Akatsuki of YCM: The Last Stand

[DL]

I did my last 3 years of high school in 3 different coutries

That is all



[quote name='BlackSkullCortez' timestamp='1334698341' post='5917144']
TCK - Third Culture Kid.
Basically, the two of us.
And I still win, because my first words were "Diesel engine."
I'm not lying. Speaking just came late for me.
[/quote]....my first word was light

and there's a little light at the top of every airplane seat

ha

[BlackSkullCortez]

DL, I pointed at a legitimate diesel engine and said "diesel engine".
So there.

Black, the culture that you're from is your first culture.
If you move to a place with a different culture, that would be the second culture you're exposed to.
If you assimilate between those cultures, then that assimilated culture is your third culture.
Basically, kids that are exposed to a third culture are... third culture kids. TCKs.
I'm not sure if different states are considered different cultures. Personally, I don't consider them different cultures, but I'm not an expert in these fields, so don't take my word for it.
My story isn't really worth telling. I'm just from a traveling family and I've lived in different places.
But I haven't experienced what you've experienced, so I just have a different viewpoint towards traveling.
To me, as long as you aren't justifiably xenophobic and/or you can accept differences, you're fine.
If you can't do either, well... yeah.

[Fusion X. Denver]

[quote name='BlackSkullCortez' timestamp='1334700673' post='5917221']
My story isn't really worth telling. I'm just from a traveling family and I've lived in different places.
[/quote]

You've been to Taiwan, Switzerland, Europe, Italy, etc, and none of that's worth telling?
Hell, I'm always hearing a new story about the former 2 every time I'm over for dinner .__.

[DL]

[quote name='Fusion X. Denver' timestamp='1334702852' post='5917284']
You've been to Taiwan, Switzerland, Europe, Italy, etc, and none of that's worth telling?
Hell, I'm always hearing a new story about the former 2 every time I'm over for dinner .__.
[/quote]So does that mean you admit that it IS easy to seduce girls? :3


And I traveled to Brazil, Colombia, the US, and Panama~ :3

My grandma's been in like every continent tho, cept Australia (and she would have went too, due to her job as a flight attendant, but...idk why, for some reason it got cancelled)

[Fusion X. Denver]

[quote name='The Real DL' timestamp='1334703562' post='5917304']
So does that mean you admit that it IS easy to seduce girls? :3


And I traveled to Brazil, Colombia, the US, and Panama~ :3

My grandma's been in like every continent tho, cept Australia (and she would have went too, due to her job as a flight attendant, but...idk why, for some reason it got cancelled)
[/quote]

Everything you stated requires familiarity with her first.
Unless you want to be creepy.

And that's cool. My parents traveled a lot due to my dad's job...and they ran into someone who knew him almost everywhere they went.
In Paris?
"No way, David Denver? You're in Paris?
On a random beach in Russia?
"DAVID DENVER, MY MAN. FANCY MEETING YOU HERE."

Drove my mom crazy.

[DL]

[quote name='Fusion X. Denver' timestamp='1334705130' post='5917362']
[b]Everything you stated requires familiarity with her first.[/b]
Unless you want to be creepy.

And that's cool. My parents traveled a lot due to my dad's job...and they ran into someone who knew him almost everywhere they went.
In Paris?
"No way, David Denver? You're in Paris?
On a random beach in Russia?
"DAVID DENVER, MY MAN. FANCY MEETING YOU HERE."

Drove my mom crazy.
[/quote]
...I don't see the problem?

And lolol

But doesnt that mean YOU'D travel a lot too? xD

[Fusion X. Denver]

[quote name='The Real DL' timestamp='1334705324' post='5917364']
...I don't see the problem?

And lolol

But doesnt that mean YOU'D travel a lot too? xD
[/quote]

I had an argument, but I forgot it.
You win this round.
Though I'm still probably gonna have some trouble...

Nah, that was in their pre-kid days.
Since us, we've really only been to Canada, Hawaii, Seattle, Switzerland (just me), and Florida. Although a family trip to Ireland is currently in the works in celebration of me and my cousin graduating this year.

[DL]

[quote name='Fusion X. Denver' timestamp='1334707387' post='5917411']
I had an argument, but I forgot it.
You win this round.
Though I'm still probably gonna have some trouble...

Nah, that was in their pre-kid days.
Since us, we've really only been to Canada, Hawaii, Seattle, Switzerland (just me), and Florida. Although a family trip to Ireland is currently in the works in celebration of me and my cousin graduating this year.
[/quote]Sweetness

Make sure you enjoy yourself in Ireland =3

And you've traveled a lot...@_@


Also, trust me

College will be different than school~

[Fusion X. Denver]

I will. Honestly, since I'll be legal there, I'm thinking about getting hazed with my cousin just so I know what being drunk feels like so I won't be tempted with curiosity when I go to college. Not like we're driving and we'd be with family.

