Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20161228230634/@comment-14138255-20170105000333

Arkantos95 wrote: KNN005 wrote: Still. No one asked if it was okay. It was just kinda thrust upon me by WC-83 I think. It's fine as long as no one using it as a subtle insult as people tend to do. According to the urban dictionary "kino" can mean "the act of flirt via touching someone of sexual interest". Not sure I want want that nickname.

Anyway, new issue: I still stand firm in my belief that a lot of cast members need to die one by one over the course of the series. We need more signs that the epic stakes are getting higher. Tyrian failed to acquire Ruby and most of the villains aren't going near the heroes. Something has to raise the stakes for the audience. I think Qrow should make it to the end and die, but someone needs to get nix'd by this monster grimm Ren foreshadows. Okay, first of all, you really need to get on growing that thicker skin. And second, that definition sounds about as bullshit as the majority of what's on Urban Dictionary.

Moving on, have you not been paying attention? Beacon, one of the four bastions of security for the planet against the unrelenting hordes of hellbeasts that populate its surface, is gone. Global communications are gone. Ozpin, the architect of the defense of the Relics, is effectively gone. Pyrrha, the strongest of the first-years at Beacon, is dead. And now, with the entire world in dissarray and a unseen and mostly unknown enemy lurks in the background, our heroes are scrambling half-blind to prevent the next attack that would further cripple the world's defensive capablities and gift a Relic of incredible power to our antagonists. Things are pretty goddamned bleak and high-stakes as it is.

@Grey: Yes, yes we are. @KINO: I told everyone what it meant and why I call you that multiple times. KINO is a Soviet progressive rockband formed in the 90s and I grew up listening to their songs. I call you it because it rolls off the tounge better, and it's pretty much how I pronounced your username anyway (the 0s are replaced with Os phonetically). Also, I'll keep telling people to check out KINO if people keep forgetting, so don't forget.

Also, chances are Qrow's gonna die, and if he doesn't, it'll still be a close call. People don't and shouldn't have to die to make the stakes high.

@Grey: America's values are mirrored versions of the rest of the world. While Europe and Japan are sensitive about blood and violence (Japan more after the 90s, after the Otaku Killer became a headline story), they are bafflingly blaze about sex and nudity to us. In America, the opposite is true, celebrating combat and awesome fight scenes (as well as villains) while being humorously prudish and conservative about topics of sex and nudity.