I will admit that I do have an aversion to popular things, or perhaps a better way to say it is that I thoroughly enjoy rooting for the underdog.
It's more for videogame characters and things like that, but I'll usually avoid top tier characters like the plague. It's for a couple reasons really, one being that top tier characters tend to get overplayed so playing a lower character usually ups the diversity of the game, and also that I loathe mirror matches. Loathe.
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I love how movies go full circle and become cool to hate.
Donnie Darko has actually reached the end of that sordid path, where the hate becomes less intense and people actually bother defending it if they like it.
Such is the way of short lived but intensely popular things.
Church: I would argue that both heroin and opium are losing ground to prescription opioid abuse.
I have no idea what the drug climate in the west is like, except that cocaine is really popular and that meth is a growing problem. In the Caucasus the drug of choice was opium. If you did heroin or meth everyone knew you were in deep shit.
Meth is endemic because it's easy to manufacture, so manufacturers and dealers are so incredibly decentralized that eliminating it using traditional bust and sting techniques is basically impossible.
Cocaine... I dunno. One of the things I've heard before is that when a Republican president is in office, hard drugs like coke and heroin become more prevalent; while when a Democratic president is in office soft drugs like ecstasy and mushrooms become more prevalent. (Marijuana is just sort of always there no matter what.) I think there might be a certain amount of truth to that.
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
I like Signs. The Village notsomuch. Lady in the Water was okay.
All three suck varying amounts of balls. Going from just suckling every so often, to taking one testicle to the whole deal by the third one.
Oh well, you sure changed my mind with that lovely analogy!
How about aliens that are immensely allergic to water running around in mist. Which is fucking condensed cold water vapour.
Edit: or aliens invading a planet that is mostly water, which is completely toxic for them, that have developed the ability to travel via FTL drives but is incapable of coming up with protective environmental suits.
I like Signs. The Village notsomuch. Lady in the Water was okay.
All three suck varying amounts of balls. Going from just suckling every so often, to taking one testicle to the whole deal by the third one.
Oh well, you sure changed my mind with that lovely analogy!
How about aliens that are immensely allergic to water running around in mist. Which is fucking condensed cold water vapour.
It's a MOVIE not a documentary.
There is a limit to what I'll accept and Signs is so shittily written and thought out that it is borderline offensive. I couldn't believe the same director who made an awesome, clever and incredibly intelligent scene like the one in the kitchen (with the knife under the door), then go to complete ass-shit in the space of one movie.
I have no problem with liking things that are considered too popular and/or uncool, such as Justin Timberlake (he's awesome).
I’m bringing sexy back
Them other boys don’t know how to act
I think you're special, what's behind your back?
So turn around and I'll pick up the slack. :whistle:
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Do you guys bitch about impossible stuff in super hero movies too?
Do you know what "verisimilitude" and "internal consistency" mean?
Sure. You just seem like the kind of people that would bitch about how in the Dark Knight the fear poison was only effective when vaporized and not when in the water supply.
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Do you guys bitch about impossible stuff in super hero movies too?
SPIDERMAN WAS TOTALLY RIDICULOUS THERES NO WAY A GUY COULD GET BIT BY A RADIOACTIVE SPIDER AND GET ANYTHING OTHER THAN A TUMOR.
I only object to a movie when it severely contradicts its own internal consistency. Signs does this. X-Men does not. Water is water, regardless if it is mist or in a glass on a bench. I also hate Deus Ex Machina style twists or literary devices- see "I am Legend" for a perfect example.
I popped into that thread to see how bad it was. It's like the Confederacy of Dunces in there. I don't think I've ever seen that many nonsensical posts in a row, in the history of my time in D&D. Maybe in a girl thread in H/A though.
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Do you guys bitch about impossible stuff in super hero movies too?
Do you know what "verisimilitude" and "internal consistency" mean?
Sure. You just seem like the kind of people that would bitch about how in the Dark Knight the fear poison was only effective when vaporized and not when in the water supply.
No, because I can think of toxins that are incapable of avoiding digestion, but would be dangerous if they ended up in a mucous membrane like the eye or similar, but are dangerous when aerosolised. This actually does have a basis in fact.
Aliens that are allergic to water on an arbitary basis is entirely different.
Edit: In fact, the virus I work with is one. If you aerosolised it in droplets it could be dangerous if it got somewhere sensitive like your eye. On the other hand, it wouldn't survive digestion, so you could probably drink it and be fine.
Do you guys bitch about impossible stuff in super hero movies too?
Do you know what "verisimilitude" and "internal consistency" mean?
Sure. You just seem like the kind of people that would bitch about how in the Dark Knight the fear poison was only effective when vaporized and not when in the water supply.
Well, that actually kinda makes sense, because vaporized stuff is more likely to be absorbed into the blood directly by inhalation and go to the brain, whereas ingested things get metabolized by all sorts of enzymes and acids, and thus may be degraded before it can be absorbed into the bloodstream.