I have traveled a lot I suppose. Traveling's fun. I'd travel the world if I could afford to.

I know college will be different. Believe me, I'm looking forward to it.

[DL]

[quote name='Fusion X. Denver' timestamp='1334707735' post='5917418']
I will. Honestly, since I'll be legal there, I'm thinking about getting hazed with my cousin just so I know what being drunk feels like so I won't be tempted with curiosity when I go to college. Not like we're driving and we'd be with family.

I have traveled a lot I suppose. Traveling's fun. I'd travel the world if I could afford to.

I know college will be different. Believe me, I'm looking forward to it.
[/quote]
Remember

Try vodka w/ whatever, it tastes great


And traveling the world...sounds fun, actually


College is great :33

[BlackSkullCortez]

[spoiler=Took more space than expected]
[quote name='Fusion X. Denver' timestamp='1334702852' post='5917284']
You've been to [b]China, Singapore,[/b] Taiwan, Switzerland, Europe, Italy, etc, and none of that's worth telling?
[b]Well, the thing is, I don't like saying it too much because it may come off as bragging.[/b]
[b]But since you started, I may or may not finish the list later.[/b]
[b]And Europe isn't a country.[/b]
Hell, I'm always hearing a new story about the former 2 every time I'm over for dinner .__.
[b]It's because people are amazing.[/b]
[b]Especially Italians.[/b]
[b]"The room technically closes at midnight. However, it doesn't matter. If you open the door, it sets off an alarm, but if you close the door, the alarm will stop and nobody will come."[/b]
[b]I'm not kidding. Somebody said this.[/b]
[b]And it was true.[/b]
[/quote]


[quote name='The Real DL' timestamp='1334703562' post='5917304']
So does that mean you admit that it IS easy to seduce girls? :3
[b]It means I made him forget about it.[/b]

And I traveled to Brazil, Colombia, the US, and Panama~ :3
[b]If it was the places I've travelled to, I... yeah.[/b]

My grandma's been in like every continent tho, cept Australia (and she would have went too, due to her job as a flight attendant, but...idk why, for some reason it got cancelled)
[b]I'm guessing that she didn't travel to Antartica.[/b]
[b]Then again, what is there to see? Just a bunch of ice and penguins if you get lucky.[/b]
[b]I've been to every continent except for South America.[/b]
[b]But that's easily going to change. I mean, I've gone to the Florida Keys. Key West alone is, like 90 miles from Cuba.[/b]
[b]Funny thing is, Key West is closer to Cuba then it is Miami.[/b]
[/quote]
[quote name='Fusion X. Denver' timestamp='1334705130' post='5917362']
And that's cool. My parents traveled a lot due to my dad's job...and they ran into someone who knew him almost everywhere they went.

In Paris?
"No way, David Denver? You're in Paris?
On a random beach in Russia?
"DAVID DENVER, MY MAN. FANCY MEETING YOU HERE."
[b]See? This is what happens to Americans when they go on vacation.[/b]
[b]I FINALLY UNDERSTAND WHY SO MANY OF THEM HAVEN'T GONE, LIKE, 50 MILES AWAY FROM THEIR HOME OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.[/b]
[b]... sadly, I never will. I mean, it's probably not 50, but it was still ridiculously small.[/b]
[b]"We're going to Pensilvania from New Jersey to go to an amusement park!"[/b]
[b]Me: "What kind of trip is this? At least in Taiwan we got to go to the coast for a week!"[/b]
[b]And this is why I hated my public school, the only place where I could get an 100% average in a foreign language.[/b]

Drove my mom crazy.
[b]Is that why they got married?[/b]
[b]"I keep running into you, and it's driving me insane! Maybe if I married him, I won't ever run into him by coincidence again!"[/b]
[b]Later...[/b]
[b]"WHY IS HE IN MY HOUSE!?"[/b]
[/quote]
[quote name='The Real DL' timestamp='1334707565' post='5917415']
Make sure you enjoy yourself in Ireland =3
[b]I went there a long time ago, but I only remember green and a bunch of distant relatives from the same clan. I still remembering it being nice, though.[/b]
[b]Although I've been moderately close recently. I had a Cross Country race in the Forbidden Forest.[/b]
[b]... okay, it wasn't the Forbidden Forest. It was where it was filmed in the queen's garden. Don't ask me which one.[/b]
[b]I came out in 3rd place. By that, I meant I went to Varsity and then started getting places about 9 down from there. >.>[/b]

