I just can't agree with you, Custos, not when anything significant is at stake - when lives are on the line, whether you win or lose not only matters, it is the ONLY thing that matters. Of course, in a BtVS type setting where the options are an eternal stalemate (the oh-so-all-important Balance with a capital B) or annihilation from open war between celestial and infernal powers, with the infernals making the first grab, the only way to a real win scenario would be to entirely seal anything supernatural, of any origin... which leaves you in a world like ours, which is its own kind of lose scenario, but at least we're not two-legged snack packs and have some claim to self-determination. That gets away form my point, though - a vampire hunter who dies heroically in a doomed battle can't fight any more vampires, and the people killed by the force he didn't stop are just as dead as if he hoofed it and came back with a different plan later.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
A kung-fu nun in a leather thong was no less extreme than anything else he had seen that day. - Rev. Dark's IST: Holy Sea World
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
A kung-fu nun in a leather thong was no less extreme than anything else he had seen that day. - Rev. Dark's IST: Holy Sea World
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows