Miz en Scène

Somebody actually sent it to me. xD;
Would you like me to give you it? o3o

Indeed, I foresee many abandoned Pokemon stories for the poor judges. :P

I'm using those three characters from the last two years again (surprise, surprise). Can't let them go for some reason. As for my usage of the prompt, I had several different takes on the phrase and figured "Why not use 'em all?" One of them isn't very inventive, but I think the others make up for it. I'm not worried about irrelevance, but I hope the whole thing doesn't come across as unfocused. I think I tied the threads-of-relevance together pretty well, but I'm never sure until I hear people's reactions.

Experimental romance horror sounds intriguing, and standing out from the crowd definitely helps in this manner of contest.

Looking forward to yours as well.

I thought the prompt this year was trickier than years prior. What did you think?

You like Portal and MLP. You win the internet.

You like Nyan Cat?!

That's true. :/ But there must be some that just stick to the bottom of the laptop.

Algebra is pretty easy, but the examiners know this and fill the exam papers up with hard topics. :[

I knew it was an EMP blast, but I never knew how it worked. XD; She was *****y, but she didn't really ruin the whole series for me. There are always bad characters in every anime.
I'm really soft when people ask me about TV shows. I can never really say that I hate them. XD;

I actually want to read 1984. But I have so much stuff to do these few weeks. I'll be sure to read it these holidays.
What's it about, exactly?

Oh, that must explain why I can understand my History teacher's Malay. She's from Singapore, and her accent in Malay isn't too different from our Indonesian teacher's accent. We always try using Indonesian words with her in attempts to improve our Indonesian. XD;
And I'm sure your accent when speaking English shouldn't be a problem in getting people to understand you? XD;

You're lucky you know two languages fluently. I only know one. XD Where did you pick up French? At school?
I know how to read Arabic since I was taught it at school for about 10 years before I gave it up for Indonesian. It wasn't that it was especially hard; it's just that we have to do a language as part of our year 11 and 12 syllabus, and the result we get in that language goes towards our final score. Since I was making next to no progress in Arabic, I just decided to switch to Indonesian, which we were learning from scratch.

When I was a tyke and I'd see kids on the news graduating college at 13 I'd get jealous, it was almost like supergenuises were able to add another ten years onto their life by being able to start so early. Buuuuuuut I'm quite happy being a normal person on a normal path in life (though the jobless thing doesn't sit too well with me XD)

I was more worried that the T-Dome would cause bad blood than any of the actual topics discussed in there, and as it turned out that happened. My memory is hazy but I think that some of its biggest proponents were some of the most opinionated, aggressive debaters on PC and everyone else just kind of got dragged into their maelstrom :p Maybe it's true that people are becoming able to handle more serious topics at a younger age, but I don't know :p When I returned to PC I told myself that I wasn't going to get involved in any debates because there's just something unfair about an adult arguing something with a teenager.

I don't even remember what originally made me chose PC over the other Pokemon forums out there, but I was coming off a really bad forum experience at a smaller (and now hopefully long-defunct) forum and PC must have had the right balance of activity and friendliness. I'll really never understand why even dinosaurs like PokeBeach and PE2K have a higher profile than PC.

If actually having stuff to talk about is boring, be as absolutely boring as you can be XD Every now and again I need to give my fingers a rest but I'm generally up for just about any subject :p

I get that sometimes. But I honestly have a hard time seeing myself as such because I'm still young compared to most actual educators and such XP

There definitely do seem to be more serious discussions on PC than there were when I was active. For a while we had a special hidden forum called the Thunderdome that was for adult topics and only permitted to members above a certain age, but I opposed the idea in the beginning on the belief that PC as a whole wasn't mature enough to handle it, and it did indeed have a negative enough impact on PC after a while that it was done away with. I suppose that as the staff here are getting older they're gradually allowing more mature levels of discussion in Other Chat, and I've certainly noticed myself talking about things in the Daily Chit-Chat now that I'm not sure I could have gotten away with five years ago :p PC is still definitely a classy place, though. In terms of Pokemon forums we're really, really underrated.

