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#916359 OFFICIAL FOOTBALL THREAD

Posted by KnS on 01 August 2016 - 08:53 PM

True, Do you think Messi will come back to the National Team?

 

Yes.  I think he was just so upset at another title loss, and also totally fed up with the disastrous Argentina team organization, and at that moment he'd had enough.

 

Also, I think it was the only bargaining chip he had to try to force change in Argentina's management.  If he was ever going to be willing to come back, they had to get serious about making changes.  His public announcement of leaving was the best way to make things happen.

 

He loves playing too much to give up.  I'm reasonably certain we'll see him in Russia in 2018.




#889375 Why Did Orochimaru have a kid?

Posted by KnS on 23 November 2015 - 10:36 PM

A dumbass for the ages. 

 

Irrefutable proof that Naruto was the author's self-insert character.  




#882378 new kishimoto inteview about ships

Posted by KnS on 16 October 2015 - 07:31 AM

no wonder NH happened, the most famous naruto youtubers were NH fans(probably why they became popular to begin with) and Kishi was watching their videos.

 

Well, that can't be true. I mean, Kishimoto said in the interview that he's analog.  He wouldn't exaggerate or mislead or lie, would he?  /sarcasm

 

Sigh.

 

It's close on a year now, and I'm still sickened every time I think about how the manga ended and what happened to its supposed hero. Everything is about Hinata now.  She's all the fans talk about, she's now the character Kishimoto claims is his favorite.  Hinata, Hinata, Hinata.

 

Meanwhile, the three main characters languish in a resolution far worse than an open ending.  Sasuke (the emotionally vacant sociopath) and Sakura (who blindly traded her dignity for a life of abandonment) are locked in an empty and unsatisfying marriage of Sasuke's convenience. 

 

And Naruto? I can't even talk about how poorly he was treated in his own story.  Not to mention how he was betrayed in order to serve Hinata's fulfillment as a character.  It's a disgrace, pure and simple.

 

It's one thing to be disappointed in a story's resolution.  It's quite another to end up utterly disillusioned from the experience of having read it.

 

Yuck.




#879005 OFFICIAL FOOTBALL THREAD

Posted by KnS on 28 September 2015 - 08:01 PM

Messi goes Super Saiyan.   :hehehe:

 

http://vine.co/v/ex30uqzOB52




#874412 MOD Q&A

Posted by KnS on 05 September 2015 - 10:04 PM

2-can there be a block button installed so i can block someone from viewing my comments, and/or me viewing theirs?

 

There is an option to ignore users. You can select to ignore their posts, their signature, and their messages.  It's on your personal settings drop down panel under My Ignore Prefs.

 

If you configure your profile to ignore a user's posts, you will still see a line within topic threads that tells you the user has posted.  It includes an option to read the post if you want to change your mind on a post-by-post basis.

 

However, as far as I know there is currently no way to prevent another user from seeing your posts.  You're allowed to control your board experience, but not the experience of others.




#872918 Blaming Sakura

Posted by KnS on 30 August 2015 - 03:45 AM

Some of us grow up and see that being one is stupid while some of us remain in that phase probably for the rest of our lives.

 

Oh, I don't know.  It's my belief that when the day comes that a person is no longer fannish about anything, they have lost a remarkable spark of living.

 

It won't always show by being involved online, or engaging in analysis and arguments about people and things that don't actually exist. And with maturity and life experience, perspectives and focus will surely (okay, hopefully) change.

 

But continuing through life having a passionate interest in something that sets your mind to thinking, expands your imagination and worldly horizons, teaches you something about life or yourself or others, connects with your own experience, or motivates you to create is never a bad thing -- whether you're 8 or 80.

 

In my view, there's nothing "grown up" about denying what being a fan of something can mean to people and how it can enrich their lives.  It just comes across as repression or condescension.  Or fear.

 

Always embrace your inner fan and see where it takes you.    :yes:




#872229 Blaming Sakura

Posted by KnS on 27 August 2015 - 11:49 AM

I really love your wilderness fic, I really hope you're able to continue it ^_^

 

Thanks for saying this.  I know it's been a long time, and even longer for my Gaara fic, but I do still hope to continue.  I just need the time and good health to make some progress.

 

It helps to know people still think about Wilderness and would like to see it updated. 




#865348 Post Gaiden Kishi Interview

Posted by KnS on 06 August 2015 - 08:57 PM

How is it not a tragedy that they bond over this and no one comes to the conclusion that maybe he's just not dating material?

