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I just ordered a subway sandwhich online. Technology.

Mission accomplished…?

Oh, I don't know… those of us who are properly paranoid dug our secret escape tunnels and instituted and tested anti-the-man procedures years ago. I'd say that the crying hysteria rather comes from the ones who cannot achieve those proper levels and who think there's someone out there that can be trusted with saving them.

Erm, Vyst is a Director in GSF.

Pretty sure he's a step above drone.

P sure.

Similarly, using this tactic is called "hiding behind an NPC alt" when applied to forum posting. What one person calls "not being a complete idiot", another will call "cowardly".

(In before "but you're an NPC alt": No, this is not an alt)

Dammit, now I'm hungry. Thanks, bro...

I AM GOING TO TELL THE GAMING MEDIA!

Confirming that this is completely true. It is common knowledge that posting with an npc alt is a prelude to capping other forum readers in the back of the head.

in my favourite culture of Japan many of the most honourable men undertake a practice called seppuku here i will paste wikipedia on it:

"Hara-kiri" and "Harakiri" redirect here. For other uses, see Harakiri (disambiguation).


Illustration from "Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs", by J. M. W. Silver, Illustrated by Native Drawings, Reproduced in Facsimile by Means of Chromolithography, published in London in 1867.


Seppuku with ritual attire and second (staged)


Warrior about to perform seppuku
Seppuku (切腹?, "stomach-cutting") is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. Seppuku was originally reserved only for samurai. Part of the samurai bushido honor code, seppuku was either used voluntarily by samurai to die with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies (and likely suffer torture), or as a form of capital punishment for samurai who had committed serious offenses, or performed for other reasons that had brought shame to them. The ceremonial disembowelment, which is usually part of a more elaborate ritual and performed in front of spectators, consists of plunging a short blade, traditionally a tantō, into the abdomen and moving the blade from left to right in a slicing motion.[1]
Contents [hide]
1 Vocabulary and etymology
2 Overview
3 Ritual
4 Seppuku as capital punishment
5 European witness
6 Seppuku in modern Japan
7 Notable people who performed seppuku
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
[edit]Vocabulary and etymology

Seppuku is also known as harakiri (腹切り, "cutting the belly"), a term more widely familiar outside Japan, and which is written with the same kanji as seppuku, but in reverse order with an okurigana. In Japanese, the more formal seppuku, a Chinese on'yomi reading, is typically used in writing, while harakiri, a native kun'yomi reading, is used in speech. Ross notes,
"It is commonly pointed out that hara-kiri is a vulgarism, but this is a misunderstanding. Hara-kiri is a Japanese reading or Kun-yomi of the characters; as it became customary to prefer Chinese readings in official announcements, only the term seppuku was ever used in writing. So hara-kiri is a spoken term and seppuku a written term for the same act."[2]
The practice of committing seppuku at the death of one's master, known as oibara (追腹 or 追い腹, the kun'yomi or Japanese reading) or tsuifuku (追腹, the on'yomi or Chinese reading), follows a similar ritual.
[edit]Overview

The first recorded act of seppuku was performed by Minamoto no Yorimasa during the Battle of Uji in the year 1180.[3] Seppuku eventually became a key part of bushido, the code of the samurai warriors; it was used by warriors to avoid falling into enemy hands, and to attenuate shame and avoid possible torture. Samurai could also be ordered by their daimyo (feudal lords) to carry out seppuku. Later, disgraced warriors were sometimes allowed to carry out seppuku rather than be executed in the normal manner. The most common form of seppuku for men was composed of the cutting of the abdomen, and when the samurai was finished, he stretched out his neck for an assistant to decapitate him. Since the main point of the act was to restore or protect one's honor as a warrior, those who did not belong to the samurai caste were never ordered or expected to carry out seppuku. Samurai generally could carry out the act only with permission.
Sometimes a daimyo was called upon to perform seppuku as the basis of a peace agreement. This would weaken the defeated clan so that resistance would effectively cease. Toyotomi Hideyoshi used an enemy's suicide in this way on several occasions, the most dramatic of which effectively ended a dynasty of daimyo. When the Hōjō were defeated at Odawara in 1590, Hideyoshi insisted on the suicide of the retired daimyo Hōjō Ujimasa, and the exile of his son Ujinao; with this act of suicide, the most powerful daimyo family in eastern Japan was put to an end.


A tantō prepared for seppuku
[edit]Ritual

In time, carrying out seppuku came to involve a detailed ritual. This was usually performed in front of spectators if it was a planned seppuku, not one performed on a battlefield. A samurai was bathed, dressed in white robes, and fed his favorite meal. When he had finished, his instrument was placed on his plate. Dressed ceremonially, with his sword placed in front of him and sometimes seated on special cloths, the warrior would prepare for death by writing a death poem.

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