My own denials of rationality.

[Creed of Heresy]

Every human being suffers from some deficit of rationality, I've found. We call this emotional response, and it's a hilt-less sword; you can wield it but it cuts you almost as often as it cuts the other guy [you're not allowed to wear gloves in this analogy]. Maybe not as badly but it still cuts.

Emotional responses consistently hurt the user the most, I think. I can't speak for anyway else, but when I'm emotional I seem to fall back on to a more simplistic world-view that more readily makes connections between things that, in retrospect, aren't necessarily connected. I can also project my faults onto others, although I often catch myself now and stop it. Emotional responses tend to give us a fast track to actions/responses that might've been beneficial once upon a time, but rarely is now. By the way, that almost sounds like I'm saying emotion is redundant/valueless - I don't mean that.

Some of my irrational behaviours include:

• Purchasing take-out when I know the extra money I spend on it could go to one of the millions of starving people around the world and feed them.
  
• Worrying about what people I've never met (and very likely will never meet again) think of me. It isn't like a crippling phobia or anything, but it's there.
  
• Maintaining similar patterns despite being aware of how much change often makes me happy.
  

Of course behaviours that are 'rational' in one context mightn't be in another. It might be 'rational' to be somewhat profit orientated if your goal is to run a successful company. This is in contrast with my first point about starving people; what makes it irrational is that part my world-view is that when people can help one another they ought to. But yeah, it's not necessarily irrational to be an asshole unless your goal is not to be an asshole, haha.

Final Fantasy games. Fuck I hate these games.

Just to piss you off, I like them well, not all of them; mainly 6-9. What I liked most was the visuals and the music. The music is wonderful and I still listen to it sometimes. I assume you dislike the amount of fanboy/girl-ism surrounding them?

I don't mind some anime; I enjoyed the Ghost in the Shell movies for example.

Well in true fashion of displaying the lack of logic in my statements, I will also go back and say this: I don't hate all anime. Some of the better ones, I like. Cowboy Bebop, for example; it was artistically beautifully, amazingly well-written, and very VERY well-animated, to the point that even to this day it's rarely ever matched. GitS...eeehhh...it LOOKS good, but its storyline is just your typical cyberpunky thing with the Japanese government being portrayed as these infallible geniuses. The premise for its deus ex machina in the form of the "Japanese Miracle" is the most laughable one EVER. Radiation scrubbers? THAT'S what they think is the most devastating thing about a nuke, is the lingering radiation?? Try the neutrino burst; you know, the thing that sears your body into less than ash? And the Japanese are the most powerful nation because they did nothing? Fucking LOL. If nuclear war broke out the first thing China would do would be to invade Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Cambodia. And Japan would last all of twenty minutes with US assistance against China. It was more jingoistic crap that just overshadowed what was otherwise a story with GREAT potential. And Motoko Kusanagi was one hell of a fine ass robot, too.

Final Fantasy didn't bother me TOO much until 10. Prior to that, the storylines had only been "meh" at best. The characters were all boring as fuck and even outright annoying, except in a few rare cases like Sephiroth [the only legitimate bad guy in the entire series and it has nothing to do with him shanking that annoying hippy bitch]. That little faggoty bitch, Squall? I wanted to end him so fucking hard. I wanted to nuke his whining emo ass from orbit. Lol

But then came 10. And Tidus.

*deeeep breath*

I don't particularly care for him -.o