 

I don't know, because it is obvious to anyone with even the smallest gift of objectivity.

 

While Sasuke's early losses generated some initial sympathy, his determination to be a cold, pitiless, soulless island unto himself was never shaken.  On the contrary.  Although he waffled on exactly which path to take to accomplish it, he solidified his persona with every step he took and every decision he made. 

 

To take such a consistently and thoroughly hateful and selfish character and make him the ultimate romantic figure -- which is what pairing him with Sakura and then creating Sarada and a gaiden to justify it -- was ridiculous.

 

Sasuke reminds me of the character Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men. Would it have flown if the Coen Brothers had tried to incorporate a romance for the Anton character in the movie?  What if, at the end, Chigurh had flipped his coin and then poked Carla Jean in the forehead instead of shooting her to death?  That wouldn't have made any less sense than having Sasuke suddenly prove he'd loved Sakura all along.

 

Sigh.

 

As we've all discussed many times, the problem lies in Kishimoto becoming so enamored with Sasuke himself that everything else -- including the story's tragic hero and namesake -- was sacrificed to make it (seem) plausible for Sasuke to be the center of not only the romantic conclusion of the manga, but his progeny be at the center of anything else going forward. 

 

But just for fun...anyone here actually understand their connection as a result of this?

 

No.  Made it worse.




#865082 Post Gaiden Kishi Interview

Posted by KnS on 06 August 2015 - 08:15 AM

but since it would take more time and sound contrived

 

How could Kishimoto possibly have the nerve to say -- or even imply -- that contrivance is of any concern to him?  Seriously?

 

I can only hope he doesn't know what that concept actually means.  That's his only possible excuse for saying something that outrageous after what he's done and what he's put his fans through.

-Chouchou is the staff's favorite

 

That figures.  It's similar to their choice of Hinata.  Both are useless, annoying, self-centered characters who detract from the story.

 

Honestly, I have to wonder what Kishi's staff has been smoking.  Whatever it is, they have bonded in some kind of stupefying, shared delusion.




#852782 Naruto Gaiden 700.10

Posted by KnS on 03 July 2015 - 08:57 PM

I'm not. I think it's a sign of how little he cares for that pairing. Hinata was a side character elevated to a plot device to get people to see a movie. After her usefulness had been served, she's put back in her side-character box.

 

In all my years of reading, I don't think I've ever encountered another character as boring, useless, and so entirely devoid of personality or actual bearing upon a story and yet still managed to completely ruin it.  

 

I mean, I never understood how any fan -- much less so many of them -- could put such a detestable character on a gilded pedestal, but it's considerably more boggling that a studio, a publisher, and a bunch of grown men would as well.  Men who are supposedly "artists" and "storytellers."   It's truly astonishing.

Because Sasuke was Kishimoto's favorite. 

 
That's not only a shame, for me personally it's impossible to understand.

This is the takeaway from the whole series: There was no resolution to the triangle. The wrong couples got married, settling for relationships that didn't make the main hero and heroine better people, but that satisfied the desire of the author (through Sasuke) and the fandom (through Hinata). But the old feelings are still there. How do we know? Because Kishimoto tells us they are, through Naruto's speech about deep down feelings being stronger than facts. 

 
You distilled virtually everything that is ugly and wrong about what's happened into one paragraph.
 
 
I miss Naruto so much.  I think back to all his great moments earlier in the story and it breaks my heart.  His determination, the courageous heart he always wore on his sleeve, his dedication to what he believed was right, his righteous condemnation of those who were in the wrong, how he longed for a family, and the deep love he held for his village, his friends, and for his Sakura-chan.
 
You know, it's just not fair.  Not to Naruto, and not to all the readers who always had his back. 
 
Sigh.  
 
I loved that kid, and that's how I want to remember him -- not as the hollow caricature he has become.



#849458 The Basics

Posted by KnS on 26 June 2015 - 09:32 PM

For people who would like to draw, or use drawing as a meditative exercise you could try this:  https://www.zentangle.com/




#848484 Naruto Gaiden-700.9

Posted by KnS on 25 June 2015 - 06:43 AM

They have low standards. We have always known that.

 

I would say the same about anyone who remains a fan of this franchise -- the story, the treatment of the characters -- or tolerates the way the intelligence of the readership has been insulted.

 

The target demographic of a shonen is age fourteen and younger, but this mess isn't even sophisticated or clever enough for that age range.

 

What wasted opportunity.  /useless observations




#845372 Naruto Gaiden- Chapter 700.8

Posted by KnS on 18 June 2015 - 07:10 PM

Sasgay 

 

Again, please do not call him this.  It is not allowed here.  Thanks.

