I actually gave Lord of the Flies credit for truthfully depicting bullying rather than going into that bullshit about how nerds just need to stand up for themselves/bullies are all paper tigers.
I haven't read it since middle school, but I don't see why it wouldn't hold up on a re-reading.
I guess you weren't a fat kid huh
Do you hate it because Piggy suffers and dies a horrible death or because reading it in class led to other kids treating you like Piggy or what?
We didn't read it in class so the former.
But I was treated terribly by my peers and picked on and had zero self esteem and that whole thing just fucked me up bad because I was like oh fuck that's me
LOL cause southerners are so stupid just like homos are so disgusting and bad! Nice!
edit: alrightk so I'm not clever today, sue me.
what are you trying to do here
I am from MISSISSIPPI. I can talk all the shit I want about southerners being retarded. I have the blood right to do so. I have paid my dues. Also, I would never say anything about homosexuals like that.
Nothing particularly. These posts have been a lesson in; if it won't come together on its own, you can't force it.
I haven't read it since middle school, but I don't see why it wouldn't hold up on a re-reading.
I guess you weren't a fat kid huh
Do you hate it because Piggy suffers and dies a horrible death or because reading it in class led to other kids treating you like Piggy or what?
We didn't read it in class so the former.
But I was treated terribly by my peers and picked on and had zero self esteem and that whole thing just fucked me up bad because I was like oh fuck that's me
LOL cause southerners are so stupid just like homos are so disgusting and bad! Nice!
edit: alrightk so I'm not clever today, sue me.
what are you trying to do here
I am from MISSISSIPPI. I can talk all the shit I want about southerners being retarded. I have the blood right to do so. I have paid my dues. Also, I would never say anything about homosexuals like that.
Nothing particularly. These posts have been a lesson in; if it won't come together on its own, you can't force it.
Next time, instead of posting your thoughts you should just treat it as a mental exercise.
ME1 is better plotted than ME2. There is a central mystery that is gradually revealed through a series of interlocking steps, builds to a shocking reveal, then speeds to an exciting climax. ME2, by contrast, has a simple main plot that exists largely as an excuse to provide a tour of the galaxy and a showcase of the characters you meet along the way.
Plotting is great. Plotting is a nice thing to be able to do. But too many people on the internet think it's all writing is, because plotting is an essentially mechanical action and is thus easily grasped by essentially mechanical people. There's also characterization, theme, and tone, and in all of those ME2 is at least as good as the first one and often better.
One part that's always stuck out to me regarding ME1 involved a side quest - I don't remember which one - where the renegade option was to execute a scientist because she was involved in some horrible experiments on human.
When you choose the Renegade option, Shepard says something like, "Blood for blood. You must die." It was a really atrociously, embarrassingly written line, that is out of character for Shepard. Even a hard renegade Shepard is a bit more clever than that.
I think my brain just smooths over some of those wrinkles either because it's a video game (hence I have lower standards) or because the first installment of a series always has weak parts (hence I have lower standards).
Exactly, yeah. And I tend to do that too - cut the first installment of something some slack - especially if it's trying something new. It's why I have genial feelings toward the first AssCreed even though the sequel is basically objectively better in almost every way
AC1 was a great game that I can basically never play again.
I think Brotherhood was the best in the series. Revelations was okay, but kind of meh-ish and the story basically didn't progress the overall story in any meaningful way for me.
AC1 was a proof of concept in my mind. AC2 was making an actual game out of it. Both are pretty awesome. But AC2 was more of a game than AC1 was in my mind.
I actually gave Lord of the Flies credit for truthfully depicting bullying rather than going into that bullshit about how nerds just need to stand up for themselves/bullies are all paper tigers.
Yeah, that's a good point.
It was really colored for me, though, by my high school discussion of it, which basically boiled down to, "People are inherently evil, might makes right, and violence is inevitable."
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 haven't read it since middle school, but I don't see why it wouldn't hold up on a re-reading.
I guess you weren't a fat kid huh
Do you hate it because Piggy suffers and dies a horrible death or because reading it in class led to other kids treating you like Piggy or what?
We didn't read it in class so the former.
