User:SelfCloak/Quotes

Quotes
""The Internet has brainwashed these teenagers, to the point where that's all they talk about when they're not on it. If only this wasn't accurate...""

- YourMovieSucks, Megan is Missing review

"''"Maybe our bear needs to sit quietly, eat his berries and honey, maybe then he would just be left alone. But no. They'll always be trying to put him on a chain. As soon as they do that, they'll pull out his teeth and claws.""

- Vladimir Putin (translated), Putin's 15 years: A presidential retrospective (RT)

"Moira Brown: You know what? I think I'm turning into a Ghoul! Kyle Kallgren: You should be turning into a corpse!"

- Fallout: The Future We Choose - Between the Lines

""''[...] [H]old managers accountable for mismanagement. Any manager who leads his team into a death march has failed his employees, his superiors, and his company's investors. He has not done the job he was hired to do, which is to deploy the company's resources intelligently and profitably. We've all been to those triumphant post-ship meetings where these so-called "leaders" got big praise and a bigger bonus check as a reward for wreaking havoc on the health and personal lives of their employees. That's a perverse feedback loop, which perpetuates an abusive system. Any manager who put her team through more than a month of pre-ship crunch to get the product out the door should be getting a pink slip, not a promotion.""

- Evan Robinson, It's Not Just Abusive, It's Stupid

"''"Give a girl protection, she will be safe when you are around. Give a girl a lesson on how to protect herself, she will be safe even when you are not around. ''But women are supposed to be protected by men, so stick to the glorious Yamato Spirit and don't bother with it. -sighs-""

- dRoy, 'I must get stronger so that I can protect those I care about' trope (TV Tropes forum thread)

"''"DONT WORRY! This is the last time you will see any weeb shit in my videos. JUST KIDDING, I"M PUTTING MY WAIFUS IN ALLLLL MY VIDEOS AND IF YOU DONT LIKE IT YOU CAN SCUK MY DIIICK TILL ITS RAW""

- Video description of Flippy 's 癌癌癌 HONG KONG 97 癌癌癌 (Review)

"''"[...] [Compare the Bill Cosby rape allegations] to the Michael Jackson molestation accusations. You remember all the famous friends who came out in droves to defend Michael Jackson? Well, for one of America's most beloved entertainers, it's odd that there aren't a whole lot of people rushing to Cosby's defense. Not even those who defended him back [in a court case] in 2005.""

- EliotETC, The WORST People of 2015!

""It's like, you get to an age- like, you're a kid, and then you start growing up, and all you heroes start dropping like flies.""

- Drowninginhorseshoes, about his inability to make a tribute video to the late Ultimate Warrior, Horseshoe Review: Rainbow Falls (MLP:FiM)

"Alex (IHE): Ah, such a reductive way of looking at things is the "Oh, someone in Africa could have had that!" mentality. Ruben: Yeah, "someone in Africa could have eaten that toy." (Alex laughs)"

- Trying to Watch: Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas

""Forget those apps that help you navigate home or communicate with your significant others. They have always been worthless. Repeated failure and human dismemberment are what's important in life.""

- Jim Bonacci, on Happy Wheels's success in the IOS app store (tongue-in-cheek), Happy Wheels iOS deep thoughts

""When you have to label the President of the United States in big letters on his coat, you know something's wrong.""

- Gerald Ford: The Man No One Could Caricature

""I know this is our bad guy right now, but this Christian company apparently is like, 'We do not advocate letting Jesus actually take the wheel, please pull over if you want to use your cell phone.'""

- The Bible Reloaded, Atheists Watch "War Room"

"''"I just thought it'll be really funny if I posted a video, the title being something along the lines of "YouTube Video Award Winner - Best Vlog." I'm not saying it is. I'm saying that's the title.""

- Adam Johnston (Your Movie Sucks) in 2008, YouTube Award WINNER - Best Vlog

""I can't read your cursive. Get your shit together.""

- Black Cat (tongue-in-cheek) on SBS's on-site tagline, MAKING A RADIO SHOW

""Now, even AFI has fallen victim to modern music's addiction to reverb. 'Cover up bland songwriting! Cover uninteresting vocals! All with this magical, mystical effect!'""

- Anthony Fantano (The Needle Drop), in his review of Burials by AFI

""[T]he visual novel medium is intriguing to me both as a reader and as a writer. With music and visuals, they enhance the experience of the text significantly, sometimes astronomically, allowing us to connect more directly with the characters within.""

- Paul Blank (Maekir Vilemist), comment on Why Are Visual Novels Becoming Popular? by The Anime Man

""Her performance reminded me of Eddie Redmayne in Jupiter Ascending: a lot of slow... methodical talking... with occasional outbursts!""

