I was about to answer your digressive reply with some discussion about the eyewitness accounts of the quoted historical source (Yeshua bar Yosef) and misinformed impressions of the Christian religion and its teachings, when my experience with darker forums like 4chan warned me of what they called "shitposting" from…

I dunno, I didn't bring in anything sexually deviant at all in our friendly discussion. You on the other hand, have mentioned in it almost all your comments. Seems like that demonstrates my point perfectly, and also reminds me of a particular passage from the Bible.

See what I mean?

No idea; found it off deviantart. No one in the comments there thought so too. You see what your mind is full of, I suppose.

Well. There goes my Sasuke X Hinata and Naruto x Sakura OTP. Guess it'll go back to being headcanon then.

And I thought I was bad with an alcohol allergy...

My professor basically taught that Irving wrote this as a Manly vs Unmanly type of story, with poor Crane being the one with all the unmanly traits (bookish, spends time with women, etc) and Van Brunt being the hero jock, with some US vs British elements thrown in somewhere even.

What? I'm just empathizing with you. How in the hell did you take it like I was treating you like a kid?

Now I think about it, that might be why some of her examples are pure rubbish. She might have just stolen them from the trope page, and not read the books in its entirety or context at all.

I'll just tell you this: the writer's opinions, as badly written as they are, are strictly her own. You don't have to share it, and looking at the money these fantasy authors are making from their fanbase, the larger fantasy fanbase may not share it entirely too. It may seem tired or boring to this writer, but someone…

Thank you for explaining the Codex Alera thing. Like I mentioned somewhere with regards to the Swords of the Cross in the Dresden Files, this writer seems to just toss out so-called examples to nitpick at without actually considering the context the books are set in; it's like she didn't even read the damn books at…

Thank you! Seriously, some of the utter bullocks that this writer says makes me question whether she'd actually read the books and considered some of the others in their context.

...So only Japanese games are screwed up?

You have a 660m too?

I was at a reading where the author of this book was reading from one of his newer books. The man is amazing.

Sure, but Batman is a far larger, far bigger franchise than Avatar is. It has the money and power to remain culturally relevant until humanity dies out. How many years had to pass before the Arkham series appeared? Avatar on the other end, is going to end after this season is over. I doubt it will have the sort of…

They did?! Jeez, I was cursing and swearing at the manga ending. What the hell was that?

Well, I guess my laptop and its GeForce 660m is going to repose en pax trying to run this.

This has got to be the dumbest way of disagreement I've ever seen. Not only does it shine badly on the opposite point of view, but it also makes the victim of the threat a martyr, which just makes them seem even more right, even if they're actually wrong.

Some of us had to. As a kid, I was the lowest down among my four best friends on the totem pole, so I got stuck with Bulbasaur while someone else got my favorite, Charmander, out of the four starters (including Squirtle and Pikachu).