my sister. i believe with 98.86% of my being she is the antichrist. and she is making today a day to prove it.

>:[

Point well made. I can't really refute that.

Anyway, time for my rants....

Nihilism:

This is possibly one of the stupidest conceivable philosophies to live your life around. Maybe I'm being too rude about it, but it's basically a way to simply say "I give up" in a philosophical manner. Unfortunate, really.

That....actually it for the moment. I can't think of anything else to bitch about at the moment, oddly enough.

But if not for nihilism, where will Final Fantasy get its villains from?

Oh, the answers I could give for this... 8D :bendy:

I would have to very strongly disagree, if only because nihilism has provided the basis for a whole wealth of beautiful literature, or at least a whole wealth of beautiful literature which lends itself perfectly to nihilistic interpretation. Pretty much everything by Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Happy Days, etc) comes to mind. As an English literature student, I cannot ignore that.

Okay, let me rephrase.

If not for nihilism, where would we get the villains from Final Fantasy IV, V, VI, VII, VIII (KuRzE aLl SeEdZ!), IX, and probably XII, although I have no clue how that one ends.

I feel more than a little nervous in saying it, and I certainly don't want to generate unrest, but occasionally, this very thread.

I regularly check it, partly out of morbid curiosity, and partly because on the whole, it's a very interesting place which enables us to vent our frustrations, find mutual irritations, and, at best, share a good joke at their expense. Nonetheless, there are occasions when I think people take it a bit too far, are a notch too aggressive in asserting their opinions, border upon somewhat dangerous subject matter (politics, personal beliefs, etc, which I'm glad that NF encourages the general evasion of), and make sweeping judgements about huge groups of people as a whole, perhaps insensitive to the fact that they're liable to wind up genuinely offending someone. I want to emphasise that it is not my intention to point fingers, and I'm certainly not talking about anyone in particular, but I am starting to feel increasingly uneasy when checking out this thread. Naturally, I'm under no obligation to keep on reading and participating in it, and I can forsee there coming a time in which I'll just decide to make things easier by steering clear of this thread altogether. Maybe that would be for the best. Again, I hope that folks will forgive me for this post and understand that I am coming from this position neither as an argumentative person nor as a trouble-maker, I am simply posting it (in, I feel, a civil enough manner) because the title of this thread is "What Ticks You Off", and this is indeed what ticks me off at times. :macwor:

If that's the case, then I've been proven wrong. I certainly apologize if I offended you. But at the same time, I'm an assh*le, so I guess I should stop being surprised when I offend someone.

Nah, you haven't offended me, so please don't be too hard upon yourself. I also hope you don't feel that my above rant was directed at you personally...as I said, I wasn't really trying to implicate anyone specific. I wrote it because there are times when I feel that people are using this thread simply as a place to be generally condemning and abusive about things they don't agree with or outlooks they don't subscribe to, and that they occasionally wander into some pretty troublesome areas in the process. If they want to do that, then I certainly can't stop them. It just doesn't make easy reading for me personally.

Ha! You sir have made my day!8D That was easily the funniest thing I've read all week.:D