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  • edited 2013-01-03 22:37:33
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  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I don't know what I want to minor in

    I'm not even sure what I want to major in

    People keep saying I should go for traffic engineering but I feel like I'd be more suited to a creative field. But at the same time, I don't know if I have what it takes to "make it" in a creative field.

    On an unrelated note, I want sweets.
  • edited 2013-01-03 22:37:54
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch

    if I could minor in CS you can too


    Perhaps, but I would have to attend a university that offered undergraduate degrees with a major-minor course structure, which as far as I know doesn't exist anywhere in the UK.

    I am studying English with Creative Writing as a single, modular subject, and no other subjects.
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    a8 said:

    Perhaps, but I would have to attend a university that offered undergraduate degrees with a major-minor undergraduate structure, which as far as I know doesn't exist anywhere in the UK.

    I am studying English with Creative Writing as a single, modular subject, and no other subjects.

    oh

    well damn, from that description it seems rather limiting
  • edited 2013-01-03 22:38:41
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  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Well I'd like to see a FAQ, but then of course I would, being an egotistical creature.

    I'm going to change the 10-hit boss since nobody likes it. I'll find a way
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    That's what I mean. It looks cool but it takes too many hits for a first stage boss.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Oh I did beat Birdo btw.

    Then I got to the boss and died without landing a single hit, went to the house for a mushroom and had to start the level over and was like, OK, not right now.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Birdetta, you mean.
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    Right, Birdetta, of course.
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    Thanks Cream!

    I dunno about elsewhere, but in my continuity Birdo is definitely transgendered and now goes by Birdetta.
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    Does Birdo have a boyfriend in your continuity
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    Cream said:

    I thought canon Birdo was a trans-female anyway, and that this is a fact that Nintendo of America hides?


    Seemingly, yes

    Same thing with Vivian from TTYD
  • Not a hybrid rabbit-skink spirit
    Birdetta/Yoshi is a hideously cute ship
  • edited 2013-01-03 22:51:22
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    Yeah, I did read the dialogue, I just forgot.

    IIRC the ambiguity surrounding Birdo's gender started as a joke in the American manual for SMB2, and then some games ran with it and others didn't.  In Japan, she is Catherine, and was always female.

    So not quite the same situation as with Vivian.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

    Birdetta/Yoshi is a hideously cute ship


    Ain't that the truth

    If the eight billion Mario spinoffs have added anything to the franchise it's this ship
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    if Birdo is really a male then what's with the eggs
  • I think in Birdo's case it was more a matter of "lol transpeople" and that was why it was removed in the US version, but I might be mistaken.
  • edited 2013-01-03 22:53:59
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    No, the "lol transpeople" thing was actually added by the US manual.  I'm sure it's not in the Japanese version.
  • edited 2013-01-03 22:58:12
    READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    A minor means you can program at a basic level, you could probably find some job that would have you, but you wouldn't be able to do anything too fancy.

    A major means you actually get a bachelors and the college gives you a Diploma and you're going to have the basics down plus some specialization and will have a better chance of landing a higher paying job. 

    Basically the equivalent to completing "Uni" in programming. I don't think you guys really do minors, but you can minor in basically anything. 
  • a8 said:

    No, the "lol transpeople" thing was actually added by the US manual.  I'm sure it's not in the Japanese version.

    Oh. That's kind of dumb.
  • edited 2013-01-03 22:58:03
    READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    Also, I have a bachelors in C.S.in-case there was any confusion. 
  • edited 2013-01-03 22:58:18
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  • Unrelated:

    Why is it that every movie or show that deals with dinosaurs has to end with the meteor? It’d be like if every movie about the second millennium had to end with Ronald Reagan being elected president.
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    The "lol transpeople" thing strikes me as insensitive but I still think that Birdo is cuter trans

    Is this bad
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    Kexruct said:

    Unrelated:

    Why is it that every movie or show that deals with dinosaurs has to end with the meteor? It’d be like if every movie about the second millennium had to end with Ronald Reagan being elected president.

    The Land Before Time. We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story.

    They don't.
  • edited 2013-01-03 23:00:17
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    Justice42 said:

    A minor means you can program at a basic level, you could probably find some job that would have you, but you wouldn't be able to do anything too fancy.


    A major means you actually get a Bacherlors and the college gives you a Diploma and you're going to have the basics down plus some specialization and will have a better chance of landing a higher paying job. 

    Basically the equivalent to completing "Uni" in programming. I don't think you guys really do minors, but you can minor in basically anything. 
    I actually know what a minor is and was just being a dick for the hell of it, but this is a nice explanation of what it entails in practice, so thanks.
    Kexruct said:

    Oh. That's kind of dumb.


    Yeah. Wikipedia confirms that Catherine (her Japanese name) was originally female and no suggestion was made of her being male or transgendered. Subsequent games seem to be treating it as ambiguous.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Anonus said:

    Does Birdo have a boyfriend in your continuity

    I.......haven't thought it out that far
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Anonus likes transgenderism, eh~

    <3
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    Vivian isn't really equal. She spends the first half of TTYD being bullied by Beldam and before Mario came along she never had any friends. After they get over her being an ex-Shadow Siren she does get along with the rest of Mario's party...
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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    Cream said:

     I doubt there is quite as much stigma attached to it in Japanese media, but maybe I am wrong.

    Actually Japan treats TG and TS folks like fucking shit.  Birdo's status was probably a completely innocent jab at humor especially given the time, but if you want to see something that makes your blood boil, go read up on Poison from Final Fight. 
  • Not a hybrid rabbit-skink spirit
    Oh god, Poison.

    Jesus christ poison
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    If I'm reading this right, Vivian in the Japanese version is simply a boy who looks like a girl, but in the Italian translation she is transgendered.
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    Poison's first appearance in Final Fight featured her and a palette swap character named Roxy as recurring minor enemies for the player to fight. Named after the band by an unnamed female employee at Capcom,[6] she was designed by Akira Yasuda to contrast against the bigger characters in the game and move about randomly.[7] According to the book All About Capcom Head to Head Fighting Games, the characters were originally planned to be female, but were changed to transvestites (or more specifically "newhalfs")[8] due to the suggestion that "hitting women was considered rude" in America and the concern that feminist groups would sue.[6][9]
    Certain irony here...
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    Sure, seems official enough.
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    Ubuntu is nice to look at

    I considered using it as ABC Lionsgate's corporate typeface but I didn't implement it very thoroughly and I dropped it when the name reverted to ABC Inc.
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