But I was treated terribly by my peers and picked on and had zero self esteem and that whole thing just fucked me up bad because I was like oh fuck that's me
LOL cause southerners are so stupid just like homos are so disgusting and bad! Nice!
edit: alrightk so I'm not clever today, sue me.
what are you trying to do here
I am from MISSISSIPPI. I can talk all the shit I want about southerners being retarded. I have the blood right to do so. I have paid my dues. Also, I would never say anything about homosexuals like that.
Nothing particularly. These posts have been a lesson in; if it won't come together on its own, you can't force it.
Next time, instead of posting your thoughts you should just treat it as a mental exercise.
You son of a bitch, you're going to throw that in my face now?
ME1 is better plotted than ME2. There is a central mystery that is gradually revealed through a series of interlocking steps, builds to a shocking reveal, then speeds to an exciting climax. ME2, by contrast, has a simple main plot that exists largely as an excuse to provide a tour of the galaxy and a showcase of the characters you meet along the way.
Plotting is great. Plotting is a nice thing to be able to do. But too many people on the internet think it's all writing is, because plotting is an essentially mechanical action and is thus easily grasped by essentially mechanical people. There's also characterization, theme, and tone, and in all of those ME2 is at least as good as the first one and often better.
One part that's always stuck out to me regarding ME1 involved a side quest - I don't remember which one - where the renegade option was to execute a scientist because she was involved in some horrible experiments on human.
When you choose the Renegade option, Shepard says something like, "Blood for blood. You must die." It was a really atrociously, embarrassingly written line, that is out of character for Shepard. Even a hard renegade Shepard is a bit more clever than that.
I think my brain just smooths over some of those wrinkles either because it's a video game (hence I have lower standards) or because the first installment of a series always has weak parts (hence I have lower standards).
Exactly, yeah. And I tend to do that too - cut the first installment of something some slack - especially if it's trying something new. It's why I have genial feelings toward the first AssCreed even though the sequel is basically objectively better in almost every way
AC1 was a great game that I can basically never play again.
I think Brotherhood was the best in the series. Revelations was okay, but kind of meh-ish and the story basically didn't progress the overall story in any meaningful way for me.
AC1 was a proof of concept in my mind. AC2 was making an actual game out of it. Both are pretty awesome. But AC2 was more of a game than AC1 was in my mind.
I dunno. AC1 was a game, it was just an excessively repetitive one.
I can see where you are coming from, though.
The one thing I liked about AC1 that none of the newer games have really captured is that the major assassinations were basically stealth puzzles. Of course, to some that may be a bad thing, but I kind of liked them. Major assassinations are less spectacular in each post-AC1 game.
I haven't read it since middle school, but I don't see why it wouldn't hold up on a re-reading.
I guess you weren't a fat kid huh
Do you hate it because Piggy suffers and dies a horrible death or because reading it in class led to other kids treating you like Piggy or what?
We didn't read it in class so the former.
But I was treated terribly by my peers and picked on and had zero self esteem and that whole thing just fucked me up bad because I was like oh fuck that's me
LOL cause southerners are so stupid just like homos are so disgusting and bad! Nice!
edit: alrightk so I'm not clever today, sue me.
what are you trying to do here
I am from MISSISSIPPI. I can talk all the shit I want about southerners being retarded. I have the blood right to do so. I have paid my dues. Also, I would never say anything about homosexuals like that.
Nothing particularly. These posts have been a lesson in; if it won't come together on its own, you can't force it.
Next time, instead of posting your thoughts you should just treat it as a mental exercise.
You son of a bitch, you're going to throw that in my face now?
Namely.
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I don't mean to alarm you, but there's a giant pin with the picture of a car in your city, and it doesn't look like it's holding on to much. If it falls, it looks big enough to flatten an entire city block.
I used to think Lord of the Flies was wholly unrealistic about how a bunch of boys dropped in a deserted island would plausibly organize amongst themselves, and then [chat] started telling me about their high schools.
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Man, I love Learned Hand so much. Whenever I read his Spirit of Liberty speech I get all misty-eyed and remember why I hold my political beliefs.
We have gathered here to affirm a faith, a faith in a common purpose, a common conviction, a common devotion.
