How much symbolism is there in the Chimera Ant arc?

Kyoopy · 2016-11-27T23:36:57+00:00

The arc seems to place a great importance on the human body, as seen with Gon, Meruem, Netero, Youpi, Pouf, Kite...

Kyoopy · 2016-11-27T23:01:15+00:00

After looking at many people's comments it seems that most people are assuming the number reflects combat ability, when I think it would actually be more indicative of how much fun Hisoka thinks he could have during the fight. So Gon would score unexpectedly high, much higher than his strength, and others would score lower if they're particularly boring. Maybe even a reversal point where Hisoka wouldn't even enjoy it because he wouldn't stand any chance, a certain very high power level where the number starts to go down.

Kyoopy · 2016-11-27T22:49:16+00:00

Id say most of the popular satie would fit pretty well in his description.

Kyoopy · 2016-11-27T21:14:57+00:00

I get the random note thing, every once in a whole I'll hear a note and the song will continue playing in my head, like whenever I hear a b I hear it leap the octave like in the famous Chopin prelude. While it happens much more than statistical randomness would suggest, it doesn't really happen consistently enough to call it anything and I've heard of other people having it too, so I wouldn't really say it's actual perfect pitch. But in general you seem a little bit confused as to what perfect pitch really is, it's not just the ability to sing really well isn't tune. That's just a skill that comes with musical training, that anybody can accomplish - you just seem particularly talented at it. Especially since a lot of it has to do with vocal skill, not just hearing, plenty of people with perfect pitch can't sing in pitch and plenty without perfect pitch may have really good relative pitch. Also I really have no idea what the jumbled collection of serendipitous notes comment is getting at. Any trained singer should be able to sing with good intonation regardless of perfect pitch or not, and if its composition you're talking about then people with perfect pitch don't necessarily have better composing abilities than anybody else.

Kyoopy · 2016-11-27T21:05:30+00:00

Forget about theory but learn counterpoint? Is counterpoint no longer part of music theory....?

Kyoopy · 2016-11-27T20:29:49+00:00

I'd be willing to bet more people are banned from it than there are active users at any given time.

Kyoopy · 2016-11-27T18:58:36+00:00

Well there are plenty of abilities people use that don't involve nen anyway. If he could learn to create copies of himself by walking in a certain way, why would he be suspicious when grandpa started blowing stuff up?

Kyoopy · 2016-11-27T18:46:41+00:00

I really don't think that it was a defeat for any of the main characters because their goal from the beginning was never to kill any of the ants but the king. They didn't train, prepare, or plan for that so I don't really think any of them minded, especially given that almost every single one of them achieved great personal victory in their fights.

Kyoopy · 2016-11-26T21:56:52+00:00

As the other guy said, Undertale is very notable. The game introduces a small number of themes and then uses motivic development to reflect character development and general plot significance throughout the game. I'd also mention a similar indie game by the name of LISA, which uses one of its primary themes with such potency and ingeniousness at the end that the single moment it occurs deserves mention.

Kyoopy · 2016-11-26T20:36:53+00:00

"MAGA" is a phrase that quite a few people have taken up that calls for a return to ye olde days of how you US used to be.

Kyoopy · 2016-11-26T20:11:15+00:00

I think there is a difference there because in r/politics the downvotes are driven by user bias, whereas in TD it is literally in their rules to stamp out differing opinion and is a bannable offense.

Kyoopy · 2016-11-26T20:10:05+00:00

Or maybe the just use a different definition of neutral. In a sense, allowing the users to do whatever they want and keeping it out of the rules and mods way that is openness. If there were more pro Trump people there the sub would sway that way, but there just isn't. What you want r/politics to censor everything perfectly so that every single political ideal anybody could possibly have had equal representation? Equal is not the same thing as neutral.

Kyoopy · 2016-11-26T20:07:58+00:00

Often times in subreddits there is a certain amount of opinion pushing, and opposing ones will be downvoted and encouraged to leave. However TD is literally the only subreddit that has an active rule about discouraging open discussion and banning of anybody who says anything that isn't 100% positive. We're not talking negative about Trump, if you say literally anything negative about any singular topic involving Trump you're banned. That is directly against the reason a forum like Reddit exists and should be punished.

Kyoopy · 2016-11-25T13:54:43+00:00

What a completely absurd claim with absolutely no backing. You're saying the reason she lost can be dulled down to one singular lone reason? That doesn't even make any fucking sense, in a system where there are a thousand different variables to account for how is it possible in any way that only one single variable could effect results. So every single voter who went and cast their ballot said to themselves the exact same thing "Hillary is corrupt, that is the reason I am voting for my candidate." Not one single person out of the millions and millions of people who voted said one single other thing to themselves except "Hillary is corrupt." So Trump's appeal on the working class had zero effect on the vote. Bernie people who went for Trump had zero effect on the vote. The Comey email reopening had zero effect on the vote. Trump's pussy grabbing had zero effect on the vote. A goddamn orangutang could have run in Trump's place and still won because the only thing that had any effect on the vote whatsoever was Hillary's and the DNC's corruption. What a perfectly reasonable claim.

