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Fuck you, I'll respond if someone chooses to address me - although, yes, there's little point in trying to "dialogue" with people like you.
Once again, you are adopting the Internet bully's tactic of talking about opinions that you happen individually to hold as if they were "truths of reason" that MUST, by simple logic, be accepted by anyone.
This thread is obviously not one in which the "Cracky or GTFO" card can be played. It's plainly only of OBLIQUE relevance to Cracky, if of any relevance at all.
So the point at which discussion about it goes "off topic" is obviously a matter of personal individual judgment.
Some people might say that to start to talk about the Foreign Legion is to take it off-topic, as it is "plainly a thread about Japanese matters".
Others might say that discussion of the Foreign Legion, or Hitler, or Operation Desert Storm, is OK, because it is plainly a "thread about the military".
I think that MY personal interpretation of "what this thread is about" was an interpretation that "belongs" on this board MORE THAN ANY OF THESE OTHER INTERPRETATIONS DO.
I interpreted it as a sort of encoded Cracky thread. I understood the allusion to Onoda's hopeless romantic persistence, for years and years, in a service that was in fact long since not being asked of him, to be a sort of "allegory" of the Crackyfag's love for Cracky - who, as Japan did vis-à-vis Onida and his loyalty to the Emperor, has long since "become something entirely different".
The analogy between Onoda's military loyalty and the mad, romantic persistence in romantic love is, I think, a very clear and sound one.
I was the only one who tried to develop it and I'm sorry if I did so by reference to a girl who MEANS something to me, and not to Cracky, who means nothing to me.
There is surely no denying, however, that the themes touched on in the transcript I posted are ALL themes that might ALSO have been touched on in a conversation between a Crackyfag and a woman sceptical and disapproving of Cracky ("you're delusional", "she doesn't care", "what is the point of loving someone who will never love you?" etc.)
Now are you seriously contending that taking the thread in THAT direction - discussing the theme of hopeless but enduring love by the example of a girl who isnt Cracky but has cosplayed her, is currently living with an irl friend of Cracky's etc. - is "taking it off topic" while discussing different conceptions of military honour in Japan, Germany and France etc ISN'T?