Some of us have chosen America as the land of our adoption; the rest have come from those who did the same. For this reason we have some right to consider ourselves a picked group, a group of those who had the courage to break from the past and brave the dangers and the loneliness of a strange land. What was the object that nerved us, or those who went before us, to this choice? We sought liberty - freedom from oppression, freedom from want, freedom to be ourselves. This then we sought; this we now believe that we are by way of winning. What do we mean when we say that first of all we seek liberty? I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws, and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it. And what is this liberty which must lie in the hearts of men and women? It is not the ruthless, the unbridled will; it is not freedom to do as one likes. That is the denial of liberty, and leads straight to its overthrow. A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few - as we have learned to our sorrow.
What then is the spirit of liberty?
I cannot define it; I can only tell you my own faith. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of those men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interest alongside its own without bias; the spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned, but has never quite forgotten - that there may be a kingdom where the least shall be heard and considered side-by-side with the greatest. And now in that spirit, that spirit of an American which has never been, and which may never be - nay, which never will be except as the conscience and courage of Americans create it - yet in the spirit of America which lies hidden in some form in the aspirations of us all; in the spirit of that America for which our young men are at this moment fighting and dying; in that spirit of liberty and of America so prosperous, and safe, and contented, we shall have failed to grasp its meaning, and shall have been truant to its promise, except as we strive to make it a signal, a beacon, a standard to which the best hopes of mankind will ever turn; In confidence that you share that belief, I now ask you to raise you hand and repeat with me this pledge:
I pledge allegiance to the flag and to the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands--One nation, Indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Learned Hand is the bomb. I bought a book copy of the U.S. Constitution just because it had his commentary.
I don't mean to alarm you, but there's a giant pin with the picture of a car in your city, and it doesn't look like it's holding on to much. If it falls, it looks big enough to flatten an entire city block.
I've had SC4 deluxe for ages since I got it on sale from steam but have never really figured it out. I really should.
The biggest difference is you can micromanage the funding on civic and utility buildings which is required in order to balance the budget.
you know where I can find info on the area of effect (if that is how it works) of things? Eg: how far is a police station effective? How close do things need to be to roads? etc...
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I feel like I played the first one like... last year.
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Isn't My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding basically a show dedicated to laughing at how terrible they are, and patronizing them?
Or am I thinking of a different gypsy related show.
Nothing particularly. These posts have been a lesson in; if it won't come together on its own, you can't force it.
--LeVar Burton
Next time, instead of posting your thoughts you should just treat it as a mental exercise.
AC1 was a proof of concept in my mind. AC2 was making an actual game out of it. Both are pretty awesome. But AC2 was more of a game than AC1 was in my mind.
Yeah, that's a good point.
It was really colored for me, though, by my high school discussion of it, which basically boiled down to, "People are inherently evil, might makes right, and violence is inevitable."
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
You son of a bitch, you're going to throw that in my face now?
--LeVar Burton
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
I dunno. AC1 was a game, it was just an excessively repetitive one.
I can see where you are coming from, though.
The one thing I liked about AC1 that none of the newer games have really captured is that the major assassinations were basically stealth puzzles. Of course, to some that may be a bad thing, but I kind of liked them. Major assassinations are less spectacular in each post-AC1 game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd5uptCfOmc
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Namely.
http://i.imgur.com/h3hRq.jpg
Is that Oakland on the right
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
--LeVar Burton
I don't mean to alarm you, but there's a giant pin with the picture of a car in your city, and it doesn't look like it's holding on to much. If it falls, it looks big enough to flatten an entire city block.
The kids are having a vacation while their dads are at risk of nuclear immolation. I think the kids have it good.
Oh man, ahhahaha.
Guess I'm not walking to the gamestop
Are you going to law school or something, Eddy?
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They're hicks I don't care.
Eddie Izzard is a cool "dude."
"Yo bro. Sup?"
@syndalis
I am the 1%
lol
and now I have to wait a half an hour to get a "wanna do something?" text
oh gals
"Men get praised for taking whatever they want. But what do they call women who do the same thing?"
"....Leslie, or Courtney..."
I want to meet a sexy fun bitch who'll give me a piñata.
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+25% xp weekend!
I've had SC4 deluxe for ages since I got it on sale from steam but have never really figured it out. I really should.
Done!
I read this as cute little clitty.
I was... confused to say the least.
The biggest difference is you can micromanage the funding on civic and utility buildings which is required in order to balance the budget.
Oh my!
you know where I can find info on the area of effect (if that is how it works) of things? Eg: how far is a police station effective? How close do things need to be to roads? etc...