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Famous Failures, and why you should never give up. - “Don't let Hillary see this, she's tenacious enough as it is.” read more by Crosswords
Famous Failures, and why you should never give up. - “Don't let Hillary see this, she's tenacious enough as it is.” read more by Crosswords
Kreegath
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Selling my organs, garantueed quality at the lowest prices.
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In reply to this comment by Kreegath:
Basically the reporter explains the situation, that the group of youngsters doing their military service training are making a video showing off some cool bazooka action in true US marine spirit, or so they gather from having watched war movies. For some reason they thought it'd be fun to do it in the nude (DON'T ask me why) and the reporter tells us why they should have clothes on (to avoid getting burned by the hot shells and bazooka pipe), then speculates if there really is a rule saying a soldier have to wear clothes or not. We're also told some bigwig in the defence department doesn't approve of the image this video conveys of the Swedish army, but seriously who are we trying to kid. Let them have their fun while they can, they've been educated about the risks and dangers of those weapons.
Personally, I'm in favour of dismantling our the entire defence establishment and just keep the weapon sales industry, because sadly that's one business we can't afford to lose at the moment.
In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Can you offer any additional insight, Kreegath? Personally I think it's perfectly healthy.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Naked-Swedish-Artillery
http://www.videosift.com/video/Naked-Swedish-Artillery
In reply to this comment by Kreegath:
You don't honestly believe our comments were seriously a representation of anti-European feelings? I thought that by going insanely over-the-top with my post and trying to add in every US stereotype I could think of, I'd make it crystal clear that it was indeed perceived as it was meant, as not being serious.
I enjoyed the irony of your post though, and hold no ill will against you.
In reply to this comment by leotfreshy:
2nd part
now heres about the vid.
I think this vid maybe a anti-europe vid beacuse it is fed to people like swampgirl and Kreegath that are on the comments abover me.
cuz just look how they are reacting, i mean come on! its people like that, that give mankind a bad name. Those are the people that belong in the army because they are narrow minded, they are sheeps not leaders, they follow the line of food that is put infront of them. so if you believe in this vid and others like it then i have a question to put to you sifters
what are you, sheeps or leaders?
English isn't your first language, huh? Cool! What's your native tongue? Mine's English, and I'm studying Japanese and Chinese.
I wonder if most people even have any interest in that topic though. I translate Japanese songs by groups that I like as a hobby (not like LOL TRANSLATION, I'm about to finish fourth year college Japanese as a 2nd year student), so the nuances and problems of translation are REALLY interesting to me.
In reply to this comment by Kreegath:
Yeah, I really like the fact that we can hold a good conversation here on the sift and exchange thoughts like adults. Didn't mean to sound confrontative in the thread, it's just hard for me to read in comedy over the net, especially since English isn't my first language.
Let's hope we get some more people interested in the discussion, would love to continue talking about this and see how people feel about it. I think we're able to make a pretty good case for ourselves
In reply to this comment by JAPR:
responded to this over there.
This is a really good conversation we've got going on, I'm enjoying it a lot. Sorry if I came off like I was being rude with quoting myself, it was more of a kind of comedic way of pointing out that I totally agreed with you/we were saying the same stuff. It didn't really come off clearly I guess, haha.
In reply to this comment by Kreegath:
I agree that it's still ridiculous in the Japanese version, turns out it's the acting and script we've got a problem with
But what I wanted to say before was that the cutscene isn't necessarily bad because it's not a direct translation of the Japanese version, and that it could actually have been worse had it been directly translated.
Being a high-budget production, it's not out of line to assume they had a plan for dubbing it, but either the communication went wrong at some point or we weren't the target audience for the dubbing.
I wasn't trying to get at you with the post, but instead trying to flesh out your comment with some thoughts on the whole process, because it's quite the ordeal to translate something and it's so much more than just trying to fit the speech to the characters' mouth movement. We both agree that the cutscene wasn't very enjoyable, after all.
This is a really good conversation we've got going on, I'm enjoying it a lot. Sorry if I came off like I was being rude with quoting myself, it was more of a kind of comedic way of pointing out that I totally agreed with you/we were saying the same stuff. It didn't really come off clearly I guess, haha.
