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    LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    how can an essay be overall good and get a D

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    HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    syndalis wrote:
    Echo wrote:
    Honk wrote:
    Daniel Day Lewis hibernates for a couple of years. Then he makes an amazing performance.
    Then he hibernates. Then same thing again.

    His acting must be measured and spent in careful doses, to preserve him for the coming generations.

    Well he pracices the "black art" of method acting, and I honestly don't know if he could psychologically do a bunch of films back to back ala Buschemi or Jonah Hill; he becomes the character for a while, and it takes some time to unravel after that.

    He was supposedly a massive asshole on the set of "There Will Be Blood"

    I've been thinking about this and am not convinced this is actually something that happens to the degree that people suggests.

    At the end of the day the actor is going to get into his car and drive home. Use a cell phone. Not kill people. Still respond to being called by their name. Hopefully help someone in front of them who's having a heart attack.

    Like, of course they try to "become" the character. I'd say almost every actor probably does that. Or else they would just go on stage and read lines and do nothing else. I contest that there is a clear border between acting and method acting. People lay it out as two completely separate things, or that it's useful to place a name on what they do to prepare for a role.

    PSN: Honkalot
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    mysticjuicermysticjuicer [he/him] I'm a muscle wizard and I cast P U N C HRegistered User regular
    Daxon wrote:
    Guys!

    What are good/bad percentages of marks to have in assessed essays?

    cause I got 65% on an essay but like.. whoever marked it says it's overall good.

    I have a vague memory of 50% being a 2:2, 60% being a 2:1 and 70% being a 1

    I don't

    What is happening here

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    spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    syndalis wrote:
    Echo wrote:
    Honk wrote:
    Daniel Day Lewis hibernates for a couple of years. Then he makes an amazing performance.
    Then he hibernates. Then same thing again.

    His acting must be measured and spent in careful doses, to preserve him for the coming generations.

    Well he pracices the "black art" of method acting, and I honestly don't know if he could psychologically do a bunch of films back to back ala Buschemi or Jonah Hill; he becomes the character for a while, and it takes some time to unravel after that.

    He was supposedly a massive asshole on the set of "There Will Be Blood"

    I almost posted the same thing. He was living in a tent and basically just was the character while shooting.

    There is a reason you don't date actors.

    See Also: Jim Carrey, in Man on the Moon.

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    GooeyGooey (\/)┌¶─¶┐(\/) pinch pinchRegistered User regular
    god the last of the mohicans is such a great movie

    one of my favorites

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    LeitnerLeitner Registered User regular
    Daxon wrote:
    Guys!

    What are good/bad percentages of marks to have in assessed essays?

    cause I got 65% on an essay but like.. whoever marked it says it's overall good.

    I have a vague memory of 50% being a 2:2, 60% being a 2:1 and 70% being a 1

    Yes.

    65% is a solid 2:1.

    (i.e. actually go out, and don't spend all your time locked away studying grade)

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    Caveman PawsCaveman Paws Registered User regular
    Honk wrote:
    syndalis wrote:
    Echo wrote:
    Honk wrote:
    Daniel Day Lewis hibernates for a couple of years. Then he makes an amazing performance.
    Then he hibernates. Then same thing again.

    His acting must be measured and spent in careful doses, to preserve him for the coming generations.

    Well he pracices the "black art" of method acting, and I honestly don't know if he could psychologically do a bunch of films back to back ala Buschemi or Jonah Hill; he becomes the character for a while, and it takes some time to unravel after that.

    He was supposedly a massive asshole on the set of "There Will Be Blood"

    I've been thinking about this and am not convinced this is actually something that happens to the degree that people suggests.

    At the end of the day the actor is going to get into his car and drive home. Use a cell phone. Not kill people. Still respond to being called by their name. Hopefully help someone in front of them who's having a heart attack.

    Like, of course they try to "become" the character. I'd say almost every actor probably does that. Or else they would just go on stage and read lines and do nothing else. I contest that there is a clear border between acting and method acting. People lay it out as two completely separate things, or that it's useful to place a name on what they do to prepare for a role.

    As someone who has watched lots of Inside The Actors Studio...

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    CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    Ludious wrote:
    how can an essay be overall good and get a D
    One part says, "Fuck the teacher."

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    bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Ludious wrote:
    how can an essay be overall good and get a D

    Factually correct but written like you're in 8th grade?

    Or, written like you're a genius and being mostly factually incorrect?