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What a twist?
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My reputation here is proof enough of that.
Blah blah blah
That's like, all I'm hearing.
It's more for videogame characters and things like that, but I'll usually avoid top tier characters like the plague. It's for a couple reasons really, one being that top tier characters tend to get overplayed so playing a lower character usually ups the diversity of the game, and also that I loathe mirror matches. Loathe.
Dinner? You're going to eat us...FOR DINNER AREN'T YOU?!?
*Aliens look shocked*
Let's dance!
WHAT A TWIST!!!!!
It annoys me a lot when people base their taste on a thing's popularity.
All three suck varying amounts of balls. Going from just suckling every so often, to taking one testicle to the whole deal by the third one.
Sometimes I think you lie just to keep up the reputation.
And come on, Mitsurugi on Mitsurugi fights can be pretty awesome.
Well like I said, its much more for videogame characters and things like that. Helps keep the game fresh in my opinion.
For things like bands or movies, popularity is rather a non-factor.
I liked it mainly because it just seemed to go exactly how most normal people would respond to aliens, i.e. watch the TV.
Donnie Darko has actually reached the end of that sordid path, where the hate becomes less intense and people actually bother defending it if they like it.
Such is the way of short lived but intensely popular things.
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Oh well, you sure changed my mind with that lovely analogy!
Nah dude, I switch to Astaroth for that stuff. I had to hang up my Mits anyway, everyone refused to play him.
Meth is endemic because it's easy to manufacture, so manufacturers and dealers are so incredibly decentralized that eliminating it using traditional bust and sting techniques is basically impossible.
Cocaine... I dunno. One of the things I've heard before is that when a Republican president is in office, hard drugs like coke and heroin become more prevalent; while when a Democratic president is in office soft drugs like ecstasy and mushrooms become more prevalent. (Marijuana is just sort of always there no matter what.) I think there might be a certain amount of truth to that.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
God I know. WRYYYY WRYYY do I keep posting?
How about aliens that are immensely allergic to water running around in mist. Which is fucking condensed cold water vapour.
Edit: or aliens invading a planet that is mostly water, which is completely toxic for them, that have developed the ability to travel via FTL drives but is incapable of coming up with protective environmental suits.
3DS: 2852-6809-9411
It's a MOVIE not a documentary.
I will almost never turn down a match of Soul Calibur. Hell you can set your health to infinite and I'll still play you.
Unless, of course, there is an available match for Tekken. 'cause I loves me some Tekken.
Or aliens that are immensely allergic to water running around on a planet that has enough water in the air as it is.
There is a limit to what I'll accept and Signs is so shittily written and thought out that it is borderline offensive. I couldn't believe the same director who made an awesome, clever and incredibly intelligent scene like the one in the kitchen (with the knife under the door), then go to complete ass-shit in the space of one movie.
On the black screen
I’m bringing sexy back
Them other boys don’t know how to act
I think you're special, what's behind your back?
So turn around and I'll pick up the slack. :whistle:
Do you know what "verisimilitude" and "internal consistency" mean?
I give a bit more slack when we're dealing with aliens from outer space.
The point of the movie wasn't to be realistic scifi. It was about the family, and the terror.
SPIDERMAN WAS TOTALLY RIDICULOUS THERES NO WAY A GUY COULD GET BIT BY A RADIOACTIVE SPIDER AND GET ANYTHING OTHER THAN A TUMOR.
Sure. You just seem like the kind of people that would bitch about how in the Dark Knight the fear poison was only effective when vaporized and not when in the water supply.
I only object to a movie when it severely contradicts its own internal consistency. Signs does this. X-Men does not. Water is water, regardless if it is mist or in a glass on a bench. I also hate Deus Ex Machina style twists or literary devices- see "I am Legend" for a perfect example.
I popped into that thread to see how bad it was. It's like the Confederacy of Dunces in there. I don't think I've ever seen that many nonsensical posts in a row, in the history of my time in D&D. Maybe in a girl thread in H/A though.
No, because I can think of toxins that are incapable of avoiding digestion, but would be dangerous if they ended up in a mucous membrane like the eye or similar, but are dangerous when aerosolised. This actually does have a basis in fact.
Aliens that are allergic to water on an arbitary basis is entirely different.
Edit: In fact, the virus I work with is one. If you aerosolised it in droplets it could be dangerous if it got somewhere sensitive like your eye. On the other hand, it wouldn't survive digestion, so you could probably drink it and be fine.
Well, that actually kinda makes sense, because vaporized stuff is more likely to be absorbed into the blood directly by inhalation and go to the brain, whereas ingested things get metabolized by all sorts of enzymes and acids, and thus may be degraded before it can be absorbed into the bloodstream.