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Posted: 12/13/2010 6:26:54 PM EST
Which one are you?
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 6:27:50 PM EST
[#1]
First.

Ronin.
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 6:28:25 PM EST
[#2]
Well, I do work in a mall.
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 6:29:18 PM EST
[#3]
1st rule of the Ninja code, is I am not supposed to talk about it. Sorry I can not tell you.
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 6:47:34 PM EST
[#4]
Samurai, literally "To Serve".
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 6:49:26 PM EST
[#5]
Templar
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 6:50:35 PM EST
[#6]
Samurai dissarmded the people of Japan, so I say Ninja.
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 6:53:27 PM EST
[#7]
They're basically the same thing.
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 6:55:50 PM EST
[#8]
Fuck them both, I'll be a Knight.
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 6:55:56 PM EST
[#9]
Quoted:
They're basically the same thing.


Haven't read much on feudal Japan have you?

I'm currently a Ronin.  Want to be a Samurai again one day.  Working on it.

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Link Posted: 12/13/2010 6:56:16 PM EST
[#10]



Quoted:


They're basically the same thing.


as I understand it samurai worked for the "man" and were reasonably well off

Ninja  were poor freelancers



 
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 6:59:16 PM EST
[#11]
Ninja would be a better fit in this era.  A life of service is seldom what is cracked up to be.
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 7:01:29 PM EST
[#12]
Quoted:

Quoted:
They're basically the same thing.

as I understand it samurai worked for the "man" and were reasonably well off
Ninja  were poor freelancers
 


The contrast  is a dramatic one.  Samurai means "to serve" and came with a strict/rigid code of conduct.  Ninja were bound by neither of those in most cases.  

Link Posted: 12/13/2010 7:07:10 PM EST
[#13]
Doesn't matter, I'd end up as sushi
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 7:08:05 PM EST
[#14]
I am a Samurai, but not just ANY samurai...



I am THE quintessential samurai.
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 7:14:04 PM EST
[#15]
Gee... I wonder what I would pick


A poor farmer by day, that has nothing better to do, and rages at "the man" for keeping them down.  Starts improvising with farming tools and sneaks around at night dressed up as a monk or traveler to spy on people.   Hollywood greatly exaggerates their ability and their worth to daimyo in ancient Japan.


A warrior who is absolutely loyal, so loyal they are willing to die for absolutely no reason then because their master told them they have to.  Oh yeah, they have been bred to fight well since birth, and they can literally kill peasants and such for disrespecting them at any time.



So whats it gonna be, a farmer that plays dress up... or a guy that has to die whenever their daimyo feels they have to?
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 7:16:48 PM EST
[#16]
R1 or GSXR owns both, shit wrong forum.
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 7:18:49 PM EST
[#17]
Fuck'n Ninja! I still have a couple rusty stars I bought through mail order in 82 and waited 2 months for.
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 7:19:28 PM EST
[#18]
Quoted:
Gee... I wonder what I would pick


A poor farmer by day, that has nothing better to do, and rages at "the man" for keeping them down.  Starts improvising with farming tools and sneaks around at night dressed up as a monk or traveler to spy on people.   Hollywood greatly exaggerates their ability and their worth to daimyo in ancient Japan.


A warrior who is absolutely loyal, so loyal they are willing to die for absolutely no reason then because their master told them they have to.  Oh yeah, they have been bred to fight well since birth, and they can literally kill peasants and such for disrespecting them at any time.



So whats it gonna be, a farmer that plays dress up... or a guy that has to die whenever their daimyo feels they have to?



Well shit man, that describes most of ARF.com...
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 7:20:22 PM EST
[#19]



Quoted:


They're basically the same thing.


now you gone and done it.  



 
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 7:20:34 PM EST
[#20]



Quoted:





Quoted:

They're basically the same thing.


as I understand it samurai worked for the "man" and were reasonably well off

Ninja  were poor freelancers

 
Ninja's worked for the man too, the difference being they were never allowed to get any credit.





 
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 7:21:28 PM EST
[#21]
Midget Viking
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 7:24:48 PM EST
[#22]
How about both?








Link Posted: 12/13/2010 7:29:03 PM EST
[#23]




Quoted:

Samurai, literally "To Serve".


Ninjas= Fuck da Police circa 1676?

Link Posted: 12/13/2010 7:38:04 PM EST
[#24]
Due to my Judo background, I gotta go with Samurai.
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 7:39:10 PM EST
[#25]
Quoted:
Quoted:

Quoted:
They're basically the same thing.

as I understand it samurai worked for the "man" and were reasonably well off
Ninja  were poor freelancers
 


The contrast  is a dramatic one.  Samurai means "to serve" and came with a strict/rigid code of conduct.  Ninja were bound by neither of those in most cases.  