    The last essay I wrote, the teacher said not to bullshit them because they were the king of bullshit, so I bullshitted and got an 92. Never underestimate a college freshmen who bullshitted their way through 4 years of high school English.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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    Captain CarrotCaptain Carrot Alexandria, VARegistered User regular
    Sarksus wrote:
    Guuyyyssss

    apples to apples

    come on

    You don't want me to play that game.

    I wreck in that game.
    that's fine

    it can be fun to play even when you lose

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    spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    Honk wrote:
    syndalis wrote:
    Echo wrote:
    Honk wrote:
    Daniel Day Lewis hibernates for a couple of years. Then he makes an amazing performance.
    Then he hibernates. Then same thing again.

    His acting must be measured and spent in careful doses, to preserve him for the coming generations.

    Well he pracices the "black art" of method acting, and I honestly don't know if he could psychologically do a bunch of films back to back ala Buschemi or Jonah Hill; he becomes the character for a while, and it takes some time to unravel after that.

    He was supposedly a massive asshole on the set of "There Will Be Blood"

    I've been thinking about this and am not convinced this is actually something that happens to the degree that people suggests.

    At the end of the day the actor is going to get into his car and drive home. Use a cell phone. Not kill people. Still respond to being called by their name. Hopefully help someone in front of them who's having a heart attack.

    Like, of course they try to "become" the character. I'd say almost every actor probably does that. Or else they would just go on stage and read lines and do nothing else. I contest that there is a clear border between acting and method acting. People lay it out as two completely separate things, or that it's useful to place a name on what they do to prepare for a role.

    As someone who has watched lots of Inside The Actors Studio...

    As a starry-eyed acting student in a small venue,

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    HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Pony wrote:
    Honk wrote:
    Come play A2A!

    ass 2 ass?

    no dude i watched requiem for a dream that don't look like a good time

    That scene was hott.

    No just kidding. Ew.

    PSN: Honkalot
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    CasualCasual Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Flap Flap Flap Registered User regular
    Man, hurricane bawbag is scaring the shit outta me. It sounds like my house is gonna come down, hell, last time the winds were near this bad a tree almost fell through the roof.

    But mostly it's worth it just for the amusement I'm getting at the international exposure of the word "bawbag".

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    JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    Zampanov wrote:
    Jacobkosh wrote:
    No Country is a great movie but the invincible, unstoppable, implacable bad guy kind of places it firmly in the realm of fantasy or myth. Chigurh is scary the way Michael Myers is scary. Daniel Plainview is scary in the way real people often are, in the way he has some genuinely admirable qualities but they all kind of go sour and result in something horrifying.

    I don't find having a largely symbolic, non-realistic character to be a strike against a narrative. I'd agree Plainview is a better character than Chigurh but I still think No Country is the better movie overall.

    it's not a strike against it, it's just that it kind of turns the story into a parable, and the danger of parable is that it kind of lays someone's worldview bare

    and I don't know if I believe in or accept McCarthy's worldview, much as I enjoy seeing him lay it out

    whereas I don't know if TWWB makes any grander existential claims. it seems to me to be much more a story of a couple of men and the unique ways in which living in a harsh, unforgiving landscape has made them hard and rotten.

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    LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    I bullshitted my way through community college and got an Associate Degree Magna Cum Laude

    I remember this much:

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    SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    Actually FEDEX just arrived with my board game SO YEAAAH FUCK YEAH

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    BedlamBedlam Registered User regular
    edited December 2011
    I am in.

    More people should be in.

    Apparently we have 3 and will start with one more.

    Bedlam on
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    mysticjuicermysticjuicer [he/him] I'm a muscle wizard and I cast P U N C HRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote:
    Ludious wrote:
    how can an essay be overall good and get a D

    Factually correct but written like you're in 8th grade?

    Or, written like you're a genius and being mostly factually incorrect?

    The last essay I wrote, the teacher said not to bullshit them because they were the king of bullshit, so I bullshitted and got an 92. Never underestimate a college freshmen who bullshitted their way through 4 years of high school English.

    So glad I switched majors. Fucking english papers man.

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    HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Honk wrote:
    syndalis wrote:
    Echo wrote:
    Honk wrote:
    Daniel Day Lewis hibernates for a couple of years. Then he makes an amazing performance.
    Then he hibernates. Then same thing again.

    His acting must be measured and spent in careful doses, to preserve him for the coming generations.

    Well he pracices the "black art" of method acting, and I honestly don't know if he could psychologically do a bunch of films back to back ala Buschemi or Jonah Hill; he becomes the character for a while, and it takes some time to unravel after that.

    He was supposedly a massive asshole on the set of "There Will Be Blood"

    I've been thinking about this and am not convinced this is actually something that happens to the degree that people suggests.

