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[about the 'Item Get' music from Zelda]
ingeniouslysmart: imagine if it was in a hospital.
ingeniouslysmart: "Sir. I'm afraid you have... cancer."
ingeniouslysmart: "BA DA DA DAAAAAA"

[...]

ingeniouslysmart: uh we have a lot of mangish Greek Mythology books lying around the house here?
ingeniouslysmart: and my little cousin reads them a lot
ingeniouslysmart: and and I was flipping through the Helen of Troy one
ingeniouslysmart: and like there's this one scene where she's confronted with...
ingeniouslysmart: uhm.
ingeniouslysmart: just a second
ingeniouslysmart: WIKI
scarecrowfan: \o/
ingeniouslysmart: Melanus
ingeniouslysmart: yeah. and in the manga
ingeniouslysmart: she basically tears off her shirt
ingeniouslysmart: and asks him to stab her or something like that
ingeniouslysmart: and besides the fact that I was already thinking that Melanus wasn't having any other thoughts than "mmm boobies"
ingeniouslysmart: when he won't kill her
ingeniouslysmart: she's like
ingeniouslysmart: "IS IT BECAUSE OF MY FACE"
ingeniouslysmart: and I was like "NO. YOU JUST TORE YOUR SHIRT OFF"

[...]

ingeniouslysmart: also it's weird that when I read this stuff when I was little, I wasn't really thinking 'rape'?
ingeniouslysmart: I was thinking 'OH NO HE'S LOVING HER AGAINST HER WILL' or something stupid like that.
scarecrowfan: THat sort of thing never occurs to you when you're littl!
scarecrowfan: and then you figure out what it is
scarecrowfan: and....yeah
ingeniouslysmart: "While looking for Helen, Menelaus resolved to kill her; Euripides tells us that when he found her, however, her striking beauty prompted him to drop his sword and take her back."
ingeniouslysmart: by striking beauty
ingeniouslysmart: this wiki means her BOOBS
ingeniouslysmart: i read that as JFK by the way.
ingeniouslysmart: AND BY STRIKING BEAUTY, AH MEAN HER BOOOBS!!!!