- Chris Stuckmann on Emily Blunt's acting in The Huntsman: Winter's War, from his review of the film

""Welcome to the jungle, baby. We got fun and games. Actually this is a lie. We have neither of those things, nor running water or electricity. Why would anybody want to live in the jungle anyway? What an absolutely dreadful place to take residence in.""

- From Edward Elric's official state title certificate, Nullmetal Alchemist Episode 7

""I feel like I am [Childish] Gambino's therapist and the pay is just not good enough.""

- Anthony Fantano (The Needle Drop) on the lyrics of Camp by Childish Gambino, from his review

"''"It's funny to think how we listen to Yellow Submarine in kindergarten, when in reality all four of the Beatles were high as shit when they wrote it."

- Urban Dictionary on The Beatles

Web Forums
"''"I can understand the sentiment of getting upset with the overuse of the "something bad happens to a female character to motivate love interest/father/brother/friend to act" trope, but it's the freaking Killing Joke. Joker doesn't shoot Barbara because she was Batgirl, he shot her because she was Gordon's daughter. He didn't strip her and take photographs to be a perv, it was all meant to try and break the commissioner. To show Batman that the only thing that separates sanity from the Joker is one bad day.

It wasn't like she was stuffed in a fridge or the various other ways female characters have been killed over the years (Ultimate Wasp being eaten!?), and it's not like The Killing Joke was the end of the character. DC took her and remade her into Oracle, showing she could be awesome in spite of her disability to the point there are people pissed her disability was fixed in the New 52. And it allowed other female characters to replace her as Batgirl, some of which have pretty devoted followings.""

- Kamen Rider Black RX on Andrew Dobson's reaction to the Killing Joke animated adaptation, Kiwi Farms thread

""The "critics and haters just can't handle a movie that's all deep and dark and philosophical" line has got to be one of the dumbest, most desperate arguments I've ever heard. Especially after Nolan batman got virtually universal acclaim. No one hates this movie because it's different. They hate it because it's shit. No one hates it because it's all deep and philosophical. They hate it because it's giggle-inducingly incompetent at being deep and philosophical. No one hates it because it's a sprawling, operatic epic. They hate it because it's an incoherent trainwreck.""

- Tertullian, Batman V Superman’ Takes A Dive With -70% Second Weekend (NeoGaf thread)

"''"A person who discovered that she is just like everybody else and instead of accepting it, she made an autistic little club into finding things that don't exist? Sounds like a troper thing to do."

- Accel_Rider on Haruhi Suzumiya, in a Kiwi Farms thread about TV Tropes

"''"This [The SEGA Mega Classics Hub] reminds me of some of the things Sega did that helped the Genesis become big (situations where they decided to collaborate rather than fight). Sega partnered with Blockbuster to promote renting Genesis games and consoles, while Nintendo was fighting Blockbuster in court to ban or limit rentals (which allowed many Americans to tryout the console). ''EA had programmers crack the Genesis cartridge lockout in order to publish games more freely, and rather than taking EA to court, Sega negotiated with them a different licensing deal (which would lead to EA Sports games becoming system sellers for the Genesis). Nintendo spent years fighting Tengen in court when they did something similar. ''While Nintendo was mostly against videogame ratings systems and censored their games in response to political pressure, Sega was willing promote videogame ratings and created their own rating system, which eventually led to the industry standard rating system we have today."

- dim891 on SEGA Mega Classics Hub allowing custom ROMs on Steam Workshop, Reddit thread

Web Text
""Alzheimer's is the ultimate pirate, pillaging a person's life and leaving an empty landscape behind. It sweepe up entire families, forcing everyone to claw their way through overwhelming grief, confusion, helplessness, and anger. Perhaps for your comedy you would like to visit some dementia facilities. I have — I didn’t find anything comedic there, and my hope would be that if you’re a decent human being, you wouldn’t either."'"

- Patti Davis, daughter of the late Ronald Reagan, An Open Letter to Will Ferrell (via The Daily Beast)

"''"There is a fine line between musical banality and commercialization. Banality showcases the factual designation of being unoriginal and/or giving in to cultural cliche. Commercialization breaches the point in which an artist or band are, essentially, only in it for the money. They dumb down their sound – even more so than usual. They introduce big fancy producers and big-shot executives who instruct them on what is popular nowadays with the kiddies. They make their lyrics and structural compositions safe, clean-cut, and cookie-cutter to the utmost standards. From a critical standpoint, this is a band whose very essence channels the veins of generic, tepid, and uninspired musical compositions – whether or not this is channeling an older vein of professionalization or a forced version of such depends on the musical viewpoint.

