Tintoh:

>If Akane honestly told Ryoga that she didn't have feelings for him 
after
>he told her how he felt, even he couldn't find an excuse to blame Ranma
>for that.  

I don't know about that. Blaming Ranma is pretty much the crux of his 
exixtance.

<thing happens>
Ryouga: Curse you, Ranma Saotome! Thing is all your fault!

>Especially since he already does have some inkling of how she
>feels about Ranma that he tries to deny.  She'd say "blah blah I-I 
>love Ranma".  Then he'd run away witha tear in his eye, never to 
>return cuz he'd be intercepted by Ukyo and they'd live happily ever 
>after.  The last thing on his mind would be getting revenge on Ranma.  
Unfortunately Ukyou wouldn't do anything of the sort because she and 
Ryouga have no romantic feelings towards one another (hiya, COURT! :-) 
so he'd continue to hate Ranma and blame him for ruining his life.

>Akane has priority.
>He drilled her name into a boulder fer crying out loud when he was
>supposed to be focused on a climactic duel with his arch rival!
>The lovesick doof!

Don't get me wrong; I feel sorry for Ryouga. Really. And I do actually 
like the character, he's cool. I merely side with Ranma and find Ryouga 
to be a bit pathetic in his blaming Ranma for everything (and taking the 
cowards way in fights and spending his life foiling everything Ranma 
does and...)

>If you make one more Red Dwarf reference I don't understand I will be
>forced to put the "big hurt" on you!  

You watch those Big Hurts, Tintoh! Oh sure, you're thinking "Hey, I'm 
not addicted, I can quit whenever I want!" Yeah sure, that's what you 
*think*, but one day someone's gonna die because of your addiction and 
your life's gonna go down the tubes, my friend.

>All I know is Benji sent me a
>picture of a guy wearing a pigtailed blond wig! And she constantly
>tortures me with Red Dwarf references!  I can't work under these
>conditions I tell you!

Red Dwarf is simply one of the funniest things anyone has ever come up 
with, ever. In the same way that only an American could've come up with 
Clerks, well only the Brits could've come up with Red Dwarf.

Season 1 and 2 were warm up, season 3 and 4 were the best, season 5 was 
*hard*, season six was *concept*, season 7 was *crap* (they lost half 
the writing team and Rimmer quit) but from what I hear Doug Naylor are 
back together and Chris Barrie has stopped being an anal dork over in 
the Brittas Empire and has decided to be an anal dork in Red Dwarf 
again!

And there was much rejoicing.

>Whether he thinks of himself as a hero or not, he IS the hero of the
>story.  His cons aren't bad enough to classify him into the anti-hero
>class of literary character(my personal fave Anti-Hero being *ahem*
>Deadpool).

I loved Marvel's response to DC's 'Big Head Month', when all the DC 
comics had the covers as a big picture of the lead character's head. 
Marvel had one of Deadpool, and he's saying "Hey. It's my head." Totally 
deadpan, totally Deadpool, totally wicked. ^_^

>But they all chase after him nonetheless.  Why?  Cuz every lady wants 
>a piece of the main character. The hero always gets the girls.

Well throughout the length of the series Ranma only ever *got* one girl, 
and he married her first.

>Ryoga spends his days and nights training to defeat Ranma and reclaim 
>his lost honor 

Like everything else, something he blamed on Ranma. *sigh*

>What the are you talking about?!  What's a shadow lord?!  Speak "D&D" 
>damn it!

No! Shan't! Make me! ^_^
It's "Werewolf: the Apocalypse", coolest of the cool, best RPG ever IMO.

>Okay. Now I'm probably going to die a horrible flaming death.  

Ten thousand armed Sam Troopers (tm) leap out of trucks surrounding 
Hotnit and burn him to death with Ultima Flamethrowers.

>If you're talking about Star Wars being a modern mythology...

Yes, that was me!

>ugh.  

So much feeling in just one word.

>Star Wars is a very, very cool trilogy of movies.  

Darn tootin'!

>Nice characters, plot, effects, you name it.  But it is really just a 
>story of a bunch of guys saving a princess and they all go against >the 
evil king and his dark knight to save all the peasants from their 
>oppresive rule. All you need is a pumpkin, a poison apple, and a lady 
>in a lake, and you'd have all the cliche' fables throughout history 
>covered.  Of course this is just my opinion, but Indy kicks Star Wars 
>in the head.  

Ah, that common misapprehension.
<Sam walks over to the cupboard, takes out his Wanky Pretentiousness cap 
and puts it on, then walks over to Hotnit's toasty fried corpse and sits 
down>

I think you've missed the point. Star Wars was SUPPOSED to be a modern 
retelling of the classic myth. George Lucus very carefully researched 
all the classic character archtypes, plot twists and storylines in 
mythology and stories and wove them all into one. He got a lot of it 
from Joseph Cambell. (WoD players, that's the guy they talk about in the 
Mage rulebooks all the time)

>Azusa is protective and is just what insecure Ryoga would need if >Ukyo 
wasn't around.  A genuine sweetheart!  And like all great >girlfriends, 
she'd pick his clothes out for him and clean him up"real >good". Ah, 
nothing like being fawned over to raise a guy's self >image!
>
>[Azusa]:  You're so cute!
>[Ryoga]:  You r-really think so?

Yep, and then two minutes later she'd have transferred absolutely all of 
her attention to a bottle cap. Which she would name 'Katrina'.

Poor Ryouga still don't get none. -_^



Sam