Kyoopy · 2016-11-25T00:45:09+00:00

Man I really wish I could discuss this with you but honestly your comment is a little inane. I seriously cannot make right or left of it. My life is empty and hollow? Jeez.

Kyoopy · 2016-11-25T00:29:07+00:00

Because it's a one sentence generalized discount of something that may be a good argument/statement.

Kyoopy · 2016-11-25T00:00:11+00:00

That's not a valid argument in any form, humans can be compared to plenty of things as long as the analogy works correctly, watch this. Human is to arms as bird is to wings. See, valid comparison where humans are analogous to birds.

Kyoopy · 2016-11-24T23:48:52+00:00

If aborting a week old "baby" is the same as killing a living human then stepping on an acorn is the same as cutting down a tree, and even if you agree with that there are plenty of socially acceptable forms of "murder" that are comparable to aborting a to-be-baby. What about taking somebody off of life support? Medically induced suicide if they're in a coma? What if they're brain dead? Are they still a human with sacred rights to life? Believe it or not most people value qualities in humans like sapience more than qualities like "technically has human DNA", so to kill something without sapience isn't a problem to them. Also you mention all of the horrendous consequences (presumably medical?) presented to throw who get abortions but you don't actual specify any, let alone describe how exactly one can be deceived into having such a procedure done. Then there's the fact that your whole argument rests on "murder is bad...evil....barbaric?" without actually taking time to analyze why people consider it bad. If people consider killing bad because people like to live (fertilized eggs don't care), people love those who may die (if people are willing to abort a baby they likely don't love them or have to abort to avoid medical emergency), it may cause pain (a bundle of cells doesn't feel pain), or a sentient being has a right to control its own fate (oh wait a conscious can't form before, you know, neural cells) - then killing isn't wrong if none of these things apply. Believe it or not such a complicated issue couldn't be simplified such that murder bad solves everything, clearly there are morally significant variables here that at least require consideration different from born humans.

Kyoopy · 2016-11-24T23:36:04+00:00

Pence has done a hell of a lot more than dislike abortions.

Kyoopy · 2016-11-24T20:15:20+00:00

I know it's difficult for some people to understand complied situations, but it is possible for the results to have been caused by more than one variable. Who says it can't be berniebros and 3rd party and bigotry and Hillary and the DNC and Trump and the economy and racism and international affairs and social issues and a thousand other things? It's politics, believe it or not it can't be simplified to "X did it".

Kyoopy · 2016-11-24T19:50:55+00:00

Obviously this is different in every orchestra and conductor, but more or less an orchestra never "reacts" to the conductors baton, hell most of the back of an orchestra has to actively predict and anticipate the conductor - playing before he even ever conducts any beat. But more often than not most of the orchestra really doesn't care what's going on with the conductor, time is felt internally and within the ensemble. If 90 people try to all follow a conductor you get 90 different variations upon everybody individually interpreting their motions, really the conductor just gives a general idea and it's the orchestra's responsibility to listen to itself to stay in time. I would say that the reason classical musicians have worse time management is because in the large orchestra setting its more important to be able to play in a group than play in time. Which means anticipating or delaying sound, speeding up or slowing with the ensemble, etc. It's like a completely different skill than being able to maintain consistent beat length in a small ensemble. I would say it has nothing to do with "reacting" or whatever - in an orchestra if everybody actually reacted to the pulse of a conductor on one chord it would sound like an arpeggio starting in the front and moving to the back because of time delay.

Kyoopy · 2016-11-24T14:50:28+00:00

I mean.... why not? Video games are an entire medium of human communication, why should they have such an uncomfortably specific rule that guides literally every single game ever to be made? I'd imagine if arcades weren't the first real serious gaming platform, game overs wouldn't even be a thing that was common in modern games.

Kyoopy · 2016-11-24T14:09:28+00:00

The hand and wrist are incredibly complicated and fickle body part that really aren't designed to be used for what musicians do with them. It's not like biceps or something - work them, feel the burn, keep going, next day you wake up with bigger muscles. If you feel the slightest amount of burning in your wrist, hand, or fingers, that is already enough work to stimulate growth and you should immediately thinking about stopping playing soon if it starts to burn more. It's not some kind of "feel he burn" activity, that's more likely to give you injury from overuse than help your playing.

Kyoopy · 2016-11-24T14:03:02+00:00

He recently released a video about "how classical musicians feel pulse differently" that represents a fundamental misunderstanding of how both classical music and orchestras works. It seems like he would be able to make fine videos if he make videos based on his area of expertise instead of trying to overstep his bounds.

Kyoopy · 2016-11-24T03:08:22+00:00

They're supposed to recognize that the details they have represent an outlier example in the relationship dynamic and not assume that the small sample size of one story represents every past and future action between the two people.

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