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Re: Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #345 on: November 20, 2015, 06:06:17 am »
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« Reply #346 on: November 20, 2015, 08:42:16 am »
Contrast Gloria Gaynor's "I will survive" with Cake's cover.

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« Reply #347 on: November 22, 2015, 12:33:18 am »
Or the Finnish song "Restless girl" that I just heard on the radio and which got me started on this line of thinking... Originally sang by a guy it is about a boy who is in love with a girl but she keeps pushing him away and he warns her that she might lose him forever if she does that and questions her on what is she afraid of. ...And although I'm phrasing it badly he does not come off as stalkerish in the song. But now I heard a version where the singer is female and the song is obviously a love song to a closeted lesbian who is afraid to come out.

Well, the last time I translated lyrics was a failure... so fuck it, let's try it again. This is the Random Thoughts thread, after all.

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« Reply #348 on: November 22, 2015, 12:56:43 pm »
Those are great lyrics! Good job translating, Even Then.
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« Reply #349 on: November 22, 2015, 03:32:05 pm »
Like that "I kissed a girl" song that is suddenly a song about a shy boy who is from a very strict family and is afraid of any premarital contact with women...

I dunno...there is the line "I hope my boyfriend don't mind it." Granted, I don't have the lyrics memorized, but to me, that would be more like a gay man discovering bisexual tendencies. So, just like the original, but gender-flipped.

Edit: I've also heard about theater groups putting on all-male versions of "Grease" that made the characters gay and can't help wondering how the story in general and lyrics in particular had to be modified. Not that "Tell Me More" is the great romantic classic people tend to remember it as, anyway, with the girls sounding like gold-diggers looking for a sugar daddy and the guys sounding like shameless date-rapists.
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« Reply #350 on: November 24, 2015, 02:07:40 am »
Tell Me More is catchy and I hate that it's catchy because the lyrics are shit from a MGTOW's ass.

New topic. Anybody have any other songs where the melodies are awesome but the lyrics are abhorrent?
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« Reply #351 on: November 24, 2015, 02:24:18 am »
There are such songs... I can't remember any right now which is a good thing because if I do I will have the lyrics stuck inside my head for an hour at least.

ANother random thought... Or a random conversation from elsewhere on the net at least. Dude was asking how do people feel about interspecies romance. Several good points were brought up. Like that people seem to focus on the interspecies sex&procraetion and complications from that rather than the romance part. That even if the cross species couple can't have kids this is not a problem because it's not like every couple in the real world is going to have kids anyway.

...And immediately people were protesting this because they really feel that it's not a proper relationship if you can't have kids.

...Someone specified that "it's ok in fantasy but interspecies is not ok in SCIFI" and when pestered for reasons he said "if you can't have kids it's an evolutionary dead end."

So yeah, apparently "YOU MUST HAVE KIDS" is still a really big thing even on a subconscious level for many people if they even protest about fictional couples that choose not to / can't have kids...
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« Reply #352 on: November 24, 2015, 02:43:07 am »
Because... it's impossible for interspecies couples to have children in scifi? *shrug*

Anyway, I confess I like the idea of interspecies romance. I think it's cute. As long as the two species in question are sapient and can communicate, of course.

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« Reply #353 on: November 24, 2015, 11:46:01 am »
The Asari being, in effect, a massive exception. <runs>
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« Reply #354 on: November 24, 2015, 12:28:39 pm »
Because... it's impossible for interspecies couples to have children in scifi? *shrug*

Someone should tell Spock.

As for creepy, catchy songs, I'll just go with the old standby: Every Move You Make.

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« Reply #355 on: November 24, 2015, 05:39:40 pm »
The Asari being, in effect, a massive exception. <runs>

Not really, from what I remember about Mass Effect Asari reproduction works like this.

1. Mother bonds with random species or other Asari.

2. The mother then randomizes all genes using the fathers as a template but not taking any of the fathers whatsoever.

3. Adorbale blue babies are born and have some traits due to weird gene randomization.

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« Reply #356 on: November 24, 2015, 11:58:43 pm »
I thought they were chimeras?
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« Reply #357 on: November 25, 2015, 02:00:01 am »
Depending on the scifi they could make some sort of genetic hybrid grown in a lab. ...Or use artificial insemination have have a child of the mother's species. ...Or adopt kids. ...If they even plan to get kids at all.
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« Reply #358 on: December 03, 2015, 10:32:25 pm »
So against my better judgment I decided to look back into why FATAL (the tabletop game for those wondering) was so hated and I regret it immediately.

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« Reply #359 on: December 03, 2015, 10:35:25 pm »
So against my better judgment I decided to look back into why FATAL (the tabletop game for those wondering) was so hated and I regret it immediately.


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