    At the end of the day the actor is going to get into his car and drive home. Use a cell phone. Not kill people. Still respond to being called by their name. Hopefully help someone in front of them who's having a heart attack.

    Like, of course they try to "become" the character. I'd say almost every actor probably does that. Or else they would just go on stage and read lines and do nothing else. I contest that there is a clear border between acting and method acting. People lay it out as two completely separate things, or that it's useful to place a name on what they do to prepare for a role.

    As someone who has watched lots of Inside The Actors Studio...

    I've seen maybe two episodes, so I don't get your point.

    PSN: Honkalot
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    DaxonDaxon Registered User regular
    Leitner wrote:
    Daxon wrote:
    Guys!

    What are good/bad percentages of marks to have in assessed essays?

    cause I got 65% on an essay but like.. whoever marked it says it's overall good.

    I have a vague memory of 50% being a 2:2, 60% being a 2:1 and 70% being a 1

    Yes.

    65% is a solid 2:1.

    (i.e. actually go out, and don't spend all your time locked away studying grade)

    Sweet, in that case I am very happy.

    Ludious: I think you'd have to write an absolutely insane essay to get something approaching 80 or 90 percent. System works differently here I guess.

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    Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    man i would talk to someone in my support network but i have nothing to say

    'i'm depressed'
    'yep'
    'mmmmhm'

    it'd be like sad king of the hill

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    nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    Daniel Day Lewis' is now shooting his Abraham Lincoln movie

    this could be awesome

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    Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    Sarksus wrote:
    Actually FEDEX just arrived with my board game SO YEAAAH FUCK YEAH

    Did they deliver some friends too?

    Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
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    Caveman PawsCaveman Paws Registered User regular
    bowen wrote:
    Ludious wrote:
    how can an essay be overall good and get a D

    Factually correct but written like you're in 8th grade?

    Or, written like you're a genius and being mostly factually incorrect?

    The last essay I wrote, the teacher said not to bullshit them because they were the king of bullshit, so I bullshitted and got an 92. Never underestimate a college freshmen who bullshitted their way through 4 years of high school English.

    I had a system for essays in high school. BS factored in significantly.

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    Captain CarrotCaptain Carrot Alexandria, VARegistered User regular
    cass, come be distracted with www.nutsybolts.com/invite.php/31314/wang

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    skippydumptruckskippydumptruck begin again Registered User regular
    Jacobkosh wrote:
    Zampanov wrote:
    Jacobkosh wrote:
    No Country is a great movie but the invincible, unstoppable, implacable bad guy kind of places it firmly in the realm of fantasy or myth. Chigurh is scary the way Michael Myers is scary. Daniel Plainview is scary in the way real people often are, in the way he has some genuinely admirable qualities but they all kind of go sour and result in something horrifying.

    I don't find having a largely symbolic, non-realistic character to be a strike against a narrative. I'd agree Plainview is a better character than Chigurh but I still think No Country is the better movie overall.

    it's not a strike against it, it's just that it kind of turns the story into a parable, and the danger of parable is that it kind of lays someone's worldview bare

    and I don't know if I believe in or accept McCarthy's worldview, much as I enjoy seeing him lay it out

    whereas I don't know if TWWB makes any grander existential claims. it seems to me to be much more a story of a couple of men and the unique ways in which living in a harsh, unforgiving landscape has made them hard and rotten.

    well yeah

    mccarthy loves him an implacable, uncaring, unknowable evil

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    ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    Ludious wrote:
    how can an essay be overall good and get a D

    A D is like 60-70%... so that's more than half :P

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
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    LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    Daniel Day Lewis' is now shooting his Abraham Lincoln movie

    this could be awesome

    imagine all the gay extras that are going to score with him

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    syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products regular
    Honk wrote:
    syndalis wrote:
    Echo wrote:
    Honk wrote:
    Daniel Day Lewis hibernates for a couple of years. Then he makes an amazing performance.
    Then he hibernates. Then same thing again.

    His acting must be measured and spent in careful doses, to preserve him for the coming generations.

    Well he pracices the "black art" of method acting, and I honestly don't know if he could psychologically do a bunch of films back to back ala Buschemi or Jonah Hill; he becomes the character for a while, and it takes some time to unravel after that.

    He was supposedly a massive asshole on the set of "There Will Be Blood"

    I've been thinking about this and am not convinced this is actually something that happens to the degree that people suggests.

    At the end of the day the actor is going to get into his car and drive home. Use a cell phone. Not kill people. Still respond to being called by their name. Hopefully help someone in front of them who's having a heart attack.