I hate to break it to you, but the concept of Samurai following a strict code of honor and loyalty is a myth invented in 1900 by Nitobe Inazo.
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 7:42:52 PM EST
[#26]



Quoted:



Quoted:


Quoted:




Quoted:

They're basically the same thing.


as I understand it samurai worked for the "man" and were reasonably well off

Ninja  were poor freelancers

 




The contrast  is a dramatic one.  Samurai means "to serve" and came with a strict/rigid code of conduct.  Ninja were bound by neither of those in most cases.  







I hate to break it to you, but the concept of Samurai following a strict code of honor and loyalty is a myth invented in 1900 by Nitobe Inazo.
Ura Yagyu FTW.





 
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 7:43:30 PM EST
[#27]
Ninja, their outfits are better.
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 7:44:25 PM EST
[#28]
pirate
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 7:46:42 PM EST
[#29]
ninja's are totally sweet!
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 7:46:42 PM EST
[#30]
Quoted:
Ninja, their outfits are better.


Real Ninja never wore those all black or all charcoal type suits.  Sorry to break to you.   Most of the time they just disguised themselves as a "common person" so they wouldnt arouse suspicion.  They were spies the vast majority of the time afterall.


Ninja were portrayed as all-black clad figures in Noh theatre... then mainstream movies and such just copied off that.  Its not reality.
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 7:50:51 PM EST
[#31]


A masterless samurai. Can carry a sword(or 2) in public and can cut down any low life peasent who doesn't know their place.



Link Posted: 12/13/2010 7:53:37 PM EST
[#32]
Ginsu.
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 7:54:12 PM EST
[#33]
Ninja.  Samurai seem to be the JBT of the 15th century.  They have to kill themselves because their master says so.  Don't enjoy being someone else's property that much.
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 7:55:48 PM EST
[#34]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Ninja, their outfits are better.


Real Ninja never wore those all black or all charcoal type suits.  Sorry to break to you.   Most of the time they just disguised themselves as a "common person" so they wouldnt arouse suspicion.  They were spies the vast majority of the time afterall.


Ninja were portrayed as all-black clad figures in Noh theatre... then mainstream movies and such just copied off that.  Its not reality.


Not only where they spies but more appropriate term we use today would be thug as they did not live by the code that the true warriors of the culture lived and died by.
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 10:38:59 PM EST
[#35]
Quoted:
pirate


Yar!
Link Posted: 12/13/2010 10:49:12 PM EST
[#36]


vs.

Link Posted: 12/13/2010 11:02:31 PM EST
[#37]
can a samurai do this ?






Link Posted: 12/14/2010 12:00:54 AM EST
[#38]
Quoted:
They're basically the same thing.


NOT true.

In fact, they are almost polar opposites. The Samurai lived by a code of honor that valued hand-to-hand, face-to-face combat; the ninja operates via stealth. The samurai valued his sword above all else; the ninja viewed it as nothing more than a tool.
Link Posted: 12/14/2010 12:07:48 AM EST
[#39]
A dedicated man of a service or a murderous, spying lowlife? Tough choice.
Link Posted: 12/14/2010 12:16:16 AM EST
[#40]
I'm only in it for the hot japanese ninja chicks.
Link Posted: 12/14/2010 12:31:24 AM EST
[#41]
Im both



Nylon Ninja, Storm Chasing Samurai
Link Posted: 12/14/2010 12:35:18 AM EST
[#42]
Samurai the mall is closed.
Link Posted: 12/14/2010 12:54:31 AM EST
[#43]
Samurai were the IRS of their day.
Link Posted: 12/14/2010 1:17:36 AM EST
[#44]
Quoted:
I'm only in it for the hot japanese ninja chicks.


Link Posted: 12/14/2010 1:23:13 AM EST
[#45]
Zatoichi FTMFW!
Ich-san
Link Posted: 12/14/2010 6:38:19 AM EST
[#46]



Quoted:



Quoted:

They're basically the same thing.




NOT true.



In fact, they are almost polar opposites. The Samurai lived by a code of honor that valued hand-to-hand, face-to-face combat; the ninja operates via stealth. The samurai valued his sword above all else; the ninja viewed it as nothing more than a tool.


Not actually true, not until well in to the Tokugawa era did that really come about.



 
Link Posted: 12/14/2010 6:41:24 AM EST
[#47]
a Raperist. which trumps both a samuri or ninja..
Link Posted: 12/14/2010 7:14:11 AM EST
[#48]
ninja = backstabbing, gutless pussies who do shit work for anyone who will pay them ...

no honor dipshits ...

at least all the ones i've had to deal with
Link Posted: 12/14/2010 7:21:57 AM EST
[#49]
Where did this idea that Ninja's would work for anyone thing come from?  They were loyal to their clans just like the Samurai were.  You guys fundamentally misunderstand who and what both were.  Samurai = regular military officers and men, Ninja = recon, intel, special forces.  Both were good at their respective jobs, but they each had a specific purpose.
Link Posted: 12/14/2010 7:22:28 AM EST
[#50]
A ninja, but only after work.
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