hkmaly

Mr. Verres should know enough about magic to know this is temporary and it can be reverted. That means he decided to stay girl for a while just to make Lavender happy.

Yes. That's fear. Is fear a cultural contribution? In case of Nazis, I think saying they upgraded fear to art might make sense. So, this would be pretty hard question to answer. I wouldn't say so, but note that I'm not Nazi, not even expert on them, so my opinion is not important for this question. Oh, definitely not. They don't deserve it. Although that might be politically incorrect thing to say ... But doing what Shriver recommends and completely ignore those people who may be harmed is no solution either. At least not correct one. Extremes are rarely correct solution.

There is also the fact that some people are naturally suited to be distance runners, and some are a much better fit for short-distance sprints. Yes. And if you are the short-distance sprint one, you need to learn pacing. Specifically, you need to learn to do the sprint at the END of the mile, not at the start of it.

While I'm sure this can't be called sittings, I think there are ways to sit even worse. Also, Grace is a shapeshifter, that might help ...

Maybe the fact that Adrian had the school set up with protective wards was a factor, she may not like Adrian, but at least the school has far better security that one who's principal would rather spend money on murals than on a working fire suppression system. ... right. That's good point. She may easily expect Nanase will be attacked - and she WAS, by Not-tengu, although that was outside school - and she likely consider Adrian's protection worth the risk he will teach Nanase magic, especially before Nanase started her own magic study.

Hahahahahahahaha. Have you ever tried to read it? I defy you to read even the first half of it without giving up. No and I suspect neither did the ones who attempts to forbid it. That IS some power. Ok, enough with the murder distraction and back to original discussion ... Internet makes easy to get information, but it won't make easy to understand. In fact, you might easily end in trap of repeating someone's else misunderstanding, especially if language barrier prevents you communicating directly with people from that foreign culture. Obviously, you should try. Spend some effort trying to understand and be polite. But you may still fail. And it's not fair that the outrage may be same no matter how much effort you made. Not writing about other cultures at all is not solution.

You know, it begs the question of why Mamase sent her daughter there if she wanted her family to avoid all contact with Raven. That's why I think Raven wouldn't dare. If Mrs. Kitsune though that Raven would dare to teach Nanase magic, she would make steps to prevent that, like sending Nanase to the other school. Yes. On the other hand, this would also make sense. Mrs. Kitsune is complicated.

Not only she's that fast ... she's also not tired. It's like relaxing speed for her. To be fair, the same applies to almost EVERYONE. You missed the fact that they were NOT outed yet. ... yeah, no wonder she's getting grumpier and grumpier. She may not know the details but she's certainly aware Diane has other ways to spend free time than with her. And it will likely get worse, with Adrian Raven ... AND Diane has very good reason to NOT just try to bring her in. Lucy's best chance is getting magic mark somewhere ...

But I did not do that. I asked you to provide an example of a Nazi cultural contribution with staying power that they hadn't just copied from somewhere else. You still haven't. Mein Kampf still has so much power that when someone tries to publish it, it leads to public debation and attempts to forbid it.

You won it anyway. Consider it an award for playing Nazi apologist to a man whose family was almost murdered by the 'cultural contributions' of the Nazis. I wasn't trying to apologize Nazi. Even if their culture would be stellar (which it wasn't), it wouldn't apologize what they did. I just see denying someone's culture as bad precedent. You know, in the "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" sense, although I would definitely not go that far for Nazis.

I am too tired to continue this so you win. Nazis are a pinnacle of culture and since you admire them so much for all of me you can keep them. Maybe you can have a stay in a concentration camp sometime so you can marvel at Nazism at its peak. ... I'm pretty sure that wasn't the prize I was going for

http://egscomics.com/egsnp/assorted-18a-006 ... this reaction was really overboard. Of course, I'm assuming that's the point. I just hope I won't be forced to create some account somewhere just to see something. On the other hand, Dan really needs some easy way to post nudity without worrying about it so much ...

