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Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 12-25-2014, 05:33 PM - Forum: General Chatter
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Below the search buttons on Google this morning is the tag Quote:Our mission is to make the world’s information accessible—yes, even Seth Rogen movies
The last three words link to The Interview on Google Play.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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Posted by: robkelk - 12-19-2014, 11:27 PM - Forum: Forums
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... and my credit card has to lay fallow for a couple of days, so I can't buy page views right now.
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"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
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| Bushido: Way of Total Bullshit |
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Posted by: Black Aeronaut - 12-19-2014, 02:17 PM - Forum: General Chatter
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I just stumbled across this article on Tofugu and really, it explains a whole lot about why Japan seems so off-kilter - it's because we have been given the wrong impression entirely.
http://www.tofugu.com/2014/12/08/bushid ... -bullshit/
Really, now that I've read this article, I think the best example in pop culture of how Samurai actually behaved before the Tokugawa Shogunate unified the country is in Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke - everyone has their own agendas, act however they want to act, and not once is the word 'honor' dropped by anyone (that I can recall, anyhow). It would also explain why Lady Eboshi had absolutely zero qualms about the honor of pitting rifles against swords and archers.
This is going to change how I write some of Garrick's steps as some of them are in pre-Tokugawa settings.
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| Headgear question? |
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Posted by: ordnance11 - 12-18-2014, 05:09 AM - Forum: General Chatter
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Do you guys remember the Gestapo agent in Raiders of the Lost Ark? What type of headgear was he wearing?
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