And you've traveled a lot...@_@
[b]...[/b]
[b]Philippines, Ireland, England, Switzerland, Italy, France, United States, China, Taiwan, Denmark, Singapore, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Ghana, Greece, Japan, Turkey, and probably 5+ more places that I can't think of off the top of my head.[/b]
[b]It would be unfair if I listed different cities and states in each country.[/b]
[b]Last week I stopped in about 5 different areas of Tuscany and then we went to Portofino. [/b]

College will be different than school~
[b]But college [i]is[/i] school...[/b]
[/quote]
[quote name='The Real DL' timestamp='1334708814' post='5917447']
Remember

Try vodka w/ whatever, it tastes great
[b]In Soviet Russia, vodka is a stereotypical joke.[/b]

And traveling the world...sounds fun, actually
[b]It [i]is[/i] fun. The world is absolutely gorgeous.[/b]
[b]What I really like about Switzerland is that it's really next door to everywhere else.[/b]
[b]I can basically go to the Alps for a weekend, go up a mountain, and come back for school. [/b][b]And trust me, the Alps are amazing. Fusion can probably agree with me.[/b]
[b]And then there's the different aspects of cultures that really makes me want to go to Polynesia and the Fiji islands.[/b]

College is great :33
[b]It's the time when I'll finally learn new things in science.[/b][/quote][/spoiler]

[Fusion X. Denver]

[quote name='BlackSkullCortez' timestamp='1334771039' post='5917977']
[b]And trust me, the Alps are amazing. Fusion can probably agree with me.[/b]
[/quote]

Definitely.
There is a spectacular view at every single vantage point in the valley .-.
On the ground, in a bus, on the mountainside, from the top (when it's not cloudy), there is [i]always[/i] something to look at.
And the villages are like the ones you see in storybooks. If I ever had to become a hermit, I'd live in the Alps.

[DL]

I died at the Fuse's mom marrying thing


And

You've never been to South America?

You MUST go to Recife's beaches (Brazil)

BEST

BEACH

EVER OAO


@Fuse - inb4Simon

[BlackSkullCortez]

DL, I might agree with you if I ever get the chance to go there.
Buuuut Ghana happened. And that was probably the best beach I've ever been to.
Probably because I played "Here Comes the Sun" with an acoustic guitar at sunrise.
It was a troll sunrise, though. Just the horizon was cloudy.
So we could see the sun after the sunrise was over.

[DL]

I've never been to Ghana but the beach in Brazil (strangely enough, the ONE beach near my house is the best one, due to to one of the old mayors, who applied a sort of system that kept the beach clean) is the best beach I've ever been in, by far

And the cleanest~

And...that's pretty awesome

Trying to stare at the sun after sunrise here...would hurt, as expected

[Lt. Colonel Remo]

[b]Also, if you were dead as you stated earlier, why are you killing yourself?[/b]

Well, At first I thought I was dead. But then the (false) logic of the rock temporarily lulled me back to reality. And so I decided to kill myself as a way to rid myself of any nerve racking understanding of the impossible

I swear, Cortez's nickname should be the joke killer

[Fusion X. Denver]

BlackJokerCortez?
That'd be a good name =P

[spoiler=Oh yeah, about that chapter...]
If Kabuto is in Root, why did they let him do the Chunin Exams? To thwart Orochimaru?
Or maybe to convene with him. Oro and Danzo might have still been doing business and Danzo knew he'd come to the exams, so he had Kabuto go meet him.
Or something.[/spoiler]

[BlackSkullCortez]

Remo, the rock is a metaphor.
Joke killer... funny.
Someone doesn't realize what I am infamous for.
I was almost put into prison because I treated people with cruel and unusual [i]pun[/i]ishment. *assassinated*

And Fuse, that name is the opposite of what Remo meant...
>.>
[spoiler=About the chapter]
Or maybe it's just another plot hole that develops when writers try to put all of their ideas into the story before it ends.
I still don't understand how you can use nature chakra to turn into a sage mode that isn't a frog. Hopefully they explain it to us some eternity. >.>[/spoiler]

[DL]

[quote name='BlackSkullCortez' timestamp='1334854592' post='5918954']
Remo, the rock is a metaphor.
Joke killer... funny.
Someone doesn't realize what I am infamous for.
I was almost put into prison because I treated people with cruel and unusual [i]pun[/i]ishment. *assassinated*

And Fuse, that name is the opposite of what Remo meant...
>.>
[spoiler=About the chapter]
Or maybe it's just another plot hole that develops when writers try to put all of their ideas into the story before it ends.
I still don't understand how you can use nature chakra to turn into a sage mode that isn't a frog. Hopefully they explain it to us some eternity. >.>[/spoiler]
[/quote]This means that Sage Slug Mode is legit


I see Tsunade pulling this shiz out to fight Madara

[BlackSkullCortez]

... wait, what? How did you get from my point to your point?