In reply to this comment by Kreegath:
I agree that it's still ridiculous in the Japanese version, turns out it's the acting and script we've got a problem with
But what I wanted to say before was that the cutscene isn't necessarily bad because it's not a direct translation of the Japanese version, and that it could actually have been worse had it been directly translated.
Being a high-budget production, it's not out of line to assume they had a plan for dubbing it, but either the communication went wrong at some point or we weren't the target audience for the dubbing.
I wasn't trying to get at you with the post, but instead trying to flesh out your comment with some thoughts on the whole process, because it's quite the ordeal to translate something and it's so much more than just trying to fit the speech to the characters' mouth movement. We both agree that the cutscene wasn't very enjoyable, after all.
In reply to this comment by Kreegath:
Huge congrats there! Hope to see you get that 100-point star soon, followed by the ever-so-elusive diamond. Nice work!
In reply to this comment by Kreegath:
Quite certain this has been sifted, but I can't find it at the moment.
Does this mean that those who have already bought the game will have to do so again to get it fixed, or are they releasing a patch or something aswell to mend the shortcomings of the 2007 version?
Nope. For those that already bought and registered the game they will be able to download a huge multi gig patch.
http://www.videosift.com/video/You-dont-see-this-everyday
Your points do make sense; I just hit and run there as I didn't feel like wading into the details b/c it's not especially productive when people get too emotional (c.f. alt.abortion), so I just chucked my 2 cents in and wandered off.
I totally understand the horror of stillborns, though. The idea I imagine Lurch would've been getting at, though, is that if the baby is still in the womb, it'll move past that stage. If it's out early, well, medical disasters happen to people at all stages in life, and if you're out of the womb prematurely, you're dead. Of course, though you're not fully formed and independent, assuming no interference or medical problems you're on track to be have a full life with a few weeks/months time.
Aside from the tragedy of miscarriages, which is often unavoidable, I was just lamenting the avoidable tragedy of 'unnecessary' abortions.
It's an unfortunate shame the issue gets clouded with super-charged ultra-emotional arguments (Don't take away my choice! Don't kill babies!) rather than what's best for women, kids, families and society in general. <sigh>
In reply to this comment by Kreegath:
I never said that abortion is justified as a form of birth control (like how it's done in China) though, did I? I'm saying that there are cases when it is justified, and that while it's very very easy to take the position Lurch takes, it's also very very irresponsible and shortsighted in that he simply ignores the problem that arises from someone that is for any reason or another unable to raise a child, in an environment unfit to raise it in.
Also, I did take offense when Lurch blurted his "I can't agree that a critical part of being a parent is to kill your child", an extremely ofending remark in anyone's ear which I'm sure he was completely aware of when writing it. That's clearly not what's been written in opposition to his own (in my opinion) immature views, and I was tempted to reply to his flame bait that he must be a sadist that hates children because of his contempted views on sentencing unwanted fetuses to a lifetime of torture.
In closing, Lurch's blatant ignoring of the fact that regardless if there's a law against abortion, women will (as they've done for thousands of years) try and preform the abortion on their own.
To build on what I wrote earlier about my brother's work as a nurse, they're actually not allowed to try and save fetuses born earlier than the 23rd week of pregnancy. They've got no working organs, no immune system and no awareness. So even if the survival rate were 1%, both the life quality and quantity of that fetus would be so immensly reduced by the early birth, the terrible prize the other 99% would pay in deaths by infections (they have no immune system, meaning any bacteria will ravage them horribly), not to mention the surviving fetus would life a very short life in great suffering. However, according to Lurch that's irrelevant and they're all child killers.
In reply to this comment by Krupo:
Kreegath, leaving all the extreme scenarios out of the picture, I think we can all agree that something abortion should not be used for is birth control for "inconvient" pregnancies. One would hope people could just wait a little longer and share the life with a childless couple in an endless adoption queue...
In reply to this comment by Kreegath:
Why would you play a game with a person screaming at you like that?
Also, why would you play a game that leads to people screaming at each other like that?
In reply to this comment by Kreegath:
http://www.videosift.com/video/US-Civil-War-in-4-min