    Like, of course they try to "become" the character. I'd say almost every actor probably does that. Or else they would just go on stage and read lines and do nothing else. I contest that there is a clear border between acting and method acting. People lay it out as two completely separate things, or that it's useful to place a name on what they do to prepare for a role.
    No, its quite real... and people who subscribe to the methodology are essentially well paid crazy people.

    They rearrange their homes, keep journals in the mind of their character... Heath Ledger's Joker is a good example of this. His living quarters were fucked for months after filming; he left pictures askew on the wall, kept a log filled with horrifying jokes in his pocket (like, AIDS babies jokes), became massively antisocial, and very offbeat and off-color in his interactions.

    SW-4158-3990-6116
    Let's play Mario Kart or something...
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    spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    man i would talk to someone in my support network but i have nothing to say

    'i'm depressed'
    'yep'
    'mmmmhm'

    it'd be like sad king of the hill

    Dang ol' *mumble* depression man, you know *mumble* *mumble* two hunnerd feet *mumble *mumble* Orange Julius.

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    TehSlothTehSloth Hit Or Miss I Guess They Never Miss, HuhRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote:
    Ludious wrote:
    how can an essay be overall good and get a D

    Factually correct but written like you're in 8th grade?

    Or, written like you're a genius and being mostly factually incorrect?

    The last essay I wrote, the teacher said not to bullshit them because they were the king of bullshit, so I bullshitted and got an 92. Never underestimate a college freshmen who bullshitted their way through 4 years of high school English.

    I'm pretty sure I passed my speech class because my teacher couldn't find any marks in her gradebook, got confused and just gave me a B.

    I very rarely showed up and only gave one speech, although I submitted outlines and the transcripts and slides for all my other ones. That class was so dumb, I remember a kid giving a speech on solar power, and I shit you not, the first line to the speech was:

    "The sun is one of the brightest stars in our solar system."

    I had to bury my face into the desk to keep my laughter from being distractingly audible.

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    Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    cass, come be distracted with www.nutsybolts.com/invite.php/31314/wang

    nice try at pretending to be altruistic you vulture

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    OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    ok i'm almost done christmas shopping

    i have the stuff for my aunt, my uncle, my secret santee

    all i have left is my aunt's fiancee (i guess i should start calling him uncle)

    he likes comedy, maybe i'll get him a standup dvd

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    skippydumptruckskippydumptruck begin again Registered User regular
    UPS come give me my sword!

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    EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    Day-Lewis threw his personal version of "method acting" into full throttle in 1989 with his performance as Christy Brown in Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot which garnered him numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor. During filming, his eccentricities came to the fore, due to his refusal to break character.[9] Playing a severely paralyzed character on screen, off screen Day-Lewis had to be moved around the set in his wheelchair, and crew members would curse at having to lift him over camera and lighting wires, all so that he might gain insight into all aspects of Brown's life, including the embarrassments.[8] He broke two ribs during filming from assuming a hunched-over position in his wheelchair for so many weeks.

    Day-Lewis returned in 1993, playing Newland Archer in Martin Scorsese's adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel The Age of Innocence, opposite Winona Ryder and Michelle Pfeiffer. To prepare for the film, set in America's Gilded Age, he wore 1870s-period aristocratic clothing around New York City for two months, including top hat, cane, and cape in cold weather.

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    LeitnerLeitner Registered User regular
    Suggestion.

    Perhaps you guys were writing cohesive, coherent points explored adeptly in a decently eloquent fashion.

    And not, in fact bullshit.

    That what you were doing was divorced from is this as close to possible a 1:1 reading of the material.

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    LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    Organichu wrote:
    ok i'm almost done christmas shopping

    i have the stuff for my aunt, my uncle, my secret santee

    all i have left is my aunt's fiancee (i guess i should start calling him uncle)

    he likes comedy, maybe i'll get him a standup dvd

    I bet he looooovvvesss Jeff Dunham

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    Dunadan019Dunadan019 Registered User regular
    5-6 weeks after the midterm, the professor hasn't graded the exams

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    Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    Organichu wrote:
    ok i'm almost done christmas shopping

    i have the stuff for my aunt, my uncle, my secret santee

    all i have left is my aunt's fiancee (i guess i should start calling him uncle)

    he likes comedy, maybe i'll get him a standup dvd

    for a real laff a minute show him your penis

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    LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    YOU SEE BECAUSE ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS GAY AND DANIEL DAY LEWIS IS A METHOD ACTOR

    THAT IS WHY THAT JOKE WAS A BRILLIANT STROKE OF GENIUS

    you fuckers

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