Do you not notice me matching you just about word for word? I'm all about walls of text XD

That was what I was going for. XD

I love being on the fence. There's excellent views of the flames sparking on both sides. :D

Eh, reminiscence is generally boring for those who didn't live through it, so I'm not going to continually talk up old PC even though it was really great XD You newer people are a fine group of members from the looks of thing and you should just go about creating your own memories of this place and never try to live off the fumes of ours :p

Class? Were we classier or less classy? XD Plenty of people on Serebii hated us because they thought we were more lax with our rules, but, by the same token, plenty of people here hated Serebii because we thought they had incredibly mean, unfeeling mods, a high concentration of unpleasant members, and extremely high levels of cliquishness XP

Ah, so your positions are strong but their intensity is fueled by reason rather than emotion. That's as it should be! I'd like to think I'm the same, but it'd be a lie if I said that was entirely true XD

Strangely enough I'm pretty sure I won the most times for best PC pairing because I was paired with a very attractive and popular PC member named Paige (she's gone now, but if you want to look her up it appears that she goes by Lucid-Acid these days) and we were the ultimate odd couple. People just loved watching us interact for some reason XD

If anything, studying about government won't really make you change the ideas you already hold but will just give you more insight into the technicalities of the functions of government. Ultimately, everyone has to decide for themselves based on their own convictions what they do and don't support concerning our laws, elected officials, and institutions. So, you compare yourself in zeal to Vietnam antiwar protesters, huh? That's good, it's right to feel strongly about the things that you care about. Even if it results in people vehemently opposing things you or I may hold dear, it beats everyone merely being apathetic.

There have been MotM awards since about the time that I joined. Pretty sure that I won in several categories a few times, but I don't know that I ever took the actual Member of the Month prize itself :p

Oh, no, I'm definitely not the "it's the system, maaaaaan" types when it comes to government and politics. Just for a little while when there was so much uncertainty in my life. I'd like to think that I've matured significantly in how I view government, so I'm definitely in accordance with you on the ideas you hold.

You don't have to buy a new laptop to get a better heat dispersal system. My friend's dad had a stand for his laptop with inbuilt fans to help cool it down, and the laptop was fine.

It's fine with calculators, but then there are some non-calculator tests, and you're pretty much stuck if you can't solve questions fast enough. It's happened to me too many times before, which is why I want to improve my speed. And sometimes, there's pretty much no way of using a calculator in some questions. Like Algebra. (I know that graphics calculators solve algebraic problems for you, but it gets to be annoying when you have to do complicated stuff to the question which my calculator can't do. -.-)

Oh... ;3 Mature themes aren't too bad, then. I'll watch it after the exams. *adds to growing anime-to-watch list*
I never liked Takagi. She's too *****y. And her attitude towards that gun-loving guy is like S&M. She keeps insulting him and treating him like dirt and he still likes her. And her genius isn't really that contributive to the whole story. Though, thanks to her, I now know what an EMP actually does. XD

Animal Farm was clearly an analogy for Soviet Russia, but at the time, we had no idea, and some of the kids in our class were really stupid. They didn't understand anything. I know one of my friends who's studying Animal Farm this year (Year 11), so I'm not sure how they came to the decision to make us study it when we were in Grade 6.

I'd say that written Indonesian and Malay are more mutually intelligible that their spoken counterparts. I asked my teacher about it and she told me that accent has a lot to do with it. Malay is spoken with a different accent than Indonesian Malay, so if I were to listen to Malay being spoken, I'd probably be even more lost. XD

I know no French whatsoever. Of course, that's not counting some obvious French phrases people throw around, since English has a lot of French-derived words. As for Japanese, it's not my best language, but I can read and write in kana (not kanji [not yet]) and understand a hundred or so words. I definitely know Indonesian a lot better than Japanese, and English (clearly) better than Indonesian. By the end of next year I (hopefully) should be at least bilingual. :D And trilingual if I put enough effort into Japanese as well.

I like it. :3 I can't really give any constructive criticism though, since I can't draw to save my life. XD;

Hey, glad to meet you. Thanks for the heartfelt message and I'm glad if my story was intriguing, inspiring, or even uplifting to you or anyone else who's read it. If someone can benefit from such a story, it makes my struggles of long ago all the more gratifying, even as they thankfully fade ever more from memory in the future.

