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[AresKeith]

If he is indeed BabyPuncher, then his smiting isn't going so well.

 

He's trying to keep a low profile I guess lol

[Seboist]

Can you guys provide more links to his best moments?

 

I have some screens that I saved.

 

 

 

 

[General TSAR]

My thanks.

 

I knew he was an egotistical pinhead but wow, this is how legends are born.

[Seboist]

Him saying that the NCR and House in New Vegas have no reason to fight each other was one of the dumbest things I've ever heard on this forum. Barring the crazyness of the ITers, hardly anything compares or surpasses it.

[Steelcan]

WE ARE BUT MAGGOTS WRITHING IN THE FILTH OF OUR OWN CORRUPTION UNHEROISM, YOU ALONE HAVE ASCENDED!

[KingTony]

[TheChris92]

So he was Bob from Accounting too? Guess he met the same fate as Bill -- Being killed by a children's trading card.

[teh DRUMPf!!]

 This thread is life.

[Cainhurst Crow]

I remember the one time I actually tried to talk to him about heroism, and the different ways a person is a hero. That being a hero wasn't about the glory or the accolades, but doing the right thing, even if it doesn't reward you. Brought up Jamie from game of thrones killing the mad king, arguably saving thousands of lives in the process, and being branded a dishonorable man for it. Other examples as well involving self-sacrifice, less honorable heroes like Han Solo or Jack Sparrow or hell, even Renegade Shepard when they weren't being a racist, raging chode. Basically that a heroes path wasn't easy, or rewarding, or clearly defined in blacks and whites, or even meaningful in some ways, but that it was the right thing to do in the end, and that sometimes thats enough.

 

I can't remember if he called me an idiot or a simpleton, but either way he said my way of thinking was why society, and mass effect fans, were ruined.

[themikefest]

David7204 aka Bob from Accounting and currently BabyPuncher

[DeathScepter]

David's inner harmony is with the universal balance that makes him the true Hero. So because of that whatever he say is true and right and moral for it is with the Universal Balance and we can't truly argue with him for he is our better, a paragon of our kind. All Hail Mighty David

[RZIBARA]

I miss our saviour

[SwobyJ]

Listen to yourselves - you're indoctrinated.

[Cainhurst Crow]

Again, you're conflating realism with the mundane. Some murders are intriguing, have complex motives and are never solved. Some wars are started over assassination plots, the desire to take over the world, or purely ideological reasons. That most things are boring and predictable does not mean that boring and predictable things are the only realistic things.

Which is precisely the reason why stories like ASOIAF and its ilk move away from 'realism' and 'maturity' and further towards pretend land.
 
Heroic stories, triumphant stories, traditional stories - whatever you want to call them - respect that. Because they're only concerned with talking about the hero. There's only one Shepard. One. Just one, in a universe of trillions. The story isn't concerned with the successes and failures and morality of however many billions of soldiers in the galaxy they are. Just with one. They respect that such characters are the exception to the rule.
 
ASOIAF is the exact opposite.
 
It's not concerned with talking about one person. One character. It has to concern itself with everybody. There are no moral, competent, powerful, successful, uncompromising characters in the story. Not one. There can't be - they would quickly ruin the desired setting. Everybody has to play 'the Game.' Everybody has to stab each other. It's all-encompassing.

This has nothing to do with anything. You're just rambling.
 

You've clearly never read the books. There are and have been a number of morally unflappable characters that refuse to play the game. Sometimes they end up dead or otherwise dealt with by morally ambiguous characters who do play the game, but that's entirely realistic. The morally ambiguous bad guys who know how to manipulate key players do usually win in the real world. Mansanto got their government-backed Protection Act. BP didn't actually have to clean up the Gulf. The TPP will go through and make billionaires even richer at the expense of American manufacturing. Etc. That's realism.
And having multiple perspectives has nothing to do with realism. I'm really not sure why you think it does.

 
If you look on the last page, you'll note the part where I explicitly mentioned readers packing away their pretend convictions once the story is over to whimper about all the meanies and bullies of the world?
 
Ding ding ding!
 
It's The Game, brah. You gotta play The Game. You gotta be pragmatic and play The Game to get ahead. Do you even play The Game, brah?

  

Well, I'm just saying you seem a little upset, don't you? You seem mad. About the big meany corporations hurting the good ol' American people? And hurting yourself, of course? I mean, I would think you would be happy about such a thing. Aren't you happy for those corporations playing 'the Game' to get ahead? That's how things works, don't they?
 
Do those things upset you?
 
For the record, it really has nothing to do with perspectives. There are heroic stories with more than one perspective as well. The point kinda flew over your head there. And it should be obvious why some stories focusing only a single person or small group of people instead of a entire society or an entire world makes a huge difference.

 
 
Oh my ****** god it really is him.

[Fast Jimmy]

Oh my ****** god it really is him.

What is dead may never die.

[X Equestris]

What is dead may never die.

But rises again, harder and stronger.

That's a terrifying thought right there. We have no need of a stronger David.

[DeathScepter]

Listen to yourselves - you're indoctrinated.

well I am just messing around. but there are modified Indoctrination boosters in this thread for David, supposedly the greatest paragon and hero of our day. as a member of Cerberus, I have an implant inside of my head that prevents Indoctrination by Reapers or by David.

[X Equestris]

Are you guys doing innuendo?

Game of Thrones reference.

Though when you put it in that context, it does look weird.

[Billy-the-Squid]

  
 
 
Oh my ****** god it really is him.

 

 Our Lord and saviour has returned! He has brought the light of heroism to illuminate the darkness of our heathen ways.