Height, plus the fact that Rhoda is pretty busty as well, and gets unwanted attention because of that. ... right. It's not so visible in her usual outfits, and when you compare it to Ellen or Nanase it doesn't seem that big ... but her getting attention because of her bust size is likely.

Nanase stated that Adrian was her mom's least favorite teacher, either it's due to her not wanting to take magic seriously, or because she also blames Adrian for Noriko abandoning Tedd, or probably both. Maybe she gave Adrian an earful when Edward and Noriko split up. Exactly. And I don't think it was experience Adrian would like to repeat, not speaking about possibility of worse threats she already made.

I don't think he's scrapping the EGS After Dark plan, he's already stated that he wouldn't be producing more risque stuff right away just because the patreon was flagged 18+, it was just a matter of not having that worry about people finding something he does as "too risque" affecting how he draws, which might leads to more risque stuff eventually. I'm inclined to just let him go at his own pace. Sure. I know what happened last time Dan was drawing something he didn't wanted too ... Sarah in bikini. Her head looks like photoshoped on the body. So definitely let him go at his own pace ... and just hope it will be fast enough. This was mostly reacting to his tweets complaining you don't need to login to twitter to see sensitive images on it. Well, I don't have twitter login and would prefer to not need to create one.

Oooh! Tell me about their cultural influences! What works of art have they produced, and how have they shaped their successors? I'm sure you can come up with examples. I suppose you don't count someone as athlete until he won at least country-wide race. ... if they were so lucky to not be send to frontline.

The story seems pretty obvious ... well, at least the start of story.

You are still not getting it. That research was made by German researchers from German universities that had grown from centuries of German culture. And all of it had been co-opted by the Nazis. I will give you this challenge: point to even ONE actual cultural achievement produced by Nazi 'culture'. ONE. It can not be done. There is NOTHING in the Nazi movement that was not stolen from elsewhere. I'm not THAT well versed in Nazis to think my inability to respond to this says anything about Nazi. That really depends on how you look at it. The Crusades killed an AWFUL lot of people and sometimes they were butchered in what you might call a ritualised manner. 'Deus Vult' was used to justify a LOT of killing. But yeah, they were pretty damn efficient at it. Justify, yes. But they streamlined it. Instead of coming to person, saying "Deus vult" (which is already very short) and killing him, they just cryed "Deus Vult" on start of battle and then didn't bothered with God until after the battle. Also, ANY crusader could done it, there was no need to high priest. Pssst. Let me tell you a secret. Wikipedia is not actually the be all end all of all knowledge. It is just a knowledge repository being vigorously and constantly edited by a lot of fallible human beings who sometimes have trouble agreeing on the exact direction from where the Sun will rise the next day. Or in other words, I can live with being in conflict with Wikipedia. When I am, it is not necessarily me who is wrong. For that matter, it is not even certain that Wikipedia is being used correctly. Let me tell you another secret: this discussion is not worth to actually look for any other dictionary for me. Wikipedia is good enough. Hm. That is a matter of definition. I'm sure I already mentioned that there is no single exact definition of culture. No, they were small cultures. Still counted as culture. ... this reminds me some replies I get from boss. Difference is, I don't fear to point out the answer is inadequate Nazism was not just about fear and hate. There were important components but not everything. And sure, lot of the rest was copied, but most of renaissance was copied as well ; you can get something new just from what you choose to copy. I really don't think I'd go so far to call Nazis (or any of the other groups in question) "cultures", but I could see how someone else might. As hkmaly says, there are a lot of different definitions for culture - and some of them are pretty broad. In fact, the term is even sometimes used for the transfer of information between individuals and generations through non-instinctual means in non-human animals (for instance, different bands of Chimpanzees have learned different ways to make and use tools, and as a result some primatologists consider these bands to have different cultures). Yes. The term "primitive" itself is often used in a subjective and judgmental manner; it might be possible to compare how advanced one society's technology is, or how complicated their system of government is, but I don't think it's a good idea to call an entire culture/civilization "primitive" without further clarification. So to rephrase your statement, barbarians are people whom the people who called them barbarians consider to be more primitive than (and thus inferior to) them. True, especially considering some specific cases of who was called barbarian ... it wasn't always fair (like in case of Persians). On the other hand, the "typical" barbarians - Germans, Celts, Gauls ... - compared to Ancient Rome before the fall started were more primitive in almost all senses. (It starts to be debatable during the fall, when decadence went up and economy down in Rome ...) I've always hated starting in the middle of a story; usually when it comes to webcomics I hit the "first comic" button without even reading the latest comic (though I'll sometimes glance at the "about this comic" page if there is one). Of course, if a comic with a large archive doesn't have a promising beginning I'm not going to spend too much time reading it to find out if it gets better; I've probably missed out on some good comics this way but I'm okay with that - it's not like I have to read all the good comics out there. Well, I don't. And there are lot of comics without any story to speak of. So I usually look at few pages around the one I was refereed to (or last one if I was refereed to whole comics) to see if it's enough story-driven to require looking at beginning. Basically, I'm not in "reading the story" mode yet ; I'm in "decide if it's worth reading" mode. There are comics which I follow for long time without finishing reading archive, but I DID at least read the beginning of them AND I'm taking advantage of them consisting of multiple semi-independent stories ("books") ... for most, I either do the archive reading eventually or decide they are not worth following and stop reading them ... or postpone them to later. It was actually a backup of my entire hard drive; unfortunately I hadn't been keeping up with backing things up regularly. (At the time I just kept track of webcomics via bookmark; these days I have a list in a text document, though most of the list is comics I've heard of that sound interesting that I've never gotten around to check out.) I know there were at least a few comics that I didn't loose the links to due to my finding them prior to my last backup, but many of these I'd either lost interest in or were no longer being updated. Oh, I understand that. There are things I set up to be backed up automatically. Then there are things which I occasionally remember to back up. I have no things backed up regularly without being fully automatic ... (Also, I really hope having everything important on RAID 1 will protect me from problems ...)