I was originally going to take PoliSci as my aspiration was to be a political speechwriter for hire. My experience that summer started a fairly radical shift in my political views and during my first semester or two in college I didn't entirely know what to stand for or whether I even cared about the system anymore, so I changed subjects. I retain a keen personal interest in politics, but because of my choice I do lack collegiate-level knowledge of the science of government and always leave my thoughts on any given subject unspoken. I keep more friends that way, heh.

Yeah, just letting you know, no need to defend yourself. :3 I was way more frustrated at the people that just tore apart the original blog post, because that says absolutely nothing about anything meaningful. x.x

That part wasn't directed to you, just the thread in general. :P

Sorry, I do get a bit frustrated when people don't read the rest of the posts in a thread, especially when it's as short as that one is.

That thread in general is just frustrating me, because it has the potential to be a great thread about the opinions of less rational people on Pokemon and the effect those opinions have on the general attitude towards Pokemon, but instead it's a bunch of people replying to a fairly obvious satire word-for-word and bashing conservatives, which is imo pretty silly. :/

Change isn't that bad for me. I don't like it when people change my things, but I'm happy to move things on my own.
I don't think you can change it back to Vista Aero on 7. I haven't really looked into doing it, since Windows 7 Aero looks so much better. Vista Aero is a lot more restricted, and the glass disappears when you go full-screen. :[

Yeah, it's really tedious. My dad wants to do that with me since he thinks he can tutor me Kumon-style without their help. It costs a lot too; about $100 a month.

I haven't watched the OVA for HotD yet. And now that you told me what it contains, I'm worried. XD But if it's not as explicit as Episode 6 and just has some mature themes, I should be fine.
I like Saeko. I like her maturity, but I didn't like it when it seemed like she fell for Takashi since I felt like it undermined her maturity.

Ooh, George Orwell. We had to study his novel Animal Farm in Grade 6, even though we didn't understand the themes in the story. What did they expect? We were only 12. XD

I know it means language, but the meaning is implied. :3
And I didn't understand that sentence. :[ About half of the words I could understand, but the rest I couldn't. XDD
Saya mengerti Bahasa Inggris lebih baik daripada Bahasa Indonesia. Saya juga mengerti sedikit Bahasa Jepang. (hope I got that right XD)

We have a student from Brunei in our class who speaks Malay and Indonesian (and English, of course). We also had a student from Indonesia who spoke only Indonesian and English. The student from Indonesia couldn't understand Brunei Malay. I didn't realise there was such a difference. :O

The reason my understanding is so little was because I slacked when studying Indonesian last year. It's a good thing we have to repeat the course these two semesters, since it's good revision for me. :3
Can you speak Japanese? :O

The RAM option is good, since a downgrade to XP wouldn't really solve a lot except speed. And Vista's not that bad enough to replace with XP.

WHAT
The Windows 7 Aero is so beautiful. XDDD You'll get used to it if you use it more often. But it's awesome. At first, I used to hate it thanks to the fat taskbar and the giant tabs, but then I loved it for its beauty.

I actually went to a Kumon test a few weeks ago, but it's just really boring. Other tuition companies do better. I'd like to go to Kumon's Japanese tutoring, since I've been looking for a place to do Japanese tuition for a while.

Oh. XD; I don't know a lot of internet abbreviations since I've been really busy lately. I should take a break from the internet soon with my mid-year exams coming up.

There are so many anime/manga that I've been meaning to watch/read. But it's so hard to muster the effort to getting around to doing them. XD;

Being bearable is one thing, but you said that some people are really addicted to it. :/ I don't understand how something like that could be really addictive. XD;

Also, our Indonesian exam is coming up soon, so don't get surprised if I fire random Bahasa words at you. XD;
saya tidak suka bahasa >[

By create I mean I'm formulating a new hypothesis about the nature of morality that is not necessarily affected by previous hypotheses. If others conform to it, cool, but I don't think there's a lot that I can do to spread my ideal.