Some commercialized and over-produced bands reach for the greater lengths beyond banality and neutralism. Others tend to make their musical aesthetic and computational techniques seem ultimately pointless and mundane, which blurs the lines between their forefront sound and their influential backgrounds. The greediness and cultural aim of much of today’s "popular" music sickens me to the core, and I very rarely end up reviewing any of it due to the fact that – in this point and time – commercialized pop music has extended beyond the solid longitudes of banality and is now past the point of constructive or even cultural criticism.""

- MarcelsMusicJournal, in his review of Instant Gratification by Dance Gavin Dance (via Rate Your Music)

""In an internet-centric world, an age of diminished returns where millions live their lives as if they’re dealing with undiagnosed cases of agoraphobia, Bruce Springsteen is an anachronism. Experiencing life, romance, and many of the other things he used to sing about requires disconnecting from the grid, leaving the house or your local java emporium/internet cafe, and feeling the wind in your face, the pavement under your wheels, and a swelling in your heart. You just can’t get that from MySpace or YouTube, even with a vivid imagination and enough Class 1 narcotics to stagger a Clydesdale.""

- OttoLuck, in his review of Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

"''"TVTropes exists as a site to calalouge "Tropes", which are supposedly common elements of fiction. In practice this means that they have a trope page for every possible cliché imaginable, plus several that aren’t really narrative clichés at all. So while a trope page for "Everyone Did It" is an actual trope, they also have trope pages for "Hawaiian Shirt" and "Fan Art", which are not narrative clichés. So a trope page exists for every possible thing that could happen in or appear in a piece of work ever, regardless of whether or not it is narratively relevant. So that’s what a trope is."

- Namtab (Something Awful goon), in the Foreword, Anime is the Tie that Binds Us: An Unofficial Criticism of "Mills College Anime Club"

"''"I don't know if modern-day furries even realize it, but this whole movement grew out of Disney fan art from the 1970s. Nerdy kids who loved Lady and the Tramp and Bambi and wished they could draw as well as Disney animators. They took the squirrel-mask face style, drew it poorly and stuck it on top of human proportioned bodies and then had nasty things happen.

Who ever thought this would grow into a full blown cult?""

- John K, Appealing or Unappealing?

Web Comments
"how to be a villain in berserk : 1.try to rape casca 2.done"

- Comment on KissManga, Berserk Chapter 20

"NoNameJohnson9000: I wish I was TOKiMONSTA's best friend. Most people talk about fucking but I'd love to pull an allnighter with her on Ableton Live! supercooled: And then fuck, right?"

- YouTube comments on Sounds Like...TOKiMONSTA

""I got into a discussion today with someone from an opposing politician's team, I think. I was using my script, and I think he was using a script, too. Answers from a can. It felt weird to have a futile discussion between liars. I wonder what that person really believes?""

- Reddit user, I get Paid to Chat on Reddit (/r/offmychest, Voat source)

""He'll be so Presidential, you won't believe how Presidential he can be. He'll be the most Presidential President ever. More than any Presendent before or after him. And boring. Don't forget boring. He'll be the most boring person to ever live on Earth. Nobody does boring better than him. Nobody In the Solar System. Just wait until you see how Presidential and boring he'll be.""

- A Facebook comment on Show's Over? Trump Pledges To Be 'So Presidential You Will Be So Bored', NPR Facebook post

VNs
"Rise: The reason I wander, night after night. It's because I've been searching for the right type of man. Masaya: 'The right type of man'? Rise: A man like you, Masaya-san."

- Princess Evangile

"''"Don't worry! I'll be gentle. I'll kill you slowly... so, so slowly. ''After all, I lo... ''...athe, loathe, loathe, loathe, loathe, loathe, loathe, despise, despise, despise, despise, despise, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate... ...HATE you so much that I just CAN'T STAND IT! I hate you so much that I want to slaughter you! Ahaha... ahahahahaha!""

- Ayano, Mix Ore

"Well-endowed cat girls. Sex jokes. Faceful’s of women’s underwear. Bad grammar. Truly, Sakura Spirit has a little bit of everything."

- Hardcore Gamer review.

"Kenji: So uh... how is that practical again? Kyo: What do you mean? Kenji: Well, [Rose's] armor seemed kind of- Michelle: It isn't meant to be armor. It's a type of flexible attire that can bend and morph itself to match your body's current shape. She just happened to design it after a suit of armor. Trust me, I find it to be just as ridiculous as you do."

- Time Tenshi