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Guardian Box said:
Been sober for three months now.

I think this calls for a drink in celebration.
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Well, if you were sober from something other than alcohol, and didn't or don't also have alcohol dependency issues, that could be reasonable.

There are worse drugs and habits than drinking alcohol. Though that one can suck plenty bad.
 
Hatless Nuance said:
Well, if you were sober from something other than alcohol, and didn't or don't also have alcohol dependency issues, that could be reasonable.
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Or if he's drinking something else. I've been involuntarily sober for a long time now - well, I suppose it's technically voluntary, I just don't like seizures - and I still think it's funny to say I need a fucking drink before I chug a can of seltzer.
 
Amazon Climber said:
Or if he's drinking something else. I've been involuntarily sober for a long time now - well, I suppose it's technically voluntary, I just don't like seizures - and I still think it's funny to say I need a fucking drink before I chug a can of seltzer.
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"I need a drink" is truly a universal phrase, since it can even mean water, or fruit juice, or anything else. It should not necessarily be meant to be alcohol, it just usually is.

Though for real mess-with-others fun, drink either water or a clear soda from a metal flask in a shirt or jacket pocket. Offer a smell test to anyone that doubts you.
 
RIP, Toriyama Sensei. You were one of the few Mangaka I genuinely respected.
 
Toriyama died of subdural hematoma, isn't that usually caused by a head injury?
 
He was 68. It honestly doesn't take much at that age. Sad though.
 
Yugioh creator and dragonball creator are gone.

I don't know if the guy who wrote berserk is still alive or playing idol master in heaven...

I know Hunter x Hunter author has health problems.

I worry that I'm going to out live media I grew up on which is sad. :(
 
OverReactionGuy said:
Yugioh creator and dragonball creator are gone.

I don't know if the guy who wrote berserk is still alive or playing idol master in heaven...

I know Hunter x Hunter author has health problems.

I worry that I'm going to out live media I grew up on which is sad. :(
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Well, Dragonball and Yu Gi Oh are franchises, so you have already "outlived" all the versions you likely watched, read, or otherwise cared about of those series. But those completed works got endings that mattered. So that isn't too bad.

Berserk has at least some hope; Miura, the author, trained several assistants to draw like him, and there is supposedly a plan to finish the story properly. So that can presumably be given at least an ending, if not a good one.

Hunter x Hunter I have no clear idea about. The author is getting some level of assistance at this point, but he does still have health issues. It would be nice if he could finish his work properly.
 
Honestly I'm just sad that creators that I loved their works are dieing in general and that I'm out living them. Kinda odd I know since I'm much younger than them but that's just human nature for ya.
 
Now only Araki and Go Nagai are left among the old guard. Takahashi still has a few years left in the tank, I think.
 
Dunno if it's just the coffee talking, but sometimes I wonder if maybe in a more just world, I'd have been killed at birth?

I know it sounds dramatic, and I have zero regrets about being alive (and hope to remain so for as long as possible), but there's just something about my life that makes me wonder if I've been a net negative to the world*. And whether maybe it's a cold equation.

*in whatever infinitesimal way I can affect it, of course. I am merely a speck
 
TanaNari said:
Don't be like that. Every village needs its idiot. And without you, we'd be stuck with vaermina.
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Have you heard the phrase about madmen in trenches?

TanaNari said:
1- That was a glove.

2- If it doesn't fit.

And yes, treble, I think so little of you that I doubt you know these things.
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That says more about you than me, tbf. It's like someone going "oh, but did you know that New York isn't the capital of the US? Of course you don't!".

Anyways, I'd love to hear you bluster and bumble till the sun goes down,this has nothing to do with anything.
 
Treble said:
Dunno if it's just the coffee talking, but sometimes I wonder if maybe in a more just world, I'd have been killed at birth?

I know it sounds dramatic, and I have zero regrets about being alive (and hope to remain so for as long as possible), but there's just something about my life that makes me wonder if I've been a net negative to the world*. And whether maybe it's a cold equation.

*in whatever infinitesimal way I can affect it, of course. I am merely a speck
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Real talk? There's honestly no way to know. I mean, how do you even judge if a person is a net negative or positive to the world at large without them doing some huge dramatic act that publicly and unequivocally demonstrates the case?

For instance, I made lunch for the residents as a volunteer at the Ronald McDonald House today, which is a good thing. Does that outweigh bad things I've done? If so, how many bad things?
 
MadGreenSon said:
Real talk? There's honestly no way to know. I mean, how do you even judge if a person is a net negative or positive to the world at large without them doing some huge dramatic act that publicly and unequivocally demonstrates the case?

For instance, I made lunch for the residents as a volunteer at the Ronald McDonald House today, which is a good thing. Does that outweigh bad things I've done? If so, how many bad things?
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I think you also need to be mindful of other possible consequences. You could donate money to someone, a presumed positive, but that gets them mugged and stabbed to death because they had money and someone saw that, which is generally a negative.

Nobody knows the whole system except maybe God. And that sure doesn't help us finite beings to know that.
 
Weird how some people can watch hard-core sex scenes without raising an eyebrow but avert their eyes from a chaste kiss.
 
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