 

 

It bothers me how much the meaning of the fore head poke has been twisted. Sakura doesn't even know what it really means. 

 

It is quite confusing that it has morphed into the ultimate symbol of love.  

 

It was always my understanding that Itachi had used the forehead poke fondly but also with intentional condescension.  It came across as Itachi's way of sidelining Sasuke, placating him with a promise that he'd spend time with him later -- care about his feelings and issues later -- and that he couldn't be a priority until all of Itachi's important work was done.

 

Kishimoto choosing it to be the "loving" gesture Sasuke expressed to Sakura skewed the meaning it had had up to that point.  Except for the fact that Sakura is obviously not Sasuke's priority, and that he isn't willing to spend any time with her until his important work is done -- whatever that might be.

 

Personally, I interpreted the use of the forehead poke between Sasuke and Sakura at the end of the manga to be a cover for the fact that Sakura's forehead had been sacred to Naruto.  Since it was decided that Naruto would be stuck with the deadly dull Hinata, there had to be a way of making it seem as if Sakura's forehead issues and all that foreshadowing were retconned by Sasuke's gesture.

 

There's also the whole nonsense about the Uchiha loving so much and so deeply that it makes them crazy.  They are all so long-suffering, don't you know?  Maybe we're supposed to believe that Sasuke loves Sakura so much he must keep her at arms' length, lest it tear apart his very soul.   :twitch:

 

Regardless of the sheer stupid factor of it all, I expect SS to be depicted as a justified and solid relationship by the end.  I think it's a mistake to be thinking that it's going to crash and burn.  

 

The fact that it's poorly written, confusing, sloppy, and chock full of ham-fisted attempts at soap opera drama doesn't mean squat.  The damage to the characters and the story was complete in November.

 

This gaiden is just the putrid icing on a rotten cake.




#844021 Naruto Gaiden 700.7

Posted by KnS on 16 June 2015 - 05:15 PM

The (formerly) most empathic Person in this manga (I'm talking about Naruto in chapters 1-698) "mistook" his love for Sakura as "brotherly"? Yeah, TOTALLY.

"Hidden sexual Tension" between Naruto and Hinata? What. They hardly interacted AT ALL. If there was ANY "sexual Tension" between those two (and not just shame, fainting and what-so-not) it was COMPLETLY onesided from Hinata.

 

Just who writes this kitten on TV-Whatever?! NH Fans? Guess so.

 

 

This shit is just so pointless ...

 

TV Tropes has as much validity as any other unvetted wiki.  Anyone can post anything -- with a sizzling side order of laughable bias -- and then try to pass it off as an intellectual / educational resource.  It's little more than a collection of op-ed pieces.

 

In this particular case, however, you can't really blame the TV Tropes staff for their assessment of NH.  It's the same load of crap that Kishimoto and his merry band of character assassins have been trying to sell to fans for months now.

 

SMH.

 

I know I shouldn't, but I continue to be truly gobsmacked by how stupid the entirety of Naruto has become.  It's as if the goal has become to see just how much character destruction, senselessness, sloppy storytelling, and retconning they can actually get away with.

 

For all we know, they sit in their offices, giggling like adolescents who've been mainlining Rockstar, daring each other to come up with the most pathetic and absurd stuff to foist on consumers.

 

Naruto used to be a fun story with a cool little hero.  I really liked the kid.  It's crazy how they've destroyed him.

 

Even their Hinata-hime -- The One whose deification required that ALL ELSE be sacrificed -- is a distasteful, selfish, useless, dimensionless character who neither drives the story nor even really appears in it.  She or her dull spawn.

 

The moral and emotional vacancy of it all is shattering.




#843607 Naruto Gaiden 700.7

Posted by KnS on 15 June 2015 - 03:20 PM

Do you think naruto will do this? considering that he move earth and heaven to go after sasuke and ignore his friend advice to stop, but when sakura told him he love her because of his rivalry with sasuke he instantly stop chasing sakura. So its really big concern if naruto have to choose between sakura or sasuke who he will choose....

 

No, I don't think Naruto will do anything close to what I said.  

 

I was just fantasizing about how funny it would be if, after all the pure crap that has been shoveled out since November, NS was proved right in the end and the other ships "won" but have to realize it's only a forced, sickeningly hollow "victory."

 

But such a thing will not happen.  The bridges of sanity, logic, truth, and integrity have been irreparably burned down.