Samurai. They were freaking rich, ate good food and married well. They did good deeds and shit and had plenty of time for self reflection and improvment.
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Well, I have rum and a sword from my weeb phase, so cowboy it is. Time to buy a six shooter.
A movie pirate. The kind that gets to sail, have adventures, but never seems to do any killing or pillaging.
When thinking of each, if it was in a world where life is good and I'm living in the picturesque lifestyle that comes to mind for each one, then probably a Pirate.
Sailing the open seas is the picture that comes to mind and it's the most "romantic" to me.
Pirates wiped their asses after a shit with a rope. The same rope was used by the entire crew and never switched. I would not enjoy being a pirate. Not at all.
Was that restricted to pirates, or just the way it was done on these ships?
ΒΏPorque no los tres?
All would actually suck if these are the realistic versions, but Cowboy would suck the least, at least as a violence-averse person (if you're not violence-averse I understand why you'd pick Samurai.)
Movie versions, I'd still go Cowboy. I'd get stir crazy on a boat and I don't like answering to people like Samurai need to.
pirates supported same-sex marriage, so Iβll go with that π³οΈβπ
Samurai, during the heydays of the shogunate.
Cowboy you get to live a normal life in modern times compared to the other two. A modern day pirate is a shitty 3rd world existence and a samurai means being in Japan. Iβll take Cowboy with a loving wife and kids raising cattle and in the evenings getting to stream 4K content with Starlink on my OLED tv eating amazing BBQ anyday.
Yarr!
Be would mean now and here? Or the and there (where they existed)?
Your choice :)
I want to be a samurai. I wanted to be one since I was a kid, and I want to be one even more after having read Hagakure. I even try to live up to a lot of the same ideals Yamamoto Tsunetomo laid out in the book about what it meant to be samurai. It's almost the same idea as medieval chivalry; but more intense and without the religious overtones.
Fictionally, a samurai. But for real, I guess cowboy is the most sane option...
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A cowboy. I was born in the western US and spent some of my young life on a cattle ranch. It's hard work and at the end of the day, there's a sense of accomplishment.
Not interested in being a pirate, stealing isn't my thing. I don't like the idea of slicing and dicing people, so samurai wouldn't work for me either.
I enjoy camping and am a decent shot, so I guess I'd go with cowboy. Plus, lassos look fun!
Pirate is definitely out - I don't really care to be surrounded by guys 24/7 on a crowded and dirty ship. Samurai maybe but I'd go with "Cowboy". Has the best chance for a somewhat modern life and many chances to meet women...
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