haven't found any extraterrestrial life is because space is so vast. and the fact that there seems to be set conditions for life to even form, much less intelligent life I might sound like I'm contradicting myself with that last statement, but if you just take into consideration how massive space is and how much time the universe has been in existence, the chance of there being intelligent life suddenly sounds a lot more plausible we've only found <2k exoplanets, so I think it's a bit too early to kick the bucket plus, we can't generalize intelligent life based on what humans have the tendency to do for instance, what makes you think intelligent life is limited to only acclimating to the surfaces of planets? I think it's very likely that there's intelligent life out there it's just that we don't have an efficient way to communicate with/scour for them oh hey, I think I know what I might be doing Thursday night

sheesh, broke the word limit again so I had to take out the quote, lol.

The only reason I'm not a firm believer of the Great Filter is because you have to take into account factors like how long the universe has been in existence. While it's true that there's little to no chance that there are life forms that have developed like humans have, well actually, it's exactly that. Everything we are today happened completely by chance. That isn't to say there aren't intelligent life forms that have developed enough to be considered a civilization though. It's just that it might have occurred in a different manner; a civilization created through other means. The human race is no ultimate template that dictates how intelligent life forms should come into existence because anything could've happened in a time span of 14 billion years. For all we know, these life forms may very well be in their primitive stages of development. Or heck, they could be far more advanced than we are. As for why we haven't found any evidence of these intelligent life forms... the universe is absolutely massive. So massive that we're practically confined to an observable universe. At the same time, these life forms may be trillions of light years away, outside of our observable universe (which is already 93 billion light years in diameter, if that helps put things into perspective). Communicating with said life forms would be extremely inefficient as the information they send to us would be terribly outdated by the time it even reaches us, assuming that we'd even be able to communicate with them. I also found this to be an interesting take on the subject: The Great Filter simply seems like a too definitive of a theory for life for me to fully support it. I'm not disagreeing with your beliefs since it does have quite a few valid points; the idea of these barriers just isn't my cup of tea. For this reason, I'm still open to hearing the opposing side seeing as you're a firm advocator for it. love your analogy with the "trying to shine a light into the darkness", btw. a little off topic, but I find it interesting that you often feel the need to openly state this. That's like saying humans are limited to only exploring land because we don't have to capability of breathing underwater. Species X's means of developing a civilization can be completely different from Species Y's. How we evolved may seem advantageous to us, but that doesn't mean other life forms such as Species X (that, I guess might communicate through patterns of wind hitting the pores of their skin) haven't found ways to adapt and explore based on the characteristics they evolved with. All the more reason to go spacefaring then. Supposing such a utopia exists, infinite resources means unlimited energy to allocate into further feeding into their curiosity. Oh, and if overpopulation ever becomes a problem, there would be no need submit to a population cap when they can expand their civilization through spacefaring using the supposed infinite resources they have. -- I really want to add more to the discussion, but I've been stupidly busy trying to work on apps and stuff, urghh. I shouldn't even be posting, but I just really wanted to contribute a bit of my thoughts. sorry for intervening, ahah...

hehe, I'm sure he doesn't mind too much something tells me you'd really enjoy 1984 it's always nice having onii-san looking over us and keeping everything in check, after all...

late reply is late, eheh... hey, us too! I love playing this piece with the band! ...except that I don't experience PTSD when we play it... ...and the fact that it's actually one of my favorite songs of the holidays... h-how would I have known that something like this could trigger you... -- Fantasy Overture- Tchaikovsky aka the Romeo and Juliet theme we're playing an excerpt of this in orchestra, lol

just edited a bit of the politics and the phone paragraphs ...and the last one

-- LOL, this thread was moved to the Music, Movies & TV section that's actually hilarious ahaha, Akazora, was this your doing?

save yourself while you still can it's too late for me; I've already gone off the deep end -- why. it's still October I think I'm going insane.

So I checked out a few clips of Ore Monogatari out of curiosity. There's not much that seems spoiler-tag worthy since it's pretty obvious what'll end up happening. ...and it's not bad Soundtrack is pretty standard, but definitely stands out when it needs to. There's this cute little innocence that envelops the romance between the two unsuspecting lovebirds. While part of me wanted to punch the computer screen because of how dense these two characters seem to be, I can't deny that the show still has a nice, charming atmosphere to it. The show is definitely "different" to say the least. It's not over the top, and it's straightforward enough to get the point across. The humor and how the interactions between the characters are portrayed is done very light-heartedly and casually, which is just to my liking. On the surface level, there's no doubt this is one of those fairytale romances I despise so much, but I do appreciate how it attempts to break out of the standard tropes that are forced upon most romances. So it's not so bad. All in all, I actually kinda liked the few clips I watched.

yee omfg what have you done why has this been stuck in my head the entire day why did I instinctively decide to pluck out the notes on my violin out of boredom during orchestra why did I even bother searching up this "song" why was I humming this during the school day why is this even a meme why are the parodies best things how did this go viral how did you even discover this what have you done to me and it's still stuck in my head why

added to the end, if you don't mind

do I really want to spoil the entire UnderTale OST for myself do I ..... .... ... .. . . . ugh I want to play the darn game so badly the music is effin amazing

>implying that being a nerd is a bad thing embrace your inner nerd

who am I kidding, all of the OPs in FMA/B are fabulous the EDs also deserve recognition freaking loved all of them I finished at 4:30am but I was too embarrassed to hand it in that late at night, so I submitted it at 7am while I was at school, lol and judging by the looks of it, you ended up pulling an all-nighter for your essay, didn't you the college lyfe sounds fun!! but srsly, wat r u doin 2 urself :c

well, to be fair, the title of this thread is "Memes and Troll Faces" lol and I still don't plan on diving into anything I'm not familiar with while it's still airing. I might give it a shot after the reviews come out though.

After taking the time to type this all out, I think season 3 has to be my favorite then.

haha, don't get me wrong, I loved the Nichijou and FMA excerpts (Melissa is probably my favorite OP out of the entire FMA/B series for pretty subjective reasons as well) ...and while DC isn't a great anime objectively (it's not even close to being my favorite, contrary to what I may have posted a while ago), it still has a special place in my heart. I've also listened to his Nichijou covers loads of times, so it didn't catch me too off guard. But the FMA excerpt did (I was also overcome with a fair amount of nostalgia since I haven't listened to Melissa in years). Still waiting on Steins;Gate tho... gosh, you should've seen me when I heard marasy play the DC theme for the first time ever in one of his previous medleys I was giddily hammering away at an essay past 3am without a care in the world that night while playing the entire medley on repeat even though the DC excerpt was only 17 seconds long, lol oh, I also had an essay due last night, and guess what I did for old times' sake ahh, memories...

I don't really have a favorite season, but season 2 was, by far, the worst favorite villain though idk guru laghima, I guess an airbender who lived over 4000 years ago you've probably never heard of him jk, I know he's not a villain