Looking at some images, they seem to have shoes, in some cases quite good. Or what you are talking about?

Actually, she likely DID noticed Nanase, she just didn't considered her important enough to say something about her until she observed Ellen doing something which shown Nanase knows her. But, generally, yes: she has remarkable perception, but still some blind spots caused by not focusing on, for example, Lucy. She thinks she knows her, which prevents her from realizing she doesn't know her as well as she thinks. BTW, the "reasons I know you'll appreciate" is probably her height problem, not being lesbian, right?

Wouldn't dare? You have to fear to dare, and Adrian has never shown fear for himself, only for others. We never saw him together with Mrs. Kitsune, did we?

Please do not be ridiculous. It requires neither culture nor any particular kind of brains to use technology. Any murderer can pick up and use a gun. This does not make him a culture. ... ok, using technology is not that hard. But technology which got humans on moon is based on Nazi research. Certainly. It is merely a ritualised form of the same sort of genocide most European countries have committed all over the planet. Unfortunately for the Aztecs they failed when confronted with the Spanish, who turned out to be much better at genocide than they were. I don't think Christians, or specifically Spanish conquistadors, ever used human sacrifice. (Although Joan of Arc might object to that.) They just killed those people. It might actually be one of reasons they were better at it - without the ritual, killing is faster. That depends entirely on your use of the word. And there is indeed such a thing as peoples without a civilisation. 'Civilised' means 'citified', and again, that is the basis of culture. Once you have a sufficiently large and stable civilisation, culture -- a way of living -- can begin to develop on a large basis. The "city" included in civilization is city in broad sense - bigger village would suffice. Even then, you are already in conflict with definitions from wikipedia. First civilizations and first cities appeared few thousand years BC ... but we already talk about culture hundreds of thousand years ago. Ok, claim that Nazis and Daesh stole their culture would be harder to dispute. Nazis definitely stole lot of things, including swastika ... however they at least attempted to make their own art. ... Daesh, meanwhile, is not exactly known for art ... except destruction of.