[Fusion X. Denver]

[quote name='BlackSkullCortez' timestamp='1334854592' post='5918954']
And Fuse, that name is the opposite of what Remo meant...
[b]*that'sthejoke.jpg*[/b]
[b]I need to find that pic of J-Max...[/b]
Or maybe it's just another plot hole that develops when writers try to put all of their ideas into the story before it ends.
[b]I hope not. [/b]
I still don't understand how you can use nature chakra to turn into a sage mode that isn't a frog. Hopefully they explain it to us some eternity. >.>
[b]Didn't I already state my theory on this?[/b]
[b]I think[/b][b] the fundamentals of each mode are the same, like the stronger taijutsu, sensory functions, etc. The only real difference is the appearance and certain techniques, obviously the latter is learned from whatever animal they saw, but the former depends on how they learned to feel and absorb natural energy.[/b]
[b]Naruto used frog oil to do so, which I believe led to his frog-like appearance.[/b]
[b]Kabuto must have used snake oil or some sh*t and became that thing.[/b]
[/quote]

[DL]

[quote name='BlackSkullCortez' timestamp='1334861484' post='5919045']
... wait, what? How did you get from my point to your point?
[/quote]
"I still don't understand how you can use nature chakra to turn into a sage mode that isn't a frog."

Thus

Since Frog Sage and Snake Sage is legit

Slug Sage is too~

[BlackSkullCortez]

@ DL
... point taken.

@ Fuse
But if you still absorb too much nature chakra, you turn into a frog.
Because the Preta Path turned into a stone frog when it absorbed too much of Naruto's nature chakra.
And since the Preta Path can only absorb chakra, I don't think that would work.
Now I want to see Kabuto fight the Preta Path...

In hindsight, it's probably going to be, "Oh, we have different kinds of Nature Chakra, like how there are different kinds of normal chakra."
And I'll say, "Screw you."

[Fusion X. Denver]

[quote name='BlackSkullCortez' timestamp='1334866419' post='5919127']
But if you still absorb too much nature chakra, you turn into a frog.
[b]I think Kabuto would have turned into a snake if he absorbed too much.[/b]
[b]I'm not even kidding.[/b]
Because the Preta Path turned into a stone frog when it absorbed too much of Naruto's nature chakra.
[b]If he fought Kabuto, I'm betting he'd turn into a snake :/[/b]
In hindsight, it's probably going to be, "Oh, we have different kinds of Nature Chakra, like how there are different kinds of normal chakra."
And I'll say, "Screw you."
[b]Well, it'd kinda make sense.[/b]
[b]Or look at it this way, why would natural energy turn you into a frog anyway? Why not a blade of grass or a Christmas tree?[/b]
[b]Naruto and Jiraiya learned to absorb natural energy on Mount Myoboku, where the environment is frog-focused. So they become Frog Sages.[/b]
[b]Kabuto learned at whatever place it was with a focus on snakes, hence him becoming a Snake Sage.[/b]
[b]So I think it depends on how you learn to absorb it. That's why Naruto and Jiraiya can still turn frog-like despite not being in the similar environment.[/b]
[/quote]

[BlackSkullCortez]

Well, Kabuto technically became a dragon, for starters*shot*
Here's the main problem I have with the different kinds of nature chakra.
If you train yourself to absorb a specific kind of nature chakra, it's basically saying that this one thing exists in all parts of nature.
Which would apply to the same thing for another kind.
The way I see it, living in an environment with only the kind of nature chakra you're looking for means you are being trained without awareness to the different kinds of nature chakra.
Thus, when you go out of said training place, you'll absorb all kinds of nature chakra around you, including that of a snake and, probably, a slug.
And you basically become a monstrosity of nature.
It's like holding a magnet over a hundred grains of metals expecting just one to rise.
The only way "type" would work is if it was like the Tailed-Beast Bomb, where it's, like, a "light" and "dark" nature chakra, and different ratios will create different kinds of sage mode when used correctly.
And the Frog sage mode is just easiest to control ratio-wise.
Which is why Naruto and Jiraya were able to control it (at least moderately for Jiraya), while it screwed up badly for Orochimaru.
... and probably why they included that concept in the first place.
... I just made a theory on the spot. Well, that answers my question.