Actually they can't. Pretty much by definition. Culture requires civilisation. So does technology. But both Nazi and Daesh demonstratively did used technology. Then we have Aztec culture, which includes barbaric stuff like human sacrifice ... Barbarians are not people without civilization. They are people who have more primitive civilization than those who called them barbarians.

I can imagine what it must be like to jump into the middle of a webcomic, having jumped into the middle of plenty of dead-tree comics in my teens... But I really can't imagine choosing to not start at the beginning of a series when one has the option to do so. (Well, unless I learn ahead of time the series is not in chronological order; I have a tendency to value in-story chronology more than publishing order.) I mean if it worked for you, great, it's just not something I can picture myself ever doing. When it's possible to get context for scene just by looking few pages back and forth ... but, obviously, reading the start is next thing I do when I start caring. It's not like I have enough time to read all webcomics I land on ... and when the start has considerably lower quality ... I'm lucky I never got such experience. Actually, I always had the option to use school computers, until I finished school, at which point I already had two computers at home, so ... What did you use the backup for if not list of webcomics? (I have list of webcomics I read in database. Synced between three computers every day. Not that I'm adding new comics so often, the database also includes last page I read. RSS is great help in following comics with irregular schedule.) False. That is propaganda. Religious extremists do not for a culture make anymore than murderers do. If you do a minimal bit of research you will find many Muslims who CONDEMNED this attack. DAESH, like the Nazis, are not a culture. They are a manifestation of barbarism. I'm pretty sure saying all Muslims are single culture is not only false, but very insensitive. Also, it's something DAESH is claiming in attempt to turn the situation into fight between all Muslims and all Christians (who, by the way, are not homogeneous either). On the other hand, there is no exact single definition of culture ... I just think you are incorrect in taking "can't be manifestation of barbarism as well" as axiom. Even barbars can have culture.

If it is culture against culture in an organised manner, this is usually referred to as warfare, not murder. Of course the point is still moot because war is not really a culture, either. If it is a single person of a culture on a lone crusade against another culture, some might consider it to be murder and others a vendetta. At that point we are getting into semantics. But again it is a moot point for the same reason as above. A vendetta isn't a culture, either. Note that I didn't read the linked article, so I'm reacting just to your reaction. And I know about at least one current culture which seem to be quite ok with murder of people from other cultures. Including some people in offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper ... However, if your point is that murder is not culture by itself, then ok, I agree with that. Less sure about war. I started reading because I heard there were "transgender transformations" in it (this was long before any characters were revealed to be trans, of course); Sister and Grace's Birthday Party did not disappoint on that account. (If I had known that it would eventually deal with real-life trans issues that would have been even more of a selling point.) The furry transformations were also a highlight of my archive binge (I'm pretty sure I was unaware of that aspect of the comic when I started reading, so it came as a pleasant surprise). Also started reading Grace's Birthday Party ... and didn't bothered to read whole archive until year later. I don't remember my exact motivation back then, but I guess it took both Grace the part space alien and Nanase getting spells like character from videogame to get me hooked. Obviously NOW it's mainly attachment to the characters. (And, frankly, if I would read for the space alien aspect I would probably be disappointed for long time - say, until the page with Uryuoms having magic ; Grace being part space alien was not really used for long time ... on the other hand, the amount of magic went seriously up). BTW I would likely still read all or most webcomics I read back then ... of course, many of them ended meanwhile. But EGS became one of only two webcomics worth searching for discussion - I mean, I comment many webcomics, but most of them have comments just under page and if they wouldn't I would not bother searching for it.